MERCURIUS
RUSTICUS
THE
COUNTRYS
COMPLAINT
Recovnting
the
sad
Events
of
the
late
unparalleld
REBELLION
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Castle
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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.
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.
Jer.
15.13
.
Thy
substance
and
thy
treasure
will
I
give
to
the
spoil
without
price
,
and
that
for
all
thy
sins
,
even
in
all
thy
borders
.
LONDON
:
Printed
for
R.
Royston
,
Book-seller
to
the
King
's
Most
Excellent
Majesty
,
and
are
to
be
sold
by
R.
Green
,
Book-seller
in
Cambridge
.
1685.
THE
PREFACE
.
WHen
the
sins
of
this
Kingdom
were
ripe
for
punishment
,
the
Divine
Justice
permitted
a
great
part
of
it
to
be
besotted
with
Discontents
either
wholly
causeless
,
or
such
as
His
Majesty
was
pleased
to
remedy
with
Grants
so
unmeasurably
gracious
,
as
could
not
otherwise
be
justified
than
by
their
importunity
that
demanded
them
,
and
His
Majesties
Royall
tenderness
of
his
Subjects
peace
and
safety
.
These
Grants
were
so
far
from
satisfying
those
,
whose
broken
fortunes
and
boundless
desires
would
not
permit
them
to
live
without
a
Civil
War
,
that
they
make
of
them
no
other
use
than
thereby
to
strengthen
themselves
to
demand
more
:
till
at
last
they
broke
out
into
a
most
unnatural
Rebellion
.
The
people
alwaies
apt
to
cherish
murmurs
and
invectives
against
their
Princes
,
and
now
grown
wanton
with
the
fruits
of
a
long
peace
,
incline
to
Abners
mind
,
and
think
the
war
(
which
yet
they
knew
not
)
but
a
sport
.
Therefore
with
a
great
facility
they
imbrace
the
design
:
and
the
baits
to
cover
the
Hooks
with
,
are
the
preservation
of
Religion
,
and
the
vindication
of
Liberty
.
And
howsoever
they
cannot
reconcile
their
practise
with
Gods
command
,
which
under
pain
of
damnation
forbids
all
Subjects
to
resist
their
King
:
yet
they
are
so
wedded
to
that
interest
which
they
challenge
in
Religion
,
and
Liberty
,
that
for
Gods
command
,
if
they
cannot
untie
the
Knot
,
they
resolve
to
cut
it
.
Do
but
assure
them
that
the
forbidden
fruit
will
make
them
as
Gods
,
and
they
will
eat
it
though
it
be
forbidden
:
do
but
perswade
them
that
to
take
up
arms
against
their
Sovereign
is
the
way
to
secure
their
Religion
and
Liberty
,
and
they
make
bold
with
God
for
once
to
choose
their
own
way
for
so
good
an
end
.
From
so
desperate
Resolution
,
had
they
had
but
Morall
justice
,
they
might
have
been
kept
back
by
the
improbability
of
those
calumnies
whereby
His
Majesty
was
traduced
,
as
intending
to
alter
Religion
and
infringe
their
Liberties
.
Or
had
Religion
(
to
which
they
do
so
Zealously
pretend
)
had
that
potent
influence
upon
them
,
it
might
have
taught
them
,
that
Religion
cannot
be
defended
by
transgressing
Gods
commands
,
which
are
the
Rule
of
it
.
But
if
nothing
else
,
yet
even
regard
to
their
own
pretensions
,
the
defence
of
Religion
and
Liberty
,
should
have
wrought
in
them
a
detestation
of
Rebellion
,
which
is
so
contrary
to
both
.
For
as
an
eye
had
to
Gods
dominion
over
us
should
exact
obedience
to
his
commands
,
though
never
so
much
to
our
prejudice
:
So
the
meditation
of
his
infinite
goodness
ought
to
win
it
from
us
,
because
his
commands
enjoyn
us
onely
what
is
for
our
good
,
if
we
could
see
it
.
He
would
not
have
forbidden
Subjects
to
defend
Religion
against
their
King
by
force
of
Arms
,
but
that
he
knew
as
Rebels
can
be
no
friends
to
Religion
,
so
it
gaines
love
and
admiration
by
the
innocent
patience
of
those
that
profess
it
;
whereas
Bloodshed
,
Force
,
and
Rapine
,
(
the
fruits
of
Rebellion
)
procure
Hatred
or
Hypocrisie
.
And
for
Liberty
,
it
is
for
the
good
of
mankind
,
to
forbid
the
assertion
of
it
by
Subjects
Arms
taken
up
against
their
Prince
:
both
because
that
pretence
would
otherwise
be
used
by
those
that
have
a
design
to
make
the
abused
people
their
own
slaves
,
and
because
Rebellion
doth
more
violate
the
Subjects
liberty
,
than
is
morally
possible
for
the
worst
Prince
in
times
of
peace
to
do
.
This
truth
was
known
before
by
speculation
to
a
few
,
whose
endeavours
to
infuse
it
into
the
distempered
peoples
minds
,
had
the
fate
of
Cassandraes
predictions
,
to
hit
the
truth
and
want
belief
,
till
these
sad
times
have
at
last
verified
it
by
a
costly
experience
.
That
this
may
be
more
universally
beneficial
;
you
have
too
plentifull
a
harvest
of
Instances
collected
in
the
insuing
Relations
:
wherein
may
evidently
be
seen
,
that
this
War
which
the
multitude
was
so
fond
of
,
as
the
only
means
to
preserve
Religion
and
Liberty
,
hath
been
almost
the
utter
ruin
of
them
both
.
Here
you
shall
find
these
great
pretenders
to
Religion
,
suppressing
that
which
themselves
confess
to
be
Divine
Truth
,
Debarring
poor
prisoners
the
comfort
of
joyning
their
prayers
together
,
enforcing
men
to
take
Oaths
of
blind
Obedience
to
whatsoever
they
should
afterwards
command
them
;
turning
out
Clergy-men
above
all
exception
,
and
placing
most
scandalous
and
insufficient
wretches
in
their
rooms
,
darting
from
their
invenomed
mouths
most
horrid
Blasphemies
against
our
blessed
Lord
and
Saviour
,
abusing
the
service
of
God
,
and
profaning
not
only
the
Form
of
it
,
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
,
(
against
which
they
have
a
professed
quarrel
)
but
even
Gods
own
Word
,
the
holy
Bible
,
which
they
pretend
to
reverence
.
Here
shall
you
behold
them
not
only
(
like
those
Canes
Sepulchrales
)
violating
the
bones
and
ashes
of
the
dead
,
to
make
the
world
know
that
they
believe
what
some
of
their
fellows
openly
profess
,
that
of
those
sometime
living
Temples
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
there
shall
be
no
resurrection
,
but
exercising
their
fury
on
the
Churches
of
God
;
which
they
have
defaced
with
Barbarous
rudeness
,
defiled
with
more
than
beastly
nastiness
,
and
(
as
if
contrary
to
their
wont
they
had
studied
the
Book
of
Maccabees
to
find
out
and
out-do
the
most
Heathenish
wickednesses
therein
related
,
they
have
polluted
the
very
Altar
with
their
whoredoms
.
The
Independents
(
at
whose
door
the
most
part
of
these
profanations
of
the
Houses
of
God
must
lye
)
will
hardly
make
the
world
believe
they
are
in
earnest
when
they
plead
for
Liberty
of
Conscience
in
Religion
,
while
they
thus
deface
the
places
where
it
should
be
taught
and
practiced
.
And
as
ill
can
the
Presbyterians
make
good
their
pretended
zeal
to
Religion
,
and
the
Nurse
of
it
,
Learning
,
having
almost
extirpated
one
of
the
most
flourishing
Universities
of
Christendom
.
Then
for
the
other
point
,
the
Subjects
Liberty
,
the
following
Narrations
will
plainly
shew
that
it
hath
not
been
spared
by
those
that
would
be
accounted
the
Champions
of
it
,
when
the
violation
of
it
might
satisfie
either
their
Lust
,
their
Covetousness
,
or
their
Cruelty
.
Their
Lust
hath
prompted
them
not
only
to
threaten
Rape
,
but
with
violence
to
attempt
it
,
and
to
wound
and
murther
those
upon
whom
they
could
not
effect
their
beastly
purpose
.
To
satisfy
their
Covetousness
,
they
have
unmercifully
robbed
of
their
fortunes
,
and
exposed
to
the
extremest
want
,
not
only
those
that
were
their
opposites
and
able
to
hurt
them
,
but
those
whose
sex
,
age
and
condition
might
have
melted
stones
into
pitty
,
women
,
children
,
the
sick
,
the
aged
,
women
in
labour
,
and
even
those
of
their
own
party
.
Their
Cruelty
hath
not
contented
it self
with
the
murther
of
those
they
hated
,
but
as
if
they
had
been
the
professed
Schollars
of
that
inhumane
monster
,
whose
Maxim
was
,
Perimat
Tyrannus
lenis
,
in
regno
meo
mors
impetratur
,
they
have
insulted
over
the
persons
and
lives
of
their
fellow
Subjects
with
most
exquisite
Tortures
,
whipt
some
to
Death
,
and
starved
others
:
they
have
made
it
a
Crime
in
some
that
they
were
neighbours
to
those
whom
they
persecuted
for
their
Loyalty
,
and
punished
others
for
shewing
them
mercy
:
nay
to
shew
that
their
ambition
was
to
choose
out
the
sharpest
executioners
of
their
Tyranny
(
though
with
the
hazard
of
rendring
the
names
of
Christians
odious
for
their
sakes
to
the
professed
enemies
of
Christendom
)
they
had
once
designed
divers
of
prime
worth
and
quality
both
of
the
Clergy
and
the
Gentry
to
be
sold
for
slaves
to
their
brethren
the
Turks
at
Argiers
.
And
so
full
of
contagious
venome
is
their
malice
,
that
it
hath
made
Parents
unnatural
to
their
own
children
,
suffering
them
to
perish
by
Famine
because
they
refused
to
Rebell
against
their
Sovereign
.
To
conclude
,
their
malice
hath
so
far
transcended
all
bounds
,
that
they
have
done
mischief
where
they
were
not
invited
by
any
benefit
to
themselves
or
any
other
,
only
for
the
delight
they
took
in
doing
it
,
burning
houses
,
spoyling
goods
,
destroying
Books
,
Evidences
,
and
Publick
Records
,
to
the
prejudice
of
Posterity
,
the
disturbance
of
Possessions
,
the
obstruction
of
Justice
,
and
the
impairing
of
Learning
,
only
to
make
themselves
Sport
:
they
have
by
breaking
Articles
of
surrender
,
by
offering
savage
force
to
the
persons
of
messengers
for
Treaty
,
and
to
the
goods
and
houses
of
foreign
Ambassadors
,
broken
the
Sacred
Laws
and
disturbed
the
Commerce
of
Nations
:
and
that
nothing
might
be
wanting
to
the
height
of
their
villanies
,
by
the
rude
defacing
of
the
Pictures
and
resemblances
of
His
Majesty
their
Sovereign
,
they
have
declared
their
wicked
intentions
against
his
Sacred
Person
.
Now
if
any
shall
indeavour
to
acquit
the
Grandees
of
the
Faction
by
laying
all
the
fault
on
private
men
or
inferiour
Officers
;
and
shall
averr
that
if
complaint
had
been
made
to
the
Parliament
,
redress
would
have
been
given
:
let
them
know
that
by
reading
this
Book
it
will
appear
that
the
bad
success
which
wronged
persons
found
,
is
a
sufficient
evidence
that
others
should
have
lost
their
labour
in
complaining
.
For
even
their
Justice
was
so
obstructed
by
that
Faction
that
the
best
remedy
of
the
foulest
injuries
was
but
Eli
his
correction
of
his
sons
,
a
cold
admonition
:
and
sometimes
a
direct
denial
of
Justice
,
yea
and
the
goods
of
the
sufferers
,
given
as
a
reward
to
those
that
did
the
wrong
.
Wherefore
since
our
imagined
Sickness
hath
led
us
into
a
needless
course
of
Physick
,
wherein
we
have
almost
purged
and
bled
to
death
;
if
we
love
our
own
safety
better
than
the
gain
of
those
that
live
upon
our
ruins
,
let
us
at
last
be
wise
,
and
give
over
the
Physitian
.
In
a
word
,
we
shall
promise
in
the
sight
of
God
,
and
remembring
that
Lyers
are
in
the
number
of
those
against
whom
the
gates
of
the
new
Jerusalem
shall
be
shut
,
to
deal
in
the
ensuing
stories
with
all
candor
and
ingenuity
,
not
out
of
a
desire
to
render
the
actors
of
these
impieties
odious
,
or
abuse
the
Reader
either
with
falsehoods
or
uncertainties
,
but
to
report
nothing
but
what
hath
been
examined
and
attested
by
men
of
known
truth
and
integrity
:
And
that
the
world
may
see
what
violent
affections
these
Sectaries
brought
to
these
hostile
Acts
,
we
shall
begin
with
the
times
of
peace
,
when
the
King
had
no
formidable
Army
to
inflame
their
Jealousies
,
nor
these
men
provoked
to
cruelty
by
any
foregoing
injuries
;
The
Scene
is
Essex
,
and
the
first
man
that
shall
be
tendered
to
your
view
is
Sir
John
Lucas
.
MERCURIUS
RUSTICUS
:
OR
,
THE
Countries
Complaint
,
&c.
I.
Sir
John
Lucas
and
Mr.
Newcomin
a
Minister
,
barbarously
used
by
the
Brownists
and
Anabaptists
of
Colchester
:
Sir
John
's
House
plundered
,
his
Mother
,
Lady
,
and
Sister
abused
,
and
committed
to
the
common
Goal
.
The
unhumane
usage
of
Sir
William
Boteler
in
Kent
,
his
House
plundered
,
and
his
Servants
tortured
,
&c.
ON
Monday
,
Aug.
22.
1642.
Sir
John
Lucas
intended
with
some
Horse
and
Arms
,
to
begin
his
Journey
towards
the
North
,
to
wait
upon
the
King
;
which
purpose
of
his
being
on
Saturday
by
a
treacherous
Servant
discovered
to
John
Langley
of
Colchester
,
Grocer
,
and
Captain
of
the
Trained
Bands
;
He
,
with
Henry
Barrington
,
Brewer
,
and
Alderman
of
the
Town
,
spent
the
next
day
,
being
Sunday
,
in
riding
to
Coggeshall
,
Bocking
,
Bayntree
,
Halsteed
,
and
other
Towns
of
their
own
Faction
,
to
communicate
to
them
the
knowledg
of
it
,
and
invite
them
with
strong
guards
of
Muskets
,
to
beset
the
ways
and
intercept
him
in
his
Journey
,
and
did
also
(
by
the
assistance
of
the
Mayor
)
set
a
guard
of
Colchester
Trainband
,
on
Sunday
night
about
his
house
.
Sir
John
Lucas
intended
to
begin
his
journey
early
by
one
or
two
a
clock
on
Monday
morning
,
supposing
he
might
so
pass
mith
most
privacy
and
no
opposition
,
but
the
back
gate
at
which
he
thought
to
issue
out
was
no
sooner
opened
,
but
a
strong
guard
from
under
a
hedge
present
themselves
,
and
one
of
them
discharged
his
Musket
as
a
Warning-piece
to
the
Town
,
where
the
Alarm
is
presently
taken
,
the
Drum
strook
up
,
and
the
whole
Town
raised
,
the
Voluntiers
(
of
which
there
were
400
or
500
then
in
Town
gathered
to
serve
under
the
Earl
of
Essex
and
Lord
Say
)
brought
up
the
Beacon
,
by
direction
of
Dan.
Cole
Alderman
,
fired
,
and
Horsemen
into
all
parts
sent
forth
to
call
in
the
Country
against
the
Cavaliers
in
Sir
John
Lucas's
house
.
The
house
is
presently
beset
with
at
least
2000
people
,
and
two
pieces
of
Ordnance
are
brought
to
make
a
Battery
;
at
last
they
rushed
into
the
house
,
and
the
first
man
they
seize
upon
is
Mr.
Newcomin
,
Parson
of
S.
Trinity
Parish
in
Colchester
;
they
tear
his
cloaths
off
his
back
,
beat
him
with
their
Cudgels
and
Halberts
,
and
with
infinite
exclamations
,
carry
him
in
triumph
through
the
chief
streets
of
the
Town
;
by
the
way
entring
into
a
wild
but
very
serious
consideration
,
not
whether
he
should
dye
(
for
that
they
had
resolved
at
first
)
but
to
what
death
to
put
him
;
one
votes
drowning
,
another
stoning
,
another
bids
beat
out
his
braines
.
At
length
having
consulted
with
Alderman
Cole
,
they
carry
him
to
the
common
Goal
,
commanding
the
Jaylor
to
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
and
Revilings
)
and
those
they
met
withal
abundantly
,
at
Chelmsford
,
Romford
,
and
in
all
the
Towns
whither
the
news
of
their
Treason
had
gone
before
them
,
Sir
John
Lucas's
captive
Horses
being
carried
in
triumph
with
the
Coach
all
the
way
;
at
London
Sir
Thomas
Barrington
sent
the
Horses
to
the
Red
Lion
,
the
Prisoners
to
the
Serjeant
at
Arms
,
where
they
remained
all
Sunday
,
not
permitted
to
go
to
Church
with
their
Keeper
:
on
Monday
they
were
sent
for
to
the
house
,
and
committed
Sir
John
Lucas
to
the
Gate-house
,
Mr.
Newcomin
to
the
Fleet.
Immediately
issued
out
a
Declaration
of
both
Houses
to
the
whole
Kingdom
,
but
especially
to
the
County
of
Essex
,
ordered
to
be
read
in
all
Churches
and
Chappels
;
wherein
for
the
better
encouragement
of
good
people
(
so
run
the
words
)
it
is
told
them
that
Sir
John
Lucas's
Horse
and
Arms
are
imployed
for
the
service
of
his
Excellency
,
that
Sir
John
,
and
Mr.
Newcomin
are
committed
to
several
Prisons
,
and
shall
speedily
be
brought
to
their
Trial
,
to
receive
condign
punishment
according
to
their
demerits
.
Sir
John
Lucas
was
afterward
enlarged
,
giving
40000
l.
bail
to
appear
upon
summons
,
and
not
to
depart
London
and
the
Suburbs
without
leave
.
Mr.
Newcomin
remained
in
the
Fleet
from
Aug.
29.
to
Sept.
24.
being
never
called
for
,
and
at
length
discharged
.
Sir
William
Boteler
of
Kent
,
returning
about
the
beginning
of
April
1642.
from
his
attendance
,
(
being
then
Gentleman
Pentioner
)
on
the
King
at
Yorke
,
then
celebrating
Saint
Georges
feast
,
was
by
the
earnest
solicitation
of
the
Gentry
of
Kent
,
ingaged
to
joyn
with
them
in
presenting
the
most
honest
and
famous
Petition
of
theirs
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
delivered
by
Captain
Richard
Lovelace
,
for
which
service
,
the
Captain
was
committed
Prisoner
to
the
Gate-House
,
and
Sir
William
Boteler
to
the
Fleet
,
from
whence
after
seven
Weeks
close
Imprisonment
,
no
Impeachment
in
all
that
time
brought
in
against
him
,
many
Petitions
being
delivered
and
read
in
the
House
for
his
inlargement
,
he
was
at
last
upon
bail
of
20000
l.
remitted
to
his
house
in
London
,
to
attend
de
Die
in
Diem
,
the
pleasure
of
the
House
.
And
having
thus
danced
attendance
Six
weeks
more
,
at
last
he
obtained
leave
for
his
health
sake
to
go
to
his
own
house
in
Kent
,
called
Barrhams
Place
in
Teston
,
and
from
thence
,
for
recovery
of
his
health
much
impaired
by
long
Imprisonment
,
he
visited
the
Wells
near
Tunbridg●
,
leaving
with
his
Servants
both
in
London
and
in
the
Country
a
strict
charge
as
of
his
house
,
so
to
give
him
speedy
information
,
if
Serjeant
Hunt
should
summon
him
to
make
his
appearance
:
while
Sir
William
Boteler
remained
thus
a
Prisoner
to
the
House
,
resolving
to
yield
obedience
according
to
the
condition
of
his
Bond
,
500
Horse
and
Dragoons
under
the
command
of
Colonel
Edwine
Sandes
,
Sir
John
Seaton
,
and
Dowglas
,
accompanied
by
several
Gentlemen
his
Neighbours
,
as
Sir
William
Brookes
,
Sir
Michael
Lucy
,
Mr.
Richard
Lea
Burgess
for
Rochester
,
Mr.
Blunt
,
and
others
,
on
the
24.
of
August
,
between
Eight
and
Nine
of
the
clock
at
night
,
beset
his
house
:
The
Servants
were
within
and
the
doors
shut
,
only
William
Nelson
,
Sir
William's
Groom
comming
from
the
Stables
,
pressed
through
the
midst
of
them
to
the
Hall
door
,
where
Sandes
and
Seaton
stood
:
They
demand
of
him
whether
he
belonged
to
Sir
William
,
who
answering
that
he
did
,
Thou
Rogue
,
saies
Sandes
,
open
the
door
;
the
poor
Groom
tried
,
but
could
not
,
but
assured
them
that
there
should
be
no
resistance
made
:
and
withal
told
them
that
his
Master
was
at
the
Wells
,
but
had
left
order
to
give
them
the
best
welcome
the
house
could
afford
,
and
upon
notice
given
would
be
ready
(
if
they
had
such
Order
)
to
render
himself
up
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
whose
Prisoner
he
acknowledged
himself
to
be
:
and
withal
offered
that
if
they
would
have
patience
but
while
he
went
to
the
back
door
,
the
house
should
open
unto
them
.
This
so
reasonable
an
answer
could
not
satisfie
unreasonable
men
,
who
it
seems
were
resolved
to
force
the
door
,
rather
than
have
it
opened
,
to
give
a
peaceable
admittance
:
Therefore
they
revile
the
Groom
,
call
him
Rogue
,
and
threaten
to
kill
him
,
not
because
he
would
not
,
but
because
he
could
not
give
them
entrance
.
And
to
make
good
their
threats
,
Sandes
and
Seaton
commanded
some
of
their
Rout
to
hold
him
up
against
his
Masters
Hall
door
,
and
bad
some
twelve
or
more
Dragooners
to
give
fire
on
him
,
which
was
done
accordingly
:
on
the
word
given
,
they
that
held
him
withdrew
,
not
trusting
to
the
undistinguishing
bullet
,
and
presently
the
Groom
fell
down
,
by
which
means
he
escaped
the
fury
of
the
shot
,
which
took
effect
only
on
the
door
,
and
beat
it
down
.
The
entrance
that
was
offered
,
thus
forced
,
the
house
is
instantly
filled
by
the
Commanders
,
the
Gentlemen
their
abettors
and
the
Soldiers
.
The
first
man
they
meet
with
is
Benj.
Wiand
,
Sir
William's
Steward
,
who
being
demanded
by
Sandes
where
his
Master
was
,
returned
answer
,
the
same
in
effect
which
before
they
received
from
the
Groom
:
Sandes
was
as
courteous
to
the
Steward
as
to
the
Groom
,
calls
him
Rogue
,
and
tells
him
that
he
would
have
his
Master
alive
or
dead
,
commands
him
to
bring
him
to
the
Chamber
where
Sir
William
did
lodge
,
their
drawn
Swords
and
Musquets
bent
upon
him
extort
obedience
.
Being
brought
into
the
Bed-chamber
,
Sandes
demands
whether
there
were
no
private
Outlet
or
Closet
?
to
lay
all
naked
before
him
,
the
Steward
folds
back
the
Hangings
,
by
which
means
the
Colonel
discovers
a
Close-stool
,
which
at
worst
could
not
be
so
loathsom
,
as
he
was
before
he
died
:
This
sight
inraged
him
,
not
only
to
revile
the
Steward
,
calling
him
Rogue
,
but
cruelly
to
beat
him
with
his
Pole-ax
;
and
having
thus
prepared
him
,
he
commands
him
upon
no
less
pain
than
the
loss
of
his
life
,
to
reveal
his
Masters
Plate
and
Mony
;
and
to
inforce
the
discovery
from
him
,
with
drawn
Swords
they
prick
him
,
and
force
him
from
one
Room
to
another
.
At
last
being
come
to
the
Dining
Chamber
,
Colonel
Sandes
causes
a
dozen
of
Candles
to
be
lighted
,
and
so
to
be
held
to
and
under
the
Stewards
hands
,
and
lighted
Match
to
be
applied
between
his
fingers
,
for
the
space
of
a
quarter
of
an
hour
,
Sandes
himself
all
the
while
looking
on
,
commanded
both
Candles
and
Match
to
be
renewed
,
as
often
as
either
went
out
,
or
burnt
dull
.
In
this
Torment
they
continued
the
poor
soul
,
until
both
his
hands
were
shamefully
burnt
,
not
being
able
to
relieve
himself
by
that
discovery
for
which
they
tortured
him
.
Nor
was
that
barbarous
cruelty
thus
practised
on
the
Steward
only
,
from
him
they
descend
to
the
rest
of
the
Servants
,
whom
they
prick
with
their
Swords
,
beat
with
their
Pole-axes
to
the
indangering
their
lives
,
and
all
this
to
extort
a
Confession
where
their
Masters
Mony
and
Plate
were
:
but
when
this
inhumanity
produced
not
the
effect
they
looked
for
,
they
broke
up
every
door
,
plundered
every
Trunk
and
Chest
,
and
examined
every
dark
place
,
from
the
Closet
and
Cabinet
,
to
the
Powdering-Tub
and
Oven
.
Nay
the
Cellar
escaped
not
their
fury
;
What
they
could
not
drink
,
either
Wine
or
Beer
,
they
let
out
and
poured
upon
the
ground
.
In
this
search
they
found
and
carried
away
five
hundred
pounds
in
money
,
and
some
store
of
Arms.
And
because
the
great
adventures
of
Valiant
Knights
must
not
be
forgotten
,
To
the
Eternal
fame
of
Sir
William
Brookes
we
are
to
tell
you
,
that
when
the
Ladies
Closet
was
broken
open
,
besides
the
Charitable
Provisions
of
Medicinal
Syrupes
and
Salves
for
the
poor
and
the
needy
Neighbours
,
all
which
were
trampled
under
foot
and
spoiled
,
There
were
some
hospitable
Provisions
for
entertainments
,
as
divers
sorts
of
Preserves
and
other
Sweet-meats
,
and
in
these
this
doughty
Knight
had
his
finger
as
deep
as
any
,
except
a
common
Soldier
,
who
seeing
him
feed
greedily
on
a
Gally-pot
,
and
presuming
his
judgment
to
be
good
in
the
choice
,
(
for
the
Proverb
is
true
which
end
soever
you
put
formost
,
A
liquorish
tail
hath
a
liquorish
tooth
,
)
rudely
thrust
his
whole
fist
all
begrimed
and
besmeared
in
blood
and
powder
,
into
the
pot
with
him
:
which
as
it
turned
his
worships
stomach
for
the
time
,
so
it
may
serve
as
a
sure
Prognostick
,
That
if
these
Distractions
go
on
,
where
the
Gentleman
hath
his
finger
,
the
Clown
will
be
sure
to
have
his
fist
.
But
to
leave
him
to
his
Sweet-meats
,
which
perchance
may
have
sour
sawce
,
and
return
to
the
Colonel
and
his
plundering
Regiment
.
Being
Masters
of
the
House
,
they
plundered
and
pillaged
not
only
Sir
William
Boteler
,
but
all
his
Servants
,
men
and
maids
,
not
only
their
Chests
,
but
their
very
pockets
.
News
of
this
being
brought
to
Sir
William
Boteler
the
next
morning
early
by
three
of
the
Clock
,
and
finding
by
their
threats
,
that
his
life
was
in
danger
,
he
resolved
to
fly
for
protection
to
the
King
at
Nottingham
:
In
his
way
thither
at
Pinkeny
Mowlton
in
Northamptonshire
,
he
was
seized
on
by
the
Country
people
,
and
by
about
150
Horse
conveyed
first
to
Northampton
,
and
from
thence
to
London
.
About
the
beginning
of
September
he
was
brought
before
the
House
of
Commons
,
and
there
in
a
full
House
was
examined
twice
;
to
whom
he
gave
a
full
and
clear
satisfaction
in
every
particular
.
And
being
unimpeached
,
the
whole
House
being
utterly
unable
to
accuse
him
of
any
the
least
kind
of
offence
or
Delinquency
,
Sir
William
Boteler
did
then
and
there
in
the
publick
House
make
his
Complaint
of
this
intolerable
oppression
and
injustice
,
charging
by
name
before
the
House
,
Colonel
Edwine
Sandes
,
Sir
John
Seaton
,
Sir
Michael
Livesey
,
Mr.
Richard
Lea
,
who
then
was
present
sitting
in
the
House
,
and
Sir
William
Brookes
with
Felony
and
Burglary
,
for
breaking
up
his
house
in
the
night
,
and
stealing
and
carrying
away
his
Mony
and
Goods
:
and
implored
the
Justice
of
the
House
against
them
.
And
now
behold
their
great
zeal
of
Justice
,
their
care
of
the
Subjects
Property
,
and
the
freedom
of
their
persons
from
illegal
Imprisonment
,
instead
of
harkening
to
his
just
complaint
,
and
relieving
him
in
his
losses
,
to
keep
Magna
Charta
inviolable
,
they
Remand
Sir
William
Boteler
again
Prisoner
to
the
Gate-house
,
where
he
remained
for
six
months
longer
:
at
last
being
certainly
informed
,
that
it
was
really
intended
if
not
ordered
by
the
House
to
send
him
to
Ipswitch
,
he
indeavoured
and
effected
an
escape
from
the
Gate-house
,
and
got
safe
to
Oxford
,
where
he
attested
all
these
particulars
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
II.
Sir
Hen.
Audley'
s
house
Plundered
:
Variety
of
Insolencies
committed
by
the
Rabble
of
Essex
,
upon
M.
Laud
,
M.
Honifold
,
M.
Stevens
,
and
M.
Symmons
,
Ministers
.
The
Countess
of
Rivers
Plundered
to
the
value
of
100000.
Pounds
,
&c.
THe
last
weeks
Mercurius
told
you
of
the
Plundring
of
Sir
John
Lucas
his
House
in
Essex
and
the
barbarous
Insolencies
practised
on
him
and
his
.
The
Tumult
was
raised
and
made
confident
by
Success
,
they
go
on
in
Triumph
,
and
like
a
violent
Torrent
swelling
above
its
Channel
,
carry
all
before
them
,
and
fearing
no
opposition
,
they
divided
themselves
into
several
Companies
,
every
place
where
they
come
tasts
of
their
Fury
and
Madness
:
Some
go
to
Sir
Henry
Audly's
at
Beerechurch
,
whose
house
they
plundred
of
its
Furniture
,
and
his
Grounds
and
Pastures
of
his
Cattle
.
Others
go
to
M.
Erasmus
Laud
,
a
poor
Minister
of
Little
Try
,
whose
very
name
with
these
men
was
a
Crime
and
reason
enough
to
expose
him
to
their
Rage
:
Guilty
he
was
of
nothing
but
a
good
and
honest
Name
,
yet
they
spoil
him
of
his
Goods
,
drive
away
his
Cattle
,
rob
of
20
l.
in
Monies
,
his
own
and
his
Wives
Cloaths
,
all
except
those
upon
their
backs
:
M.
Laud
knowing
divers
of
them
,
and
knowing
them
to
be
Colchester
Men
,
repaired
thither
to
the
Mayor
for
Justice
,
and
by
chance
found
him
well
circumstanced
for
an
action
an
action
of
that
nature
,
both
in
respect
of
Place
and
Company
,
for
he
found
him
at
the
Moote-Hall
,
and
the
Aldermen
his
Brethren
with
him
:
Being
come
thither
,
he
was
so
far
from
finding
what
he
sought
for
,
Justice
,
that
he
was
not
permitted
to
make
his
complaint
,
M.
Cole
,
one
of
the
Aldermen
telling
him
openly
,
that
they
knew
him
and
his
Cause
,
he
was
the
Minister
of
Try
that
was
Plundred
the
day
before
,
but
they
had
other
Business
in
hand
and
he
must
be
gone
,
for
they
could
not
hear
him
.
Others
of
them
went
to
M.
Honifold
,
a
Batchelor
in
Divinity
,
and
near
70
years
of
age
,
dwelling
in
Colchester
,
there
they
rifle
his
House
of
all
its
Furniture
,
take
away
his
Bonds
,
Bills
,
and
Evidences
,
leave
not
a
Shelf
behind
them
,
nor
a
Pin
to
hang
a
Hat
on
.
The
good
old
Man
,
thinking
that
Spoil
and
Robbery
had
been
as
punishable
now
as
when
he
was
a
young
Man
,
and
not
knowing
that
the
pretending
defenders
of
the
Law
had
banished
all
Law
out
of
the
Kingdom
,
went
to
crave
the
Mayors
assistance
,
to
restore
his
Goods
and
punish
the
Offenders
.
Alderman
Cole
,
the
Fulk
of
Colchester
being
present
,
told
him
,
that
he
wondred
he
would
offer
to
come
abroad
being
a
Man
so
much
hated
,
and
so
rated
him
away
.
In
his
return
,
a
multitude
of
Boys
and
rude
People
throng
about
him
,
and
prosecute
him
through
the
streets
with
Exclamations
and
Outcries
:
Nor
do
they
stay
here
,
their
hands
second
their
tongues
,
throwing
stones
and
dirt
at
him
.
So
little
did
either
the
hoary
Head
and
venerable
old
Age
,
or
the
priviledg
of
his
sacred
Function
afford
him
protection
from
the
inraged
multitude
:
Many
see
him
,
some
pity
him
,
but
none
dare
own
him
or
take
him
into
protection
,
lest
they
should
divert
this
swelling
tide
of
popular
fury
from
the
good
old
Man
,
and
draw
it
on
themselves
;
at
last
bowels
of
compassion
yearn
on
him
,
a
Kinsman
of
his
emboldened
,
what
by
the
urgency
of
Nature
,
and
the
constraint
of
Charity
,
opens
his
doors
to
afford
him
shelter
from
this
storm
,
but
all
in
vain
;
like
so
many
Bears
robbed
of
their
Whelps
they
double
their
rage
,
the
multitude
threaten
to
pull
down
the
house
unless
the
prey
be
delivered
up
unto
them
:
The
good
old
Man
seeing
the
inexorableness
of
his
persecutors
,
to
make
a
full
return
of
the
kindness
which
he
found
,
resolves
rather
to
expose
his
own
Person
as
the
subject
of
their
fury
,
than
his
Kinsmans
house
:
and
so
he
did
,
for
out
he
goes
unto
them
,
and
now
having
retrieved
the
Game
,
they
pursue
him
with
a
high
advanced
din
and
confused
clamour
:
At
last
when
all
other
means
to
escape
their
fury
failed
,
he
made
a
voluntary
captivity
his
safety
,
and
took
the
Common
Gaol
for
his
Sanctuary
.
Having
thus
thrown
Master
Honifold
into
Prison
,
not
so
much
the
Ignominy
of
the
place
where
they
had
lodged
him
,
or
saciety
of
contempt
of
Gods
Minister
which
they
had
cast
upon
him
,
as
the
want
of
more
day-light
,
sets
an
end
to
this
days
Frenzie
.
They
part
for
the
present
,
but
resolve
to
meet
next
morning
;
and
so
they
do
,
a
day
or
two
are
too
scanty
to
act
their
boundless
malice
.
Being
met
,
their
next
plundering
expedition
is
to
the
Countess
of
Rivers
house
at
S.
Osyth
,
a
rich
prize
:
There
they
enter
the
House
,
and
being
entred
,
they
pull
down
,
cut
in
pieces
,
and
carry
away
her
costly
Hangings
,
Beds
,
Couches
,
Chairs
,
and
the
whole
Furniture
of
her
House
,
rob
her
of
her
Plate
and
Monies
:
They
tear
down
her
Wainscot
,
Leads
,
and
Windows
,
they
leave
not
a
Door
,
nor
so
much
as
a
Bar
of
a
Window
behind
them
.
The
Countess
with
her
Family
,
forewarned
of
their
intentions
to
come
thither
,
made
an
escape
,
and
retired
to
her
House
at
Melford
in
Suffolk
:
Thither
within
a
day
or
two
they
pursue
her
,
Essex
is
too
narrow
to
bound
the
madness
of
the
Essex
Schismaticks
;
in
Suffolk
they
meet
with
some
that
are
as
mad
as
themselves
:
Few
Counties
(
the
more
is
the
pity
)
but
can
yield
Companions
in
such
Outrages
.
From
thence
she
hardly
escapes
with
her
life
:
she
abandons
her
House
,
and
leaves
it
to
the
mercy
of
these
new
ministers
of
new
Justice
,
who
not
only
rifle
the
House
,
but
make
strict
search
for
her
Person
.
And
that
you
may
guess
what
spiritual
men
they
were
,
and
likewise
in
what
danger
this
Honourable
Person
was
in
,
they
express
themselves
in
this
rude
unchristian
language
,
That
if
they
found
her
,
they
would
try
what
flesh
she
had
.
From
whence
she
fled
to
St.
Edmunds-Bury
,
where
the
Gates
were
shut
against
her
an
hour
at
least
;
at
length
she
was
suffered
to
lodge
there
that
night
,
and
next
day
with
a
strong
Guard
she
was
conveyed
out
of
Town
,
and
so
keeping
her self
as
private
as
she
could
,
made
an
escape
to
London
.
Her
losses
at
both
her
Houses
,
were
valued
at
an
Hundred
thousand
pounds
at
least
,
though
some
that
knew
the
rich
Furniture
that
adorned
both
,
affirm
it
to
be
no
less
than
an
Hundred
and
fifty
thousand
pounds
,
besides
her
Parks
in
both
places
were
utterly
spoiled
.
One
of
these
Plunderers
,
whose
name
was
Bowyer
,
was
apprehended
in
London
selling
some
of
these
Goods
in
the
very
act
,
and
for
this
committed
to
Newgate
as
a
Felon
,
two
of
the
Countes's
Servants
entring
into
Recognizance
to
give
in
Evidence
against
him
for
the
King
,
but
upon
his
Petition
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
it
was
ordered
he
should
be
discharged
without
paying
any
Fees
,
which
was
done
accordingly
.
And
't
was
but
an
oversight
that
his
prosecutors
had
not
been
laid
in
his
place
,
and
publick
thanks
decreed
him
for
his
zeal
to
the
Cause
.
Mr.
Stevens
,
Parson
of
South-Hamfield
in
Essex
,
hearing
that
the
Plunderers
of
that
County
were
coming
on
him
,
took
Horse
and
fled
,
and
so
saved
both
himself
and
his
Horse
,
for
he
knew
that
both
were
sought
after
.
The
Father
being
fled
,
the
Children
left
to
their
own
providence
,
bethink
how
to
secure
those
little
pieces
of
Plate
which
each
had
received
from
the
bounty
of
their
Godfathers
and
Godmothers
;
neither
time
nor
acquaintance
could
give
them
latitude
of
much
choice
where
to
hide
it
,
and
thinking
any
place
safer
than
their
own
House
,
they
run
to
a
poor
Woman
their
Neighbour
,
and
there
with
her
they
deposite
their
whole
Treasure
.
When
the
Plunderers
came
and
found
that
the
Birds
were
flown
,
having
intelligence
,
or
as
some
say
,
but
suspecting
that
the
poor
Womans
house
might
hide
Mr.
Stevens
his
Goods
,
they
go
to
her
House
and
demand
them
:
The
Woman
denies
that
she
hath
any
of
Mr.
Stevens
his
Goods
:
hereupon
one
of
the
Plunderers
strikes
her
on
the
head
with
a
Club
with
such
violence
,
that
her
Brains
came
out
at
her
Nostrils
.
The
poor
Woman
being
thus
murthered
,
the
bloody
Murtherers
insult
over
her
,
and
say
,
that
the
just
hand
of
God
was
upon
her
,
for
lying
against
her
knowledg
,
and
denying
those
parcels
of
Mr.
Stevens
his
Goods
that
were
in
her
possession
:
so
usual
a
thing
it
is
with
these
men
to
blaspheme
God
,
and
intitle
him
to
all
those
wickednesses
which
they
commit
on
others
.
Mr.
Edward
Symmons
,
Parson
of
Rayne
in
Essex
,
in
the
Months
of
June
and
July
,
1642
,
Preached
against
the
sin
of
Rebellion
and
Disobedience
,
and
against
traducing
the
King
,
slandering
the
footsteps
of
Gods
Anointed
,
and
refused
to
promote
the
Civil-War
(
then
begun
)
by
stirring
up
the
People
to
contribute
Money
,
Plate
,
and
Horses
to
the
maintenance
of
so
unnatural
,
so
destructive
a
Division
,
as
most
of
the
Ministers
of
those
parts
did
.
This
as
it
was
more
remarkable
in
him
,
so
it
was
more
heinously
taken
from
him
,
in
regard
of
his
former
intimate
acquaintance
with
Mr.
Stephen
Marshal
,
Parson
of
Finchingfield
in
Essex
,
the
great
Incendiary
of
this
unhappy
War
,
and
had
given
him
the
right
hand
of
Fellowship
:
Hereupon
he
was
sent
for
to
the
House
of
Commons
by
a
Pursevant
,
and
was
told
,
That
he
being
an
Honest
Man
(
but
of
a
different
judgment
from
the
Sence
and
Vote
of
the
House
)
did
more
prejudice
to
the
good
Cause
in
hand
,
than
a
hundred
Knaves
,
and
therefore
would
suffer
accordingly
:
Which
saying
since
that
time
,
hath
been
plentifully
made
good
,
and
verified
in
many
particular
Oppressions
and
Sufferings
,
unjustly
inflicted
on
him
and
his
whole
Family
.
First
,
He
was
Imprisoned
and
most
illegally
deprived
of
his
Liberty
,
for
no
other
cause
,
but
because
he
would
not
,
contrary
to
the
dictate
of
Religion
,
and
his
own
Conscience
,
countenance
and
promote
an
accursed
Rebellion
against
his
gracious
Sovereign
.
Secondly
,
He
was
referr'd
after
to
the
Committee
for
Scandalous
Ministers
,
thereby
to
blast
his
Credit
and
Reputation
in
his
Ministery
:
a
most
diabolical
and
divelish
Course
,
and
a
work
of
him
who
is
the
accuser
of
the
Brethren
,
to
defame
honest
Orthodox
Ministers
with
the
odious
name
of
Scandalous
and
Malignants
,
though
made
so
neither
by
error
in
Doctrin
,
Wickedness
of
life
,
or
Debauchness
of
conversation
,
but
by
the
malignity
of
a
Vote
,
knowing
,
that
by
this
means
,
such
Ministers
doctrines
and
Testimonies
will
be
of
little
or
no
credit
afterward
with
the
vulgar
:
for
had
it
been
Scandal
in
a
true
and
proper
sense
,
which
they
indeavoured
to
take
away
out
of
the
Church
,
they
would
never
have
brought
over
his
head
,
so
scandalous
,
so
infamous
a
man
to
be
Lecturer
in
his
Cure
as
they
did
:
for
to
the
wounding
of
Mr.
Simmons
his
Soul
,
and
the
indangering
the
Souls
of
his
Parishoners
,
one
Lemuel
Tuke
is
appointed
Lecturer
in
Master
Simmons
his
Church
,
a
man
by
education
a
Weaver
,
and
that
had
not
so
much
as
saluted
either
University
,
yet
while
men
slept
he
intruded
into
a
Cure
of
Souls
in
Nottinghamshire
,
from
which
ever
since
〈◊〉
the
Parliament
began
he
hath
been
a
Nonresident
:
for
not
long
after
the
sitting
of
this
Parliament
,
his
Parishoners
framed
a
Bill
against
him
to
the
Lower
House
,
Articling
against
him
,
not
only
as
negligent
,
but
insufficient
in
his
calling
:
Nay
they
accuse
him
of
no
less
than
Barretry
and
Battery
,
Drunkenness
and
Whordom
,
and
some
such
other
sins
,
which
in
the
judgment
of
all
honest
men
,
make
a
man
truly
and
properly
scandalous
:
yet
this
man
thus
Articled
against
to
the
House
of
Commons
as
Scandalous
,
is
thought
worthy
to
be
substituted
as
a
Coadjutor
in
Mr.
Simmons
his
Cure
,
who
only
was
voted
Scandalous
,
because
not
Rebellious
:
so
that
all
the
World
may
judge
what
it
is
to
be
scandalous
in
this
new
sense
,
To
honour
the
King
,
and
to
live
in
obedience
to
the
established
orders
of
the
Church
.
Thirdly
,
having
preached
that
it
was
unlawful
to
take
up
Arms
against
the
King
,
and
contrary
to
the
Doctrine
of
the
Scriptures
to
contribute
to
a
War
against
him
,
in
opposition
to
Lemuel
Tuke
,
who
laboured
to
poison
his
People
with
Sedition
and
Rebellion
,
affirming
openly
,
that
in
some
Cases
it
was
lawful
not
only
to
Resist
,
but
(
which
I
tremble
to
relate
)
to
kill
the
King
;
instancing
in
the
example
of
Athaliah
,
2
King
.
11.
yet
the
said
Tuke
is
countenanced
and
encouraged
,
whereas
Master
Simmons
for
asserting
the
Truth
,
was
summoned
before
the
Committee
,
there
to
answer
as
a
Delinquent
:
who
was
so
far
from
a
Retractation
,
that
he
justified
the
Doctrine
:
which
he
did
so
fully
,
that
one
of
the
Committee
was
convicted
of
it
,
yet
as
he
himself
did
,
so
he
would
have
Master
Simmons
to
withold
that
Truth
in
unrighteousness
:
for
Sir
Thomas
Barrington
(
who
was
the
man
)
confessed
that
it
was
a
Truth
and
a
Divine
Truth
,
yet
not
fit
to
be
preached
at
all
times
,
no
not
by
those
that
were
intrusted
with
it
by
God
himself
,
no
though
it
might
be
in
some
danger
of
Impeachment
.
At
last
being
charged
to
preach
no
more
such
Doctrine
,
and
putting
in
bail
,
by
the
Committee
he
is
permitted
to
return
to
his
charge
.
But
behold
what
it
is
to
be
voted
a
Delinquent
,
or
a
scandalous
Minister
by
the
Committee
;
it
is
to
be
put
out
of
the
protection
of
the
Law
,
and
exposed
to
the
fury
of
the
people
:
for
on
his
return
Oath
is
made
before
a
Justice
of
Peace
,
that
at
Halstead
in
Essex
it
was
concluded
that
an
hundred
men
from
Cogshall
and
Colchester
side
(
some
of
that
Crew
that
plundered
Sir
John
Lucas
his
house
)
should
suddenly
surprize
Mr.
Simmons
in
his
house
,
Plunder
his
goods
,
and
cut
off
his
person
as
one
not
fit
to
live
,
because
he
was
(
as
they
said
)
against
the
Parliament
:
But
by
the
good
providence
of
God
this
Conspiracy
was
discovered
and
prevented
.
Fourthly
,
they
oppressed
him
in
his
State
,
for
after
his
return
home
,
seeing
the
necessity
of
opposing
that
inundation
of
wickedness
which
was
overflowing
his
Charge
,
and
pressed
earnestly
in
conscience
according
to
his
duty
and
place
,
to
labour
to
undermine
that
throne
of
Satan
which
by
the
Luxation
of
the
nerves
and
sinews
of
Government
was
like
to
be
set
up
both
there
and
in
all
parts
of
the
Kingdom
,
he
bent
himself
in
his
Sermon
chiefly
against
the
prevailing
sins
of
the
time
,
as
Lying
and
Slandering
,
Rebellion
and
Treason
,
Pride
and
Oppression
,
Malice
and
Cruelty
:
yet
these
Sermons
by
his
malicious
enemies
were
interpreted
little
better
than
Libells
against
the
Parliament
:
and
upon
Information
given
he
was
sent
for
up
,
three
or
four
times
,
to
the
Lower
House
,
to
his
very
great
charge
and
trouble
,
tho
when
he
came
to
London
he
was
never
called
to
answer
to
the
Accusation
.
And
because
he
refused
to
contribute
voluntarily
to
the
maintenance
of
the
Rebellion
,
his
malicious
Neighbours
resolved
to
extort
it
from
him
in
a
seeming
legal
way
:
for
in
the
rates
made
for
the
Royal
Subsidy
,
they
raised
him
far
beyond
his
just
proportion
,
and
therefore
in
the
first
rate
,
they
seized
him
twice
as
much
,
and
in
the
second
almost
thrice
as
much
as
themselves
;
and
contrived
their
business
so
cunningly
,
that
they
caused
him
to
be
sent
for
up
to
the
Parliament
while
these
things
were
in
doing
,
and
returned
rates
in
to
the
Exchequer
in
his
absence
,
that
so
he
might
not
have
the
opportunity
,
by
complaint
of
a
just
grievance
,
to
relieve
himself
.
Lastly
,
having
by
most
unjust
vexations
exhausted
his
Estate
,
and
drained
his
purse
:
without
hearing
his
defence
indeed
without
further
summoning
him
to
appear
,
they
sequester
his
Parsonage
and
Glebe
,
and
Tyth
,
and
put
one
Robert
Atkins
a
stranger
into
Cure
;
and
as
they
put
his
Livelyhood
into
a
strangers
hands
,
so
they
put
his
life
into
the
power
of
his
Enemies
,
who
are
authorized
to
apprehend
him
,
and
carry
him
Prisoner
to
Cambridg
:
but
upon
Intimation
given
,
he
withdrew
himself
,
and
leaving
all
to
the
mercy
of
his
Enemies
,
was
forced
by
flight
to
secure
his
Person
.
And
here
by
the
way
give
me
leave
to
observe
one
thing
to
the
Courteous
Reader
,
and
it
is
the
Reason
which
was
alledged
in
the
sequestration
of
Mr.
Simmons
his
Parsonage
,
and
indeed
is
generally
used
in
all
these
sequestrations
,
and
it
is
,
For
the
better
supply
of
an
able
and
godly
man
in
the
said
Church
:
I
would
they
could
tell
us
where
we
should
find
these
two
Epithites
Able
and
Godly
to
meet
in
any
one
of
those
which
they
have
substituted
in
the
Revenues
and
imployments
of
those
Orthodox
Divines
,
which
they
have
banished
from
their
Cures
and
families
:
do
but
survey
the
new
Plantations
which
they
have
made
,
and
you
will
think
that
Jereboams
Priests
were
risen
again
from
the
dead
,
the
lowest
and
basest
of
the
People
:
for
while
honest
,
learned
,
and
conscientious
men
could
not
suffer
themselves
to
be
made
the
base
instruments
to
corrupt
and
seduce
the
Ignorant
multitudes
to
comply
with
the
reasonable
practices
of
the
heads
of
this
Rebellion
,
it
was
necessary
to
seek
out
and
invite
such
of
the
Clergy
into
their
Party
,
whom
either
want
of
Merit
,
or
want
of
Honesty
,
had
left
destitute
of
Means
;
and
when
Orthodox
Men
are
displaced
or
driven
away
,
and
such
Trencher
Chaplains
put
in
their
places
,
we
may
easily
guess
what
work
is
in
hand
,
even
the
alteration
of
the
Government
:
For
while
they
are
so
earnest
both
to
Preach
and
Print
that
other
Forms
of
Government
are
God's
Ordinance
as
well
as
Monarchy
,
they
will
in
time
go
on
to
undervalue
Monarchy
in
comparison
of
the
rest
:
But
to
leave
my
Diversion
,
and
to
return
to
Mr.
Simmons
.
His
Living
Sequestrated
,
and
his
Person
exposed
to
the
licence
of
his
veriest
Enemies
,
but
he
withdrawing
himself
from
this
Storm
,
and
being
out
of
their
reach
,
they
reek
their
malice
on
his
poor
Wife
and
Children
,
and
his
aged
Father
:
They
threaten
to
beat
down
the
House
about
their
Ears
,
unless
they
would
yield
possession
to
Mr.
Atkins
,
His
Father
,
for
cutting
down
three
Trees
on
the
Glebe
for
necessary
uses
,
and
an
honest
Parishoner
for
loving
Mr.
Simmons
,
and
plowing
his
Land
,
were
most
maliciously
handled
,
and
sent
for
up
before
the
Committee
in
the
Exchequer
Chamber
:
And
when
after
all
these
Threats
and
Oppressions
they
still
keep
possession
of
the
Parsonage
House
,
having
no
place
else
wherein
to
put
their
Heads
,
at
last
,
May
the
15
,
Watt
Tyler
,
I
mean
Watt
Long
,
whom
some
call
Colonel
Long
,
came
with
some
Troops
of
Horse
,
and
cast
his
whole
Family
out
of
Doors
,
his
aged
Father
,
his
Wife
and
three
Children
,
the
eldest
but
seven
years
old
,
and
his
Servants
;
and
so
gave
possession
of
the
House
to
Mr.
Atkins
.
He
that
desires
to
be
better
satisfied
concerning
this
faithful
Minister
of
God
,
and
what
raised
this
Persecution
against
him
,
let
him
have
recourse
to
that
Learned
and
Orthodox
Book
of
his
lately
Published
,
called
,
A
Loyal
Subjects
Belief
,
worthy
every
Mans
reading
,
wherein
he
shall
see
a
solid
and
satisfactory
Answer
to
all
those
Arguments
divulged
by
way
of
a
Letter
by
Stephen
Marshal
,
the
great
Patriarch
of
Rebellion
,
whereby
he
indeavours
to
maintain
the
Lawfulness
of
this
present
War
against
the
King
:
In
which
Letter
you
may
see
the
true
Character
of
a
Cauterized
Schismatick
,
for
as
if
he
were
afraid
the
World
should
not
think
him
sealed
up
to
a
Reprobate
sense
,
and
past
all
grace
of
Repentance
;
he
tells
us
that
as
soon
as
he
hath
recovered
his
Health
(
much
impaired
by
a
hot
eager
prosecution
of
this
Rebellion
)
he
intends
to
return
(
with
the
Dog
to
his
Vomit
)
to
sacrifice
his
strength
to
the
service
of
the
Cause
and
his
Excellency
,
in
all
which
,
while
he
labours
to
free
himself
from
the
imputation
of
Madness
,
and
apologizeth
against
a
prevailing
Report
,
that
the
horror
of
his
guilt
had
distracted
him
,
he
proves
himself
to
be
madder
than
ever
the
World
took
him
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
III.
The
great
increase
of
Brownists
and
Anabaptists
at
Chelmsford
of
late
years
.
Their
abuse
of
the
Church
,
and
Doctor
Michelson
Parson
there
.
Their
Tenets
in
matters
of
Religion
.
Master
Cornelius
a
Minister
Plundered
,
&c.
ESSEX
is
a
deep
Country
,
and
though
we
have
Travelled
almost
two
Weeks
in
it
,
yet
we
cannot
get
out
:
We
are
now
at
Chelmsford
,
which
is
the
Shire-twon
,
and
hath
in
it
two
thousand
Communicants
;
all
these
are
Parishioners
of
one
and
the
same
Church
,
for
there
is
but
one
Church
in
this
great
Town
,
whereof
at
this
time
Doctor
Michelson
is
Parson
,
an
able
and
godly
Man
.
Before
this
Parliament
was
called
,
of
this
numerous
Congregation
there
was
not
one
to
be
named
,
Man
or
Woman
,
that
boggled
at
the
Common-Prayers
,
or
refused
to
receive
the
Sacramant
kneeling
,
the
posture
which
the
Church
of
England
(
walking
in
the
foot-steps
of
venerable
Antiquity
)
hath
by
Act
of
Parliament
injoyned
all
those
which
account
it
their
happiness
to
be
called
her
Children
.
But
since
this
magnified
Reformation
was
set
on
foot
,
this
Town
(
as
indeed
most
Corporations
,
as
we
find
by
experience
,
are
Nur●eries
of
Faction
and
Rebellion
)
is
so
filled
with
Sectaries
,
especially
Brownists
and
Anabaptists
,
that
a
third
part
of
the
People
refuse
to
communicate
in
the
Church-Lyturgie
,
and
half
refuse
to
receive
the
blessed
Sacrament
,
unless
they
may
receive
it
in
what
posture
they
please
to
take
it
.
They
have
amongst
them
two
sorts
of
Anabaptists
;
the
one
they
call
the
Old
Men
,
or
Aspersi
,
because
they
were
but
Sprinkled
:
The
other
they
call
the
New
Men
,
or
the
Immersi
,
because
they
were
overwhelmed
in
their
Rebaptization
.
In
August
,
1641.
there
was
an
Order
published
by
the
House
of
Commons
,
(
indeed
by
some
leaders
in
a
Committee
)
for
the
taking
away
all
Scandalous
Pictures
out
of
Churches
,
in
which
there
was
more
intended
by
the
Authors
than
at
first
their
Instruments
understood
,
until
instructed
by
private
information
how
far
the
People
were
to
inlarge
the
meaning
.
When
this
Order
came
forth
,
there
was
standing
in
the
Chancel
a
goodly
fair
Window
at
the
East
end
,
untouched
from
the
first
foundation
of
the
Church
,
in
which
was
painted
the
History
of
Christ
,
from
his
Conception
to
his
Ascension
:
And
to
perpetuate
the
memory
of
the
Benefactors
,
in
the
vacant
places
there
were
the
Eschochions
and
Arms
of
the
ancient
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
who
had
contributed
to
the
building
and
beautifying
that
fair
structure
.
In
obedience
to
the
Order
,
the
Church-wardens
took
down
the
Pictures
of
the
blessed
Virgin
,
and
of
Christ
on
the
Cross
,
and
supplied
the
places
with
white
Glass
.
But
the
Sectaries
who
understood
the
sense
of
that
Order
better
than
the
Church-Wardens
,
did
rest
very
ill
satisfied
with
this
partial
imperfect
Reformation
:
That
therefore
they
might
,
according
to
the
phrase
of
the
Times
,
make
a
through
Reformation
,
on
the
Fifth
of
November
in
the
Evening
,
all
the
Sectaries
assemble
together
,
and
in
a
Riotous
manner
with
long
Poles
and
Stones
,
beat
down
and
deface
the
whole
Window
.
This
exercise
of
an
usurped
power
in
the
People
without
the
lawful
Magistrate
,
like
that
which
Andreas
Corolostadius
put
in
practice
in
the
Reformation
under
Luther
,
and
was
sharply
condemned
by
him
;
and
indeed
gave
the
unhappy
occasion
to
that
Schism
,
which
is
hardly
made
up
at
this
day
;
stirred
the
spirit
of
the
Doctor
to
inveigh
,
the
next
Lords
Day
,
against
popular
tumultuous
Reformations
,
though
to
the
better
:
As
being
vitiated
,
First
,
By
the
defect
of
lawful
Authority
,
which
cannot
reside
in
the
People
.
Secondly
,
In
the
intemperancy
of
the
prosecution
,
who
commonly
cast
out
one
Devil
by
another
;
abolishing
Superstition
with
Sedition
.
This
so
incensed
the
Sectaries
thus
to
be
opposed
in
their
furious
Zeal
,
that
they
threatned
the
Doctor
to
ruine
him
,
if
he
preached
any
more
on
that
subject
:
And
to
let
him
see
how
welcome
such
Doctrine
was
unto
them
,
there
was
a
Carbine
discharged
at
a
Window
of
that
room
where
the
Doctors
usual
abode
was
,
the
Bullet
passed
through
the
place
,
and
in
all
probability
had
slain
him
,
had
not
the
good
Providence
of
God
(
without
which
a
Sparrow
falls
not
to
the
ground
)
diverted
him
unexspectedly
from
a
business
before
known
to
be
appointed
for
that
place
and
hour
.
This
design
frustrated
,
about
a
fornight
after
,
one
of
these
new
Proselytes
,
a
young
Clothier
,
with
others
possessed
with
the
same
frenzy
,
came
into
the
Church
immediately
after
Divine
Service
was
ended
,
laid
violent
hands
upon
the
Doctor
,
took
him
by
the
Throat
,
and
would
have
torn
his
Surpl●●●
off
his
Back
,
and
were
so
so
inraged
,
that
had
not
some
of
his
honest
peaceable
Parishoners
come
to
his
rescue
,
they
had
in
all
probability
endangered
his
Life
:
But
whom
they
could
not
wound
with
their
hands
,
they
cut
with
their
tongues
,
as
with
a
sharp
Razor
:
They
revile
him
and
call
him
Baals
Priest
,
and
Popish
Priest
,
for
wearing
the
Rags
of
Rome
;
nay
,
they
cry
out
against
him
as
a
perjured
Person
,
that
had
violated
his
faith
engaged
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
chosen
by
the
Congregation
for
their
Pastor
:
And
that
Imposition
of
Hands
by
the
Bishop
and
Presbytery
,
are
meer
Popish
Innovations
.
What
more
additions
to
these
monstrous
Opinions
,
the
wildness
of
such
mens
Brains
,
assisted
by
the
cunning
of
the
Devil
,
and
incouraged
by
the
usurped
power
of
these
Times
may
produce
,
we
must
leave
to
the
discovery
of
Time
.
In
the
interim
(
good
Reader
)
stand
amazed
,
and
wonder
at
this
excellent
pattern
of
the
intended
blessed
Reformation
.
Had
not
God
,
to
prepare
us
for
destruction
,
deprived
us
of
Knowledg
,
had
he
not
closed
our
Eyes
that
we
should
not
see
,
and
hardned
our
Hearts
that
we
should
not
understand
,
were
we
not
a
people
as
the
Prophet
speaks
,
forsaken
and
meted
out
for
destruction
,
it
could
not
be
,
but
that
Mankind
would
rise
up
against
this
Generation
of
Vipers
,
and
their
Protectors
,
and
sweep
them
away
,
to
use
the
Metaphor
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
with
the
beesom
of
destruction
,
who
if
a
while
connived
at
,
will
prove
Moths
fretting
to
the
destruction
both
of
Church
and
State
:
For
in
this
Model
,
you
may
see
the
Babel
which
is
now
in
building
,
and
the
budding
forth
of
those
Brambles
,
out
of
which
(
if
not
timely
quenched
)
will
come
forth
a
Fire
(
as
it
is
in
Jothams
Parable
)
which
will
devour
the
Cedars
of
Lebanon
.
The
same
godly
Reformers
,
which
plundred
Master
Laud
,
before
mentioned
,
came
afterwards
to
Master
Cornelius
,
Parson
of
Peldon
,
in
the
same
County
of
Essex
,
whom
they
rob
of
all
his
goods
,
within
doors
and
without
:
They
spared
not
his
Library
,
nor
his
Wives
Child-bed
Linnen
,
though
she
was
great
with
Child
,
and
in
danger
by
the
fright
she
took
at
their
coming
,
to
have
occasion
to
make
use
of
them
before
her
due
time
,
they
plunder
him
to
the
value
of
Four
hundred
pounds
,
a
very
great
sum
in
a
poor
Clergy-mans
purse
,
especially
as
these
Times
go
.
For
relief
of
his
Loss
,
he
sends
his
Servant
to
the
Mayor
of
Colchester
(
a
famous
Justiciary
,
as
you
may
remember
the
last
Week
,
in
the
relation
of
Mr.
Laud
,
and
Mr.
Honifields
Cases
)
having
made
his
Complaint
,
and
accused
the
plunderers
by
name
,
the
Mayor
knew
that
some
body
deserved
Commitment
,
but
had
the
ill
luck
to
be
mistaken
in
the
person
,
and
therefore
instead
of
the
plunderers
,
he
Commits
Master
Cornelius
his
man
to
the
Gaol
,
where
he
is
lodged
for
a
Malignant
,
until
his
Master
(
plundred
of
his
Man
too
)
came
and
put
in
Bail
,
that
his
Servant
should
be
forth-coming
,
to
answer
to
all
Objections
the
next
Sessions
.
Master
Cornelius
knowing
that
he
should
in
vain
expect
Justice
where
he
found
Oppression
,
from
the
Mayor
goes
to
Mr.
Gardner
,
a
Justice
of
Peace
not
far
off
,
who
grants
his
Warrant
for
apprehension
of
the
parties
:
Who
being
apprehended
(
though
for
Felony
)
put
in
Bail
to
answer
the
next
Sessions
.
When
the
time
came
,
Mr.
Cornelius
indicts
these
plunderers
,
the
Bill
was
found
by
the
Grand-Jury
upon
the
evidence
of
three
or
four
Witnesses
,
who
were
Spectators
,
and
saw
them
carry
away
the
Goods
:
Nay
,
the
prisoners
at
the
Bar
not
only
confessed
the
Fact
in
their
Examination
before
the
Justice
,
when
they
were
first
apprehended
,
but
in
the
face
of
the
Court
,
and
presence
of
the
Jurors
:
Yet
the
Petty-Jury
,
contrary
to
Reason
and
their
own
Consciences
,
found
the
Indictment
against
the
King
.
