THE FIRST CENTVRY OF Scandalous, Malignant PRIESTS, Made and admitted into Benefices by the PRELATES, in whose hands the Ordination of Ministers and government of the Church hath been. OR, A Narration of the Causes for which the PARLIAMENT hath Ordered the Sequestration of the Benefices of several Ministers complained of before them, for viciousness of Life, errors in Doctrine, contrary to the Articles of our Religion, and for practising and pressing superstitious Innovations against Law, and for Malignancy against the PARLIAMENT.  
IT is Ordered this seventeenth day of November, 1643. by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning Printing, that this Book Entitled, [The first Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests, etc.] be printed by George Miller.  
JOHN WHITE.  
LONDON, Printed by George Miller, dwelling in the Blackfriars, M.DC.XLIII.   

To the READER.  
Reader:  
THis ensuing summary Declaration, of the Grounds and Causes, whereupon this Parliament hath proceeded against divers Ministers, to sequester their Benefices from them, and to place in their rooms, godly, learned, orthodox Divines, diligent Preachers of the Word of God, may serve thee for many excellent parposes.  
First, To open thine eyes and clearly convince and satisfy thee, that the Parliament had good, and very great cause from hence, among many other things, to declare and resolve, that the present Church Government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors, Commissaries, Deans, Arch-deacons, and other Ecclesiastical Officers, depending upon the Hierarchy, is evil and justly Offensive and burdensome to the Kingdom, a great Impediment to Reformation and growth of Religion, and very prejudicial to the State and Government of this Kingdom, and therefore to be taken away 
a See the Preamble of the bill for the Assembly of Divines, and of the Ordinance by which they sit. : They have been by our Laws entrusted with the Care and Provision for the souls of the King and Subjects, to heed, feed and watch over them 
b Acts 20.28. 1 Pet. 5.2. Heb. 13.17. : And to attend upon the great Embassy they pretend unto, to pray and beseech them to be reconciled unto God 
c 2 Cor. 5.20. : and to preach and to cause to be preached by able and faithful men 
d 2 Tim. 2.2. : The Word of God in season and out of season 
e 2 Tim. 4 2. : They have not only neglected their Personal Execution of this weighty trust, but also have generally and mostly committed the same to Persons illiterate and insufficient, dumb Dogs, as the Scripture calls them 
f Isa. 56.10. , that cannot bark, against whom God hath protested for their ignorance 
g Hos. 4.6. , and to men swallowed up with Wine and strong drink, whose Tables are full of vomit and filthiness 
h Isai. 28.7.8. Quorum ess. et vivere est esse & bibere. : Whoremongers and Adulterers, who as fed Horses neigh after their Neighbour's Wives 
i Jer. 5.8. : Buggers that change the natural use into that which is against Nature 
k Rom. 1.26. . And to others scandalous of corrupt minds, and ill affected to the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom, men unfit to preach to, or live among Christians, their wickedness being so great, as that they are condemned by Heathens: And hereby they have taken the highway to destroy the souls committed to them, and to drown them in Perdition. The evil life of a Minister, being like the rods, which Jacob spread before the Sheep 
m Precepts are iter longum. Examples iter breve. , the people write after his copy with ease and confidence. Sins are reputed, as none, or as venial, which receive Patronage from the Minister's Example 
n Hae hominum faces non Dei ministri, sed Satanae satellites, non Christi seblatores, sed Antichriste successores. . And though some few of these Church Governors, have been men that have otherwise expressed in the course of their lives a true fear of God, yet by a strange Influence of the Divine Curse upon their Offices, branches of the Hierarchy of Rome, plants not planted by our heavenly Father, these as well as the rest, have unhappily laid hands suddenly upon many, and preferred divers wicked and unworthy, by partiality 
o 1 Tim. 5.2. , to marry and put off their hands a Daughter, a Kinswoman, and upon other buy and base respects, without regard of the good of the souls of them, over whom they were set. And in this Book, thou shalt have an Assay of the Gall and Wormwood of the Episcopal Government, taken out of London the Metropolis, and of the Counties adjacent, that when thou seest what Vermin crawls upon, and devours the principal and vital parts, thou mayst reflect with a mournful heart upon the more miserable condition of Wales, and of the North, the more remote parts of this Kingdom, where upon scrutiny will be easily found, many for one as vile and abominable as these. And if thou wouldost have the people perish for want of vision or empoisoned with the destructive Errors of Popery and Arminianism, and the Land yet more defiled with cursing, swearing, drunkenness; whoredom, sodomy, than put thy shoulders still to the support of the said Church-Government and Governors, but if thou be better minded (as in Charity I hope thou art) then join heart and hand with the Parliament, to purge out such Popish dregs, and together with them, pray for and endeavour a through Reformation, according to the word of God.  
Secondly, Thou mayst by perusal of this book clearly see what manner of persons those Cleargie-men be, that favour the present course of his Majesty against his Parliament and people, and dislike and malign the ways of the Parliament, they will appear unto thee to be such as cannot endure the purity, power and strictness of the true Religion, that hate Reformation, and to be brought in their hearts, Religion and lives to the holy Word of God, that seeks themselves and not the things of Jesus Christ, that are given over to vile affections, to superstition, ambition, persecutions, covetousness, malignity and all wickedness, and knowing the judgement of God and what they deserve that commit such things, yet not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them 
a Rom. 1.28, 29 32. .  
Thirdly, Thou mayest hereby discern one principal ground and cause of the general ignorance and debauchery of the Gentry and people of this Kingdom. Like Priest, like people 
b Hos. 4. ●. : They cause the people to err by their lies and by their lightness 
c Jer. 23.31. : They are a snare on Mispah, and a net spread upon Tabor 
d Hos. 5.1. . They have wrested and broken the law of the Lord, defiled his holy things, hid their eyes from his Sabbaths, polluted his Sanctuary 
e Ezek. 22.26. , and seduced the people to the same wickedness, daubing with untempered Mortar 
f Ezek. 13.10.  These Prophet's prophecy falsely, the Bishops bear rule by their means, and the people love to have it so 
g Jer. 5.31. .  
Fourthly, Behold with admiration, and acknowledge with love and thankfulness the transcendent mercy of the Lord, to his poor people among us, that whereas he hath infinite just cause to destroy these Priests and people together, cloth them with desolation, and do unto them after their ways, and judge them according to their desert 
h Ezek. 7.27. . He is graciously pleased to stir up a spirit of zeal and judgement in the Parliament to deliver the people from the mouths of these Shepherds, that feed not the flock, but kill them that are fed, eat the fat, and clothe themselves with the wool 
l Ez k. 34.3, 10. : and to set true shepherds over them, to seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, to bind them that were broken, and strengthen them that were sick, and to feed them all, with knowledge and understanding; and to feed with judgement the wicked shepherds that before with force and cruelty ruled over them 
k Eze. 34.15, 16. .  
Fiftly, Behold with comfort and assured expectation of good from Heaven, that as the Lord hath manifested his gracious purpose to reform his Church in this Land, and set up the Kingdom of Christ among us, in the purity of Doctrine and Discipline, and hath for that purpose called this Parliament, fixed it, set it upon that work, and maintained it therein, and in all these hath manifested his immediate hand and finger, in stupendious works of Divine providence, opening obstructions, working that himself which his servants could not, making the very enemies of Reformation means to further it; discovering and preventing the horrid, hellish, treacherous plots of his and our enemies, turning the counsels of Achitophel into folly, discovering the rotten hearts of them, that said they were for the Cause of God, but are found liars; and holding up the hearts of his faithful ones in the midst of, and against all discouragements. So the Lord is pleased to carry on his great work of Reformation, in the very face and in aispight of all oppositions and dangers, that it gains ground and creeps on every day. These Priests of Baal, sons of belial, that know not the Lord, whose sin is very great before God, in making multitudes abhor the Offerings of the Lord 
a 1 Sam. 2.12, 17. , are taken away and removed as filthy rubbish from the house of God. The Antinomians that destroy the Law, as neither directory nor obligatory of a Christian to duty: and teach, that God sees not, is not angry with, will not correct, requires not sorrow for, nor repentance of the grossest sins that are committed by such as believe they be in Christ; and that the elect are actually justified as soon as borne, though they have not faith in forty years after, and many such absurdities and barbarismes in Divinity, are questioned and in a good way to be suppressed, and the Doctrine of our Church in a great part cleared from all aspersions and misconstructions. This is the Lords doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. And certainly these works of God, are so many earnest-pences unto us, as the first fruits to the harvest, that God will in his own way and time perfect his said work of a through Reformation, and bring forth and lay the head and top-stone thereof, that we and our postority shall rejoice and cry grace grace unto it 
b Zech. 4.7. .  
Sixthly, Whereas in several Proclamations, Declarations and Pamphlets set forth in his Majesty's name, and otherwise sent us from Oxford, the Parliament hath been exceedingly reproached and condemned (as in truth they have been for all the good they have done for the Kingdom) for Sequestering the Live of Reverend Divines (as they style them) thou mayest by a serious perusal of this Book, clearly see what Divines the Authors and publishers of the said Pamphlets do so reverence and esteem; And from thence observe of what spirit these men are that side with, honour, plead for, and receive unto them such Priests of Baal, of Bacchus, of Priapus; Doth not their affection unto, and high esteem of such unclean beasts, abundantly evince, that they serve and prostitute themselves unto the same dunghill Idols and filthy lusts, and that they are all of the same Father? And note further, that these Libelers not only speak evil of Dignities, but also of those things that they know not 
c Judas 8.10. , they Censure the Supreme Court of Judicature, themselves being Delinquents, deferving the severest judgement, and that without hearing them, or informing themselves of what they have done, notwithstanding all their acts and proceed lie fairly of record in their Journal books, obvious to every man that desires to understand the same. And that the Parliament may appear just in their do, and the mouth of iniquity may be stopped, this Narrative of the crimes, 
* The grossest faults stand proved by many witnesses, seldom less than six.  and misdemeanours of those sons of the earth are here published, that all the world may see, that the tongues of these that speak evil of the Parliament, are set on fire of Hell, and lift up against Heaven, and that they hid themselves under falsehood, and make lies their refuge.  
And let not the Learning of some few of these men (for which if they had any grace to use it well, they were considerable) move thee to think they be hardly dealt with, for learning in a man unsanctified, is but a pearl in a Swine's snout, Arrins, Pelagius, Arminius, all of them learned, but thereby the more serviceable to do mischief in the Church; like Curio, who was facundus only ad reipublicae perniciem. Learning and knowledge we honour in any, but viciousness and lewdness we condemn in all: had some of these men sanctity of life as well as light of knowledge, they had been honourable to Religion, and useful to souls; but their abhorred lusts casting out of them the guidance of light, it is but justice to cast them off from being guides to others: I say, Justice to them, and withal mercy to the poor people, who at once are rid of a plague, and enjoy a blessing, are freed from such who poisoned their souls, and supplied by such as take care to feed and save their souls 
a None succeed these sequest. red Priests, but such as are examined and approved by the Assembly of Divines. .  
