ΦΙΛΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΦΑΓΙΑ, Delineated in 

A Mirthless mirror of the Matchless Misery of a Money-less Minister, born in the South  
Mischievously managed by the Merciless Misdemeanour of a mony-minded Minster-man, living in the North   of ENGLAND.  
OR, A true NARRATIVE OF THE Inexcusable Inhumanity of one Mr. timothy tully, late Preacher at Carlisle, now one of the Prebendaries of the Cathedrall Church of York.  
ACTED Against one Thomas Kentish, Rector of Middleton in Teasdale within the County of Durham.  
Timothy the faithful had Epistles holy  
Sent him by Paul, yet he a man most lowly;  
But tis not so with such as climb so high,  
As daily seeks to do this Timothy.  
tully the Orator was a man of famed,  
But so's not every man that hath the name;  
Hear but this tully preach, & you'l know fully,  
All you'l say of him, is, his name tully.  
Written by the aforesaid Thomas Kentish Minister of the Gospel.  
Beware of false Prophets which come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.  Mat. 7.15. 
Yea they are greedy dogs, which never have enough,  Isa. 56.11. 
We must through much tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God,  Acts 14.22. 
Aetas Parentum pejor avis, &c.  Hor. lib. 3. Ode 6. 
London, Printed in the month of December, 1661.   

Christian Friend,  
IF thou really art what I call thee, I doubt not, thou wilt readily view what is before thee: With seriousness be persuaded to peruse this Paper: This I may boldly speak, and once viewed, thou wilt as freely grant; tis less grievous to view it then to feel it: Then think not much to do the one, since the reverend Author hath( to his wo) done both: Bless God thou art the Reader, not the Sufferer: In reading sympathise, suppose the Case thine own.  
I will say but this: Be but such a Reader, if not for the sake of him who is the Sufferer, yet for His sake from whom he is a Messenger; and question not but his Master will be thy Rewarder. Ruminate upon two Scriptures, Heb. 13.3. & Mat. 10. the three last verses.  
Yours in the Lord, I. K.   


Anagram.  
timothy tully  
I*— vile let to Him †   

To the Ingenuous Reader.  
Friend,  
To Him!] that's Kentish; for you'l see Herein,  
This tully hath a vile let to Him been:  
And though He fain would cloak the same,  
Rather then so, His very Name  
Will prove the Tell-tale to His shane:  
See how the Name, nor racked, nor bribed betrays  
The man! thou think it truth, which It displays:  
The Letters by themselves His Motto raise.   

To the Reverend Author.  
Sir,  
The name first* lisps; next † points, at you( no doubt)  
Sure, You It means, although It can't speak out:  
For this both I, and Others too  
Can witness, what It hints is true;  
A vile let He hath proved to You:  
Yet this your Self do better know  
Then any else,( and 'tis your Woe:)  
We see, hear, red it, but You feel it so.   
I. K.   

HOly-hearted Christian-Readers( for I intend not without some special motive, or mistake, the view of this ensuing Narrative for any others.) I think I shall not need to Apologize for my appearing in Print; the Narrative itself sufficiently does that.  
HAd not the ardent avarice of one Mr. timothy tully( late Preacher at the City of Carlisle) broken forth into such intolerable acts of pinching oppression, upon my poor estate, as of late it hath, your patience had not been put to the perusal of these lines.  
Indeed the said Mr. tully hath been a man so full of specious appearances towards Religion, so superficially gilded with watchfulness over his ways( which some count holiness) that I think he cannot be justly taxed with the guilt of such open profaneness, and notorious miscarriages, as are incident to other ravening ones, who are not clad with such a dress of sheeps clothing to cloak their wolvishness, as the said Mr. tully is.  
Yet too too apparent it is to the world, that he is not thorowly-hearted to follow the dictate of Christ, in doing unto others as we would have them to do unto us, Mat 7.12. For can any imagine that he should be willing to have another man turn his wife and family out of doors( and in a could snowy season too) as he turned out mine? or dispossess him of his whole livelihood, as he hath dispossessed me of mine? Or damnify him by suits at Law for trespasses, where he never did wrong? And yet thus hath he dealt by me, as you will see presently.  