The
Court
wondring
at
so
wilful
blindness
,
cause
the
Statute
to
be
read
,
lay
open
the
Evidence
,
and
remand
them
back
,
not
doubting
but
comparing
the
Fact
with
the
Law
,
the
Result
would
be
a
Verdict
for
the
King
:
They
persist
in
their
Obstinacy
,
and
return
Ignoramus
.
Being
asked
by
the
Bench
,
how
they
could
go
against
so
clear
Evidence
?
They
answered
in
general
,
Because
they
did
not
think
PLUNDERING
(
a
new
name
for
an
old
Theft
)
to
be
Felony
by
the
Law
:
But
being
beaten
out
of
this
starting
hole
,
though
ten
are
Convicted
,
yet
two
stand
out
,
and
give
this
reason
,
that
they
were
a
Malignants
Goods
,
and
the
Parliament
had
given
power
to
plunder
such
:
But
when
it
was
replied
,
That
no
such
Order
was
produced
,
nor
was
it
pleaded
by
the
Prisoners
at
the
Bar
;
they
then
professed
openly
,
that
these
men
arraigned
at
the
Bar
were
honest
men
,
that
they
had
an
Intent
to
do
them
favour
,
and
they
would
do
it
.
Hereupon
the
Bench
justly
incensed
against
so
wilful
perjury
,
binds
over
the
Jurors
to
answer
it
the
next
Assizes
:
And
withal
,
order
Mr.
Cornelius
to
Indict
these
plunderers
again
upon
another
Felony
;
he
obeys
their
command
,
and
the
Grand-Jury
find
it
to
be
Billa
vera
:
But
when
the
Under-Sheriff
went
out
to
Impanel
a
Jury
to
try
the
prisoners
,
he
could
find
none
but
Separatists
,
who
attended
there
that
day
purposely
to
be
of
the
Jury
,
and
professed
openly
,
that
they
staied
there
to
save
the
prisoners
.
Happy
men
these
,
that
may
commit
Murthers
,
Robberies
,
and
Thefts
,
and
yet
fear
no
Condemnation
,
neither
at
the
Tribunal
of
God
or
Man
.
It
is
an
usual
doctrine
of
this
Sect
,
That
God
sees
no
sin
in
his
Children
,
(
for
that
name
they
will
ingross
to
themselves
,
though
no
men
less
deserve
it
)
and
it
seems
they
are
resolved
to
see
no
sin
one
in
another
.
It
was
a
wild
saying
of
a
great
Patriarch
of
theirs
,
That
the
Children
of
God
were
Heteroclites
,
because
God
did
often
save
them
,
even
contrary
to
his
own
Rules
.
I
know
not
how
true
they
will
find
this
assertion
at
the
Great
Day
,
when
Murther
shall
be
Murther
,
and
Theft
Theft
,
and
God
that
Righteous
Judg
,
who
without
respect
of
persons
,
shall
render
to
every
man
according
to
his
deeds
,
yet
here
on
Earth
,
if
these
men
may
judg
one
another
,
they
may
commit
what
wickedness
they
list
,
and
let
the
Rains
loose
to
all
kinds
of
Villany
,
and
yet
be
saved
contrary
to
all
the
Rules
of
Law
and
Justice
.
Mr.
Archer
,
Lecturer
at
the
same
place
,
in
his
Sermon
encouraged
the
people
to
take
up
Arms
against
the
King
,
but
it
may
be
objected
,
says
he
,
that
the
Gentry
gainsay
this
Doctrine
,
and
the
Learned
utterly
disclaim
it
as
Erroneous
and
Damnable
;
but
what
though
the
Gentry
and
Learned
(
as
you
call
them
)
dissent
,
yet
let
it
not
Stagger
your
belief
of
this
undoubted
Truth
:
For
I
tell
you
that
in
my
Conscience
you
may
do
it
,
and
in
doing
it
you
are
so
far
from
sinning
,
that
you
will
do
that
which
is
acceptable
to
God
.
Be
liberal
therefore
in
contributing
to
this
holy
War
,
and
sending
forth
men
to
fight
this
Battel
of
the
Lord
.
This
man
in
his
Prayers
and
Sermons
,
constantly
calls
the
Parliament
,
The
Lords
Anointed
,
but
with
what
Oyl
it
is
not
yet
determinated
:
I
am
sure
by
experience
,
we
find
that
it
is
not
Oyl
of
Gladness
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
IV.
Sir
Rich.
Minshul
's
House
in
Buckinghamshire
,
plundered
by
the
Lord
Brooks
command
.
The
Kings
Picture
abused
.
A
House
burnt
near
Hounslow
by
the
Lord
Wharton
's
Souldiers
.
Mr.
Wiborow
,
and
Mr.
Thorn
,
the
one
a
Minister
in
Essex
,
the
other
in
Bedfordshire
,
the
first
ill-intreated
on
the
Lords
Day
by
the
Lord
S.
John
's
Troopers
,
the
other
unjustly
committed
to
Prison
for
a
private
revenge
.
ON
Monday
,
the
15
of
August
,
1642.
Sir
Richard
Mynshul
of
Bourton
,
in
the
County
of
Buckingham
Knight
,
furnished
with
ten
Horse
and
Arms
,
began
his
journey
into
the
North
to
wait
upon
the
King
,
as
in
the
duty
of
a
Servant
and
Subject
he
was
bound
.
This
being
discovered
(
for
they
have
spies
in
every
corner
)
to
the
Lord
Brook
,
Sir
Peter
Temple
,
Sir
Rich.
Ingoldsby
,
Master
Goodwine
,
and
others
then
at
Aylesbury
,
leaders
of
an
Army
raised
against
his
Majesty
.
It
fell
under
consideration
to
make
Sir
Richard
Mynshul
a
precedent
to
deter
others
from
serving
the
King
,
since
it
was
not
to
be
done
but
by
exposing
their
persons
to
Imprisonment
,
and
their
Estates
to
Plundering
,
for
the
Result
of
that
deliberation
was
,
that
since
they
could
not
secure
his
person
,
they
would
seise
on
his
Estate
.
Nor
do
they
stay
long
before
they
put
the
sentence
in
execution
:
For
on
Thursday
the
18
of
Aug.
the
Lord
Brook
commanding
a
great
part
of
the
Army
,
came
to
Sir
Richard's
House
,
and
in
case
he
should
find
Resistance
,
they
bring
divers
pieces
of
Ordnance
to
batter
the
House
:
but
being
come
they
find
no
opposition
.
The
first
company
that
enters
the
House
were
under
the
command
of
one
Captain
Jones
,
who
either
detesting
the
Oppression
,
or
yet
not
fleshed
in
the
sin
,
which
but
then
found
footing
in
this
Kingdom
,
(
for
this
was
the
first
of
this
kind
committed
in
Buckinghamshire
,
and
the
second
in
England
)
moderated
the
eagerness
of
the
Soldiers
sharp
set
on
the
prey
,
so
that
they
gleaned
but
a
little
here
and
there
;
this
moderation
renders
Captain
Jones
suspected
for
a
Papist
,
both
to
the
Lord
Brook
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Commanders
:
Nay
,
he
is
not
only
voiced
for
a
Papist
,
but
a
Rumour
is
raised
that
he
was
Bribed
into
this
Moderation
,
and
had
taken
a
reward
to
spare
Sir
Richard's
Goods
:
The
Captain
blasted
with
these
reports
,
the
jealousie
of
him
grew
so
high
that
they
threaten
to
kill
him
:
To
avoid
the
fury
of
the
Soldiers
he
is
fain
to
withdraw
himself
,
nor
durst
he
appear
before
a
Servant
of
Sir
Richards
had
made
Oath
,
that
he
was
Innocent
of
any
such
Contract
.
And
now
the
Lord
Brook
and
his
Company
being
masters
of
the
House
,
the
first
thing
on
which
they
express
their
rage
is
the
Kings
Picture
,
which
with
their
Swords
they
most
traiterously
pierce
through
in
divers
places
:
And
not
content
to
wound
him
in
that
representation
,
(
whose
person
God
miraculously
hath
,
and
we
hope
will
preserve
from
them
)
they
whet
their
Tongues
against
their
Sovereign
,
using
Traiterous
and
scornful
Language
against
him
:
By
all
which
it
is
more
than
manifest
to
all
the
World
,
what
they
would
do
to
the
Substance
,
if
they
had
him
in
their
power
,
that
express
such
malice
on
his
shadow
:
Having
at
first
entrance
violated
their
Loyalty
to
their
King
(
according
to
his
Majesties
frequent
predictions
)
their
fellow
Subjects
cannot
expect
Justice
at
their
hands
:
Now
all
is
lawful
prize
that
comes
to
hand
,
Money
,
Plate
,
Jewels
,
many
suits
of
rich
Hangings
,
Linnen
,
Bedding
,
they
plunder
from
the
Cabinet
to
the
Larder
,
and
make
clean
work
as
they
go
,
leaving
no
Booty
for
a
second
plunder
.
And
though
that
House
were
but
one
,
yet
in
that
one
they
plundered
three
,
Sir
Richard
having
disrobed
two
Houses
,
one
in
Essex
,
the
other
in
London
,
thinking
to
secure
all
in
this
third
:
While
these
things
were
in
doing
,
the
Lord
Brook
with
other
Commanders
,
commands
the
Wine-Seller
to
be
broke
up
:
But
in
a
saucy
imitation
of
greatness
,
they
will
not
drink
without
a
Taster
,
yet
not
being
confident
enough
professedly
to
own
Regal
observances
for
prevention
of
danger
,
a
pretence
was
made
that
the
Wine
was
poisoned
,
and
one
of
Sir
Richard's
Servants
is
compelled
(
a
Pistol
set
to
his
Breast
)
to
begin
and
lead
the
way
,
that
if
there
were
any
danger
,
the
experiment
might
be
made
in
him
;
he
having
gained
a
cup
of
Wine
by
their
dissembled
State
,
they
follow
freely
,
and
drink
very
liberally
to
the
good
success
of
their
designs
:
without
ever
scrupling
whether
drinking
so
,
did
not
come
within
the
nature
of
a
a
Health
.
And
indeed
't
was
an
oversight
that
Casuist
Prin
was
not
consulted
in
the
Case
,
the
Cup
often
gone
round
,
at
last
some
inspired
with
the
Spirit
of
Wine
,
prophesied
that
Sir
Richard's
Treasure
was
buried
in
the
Cellar
,
presently
they
fall
to
digging
,
and
instead
of
Treasure
,
find
a
Mine
of
Bottles
;
they
drink
up
the
Wine
,
and
in
indignation
break
the
Bottles
:
From
hence
to
cool
the
Wine
,
they
go
to
the
Beer-Seller
,
and
in
both
what
they
could
not
drink
,
they
break
the
Vessels
,
and
let
run
on
the
ground
:
After
this
they
break
open
the
Library
,
and
the
place
where
he
kept
his
Evidences
:
They
seise
on
all
the
Bills
,
Bonds
,
Deeds
,
Evidences
,
Writings
,
and
Books
,
which
they
find
whether
Sir
Richard's
,
or
his
Friends
;
some
of
these
they
take
away
with
them
,
some
they
tear
in
pieces
,
some
they
bind
in
bundles
,
and
make
them
serve
instead
of
Fuel
,
both
to
heat
Ovens
,
and
to
roast
Meat
for
their
Supper
;
and
would
by
no
means
suffer
any
of
them
to
be
redeemed
,
though
large
sums
of
Money
were
offered
for
them
:
The
House
it self
escapes
not
their
fury
,
wanting
Ladders
to
come
at
the
Lead
,
they
supply
this
defect
with
the
Racks
broken
down
from
the
Stables
;
they
rip
up
the
Lead
and
carry
it
away
,
they
tear
down
the
walls
of
the
Houses
with
Spades
and
Mattocks
,
they
dig
up
the
lower
Rooms
,
hoping
there
to
find
more
Treasure
:
They
break
the
Windows
,
Doors
,
Wainscot
,
Seelings
,
Glass
,
they
take
away
all
Iron
Bars
,
Casements
,
Locks
,
Keys
and
Hinges
:
They
break
open
his
Wool-house
and
Barns
,
and
empty
all
:
They
enter
the
Dove-house
,
and
like
Vermine
destroy
the
Pidgeons
;
onely
one
of
these
Vermine
falling
from
the
Holes
,
brake
his
Back
and
died
thereof
:
and
because
they
could
not
carry
away
his
House
covertly
they
indeavour
to
fire
it
,
to
this
purpose
they
leave
Matches
burning
in
the
Mats
,
but
were
discovered
.
From
his
House
they
issue
out
into
his
Grounds
;
there
they
lay
all
common
,
they
break
up
his
Rales
and
Fences
:
Of
his
Sheep
what
they
did
not
eat
,
they
sold
,
Sheep
worth
20
s.
for
12
d.
Lambs
worth
10
s.
for
6
d.
and
the
reasons
why
the
rates
of
their
market
were
so
low
,
were
,
first
,
they
were
a
Malignant
and
a
Traitors
Goods
(
so
they
stiled
Sir
Richard
.
)
Secondly
,
They
were
sold
to
their
Brethren
,
and
therefore
must
afford
good
Penniworths
.
The
rest
of
the
Stock
they
run
their
Swords
or
Pikes
into
most
of
them
and
spoiled
them
.
Nor
was
Plunder
the
only
thing
they
looked
after
,
Blood
is
in
their
thoughts
.
First
,
They
send
a
Troop
of
Horse
to
pursue
Sir
Richard
,
and
threaten
to
cut
him
as
small
as
Herbs
to
the
Pot
:
They
clap
a
strong
Guard
on
Sir
Richard's
Lady
,
deny
her
a
Bed
to
lie
on
,
though
the
Neighbours
earnestly
intreated
to
kill
them
if
they
can
find
them
:
Who
(
poor
Souls
)
affrighted
with
these
barbarous
Insolencies
,
fled
into
the
Field
,
and
hid
themselves
in
growing
Hemp
,
and
there
lay
on
the
Ground
almost
20
Hours
,
without
Meat
or
any
sustenance
,
so
that
what
with
fright
and
dampness
of
the
Earth
,
some
of
them
contracted
dangerous
Sicknesses
,
and
hardly
escaped
with
Life
.
The
Terrour
which
fell
upon
the
Country
thereabout
was
so
great
,
that
the
neighbouring
Justice
of
Peace
durst
not
grant
his
Warrant
to
search
after
any
of
Sir
Richard's
Goods
,
though
earnestly
intreated
to
it
:
And
the
Neighbours
were
so
ill
used
and
threatned
,
to
extort
confession
from
them
where
Sir
Richard
was
,
or
where
any
of
his
Goods
were
conveyed
,
that
some
swooned
for
fear
,
some
fell
mad
,
and
some
died
.
Certain
it
is
their
carriage
was
so
barbarous
,
that
it
inforced
Mr.
Jo.
Crew
,
one
of
the
Company
,
to
profess
his
dislike
,
and
to
tell
the
Lord
Brooks
and
the
rest
,
That
they
being
Law-makers
should
not
be
Law-breakers
,
nor
make
such
precedents
as
would
discover
their
intentions
,
and
render
them
odious
unto
the
Country
:
Since
that
,
knowing
Sir
Richard
to
have
put
himself
for
preservation
of
his
Life
under
his
Majesties
Protection
,
they
have
caused
his
Pond-heads
to
be
digged
down
,
and
have
destroyed
all
his
Fish
,
they
have
cut
down
his
Woods
,
and
seised
on
all
his
Lands
,
or
made
them
utterly
unprofitable
unto
him
,
for
they
will
not
suffer
any
Bayliff
or
Servant
of
his
to
take
any
care
of
his
Estate
,
but
have
often
sent
parties
of
Horse
to
seise
on
them
,
or
kill
them
.
At
a
place
called
Kings-harbour
near
Hounslow-heath
,
three
Soldiers
,
under
the
Command
of
the
Lord
Wharton
,
came
into
a
House
to
drink
,
going
away
,
they
of
the
House
demand
Money
for
their
Drink
:
So
unexpected
an
affront
did
so
incense
the
Soldiers
,
that
one
of
them
told
his
Companions
he
would
shew
them
how
they
set
Houses
on
fire
in
Ireland
,
and
so
put
his
Carbine
into
the
Thatch
and
discharged
it
,
set
the
House
on
fire
and
departed
.
The
General
ESSEX
returning
from
London
,
came
by
as
the
House
was
on
fire
,
complaint
is
made
unto
him
,
that
the
owner
of
the
House
was
undone
,
but
all
in
vain
,
his
Excellency
was
not
at
leisure
to
do
Justice
.
The
Countess
of
Rivers
(
who
as
you
heard
in
the
second
Weeks
Relation
,
was
Plundered
to
the
value
of
an
Hundred
thousand
,
or
an
Hundred
and
fifty
thousand
pounds
)
finding
her
abode
here
unsafe
,
having
lost
her
Goods
,
and
her
Person
in
danger
;
to
secure
her self
,
resolved
for
a
time
to
abandon
her
Country
,
and
rather
expose
her self
to
the
hazard
of
Travel
,
than
commit
her self
to
that
protection
which
the
contemned
Laws
now
afford
.
To
this
purpose
she
obtained
a
Pass
to
go
beyond
Seas
:
While
she
was
in
preparing
for
her
Voyage
,
Mr.
Martin
,
Plunder-master
General
,
he
that
so
familiarly
speaks
Treason
,
and
steals
the
King's
Horses
,
or
doth
any
thing
,
plunders
the
Countess
of
her
Coach
Horses
,
notwithstanding
a
Warrant
from
the
Lords
House
to
secure
them
:
And
when
this
Warrant
was
produced
to
stave
off
this
Parliament
Horse-taker
,
he
replied
,
That
if
the
Warrant
had
been
from
both
Houses
he
would
obey
it
,
as
coming
from
the
highest
authority
in
England
,
(
sure
this
man
was
born
with
Treason
in
his
Mouth
)
but
since
it
came
But
from
the
Lords
he
did
not
value
it
.
When
this
Warrant
could
not
prevail
,
the
Countess
obtains
a
Warrant
from
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
to
have
the
Horses
restored
unto
her
again
,
but
Mr.
Martin
to
overbear
all
,
procures
an
Order
from
the
House
of
Commons
to
keep
them
.
This
Honourable
Ladies
Goods
were
seised
on
,
though
Licensed
to
pass
by
the
Lords
,
and
searched
and
allowed
by
the
Custome-House
.
At
Pebmarsh
,
in
the
same
County
of
Essex
,
on
the
Lords
Day
,
divers
of
the
Parliament
Voluntiers
came
into
the
Church
,
while
the
Parson
,
Mr.
Wiborow
was
in
his
Prayer
before
Sermon
,
and
placed
themselves
near
the
Pulpit
,
and
when
he
was
in
his
Prayer
,
one
of
them
struck
divers
times
with
his
Staff
against
the
Pulpit
to
interrupt
him
,
and
while
he
was
in
his
Sermon
,
in
contempt
of
the
place
where
they
were
,
and
the
sacred
action
in
doing
,
they
were
almost
as
loud
as
the
Preacher
,
to
the
great
disturbance
of
the
Congregation
.
No
sooner
was
the
Sermon
ended
,
and
the
Parson
come
out
of
the
Pulpit
as
far
as
the
Reading-desk
,
but
they
lay
violent
hands
upon
him
,
rent
his
Clothes
,
threaten
to
pull
him
in
pieces
in
the
Church
.
With
much
intreaty
they
spare
him
there
,
and
permit
him
to
go
into
the
Church-yard
;
he
is
no
sooner
come
thither
,
but
they
assault
him
more
violently
than
before
:
Mr.
Wiborow
seeing
the
Constable
(
who
all
this
while
stood
a
spectator
of
his
hard
usage
)
calls
unto
him
,
and
charges
him
in
the
King's
Name
to
keep
the
Kings
Peace
:
At
his
request
they
did
a
little
forbear
him
:
But
before
he
could
get
half
ways
Home
,
they
assault
him
again
,
and
demand
the
Book
of
Common-Prayer
which
he
used
in
the
Church
,
(
That
which
was
found
by
the
Parish
,
being
torn
in
pieces
before
)
which
he
refusing
to
deliver
up
unto
them
,
they
reek
their
fury
on
him
:
They
tug
and
hale
him
,
and
vow
to
kill
him
,
unless
he
deliver
up
the
Book
of
Common-Prayer
to
their
pleasure
;
he
stoutly
refuseth
:
Hereupon
they
fall
upon
him
,
strike
up
his
Heels
,
and
take
it
from
him
by
force
,
and
so
carry
it
away
in
triumph
.
Mr.
Blakerby
(
a
silenced
Minister
heretofore
)
preaching
at
Halstead
in
the
same
County
,
told
them
,
That
to
bow
at
the
Name
of
Jesus
,
was
to
thrust
a
Spear
into
Christ's
side
;
and
such
Ministers
as
signed
Children
with
the
sign
of
the
Cross
,
did
as
much
as
in
them
lay
to
send
such
Children
unto
the
Devil
.
When
the
Earl
of
Essex
and
the
rest
went
from
Reading
to
London
,
after
the
unhappy
(
to
say
no
more
)
surrender
of
that
town
,
they
left
there
a
Committee
,
consisting
of
none
but
City
Captains
and
Tradesmen
,
these
according
to
the
authority
committed
unto
them
,
summon
all
the
able
men
of
the
Parishes
thereabout
,
to
appear
before
them
at
Reading
,
and
Assessed
them
at
their
pleasure
.
In
Marlow
they
Assessed
one
Mr.
Drue
at
1000
l.
they
fell
to
500
l.
he
refusing
to
pay
was
Imprisoned
;
but
the
Prison
being
most
nasty
and
loathsom
,
denied
the
accommodation
of
Bedding
,
was
forced
to
pay
300
l.
Mr.
Horcepoole
,
they
assessed
at
200
l.
Mr.
Chase
(
a
man
plundered
before
)
at
40
l.
20
pound
was
offered
,
but
nothing
will
be
abated
of
30.
Eliot
a
Butcher
,
at
an
100
l.
and
Imprisoned
.
Cocke
a
Baker
,
at
20
l.
Mr.
Fornace
,
the
Vicar
(
not
suffered
to
speak
for
himself
because
a
Malignant
)
at
10
l.
and
paid
seven
.
John
Langley
10
l.
Thomas
Langley
20
l.
William
Langley
5
l.
and
Wilmot
his
Servant
5
l.
John
More
80
l.
Hoskins
a
Shoomaker
5
l.
Cane
an
Innkeeper
7
l.
Rates
so
Illegal
,
or
had
they
been
Legal
,
so
unequally
proportioned
to
these
mens
Estates
,
that
had
Ship-money
been
still
on
foot
,
it
would
not
have
drawn
so
much
Money
out
of
their
Purses
in
forty
or
fifty
years
,
as
this
Blew-Apron
Committee
at
Reading
,
removed
some
seven
or
eight
Degrees
from
the
Close
Committee
at
Westminster
,
extorted
from
them
at
one
clap
.
O
that
we
were
but
so
wise
as
to
compare
our
Conditions
!
certainly
then
we
could
not
but
acknowledg
the
just
wrath
of
God
upon
us
for
our
Ingratitude
,
murmuring
so
much
when
we
had
so
little
cause
,
and
bless
God
for
the
return
of
our
former
Peace
,
though
with
all
its
Grievances
,
and
those
maliciously
aggravated
.
Mr.
Giles
Thorne
,
Batchellor
in
Divinity
,
and
Parson
of
S.
Cutberts
in
Bedford
,
was
upon
Sunday
in
the
beginning
of
August
last
,
1642.
apprehended
in
his
Parish
Church
immediately
after
he
came
out
of
the
Pulpit
(
having
preached
three
Sermons
in
the
Town
that
day
)
by
the
Lord
Saint-Johns
Troops
,
who
lay
then
in
Bedford
,
and
in
a
very
boysterous
manner
carried
away
to
an
Inn
in
the
Town
,
not
permitted
to
go
home
to
his
House
to
visit
his
Family
,
nor
any
of
his
Friends
suffered
to
come
to
him
:
The
next
day
he
was
carried
away
to
London
,
where
when
he
had
lain
more
than
three
Weeks
under
the
Messengers
hands
,
he
was
brought
to
his
Trial
at
the
Bar
in
the
Lords
House
:
Accusations
are
framed
against
him
out
of
Sermons
preached
nine
years
before
.
Witnesses
are
produced
to
prove
the
Articles
,
who
so
well
remembred
what
they
were
to
say
,
that
they
were
fain
to
read
their
Depositions
out
of
Papers
which
they
brought
in
their
hands
.
Mr.
Thorne
gives
so
full
an
Answer
to
all
the
Objections
,
that
the
Lords
pronounce
themselves
satisfied
,
and
him
Innocent
,
only
the
Lord
Say
disputes
with
him
,
and
the
Earl
of
Bullingbrooke
grumbles
at
him
.
At
length
it
is
pretended
that
there
is
another
Witness
in
the
Country
that
can
say
somewhat
,
(
especially
if
it
be
written
down
in
a
Paper
,
as
it
was
to
his
fellow
Deponents
)
:
Hereupon
he
is
committed
to
the
Fleet
,
there
to
remain
till
that
Witness
can
be
prevailed
with
to
find
leisure
to
come
up
.
About
three
Weeks
after
the
Witness
appears
,
and
is
Sworn
,
and
contrary
to
the
Rules
of
that
Court
,
is
sent
to
be
examined
by
a
Clerk
.
Mr.
Thorne
,
with
much
ado
obtains
a
Copy
of
his
Depositions
;
which
upon
view
contain
no
new
Matter
,
but
what
he
had
before
answered
unto
and
cleared
:
Hereupon
he
Petitions
again
for
a
Sentence
;
he
is
ordered
to
attend
the
House
:
After
a
chargeable
attendance
of
many
days
with
his
Keeper
,
he
is
called
,
the
Cause
reviewed
,
upon
the
review
,
the
Earls
of
Pembroke
,
Holland
,
Clare
,
and
divers
others
,
affirm
,
that
in
their
consciences
they
had
Acquitted
him
at
the
first
hearing
,
and
now
upon
the
review
,
found
nothing
to
alter
their
opinion
,
and
therefore
thought
it
fit
he
should
be
Discharged
.
But
well
fare
a
good
Neighbour
at
a
dead
life
:
The
Earl
of
Bullingbrook
objects
,
That
he
is
a
man
of
a
Malignant
spirit
,
that
he
hath
great
Interest
in
the
Affections
of
the
People
amongst
whom
he
lives
,
and
therefore
if
Inlarged
and
remitted
Home
,
may
do
much
prejudice
to
the
good
Cause
in
hand
;
upon
these
just
and
weighty
Considerations
,
Mr.
Thorne
is
remanded
to
the
Fleet
:
Since
that
time
he
hath
used
the
assistance
of
many
Friends
,
drawn
many
Petitions
,
humbly
desiring
that
he
might
be
heard
:
Or
if
the
great
Affairs
of
State
would
not
afford
their
Lordships
so
much
leisure
,
that
he
might
have
leave
upon
Bail
to
go
down
to
attend
his
Cure
,
until
their
Lordships
should
please
to
call
for
him
:
But
was
so
far
from
obtaining
his
desire
,
that
he
could
never
get
so
far
towards
it
,
as
to
have
his
Petition
read
.
His
Parishoners
sensible
of
his
Oppression
and
their
own
Injury
,
being
bereaved
of
the
comfort
and
labours
of
their
own
Pastor
,
sent
up
a
Petition
subscribed
with
three
hundred
hands
to
the
same
effect
,
that
Justice
might
have
a
free
uninterrupted
course
,
either
to
Condemn
or
Absolve
him
,
but
all
in
vain
:
So
that
for
ought
we
yet
understand
he
is
still
a
Prisoner
,
and
for
any
thing
we
are
informed
to
the
contrary
,
he
is
without
hopes
for
Enlargement
,
though
his
Judges
have
pronounced
him
Innocent
.
And
now
would
you
know
the
true
cause
of
all
this
Oppression
?
Know
then
that
it
is
possible
for
the
High
Court
of
England
●o
be
made
the
Instrument
of
private
Revenge
:
For
Sir
Sam.
Luke
divers
years
since
suing
Mr.
Thorne
in
the
Star
Chamber
,
it
was
Mr.
Thornes
unhappiness
to
get
the
day
of
him
,
an
injury
which
Sir
Samuel
could
never
forget
,
and
did
now
revenge
it
by
the
help
of
the
Earl
of
Bullingbrook
,
the
Lord
Saint
Johns
Son
,
and
his
own
interest
in
the
House
.
This
story
hath
been
attested
by
some
that
were
both
Ear
and
Eye-witnesses
of
these
particulars
,
and
let
me
be
substituted
Prisoner
in
Mr.
Thornes
place
if
he
(
for
ought
I
know
)
know
any
thing
that
I
know
this
,
or
intended
to
make
it
known
to
the
World
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
V.
Warder
Castle
gallantly
defended
by
the
Lady
Arundel
,
against
Sir
Edward
Hungerford
and
his
power
:
His
persidiousness
in
breaking
the
Articles
of
Surrender
:
His
barbarous
usage
of
the
Lady
,
her
Children
,
and
Goods
.
Mr.
John
Bykar
,
a
Vicars
Son
,
murthered
at
Coventry
.
Mr.
Abraham
Haynes
Robbed
,
Abused
,
and
unjustly
Committed
,
&c.
ON
Tuesday
the
second
of
May
,
1643.
Sir
Edward
Hungerford
,
a
chief
Commander
of
the
Rebel
in
Wiltshire
,
came
with
his
Forces
before
Warder
Castle
in
the
same
County
,
being
the
Mansion-House
of
the
Lord
Arundel
of
Warder
:
But
finding
the
Castle
strong
,
and
those
that
were
in
it
resolute
,
not
to
yield
it
up
unless
by
force
,
called
Colonel
Strode
to
his
help
:
Both
these
joyned
in
one
,
made
a
Body
of
1300.
or
thereabout
.
Being
come
before
it
,
by
a
Trumpeter
they
summon
the
Castle
to
surrender
:
The
reason
pretended
was
,
because
the
Castle
being
a
Receptacle
of
Cavaliers
and
Malignants
,
both
Houses
of
Parliament
had
ordered
it
to
be
searched
for
Men
and
Arms
,
and
withal
by
the
same
Trumpeter
declared
,
that
if
they
found
either
Money
or
Plate
,
they
would
seise
on
it
for
the
use
of
the
Parliament
.
The
Lady
Arundel
(
her
Husband
being
then
at
Oxford
,
and
since
that
dead
there
)
refused
to
deliver
up
the
Castle
,
and
bravely
replied
,
That
she
had
a
command
from
her
Lord
to
keep
it
,
and
she
would
obey
his
command
.
Being
denied
entrance
,
the
next
day
being
Wednesday
,
the
third
of
May
,
they
bring
up
the
Cannon
within
Musket
shot
and
begin
the
Battery
,
and
continue
it
from
the
Wednesday
to
the
Monday
following
,
never
giving
any
intermission
to
the
besieged
,
who
were
but
25
fighting
men
,
to
make
good
the
place
against
an
Army
of
1300.
In
this
time
they
spring
two
Mines
;
the
first
in
a
Vault
,
through
which
Beer
and
Wood
,
and
other
necessaries
,
were
brought
into
the
Castle
:
This
did
not
much
hurt
,
it
being
without
the
foundation
of
the
Castle
.
The
second
was
conveyed
into
the
small
Vaults
,
which
by
reason
of
the
intercourse
between
the
several
Passages
to
every
Office
,
and
almost
every
Room
in
the
Castle
,
did
much
shake
and
indanger
the
whole
Fabrick
.
The
Rebels
had
often
tendered
some
unreasonable
conditions
to
the
Besieged
to
surrender
,
as
to
give
the
Ladies
,
both
the
Mother
and
the
Daughter
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
Windows
,
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
World
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
World
,
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
.
While
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
World
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
in
these
Sufferings
,
which
did
aggravate
them
beyond
all
example
of
Barbarity
,
which
this
unnatural
War
now
did
produce
,
and
that
was
Rachels
Tears
:
Lamentation
and
Weeping
,
and
great
Mourning
,
a
Mother
weeping
for
her
Children
,
and
would
not
be
comforted
because
they
were
taken
from
her
;
for
the
Rebels
as
you
hear
,
having
carried
the
two
Ladies
Prisoners
to
Shaftsbury
,
thinking
them
not
safe
enough
there
,
intend
to
remove
them
to
Bath
,
a
place
then
much
infected
both
with
the
Plague
and
the
Small
Pox
:
The
old
Lady
was
sick
,
under
a
double
confinement
,
that
of
the
Rebels
and
her
own
Indisposition
,
all
were
unwilling
to
be
exposed
to
the
danger
of
the
Infection
,
especially
the
young
Lady
,
having
three
Children
with
her
,
they
were
too
dear
,
too
rich
a
treasure
to
be
snatched
away
to
such
probable
loss
without
reluctancy
:
Therefore
they
resolve
not
to
yield
themselves
Prisoners
for
that
place
,
unless
they
will
take
the
old
Lady
out
of
her
Bed
,
and
the
rest
by
violence
,
and
so
carry
them
away
.
But
the
Rebels
fearing
lest
so
great
Inhumanity
might
incense
the
People
against
them
,
and
render
them
odious
to
the
Country
,
decline
this
,
and
since
they
dare
not
carry
all
to
Bath
,
they
resolve
to
carry
some
to
Dorchester
,
a
place
no
less
dangerous
for
the
Infection
of
Schism
and
Rebellion
,
than
Bath
for
the
Plague
and
the
Pox.
To
this
purpose
they
take
the
young
Ladies
two
Sons
(
the
eldest
but
nine
,
the
younger
but
seven
years
of
age
)
and
carry
them
Captives
to
Dorchester
.
In
vain
doth
the
Mother
,
with
tears
intreat
that
these
pretty
pledges
of
her
Lords
affections
,
may
not
be
snatched
from
her
:
In
vain
do
the
Children
imbrace
and
hang
about
the
Neck
of
their
Mother
,
and
implore
help
from
her
that
neither
knows
how
to
keep
them
,
nor
yet
how
to
part
with
them
;
but
the
Rebels
having
lost
all
bowels
of
Compassion
,
remain
inexorable
.
The
complaints
of
the
Mother
,
pitiful
cry
of
the
Children
prevail
not
with
them
,
like
ravenous
Wolves
they
seise
on
the
Prey
:
And
though
they
do
not
crop
,
yet
they
transplant
those
Olive
Branches
that
stood
about
their
Parent
's
Table
:
A
barbarous
fact
,
and
such
as
must
look
out
of
Christendom
for
a
precedent
,
and
hardly
find
it
though
among
the
Heathen
,
except
among
the
unwashed
Turks
,
who
take
Christian
Children
from
their
Mothers
Breasts
either
to
make
a
Seminary
for
their
Guards
of
Janizaries
,
or
by
desolation
to
make
them
Eunuchs
unsuspected
Guardians
of
their
Concubines
,
or
if
in
Christendom
amongst
none
but
the
Jesuits
their
Brethren
,
a
Generation
whom
they
would
be
thought
most
to
hate
,
yet
are
known
most
to
imitate
,
Exod.
21.
To
steal
a
Man
was
death
by
the
Law
of
Moses
,
nay
,
the
Romans
that
saw
by
no
other
Light
,
but
that
dim
Spark
of
Nature
discerned
the
equity
of
this
Law
,
as
is
apparent
in
their
Lex
Fabia
de
Flagiariis
:
And
though
these
men
blanch
the
Inhumanity
,
pretending
that
they
rob
the
Mother
to
inrich
the
Church
,
to
bring
them
up
in
the
true
Religion
,
it
were
worth
the
while
to
ask
(
if
they
would
vouchsafe
an
answer
)
what
they
mean
by
the
true
Religion
,
if
they
mean
the
Protestant
,
or
to
speak
more
properly
,
the
Religion
of
the
Church
of
England
,
it
is
apparent
they
persecute
that
,
but
suppose
(
which
we
do
not
grant
)
that
they
did
bereave
Parents
of
their
Children
to
that
purpose
to
bring
them
up
in
the
true
Religion
,
yet
cannot
a
good
Intention
warrant
an
unlawful
Act
,
nor
ought
they
to
do
evil
that
good
may
come
of
it
:
Nor
do
we
find
ether
that
the
Church
was
ever
pleased
with
such
Accessions
,
or
that
God
did
give
a
blessing
to
such
unwarrantable
Zeal
.
When
Sesibutus
,
King
of
Aragon
,
in
the
Year
600.
prevailed
against
the
Saracens
,
and
in
a
better
Zeal
than
this
,
but
not
according
to
knowledg
,
compelled
his
Captives
to
be
Baptized
,
he
quickly
found
his
error
by
the
want
of
Gods
blessing
upon
his
endeavours
,
nay
,
Gods
dislike
was
so
visible
in
the
success
,
that
the
Church
of
God
observing
it
,
determined
,
That
the
Children
of
Infidels
not
having
the
use
and
exercise
of
right
Reason
,
should
not
be
Baptized
Invitis
Parentibus
,
contrary
to
the
consent
of
the
Parents
.
And
the
fourth
Council
of
Toledo
,
Cap.
56.
disallowing
the
inconsiderate
zeal
of
Sesibutus
,
forbad
to
compel
any
man
to
the
Faith
under
the
censure
of
Anathema
,
and
determined
withal
,
that
to
baptize
Children
without
the
consent
of
the
Parents
,
is
all
one
as
to
compel
men
of
full
age
to
be
Baptized
.
The
same
determination
is
cited
and
approved
by
the
Canonist
,
Dist.
45.
Cap.
De
Judaeis
,
and
were
it
but
consistent
with
the
nature
of
this
work
,
it
were
easie
to
decry
this
Jesuitical
Turkish
practice
by
most
impregnable
Arguments
,
both
in
the
Schoolmen
and
Casuists
:
But
I
must
leave
this
to
Men
of
the
sacred
Function
,
and
only
beg
leave
to
infer
,
that
if
it
be
no●●●●ful
to
baptize
the
Children
of
Jews
,
Infidels
,
or
Hereticks
,
without
consent
of
their
Parents
:
Though
without
Baptism
when
it
may
be
had
,
there
is
no
entrance
into
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
,
certainly
it
must
be
far
more
unlawful
being
baptized
to
take
them
from
their
Parents
,
to
season
their
tender
years
with
dangerous
principles
leading
to
Prophaneness
,
Brownism
,
Anabaptism
,
and
Rebellion
.
A
just
indignation
against
so
barbarous
practice
hath
transported
me
in
this
argument
farther
than
I
intended
,
though
not
so
far
as
the
heinousness
of
the
fact
deserves
,
therefore
if
any
man
desires
to
be
more
fully
satisfied
of
the
power
and
interest
which
Parents
have
over
and
in
their
Children
,
being
an
Inheritance
given
them
of
the
Lord
,
as
the
Prophet
David
,
and
the
possession
of
their
Parents
,
as
Aristotle
in
his
Politicks
,
and
the
great
violation
of
Justice
in
relation
of
the
Laws
of
God
,
Nature
and
Men
,
in
despoiling
their
Parents
of
them
,
let
him
have
recourse
to
that
Learned
and
Elegant
discourse
of
Petrus
Aerodius
,
Chief
Justice
or
President
of
Aniou
,
in
his
Book
de
Patria
Potestate
,
who
being
robbed
of
his
Son
,
stoln
from
him
by
the
Jesuits
,
to
plant
him
as
a
hopeful
Imp
in
their
Society
,
and
not
able
to
rescue
him
out
of
their
power
,
though
he
implored
,
and
had
the
King
of
Spain's
assistance
(
for
thither
he
was
carried
)
pursues
his
Son
with
Arguments
and
Labours
to
recal
him
to
his
Obedience
,
by
laying
before
him
his
duty
artificially
Collected
,
and
strongly
applied
from
the
Laws
,
Divine
,
Natural
,
and
Moral
,
and
therefore
to
him
I
remit
him
,
and
turn
my
discourse
into
its
proper
channel
.
On
Friday
,
the
12
of
May
,
1643.
Mr.
John
Bykar
(
Son
to
the
Vicar
of
Dunchurch
)
was
with
his
Father
in
Law
,
one
of
the
High-Constables
of
Warwickshire
,
at
the
Market
at
Coventry
.
Being
in
a
House
in
the
City
,
he
received
some
rude
affronts
from
a
Soldier
of
that
Garison
:
He
being
a
very
civil
man
,
of
good
Moderation
,
and
it
seems
well
instructed
not
to
answer
a
Fool
in
his
Folly
,
or
being
reviled
to
answer
again
,
withdrew
himself
from
the
place
to
decline
the
insolent
madness
of
the
Soldiers
,
and
free
himself
from
his
provocations
:
Being
come
into
the
streets
,
secure
,
as
he
thought
,
from
all
violence
,
he
was
suddenly
run
through
the
Body
,
and
falling
down
,
died
instantly
.
His
offence
was
(
for
as
yet
we
can
hear
of
no
others
)
that
he
was
a
Parsons
Son
;
so
inveterate
malice
to
that
Function
and
all
depending
on
it
,
do
these
Rebels
bear
.
And
therefore
if
in
this
Relation
you
meet
with
frequent
mention
of
Affronts
,
Oppressions
,
Plundering
,
and
Murthers
of
the
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
,
do
not
attribute
it
to
any
partiality
,
as
if
the
Relator
were
more
querulous
for
them
than
others
,
but
to
a
serious
desire
to
proportion
his
Labours
in
a
just
measure
to
the
merit
of
each
mans
case
.
Master
Abraham
Haynes
of
London
,
in
September
last
,
travelling
into
Shropshire
,
to
visit
his
Daughter
and
some
other
Friends
,
being
benighted
,
was
forced
to
take
up
his
Lodging
in
a
little
Village
some
eight
miles
short
of
his
Daughters
House
:
After
Supper
,
his
Host
in
a
seeming
way
of
Courtesie
comes
to
visit
his
Guest
,
and
brings
with
him
two
or
three
of
his
Neighbours
,
whereof
the
Constable
was
one
,
to
bear
him
company
.
After
a
little
discourse
,
they
will
needs
persuade
him
that
he
is
a
Malignant
,
a
hard
word
in
those
parts
before
this
Parliament
began
,
but
however
it
served
the
Constables
turn
well
enough
to
lay
hold
on
him
:
Having
seised
on
him
,
they
search
him
,
under
pretence
that
he
carried
Letters
of
dangerous
consequence
,
but
searching
,
they
find
what
they
sought
for
,
his
Money
,
14
l.
he
had
about
him
▪
this
as
good
Booty
they
take
from
him
,
and
for
fear
he
should
run
away
from
his
Money
,
that
night
they
set
a
strong
Watch
upon
him
.
Next
morning
very
early
they
carry
him
before
a
Parliament
Man
,
residing
about
two
miles
distant
from
that
place
,
who
most
Committee-man
like
out
of
the
abundance
of
his
Justice
,
though
no
crime
were
objected
,
nor
any
thing
found
about
him
to
render
him
liable
to
restraint
,
but
only
the
sin
of
having
14
l.
or
because
he
was
guilty
of
the
Constables
affirming
him
to
be
a
Malignant
,
he
commits
him
to
his
former
guardians
,
by
them
to
be
conveyed
to
London
.
Mr.
Haynes
unwilling
to
come
so
near
his
Journeys
end
,
and
yet
not
arrive
there
,
tenders
Bail
,
Gentlemen
of
the
best
rank
and
quality
in
the
Country
;
but
it
will
not
be
accepted
:
He
desires
to
have
leave
to
send
a
Messenger
to
his
Daughter
where
he
was
that
day
expected
,
but
it
will
not
be
granted
:
Away
they
carry
him
,
they
mount
him
and
his
man
upon
two
poor
Jades
,
while
my
Host
and
Mr.
Constable
ride
on
their
Geldings
.
The
first
night
they
will
allow
him
no
Supper
,
unless
he
will
pay
for
it
,
though
they
knew
he
had
no
Money
,
having
themselves
seised
on
all
he
had
.
Afterward
,
upon
much
opportunity
and
earnest
intreaty
,
they
are
pleased
out
of
his
own
Moneys
,
to
allow
him
a
poor
thin
allowance
of
Food
by
the
way
.
Being
arrived
at
London
,
they
bring
their
Prisoner
before
the
Committee
,
who
upon
an
implicite
faith
send
him
unheard
,
unaccused
,
unexamined
Prisoner
to
the
Fleet
,
where
after
he
had
lain
six
Weeks
,
having
made
use
of
many
Friends
,
and
presented
many
humble
Petitions
,
and
(
't
is
thought
,
some
Monies
too
)
he
is
restored
to
his
Liberty
upon
this
ground
,
that
there
were
no
Articles
,
nor
any
Accusation
found
in
the
Committee
against
him
:
But
for
his
Money
that
(
in
the
great
Justice
and
Equity
of
the
Committee
)
was
bestowed
upon
his
Accusers
,
as
a
just
reward
of
their
zeal
to
the
Parliament
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
VI.
Willingborow
in
Northamptonshire
,
miserably
Plundered
.
Mr.
Flint
a
Curate
,
Murthered
by
a
Rebel
there
.
The
Rebels
breach
of
Faith
at
the
surrender
of
Sudely
Castle
,
and
their
abuse
of
the
Church
and
Monuments
there
.
Colonel
Purefoy
's
defacing
S.
Marys
Church
,
and
the
Chappel
,
with
other
Monuments
in
Warwick
,
&c.
THat
the
Kingdom
might
not
be
undone
but
at
their
own
charges
,
sundry
Ways
and
Arts
,
both
by
force
and
intreaty
,
have
been
used
to
extort
Monies
from
the
Kings
good
Subjects
,
to
maintain
the
present
Rebellion
.
Amongst
others
,
Mr.
Graey
of
Wellingborow
,
Clark
of
the
Peace
for
the
County
of
Northampton
,
was
assaulted
by
persuasion
,
and
very
earnestly
solicited
by
Sir
Rowland
S.
John
,
to
contribute
liberally
to
this
unnatural
War
:
But
his
refusal
to
partake
in
so
crying
a
sin
,
did
produce
a
double
effect
,
indignation
in
the
Rebels
,
that
hate
all
men
that
run
not
into
the
same
excess
of
Treason
and
Rebellion
with
them
,
because
others
backwardness
doth
upbraid
their
forwardness
that
rush
into
Rebellion
like
the
Horse
into
the
Battel
:
But
brought
forth
imitation
in
others
,
not
only
in
Wellingborow
,
but
in
some
Villages
bordering
on
that
Town
:
Who
seeing
so
good
a
president
of
Loyalty
,
refuse
with
him
to
hearken
to
so
Traiterous
proposals
:
And
now
thinking
themselves
indangered
by
their
refusal
,
and
exposed
to
the
mercy
of
Rebel
Plunderers
,
they
enter
into
a
consultation
how
to
secure
themselves
from
violence
,
and
resolve
to
come
to
each
others
assistance
,
if
the
Dragooners
from
Northampton
or
any
else
should
assault
them
,
upon
notice
given
by
jangling
their
Bells
:
And
that
the
World
might
not
think
their
fears
to
be
groundless
,
on
the
26
of
December
,
1642.
at
12
of
the
Clock
at
Night
,
Captain
Francis
Sawyer
(
and
as
is
supposed
a
Brother
of
Sir
Gilber
Pickerings
)
attended
by
a
100
Dragoons
,
beset
Mr.
Grayes
House
;
and
the
signal
of
jangling
the
Bells
being
discovered
by
some
of
the
Town
that
were
of
their
faction
,
to
prevent
the
Alarm
to
the
Country
,
they
tie
up
the
Bell-ropes
,
and
place
a
Guard
of
twelve
Musqueteers
in
the
Church-yard
,
to
secure
the
passage
to
the
Belfrey
:
Having
thus
beset
the
House
,
and
as
they
thought
frustrated
the
device
of
calling
the
Confederate
Villages
to
their
help
,
Captain
Sawyer
demands
entrance
,
Mr.
Gray
out
of
his
Window
,
tells
him
that
he
and
his
Family
were
in
Bed
,
and
withal
desired
to
know
what
their
intentions
were
,
thus
in
the
dead
of
the
night
to
disturb
their
rest
,
and
what
Warrant
they
had
to
command
entrance
?
They
return
him
answer
that
they
had
a
Warrant
to
apprehend
his
Person
,
and
seise
on
his
Plate
and
Arms
for
the
use
of
the
Parliament
:
Half
an
hour
was
spent
in
this
Parley
,
Mr.
Gray
protracting
the
time
,
that
perhaps
his
Neighbours
hearing
of
his
danger
,
might
come
to
his
rescue
:
Which
accordingly
fell
out
,
for
some
of
the
Town
hearing
that
the
Rebels
had
beset
Mr.
Grayes
House
,
hasten
towards
the
Church
that
by
the
sound
of
the
Bells
(
the
Signal
agreed
on
)
they
might
summon
the
Country
:
When
they
come
thither
,
they
find
the
way
intercepted
,
a
Guard
of
Musqueteers
denying
them
entrance
:
but
inraged
to
find
opposition
where
they
did
not
expect
it
,
they
fell
foul
on
the
Guard
,
beat
them
off
,
took
five
of
their
Musquets
,
forced
their
entrance
,
and
so
rang
the
Bells
.
Hereupon
the
Rebels
,
fearing
that
their
entrance
was
delayed
,
thereby
to
gain
time
till
the
Town
and
Country
might
come
in
to
his
Rescue
,
brake
open
a
Window
,
and
put
in
one
or
two
of
their
company
,
who
presently
open
the
Doors
to
them
and
give
them
free
entrance
:
Having
thus
possessed
themselves
of
the
House
,
their
first
work
is
to
seise
upon
Mr.
Graey's
Person
,
to
this
purpose
they
make
directly
to
his
Chamber
,
whom
they
found
in
his
Shirt
,
and
would
hardly
give
him
leave
to
put
on
his
Clothes
;
and
that
their
seising
of
his
Person
might
not
be
without
all
shew
of
Authority
,
they
produce
a
Warrant
signed
by
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
in
which
Mr.
Gray's
name
was
,
this
they
shew
only
,
but
will
not
permit
them
to
read
it
.
All
the
Monies
and
Plate
which
they
found
in
the
House
they
take
away
,
and
as
for
Mr.
Gray
himself
having
taken
him
Prisoner
,
they
compel
him
to
go
on
foot
from
Wellingborow
to
Welby
:
While
they
are
on
their
way
towards
Welby
,
some
40
or
50
men
from
Wellingborow
,
armed
only
with
Swords
and
Staves
,
come
to
Rescue
Mr.
Gray
from
the
Rebels
:
After
a
short
Skirmish
(
wherein
one
or
two
of
the
Pursuers
were
hurt
only
,
not
slain
)
finding
that
they
were
unequal
for
the
Rebels
both
in
Number
and
Arms
,
leaving
the
Prey
in
the
hands
of
the
Oppressors
,
they
retreat
to
Wellingborow
:
Being
returned
thither
,
they
find
Five
hundred
of
the
Country
come
in
to
their
assistance
:
The
common
People
(
who
seldom
love
or
hate
moderately
)
inraged
that
Mr.
Gray
should
thus
be
taken
from
them
,
especially
some
of
his
poor
Neighbours
,
who
in
him
were
robbed
of
the
relief
which
they
received
from
his
Charity
,
resolve
to
make
some
of
the
Rebels
Faction
in
that
Town
sensible
of
their
displeasure
;
and
therefore
since
they
cannot
reek
their
anger
on
the
Rebels
that
did
the
fact
,
they
fall
foul
on
those
that
did
approve
it
,
if
they
were
not
Abettors
and
underhand
Contrivers
of
it
:
They
break
their
Windows
,
break
into
some
of
their
Houses
,
and
spoil
their
Goods
.
Amongst
the
number
of
those
that
suffered
under
the
fury
of
the
People
,
a
Chandler
and
a
Cooper
underwent
the
greatest
Loss
,
yet
it
could
not
be
much
,
since
upon
a
strict
survey
,
the
whole
spoil
done
in
the
Town
did
not
amount
to
30
l.
Many
of
this
assembly
,
utterly
disliking
such
disorders
,
did
not
only
reprove
the
chief
Actors
in
this
Outrage
,
but
to
discountenance
their
proceeding
withdrew
themselves
:
They
of
the
Town
to
their
Houses
,
they
of
the
Country
to
their
several
Habitations
;
so
that
by
the
break
of
day
the
Tumult
was
appeased
,
and
the
Town
cleared
.
While
these
things
were
in
doing
,
the
Cooper
and
one
or
two
with
him
post
away
to
Mr.
Perne
,
the
Parson
of
Welby
,
a
Turbulent
and
Seditious
man
,
and
make
their
complaint
to
him
,
and
to
inflame
him
that
was
too
apt
to
kindle
without
their
help
,
they
do
not
only
aggravate
their
own
losses
at
Wellingborow
,
but
tell
him
that
they
threatned
to
come
and
do
the
like
at
Welby
:
Mr.
Perne
(
changing
his
black
Coat
for
a
gray
)
instantly
goes
to
Northampton
,
and
there
represents
the
injury
done
to
their
Faction
at
Wellingborow
,
and
the
pretended
danger
of
Welby
so
effectually
,
that
by
Noon
that
Tuesday
,
Colonel
Norwich
commanding
in
chief
,
Sergeant-Major
Mole
,
Captain
John
Sawyer
,
Captain
Francis
Sawyer
,
Captain
Pertlow
,
Captain
Redman
,
Captain
Farmar
,
Captain
Harrold
,
with
500
,
but
others
say
1000
Horses
and
Dragooners
,
came
to
Wellingborow
:
Being
come
thither
,
they
divide
themselves
into
several
Troops
,
to
make
good
several
passages
into
the
Town
,
thereby
to
keep
out
the
Country
that
were
coming
to
their
aid
,
Captain
John
Sawyer
,
with
80
or
a
100
Dragooners
enters
the
Town
at
that
side
which
leads
to
Welby
;
and
riding
in
the
Front
of
his
men
marched
directly
towards
Mr.
Neile
of
Woollaston
,
and
some
few
with
him
who
stood
to
oppose
him
:
Sawyer
discharges
at
Mr.
Neile
,
and
whom
he
missed
with
his
Bullet
he
would
be
sure
to
hit
with
his
Tongue
,
shooting
out
Arrows
,
even
bitter
words
,
calling
him
Popish
Rascal
:
But
what
reward
shall
be
given
unto
thee
,
O
thou
false
Tongue
?
He
staied
not
long
without
it
,
for
the
words
were
no
sooner
spoken
,
and
(
to
second
his
words
)
a
charge
given
to
his
Soldiers
to
give
fire
,
but
he
received
what
he
would
have
given
,
his
deaths
wound
by
a
shot
in
the
Head
and
Neck
by
Goose-shot
,
which
made
him
fall
on
his
Horse-neck
,
which
shot
was
seconded
by
a
Country-man
,
who
with
a
Club
beat
him
off
his
Horse
into
the
Dirt
;
being
thus
beaten
down
,
the
Women
to
revenge
their
Husbands
Quarrel
fasten
on
him
,
but
Mr.
Oliver
Gray
(
Nephew
to
Mr.
Gray
before
mentioned
)
and
Mr.
Woolaston
rescued
out
of
their
hands
,
who
otherwise
had
immediately
died
the
death
of
Sisera
,
by
the
hands
of
Women
:
Reprieved
thus
for
some
few
hours
,
they
carry
him
to
one
Gray's
House
an
Alehouse-keeper
,
whose
Wife
was
Captain
Sawyers
Aunt
,
where
they
administred
what
they
could
,
but
in
vain
,
for
after
two
and
twenty
hours
Languishment
he
died
:
As
soon
as
Captain
Sawyer
was
fallen
,
his
Soldiers
instantly
ran
away
,
only
his
Son
,
unwilling
to
leave
his
Father
,
followed
him
to
the
hazard
of
his
life
,
by
many
Wounds
which
he
received
.
In
other
P●rts
of
the
Town
,
the
Townsmen
quit
themselves
like
valiant
Soldiers
and
loyal
Subjects
,
and
with
very
little
help
of
the
Country
,
kept
the
Rebels
out
:
Mr.
Gray's
man
and
another
,
with
each
man
his
Musquet
,
kept
out
above
a
100
at
the
lower
end
of
the
Town
,
and
repelled
them
twice
or
thrice
;
and
had
not
Captain
Sawyer
coming
to
himself
a
little
before
his
death
,
persuaded
them
that
it
was
in
vain
to
stand
out
,
there
being
three
Pieces
on
the
way
from
Northampton
,
to
Batter
the
Town
(
which
proved
true
)
and
withal
persuading
them
to
write
a
Letter
to
the
Commanders
,
promising
that
upon
their
submission
the
Town
should
be
secured
,
they
had
held
it
out
to
the
last
man
:
But
the
dying
Captain
prevailed
with
them
,
they
write
a
Letter
according
to
his
advice
,
which
as
they
say
was
signed
by
his
own
hand
,
the
apprehension
of
his
desperate
condition
having
put
new
thoughts
in
him
.
But
this
Resolution
not
being
so
fully
made
known
to
the
Town
,
as
a
business
of
that
concernment
ought
to
have
been
,
some
of
the
Town
,
being
ignorant
of
any
Treaty
,
made
some
shot
,
and
the
Rebels
willing
to
take
advantage
,
rush
into
the
Town
,
put
both
those
of
the
Town
and
Country
to
flight
.
Captain
Francis
Sawyer
much
inraged
for
his
Brother
,
and
coming
near
the
place
where
his
Brother
was
Wounded
,
seeing
Mr.
Flint
the
Curate
of
Harrowden
stand
there
,
not
any
way
ingaged
in
the
Resistance
,
having
not
given
any
provocation
,
he
barbarously
struck
him
with
his
Pole-Ax
,
and
cleft
his
Head
down
to
the
Eyes
,
of
which
Wound
he
died
instantly
:
The
Earth
drinking
up
that
innocent
Blood
,
shed
by
the
hand
of
an
accursed
Doeg
,
which
like
the
Blood
of
Abel
,
calls
loud
in
the
Ears
of
God
for
Vengeance
upon
them
,
who
authorize
and
countenance
such
horrid
Murthers
;
Cursed
be
his
anger
for
it
was
fierce
,
and
his
wrath
for
it
was
cruel
.
Being
masters
of
the
Town
,
at
three
of
the
Clock
in
the
Afternoon
they
begin
to
Plunder
,
and
continue
the
Spoil
until
the
next
Day-light
failed
them
,
until
Wednesday
night
.
In
this
time
they
carry
away
the
Wealth
of
the
Town
to
Northampton
and
other
places
,
sparing
none
but
those
whose
Tongues
are
framed
to
Shiboleth
,
men
of
their
own
Faction
,
whether
they
were
active
against
them
,
or
stood
Neuters
:
By
which
Essay
,
those
Luke-warm
men
(
who
stand
Pendulous
equally
poised
between
Rebellion
and
Loyalty
,
and
know
not
which
side
to
lean
unto
)
may
guess
what
measure
they
are
like
to
receive
from
the
Rebels
hands
,
if
ever
they
come
to
have
them
in
their
power
.
In
the
Town
,
two
men
especially
suffer
under
these
Free-booters
,
Mr.
Gray
and
Mr.
Fisher
;
from
the
first
being
Clerk
of
the
Peace
,
they
take
away
the
Commissions
of
Peace
,
the
Sessions
Rolls
,
together
with
his
own
Evidences
and
Leases
,
all
his
Houshold-stuff
,
even
to
his
very
Bed-cords
,
leaving
but
one
Sheet
for
his
Wife
and
five
Children
:
His
Wheat
and
other
Corn
they
give
to
their
Horses
;
what
they
did
not
eat
,
they
threw
into
the
Streets
,
and
trampled
it
in
the
dirt
.
From
the
other
they
took
Goods
,
and
other
things
,
amounting
to
a
very
great
Sum
:
And
to
compleat
their
wickedness
,
to
their
Oppression
they
add
Scorn
;
for
having
taken
away
all
that
they
could
,
in
derision
they
affix
Protections
in
writing
under
Colonel
Norwich
his
hand
,
at
his
and
some
others
doors
,
forbidding
any
man
to
Plunder
.
Generally
what
they
could
not
carry
away
,
they
spoil
,
so
that
the
Loss
sustained
by
the
Town
,
is
valued
at
Six
thousand
pounds
.
They
took
Mr.
Neile
Prisoner
,
and
some
Forty
more
,
amongst
them
they
took
the
Vicar
,
Master
Jones
,
a
grave
and
learned
man
,
but
lame
and
very
sickly
,
and
having
Plundered
him
of
all
he
had
,
they
mount
him
on
a
poor
Jade
,
with
a
Halter
instead
of
a
Bridle
;
the
rest
they
tie
two
and
two
together
,
and
drive
them
before
them
to
Northampton
.
Mr.
Gray
,
as
I
told
you
,
was
the
day
before
led
Prisoner
to
Welby
,
from
thence
to
Northampton
,
where
his
Prison
cannot
afford
him
protection
from
the
fury
and
rage
of
the
Soldiers
;
to
make
way
to
his
death
,
they
threaten
to
pull
down
the
House
where
he
was
confined
:
And
the
Commissioners
finding
that
he
could
not
remain
there
with
any
safety
,
were
constrained
to
send
him
away
Prisoner
to
London
.
Being
come
thither
,
Articles
are
framed
and
exhibited
against
him
,
which
being
examined
at
a
Committee
,
and
no
proof
at
all
made
,
he
was
Voted
to
be
discharged
his
Imprisonment
:
yet
to
delude
Justice
,
and
the
Petition
of
Right
,
the
Chair-man
could
never
find
a
time
to
make
his
Report
to
the
House
,
so
that
he
remained
a
Prisoner
for
a
long
time
.
On
the
28.
of
January
,
1642.
the
Castle
of
Sudely
,
upon
Composition
,
was
delivered
up
to
the
Rebels
;
there
were
Articles
agreed
on
and
sworn
to
,
but
as
he
spake
truly
,
Children
were
deceived
with
Apples
,
and
Men
with
Oaths
;
the
Rebels
as
they
swear
to
Articles
for
their
advantage
,
so
they
break
them
as
easily
for
their
advantage
,
and
make
Perjury
an
easie
uninterrupted
passage
to
Theft
and
Robbery
,
for
these
Rebels
brake
as
many
Articles
as
they
swore
unto
:
they
plunder
not
only
the
Castle
,
the
Seat
and
House
of
the
Lord
Chandois
,
and
Winchcombe
a
neighbouring
Village
,
to
the
utter
undoing
the
poor
Inhabitants
,
but
in
defence
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
and
vindication
of
the
Honor
of
God
,
they
profane
his
House
.
There
is
in
the
Castle
a
goodly
fair
Church
,
here
they
dig
up
the
Graves
,
and
disturb
the
ashes
of
the
dead
:
they
break
down
the
ancient
Monuments
of
the
Chandoses
,
and
instead
thereof
,
leave
a
prodigious
Monument
of
their
Sacrilegious
profaneness
:
for
each
part
of
the
Church
they
find
a
peculiar
way
to
profane
it
:
the
lower
part
of
it
they
make
their
Stable
,
the
Chancel
their
Slaughter-house
.
Unto
the
Pulpit
(
which
of
all
other
places
in
probability
might
have
escaped
their
Impiety
)
they
fasten
pegs
to
hang
the
Carcasses
of
the
slaughtered
Sheep
:
the
Communion-Table
,
according
to
their
own
Language
,
they
make
their
Dresser
or
Chopping-board
to
cut
out
their
meat
;
into
the
Vault
,
wherein
lay
the
Bodies
of
the
Chandoses
,
an
ancient
and
honorable
Family
,
they
cast
the
guts
and
garbage
:
mingling
the
loathsom
Intrals
of
Beasts
,
with
those
Bones
and
Ashes
which
did
there
rest
in
hope
of
a
joyful
Resurrection
.
The
Nave
or
Body
of
the
Church
was
all
covered
with
the
dung
and
blood
of
Beasts
:
and
which
was
(
if
it
be
possible
)
a
degree
beyond
these
Profanations
,
in
contempt
of
God
and
his
holy
Temple
,
they
defile
each
part
and
corner
both
of
Church
and
Chancel
with
their
own
Excrements
;
and
going
away
,
left
nothing
behind
them
in
the
Church
(
besides
Walls
and
Seats
)
but
a
stinking
Memory
,
that
part
of
the
Parliament
Army
raised
for
the
defence
of
Religion
,
had
been
there
.