I know well that all we say or do in this particular will be reproached by some, but good services must not therefore be deserted because reproached. When the fat Abbeys were taken down in Henry the eights time, the Friars cried out that holy Church was destroyed, yet when the draughts and ponds were searched, so many bones and skulls were found, which assured men of practices distant enough from holiness. For my part I shall not cease to endeavour and pray for a perfect reformation of the Church, which is the garden wherein God delighteth to walk, and therefore must be purged of all stinking and noisome weeds. And do thou (whosoever thou art, that fixest thine eye on this display) learn by the evils which thou readest, to bewail the greater evils in this sinful Land which thou yet dost not know 
b The following Centuries will make a more full Discovery of the wickednesses that are among us. : When malice hath spoken its worst and done its utmost, then shalt thou clearly understand what I daily see and certainly know, that the great services and pains of the Parliament have no other scope but divine glory, the Church's reformation, and the Kingdom's safety. Consider sadly and seriously of these things, and the Lord give thee and me understanding of these times, to know what Israel ought to do in the same; and let us without fear of the hand of violence, or foot of pride, set hand and heart, and shoulder and all, to the perfect cleansing of the house of the Lord, and advancing his Zion to a perfection of beauty, and setting up his Christ upon his Throne, to rule over us in all things according to his own mind, and then expect with fullness of assurance, that he will speedily make all his enemies his footstool, and ease himself and us of all his adversaries. Which is the prayer  
of him that desireth to spend himself and be spent in the service of the King and Kingdom, JOHN WHITE.   

THE FIRST CENTVRY OF Scandalous and Lewd MINISTERS.  
1. THE Benefice of john Wilson Vicar of Arlington in the County of Sussex, is sequestered, for that he in most beastly manner, divers times attempted to commit buggery with Nathaniel Browne, Samuel Andrew's and Robert Williams his Parishioners, and by persuasions and violence, laboured to draw them to that abominable sin, that (as he shamed not to profess) they might make up his number eighteen; and hath professed, that he made choice to commit that act with mankind rather than with women, to avoid the shame and danger that oft ensueth in begetting Bastards; and hath also attempted to commit Buggery with a Mare, and at Baptising of a Bastard child, blasphemously said, openly in the Church, That our Saviour as he was in the flesh, was a Bastard; and usually preacheth, That Baptism utterly taketh away original sin, and that the sins committed after Baptism, are only by imitation, and not by natural corruption; and hath in his Sermons, much commended Images in Churches, as good for edification, and that men should pray with Beads, and hath openly said, that the Parliament were Rebels, and endeavoured to starve the King, and that whatsoever the King commands, we are all bound to obey, whether it be good or evil; and hath openly affirmed, that Buggery is no sin, and is a usual frequenter of Alehouses, and a great drinker.  
2. The stipend of john Aims Curate of Lowis in Kent, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard, a common haunter of Alehouses, and a common swearer; and hath affirmed the Parliament to be a Round-headed Parliament, and that their heads should be all shortly chopped off; and wished, that the King might grind them in pieces like a Potter's vessel, and for above 15. weeks hath altogether deserted his Cure.  
3. The Benefice of Charles Forbench Parson of Heny in the County of Essex, was sequestered, because he is a common swearer, oftentimes breaking forth into fearful Oaths and Imprecations, and very careless of his pastoral function, and wholly neglecteth the observing of the monthly Fast, setting his men to blow, himself also working on those days in the fields, and hath affirmed, that the Earl of Strafford was no traitor, and that he was put to death wrongfully by the Parliament.  
4. The Benefice of Stephen Withers Parson of Kelvedon in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he hath solicited oftentimes the Wife of Philip Glascomb to commit adultery with him, and divers other women, affirming it to be no sin to lie with them. And hath not only practised Altar-worship, but urged his people to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at the rails, and in his Church read the Book for profanation of the Sabbath by sports, and will not suffer his people to have above one Sermon on the Lords day, though at their charge; and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament.  
5. The Benefice of Emanuel Vty, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Chigwell in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he affirmed, that there hath been no true Religion in England these forty years, and that he loved the Pope with all his heart, peremptorily maintaining that whatsoever men of holy Orders speak, they speak by Divine inspiration, and that if the Devil himself would have holy Orders put on him, he would be inspired by the holy Ghost, and hath denied the King's Supremacy, and exalted the Power of Bishops above the Authority of the Prince, affirming them to be the head of the Church; and blasphemously broached, That the Command of the Archbishop of Canterbury was to be equally obeyed with the Word of God, and hath declaimed against the Authority of Parliament, and affirmed, That Parliament-men are Mechanics and illiterate, and have nothing to do to intermeddle in matters of Religion.  
6. The Benefice of Edward Cherry, Rector of the Parish Church of Much-holland in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he usually boweth twelve times towards the East, when he goeth into the Chancel, and his Sermons which were rarely above one a Month, mostly tend to the upholding and pressing of that and the like superstitious innovations, and hath refused to give the Sacrament to those of his Parishioners that would not come up to the rails to receive it; and hath taught in his Sermons, That Baptism washeth away original sin, and that all men may be saved if they will, and have freewill thereunto, and hath been very often drunk; and affirmed, that a man may more lawfully play, game and drink in an Alehouse on the Sunday, then on any other day; and hath published a very scandalous Libel against the Earl of Essex, Earl of Warwick, and Earl of Holland, and hath affirmed, That he never knew any good the Parliament did, unless it were to rob the Country and pick their purses, and hath deserted his said Cure for above a year last passed, leaving the same wholly unsupplied, and is reputed to have betaken himself to the Army raised against the Parliament.  
7. The Benefice of Thomas Thrall, Vicar of the Parish Church of S. Marry Mount-thaw London, is sequestered, for that he hath neither Preached nor Catechised on the Lord's day in the afternoon, nor suffered his Parishioners to have any to perform the same, though they have desired it at their own charge; And is a common haunter of Taverns and Alehouses, spending much of his time there, and hath been often drunk, and not only read the Book for sports on the Sabbath in his Church, but hath stirred up his Parishioners thereunto, and countenanced them with his presence at Cudgels and the like other sports on that day, and said, that the House of Commons in Parliament was an unjust Court; and doth ordinarily swear and curse, and useth superstitious bowing and cringing to the Communion Table.  
8. The Benefice of john Gordon, Rector of the Parish Church of Ockley in the County of Sussex, is sequestered, for that he is a common haunter of Alehouses and Taverns, sitting and tippling there, night after night, and hath spent the whole Sabbath there, so that no Service nor Sermon was in his Church by reason thereof, and is a common drunkard, and hath not preached on any Fast day since it was enjoined by King and Parliament, and hath published in his Church, all those to be Traitors that lent to the Parliament, and hath deserted his said Church for about six Month's last passed, and is reported to have been seen in the Army of Cavalieres, raised against the Parliament.  
9 The Benefice of Laurence Washington, Rector of Purleigh in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Alehouses, not only themselves sitting daily tippling there, but also encouraging others in that beastly vice, and hath been oft drunk, and hath said, That the Parliament have more Papists-belonging to them in their Armies, than the King had about him or in his Army, and that the Parliaments Army did more hurt than the Cavaliers, and that they did none at all; And hath published them to be Traitors, that lend to or assist the Parliament.  
10. The Benefice of Philip Leigh, Vicar of the Parish Church of Redburne in the County of Hertford, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard and haunter of Alehouses, usually drinking healths, and pressing others thereunto, a common swearer and quarrel, and hath expressed much malignancy against the Parliament.  
11. The Benefices of Francis Fothersby Vicar of S. Clement's in Sandwich, and Parson of Lingsteede in the County of Kent; are sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard, and common swearer and curser, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, in not only refusing to contribute to the public defence of, but saying, that they that would not lend the Parliament money, should be sent with Ordinances to Hell.  
12. The stipend of Daniel Tutivall Preacher of Suttons Hospital in the County of Middlesex, commonly called Charterhouse, is sequestered, for that he hath been often drunk, and that on the Lord's day, and hath taught in his Sermons to the said House, that Moses and Aaron being before them (meaning two Pictures set up in the Chapel) and the Organs behind them (newly also set up there) they were a happy people, and what greater comfort could mortal men have? and hath wholly neglected the observation of the Monthly Fast, not preaching thereupon, and procured scandalous and Malignant Ministers to preach there to corrupt his people.  
13. The Benefice of john Gorsuch, Doctor of Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Walkerne in the County of Hertford, is sequestered, for that he is a common haunter of Alehouses and Taverns, and often drunk; and oft sitteth gaming whole nights together, and is seldom in the Pulpit, preaching scarce once a quarter; And hath often denied many of his Parishioners the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, without any cause shown, and refused to administer it to such as would not come up to the rails; And endeavoured to hire one joanes' to ride a Troope-Horse for Prince Rupert, to serve under him against the Parliament, saying withal, he had a snotty nose jade to send to the Parliament to poison the whole Band, and hath published a wicked Libel against the Parliament, That some of the Lords whom he Named, were Fools, Bastards and Cuckhoulds.  
14. The Benefice of Edward Thurman, Rector of the Parish Church of Hallingbury in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a Common drunkard, and hath presented his Parishioners for going from their own Church to hear Sermons, when they had none at home; and hath affirmed, that he would drive away all the Puritans out of his Parish, and enforced his Parishioners to come to the rails, and hath wholly deserted his said Cure for the space of half a year now last passed.  
15. The Benefice of Robert Snell, Vicar of the Parish Church of Maching in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he hath often refused to administer the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parish that refused to come to the rails to receive it, and there being a Crucifix in the window over the Altar, he useth to bow towards it, and would not suffer it to be pulled down, notwithstanding the Order of Parliament for it: And hath taught his people, that God hath now an Altar, and that the Table set Altarwise, put him in mind of God, to worship him the better, and in administering the Sacrament, called one of the Communicants Puppy, for that being lefthanded, he put forth that hand to receive the Bread, and caused the Churchwardens to present such as would not come up to the rails, to receive there, and kneel before them, and hath expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament.  