Forasmuch then as the said Mr. tully hath so far gratified his avaricious humour as to invalidate those specious pretences of Saint-like innocence, by lying on his bed meditating mischief, and rising up early to practise it; by prosecuting the same day after day, week after week, month after month, unto the extent of 16. months and upwards( he having been thus busied ever since the middle of August 1660. without the least visible discovery of repentance in heart, or retrogradation in act:) I could not in this regard think it altogether inexpedient, to expand before you the lamentable experience that I have had hereof; being now resolved to rouse up my heavy heart and saddened spirit, with my shaking hand, to pen the story of his harsh demeanour towards me.  
Yet what I do herein, shall be with an humble-kneeling heart, as in the presence of the heart-searching God, and with a conscience no less obliged to express the truth, then if my hand were on the Book: For what I shall thus declare unto you, shall be nothing else, but what I am able to approve by the testimony of witness sufficiently credible: Or if any thing herein be questioned, of more secret cognizance, I shall( if thereunto called) be ready to aver the same, by sealing it with my own personal oath.  
With your leave and favour then, I shall( in a few lines) first signify my timely access to, together with my comfortable abode in, the Rectory of Middleton in Teasdale within the County of Durham: and then straightway present you with a serious and faithful Account of the grievous and woeful estate; which the hard usage of the said Mr. tully, both in and since his dispossessing me thereof, hath undeservedly plunged me into: which is such( all circumstances rightly weighed) as I verily think all England will not yield the like.  
In doing which, it must not be expected, that my gray-hairs should( according to the present guise) appear in the gaudy garb of Rhetorical garnishes; for indeed not only the gravity of my age, as also my renewed sorrows, but even the very nature of the subject itself, do plainly forbid me either the new-minting or the curious culling of such a kind of phrase; such a quaintness of expression not at all suiting with the sadness of such a Relation.  

My case then with all plainness, morally stated, take as followeth.  
IN the year of our Lord, 1648. when the Army made an in-road upon the Parliament, and secluded about sixscore members or more from the House; the mayor part of the remaining Members resolving to bring the late King to trial for his life; the loyalty of my affection made me then so far diffent from those proceedings, that I could not but manifest both in prayer and preaching my unfeigned disrelish of the same, till at length I fell under such a disgust with the then Committee for plundered Ministers, that they proved sore Plunderers to me indeed; for they sequestered from me the profits of the Living that I then had, till they had almost undone me with their injurious Actings.  
Then about three or four years after this, the Lord by his providence opening me a way to the aforesaid Rectory of Middleton; I could not( being at that time destitute of livelihood) but accept the same, although it was above eleven score miles distant from my former place of Residence: And being once settled therein with the general approbation of the people, it pleased the Lord( in a short time) so far to engage their hearts unto Me, as is but seldom seen: whose serene aspect I have now enjoyed nine years, or thereabouts.  
Howbeit by reason of some heavy debts formerly incurred by means of the said Committee, together with the charges of so vast a Remove; as also other various disbursements since that, for first-fruits, annual tenths, monthly Taxes, and necessary reparations, on, and about the Parsonage house, and its appurtenances; I became so miserable impoverished that all I. had in the World was not sufficient to pay my debts.  
Yet having an hundred or six-score pounds per annum coming in by means of that Rectory, and my children almost all brought up, I comforted myself with the hopes of enjoying a competent Maintenance among a loving people, during the days of my aged self, and more aged Wife; but vae misero mihi, &c. For the very next Summer after the Kings Restoration( the Living being about 200. miles from London, & my age and corporal Infirmities( at that time) rendering me unfit to attend his Majesty with a Petition for my settlement) the said Mr. tully, although he never had title to the Living before, and though he had a fair annual Revenue by his Prebendship at York, together with a large and liberal allowance for his Ministerial service in the City of Carlisle, besides a very considerable temporal estate of his own; yet( like a greedy Groll, that never thinks he hath enough) he begged away my Living also, though it was the only subsistence I had in the world. And observe this by the way, that whereas the people before were wont to have preaching twice every Sabbath, they are now popt off with a single Sermon, and sometimes not so much, since he usurped the Cure.  