Let
that
railing
Rabshekah
,
or
jeering
Sanballet
,
I
mean
the
Author
of
the
ridiculous
Pamphlet
,
intituled
,
One
Argument
more
against
the
Cavaliers
,
read
this
Story
,
and
then
tell
me
which
are
most
guilty
of
prophanation
of
Churches
,
the
Cavaliers
or
the
Round-heads
;
which
were
most
profaned
,
either
St.
Mary
Maudlins
in
Oxford
,
or
the
Church
at
Sudly
Castle
:
and
yet
this
Dog
sticks
not
with
Shimei
to
bark
at
his
Sovereign
and
blaspheme
his
Piety
,
as
if
the
Rebels
brought
from
Cyrencester
had
been
Quartered
in
this
Church
by
his
approbation
,
who
to
expiate
that
guilt
,
gave
an
hundred
an
fifty
pounds
to
adorn
and
beautifie
that
Church
.
The
truth
is
,
there
was
a
fault
in
the
Commanders
for
lodging
them
in
Churches
,
who
if
they
had
had
their
due
,
had
been
hanged
for
Rebellion
,
their
carcasses
exposed
to
the
Fowls
of
the
air
,
and
the
Beasts
of
the
field
,
that
the
Ravens
of
the
valleys
might
have
had
their
due
portion
,
and
never
suffered
them
to
come
so
near
the
Church
,
as
to
have
the
priviledge
of
Christian
Burial
in
the
Church-yard
.
So
,
even
so
,
let
all
the
Kings
enemies
perish
,
O
Lord
,
and
let
all
the
people
say
.
Amen
.
In
Saint
Maries
Church
in
Warwick
,
and
the
Chappel
(
commonly
called
the
Earls
Chappel
)
adjoyning
to
the
Choire
of
that
Church
,
are
divers
fair
Monuments
of
the
Beauchamps
,
anciently
Earls
of
that
place
;
which
Family
long
flourishing
there
,
had
been
great
Benefactors
and
Beautifiers
of
that
Church
,
whereof
Thomas
Beauchamp
(
Earl
of
Warwick
,
and
Earl
Marshal
of
England
,
and
one
of
the
Founders
of
the
most
noble
Order
of
the
Garter
,
in
the
Reign
of
King
Edward
the
Third
)
built
the
Choire
now
standing
,
in
the
midst
whereof
is
his
Monument
,
and
adorned
the
Windows
,
with
the
Pictures
of
Himself
,
his
Wife
,
and
Children
which
were
many
;
upon
the
Surcoats
of
the
Men
were
their
Arms
skilfully
depicted
,
the
Women
having
the
like
,
and
Mantles
,
over
which
were
the
Arms
of
their
Matches
,
their
Husbands
being
the
prime
Nobility
of
those
times
:
The
like
Portraitures
in
Glass
,
but
much
more
rich
and
costly
,
were
in
that
stately
Chappel
before-mentioned
:
In
this
stood
the
Monument
of
Earl
Richard
,
being
Brass
gilt
;
and
in
the
Opinion
of
judicious
observant
Travellers
,
esteemed
the
rarest
Piece
erected
for
any
Subject
in
the
Christian
World
:
but
such
is
the
barbarousness
of
the
pretenders
to
Reformation
,
that
upon
Wednesday
the
14.
of
this
instant
June
,
the
Souldiers
,
by
the
appointment
and
encouragement
of
one
whom
(
in
these
degenerous
Times
wherein
the
dregs
of
the
People
are
made
Commanders
for
the
advancement
of
Rebellion
)
men
call
Colonel
Purefey
(
a
man
of
a
mean
desperate
Fortune
,
but
by
the
means
of
the
late
Lord
Brooke
,
chosen
Burgess
of
Parliament
for
Warwick
,
and
who
had
the
greatest
Influence
in
seducing
that
unhappy
Lord
to
this
desperate
Rebellion
,
in
which
he
miserably
perished
:
)
did
beat
down
and
deface
those
Monuments
of
Antiquity
;
and
not
content
with
this
,
by
the
same
Command
they
break
down
the
Cross
in
the
Market-place
,
not
leaving
one
stone
upon
another
,
Purefey
all
the
while
standing
by
,
animating
and
encouraging
them
,
until
they
had
finished
their
so
barbarous
Work
.
In
which
the
World
may
observe
,
that
these
men
are
the
sworn
Enemies
,
not
only
of
pretended
Superstition
,
but
of
the
Ensigns
of
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
that
if
their
Diana
,
I
mean
their
Parity
,
may
take
effect
,
Posterity
may
forget
,
and
not
read
the
distinction
of
Noble
from
ignoble
,
in
these
venerable
Monuments
of
ancient
Nobility
:
there
being
in
these
Windows
something
indeed
to
instruct
a
Herauld
,
nothing
to
offend
the
weakest
Christian.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
VII
.
Doctor
Cox
barbarously
used
by
the
Earl
of
Stamford
at
Exeter
,
contrary
to
the
Law
of
Arms.
The
unheard-of
Cruelties
committed
by
the
Lord
Grey
of
Groby
and
his
Souldiers
,
on
the
person
,
house
,
goods
and
servants
of
Master
Nowell
in
Rutlandshire
.
Dr.
Bargrave
ill
intreated
by
Col.
Sands
in
Kent
,
&c.
AFter
the
great
and
happy
Defeat
given
by
the
Victorious
Sir
Ralph
Hopton
to
the
Devonshire
Forces
at
Starton
,
it
pleased
the
Commanders
of
His
Majesties
Forces
to
entertain
thoughts
of
Clemency
towards
the
remainder
of
the
Rebels
.
To
testifie
to
the
World
therefore
,
that
there
was
nothing
more
in
their
desires
than
a
Thrift
of
Christian
Blood
,
and
withal
,
to
heap
coles
of
fire
upon
their
heads
,
to
conquer
them
by
kindness
whom
they
had
often
conquered
by
the
sword
:
by
their
Letters
they
signifie
their
readiness
to
close
up
those
wide
rents
between
them
,
by
a
Treaty
.
And
that
a
Message
of
Peace
might
be
well
suited
with
a
Messenger
,
they
sent
the
Letters
by
Dr.
Cox
,
Doctor
of
Divinity
,
who
,
attended
by
a
Trumpeter
,
came
to
Exeter
that
Sunday
in
the
After-noon
.
The
Trumpeter
,
as
the
manner
is
,
gave
the
Town
warning
,
as
soon
as
he
came
within
sight
of
the
Guard
,
and
presently
an
Officer
came
to
receive
him
,
who
blind-folding
him
with
a
Handkerchief
pinn'd
over
his
Eyes
,
conducted
him
through
the
City
unto
the
Earl
of
Stamfords
House
:
having
admittance
there
,
the
Doctor
takes
off
his
Handkerchief
,
but
accidentally
did
not
dispose
of
the
pin
that
fastned
it
,
but
still
kept
it
in
his
Hand
:
the
Earl
had
no
sooner
set
his
eyes
upon
the
Doctor
,
but
presently
he
reviles
him
,
and
calls
him
all
the
reproachful
Names
he
could
imagine
,
and
swore
that
he
would
hang
him
instantly
:
but
first
,
to
extort
a
confession
from
him
,
he
offers
a
Knife
or
Dagger
to
his
Breast
,
demanding
an
answer
to
some
Interrogatories
:
the
Doctor
not
affrighted
with
such
rough
usage
,
replies
very
discreetly
,
That
he
had
received
commands
to
deliver
certain
Letters
from
the
Commanders
of
the
Cornish
,
to
those
of
the
Devonshire
Army
,
but
that
he
had
no
Commission
to
satisfie
any
different
and
by-demands
;
this
denial
to
answer
,
together
with
after
dinner
,
inflamed
the
Earl
,
and
put
him
into
a
new
fit
of
Railing
:
and
for
variety
sake
he
did
intermix
the
opprobrious
names
,
with
many
menaces
and
offers
of
stabbing
him
:
In
the
end
,
seeing
that
this
harsh
welcome
could
effect
nothing
,
nor
awe
the
Doctor
to
make
any
discovery
,
he
demands
the
Letters
:
the
Doctor
,
that
he
might
clear
his
hands
,
and
so
dive
into
his
Pockets
suddenly
,
put
the
Pin
which
he
held
in
his
hands
between
his
lips
:
hereupon
one
Baxter
,
a
Serjeant-Major
of
the
City
,
observing
the
motion
of
his
hand
,
but
not
perceiving
what
it
conveyed
to
his
mouth
,
cryed
out
,
What
doth
the
rogue
eat
there
?
he
swallows
Papers
of
Intelligence
:
With
this
the
Earl
,
forgetting
the
Gravity
and
serious
Deportment
of
a
Peer
of
the
Kingdom
of
England
,
began
in
an
antick
manner
to
leap
,
and
skip
,
and
frisk
,
crying
out
,
Treason
,
Treason
,
he
comes
to
betray
the
City
,
Courage
my
brave
blades
:
and
so
turning
to
the
Doctor
,
he
set
his
Dagger
again
to
his
Breast
,
and
demanded
what
it
was
that
he
had
put
into
his
mouth
?
The
Doctor
mildly
and
softly
putting
his
hands
to
his
lips
,
took
the
Pin
thence
,
and
shewing
it
to
his
Lordship
,
said
,
It
is
a
Pin
,
my
Lord
.
The
Serjeant-Major
thinking
to
intercept
the
supposed
Intelligence
going
down
the
Doctors
throat
,
instantly
flies
to
him
,
took
him
by
the
throat
,
and
griped
him
so
hard
,
that
he
had
almost
strangled
him
.
The
Earl
himself
(
most
unworthily
)
crying
out
,
Cut
the
Villains
throat
,
cut
it
:
nor
did
he
command
another
,
what
he
would
not
do
himself
,
for
with
his
own
hands
he
offered
his
Knife
thrice
at
the
Doctors
throat
to
cut
it
,
but
the
Doctor
still
put
it
by
,
God
,
who
is
a
present
help
in
trouble
,
restrained
the
Earl
,
and
delivered
the
Doctor
out
of
his
hands
.
Nor
was
it
his
hap
to
suffer
from
Honorable
hands
only
,
the
standers
by
are
not
idle
,
but
follow
so
leading
an
example
:
as
if
he
had
been
sent
for
from
Cornwall
to
Exeter
on
no
other
errand
than
to
be
made
the
City
scorn
,
and
the
subject
whereon
their
wanton
insolency
should
vent
it self
:
every
one
in
the
Room
had
a
fling
at
him
:
some
with
their
fists
beat
him
about
the
head
;
others
scratch
his
face
;
one
with
his
fingers
boars
his
ears
,
to
his
extream
torment
another
with
his
fingers
rakes
in
his
mouth
,
hoping
there
to
find
some
Papers
of
Intelligence
:
one
tears
his
hair
,
another
forces
his
hand
down
his
throat
,
and
the
thing
for
which
they
make
this
strict
search
,
is
Intelligence
,
some
scrole
of
Intelligence
:
Sure
there
is
much
want
of
Intelligence
in
their
own
heads
,
that
made
such
strict
inquisition
for
it
in
another
mans
.
Well
,
this
pursuit
of
Intelligence
so
long
they
continue
,
and
so
eagerly
,
that
the
Doctor
fainting
under
so
barbarous
usage
,
was
ready
to
give
up
the
Ghost
,
and
for
fear
he
should
dye
under
their
hands
,
they
leave
him
a
sad
emblem
of
that
entertainment
which
the
Messengers
of
Peace
find
from
the
men
of
this
Generation
.
Let
that
rebellious
City
remember
and
tremble
at
that
condolement
of
our
Saviour
over
the
like
sin
:
O
Jerusalem
,
Jerusalem
,
thou
that
killest
the
Prophets
,
and
stonest
them
that
are
sent
unto
thee
.
I
am
unwilling
to
go
on
and
read
her
destiny
,
and
therefore
shall
return
to
the
story
.
Having
in
this
unchristian
manner
insulted
long
enough
upon
the
Doctor
,
they
divert
their
rage
,
and
spend
the
rest
of
their
Fury
on
the
Trumpeter
;
and
having
either
before
,
in
part
breathed
out
their
madness
,
or
not
thinking
the
poor
Trumpeter
so
Malignant
as
the
Doctor
,
though
they
used
him
bad
enough
,
yet
they
express
not
so
keen
a
malice
against
him
as
against
the
Doctor
.
Having
satiated
themselves
by
cumulating
Injury
upon
Injury
upon
them
,
they
are
both
commanded
to
an
outward
Room
;
here
they
are
assaulted
by
fresh
Furies
,
for
they
had
not
staid
long
there
,
but
two
Aldermen
renew
the
same
Insolencies
,
and
act
the
Injuries
all
over
again
,
and
the
very
dregs
of
the
People
animated
by
their
example
,
bear
them
Company
.
After
this
,
the
Earl
commits
them
to
Prison
,
and
being
brought
into
the
Room
where
they
were
to
lodge
,
they
were
stript
naked
,
and
their
Cloaths
narrowly
searched
:
and
though
after
all
this
scrutiny
nothing
could
be
found
,
yet
Intelligence
is
the
thing
the
Earl
looks
after
,
and
Intelligence
he
will
have
if
it
be
to
be
had
.
And
though
the
World
never
took
his
Lordship
for
a
Physitian
,
yet
he
prescribes
two
Vomits
,
where
his
Honour
had
his
Simples
,
I
know
not
,
but
the
Composition
was
of
a
green
colour
,
divided
into
two
Draughts
,
put
into
two
Bowls
,
these
the
Earl
commands
to
be
administred
to
the
Doctor
and
the
Trumpeter
,
that
so
they
may
vomit
up
those
supposed
Papers
of
Intelligence
,
which
Serjeant-Major
Baxter
thought
they
had
swallowed
:
the
Doctor
,
the
chief
Patient
,
begins
first
,
whom
instantly
they
ply
with
Posset-drink
,
having
likewise
some
infusion
in
it
to
provoke
and
help
on
the
Potion
taken
:
all
night
long
did
they
keep
the
Doctor
at
this
Exercise
,
though
they
saw
that
what
came
from
him
,
came
with
great
difficulty
and
torment
,
yet
they
gave
not
off
,
till
at
last
it
drew
Blood
from
him
:
all
the
return
that
was
made
into
the
Basin
,
was
very
exactly
strained
,
to
see
if
there
were
any
rag
of
Intelligence
:
but
there
was
none
:
but
in
case
it
should
work
both
ways
(
though
his
Lordship
had
many
about
him
wonderous
fit
for
such
Imployment
)
yet
whom
he
placed
Sentinel
for
the
Postern
,
if
any
Intelligence
should
chance
to
escape
that
way
,
my
intelligence
fails
me
.
This
Inhumane
usage
brought
the
Doctor
so
low
,
that
in
three
days
he
was
not
able
to
receive
any
Sustenance
.
In
this
his
extremity
and
weakness
,
he
had
many
visits
from
the
people
of
the
Town
,
who
like
Jobs
comforters
,
revile
him
instead
of
pitying
him
:
and
the
third
night
,
as
he
lay
very
sick
and
weak
in
his
Bed
,
there
came
into
his
Chamber
a
man
very
likely
to
prove
the
Messenger
of
death
unto
him
;
his
name
was
Doune
,
Lieutenant
to
Captain
White
,
who
presently
asking
for
the
Jesuite
,
and
calling
him
Rogue
,
and
as
many
base
names
as
himself
deserved
,
offered
to
lay
violent
hands
upon
him
:
but
one
of
the
Soldiers
abhorring
so
barbarous
Cruelty
,
in
meer
mercy
to
a
dying
Man
,
as
he
had
reason
to
judge
him
,
interposing
,
restrained
him
from
acting
those
Murderous
thoughts
which
he
brought
with
him
.
After
the
Doctor
had
remained
Prisoner
five
or
six
days
,
and
having
recovered
so
much
strength
as
to
hold
out
another
worrying
,
he
was
(
with
an
ill
intention
in
some
)
brought
before
the
Council
of
War
,
where
,
upon
the
Doctors
complaint
of
the
hard
usage
he
had
undergon
,
some
of
the
prime
Gentry
being
ashamed
of
the
Cruelties
acted
on
him
,
being
a
Messenger
,
and
in
that
regard
by
the
Law
of
Arms
ought
to
be
priviledged
from
all
Affronts
,
much
more
from
such
violent
Outrages
,
Sir
John
Northcoote
indeavoured
to
palliate
the
business
,
and
to
take
off
from
the
odiousness
of
it
,
by
alledging
the
Contents
of
the
Letters
,
which
indeed
being
for
some
Preparatories
and
Overtures
of
Peace
,
might
inrage
these
men
that
were
Enemies
unto
it
:
To
which
the
Doctor
replyed
,
that
under
favour
that
could
be
no
ground
,
nor
yet
excuse
for
their
savage
usage
of
him
;
because
they
had
beaten
him
,
and
almost
murdered
him
in
the
Earl
of
Stamfords
presence
,
before
they
knew
the
Contents
of
the
Letters
,
or
read
so
much
as
one
syllable
of
them
,
or
indeed
received
them
,
the
violent
Serjeant-Major
seizing
on
him
before
he
could
deliver
them
:
This
so
unanswerable
a
return
,
put
the
Knight
to
his
Italian
shrug
,
and
rejoyned
no
more
,
but
I
know
not
That
.
After
a
Week
(
and
more
)
Imprisonment
,
the
Earl
commands
the
Doctor
to
be
carryed
aboard
the
Hope
of
Toptham
,
where
the
stench
and
noysom
smell
of
the
Ship
had
almost
poyson'd
him
.
The
Doctors
Wife
hearing
of
her
Husbands
Imprisonment
,
came
to
Exeter
to
see
him
;
but
before
she
came
her
Husband
being
Shipt
for
London
,
on
much
intreaty
she
obtained
leave
to
go
on
Ship-board
to
see
him
;
but
on
her
return
,
she
was
Imprisoned
till
her
Husband
being
under
Sail
,
she
had
liberty
to
go
away
.
After
ten
days
being
at
Sea
,
the
Doctor
arrived
at
London
,
where
he
was
long
detained
Prisoner
at
the
Lord
Peters
his
House
in
Aldersgate-street
.
The
Lord
Gray
,
with
some
other
Rebels
under
his
Conduct
,
came
to
Mr.
Nowels
House
,
Brother
to
the
Lord
Nowel
that
now
is
,
demanding
his
Person
prisoner
,
and
his
Arms
for
the
use
of
the
Parliament
.
Master
Nowell
modestly
replyed
,
That
he
knew
not
wherein
he
had
offended
,
that
he
should
forfeit
his
Liberty
or
Goods
to
the
Justice
of
the
Parliament
:
his
House
was
his
Castle
,
his
Arms
were
his
Defence
,
and
his
Liberty
was
precious
unto
him
;
so
that
he
could
not
satisfie
their
demands
in
any
thing
.
Hereupon
they
plant
a
Cannon
very
near
the
House
,
so
near
,
that
the
Fire
of
it
took
hold
of
an
Out-house
that
was
thatched
;
this
House
,
though
burnt
down
,
was
not
of
any
great
consequence
.
Therefore
they
discharge
again
,
and
beat
down
a
beam
of
his
Dwelling-house
,
but
hurt
no
man
within
it
:
and
making
a
third
shot
,
they
beat
down
a
Chimney
,
and
the
fall
of
it
bruised
the
foot
of
one
of
his
Servants
.
At
last
,
finding
that
Mr.
Nowel
was
resolved
to
make
good
his
house
against
them
,
notwithstanding
their
Cannon
Battery
,
and
would
not
deliver
up
his
Person
to
Captivity
,
nor
his
House
to
their
Plunder
,
they
fire
six
of
his
Neighbors
Houses
;
in
one
of
which
there
was
a
Woman
in
Labor
,
by
which
means
the
Neighbors
were
compelled
to
expose
her
to
a
probable
,
by
snatching
her
from
a
certain
destruction
;
for
in
the
midst
of
her
Throws
and
Pangs
of
Child-birth
,
they
were
fain
to
carry
her
in
a
Chair
out
into
the
Streets
:
having
a
while
sported
and
warmed
themselves
at
those
Flames
,
at
which
the
poor
Inhabitants
wept
and
wrung
their
Hands
,
they
threaten
,
that
unless
Mr.
Nowel
will
yield
himself
Prisoner
,
and
deliver
up
his
House
to
their
pleasure
,
they
will
not
only
fire
his
House
,
but
will
not
leave
a
House
unburnt
in
the
whole
Parish
.
This
so
affrighted
the
poor
Inhabitants
his
Neighbors
,
that
Men
,
Women
and
Children
,
come
with
tears
,
and
earnestly
beseech
him
to
surrender
himself
,
rather
than
suffer
them
to
be
ruined
,
and
utterly
spoiled
before
his
face
.
Overcome
at
last
,
not
by
the
Rebels
Ordnance
,
but
by
that
which
spake
louder
in
his
Ears
,
the
pitiful
complaints
and
out-cries
of
his
Neighbors
,
he
founds
a
Parley
,
the
result
of
which
was
:
First
,
That
the
Rebels
should
see
the
Fire
quenched
.
Secondly
,
That
all
in
his
house
should
have
liberty
to
depart
whither
they
pleased
.
Thirdly
,
That
none
should
enter
the
House
but
Commanders
.
But
this
generation
of
Truce-breakers
(
that
keep
Faith
neither
with
God
nor
man
,
and
break
Oaths
faster
then
ever
Sampson
did
his
Cords
,
whom
nothing
can
tye
fast
but
a
Halter
,
the
strongest
Obligation
for
a
Traytor
)
were
no
sooner
entred
the
House
,
but
presently
they
seize
on
Master
Nowell
and
Master
Skipwith
as
their
Prisoners
:
and
whereas
by
the
Article
of
agreement
,
none
were
to
enter
the
House
but
Commanders
;
and
since
,
if
the
Article
had
been
kept
unviolated
,
there
were
like
to
be
as
many
Thieves
within
as
without
doors
;
Therefore
Commanders
and
Common
Souldiers
,
Common
Souldiers
and
Commanders
,
all
Thieves
,
enter
the
House
and
rifle
it
.
They
take
away
his
Goods
,
cut
the
Ticks
of
his
Beds
,
burn
the
Feathers
,
tear
in
pieces
his
Accounts
,
Writings
,
and
Evidences
,
and
That
which
we
have
not
read
in
the
black
Catalogue
of
the
outrages
of
the
Rebellious
Irish
,
was
attempted
by
these
;
for
in
the
Examinations
upon
Oath
of
those
that
report
the
miserable
Sufferings
of
the
poor
Protestants
in
Ireland
,
and
the
barbarousness
of
the
Irish
,
published
by
Order
of
Parliament
,
we
do
not
find
that
God
gave
them
up
to
so
roprobate
a
sense
,
as
to
commit
or
attempt
any
Rapes
;
give
the
Devil
his
due
,
this
sin
we
find
not
laid
to
their
charge
:
But
these
blessed
Reformers
,
whom
they
have
not
blushed
blasphemously
to
call
,
The
Host
of
God
,
and
Christs
Armies
,
and
Champions
of
Religion
,
added
this
to
the
rest
of
their
innumerable
Wickednesses
,
That
they
attempted
to
ravish
two
of
his
Maid-servants
;
one
was
dumb
,
but
fourteen
years
of
age
;
another
had
her
knee
put
out
of
joint
,
striving
to
resist
a
Villain
in
so
Beastly
an
attempt
.
In
a
word
,
their
practices
were
generally
so
Wicked
,
so
Impious
,
that
one
that
stood
Spectator
of
all
passages
,
and
observed
strictly
what
was
done
,
affirms
,
That
Mr.
Griffith
(
whom
some
call
Prince
Griffith
)
was
the
only
civilized
Man
amongst
them
.
Having
committed
these
Inhumane
Acts
among
the
Living
,
they
go
into
the
Church
among
the
Dead
,
and
there
deface
a
goodly
Monument
,
which
this
noble
Gentleman
,
Mr.
Nowell
,
had
erected
for
his
deceased
Wife
:
deeply
wounding
the
living
Husband
,
by
spoiling
that
Memorial
which
he
had
consecrated
to
the
dear
memory
of
his
dead
Wife
.
Having
ransacked
all
from
the
living
to
the
dead
,
they
carry
away
Mr.
Nowell
and
Mr.
Skipwith
Prisoners
to
London
,
and
commit
them
to
safe
Custody
in
the
Lord
Peters
his
House
(
before
mentioned
)
in
Aldersgate
street
,
where
they
remained
Prisoners
for
a
long
time
.
Colonel
Sandyes
,
in
his
perambulation
of
Kent
,
bestowed
a
Visit
upon
Dr.
Bargraves
House
,
then
Dean
of
Canterbury
,
the
Dean
himself
then
being
from
home
.
Sandyes
came
late
in
the
Night
,
and
the
whole
Family
were
in
Bed
:
they
soon
raise
the
House
,
and
where
they
did
not
find
they
make
an
entrance
,
forcing
Mistris
Bargrave
,
a
virtuous
good
Gentlewoman
(
whom
their
hasty
Summons
had
permitted
to
cast
only
her
Night-gown
about
her
)
to
wait
upon
them
from
room
to
room
,
not
suffering
her
to
turn
aside
(
though
she
for
Modesty
sake
requested
that
favour
at
their
hands
)
to
draw
on
her
Stockings
,
unless
they
might
stand
by
and
see
it
done
.
They
rudely
rush
into
Mistris
Boys
her
Chamber
,
the
Widow
of
Dr.
Boys
Dean
of
Canterbury
,
a
Gentlewoman
about
fourscore
years
old
,
there
they
seize
upon
a
Cabinet
of
hers
,
and
break
it
open
,
(
though
the
good
Old
woman
would
very
fain
have
had
it
spared
,
and
offered
them
the
Key
to
open
it
)
they
find
in
it
forty
five
pounds
in
Old
Gold
,
which
she
had
laid
by
to
bestow
as
Legacies
upon
her
Friends
:
this
they
hug
and
call
their
own
.
She
intreats
them
to
forbear
it
,
and
directs
them
to
her
Will
which
was
laid
up
with
the
Gold
,
and
in
that
they
might
see
how
she
had
bequeathed
it
.
Upon
perusal
of
the
Will
,
they
find
that
she
had
made
Dean
Bargrave
,
her
own
Brother
,
her
Executor
;
this
they
pronounce
a
Crime
of
so
high
a
nature
,
that
nothing
could
expiate
the
guilt
,
but
the
forfeiture
of
the
Gold
,
and
the
Cancelling
of
the
Will
;
but
by
the
earnest
mediation
of
Mr.
King
,
one
of
their
Company
,
at
length
they
are
perswaded
to
restore
the
Gold
,
and
spare
the
Will.
From
hence
they
go
to
the
Chamber
where
young
Mr.
Bargrave
the
Deans
son
did
lodge
;
Sandys
valiantly
breaks
his
Sword
(
which
hung
at
his
Beds-head
)
before
his
face
,
and
calling
him
out
of
his
Bed
,
sends
him
Prisoner
to
Dover-Castle
.
Soon
after
,
the
Dean
hastning
home
to
comfort
his
distressed
Family
,
Sandys
hears
where
he
was
lodged
at
an
Inne
at
Graves-end
,
and
as
he
was
undressed
and
ready
to
go
into
Bed
,
Sandys
,
and
thirteen
of
his
Souldiers
,
press
into
his
Chamber
with
their
Swords
drawn
,
and
command
him
to
yield
himself
a
Prisoner
;
which
the
Dean
(
having
neither
power
nor
will
to
resist
)
did
accordingly
;
having
(
without
any
reason
given
)
brought
him
a
Captive
to
London
,
they
commit
him
Prisoner
to
the
Fleet
where
after
he
had
lain
three
weeks
,
he
was
at
last
released
,
without
ever
being
examined
,
or
so
much
as
called
to
the
House
.
After
this
Sandys
writes
(
I
blush
to
mention
so
degenerous
a
Pamphlet
)
a
Book
,
and
was
not
ashamed
to
call
it
,
His
Travels
into
Kent
,
unworthy
his
Predecessors
,
to
strain
the
name
of
Sandyes
with
such
Travels
:
In
this
worthless
Commentary
,
the
Register
of
his
perpetual
Infamy
;
amongst
other
things
he
fastens
the
Note
of
a
debauched
drunken
young
Fellow
,
upon
young
Mr.
Bargrave
,
a
Gentleman
of
so
ingenuous
a
Countenance
,
so
modest
and
sweet
a
Temper
,
that
he
deserves
a
far
better
Character
.
The
old
Dean
,
a
Grave
and
learned
Gentleman
,
heart-broken
with
these
Injuries
,
soon
after
dyes
;
the
World
in
the
mean
time
Condemning
Sandyes
,
not
so
much
for
his
Barbarity
,
as
Ingratitude
in
dealing
thus
with
him
,
who
had
not
many
years
before
,
been
a
special
means
to
save
him
from
the
Gallows
,
when
he
was
Indicted
for
a
Rape
at
the
General
Affizes
at
Maydstone
.
But
you
know
the
old
Proverb
,
Save
a
Thief
from
the
Gallows
,
and
he
will
cut
your
Throat
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
VIII
.
Master
Swift
,
Parson
of
Goodwich
in
Herefordshire
,
his
Wife
and
ten
Children
most
inhumanly
dealt
with
by
Captain
Kirle
,
a
stony-hearted
Rebel
.
The
Duke
of
Vendosme
plundred
at
Uxbridge
,
with
other
frauds
and
abuses
committed
by
the
Rebels
,
&c.
WHen
the
Earl
of
Stamford
was
in
Herefordshire
,
in
October
1642.
and
pillaged
all
that
kept
Faith
and
Allegeance
to
the
King
,
information
was
given
to
Mistris
Swift
,
Wife
of
Mr.
Thomas
Swift
Parson
of
Goodwich
,
that
her
House
was
designed
to
be
plundered
:
To
prevent
so
great
a
danger
,
she
instantly
repaired
to
Hereford
where
the
Earl
then
was
,
some
ten
miles
from
her
own
home
,
to
Petition
him
,
that
no
violence
might
be
offered
by
his
Soldiers
to
her
House
or
Goods
:
He
most
nobly
,
and
according
to
the
goodness
of
his
Disposition
,
threw
the
Petition
away
,
and
swore
no
small
Oaths
,
That
she
should
be
plundered
to
morrow
.
The
good
Gentlewoman
,
being
out
of
hope
to
prevail
,
and
seeing
there
was
no
good
to
be
done
by
Petitioning
him
,
speeds
home
as
fast
as
she
could
,
and
that
Night
removed
as
much
of
her
Goods
,
as
the
shortness
of
the
time
would
permit
:
next
Morning
,
to
make
good
the
Earl
of
Stamfords
word
,
Captain
Kirle's
Troop
,
consisting
of
seventy
Horse
,
and
thirty
Foot
which
were
hangers
on
,
(
Birds
of
prey
)
came
to
Mr.
Swifts
house
;
there
they
took
away
all
his
provision
of
Victuals
,
Corn
,
Houshold-stuff
,
which
was
not
conveyed
away
:
they
empty
his
Beds
,
and
fill
the
Ticks
with
Malt
;
they
rob
him
of
his
Cart
and
six
Horses
,
and
make
this
part
of
their
Theft
the
means
to
convey
away
the
rest
:
Mistris
Swift
much
affrighted
to
see
such
a
sight
as
this
,
thought
it
best
to
save
her self
though
she
lost
her
Goods
;
therefore
taking
up
a
young
Child
in
her
arms
,
began
to
secure
her self
by
flight
;
which
one
of
the
Troopers
perceiving
,
he
commanded
her
to
stay
,
or
(
holding
his
Pistol
at
her
Breast
)
threatned
to
shoot
her
dead
:
she
(
good
woman
)
fearing
death
whether
she
went
on
or
returned
;
at
last
,
shunning
that
death
which
was
next
unto
her
,
she
retires
back
to
her
House
,
where
she
saw
her self
undone
,
and
yet
durst
not
oppose
or
ask
why
they
did
so
?
having
thus
rifled
the
House
,
and
gone
,
next
morning
early
she
goes
again
to
Hereford
,
and
there
again
Petitions
the
Earl
to
shew
some
compassion
on
her
and
her
ten
Children
,
and
that
he
would
be
pleased
to
cause
her
Horses
and
some
part
of
her
Goods
to
be
restored
unto
her
:
the
good
Earl
was
so
far
from
granting
her
Petition
,
that
he
would
not
vouch-safe
so
much
as
to
read
it
:
when
she
could
not
prevail
her self
,
she
makes
use
of
the
mediation
of
Friends
:
these
have
the
repulse
too
,
his
Lordship
remaining
inexorable
without
any
inclination
to
mercy
:
at
last
,
hoping
that
all
mens
hearts
were
not
Adamant
,
relentless
,
she
leaves
the
Earl
,
and
makes
her
Address
to
Captain
Kirle
,
who
,
upon
her
earnest
intreaty
,
grants
her
a
Protection
for
what
was
left
,
but
for
restitution
,
there
was
no
hope
of
that
;
this
Protection
cost
her
no
less
than
thirty
shillings
:
It
seems
Paper
and
Ink
are
dear
in
those
parts
.
And
now
thinking
her self
secured
by
this
Protection
,
she
returns
home
,
in
hope
that
what
was
left
she
might
injoy
in
peace
and
quietness
:
She
had
not
been
long
at
home
,
but
Captain
Kirle
sends
her
word
,
that
if
it
pleased
her
,
she
might
buy
four
of
her
own
six
horses
again
,
assuring
her
by
his
Fathers
Servant
and
Tenant
,
that
she
should
not
fear
being
Plundered
of
them
any
more
by
the
Earl
of
Stamfords
Forces
while
they
were
in
those
parts
.
Encouraged
by
these
promises
,
she
was
content
to
buy
her
own
,
and
deposited
eight
pound
ten
shillings
for
four
of
her
Horses
.
And
now
conceiving
the
Storm
to
be
blown
over
,
and
all
danger
past
,
and
placing
much
confidence
in
her
purchas'd
protection
,
she
causeth
all
her
Goods
,
secured
in
her
Neighbors
Houses
,
to
be
brought
home
;
and
since
it
could
not
be
better
,
rejoiced
that
she
had
not
lost
all
.
She
had
not
injoyed
these
thoughts
long
,
but
Captain
Kirle
sent
unto
her
for
some
Vessels
of
Cyder
,
whereof
having
tasted
,
but
not
liking
it
,
since
he
could
not
have
Drink
for
himself
,
he
would
have
Provender
for
his
Horse
;
and
therefore
instead
of
Cyder
,
he
demands
ten
Bushels
of
Oats
.
Mistris
Swift
fearing
that
the
denial
might
give
some
ground
of
a
Quarrel
,
sent
him
word
,
that
her
Husband
had
not
two
Bushels
of
Oats
in
a
year
for
Tythe
,
nor
did
they
sow
any
on
their
Gleab
:
both
which
were
most
true
:
yet
to
shew
how
willing
she
was
(
to
her
power
)
to
comply
with
him
,
that
the
Messenger
might
not
return
empty
,
she
sent
him
forty
shillings
to
buy
Oats
.
Suddenly
after
,
the
Captain
of
Goodrige
Castle
,
sends
to
Mr.
Swifts
house
for
Victual
and
Corn
;
Mistris
Swift
instantly
repairs
to
him
,
and
shews
him
her
Protection
:
He
,
to
answer
shew
with
shew
,
shews
her
his
Warrant
,
and
so
without
any
regard
to
her
Protection
,
seizeth
upon
that
Provision
which
was
in
the
House
,
together
with
the
Cyder
which
Captain
Kirle
refused
.
Hereupon
Mistris
Swift
writes
to
Captain
Kirle
,
complaining
of
this
Injury
,
and
the
Affront
done
to
him
in
slighting
his
Protection
:
But
before
the
Messenger
could
return
with
an
Answer
to
her
Letter
,
some
from
the
Castle
come
a
second
time
to
plunder
the
House
,
and
they
did
what
they
came
for
:
Presently
after
comes
a
Letter
from
Captain
Kirle
in
Answer
to
Mistris
Swifts
,
telling
her
,
That
the
Earl
of
Stamford
did
by
no
means
approve
of
the
Injuries
done
unto
her
;
and
withal
,
by
word
of
mouth
,
sends
to
her
for
more
Oats
:
She
perceiving
,
that
as
long
as
she
gave
,
they
would
never
leave
asking
,
resolved
to
be
drill'd
no
more
:
the
Return
not
answering
Expectation
;
on
the
third
of
December
,
two
hours
before
day
,
Captain
Kirles
Lieutenant
,
attended
by
a
considerable
number
of
Horse
and
Dragoons
,
comes
to
M.
Swifts
House
and
demands
entrance
;
but
the
doors
being
kept
shut
against
them
,
and
not
able
to
force
them
,
they
broke
down
two
Iron
Bars
in
a
Stone
Window
,
and
so
with
Swords
drawn
and
Pistols
cocked
,
they
enter
the
House
.
Being
entred
,
they
take
all
Master
Swift
and
his
Wives
Apparel
,
his
Books
and
his
Childrens
cloaths
,
they
being
in
Bed
;
and
those
poor
Children
that
hung
by
their
Cloaths
,
unwilling
to
part
with
them
,
they
swung
them
about
,
until
(
their
hold-fast
failing
)
they
dashed
them
against
the
Walls
.
They
took
away
all
his
Servants
cloaths
,
and
made
so
clean
work
with
one
,
that
they
left
him
not
a
Shirt
to
cover
his
Nakedness
.
There
was
one
of
the
Children
,
an
Infant
lying
in
the
Cradle
,
they
rob'd
that
,
and
left
not
the
little
poor
Soul
a
rag
to
defend
it
from
the
cold
.
They
took
away
all
the
Iron
,
Pewter
and
Brass
,
and
a
very
fair
Cup-board
of
Glasses
,
which
they
could
not
carry
away
,
they
broke
to
pieces
:
and
the
four
Horses
lately
redeemed
,
are
with
them
lawful
prize
again
,
and
left
nothing
of
all
the
Goods
but
a
few
stools
for
his
Wife
,
Children
and
Servants
,
to
fit
down
and
bemoan
their
distressed
Condition
.
Having
taken
away
all
,
and
being
gone
,
Mistris
Swift
,
in
compassion
to
her
poor
Infant
in
the
Cradle
,
took
it
up
almost
starved
with
cold
,
and
wrapped
it
in
a
Petty-coat
which
she
took
off
from
her self
:
and
now
hoped
,
that
having
nothing
to
lose
would
be
a
better
protection
for
their
Persons
,
than
that
which
she
purchased
of
Captain
Kirle
for
thirty
shillings
.
But
as
if
Jobs
Messenger
would
never
make
an
end
,
her
three
Maid-servants
,
whom
they
of
the
Castle
had
compelled
to
carry
the
Poultry
to
the
Castle
,
return
and
tell
their
Mistris
,
that
they
in
the
Castle
said
,
That
they
had
a
Warrant
to
seize
upon
Mistris
Swift
,
and
bring
her
into
the
Castle
;
and
that
they
would
make
her
three
Maid-servants
wait
on
her
there
,
threatning
to
plunder
all
under
the
Petty-coat
;
and
other
uncivil
immodest
words
,
not
fit
for
them
to
speak
,
or
me
to
write
.
Hereupon
Mistris
Swift
fled
to
the
place
where
her
Husband
,
for
fear
of
the
Rebels
,
had
withdrawn
himself
:
She
had
not
been
gone
two
hours
,
but
they
come
from
the
Castle
,
and
bring
with
them
three
Teems
,
to
carry
away
what
was
before
designed
for
Plunder
,
but
wanted
means
of
conveyance
.
When
they
came
,
amongst
other
things
,
there
was
a
Batch
of
Bread
hot
in
the
Oven
,
this
they
seize
on
,
Ten
Children
on
their
knees
intreat
but
for
one
Loaf
,
and
at
last
with
much
importunity
obtained
it
:
but
before
the
children
had
eaten
it
,
they
took
even
that
one
Loaf
away
,
and
left
them
destitute
of
a
morsel
of
Bread
amongst
ten
Children
.
Ransacking
every
corner
of
the
house
,
that
nothing
might
be
left
behind
,
they
find
a
small
Pewter
dish
,
in
which
the
dry
Nurse
had
put
Pap
to
feed
the
poor
Infant
,
the
Mother
which
gave
it
suck
being
fled
to
save
her
Life
,
this
they
seize
on
too
.
The
Nurse
intreats
,
for
Gods
sake
,
that
they
would
spare
that
,
pleading
,
that
in
the
Mothers
absence
it
was
all
the
sustenance
which
was
or
could
be
provided
to
sustain
the
life
of
the
Child
,
and
on
her
knees
intreated
to
shew
mercy
unto
the
Child
,
that
knew
not
the
right
hand
from
the
left
,
a
motive
which
prevailed
with
God
himself
,
though
justly
incensed
against
Nineveh
.
But
to
shew
what
Bowels
of
Compassion
and
Mercy
are
to
be
expected
in
Sectaries
,
and
how
far
they
are
from
being
Disciples
to
him
who
says
,
Be
ye
merciful
,
as
your
Father
which
is
in
heaven
is
merciful
.
They
transgress
that
precept
of
our
Saviour
in
the
Letter
,
and
take
away
the
Childrens
meat
and
give
it
unto
dogs
;
for
throwing
the
Pap
to
the
dogs
,
they
put
up
the
dish
as
lawful
prize
.
Master
Swifts
eldest
son
,
a
youth
,
seeing
this
barbarous
cruelty
,
demanded
of
them
a
reason
of
this
so
hard
usage
:
they
replyed
,
That
his
Father
was
a
Traitor
to
the
King
and
Parliament
,
and
added
,
that
they
would
keep
them
so
short
,
that
they
should
eat
the
very
Flesh
from
their
Arms
;
and
to
make
good
their
word
,
they
threaten
the
Miller
,
that
if
he
ground
any
Corn
for
these
Children
,
they
would
grind
him
in
his
own
Mill
;
and
not
contented
with
this
,
they
go
to
Mr.
Swifts
next
Neighbour
(
whose
daughter
was
his
Servant
)
and
take
him
Prisoner
,
they
examine
him
upon
oath
what
goods
of
Mr.
Swifts
he
had
in
his
custody
,
he
professing
that
he
had
none
,
they
charge
him
to
take
his
daughter
away
from
Mr.
Swifts
service
,
or
else
they
threaten
to
Plunder
him
,
and
to
make
sure
work
they
make
him
give
them
security
to
obey
all
their
commands
:
terrified
with
this
,
the
Neighbours
stand
afar
off
,
and
pity
the
distressed
Condition
of
these
persecuted
Children
,
but
dare
not
come
or
send
to
their
relief
:
by
this
means
the
Children
and
Servants
had
no
sustenance
,
hardly
any
thing
to
cover
them
,
from
Friday
six
a
clock
at
night
,
until
Saturday
twelve
at
night
,
until
at
last
the
Neighbours
moved
with
the
lamentable
cryes
and
complaints
of
the
Children
and
Servants
,
one
of
the
Neighbours
over-looking
all
difficulties
,
and
shewing
that
he
durst
be
charitable
in
despite
of
these
Monsters
,
ventured
in
and
brought
them
some
provision
.
And
if
the
World
would
know
what
it
was
that
so
exasperated
these
Rebels
against
this
Gentleman
,
the
Earl
of
Stamford
,
a
man
that
is
not
bound
to
give
an
account
of
all
his
actions
,
gave
two
reasons
for
it
,
First
,
because
he
had
bought
arms
and
conveyed
them
into
Monmouth-shire
,
which
under
his
Lordships
good
favour
was
not
so
;
and
secondly
,
because
not
before
,
he
preached
a
Sermon
in
Rosse
upon
that
Text
,
Give
unto
Caesar
the
things
that
are
Caesars
,
in
which
his
Lordship
said
,
he
had
spoken
Treason
in
endeavouring
to
give
Caesar
more
than
his
due
:
these
two
Crimes
cost
Mr.
Swift
no
less
than
300
l.
About
Feb.
1642.
the
Duke
of
Vendosme
being
to
return
home
into
France
,
but
resolving
first
to
take
his
leave
of
the
King
at
Oxford
,
obtained
a
Pass
from
the
close
Committee
,
that
he
might
be
free
from
any
let
or
molestation
in
his
journey
,
but
notwithstanding
this
Pass
,
in
his
return
from
Oxford
he
was
searched
and
plundered
at
Uxbridge
,
by
that
worthy
Knight
Sir
Samuel
Luke
,
who
was
sent
by
his
Excellency
from
Windsor
,
with
a
Troop
of
Horse
for
that
purpose
,
That
France
by
experience
might
know
that
Thieves
rob
as
confidently
in
the
Towns
of
England
,
as
in
the
woods
of
Ardenna
,
or
any
Forrest
in
France
.
About
December
1642.
the
Collonels
Waller
,
Brown
,
and
others
marching
from
Ailesbury
to
Windsor
,
and
thence
by
Newbury
to
Winchester
,
their
Soldiers
in
the
March
Plundered
every
Minister
within
five
miles
of
the
Road
,
without
distinction
whether
of
their
own
party
,
or
of
the
other
,
whether
they
subscribed
for
Episcopacy
,
Presbytery
,
or
Independency
,
whether
they
wore
a
Surpless
,
or
refused
it
;
only
if
they
did
not
,
they
afforded
them
the
less
booty
.
Those
that
were
Confiders
,
whose
Irregularity
,
and
Non-Conformity
,
armed
them
with
confidence
to
appear
,
Petitioned
the
House
of
Commons
for
Relief
and
satisfaction
:
it
being
taken
into
Consideration
that
this
was
not
according
to
their
new
Phrase
to
weaken
the
wicked
,
but
the
Righteous
and
such
who
stood
well
affected
to
the
Parliament
:
hereupon
slandering
the
Cavaliers
,
with
the
fact
which
their
own
Soldiers
had
done
,
and
to
make
the
foolish
Citizens
bleed
free
,
there
was
an
Order
drawn
up
and
published
,
That
in
regard
the
Petitioners
were
well-affected
men
,
and
Plundered
by
the
Cavaliers
,
that
there
should
be
a
general
Collection
made
for
them
the
next
Fast-day
,
and
that
the
Preachers
should
exhort
the
People
,
and
pray
to
God
to
enlarge
the
Peoples
hearts
,
bountifully
to
relieve
the
Petitioners
.
But
Winchester
being
surprized
,
and
the
Lord
Grandison
taken
Prisoner
,
Collonel
Brown
in
a
Letter
to
famous
Isaac
Pennington
,
magnifies
the
Victory
,
and
inlarged
the
glory
of
it
very
much
by
that
Circumstance
of
taking
that
Noble
Lord
Prisoner
;
but
which
did
much
eclipse
the
honor
obtained
that
day
,
in
the
Letter
he
adds
,
that
by
the
Treachery
of
Colonel
Urrey
,
he
was
escaped
:
little
Isaac
had
hardly
so
much
patience
,
as
to
read
out
the
Letter
,
but
he
summons
his
Mirmidons
,
and
gives
an
Alarm
to
his
Red-coats
,
the
Messengers
of
his
Fury
,
and
sends
them
instantly
to
plunder
Mistris
Urries
Lodging
:
it
was
no
sooner
said
than
done
,
they
being
as
swift
to
act
mischief
as
Isaac
was
ready
to
command
it
;
what
they
had
in
charge
they
perform
faithfully
,
and
Plunder
her
of
no
more
but
all
.
Mistris
Urrey
presently
gives
notice
to
her
Husband
what
measure
she
found
in
the
City
,
while
he
was
in
their
Service
in
the
Country
:
the
Colonel
,
upon
the
Information
hastens
to
London
,
to
expostulate
for
this
Injury
,
and
for
redress
,
complains
to
the
House
against
the
Ring-leader
Brown
,
and
Rout-master
little
Isaac
:
upon
hearing
both
Parties
,
the
House
quits
Colonel
Urrey
from
any
conspiracy
with
my
Lord
Grandison
,
or
connivance
at
his
escape
:
and
for
reparation
of
his
Losses
,
they
order
him
400
l.
to
be
paid
him
out
of
the
Monies
collected
the
last
Fast-day
for
the
Plundered
Ministers
,
who
by
this
means
were
Plundered
twice
:
and
so
one
Order
begetting
another
,
they
Order
,
That
a
new
Collection
shall
be
made
for
the
Petitioners
the
next
Fast-day
:
nor
was
this
the
first
Debt
by
many
that
have
been
paid
by
the
abused
Charity
of
London
,
the
great
Tax-bearing
Mule
,
as
one
justly
calls
it
.
There
is
one
Beale
dwelling
at
Hasely
(
as
I
take
it
)
in
Oxfordshire
:
a
Man
much
devoted
to
the
Proceedings
of
the
two
Houses
of
Parliament
,
yet
it
was
his
chance
to
fall
into
their
hands
who
weaken
the
wicked
:
some
of
the
Rebels
under
the
command
of
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
Plundered
him
of
two
Horses
:
upon
complaint
made
unto
the
Earl
,
he
gives
Beale
command
to
attend
him
at
Tame
,
and
there
he
should
have
them
again
:
according
to
the
directions
given
him
by
the
Earl
(
accompanied
by
his
Brother
)
he
comes
to
Tame
,
hoping
to
have
his
Horses
restored
;
being
come
thither
,
Beale
is
apprehended
and
committed
to
Prison
;
and
his
Horse
,
together
with
that
which
his
Brother
rode
on
,
are
both
seized
for
the
Earls
use
;
nor
can
either
Man
or
Horse
be
released
,
unless
he
will
pay
down
twenty
pound
in
ready
mony
:
Having
continued
in
Prison
four
days
,
at
last
his
Mother
(
for
fear
if
she
had
rode
she
might
have
been
Prisoner
for
her
Horses
sake
,
as
her
Son
was
)
comes
to
Tame
on
foot
,
and
brings
twenty
pound
with
her
to
redeem
her
Son
out
of
Prison
;
upon
receipt
of
the
Money
,
being
a
Debt
so
justly
due
and
so
truly
paid
,
his
Excellency
released
him
out
of
his
Imprisonment
,
and
restored
him
the
two
worst
Horses
of
the
four
,
and
wisely
kept
the
two
best
for
himself
,
which
with
a
very
little
help
,
may
serve
to
explain
the
mystery
of
his
Motto
,
CAVE
ADSUM
,
i.e.
where
I
come
,
look
well
to
your
Money
and
Horses
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
IX
.
Master
Jones
Vicar
of
Wellingborow
,
starved
to
death
in
Prison
at
Northampton
.
A
Barber
and
a
Maid-servant
Murdered
by
the
Rebels
at
Wellingborow
.
Captain
Ven
his
abuse
of
Windsor-Castle
,
and
his
barbarous
usage
of
Prisoners
there
,
&c.
WHen
I
first
entred
on
this
Work
,
it
was
a
promise
solemnly
made
,
not
to
abuse
the
World
with
Falshoods
or
Uncertainties
,
but
to
use
all
Candour
and
Ingenuity
:
and
if
any
thing
should
chance
to
pass
,
which
upon
better
information
should
appear
false
,
I
should
not
blush
to
make
a
free
and
an
ingenuous
acknowledgment
.
In
these
several
Relations
what
to
retract
or
recal
of
the
Rebels
Cruelties
,
I
yet
know
nothing
,
but
what
to
add
unto
them
I
do
.
The
sixth
Weeks
Mercury
told
you
of
the
Plundering
of
Wellingborow
in
Northampton-shire
by
the
Rebels
,
and
the
taking
of
Mr.
Jones
Vicar
of
that
Town
,
Prisoner
;
and
in
that
account
which
I
there
gave
of
him
,
I
left
him
in
Captivity
at
Northampton
:
since
that
Mercury
went
abroad
,
some
good
Body
finding
that
Relation
to
come
far
short
of
that
barbarous
usage
which
Mr.
Jones
found
from
the
Rebels
,
moved
either
with
detestation
of
such
inhumane
Cruelty
,
not
to
be
buryed
in
Oblivion
,
or
out
of
affection
to
his
Person
murdered
by
these
savage
Monsters
,
hath
supplied
the
former
defect
,
and
enabled
me
to
bring
this
Story
to
its
sad
conclusion
-
Master
Jones
was
a
man
very
aged
,
being
arrived
at
that
Term
which
Moses
made
the
usual
boundary
of
mans
life
in
his
time
,
Threescore
and
ten
;
and
had
not
these
blood-thirsty
men
shortned
his
dayes
by
an
untimely
death
,
he
might
have
been
so
strong
as
to
come
to
fourscore
years
:
And
though
age
it self
be
a
disease
(
which
yet
few
men
that
have
it
are
willing
to
be
cured
of
)
it
pleased
God
to
add
a
casual
infirmity
to
his
natural
;
for
some
two
years
since
by
a
fall
he
unhappily
broke
his
leg
,
of
which
he
continued
lame
to
his
death
.
When
the
Rebels
,
those
Locusts
that
devour
all
the
good
things
of
the
Land
,
came
to
Wellingborow
,
having
ransacked
the
Town
,
they
took
many
Prisoners
,
and
amongst
the
rest
Master
Jones
:
all
that
knew
him
must
bear
him
record
,
that
he
was
a
man
of
a
most
unblamable
life
and
conversation
,
an
able
Scholar
,
and
extraordinarily
gifted
for
Preaching
,
of
which
he
gave
ample
proof
by
his
Labours
diligently
bestowed
among
his
Parishoners
by
the
space
of
Forty
years
:
having
him
in
their
power
whom
they
knew
to
be
a
great
means
by
his
Orthodox
Preaching
to
keep
that
Town
,
and
some
parts
thereabouts
in
obedience
,
when
the
rest
of
the
Country
were
in
Rebellion
against
their
Sovereign
,
they
neither
reverence
his
calling
,
nor
honour
his
age
,
nor
pity
his
infirmity
,
but
abuse
him
by
scoffs
and
jeers
,
and
compel
him
to
go
on
foot
a
great
part
of
the
way
(
lame
and
weak
as
he
was
)
between
Wellingborow
and
Northampton
:
and
that
he
might
keep
pace
with
the
rest
,
they
compel
him
to
make
more
speed
than
his
infirmity
could
brook
.
At
Wellingborow
the
Rebels
murthered
a
Barber
and
stole
away
his
Bear
;
and
when
they
could
not
force
this
reverend
old
man
to
mend
his
pace
,
Lieutenant
Grimes
(
a
desperate
Brownist
,
the
Master
of
this
misrule
,
and
the
chief
agent
in
inflicting
all
this
scorn
and
tyranny
on
Master
Jones
,
but
since
a
Prisoner
in
Banbury
Castle
)
to
see
if
fear
would
add
to
his
strength
,
forceth
the
Bear
upon
him
,
which
running
between
his
legs
,
took
him
upon
her
back
,
and
laying
aside
the
untractableness
of
its
Nature
,
grew
patient
of
her
burthen
;
and
to
the
astonishment
of
the
beholders
carried
him
quietly
,
so
that
what
was
intended
as
a
violence
,
became
his
ease
.
The
Rebels
overcome
by
so
unusual
an
example
of
kindness
,
the
savage
Bear
reproving
the
madness
of
their
fury
,
they
remove
Master
Jones
from
off
the
Bear
to
a
Horse
,
but
such
a
Horse
as
did
but
vary
,
not
better
the
condition
of
his
Transportation
.
One
of
the
rout
observed
to
be
extreamly
active
in
all
these
insolencies
,
and
to
have
a
hand
in
murthering
the
Barber
,
seing
the
tameness
of
the
Bear
,
as
quiet
under
Master
Jones
,
as
if
she
had
been
accustomed
to
the
Saddle
,
presumes
that
it
was
no
more
but
up
and
ride
,
and
presently
bestrides
the
Bear
,
who
as
if
she
had
been
of
that
race
that
did
revenge
the
Prophet
Elisha's
quarrel
,
dismounts
the
bold
Rider
,
and
as
if
she
had
been
robbed
of
her
Whelps
,
did
so
mangle
,
rend
,
and
tear
him
with
her
teeth
and
pawes
,
that
the
presumptuous
Wretch
died
of
these
hurts
suddenly
after
.
Stay
,
Reader
,
suspend
thy
opinion
,
be
not
too
hasty
,
I
profess
ingenuously
the
relation
seems
at
first
blush
to
partake
something
of
the
Romanse
,
or
at
best
to
be
but
an
imitation
of
some
Popish
Legend
,
as
if
we
meant
to
implore
the
help
of
feigned
miracles
to
gain
credit
to
a
party
:
but
against
all
this
prejudice
I
must
oppose
,
first
,
the
integrity
and
quality
of
the
Relator
,
being
beyond
all
exception
,
and
affirms
it
on
his
credit
.
Secondly
,
why
may
not
God
stop
and
open
the
mouth
of
the
Bear
now
as
well
as
the
Lions
heretofore
?
or
revenge
the
indignities
offered
to
a
Minister
under
the
Gospel
,
by
the
same
creature
,
as
those
offered
to
a
Prophet
under
the
Law
?
Or
lastly
,
why
may
not
the
blood
of
him
that
owned
this
Beast
,
be
required
by
this
Beast
of
him
that
had
his
hand
in
shedding
it
?
This
was
not
the
first
time
that
God
gave
commission
to
the
Brute
to
execute
his
vengeance
.
But
I
forget
my self
;
my
business
is
to
relate
things
done
,
not
to
encounter
Objections
against
their
probability
of
doing
.
To
go
on
therefore
.
Having
brought
Mr.
Jones
to
Northampton
,
his
entertainment
there
was
as
bad
as
his
usage
in
the
way
thither
;
though
it
were
in
the
depth
of
Winter
,
when
old
age
needed
good
fortifications
of
Lodging
and
Diet
against
the
incursions
of
cold
and
wet
,
yet
they
afforded
him
nothing
but
a
hard
mat
,
with
a
little
straw
under
him
,
and
to
cover
him
and
to
keep
him
warm
nothing
but
one
blanket
,
and
his
own
wearing
cloaths
:
As
for
his
food
,
they
give
him
the
Bread
of
Affliction
,
denying
his
own
friends
leave
to
supply
him
with
competent
diet
,
to
sustein
nature
,
and
his
growing
infirmities
:
yet
to
shew
that
Man
lives
not
by
bread
only
,
but
by
every
word
which
proceedeth
out
of
the
mouth
of
God
,
it
pleased
his
good
providence
to
preserve
him
like
the
young
Children
in
Daniel
,
fed
only
with
Pulse
,
so
that
he
was
in
good
plight
,
and
semed
to
want
nothing
,
though
he
continued
in
this
distressed
condition
from
Christmas
to
almost
Easter
:
about
which
time
,
not
remorse
of
conscience
for
so
much
cruelty
practised
on
a
decrepid
old
man
,
(
but
an
Orthodox
Reverend
Divine
)
but
importunity
of
friends
,
prevailed
with
the
Rebels
to
release
him
of
his
imprisonment
in
Northampton
,
and
to
remit
him
to
a
neighbour
Minister
of
his
,
one
Mr.
Walters
,
Bachelor
in
Divinity
,
Vicar
of
Doddington
near
Wellingborow
,
a
very
learned
and
industrious
Preacher
,
and
permitted
him
to
Officiate
in
his
own
Cure
at
Easter
,
there
being
but
one
Parish
Church
in
the
Town
,
but
no
less
than
two
thousand
Communicants
.
Having
licence
to
visit
his
Charge
,
not
awed
by
that
tyrannous
usage
which
he
had
undergone
,
Conscience
of
his
duty
doth
press
him
to
a
punctual
observance
of
the
Orders
and
Canons
of
the
Church
:
he
celebrates
Divine
Service
according
to
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
;
preacheth
Obedience
as
boldly
as
if
there
had
been
no
Rebels
in
Northamptonshire
,
administreth
the
Sacraments
with
the
same
Reverence
,
Decency
and
Devotion
,
as
if
there
had
been
no
Puritans
in
Wellingborow
.
Nor
doth
the
undaunted
old
man
remit
any
thing
enjoyned
by
Canon
or
Rubrick
.
This
constancy
of
his
so
incensed
the
Schismatical
Puritanical
Party
of
the
Town
,
that
complaint
is
made
at
Northampton
,
that
Mr.
Jones
is
the
same
man
he
was
,
as
much
a
true
Son
and
Minister
of
the
Church
of
England
as
ever
.
Upon
this
information
,
he
is
apprehended
in
Easter
week
,
and
carried
Prisoner
to
Northampton
a
second
time
,
where
they
use
him
with
more
inhumanity
(
if
it
be
possible
)
than
before
;
they
will
not
permit
his
Wife
to
visit
him
and
kept
him
so
short
in
his
diet
,
not
suffering
his
Wife
or
friends
to
relieve
him
,
that
most
barbarously
they
starved
him
to
death
,
for
about
Whitsontide
his
spirits
exhausted
,
and
his
body
pined
by
famine
,
the
good
old
Martyr
resigned
his
Soul
to
God
.
There
is
in
Northampton
one
John
Gifford
,
for
his
extraction
the
Hog-herds
Son
of
Little-Hougton
,
for
his
education
,
a
Knitter
,
afterwards
a
Hose-buyer
,
now
Mayor
of
Northampton
,
and
Colonel
of
the
Town
Regiment
.
This
man
to
his
power
Civil
and
Martial
assumes
an
Ecclesiastical
Superintendency
too
,
and
orders
what
forms
shall
be
used
in
Baptism
,
the
Lords
Supper
,
Burial
of
the
Dead
,
and
the
like
:
When
therefore
they
came
to
interr
the
skin
and
bones
of
this
starved
Martyr
,
for
flesh
he
had
none
,
the
form
enjoyned
by
this
Gifford
was
the
same
which
one
Brooks
,
a
London
Lecturer
,
used
at
the
burial
of
John
Gough
of
S.
James
Dukes
Place
within
Aldgate
in
London
,
viz.
Ashes
to
Ashes
,
Dust
to
Dust
;
Here
's
the
Pit
,
and
in
thou
must
.
The
World
may
in
this
see
what
devout
Liturgies
we
are
like
to
have
,
when
a
Mayor
of
a
Town
shall
suppress
the
Ancient
pious
forms
,
and
introduce
rime
Doggerels
,
fitter
for
a
painted
Cloth
in
an
Alehouse
,
than
the
Church
of
Christ
.
Before
I
leave
this
particular
Relation
,
I
must
not
forget
to
tell
you
one
act
of
these
Religious
Reformers
:
being
at
Willingborow
at
the
Sign
of
the
Swan
,
two
maid
Servants
making
a
bed
,
some
of
these
Rebels
did
sollicite
them
to
incontinency
,
but
the
Maids
refusing
to
hearken
to
their
beastly
sollicitations
,
they
began
to
offer
violence
,
and
to
enforce
what
they
could
not
perswade
,
they
still
making
resistance
,
they
shot
one
of
them
dead
in
the
place
,
and
shot
the
other
through
the
wrist
:
such
Monuments
of
Religion
and
Purity
do
these
blessed
Reformers
leave
at
all
places
where
they
come
.
Mr.
Frederick
Gibb
Parson
of
Hartist
in
Suffolke
,
in
Morning
Prayer
before
his
Sermon
,
desired
his
Parishoners
to
give
attention
to
one
of
His
Majesties
Declarations
newly
set
forth
,
with
an
express
Command
to
have
it
published
in
all
Parish
Churches
,
thereby
to
rectifie
the
People
,
and
to
wipe
off
those
false
Impressions
which
the
Incendiaries
of
the
Kingdom
had
made
in
them
concerning
the
Kings
Actions
and
Intentions
:
whereupon
one
Mr.
Coleman
a
Parishioner
being
present
,
impudently
replied
unto
him
,
openly
in
the
Church
,
that
he
might
be
ashamed
to
abuse
the
People
by
Reading
his
Majesties
Declarations
unto
them
,
and
therefore
he
would
fetch
him
some
Parliament
Declarations
which
were
a
great
deal
better
to
be
published
unto
them
;
while
this
railing
Rabshekeh
reviled
his
Sovereign
,
Mr.
Gibb
as
if
he
had
received
the
Command
in
that
case
given
,
answer
him
not
,
made
no
reply
at
all
,
but
as
not
heeding
this
snarler
,
calls
on
the
Congregation
a
second
time
to
give
attention
,
Coleman
interrupts
him
again
,
and
in
a
scoffing
manner
saies
,
Well
then
Sir
,
you
mean
to
be
an
obedient
Servant
to
his
Majesty
,
Mr.
Gibb
then
thinking
it
not
only
seasonable
but
necessary
to
profess
his
Loyalty
,
replied
,
Yes
,
Sir
,
I
am
and
hope
to
continue
a
faithful
Servant
unto
Him
as
long
as
I
live
:
and
so
proceeds
to
read
the
Declaration
;
the
People
notwithstanding
all
this
Incouragement
from
Coleman
to
contradict
with
them
,
standing
very
attentive
to
hear
it
:
The
main
drift
of
the
Kings
Declaration
was
to
assure
all
His
loving
Subjects
,
That
as
He
expected
that
they
should
make
the
Laws
the
rule
of
their
obedience
,
so
He
would
make
the
Laws
the
guide
of
His
Government
:
Mr.
