XIV ARTICLES OF TREASON AND OTHER MISDEMEANOURS, Exhibited to ISAAC PENINGTON, by Master Chamfield, alias Captain Cloak-Bag, against Edward Dobson, the Malignant Stationer without Newgate.  
OXFORD, Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD, for Edward Dobson. 1643.   

Articles of Treason and other misdemeanours, exhibited to Isaac Pennington by Master Chamfield, alias Captain Cloak-bag, against Edward Dobson, the Malignant Stationer without Newgate.  
I. IMprimis, That the said Edward Dobson, hath and doth refuse to go out with the said Captain to fight the Lords battles against the Lords Anointed, saying, that he is resolved to undergo any corporal punishment, rather than to fight for a Riddle; which he accounts our fight against the King, and yet fight for him.  
2 That he being told of the death of the noble Lord Brook laughed, saying, Now the Brownists Dagon is fallen, their Idol; and again smiled, speaking in the Nose, The Glory of Israel is departed.  
3 That the said Malignant, hath been always forward by Disputations, Arguments, and the like, to maintain (to the great prejudice of out Cause which we fight for) that Churches are more convenient, decent, and fitting for us to preach and exercise our gifts in, than Chimney-corners, Hollow-trees, Woods, Sawpits, or the like; and that the said Malignant hath been the greatest offence to our uprightness, that ever happened without the Gate of our New Jerusalem.  
4 That he being told of the Trenches which we were digging at the Six Windmills, answered, that they were the fittest places for such giddy brains to lie in, and said to our great disparagement, that when Prince Rupert came, we would all turn Round like those Windmills.  
5 That he hath oftentimes threatened to publish a Book entitled, Flagellum Scismaticorum & Brownisticorum, or, a Scourge for schismatics: Upon the Frontispiece of which (as he said) should be the picture of a Weathercock and a Windmill, a Weathercock for new-England, and a Windmill for old England, and that he would have ensculpt, the picture of a man kneeling down to a Windmill, calling it the Brownists Devotion.  
6. That he called the new elected Ensign of your said Captain Thomas Andrews Grocer, Choleric Cockbrained, Codpiece Tom; and asked him who was drunk the last night of the first Month when he carried my Colours to the Exchange; and said, that a Knave in grain was the fittest to carry the Colours of our New-Militia, which was lately buried in Hounds-ditch, and all this he said for no other reason, but because my Ensign called those Gentlemen that came to his shop the King's Rogues, and said that the King had none but Rogues about him, which alas he said out of conscience, having lately taken the late Oath and Protestation to defend the King's honour.  
7. That he hath often spoken against our Rebaptism, affirming that our going to Hackney-Marsh with our clean shirts and smocks to be baptised in the little River there, which we call our jordan, is unlawful; Alleging for his proof the saying of popish Augustin, and Protestant Perk ns, whose opinion is, as he said, that being once baptised (though according to the custom of the Church of Rome) is a sufficien testimony of our outward Reception into the Church of Christ and that other baptism is needless and frivalous.  
8 That he hath Philosophically and vainly maintained by arguments and disputations, that Brownists and Roundheads do commonly begert Children with long vissages, long ears, and Long Noses, long vissages the emblem of simplicity, long ears that they may overreach the shepherd's voice when he calls for a feast amongst the rich Saints; and long Noses that they may the more easily smell the sweet saviours of the holy plumbroth.  
9 That he is a great admirer at that which we despise and contemn, Namely wit and Learning which are flat popery, and the very marks of the Beast, and that he did often and frequently speak against our new Gospel, which teacheth us (as he says) to rebel and resist the King and likewise against the ministers that brought it over from New-England, the Land of Canaan, As Mr. Peter's, whose zealous Doctrine we have stayed so long to hear on a Fast day, that we have even bepissed our ourselves again, and also against Mr. Case, whom he calls my Lord Mayor's Trumpeter, M. Marler the button maker, against Mr. Till who though carnally blind yet a spiritual seeing man, ye & feeling too, for he his lately betrothed to a sister in matrimony. But I cannot thus pass by Mr. Peter's, a man that hath done so much good for us, especially by his indefatigable pains in every parish in London to find out those our many Babes borne out of the estate & covenant of Grace (though by this Malignant called Bastards) and conveyed diligently to New-England, by whose means the objects of our own vilednesse are taken away from our our perpetual remembrance.  
10 He hath most abominably spoken against the Practices of our Lay Divines as Mr. Greene the feltmaker, Spencer the Horserubber, Quarterman the brewer's Clerk, and john Jail the Sowgelder of Wallingford, who have been very laborious to edify us our & wives in the truth, & that he hath lately beaten at his shop one of our chief Divines, Namely Nicholas Tew the Girdler at the exchange, who teacheth at Whitechappel in a Chamber every Sabbath day, and as if that were not sufficient to fill up the Measure of his wickedness, he afterwards fell to buffet him, and then (most tyrannically) turned him over to be buffeted by Satan.  
11 That the great Malignant Stationer doth many times speak against that which we call distraining, calling us Israelites and those of his opinion Egyptians, saying that we do rob and spoil them of their silver and Gold plate when verily we do but borrow and take it without their consent.  
12 That he did strongly endeavour to defend the Bishops and their calling to be (as he said) by the justitution of Christ proving it out of the first of the Acts, and that he did usually a nights before his going to bed, sing the Common prayers, which we call the Common Mass, in the Tone and Tongue of the Beast, and that he did speak against our silencing of 60. Divines, saying, that when we had put out the Candles we might at play at blindman buff, both the City, Close, and invisible Committee, and that when the lights were out, we might fall co the holy sisters in the dark, when in sincerity we need not, for we can do it fast enough in the light.  
13 That the said Malignant did commonly say that we did rob the wicked to  the godly, and instanced, our taking Cloth from the Drapers in Paul's Churchyard, and that he did liken our teaching, to the wild and frantic preaching of Brownists or Anabaptists in Germany, and said that in the End, we would serve the Malignant Citizens as they did the Germans, first rob them of their goods, and then of their lives.  
14 That he did usually reproach our Outlandish Teachers, calling them New-English Canaanites, Ridiculous Lecturers, and saying, that they did commonly pray blasphemy, and preach treason, Rebellion, and sedition, which (as he said) were the chief causes of our miseries, and did liken them to the Poets of old who made Comedies to please the people, 
Populo ut place-rent quas fecisset fabulas. Terent. Pro.  Sermons, and said that they were the Locusts spoken of in the Revelation, that came out of the bottomless pit, also that he did call my Lord Mayor's worship the Lay Antichrist, because he had (as he said) usurped the Keys and the sword which was an evident mark of the man of sin. And thus have I (with the advice of my brother Potter, being both of us the new devised common-councel-men for the parish of Sepulchers) presented unto your grave worship, fourteen Articles of treason against the said malignant, desiring in the names of ourselves, and all the Separatists of the said parish, that the said Dobson be put to answer to all and every of the said Articles and accusations that so such proofs and proceed may be made against him, as may be correspondent and answerable to the judaical law; with our expositions and notes upon the same.  