16. The Benefice of Robert Hiliard, Vicar of the Parish Church of Ewell in the County of Surry, is sequestered, for that he said, The Parliament is a Parliament for the Devil, and the Devil's Court, and that the Petitions of the Parliament to the King, are like the Petitions of Jeroboam to Rehoboam, commands and not Petitions, and hath discouraged divers from giving or lending towards the public defence, expressing, that he hoped they that did so should never see penny of it again, and that he would rather live under the government of a Heathen, then of the Parliament, and is a common frequenter of Taverns and Alehouses, sitting tippling and quarrelling there, and is often drunk, and is a common curser and swearer, and hath jeered the holy Spirit of Grace, saying, We have Ministers now, will preach forsooth, and pray by the Spirit, and hath threatened to kill those that have exhibited Articles against him in Parliament, in case they should proceed against him, and went about with the Cavalieres at Kingston, directing them to plunder honest men there.  
17. The Benefice of joseph Soane, Vicar of Aldenham in the County of Hertford, is sequestered, for that he is a common Gamester, a common Alehouse haunter, and frequently drunk, and a common quarrel, and hath called the Parliament Soldiers, under the command of his Excellency the Earl of Essex, Parliament dogs.  
18. The Benefices of William Fairefax, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of S. Peter's in Cornhill London, and Vicar of East-Ham in the County of Middlesex, are sequestered, for that he hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parishioners as refused to come up to the rails, and refused to let his Parish have a Lecturer on the Lord's day in the afternoon, except he might have 50lb. given unto him for the same: And for the space of eight years, refused to let his Parishioners have a Lecturer on a week day, which was appointed, and maintenance for the same given by the will of the dead, and useth to profane the Sabbath-day, by playing at Cards, and hath been often drunk in Alehouses and other places, and usually seeketh and haunteth the company of women, notoriously suspected of incontinency, and intrudes himself into their company, and into the company of other women, walking alone in the streets in the dark and twilight, and tempteth them to uncleanness, leading them into dark places, and into Taverns, fit for such works of darkness, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and charged the Parliament to be the cause of all the trouble, and disturbances in the Kingdom, and hath greatly neglected his Cure, and in his absence hath provided scandalous Ministers to supply the same.  
19 The Benefice of james Bradshaw, Vicar of the Parish Church of Chalfont, S. peter's in the County of Bucks, is sequestered, for that he is not only a practiser and maintainer of all the late innovations, but hath also preached in his Sermons, That the Commissaries Courts were the suburbs of Heaven, and the Commissaries and Officers of that Court, the very supremacies, next to Arch-Angels, and that it was a damnable sin for any warned to that Court not to appear, and that to preach twice on the Lord's day is a damnable sin, and that to use any prayers besides the Book of Common-prayer, was likewise a damnable sin, and wished, that all Lecturers were hanged.  
20. The Benefices of Robert Cotesford, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Hadleigh and Munkes Ely in the County of Suffolk, are sequestered, for that he is a strict observer of the late Innovations, still continues bowing towards the East in divine Service, and hath often preached for auricular confession of sins, and that the reason why so many fall into despair, is, because they come not to their ghostly Father to confess their sins, and that men have by nature freewill to all good, and that Baptism doth wash away original sin, ex opere operato, and hath been often drunk, consuming his time in tippling and drinking, sometimes from morning to night, and hath oft attempted the chastity of his maid-servant, that she could not live in the house for him, and seldom preacheth; and for five Month's last passed, wholly deserted his said Cures, so that the Churchwardens were enforced through his default, to make some provision for the said Cure of Hadleigh, and hath not only refused to read the Declarations of Parliament, and especially that of the 22th. of October, 1643. concerning his Majesty's Commissions granted to Papists to raise forces, commanded to be read in Churches, but hath expressed otherwise great malignity against the Parliament and the proceed thereof.  
21. The Benefices of Nicholas Andrew's, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Churches of Guildford, and Vicar of Godalmine in the County of Surrey, are sequestered, for that he is not only negligent in preaching himself, but hath also expressed himself to be an enemy to frequent preaching, inveighing in his Sermons against long Sermons, saying, that Peter's sword cut off but one ear, but long Sermons like long swords, cut off both at once, and that the surfeit of the Word is of all most dangerous, and that the silliest creatures have longest ears, and that preaching was the worst part of God's worship, and that if he left out any thing, he would leave out that, and refused to give the Parishioners leave to have a Lecturer to preach unto them, and hath presented his Parishioners that went to hear Sermons at other Churches, when they had no preaching at home; and caused the Churchwardens and Sides-men to be presented, for not presenting such into the Ecclesiastical court: And in delivering the Bread in the Sacrament, he elevateth it, looks upon it, and bows low unto it, and useth other frequent bowing in administering the Sacrament, and in his Sermons greatly exclaims against that Doctrine which teacheth, that the greatest part of the world should be damned, and frequenteth Taverns, and consumes his time in sitting and tippling there: And hath refused to publish the Order of Parliament, concerning the removal of superstitious and Idolatrous pictures and Images, and hath substituted to officiate for him in the said Cure, very scandalous and Malignant Curates, viz. Bacock, Leverland, Pastorloe, Heath, and one Blane, who is in the Army raised against the Parliament, and when his people have propounded honest and Orthodox men to be his Curates, he hath refused them.  
22. The Benefice of Ephraim Udall, Rector of the Parlish Church of S. Augustine's London, is sequestered, for that he hath affirmed, That the great reformers of the Church now were Hypocrites; and hath made, framed and published a Book, entitled, Noli me tangere, without Licence, Charging the Parliament with Sacrilege, in endeavouring to abolish Episcopacy, and to take away the Lands of Deans and Chapters, to amend therewith the maintenance of preaching Ministers, and that they have thereby brought a Nationall sin upon the Land, as was formerly done by them in taking away the Monasteries, and that an unclean spirit did breathe these things into their minds, a devout Devil, pretending care of God's service, and that all their goodly pretences are hypocritical, and the mask of vile iniquity and holy theft; and that it is a thing senseless, that Laymen should have any Tithes, and that Tithes are Jure divino, and that to alien the Lands of Cathedral Churches, to maintain preaching Ministers, is, to pervert the will of the dead that gave them; and otherwise expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament.  
The Benefices of _____ jeofferis, Doctor in Divinity, Vicar of the Parish Churches of Feversham and Ticehurst in the County of Kent, are sequestered, for that he hath preached, That the King may take not only part, but the whole of his subjects Estates, if it please him; And in the same Sermon wished, that evil might befall those that went about to take away government by Bishops, which had its platform from Heaven, and that the government by Bishops, Priests and Deacons under the Gospel, was from God, as under the Law, the government of High-priests, Priests and Levites, and that he knew not from whence the Presbiterian government came, but from Corah, Dathan and Abiram: And hath opposed and hindered the Lecturer from preaching a Lecture in the said Church, although appointed by the House of Commons thereunto; And said of the Parliament, That Schismatical and Pragmatical fellows were met together to make new Laws; and he hath neglected the monthly Fast, and the Lords day, there having been for divers Sabbaths, neither preaching nor prayers in the said Church, and hath deserted his said Cure, for the space of half a year now last passed.  
24. The Benefice of james Mountford, Rector of the Parish Church of Jewing in the County of Hertford, is sequestered, for that all hath refused to deliver the Sacrament to his Parishioners, for not coming up to the rails, though some of them begged it with tears, and openly reviled them for not conforming to that superstitious Innovation, calling them Dogs, Rogues and Beggars, and presented them to the Commissaries Court for the same, to their great damage and vexation; and hath published in his Church the Book of Sports on the Lord's day, and commended the same, and hath publicly in his Sermons affirmed, That preaching is not necessary for the sanctification of the Sabbath, and that the Sabbath was made for Ministers to rest in as well as for the people, and that Laymen ought not to meddle with the Scriptures, but must believe as the Church believes, which Church he made to be Archbishops and Bishops; And the rails being removed, he placed forms instead of them, making his people kneel at them to receive the Lords Supper: And hath preached, That if the King should set up flat Idolatry, we ought to submit, and not to take up Arms, as some do now; and enveighed against the Parliament, for endeavouring to take away Episcopacy, and hath not only refused to join in the public defence, but hath also discouraged such as have so done.  
25. The Benefice of john Peckham, Rector of the Parish Church of Hosteede parva, in the County of Sussex, who giveth out that he is the King's Chaplain, is sequestered, for that he hath been very negligent in his Cure, absenting himself from his Parishioners, sometimes a whole Month together, without leaving any to Officiate for him, and hath refused to administer the Lords Supper to those of his Parish that would not come up to the Rails; and is a common drunkard, and notorious adulterer and unclean person, having drawn divers women to commit uncleanness with him, and hath bragged, that he could lie with women, and never get them with child, and hath used sordid and beastly carriages towards women, to entice them to satisfy his lust, not to be named among the Heathen, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament and proceed thereof, and hath affirmed publicly, that a man might live in murder, adultery and other gross sins from day to day, and yet be a true penitent person.  
26. The stipend of john Kidd, Curate of Egerton in the County of Kent, is sequestered, for that he preacheth not to his Parish above once in a fortnight, sometimes not once in a Month, or two Months, though there be in the said Parish near 400. Communicants, nor provided any other to instruct them, and hath used frequent and unreasonable bowing to the Communion-Table in his said Church, and persuaded his people so to do, and called them openly unreverent Puppies that passed by it without such bowing, and in administering the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, when he had received himself, and was going to administer the Bread to his people, assaulted one of the Communicants; and pulled him by the hair of the head, and thrust him out of the Church and Congregation without any just cause, and hath never preached to his Parishioners upon any of the Fast days.  
27. The Benefice of Griffith Roberts, Vicar of the Parish Church of Ridge in the County of Hertford, is sequestered, for that he hath not only practised the late Innovations, and neglected the public Fast, and employed his neighbours to carry home wood for him upon a Fast day, but hath openly declared the Earl of Essex and all his followers, and Armies of the Parliament to be Traitors, and that whosoever sent Horses, Money or Plate to the Parliament, were also Traitors, and that this Land was governed by Children and Fools, and that the Parliament had done that that they must die for, even the best of them, if ever the Laws were settled, and that the said Roberts is a common drunkard and tippler in Alehouses, and drinker of healths, quarrelling with them that will not pledge him therein.  
28. The Benefice of Peter Dausem, Vicar of the Parish Church of Camberwell in the County of Surry, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard, and drunk at the times of his officiating at Burials and Baptizing; and hath by his debauched conversation, disabled himself from preaching, and hath not preached for these 12. years and upwards, and did protect and hid a Romish Priest in his house, from the Officers that came to seek him, and hath extorted undue and unreasonable fees from his Parishioners, and after the administering of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, expended the money given to the poor in Sack, and drank it in the Church; And in delivering the Sacrament to one Mistress Wilson, one of his Parishioners, cast the Bread upon the ground, saying to her, take it there if thou wilt have it, and is a common curser and swearer, and hath read in his Church his Majesty's Declaration against the Parliament, concerning Levies; and being told of an Ordinance of Parliament against the reading of such things, answered, He cared not for it.  