Gibb
having
published
the
Declaration
,
Coleman
stands
up
and
most
Traitorously
replied
to
his
Parson
,
Well
,
Sir
,
the
King
neither
is
nor
shall
be
Judge
of
the
Law
,
whatever
such
prating
fellows
as
you
would
have
him
:
after
this
being
inraged
(
as
the
rest
of
that
Faction
are
)
that
the
Peoples
eyes
should
be
opened
,
or
that
they
should
,
being
truly
informed
,
conceive
of
the
King
as
he
is
,
a
most
just
and
pious
Prince
,
but
still
to
look
on
him
and
all
his
actions
through
those
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
Table
.
A
Servant
of
Mr.
Chaldwells
standing
by
,
unwilling
to
lose
any
thing
,
if
it
might
be
saved
,
takes
hold
on
the
Linnen
too
,
and
intreats
the
Troopers
to
spare
it
:
Presently
some
cry
out
Shoot
him
,
which
was
no
sooner
said
than
done
,
for
one
dscharging
a
Pistol
at
him
,
shot
a
Bullet
into
his
heart
,
and
the
top
of
his
scouring-stick
into
his
Body
near
it
.
The
poor
man
instantly
fell
down
dead
,
hardly
by
any
motion
expressing
the
fare-well
of
life
:
While
most
stood
amazed
at
so
barbarous
an
act
,
some
make
towards
him
,
thinking
to
help
him
,
but
were
forbid
by
these
bloody
Villains
to
come
near
him
,
who
were
so
far
from
remorse
for
what
they
had
done
,
that
tomurther
they
added
Theft
,
diving
into
the
Pockets
of
him
whom
they
had
thus
murthered
,
and
robbing
him
of
his
moneys
:
Nay
his
Wife
whom
they
had
murthered
,
hearing
of
this
sad
accident
,
being
great
with
child
,
came
to
see
her
dead
Husband
,
but
was
not
permitted
to
come
near
him
,
being
threatned
by
these
Troopers
,
that
if
she
came
near
him
,
they
would
do
unto
her
as
they
had
done
unto
her
Husband
,
shoot
her
dead
.
Having
done
their
pleasure
in
Mr.
Chaldwell's
House
,
they
carry
him
away
Prisoner
to
Lincoln
;
Being
come
thither
,
they
commit
him
to
the
Town
Goal
,
and
lodged
him
there
in
the
common
Keep
amongst
Murtherers
and
Felons
:
The
day
after
the
Lincoln-shire
Rebels
received
the
defeat
before
Newarke
,
by
a
verbal
command
from
the
Earl
of
Lincolne
he
was
removed
from
the
Town
Prison
to
the
Castle
,
in
Lincolne
,
where
he
was
put
into
a
nasty
stinking
place
called
the
Witch-hole
,
and
without
any
regard
to
his
Quality
,
being
a
Gentleman
of
prime
note
in
his
Country
,
or
to
his
age
being
an
old
man
,
they
permit
him
to
stay
there
all
night
,
having
no
other
bed
but
the
Ground
,
and
no
other
pillow
but
the
hard
stones
.
The
next
day
they
vouchsafe
him
the
favour
to
let
him
purchase
a
little
and
but
a
very
little
better
accommodation
by
buying
out
some
poor
Prisoners
out
of
their
lodging
:
remaining
there
in
this
disconsolate
condition
,
his
Wife
an
aged
Gentlewoman
came
to
visit
him
,
being
very
willing
to
share
with
him
in
his
Misery
,
as
before
she
had
done
in
his
Prosperity
.
Having
spent
some
time
in
mutual
consolation
,
and
exhorting
one
another
patiently
to
bear
this
unjust
oppression
,
hoping
that
they
might
enjoy
one
anothers
society
,
in
so
mean
a
condition
,
without
the
envy
of
their
oppressors
:
but
even
this
contented
misery
did
not
last
long
,
for
the
next
day
after
the
Rebels
lost
Grantham
by
the
Kings
recovering
that
Town
,
out
of
their
possession
,
the
Governour
of
Lincoln
(
Welden
by
name
)
inraged
,
and
not
knowing
where
to
reek
his
malice
safer
than
on
this
poor
old
Gentleman
,
comes
up
to
the
Castle
,
and
most
imperiously
commands
that
Chaldwell
should
come
before
him
:
the
Messenger
that
was
sent
to
command
his
appearance
,
returned
with
this
answer
,
That
Mr.
Chaldwell
laboured
under
some
indisposition
,
that
he
was
in
bed
,
and
his
Wife
with
him
:
the
Governour
not
satisfied
with
so
reasonable
an
answer
,
snatched
a
cudgel
out
of
a
Soldiers
hand
,
and
swears
that
he
would
make
the
old
rascal
rise
:
in
this
fury
away
he
goes
to
Mr.
Chaldwell's
Chamber
,
and
rushing
in
,
in
a
menacing
way
shakes
his
cudgel
at
him
,
and
holding
it
upon
his
head
,
threatned
to
bastinado
him
if
he
did
not
rise
presently
;
the
good
old
Gentlewoman
his
Wife
,
prognosticating
by
the
rough
message
sent
her
Husband
,
that
there
was
a
storm
coming
,
forsook
her
bed
,
and
stood
by
it
in
her
Night-gown
,
but
bare-legged
,
there
to
interpose
and
plead
for
her
Husband
if
occasion
served
:
and
now
finding
more
inhumanity
than
her
fear
at
first
suggested
,
in
an
humble
manner
she
beseeched
the
Governour
to
use
her
Husband
like
a
Gentleman
,
not
like
a
dog
,
to
be
awed
by
a
cudgel
.
The
Goververnour
impatient
of
any
mediation
,
though
from
a
Wife
,
and
though
backed
with
never
so
much
reason
,
commands
his
Soldiers
to
take
her
away
,
which
they
did
in
so
rude
and
boisterous
a
manner
,
that
they
dragged
her
down
the
Stairs
,
pulled
her
dressing
off
her
head
,
and
at
last
thrust
her
out
of
the
Castle
.
Being
thus
violently
snatched
from
her
dear
Husband
,
and
fearing
he
might
suffer
as
much
violence
within
,
as
she
did
in
being
thrust
out
of
the
Castle
,
she
sits
down
on
a
stone
at
the
Castle-gate
,
where
the
winter
blasts
fann'd
her
gray
hair
,
a
sad
spectacle
to
all
that
passed
by
,
and
knew
who
she
was
.
Many
there
were
that
pitied
her
distress
,
and
would
willingly
have
received
her
into
their
houses
,
but
durst
not
;
't
is
a
Crime
to
shew
mercy
where
the
Rebels
intend
cruelty
.
At
last
having
sate
there
long
,
full
of
tears
and
sorrow
,
baffled
with
cold
winds
and
weather
,
a
sister
of
Mr.
Stutts
the
Apothecary
(
and
the
God
of
mercy
restore
it
an
hundred
fold
into
her
bosome
)
sends
her
a
Petticoat
(
for
they
thrust
her
out
with
no
cloaths
on
but
her
Night-gown
)
to
fence
her
against
the
extremity
of
the
cold
.
But
to
let
this
charitable
Gentlewoman
know
that
the
rewards
of
mercy
are
to
be
expected
in
another
World
,
and
that
here
to
do
good
,
and
for
that
to
suffer
evil
,
is
the
recompence
of
this
World
,
that
very
after-noon
her
Brothers
house
was
plundered
,
and
all
their
Goods
seized
on
,
so
that
they
needed
a
return
of
that
compassion
in
the
evening
which
they
shewed
to
others
in
the
morning
.
Welden
the
Governour
having
compelled
the
good
old
Gentleman
to
rise
out
of
his
bed
,
notwithstanding
his
present
infirmity
,
sends
him
from
his
poor
lodging
which
he
had
lately
purchased
,
to
the
common
Dungeon
,
where
he
had
neither
light
nor
air
but
what
the
Grate
afforded
.
The
place
was
of
such
condition
,
that
there
being
three
Prisoners
with
him
in
the
same
room
,
but
one
of
four
must
lie
down
at
once
,
the
rest
must
stand
:
and
yet
in
this
little
ease
(
as
was
testified
by
a
Letter
under
his
own
hand
)
he
remained
eleven
or
twelve
nights
without
Bed
,
Chair
,
or
Stool
:
and
in
that
time
,
for
four
or
five
nights
,
he
was
not
permitted
to
go
forth
to
do
the
Offices
of
nature
,
a
command
being
given
,
that
if
he
offered
to
stir
forth
they
should
beat
out
his
brains
.
Thus
much
and
divers
other
particulars
were
signified
to
the
Commissioners
at
Newarke
,
when
the
Ammunition
came
from
thence
:
At
which
time
Information
was
given
,
that
Mr.
Chaldwell
was
then
in
a
condition
not
much
better
than
what
you
have
heard
here
related
:
and
whether
their
barbarous
cruelties
and
inhumanity
have
not
set
an
end
to
his
sufferings
by
Death
,
is
uncertain
.
On
Sunday
the
second
of
July
1643.
in
the
afternoon
,
ten
or
twelve
Troopers
under
the
command
of
Captain
Samuel
came
from
Northampton
to
Wedon
Pinkney
in
the
same
County
,
and
coming
thither
in
Prayer-time
,
they
came
into
the
Church
,
one
of
them
being
Horse-keeper
(
as
it
was
reported
)
to
Sir
Richard
Samuel
,
Father
to
the
Captain
,
came
up
to
the
reading
Pew
,
where
Mr.
Losse
Parson
of
that
Parish
was
officiating
Divine
Service
,
and
commanded
him
to
leave
off
his
Pottage
and
to
follow
him
:
Mr.
Losse
intreating
him
in
that
sacred
work
,
but
to
have
patience
until
he
had
finished
what
he
had
began
:
Patience
me
no
patience
(
replied
the
Groom
)
my
business
is
of
greater
importance
than
to
admit
of
any
delay
,
come
away
therefore
,
or
I
will
pull
you
out
by
the
ears
:
thereupon
not
knowing
whose
Soldiers
they
were
,
nor
of
what
consequence
their
business
might
be
,
or
if
he
had
known
both
,
yet
not
able
to
make
resistance
,
he
obeys
his
command
,
and
followed
him
into
the
Church-yard
.
Being
come
thither
,
Mr.
Losse
demands
what
he
would
have
with
him
?
the
Groom
tells
him
,
that
he
must
go
along
with
them
to
Northampton
,
Mr.
Losse
demands
again
,
by
what
authority
,
and
by
vertue
of
what
Commission
?
The
Groom
replies
,
that
he
should
know
that
when
he
came
to
Northampton
.
Mr.
Losse
entreats
that
he
may
be
excused
,
alledging
that
he
had
lost
Twelve
or
Thirteen
Horses
,
taken
from
him
by
the
Parliament
Soldiers
,
and
that
he
had
never
a
Horse
able
to
carry
him
two
miles
out
of
the
Town
:
one
of
the
Troopers
swears
Wounds
and
Blood
,
that
he
would
carry
him
behind
him
,
and
if
that
did
not
like
him
,
he
would
drag
him
along
with
a
halter
at
his
horse
tail
.
Mr.
Losse
abominating
so
great
insolency
from
Grooms
,
boldly
told
them
,
That
he
would
never
be
a
Slave
to
slaves
;
and
so
rushing
from
them
,
took
Sanctuary
in
the
Church
,
and
shut
the
door
upon
him
,
and
perceiving
the
door
on
the
other
side
of
the
Church
open
,
the
People
having
unbarred
it
for
their
speedier
passage
out
,
he
hastens
thither
,
and
tho
he
made
what
speed
he
could
,
he
was
like
to
be
prevented
by
one
of
the
Troopers
who
was
come
about
and
was
ready
to
enter
the
Church
on
horseback
:
which
Mr.
Losse
observing
,
took
up
the
bar
of
the
door
,
and
resolutely
ran
at
the
Trooper
to
unhorse
him
:
This
unexpected
resistance
so
valiantly
made
,
put
the
Trooper
to
a
retreat
,
whereby
Mr.
Losse
gained
time
to
bar
the
door
fast
against
him
.
Having
shut
both
the
Church
doors
upon
himself
,
and
the
remainder
of
the
Congregation
,
some
being
fled
for
fear
;
the
Clerk
at
a
hole
gave
him
the
Key
of
the
Belfrey
:
Mr.
Losse
not
thinking
himself
secure
enough
in
the
Church
,
gets
up
into
the
Belfrey
,
and
locks
the
doors
fast
after
him
;
being
come
to
the
place
where
the
Bells
hang
,
he
discovers
over
head
a
little
hole
,
only
big
enough
for
a
man
to
creep
through
,
and
a
ladder
standing
there
which
led
up
unto
it
,
Mr.
Losse
goes
up
the
ladder
,
and
through
the
hole
gets
upon
the
Leads
,
and
with
great
difficulty
draws
the
Ladder
after
him
,
being
massy
and
very
heavy
;
by
which
means
he
did
not
only
deprive
his
pursuers
of
the
means
to
come
at
him
,
but
with
the
Ladder
laid
over
the
hole
,
baracadoed
the
passage
against
them
:
and
now
being
here
,
had
he
had
any
weapon
to
defend
himself
,
he
had
been
impregnable
.
While
Mr.
Losse
was
up
in
the
Belfrey
securing
of
himself
,
the
Troopers
are
at
the
Church
windows
,
endeavouring
to
wrench
out
the
Iron
bars
,
but
without
any
success
:
at
last
with
their
Pole-axes
and
great
Tombstones
impiously
taken
from
the
Graves
of
the
dead
,
they
break
open
the
Church
doors
;
having
thus
forced
their
entrance
they
ride
into
the
Church
(
not
remembring
they
were
in
Gods
House
)
from
one
end
of
it
to
another
,
spurring
and
switching
their
Horses
purposely
to
endanger
the
People
.
These
barbarous
outrages
did
much
affright
the
People
,
but
especially
Mrs.
Losse
and
her
poor
Children
,
whom
it
most
concerned
,
Mr.
Losse
being
the
only
man
aimed
at
;
Mrs.
Losse
fell
into
a
swoon
in
the
Church
,
and
had
no
shew
of
life
in
her
for
a
long
time
;
at
which
the
People
moved
with
compassion
,
interceded
with
the
Troopers
,
and
desired
them
to
desist
,
putting
them
in
mind
of
the
place
where
they
were
,
a
place
where
God
met
with
his
People
,
and
they
with
their
God
.
It
seems
this
Congregation
had
been
better
taught
,
than
to
subscribe
to
Doctor
Twist
the
Proloquutor
of
the
absurd
Heterogenious
Synod
,
his
Interpretation
of
that
Text
of
Scripture
,
Ye
shall
keep
my
Sabbaths
,
and
reverence
my
Sanctuary
▪
in
his
Preface
to
Mr.
Meads
Book
of
the
Apostacy
of
the
latter
times
:
as
if
this
Text
enjoyned
no
reverence
to
be
used
towards
the
places
of
Gods
publick
worship
;
they
were
much
scandalized
at
this
prophane
Irreverence
,
and
made
it
an
argument
to
awe
them
to
civil
demeanour
at
least
,
because
of
the
place
:
and
withal
they
objected
,
that
they
did
much
abuse
themselves
,
and
dishonour
their
cause
by
such
outragious
carriages
:
all
this
would
reflect
on
the
cause
they
pretended
to
maintain
.
And
lastly
,
they
alledged
,
that
if
they
had
any
shame
in
them
,
they
might
be
ashamed
,
in
the
Lords
House
on
the
Lords
day
to
abuse
a
Minister
in
his
own
Congregation
,
who
besides
the
honour
and
reverence
due
to
his
calling
,
might
challenge
some
respect
from
them
being
a
Gentleman
of
good
Birth
and
Descent
.
In
reply
to
so
good
reason
,
(
being
indeed
but
Pearl
cast
before
Swine
)
one
breaks
out
with
a
great
oath
,
swearing
Wounds
and
Blood
(
so
that
all
the
Blasphemy
is
not
on
the
Cavaliers
side
)
and
saying
,
What
do
you
tell
me
of
Birth
and
Descent
,
a
Plague
take
him
and
his
Gentility
,
I
hope
within
this
year
to
see
never
a
Gentleman
in
England
:
you
remember
the
Proverb
,
Children
and
Fools
tell
truth
,
having
thus
despised
all
wholsome
admonition
,
they
go
to
the
Belfrey
,
they
break
open
the
door
,
and
come
to
the
place
where
the
Bells
did
hang
,
and
from
the
top
of
the
Frames
of
the
Bells
endeavoured
through
the
hole
(
but
now
mentioned
)
to
get
upon
the
Leads
,
where
Mr.
Losse
was
,
but
he
having
stopped
that
passage
with
the
Ladder
,
and
making
the
best
use
he
could
of
his
hands
and
feet
(
being
all
the
weapons
either
offensive
or
defensive
which
he
had
)
made
good
the
place
against
them
:
yet
notwithstanding
in
the
Resistence
he
was
in
very
great
danger
to
lose
his
life
,
for
they
discharged
their
Pistols
at
him
at
least
eight
or
nine
times
,
but
by
the
good
providence
of
God
they
missed
their
mark
,
with
their
Swords
they
wounded
him
in
three
several
parts
of
his
body
:
yet
God
be
blessed
the
wounds
were
not
mortal
;
at
last
having
received
a
hurt
in
his
hand
,
having
a
vein
pricked
with
one
of
their
Swords
,
his
blood
flowed
so
fast
upon
the
Troopers
underneath
him
,
that
as
they
bragged
there
,
and
in
other
places
after
they
were
gone
thence
,
they
thought
they
had
dispatched
him
,
and
therefore
thinking
him
to
be
a
dead
man
,
they
left
him
,
yet
to
imbalm
him
to
his
funeral
,
they
pour
out
a
flood
of
reproachful
names
upon
him
,
calling
him
Rogue
,
Rascal
,
Slave
,
Villain
,
Dog
,
Devil
,
making
no
stop
till
their
Master
the
Devil
,
and
their
own
memories
could
suggest
no
more
names
of
the
same
stamp
:
At
last
,
to
seal
up
all
,
for
fear
they
had
not
murthered
him
,
they
protest
with
many
Execrations
upon
themselves
,
that
if
they
had
not
now
sped
him
(
which
yet
they
hoped
they
had
)
they
would
return
another
time
,
and
have
him
either
dead
or
alive
.
At
Bristow
in
Devonshire
there
dwells
a
Husbandman
(
and
though
I
cannot
tell
his
name
,
yet
let
it
not
weaken
the
credit
of
the
Relation
)
who
not
satisfied
with
the
Parliaments
proceedings
in
taking
up
Arms
against
their
lawful
undoubted
Sovereign
,
stood
in
a
seeming
Neutrality
:
at
last
conceiving
it
time
to
declare
himself
,
he
openly
adhered
to
the
Kings
Party
:
hereupon
he
was
very
diligently
sought
after
,
and
the
Earl
of
Stamford
sent
a
Troop
of
Horse
to
his
House
to
apprehend
him
:
when
they
came
thither
,
they
found
not
the
good
man
at
home
,
but
a
Son
of
his
,
about
Ten
or
Eleven
years
old
,
they
ask
him
where
his
Father
was
,
the
Child
replied
,
that
he
was
not
at
home
,
they
threaten
him
,
and
use
all
arts
to
make
him
discover
where
his
Father
had
hid
himself
;
the
Child
being
ignorant
it
seems
where
his
Father
was
,
still
persisted
in
the
same
answer
,
that
he
knew
not
where
he
was
:
hereupon
they
threaten
to
hang
him
;
neither
doth
that
prevail
:
at
last
they
take
the
poor
innocent
Child
and
hang
him
up
,
either
because
he
would
not
betray
his
Father
,
had
he
been
able
to
satisfie
their
doubt
,
or
for
not
having
the
Spirit
of
Prophecy
,
not
being
able
to
receive
what
by
an
ordinary
way
of
knowledg
he
did
not
know
:
having
let
him
hang
a
while
,
they
cut
him
down
,
not
intending
to
hang
him
unto
death
,
but
being
cut
down
they
could
perceive
nothing
discovering
life
in
him
,
hereupon
in
a
barbarous
way
of
experiment
,
they
prick
him
with
their
Swords
in
the
back
and
thighs
,
using
the
means
leading
to
death
,
to
find
out
life
:
at
last
after
some
long
stay
,
some
small
symptomes
of
life
did
appear
:
yet
so
weak
that
there
they
left
him
nearer
the
confines
of
death
than
life
:
and
whether
the
Child
did
ever
recover
,
is
more
than
my
Informer
can
assure
me
.
Only
,
Courteous
Reader
,
observe
from
this
short
Narration
,
that
these
Bloody
Rebels
spare
neither
the
venerableness
of
the
Sacred
Function
,
the
infirmities
of
old
Age
,
or
the
tenderness
of
Youth
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
XI
.
The
particulars
of
the
first
Siege
of
Corfe-Castle
,
gallantly
defended
by
the
Lady
Banks
,
and
Captain
Laurence
,
against
the
Powers
,
Plots
,
and
Policies
of
Walter
Earle
and
his
Adherents
,
&c.
THere
is
in
the
Isle
of
Purbeck
a
strong
Castle
called
Corffe
Castle
,
seated
on
a
very
steep
Hill
,
in
the
fracture
of
a
Hill
in
the
very
midst
of
it
,
being
eight
miles
in
length
,
running
from
the
East
end
of
the
Peninsula
to
the
West
:
and
though
it
stand
between
the
two
ends
of
this
fracture
,
so
that
it
may
seem
to
lose
much
advantage
of
its
natural
and
artificial
strength
as
commanded
from
thence
,
being
in
height
equal
to
,
if
not
over-looking
the
tops
of
the
highest
Towers
of
the
Castle
,
yet
the
structure
of
the
Castle
is
so
strong
,
the
ascent
so
steep
,
the
Walls
so
massie
and
thick
,
that
it
is
one
of
the
impregnablest
Forts
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
of
very
great
concernment
,
in
respect
of
its
command
over
the
Island
,
and
the
places
about
it
.
This
Castle
is
now
the
Possession
and
Inheritance
of
the
Right
Honorable
Sir
John
Banks
,
Chief
Justice
of
the
Common
Pleas
,
and
one
of
his
Majesties
most
Honorable
Privy
Council
,
who
receiving
Commands
from
the
King
to
attend
Him
at
York
,
in
Easter
Term
,
1642.
had
leave
from
the
two
Houses
to
obey
those
Commands
:
After
the
unhappy
Differences
between
the
King
and
the
two
Houses
,
or
rather
between
the
King
and
the
Faction
in
both
Houses
,
grew
high
,
it
being
generally
feared
that
the
Sword
would
decide
the
controversie
;
the
Lady
Bankes
,
a
virtuous
and
prudent
Lady
,
resolved
with
her
Children
and
Family
to
retire
to
this
Castle
,
there
to
shelter
themselves
from
the
storm
which
she
saw
coming
,
which
accordingly
she
did
;
there
she
and
her
Family
remained
in
peace
all
the
Winter
,
and
a
great
part
of
the
Spring
,
until
May
,
1643.
about
which
time
the
Rebels
,
under
the
command
of
Sir
Walter
Earl
,
Sir
Thomas
Trenchard
,
and
others
,
had
possessed
themselves
of
Dorchaster
,
Lyme
,
Melcome
,
Weymouth
,
Wareham
,
and
Pool
,
(
Portland
Castle
being
treacherously
delivered
to
the
Rebels
)
only
Corfe
Castle
remaining
in
Obedience
to
the
King
:
but
the
Rebels
knowing
how
much
it
concerned
them
to
add
this
Castle
to
their
other
Garrisons
,
to
make
all
the
Sea-coast
wholly
for
them
;
and
thinking
it
more
feisible
to
gain
it
by
Treachery
than
open
Hostility
,
resolved
to
lay
hold
on
an
Opportunity
coming
on
,
to
see
if
they
could
become
Masters
of
it
.
There
is
an
ancient
usage
that
the
Major
and
Barons
(
as
they
call
them
)
of
Corfe
Castle
,
accompanyed
by
the
Gentry
of
the
Island
,
have
permission
from
the
Lord
of
the
Castle
,
on
May-day
,
to
course
a
Stag
,
which
every
year
is
performed
with
much
Solemnity
and
great
concourse
of
People
:
On
this
day
some
Troops
of
Horse
from
Dorchester
,
and
other
places
,
came
into
this
Island
,
intending
to
find
other
Game
then
to
hunt
the
Stag
,
their
business
being
suddenly
to
surprize
the
Gentlemen
in
the
Hunting
,
and
to
take
the
Castle
;
the
News
of
their
coming
disperst
the
Hunters
,
and
spoiled
the
sport
for
that
day
,
and
made
the
Lady
Bankes
to
give
order
for
the
safe
Custody
of
the
Castle-gates
,
and
to
keep
them
shut
against
all
comers
.
The
Troopers
having
mist
their
Prey
on
the
Hills
,
(
the
Gentlemen
having
withdrawn
themselves
)
some
of
them
came
to
the
Castle
under
a
pretence
to
see
it
,
but
entrance
being
denyed
them
,
the
common
Soldiers
used
threatning
Language
,
casting
out
words
implying
some
intentions
to
take
the
Castle
;
but
the
Commanders
(
who
better
knew
how
to
conceal
their
Resolutions
)
utterly
disavowed
any
such
thought
,
denying
that
they
had
any
such
Commission
;
however
the
Lady
Banks
very
wisely
,
and
like
her self
,
hence
took
occasion
to
call
in
a
Guard
to
assist
her
,
not
knowing
how
soon
she
might
have
occasion
to
make
use
of
them
,
it
being
now
more
than
probable
,
that
the
Rebels
had
a
design
upon
the
Castle
.
The
taking
in
this
Guard
,
as
it
secured
her
at
home
,
so
it
rendred
her
suspected
abroad
;
from
thence-forward
there
was
a
watchful
and
vigilant
eye
to
survey
all
her
Actions
,
whatsoever
she
sends
out
,
or
sends
for
in
,
is
suspected
;
her
ordinary
Provisions
for
her
Family
are
by
fame
multiplyed
,
and
reported
to
be
more
than
double
what
indeed
they
were
,
as
if
she
had
now
an
intention
to
Victual
and
Man
the
Castle
against
the
Forces
of
the
two
Houses
of
Parliament
;
presently
Letters
are
sent
from
the
Committees
of
Poole
,
to
demand
the
four
small
Pieces
in
the
Castle
,
and
the
pretence
was
,
because
the
Islanders
conceived
strange
Jealousies
,
that
the
Pieces
were
mounted
and
put
on
their
Carriages
:
Hereupon
the
Lady
Bankes
dispatched
Messengers
to
Dorchester
and
Poole
,
to
entreat
the
Commissioners
that
the
small
Piece
might
remain
in
the
Castle
for
her
own
defence
;
and
to
take
away
the
ground
of
the
Islanders
Jealousies
,
she
caused
the
Pieces
to
be
taken
off
their
Carriages
again
;
hereupon
a
promise
was
made
,
that
they
should
be
left
to
her
possession
.
But
there
passed
not
many
days
,
before
forty
Sea-men
(
they
in
the
Castle
not
suspecting
any
such
thing
)
came
very
early
in
the
Morning
to
demand
the
Pieces
;
the
Lady
in
Person
(
early
as
it
was
)
goes
to
the
Gates
,
and
desires
to
see
their
Warrant
;
they
produced
one
,
under
the
hands
of
some
of
the
Commissioners
;
but
instead
of
delivering
them
,
though
at
that
time
there
were
but
five
Men
in
the
Castle
,
yet
these
five
,
assisted
by
the
Maid-servants
at
their
Ladies
Command
,
mount
these
Pieces
on
their
Carriages
again
,
and
lading
one
of
them
,
they
gave
fire
;
which
small
Thunder
so
affrighted
the
Sea-men
,
that
they
all
quitted
the
place
and
ran
away
.
They
being
gone
,
by
beat
of
Drum
she
summons
help
into
the
Castle
,
and
upon
the
Alarm
given
,
a
very
considerable
Guard
of
Tenants
and
Friends
came
in
to
her
assistance
,
there
being
withal
some
fifty
Arms
brought
into
the
Castle
,
from
several
parts
of
the
Island
:
this
Guard
was
kept
in
the
Castle
about
a
Week
,
during
this
time
,
many
threatning
Letters
were
sent
unto
the
Lady
,
telling
her
,
what
great
Forces
should
be
sent
to
fetch
them
,
if
she
would
not
by
fair
means
be
perswaded
to
deliver
them
,
and
to
deprive
her
of
her
Auxiliaries
,
all
or
most
of
them
being
Neighbors
thereabouts
,
they
threaten
,
that
if
they
oppose
the
delivery
of
them
,
they
would
fire
their
Houses
:
presently
their
Wives
come
to
the
Castle
,
there
they
weep
and
wring
their
hands
,
and
with
clamorous
Oratory
perswade
their
Husbands
to
come
home
,
and
not
by
saving
others
,
to
expose
their
own
Houses
to
spoil
and
ruine
,
nay
to
reduce
the
Castle
into
a
distressed
condition
,
they
did
not
only
intercept
two
hundred
weight
of
Powder
provided
against
a
Siege
,
but
they
interdict
them
the
liberty
of
Common-Markets
:
Proclamation
is
made
at
Warham
(
a
Market-Town
hard
by
)
that
no
Beer
,
Beef
,
or
other
provision
should
be
sold
to
the
Lady
Banks
,
or
for
her
use
;
strict
Watches
are
kept
,
that
no
Messenger
or
Intelligence
shall
pass
into
or
out
of
the
Castle
.
Being
thus
distressed
,
all
means
of
Victualling
the
Castle
,
being
taken
away
,
and
being
but
slenderly
furnished
for
a
Siege
,
either
with
Ammunition
or
with
Victual
,
at
last
they
came
to
a
Treaty
of
Composition
,
of
which
the
result
was
,
That
the
Lady
Banks
should
deliver
up
those
four
small
Pieces
,
the
biggest
carrying
not
above
a
three
pound
Bullet
,
and
that
the
Rebels
should
permit
her
to
enjoy
the
Castle
,
and
Arms
in
it
,
in
peace
and
quietness
.
And
though
this
wise
Lady
knew
too
well
to
rest
satisfied
or
secured
in
these
promises
(
their
often
breach
of
Faith
having
sufficiently
instructed
her
what
she
might
expect
from
them
)
yet
she
was
glad
of
this
opportunity
to
strengthen
her self
even
by
that
means
,
by
which
many
in
the
World
thought
she
had
done
her self
much
prejudice
;
for
the
Rebels
being
now
possessed
of
their
Guns
,
presumed
the
Castle
to
be
theirs
,
as
sure
as
if
they
had
actually
possessed
it
.
Now
it
was
no
more
but
ask
and
have
:
hereupon
they
grow
remiss
in
their
Watches
,
negligent
in
their
Observations
,
not
heeding
what
was
brought
in
,
nor
taking
care
,
as
before
,
to
intercept
Supplies
,
which
might
enable
them
to
hold
out
against
a
Siege
:
and
the
Lady
,
making
good
use
of
this
remisness
,
laid
hold
on
the
present
opportunity
,
and
as
much
as
the
time
would
permit
,
furnish'd
the
Castle
with
Provisions
of
all
sorts
.
In
this
Interval
,
there
was
brought
in
an
hundred
and
half
of
Powder
,
and
a
quantity
of
Match
proportionable
.
And
understanding
that
the
Kings
Forces
,
under
the
Conduct
of
Prince
Maurice
,
and
the
Marquess
Hertford
were
advancing
towards
Blanford
,
she
by
her
Messenger
made
her
address
to
them
,
to
signifie
unto
them
the
present
Condition
in
which
they
were
,
the
great
Consequence
of
the
place
,
desiring
their
assistance
,
and
in
particular
,
that
they
would
be
pleased
to
take
into
their
serious
consideration
,
to
send
some
Commanders
thither
to
take
the
Charge
of
the
Castle
;
hereupon
they
send
Captain
Laurence
,
son
of
Sir
Edward
Laurence
,
a
Gentleman
of
that
Island
,
to
Command
in
Chief
;
but
he
coming
without
a
Commission
,
could
not
command
moneys
or
provisions
to
be
brought
in
until
it
was
too
late
.
There
was
likewise
in
the
Castle
one
Captain
Bond
,
an
old
Soldier
,
whom
I
should
deprive
of
his
due
honor
,
not
to
mention
him
,
having
a
share
in
the
honor
of
this
Resistance
.
The
first
time
the
Rebels
faced
the
Castle
,
they
brought
a
Body
of
between
two
and
three
hundred
Horse
and
Foot
,
and
two
Pieces
of
Ordnance
,
and
from
the
Hills
played
on
the
Castle
,
fired
four
houses
in
the
Town
,
and
then
summoned
the
Castle
;
but
receiving
a
denial
for
that
time
,
they
left
it
.
But
on
the
three
and
twentieth
of
June
,
the
Sagacious
Knight
,
Sir
Walter
Earle
(
that
hath
the
gift
of
discerning
Treasons
,
and
might
have
made
up
his
nine
and
thirty
Treasons
,
forty
,
by
reckoning
in
his
own
)
accompanyed
by
Captain
Sidenham
,
Captain
Henry
Jarvis
,
Captain
Skuts
,
son
of
that
Arch-Traytor
Skut
of
Pool
,
with
a
Body
of
between
five
and
six
hundred
,
came
and
possessed
themselves
of
the
Town
,
taking
the
opportunity
of
a
Misty
morning
,
that
they
might
find
no
resistance
from
the
Castle
.
They
brought
with
them
to
the
Siege
a
Demy-Canon
,
a
Culverin
and
two
Sacres
,
with
these
and
their
small
Shot
,
they
played
on
the
Castle
on
all
Quarters
of
it
,
with
good
observation
of
Advantages
,
making
their
Battery
strongest
where
they
thought
the
Castle
weakest
.
And
to
bind
the
Soldiers
by
tye
of
Conscience
to
an
eager
prosecution
of
the
Siege
,
they
administer
them
an
Oath
,
and
mutually
binde
themselves
to
most
unchristian
Resolutions
,
That
if
they
found
the
Defendants
obstinate
not
to
yield
,
they
would
maintain
the
Siege
to
Victory
,
and
then
deny
Quarter
unto
all
,
killing
without
mercy
,
Men
,
Women
and
Children
.
As
to
bring
on
their
own
Soldiers
,
they
abused
them
with
falshoods
,
telling
them
,
That
the
Castle
stood
in
a
Level
,
yet
with
good
advantages
of
approach
;
that
there
were
but
forty
Men
in
the
Castle
,
whereof
twenty
were
for
them
;
that
there
was
rich
Booty
,
and
the
like
:
So
,
during
the
Siege
,
they
used
all
base
unworthy
means
,
to
corrupt
the
Defendants
,
to
betray
the
Castle
into
their
hands
;
the
better
sort
they
endeavor
to
corrupt
with
Bribes
;
to
the
rest
they
offer
double
Pay
,
and
the
whole
Plunder
of
the
Castle
;
when
all
these
Arts
took
no
effect
,
then
they
fall
to
Stratagems
and
Engines
.
To
make
their
approaches
to
the
Wall
with
more
safety
,
they
make
two
Engines
;
one
they
call
the
Sow
,
the
other
the
Boar
,
being
made
with
boards
lined
with
Wool
to
dead
the
shot
.
The
first
that
moved
forward
was
the
Sow
,
but
not
being
Musket
proof
,
she
cast
nine
of
eleven
of
her
Farrow
;
for
the
Musketiers
from
the
Castle
were
so
good
marks-men
at
their
Legs
,
the
only
part
of
all
their
Bodies
left
without
defence
,
that
nine
ran
away
,
as
well
as
their
broken
and
battered
Legs
would
give
them
leave
;
and
of
the
two
which
knew
neither
how
to
run
away
,
nor
well
to
stay
,
for
fear
,
one
was
slain
.
The
Boar
,
of
the
two
(
a
man
would
think
)
the
valianter
Creature
,
seeing
the
ill
success
of
the
Sow
,
to
cast
her
Litter
before
her
time
,
durst
not
advance
.
The
most
advantageous
part
for
their
Batteries
,
was
the
Church
,
which
they
without
fear
of
prophanation
used
,
not
only
as
their
Rampart
,
but
their
Rendezvouz
:
of
the
Surpless
they
made
two
Shirts
for
two
Soldiers
,
they
broke
down
the
Organs
,
and
made
the
Pipes
serve
for
Cases
to
hold
their
Powder
and
Shot
;
and
not
being
furnished
with
Musket-Bullets
,
they
cut
off
the
Lead
of
the
Church
,
and
roll'd
it
up
,
and
shoot
it
without
ever
casting
it
in
a
mould
.
Sir
Walter
and
the
Commanders
were
earnest
to
press
forward
the
Soldiers
,
but
as
prodigal
as
they
were
of
the
blood
of
their
common
Soldiers
,
they
were
sparing
enough
of
their
own
:
It
was
a
general
Observation
,
that
valiant
Sir
Walter
never
willingly
exposed
himself
to
any
hazard
,
for
being
by
chance
endangered
with
a
Bullet
,
shot
through
his
Coat
,
afterwards
he
put
on
a
Bears
skin
,
and
to
the
eternal
honor
of
this
Knights
valour
be
it
recorded
,
for
fear
of
Musket-shot
,
(
for
other
they
had
none
)
he
was
seen
to
creep
on
all
four
,
on
the
sides
of
the
Hill
,
to
keep
himself
out
of
danger
.
This
base
Cowardise
in
the
Assailants
,
added
Courage
and
Resolution
to
the
Defendants
:
therefore
not
compell'd
by
want
,
but
rather
to
brave
the
Rebels
,
they
sallyed
out
,
and
brought
in
eight
Cows
and
a
Bull
into
the
Castle
,
without
the
loss
of
a
Man
,
or
a
Man
wounded
.
At
another
time
,
five
Boys
fetcht
in
four
Cows
.
They
that
stood
on
the
Hills
,
called
to
one
in
a
House
in
the
Valley
,
crying
,
Shoot
Anthony
;
but
Anthony
thought
it
good
to
sleep
in
a
whole
skin
,
and
durst
not
look
out
,
so
that
afterward
it
grew
into
a
Proverbial
Jeer
,
from
the
Defendants
to
the
Assailants
,
Shoot
Anthony
.
The
Rebels
having
spent
much
time
and
Ammunition
,
and
some
men
,
and
yet
being
as
far
from
hopes
of
taking
the
Castle
,
as
the
first
day
they
came
thither
.
At
last
,
the
Earl
of
Warwick
sends
them
a
supply
of
an
hundred
and
fifty
Mariners
,
with
several
Cart-loads
of
Petarrs
,
Granadoes
,
and
other
Warlike
Provision
,
with
Scaling-ladders
to
assault
the
Castle
by
Scaladoe
:
They
make
large
offers
to
him
that
should
first
scale
the
Wall
;
20
l.
to
the
first
,
and
so
by
descending
sums
a
reward
to
the
twentieth
;
but
all
this
could
not
prevail
with
these
silly
Wretches
,
who
were
brought
thither
,
as
themselves
confessed
,
like
Sheep
to
the
slaughter
,
some
of
them
having
but
exchang'd
the
manner
of
their
death
,
the
Halter
for
the
Bullet
,
having
taken
them
out
of
Goals
;
one
of
them
being
taken
Prisoner
,
had
Letters
Testimonial
in
his
hands
whence
he
came
,
the
Letters
I
mean
when
he
was
burnt
for
a
Felon
,
being
very
visible
to
the
beholders
,
but
when
they
found
that
perswasion
could
not
prevail
with
such
abject
low
spirited
men
,
the
Commanders
resolve
on
another
course
,
which
was
,
to
make
them
Drunk
,
knowing
that
Drunkenness
makes
some
men
fight
like
Lions
,
that
being
sober
would
run
away
like
Hares
.
To
this
purpose
they
fill
them
with
strong
Waters
,
even
to
Madness
,
and
ready
they
are
now
for
any
Design
;
and
for
fear
Sir
Walter
should
be
valiant
against
his
will
,
like
Caesar
,
he
was
the
only
man
almost
that
came
sober
to
the
assault
:
an
imitation
of
the
Turkish
practice
(
for
certainly
there
can
be
nothing
of
Christianity
in
it
,
to
send
poor
Souls
to
Gods
Judgment
Seat
,
in
the
very
act
of
two
grievous
Sins
,
Rebellion
and
Drunkenness
)
who
to
stupifie
their
Soldiers
,
and
make
them
insensible
of
their
dangers
,
give
them
Opium
:
being
now
armed
with
drink
,
they
resolve
to
storm
the
Castle
on
all
sides
,
and
apply
their
Scaling-ladders
,
it
being
ordered
by
the
Leaders
(
if
I
may
without
a
Solecism
call
them
so
,
that
stood
behind
and
did
not
so
much
as
follow
)
that
when
20
were
entered
,
they
should
give
a
watch-word
to
the
rest
,
and
that
was
Old
Wat
:
a
word
ill
chosen
by
Sir
Watt.
Earle
,
and
considering
the
business
in
hand
little
better
than
ominous
,
for
if
I
be
not
deceived
,
the
Hunters
that
beat
Bushes
for
the
fearful
timerous
Hare
,
call
him
Old
Watt.
Being
now
Pot-valiant
,
and
possessed
with
a
borrowed
Courage
,
which
was
to
evaporate
in
sleep
,
they
divide
their
Forces
into
two
Parties
,
whereof
one
assaults
the
middle
Ward
,
defended
by
valiant
Captain
Lawrence
,
and
the
greater
part
of
the
Soldiers
;
the
other
assault
the
upper
Ward
,
which
the
Lady
Bankes
,
(
to
her
Eternal
Honor
be
it
spoken
)
with
her
Daughters
,
Women
,
and
five
Soldiers
,
undertook
to
make
good
against
the
Rebels
,
and
did
bravely
perform
what
she
undertook
;
for
by
heaving
over
Stones
,
and
hot
Embers
,
they
repelled
the
Rebels
,
and
kept
them
from
climing
their
Ladders
,
thence
to
throw
in
that
Wild-fire
,
which
every
Rebel
had
ready
in
his
hand
.
Being
repelled
,
and
having
in
this
Siege
and
this
Assault
lost
and
hurt
an
hundred
men
,
Old
Sir
Watt
,
hearing
that
the
Kings
Forces
were
advanced
,
cryed
,
and
ran
away
crying
,
leaving
Sydenham
to
Command
in
Chief
,
to
bring
off
the
Ordnance
,
Ammunition
,
and
the
remainder
of
the
Army
,
who
afraid
to
appear
abroad
,
kept
Sanctuary
in
the
Church
till
night
,
meaning
to
Sup
,
and
run
away
by
Star-light
;
but
Supper
being
ready
,
and
set
on
the
Table
,
an
Alarm
was
given
that
the
Kings
Forces
were
coming
:
this
News
took
away
Sydenhams
Stomack
;
all
this
Provision
was
but
messes
of
Meat
set
before
the
Sepulchres
of
the
dead
;
he
leaves
his
Artillery
,
Ammunition
,
and
(
which
with
these
men
is
something
)
a
good
Supper
,
and
ran
away
to
take
Boat
for
Poole
,
leaving
likewise
at
the
shore
about
an
hundred
Horse
to
the
next
Takers
,
which
next
day
proved
good
prize
to
the
Soldiers
of
the
Castle
.
Thus
after
six
Weeks
strict
Siege
,
this
Castle
,
the
desire
of
the
Rebels
,
the
Tears
of
Old
Sir
Watt
,
and
the
Key
of
those
parts
,
by
the
Loyalty
,
and
brave
Resolution
of
this
Honorable
Lady
,
the
valour
of
Captain
Lawrence
and
some
eighty
Soldiers
,
(
by
the
loss
only
of
two
men
)
was
delivered
from
the
Bloody
Intentions
of
these
Merciless
Rebels
,
on
the
fourth
of
August
,
1643.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
XII
.
Mr.
Thomas
Jones
,
Bachelour
in
Divinity
,
ill
intreated
by
the
Rebels
in
Devon
.
A
Soldier
hanged
at
Thame
on
the
Sign-post
of
the
Kings
Head
.
Mr.
Wright
a
Minister
in
Cheshire
plundered
,
and
two
of
his
Maid-Servants
murthered
.
Doctor
Beale
,
Doctor
Martin
,
and
Doctor
Sterne
,
brought
Prisoners
from
Cambridg
by
Cromwel
,
and
their
barbarous
usage
,
&c.
MAster
Thomas
Jones
Bachelor
in
Divinity
,
and
Rector
of
Offwel
in
the
County
of
Devon
,
having
discover'd
that
the
right
of
Patronage
of
one
of
the
cures
of
Tuifordton
was
in
the
Crown
,
and
worth
three
hundred
Pounds
per
annum
,
did
in
the
pursuance
of
his
Right
,
spend
a
Thousand
Pounds
to
recover
it
from
those
,
who
account
all
lawful
gain
whatsoever
they
can
purloin
either
from
God
or
the
King
.
The
pretended
Patrons
who
had
invaded
this
Right
,
were
much
offended
with
Mr.
Jones
for
being
at
so
great
expence
to
redeem
the
prey
out
of
their
hands
,
and
did
but
watch
an
opportunity
to
make
him
know
how
sensible
they
were
of
this
their
loss
.
This
Parliament
being
called
,
and
these
men
made
Members
of
the
Lower
House
,
they
quickly
perceived
that
this
wished-for
opportunity
was
now
come
,
wherein
they
might
pervert
publick
Justice
to
private
revenge
,
quickly
learning
to
exercise
that
Arbitrary
unlimited
power
over
their
fellow
Subjects
,
which
the
prevalence
of
a
dangerous
Faction
had
put
in
their
hands
.
According
to
the
general
practice
since
this
Parliament
,
they
accuse
Mr.
Jones
of
some
Anti-parliamentary
passages
in
his
Sermons
,
which
his
Judges
understood
as
little
as
his
Accusers
:
Nay
perhaps
it
was
with
him
(
as
with
many
of
his
Orthodox
Brethren
)
the
same
men
were
both
his
Accusers
and
Judges
.
However
any
or
no
accusation
we
know
have
served
these
mens
turns
,
to
bring
Godly
and
Learned
Ministers
to
the
Bear-baiting
of
a
Committee
,
and
to
put
them
into
the
expensive
custody
of
a
Serjeant
at
Arms
:
so
it
was
with
Mr.
Jones
,
they
first
pretended
some
Crimes
,
and
on
these
pretences
they
commit
him
Prisoner
to
a
Serjeant
at
Arms.
Having
deprived
him
of
his
Liberty
,
and
put
him
into
a
consumption
of
his
Estate
by
the
unreasonable
unlimited
exactions
of
Parliament
Goalers
,
they
then
think
him
reduced
to
such
a
condition
as
to
be
willing
to
hearken
to
a
Composition
,
on
any
terms
.
At
last
vexed
to
an
agreement
,
he
is
to
enjoy
his
Liberty
and
Peace
on
this
mutual
stipulation
:
They
are
to
pardon
him
the
errour
of
his
Doctrine
,
to
deliver
up
his
bail
,
being
with
two
Sureties
Parliament
men
bound
in
a
Bond
of
two
thousand
pounds
,
and
to
give
two
hundred
pounds
towards
his
charges
.
Mr.
Jones
must
resign
his
lately
recovered
Cure
of
Tuifordton
to
make
way
for
a
Clerk
of
their
own
:
which
to
avoid
farther
molestation
,
to
his
very
great
prejudice
,
he
was
inforced
to
condescend
unto
.
After
,
in
September
,
1642.
Mr.
Jones
riding
to
Taunton
in
Somersetshire
,
accompanied
by
one
of
the
Prince's
Servants
,
who
wore
his
Masters
Colours
,
was
for
that
reason
,
together
with
that
Gentleman
,
immediately
after
his
departure
from
thence
,
apprehended
,
and
like
a
Felon
brought
back
to
the
Castle
,
where
he
remained
Prisoner
three
weeks
,
and
could
not
be
released
without
the
earnest
solicitation
of
his
friends
,
and
his
Wives
humble
and
often
petitioning
the
Earle
of
Bedford
.
In
November
last
suffering
under
continual
molestations
,
and
out
of
all
hope
to
live
peaceably
at
home
,
he
resolved
to
put
himself
under
the
protection
of
Sir
Ralph
Hoptons
Army
then
in
Cornwal
.
To
this
purpose
he
furnished
three
Horses
and
Arms
proportionable
,
and
set
forward
to
deliver
them
up
to
his
Majesties
service
:
but
unhappily
in
the
way
thither
he
was
intercepted
by
the
Earl
of
Stamfords
Forces
,
under
the
command
of
Captain
Gould
,
taken
Prisoner
,
robb'd
to
the
value
of
80
l.
the
Plunderers
leaving
him
not
so
much
as
a
boot
to
ride
in
.
By
these
he
is
led
Captive
to
Liskard
in
Cornwal
,
where
they
kept
him
three
days
,
in
which
time
he
and
another
Minister
with
him
,
with
his
servant
,
had
but
one
pint
of
Beer
for
their
sustinence
,
being
kept
without
either
fire
or
light
,
and
for
one
night
had
their
hands
bound
behind
them
,
and
had
been
still
kept
in
the
like
bondage
,
had
not
God
in
mercy
rescued
them
by
Sir
Ralph
Hopton
,
after
the
famous
Battle
of
Liskard
:
During
the
time
of
their
imprisonment
,
they
offer
them
Conditions
on
which
they
may
purchase
their
liberty
;
viz.
to
pay
three
hundred
pound
;
to
take
an
Oath
never
any
more
to
assist
the
King
with
Horse
,
Arms
,
or
Money
:
But
being
delivered
on
far
better
terms
,
he
was
not
long
after
imprisoned
for
giving
God
publick
thanks
for
his
deliverance
.
Afterwards
,
seeing
that
Religion
it self
was
but
abused
,
being
made
the
Cloak
of
these
mens
Hypocrisie
and
Treasons
,
and
that
they
did
fast
but
to
strife
and
debate
,
he
did
not
observe
the
Fast
every
last
Wednesday
in
the
Month
,
with
that
strict
observation
as
was
expected
from
him
by
that
Faction
;
hereupon
,
some
of
them
put
him
in
mind
of
it
:
Good
Friday
coming
on
presently
,
upon
the
last
Wednesday
in
April
he
desired
his
Neighbours
and
Parishoners
to
keep
that
ancient
Fast
injoyned
by
the
Church
in
Commemoration
of
the
bitter
Death
and
Passion
of
Christ
;
and
the
better
to
invite
them
to
that
days
solemn
Humiliation
,
he
preached
to
them
twice
that
day
.
Though
Sermons
be
all
their
Religion
,
yet
two
Sermons
on
Good
Friday
(
received
and
practised
by
all
Churches
in
all
Ages
,
till
of
late
a
Jewish
observation
of
one
day
hath
shouldred
out
the
religious
observation
of
all
other
days
)
he
was
convented
before
the
Sessions
,
where
Edmund
Prideaux
a
Parliament
man
,
and
a
pretender
to
this
Law
,
prest
this
his
Obedience
to
the
Church
most
violently
against
him
;
malitiously
affirming
that
he
did
it
to
affront
the
Parliament
,
and
to
advance
Popish
Superstition
,
and
Innovation
,
and
that
therefore
He
(
see
what
it
is
to
be
a
Parliament
man
)
would
make
him
an
Example
to
the
World
,
and
as
the
times
then
were
(
God
,
as
he
threatned
Israel
,
provoking
us
by
foolish
people
)
was
like
enough
to
have
done
it
,
had
not
Mr.
Jones
prevented
him
by
withdrawing
himself
,
and
so
declined
the
evil
intended
against
him
.
Yet
we
may
not
omit
one
thing
:
though
it
were
so
heinous
a
Crime
in
Mr.
Jones
not
to
observe
one
of
their
Wednesdays
Fasts
,
yet
Mr.
Darke
Minister
of
Musbury
in
the
same
County
,
and
a
man
of
that
Faction
could
command
his
men
to
follow
the
Plough
that
day
,
and
yet
was
never
thought
fit
of
a
Reprehension
,
nor
so
much
as
a
Brotherly
Admonition
:
and
no
wonder
,
for
tho
heretofore
Actions
did
Qualifie
persons
,
and
denominate
them
,
by
the
Sectaries
new
Divinity
they
make
Persons
to
Qualifie
Actions
,
those
things
which
are
sins
in
others
lose
their
Nature
and
their
Name
in
a
Child
of
God
,
and
they
will
take
it
very
ill
from
you
not
to
be
so
reputed
,
though
living
in
the
most
notorious
scandalous
sins
that
defile
the
Soul
,
and
lay
wast
the
Conscience
of
man
.
But
to
return
to
our
story
.
From
the
beginning
of
this
Parliament
(
till
God
,
by
the
glorious
and
no
less
than
miraculous
Victories
of
Sir
Ralph
Hopton
,
restored
some
Peace
to
that
miserably
distracted
Country
)
Mr.
Jones
was
not
permitted
to
live
quietly
at
his
own
dwelling
,
they
threaten
to
hang
him
,
and
burn
his
house
,
which
they
plundered
no
less
than
seven
times
:
and
not
content
with
this
,
they
threaten
to
carry
away
his
aged
Father
Prisoner
,
being
no
less
than
86
years
of
age
;
and
had
been
as
good
as
their
word
,
(
for
in
mischief
they
seldom
fail
of
their
promises
)
had
not
the
Women
of
the
Parish
(
in
detestation
of
so
great
barbarism
,
)
rescued
him
out
of
their
hands
:
And
after
that
memorable
defeat
of
the
Rebels
at
Stratton
in
the
edge
of
Cornwal
by
the
brave
Sir
Ralph
Hopton
,
Mr.
Jones
returned
to
his
own
house
,
fearing
no
danger
from
the
fitters
of
that
broken
Army
:
but
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
one
of
the
Doctors
made
it
a
request
to
Cromwell
,
that
he
might
stay
a
little
to
put
up
some
linnen
,
Cromwell
denied
him
the
favour
,
and
whether
in
a
jeer
,
or
simple
malice
told
him
,
That
it
was
not
in
his
Commission
:
having
now
prepared
a
shew
to
entertain
the
People
,
in
Triumph
they
lead
them
Captives
towards
London
,
where
the
People
were
before-hand
informed
,
what
Captives
Colonel
Cromwell
was
bringing
.
In
the
Villages
as
they
passed
from
Cambridg
to
London
,
the
People
were
called
by
some
of
their
Agents
to
come
and
abuse
,
and
revile
them
.
When
they
came
to
London
,
being
to
bring
their
Prisoners
to
the
Tower
,
no
other
way
would
serve
their
turn
,
but
from
Shoreditch
through
Bartholomew-Fair
,
when
the
Concourse
was
as
thick
as
the
Negotiation
of
Buyers
and
Sellers
,
and
the
warning
of
the
Beadles
of
the
Faction
(
that
use
to
give
notice
to
their
Party
)
could
make
it
;
they
lead
these
Captives
leisurely
through
the
midst
of
the
Fair
:
as
they
pass
along
they
are
entertained
with
Exclamations
,
Reproaches
,
Scorns
,
and
Curses
,
and
considering
the
prejudice
raised
in
the
City
of
them
,
it
was
Gods
great
mercy
that
they
found
no
worse
usage
from
them
:
having
brought
them
to
the
Tower
,
the
People
there
use
them
with
no
less
Incivility
within
the
Walls
,
than
the
People
did
without
,
calling
them
Papists
,
Arminians
,
and
I
know
not
what
.
After
some
time
Imprisonment
there
,
they
were
removed
to
the
Lord
Peters
House
in
Aldersgate-street
;
and
though
they
often
Petitioned
to
be
heard
and
brought
to
judgment
,
yet
they
could
obtain
neither
a
Trial
,
nor
enlargement
,
unless
to
free
their
Bodies
,
they
should
ensnare
their
Souls
by
loans
of
Monies
to
be
imployed
against
the
King
,
or
taking
impious
Oaths
or
Covenants
:
at
last
after
almost
a
years
imprisonment
,
on
Friday
the
11.
of
August
1643.
by
order
from
the
Faction
,
that
call
themselves
a
Parliament
,
they
were
removed
from
thence
,
and
all
put
on
Ship-board
in
a
Ship
called
the
Prosperous
Sail
,
or
the
Prosperous
Sailer
,
lying
before
Wapping
.
They
went
by
Coach
from
Aldersgate-street
to
Billingsgate
,
in
the
way
to
the
Common
Stairs
,
there
to
take
water
;
one
was
over-heard
to
say
These
look
like
honest
men
,
and
he
was
not
a
jot
mistaken
:
however
for
bearing
testimomy
of
the
truth
,
he
incurr'd
the
censure
of
a
Malignant
,
and
was
in
danger
to
be
committed
:
but
another
looking
these
grave
learned
Divines
in
the
face
,
reviled
them
,
saying
,
That
they
did
not
look
like
Christians
:
and
Prayed
that
they
might
break
their
Necks
as
they
went
down
the
Stairs
to
take
water
.
This
harsh
usage
they
found
by
land
,
but
yet
they
found
far
worse
by
water
:
being
come
on
ship-board
they
were
instantly
put
under
Hatches
,
where
the
Decks
were
so
low
,
that
they
could
not
stand
upright
,
and
yet
were
denied
stools
to
sit
on
,
or
so
much
as
a
burden
of
straw
to
lie
on
.
Into
this
Little
Ease
in
a
small
Ship
they
crowd
no
less
than
four
score
Prisoners
of
Quality
,
and
that
they
might
stifle
one
another
,
having
no
more
breath
than
what
they
sucked
from
one
anothers
mouths
,
most
malitiously
,
and
(
certainly
)
to
a
murtherous
intent
,
they
stop
up
all
the
small
Auger
holes
,
and
all
other
inlets
which
might
relieve
them
with
fresh
air
:
an
act
of
such
horrid
barbarism
,
that
nor
age
,
nor
story
,
nor
Rebellion
can
parallel
;
But
,
O
Lord
God
to
whom
Vengeance
belongeth
,
thou
God
to
whom
vengeance
belongeth
,
shew
thy self
,
O
let
the
vengeance
of
thy
Servants
blood
,
that
hath
been
shed
in
this
land
,
be
openly
shewed
upon
these
worse
than
Heathen
Salvages
in
our
sight
,
O
let
the
sorrowful
sighing
of
thy
Prisoners
come
before
thee
,
according
to
the
greatness
of
thy
power
preserve
thou
those
that
are
appointed
to
die
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
XIII
.
Mr.
Anthony
Tyringham
a
Minister
,
wounded
,
and
most
inhumanely
used
by
the
Rebels
in
Buckinghamshire
.
Mrs.
Wiborow
(
the
Parsons
Wife
of
Pebmarsh
in
Essex
)
and
her
Children
exposed
to
great
extremity
by
the
Sectaries
of
that
County
.
A
lively
pattern
of
ingratitude
acted
by
a
schismatical
Smith
at
Dalham
in
Suffolk
,
&c.
MAster
Anthony
Tyringham
,
Parson
of
Tyringham
in
Buckinghamshire
,
having
business
at
Maidsmorton
,
at
his
return
came
to
Buckingham
,
where
he
met
with
two
of
his
Nephews
.
The
Uncle
and
his
Nephews
glad
of
so
happy
a
meeting
,
after
some
stay
to
congratulate
the
good
chance
,
and
to
refresh
themselves
,
set
forward
in
their
journey
,
and
passed
in
peace
without
danger
until
they
came
near
Stony-Stratford
,
where
a
party
of
Dragooners
coming
from
Alesbury
surprized
them
:
and
instantly
(
scarce
asking
them
from
whence
they
came
)
searched
and
disarmed
them
,
which
was
no
difficult
atchievment
,
there
being
but
one
sword
amongst
all
three
.
The
Rebels
take
from
them
their
Horses
,
their
Coats
and
Mony
:
superfluous
things
as
they
conceived
for
men
designed
to
captivity
:
for
having
spoiled
them
of
their
Horses
,
Mony
,
and
Garments
,
they
send
them
with
a
strong
guard
Prisoners
to
Ailesbury
:
while
the
rest
of
the
Party
lurking
about
Stony-Stratford
,
stayed
there
to
expect
some
fresh
Booty
:
And
that
in
this
we
do
not
slander
these
great
Champions
of
the
Subjects
Liberties
and
Properties
,
the
issue
will
acquaint
us
,
for
presently
after
(
to
shew
that
all
was
Fish
which
came
to
net
)
they
seized
upon
a
poor
Bone-lace
man
,
and
a
Shoomaker
,
robbed
them
of
what
they
had
,
and
in
the
same
manner
sent
them
away
Prisoners
to
Ailesbury
.
The
Guard
of
Dragooners
having
brought
their
three
Prisoners
about
a
mile
and
a
half
on
the
way
towards
Ailesbury
,
commanded
them
again
to
alight
:
The
first
Plunder
was
for
the
Captain
or
Commanders
,
or
else
a
share
was
set
apart
Anathema
for
the
support
of
the
publick
Cause
,
these
men
to
whose
trust
they
were
committed
,
now
intend
to
plunder
for
themselves
:
And
first
,
they
command
Mr.
Tyringham
to
put
off
his
Cassock
:
who
being
not
sudden
in
obeying
the
command
,
nor
over-hasty
to
untye
his
Girdle
to
disrobe
himself
of
the
distinctive
Garment
of
his
Profession
:
(
though
now
a
Cassock
contracted
into
the
Compendium
of
a
Gippo
,
is
become
the
Garb
of
the
Reformers
)
one
of
the
Dragoons
to
quicken
him
,
cut
him
through
the
hat
into
the
Head
with
the
Sword
taken
from
one
of
his
Nephews
,
and
with
another
blow
cut
him
over
the
fingers
:
Mr.
Tyringham
wondring
at
so
barbarous
usage
without
any
provocation
,
came
toward
him
that
had
thus
wounded
him
,
and
desired
him
to
hold
his
hands
,
pleading
that
he
was
a
Clergie-man
,
a
Prisoner
,
and
disarmed
:
the
cowardly
Villain
either
fearing
the
approach
of
a
disarmed
man
,
or
willing
to
lay
hold
on
any
advantage
to
expose
the
Prisoners
to
the
fury
of
his
fellows
,
cried
out
,
Shoot
the
Rogues
,
for
they
intend
to
resist
:
the
word
was
no
sooner
given
,
but
a
Musquets
was
instantly
discharged
at
one
of
Mr.
Tyringhams
Nephews
;
but
the
Musqueteer
missing
his
mark
,
another
of
the
Rebels
with
his
Sword
aimed
righter
,
and
ran
him
into
the
shoulder
:
a
Musquet
was
presented
to
the
other
Nephew
,
but
Gods
providence
restrained
the
murtherous
intention
of
the
Rebel
,
that
he
did
not
give
fire
.
Thus
exercising
their
pleasure
upon
disarmed
wounded
men
,
they
rob
Mr.
Tyringham
of
his
Cassock
,
rifle
all
their
pockets
,
and
take
from
them
what
they
please
;
and
to
palliate
their
cruelty
,
they
send
two
Dragooners
back
,
to
tell
their
Captains
and
their
Companies
,
that
the
Prisoners
committed
to
their
Custody
and
Conduct
made
resistence
:
Upon
this
false
Alarm
given
,
presently
the
Captains
and
their
Companies
make
up
to
them
,
to
assist
a
strong
Guard
against
three
disarmed
,
and
of
them
two
wounded
men
;
being
come
where
they
were
,
they
encompass
them
about
,
and
without
any
examination
of
the
business
,
presuming
the
suggestion
to
be
undoubted
truth
,
one
of
the
Rebels
,
Capt.
Pollard
by
name
,
with
a
full
blow
strikes
at
Mr.
Tyringham
,
and
with
his
Sword
cuts
his
Arme
,
and
Cubit-bones
cross
the
elbow
almost
asunder
:
Mr.
Tyringham
(
almost
threescore
years
of
age
within
two
)
bore
this
barbarous
usage
with
undaunted
Courage
,
and
hearing
this
bloody
Villain
called
Captain
Pollard
,
in
a
pleasant
indignation
expressed
the
sense
of
the
injury
but
thus
,
That
now
he
had
made
him
a
Pollard
indeed
:
A
Metophor
easily
understood
by
Wood-men
,
who
usually
call
a
Tree
,
whose
limbs
or
branches
are
lopped
off
,
a
Pollard
:
Mr.
Tyringhams
Arm
thus
miserably
wounded
,
and
hanging
dangling
from
his
shoulder
,
without
any
government
from
the
nerves
or
sinews
,
one
of
his
Nephews
having
a
mourning
Ribband
,
tendred
it
to
his
Uncle
to
bind
up
his
Arm
,
but
the
Rebels
will
not
permit
it
:
tho
Mr.