A Catalogue of the Names of those Canaanites, and Ridiculous Brownists, who have subscribed to prove the Articles above mentioned.  

Stephan Evans, alias Prince of Morocco, Knight of the Burning Pestle, Salter, and Tub-preacher, on Snow H ll.  
Mattocks, the arrant honest Baker, whose Cake is Dough.  
Samuel Shewell, alias, Bluecoat Sam.  
Francis Eland, alias, Horse-doctor Frank.  
Birt the quondam Saddler, alias, railing Rabshekah, or Round-Breeches.  
Grennill, alias, Sergeant Famine.  
Cox, alias, Coxcomb.  
Captain Cloak-bag.  
Francis Patriarch.  
Primate the Letherseller, alias, Camelion.  
Thomas Andrews, alias, Shit-Breech-Tom.  
Simple Robin, the zealous Round-head.   
The said Edward Dobson having gotten a copy of these articles thought good to declare them to the world, and to show that he being by the instigation and complaints or the above named Rabble and their associates cast in prison, the next day was brought to the Parliament to be accused by them (as he conceived) of loyalty, and being committed to the safe custody of six roundheads or rather Jews, in the committee of the Court of wards, Prince rupert's dog came into the said court, and (and whilst they were busy in expounding scripture and confuting the pope in plumbroth) snatched him from the invisible committee, to the visible City of Oxford,  
Ab omni Peccato, malo, & infortunio,  
Ab insidiis Diaboli, & dissidiis Retundi,  
Et ab aeterna damnatione,  Libera nos Domine,  
FINIS.