STRANGE News indeed: FROM MITCHAM in SURRY.  
Of the Treacherous and Barbarous Proceed, of Master Robert Cranmer Merchant of London; against Master Anthony Sadler, VICAR of MITCHAM.  
How that well known Minister, for prosecuting that enough known Merchant, in a Suit at Civil Law; for the Vindication of the Church's Rights: and for Presenting him into the Ecclesiastical Court; for the Vindication of the Church's Discipline: Hath been (of late) Defamed, Imprisoned, and Complotted to be Ruined, by HIM and his PARTY.  
AS, Is very briefly, but very truly Related, in this Letter and Petition, to the Lord Bishop of Winton.  
— Oppression makes Men Mad; at least so Bold;  
To Cry for Justice;— when their Tale is Told.  
LONDON, Printed for the Author, 1664.   

News with a Witness.  
That the World may know, how (no less Unchristianly, then Undeservedly) the Vicar of Mitcham in Surry (Master Sadler) hath been Consulted upon, and Conspired against; for his dutiful Ambition to Preach up, the Regal Authority, the Episcopal Jurisdiction, and the Church's Discipline: to Keep up, the Kingdom's Peace, the People's Good, and the Joy of All.  
This following Letter, and Petition (in Order to his Appeal, unto the King) were Directed to the Lord Bishop of Winton, Humbly to Crave, the Episcopal Assistance, against the Injury and Insolence of a Contumacious Party; against the Rights and Discipline of the Church of England.  

Right Reverend Father in God.  

The Letter.  IN Matters of the Church, I am bound to be Firm and Impartial in their Vindication; This hath made me to Prosecute Master Cranmer, in a Case of Dilapidations and Sacrilege; and that the Churches  may be Preserved; to Endanger myself, to the utmost of Endamagement: The Trial (I am sure) will manifest my Innocence; and, that nothing but Duty to the Church my Mother; hath made me thus conscientiously forward, for the Obliged Averment of her known Rights.  
This also (the Churchwardens of my Parish, wilfully refusing to observe the Arch-Deacons Directions; 
Dr. Peirson.  which, at his Visiting of Mitcham, for the Decency of the Church, and the Order of my Parish, were before Doctor Harris, and myself, given to One of them then present) 
Edward Bristock.  hath made me to Present the said Churchwardens, and the Things and Persons Faulty (as by the Canon I am to do.)  
Insomuch, that upon the 24th day of November last passed, I went in Person to Witness my said Presentment, to be both Lawful and Expedient.  
The Court Rising, I went with Doctor Floyd, and the Register to Dinner, and being but entered into the House, (where Master Cranmer, 
The said Mr. Cranmer.  it seems, and the rest were) He sends Three Sergeants to Arrest me, upon an Action of Trespass of Five Hundred Pound; He Arrested also Master Richardson (Your Lordship's Register, and my Proctor; as we conceive) for Presenting him into the Ecclesiastical Court:— Surely my Lord, there is a Canon to save us Harmless from Trespass, Suit, and Trouble, in the Case of Presentments.  
However, I am at present under Custody, at great Charge, most injuriously debarred from my Family, my Study, and the Duty of my Place; not knowing any Reason why, but the Malice of Master Cranmer.  
Good my Lord, I most Humbly Beseech You, for God, and the Gospel sake, let me find that Christian Favour; that (As a Son of the Church of England, and in Your Lordship's Diocese) Your Lordship would send for Master Cranmer, and Enforce that Equity, that I may have Proceed Legal, and not be thus overborn, and Undone, by the Power, and Prejudice of a Combination.  
So Saith,— In all Duty most Obliged— Your Lordship's Servant, ANTHONY SADLER. From the Burrough-Prison, Novem. 25. 1664.   

To the Right Reverend Father in GOD, GEORGE, LORD BISHOP of WINCHESTER.  
The Humble Petition of Anthony Sadler; The Author of Inquisitio Anglicana against the Triers, 1654.  
Most Humbly Sheweth,  

The Petition.  THat whereas in a Just Vindication, of His Majesty's Authority, in, and over, the Episcopal Jurisdiction; to preserve the Church's Discipline, from Disorder and Disdain, and to preserve the Churches , from Dilapidations and Sacrilege: Your Lordship's Petitioner hath Commenced a Suit in Law against, and made a Presentment of, Master Robert Cranmer; as being a Person, very Injurious against the Churches , and Disobedient, to the Church's Discipline.  
And whereas, the said Master Cranmer, is (by the common outcry of the Country, credibly divulged, and now by Your Lordship's Petitioner, is credibly attested, to be a public Oppressor, and notorious in Oppression:— Because, when Your Lordship's Petitioner, had been Two Years and a Half, enforced to be in Law, with, and against the said Master Cranmer, in a Case of Dilapidations and Sacrilege; and had brought the said Case, upon the point of Trial, in the Court of Arches:—  
And Secondly, because when Your Lordship's Petitioner Appeared in Person, in Your Lordship's Court, to Prosecute the Presentment of the said Master Cranmer, for his Public Contumancy, against the Act of Uniformity; Your Lordship's Petitioner, was at the same time Arrested, by the said Master Cranmer, in an Action of Trespass of Five Hundred Pound; the Proctor also of Your poor Petitioner (being the Register of the said Court) the said Master Cranmer Arrested, in an Action of Trespass, of Five Hundred Pound,— not knowing any Reason why, but the malice and purpose of the said Master Cranmer, to debase our Persons, to discourage our Friends, to discompose our Minds, to stop the said Presentment, and to stifle the said Trial of the Case depending.  
Your Lordship's Petitioner was forthwith cast into Prison, and there lay, that Day, that Night, and the Day following:— That Night Master Cranmer, and his Common Lawyer (Master Cornelius Hooker) came to Your Petitioner, in the said Prison, and they offer him Bail, and Freedom, if he would Engage, to give up his Presentation, to his Patron, the said Master Cranmer.  
Your Petitioner (for his Liberty and Healths-sake) yielded to any thing they said; insomuch, that the said Common Lawyer, caused your Over-grieved, and undermined Petitioner, to Subscribe and Seal a Bond of Five Hundred Pound; and also (to the best Remembrance of Your Lordship's Petitioner) to Subscribe and Seal, a blank paper or papers; which paper or papers, the said Master Cranmer, and his Common Lawyer, report now (to the utter undoing of Your poor Petitioner, his Wife, and Children) to be a Judgement, and a Warrant to the payment of Five Hundred Pound, as if due from Your Petitioner, to the said Master Cranmer: Your Petitioner not owing him the worth of a penny; but He owing Your Petitioner his Deuce and Tithes, for these Three Years and a Half, last passed.  
Wherefore Your Lordship's Petitioner, most humbly submits his very Sad Condition, to the Christian Consideration, and Compassion of Your Right Reverend, and Well-disposed Self: Most Humbly Imploring, no other Favour, but what becomes Your Lordship, in Your Petitioners now Appeal to the King and Council; That the said Papers may be produced before that Right Honourable Table; and in whatsoever, Your Lordship's Petitioner, is a Debtor or Trespasser, he may be Legally Impleaded, and not be thus Treacherously Ruined by clandestine Proceed:— To the Dishonouring of Religion Oppressing the Subject, Adulterating the Law, Debasing of Church Discipline, and the open discouraging of the Subordinate Clergy, from their Dutiful Obedience, unto Just Authority.  
So Saith,— in all Duty and Devotion, The much Censured, the more Scandaled, and most Abused Son, of the Church of ENGLAND: Your Lordships— Most Obliged, ANTHONY SADLER.   
FINIS.