Tyringham
intreat
the
favour
to
have
his
wounds
bound
up
,
and
the
very
spectacle
before
their
eyes
,
was
argument
enough
to
extort
this
mercy
from
them
,
yet
they
remain
inexorable
,
nor
would
they
be
perswaded
until
a
long
time
after
:
having
now
made
sure
work
with
their
Prisoners
,
and
rendred
them
so
far
unable
to
resist
,
that
some
were
hardly
able
to
sit
the
jades
on
which
they
were
mounted
,
they
again
set
forward
for
Ailesbury
:
The
Dragooners
horses
on
which
they
were
set
,
being
tired
,
made
the
way
very
tedious
,
especially
to
Mr.
Tyringham
,
who
lost
much
blood
all
the
way
as
they
went
.
While
these
Gentlemen
were
in
this
miserable
condition
,
Captain
Pollard
,
not
troubled
at
all
for
so
bloody
a
fact
,
barbarously
committed
by
himself
on
an
aged
Gentleman
,
and
a
Minister
of
that
Gospel
which
they
falsly
pretend
to
maintain
,
but
indeed
deny
and
blaspheme
in
all
their
actions
,
turned
aside
to
Whaddon
Chase
,
and
sported
himself
in
killing
some
of
His
Majesties
Deer
,
which
he
carried
along
with
him
to
Ailesbury
:
after
almost
four
hours
riding
,
tired
out
with
tired
Jades
,
and
fainting
with
loss
of
blood
,
the
Prisoners
were
again
commanded
to
alight
at
a
Town
called
Whitchurch
within
two
miles
of
Ailesbury
.
Here
they
fall
on
Mr.
Tyringham
afresh
,
and
plunder
him
as
eagerly
as
if
he
had
been
new
come
into
their
hands
,
and
not
touched
by
them
before
.
They
pluck
off
his
Boots
,
and
take
from
him
his
Jerkin
,
his
Hat
and
Cap
,
all
the
fences
provided
for
cold
and
weather
,
and
the
usual
Fortifications
against
the
injuries
of
wind
and
rain
:
and
so
made
a
pattern
of
the
man
wounded
between
Jerusalem
and
Jericho
,
they
mount
him
on
his
Spittle
again
and
drive
on
,
and
after
an
hours
riding
in
cold
and
darkness
,
at
last
they
arrived
at
Ailesbury
,
that
night
the
Chirurgions
(
as
soon
as
they
could
be
found
)
viewed
and
dressed
the
wound
,
but
concluded
unanimously
that
they
must
cut
off
his
Arm
the
next
day
,
or
else
it
would
Gangreen
and
infallaby
kill
him
,
which
next
day
was
done
accordingly
:
Mr.
Tyringham
bore
the
loss
of
his
Arm
with
incredible
resolution
and
courage
,
as
knowing
the
Justice
of
that
Cause
for
which
he
suffered
,
and
as
willing
to
lay
down
his
Life
in
testimony
of
his
Loyalty
,
as
his
Brother
Mr.
Edward
Tyringham
,
one
of
the
Gentlemen
of
the
Kings
Privy
Chamber
had
done
before
him
,
who
the
last
Winter
being
imployed
in
his
Majesties
service
,
and
set
on
by
a
Party
of
Rebels
fought
valiantly
,
but
oppressed
with
multitudes
,
received
so
many
wounds
,
that
he
died
of
them
.
But
it
hath
pleased
God
so
to
bless
the
means
used
for
this
Gentlemans
recovery
,
that
there
are
great
hopes
he
will
survive
these
maimes
,
and
(
as
himself
undauntedly
told
the
Rebels
to
their
faces
)
Live
to
see
them
hanged
.
Amen
.
In
the
fourth
Week
of
this
Mercury
,
you
heard
of
the
cruel
usage
of
Mr.
Wiborow
,
Parson
of
Pebmarsh
in
the
County
of
Essex
,
by
the
Rebels
in
those
parts
;
how
they
abused
him
in
the
Church
,
beat
him
in
the
fields
,
and
took
from
him
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
,
having
before
torn
another
of
his
in
pieces
.
After
this
the
Brownists
and
Anabaptists
of
that
place
(
with
which
that
Country
swarms
)
threaten
to
kill
him
;
Mr.
Wiborow
,
not
daring
to
trust
himself
amongst
these
cruel
blood-thirsty
men
,
to
preserve
his
life
,
was
compelled
to
leave
his
Cure
,
his
Wife
and
Children
,
some
seven
Months
since
,
and
to
put
himself
under
the
Kings
protection
:
hoping
that
his
absence
might
be
a
means
to
secure
his
Wife
and
Children
,
and
prevail
with
these
Monsters
to
permit
them
to
enjoy
that
which
he
left
behind
him
for
their
sustenance
:
but
his
absence
was
so
far
from
working
this
good
effect
in
them
,
that
they
made
use
of
it
,
to
eject
him
out
of
the
possession
of
the
Profits
of
his
Parsonage
,
and
his
Wife
and
Children
out
of
their
house
,
exposing
them
harbourless
to
the
wide
World
:
for
taking
advantage
of
his
absence
,
they
accuse
him
to
the
pretended
Parliament
,
and
frame
a
Bill
of
Falshood
and
Lies
against
him
,
thereby
to
gain
a
Sequestration
of
his
Living
:
A
business
not
of
any
great
difficulty
,
they
being
more
ready
to
grant
such
illegal
oppressive
ejections
,
than
the
People
to
ask
them
:
for
upon
the
Accusation
,
John
White
that
fornicating
Brownist
sitting
in
the
Chair
,
Mr.
Wiborows
Living
was
sequestred
,
and
the
Profits
of
it
given
to
one
Burrows
,
though
the
Cure
was
never
neglected
,
but
supplied
by
Mr.
Wiborows
friends
,
to
the
content
and
satisfaction
of
all
moderate
peaceable
men
:
yet
though
they
had
robb'd
him
of
his
livelyhood
,
and
given
his
Wives
and
Childrens
bread
to
strangers
,
by
most
unjust
practices
,
yet
his
hopes
were
that
his
poor
Wife
and
Children
should
enjoy
the
accommodation
of
their
dwelling
in
the
Parsonage
house
:
but
such
is
the
implacable
cruelty
and
malice
of
these
Sectaries
,
that
on
the
tenth
of
June
1643.
a
Troop
of
the
Rebels
came
to
the
Parsonage
house
,
and
demanded
entrance
:
Mrs.
Wiborow
and
her
Children
being
alone
in
the
house
,
she
barr'd
up
the
doors
against
them
,
and
for
her
better
safety
retired
to
an
upper
room
,
to
which
the
passage
was
through
a
Trap-door
,
which
likewise
she
made
as
fast
as
she
could
:
all
this
fortification
could
not
keep
these
Rebels
out
,
they
break
open
the
doors
,
and
make
way
to
the
room
,
where
Mrs.
Wiborow
and
her
Children
thought
to
secure
themselves
:
when
they
came
thither
,
three
of
these
Rebels
set
their
Pistols
at
her
breast
,
threatning
to
shoot
her
,
if
she
and
her
Children
would
not
suddenly
depart
the
house
,
and
leave
it
to
a
new
Master
.
Mrs.
Wiborow
replied
,
That
she
would
rather
be
killed
within
doors
,
than
perish
without
,
but
withal
earnestly
intreated
that
she
might
enjoy
so
much
of
her
Husbands
right
,
as
his
house
to
shelter
her
and
her
Children
,
who
poor
Souls
stood
about
their
Mother
crying
,
and
in
their
natural
oratory
craving
compassion
towards
their
Mother
,
whom
at
every
word
the
Rebels
threaten
to
Pistol
;
but
neither
the
earnest
intreaty
of
the
Mother
,
nor
the
pitiful
out-cries
of
the
Children
,
could
prevail
with
them
,
they
remain
as
deaf
men
,
void
of
all
pitty
or
bowels
of
Compassion
:
nay
they
violently
seize
on
her
,
drag
her
down
the
stairs
,
and
out
of
the
house
into
the
yard
:
the
poor
Children
being
almost
distracted
and
at
their
wits
end
for
fear
what
would
become
of
their
Mother
,
being
thus
violently
drawn
out
of
the
house
into
the
yard
,
there
she
found
Meriton
Simpson
and
Cooke
the
Sequestrators
,
with
other
attending
there
to
see
this
joyful
spectacle
,
a
poor
oppressed
Gentlewoman
and
her
small
Children
cruelly
cast
out
of
their
own
habitation
by
Rebels
and
Traitors
.
As
soon
as
Mrs.
Wiborow
saw
them
,
she
presented
them
with
the
Kings
Proclamation
against
the
Oppression
of
the
Clergy
,
by
the
intrusion
of
factious
and
schismatical
persons
into
the
Cures
and
Revenues
of
Learned
,
Orthodox
Divines
,
by
Order
of
one
,
or
both
pretended
Houses
of
Parliament
,
contrary
to
all
Law
and
Justice
:
which
she
hoped
would
have
found
so
much
obedience
and
respect
,
as
to
restore
her
to
her
house
:
This
was
so
far
from
mollifying
these
Rebels
and
Schismatiques
,
that
it
provoked
them
to
great
insolencies
:
at
last
when
Mrs.
Wiborow
perceived
that
all
her
intreaties
,
and
her
Childrens
tears
prevailed
nothing
,
to
restore
her
to
her
house
,
she
intreated
the
Sequestrators
,
that
in
case
she
could
not
be
permitted
to
dwell
in
her
own
house
,
that
yet
she
might
have
some
other
place
of
accommodation
provided
,
to
receive
her
and
her
Children
:
Meriton
insolently
replied
,
That
he
would
provide
his
Tumbril
,
that
is
,
his
Dung-Cart
,
to
carry
her
and
her
Children
from
Constable
to
Constable
,
till
she
came
to
her
Husband
:
after
many
bitter
scoffs
and
scorns
in
this
her
affliction
,
she
desired
that
if
she
might
not
obtain
so
much
favour
to
dwell
in
her
house
,
yet
they
would
not
deny
her
access
to
her
house
,
but
that
she
might
go
in
to
fetch
out
provision
for
her
Childrens
supper
that
night
:
But
these
Monsters
of
men
would
not
give
her
leave
:
and
to
compleat
this
unheard-of
Tyranny
and
Oppression
,
the
Authorized
Thieves
,
I
mean
the
Commissioners
appointed
by
the
pretended
House
of
Parliament
to
seize
upon
the
Estates
of
all
Delinquents
,
and
to
point
out
who
shall
be
plundered
next
,
Order
,
that
whatsoever
Mr.
Wiborow
had
left
,
should
be
seized
on
for
the
use
of
that
Thing
which
they
call
a
Parliament
:
thereby
to
support
Rebellion
with
Robbery
and
Theft
.
Instantly
they
seize
on
his
Corn
,
and
those
few
Cattle
,
the
remainder
of
former
Plunderings
,
though
they
knew
it
was
the
life
of
the
Mother
and
her
Children
,
and
that
in
taking
away
these
,
they
deprived
them
of
all
means
of
subsistence
,
and
exposed
them
to
extream
want
,
having
reduced
them
to
this
miserable
condition
,
to
beg
or
starve
:
Now
for
the
comfortless
trouble
sake
of
the
needy
,
and
because
of
the
deep
sighing
of
the
poor
,
I
will
up
saith
the
Lord
,
and
will
help
every
one
from
him
that
swelleth
against
him
,
and
will
set
him
at
rest
:
The
good
God
perform
his
promise
,
Let
God
arise
and
let
these
Enemies
of
God
and
Man
be
scattered
.
Mr.
Thomas
Dalton
Bachelour
of
Divinity
,
and
Parson
of
Dalham
in
the
County
of
Suffolke
,
being
plundered
of
his
Horse
by
Colonel
Russels
Troop
Deputy
Lieutenant
of
the
County
of
Cambridge
,
on
more
than
probable
grounds
,
fearing
that
they
would
seize
upon
his
Person
,
and
commit
him
to
Prison
,
was
compelled
to
leave
his
family
and
retire
privately
to
some
friends
,
where
he
continued
some
months
.
In
the
interim
one
Barnard
a
poor
Smith
,
and
one
that
formerly
had
lived
on
the
Parish
Alms
,
informed
the
Committee
at
Cambridge
of
Mr.
Daltons
absence
,
and
making
it
his
Crime
,
Petitioned
for
a
Sequestration
of
his
living
,
intending
to
make
a
gain
of
it
himself
;
for
whereas
the
living
is
worth
140
l.
per
annum
,
and
had
been
so
let
for
many
years
before
,
Vulcan
,
I
mean
Barnard
the
Smith
,
having
got
a
Chaplain
of
his
own
,
one
Randall
by
name
,
intends
with
him
to
serve
the
Cure
for
50
or
60
Pounds
a
year
,
intending
to
put
up
the
Overplus
into
his
own
Purse
:
nor
did
he
fail
of
his
pious
project
,
so
apparently
tending
to
the
publick
good
,
and
reformation
of
the
Church
:
For
on
the
Smiths
bare
instance
,
though
earnestly
opposed
by
the
Lord
of
the
Town
,
and
about
forty
of
the
chiefest
of
the
Parish
,
who
all
laboured
earnestly
to
withstand
it
,
the
committee
for
the
advancement
of
the
Reformation
,
hearken
to
Barnard
and
substitute
Randall
Vulcan
,
Priest
in
Mr.
Daltons
place
,
and
revenue
;
This
grant
of
the
Committee
was
ratified
by
the
Committee
at
Westminster
,
for
't
is
not
impossible
but
Barnard
might
have
sharers
with
him
in
both
Committees
:
For
the
Tyth
of
the
Tyth
was
enough
for
an
Alms-man
:
nay
this
Committee
did
not
only
ratifie
the
Order
of
the
other
Committee
,
but
added
to
the
injustice
by
ordering
Mrs.
Dalton
instantly
to
resign
possession
of
the
Parsonage
house
to
Randall
:
of
which
Ordinance
when
the
Patron
of
the
living
had
intelligence
,
he
instantly
posted
to
London
,
and
knowing
how
unjust
and
trivial
the
accusation
against
Mr.
Dalton
were
,
absence
being
his
main
Crime
,
(
being
put
to
this
hard
Option
either
to
stay
and
be
committed
Prisoner
,
or
to
fly
and
be
robb'd
of
the
profits
of
his
Living
,
for
this
is
the
Dilemma
to
which
all
Orthodox
Conformable
Ministers
are
now
put
)
resolved
to
intercede
for
him
,
hoping
either
quite
to
take
him
off
,
or
at
least
to
procure
a
mitigation
of
the
Order
;
but
contrary
to
his
expectation
he
found
the
Smith
Courted
,
applauded
,
and
to
enjoy
freedom
of
access
to
the
Committee
,
and
himself
(
a
Gentleman
of
very
good
rank
and
esteem
in
his
Country
)
to
be
slighted
;
neglected
,
and
made
dance
attendance
,
and
after
long
waiting
not
regarded
what
he
spake
for
his
Minister
:
At
last
this
good
Gentleman
having
by
experience
observed
,
that
the
practices
of
the
Faction
in
Parliament
did
engage
them
to
slight
and
suppress
the
Gentry
,
and
all
that
made
Honour
,
or
Conscience
the
rule
of
their
Actions
,
and
to
court
and
observe
the
dregs
and
scum
of
the
People
,
(
as
the
fittest
instruments
for
their
designs
)
returned
home
,
and
sending
for
Mrs.
Dalton
,
entreats
her
to
make
use
of
his
house
as
her
own
,
until
God
should
enable
the
King
to
restore
her
,
and
all
his
loyal
Subjects
to
their
own
:
Mrs.
Dalton
accepts
of
his
courteous
offer
,
but
leaves
her
man
to
keep
possession
of
the
Parsonage
house
:
She
had
not
stayed
long
here
before
her
Hoast
is
threatned
to
be
plundered
for
his
hospitality
:
Barnard
the
Smith
(
as
bad
as
Alexander
the
Copper-smith
)
being
now
so
rich
as
to
be
able
to
travel
to
London
,
and
trouble
his
Neighbours
;
that
his
Levite
might
have
the
Parsonage
House
to
better
his
bargain
,
speeds
to
the
Committee
,
and
prefers
a
Complaint
against
Mrs.
Dalton
for
giving
up
possession
of
her
house
according
to
their
Order
:
upon
complaint
made
,
it
is
further
ordered
by
the
same
Committee
,
that
because
she
had
presently
quitted
the
House
,
she
should
be
brought
up
to
London
before
the
Committee
,
there
to
answer
the
contempt
:
to
avoid
further
vexation
she
obeyed
the
Order
,
and
gave
up
possession
,
hoping
that
this
resigning
of
her
right
,
would
set
an
end
to
her
trouble
:
but
according
to
the
Rebels
Method
from
the
beginning
of
this
Parliament
,
first
invade
the
Clergie
,
and
then
the
Laity
,
So
here
they
vary
not
from
the
first
Pattern
,
for
having
robbed
Mr.
Dalton
of
his
Ecclesiastical
Revenues
,
presently
they
seize
upon
his
Temporal
,
his
Rents
and
other
Debts
due
unto
him
,
they
leave
him
nothing
.
But
if
you
please
to
see
the
lively
Character
of
a
Malitious
,
Ingrateful
,
Cheating
Schismatick
,
whose
Religion
is
to
return
evil
for
good
,
and
hatred
for
good
will
,
look
once
more
on
this
Barnard
the
Smith
,
and
you
will
conclude
it
doubtful
which
is
hardest
,
his
Anvil
or
his
heart
.
For
this
Wretch
owing
to
Mr.
Dalton
twenty
seven
Pounds
,
when
the
time
of
payment
was
come
,
Barnard
come
to
the
Church
Porch
,
the
place
appointed
for
payment
of
the
Debt
,
attended
with
four
Rebel
Troopers
,
as
witness
of
the
tender
of
the
moneys
.
Mrs.
Dalton
being
there
to
receive
it
,
he
pours
it
out
,
she
having
told
it
,
was
putting
it
up
into
her
Purse
;
But
Barnard
interrupted
her
,
Saying
,
Stay
this
is
for
better
use
than
so
,
it
is
for
the
service
of
the
Parliament
:
and
presently
(
as
the
Plot
was
laid
)
the
Troopers
bent
their
Pistols
at
her
brest
,
and
force
the
monies
from
her
:
nay
,
before
it
was
lawful
by
Order
and
Ordinances
to
violate
all
the
Obligations
of
Religion
and
Gratitude
,
this
Barnard
acknowledged
himself
much
bound
to
Mr.
Dalton
for
many
favours
having
many
ways
endeared
him
,
thought
all
things
safe
which
were
committed
to
Barnards
trust
;
in
this
confidence
Mr.
Dalton
laid
up
divers
Cooms
of
Wheat
in
Barnards
house
,
to
be
a
help
in
time
of
need
:
when
Mr.
Dalton
was
gone
,
his
Wife
sent
to
Barnards
house
to
demand
some
Wheat
,
this
unthankful
wretch
denied
it
,
affirming
that
Mr.
Dalton
being
a
Malignant
had
no
rite
or
property
in
those
Goods
;
and
therefore
forbad
her
man
to
come
on
his
ground
,
threatning
that
he
would
run
his
Pitch-fork
in
him
,
if
he
came
thither
to
make
any
such
Demand
:
Ab
uno
disce
omnes
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
XIV
.
The
Rebels
barbarous
usage
of
Sir
Ralph
Canterills
Man
in
Chancery-Lane
,
London
:
Of
the
Ministery
of
London
.
A
Character
of
Mr.
Ephraim
Udall
,
Parson
of
Saint
Austins
,
with
the
Cruelty
used
towards
him
and
his
Wife
.
Sir
Thomas
Hides
covetousness
and
neutrality
here
rewarded
by
the
Rebels
.
Mr.
Bowlstrodes
Prayer
by
the
Spirit
,
&c.
IF
in
the
Relation
of
these
sad
stories
thou
find
(
courteous
Reader
)
some
Complaints
of
London
,
mingled
with
those
of
the
Countrey
,
know
that
the
earnest
request
of
Mercurius
Civicus
must
plead
my
Apology
.
The
heads
of
this
Rebellion
deal
with
that
miserable
City
as
unjust
Stepmothers
do
with
their
poor
Children
,
Whip
them
till
they
cry
,
and
then
whip
them
again
for
crying
:
for
they
have
not
so
much
losers
Priviledg
left
them
as
to
have
Liberty
to
Complain
:
and
then
let
the
World
judg
to
what
a
narrow
Scantling
the
Liberty
of
the
Subject
is
reduced
,
by
these
pretended
Assertors
of
the
Liberty
,
when
it
is
lawful
for
them
to
Murther
,
and
Plunder
the
Kings
good
Subjects
,
and
yet
it
is
not
lawful
for
the
oppressed
to
bemoan
their
own
Condition
.
Being
therefore
denied
the
common
natural
mitigation
of
great
pressures
,
to
bewail
their
own
Miseries
,
and
breath
out
the
sense
of
them
in
free
expressions
,
for
fear
they
further
provoke
their
Oppressors
while
they
implore
the
compassion
of
their
friends
,
Mercurius
Civicus
in
his
Letter
,
dated
Aug.
5.
1643.
and
directed
to
me
,
earnestly
entreated
(
their
own
Presses
not
daring
to
publish
the
truth
of
their
miserable
condition
)
that
their
sufferings
under
the
Insolency
,
Injustice
,
Tyranny
and
Rapine
of
this
horrid
Rebellion
,
might
be
made
known
to
the
World
by
a
borrowed
pen
,
and
interwoven
with
those
of
the
Countrey
:
that
therefore
we
may
not
be
wanting
to
so
just
requests
,
nor
leave
posterity
ignorant
what
transcendent
cruelties
are
practised
as
well
within
the
Walls
of
that
wretched
City
as
without
,
as
oft
as
they
shall
privately
(
by
such
secret
ways
of
intelligence
as
the
present
condition
of
the
times
permit
)
impart
their
Calamities
,
I
shall
according
to
Mercurius
Civicus
desire
,
insert
them
with
those
of
the
Country
,
and
so
impart
them
to
the
World
;
and
though
the
barbarous
Murthers
committed
on
Mr.
Tompkins
,
and
Mr.
Chaloner
,
that
second
pair
of
State
Martyrs
,
together
with
the
butchery
of
a
peaceable
Citizen
slain
by
Captain
Harvey
:
and
the
Women
slaughtered
by
Sir
Willam
Wallers
Troopers
(
that
ran
away
at
Roundway
Down
,
to
kill
Women
and
Virgins
in
London
,
for
the
unpardonable
crime
of
petitioning
for
Peace
)
might
justly
challenge
precedency
,
yet
because
the
memories
of
those
two
worthies
are
reserved
for
a
peculiar
Martyrologue
,
and
these
are
already
imbalmed
by
the
Piety
of
our
Brother
Aulicus
,
I
shall
set
before
you
the
misery
,
into
which
that
Rebellious
City
hath
Plunged
it self
and
us
,
in
some
other
instances
.
On
Tuesday
the
15
of
Aug.
1643.
a
Party
of
Colonel
Harvies
Regiment
came
to
one
Walkers
house
in
Chancery-Lane
,
to
Seize
on
Sir
Ralph
Canteril
,
whom
they
supposed
then
to
have
lodged
there
:
on
their
coming
,
finding
that
the
Knight
was
either
gone
out
of
Town
,
or
had
shifted
his
lodging
,
but
on
diligent
inquiry
discovering
that
there
was
a
man
in
the
house
that
now
was
,
or
lately
had
been
Sir
Ralphs
Servant
,
they
apprehend
him
,
and
demand
where
his
Master
was
,
and
where
he
had
hid
his
Money
,
Plate
,
and
Jewels
?
The
man
replied
that
he
had
left
his
Masters
service
,
and
did
know
nothing
,
either
where
his
Master
was
,
or
how
he
had
disposed
of
his
Goods
:
presently
they
lay
violent
hands
on
him
,
and
carry
him
out
into
the
back-side
into
the
house
of
Office
,
there
to
examin
him
by
Torment
:
there
they
rip
up
the
Tiles
,
and
one
of
the
Rebels
taking
a
Cord
out
of
his
pocket
,
fastened
one
end
of
it
about
the
poor
mans
neck
,
and
threw
the
other
end
over
the
rafters
of
the
untiled
house
:
Having
him
at
this
posture
,
they
interrogate
him
again
where
this
(
Imaginary
)
Treasure
was
hid
;
he
returns
the
same
answer
,
that
he
could
give
no
account
what
Sir
Ralph
had
done
with
it
:
for
being
to
leave
his
service
,
he
was
a
stranger
to
his
Masters
Actions
:
Not
satisfied
with
so
reasonable
an
Answer
,
they
hoise
him
up
by
the
Neck
,
and
let
him
hang
a
good
distance
from
the
ground
,
where
having
hanged
a
while
,
they
let
him
down
,
and
examin
him
again
where
Sir
Ralph
had
bestowed
his
Money
,
Plate
,
and
Jewels
?
The
poor
man
not
able
to
give
any
other
answer
to
their
Query
,
protests
his
ignorance
,
and
that
if
the
discovery
might
save
his
life
,
yet
he
could
not
redeem
it
so
,
for
he
knew
nothing
concerning
what
they
asked
him
:
inraged
that
the
man
could
not
Prophecy
,
(
for
without
that
gift
he
could
not
resolve
them
)
they
suddenly
hoise
him
up
to
the
top
of
the
house
,
and
letting
go
their
hold
,
they
let
him
as
suddenly
fall
to
the
ground
:
Being
fallen
,
there
he
lay
for
dead
without
any
expression
of
life
:
but
these
barbarous
Rebels
hoping
that
there
may
yet
remain
some
life
in
him
whereon
to
practise
further
cruelty
,
stand
by
the
man
,
and
watch
him
,
and
at
last
perceiving
that
he
was
not
dead
,
but
that
he
began
to
stir
and
breath
,
presently
they
put
burning
matches
between
his
fingers
:
hoping
by
this
way
of
Torment
to
extort
a
discovery
from
him
:
but
in
vain
,
the
extremity
of
this
Torment
indeed
(
though
half
dead
as
he
was
)
made
him
cry
out
and
roar
in
a
very
lamentable
manner
,
which
a
Maid-servant
of
the
house
hearing
,
and
affrighted
at
the
noise
,
ran
to
her
Master
,
and
told
him
,
that
certainly
the
Rebels
were
murthering
the
man
in
the
house
of
Office
,
hereupon
Mr.
Walker
hastened
out
,
and
when
he
came
to
the
place
,
found
the
conjecture
of
his
Servant
true
,
and
amazed
at
so
horrid
,
so
inhumane
a
spectacle
,
interceded
for
the
poor
man
,
and
earnestly
desired
them
,
not
to
defile
his
ground
and
habitation
with
innocent
blood
:
instead
of
desisting
they
return
the
Aegyptians
answer
to
Moses
,
Who
made
thee
a
Ruler
and
a
Judg
?
bad
him
be
silent
,
and
withdraw
,
or
else
they
threatned
to
use
him
in
like
manner
:
Mr.
Walker
fearing
that
those
perjured
persidious
Villains
,
which
keep
their
words
in
nothing
else
,
might
yet
be
punctual
in
performance
of
mischief
,
not
daring
to
commit
himself
to
their
mercy
,
left
them
,
and
went
imto
his
house
,
where
the
Quarter-Master
to
the
Rebels
lay
sleeping
while
the
Troopers
were
acting
this
cruelty
,
him
he
raiseth
from
sleep
,
and
tells
him
what
the
Troopers
were
doing
without
,
who
something
moved
at
the
Relation
,
went
out
unto
them
,
and
took
them
off
from
farther
prosecuting
their
barbarous
intentions
.
But
whether
or
no
the
man
on
whom
all
this
cruelty
was
acted
,
survived
this
barbarous
usage
,
is
uncertain
.
As
amongst
the
many
blessings
wherewith
it
pleased
God
to
advance
the
City
of
London
far
above
all
other
Cities
either
of
this
,
or
other
Nations
of
the
Christian
World
,
one
was
their
Clergy
:
for
a
more
pious
,
learned
,
and
laborious
Ministry
,
no
people
ever
enjoyed
,
even
their
Enemies
themselves
being
Judges
:
So
amongst
the
many
crying
sins
whereby
that
proud
rebellious
City
hath
provoked
God
to
give
them
up
to
a
Reprobate
sense
and
hardness
of
heart
to
their
own
destruction
,
certainly
,
the
contempt
and
oppression
of
their
Clergy
are
none
of
the
least
:
as
before
the
lest
Parliament
began
,
a
main
part
of
their
Religion
was
to
strive
with
their
Priests
,
and
to
rob
them
of
their
maintenance
,
by
all
possible
arts
of
deceit
,
and
fraud
,
so
as
soon
as
the
Parliament
was
sate
,
and
the
basest
of
the
People
were
set
loose
to
worrey
their
Ministers
(
though
never
so
blameless
,
never
so
Orthodox
,
if
they
did
not
conspire
with
them
to
innovate
both
Church
and
State
:
)
the
Citizens
of
London
,
shewed
themselves
most
forward
in
Petitioning
against
their
Ministers
:
yet
at
first
pretended
to
molest
such
only
,
who
had
expressed
greatest
zeal
to
the
Order
,
and
decency
of
Gods
worship
,
professing
that
for
the
rest
there
was
no
thought
to
trouble
them
:
but
at
last
having
put
to
flight
,
or
imprisoned
those
,
they
go
and
discover
plainly
,
that
whatsoever
is
a
Friend
to
the
Protestant
Religion
,
as
it
is
established
in
the
Church
of
England
,
is
their
Enemy
:
how
many
have
they
silenced
,
imprisoned
,
or
banished
from
their
Cures
whom
heretofore
they
did
magnifie
for
the
undaunted
Champions
of
the
Protestant
Religion
?
and
stout
opposers
of
those
supposed
pretended
innovations
,
which
they
vainly
imagined
were
the
eager
endeavours
of
some
men
to
impose
upon
the
Church
:
he
that
knows
London
,
and
hath
frequented
the
most
thronged
Congregations
there
,
cannot
be
ignorant
,
that
Mr.
Ephraim
Udall
Parson
of
S.
Austins
in
the
Old
Change
near
S.
Austines
Gate
,
is
a
man
of
eminent
Piety
,
exemplary
Conversation
,
profound
Learning
,
indefatigable
Industry
,
Preaching
constantly
every
Lords
Day
twice
,
and
for
the
Winter
half
year
,
if
not
the
whole
year
,
preaching
a
Lecture
at
his
own
Parish
every
Tuesday
in
the
Afternoon
:
and
if
I
am
not
mistaken
every
Saturday
before
the
first
Sunday
in
the
month
a
Preparatory
Sermon
to
the
blessed
Sacrament
of
the
Sords
Supper
:
and
besides
all
this
,
he
is
a
man
of
an
affable
,
courteous
,
peaceable
Conversation
amongst
his
Neighbours
:
in
a
word
,
he
was
a
man
of
their
own
vote
:
and
is
(
without
prophanation
be
it
spoken
)
a
shining
and
burning
light
:
and
his
people
for
a
while
much
pleased
themselves
in
their
choice
,
and
were
content
to
walk
by
his
light
;
but
when
he
found
himself
mistaken
in
the
ends
and
intentions
of
the
heads
of
this
Rebellion
,
when
he
saw
that
the
zeal
of
some
did
degenerate
into
madness
and
frenzie
,
and
that
the
endeavours
of
others
(
under
the
pretence
of
Reformation
)
was
to
bring
in
Anarchy
and
Sacriledg
,
to
devour
Gods
Portion
,
and
the
poor
remainder
of
the
Patrimony
of
the
Church
,
he
did
strongly
and
powerfully
bend
both
his
tongue
and
pen
against
them
:
against
Sacriledg
he
published
that
learned
Tract
,
called
A
Coal
from
the
Altar
:
against
Anarchy
he
declared
himself
for
Episcopacy
,
and
the
established
Lyturgy
:
and
published
another
Book
called
Communion
Comeliness
,
in
which
by
many
impregnable
Arguments
he
proves
a
high
Conveniency
,
if
not
a
necessity
,
for
that
most
laudable
custom
of
having
Rails
about
the
Lords
Table
:
These
were
in
the
Schismatiques
opinion
Crimes
enough
to
unsaint
a
man
,
nay
,
had
S.
Paul
himself
been
now
in
the
flesh
,
and
preached
against
Sacriledg
and
Anarchy
,
there
is
no
doubt
,
but
there
would
have
been
some
found
to
petition
against
him
,
and
John
White
sitting
in
the
Chair
,
as
undoubtedly
he
had
been
voted
a
scandalous
Minister
at
a
Committee
:
but
because
when
these
Books
were
published
,
Injustice
and
oppression
did
not
march
so
furiously
,
nor
were
grown
so
frontless
and
impudent
to
seize
on
innocency
it self
,
not
slurr'd
with
slanders
and
calumnies
,
Mr.
Udall
sate
something
quiet
,
some
murmurings
there
were
,
but
his
former
Reputation
in
the
City
bore
him
up
against
the
Obloquy
of
private
discontent
:
the
Faction
found
it
no
easie
matter
to
brand
Mr.
Udall
with
Popery
,
or
Popishly
affected
,
or
these
slanders
to
make
any
impression
in
that
estimation
which
the
people
had
of
him
:
but
at
last
when
they
came
openly
to
defie
their
Sovereign
,
the
Lords
Anointed
,
and
it
was
almost
Treason
but
to
name
the
13.
Chapter
to
the
Romans
,
it
was
a
fit
time
to
silence
and
remove
Mr.
Udall
,
for
neither
Doctor
Gouge
his
Church
at
Black
Fryers
,
or
Mr.
Goodwins
in
Coleman-street
,
were
half
so
full
before
this
Parliament
began
,
as
Mr.
Udalls
hath
been
since
.
First
,
therefore
,
they
Plunder
his
house
,
they
take
away
his
Library
and
Houshold-stuff
:
Then
they
remove
him
from
the
Execution
of
his
Ministery
,
and
sequester
the
profit
for
a
Levite
of
their
own
:
Thirdly
,
they
sought
for
him
to
commit
him
close
Prisoner
,
being
aged
,
of
very
weak
and
infirm
body
,
his
strength
exhausted
with
continual
labours
in
Preaching
the
word
of
God
,
visiting
the
sick
,
and
in
execution
of
their
ministerial
Functions
,
in
performance
of
which
in
his
own
person
few
of
his
Brethren
were
more
conscientious
:
And
lastly
,
they
cast
him
out
of
his
dwelling
house
:
But
when
they
came
to
seize
on
his
house
,
they
found
one
impediment
,
which
unless
they
could
find
some
art
to
remove
,
they
could
not
take
full
possession
of
it
:
Mrs.
Udall
(
besides
the
infirmities
of
age
)
was
lame
,
and
it
had
been
monstrous
inhumanity
to
take
her
by
violence
and
carry
her
out
of
her
house
,
not
knowing
where
to
dispose
of
her
,
but
in
the
open
street
:
Therefore
to
gain
her
consent
,
and
prevent
clamour
until
the
feat
was
done
,
they
tell
the
good
old
Gentlewoman
that
the
Parliament
had
a
tender
respect
unto
her
years
,
and
to
her
present
infirmities
:
and
therefore
though
they
had
ordered
to
dispossess
her
of
that
house
,
yet
they
did
not
mean
to
leave
her
harbourless
,
but
had
out
of
the
abundance
of
their
goodness
provided
another
house
to
receive
her
:
She
good
old
Woman
neither
awed
by
fear
,
nor
won
by
their
perswasions
and
promises
,
was
taken
up
by
two
men
brought
in
by
him
that
had
broken
open
three
locks
,
and
entred
the
house
by
force
,
and
carried
out
of
her
house
into
the
street
,
there
they
set
her
down
in
a
Chair
,
and
so
leave
this
weak
infirm
Matron
,
of
a
long
time
not
accustomed
to
the
open
air
,
nor
being
able
to
go
out
of
doors
in
three
or
four
years
before
,
unless
unto
the
Church
,
exposed
her
(
a
sad
spectacle
of
the
Rebels
cruelty
)
to
the
mercy
of
Wind
and
Weather
.
The
Rebels
in
their
march
towards
Gloucester
,
seized
on
Sr.
Tho.
Hide
a
Bedfordshire
Man
,
whose
sordid
Covetousness
had
made
him
so
far
forget
all
Duty
and
Loyalty
to
his
Sovereign
,
as
that
he
refused
to
assist
him
either
in
his
Person
or
his
purse
:
but
because
either
his
Estate
lay
nearer
to
the
Power
of
the
Rebels
,
than
to
the
Kings
Protection
:
a
Consideration
which
in
these
Atheistical
rebellious
times
is
admitted
as
a
just
Apologie
,
either
for
Neutrality
,
or
ready
Compliance
with
the
Rebels
,
so
far
as
to
submit
to
all
Taxes
and
Impositions
laid
on
them
,
a
most
traiterous
and
irreligious
liberty
and
dispensation
of
Conscience
,
which
if
all
men
had
made
use
of
,
the
Kings
Crown
might
long
before
this
have
been
thrown
down
to
the
ground
:
Or
else
conceiving
it
a
very
unlikely
,
if
not
an
impossible
thing
for
the
King
to
withstand
their
power
,
who
had
not
only
by
Lies
and
Slanders
stoln
away
the
hearts
of
the
People
,
but
had
seized
on
all
his
Castles
,
Towns
,
Forts
,
Magazines
:
did
contribute
to
the
Rebels
aid
,
and
wholly
complied
with
them
,
not
so
much
out
of
judgment
,
as
fear
:
thinking
that
this
compliance
would
be
the
security
of
his
Estate
,
and
turn
to
his
great
advantage
:
but
his
Wealth
was
so
well
known
,
that
bare
Compliance
,
and
small
Contributions
must
not
serve
his
turn
,
he
must
bleed
more
freely
:
They
seize
him
the
Twentieth
part
,
and
that
highly
set
:
This
demand
struck
his
heart
like
pangs
of
death
;
and
he
that
was
so
forward
in
petty
assistances
,
now
discovered
the
love
of
himself
to
be
more
than
that
of
the
holy
Cause
,
and
refused
to
part
with
more
monies
:
wherefore
in
recompence
of
his
former
good
deeds
,
they
seize
on
his
Person
,
and
carry
him
captive
in
their
Army
,
and
suffered
his
Servant
to
walk
along
by
him
,
leading
a
horse
in
his
hand
,
while
his
Master
the
Knight
was
chained
arm
to
arm
with
another
Prisoner
,
and
was
compelled
to
beat
it
on
the
hoof
:
Thus
did
he
march
for
three
days
on
foot
,
coupled
with
another
Prisoner
,
and
that
Prisoner
,
as
we
are
informed
,
is
Doctor
Stubbing
,
Doctor
in
Divinity
,
whom
likewise
the
Rebels
gathered
up
in
their
march
,
and
taking
him
from
his
Cure
,
added
him
to
the
number
of
their
Captives
:
So
soon
can
these
Rebels
forget
former
aids
,
if
men
do
not
comply
with
them
,
and
answer
their
expectation
in
every
thing
,
and
indeed
what
measure
their
dearest
friends
are
to
expect
from
them
,
if
they
fail
them
in
any
particular
,
not
running
into
the
same
excess
of
Madness
and
Treason
as
they
do
,
and
shall
not
shew
themselves
ready
at
a
call
(
to
their
perpetual
infamy
,
contrary
to
the
Religion
which
they
profess
,
the
Oaths
which
they
have
taken
,
and
the
solemn
Protestations
which
they
have
made
)
rush
into
the
damnable
sin
of
Rebellion
,
and
give
the
right
hand
of
fellowship
to
the
Rebels
here
,
to
assist
them
in
so
unnatural
a
War
against
their
own
gracious
native
Sovereign
,
we
may
fully
learn
by
a
Prayer
(
for
now
they
have
turned
their
very
Prayers
into
sin
,
being
no
better
than
very
Libels
and
Pasquils
)
lately
made
by
Mr.
Bowlstrode
,
Son
to
Colonel
Bowlstrode
,
a
factious
Rebel
of
Buckinghamshire
,
before
his
Sermon
at
Horton
near
Colebrooke
,
which
that
you
may
see
what
Spirit
of
Prayer
and
Supplication
it
is
,
of
which
they
boast
,
and
that
the
Nation
whom
it
concerns
may
see
what
opinion
the
factious
Preachers
here
have
of
them
,
unless
they
will
serve
their
vile
purposes
and
ingage
themselves
as
deeply
(
which
God
forbid
)
in
the
present
Rebellion
as
themselves
,
we
have
here
inserted
.
Thou
hast
,
O
Lord
,
of
late
,
written
bitter
things
against
thy
Children
,
and
forsaken
thine
own
Inheritance
,
and
now
Lord
in
our
misery
and
distress
we
expected
aid
from
our
Brethren
of
the
neighbouring
Nation
,
(
the
Scots
I
mean
)
but
good
Lord
,
thou
knowest
that
they
are
a
false
and
perfidious
Nation
;
and
do
all
they
do
for
their
own
ends
,
and
not
for
our
good
:
if
therefore
,
good
Lord
,
their
coming
into
the
Land
at
this
time
be
for
our
good
,
bring
them
in
speedily
,
if
otherwise
,
keep
them
out
,
for
they
are
a
false
and
perfidious
Nation
.
There
was
present
at
Church
at
that
time
,
one
Mr.
Kenada
a
Scotch
man
,
who
being
drowsie
was
wakened
by
a
friend
that
sate
by
him
,
to
hear
the
devotion
of
the
Preacher
;
who
hearing
his
whole
Nation
thus
publickly
blasphemed
by
this
contemptible
Zelot
,
spake
out
in
the
Congregation
saying
,
I
think
the
man
is
mad
:
and
certainly
Mr.
Kenada
was
not
a
jot
mistaken
,
to
think
him
mad
that
should
thus
rashly
in
the
face
of
a
solemn
Congregation
traduce
a
Nation
,
and
if
there
be
amongst
the
heads
of
the
Rebellion
(
in
whose
power
he
is
)
any
care
of
the
honour
of
that
Nation
,
we
doubt
not
but
we
shall
shorly
hear
of
some
exemplary
Punishment
inflicted
on
this
incendiary
between
the
two
Nations
:
and
heightned
according
to
the
nature
of
the
Crime
.
If
any
man
doubt
of
the
truth
of
this
Relation
,
whether
it
be
a
fiction
or
a
thing
really
done
,
he
may
consult
Mr.
Kenada
or
any
of
Horton
Parish
,
who
are
ready
to
bear
Testimony
to
this
truth
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
XV.
Master
Squire
of
Little
Saint
Bartholomews
,
London
,
plundered
of
four
thousand
pounds
.
Nath.
Fiennes
his
Warrant
for
a
Citizen
of
Bristol
.
A
touch
of
Colonel
Morley
's
tyranny
in
Sussex
,
with
the
hard
usage
of
Mr.
Hinson
a
Minister
there
.
A
Woman
most
unchristianly
tortured
to
death
by
the
Rebels
at
Chippingnorton
,
&c.
UPon
Friday
the
18.
of
Aug.
1643.
Mr.
Squire
of
Little
S.
Bartholomews
,
London
,
having
this
present
Rebellion
upon
several
Rates
,
Taxes
and
Loans
,
disbursed
near
a
Thousand
pounds
,
was
sent
unto
for
a
new
Sum
towards
the
maintenance
of
the
Holy
Cause
;
but
he
foreseeing
,
that
as
long
as
their
Purses
were
open
to
foment
this
unnatural
War
,
there
would
be
no
end
of
it
till
their
Estates
were
exhausted
,
and
the
wealthiest
amongst
them
reduced
to
beggery
,
and
a
morsel
of
bread
,
returned
a
denyal
,
yet
withal
professed
his
readiness
to
have
supplyed
them
if
he
had
been
provided
:
and
his
Wife
to
indear
themselves
,
and
to
shew
how
well
affected
they
were
to
the
Cause
,
wished
that
all
the
Malignants
in
London
were
plundered
,
and
then
there
would
be
less
cause
to
call
so
often
on
the
Well-affected
for
so
great
Supplies
,
not
imagining
(
good
Woman
)
that
her
Husband
might
be
numbred
shortly
amongst
the
Malignants
:
or
,
that
to
be
wealthy
and
not
pour
out
all
,
as
often
as
the
heads
of
this
Rebellion
should
call
for
it
,
was
in
their
opinion
,
high
Malignity
:
for
next
day
,
notwithstanding
their
former
complyance
with
the
Rebels
in
so
great
a
measure
,
six
men
with
Pistols
were
sent
to
Master
Squires
House
,
under
pretence
to
search
for
Arms
,
but
indeed
to
find
out
a
hoard
of
monies
,
which
either
their
own
Jealousie
,
grounded
on
the
general
received
opinion
of
his
Wealth
,
or
the
treachery
of
some
that
knew
the
House
had
suggested
unto
them
.
After
some
small
search
(
though
Mr.
Squire
thought
that
his
Treasure
had
been
close
enough
hid
)
instead
of
Arms
they
find
four
thousand
pounds
,
a
rich
booty
,
and
very
greedily
seized
upon
.
At
last
,
Mistris
Squire
finding
her self
so
unexpectedly
in
the
number
and
condition
of
Malignants
,
robbed
of
so
great
a
Sum
,
fell
into
a
swoon
,
and
for
fear
she
should
be
recall'd
to
pursue
the
Injury
with
just
Clamors
and
Expostulations
,
when
Strong-waters
were
brought
to
relieve
and
comfort
her
surprised
Spirits
,
the
Rebels
would
not
permit
it
to
be
administred
unto
her
:
but
left
Nature
to
the
work
of
its
own
recovery
,
without
the
assistance
of
any
borrowed
help
.
Of
this
Four
thousand
pounds
,
Eight
hundred
was
due
to
a
Son
in
Law
of
Mr.
Squires
,
a
Creature
of
the
Parliaments
,
and
a
great
Friend
to
the
Cause
;
and
therefore
to
redeem
the
rest
,
Mr.
Squire
freely
offered
to
give
the
Parliament
(
as
those
tame
People
call
the
Faction
of
both
Houses
)
the
Sum
of
Three
hundred
pounds
,
so
the
rest
might
be
restored
unto
him
:
but
all
in
vain
,
it
was
judged
a
very
high
Symptome
of
Malignity
to
hide
Four
thousand
pounds
,
and
suffer
the
Holy
League
to
be
endangered
for
want
of
Supplies
,
and
therefore
as
a
just
punishment
for
his
Coldness
,
and
want
of
Zeal
to
the
good
Cause
in
hand
,
it
was
wholly
taken
from
him
without
restitution
(
for
ought
we
yet
know
)
of
a
farthing
:
and
indeed
what
measure
the
Rich
either
of
London
,
or
any
other
place
,
cursed
with
the
Tyranny
and
Oppression
of
this
Rebellion
,
are
to
expect
from
their
Hands
(
when
the
Necessities
of
Supplies
shall
press
upon
them
)
the
World
may
read
in
this
Warrant
,
directed
from
Nathanael
Fiennes
,
in
the
time
of
his
reign
in
Bristol
,
to
Mr.
Gunning
the
younger
of
that
City
:
which
for
the
plain
English
that
it
speaks
,
and
because
it
contains
a
perfect
discovery
of
their
Resolutions
when
occasion
shall
serve
,
we
have
here
inserted
.
BRISTOLL
,
WHereas
this
City
is
at
this
time
invironed
,
and
in
great
and
imminent
danger
to
be
swallowed
up
by
many
cruel
and
barbarous
Enemies
of
Papists
,
Irish
Rebels
,
and
others
:
and
most
of
the
Inhabitants
of
this
City
have
,
and
all
ought
to
take
an
Oath
and
Protestation
for
Defence
thereof
with
their
Lives
and
Fortunes
.
These
are
to
require
you
forthwith
,
to
pay
to
my
Servant
Ralph
Hooker
,
to
be
employed
for
the
Defence
of
the
City
,
the
Sum
of
Two
hundred
pounds
;
which
Sum
,
in
respect
of
your
Estate
,
is
below
the
proportion
required
of
other
Persons
of
your
Quality
by
an
Ordinance
of
Parliament
.
And
if
you
shall
refuse
in
this
time
of
so
great
necessity
,
you
may
expect
whatsoever
the
desperate
Resolution
of
Souldiers
,
reduced
unto
extream
necessity
,
may
put
them
to
act
against
your
Persons
and
Estates
,
unless
by
a
speedy
Contribution
towards
their
supply
you
shall
prevent
the
same
.
NATH.
FIENNES
.
Given
under
my
hand
,
July
25.
1643.
To
Mr.
Gunning
the
younger
.
On
Sunday
morning
,
being
the
ninth
of
July
,
1643.
in
time
of
Divine
Service
,
Colonel
Morley
,
the
Crooked
Rebel
of
Sussex
,
came
towards
Hasting
,
one
of
the
Cinque
Ports
;
but
in
his
March
being
discover'd
,
presently
notice
was
given
to
Mr.
Hinson
,
Curate
of
All
Saints
,
who
knowing
that
one
end
of
the
Colonel's
Sabbath-days
Journey
,
was
to
apprehend
him
,
was
compelled
to
break
off
Divine
Service
in
the
mid'st
,
and
fly
into
a
Wood
near
at
hand
,
there
to
hide
himself
:
The
Colonel
being
entered
the
Town
,
scattered
the
Body
of
his
Horse
into
several
parts
,
to
intercept
all
passages
out
of
the
Town
:
and
having
secured
the
Ports
,
he
summons
the
Mayor
and
Jurats
,
and
demands
the
Arms
of
the
Town
:
to
which
he
found
ready
obedience
;
for
presently
the
Mayor
and
Jurats
sent
their
Servants
to
command
all
the
Inhabitants
to
deliver
up
their
Arms
,
which
was
done
accordingly
;
and
one
of
the
Jurats
,
Fray
by
name
,
furnished
the
Colonel
with
a
Waggon
,
he
sent
them
away
to
Battell
,
being
a
Town
in
Sussex
,
some
five
Miles
from
Hasting
:
that
night
some
Soldiers
lay
in
the
Church
,
where
Mr.
Hinson
officiated
,
where
one
Wicker
,
a
common
Soldier
,
getting
up
into
the
Pulpit
,
preached
unto
his
Fellows
:
and
to
shew
the
Fruits
of
so
good
Doctrine
,
going
out
of
the
Church
,
either
the
Preacher
,
or
one
of
his
Auditory
,
stole
away
the
Surpless
;
Ralph
Mills
,
the
honest
Parish
Clark
,
to
recover
it
,
complained
to
their
Captain
Richard
Cockeram
of
Rye
,
but
received
no
other
answer
,
but
this
,
Do
not
you
think
he
loves
a
Smock
as
well
as
you
?
Morley
being
now
Master
of
the
Town
,
began
to
exercise
his
power
given
him
for
the
good
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
the
preservation
of
the
Subjects
property
,
and
demanded
a
Sum
of
Monies
from
some
of
the
Jurats
,
which
they
paid
him
,
and
because
they
came
off
so
readily
,
he
demanded
more
,
which
they
refusing
,
he
took
them
with
him
Prisoners
to
Battell
:
where
having
stayed
but
a
night
,
they
return
with
a
Warrant
next
day
signed
by
Morley
,
which
they
undertook
to
execute
upon
such
Persons
as
themselves
had
designed
for
Plunder
and
Imprisonment
:
whereof
Mr.
Car
,
the
Parson
of
St.
Clements
in
Hasting
,
and
Mr.
Hinson
,
were
the
chiefest
.
Mr.
Car
that
Sunday
was
not
at
home
,
being
fled
to
prevent
surprizal
:
but
hearing
that
Colonel
Morley
was
gone
to
Battell
,
and
thinking
the
Storm
to
be
now
blown
over
,
he
resolved
to
return
to
Hasting
,
and
being
on
the
way
thither
,
he
met
Fray
the
Jurat
,
who
was
one
of
the
Combination
to
execute
Morley's
Warrant
,
and
apprehend
him
:
as
Fray
was
drilling
Mr.
Car
along
,
by
chance
one
Mr.
Breame
met
them
,
and
seeing
Mr.
Car
so
familiarly
conversing
with
a
Judas
that
was
resolved
to
betray
him
,
called
Mr.
Car
aside
to
speak
with
him
;
what
he
said
is
uncertain
,
but
in
all
probability
he
discovered
to
Master
Car
the
danger
in
which
he
was
,
for
immediately
he
left
Fray's
company
,
and
rode
back
again
.
Fray
thus
unexpectedly
robb'd
of
his
prey
,
instantly
informed
Colonel
Morley
,
that
Master
Breame
had
frayed
away
the
Bird
,
that
was
so
near
going
into
the
snare
:
Morley
presently
sends
some
Troopers
to
apprehend
Master
Breame
,
and
at
what
sum
he
did
redeem
this
Crime
,
is
uncertain
.
On
the
Tuesday
after
Morleys
coming
to
Hasting
,
Mr.
Hinson
returned
home
:
and
that
day
,
the
Jurats
,
that
Morley
took
with
him
,
being
come
back
,
summoned
the
rest
of
their
Brethren
unto
the
Town-Hall
,
where
they
acquainted
them
with
the
Contents
of
their
new
Warrant
:
who
with
joynt
consent
,
promise
their
best
endeavors
to
put
it
in
execution
:
to
this
purpose
,
having
picked
out
of
the
Town
a
sufficient
number
to
assist
them
,
and
execute
their
Commands
;
and
having
put
their
names
in
the
Warrant
with
their
own
,
they
bind
them
by
the
Religion
,
and
strict
bond
of
an
Oath
,
to
do
what
they
would
have
them
,
without
ever
specifying
any
Particulars
,
wherein
they
intended
to
exercise
their
Obedience
,
until
they
should
give
them
in
charge
what
they
were
to
do
:
Nay
,
not
only
so
,
but
having
received
their
commands
,
they
swear
them
not
to
reveal
what
commands
were
laid
on
them
,
to
any
body
,
no
not
to
their
own
Wives
,
until
they
had
executed
the
commands
;
and
when
some
of
these
assistants
startled
at
this
Jesuitical
implicite
Obedience
,
to
know
to
what
in
particular
their
Oath
should
bind
them
:
Wenham
,
a
Factious
Jurat
,
replyed
,
That
they
must
swear
in
general
,
and
afterwards
they
should
know
the
particulars
.
Thomas
Staple
,
one
of
the
Assistants
,
being
pressed
to
take
this
Oath
,
rejoined
,
Then
you
may
make
us
swear
,
and
the
business
we
swear
to
,
may
be
to
knock
our
Fathers
in
the
head
,
or
betray
them
:
Wenham
(
most
convincingly
)
replyed
,
That
if
they
would
not
swear
,
they
had
authority
for
their
refusal
,
to
Imprison
them
for
a
year
:
The
rest
adding
,
That
they
need
not
be
so
scrupulous
,
though
they
did
not
know
what
they
swore
unto
,
it
was
no
harm
,
for
they
had
taken
the
same
Oath
themselves
to
do
that
which
they
were
to
assist
them
in
:
And
so
,
partly
by
fear
,
and
partly
by
the
inducement
of
the
Jurats
example
,
they
took
an
Oath
upon
the
Holy
Evangelists
,
to
assist
the
Jurats
in
what
they
were
to
do
,
not
knowing
what
,
and
to
be
secret
,
until
it
was
done
.
Sure
the
Oath
of
Canonical
Obedience
,
and
the
so
much
decryed
&
caetera
,
must
now
for
ever
rest
in
Peace
,
and
never
more
be
maliciously
and
ignorantly
traduced
after
this
most
Papistical
,
Jesuitical
,
Puritanical
practice
.
Having
thus
engaged
these
men
by
an
Oath
,
to
do
any
thing
which
they
shall
command
them
,
they
then
think
them
sufficiently
prepared
to
receive
the
Mysteries
of
the
Warrant
which
now
they
reveal
unto
them
,
and
tell
them
,
that
they
must
apprehend
Master
Hinson
,
and
some
others
nominated
in
the
Warrant
:
in
obedience
therefore
to
the
Command
,
they
presently
go
to
Mr.
Hinson
,
and
seize
on
him
in
his
Lodging
:
and
being
brought
before
the
Mayor
and
his
Brethren
the
Jurats
,
he
never
questioned
by
what
Authority
he
was
apprehended
,
but
only
told
them
,
That
he
had
not
done
any
thing
that
deserved
this
usage
;
Presently
Wenham
replyed
,
That
he
had
highly
deserved
it
,
because
he
read
the
Kings
Declarations
.
After
this
,
all
the
Jurats
went
out
,
one
by
one
,
and
left
Mr.
Hinson
locked
up
with
one
Mr.
Parker
,
whom
they
had
a
little
before
committed
,
because
he
would
not
pay
for
the
carriage
of
some
Ordnance
to
Rye
,
a
most
Factious
Town
,
not
far
off
:
Mr.
Parker
was
that
night
removed
from
the
Town-Hall
,
but
Master
Hinson
was
left
there
all
night
,
strongly
guarded
by
eight
Bill-men
,
having
no
other
Bed
but
a
Bench
:
next
day
Master
Parker
(
who
had
the
favor
to
be
lodged
that
Night
in
a
Serjeants
House
)
desirous
to
see
his
Fellow-Prisoner
,
prevailed
with
his
Landlord
to
go
along
with
him
to
visit
Master
Hinson
:
of
which
when
Wenham
had
notice
,
he
told
Biddenham
(
for
so
was
the
Serjeants
name
)
that
he
deserved
for
this
to
be
laid
by
the
heels
himself
:
which
check
so
awed
many
of
Mr.
Hinson's
Friends
,
that
they
durst
not
visit
him
for
fear
of
Imprisonment
:
the
Mayor
and
Wenham
command
the
Maid-servant
that
attended
him
,
not
to
carry
any
Letters
from
him
,
and
being
examined
by
them
whether
she
had
conveyed
any
from
him
already
;
upon
her
denyal
,
Barlow
a
factious
Schismatick
(
who
because
heretofore
his
Neighbors
of
Hasting
refused
to
concur
with
him
in
petitioning
against
Episcopacy
,
joyned
and
subscribed
with
those
of
Rye
)
told
her
,
that
she
deserved
to
be
put
into
the
Ducking-house
(
a
Prison
for
Women
)
for
denying
it
:
That
night
Biddenham
the
Serjeant
was
commanded
to
carry
Mr.
Hinson
out
of
the
Town-hall
,
and
put
him
into
the
Common
Goal
;
which
the
Serjeant
refusing
,
that
busie
Fellow
Wenham
told
him
,
That
he
deserved
to
be
committed
himself
,
for
refusing
to
perform
his
office
:
hereupon
,
by
vertue
of
this
Oath
,
they
command
four
of
the
Men
whom
they
had
sworn
to
apprehend
Mr.
Hinson
,
to
tell
him
,
That
he
must
exchange
his
Prison
,
the
Town-hall
,
for
the
common
Goal
,
whither
they
presently
led
him
;
there
they
lock
him
fast
up
in
a
loathsom
place
,
where
there
was
but
one
short
bench
,
and
no
company
but
a
Tinker
,
and
he
none
of
the
Jovialists
neither
,
for
the
stubborn
sullen
Tinker
pleading
seniority
in
the
place
,
took
possession
of
the
Bench
,
and
most
unsociably
kept
it
all
night
,
not
interchanging
with
Mr.
Hinson
his
repose
for
a
walk
for
variety
sake
,
but
left
him
one
while
to
walk
,
and
another
while
to
sleep
on
that
floor
,
in
which
he
was
forced
to
do
the
necessary
acts
of
Nature
:
while
he
lay
in
this
loathsom
condition
,
four
of
the
Jurats
;
Jurats
,
I
mean
four
that
had
taken
the
Oath
,
to
do
whatever
was
commanded
them
,
came
to
the
Goal
,
and
professed
to
Mr.
Hinson
their
hearty
sorrow
that
they
ever
had
a
hand
in
his
Attachment
,
intreated
him
,
that
he
would
not
think
evil
of
them
,
for
they
were
compelled
to
do
that
for
which
they
were
now
sorry
:
And
Thomas
Staple
that
(
as
before
you
heard
)
expostulated
so
freely
,
and
pleaded
against
the
taking
the
Oath
before
he
was
awed
to
take
it
,
shewing
the
monstrous
evil
in
which
it
might
ingage
them
,
openly
exclaimed
against
the
Mayor
and
his
Brethren
,
wishing
that
the
Plague
from
God
might
light
upon
them
,
for
insnaring
their
Consciences
with
such
an
Oath
;
when
not
only
Religion
,
but
right
Reason
might
have
told
him
,
and
the
rest
,
That
their
Sin
was
to
take
an
unlawful
Oath
,
it
had
been
no
sin
to
break
it
:
while
Master
Hinton
lay
thus
in
the
Goal
,
one
Master
Besanno
,
a
Counsellor
at
Law
interceded
for
him
,
and
earnestly
intreated
,
that
he
might
be
removed
from
the
Common
Goal
,
and
committed
to
safe
Custody
in
some
Chamber
in
the
Town
,
but
could
not
prevail
:
at
last
,
after
three
Weeks
Imprisonment
,
upon
Mr.
Besanno's
request
,
seconded
by
Mr.
Brian
(
heretofore
a
Jurate
of
Hasting
,
but
now
removed
to
Battell
,
as
too
honest
for
such
a
Fraternity
as
he
left
behind
him
)
Mr.
Hinson
was
sent
with
a
strong
Guard
to
Colonel
Morley
:
by
whom
he
was
transmitted
to
London
to
Learned
Miles
Corbet
,
who
committed
him
to
the
Custody
of
a
Messenger
;
and
having
no
particular
accusation
,
but
a
general
charge
,
and
finding
no
hopes
to
be
brought
to
a
hearing
,
but
perceiving
himself
designed
(
as
others
before
him
had
been
)
to
long
attendance
and
vexatious
delays
,
he
withdrew
himself
from
his
Tyranny
and
Oppression
,
and
escaping
to
Oxford
,
put
himself
under
the
Kings
Protection
.
As
the
Rebels
in
their
march
towards
Glocester
passed
through
Chipping-Norton
,
in
the
County
of
Oxford
:
a
Woman
of
that
Town
(
whose
zeal
to
the
King
,
and
the
justice
of
his
Cause
,
could
not
contain
it self
,
though
in
the
midst
of
his
Mortal
Enemies
)
said
,
in
the
hearing
of
some
of
the
Rebels
,
God
bless
the
Cavaliers
:
(
so
are
all
good
and
faithful
Subjects
called
by
the
Rebels
)
this
expression
of
the
poor
Womans
affection
to
the
King
and
his
Loyal
Subjects
in
so
innocent
a
Prayer
,
so
highly
incensed
the
Rebels
,
that
to
punish
so
heinous
a
Crime
,
presently
they
tyed
her
to
the
tail
of
one
of
their
Carts
,
and
stripping
her
to
the
Middle
,
for
two
miles
march
whipped
her
in
so
cruel
a
manner
with
their
Cart-whips
,
that
her
Body
in
many
places
was
cut
so
deep
,
as
if
she
had
been
lanced
with
Knives
,
the
torment
being
so
great
(
as
much
as
her
straight
bounds
would
give
leave
)
she
cast
her self
on
the
ground
,
so
to
shelter
her self
from
their
stripes
,
but
in
a
most
barbarous
manner
they
dragged
her
along
,
insomuch
that
her
Legs
and
Feet
were
so
torn
by
the
Stony
rough
ways
,
that
her
Flesh
was
worn
off
in
many
places
to
the
very
Bones
:
at
last
,
having
far
exceeded
the
number
of
stripes
limited
by
God
himself
in
the
Law
of
Moses
(
though
given
by
the
hand
of
Justice
)
Forty
stripes
he
may
give
him
and
not
exceed
,
Deut.
25.3
.
they
left
her
a
lamentable
spectacle
of
their
Cruelty
:
in
this
miserable
condition
lay
this
poor
Soul
for
some
few
days
,
and
since
died
of
those
wounds
which
she
received
from
them
:
The
blood
of
this
Innocent
,
mingled
with
the
rest
shed
by
their
hands
,
crying
loud
with
them
under
the
Altar
,
Revel.
6.10
.
How
long
,
O
Lord
,
holy
and
true
,
dost
thou
nou
judg
and
avenge
our
blood
on
them
that
dwell
on
earth
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
XVI
.
Burton
,
Prinne
,
and
Bastwick
,
three
Arch-Schismaticks
,
unjustly
freed
from
a
just
Censure
.
The
commiting
and
removing
of
Mr.
Chestlen
from
S.
Matthews
Fridaystreet
,
to
make
way
for
Burton
,
contrary
to
all
Law
and
Equity
,
&c.