29. The Benefice of john Mountford, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Austie in the County of Hertford, is sequestered, for that he hath introduced into his said Church and other Churches, a turning of the Communion-Table Altarwise, and having a great Crucifix and Picture of the Virgin Mary in the East window over the said Table, used bowings and cringings before the said Table and Crucifix set Altarwise, and caused the said Table to be railed in, and the Jesuits Badge to be set upon the Carpet there, compelled the people to come up to the rails, there to kneel to receive the sacrament, teaching them, that God was always present at the Altar by the presence of his grace, and was therefore to be bowed unto, and in his going up to the Table to read second Service, usually caused that part of the 43. Psalm to be sung, viz. Then shall I to the Altar go, of God, etc. And hath endeavoured to leaven his people with the doctrines of Arminianism, and hath forbidden, by virtue of a Commissary or Surrogates place he held under the Dean and Chapter of Paul's, preaching in the afternoon on the Lord's day, and expounding of the Catechism within his Jurisdiction, only tying them to use the same by bare Questions and Answers, and pressing the reading of the Book of Sports on the Sabbath day, and usually enveighed in his Sermons, against those that went out from his said Parish Church to hear Sermons when they had none at home, and did arrest the Churchwardens of the said Parish and the Glazier, for pulling down the said scandalous Pictures in the said window, in obedience to Order of Parliament, and hath preached against praying ex tempore, as unlawful, and hath in his absence, substituted a very scandalous Curate, very superstitious in his practices, who preached that that conscience was neither good nor quiet, that could not be content with one Sermon a day on the Lord's day, and charged them as Rebels, that did not observe his superstitious practices of the late illegal Innovations, and that his people are bound in conscience, to believe whatsoever he and the Doctor did preach, and that the material Church was the Mystical body of Christ, and to give any thing to it, was to beautify Christ's body, and that to go out to hear Sermons on the Lord's day, when they had none at home, was spiritual whoredom; And the said Doctor being informed of his said Curates superstitious practices and false doctrines, and desired to remove him, refused it; affirming, that he would maintain him in whatsoever he had said or done.  
30. The Benefice of Edward Brewster, Rector of the Parish Church of Lawshall in the County of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he hath refused to administer the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parishioners as would not kneel at the rails, and after they were taken down, from the place where they had stood, caused divers of them to be presented in the Ecclesiastical Court, for not kneeling at their first coming into the Church, and compelled them to do penance for the same, and hath refused to observe the late day of Thanksgiving, appointed by the Parliament, for the discovery of the late hellish Plot against the City of London and the Kingdom, and is a common Alehouse haunter, and hath been found guilty thereof upon Indictment at the Assizes, which he never traversed, but submitted unto a Fine thereupon, and hath continued since his frequent sitting and tippling in Alehouses, and hath spoken very disgracefully of the Earl of Essex, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and neglected the keeping of the monthly Fasts, and out of mere wilfulness, hath refused to baptise children brought to the Church unto him for that purpose.  
31. The Benefice of Richard Hart, Rector of the Parish Church of Hargrave in the County of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he is a common Alehouse haunter, and upholder of private Alehouses, and commonly sitteth drinking in them divers days together, and lately continued drinking and tippling there, from Tewesday till Sunday-morning, and that morning being come home, durst not come to Church, his face was so battered and beaten, and forced his Parishioners to go to other Churches by reason of his inability to read Divine service or preach unto them; And used on the Lords-days in the afternoons after his reading of Divine service, to draw his Parishioners with him to his house, forcing them there to drink, until they be drunk, causing every one to cast a die in their course, and to drink up so many cups as fell to their chance, persuading them that if they will take their cups, he can forgive them that sin, and when he hath preached on the Fastday, hath told his Parishioners, that he knew not wherefore the Fast was, and that it was not material to be kept, and consumeth the afternoon's of such days in drinking with some of his Parish in his own house, or at some private Alehouse. And upon Whit-sunday last, though he had administered the Communion in the forenoon after Evening prayer read, he drew a man and his wife to a private Alehouse, and there kept them drinking till night, and after led them to his own house, and there made the man so drunk, as he fell a sleep, and then enticed the man's wife up into his Chamber, where they were all night suspiciously together, and drinking and taking tobacco, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, professing, he would rather carse them, then pray for them.  
32. The benefice of Edward jenkinson, Parson of the Parish Church of Panfield in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he did set the Communion Table Altarwise, and railed it in, and commanded the Churchwardens to present such as refused to come and receive at the rails, and called them that refused, Walleyed Horses, and hath in his Sermons taught, That the Table is God's Altar, and that those that would not bow here at the Name of jesus, should bow in hell hereafter. And that such as taught them they need not bow, were blind guides; And hath compared the godly, reverend Ministers, living about him to Salt-bitches, which Dogs run after, and to roasted Dogs, which draw away other men's Pigeons, because his people went to hear them preach, when they had no Sermon at home. And hath said, that such as preach twice a day, are but praters, and that he, will want of his will, but he will put by preaching in the afternoon, himself being a Judge in the Ecclesiastical Court; And he is an encourager of profaning the Lordsday, sending then for Cudgels for his people to play withal; and being present himself at the Cudgel playing: And hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
33. The Benefice of Black Novelty, alias Notly in the County of Essex, is sequestered from joseph Plumm Parson thereof, for that he is a common Alehouse and Taverne-haunter, and hath been divers times drunk, and not only used superstitious bowing himself at the Name Jesus, but hath presented the Churchwardens for not bowing, and threatened his Parishioners, because they refused it, commanding his Churchwardens to look to them, and hath absented himself from his said Cure, for the space of eighteen week's last passed, and is reported to have betaken himself to the army of the Cavaliers, and hath otherwise expressed great malignity against the Parliament.  
34. The Benefice of William Grant, Vicar of the Parish Church of Iselworth in the County of Middlesex, is sequestered, for that he hath called the singing Psalms, Hopkins Jigs, And affirmed, That he had rather hear a pair of Organs ten to one, than the singing of them; And hath read the Declarations and Proclamations, set forth by his Majesty against the Parliament in his Church, and hath refused to read the Ordinances of Parliament, enjoined to be read, and hath often preached against the present Defensive War, averring the same to be against the King's Person, and wishing, their hands might rot off, that should be lift up therein, and preached in like manner before some Regiments of the Parliament soldiers, and hath also preached, That they that went about to change the Laws and Government of the Church and Ceremonies, would at last change their Religion too: And hath absented himself from his said Cure ever since the King's Forces were at Branford, and hath said, That the Court of Parliament, was a Court of no equity, and affirmed, the marrying of the Clergy to be the undoing of them, and that it would never be well with our Church, until auricular Confession be set up again in it. And is a common haunter of Alehouses and Taverns, and that on the Lordsday, even since the Order of Parliament for observing the Lordsday, and hath been often drunk, and that many times in one week; And that he complained, that all good fellowship was laid aside in his Parish, but he would bring it in again and maintain it, and invited and entertained all he could procure, to come to his house on Sundays after prayers, to sit there with him and consume their time in drinking and tippling.  
35. The Benefice of Henry Hancocks, Vicar of the Parish Church of Fornax-Pelham in the County of Hertford, is sequestered, for that he hath preached, That it is as lawful for a woman if she dislike her Husband, to leave him, and take another, as for one to go out of his Parish to hear another Minister; And that to go to another Church, was as the sin of Witchcraft and Idolatry, and filleth as well his Sermons as his ordinary discourses, with bitter invectives and slanders against those that are religiously affected, especially presenting them under the names of Puritans and Roundheads, and hath said in his Sermons, That the Puritans forced the Parliament to make Laws according to their own fantasies, and not according to the Law of God; And after the fight at Edge-hill, said in his Sermon, That he was overjoyed, to think that God should put it into the heart of the King, to fight the Lords battle on the Lord's day, to uphold the old ancient Catholic Faith; And fearing the pulling up of the rails about the Communion-Table, he walked with his Sword about the Churchyard in the night, saying, he would rather lose his life, then suffer them to be pulled up, and that if the Bishops should command him to wear a Kettle upon his head, he would do it, and is a common tippler and haunter of Alehouses, and a profane swearer of bloody oaths.  
36. The Benefice of Alexander Clarke, Vicar of the Parish Church of Bredfield in the County of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he hath used very frequent bowing to the Altar, in his going and returning from it, and hath pressed the observing thereof upon his Parishioners, and refused to let the Churchwardens level the ground where the Altar stood, because it was holy and consecrated, and not fit to be thrown out or mixed with common earth, and hath enveighed in his Sermons against praying by the Spirit, calling it a Monster, conceived, borne, and dying all in an instant, and hath read the Book of Sports on the Lord's day, and encouraged his Parishioners to observe the same, telling them, that it was sitter to play and follow their business on the Lord's day then on holy days, and hath publicly sported himself with his parishioners on the Lords days at Barleybreak, and hath taught to the people, that he hath absolute power to forgive sins, blaming them that they did not send for their ghostly Father to have them forgiven, and hath seldom observed the monthly Fast enjoined by Parliament, and hath endeavoured to draw his Parishioners to the Forces raised against the Parliament, affirming, that the Parliament had driven the King away from them, and that the proceed of them about the King were just, and that there was not a Papist near him; And hath affirmed, that the Earl of Strafford did die wrongfully, and that the Parliament put him to death without a cause, and hath spoken reproachfully of the Earl of Pembroke, and hath threatened his neighbours to give a list of the Names of them to the King, that encouraged any to contribute to the Parliament.  
37. The Benefice of Zachary Tusham, Vicar of the Parish Church of Dallington in the County of Sussex, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard, and hath solicited the chastity of one Alice Thorpe, and is a common quarrel, and did waylay one Edmund Gore about midnight, and fell upon him, and bear him, and hath greatly neglected his Cure, sometimes deserting the same for two-Moneths together without any supply, and hath spoken very disgracefully of the Earl of Essex, and expressed great malignity against the Parliament.  
38. The Benefice of Nicholas Wright, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Thoydon-Garnon in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he hath not preached above twice or thrice a year to his Parishioners, and yet hath presented divers of them, and put them to great charges in the Ecclesiastical Courts, for going to hear Sermons in other Churches when they had none at home, and brought also such Ministers as they heard so preach into trouble; And hath procured the Communion-Table to be set Altarwise, with steps to it, and rails about it, and constantly bowed towards it at his coming and going out of the Church, refusing to administer the Sacrament to divers of his Parishioners without any cause, other than his own wilfulness, and read the Book for Sports on the Lord's day in his said Church, and preached to maintain the lawfulness of it, by means whereof the Lords day hath ever since been much profaned, by Football playing and other ungodly practices, and hath deserted his said Cure ever since Palme-Sunday last, and betaken himself to the Army of the Cavaliers, and is in actual War against the Parliament and Kingdom. And hath brought and continued long under him for his Curate, a drunken, lewd and scandalous person, that hath been indicted and found guilty at the Sessions for a common drunkard.  