And albeit the said Mr. tully having got a Presentation to my Living in the said middle of August 1660( and that merely by a false suggestion, representing it in his Petition as wholly vacant) should( according to the Act for settling of Ministers) have entred upon it from and after the 29th. of September; yet he suffered me to supply the Place one Sabbath after, without the least acknowledgement of the same; never exhibiting to me the said Presentation till the sixth of October following. Upon fight whereof I( for imployment-sake) offered at reasonable terms to officiate the Cure for him; which he refusing to grant, I then bespoke him thus, that albeit he had deprived me of my Living, yet I hoped he would not on the sudden dispossess me of my House; whereunto he answered, That I needed not make doubt of holding the house till Christmas at the least; for( said he) the Act concerning Ministers will allow you time to keep it till then.  
Now when I seriously pondered, how that my own Estate was( long since) consumed by the means aforesaid, and that even this Rectory( my present and only subsistence) was also taken from me by virtue of the said Presentation; and withall considered the person that had got the same, how that I was to him, not only in age much superior, in estate much inferior, but also in sufferings for the Royal Family much more transcendent; and yet he in a likely way( besides the devouring of my whole livelihood) to turn me ere long out of my only habitation likewise, though then of late made very convenient and useful by a chargeable reparation; It was the hardest measure I ever met with, the saddest of outward afflictions that ever seized upon my spirit.  
Yet nevertheless, when the said Mr. tully( dwelling as yet afar off) came on Lords-days to officiate and preach among the people, I did invite him to dinner two or three several times, and also to a lodging on Saturdays and Lords-days at night, telling him that( if he pleased) he might have a free enjoyment of my best Room ready-furnished. But instead of accepting so civil a proffer, he did most dis-ingenuously demean himself against me very shortly after: for notwithstanding his former speech of my holding the house till Christmas, yet on the eighth of November following( which was near seven weeks before that time, I also being then in London) he demanded of my wife possession of the said House; she answered him that I, her husband, was gone from home, and that she had no order from me to deliver possession in my absence; but if he would please to forbear about nine or ten days space, she  told him, that he should by that time have an answer to his demand, or else possession delivered up.  
Howbeit he would not be here-with satisfied, but six days after, he comes with three of the Sheriffs bailiffs, and in a could snowy season, he puts my weak, aged wife, and my feeble, and( at that time) sick daughter, with the rest of my Family altogether out of doors: so that had not some friends given them house-room for that present, and two neighbours voluntarily entred into a Bond of 1500. l. to remove my goods, and so to deliver him up entire possession of the house and outhouses, within ten days then next following; not only the said Sheriffs bailiffs with great violence and spoil, would forthwith have cast out my goods while they were there present, but even my poor aged wife, with her sick daughter and servants, had all lain abroad that night, although it might have cost them their lives: And being thus forced to so sudden a remove, the said Neighbours were necessitated to hire a little Cottage in the Town, though it would not hold half the goods, there not being a fitter house to be had( at that time) for any rent.  
By this means my movable goods were fain to be put in five or six several houses, and in so many several Mens custodies; my feather-beds laid on heaps at spoiling hand: My bedclothes and other Furniture thrust into dank places, musting for want of good usage: My pewter and brass, and such kind of utensils knocked together, bruised, and rusting for want of meet disposal: My Tables, Chairs, Stools, Court-cupboards of carved work, with the rest of my household-stuff tumbled on heaps, some in one place, some in another, much mangled and decayed for want of room convenient to bestow them in: Cum multis aliis, quae, &c. Oh the unutterable wo and damage that I have thus endured!  
And not long after all this, my horses were removed out of my Stable, my Cows out of my Cow-house, my Swine out of their places of shelter; and no small trouble it was( the Neighbours there know) to procure harbour for them elsewhere; every man thereabouts having room little enough( if not too little) for his own cattle in such a winter season.  