AFter
that
bold
affront
offered
(
and
that
without
Check
or
Controul
)
to
publick
Justice
,
and
the
known
Laws
of
the
Land
,
in
those
Triumphant
Reductions
of
that
Triumvirat
of
seditious
Schismaticks
,
Burton
,
Bastwick
,
and
Prinne
from
their
several
confinements
:
It
was
no
hard
matter
for
the
World
to
guess
what
measure
the
obedient
Sons
of
the
Church
of
England
might
expect
,
when
that
spurious
,
degenerous
Brood
,
(
which
most
undutifully
cast
dirt
in
their
Mothers
face
,
and
in
their
Scurrilous
,
Libellous
Pamphlets
proclaimed
her
a
Harlot
)
became
the
Darlings
both
of
the
heads
of
the
Faction
in
Parliament
and
the
People
:
And
though
it
seemed
good
to
the
heads
of
the
Faction
,
by
restoring
these
turbulent
men
,
to
brave
that
Authority
by
which
they
were
justly
censured
,
yet
,
being
restored
,
all
were
not
thought
to
be
of
equal
concernment
:
As
for
Bastwick
,
if
any
man
labouring
under
any
Indisposition
(
besides
that
to
the
present
established
Government
)
had
a
mind
to
be
a
Patient
,
and
put
himself
into
the
hands
of
a
Mad-man
,
he
might
do
as
he
pleased
at
his
own
peril
:
every
man
was
left
to
the
liberty
of
his
own
choice
:
So
for
Prinne
,
if
any
man
desired
to
retain
him
of
his
Counsel
,
it
was
lawful
for
the
Client
to
give
,
and
him
to
receive
his
Fee
,
but
all
this
was
but
voluntary
:
no
man
was
constrained
to
be
a
Patient
to
the
one
,
nor
a
Client
to
the
other
:
for
the
intended
Rebellion
might
well
go
forward
,
though
Bastwick
never
wrote
an
Apothecaries
Bill
,
or
Prinne
pleaded
at
the
Bar
:
But
for
Burton
,
(
a
main
Engine
to
promote
the
design
in
hand
)
it
concerned
them
to
restore
him
,
not
only
to
a
Liberty
of
the
exercise
of
his
calling
at
large
,
but
likewise
to
invest
him
in
his
former
Cure
in
particular
;
from
which
,
by
the
just
sentence
of
Law
he
was
ejected
:
To
this
purpose
no
arts
were
left
unattempted
,
by
the
under
Agents
,
for
the
heads
of
this
Rebellion
,
to
restore
Burton
to
his
Parsonage
of
S.
Matthews
in
Friday-street
,
London
:
by
unjust
molestations
they
endeavour
to
weary
out
Mr.
Chestlen
that
succeeded
him
(
but
not
immediately
)
in
it
,
to
relinquish
his
Cure
,
and
make
way
for
this
Trumpet
of
Sedition
;
that
so
,
what
was
not
feizable
in
Law
,
might
yet
be
effected
by
horrible
injustice
and
oppression
:
First
therefore
some
of
Mr.
Chestlens
Parishoners
,
(
but
Burtons
old
Disciples
,
levened
with
his
Schismatical
Doctrin
)
deny
to
pay
him
his
Tiths
,
or
any
other
accustomed
Duties
:
nor
are
they
content
with
their
own
denial
,
but
by
earnest
perswasions
,
and
other
means
they
labour
to
draw
other
men
into
the
like
obstinacy
and
perversness
:
nor
did
they
stick
openly
to
profess
that
they
did
this
,
that
by
unjust
vexations
they
might
weary
out
Mr.
Chestlen
,
and
make
way
for
Burton
:
hereupon
(
the
Ecclesiastical
Court
being
suppressed
,
which
otherwise
have
cognizance
of
the
Causes
of
Tiths
of
London
,
nor
can
there
any
prohibition
be
justly
granted
as
Coram
non
Judice
,
the
Statute
only
enabling
the
Lord
Mayor
to
be
Judge
,
if
the
person
grieved
think
fit
to
appeal
unto
him
,
but
no
way
disabling
the
Ordinary
,
or
abolishing
his
power
)
Mr.
Chestlen
petitioned
(
as
the
Statute
in
that
case
provides
)
the
Lord
Major
that
then
was
Sir
Edmund
Wright
:
To
the
hearing
before
the
Lord
Mayor
came
little
Isaac
Pennington
,
no
ways
interested
in
the
cause
,
but
only
to
give
countenance
to
Mr.
Chestlen's
Parishoners
:
being
there
,
he
openly
reviled
Mr.
Chestlen
,
calling
him
Saucy
Jack
,
Brazen-fac'd
Fellow
,
and
the
like
;
nay
he
threatned
the
Judge
,
thinking
by
this
to
stave
him
off
from
doing
Justice
,
who
bravely
scorning
the
threats
of
so
contemptible
a
Mushrome
,
in
a
just
indignation
replied
,
What
,
shall
I
be
afraid
to
do
Justice
?
and
indeed
the
event
shewed
that
he
was
not
afraid
,
for
upon
a
full
hearing
of
the
Cause
,
the
Lord
Mayor
gave
sentence
for
Mr.
Chestlen
,
and
ordered
the
Parishoners
to
pay
their
Tiths
:
Tillat
a
Linnen
Draper
,
one
of
the
Citizens
that
was
sued
,
refused
to
obey
the
Lord
Mayor's
Decree
:
and
therefore
the
time
limited
in
the
Decree
being
expired
,
the
Lord
Mayor
according
to
the
power
given
him
by
the
Statute
of
the
37
of
Hen.
8.
committed
Tillat
to
Prison
without
Bail
,
or
mainprize
,
until
he
did
submit
to
the
sentence
as
the
Statute
gives
him
power
:
But
see
the
Justice
of
the
great
pretenders
to
the
maintenance
of
the
Laws
of
the
Land
,
Tillat
had
not
stood
committed
many
days
,
before
two
of
the
House
of
Commons
(
as
the
Keeper
of
Newgate
sayes
)
in
the
name
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
command
him
to
be
set
at
liberty
,
which
accordingly
was
done
,
though
he
were
in
upon
Execution
,
and
the
Debt
not
satisfied
:
every
man
wondring
at
,
but
no
man
daring
to
question
so
illegal
an
action
.
When
this
way
took
no
effect
,
they
joyned
their
Purses
to
vex
him
with
an
Action
of
Ejectment
,
threatning
to
spend
five
hundred
pounds
but
they
would
out
him
of
his
Living
:
but
presently
deserted
those
intentions
as
not
seizable
.
After
this
,
they
slaunder
him
for
Preaching
Popery
and
Arminianism
:
which
unjust
scandal
so
prevailed
in
the
City
,
that
he
could
not
pass
the
streets
without
affronts
and
jeers
put
upon
him
:
they
disswade
his
Parishoners
from
hearing
him
,
telling
them
,
that
they
would
be
damn'd
if
they
lived
under
his
Ministery
,
they
branded
them
with
the
name
of
Malignants
,
if
they
frequented
their
own
Church
,
and
procured
them
to
be
deeply
Taxed
in
all
Sessments
.
In
a
word
,
that
nothing
might
be
wanting
to
their
own
malice
,
and
Mr.
Chestlen's
vexation
,
they
threw
menacing
Libels
into
his
House
,
laid
wait
in
the
Pewes
of
his
Church
,
while
others
provoked
him
to
express
himself
in
the
great
differences
of
the
times
,
hoping
to
intangle
him
in
his
words
:
and
examined
his
Conversation
in
the
very
places
where
he
lived
,
even
from
his
Childhood
,
to
that
time
,
hoping
to
find
something
whence
to
frame
an
Accusation
against
him
:
When
all
these
malicious
Courses
would
not
effect
the
thing
they
aimed
at
,
they
go
from
house
to
house
for
hands
to
a
Petition
against
him
,
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
pretending
that
he
had
Preached
false
Doctrin
,
and
made
it
the
subject
matter
of
their
Petition
:
and
if
any
man
refused
to
subscribe
(
as
many
did
,
because
they
could
not
testifie
the
truth
of
the
Petition
)
in
their
Spirit
of
meekness
,
they
called
them
Malignants
,
Papists
,
and
Enemies
to
Religion
:
however
it
is
too
well
known
,
that
two
or
three
men
(
though
the
very
dregs
of
the
People
)
petitioning
against
Orthodox
Ministers
,
have
in
the
judgment
and
acceptance
of
the
Faction
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
out-poised
the
rest
of
the
Parish
,
though
infinitely
beyond
them
as
in
Number
so
in
Quality
:
their
Testimony
being
rejected
with
much
acrimony
and
sharpness
,
when
the
other
Libels
have
gained
credit
and
reputation
with
them
:
Therefore
about
March
,
1641.
The
Schismaticks
of
Mr.
Chestlens
Parish
presented
a
Petition
against
him
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
in
the
name
of
the
whole
Parish
,
though
three
parts
of
four
protested
against
it
under
their
own
hands
:
When
it
was
presented
,
Pennington
and
Venne
earnestly
urged
that
it
might
be
read
,
pleading
in
their
drivelling
,
railing
Oratory
,
that
he
was
a
very
dangerous
man
,
fit
to
be
looked
after
:
To
satisfie
their
Importunity
,
the
Witnesses
(
who
as
their
manner
is
,
were
never
sworn
,
and
yet
were
both
Witnesses
and
Accusers
)
were
produced
and
examined
at
the
Bar
,
and
upon
examination
the
Petition
was
thrown
out
as
frivolous
,
but
like
eager
bloud-hounds
not
giving
off
the
pursuit
,
for
being
at
one
loss
,
upon
Easter
Eve
,
to
shew
the
World
that
malice
is
part
of
a
Puritans
preparation
to
the
Sacrament
,
when
the
House
was
very
thin
,
the
Protestants
of
the
House
being
in
their
Closets
,
close
at
their
devotions
to
prepare
themselves
for
the
great
Feast
at
hand
,
and
when
all
private
businesses
by
order
of
both
Houses
were
laid
aside
(
for
as
yet
all
opinion
of
the
sanctity
of
the
ancient
Festivals
of
the
Primitive
Church
,
those
venerable
anniversary
memorials
of
Gods
great
blessings
to
mankind
,
was
not
lost
amongst
them
)
Pennington
and
Venne
prevailed
to
have
this
foiled
ejected
Petition
to
be
revived
and
read
again
in
the
House
,
and
the
Patrons
of
Justice
and
Integrity
being
then
absent
,
the
Petition
was
referred
to
the
Committee
for
scandalous
Ministers
:
so
they
are
pleased
to
call
all
Orthodox
,
conscientious
Ministers
,
who
abhor
their
Rebellion
,
and
refuse
to
comply
with
them
in
their
seditious
practices
:
and
that
no
time
might
be
lost
,
in
Easter-week
,
the
Committee
sate
purposely
for
this
business
:
to
which
there
was
a
full
confluence
of
seditious
Schismatical
People
from
all
quarters
of
the
City
;
that
so
nothing
might
be
wanting
to
this
Triumph
:
while
Mr.
Chestlen
was
thus
tied
to
a
tedious
chargeable
attendance
;
God
to
whom
appertain
the
Issues
of
death
,
smote
Tillat
the
main
promoter
of
Mr.
Chestlens
troubles
with
the
Plague
:
of
which
he
died
:
with
whom
also
for
the
present
died
Mr.
Chestlens
trouble
and
vexation
:
and
though
some
(
that
think
that
all
acts
of
providence
are
aimed
point-blank
at
them
)
having
such
an
oportunity
as
this
,
would
interpret
this
to
their
own
Interest
,
as
a
sign
of
personal
favour
to
them
,
yet
not
daring
to
press
into
the
hidden
will
of
God
,
nor
making
our selves
of
familiar
acquaintance
with
his
Counsels
;
I
shall
not
make
any
inference
from
hence
,
but
leave
every
man
to
abound
in
his
own
sense
,
only
thus
much
we
say
,
Tillat
being
dead
,
the
hot
prosecution
of
Mr.
Chestlen
,
for
a
while
lay
dead
too
:
when
all
these
endeavours
could
not
re-estate
Burton
in
the
Parsonage
,
some
of
the
Factious
of
the
Parish
combine
to
make
him
their
Lecturer
,
and
perhaps
better
approved
of
him
as
their
Lecturer
,
than
their
Parson
:
to
this
purpose
cunningly
,
and
on
feigned
pretences
they
get
some
subscriptions
of
the
Parishoners
,
and
annexing
them
to
a
Petition
,
for
which
they
were
never
intended
,
preferred
it
in
their
own
names
,
and
the
names
of
the
rest
,
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
that
Burton
might
be
their
Lecturer
:
which
was
no
sooner
proposed
than
granted
,
and
an
Order
presently
drawn
up
to
give
Burton
power
to
Preach
in
Mr.
Chestlen's
Pulpit
,
which
Mr.
Chestlen
resolutely
opposing
,
kindled
such
Coals
against
him
as
afterwards
fired
him
out
of
the
City
:
for
since
Mr.
Chestlen
will
not
give
way
to
Burton
to
be
partner
with
him
in
his
Pulpit
,
they
resolve
to
give
him
possession
of
the
whole
,
by
removing
Mr.
Chestlen
totally
from
his
Cure
:
To
this
purpose
Mr.
Case
sends
to
the
Faction
in
Mr.
Chestlen's
Parish
to
frame
some
accusation
against
him
;
in
obedience
to
so
ghostly
Counsel
,
Mr.
Chestlen
is
presently
accused
to
the
House
of
Commons
for
Preaching
a
seditious
Sermon
on
Sunday
the
23.
of
October
,
that
very
day
whereon
the
Battel
was
fought
at
Edge-Hill
:
The
subject
of
the
Sermon
in
truth
,
being
nothing
else
,
but
an
earnest
exhortation
to
his
Parishoners
to
perswade
them
to
constancy
in
the
Protestant
Religion
,
perseverance
in
the
fear
of
God
and
the
King
:
presently
a
Warrant
is
granted
for
the
apprehension
of
Mr.
Chestlen
;
on
the
Thursday
following
,
they
rioutously
assault
him
in
his
house
,
with
great
Tumults
,
armed
with
drawn
Swords
and
Pistols
:
and
seizing
on
him
,
in
great
triumph
they
carry
him
to
the
Court
of
Aldermen
,
who
now
(
it
seems
)
are
succeeded
in
the
place
of
the
High
Commission
,
and
are
to
be
Judges
of
true
or
false
Doctrin
:
being
brought
before
this
Lay
Sanadrim
whereof
Pennington
the
pretended
Lord
Mayor
was
President
,
and
a
Rabble
of
Schismaticks
crowding
in
,
to
give
countenance
to
the
business
,
Captain
Ven
their
Leader
,
stands
forth
and
accuseth
Mr.
Chestlen
for
a
most
dangerous
seditious
Preacher
(
tho
he
confessed
that
he
never
heard
him
)
and
that
he
stood
a
Delinquent
in
Parliament
:
others
objected
against
him
that
he
Preached
to
discourage
the
Citizens
from
going
to
Windsor
,
though
this
Sermon
were
preached
before
that
treasonable
design
was
known
,
that
the
Kings
Royal
Castle
should
become
Captain
Ven's
Royal
Castle
,
or
his
Country
house
for
the
recreation
of
his
Mopsa
:
and
that
the
People
might
have
full
content
,
Mr.
Chestlen
was
there
baited
on
every
hand
,
every
Alderman
had
his
fling
at
him
:
At
last
having
made
him
a
publick
scorn
of
the
multitude
,
Pennington
commits
him
into
the
hands
of
his
accusers
to
expose
him
to
more
abuse
,
and
to
commit
him
to
the
Compter
:
the
Rabble
being
now
made
Serjeants
,
they
threaten
to
carry
him
in
a
Cart
through
the
open
streets
to
the
Prison
:
to
deliver
him
from
the
fury
,
and
rage
of
the
People
,
his
Father
(
a
known
able
Citizen
)
tendered
Bail
of
ten
Thousand
Pounds
,
but
it
was
not
accepted
:
away
they
carry
him
to
the
Compter
,
and
the
next
day
being
Friday
,
he
is
brought
to
the
Bar
at
the
House
of
Commons
;
where
the
Speaker
(
who
had
been
happy
in
the
deceived
worlds
opinion
both
of
his
wisdom
and
honesty
had
he
never
known
other
Bar
,
but
that
of
the
Exchequer
)
interrogated
him
touching
his
Preaching
against
Brownists
,
and
Anabaptists
:
and
presently
though
no
witness
appeared
,
though
no
crime
were
objected
,
though
no
accuser
appeared
against
him
:
he
was
voted
by
the
House
of
Commons
,
to
be
sent
Prisoner
to
Colchester
Goal
in
Essex
,
there
to
remain
during
the
pleasure
of
the
House
,
and
to
pay
the
Charges
of
his
conveyance
thither
:
And
that
Posterity
may
read
,
and
reading
stand
amazed
to
see
how
Tyrannical
,
how
unlimited
an
Empire
these
Subjects
have
exercised
upon
their
fellow
Subjects
,
without
any
legal
process
,
or
any
cause
shewn
,
to
doom
them
to
Banishment
and
Captivity
during
their
High
and
mighty
pleasure
,
we
have
here
inserted
a
true
and
perfect
Copy
of
the
Warrant
and
Sub-warrant
by
which
Mr.
Chestlen
was
sent
from
hand
to
hand
,
till
he
came
to
his
Goal
,
at
Colchester
.
By
vertue
of
an
Order
this
day
made
by
the
Commons
House
of
Parliament
,
these
are
to
will
and
require
you
to
take
into
your
Custody
,
the
body
of
Mr.
Robert
Chestlen
Clerk
,
and
him
by
your self
,
your
Deputy
or
Deputies
,
according
to
the
said
Order
to
carry
in
safe
custody
to
the
Prison
of
Colchester
Castle
in
Essex
,
there
to
be
delivered
to
the
Goaler
or
Keeper
of
the
said
Prison
,
to
be
kept
in
safe
custody
as
his
Prisoner
,
until
the
pleasure
of
the
House
be
made
known
to
him
to
the
contrary
:
It
is
also
ordered
,
that
the
said
Mr.
Chestlen
shall
defray
the
Charges
of
his
carriage
to
Colchester
Castle
aforesaid
:
And
for
so
doing
,
this
shall
be
a
sufficient
Warrant
.
Dated
this
28.
of
Octob.
1643.
Henry
Elsyng
,
Cler.
Parl.
D.C.
To
John
Hunt
the
Serjeant
at
Arms
attending
on
the
House
of
Commons
,
his
Deputy
or
Deputies
.
I
do
appoint
the
Party
or
Parties
whose
name
or
names
are
subscribed
to
be
my
lawful
Deputy
or
Deputies
,
for
the
Execution
of
this
Warrant
.
Witness
my
hand
this
26.
day
of
Octob.
1643.
John
Hunt
Serjeant
at
Arms.
-
Mr.
Dodson
-
Walter
Story
-
John
Hinde
Gentlemen
.
Next
Morning
being
Saturday
was
this
(
righteous
)
sentence
put
in
execution
:
Thus
to
make
way
to
reduce
Burton
,
a
Stigmatized
infamous
Scismatick
to
his
former
place
,
was
Mr.
Chestlen
doomed
to
banishment
and
captivity
:
in
a
remote
place
from
his
Father
,
his
Wife
and
Family
,
into
a
noisome
Goal
,
where
he
was
made
a
Companion
to
Theives
and
Felons
;
in
a
Town
,
where
't
was
little
less
than
death
to
be
Loyal
:
or
as
themselves
phrase
it
,
to
be
Caesars
Friend
:
A
Town
in
which
they
that
sent
him
thither
,
could
not
but
know
that
they
exposed
his
life
to
the
fury
of
an
inraged
Fanatick
People
,
and
not
long
before
had
not
only
murthered
Sir
John
Lucas
,
his
Mother
,
and
Sister
,
together
with
Mr.
Newcomin
,
one
of
their
own
Ministers
,
and
for
this
had
received
publick
thanks
from
the
House
of
Commons
for
their
forwardness
and
zeal
to
the
service
of
the
Parliament
;
Lastly
,
in
a
Town
arrived
at
that
high
degree
of
madness
,
that
the
Independent
Church
is
openly
practised
in
it
,
and
the
Mayor
banished
one
of
the
Town
for
a
Malignant
and
a
Cavalier
whose
name
was
Parsons
,
and
gave
this
learned
reason
for
this
exemplary
peice
of
Justice
,
Because
it
was
an
ominous
name
:
While
Mr.
Chestlen
remained
in
this
durance
,
if
any
man
durst
visit
him
,
it
was
at
his
peril
,
he
was
in
danger
to
be
Plundered
and
branded
with
the
dangerous
name
of
a
Malignant
.
They
raised
reports
of
great
resort
of
Cavaliers
to
him
,
and
of
Arms
brought
unto
him
,
insomuch
that
Alderman
Barrington
told
the
Committee
,
that
their
Town
was
not
in
safety
because
of
Mr.
Chestlen
,
who
poor
man
,
had
no
other
endeavour
than
how
to
free
himself
from
the
loathsom
nastiness
of
his
Prison
:
To
this
end
many
Petitions
were
delivered
to
the
House
of
Commons
,
that
he
might
be
delivered
from
the
Goal
to
some
private
house
,
which
boon
after
much
and
earnest
prosecution
by
Mrs.
Chestlen
,
and
his
friends
,
was
obtained
:
Having
an
Order
to
exchange
his
Goal
for
a
private
house
,
Mr.
Hammon
an
honest
Gentleman
dwelling
in
the
Town
,
entertained
Mr.
Chestlen
:
but
for
his
Charity
incurred
the
hatred
of
the
Common
People
,
for
whereas
before
he
lived
beloved
,
and
in
good
estimation
amongst
his
Neighbours
,
now
for
harbouring
Mr.
Chestlen
,
and
for
this
and
other
actions
being
under
the
Jealousie
of
the
Crime
of
Loyalty
,
they
call
him
Cavalier
,
they
threaten
to
call
him
up
to
the
Parliament
,
and
at
last
were
as
good
as
their
word
,
for
upon
their
Complaint
,
he
was
sent
for
up
to
the
Parliament
,
and
committed
for
receiving
Mr.
Chestlen
into
his
house
:
though
in
reason
he
might
safely
conclude
,
that
,
that
Order
of
the
House
which
gave
Mr.
Chestlen
liberty
to
remove
to
another
house
,
did
withal
give
that
house
liberty
to
entertain
him
:
Thus
continued
Mr.
Chestlen
in
this
exile
and
Imprisonment
from
October
1642.
until
the
February
following
,
when
the
Kings
express
Warrant
being
sent
for
his
release
,
having
the
opportunity
now
and
then
to
go
abroad
and
take
the
air
,
he
left
the
Warrant
for
the
Goaler
to
make
use
of
for
his
best
advantage
,
while
he
came
away
to
Oxford
and
put
himself
under
the
Kings
Protection
:
Since
that
,
in
London
they
have
broken
up
his
house
,
and
Plundered
his
Goods
:
a
common
evil
incident
to
all
the
Kings
faithful
Subjects
,
which
are
within
the
Verge
of
the
Rebels
usurped
power
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
XVII
.
Mr.
Fowler
Parson
of
Minchin-Hampton
in
Gloucestershire
,
his
Wife
,
and
Children
barbarously
used
,
and
his
House
plundered
by
the
Rebels
.
Mr.
Bartlets
house
at
Castle-morton
in
Worcestershire
,
five
times
Plundered
,
but
especially
by
Captain
Scriven
an
impudent
Rebel
,
&c.
ON
New-years
day
,
1643.
seventeen
Soldiers
sent
by
Captain
Jeremy
Buck
,
came
to
Mr.
Henry
Fowlers
house
,
Parson
of
Minchin-Hampton
,
in
the
County
of
Gloucester
;
being
entred
the
house
,
they
find
Mr.
Fowler
sitting
(
as
the
season
of
the
year
required
)
by
the
fire
side
,
presently
they
seize
on
him
,
and
tell
him
,
that
he
is
their
Prisoner
:
and
though
he
instantly
submitted
unto
them
without
any
the
least
resistence
,
yet
to
wreck
their
own
malice
,
and
the
malice
of
him
that
sent
them
,
upon
him
,
one
of
the
Rebels
takes
him
by
the
throat
,
and
holds
the
point
of
his
Sword
at
his
breast
,
two
more
(
on
each
side
one
)
present
their
Pistols
at
him
,
another
shakes
his
Pole-axe
over
his
head
,
others
strike
him
with
their
Pole-axes
;
threatned
he
is
on
every
side
with
varieties
of
death
.
All
Smite
him
with
the
tongue
,
they
rail
at
him
,
objecting
against
him
as
heinous
crimes
,
First
,
that
he
read
the
Common-Prayers
at
length
,
and
that
he
had
published
the
Kings
Proclamations
with
a
loud
voice
;
and
then
with
renewed
fury
they
assault
him
again
:
they
beat
him
with
their
Pole-axes
,
and
call
him
Mass-Priest
,
Rogue
,
Rascal
,
and
tell
him
,
Sirrah
,
you
can
furnish
the
King
with
a
Musquet
,
a
Corslet
,
and
a
Light-Horse
,
but
thou
old
Knave
,
thou
canst
not
find
any
thing
at
all
for
the
Parliament
:
And
then
to
work
they
fall
again
with
their
Pole-axes
,
and
beat
and
bruise
him
in
most
parts
of
his
body
;
so
that
being
aged
,
(
no
less
than
Threescore
and
two
years
old
)
and
being
not
yet
perfectly
recovered
of
a
former
lameness
in
one
of
his
hips
,
though
he
were
in
a
probable
way
towards
it
,
by
this
barbarous
usage
,
being
so
cruelly
beaten
,
and
tugged
,
and
haled
by
them
,
he
is
made
a
very
Cripple
,
irrecoverably
lame
,
without
all
possibility
of
recovering
of
his
Limbs
:
All
this
inhumanity
was
practised
on
Mr.
Fowler
in
the
presence
of
his
Wife
and
Children
,
the
Wife
in
the
behalf
of
her
Husband
,
the
Children
in
the
behalf
of
their
Father
,
humbly
entreating
on
their
knees
,
that
they
would
have
compassion
on
him
,
and
not
murther
a
peaceable
man
in
his
own
house
.
While
some
of
these
Rebels
were
executing
this
cruelty
on
his
Person
,
others
go
up
into
his
Study
,
and
Chambers
,
and
take
away
all
that
was
of
good
value
,
and
portable
.
And
having
crippled
the
Master
of
the
Family
,
and
rifled
his
house
,
like
the
true
Servants
of
that
Master
whom
they
serve
,
the
Devil
,
they
leave
him
,
but
it
was
but
for
a
season
.
Now
though
the
present
sense
of
these
sufferings
,
could
not
be
but
very
great
to
an
aged
man
,
and
one
labouring
under
former
infirmities
,
especially
to
have
his
sufferings
imbittered
by
the
reproachful
railings
of
the
Rebels
,
and
the
mocks
and
mowes
of
Captain
Bucks
friends
and
Kindred
,
who
stood
by
jeering
,
and
clapt
their
hands
for
joy
,
applauding
the
exact
execution
of
Bucks
commands
,
given
his
Soldiers
concerning
Mr.
Fowler
,
yet
the
sad
effects
which
followed
were
evidence
enough
how
cruel
his
usage
was
:
First
,
Mr.
Fowler
presently
upon
the
Rebels
departure
,
fell
into
an
extream
bleeding
,
which
continued
,
and
could
not
be
stanched
in
six
hours
and
more
,
by
which
great
outlet
of
Spirits
,
his
strength
was
so
much
exhausted
,
that
the
was
not
able
to
stand
.
Secondly
,
the
next
day
after
his
bleeding
,
what
with
the
loss
of
so
much
blood
,
and
what
with
violence
offered
to
his
whole
body
,
the
Retentive
Faculty
,
was
so
weakened
,
that
his
urine
came
from
him
insensibly
,
and
in
this
wretched
condition
he
continued
very
near
a
month
.
Lastly
,
by
the
many
confusions
and
knocks
which
he
received
on
his
head
with
their
Pole-axes
he
lost
his
hearing
,
which
he
hath
not
perfectly
recovered
unto
this
day
.
And
now
after
all
this
barbarous
usage
,
remains
there
yet
any
thing
else
to
be
added
to
his
sufferings
?
was
not
their
malice
satisfied
,
and
these
outrages
(
designed
to
be
committed
on
him
)
compleated
yet
?
No
,
Captain
Bucke
knew
that
it
would
not
be
lawful
always
to
commit
murther
,
and
rob
those
that
are
quiet
in
the
Land
,
and
therefore
resolved
to
make
use
of
the
present
opportunity
:
he
was
not
ignorant
that
the
wages
of
a
faithful
Servant
to
the
Rebellion
was
full
licence
to
do
any
thing
that
can
satisfie
Lust
,
private
Revenge
,
or
Avarice
:
And
therefore
in
July
last
,
Bucke
himself
,
not
like
a
Captain
of
Soldiers
,
but
a
Ring-leader
to
a
Rout
of
Rogues
,
came
to
Mr.
Fowlers
house
at
Minching-Hampton
,
and
most
thievishly
broke
open
the
Window
of
his
Sons
Study
,
and
so
entered
the
house
:
In
the
Study
they
found
Rich
Treasure
which
they
did
not
know
,
being
indeed
without
a
Metaphor
Pearl
before
Swine
,
for
young
Mr.
Fowler
,
a
Practitioner
it
seems
in
Physick
,
had
in
his
Study
Extract
of
Pearl
,
Aurum
Potabile
,
Confections
of
Amber
,
a
great
quantity
of
Compound
Waters
,
a
good
proportion
of
Pearl
in
Boxes
,
a
Box
full
of
Bezoar
Stone
,
with
many
other
things
of
admirable
use
,
for
the
preservation
of
the
Life
of
Man
,
and
of
very
great
value
,
all
which
they
took
and
brake
in
pieces
,
and
trampling
them
under
foot
,
made
them
utterly
unuseful
either
for
themselves
or
others
.
One
of
Mr.
Fowlers
Daughters
in
a
just
indignation
at
so
great
wast
of
things
so
precious
,
told
Bucke
that
he
might
be
ashamed
to
spoil
things
of
that
use
and
value
;
Bucke
(
a
rude
untutored
man
as
he
is
)
called
her
Whore
,
and
with
his
Pole-ax
gave
her
a
blow
on
the
Neck
,
and
struck
her
down
,
and
being
risen
again
,
again
he
strikes
her
down
with
his
Pole-ax
,
nay
,
to
pursue
the
glorious
victory
,
he
strikes
her
down
a
third
time
,
and
had
she
been
able
to
rise
from
the
floor
,
questionless
,
had
struck
her
down
a
fourth
time
.
The
compassionate
Mother
Mrs.
Fowler
standing
by
,
and
seeing
her
Daughter
thus
barbarously
used
,
to
redeem
her
from
this
cruelty
,
resolved
to
expose
her
own
person
to
the
fury
of
this
mad
Beast
,
and
therefore
interposing
,
asked
Bucke
,
whether
he
thought
she
could
endure
to
see
her
Child
murthered
before
her
face
:
but
as
soon
as
Mrs.
Fowler
came
within
his
reach
,
without
regard
either
to
her
Age
,
or
Sex
,
he
caught
her
by
the
Throat
,
knocked
her
down
,
and
being
down
,
kicked
her
,
and
trampled
on
her
with
his
feet
.
At
last
having
acted
what
cruelty
he
pleased
(
according
to
the
Latitude
of
that
Tacite
Commission
given
every
Captain
of
the
Rebellion
)
on
Mrs.
Fowler
and
her
Daughter
,
he
and
his
Rabble
Plundered
the
House
,
and
so
departed
.
If
the
monstrousness
of
these
barbarous
and
inhuman
cruelties
committed
on
this
Reverend
Divine
,
his
Wife
and
Daughter
,
and
reported
in
this
Relation
,
shall
weaken
the
credit
of
the
Relation
,
and
render
the
truth
of
it
suspected
,
let
the
World
know
,
that
here
is
nothing
set
down
in
this
account
given
unto
the
World
,
but
what
was
testified
upon
Oath
before
the
Right
Honourable
Sir
Robert
Heath
Knight
,
Lord
Chief
Justice
of
His
Majesties
Court
of
Kings
Bench
,
on
the
18.
day
of
August
1643.
On
the
21
of
Septemb.
1643.
being
Saint
Matthew
the
Apostle
and
Evangelists
day
,
a
hundred
and
fifty
Soldiers
,
some
from
Gloucester
sent
from
Captain
Beard
being
of
his
Company
,
and
some
others
from
Teuxbury
,
(
all
conspiring
together
,
and
taking
advantage
of
the
Peoples
absence
from
their
homes
,
and
being
at
a
Fair
that
day
at
Ledbury
two
miles
distant
from
Malverne
Hills
)
under
the
conduct
of
Captain
Scriven
,
son
to
Scriven
the
rich
Ironmonger
,
and
late
Mayor
of
Gloucester
,
came
to
Castle-Morton
in
the
County
of
Worcester
,
to
Plunder
Mr.
Rowland
Bartlets
house
:
a
man
so
well
beloved
in
his
Country
,
for
his
Hospitality
,
so
dear
to
all
sorts
of
People
,
especially
to
the
poor
,
for
his
Charity
,
and
those
helps
which
he
freely
bestowed
on
them
,
for
the
recovery
of
the
sick
,
the
lame
,
and
infirm
,
that
had
not
these
Rebels
taken
the
opportunity
of
his
Neighbours
being
at
the
Fair
,
this
force
had
been
too
weak
,
to
have
made
him
the
first
instance
of
the
Rebels
insolency
(
in
that
County
)
by
way
of
Plunder
:
when
they
came
to
Castle-Morton
,
for
fear
of
surprizal
,
their
Horse
secure
the
streets
,
and
High-ways
,
while
the
Pikes
and
Musqueteers
beset
the
house
:
having
made
good
all
passages
,
that
none
could
go
in
,
or
come
out
,
without
their
leave
,
Scriven
advanced
towards
the
house
:
Mr.
Bartlet
perceiving
himself
to
be
enclosed
with
armed
men
,
their
Musquets
being
bent
upon
his
house
,
and
his
Pales
serving
them
instead
of
Rests
;
coming
out
of
his
doors
,
met
Scriven
in
the
Porch
,
and
after
a
friendly
salute
,
demanded
of
him
the
reason
of
this
Warlike
approach
to
his
house
?
Scriven
answered
,
that
he
came
in
the
name
of
the
Parliament
,
and
by
their
command
to
search
for
Arms
:
Alas
!
replied
Mr.
Bartlet
,
you
are
like
to
lose
your
labour
,
for
Justice
Salloway
(
meaning
that
traiterous
beggerly
Fellow
,
who
in
the
time
of
the
late
universal
madness
,
was
made
Knight
of
the
Shire
for
the
County
of
Worcester
)
hath
prevented
you
:
yet
Mr.
Bartlet
bad
him
use
his
discretion
,
to
see
if
he
could
find
any
gleaning
,
after
the
others
full
Vintage
:
and
so
brought
him
through
his
Hall
into
his
Parlour
;
being
there
Mr.
Bartlet
according
to
the
freeness
of
his
disposition
,
and
after
the
good
old
English
way
of
bidding
welcome
,
called
for
some
Beer
.
While
Scriven
sate
there
,
and
with
a
curious
eye
surveyed
the
furniture
of
the
Room
,
he
espied
Mr.
Bartlet's
Sword
,
hanging
on
the
Wainscot
,
Scriven
presently
taking
it
down
,
said
,
is
not
this
Arms
?
Yes
,
replied
Mr.
Bartlet
,
but
no
more
than
is
necessary
for
every
honest
man
,
to
prevent
or
repel
injury
on
the
High-way
;
young
Mr.
Bartlet's
Sword
hanging
by
his
Fathers
,
Scriven
takes
down
that
too
:
and
utterly
to
disarm
them
,
that
so
they
might
rob
them
without
resistance
,
the
Rebels
in
the
outward
Rooms
possess
themselves
of
Mr.
Bartlets
mans
Sword
:
young
Mr.
Bartlet
coming
into
the
Parlour
,
hoping
to
recover
his
Sword
,
Scriven
perceiving
a
Ring
(
in
which
was
set
a
Rubey
)
hanging
in
his
bandstrings
,
rudely
seized
upon
it
,
and
after
some
strugling
,
some
seconds
with
Pistols
,
and
Carbines
,
coming
to
his
assistance
,
Scriven
either
broke
,
or
cut
it
off
:
having
rob'd
the
young
man
of
his
Ring
,
animated
by
the
presence
of
his
fellow
Thieves
,
he
dives
into
his
Fathers
Pockets
,
and
takes
thence
his
monies
,
between
three
and
four
pounds
:
Mr.
Bartlet
perceiving
his
hand
in
the
return
,
to
be
full
of
mony
,
put
his
own
hand
into
his
pocket
,
to
see
what
was
left
,
and
finding
but
one
poor
three
pence
,
to
have
escaped
his
thievish
fingers
,
tendered
him
that
too
,
desiring
him
that
all
might
go
together
,
which
was
no
sooner
offered
,
than
taken
by
this
poor
conditioned
unworthy
Fellow
,
yet
Heir
to
a
Thousand
pounds
a
year
,
unless
the
Hangman
cut
off
the
entail
;
Mr.
Bartlet
being
clad
in
a
fair
scarlet
Gippo
(
a
shrewd
temptation
to
a
man
not
accustomed
to
wear
good
Cloaths
,
especially
at
his
own
charge
)
so
dazled
Scrivens
eyes
,
that
he
offered
to
pull
it
from
the
others
back
:
Mr.
Bartlet
entreated
him
not
to
strip
him
of
his
Cloaths
since
he
had
taken
away
his
monies
,
with
which
he
should
buy
more
:
O
Sir
,
replied
this
doughty
Captain
,
you
have
mony
enough
to
buy
more
,
and
so
the
hopes
of
a
greater
prize
making
him
forget
the
Gippo
,
he
drew
his
Sword
,
and
threatned
to
kill
Mr.
Bartlet
,
unless
he
would
confess
where
he
had
hid
his
mony
and
Plate
:
but
finding
him
resolute
not
to
betray
his
own
Treasure
,
Scriven
seizeth
upon
a
Woman
that
was
Mr.
Bartlets
House-keeper
,
an
old
faithful
Servant
,
in
whom
Mr.
Bartlet
and
his
Wife
reposed
much
trust
,
and
thinking
to
work
upon
the
weakness
of
her
Sex
,
and
affright
her
into
a
confession
,
he
causes
some
to
present
Pistols
at
her
brest
,
and
others
the
points
of
their
Swords
,
threatening
her
with
present
death
,
if
she
would
not
discover
where
her
Masters
Treasure
was
:
but
finding
this
Woman
not
to
be
terrified
with
their
threats
,
and
fearing
surprizal
by
some
Forces
which
might
come
from
Worcester
,
or
the
return
of
the
Country
people
from
the
Fair
at
Ledbury
,
he
resolved
to
make
trial
if
he
could
find
out
that
which
he
saw
would
not
be
disclosed
unto
him
:
Therefore
without
further
delay
to
work
they
go
,
resolving
to
search
the
house
from
the
top
to
the
bottom
.
In
Mr.
Bartlets
Chamber
,
Scriven
seizeth
upon
Mrs.
Bartlets
Watch
,
he
breaks
open
a
Trunk
,
and
took
thence
(
by
his
own
confession
)
six
hundred
Pounds
in
mony
,
he
takes
away
all
Mrs.
Bartlets
wearing
Linnen
,
to
the
value
of
three-score
Pounds
,
he
breaks
open
her
Cabinets
,
Trunks
and
Boxes
,
and
in
them
seized
or
(
to
speak
more
properly
)
stole
more
Mony
,
Plate
,
Jewels
and
Bracelets
,
amounting
to
a
great
Sum
:
amongst
other
things
valuable
both
for
rarity
and
use
,
he
took
a
Cock
Eagles
Stone
,
for
which
Thirty
Pieces
had
been
offered
by
a
Physitian
,
but
were
refused
:
having
thus
scim'd
the
house
,
and
rifled
it
of
the
principal
things
in
it
,
a
warning-piece
is
shot
off
,
to
signifie
to
the
Rascality
,
that
now
they
might
have
free
leave
to
enter
:
upon
the
signal
given
,
leaving
(
instant
)
their
guards
,
and
stations
,
in
a
confused
Tumult
they
rush
into
the
house
,
and
as
eager
hounds
at
a
loss
offer
here
and
there
,
and
know
not
well
where
to
fasten
,
so
,
these
hunt
from
the
Parlour
to
the
Kitchin
,
from
thence
,
by
the
Chambers
,
to
the
Garrets
:
every
Room
is
full
,
every
one
fearing
that
his
fellow
Thief
would
prevent
him
,
and
seize
upon
the
prey
before
himself
:
Besides
Mr.
Bartlets
,
his
Wives
,
and
Childrens
wearing
apparel
,
they
rob
their
servants
of
their
Cloaths
:
with
the
butt
ends
of
their
Musquets
they
break
open
their
hanging
Presses
,
Cupboards
,
and
Chests
;
no
place
was
free
from
this
ragged
Regiment
:
and
if
so
barbarous
an
outrage
,
could
possibly
have
admitted
any
time
,
but
for
a
serious
detestation
of
so
foul
injustice
,
it
may
have
drawn
a
smile
from
the
most
concerned
beholders
,
to
see
their
thrusting
and
tumbling
one
another
,
the
rude
arts
used
to
supplant
one
another
,
and
how
one
Thief
snatched
and
stole
from
another
:
After
this
storm
was
seen
coming
on
,
and
to
threaten
this
house
in
particular
,
the
Servants
fearing
that
tho
the
main
brunt
might
light
on
their
Master
,
yet
some
sprinkling
might
chance
to
fall
on
them
,
used
all
the
art
of
cunning
they
could
devise
,
to
preserve
those
small
sums
of
mony
,
of
which
their
honest
labour
and
frugality
had
made
them
Masters
.
But
't
was
in
vain
to
hide
,
where
desperate
beggery
,
and
resolved
Rapine
were
to
be
seekers
:
in
one
place
the
Rebels
find
Twenty
Shillings
,
in
another
Forty
,
three
Pounds
here
,
more
or
less
there
:
but
were
it
more
or
less
,
all
was
fish
that
came
to
Net
,
they
spare
none
:
in
this
strict
search
,
they
meet
with
Mr.
Bartlets
Sweet-meats
,
these
they
scatter
on
the
ground
,
not
daring
to
tast
of
them
for
fear
of
Poison
;
a
wary
consideration
,
and
such
as
staved
not
off
the
hardy
Knight
Sir
William
Brooke
of
Kent
,
to
meet
fists
with
a
greazy
Common
Soldier
in
a
Gally-pot
,
when
the
Rebels
of
that
County
did
the
like
out-rage
on
the
truly
honoured
Lady
Butlers
Closet
,
as
you
heard
in
the
first
weeks
Relation
of
this
Mercury
:
and
as
for
Syrupes
,
and
Salves
those
charitable
provisions
for
the
sick
,
and
maimed
,
these
they
trample
under
foot
,
not
providently
foreseing
that
some
of
their
Brethren
in
this
Rebellion
,
might
stand
in
need
of
them
,
the
Friday
next
following
at
the
Battel
of
Wickfield
near
Worcester
,
where
God
by
the
hand
of
the
Kings
Forces
under
the
conduct
of
Prince
Rupert
,
gave
the
Rebels
their
first
overthrow
.
The
happy
Omen
of
Edge-Hill
,
and
those
many
other
succeeding
Victories
with
which
(
no
less
to
the
wonder
than
confusion
of
the
Rebels
)
it
hath
pleased
God
since
to
bless
his
Sacred
Majesty
:
In
a
word
,
except
Bedding
,
Pewter
,
and
Lumber
,
they
left
nothing
behind
them
,
for
besides
two
Horses
laden
with
the
best
things
(
Scrivens
own
Plunder
)
there
being
one
hundred
and
fifty
Rebels
,
each
Rebel
returned
with
a
Pack
at
his
back
.
As
for
his
Beer
,
and
Perry
,
what
they
could
not
devour
they
spoil
,
the
earth
drinking
what
the
Rebels
could
not
,
and
then
triumphing
in
their
wickedness
,
and
glorying
in
their
Villany
,
they
vaunted
,
That
they
had
made
Bartlet
a
Begger
,
and
left
him
not
worth
a
Groat
:
Yet
all
the
Rebels
were
not
of
the
same
belief
,
for
presently
after
,
when
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
possessed
himself
of
Worcester
,
some
under
his
Command
came
from
Worcester
to
Mr.
Bartlets
house
,
where
what
was
undervalued
and
left
by
Scriven
,
and
his
Rout
,
was
good
booty
to
these
:
They
take
away
good
store
of
Bacon
from
his
Roof
,
and
Beef
out
of
the
Powdering
Tubs
;
they
steal
his
Pots
,
Panns
,
and
Kettels
,
together
with
his
Pewter
to
a
great
value
,
they
seize
on
all
his
Provisions
for
hospitality
and
house-keeping
,
and
then
break
his
Spits
,
as
unnecessary
utensils
,
they
expose
his
bedding
to
sale
,
and
press
Carts
to
carry
away
his
Chairs
,
Stools
,
Couches
,
and
Trunks
,
though
emptied
before
by
Scriven
;
and
sharply
threaten
all
such
as
should
be
known
to
harbour
any
of
Mr.
Bartlets
Goods
.
And
though
these
two
Plunders
,
one
upon
the
neck
of
the
other
,
left
Mr.
Bartlet
a
desolate
,
naked
house
;
yet
when
the
Earl
of
Essex
came
lately
down
towards
Glocester
,
and
hid
himself
and
his
Army
in
hedges
,
ditches
,
and
the
inclosures
about
Teuxbury
,
on
three
several
days
,
three
severall
Companies
came
to
visit
Mr.
Bartlets
house
,
presuming
that
in
almost
a
Twelve
months
time
,
the
house
might
be
new
furnished
,
nor
were
they
altogether
deceived
in
their
expectation
;
without
,
they
plunder
him
of
eight
Horses
,
and
within
,
what
ever
they
found
,
they
made
clean
work
,
the
fifth
Plunder
not
sparing
his
Kitchin-stuff
,
which
being
reserved
in
a
small
Barrel
,
a
Soldier
putting
it
on
his
shoulder
,
carried
it
away
;
coming
this
last
time
to
Mr.
Bartlets
house
,
and
understanding
that
he
,
and
his
Sons
were
in
the
Kings
Army
,
they
abused
his
Wife
in
beastly
,
immodest
scurrilous
language
,
which
I
shall
omit
to
relate
,
as
offensive
to
Christian
ears
:
I
shall
conclude
this
five-fold
Plunder
,
with
the
relation
of
one
of
their
Captains
Hipocrisie
,
and
a
Common
Soldiers
impiety
,
glorying
in
his
wickedness
:
The
Captain
being
invited
to
eat
of
a
Stubble-Goose
,
which
a
Soldier
had
Plundered
and
brought
into
his
Quarters
,
refused
to
taste
of
it
,
and
gave
this
reason
for
his
refusal
,
because
it
was
stoln
,
which
bred
in
Mrs.
Bartlet
a
great
opinion
that
he
was
a
conscientious
man
,
but
being
to
march
away
,
he
that
would
eat
no
stoln
Goose
,
made
no
scruple
to
ride
away
upon
a
stoln
Mare
,
for
plundering
Mrs.
Bartlet
of
her
own
Mare
,
this
Hypocritical
Captain
(
and
pity
it
is
I
cannot
tell
you
his
name
)
gave
sufficient
Testimony
to
the
World
,
that
the
old
Pharisee
and
the
new
Puritan
,
have
Consciences
of
the
self-same
temper
,
To
strain
at
a
Gnat
,
and
swallow
a
Camel
,
measuring
all
Actions
,
not
by
lawful
,
and
unlawful
,
but
as
they
are
more
,
or
less
gainful
.
But
while
the
Captain
chose
rather
to
be
a
Villain
,
than
openly
to
appear
so
,
the
Common
Soldiers
would
not
only
be
so
indeed
,
but
desire
so
to
be
accounted
;
and
therefore
when
his
Companions
were
carrying
out
Mr.
Bartlet's
Goods
,
amongst
other
things
,
one
seized
on
some
live
Partridges
,
and
being
entreated
to
forbear
,
and
to
spare
them
,
because
they
were
provided
for
a
Great-bellied
Gentlewoman
,
and
now
ready
to
lay
down
her
burthen
,
the
Common
Soldiers
hearing
him
plead
thus
,
barbarously
replied
,
if
we
had
made
Venison
of
her
great
Belly
,
she
would
not
have
longed
for
Partridges
,
for
I
have
killed
young
and
old
,
Men
,
Women
,
and
Children
:
and
boasting
himself
in
his
sin
,
and
glorying
in
his
shame
,
without
regard
had
to
the
dangerous
longing
of
a
pregnant
Woman
,
if
not
satisfied
,
took
them
away
.
So
truly
is
that
of
the
Prophet
verified
in
these
Miscreants
,
They
declare
their
Sin
as
Sodom
,
they
hide
it
not
,
Woe
unto
their
Soul
,
for
they
have
rewarded
evil
to
themselves
,
Esay
3.9
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
XVIII
.
The
Rebels
persecution
of
Dr.
Featly
,
a
known
Champion
of
the
Protestant
Religion
:
part
of
his
Sermon
against
the
Secretaries
:
his
death
:
Together
with
their
murthering
of
two
of
the
Inhabitants
of
Lambeth
on
the
Lords-day
,
&c.
IN
Novemb.
1642.
some
of
the
Rebels
Foot
Soldiers
being
Billetted
at
Acton
in
the
County
of
Middlesex
,
they
presently
enquire
of
their
Hosts
what
their
Doctor
was
,
(
meaning
Doctor
Featly
,
their
then
Rector
)
and
what
Divine
Service
they
had
;
they
answered
according
to
the
truth
,
that
he
was
a
man
who
precisely
observed
the
Canons
of
the
Church
,
and
swerved
not
a
title
from
the
Rubrick
of
the
Common
Prayer
,
wearing
the
Surplice
,
and
using
all
the
Rites
and
Ceremonies
of
the
Church
established
by
Law
.
Some
of
the
Red-coats
replyed
,
Doth
he
so
?
We
will
teach
him
another
Lesson
,
and
make
him
leave
those
Popish
Superstitions
,
or
he
shall
rue
it
.
Soon
after
,
they
repair
to
the
Church
at
Acton
,
break
open
the
Doors
by
force
,
in
the
Chancel
they
find
this
Subscription
on
the
Wall
,
This
Chancel
was
repaired
and
beautified
,
such
a
year
,
by
Daniel
Featly
D.D.
Rector
,
which
they
utterly
defaced
:
Then
laying
hands
on
the
Rails
,
they
dealt
with
them
(
as
Ducks
do
with
a
Frog
)
tear
them
limbless
,
and
afterwards
burnt
them
in
the
Street
,
saying
,
That
if
they
had
the
Parson
there
,
they
would
burn
him
with
his
Popish
Trinkets
.
Soon
after
,
Colonel
Urrey
took
up
his
Quarters
at
the
Parsonage-house
,
some
of
whose
Soldiers
,
(
whether
willingly
or
by
carelesness
,
being
in
Drink
,
is
not
certified
)
lying
in
the
Doctors
Barn
,
set
it
on
Fire
,
which
burned
the
whole
Barn
full
of
Corn
,
and
two
Stables
,
down
to
the
ground
,
the
loss
being
estimated
by
the
Inhabitants
at
Two
hundred
and
eleven
pounds
.
But
to
leave
Acton
,
and
come
to
Lambeth
,
where
the
Secretaries
wrecked
their
spleen
,
not
upon
Pales
,
or
Rails
,
or
the
Fruits
of
the
Earth
,
as
at
Acton
,
but
upon
the
Bodies
of
Christs
Servants
,
on
his
own
Day
,
and
in
his
own
House
and
Court
.
For
February
19.
1642.
even
in
the
midst
of
Divine
Service
,
at
the
reading
of
the
Te
Deum
laudamus
,
four
or
five
Soldiers
rushed
into
the
Church
with
Pistols
,
and
drawn
Swords
,
affrighted
the
whole
Congregation
out
,
wounded
one
of
the
Inhabitants
(
whereof
he
soon
after
died
)
shot
another
dead
,
as
he
hung
by
the
hands
on
the
Church-yard
wall
,
looking
over
to
the
Palace
Court
,
who
might
truly
have
said
in
the
words
of
the
Poet
,
though
in
another
sense
,
Ut
vidi
,
ut
perii
.
It
was
gathered
by
many
Circumstances
,
especially
by
Depositions
taken
before
the
Coroner
,
and
by
some
Speeches
that
fell
from
their
own
mouths
,
that
their
principal
aim
at
that
time
,
was
to
have
murdered
the
Doctor
,
which
't
is
probable
they
had
effected
,
had
not
some
honest
Inhabitants
premonished
the
Doctor
,
who
was
at
the
same
time
on
his
way
towards
the
Church
,
intending
to
have
Preached
.
About
the
same
time
,
many
of
these
Murderers
were
heard
expressing
their
rancour
against
the
Doctor
,
thus
:
Some
said
they
would
chop
the
Rogue
as
small
as
Herbs
to
the
Pot
,
for
suffering
Pottage
,
(
for
by
that
name
they
usually
stile
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
)
to
be
read
in
his
Church
:
Others
said
,
They
would
squeeze
the
Pope
out
of
his
Belly
,
with
such
like
scurrilous
and
malicious
Language
.
The
Sunday
sennight
after
this
Outrage
,
being
the
fifth
of
March
,
the
Doctor
perceiving
some
Separatists
at
Sermon
at
Lambeth
,
took
occasion
to
speak
as
followeth
:
IF
ever
Schismaticks
and
foul
mouth'd
Separatists
were
set
forth
in
their
native
colours
,
the
Schismaticks
of
this
age
are
,
Psal.
50.16
,
17
,
18
,
19
,
20.
What
hast
thou
to
do
to
declare
my
Statutes
,
or
that
thou
should'st
take
my
Covenant
in
thy
mouth
?
Seeing
thou
hatest
instruction
(
whatsoever
thou
pratest
of
Reformation
)
and
castest
my
words
behind
thee
,
(
namely
,
Prov.
14.21
.
Eccles.
10.20
.
Rom.
12.1
,
2
,
3
,
4.
Heb.
13.8
,
9
,
17.
1
Pet.
2.13
.
)
When
thou
sawest
a
thief
,
then
thou
consentedst
with
him
,
and
hast
been
partaker
with
Adulterers
.
Thou
givest
thy
mouth
to
lying
,
and
thy
Tongue
frameth
deceit
.
Thou
sittest
and
speakest
against
thy
Brother
,
and
slanderest
thine
own
Mothers
son
.
For
is
not
this
their
canting
Language
?
The
Prelates
of
England
are
all
Antichristian
;
The
Ministers
Baals
Priests
;
The
publick
Service
,
Idolatrous
;
The
Ceremonies
,
Superstitious
;
and
the
Sacraments
corrupted
with
mans
Inventions
.
I
take
them
at
their
word
;
If
this
be
true
,
then
is
the
Church
of
England
no
true
Church
of
Christ
;
then
they
which
have
received
all
the
Religion
they
have
from
her
,
are
no
better
then
Miscreants
,
Pagans
,
and
Infidels
,
in
apparent
peril
of
drowning
in
everlasting
perdition
,
because
out
of
the
Ark
,
without
God
in
this
World
,
because
without
his
Church
.
For
as
the
Blessed
Martyr
Saint
Cyprian
soundly
argueth
against
their
Fore-fathers
the
Catharists
,
Deum
non
potest
habere
Patrem
,
qui
Ecclesiam
not
habet
Matrem
:
And
Church
they
have
none
for
their
Mother
,
for
they
disclaim
the
true
Protestant
Church
of
England
,
and
the
Popish
disclaims
them
;
so
they
are
mere
A
per
se
A's
,
Independents
,
like
the
horti
pensiles
in
Lactantius
,
and
Mausolus
his
Sepulchre
in
Martial
,
hanging
and
hovering
in
the
Air.
The
Scripture
sets
forth
the
true
visible
Church
of
Christ
upon
Earth
,
under
the
Emblem
of
a
great
Field
,
a
great
Floor
,
a
great
House
,
a
great
Sheet
,
a
great
Draw-net
,
a
great
and
large
Foundation
,
&c.
The
Church
shadowed
.
out
under
these
Similitudes
,
cannot
be
their
Congregation
,
or
rather
Conventicles
:
For
as
they
brag
and
commend
themselves
,
wanting
good
Neighbors
;
In
their
Field
there
are
no
Tares
,
in
their
Floor
there
is
no
Chaff
,
in
their
House
no
Vessels
of
Dishonor
,
in
their
Sheet
no
Unclean
Beasts
,
in
their
Net
no
trash
,
on
their
Foundation
nothing
built
,
but
Gold
,
Silver
,
and
precious
Stones
.
They
have
not
sate
with
vain
Persons
,
nor
kept
company
with
Dissemblers
;
they
have
hated
the
assembly
of
Malignants
,
and
have
not
accompanied
with
the
Ungodly
;
they
have
not
,
nor
will
not
Christen
in
the
same
Font
,
nor
sit
at
the
Holy
Table
,
(
for
to
kneel
at
the
Sacrament
is
Idolatry
)
nor
drink
Spiritually
the
Blood
of
our
Redeemer
in
the
same
Chalice
with
the
wicked
.
Get
ye
packing
then
out
of
our
Churches
with
your
bags
and
baggages
,
hoyse
up
Sail
for
New
England
,
or
the
Isle
of
Providence
,
or
rather
Sir
Thomas
More
's
Eutopia
,
where
Pluto's
Commoner
,
and
Osorius
his
Nobleman
,
and
Castillio
his
Courtier
,
and
Vigetius
his
Soldier
,
and
Tully
his
Orator
,
and
Aristocles
Felix
,
and
the
Jews
Bencohab
,
and
the
Manichees
Paraclet
,
and
the
Gnosticks
Illuminate
ones
,
and
the
Montanists
Spiritual
ones
,
and
the
Pelagians
perfect
ones
,
and
the
Catharists
pure
ones
,
and
their
precise
and
holy
ones
are
all
met
at
Prince
Arthurs
round
Table
,
where
every
Guest
(
like
the
Table
)
is
totus
teres
atque
rotundus
.
There
are
three
Heads
of
Catechism
and
Grounds
of
Christianity
,
The
Apostles
Creed
,
the
Lords
Prayer
,
and
the
Ten
Commandments
;
these
may
be
more
truly
than
Gorran
his
Postills
,
termed
aurea
fundamenta
,
which
they
go
about
to
overthrow
and
cast
down
;
and
when
they
have
done
it
,
no
place
remaineth
for
them
to
build
their
Synagogues
,
or
Maria
Rotunda's
,
but
the
Sand
in
the
Saw-pit
,
where
their
Apostle
Browne
first
taught
most
profoundly
.
The
Lords
Prayer
they
have
excluded
out
of
their
Liturgy
,
the
Apostles
Creed
out
of
their
Confession
,
and
the
Ten
Commandments
,
by
the
Antinomians
their
Disciples
,
out
of
their
rule
of
life
.
They
are
too
good
to
say
the
Lords
Prayer
,
better
taught
than
to
rehearse
the
Apostles
Creed
,
better
liv'd
than
to
hear
the
Decalogue
read
at
their
Service
,
for
God
can
see
no
Sin
in
them
,
nor
Man
Honesty
.
Tell
me
,
ye
Bastard
brood
of
Martius
,
is
it
not
sufficient
for
the
conviction
of
your
cauterized
Consciences
,
that
ye
wreck
your
spleen
upon
the
material
Temples
of
God
,
by
breaking
down
Organs
,
burning
Rails
,
and
defacing
the
Monuments
of
the
Dead
,
but
will
ye
go
about
to
destroy
the
Spiritual
Temple
of
the
Holy
Ghost
?
not
fearing
that
dreadful
Sentence
of
the
Apostle
,
He
that
destroyeth
the
Temple
of
God
,
him
shall
God
destroy
.
Could
they
not
be
content
to
tear
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
in
pieces
,
and
scatter
the
leaves
all
about
the
Church
,
but
will
they
also
rend
and
dilacerate
the
living
Members
of
Christs
mystical
Body
?
Will
they
charge
the
Cannon
with
murthering
Shot
to
destroy
and
dissipate
whole
Assemblies
of
Gods
Servants
met
together
upon
his
own
Day
to
Worship
him
in
his
own
House
?
Do
they
think
that
their
bare
opposition
to
Popery
will
save
them
?
If
that
alone
would
give
a
Man
a
good
Title
to
Heaven
,
not
only
the
Socinians
,
Libertines
,
Familists
,
Antinomians
,
and
other
damnable
Hereticks
,
but
even
the
Jews
and
Turks
would
snatch
Heaven
from
them
,
and
take
it
by
force
,
for
these
are
as
vehement
Opposers
of
Popery
as
they
are
:
And
howsoever
the
violent
Opposition
to
Popish
Superstition
is
all
the
Religion
some
of
them
have
,
yet
are
they
not
at
so
deadly
fewd
with
Papists
,
as
they
would
bear
the
World
in
hand
,
for
they
shake
hands
with
them
in
many
of
their
Tenets
and
Practices
,
both
of
them
condemn
our
English
Liturgy
,
and
profess
Recusancy
:
both
of
them
Idolize
their
Teachers
,
&c.
Who
hath
bewitched
them
,
that
they
should
believe
Bedlam
shall
be
so
far
enlarged
,
and
the
Spirit
of
Frenzy
possess
Old
England
,
that
they
should
have
the
like
success
here
,
as
their
cousin-germans
the
Anabaptists
had
at
Munster
?
though
we
envy
them
not
their
high
preferment
in
the
end
.
After
these
fits
of
Convulsion
are
over
,
and
Peace
setled
in
the
Body
of
the
Kingdom
,
do
they
think
the
wisdom
of
the
State
will
ever
change
our
Holy
Churches
into
their
prophane
Barns
and
Stables
?
our
Pulpits
into
their
Tubs
?
our
linnen
Ephods
into
their
Aprons
?
our
Liturgy
into
their
extemporary
Enthusiasms
?
our
Learned
Pastors
into
their
ignorant
Hirelings
?
and
our
Apostolical
Hierarchy
into
their
Apostolical
Anarchy
?
But
I
will
restrain
my self
,
and
confine
my
Discourse
.
Soon
after
this
Sermon
,
seven
Articles
were
preferred
against
the
Doctor
to
the
Committee
for
Plundered
Ministers
,
by
three
Mechanicks
,
who
had
formerly
been
Indicted
for
Brownists
,
at
the
Sessions
for
the
County
of
Surrey
;
but
after
long
attendance
,
the
Doctor
was
acquitted
of
them
.
Yet
at
length
these
Sectaries
wrought
so
powerfully
,
that
the
Doctor
must
be
committed
to
Prison
,
how
unjustly
soever
;
't
was
enough
that
he
was
a
Doctor
,
and
maintained
the
Religion
established
in
the
Church
of
England
:
And
accordingly
,
on
the
30
th
.
of
September
,
1643.
he
is
committed
to
Peter-house
;
his
own
House
,
Library
and
Goods
being
first
seized
on
,
and
his
Estate
sequestred
.
The
Sunday
after
his
commitment
,
and
for
divers
other
Lords-days
,
he
Preached
to
his
Fellow-Prisoners
,
but
after
a
while
he
was
prohibited
by
Isaac-Pennington
the
pretended
Mayor
of
London
.
And
though
Sir
George
Sands
,
Sir
John
Butler
,
Master
Nevile
,
and
other
Prisoners
of
Quality
,
Petitioned
that
he
might
continue
his
so
doing
,
yet
it
would
not
be
granted
.
See
how
this
unjust
Imprisonment
is
relished
by
a
Forein
Divine
,
in
these
very
words
:
I
Am
sorry
to
hear
of
the
close
Imprisonment
of
that
worthy
Dr.
Featly
:
What
?
He
who
is
,
and
ever
hath
been
so
stout
a
Champion
for
Religion
,
to
be
so
used
by
the
Reformers
thereof
?
But
let
not
the
Disciple
think
it
strange
,
when
his
Master
suffered
so
much
cruelty
from
the
great
Rabbins
of
Israel
.
Yours
from
my
heart
,
J.
S.