39 The Benefice of john Woodcock, Vicar of the Parish Church of Elham in the County of Kent, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Alehouses, and commonly drunk, and abuseth them that will not keep company with him at the Alehouse, and is a common swearer, by Wounds, Blood, and other like execrable Oaths, and a common curser, and hath deserted his said Cure ever since the first of August last, and hath expressed great Malignity against the Parliament and the proceed thereof.  
40. The Benefice of john Manby, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Cottenham in the County of Cambridge, is sequestered, for that while the Table was set Altarwise, he did constantly bow to it eight or nine times in a forenoon, and though he knew that the Parishioners could not hear him, yet did always read second Service at the Altar, and affirmed, That it was no matter whether they heard or not, for he prayed for them at the Altar, which was, Sanctum Sanctorum, and affirmed, That God was there more peculiarly present, then in any other place of the Church, and hath pressed his people in his Sermons, That they ought to bring their offerings to the Altar, and offer them there to him, for that he was there in God's stead to receive them, and preached, That he had power not only to pronounce absolution, but had undoubted power to forgive sins, and that the same was given him by the Bishops laying on of hands, and that the Holidays ought to be kept with as much reverence as the Lords day, and that he read the late new Cannons, and exhorted the people to receive and observe them as Scripture, affirming them to be drawn out of Scripture; And refused to Baptism children brought to the Church on the Lord's day at evening Prayer, though earnestly desired, giving no other reason for it, but because it was not his pleasure, and hath preached openly, That Ecclesiastical government doth not belong to the King; but as the King had power to make Laws to govern the Temporal estate by, so the Prelates had power to make Laws and govern in Ecclesiastical things, and hath affirmed, that he ought not to be judged by a temporal Magistrate, and is a common swearer and curser, Wounds and Blood, and Pox and Plague, and such like horrid oaths and curses do commonly proceed out of his mouth, and did brag, that he hath out-sworne a great swearer, and is a frequent Gamester, even upon the Lords days, and when the late Innovations were growing to an height in the Church, he did openly say in the said Church, That the Kingdom had been governed by Puritans, but now he hoped they would be rightly governed, and hath read in his said Church, all such Declarations and Proclamations as came forth in the King's name, and refused to read the Ordinances of Parliament, or to contribute to the Parliament, or associate for the public defence.  
41. The Benefice of William Muffet, Vicar of the Parish Church of Edmonton in the County of Middlesex, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Taverns and Alehouses, and a common swearer, curser and blasphemer, and is a common fighter and quarrel, not sparing his Majesty's Officers, and is commonly drunk, and scarcely sober at all, but when he wanteth money to consume in drink, and in his drunkenness, goeth up and down the said Town, breaking glass windows, which hath cost him twenty shillings at a time to repair, and is a common drinker of healths, and forcer of others to do the same, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
42. The Benefice of john Denn, Vicar of the Parish Church of Dartford in the County of Kent, is sequestered, for that he is a common Alehouse and Tavern haunter, and commonly drunk, and on Sabbath days, useth to sit till twelve of the clock at night, sending for bottles of Wine, and clubbing, and in a Sermon, described a drunkard to be only such an one as lies in the Cart-way, foaming at mouth, and not able to remove from the Cartwheels, and refuseth to preach on the Lords days, and Fast days, and is unwilling to suffer any to do the same, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and the proceed thereof.  
43. The Benefice of Richard Tanton, Parson of the Parish Church of Ardingly in the County of Sussex, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard and Alehouse haunter, and in his Sermons hath wished, That every knee might rot that would not bow at the name jesus, and hath read in the said Church, Declarations in his Majesty's name for raising of horse and money to maintain war against the Parliament, and against the Militia, and hath stirred up his Parishioners to join with the King's forces, and hath affirmed, That he would bear out his Curate in refusing to deliver the Sacrament to such of his Parish, as would not come to the Rails to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper.  
44. The Benefice of Thomas King, Vicar of the Parish Church of chesil magna in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Alehouses and Taverns, and very frequently drunk, even upon Fasting-days, and upon the Lordsday, and hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper for divers years to his Parishioners that would not come up to the Rails, having set up the Table Altarwise, and used bowing and cringing to it, although they did upon their knees entreat it at his hands in the Chancel, where they were wont before to receive it, and hath deserted his Cure for above three months, and did read the book of sports in his said Church for profaning of the Sabbath.  
45. The Benefice of Edward Alston, Parson of the Parish Church of Pentloe in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he hath attempted the chastity of some women, and hath used very unchaste demeanours towards other women, snatching a handkerchief from one, and thrusting it into his breeches, and forcing her hand after it, and putting his yard into her hand, pulling up the coats of another, and thrusting his hand into the placket of another, and using other wicked temptations, to draw them to his lust, and was a forward maintainer and practiser of the late illegal Innovations, and hath expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament affirming, That they sat to make Laws by authority, and broke them without authority, which was mere hypocrisy. And in his Pulpit spoke against the present defensive war, protesting that now when every child lift up his Sword to shed innocent blood, it was high time for him to lift up his voice like a trumpet; And did read in his Church Declarations set out in his Majesty's name, but refused to read any Declarations of Parliament. And at Christmas was 12. month having appointed a Communion, and all things were ready for it, and the Parishioners prepared, he turned his back and went away, refusing to deliver it, because the Surplice was not there. And falsely affirmed, That the Parliament gathered great sums of money to enrich their own purses.  
46. The Benefice of Christopher Webb, Vicar of the Parish Church of Sabridgworth in the County of Hertford; is sequestered, for that he is a Common drunkard and Alehouse haunter, negligent of his Cure, and not suffering others to preach, when himself would not, and hath expressed much malignity against the Parliament, affirming among other things, That he hoped in God he should see the Confusion of the Parliament.  
47. The Benefice of john Reynolds, Parson of the Parish Church of Haughton and Witton in the County of Huntingdon, sequestered for that he is a common Alehouse haunter and tippler therein, and swearer, and in stead of preaching did read the Book of Canons, condemned in Parliament, to his people; and pressed them to observe the same, commending them for the admirablest things and wittiest piece that ever was set forth, and affirmed, The Synod or Convocation of the Bishops to be of more force and authority than all Parliaments, and to be before any of them. And hath altogether left his said Cure for four months' last passed.  
48. The Benefice of Edward Ashburnham, Vicar of the Parish Church of Tunbridge in the County of Kent, is sequestered, for that he is a common Alehouse haunter and Tavern haunter, and very often drunk, even upon the Lordsdays; and hath driven divers of his Parishioners with their families from their dwellings, by pursuing them for not coming up to the Rails to receive the Sacrament, and seldom preacheth upon the public Fast-days, and made a public speech for the encouraging of the late Insurrection and Rebellion at Tunbridge, and to contribute to the maintenance thereof.  
49. The Benefice of Nicholas Bloxam, Parson of the Parish Church of great Waldingfield in the County of Sussex, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard and enticer of others to that beastly vice, a common swearer by great and bloody oaths; and hath been very careless and negligent of his Cure, seldom preaching above once a month, and never on the fast-days, and is seldom present at Church on the Past-dayes, and often absent on the Lordsday, when he hath drunk hard the day before, and hath carried himself very lasciviously towards several women, and is greatly suspected of Incontinency.  
50. The stipend and Benefice of john Man, Curate of the Parish Church of Stroode near Rochester in the County of Kent, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard and frequenter of Alehouses and Taverns, drawing others to the same excess with him, and is a common swearer by bloody oaths, and useth to curse, and is a common quarrel and fighter, and said, That he scorned the Parliament, and that the Parliament-men were not Gentlemen of quality, and hath otherwise expressed great malignity against the Parliament.  
51. The Benefice of Nicholas Lowes, Vicar of the Parish Church of Muchbently in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he hath been often drunk, and useth to sit tippling in Alehouses seven or eight hours together, even on the Lords days, and affirmed, That he hoped to see them all hanged that had set their hands against Bishops and Papists, and he and by his example the people spend the greatest part of the Lords day in pastimes and drinking at the Alehouse, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
52. The Benefice of William Evans, Parson of the Parish Church of Sandcroft in the County of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he is a common Alehouse haunter, and notorious drunkard and campanion of Alehouse haunters, and hath altogether neglected the public Fast, even since the Order of Parliament for the better observation thereof, and spent the same days, or the greater part of them in Alehouses, and wholly neglected to preach in the afternoon's on the Lords day, or to suffer any other to do it; And hath driven divers of his Parishioners out of the Parish, by prosecuting them in the Ecclesiastical Courts, for going to other Churches to hear Sermons, when himself preached not, and in his Pulpit delivered, That those that did give or lend to the Parliament, were accursed, and instead of a Sermon on the Lord's day, read to his people a Declaration set forth in his Majesty's name, concerning the Militia, the Ships, Forts and Town of Hull.  
53. The Benefice of john Squire, Vicar of the Parish Church of Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex, is sequestered, for that he hath publicly in his Sermons affirmed, the Papists to be the King's best Subjects, for their Loyalty, and for their liberality, and that like Arauna, many had given like Kings to the King, to maintain his Honour against the rebellious Scots, and for their patience, that enduring the many grievances under his Majesty, they had buried all in oblivion, and the Protestants would afford him nothing but in a Legal way, yea but in their own way, and exhorting that none should come to the Sacrament, unless they were so affected to his Majesty as the Papists were, and compared his Majesty, to the man that went from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thiefs, that wounded him of his Honour, rob him of his Castles and hearts of his people, the Priest passing by, was the Protestant, the forward professor the Levite, but the Papist was the good Samaritan, especially the Irish Papist, and that the Subjects and all they have, are at the King's command.  
54. The Benefice of john Clarke, Rector of the Parish Church of S. Ethelburrough within Bishopsgate London, is sequestered, for that he hath endeavoured to corrupt his auditory with the leaven of Popish doctrine, that the Bread and Wine after the words of consecration, cease to be Bread and Wine, and differ specie from what they were before, and that the Virgin Mary was the window of Heaven, and the very clouts and rags wherein Christ was wrapped, were glorious rags, and that the cross whereon Christ was crucified, was made of four sorts of wood, and that he is a common haunter of Taverns and Alehouses, and useth to sit tippling there till he be drunk, and hath expressed great malignity against the power and proceed of Parliament, saying, That the Parliament could not meddle or settle the business of the Church, they being not Scholars, but Mechanic men.  