And( as if this had been a small matter) to add yet to my wo; my Study( though one of the least Rooms in the House) might not be suffered to hold my Library, no, not till my return from London, though this was more earnestly desired by my friends then anyone thing else. Whereupon my books, my loose papers, with other private Manuscripts, were taken forth, and all in a most confused manner toffed together into Chests and Boxes; and so sent some to one neighbours house, some to another.  
So that my own Home which was heretofore the place of my greatest contentment, is now become a place of least content; as having now neither Study to retire in, nor other place fit to meditate in, nor books at hand, nor papers or notes in readiness when I have occasion to use them: The want whereof does unavoidably tend, not only to the inexpressible disquiet of my mind, but also to the irreparable loss of my most precious time.  
All which considered, I do( as in the presence of the Heart-searching God) seriously profess that the said Mr. tully could not( in my account) have done me greater injury, although by violence on the Road he should have taken from me six hundred pound of ready money.  
And( which yet renders his actings( as all will grant) the more inexcusable; he at that time had no need of the House; for though he had put me to all this wo by dispossessing me thereof; yet neither himself, nor his wife, nor any of his Family( as the neighbours well know) did make any use of the same, or any of the outhouses, for the space of 5. or 6. months together, but all that time did hire one of the Parishioners to lodge therein, only to maintain that possession which he had thus inhumanly wrested from me. O Monstrum horrendum, inform, & c!  
Moreover after all this, because the said Act of Parliament concerning Ministers leaves the 29. of September( as a Casus omissus) not determining whether the Presentee or his Predecessor, shall have the Profits which become due on that day; therefore the said Mr. tully( at or before New years Tide then next following) demanded of the Parishioners the money due for Tithe hay that grew the Summer then last past, and was by custom payable on Michaelmas day, as if he himself had had more right to that 20. l. or 30. l. of Tithe hay money, who had never taken the least pains for it, then I who had performed the whole years Ministerial service.( How incongruous these demands of my Adversary were to the rules of equity and good conscience, I dare leave it not only to every judicious Reader, but to any impartial & unbiased person whatever, though never so scandalous, or debauched, to make judgement of the same.)  
At which time being returned from London, and hearing of those his demands, I went and  told him that he had no right to any profits there, but what should( according to the said Act) become due from and after the 29. of Septemb. and that therefore he should not( with my consent) have any of the aforesaid Tithe hay money, unless he could recover it by Law: Whereunto he replied little at the present; but after I was gone, his own man reported he heard him say, Seeing I loved Law, I should have Law enough.  
Whereupon about the beginning of the next February he caused me to be arrested to answer him in five several Actions of very trifling trespasses, as treading on the gleab Land in the month of January, and sueh like; in all which I never did him so much as one penny worth of wrong. And over an● above he caused me to be served at the ●… e time, with a Chancery Subpoena to ●… er to as causeless a Bill of Complaint about Dilapidations, wherein he( most unjustly) charges me with 151 l. 5. s. 3. d. for ruins about the said Parsonage House, and its appurtenances; when as tis well known, and hath been as often and voluntarily acknowledged by the neighbours, that more hath been bestowed on the said Rectory by way of reparation in those few years I enjoyed it, then in any former time within the memory of man.  
Now what unprejudiced person but will condemn such unheard of insatiableness? What plea himself can make, I know not, unless that of the Poet, Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam. He in the first place begs away my living over my head; and next, to make me amends for my chargeable reparations, he ex professo sues me for dilapidations.( It makes me call to mind those ravenous and greedy Beasts, mentioned by our Saviour in Mat. 7.15. and by the Prophet in Isa. 56.11.) But the Lord of comfort( I trust) after I have suffered a while will find a time to deliver me from all such unreasonable men.  