After
the
Doctor
had
been
many
Months
stifled
up
in
Prison
,
and
having
a
Certificate
from
his
Physitian
that
he
could
not
live
long
,
if
he
had
not
some
fresh
Air
,
he
Petitioned
these
Soul-enthralling
Tyrants
,
and
at
last
obtained
leave
to
go
to
Chelsey-Colledge
for
six
Weeks
,
upon
good
Bail
,
to
recover
his
Health
:
but
it
pleased
God
to
take
him
out
of
this
World
,
upon
the
17.
day
of
April
,
1645.
being
the
very
last
day
of
the
six
Weeks
limited
for
his
return
.
During
his
Sickness
,
he
gave
himself
wholly
to
Divine
Meditations
,
often
bewailing
with
Tears
,
the
present
state
of
the
Church
of
England
:
he
made
a
Confession
of
his
Faith
to
Doctor
Leo
,
and
the
Dutch
Ambassadors
Chaplain
,
saying
,
That
the
Doctrine
which
he
had
always
Preached
,
and
the
Books
which
he
had
always
Printed
against
Anabaptists
and
other
Sectaries
,
were
agreeable
to
Gods
Word
;
and
that
he
would
Seal
the
Protestant
Religion
(
as
it
was
established
and
confirmed
by
the
Acts
of
three
Pious
Princes
)
with
his
Blood
.
And
being
asked
by
some
that
came
to
visit
him
,
What
he
thought
of
the
Covenant
?
he
said
,
It
was
a
damnable
and
execrable
Oath
,
made
purposely
to
insnare
poor
Souls
,
and
full
of
Malice
and
Treason
against
our
Gracious
Soveraign
.
And
,
said
he
,
For
Church-Government
(
a
thing
now
much
controverted
)
I
dare
boldly
affirm
,
That
the
Hierarchy
of
Bishops
is
most
agreeable
to
the
Word
of
God
,
as
being
of
Apostolical
Institution
,
the
taking
away
whereof
is
damnable
;
and
that
by
consequence
,
both
the
Presbyterian
and
Independent
Governments
are
absurd
and
erroneous
,
neither
of
them
being
ever
heard
of
in
the
Church
of
God
,
till
of
late
at
Geneva
;
nor
is
there
so
much
as
any
colour
for
them
in
Holy
Writ
.
It
is
evident
(
said
he
)
that
as
the
Priests
in
the
Old
Testament
were
above
the
Levites
,
so
in
the
New
the
Apostles
were
above
the
Disciples
,
and
that
the
seven
Angels
of
the
seven
Churches
in
the
Apocalypse
were
seven
Bishops
,
and
that
Polycarpus
was
Bishop
of
Smyrna
,
and
Timotheus
of
Ephesus
.
And
for
the
Laity
,
no
pregnant
proof
can
be
produced
,
That
they
ever
medled
with
the
Priests
Function
,
or
had
any
Power
to
ordain
Ministers
.
And
these
things
(
said
he
)
I
intended
to
have
published
to
the
World
,
if
God
had
spared
me
longer
life
,
which
I
might
(
through
his
goodness
)
,
have
enjoyed
,
had
I
not
been
unjustly
Imprisoned
:
which
he
several
times
reiterated
to
his
Friends
.
Anon
after
he
Prayed
thus
:
Lord
,
strike
through
the
reins
of
them
that
rise
against
the
Church
and
King
,
and
let
them
be
as
chaff
before
the
Wind
,
and
as
stubble
before
the
Fire
;
let
them
be
scattered
as
Patridges
upon
the
Mountains
,
and
let
the
breath
of
the
Lord
consume
them
;
but
upon
our
Gracious
Soveraign
and
his
Posterity
,
let
the
Crown
flourish
:
This
(
said
he
)
is
the
hearty
and
earnest
Prayer
of
a
poor
sick
Creature
.
With
which
,
and
other
such
spiritual
Ejaculations
,
he
expired
.
FINIS
.
MERCURIUS
RUSTICUS
:
OR
,
The
Countries
Complaint
of
the
Sacrileges
,
Prophanations
,
and
Plunderings
,
Committed
by
the
SCHISMATIQUES
,
ON
THE
Cathedral
Churches
of
this
Kingdom
.
MATTH.
xxi
.
13.
My
House
shall
be
called
the
House
of
Prayer
,
but
ye
have
made
it
a
Den
of
Thieves
.
LONDON
,
Printed
in
the
Year
,
1685.
The
Preface
.
THE
Author
of
the
French
History
relating
that
horrid
Rebellion
of
the
Holy
League
in
France
,
the
Prototype
of
the
present
Rebellion
in
England
,
gives
this
definition
or
Character
of
one
of
those
Zealots
:
Essential
form
(
saies
he
)
of
a
Zealous
Catholick
in
the
Holy
League
,
was
to
Rob
and
Prophane
Churches
,
to
Ravish
Wives
,
and
Virgins
to
murther
Men
against
the
Altars
,
to
spoyl
the
Clergy
,
not
to
be
the
Kings
Servants
,
which
that
Age
held
for
a
Crime
,
but
to
vomit
out
against
him
,
all
the
indignities
,
and
all
the
wickednesses
which
Irreligion
,
and
Injustice
could
invent
in
mad
Soldiers
:
do
change
Zealous
Catholick
into
Zealous
Puritan
,
and
no
Pencil
ever
limm'd
a
Rebell
of
this
present
Rebellion
so
exactly
to
the
life
as
this
:
and
though
they
have
out-done
all
examples
,
presidents
of
wickedness
,
cruelty
,
disloyalty
,
sacrilege
,
and
prophanation
,
as
if
in
them
the
Devil
meant
to
shew
his
Master-piece
,
raging
in
them
horribly
,
because
he
knows
that
he
hath
but
a
short
time
,
yet
to
their
dishonouring
of
God
,
their
vilifying
his
holy
worship
,
prophaning
his
Temples
,
blaspheming
the
footsteps
of
his
Anointed
,
affronting
and
contemning
his
Priests
and
Ministers
,
to
their
rending
,
rearing
,
and
trampling
underfoot
,
all
Hallowed
Ornaments
,
and
Vtensils
provided
for
the
reverend
,
and
decent
worship
of
God
,
I
know
nothing
that
they
have
left
undone
,
which
remaines
yet
to
be
added
to
their
accursed
impieties
.
So
that
what
the
old
Eustathians
,
Meslalians
,
Fratricelli
,
and
the
rest
of
those
wild
Hereticks
(
who
placed
their
Religion
in
Contempt
of
Consecrated
Churches
,
Temples
,
and
Oratories
,
places
Consecrated
,
and
set
apart
for
the
publick
worship
of
God
)
durst
not
do
,
these
Schismatical
Rebels
,
(
having
wilfully
smothered
not
only
their
Consciences
,
but
the
dictate
of
common
reason
)
putting
no
difference
between
Holy
,
and
Prophane
,
have
acted
with
greediness
:
whatsoever
things
they
are
,
whereon
the
name
of
God
is
called
,
whether
Persons
,
times
or
places
,
in
the
Judgment
of
venerable
Antiquity
,
whether
Councils
,
Fathers
,
or
Historians
,
those
things
were
ever
held
Sacred
and
Inviolable
,
always
habenda
cum
Discrimine
and
that
extra
Usum
Sacrum
,
to
be
regarded
with
a
reverential
,
and
discriminative
usance
,
that
is
,
with
a
select
and
different
respect
from
other
things
of
the
same
kind
,
but
not
imployed
to
Holy
uses
:
nay
the
honouring
Gods
House
,
was
ever
held
an
Ingredient
of
that
Petition
of
the
Lords
Prayer
,
Sanctificetur
Nomen
tuum
,
Hallowed
be
thy
Name
:
what
opinion
the
Ancient
Fathers
,
both
Greek
and
Latine
,
had
of
such
places
,
may
be
collected
from
those
Magnificent
,
and
honourable
Names
,
whereby
they
commended
them
to
the
due
esteem
of
several
Ages
in
which
they
lived
:
Some
in
regard
of
their
use
and
imployment
called
them
the
Lords
House
,
some
the
Patrimony
of
Christ
,
some
the
Dowry
of
the
Spouse
of
Christ
,
some
a
Consecrated
Possession
of
God
,
and
a
Holy
Soil
:
others
in
respect
of
their
Magnificence
of
Structure
,
and
Costliness
of
Ornaments
,
called
them
Palaces
,
Royal
or
Kingly
Houses
:
Nay
would
we
but
sharpen
our
Goads
at
a
Philistines
Forge
,
or
weave
the
Woollen
Yarn
of
the
Gentiles
,
with
Linnen
webb
of
the
Christians
,
I
mean
,
call
in
the
Testimony
and
practice
of
the
Heathen
,
in
what
veneration
and
esteem
they
had
their
Idol
Temples
(
which
was
in
them
the
dictate
of
Nature
,
mistaken
only
in
the
Object
)
and
they
would
stand
up
,
as
so
many
witnesses
,
and
certainly
in
the
day
of
Judgment
,
shall
condemn-this
prophane
Generation
,
who
under
an
Hypocritical
pretence
of
worshiping
God
in
Spirit
,
in
a
true
Anabaptistical
fury
,
have
laid
wast
the
Sanctuaries
of
God
,
polluted
his
Temples
,
and
broken
down
all
their
carved
work
with
Axes
and
Hammers
:
And
though
these
Rebellious
Schismaticks
have
in
all
places
(
which
have
been
plagued
with
their
presence
)
Roared
in
the
midst
of
our
Congregations
,
set
up
their
Banners
for
tokens
,
and
left
some
infamous
memorial
of
their
frenzie
,
and
hatred
of
the
beauty
and
magnificence
of
Gods
Houses
;
and
therefore
in
every
place
made
it
their
first
business
(
as
an
introduction
to
the
rest
)
to
rob
,
and
deface
Churches
,
and
violate
the
Sepulchres
and
Monuments
of
the
dead
,
so
they
have
exprest
their
greatest
hatred
against
the
Mother
Churches
,
and
Cathedrals
of
this
Kingdom
,
because
in
them
,
the
primitive
Order
,
and
decency
,
prescribed
in
the
Rubrick
of
the
Book
of
Common
Prayer
,
and
ratified
by
Act
of
Parliament
,
have
been
best
preserved
from
those
Omissions
,
Neglects
,
and
Contempts
,
which
had
almost
banished
them
out
of
private
Parochial
Congregations
,
and
rendered
them
obnoxious
to
sinister
interpretations
,
and
suspected
of
no
less
than
Popery
,
Superstition
,
and
Innovation
,
in
those
places
wherein
they
were
retained
,
and
practised
:
when
therefore
our
Posterity
shall
see
this
Abomination
of
desolation
,
which
the
Rebels
have
brought
into
these
Temples
of
God
,
and
by
Tradition
hear
of
those
costly
Vtensils
,
and
Ornaments
,
which
most
Sacrilegiously
they
have
carried
out
,
and
shall
with
wonder
,
and
astonishment
inquire
,
what
Lunacy
?
what
Frenzy
?
what
accursed
madness
possessed
the
hearts
of
the
men
of
this
present
Age
,
to
lay
wast
the
places
where
Gods
honour
dwells
?
where
God
vouchsafes
to
meet
with
his
People
,
and
the
People
,
with
united
devotion
,
to
propitiate
their
God
,
and
impiously
(
as
much
as
in
them
is
)
to
turne
these
Beauties
of
Holiness
into
desolate
places
,
for
Ziim
,
and
Ochim
,
(
as
the
Prophet
speaks
)
and
the
Satyrs
to
dance
in
,
Esay
13.12
.
Let
them
know
,
that
the
Puritans
,
Brownists
,
and
Anabaptists
,
Rebels
,
marching
under
the
Banners
of
a
faction
in
the
two
pretended
Houses
of
Parliament
(
which
yet
some
have
the
impudence
to
call
the
Great
and
Highest
Court
,
the
Supreame
Judicature
,
and
the
most
zealous
Protectors
,
and
Assertors
of
the
Established
Protestant
Religion
)
have
brought
this
desolation
upon
us
.
And
because
this
Tempest
raged
first
the
East
,
and
so
spread
it self
into
all
parts
of
the
Kingdom
,
West
,
North
,
and
South
,
I
shall
in
the
Relation
keep
the
same
Method
(
if
so
great
confusion
can
be
ranged
into
a
method
)
whereby
we
shall
give
(
as
is
due
)
Precedency
to
the
famous
Metropolitan
Church
of
Canterbury
,
which
as
it
is
(
in
respect
of
her
lesser
Sisters
)
first
in
Order
and
Dignity
,
so
was
it
then
and
now
shall
be
,
the
first
instance
of
the
Rebels
Sacrilege
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
I.
The
Cathedral
Church
of
Canterbury
horribly
abused
and
defaced
by
the
Rebels
under
the
Conduct
of
Col.
Sandys
and
Sir
Michael
Livesey
:
Together
with
the
miserable
end
of
the
said
Col.
at
Worcester
,
&c.
THe
City
of
Canterbury
,
the
Ancient
seat
of
the
Kings
of
Kent
,
while
the
Saxon
Heptarchy
flourished
in
this
Island
,
was
by
King
Ethelbert
given
,
together
which
the
Royalty
thereof
to
Augustine
the
first
consecrated
Arch-Bishop
of
the
English
Nation
,
who
there
fixed
his
seat
for
himself
and
his
Successors
:
for
whose
sake
Gregory
the
great
,
then
Bishop
of
Rome
,
translated
the
Motropolitan
dignity
,
together
with
the
Honour
of
the
Pall
,
from
London
to
Canterbury
:
this
City
(
as
the
rest
)
had
'
its
share
in
that
spoyl
and
devastation
,
which
War
and
the
sword
,
in
the
Innovations
of
Foreign
Nations
and
domestick
broyls
,
brought
upon
it
:
the
greatest
impressions
of
desolation
made
on
it
,
were
in
the
Danish
Wars
,
but
the
Normans
succeeding
,
through
the
Piety
of
Godly
Religious
men
,
residing
there
,
and
the
bounty
and
liberality
of
the
Bishops
,
it
did
suddenly
start
up
,
not
only
into
its
primitive
beauty
,
and
Lustre
,
but
out-stripped
all
other
places
,
as
in
the
number
and
sumptuousness
of
Private
Houses
,
so
especially
in
the
magnificence
and
splendor
of
Religious
houses
:
amongst
which
,
two
were
most
famous
,
far
exceeding
all
the
rest
,
viz.
Christ-Church
,
&
bujus
pertinacissimus
aemulus
(
as
learned
Cambden
speaks
)
the
eager
rival
of
Christ-Church
,
St.
Augustines
.
This
Church
by
the
injury
of
Sacrilege
,
and
time
,
(
two
greedy
devourers
)
lies
almost
buried
in
its
own
Ruines
,
presenting
nothing
else
to
the
eye
of
the
beholders
,
but
a
sad
spectacle
,
how
spatious
,
and
ample
a
structure
it
once
was
,
when
now
,
a
piece
of
it
hath
the
honour
to
be
stiled
(
though
seldom
imploy'd
as
)
the
Kings
House
.
But
Christ-Church
,
placed
as
it
were
in
the
Navel
of
the
City
,
raiseth
it self
to
so
great
a
Majesty
,
and
Stateliness
,
that
Erasmus
,
a
man
not
too
much
taken
with
magnificence
in
this
kind
,
I
am
sure
not
doting
on
it
,
saies
,
that
this
doth
present
it selfe
with
so
Majestick
state
,
ut
procul
etiam
Intuentibus
religionem
incutiat
,
that
it
occasions
that
devotion
,
which
should
be
used
there
,
and
strikes
a
sensible
impression
of
Religion
,
in
their
hearts
that
behold
it
,
though
a
far
off
,
and
at
a
distance
.
This
Church
built
in
old
time
(
as
Beda
saies
)
by
the
faithful
and
believing
Romans
,
and
by
King
Ethelbert
given
to
Augustine
,
in
process
of
time
needed
the
like
Piety
to
support
it
,
as
at
first
built
it
,
and
works
of
that
Nature
in
those
days
,
did
not
long
lye
neglected
,
for
want
of
benefactors
:
Lanfranke
therefore
,
the
thirty
third
Arch-Bishop
of
this
Sea
(
whether
more
famous
for
repairing
of
decaied
Churches
,
as
this
of
Canterbury
,
Rochester
,
and
S.
Albans
,
or
his
indefatigable
pains
in
correcting
the
corrupt
translations
of
the
Holy
Bible
,
scattered
every
where
through
the
Kingdom
in
his
days
,
is
uncertain
.
)
William
Corbet
,
or
(
as
others
will
have
it
)
Corbois
,
the
thirty
sixth
Arch-Bishop
of
the
same
Sea
,
reedified
the
Quire
,
and
the
upper
part
of
this
Church
,
and
the
Piety
of
succeeding
Bishops
built
and
joyned
the
Nave
or
body
to
the
Quire
,
and
brought
,
it
to
this
Magnificence
,
and
splendor
in
which
we
now
see
it
.
But
what
our
Fore-fathers
thought
Religion
to
build
up
,
we
,
their
degenerous
posterity
,
think
Piety
to
pull
down
,
so
that
while
some
leading
Atheists
(
enemies
to
God
and
his
Religion
,
and
reprobate
to
every
good
work
)
are
busy
to
Vote
and
cry
down
Episcopacy
,
with
the
Sacred
Hierarchy
,
Root
and
Branch
:
their
Emissaries
incouraged
and
set
on
by
them
,
first
deface
these
Churches
,
and
in
the
next
place
,
will
utterly
ruin
them
,
that
so
,
the
places
where
God
is
worshiped
,
being
demolished
,
the
revenue
that
maintains
the
worship
,
may
become
a
prey
to
these
Sacrilegious
Cormorants
:
But
my
God
shall
make
them
like
a
wheel
.
Now
,
how
the
Rebels
behaved
themselves
in
their
first
attempt
,
in
this
kind
,
on
the
Cathedral
Church
of
Canterbury
,
under
the
conduct
of
Colonel
Sandys
,
I
cannot
better
express
than
in
the
passionate
elegancy
of
Reverend
Doctor
Paske
,
one
of
the
Prebends
,
and
at
that
time
Subdean
of
that
Church
,
to
the
Earl
of
Holland
,
the
most
ingrateful
,
and
most
unthankful
of
men
.
My
ever
Honoured
Lord
,
DId
it
not
conduce
unto
the
Publick
,
I
should
not
presume
to
interrupt
your
Lordships
weighty
affairs
;
but
the
long
experience
of
your
Lordships
zeal
for
Religion
,
and
vigilancy
for
your
University
of
Cambridge
,
hath
assured
me
of
your
Lordships
Patronage
of
our
whole
Church
in
general
,
and
(
as
the
case
now
stands
)
of
this
Mother-Church
in
particular
,
we
expected
peace
,
but
have
found
much
trouble
from
the
Troopes
sent
amongst
us
;
with
what
barbarousness
they
have
behaved
themselves
at
Rochester
,
and
in
other
parts
of
this
County
,
I
leave
to
the
Relation
of
others
,
and
beg
your
Lordships
patience
,
only
to
be
informed
what
hath
happened
here
with
us
:
and
wherein
I
am
more
neerly
concerned
,
by
my
Office
in
the
absence
of
the
Dean
.
Colonel
Sandys
arriving
here
with
his
Troops
,
on
Friday
night
,
presently
caused
a
strict
watch
and
Sentinels
to
be
set
both
upon
the
Church
,
and
upon
our
several
houses
,
to
the
great
affright
of
all
the
Inhabitants
:
this
done
,
Sergeant
Major
Cockaine
came
to
me
,
and
in
the
name
of
the
Parliament
,
demanded
to
see
the
Arms
of
the
Church
,
and
the
Store-powder
of
the
County
,
which
I
presently
shewed
him
;
when
he
possessed
himself
of
the
Keys
,
and
keep
them
in
his
own
custody
:
the
next
morning
we
were
excluded
the
Church
,
and
might
not
be
permitted
to
enter
,
for
the
preformance
of
our
divine
Exercises
,
but
about
eight
of
the
Clock
,
Sir
Michael
Livesey
attended
with
many
Soldiers
,
came
unto
our
Officers
,
and
commaded
them
,
to
deliver
up
the
keys
of
the
Church
,
to
one
of
their
Company
,
which
they
did
,
and
thereupon
he
departed
,
when
the
Soldiers
entering
the
Church
,
and
Quire
,
Giant-like
,
began
a
fight
with
God
himself
,
overthrew
the
Communion-Table
,
tore
the
Velvet
cloth
from
before
it
,
defaced
the
goodly
Screen
,
or
Tabernacle-work
,
violated
the
Monuments
of
the
Dead
,
spoyled
the
Organs
,
brake
down
the
ancient
Rails
,
and
Seats
,
with
the
brazen
Eagle
which
did
support
the
Bible
,
forced
open
the
Cupboords
of
the
Singing-men
,
rent
some
of
their
Surplices
,
Gowns
and
Bibles
,
and
carryed
away
others
,
mangled
all
our
Service-books
,
and
Books
of
Common-Prayer
;
bestrwing
the
whole
Pavement
with
the
leaves
thereof
:
a
miserable
spectacle
to
all
good
eyes
:
but
as
if
all
this
had
been
too
little
,
to
satisfie
the
fury
of
some
indiscreet
zealots
among
them
(
for
many
did
abhor
what
was
done
already
)
they
further
exercised
their
malice
upon
the
Arras
hanging
in
the
Quire
,
representing
the
whole
story
of
our
Saviour
,
wherein
observing
divers
figures
of
Christ
,
(
I
tremble
to
express
their
blasphemies
)
one
said
that
here
is
Christ
,
and
swore
that
hee
would
stab
him
:
another
said
here
is
Christ
,
and
swore
that
he
would
rip
up
his
Bowels
:
which
they
did
accordingly
,
so
far
as
the
figures
were
capable
thereof
,
besides
many
other
Villanies
:
and
not
content
therewith
,
finding
another
statue
of
Christ
in
the
Frontispiece
of
the
South-gate
,
they
discharged
against
it
forty
shot
at
the
least
,
triumphing
much
,
when
they
did
hit
it
in
the
head
,
or
face
,
as
if
they
were
resolved
to
crucifie
him
again
in
his
figure
,
whom
they
could
not
hurt
in
truth
:
nor
had
their
fury
been
thus
stopped
,
threatning
the
ruine
of
the
whole
Fabrick
,
had
not
the
Colonel
,
with
some
others
,
come
to
the
relief
and
rescue
:
the
Tumults
appeased
,
they
presently
departed
for
Dover
,
from
whence
we
expect
them
this
day
;
and
are
much
afraid
,
that
as
they
have
already
vilified
our
Persons
,
and
offered
extream
indignity
to
one
of
our
Brethren
,
so
they
will
Plunder
our
Houses
at
their
Return
,
unless
the
care
of
the
Major
,
the
Colonel
,
and
some
Members
of
the
House
of
Commons
(
Sir
Edward
Masters
,
and
Captain
Nut
,
now
with
us
,
who
have
promised
to
present
their
knowledg
to
that
honourable
House
)
do
prevent
the
same
.
Your
Lordship
will
be
pleased
to
pardon
my
hasty
expressions
,
which
proceed
from
a
grieved
heart
,
and
I
am
confident
the
honourable
Houses
of
Parliament
,
being
rightly
informed
herein
,
will
provide
against
the
like
abuses
,
and
impieties
in
other
places
,
in
the
mean
time
we
submit
with
patience
to
the
providence
of
him
,
who
can
,
and
will
bring
good
out
of
evil
,
which
is
the
earnest
Prayer
of
Christ-Church
,
Cant.
Aug.
30
,
1642.
Your
Lordships
most
Obliged
Servant
,
Thomas
Paske
.
WHat
effect
this
just
complaint
wrought
,
how
it
prevailed
either
with
that
Lord
to
whom
it
was
addressed
,
or
with
the
pretended
Houses
of
Parliament
,
whose
authority
,
and
assistance
was
implored
to
prevent
further
outrages
,
either
here
or
elsewhere
,
we
have
too
clear
testimony
,
not
only
in
the
like
sacrileges
,
and
prophanations
every
day
acted
,
without
any
the
least
check
,
or
restraint
from
the
heads
of
this
Rebellion
,
but
more
especially
from
their
Votes
and
Ordinances
,
for
the
abolishing
all
remainders
of
Popery
and
Superstition
,
as
they
call
it
:
in
all
which
,
Intelligi
malunt
quam
Audiri
,
they
would
have
their
creatures
understand
,
more
than
they
speak
,
being
certain
politick
Litotes
,
in
which
,
minus
dicitur
,
plus
intelligitur
,
signifying
more
than
the
Grammatical
construction
will
permit
,
an
carry
in
them
a
hidden
,
secret
sense
,
and
meaning
,
which
their
own
Emissaries
know
how
to
interpret
,
and
inlarge
,
according
to
the
full
intention
of
the
Authors
.
But
before
we
pass
from
the
relation
of
this
horried
Sacrilege
,
committed
on
the
Church
of
Canterbury
,
I
could
not
free
my self
from
being
guilty
of
that
great
sin
of
obscuring
the
great
manifestation
of
Gods
Justice
,
if
I
should
in
silence
pass
over
that
most
examplary
vengeance
,
which
persued
to
death
,
that
unfortunate
Gentleman
Col.
Sandys
,
the
ringleader
to
that
Rebellious
rout
,
which
were
Actors
in
that
more
than
Barbarous
outrage
.
Whether
the
cunning
perswasions
of
others
,
or
his
own
ambitiom
first
imbarked
him
in
this
fatal
undertaking
,
is
uncertain
,
but
as
himself
confessed
on
his
death-bed
,
to
a
friend
and
Kinsman
of
his
,
who
asked
him
,
what
he
meant
being
a
Gentleman
of
so
fair
an
Estate
,
to
ingage
himself
in
this
Treason
?
he
answered
,
That
he
was
so
far
drawn
in
before
he
was
aware
,
that
he
knew
not
how
to
come
off
,
without
the
danger
of
his
head
:
So
usual
it
is
for
one
sin
to
ingage
the
sinner
for
a
second
:
having
therefore
once
lifted
up
his
hand
against
his
Sovereign
,
the
Lords
Anoynted
,
he
thought
the
way
to
be
secure
from
the
punishment
of
Rebellion
,
was
to
presevere
in
his
crime
,
and
go
on
in
Rebellion
:
in
pursuance
therefore
of
so
black
designs
,
being
Colonel
of
a
Regiment
of
Horse
,
in
Sept.
1642.
with
the
rest
of
the
Rebels
Army
under
the
Conduct
of
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
he
advanced
towards
Worcester
,
and
making
some
excursions
with
ten
Troops
of
Horse
from
the
body
of
their
Army
,
at
Wickefeild
,
near
Worcester
,
accidentally
were
met
by
Prince
Rupert
,
accompanied
by
Prince
Maurice
,
and
some
others
,
Lords
and
Gentlemen
of
His
Majesties
Cavallry
:
being
thus
by
chance
met
,
The
Prince
glad
of
any
opportunity
,
to
express
the
braveness
of
his
resolution
,
charged
the
Rebels
with
incomparable
valour
:
In
this
short
,
but
fierce
conflict
,
Colonel
Sandys
was
wounded
,
and
being
dismounted
his
Horse
,
became
Prisoner
to
the
Kings
party
.
Being
thus
wounded
and
as
then
was
conceived
,
mortally
,
he
began
to
reflect
upon
himself
,
and
finding
so
little
warrant
in
his
now
unbiass'd
conscience
for
his
undertaking
,
which
had
brought
him
into
this
condition
,
his
perplexed
Soul
brake
out
into
many
sad
expressions
of
remorse
:
crying
out
,
Woe
,
Woe
,
to
evil
Counsel
,
and
happy
are
they
that
do
not
take
it
.
And
being
put
in
mind
by
a
Reverend
Doctor
in
Divinity
,
and
Chaplain
to
Prince
Rupert
,
of
the
heinousness
of
the
sin
of
Rebellion
,
he
acknowledged
himself
to
have
faln
into
that
sin
,
and
that
God
was
just
in
his
Judgments
for
finding
him
out
in
his
iniquity
,
professing
withal
his
hearty
sorrow
,
and
repentance
for
it
:
whereupon
the
Doctor
replyed
,
that
if
he
recovered
,
perhaps
the
same
perswasions
from
others
,
or
inconsiderateness
in
himself
,
might
again
ingage
him
in
his
Rebellion
,
at
which
words
a
little
lifting
up
his
hand
,
he
professed
,
He
would
rather
have
it
cut
off
,
then
ever
again
lift
it
up
against
the
King
:
He
freely
acknowledged
the
Justice
of
the
Kings
cause
,
and
that
he
had
observe
the
blessings
of
God
to
accompany
it
,
and
when
the
Doctor
desired
leave
to
testify
his
Repentance
to
the
world
,
he
freely
gave
him
leave
,
asking
God
and
the
King
forgivness
,
praying
for
a
blessing
upon
him
,
and
his
proceedings
.
In
this
mind
he
continued
while
Prince
Rupert
,
and
the
Kings
forces
with
him
staid
in
Worcester
:
and
whether
after
the
Earls
possessing
himself
of
Worcester
,
by
the
impetuous
sollicitations
of
those
Murtherers
of
Souls
,
those
Factors
for
Hell
,
their
Schismatical
Lecturers
,
(
who
make
men
twofold
more
the
Children
of
the
Devil
than
themselves
)
he
fell
off
,
and
turned
Apostate
from
his
newly
resolved
Loyalty
,
as
repenting
of
his
Repentance
,
is
uncertain
;
Those
that
were
about
him
and
saw
his
weakness
,
ever
declining
from
the
first
hour
he
received
his
wounds
,
must
testify
to
the
World
that
he
had
neither
strength
of
hand
to
write
,
nor
so
much
composedness
of
spirit
,
to
be
the
Author
of
that
Spurious
,
Supposititious
Vindication
,
Published
in
his
name
Oct.
11.
1642.
He
being
(
whatsoever
that
forgery
pretends
)
as
unable
to
vindicate
himself
with
his
Pen
,
as
his
sword
:
but
if
he
had
his
heart
,
as
well
as
hand
subscribing
to
that
Atheistical
resolution
,
where
they
thus
bring
him
in
foaming
out
his
own
shame
,
The
Apprehension
of
death
never
hitherto
so
nearly
touched
me
,
but
if
God
shall
once
restore
me
to
my
former
strength
,
I
shall
by
his
help
,
with
as
much
alacrity
and
I
hope
courage
,
endeavour
,
to
defend
,
and
maintain
with
my
dearest
blood
,
this
so
good
a
cause
(
meaning
this
present
Rebellion
)
as
ever
I
was
at
first
engaged
in
it
.
If
I
say
they
had
his
heart
,
as
well
as
his
hand
to
that
Resolution
,
I
am
afraid
it
was
too
evident
a
Symptom
of
a
wretched
man
,
given
up
to
a
Reprobate
sense
,
which
of
all
spiritual
judgments
questionless
is
the
greatest
;
and
might
justly
call
for
those
Torments
of
body
,
which
afterward
,
as
a
Gangreen
devoured
and
eat
up
his
flesh
,
and
those
pangs
of
Conscience
,
which
I
am
afraid
were
but
the
earnest
of
a
worse
condition
to
insue
:
for
as
the
Psalmist
saies
,
As
for
such
as
turn
back
unto
their
own
wickedness
,
the
Lord
shall
lead
them
forth
,
with
the
workers
of
iniquity
,
Psal.
125.5
.
but
I
Remember
that
of
S.
Paul
,
Judg
nothing
before
the
time
,
until
the
Lord
come
:
1.
Cor.
4.5
.
And
therefore
while
on
Supposition
I
writ
my
fears
,
positively
I
determine
nothing
,
not
knowing
,
whether
God
might
not
give
him
the
grace
of
Repentance
at
the
last
,
which
if
he
did
,
he
only
(
I
dare
say
)
that
gave
the
Grace
,
knew
of
it
:
concerning
his
eternal
condition
therefore
,
I
shall
leave
him
to
the
Judgment
of
that
Righteous
God
,
that
judgeth
Righteous
Judgment
,
and
gives
to
every
man
according
to
his
works
:
and
only
inform
the
World
in
what
condition
the
Colonel
lay
,
until
the
time
of
his
dissolution
,
and
putting
off
his
earthly
,
but
loathsom
Tabernacle
.
As
the
Col.
was
amongst
the
Rebels
a
very
considerable
man
,
both
for
his
extraction
,
and
quality
,
and
likewise
for
his
Estate
(
to
say
nothing
of
his
valour
,
and
resolution
,
had
they
been
Loyally
imployed
)
so
it
was
among
their
chiefest
cares
to
recover
him
of
those
wounds
which
he
received
in
their
unchristan
quarrel
:
while
therefore
the
Rebels
Army
lay
in
Worcester
(
which
was
about
three
weeks
)
though
then
upon
more
strict
searching
his
wounds
,
in
the
opinion
of
the
best
Chirurgions
,
they
were
not
mortal
,
yet
,
whatsoever
the
Art
,
and
invention
either
of
the
Physician
or
Chirurgion
,
could
contribute
to
his
recovery
,
was
not
omitted
:
when
the
Rebels
Army
drew
out
,
to
meet
the
King
,
in
their
March
from
Shrewsbury
,
which
they
did
to
their
cost
at
Edge-hill
,
the
Colonel
was
committed
to
the
care
of
his
own
Chirurgion
,
then
in
pay
under
him
,
John
Anthony
of
London
:
to
whom
,
as
a
witness
and
an
assistant
in
the
crue
,
was
joyned
a
Chirurgion
of
the
City
of
Worcester
,
Edward
Marshall
:
who
,
though
they
both
used
all
the
Art
,
and
Industry
that
possibly
they
could
,
to
effect
the
cure
,
yet
the
difficulties
every
day
multiplied
against
the
means
,
and
in
despight
of
their
Balsoms
,
his
wounds
did
putrify
and
the
flesh
rot
,
to
the
wonder
of
the
Artists
,
and
the
Scorn
of
their
Art
:
In
so
much
that
the
Chirurgions
,
after
much
variety
of
means
used
,
and
much
strugling
with
these
growing
evils
(
the
cure
still
going
backward
,
as
if
their
skill
had
been
imploy'd
to
widen
those
wounds
which
they
pretended
to
close
up
)
were
heard
by
many
of
the
City
of
Worcester
to
confess
,
what
Hippocrates
saies
every
Physician
should
first
look
after
,
in
every
cure
,
that
there
was
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
hand
of
God
in
it
,
that
it
was
a
peculiar
judgment
upon
him
,
and
that
the
cause
of
this
putrefaction
was
more
than
Natural
:
nor
were
they
without
good
grounds
for
this
conjecture
,
for
besides
the
conclusions
of
their
own
Art
,
directly
thwarted
,
experience
on
the
several
parts
of
the
body
of
their
Patient
,
was
a
clear
demonstration
:
Those
wounds
in
the
upper
parts
of
his
body
,
near
the
Vitals
,
and
therefore
more
dangerous
,
were
cured
long
before
his
death
,
but
those
in
his
thigh
,
which
were
flesh
wounds
,
as
they
call
them
,
these
were
the
Oppropria
Chyrurgorum
,
here
the
flesh
did
daily
rot
,
and
putrifie
,
and
was
cut
away
by
degrees
,
even
to
the
leaving
of
the
bones
naked
,
and
stunk
in
so
loathsom
a
manner
,
that
as
he
was
a
burthen
to
himself
,
so
to
his
friends
too
,
and
those
that
were
about
him
,
being
hardly
able
,
for
the
noysomness
of
the
smell
,
either
to
come
near
him
to
do
the
office
of
necessary
attendance
,
or
so
much
as
to
endure
the
room
where
he
lay
,
so
intolerable
was
the
stench
,
and
so
offensive
.
Nor
were
the
wounds
of
his
Body
more
insufferable
to
his
friends
,
than
the
wounds
of
his
Conscience
to
himself
,
the
guilt
of
Rebellion
wrought
in
him
strong
convulsions
of
Soul
,
high
distempers
of
mind
,
yet
that
he
might
not
sink
under
the
burden
of
his
wounded
Spirit
,
a
weight
that
requires
more
than
man
to
support
it
,
he
sent
for
Master
Cotterell
,
an
Orthodox
godly
Minister
,
and
Parson
of
S.
Andrews
in
Worcester
,
to
Administer
a
word
of
comfort
unto
him
in
this
his
afflicted
condition
.
When
Master
Cotterell
came
unto
him
,
he
found
Obadiah
Sedgwick
that
scandalous
seditious
Minister
of
Essex
,
in
private
conference
with
the
Colonel
:
and
Bread
and
Wine
,
ready
prepared
for
the
Lords
Supper
:
Sedgwick
having
ended
his
discourse
,
went
to
Prayers
,
whereupon
Master
Cotterell
offering
to
withdraw
,
he
was
intreated
by
one
of
the
Colonels
Servants
to
stay
,
which
accordingly
he
did
:
Sedgwick
having
concluded
his
extemporary
Prayer
,
took
his
leave
and
departed
,
refusing
to
stay
either
to
administer
the
Sacrament
to
the
Colonel
,
or
to
Communicate
with
him
:
of
which
refusal
,
when
Master
Cotterell
afterward
desired
to
know
the
Reason
,
all
the
satisfaction
that
was
given
him
,
was
,
that
Sedgwick
was
not
fully
assured
of
the
fitness
,
and
due
preparation
of
those
that
were
to
receive
the
Sacrament
with
him
.
Desperate
Hypocrisie
,
!
whatsoever
he
was
perswaded
of
the
preparation
of
the
other
Communicants
,
't
is
most
certain
,
he
could
not
be
ignorant
of
the
unfitness
of
the
Colonel
himself
:
whom
he
himself
in
all
probability
perswaded
to
return
with
the
dog
to
his
vomit
,
and
to
justify
himself
in
that
sin
of
which
but
very
lately
he
seemed
to
repent
:
't
is
more
probable
,
that
,
that
poor
remainder
of
Conscience
in
Sedgwick
,
not
quite
yet
put
away
,
though
it
suffered
him
to
betray
,
in
private
,
a
dying
man
to
impenitency
,
under
feigned
pretences
of
what
he
in
his
own
Soul
must
needs
confess
to
be
a
crying
sin
,
and
inrolled
by
S.
Paul
himself
amongst
those
works
of
the
flesh
which
do
exclude
from
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
:
yet
his
heart
might
smite
him
,
and
his
conscience
withstand
him
as
it
were
to
the
face
,
that
he
durst
not
seal
that
destructive
Counsel
,
by
delivery
of
the
Sacrament
:
Sedgwick
being
gone
,
the
Colonel
willingly
entertained
conference
with
Master
Cotterell
;
to
whom
he
made
a
general
confession
of
his
sins
,
and
the
grievousness
of
them
,
professing
his
hearty
repentance
,
and
sorrow
for
them
.
But
as
the
two
pretended
Houses
of
Parliament
,
in
their
Catalogue
of
sins
,
reckoned
up
in
their
Homily
(
if
without
offence
I
may
so
call
it
)
and
offered
to
this
Nation
as
the
subject
matter
of
their
solemn
humiliation
,
quite
forgot
Lying
and
Rebellion
,
for
some
reasons
best
known
to
themselves
:
so
this
Champion
of
theirs
in
his
general
Confession
,
made
no
mention
of
the
sin
of
Rebellion
,
which
most
nearly
concerned
him
,
and
for
which
in
all
probability
he
was
very
suddenly
to
render
an
account
to
God
:
a
Confession
most
necessary
both
for
him
to
make
,
and
the
Minister
to
require
,
before
he
could
be
thought
a
fit
receiver
of
those
dreadful
mysteries
:
but
after
this
general
Confession
,
having
received
the
Sacrament
,
Master
Cotterell
commending
him
to
the
grace
of
God
,
for
that
time
left
him
;
and
having
by
one
or
two
visits
,
after
that
,
as
he
thought
gained
some
interest
in
the
Colonel
,
coming
again
to
him
and
finding
him
in
a
calm
Temper
,
and
judging
it
a
fit
oportunity
to
inquire
into
his
Conscience
,
and
to
sound
him
what
perswasion
he
now
had
of
his
taking
up
Arms
against
his
Sovereign
,
he
desired
the
Colonel
to
command
his
servants
out
of
the
room
,
that
he
might
speak
with
him
in
private
,
which
being
done
,
and
all
witnesses
removed
,
but
God
,
and
their
own
Consciences
,
Master
Cotterell
,
prefacing
his
discourse
,
with
a
solemn
Protestation
,
that
in
what
he
did
,
he
proposed
no
other
end
,
but
the
salvation
of
his
Soul
,
demanded
of
him
,
whether
he
were
not
sorry
for
drawing
his
sword
against
the
King
?
and
whether
he
were
not
perswaded
in
his
Conscience
of
the
unlawfulness
of
it
?
To
which
the
Colonel
replyed
,
that
he
was
perswaded
,
that
it
was
lawful
,
having
taken
up
Arms
not
against
the
King
,
but
for
the
King
,
for
his
good
,
to
bring
him
back
to
his
Parliament
,
to
make
him
more
glorious
than
any
of
his
Predecessors
,
and
to
redeem
him
from
his
evil
Counsellors
,
and
those
Popish
Malignants
that
were
about
him
.
To
which
old
,
thredbare
pretences
(
invented
to
palliate
Treason
,
and
blanch
their
most
gross
Rebellion
)
when
Master
Cotterell
opposed
the
Laws
of
God
,
the
Laws
of
the
Kingdom
,
and
seconded
both
,
by
the
Kings
most
clear
and
satisfactory
Declarations
,
able
to
undeceive
the
abused
World
,
and
dispel
that
mist
of
errour
and
prejudice
,
which
the
heads
of
this
Rebellion
had
cast
before
the
eyes
of
the
People
of
this
deluded
Nation
:
the
Colonel
not
able
to
return
any
reasonable
answer
,
or
pre-instructed
by
Sedgwick
,
who
foresaw
what
encounter
he
was
like
to
meet
withal
,
suddenly
called
aloud
to
his
servants
to
come
in
,
whose
presence
set
an
end
to
the
Conference
:
after
this
,
Master
Cotterell
(
some
say
by
Doctor
Bruce
his
Physicians
advice
,
though
I
do
not
absolutely
affirm
it
)
was
wholly
neglected
,
and
Master
Halsetor
was
sent
for
,
Parson
indeed
of
S.
Nicolas
in
Worcester
,
but
more
acceptable
to
those
that
gave
this
Counsel
,
under
another
capacity
,
as
he
was
the
City
Lecturer
.
But
before
we
acquaint
you
with
what
success
Halsetor
undertook
,
and
discharged
this
imployment
,
it
will
not
be
amiss
to
let
the
World
know
,
what
reward
this
dying
Colonel
intended
to
bestow
on
Master
Cotterell
,
for
all
his
pains
taken
with
him
,
when
the
Colonels
Wife
came
to
Worcester
to
visit
her
Husband
,
what
pains
he
had
taken
in
administring
the
Sacrament
,
and
his
great
care
in
Praying
and
conferring
with
him
:
she
very
nobly
pressed
her
Husband
to
gratifie
Master
Cotterell
by
some
honorary
gift
,
as
an
acknowledgment
of
his
thankfulness
,
that
he
might
reap
some
of
his
Temporalls
,
to
whom
he
had
so
plentifully
sowed
Spiritual
things
:
to
so
reasonable
a
motion
made
by
the
Wife
of
his
bosome
,
the
Colonel
most
unworthily
,
and
most
uncharitably
replyed
,
Sweet-heart
be
content
,
we
shall
,
find
him
a
Delinquent
:
but
he
that
shall
reward
a
Cup
of
cold
water
,
shall
not
forget
so
great
a
work
of
Charity
:
he
that
endeavours
to
turn
a
sinner
to
righteousness
(
though
the
success
answer
neither
his
labour
,
nor
expectation
)
yet
he
shall
shine
as
the
Stars
for
ever
and
ever
,
nor
shall
his
work
be
in
vain
in
the
Lord
.
Master
Cotterell
being
thus
most
unthankfully
rejected
,
the
Colonel
is
now
committed
wholly
to
the
care
of
his
new
ghostly
Fathers
,
Master
Halsetor
,
a
man
of
a
Schysmatical
Turbulent
Spirit
,
fitter
to
make
a
Rebel
than
reclaim
a
relapsed
Traitor
:
and
since
hath
followed
that
counsel
which
he
gave
by
deserting
his
Cure
and
joyning
himself
to
the
Rebels
:
the
men
of
this
Faction
have
an
Art
to
torment
perplext
consciences
,
instead
of
comforting
them
,
dispensing
not
so
much
the
promises
of
the
Gospel
,
as
the
terrours
of
the
Law
,
as
if
the
way
to
spiritual
Consolation
were
through
despair
,
and
no
way
led
to
Heaven
so
sure
,
as
what
coasted
by
the
confines
of
Hell
;
whether
Master
Halsetor
dealt
thus
with
the
Colonel
,
I
cannot
say
,
perhaps
he
might
go
about
as
some
others
of
his
Faction
have
done
to
sow
Pillows
under
their
seduced
Champions
arm-holes
,
and
to
justifie
the
sinner
in
the
sin
,
comparing
circumstances
,
questionless
this
was
his
way
,
but
the
sad
effects
of
his
Rebellion
which
the
Col.
felt
in
his
body
,
and
those
flashes
of
horrour
affrighting
his
guilty
Soul
,
would
not
permit
this
dying
man
to
be
lulled
asleep
in
so
vain
presumption
:
though
at
first
therefore
when
Master
Cotterell
was
with
him
to
assist
him
in
that
great
work
to
prepare
him
to
stand
before
the
Judgment
Seat
of
Christ
,
and
the
preparatories
were
confessions
and
sorrow
for
sins
(
though
but
in
the
general
)
deprecations
of
Judgment
,
and
the
wrath
of
God
,
and
the
like
,
some
spiritual
comfort
,
began
to
dawn
in
his
benighted
Soul
,
and
that
he
might
seal
that
obscure
glimmering
of
hope
opened
unto
him
in
this
valley
of
Achor
,
and
obtain
more
,
he
desired
to
Communicate
in
the
Body
and
Blood
of
Christ
,
yet
after
Master
Halsetor
came
unto
him
,
(
woe
,
woe
to
evil
Counsel
,
to
use
his
own
exclamation
)
it
was
observed
that
the
Col.
fell
into
strong
distempers
of
mind
,
which
suddenly
grew
to
so
great
a
height
that
he
was
utterly
distracted
,
even
to
raving
,
and
madness
:
which
amongst
them
that
think
of
Gospel
ineffectual
,
unless
the
spiritual
man
be
mad
,
is
taken
for
the
undoubted
evidence
of
a
Powerful
Ministery
:
certainly
it
was
a
sad
spectacle
,
to
see
him
lye
in
this
condition
,
and
a
horrid
thing
to
hear
,
that
his
last
breath
,
which
should
have
been
breathed
out
in
Prayers
,
and
deprecations
,
and
humble
Confessions
of
sin
;
should
be
spent
in
venting
the
wild
fancies
of
his
distracted
brain
:
sometimes
crying
out
,
that
his
Chirurgion
and
servants
had
broken
up
his
Trunks
,
and
robb'd
him
of
of
his
Gold
:
and
by
and
by
starting
up
,
and
crying
out
,
that
the
Enemy
was
at
the
Walls
of
the
City
,
and
calling
for
the
keys
to
lock
up
the
Gates
:
Thus
he
lay
divers
weeks
:
and
in
these
distractions
dyed
;
dreadful
things
are
these
,
but
't
is
written
,
The
Lord
shall
smite
thee
with
madness
,
and
blindness
,
and
astonishment
of
heart
.
His
Wife
and
Son
coming
to
visit
him
in
this
wretched
condition
(
poysoned
with
the
stench
of
his
body
)
both
fell
sick
of
the
small
Pox
,
of
which
she
dyed
,
and
both
of
them
lie
Buried
in
the
South
I
le
of
the
body
of
the
Cathedral
,
in
that
Cathedral
of
Worcester
where
his
Grandfather
Doctor
Edwin
Sandys
,
afterwards
Arch-Bishop
of
York
,
made
his
first
step
to
the
Arch-Episcopal
honour
,
being
first
Consecated
Bishop
of
that
Diocess
:
and
there
laid
the
foundation
of
those
fortunes
,
which
descending
to
this
man
,
made
him
forget
his
own
extraction
;
and
certainly
it
was
no
small
aggravation
of
his
sin
,
that
being
descended
from
an
Arch-Bishop
,
and
that
Estate
which
made
him
considerable
in
the
World
,
being
raised
out
of
the
Revenues
of
the
Church
,
and
a
Cathedral
Church
(
a
blessing
which
but
few
Church-men
have
attained
unto
,
though
advanced
to
the
same
,
or
the
like
dignity
to
raise
a
family
)
He
should
yet
so
far
degenerate
,
so
far
forget
himself
,
and
the
Rock
from
whence
he
was
hewn
,
to
be
a
Ringleader
to
so
Barbarous
a
Rout
,
which
beginning
at
Canterbury
went
on
to
ruine
and
deface
all
Cathedral
Churches
where
they
came
,
ending
with
that
of
Worchester
,
were
he
had
the
undeserved
Priviledg
to
be
interr'd
.
Thus
as
briefly
as
I
could
,
I
have
given
an
account
of
the
unhappy
end
of
this
miserable
Gentleman
.
In
which
I
call
God
to
witness
there
is
nothing
feigned
,
nothing
suborned
,
there
being
nothing
here
recorded
,
but
was
is
attested
,
by
men
beyond
all
exception
.
And
I
must
appeal
again
to
the
same
God
,
that
this
account
is
not
given
to
that
end
to
make
his
name
,
or
memory
odious
,
either
with
the
men
of
this
present
age
,
or
with
posterity
;
I
must
confess
I
would
disgrace
the
Sin
,
but
my
intent
is
,
by
this
example
to
teach
those
that
seduced
as
this
Man
was
,
to
know
and
foresee
in
him
,
what
end
attends
those
,
who
forgetting
all
Religion
,
and
Loyalty
,
shall
lift
up
their
hands
against
their
God
in
Sacrilege
,
and
against
their
Sovereign
in
Rebellion
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
II.
The
Cathedral
Church
of
Rochester
violated
:
the
Sacrilege
and
prophaneness
of
the
Rebels
under
Command
of
Sir
William
Waller
and
Sir
Arthur
Haslerig
,
acted
on
the
Cathedral
Church
of
Chichester
,
&c.
AS
when
the
Spirit
brought
the
Prophet
Ezekiel
into
the
holy
Temple
,
he
led
him
from
place
to
place
,
and
each
place
entertained
him
with
greater
Abominations
than
the
former
,
so
that
the
farewel
to
the
last
Vision
,
and
the
invitation
to
the
next
is
,
Turn
thee
yet
again
and
thou
shalt
see
greater
Abominations
than
these
:
so
having
brought
you
in
the
Cathedrals
of
this
Kingdom
,
Temples
(
in
despite
of
Atheists
,
Rebels
and
Anabaptists
)
of
God
too
:
and
having
shewed
you
the
Abomination
of
desolation
in
one
of
them
,
viz.
in
Canterbury
,
the
first
instance
of
their
accursed
rage
,
and
having
viewed
that
,
I
must
now
lead
you
on
as
the
Spirit
did
the
Prophet
,
from
place
to
place
,
and
the
incitement
may
be
the
same
,
for
though
you
have
seen
great
prophanations
in
the
former
relation
,
yet
you
shall
see
greater
Abominations
than
these
.
The
next
instance
of
the
Rebels
profaneness
,
which
I
shall
offer
unto
you
,
is
in
the
Cathedral
of
Rochester
,
recompensed
for
the
smalness
of
'
its
revenue
,
with
the
honour
of
'
its
antiquity
,
as
boasting
of
Ethelbert
King
of
Kent
,
a
common
Founder
to
this
Church
,
with
those
of
Canterbury
and
London
.
The
unhappy
loss
of
Earnulphus
History
,
the
thirty
second
Bishop
of
this
See
,
deprives
us
of
that
light
which
discovered
the
various
condition
of
this
Church
how
long
in
the
beginning
it
struggled
with
'
its
own
poverty
,
and
in
after
ages
with
the
injuries
of
time
and
War
,
remaining
some
Years
in
a
kind
of
widowhood
,
without
the
government
and
superintendency
of
a
Bishop
;
till
at
last
Gundulfus
the
thirtieth
Bishop
of
this
See
,
reedified
this
Church
from
the
ground
,
and
brought
it
into
that
magnificence
,
in
which
we
now
see
it
:
to
which
pious
work
,
he
brought
so
good
,
so
vigorous
affections
,
that
as
Maelmesbury
records
of
him
Praevenerat
vivacitas
Gundulfi
omnium
successorum
diligentiam
,
Gundulphus
alacrity
in
that
work
did
so
prevent
the
piety
of
his
successors
,
that
he
hardly
left
them
any
place
in
this
kind
,
wherein
to
exercise
their
bounty
.
Little
did
the
overflowing
zeal
of
our
Ancestours
to
the
house
of
God
,
like
that
of
the
old
Israelites
,
pouring
out
their
wealth
and
precious
things
to
adorn
the
Tabernacle
,
in
so
great
measure
,
that
Moses
was
fain
to
publish
a
Proclamation
,
to
restrain
their
liberality
,
for
the
stuff
they
had
was
sufficient
for
the
work
to
make
it
,
and
too
much
,
Exod.
36.6
,
7.
little
(
I
say
)
did
they
thnik
,
when
they
did
this
,
that
what
they
thus
bountifully
gave
unto
God
,
should
ever
,
while
this
Kingdom
remained
Christian
,
become
a
prey
to
those
,
which
as
Tertullian
speaks
,
Gentes
agunt
Christi
nomine
,
have
not
so
much
as
a
form
,
but
the
bare
usurped
name
of
Christianity
,
which
they
fully
and
pollute
with
those
worse
than
heathenish
crimes
of
Sacrilege
and
Prophaneness
:
had
the
Sacrilege
lately
commited
at
Canterbury
been
applauded
by
the
People
,
(
to
gain
whom
,
no
arts
though
never
so
repugnant
either
to
Religion
or
common
honesty
were
left
unattempted
)
certainly
,
this
Church
which
next
stood
in
their
way
,
and
immediately
after
Canterbury
tasted
of
their
fury
,
had
been
utterly
demolished
,
and
offered
up
a
sacrifice
to
Popularity
.
But
Plundering
being
then
but
a
stranger
in
England
,
newly
arrived
here
from
desolate
Germany
,
especially
Plundering
of
Churches
,
which
heretofore
were
held
inviolable
Sanctuaries
for
offenders
,
but
much
more
for
their
own
innocent
ornaments
;
this
made
a
general
outcry
,
every
man
detested
so
foul
impiety
;
nay
,
their
own
party
(
some
of
them
)
not
yet
so
deeply
leavened
with
their
Anabaptistical
Doctrines
,
nor
given
up
to
so
reprobate
a
sense
to
believe
monstrous
lyes
for
truth
,
did
not
onely
not
approve
,
but
sparingly
condemn
the
Fact
:
and
the
general
vote
of
the
People
,
awakened
by
Doctor
Paske
his
Letter
,
declared
it
barbarous
and
wicked
;
nay
,
the
dislike
of
such
proceedings
grew
to
so
great
a
height
,
that
some
wise
men
were
deceived
into
an
opinion
,
that
the
Houses
would
punish
the
offenders
for
the
present
,
and
publish
an
Order
to
restrain
the
like
outrages
for
the
future
;
and
indeed
,
though
some
good
men
.
Members
of
both
Houses
,
did
earnestly
desire
it
,
yet
by
experience
they
quickly
found
how
unequal
they
were
to
effect
any
thing
,
in
which
they
had
not
the
concurrence
of
the
heads
of
the
Faction
which
ruled
in
both
Houses
,
but
much
less
when
they
rowed
against
the
stream
,
and
had
them
for
their
adversaries
.
The
Rebels
therefore
coming
to
Rochester
brought
the
same
affections
along
with
them
which
they
express'd
at
Canterbury
,
but
in
wisdom
thought
it
not
safe
,
to
give
them
the
same
scope
,
here
as
there
;
for
the
multitude
though
mad
enough
,
yet
were
not
so
mad
,
nor
stood
yet
so
prepar'd
to
approve
such
heathenish
practices
:
by
this
means
the
Monuments
of
the
Dead
;
which
elsewhere
they
brake
up
and
violated
,
stood
untouched
;
Escutcheons
and
Arms
of
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
(
upbraiding
eye-fores
to
broken
,
mean
Citizens
,
and
vulgar
Rebels
)
remained
undefaced
,
the
Seats
and
Stalls
of
the
Quire
escaped
breaking
down
,
onely
those
things
which
were
wont
to
stuff
up
Parliament
Petitions
,
and
were
branded
by
the
Leaders
of
the
Faction
,
for
Popery
and
Innovation
,
in
these
they
took
liberty
to
let
loose
their
wild
zeal
:
they
brake
down
the
rail
about
the
Lords
Table
,
or
Altar
,
(
call
it
which
you
please
;
)
and
not
only
so
,
but
most
basely
reviled
a
now
Reverend
Prelate
,
who
being
lately
Dean
of
that
Church
,
had
for
the
more
uniform
,
and
reverend
receiving
of
the
blessed
Sacrament
set
it
up
,
with
the
odious
name
of
Rogue
,
often
repeated
:
they
seized
upon
the
Velvet
Covering
of
the
holy
Table
,
and
in
contempt
of
those
holy
Mysteries
which
were
Celebrated
on
the
Table
,
removed
the
Table
it self
into
a
lower
place
of
the
Church
,
in
this
,
perfect
Disciples
of
that
profane
Author
of
the
Book
called
,
,
Altare
Damascenum
,
who
in
the
718.
p.
devoutly
resolves
thus
.
De
loco
ubi
consistat
cur
solliciti
,
cum
quovis
loco
vel
Angulo
extra
Tempus
Administrationis
collocari
possit
;
Concerning
the
place
where
the
Lords
Table
shall
stand
what
need
we
to
be
sollicitous
,
when
out
of
the
time
of
administration
of
the
Sacrament
,
it
may
be
set
aside
,
in
any
place
,
or
obscure
corner
.
And
to
shew
what
Members
they
are
of
the
Church
of
England
,
they
strewed
the
Pavement
with
the
torn
mangled
leaves
of
the
Book
of
Common-Prayer
,
which
,
with
the
Book
of
Homilies
,
and
the
39
Articles
,
makes
up
the
third
Book
,
wherein
the
Doctrin
of
the
Church
of
England
is
fully
containad
:
understanding
that
the
Dean
that
then
was
,
was
to
Preach
on
Sunday
morning
,
Colonel
Sandys
and
Sir
John
Seaton
,
that
false
Traiterous
Scot
,
sent
unto
him
to
command
him
to
forbear
the
wearing
of
the
Surpless
,
and
Hood
:
to
which
Message
the
Dean
stoutly
,
and
like
himself
,
returned
this
answer
,
that
if
they
would
expect
any
Sermon
from
him
,
they
must
permit
him
to
appear
in
such
Ornaments
,
as
the
Church
,
and
his
degree
required
:
and
accordingly
did
so
:
afterwards
Sandys
and
Seaton
,
coming
towards
the
Church
and
hearing
the
Organs
,
Seaton
started
back
,
and
in
the
usual
blessing
of
some
of
his
Country
,
cryed
,
A
Devil
on
those
Bag-pipes
:
perhaps
he
never
read
so
far
in
Davids
Psalms
,
where
it
is
written
,
Praise
God
upon
the
Srrings
and
Pipe
,
Psalm
150.4
.
or
if
he
had
,
it
is
more
than
probable
,
that
it
had
been
all
one
to
him
:
however
,
this
served
them
both
,
as
a
pretence
to
cloke
their
Irreligion
,
and
refusal
to
joyn
with
that
true
Protestant
Congregation
.
While
the
Rebels
were
pulling
down
the
Rails
about
the
Communion-Table
,
one
of
the
Prebends
of
the
Church
,
Master
Larken
,
interposed
,
and
attempted
to
stay
their
madness
by
reason
,
and
perswasion
;
but
he
quickly
found
,
that
he
did
not
only
prophane
Reason
,
by
urging
it
to
S.
Pauls
,
Absurd
,
unreasonable
,
wicked
men
,
men
made
up
of
Incongruities
,
but
that
he
did
it
to
the
hazard
of
his
life
;
for
one
of
the
Rebels
,
instead
of
returning
a
reasonable
answer
,
discharged
a
Pistol
,
or
Carbine
at
him
,
to
have
murdered
him
at
the
very
Altar
,
but
by
the
good
providence
of
God
he
miss'd
his
mark
.
Thus
having
done
some
spoil
,
that
they
might
render
themselves
not
altogether
unprofitable
to
their
party
,
and
not
daring
for
the
present
,
to
do
any
more
,
for
fear
of
losing
that
party
which
they
hoped
to
gain
,
for
that
reason
,
they
left
the
Church
:
but
into
what
further
outragious
Impieties
,
their
Schismatical
fury
hath
since
transported
them
,
or
what
else
they
have
practised
on
this
Church
,
to
compleat
their
Monstrous
Reformation
,
is
not
yet
made
known
unto
us
.
The
third
instance
,
which
I
shall
give
of
the
Rebels
Sacrilege
and
Profaneness
,
is
in
the
Cathedral
Church
of
Chichester
;
Successour
in
the
honour
of
being
the
seat
of
the
Bishops
Residence
to
Sealesey
:
for
Wilfrid
Arch-Bishop
of
York
,
being
driven
into
Exile
by
Egfrid
King
of
Northumberland
,
retiring
himself
into
Sussex
,
and
finding
the
South
Saxons
wholly
given
up
to
Idolatry
,
his
Spirit
,
like
S.
Pauls
at
Athens
,
was
stirred
within
him
,
and
knowing
the
unprofitable
servants
doom
,
that
Buried
his
Talent
,
he
Preached
unto
them
the
Gospel
of
Christ
:
and
Edilwalch
King
of
those
parts
(
not
long
before
converted
to
the
faith
,
by
the
perswasion
of
Wolfhere
King
of
the
Mercians
)
willing
that
the
same
saving
knowledg
,
which
he
himself
had
imbraced
,
should
be
imparted
to
his
People
,
seconded
the
pious
endeavours
of
Wilfrid
,
and
therefore
amongst
other
acts
of
bounty
,
he
gave
the
Arch-Bishop
,
Sealesey
for
the
palce
of
his
residence
.
Not
long
after
Cedwalla
,
Conquering
Edilwalch
,
built
here
a
Monastery
to
the
honour
(
as
Malmsbury
saies
)
of
S.
Peter
,
and
erected
the
Episcopal
Chair
:
where
it
stood
fixt
the
succession
of
22.
Bishops
,
or
as
others
say
(
reckoning
Wilfrid
Arch-Bishop
of
York
for
the
first
)
the
succession
of
23
Bishops
;
from
the
year
711.
the
Reign
of
William
the
Conquerour
1070.
at
which
time
Stiganeus
translated
his
Chair
from
Sealesey
to
Chichester
,
and
so
became
the
last
Bishop
of
Sealesey
,
and
the
first
of
Chichester
,
where
the
Episcopal
power
did
flourish
ever
since
,
until
now
;
in
these
last
,
and
worst
days
,
wherein
while
the
heads
of
a
Rebellious
,
Schismatical
Faction
,
Vote
down
the
sacred
Function
and
Order
of
Bishops
,
their
Emissaries
are
mad
to
deface
,
if
not
utterly
to
demolish
their
Churches
.
To
this
purpose
,
the
Rebels
under
the
Conduct
of
Sir
William
Waller
,
entering
the
City
of
Chichester
on
Innocents
day
,
1642.
the
next
day
,
their
first
business
was
to
Plunder
the
Cathedral
Church
;
the
Marshal
therefore
and
some
other
Officers
having
entred
the
Church
went
unto
the
Vestery
,
there
they
seize
upon
the
Vestments
and
ornaments
of
the
Church
,
together
with
the
Consecrated
Plate
,
serving
for
the
Altar
,
and
administration
of
the
Lords
Supper
:
they
left
not
so
much
as
a
Cushion
for
the
Pulpit
,
nor
a
Chalice
for
the
Blessed
Sacrament
:
the
Commanders
having
in
person
executed
the
covetous
part
of
Sacrilege
,
they
leave
the
destructive
and
spoyling
part
to
be
finished
by
the
Common
Soldiers
:
brake
down
the
Organs
,
and
dashing
the
Pipes
with
their
Pole-axes
,
scoffingly
said
,
hark
how
the
Organs
go
.
They
break
the
Rail
about
the
Communion-Table
,
which
was
done
with
that
fury
,
that
the
Table
it self
escaped
not
their
madness
,
but
tasted
of
the
same
fare
with
the
Rail
,
and
was
broken
in
pieces
by
them
.
At
the
East
end
of
the
Quire
,
did
hang
a
very
fair
Table
,
wherein
were
written
the
Ten
Commendments
,
with
the
Pictures
of
Moses
and
Aaron
on
each
side
of
the
Table
;
possessed
with
a
zeal
,
but
not
like
that
of
Moses
,
they
pull
down
the
Table
,
and
break
it
into
small
Shivers
.