55. The Benefice of Richard Nicholson, Parson of the Parish Church of Stapleford Tawny in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard and swearer, and hath expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament, saying, They were a company of Factious fellows, and that this Parliament is no Parliament, and that the major part of the Lords and Commons being with the King, they were the Parliament, and used divers other wicked speeches against the Parliament, and against several Lords in the House of Peers, and had three wicked and scandalous Libels against the Parliament found in his Study, and did sing one of them in an Alehouse.  
36. The Benefice of Francis Wright, Vicar of the Parish Church of Witham in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he hath tempted divers women, both his servants and Parishioners to uncleanness, and is a common haunter of Alehouses and Taverns, and a common drunkard and profaner of the Worship of God, by public performing of the same in his drunkenness, and a common swearer, and common user of corrupt communication, and hath not officiated in the said Cure for the space of twelve Month's last passed before the sequestration.  
57 The Benefice of Curthbert Dale, Rector of the Parish Church of Kettleburrough in the County of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he was a constant observer of the late illegal Innovations in the Worship of God, and presented and troubled his Parishioners in the Ecclesiastical Courts, for not coming up to the rails to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, and not observing other of the said Innovations, and is a common swearer and curser, and in his Sermons hath maintained, That the Angels did mediate for the children of God, and that men might drink one pot for necessity, a second for recreation, and a third for good-fellowship, and that it is not the blood of Christ that takes away sin before God, but it is repentance and tears that washes away sins, and hath read the Book of sports on the Lord's day, and hath slighted and neglected the Monthly Fast, and suffered his servants to work thereupon; And seeing a stranger in the Church put on his hat in Sermon time, he openly then called him, saucy unmannerly Clown, and bid the Churchwardens take notice of him, and the next Lord's day took occasion in his Sermon again to speak of him being then absent, and to call him Lob, saucy Goose, Idiot, a Widgeon, a Cuckoo, saying, he was a scabbed Sheep, a straggler, and none of his flock, and is a common Alehouse and Tavern haunter, and hath been often drunk, and frequently in his Pulpit, upbraideth his Parishioners, calling them Knaves, Devils, Rascals, Rogues and Villains, using other opprobrious speeches against them, and in one of his Sermons affirmed, That he hoped the late Lord Cook was in Hell, for maintaining Prohibitions, and hath been very negligent in his Cure, oft absenting himself from it for many weeks together, and leaving the same in his absence to very scandalous Curates, and hath wholly deserted his said Cure, for above nine week's last passed, and hath expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament.  
58. The Benefice of Thomas Goad, _____ of the Parish Church of East-Hatley in the County of Cambridge, is sequestered, for that he was for his scandalous life and misdemeanours, deprived of his Benefice at Guningson in the County of Nottingham, about 20. years since, and hath not since reform his life, but is still a common frequenter of Alehouses, and very often drunk, and oft on the Lord's day; And on Newyearesday was twelvemonth, the Sacrament of the Lords Supper being to be administered in his Church, he came from an Alehouse where he had been all night, and was so drunk, that he fell down twice or thrice in the presence of the Parishioners, who expected him at the Church-door; And hath been oft likewise drunk when he should have been preaching, and taken up drunk in the Churchyard coming to perform that duty, by reason whereof, divers times his Parishioners have had neither prayers nor preaching on the Lord's day; And hath oft sat so long drinking, that he hath bepissed himself, and sometimes the room where he sat, and is an outrageous common swearer and curser, and in his Tippling useth to say, Now Devil, do thy worst, and caused his servants to go to their earthly labours upon the fast-days, and finding his neighbour's Hogs trespassing, wished the plague of God in Hell might take her and her Hogs, and hath been a great practiser and presser of the late illegal Innovations in the Worship of God; And because his Parishioners would not come up to the rails to receive, caused the Parish-Clarke to carry away the Bread and Wine, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
59 The Benefice of Nicholas King, Vicar of Friston and Snape in the County of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he is a common Alehouse haunter, and companion of scandalous persons, and men of evil fame, and oft drunk, and attempted the chastity of Elizabeth Scotchmer, who going to his house to pay him some monies, he enticed her to lie with him, and did strive a long time with her to abuse her by force, and would have corrupted her thereunto with monies, but she protesting unto him she would not sell her soul to the Devil for money, he replied to her, She was a fool, for God did forgive the greatest sinners, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
60. The Benefice of Edward Turner, Parson of the Parish Church of S. Laurence in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common swearer, and common Alehouse haunter, and strong to bear strong drink, and useth to sit five or six hours together tippling at Taverns, sometimes whole days and night's tippling and drinking, and sometimes drunk, a common practiser and presser of the late illegal Innovations, and hath deserted his Cure for the space of a year now last passed.  
61. The Benefice of john Wells, Parson of the Parish Church of Shimplyn in the County of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he is a common Alehouse haunter and common drunkard, and in his drunkenness hath laid abroad in the fields, lost his hat, fallen into ditches, and so bemired himself, that he hath been feign to be washed, and hath attempted the chastity of divers women, and sold his Calves for kisses with them, and having locked himself up in a chamber in an Inn with a lewd woman, after a long time the door was broken open upon him, upon his refusal to unlock it, and he found in a very suspicious manner upon a bed with her, after which he conveyed her secretly away, and sent gifts unto her; And hath affirmed, That the Land was governed by wicked men, and that the Papists were the King's best subjects, and is a common swearer of very great Oaths.  
62. The Benefice of Thomas Geary, Vicar of the Parish Church of Beddingfield in the County of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Alehouses, often drunk even to vomit, and hath been and is a common swearer of bloody oaths, and curser in a fearful manner, as God damn me, the Devil damn me, refused to preach for many Sabbath days together, and said, he thought preaching would do his Parishioners no good, and useth in his Sermons to rail upon his Parishioners, calling them, sowded Pigs, Bursten Rams, and speckled Frogs, and one of the chief women of the Parish, greatly grieved at such miscarriages, and going out of the Church, the said Geary openly in his Pulpit thereupon said, that if there were but one Whore in the Parish, she would kick and fling, and never keep her seat, and affirmed, that he had absolute power to forgive sins, and said, that though this doctrine had lain hid for many years, yet he blessed God that it was now revived again, and on a Fastday disheartend men from attending on that sacred Ordinance, and was a great promotor, practiser and urger of the late illegal Innovations, and when the rails were taken away, affirmed, that the place was the worse for thowant of them, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
63. The Benefice of Thomas Darnell, Vicar of the Parish Church of Thorpe in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is an usual profaner of the Lords day, by sports and plays, and by making clean his Cowhouse and outhouses, and other like servile works, and read the Book of sports on the Lord's day in the Church, with approbation thereof, and is a common swearer and curser, and a notorious drunkard and Alehouse haunter, even upon the fast-days, and is a common Gamester at unlawful games, and hath been convicted of incontinency and adultery before Doctor Warren and others, Justices of peace, and began suit at Law in an action of slander for the same, but durst never proceed therein, and hath preached, That he that would not conform to his Prince in any Religion, aught to be burnt, and was a constant practiser of the late Innovations, and put such of his Parish from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, as would not come to receive it at the rails, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
64. The Benefice of john Wood, Vicar of the Parish Church of Marden in the county of Kent, is sequestered, for that he did read the Book of sports upon the Lord's day in his Parish Church, and did preach for the maintenance thereof, and is notoriously infamous for sundry adulteries, a common Alehouse haunter, oft drunk, a common gamester and quarrel in gaming, a great swearer, and was punished at a quarter Sessions for adultery, committed with the Wife of one Prior of the said Parish, and having contracted one Margaret Parks his servant to Thomas Maplesden, his own Wife happening to die, afterwards took to Wife the said Margaret, against the will of the said Thomas Maplesden; And on the fast-days, useth to sit drinking and tippling two or three hours together in an Alehouse, in the company of other men's wives, by him seduced thereunto, and hath said, That the Parliament hath no power to do any thing in the King's absence, no more than a man without a head, and hath otherwise expressed great malignity against the Parliament.  
65. The Benefice of Thomas Heny, Vicar of the Parish Church of Arundel in the County of Sussex, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Alehouses and Taverns, and hath been often drunk, a common swearer, and hath oft procured Alehouses to be set up in by-corners of the said Town in despite of the Magistrate, and not only preacheth very seldom himself, except it be for special reward, but refuseth to suffer others to preach to his Parishioners, when himself doth not, and checks them for desiring preaching so much, telling them, That he would make them content with a Homily, and before he had done with them, would make them glad with one Sermon in a month: And by his power in the Ecclesiastical Courts, hath caused scandalous persons to be placed for schoolmasters in the said Town to corrupt the youth, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
66. The Benefice of Erasmus Laud, Rector of the Parish Church of Little-Tey in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard, even on the Lord's day, thereby disabling themselves to officiate his Cure, and sitting drinking late on a Saturday night, was demanded, who should preach on the next day, he answered, Let the devil preach, give me another cup of sack, and is a common swearer, and hath used frequent superstitious cringing to the Altar, and seldom preacheth to his Parishioners, not above once in five or six weeks before the Parliament, and divers times through his neglect, his Church-doores have been shut up all day on the lords-days and fast-days, and at those times set his servants to work, and did work himself with them.  
67. The Benefice of Anthony Hugget, Parson of the Parish Church of the Cliff in the County of Sussex, is sequestered, for that he hath preached, that it was more lawful to steal or do servile works upon the Lord's day, then to go to other Churches to hear a Sermon, when there was none at home: And hath sued divers of his Parishioners for going to other Churches to hear Sermons, when he preached not, and forced two of them to do penance for it, and to acknowledge openly, That they had offended God in it, and grieved, and gave offence to their fellow-Parishioners, And procured one of them to be excommunicated for it. And put one Peter pennel, whom he had 7. years before admitted to the communion, from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, because he would not come among the boys to be catechised; and likewise refused to deliver the Sacrament to William pennel, because he was lame and could not kneel to receive it. And hath been bound at the general quarter Sessions to his good behaviour for several Misdemeanours, and in stead of a Sermon on the Lord's day, did read to his people the late new Canons, and is greatly suspected of Incontinency, and hath had the French-pox, and was cured thereof by one M. Abel for 10. pound promised him. And the said Huggets wife, ask him for a piece of gold, which he took from her, and gave to a light woman, in fury he spurned her on the belly, when she was quick with child, so that she was forced presently to take her chamber, and was delivered of a dead child, notwithstanding which he vowed he would never have more children by her: And hath wholly deserted his Cure for above 6 months from the time of the said sequestration, and hath been seen in the Army of Cavaliers raised against the Parliament.  