You have not seen all yet; for though he had thus begged away my living, thrust me out of my dwelling, exhausted me by so many vexatious suits in Law, of which you shall see more by and by; yet this would not content him; but( as if he would be sure to disable me from defending myself) he caused the said Sheriffs bailiffs on the 4th. or 5th. of the said February to secure out of my hands, all my vendible goods that were abroad, and in the Barn and out-houses, as cattle, Corn, Hay, Straw, some Timber, and many other necessaries; so that I had nothing left at liberty to make money of, neither for present necessity in this deplorable condition, nor yet to extricate myself from under his gripping oppression.  
The truth is, such were my unspeakable straits at that present by reason thereof, that when I was shortly after to travail again to London, and not to return home for two moneths space and more, I was forced( to my great grief) to leave my dearly beloved wife almost wholly destitute of all kind of necessaries, for the subsistence of her self and family during the time of my absence: being no ways able to furnish her with so much as one half perk of bread-corn, nor one half perk of beer-corn, nor yet one half crown in money; all the money I then had or could procure, being too too little to bear my own charges in a journey of so many scores of miles.  
And no small aggravation of my grief this was, especially when I considered her parentage, education, large portion, present age, &c. she having been a Gentlemans daughter of good worth and quality, very tenderly educated, one that hath brought me an estate of many hundred pounds value, hath been my dearly loving yoke-fellow almost 37. years; and her self now aged almost 70. years; and withall so much decayed in strength, that she needed to have expended on her self more in a week, then she by any means could have got in a month. So that had not the Lord in mercy moved the charity of some Christians in London for my supply, both myself and wife( long before this) might have perished for want of bread.  
Who that hath the bowels of a man, will not abhor such inhumanity? first, to reduce another undeservedly to such straits as to be ready to perish through want; and then in the mean while wilfully keep his goods from him, and at the spoiling hand too, through want whereof he is continued in that perishing condition. Yet such( and no other) was the humanity of my Adversary towards me: for to instance only in the aforesaid detained Corn; which( what with mice, mustiness, and growing by reason of its dampness) was in that interim so exceedingly spoiled, that afterward( when I had obtained an Order for its delivery) I was forced to make off a considerable part of the same, for less then half what it would have yielded, might I but have had it to have sold in season.  
And when the said Order was once obtained,( though he would not deny me the said corn itself, yet) then he denied to allow me time sufficient for threshing the same in the Barn, and so forced me to remove it thence and thrash it else-where; and yet made no use of the Barn himself for divers moneths following: by which wilful churlishness of his, I sustained( not only an unnecessary charge in removing it, but withall) an unavoidable loss by its waste in the removal.  
Give me leave to hint yet some other things, which I being quiter deprived of, know not well how to omit the mention of; as namely two useful Glass-Cases of joiners work, which( for antiquity sake) I could not but prise, as also my Study shelves, with a fair Writing board, besides very many necessary shelves in other rooms of the house; together with several such like Conveniences, which I do not so much as once mention, although neither the one nor the other ever came there but at my charge: Now because my neighbours that in my absence managed the remove, being bound( as aforesaid) in a bond of 1500. l. to deliver up full possession within ten days, were forced( through want of time) to leave those conveniences behind; therfore the said Mr. tully( without tender of the least satisfaction) makes bold to engross them all to himself, claiming them as his own proper goods, merely because they are fastened to the Freehold, which else could be no way serviceable: Yet, if( at length) upon no other account but this, he do become the owner of them; he( for his part) may thank mans Law more then Christs Gospel for that gain; And I( for my part) may too too justly( with a small alteration) apply that ancient Poetical passage to him, which was long since applied to another Creature, differing from him in kind, but not much in carriage; 
— Sua me vestigia terrent,  
Omnia se adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.   
THere is yet one thing more before I close, & woeful it is to me that I have any such thing to writ. Two of the forementioned frivolous suits, being in August last 1661. prosecuted against me at Durham-Assises; and proof being brought that I had trespassed against the said Mr. tully, I was cast in both the said suits; and albeit( the Al-seeing God knows) I did him not one penny worth of wrong therein, yet( as a new addition to all my other woes) besides the loss of my own charges, I was( within few days after) arrested and so compelled to pay to him eleven pound, fourteen shillings, and four pence, every