'T
was
no
wonder
that
they
should
break
the
Commandments
in
their
representation
,
that
had
before
broken
them
all
over
in
their
Substance
,
and
Sanction
:
they
force
open
all
the
locks
,
either
of
doors
or
desks
wherein
the
singing
men
laid
up
their
Common-Prayer-Books
,
their
singing
Books
,
their
Gowns
and
Surplesses
:
they
rent
the
Books
in
pieces
,
and
scatter
the
torn
leaves
all
over
the
Church
,
even
to
the
covering
of
the
Pavement
,
but
against
the
Gowns
and
Surplesses
their
anger
was
not
so
hot
,
these
were
not
amongst
the
Anathemata
,
but
might
be
reserved
to
secular
uses
:
in
the
South
cross
I
le
on
the
one
side
,
the
History
of
the
Churches
Foundation
was
very
artificially
pourtrayed
,
with
the
Pictures
of
the
Kings
of
England
;
on
the
other
side
over
against
them
are
the
Pictures
of
the
Bishops
as
well
of
Sealsey
as
Chichester
,
began
by
Robert
Sherborn
,
the
37
Bishop
of
that
See
,
and
the
Series
brought
down
by
him
to
his
own
times
at
his
own
Charges
,
who
as
he
made
that
of
the
Psalmist
,
Dilexi
decorum
domus
tui
domine
,
Lord
I
have
loved
the
beauty
of
thy
house
,
his
imprease
and
Motto
,
so
he
made
it
his
work
,
and
endeavour
.
These
Monuments
they
deface
and
mangle
with
their
hands
and
swords
,
as
high
as
they
could
reach
:
and
to
shew
their
love
,
and
Zeal
to
the
Protestant
Religion
established
in
the
Church
of
England
,
one
of
those
Miscreants
picked
out
the
eyes
of
King
Edward
the
sixth's
Picture
,
saying
,
That
all
this
mischief
came
from
him
,
when
he
established
the
Book
of
Common-Prayer
.
On
the
Tuesday
following
,
they
had
a
solemn
Thanksgiving
,
for
their
success
in
gaining
that
City
.
Men
of
Cauterized
Consciences
,
and
given
up
to
a
Reprobate
sense
,
thus
,
not
only
to
take
the
name
of
God
in
vain
,
but
damnably
to
Blaspheme
it
,
as
if
he
were
the
Patron
of
Rapine
,
Blood
and
Sacrilege
.
After
the
Sermon
was
ended
,
as
men
not
inspired
by
the
holy
Spirit
,
of
which
they
so
much
boast
,
but
possessed
and
transported
by
a
Bachanalian
fury
,
they
ran
up
and
down
the
Church
,
with
their
swords
drawn
,
defacing
the
Monuments
of
the
dead
,
hacking
and
hewing
the
Seats
,
and
Stalls
,
scratching
and
scraping
the
painted
Walls
:
Sir
William
Waller
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Commanders
standing
by
as
spectators
,
and
approvers
of
these
Barbarous
Impieties
:
yet
for
fear
lest
in
the
Schismatical
frenzy
,
the
sword
in
mad
mens
hands
might
mistake
,
Sir
William
Waller
,
a
wary
man
as
he
is
,
and
well
known
not
to
be
too
apt
to
expose
himself
to
danger
,
stood
all
the
while
with
his
sword
drawn
,
and
being
asked
by
one
of
his
Troopers
what
he
meant
to
stand
in
that
Posture
?
He
answered
,
that
it
was
to
secure
himself
,
you
know
,
it
is
written
,
the
wicked
are
afraid
where
no
fear
is
,
for
though
the
People
made
him
an
Idol
in
London
,
yet
being
no
Popish
,
but
a
Puritanical
Idol
,
(
for
they
have
their
Idols
,
and
their
Idolatry
,
as
much
as
the
Church
of
Rome
)
there
was
no
danger
to
his
person
,
to
be
mistaken
for
an
object
of
their
Reformation
,
at
Chichester
.
The
same
Trooper
added
also
,
That
if
his
Colonel
in
the
Low-Countries
were
there
,
and
Commanded
in
cheif
,
he
would
hang
up
half
a
dozen
of
the
Soldiers
for
examples
sake
:
it
not
being
the
custom
of
the
Low-Countries
,
(
though
long
time
hath
made
their
enmity
inviterate
,
and
added
much
to
the
animosity
of
the
parties
)
to
Plunder
Churches
,
it
being
a
mutual
stipulation
between
the
Spaniard
and
the
Hollander
,
that
what
Town
soever
should
by
Conquest
pass
from
the
possession
of
one
Nation
to
the
other
,
though
the
Conquerour
had
the
free
Plunder
of
the
Town
,
yet
Churches
with
their
ornaments
,
and
what
ever
was
conveyed
into
them
,
should
be
Inviolable
,
the
Church
being
Sanctuary
to
whatsoever
was
under
its
Roofe
,
and
,
if
they
would
have
any
thing
thence
,
it
was
to
be
purchased
at
a
valuable
Price
.
These
good
intimations
of
moderation
from
a
man
of
less
Command
,
but
more
Religion
than
Sir
William
,
prevailed
nothing
with
him
to
restrain
the
outragious
madness
of
his
fellow
Rebels
.
Having
therefore
made
what
spoyl
they
could
in
the
Cathedral
,
they
rush
out
thence
and
break
upen
a
Parish-Church
,
standing
on
the
North
side
of
the
Cathedral
,
called
the
Subdeanery
:
there
they
tear
the
Common-Prayer
Books
,
both
those
belonging
to
the
Church
,
and
likewise
those
which
were
left
there
by
devout
persons
which
did
usually
frequent
divine
service
;
and
because
many
things
in
the
Holy
Bible
make
strongly
against
them
,
one
did
contradict
,
and
condemn
their
impious
practices
,
they
marked
it
in
divers
places
with
a
black
cole
;
't
is
more
than
probable
that
the
13.
Chapter
to
the
Romans
did
not
escape
their
Index
Expurgatorious
,
for
certainly
if
that
be
the
word
of
God
(
as
undoubtedly
it
is
)
they
cannot
so
far
withhold
the
truth
in
unrighteousness
as
not
to
read
their
doom
in
that
word
,
they
shall
judg
them
at
the
last
day
:
here
they
stole
the
Ministers
Surpless
,
and
Hood
,
and
all
the
linnen
serving
for
the
Communion
:
and
finding
no
more
Plate
but
the
Chalice
,
they
steal
that
too
,
which
they
brake
in
pieces
,
to
make
a
just
and
equal
divident
amongst
themselves
;
for
an
Engineer
of
theirs
,
Robert
Prince
a
French
man
with
a
wooden
leg
,
afterwards
shewed
the
foot
thereof
broken
off
;
and
when
complaint
was
made
of
these
barbarous
outrages
,
Capt.
Keely
replyed
,
that
he
knew
not
whether
all
this
were
not
done
by
Order
,
or
no.
About
5.
or
6.
days
after
,
Sir
Arthur
Haslerig
,
demanded
the
Keys
of
the
Chapterhouse
:
being
entered
the
place
,
and
having
Intelligence
by
a
treacherous
Officer
of
the
Church
where
the
remainder
of
the
Church
Plate
was
,
he
commanded
his
servants
to
break
down
the
Wainscot
,
round
about
the
room
,
which
was
quickly
done
,
they
having
brought
Crows
of
Iron
for
that
purpose
along
with
them
;
while
they
were
knocking
down
the
Wainscot
,
Sir
Arthurs
Tongue
was
not
enough
to
express
his
joy
,
it
was
operative
at
his
very
heels
,
for
dancing
and
skipping
,
(
pray
mark
what
Musick
that
is
,
to
which
,
it
is
lawful
for
a
Puritan
to
dance
)
he
cryed
out
,
there
Boys
,
there
Boys
,
heark
,
heark
,
it
Rattles
,
it
Rattles
:
and
being
much
importuned
by
some
members
of
that
Church
,
to
leave
the
Church
but
a
Cup
for
administration
of
the
blessed
Sacrament
,
answer
was
returned
by
a
Scotch
man
standing
by
,
that
they
should
take
a
wooden-dish
:
and
now
tell
me
which
was
farthest
from
a
Christian
,
either
this
impure
Scot
,
or
that
blasphemous
Atheist
,
who
seeing
the
massy
Plate
,
and
rich
ornaments
wherewith
the
Christian
Altars
were
adorned
in
the
Primitive
Church
,
in
indignation
and
scorn
of
Christ
belched
out
En
quam
preciosis
vasis
Mariae
ministratur
;
Behold
with
what
costly
vessels
the
Son
of
Mary
is
served
:
what
further
spoyl
and
Indignity
they
have
since
done
to
that
House
of
God
,
and
the
habitation
where
his
honour
dwelt
,
is
yet
uncertain
.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
III.
The
Rebels
defying
God
in
his
own
House
:
their
Sacrilege
,
in
stealing
Church
Plate
and
goods
:
their
irreverence
towards
the
King
,
by
abusing
his
Statue
:
their
heathenish
barbarity
in
violating
the
bones
and
ashes
of
dead
Monarchs
,
Bishops
,
Saints
and
Confessors
in
the
Cathedral
Church
of
Winchester
,
&c.
THE
next
instance
which
I
shall
give
of
the
Rebels
Sacrilege
,
and
Profaneness
,
is
in
the
Cathedral
Church
of
Winchester
:
which
City
as
it
was
the
Royal
Seat
of
the
King
of
the
West
Saxons
,
in
the
time
of
the
Heptarchy
,
so
was
it
the
Seat
of
the
Bishops
of
that
People
,
after
Kenwalchus
King
of
the
West-Saxons
(
not
brooking
the
Barbarous
,
broken
expressions
of
Agilbertus
his
Bishop
)
divided
this
large
Diocess
,
between
Agilbertus
,
and
Wina
,
and
leaving
Agilbertus
to
reside
at
Dorchester
,
caused
Wina
to
be
consecrated
Bishop
of
Winchester
.
Before
we
tell
you
by
whom
,
and
in
what
manner
,
this
Church
was
robbed
and
spoyled
of
its
ornaments
and
beauty
,
it
will
not
be
impertient
(
while
it
may
serve
as
an
aggravation
of
their
impiety
)
briefly
to
set
down
,
by
whom
this
Church
was
built
,
and
so
richly
adorned
,
as
lately
we
saw
it
.
This
magnificent
Structure
which
now
stands
,
was
began
by
Walkelinus
the
thirty
fifth
Bishop
of
this
Sea
:
which
work
left
imperfect
and
but
begun
by
him
,
was
but
coldly
prosecuted
by
the
succeeding
Bishops
,
untill
William
Wickham
(
the
magnificent
Sole
founder
of
two
S.
Mary
Colledges
,
the
one
in
Oxford
commonly
called
New
Colledge
,
the
other
a
Nurcery
to
this
,
near
Winchester
)
came
to
possess
this
See
:
He
amongst
many
other
works
of
Piety
,
built
the
whole
Nave
,
or
body
of
this
Church
,
from
the
Quire
,
to
the
West-end
,
the
Chappels
on
the
East-end
,
beyond
the
Quire
,
had
their
several
Founders
:
The
hallowed
Ornaments
,
and
utensils
of
this
Church
,
being
many
,
rich
,
and
costly
,
were
the
gifts
of
several
benefactors
,
who
tho
their
Names
perhaps
are
not
recorded
in
earth
,
have
found
their
reward
in
Heaven
.
This
Church
was
first
differenced
by
the
Name
of
S.
Amphibalus
;
who
received
a
Crown
of
Martyrdom
under
the
Persecution
of
Dioclesian
:
Next
it
exchanged
this
name
for
that
of
S.
Peter
;
and
again
,
this
,
for
that
of
S.
Swithin
,
the
eighteenth
Bishop
of
this
See
:
Last
of
all
,
it
was
dedicated
to
the
Holy
Trinity
,
whose
blessed
name
is
now
called
upon
it
:
which
Holy
name
though
it
could
not
but
put
the
Rebels
in
mind
whose
possession
and
House
it
was
,
did
not
at
all
afford
it
patronage
,
and
protection
from
their
accursed
rage
,
and
madness
.
The
Rebels
under
the
Conduct
of
Sir
William
Waller
,
sate
down
before
the
City
of
Winchester
,
on
Tuesday
the
12.
of
December
,
1642.
about
twelve
of
the
Clock
,
and
entered
the
City
that
afternoon
between
two
and
three
:
being
Masters
of
the
City
,
they
instantly
fall
upon
the
Close
,
under
a
pretence
to
search
for
Cavaliers
.
They
seize
upon
the
Prebends
Horses
,
and
demand
their
Persons
with
many
threatning
words
:
That
night
,
they
break
into
some
of
the
Prebends
Houses
,
such
Houses
as
they
were
directed
unto
,
by
their
Brethren
the
Seditious
Schismaticks
of
the
City
;
and
Plundered
their
goods
.
But
the
Castle
not
yet
surrendred
into
the
Rebels
hands
something
awed
their
insolency
:
which
being
the
next
day
delivered
up
to
their
power
,
did
not
only
take
away
the
Restraint
which
was
upon
them
,
but
incouraged
them
,
without
check
,
or
controul
to
rob
,
and
defi●e
,
both
God
and
all
good
men
.
Wednesday
therefore
and
Wednesday
night
being
spent
in
Plundering
the
City
,
and
Close
,
on
Thursday
Morning
between
nine
,
and
ten
of
the
Clock
,
(
hours
set
apart
for
better
imployments
,
and
therefore
purposely
in
probability
,
chosen
by
them
,
being
resolved
to
prophane
every
thing
that
was
Canonical
)
they
violently
break
open
the
Cathedral
Church
,
and
being
entred
,
to
let
in
the
Tyde
,
they
presently
open
the
great
West
doors
,
where
the
Barbarous
Soldiers
stood
ready
,
nay
greedy
to
rob
God
,
and
pollute
his
Temple
.
The
doors
being
open
,
as
if
they
meant
to
invade
God
himself
,
as
well
as
his
possession
,
they
enter
the
Church
with
Colours
flying
,
their
Drums
beating
,
their
Matches
fired
,
and
that
all
might
have
their
part
in
so
horrid
an
attempt
,
some
of
their
Troops
of
Horse
also
accompanied
them
in
their
march
,
and
rode
up
through
the
body
of
the
Church
,
and
Quire
,
until
they
came
to
the
Altar
,
there
they
begin
their
work
,
they
rudely
pluck
down
the
Table
and
break
the
Rail
:
and
afterwards
carrying
it
to
an
Ale-house
,
they
set
it
on
fire
,
and
in
that
fire
burnt
the
Books
of
Common-Prayer
,
and
all
the
Singing
Books
belonging
to
the
Quire
:
they
throw
down
the
Organ
,
and
break
the
Stories
of
the
Old
and
New
Testament
,
curiously
cut
out
in
carved
work
,
beautified
with
Colours
,
and
set
round
about
the
top
of
the
Stalls
of
the
Quire
:
from
hence
they
turn
to
the
Monument
of
the
Dead
,
some
they
utterly
demolish
,
others
they
deface
.
They
begin
with
Bishop
Fox
,
his
Chappel
,
which
they
utterly
deface
,
the
break
all
the
glass
windows
of
this
Chappel
,
not
because
they
had
any
Pictures
in
them
,
either
of
Patriarch
,
Prophet
,
Apostle
or
Saint
,
but
because
they
were
of
painted
,
Coloured
Glass
:
they
demolish
,
and
overturn
the
Monuments
of
Cardinal
Beaufort
,
Son
to
John
of
Gaunt
Duke
of
Lancaster
,
by
Katharine
Swinfort
founder
of
the
Hospital
of
S.
Cross
near
Winchester
,
who
sate
Bishop
of
this
See
forty
three
years
.
They
deface
the
Monument
of
William
of
Wainflet
,
Bishop
likewise
of
Winchester
,
Lord
Chancellor
of
England
,
and
the
Magnificent
Founder
of
Magdalen
Colledge
in
Oxford
,
which
Monument
in
a
grateful
Piety
,
being
lately
beautified
,
by
some
that
have
,
or
lately
had
Relation
to
that
Foundation
,
made
these
Rebels
more
eager
upon
it
,
to
deface
it
:
but
while
that
Colledge
;
the
unparralleld
example
of
his
bounty
,
stands
,
in
despight
of
the
malice
of
these
inhuman
Rebels
,
William
of
Wainflet
cannot
want
a
more
lasting
Monument
,
to
transmit
his
memory
to
Posterity
:
from
hence
they
go
into
Queen
Maries
Chappel
,
so
called
because
in
it
she
was
Married
to
King
Philip
of
Spain
:
here
they
brake
the
Communion
Table
in
pieces
,
and
the
Velvet
Chair
whereon
she
sate
when
she
was
Married
.
They
attempted
to
deface
the
Monument
of
the
late
Lord
Treasurer
the
Earl
of
Portland
,
but
being
in
Brass
,
their
violence
made
small
impression
on
it
,
therefore
they
leave
that
,
and
turn
to
his
Fathers
Monument
,
which
being
of
Stone
was
more
obnoxious
to
their
fury
:
here
mistaking
a
Judg
for
a
Bishop
,
led
into
the
error
by
the
resemblance
or
counterfeit
of
a
Square
cap
on
the
head
of
the
Statue
,
they
strike
off
not
only
the
Cap
,
but
the
head
too
of
the
Statue
,
and
so
leave
it
.
Amongst
other
acts
of
Bounty
,
and
Piety
,
done
by
Richard
Fox
the
fifty
seventh
Bishop
of
this
See
,
he
covered
the
Quire
,
the
Presbytery
,
and
the
Iles
adjoyning
,
with
a
goodly
vault
,
and
new
glased
all
the
Windows
of
that
part
of
the
Church
,
and
caused
the
bones
of
such
Kings
,
Princes
,
and
Prelates
,
as
had
been
Buried
in
this
Church
,
and
lay
dispersed
and
scattered
in
several
parts
of
the
Cathedral
,
to
be
collected
and
put
into
several
Chests
of
lead
,
with
inscriptions
on
each
Chest
,
whose
bones
lodged
in
them
:
These
Chests
(
to
preserve
them
from
rude
,
and
prophane
hands
)
he
caused
to
be
placed
on
the
top
of
a
Wall
,
of
exquisite
workmanship
,
built
by
him
,
to
inclose
the
Presbytery
:
there
,
never
to
be
removed
(
as
a
man
might
think
)
but
by
the
last
Trump
,
did
rest
the
bones
of
many
Kings
and
Queens
,
as
of
Alfredus
,
Edwardus
Senior
,
Eadredus
the
Brother
of
Athelstane
,
Edwinus
,
Canutus
,
Hardecanutus
,
Emma
the
Mother
,
and
Edward
the
Confessor
her
Son
,
Kiniglissus
the
first
founder
of
the
Cathedral
of
Winchester
,
Egbert
who
abolishing
the
Heptarchy
of
the
Saxons
,
was
the
first
English
Monarch
,
William
Rufus
and
divers
others
:
with
these
,
in
the
Chests
,
were
deposited
the
bones
of
many
Godly
Bishops
,
and
Confessors
,
as
,
of
Birinus
,
Hedda
,
Swithinus
,
Frithestanus
,
S.
Elphegus
the
Confessor
,
Stigandus
,
Wina
,
and
others
.
Had
not
the
barbarous
,
Inhuman
impiety
,
of
these
Schismaticks
,
and
Rebels
,
shewed
the
contrary
,
we
could
not
have
imagined
,
that
any
thing
but
the
like
Piety
that
here
inshrined
them
,
or
a
Resurrection
should
ever
have
disturbed
the
repose
of
these
venerable
,
yet
not
Popish
Reliques
.
But
these
monsters
of
men
,
to
whom
nothing
is
holy
,
nothing
is
Sacred
,
did
not
stick
to
prophane
,
and
violate
these
Cabinets
of
the
dead
,
and
to
scatter
their
bones
all
over
the
pavement
of
the
Church
:
for
on
the
North
side
of
the
Quire
,
they
threw
down
the
Chests
,
wherein
were
deposited
the
bones
of
the
Bishops
,
the
like
they
did
to
the
bones
of
William
Rufus
,
of
Queen
Emma
,
of
Hardecanutus
,
and
Edward
the
Confessor
,
and
were
going
on
,
to
practise
the
like
impiety
on
the
bones
of
all
the
rest
of
the
West
Saxon
Kings
.
But
the
Outcry
of
the
People
,
detesting
so
great
inhumanity
,
caused
some
of
their
Commanders
(
more
Compassionate
to
these
Ancient
Monuments
of
the
dead
then
the
Rest
)
to
come
in
amongst
them
,
and
to
restrain
their
madness
.
But
that
devilish
malice
which
was
not
permitted
to
rage
and
overflow
to
the
spurning
and
trampling
on
the
bones
of
all
,
did
satiate
it self
,
even
to
a
prodigious
kind
of
wantonness
,
on
those
,
which
were
already
in
their
power
:
And
therefore
as
if
they
meant
(
if
it
had
been
possible
)
to
make
these
bones
contract
a
Posthume
guilt
,
by
being
now
made
passive
Instruments
,
of
more
than
heathenish
Sacrilege
,
and
prophaneness
,
those
Windows
which
they
could
not
reach
with
their
Swords
,
Muskets
,
or
Rests
,
they
brake
to
pieces
,
by
throwing
at
them
,
the
bones
of
Kings
,
Queens
,
Bishops
,
Confessors
and
Saints
:
So
that
the
spoil
done
on
the
Windows
,
will
not
be
repaired
for
a
Thousand
Pounds
:
nor
did
the
Living
find
better
measure
from
them
than
the
dead
:
for
whereas
our
Dread
Sovereign
that
now
is
(
the
best
of
King
)
was
gratiously
pleased
,
as
a
pledg
of
his
princely
favour
to
this
Church
,
to
honour
it
with
the
gift
of
his
own
Statue
,
together
with
the
Statue
of
his
dear
Father
King
James
of
ever
blessed
memory
;
both
of
massy
brass
:
both
which
Statues
were
erected
at
the
front
,
of
the
entrance
into
the
Quire
:
These
Atheistical
Rebels
,
as
if
they
would
not
have
so
much
of
the
Militia
,
to
remain
with
the
King
,
as
the
bare
Image
,
and
representation
of
of
a
Sword
by
his
side
;
They
break
off
the
Swords
from
the
sides
of
both
the
Statues
:
they
break
the
Cross
from
off
the
Globe
,
in
the
hand
of
the
Statue
of
our
gratious
Sovereign
now
living
,
and
with
their
Swords
hacked
and
hewed
the
Crown
on
the
headof
it
,
swearing
they
would
bring
him
back
to
his
Parliament
.
A
most
flagitious
crime
,
and
such
,
as
that
for
the
like
,
S.
Chrysostome
,
Hom
2.
ad
populum
Antioch
.
With
many
tears
complains
,
he
much
feared
,
the
City
of
Antioch
,
the
Metropolis
,
and
head
(
as
he
calls
it
)
of
the
East
,
would
have
been
destroyed
,
from
the
face
of
the
earth
:
for
when
in
a
Tumult
,
the
seditious
Citizens
of
Antioch
had
done
the
like
affront
to
Theodosius
the
Emperour
,
in
overturning
his
Statutes
How
doth
that
holy
Bishop
bemoan
?
how
doth
he
bewail
that
City
?
which
,
fearing
the
severe
effects
of
the
abused
Emperours
just
Indignation
,
of
a
Populous
City
,
a
Mother
boasting
of
a
Numerous
Issue
,
was
on
the
sudden
become
a
Widow
,
left
desolate
,
and
forsaken
of
her
Inhabitants
:
some
,
out
of
the
sense
and
horror
of
the
guilt
abandoning
the
City
,
and
flying
into
the
desolate
Wilderness
,
others
lurking
in
holes
,
and
confining
themselves
to
the
dark
corners
of
their
own
houses
,
thereby
hoping
to
escape
the
vengeance
due
to
so
disloyal
,
so
Traiterous
a
fact
;
because
of
this
foul
injury
offered
the
Emperours
Statue
,
He
(
as
that
Father
speaks
)
was
wronged
,
that
was
the
sepreme
head
of
all
men
,
and
had
no
equal
on
Earth
.
But
what
wonder
is
it
,
that
these
miscreants
should
offer
such
scornful
indignities
to
the
Representation
of
his
Royal
Person
,
and
the
Emblems
of
his
Sacred
power
,
when
the
heads
of
this
damnable
Rebellion
(
who
set
these
their
Agents
on
work
)
offer
worse
affronts
to
his
Sacred
person
himself
,
and
by
their
Rebellions
Votes
,
and
Illegal
Ordinances
daily
strike
at
the
Substance
of
that
power
,
of
which
the
Crown
,
the
Sword
,
and
Scepter
are
but
Emblems
and
shadows
,
which
yet
notwithstanding
,
ought
to
have
been
venerable
and
aweful
to
these
men
,
in
respect
of
their
Relation
.
After
all
this
,
as
if
what
they
had
already
done
,
were
all
too
little
,
they
goonin
their
horrible
wickedness
,
they
seize
upon
all
the
Communion
Plate
,
the
Bibles
,
and
Service-books
,
rich
Hangings
,
large
Cushions
of
velvet
,
all
the
Pulpit-Clothes
,
some
whereof
were
of
Cloth
of
Silver
,
some
of
Cloth
of
Gold
:
They
break
up
the
Muniment
House
,
and
take
away
the
common
Seal
of
the
Church
,
supposing
it
to
be
Silver
,
and
a
fair
piece
of
gilt
Plate
,
given
by
Bishop
Cotton
:
they
tear
the
Evidences
of
their
Lands
,
and
cancel
their
Charter
;
in
a
word
,
what
ever
they
found
in
the
Church
of
any
value
,
and
portable
,
they
take
it
with
them
,
what
was
neither
,
they
either
deface
,
or
destroy
it
.
And
now
having
Ransacked
the
Church
,
having
defied
God
in
his
own
house
,
and
the
King
in
his
own
Statue
,
having
violated
the
Urns
of
the
dead
,
having
abused
the
bones
,
and
scattered
the
Ashes
of
deceased
Monarchs
,
Bishops
,
Saints
,
and
Confessors
,
they
return
in
Triumph
,
bearing
their
spoils
with
them
.
The
Troopers
(
because
they
were
most
:
conspicuous
)
ride
through
the
streets
in
Surplesses
,
with
such
Hoods
,
and
Tippets
as
they
found
:
and
that
they
might
boast
to
the
World
how
glorious
a
victory
they
had
atchieved
,
they
hold
out
their
Trophies
to
all
spectators
:
for
the
Troopers
thus
clad
in
the
Priests
Vestments
,
rode
carrying
Common
Prayer-Books
in
one
hand
,
and
some
broken
Organ
pipes
,
together
with
the
mangled
pieces
of
Carved
work
but
now
mentioned
,
containing
some
Histories
of
both
Testaments
,
in
the
other
.
In
all
this
,
giving
too
just
occasion
,
to
all
good
Christians
to
complain
with
the
Psalmist
,
O
God
the
Heathen
are
come
into
thine
Inheritance
.
Thy
holy
Temples
have
they
defiled
,
The
dead
Bodies
of
thy
Servants
have
they
abused
,
and
scattered
their
bones
as
one
heweth
wood
upon
the
Earth
:
Help
us
,
O
God
of
our
Salvation
,
for
the
glory
of
thy
Name
,
Psal.
79.
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
IV.
The
Rebels
prophanation
and
horrible
abuse
of
the
Abby
Church
of
Westminster
:
Together
with
their
several
outrages
and
abominations
committed
on
the
Cathedral
Church
of
Exeter
,
&c.
IF
in
the
Catalogue
of
Plundered
Cathedrals
,
we
inroul
the
now
Collegiat
Church
of
Westminster
,
I
hope
I
shall
not
be
thought
to
make
my
discourse
,
no
more
of
kin
to
my
Title
,
than
Mountain
doth
some
of
his
Essaies
:
for
if
we
look
back
on
the
various
condition
of
this
Church
(
no
place
set
apart
for
Religious
Persons
,
having
so
often
shifted
its
owners
)
we
shall
find
that
amongst
many
changes
,
it
had
the
honour
of
a
Bishops
Sec.
On
the
dissolution
of
the
Abbies
,
amongst
the
rest
,
Henry
the
Eighth
suppressed
this
Monastery
,
and
in
the
place
thereof
founded
a
Deanery
,
Anno
,
1536.
And
two
years
after
,
added
a
Bishoprick
to
the
Deanery
.
The
Bishop
sate
here
but
nine
Years
,
and
again
resigned
his
dilapidated
Revenue
,
into
the
hands
of
a
Dean
;
Middlesex
,
which
was
the
Diocess
of
the
Bishoprick
,
being
devolved
to
London
:
yet
though
this
Bishoprick
of
Westminster
,
as
it
relates
to
the
Saxons
,
was
but
of
modern
Erection
,
yet
in
the
time
of
the
Ancient
Britains
,
it
was
no
less
than
the
See
of
the
Arch-Bishop
of
London
:
and
therefore
it
is
more
than
probable
,
that
,
that
record
which
tells
us
,
that
the
Arch-Bishop
of
Londons
See
,
was
planted
in
S.
Peters
in
Cornhil
,
was
either
corrupted
,
or
mistaken
,
for
S
:
Peters
in
Thorney
:
for
Sic
olim
à
spinis
,
as
learned
Cambden
,
and
other
Antiquaries
,
affirm
,
from
the
great
crop
of
thorns
which
heretofore
grew
there
,
that
which
we
now
call
Westminster
,
was
then
called
Thorney
.
This
Church
so
famous
for
its
Antiquity
,
so
admired
,
for
its
Elegancy
of
Structure
,
especially
by
the
addition
of
Henry
the
Seventh's
Chappel
,
a
Pile
of
that
polished
magnificence
,
ut
omnem
Elegantiam
in
illo
acervatam
dicas
,
as
if
art
,
and
bounty
,
had
conspired
to
raise
it
to
a
wonder
of
the
World
.
Lastly
,
a
Church
so
venerable
,
as
being
once
the
seat
of
an
Arch-Bishop
,
and
a
Bishop
,
and
now
a
long
time
the
place
where
the
Kings
of
England
receive
their
sacred
Unction
,
and
Crowns
at
their
Coronation
,
and
where
their
bodies
rest
in
honourable
Sepulture
,
when
they
have
exchanged
their
Temporal
,
for
Eternal
Crowns
.
This
Church
,
under
the
eye
,
and
immediate
protection
of
the
pretended
Houses
of
Parliament
,
had
its
share
in
spoil
,
and
prophanation
,
as
much
as
those
Cathedrals
,
which
were
more
remote
from
them
:
for
in
July
last
,
1643.
some
Soldiers
of
Weshborne
,
and
Catwoods
Companies
(
perhaps
because
there
were
no
Houses
in
Westminster
)
were
quartered
in
the
Abby
Church
,
where
(
as
the
rest
of
our
Modern
Reformers
)
they
brake
down
the
Rail
abut
the
Altar
,
and
burnt
it
in
the
place
where
it
stood
:
they
brake
down
the
Organ
,
and
pawned
the
Pipes
at
several
Ale-houses
for
Pots
of
Ale
:
They
put
on
some
of
the
singing
mens
Surplesses
,
and
in
contempt
of
that
Canonical
Habit
,
ran
up
and
down
the
Church
,
he
that
wore
the
Surpless
,
was
the
Hare
,
the
rest
were
the
Hounds
.
To
shew
their
Christian
Liberty
,
in
the
use
of
things
,
and
that
all
Consecration
,
or
Hallowing
of
things
,
under
de
Gospel
,
is
but
a
Jewish
or
Popish
Superstition
,
and
that
they
are
no
longer
to
be
accounted
holy
,
than
that
holy
use
,
to
which
they
serve
,
shall
by
the
actual
use
only
,
impart
a
transient
holiness
to
them
,
they
set
Forms
about
the
Communion
Table
,
there
they
eat
,
and
there
they
drink
Ale
,
and
Tobacco
:
some
of
their
own
Levites
(
if
my
Intelligence
deceive
me
not
)
bearing
them
company
,
and
countenancing
so
beastly
Prophanation
.
Nor
was
this
done
once
,
to
vindicate
their
Christian
Liberty
,
as
they
call
Prophanation
it self
,
but
the
whole
time
of
their
abode
there
,
they
made
it
their
common
Table
on
which
they
usually
dined
,
and
supp'd
,
though
S.
Paul
calls
it
despising
the
Church
of
Christ
,
and
asks
his
Corinthians
if
they
had
not
houses
to
eat
,
and
to
drink
in
.
1
Cor.
11.
They
did
the
easements
of
nature
,
and
laid
their
Excrements
about
the
Altar
,
and
in
most
places
of
the
Church
.
An
abomination
which
God
did
provide
against
by
a
peculiar
prohibition
in
the
Law
of
Moses
;
and
that
,
in
places
not
rendred
so
dreadful
,
by
so
peculiar
a
manner
of
the
presence
of
God
,
as
in
the
hallowed
Temples
of
his
publick
worship
:
God
would
not
permit
the
Jews
to
do
these
offices
of
nature
in
the
Camp
;
they
must
have
a
place
without
the
Camp
,
and
a
Paddle
to
dig
and
cover
it
;
you
have
the
Law
,
and
the
reason
of
the
Law
,
both
together
,
they
must
not
do
so
;
For
the
Lord
thy
God
walketh
in
the
midst
of
the
Camp
,
therefore
shall
thy
Camp
be
holy
,
that
he
see
no
unclean
thing
in
thee
,
and
turn
away
from
thee
.
Deut.
23.12
.
If
God
,
for
these
reasons
would
not
endure
it
in
the
Camp
,
how
much
more
doth
his
Soul
abhor
such
beastly
uncleanness
in
his
House
,
and
holy
Temple
?
Nay
,
which
is
the
height
of
all
Impiety
,
they
familiarly
kept
their
whores
in
the
Church
,
and
which
I
tremble
to
write
(
Prodigious
Monsters
as
they
are
)
lay
with
them
on
the
very
Altar
it self
,
and
did
in
that
place
commit
such
things
,
as
are
unfit
to
be
done
by
Christians
.
These
remain
yet
two
Prophanations
more
of
this
Church
,
not
to
be
passed
over
insilence
.
The
first
was
committed
by
Sir
Robert
Harlow
,
who
breaking
into
Henry
the
Seventh's
Chappel
,
brake
down
the
Altar-stone
which
stood
before
that
goodly
Monument
of
Henry
the
7.
the
stone
was
Touch-stone
all
of
one
piece
,
a
Rarity
not
to
be
matched
that
we
know
off
,
in
any
part
of
the
World
:
there
it
stood
for
many
years
,
not
for
use
,
but
only
for
Ornament
:
yet
it
did
not
escape
the
frenzy
of
this
mans
ignorant
〈◊〉
,
for
he
break
it
into
shivers
.
The
second
was
committed
on
the
13.
of
December
,
1643.
When
the
Carcass
of
John
Pym
(
as
much
as
the
lice
left
of
it
)
was
brought
into
this
Church
,
and
after
a
Sermon
Preached
by
Stephen
Marshall
Arch-Flamen
of
the
Rebels
,
and
the
Church
Service
Officiated
by
Lambart
Orbaston
,
one
of
the
Prebends
of
that
Church
,
is
was
interr'd
under
the
Monumental
stone
of
one
Windsor
,
Buried
about
200
years
since
in
the
voyd
space
,
or
passage
as
you
go
to
Henry
the
Seventh's
Chappel
,
between
the
Earl
of
Dovers
place
of
Burial
,
and
the
Monument
of
Henry
the
Third
,
Founder
of
that
Church
:
usurp'd
Ensigns
of
honour
displayed
over
him
.
'T
was
pitty
,
that
he
,
that
in
his
life
had
been
the
Author
of
so
much
bloodshed
,
and
those
many
calamities
,
under
which
this
Kingdom
yet
groans
,
and
therefore
deserved
,
not
only
to
have
his
death
with
the
transgressours
,
and
wicked
,
but
afterward
to
be
Buried
with
the
Burial
of
an
Ass
,
drawn
,
and
cast
forth
beyond
the
Gates
of
the
City
,
Jer.
22.19
.
should
after
his
death
,
make
his
Sepulchre
amongst
the
Honourable
,
and
mingle
his
Vulgar
,
Lowzy
ashes
,
with
those
of
Kings
,
Princes
,
and
Nobles
.
The
sixth
Instance
,
of
the
Rebels
Sacrilege
,
and
Prophaneness
,
which
I
shall
present
unto
the
World
▪
is
in
the
Cathedral
Church
of
Exeter
:
which
was
once
a
Monastery
,
founded
by
Athelstane
the
Eighth
King
of
England
of
the
Saxon
Race
,
and
by
him
Consecrated
to
S.
Peter
.
Edward
the
Confessor
removing
all
the
Monks
from
hence
,
and
planting
them
at
Westminster
,
which
he
had
newly
founded
,
and
endowed
,
made
it
the
Bishops
See
,
for
Devon
and
Cornwal
:
That
Pile
which
we
now
see
,
owes
its
being
to
many
founders
.
William
Warlwast
,
the
third
Bishop
of
this
See
,
after
it
was
translated
from
Cridington
,
or
as
it
is
now
usually
called
Kir●on
,
to
Exeter
,
built
the
Quire
which
now
is
,
but
was
intended
,
by
the
Founder
for
the
Nave
or
Body
of
the
Church
:
but
Peter
Quivil
,
the
13
th
.
Bishop
of
this
See
,
laid
the
Foundation
of
that
which
is
now
the
body
of
the
Church
:
but
he
prevented
by
death
,
left
the
work
imperfect
:
John
Grandesson
therefore
,
the
seventeenth
Bishop
of
this
See
,
thinking
the
Foundation
laid
by
his
Predecessor
Quivil
,
to
be
faulty
in
Geometrical
proportions
,
the
length
not
being
answerable
to
the
height
,
added
two
Pillars
more
,
to
the
length
of
the
Nave
of
the
Church
;
of
a
distance
,
proportionable
to
those
laid
before
he
closed
up
the
end
with
a
Wall
of
most
Exquisite
work
,
in
which
,
he
built
a
little
Chappel
,
and
in
that
Chappel
,
a
Monument
,
wherein
himself
was
intombed
.
He
built
likewise
,
the
two
side
Iles
,
and
covered
the
whole
Fabrick
with
an
Arch
of
Exquisite
work
,
and
brought
it
to
such
perfection
,
that
in
splendour
,
and
magnificence
,
it
gives
precedency
to
few
Cathedrals
of
the
Kingdom
:
and
which
is
very
remarkable
;
though
this
Church
was
first
began
by
King
Athelstane
,
and
made
many
steps
before
it
came
to
arrive
at
its
perfection
,
so
that
there
are
numbered
almost
five
hundred
years
from
the
laying
the
first
stone
,
to
the
covering
of
the
Roof
;
yet
the
wisdom
,
and
care
of
the
several
Benefactors
was
so
great
,
that
the
most
curious
Surveyor
,
must
confess
,
that
the
Symmetry
of
the
parts
,
and
the
proportions
of
the
whole
,
are
so
exact
,
as
from
the
Foundation
to
the
Roof
,
had
been
the
work
not
of
one
age
only
,
but
of
one
,
and
the
same
hand
:
and
that
the
Ornaments
of
the
Church
might
be
answerable
to
the
beauty
of
the
Structure
itself
,
Bishop
of
Grandesson
,
bestowed
upon
it
vessels
of
God
,
and
vessels
of
Silver
,
Books
,
and
all
other
kinds
of
rich
furniture
,
Copiâ
Immensâ
,
Immensi
pretij
:
in
exceeding
great
measure
,
of
exceeding
great
price
.
All
which
,
with
many
other
things
of
necessary
use
,
and
publick
Ornament
,
became
a
prey
to
the
Schismatical
Rebels
;
whose
sin
was
so
much
the
greater
,
because
being
neither
inraged
by
Opposition
,
nor
made
insolent
by
conquest
,
(
Apologies
that
may
possibly
be
taken
up
for
other
Rebels
,
in
other
places
,
as
Chichester
and
Winchester
)
but
which
was
a
main
aggravation
of
their
crime
,
Citizens
within
their
own
Wall
,
in
coole
Blood
,
not
provoked
,
spoil
,
and
lay
wast
their
Mother
Church
:
for
after
this
City
(
now
most
unworthy
of
those
Priviledges
,
and
honorary
rewards
,
once
purchased
by
their
Loyalty
,
now
forfeited
by
ingratitude
,
and
Rebellion
,
)
had
once
shut
up
their
Gates
against
their
King
:
it
was
not
long
before
they
shut
up
the
Gates
likewise
of
Gods
house
,
denying
all
access
to
devout
Persons
,
there
to
make
their
Prayers
and
Supplications
:
so
near
bordering
upon
Rebellion
against
the
King
,
is
Atheism
,
and
Contempt
of
God
:
for
having
demanded
the
Keys
of
the
Cathedral
,
and
taken
them
into
their
own
Custody
they
presently
,
interdict
divine
service
to
be
celebrated
:
so
that
for
the
space
of
three
quarters
of
a
year
,
the
Holy
Liturgy
,
lay
totally
silenced
.
Nor
was
the
restraint
upon
the
Reading
Desk
only
,
the
Pulpit
was
made
Inaccessible
to
all
Orthodox
,
Loyal
Ministers
,
and
was
open
only
to
Factious
,
Schismatical
Preachers
,
whose
Doctrin
was
Rebellion
,
and
their
Exhortation
Treason
,
that
so
the
People
might
hear
nothing
but
what
might
foment
their
disloyalty
,
and
confirm
them
in
their
unnatural
revolt
,
from
their
duty
and
Obedience
.
Having
the
Church
in
their
possession
in
a
most
Puritanical
,
beastly
manner
,
they
make
it
a
common
Jakes
for
the
Exonerations
of
Nature
,
sparing
no
place
,
neither
the
Altar
,
nor
the
Pulpit
,
though
this
last
,
finds
a
better
place
in
their
estimation
,
than
the
former
:
yet
prophaned
it
was
,
nay
so
prophaned
,
that
it
remains
a
doubt
yet
undetermined
,
which
prophaned
it
most
in
their
Kinds
,
either
the
Common-Soldiers
,
or
their
Lecturers
.
Over
the
Communion
Table
,
in
fair
letters
of
Cold
,
was
written
the
Holy
and
blessed
name
of
Jesus
:
this
they
expunge
as
Superstitious
,
and
Execrable
.
On
each
side
of
the
Commandmants
,
the
Pictures
of
Moses
and
Aaron
,
were
drawn
in
full
proportion
:
these
they
deface
,
they
tear
the
Books
of
Common-Prayers
to
pieces
,
and
as
if
this
had
been
too
small
a
contempt
,
and
despite
done
to
that
form
of
Gods
holy
worship
,
they
use
them
,
as
if
they
had
been
a
second
sacrifice
of
Curious
Arts
,
and
burn
them
at
the
Altar
,
with
exceeding
great
Exultation
,
and
expressions
of
joy
.
They
made
the
Church
their
Storehouse
,
where
they
kept
their
Ammunition
,
and
powder
,
and
planted
a
Court
of
Guard
to
attend
it
;
who
used
the
Church
,
with
the
same
reverence
,
that
they
would
an
Ale-house
,
and
defiled
it
with
tipling
and
taking
Tobacco
:
they
brake
and
deface
all
the
Glass
windows
of
the
Church
which
cannot
be
repaired
for
many
hundred
pounds
:
and
left
all
those
ancient
Monuments
,
being
painted
glass
and
containing
matter
of
story
only
,
a
miserable
spectacle
of
Commiseration
,
to
all
well-affected
hearts
that
behold
them
.
They
strook
off
the
heads
of
all
the
Statues
,
on
all
Monuments
in
the
Church
,
especially
they
deface
the
Bishops
Tombs
,
leaving
one
without
a
Head
,
another
without
a
Nose
,
one
without
a
Hand
,
and
another
without
an
Arm.
A
sad
Emblem
of
that
Trunk
of
Episcopacy
,
which
the
accursed
Atheists
of
these
times
have
fancied
to
themselves
,
and
endeavoured
:
a
poor
deformed
,
mangled
,
mutilated
thing
,
having
neither
head
of
Prelation
,
nor
face
of
Honour
,
nor
arm
,
nor
hand
,
nor
finger
of
power
and
jurisdiction
:
they
pluck
down
,
and
deface
the
Statue
of
an
Ancient
Queen
,
the
Wife
of
Edward
the
Confessor
,
the
first
Founder
of
this
Church
,
mistaking
it
for
the
Statue
of
the
blessed
Virgin
Mary
,
the
Mother
of
God
.
So
she
was
stiled
by
the
holy
Catholick
Church
many
years
before
it
was
in
danger
to
be
voted
Blasphemy
in
that
Committee
where
learned
Miles
Corbet
sate
in
the
Chair
.
They
brake
down
the
Organs
,
and
taking
two
or
three
hundred
Pipes
with
them
,
in
a
most
scornful
,
contemptuous
manner
,
went
up
and
down
the
street
,
Piping
with
them
:
and
meeting
with
some
of
the
Choristers
of
the
Church
,
whose
surplesses
they
had
stoln
before
,
and
imployed
them
to
base
,
servile
Offices
,
scoffingly
told
them
,
Boys
we
have
spoild
your
trade
,
you
must
go
and
sing
hot
Pudding
Pyes
.
By
the
absoluteness
of
their
power
,
they
send
forth
their
warrants
to
take
away
the
Lead
off
a
Conduit
and
a
great
Cistern
that
stood
in
the
middest
of
the
Close
,
giving
plentiful
supplies
of
water
to
many
hundreds
of
Inhabitants
;
and
by
vertue
of
the
same
warrant
they
give
their
agents
power
to
take
a
great
quantity
of
Timber
,
which
was
laid
up
and
designed
for
the
repairing
of
the
Church
;
such
Timber
as
that
it
will
be
a
very
hard
matter
to
procure
the
like
,
all
Timber
not
being
fit
for
that
use
:
and
with
these
a
great
stock
of
Lead
out
of
the
Common
Store-house
,
reserved
there
for
the
same
purpose
;
which
warrants
were
accordingly
put
in
execution
to
the
full
.
They
did
enter
into
a
Consultation
about
taking
down
the
Bells
,
and
all
the
Lead
that
covered
the
Church
,
to
convert
them
into
Warlike
Ammunition
,
the
Bells
might
be
cast
into
Cannon
,
the
Lead
into
Bullets
,
both
would
serve
towards
the
effecting
their
Traiterous
designs
.
They
took
down
the
Gates
of
the
Close
,
which
the
Dean
,
and
Chapter
,
had
set
up
,
and
kept
locked
every
night
for
their
security
:
which
Gates
they
imployed
,
to
help
forward
,
and
strengthen
their
Fortifications
:
They
lay
intolerabe
taxes
on
most
of
the
Members
of
the
Church
,
and
whosoever
refused
to
submit
to
those
most
unjust
,
Illegal
Impositions
,
were
threatned
to
have
their
Houses
Plundered
,
and
their
Persons
sent
on
shipboard
;
where
they
must
expect
usage
,
as
bad
as
at
Argier
,
or
the
Gallies
.
Doctor
Burnell
,
a
grave
learned
man
,
and
Canon
of
that
Church
,
refusing
to
submit
to
their
Taxations
,
they
gave
Command
(
though
he
were
at
that
time
sick
and
confined
,
not
only
to
his
Chamber
but
to
his
bed
)
to
take
him
in
the
night
,
and
bring
him
away
to
Prison
though
they
brought
him
in
his
bed
:
but
upon
much
importunity
,
some
of
the
best
rank
of
the
Citizens
being
tendered
his
security
,
to
render
himself
a
true
Prisoner
,
for
that
time
they
left
him
.
For
the
like
refusal
,
they
took
Doctor
Hutchenson
another
Canon
of
the
Church
,
a
man
of
a
weak
infirm
Body
,
but
of
a
vigorous
knowing
Soul
;
and
violently
carried
him
towards
the
Ship
,
there
to
imprison
him
;
by
the
way
as
they
carried
him
along
,
he
was
(
not
only
by
the
permission
but
by
the
incouragement
of
those
that
led
him
Captive
)
blasted
,
and
abused
,
and
howted
at
by
the
Boys
,
and
exposed
to
the
affronts
,
and
revilings
of
the
base
Insolent
Multitude
:
at
twelve
of
the
clock
at
night
they
seised
on
Mr.
Hilliar
in
his
bed
,
and
another
Canon
of
that
Church
,
being
almost
Fourscore
and
Ten
years
of
Age
,
and
for
the
like
refusal
,
because
he
would
not
disburse
such
sums
as
they
demanded
,
for
the
maintenance
of
this
horrid
Rebellion
,
they
carry
him
first
to
the
Prison
,
and
from
thence
to
the
Ship
:
in
the
way
to
the
Prison
,
they
throw
dirt
in
his
face
,
and
beat
the
good
old
man
so
cruelly
,
that
his
roaring
,
and
outcries
were
heard
,
and
pityied
by
all
his
neighbours
:
and
at
last
not
able
to
endure
(
by
reason
of
his
extream
old
Age
)
the
barbarous
usage
of
the
Rebels
,
he
was
forced
to
redeem
his
liberty
at
eight
hundred
Pounds
:
and
now
having
dispossessed
the
owners
,
the
Rebels
find
new
imployments
for
the
Canons
houses
:
some
of
them
they
convert
into
Prisons
,
and
in
an
Apish
imitation
,
call
them
by
the
names
of
Newgate
,
Kings-Bench
,
Marshalsey
;
others
they
imploy
as
Hospitals
,
for
sick
or
maimed
Soldiers
:
some
they
use
as
Slaughter-houses
,
and
Shambles
:
and
for
the
Bishops
Palace
,
they
might
have
called
it
their
Smithfield
,
for
in
,
and
about
it
,
they
kept
their
fat
Oxen
,
and
Sheep
,
and
all
their
Plundered
Provision
.
These
houses
though
fouly
abused
,
yet
do
still
stand
,
as
to
upbraid
the
Rebels
injustice
,
and
oppression
;
so
to
give
entertainment
to
their
own
Master
,
or
their
successours
,
unless
some
men
,
possessed
with
worse
devils
than
ruled
in
these
children
of
disobedience
,
shall
to
their
just
damnation
alienate
them
from
their
Original
use
:
but
other
houses
belonging
to
the
Church
,
they
set
on
fire
,
and
burn
down
to
the
ground
:
for
they
burnt
down
the
Guild-hall
in
S.
Sidwels
,
belonging
to
the
Dean
,
and
Chapter
,
and
as
many
houses
more
of
their
Ancient
Inheritance
and
revenues
as
were
worth
100
l.
per
Annum
,
making
likewise
great
havock
and
spoil
of
their
woods
,
and
Timber
,
maliciously
intending
to
disable
them
,
from
reedifying
what
they
had
most
barbarously
burnt
down
.
Reader
,
ENgland
lately
gloried
in
being
Mistris
of
28.
famous
Cathedral
Churches
,
beautified
with
such
magnificent
structure
,
that
no
Nation
in
Europe
could
equalize
them
;
and
of
these
,
the
impiety
and
irreligion
of
the
Schismatical
Reformers
of
these
times
,
hath
hardly
left
any
one
undefaced
,
though
for
the
present
the
exact
relation
of
the
particulars
are
not
come
to
our
hands
.
God
in
his
good
time
will
,
we
doubt
not
,
pour
down
his
Judgments
upon
the
Actors
of
these
horrid
Prophanations
.
A
Catalogue
of
the
CATHEDRALS
in
England
and
Wales
.
-
1
Canterbury
.
-
2
Rochester
.
-
3
London
.
-
4
Lincoln
.
-
5
Chichester
.
-
6
Winchester
.
-
7
Salisbury
.
-
8
Exeter
.
-
9
Bath
.
-
10
Wells
.
-
11
Gloucester
.
-
12
Worcester
.
-
13
Lichfield
.
-
14
Coventry
.
-
15
Hereford
.
-
16
Ely
.
-
17
Norwich
.
-
18
Oxford
,
-
19
Peterborough
.
-
20
Bristol
.
-
21
Landaffe
.
-
22
S.
Davids
.
-
23
Bangor
.
-
24
S.
Asaph
.
York
Province
.
-
25
York
.
-
26
Chester
.
-
27
Carlisle
.
-
28
Durham
.
Besides
-
1
Rippon
.
-
2
Southwel
.
And
-
3
Westminst.
Abby
.
FINIS
Mercurius
Rusticus
,
&c.
V.
The
Cathedral
Church
of
Peterborough
Robbed
,
defac'd
and
spoil'd
by
Cromwel
and
his
Schismatical
adherents
,
&c.
COuld
we
sooner
have
produced
a
certain
,
and
full
relation
of
the
observable
circumstances
about
the
ruines
and
desolations
of
the
sometimes
flourishing
,
though
now
demolished
Cathedral
of
Peterborough
,
the
same
might
justly
have
challenged
to
have
been
inserted
before
this
time
and
place
,
both
in
respect
of
the
dignity
of
the
Ancient
,
Religious
and
Royal
Founders
,
the
same
of
the
irreligious
and
unworthy
defacers
,
the
admirable
vicissitude
of
its
own
condition
,
and
reasons
of
its
Fatal
doom
,
having
suffered
not
so
much
by
the
fury
of
the
Danes
,
because
a
rich
Monastery
,
as
by
the
zeal
of
Cromwel
,
because
an
Episcopal
See
:
and
(
if
his
knowlege
reached
so
high
)
for
that
it
had
been
so
much
and
often
honoured
by
the
Princes
of
this
Nation
in
several
ages
.
When
Peada
the
first
Christian
King
of
the
Mercians
to
propagate
the
faith
of
Christ
,
laid
the
foundation
,
but
had
a
sudden
period
put
to
his
life
and
pious
intentions
by
his
unnatural
and
wicked
Mother
,
Wolpher
his
Brother
,
albeit
at
first
averse
,
yet
afterwards
a
convert
to
Christianity
,
(
to
expire
the
Murder
of
his
two
Sons
whom
he
had
cruelly
put
to
death
for
embracing
the
Gospel
before
him
)
by
the
help
of
his
Brother
Ethelred
,
and
his
Sisters
Kimburga
,
and
Kinswith
,
having
finished
that
work
in
the
year
of
our
Lord
633.
Consecrated
it
to
the
memory
of
S.
Peter
(
whence
the
place
ever
since
hath
been
stiled
Peterborough
,
which
before
was
called
Medeswel-hamsted
,
or
Medeshamsted
)
and
it
continued
for
the
space
of
two
hundred
and
fourteen
years
,
in
such
glory
,
that
in
the
Judgment
of
our
Learned
Antiquary
,
Monasterium
fuit
longè
Celebratissimum
,
till
the
Danes
massacred
the
Monks
and
destroyed
that
place
of
Devotion
,
which
was
after
an
108.
years
restored
to
its
former
state
,
by
Ethelwould
Bishop
of
Winchester
,
asisted
by
King
Edger
and
Adulph
his
Chancellour
,
about
the
years
of
our
Lord
960.
in
which
it
remained
,
until
covetous
Sacrilege
began
to
get
the
upper
hand
of
wel-meaning
charity
in
his
Reign
,
who
was
as
fitly
,
as
truely
said
to
have
had
Ingentes
virtutes
,
nee
minora
vitia
,
though
at
the
undoing
of
its
Kindred
,
this
had
least
reason
to
complain
,
being
then
advanced
to
a
Bishops
See
;
But
this
third
woe
hath
so
much
disfigured
that
Majesty
which
till
then
this
building
retained
in
its
fore-front
,
this
Cromwel
hath
so
far
out-vied
in
acts
of
Piety
his
Precedent
,
that
Cromwel
in
Henry
the
8.
time
,
this
place
hath
now
suffered
in
so
great
a
manner
for
its
Loyalty
,
as
that
we
know
not
where
to
enter
upon
the
narration
of
the
same
,
except
at
the
great
West-window
(
where
his
Soldiers
made
their
first
breach
and
entrance
)
which
was
adorned
with
such
variety
of
Ecclesiastical
History
,
as
will
evidence
them
to
be
deformers
of
that
through-Reformation
in
our
blessed
Queens
time
of
happy
memory
,
whom
notwithstanding
they
so
highly
cryed
up
.
From
thence
they
presently
hurried
to
the
Choire
,
where
as
soon
as
they
had
broken
open
the
doors
,
they
,
according
to
their
trade
and
custom
in
other
places
,
fell
on
tearing
in
pieces
the
Books
of
Divine
service
,
and
sacred
Anthems
,
yea
(
which
may
seem
more
strange
)
they
were
so
hot
against
Preaching
or
hearing
Sermons
,
that
all
the
seats
of
the
Auditours
were
plucked
up
and
the
Pulpit
,
the
place
of
the
Divine
Oracle
,
and
the
Book
seat
pulled
down
with
that
black-mouthed
cry
,
Down
with
that
Throne
of
Antichrist
,
down
with
it
even
to
the
ground
.
And
when
their
zeal
had
driven
them
,
to
that
height
of
impiety
,
that
some
standers
by
could
not
behold
it
without
great
reluctancy
,
which
moved
one
of
them
to
request
Cromwel
that
he
would
please
to
stay
his
Soldiers
from
further
defacing
and
ruining
that
place
,
all
the
satisfaction
he
could
get
,
was
but
a
provocation
to
further
mischief
,
replying
,
that
his
Gods
were
a
pulling
down
,
and
when
the
other
answered
that
the
God
he
served
was
beyond
the
reach
of
Soldiers
,
Cromwel
told
him
that
they
did
God
good
service
in
that
action
,
as
if
even
in
these
days
were
fulfilled
that
prophecy
of
our
Saviour
,
John
16.2
.
The
time
is
coming
whosoever
doth
the
greatest
Mischief
will
think
he
serveth
God
.
But
observe
the
wages
that
divine
Justice
repayed
one
of
them
for
their
work
,
which
may
testifie
how
he
accepted
of
the
same
;
When
they
had
demolished
the
Choire
,
the
East-end
was
the
next
they
aimed
at
,
where
one
espying
in
the
roof
right
over
the
Communion-Table
,
our
Saviour
pourtraied
,
coming
in
glory
with
his
holy
Angels
,
and
at
the
4.
corners
,
4.
Evangelists
(
none
of
which
they
will
endure
,
as
knowing
how
opposite
they
are
unto
them
)
he
charged
his
Musquet
to
shatter
them
down
,
but
by
the
rebound
of
his
own
shot
,
was
struck
blind
;
If
he
did
his
God
good
thereby
,
he
did
himself
an
ill
turn
,
his
wickedness
falling
on
his
own
pate
;
He
laid
a
long
while
in
a
woful
condition
,
and
never
recovered
his
former
sight
:
His
life
by
Gods
mercy
was
repreived
,
that
he
might
repent
,
but
he
was
surely
scourged
,
that
he
might
take
notice
,
there
is
punishment
for
Sacrilege
,
and
bear
witness
of
that
truth
unto
his
fellows
,
although
he
found
more
savour
than
Calisthenes
,
who
attempting
to
burn
the
temples
by
setting
fire
on
the
Gates
,
was
for
that
act
himself
burned
:
or
Alcimus
,
who
whilst
he
was
pulling
the
house
of
God
down
,
was
struck
with
a
Palsie
,
and
dyed
in
torment
.
Some
would
have
thought
,
that
that
remarkable
judgment
overtaking
him
so
on
the
sudden
,
sufflaminated
their
running
on
,
and
that
striking
of
him
blind
,
should
have
opened
their
eyes
.
But
let
favour
be
shewed
to
the
wicked
,
yet
they
will
not
learn
righteousness
,
in
the
land
of
uprightness
will
they
deal
unjustly
,
and
will
not
behold
the
Majesty
of
the
Lord
;
But
Lord
,
when
thy
hand
is
lifted
up
,
they
will
not
see
,
as
thou
foretoldest
by
thy
Prophet
Esay
26.10.11.13
.
it
should
come
to
pass
,
When
other
Lords
besides
thee
have
dominion
over
us
;
They
were
not
at
all
deterred
,
neither
left
any
ways
unattempted
to
get
down
that
roof
,
which
ladders
failed
,
they
cut
the
Bell-ropes
(
wich
if
rightly
applyed
,
might
have
curred
their
itch
)
to
eke
out
their
tackling
,
till
they
reached
it
with
their
Poleaxes
,
and
brake
down
the
carved
works
.
Psal.
7.4
.
Afterwards
espying
the
rare
structure
of
Stone-works
over
the
Altar
,
admired
by
all
travellers
for
the
excellent
artifices
,
which
was
no
ways
guilty
of
superstitious
workmanship
,
they
made
all
of
it
rubbish
,
breaking
up
also
the
rails
of
which
they
compiled
bone-fires
,
tumbling
the
Communion-Table
over
and
over
,
they
were
also
so
offended
with
all
memorials
of
the
dead
(
knowing
themselves
in
the
number
of
those
whose
memories
at
the
best
shall
perish
as
if
they
had
never
been
)
that
not
one
Monument
in
the
Church
escaped
undefaced
,
no
not
of
the
pious
benefactors
,
(
whose
accusation
was
sufficient
,
they
had
done
good
to
the
Church
)
not
those
two
fair
Tombs
of
Katharine
Queen
Dowager
of
Spain
,
the
Repudiate
of
King
Henry
the
8
th
.
and
Mary
albeit
Queen
of
Scots
.
It
was
so
great
a
crime
to
have
been
Queens
,
the
marble
walls
,
and
guards
of
irons
wherewith
they
were
surrounded
and
incircled
could
not
preserve
them
in
repose
from
all
their
miseries
,
but
they
would
add
this
one
unto
the
rest
,
to
lay
the
Emblems
of
their
honours
in
the
dust
,
pulling
away
the
herse
of
black
velvet
,
and
carrying
away
whatsoever
was
vendible
:
When
their
unhallowed
toylings
had
made
them
out
of
wind
,
they
took
breath
afresh
on
two
pair
of
Organs
,
piping
with
the
very
same
about
the
Market
place
,
lascivious
Jiggs
,
whilst
their
Comrades
danced
after
them
,
some
in
the
Coaps
,
others
with
the
Surplices
,
and
down
they
brake
the
Bellows
to
blow
the
coals
of
their
further
mischief
,
and
left
any
should
ring
auke
for
the
fire
they
had
make
,
they
left
the
Bells
speechless
,
taking
out
their
clappers
,
which
they
sold
with
the
Brass
they
flaied
from
the
graven
stones
,
and
the
Tin
and
Iron
from
other
parts
of
the
Church
and
Chappels
belonging
thereto
,
which
were
many
and
richly
adorned
,
but
the
Daughters
faired
no
better
than
their
Mother
;
there
was
not
suffered
any
window
to
remain
unshattered
,
or
remarkable
place
in
them
unruined
,
their
intent
being
to
leave
those
consecrated
walls
as
a
room
fitted
for
vermin
to
nestle
in
,
or
which
was
worse
for
Cap.
Ashwell
to
exercise
his
Soldiers
in
,
where
while
he
was
in
town
,
he
made
his
Rendezvous
,
and
when
they
went
away
,
set
fire
on
some
part
of
the
wood-work
,
to
have
burnt
the
remainder
down
,
if
it
had
not
timely
been
discovered
;
Neither
did
the
Cloysters
attending
,
scape
better
than
those
they
were
made
to
wait
upon
,
though
these
both
in
their
roof
and
glazing
might
be
compared
with
the
chiefest
Cathedrals
,
the
first
square
being
beautified
with
the
History
of
the
Old
Testament
,
the
second
of
the
New
,
the
third
shewed
the
whole
relation
of
those
by
whom
the
Church
was
builded
,
the
fourth
presented
us
with
all
the
Effigies
of
our
Kings
since
William
the
Conquerour
:
But
it
seems
;
those
unreasonable
and
wicked
men
,
care
for
scripture
,
and
Princes
,
and
Pious
Monuments
all
alike
,
their
wide
throats
were
as
open
Sepuclhres
,
their
Sacrilegious
appetites
(
being
yet
unsatisfied
with
devouring
)
must
needs
swallow
up
the
Lands
appertaining
to
that
Church
,
to
whith
that
they
might
pretend
the
juster
title
,
they
broke
open
the
Charter-house
,
Plundered
away
the
great
Charter
,
all
the
Evidences
,
leases
,
and
other
writings
belonging
thereunto
,
manifesting
their
parties
desires
to
have
all
Estates
of
others
,
to
come
,
and
be
at
their
arbitrary
disposals
,
and
they
unto
whom
in
right
they
are
due
,
to
lie
as
these
places
and
Persons
at
this
day
,
Mourning
in
Sack-cloth
and
Ashes
.