68 The Benefice of john Sydall, Vicar of the Parish Church of Kensworth in the county of Hertford, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Alehouses, and commonly drunk, and hath several times refused to administer the Sacrament to such as would not come up to the Rails to receive the same. And when the Rails were taken away, said it was the beginning of the abomination of Desolation, and that Whore-mongers and Drunkards are as excusable as those that go from their own Parish to hear Srrmons, and that Papists were better Subjects than Puritan: And hath neglected his Cure for several Lords days without any supply, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
69. The Benefice of john Rannew, Parson of the Parish Church of Kettlebaston in the county of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he is a common Alehouse haunter, and much given to tippling and drinking, and useth to provoke others to the same, and hath been oftentimes drunk, and hath preached in his Sermons, That Original sin is washed away in baptism: And read the book of sports on the Lord's day, and encouraged his Parishioners to practise the same, and hath procured some of his parishioners to be punished in the Commissaries court, for going to hear Sermons in other Churches when they had none at home; and hath sundry times wholly neglected the monthly Fast, and employed his servants in their weekly labours and work on the same; And hath been a zealous practiser of the late illegal Innovations, and hath wholly deserted his Cure for half a year and upwards.  
70. The Benefice of jeoffrey Anherst, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Horsemauden in the county of Kent, is sequestered, for that he hath been a diligent practiser of the late illegal Innovations in the Worship of God, and refused to administer the Sacrament to those that would not come up to the rails, reproaching such as would not comply with him in those Innovations, as such as shall have no part with the Saints in light, nor inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, and is a common swearer and haunter of Alehouses, and hath been often and extremely drunk, and hath wholly deserted his said Cure for above seven Month's last before the said sequestration, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament.  
71. The Benefice of Miles Goultie, Vicar of the Parish Church of Walton in the county of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he is a great practiser and presser of the late illegal Innovations in the Worship of God, and hath refused to give the Sacrament to his parishioners that would not come up to the rails to receive the same, and being pressed much by his parishioners to preach twice a day, or to give them leave to procure one to do it, he utterly refused, professing he would bring no such new orders among them, and in his Sermons usually inveighs against his parishioners for going to hear Sermons at other Churches when they had none at home, and finding his Curate painful in preaching twice on the Lord's day, he put him away, and entertained in his room a most drunken scandalous and idle Curate, and is a common frequenter of Taverns and Alehouses, sitting rippling there four or five days in a week, and oft till midnight, and hath been often drunk, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
72. The Benefice of Samuel Alsop, Vicar of the Parish Church of Acton in the county of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he hath attempted the chastity of divers married women, and frequented the company of women greatly suspected to be lewd and of ill fame, and got a maid with child in the house where he sojourned, and hath set up in his chancel the Jesuits Badge in gold, in divers places thereof, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and hath wholly deserted his said Cure for half a year last passed before the said sequestration.  
73. The Benefice of Robert Senior, Vicar of the Parish Church of Feering in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Alehouses, and commonly drunk, and hath been admonished by his Ordinary for it, and yet hath not left it, and was for his continuance therein suspended by the Ordinary, and yet still persisteth in the same, and commonly marries any manner of persons even without licence, and of the monthly Fast said, he wondered who a pox devised it, and swore by his Maker, that he would preach no more on it, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and great affection to the Cavaliers, and Army raised against the Parliament, as more suitable to his spirit.  
74. The Benefice of Henry Kybert, Parson of the Parish Church of S. Katherine-Coleman London, is sequestered, for that he got into the said parish indirectly, by means of a false Certificate, subtly procured by false suggestions, from divers of the parishioners of the said parish, who having complained and Articled against him and percival Hill his predecessor, for great misdemeanours, pretended that he was upon some hope of preferment else where, and that if his parishioners would subseribe to a Certificate and testimonial of his good behaviour, they should be rid of him, and having thereby obtained such subscriptions, the said Hill and he went to the Bishop of London, Patron of the said Church, and the said Hill to fly from the censure of Parliament upon the said Articles, resigned the said Church, and upon vehement affirmation, that the said Certificate was true and fairly gotten, procured the said Bishop to present the said Kybert to the said Church, who was thereupon instituted and inducted; And the said Kybert is a common frequenter of Taverns and Alehouses, and commonly frequents the company of a married woman of very ill fame, and hath been seen to embrace and kiss her very lasciviously, and hath been in a very suspicious manner in private with her, and hath not been ashamed in Divine-service, publicly to express unseemly gestures and behaviours towards her in the Church; and being told that he was seen to be in such private miscarriage with her, answered, that he would after be more cautions, which accordingly he observed, resorting commonly to her house afterwards by night and not by day, and hath since his institution into the said Church, seldom preached, and in his absence committed the Cure to drunken, lewd and lascivious Curates, and hath been a great practiser and presser of the late illegal Innovations in the Worship of God, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and hath deserted his said Cure, for more than four Month's last passed before the said sequestration.  
75. The Benefice of Walter Mattock, Parson of the Parish Church of Storrington in the county of Sussex, is sequestered, for that he is a zealous practiser of the late illegal Innovations, and hath not preached above once or twice in four or five years in his Parish, and refuseth to Church women if they have not on a Veil, and come not up to the rail, and hath given his Curate charge to observe the same; And is a common swearer and curser, and a common gamester at Cards and Dice, and useth to sit tippling with lose and lewd companions, and hath been over-seen in drink, and hath said, That none but a company of giddyheaded fellows would preach twice a day, and caused and countenanced the reading of the Book of Sports in his Church to profane the Lords day, and hath sent his Arms to assist the illegal Commission of Array, and to oppose the Forces of the Parliament, and hath otherwise expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and hath wholly deserted his said Cure ever since the first of February last.  
76. The Benefice of Clement Vincent, Rector of the Parish Church of Danbury in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a great practiser of the late illegal Innovations, and doth not only encourage sports and playing on the Sabbath-day before his own door, but hath also been a practiser himself thereof, giving ill example thereby, and neglected the keeping of the monethly-Fast, and instead of fasting, suffered on the Fastday, Football playing in his own ground, himself being a spectator thereof, and is a common drunkard, and common swearer and curser, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
77. The Benefice of Matthew Day, Vicar of the Parish Church of Chelsworth in the county of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he hath very little resided upon his Parsonage-house, but letteth one live in it that turneth it to an Alehouse, in which there is very much disorder, even upon the Lords days, and hath neglected the observation of the monethly-Fast, affirming that the time for them is expired, and is a common swearer, a haunter of Alehouses and Taverns, and hath been oft very drunk; And hath often preached, That sins of ignorance and sins of infirmity do not grieve the Spirit of God, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and hath wholly deserted his said Cure for above four Months before the said sequestration, leaving upon his departure a scandalous Curate, a drunkard that state in the stocks for his misdemeanours, and for divers lords-days the Church doors have been shut up, and the Parish left without prayer or preaching.  
78. The Benefice of Daniel Horsmande●, Doctor in Divinity, Parson of the Parish Church of Vlcomb in the county of Kent, is sequestered, for that he did affirm, That the late Deputy of Ireland was put to death wrongfully, and was sacrificed as our Saviour Christ was, to give the people content, and is and hath been for eleven year's last passed, a common haunter of Alehouses and Taverns, and very often exceeding drunk, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and preached, That to hear a Sermon on the week days, was a will-worship.  
79. The place and stipend of joseph Daves, Curate and Hospitler of S. Thomas Hospital in Southwark, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard, and common haunter of Taverns and Alehouses, and a common swearer, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, affirming them, to be all Rogues, and that he was confident God would show no mercy to them that died in the Parliaments service, and that all that went forth in their service, were Rogues and Rascals, and that those that died in their service at Edge- Hill went to the Devil.  
80. The Benefice of Henry Osbalston, Doctor in Divinity, Parson of the Parish Church of Much-Parudon in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he in his absence, supplied his said Cure by scandalous and insufficient Curates, and hath in his Sermons preached against frequent preaching, affirming it to be properly no service of God, and that it was never a merry world since there was so much of it; and that if he could preach twice a day, he would not, and that once hearing of Common-prayer, is better than 10. Sermons, and hath read in his said Church, the Book of Sports on the Lordsday, and encouraged men to Football and other like sports on that day; and hath taught his people, That the water in Baptism doth wash away original sin, and being desired to pray for a sick child that was two years old, said in his prayer, That actual sin it had committed none, and as for original, it was done away at Baptism, and hath pressed his parishioners to come up to the rails to receive the Sacrament, professing that otherwise he would not deliver it unto them; And hath threatened to present such of his parishioners as went to hear Sermons elsewhere, when they had none at home, calling them Hypocrites, and of the tribe of God, and said to one of his parishioners, that he could not abide him, because he shank of two Sermons a day; And being demanded to contribute to the association of the Counties for the public defence, said he would first have his throat cut before he would.  
81. The Benefice of Humphrey Dawes, Vicar of the Parish Church of Mount-Nezing in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he hath discouraged his parishioners from assisting the present defensive War, affirming, That they are damned and are Traitors to the King, that have lent money to the Parliament, and that he hath read the Book of Sports; and encouraged his parishioners to profane the Sabbath, and hath been often drunk, and came so drunk to Church on the Lord's day, as he bade his people sing a Chapter in the Hebrews for a Psalm, not knowing what he did.  
82. The Benefices of Richard Taylor, Parson of the Parish Churches of Buntingford, Westmill and Aspeden in the county of Hertford, are sequestered, for that he hath not only used frequent bowing to the Communion-Table set Altarwise, but affirmed, That there was a more peculiar presence of God there then in the Church, and hath compelled his people to come up to the rails to receive the Sacrament, refusing to administer to such as scrupled to do it; and there being a Cross at the head of the Font in his Church, upon every approach towards the Font, used to bow to it, and urged some of the parish to make auricular confession to him, affirming that he could forgive them, and having the Office of Surrogate in the Ecclesiastical Court, he did improve his authority to introduce the late Innovations into the Church, and in his preaching also pressed his people to bow three times at their coming into the Church, and keepeth a picture of Christ in his Parlour, which he hath confessed, was to put him in mind of his Saviour, and hath affirmed the fourth Commandment, to be merely ceremonial, and accordingly useth to hire servants, ride journeys, buy wood, and send his Hopps to market on the Lord's day, and upon the dissolution of a late Parliament, he said, If he were as the King, he would never have Parliament more, while he lived: And affirmed, that the last Parliament was the weakest that ever sat, because they went about to question the King's servants and the Ministers that went to the Table to say second Service, and said, There was no need of a Parliament, for the King might have money another way; and charged this Parliament with doing great wrong in committing and executing the Earl of Strafford, and would neither preach on the Sabbath days in the afternoon, nor suffer others to preach, though he could do it, as he said, with half an hour's study, and prosecuteth his people for going to other Churches to hear Sermons, when they had none at home, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and refused to publish the Protestation, and hath deserted his cure ever since a fortnight before Easter last.  
83. The Benefice of Thomas Baily, Rector of the Parish Church of Brasteed in the county of Kent, is sequestered, for that he hath endeavoured to corrupt his people with the leaven of false Doctrine, teaching them, that ex tempore prayer was Pharisaical at the best, and that no prayer ought to be longer than the Lords prayer, and that people ought not to pray privately or secretly any prayer that was not first written, and shown to and allowed by a Priest, That though people confess their sins to God, yet they ought for more surety of forgiveness to confess them to their Priest, their ghosty Father, and that for want of auricular Confession, some have been brought to confess at the Gallows. And hath laboured by his preaching and otherwise to draw his people to auricular confession, averring that he had power to absolve them, and that the Priest, though wicked, had power to forgive others sins, though not his own, and that such as refused to give their children and servants liberty on the Lord's day, after their observation of the time of publikeworship, to sport and play, did break God's Commandments. That Offering on the Altar upon their knees is of absolute necessity; and accordingly, while the Churchwardens are collecting the moneys, given at the Sacrament, he useth to suspend the celebration thereof, and when it is brought up to the Table takes it from them, lays it on his book, blesseth it, offers it up, and re-delivers it unto them, and then proceeds. And hath also publicly preached, That it is a great grief to God's people, that Abbeys are not again erected, because divers could not endure to live publicly, & that the curse of God was on them that kept the Abby-Lands, and therefore they did not prosper. That he turned the communion-Table Altarwise, railed it in, used frequent bowing before it, urged his people to come thither to receive, set the Jesuits badge with a glory about it over the communion-Table on the East-wall, and on the north-wall near the Altar, caused the picture of a flying Dove to be set over the Font to represent the Holy Ghost, altered the desk in the Church to a place in the chancel, where he was not seen nor heard of many in the Church, and hath refused to read the Act of 21. jacobi, against swearing, saying, he knew a better means to help it, namely by confession and penance. And hath refused to read the burial service at the burial of some children, because they died before Baptism, and in visiting the sick, useth to mumble somewhat overthem, and then to cross them upon the face and the forehead, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament.  
84. The Benefice of Richard Duxon Doctor in Divinity, parson of the Parish Church of St. Clement-Danes without Temple-bar London, is sequestered, for that in his catechising in his said Church he hath taught, That children dying after Baptism are saved by the faith of the Godfathers and Godmothers: And spendeth much of his time in gaming for money, and useth to swear by the faith of a Priest before God, and upon his salvation, and is very superstitious in bowing and cringing to the Altar, and practising the late illegal Innovations, and compared them that used ex tempore prayer, and enlarged themselves therein with pertinent expressions, to Baal's Priests, who thought to be heard for their much bawling. And neglecting to preach himself upon Christmas-day last in the afternoon, and finding a very great congregation met to hear M. Evans the Lecturer preach, kept the Pulpit and desk himself, with a strong hand, refusing to let the Lecturer preach, and openly protested to the congregation, that they should have no Sermon then; and in the pulpit read a few collects to them, and then charged the Churchwardens to drive the congregation out, or to shut them in, and so enforced the congregation to departed without any Sermon in great discontent: And speaking of the present troubles said, It had been a happy thing for the Kingdom, if they had made choice of such Parliament-men, as they might have trusted without any Puritans. And reading in his Church an Ordinance of Parliament for a collection for maimed soldiers, to discourage his people from giving to that pious use, told them, That charity did begin at home, and for his part, he thought their own poor had more need of it, And hath not only refused to take the late Protestration, but also being desired to lead his people in taking the late Covenant, answered openly in the Church before them, That he would not lead the people into sin, and yet was a great promoter of the Churchwardens and Sides-men of the said Parish to take the Oath of the late new Canons with himself, and hath otherwise expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and hath extorted excessive fees from his Parishioners for burials, viz. twenty shillings for a Sermon, when there was none, twelve shillings for the use of a black-cloath, hanged about the Pulpit at the time of the burial, not being desired and otherwise, and hath deserted his cure for six week's last passed, before the said sequestration, and hath betaken himself to the Army of cavaliers, raised against the Parliament, and was seen in Oxon since in a coloured hat and coat.  
85. The Benefices of Edward Marten, Doctor in Divinity, Parson of the Parish Churches of Houghton-Conquest in the county of Bedford, and of Dunnington in the county of Cambridge, is sequestered, for that he usually prayed openly for the Saints and people departed this life, and that they may be eased and freed of their pains in Purgatory, and hath said, that preaching is profaned when it is in a dining-room, or other place, not hallowed by the Bishop, and that the Ordinance is profaned by the place, and doth not consecrate the place: And that having great yearly revenues, did notwithstanding upon the Sabbath-day steal wheatesheaves out of the field in harvest, and laid them to his tithe shock, and hath not preached since he was Parson of Houghton-Conquest in five years, not above five Sermons there, and hath substituted there in his absence very scandalous and malignant Curates, and was a great promoter of the late new Canons, and is most unreasonable in adoring of the Altar, making five low curtsies in his going to it, and two at it, and then falling down upon his knees before it, with his eyes on a crucifix, being in the East window over it. And when he did preach, his Subject was mostly in exalting of holy ground, and pressing the practice of the said illegal Innovations, and he forced divers women that came to be churched to come up to the Altar; and there to duck and kneel unto it, and at their coming and going from it, and had made his Parishioners, not only to cringe to the said Table, and come up to the Rails, but also to offer money there unto him, holding a basin for the fame purpose on his knees, commanding them so to offer their gifts. And hath openly preached that the Parliament goeth about in a factious way, to erect a new Religion, and hath confessed before the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning plundered Ministers, that he had lent and given money to the King to maintain this unnatural war against the Parliament and Kingdom.  
86. The Benefice of james Buck, Vicar of the Parish Church of Stradbrocke in the county of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he hath preached openly, That the Pope is the head of the Church, and head of the spiritualty, and that there would never be any conformity in the Church, till a Patriarch should be above a Bishop, a Bishop above a Priest, a Priest above a Deacon, and the Bishop of Rome above them all. And that this is my Body in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper is to be understood in the literal sense, and that there is a Transmutation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, as in John 2. the substance of water is turned into the substance of wine. And that the words, Do this, are spoken to the Priest to create the body of our Lord, affirming, the Priest to to have power to create the very body and blood of Christ, and that it is lawful to invocate Saints and Angels, and that Infants dying after Baptism, become Interceders, even for their Parents: And that auricular Confession to the Priest is absolutely necessary to salvation, once a year, or at least once in a man's life. And hath also laboured to maintain universal grace, and that the Church of Rome is as honourable a Church as any in the world: And that he useth to make as low obeisance at the mentioning of the Virgin Mary's name, as he doth at the name Jesus. And doth not only bow thrice at his going, and thrice at his return from the Communion Table set Altarwise; But teacheth, That Adoration is due to it, when the holy mysteries are absent; and that it is as lawful to worship the Altar, as for the woman that touched the hem of his garment to worship Christ, and as it was for the 24. Elders in the Revelation to worship before the Throne, And hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper to divers of his Parishioners, though they desired it on their knees at the Rails, merely upon his own will, and denied the cup to divers to whom he gave the bread, and hath often preached, That if a child die baptised, it is undoubtedly saved, but if it die before baptism, it is undoubtedly damned, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
87. The Benefice of Thomas Vaughan, Curate of the Parish Church of Chatham in the county of Kent, is sequestered, for that he hath been a great practiser of the late illegal superstitious Innovations and presser of the same upon the consciences of his auditory, protesting against them that would not comply with him therein, as men of a devilish spirit, and hath been very negligent in his Cure, many times not preaching above once a month, and affirmed, That to preach in season is to preach on Sundays in the forenoon, and out of season in the afternoon: And endeavoured to hinder his parishioners from going to hear Sermons else where, when they had none at home, affirming to them, That it was as lawful for him to use Dalliance, or lie with his neighbours wise, as for any of them to go from their own Parish. And is a common frequenter of taverns, sitting a tippling there, and hath been often drunk, and drew one to the tavern that had vowed not to drink wine, and mingled wine and beer and drew him to drink it, and then clapped him on the shoulder and bade him make vows no more, for he had now broken it; and did preach openly, That to preach nothing but Scripture without authority of the Fathers, was like the devils shearing of hogs, a great cry, but a little wool. And said upon the dissolution of the late Parliament, that the Members of that Parliament were a company of logger headed fellows.  
88 The Benefice of Richard Goffe., Vicar of the Parish Church of East-Greensteed in the county of Sussex, is sequestered, for that he is a common haunter of Taverns and Alehouses, a common swearer of bloody oaths, and singer of bawdy songs and often drunk, and keepeth company with Papists and scandalous persons, and hath confessed, That he chief studied Popish Authors, highly commended Queen Mary's time, and disparaged Queen Elizabeth's, as an enemy to learning, and hoped to see the time again that there should be no Bible in men's houses. And hath openly preached, That such as go to other Parish Churches then their own, are in the state of damnation, and that after the bread and wine at the Sacrament is consecrated, it is no more bread and wine, but the body and blood of Christ. And in a funeral Sermon at the burial of a woman, said, That she being regenerated in Baptism did live and die without sin: and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, saying, That he hoped to see it confounded, and that he cared not a fig for the Parliament.  
89. The Benefice of Thomas Staple, Vicar of the parish Church of Mundon in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Taverns and Alehouses, and a great drinker, and companion with drunken, debaushed and malignant persons: And upon the first of June in this instant year, 1643. being the next day after the Fast, invited to his house a riotous company, to keep a day of profaneness by drinking of healths round about a joyn'd-stoole, singing of profane songs with hollowing and roaring, and at the same time enforced such as came to him upon other occasions, to drink healths about the stool with him, until they were drunk. And hath taught, That it is not for Laymen to meddle with the Word, nor yet to search the Scriptures. And hath oft left his parishioners destitute of preaching on the Lordsday, even within these 12. months, and when he hath been absent from them, hath substituted in his room very drunken and debauched Curates, and hath professed, that if any of his parish that did not like of his course of life should be sick, and send for him to be reconciled to him, he would not come at him, though he were sure to save his soul thereby. And hath taught, That children dying without Baptism are all damned, and if any Infant that received the Sacrament of Baptism should be damned, he would be damned for him.  
90. The Benefice of Peter Allen, Vicar of the Parish Church of Tolsbury in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he hath lived incontinently a long time with several women, that is to say with Mary Tim, who went from his house with child by him, Frances Smith, by whom he also had a bastard. And with Ann Cooper whom he hath kept for the space of 7 years last passed, and yet keepeth in his house, who miscarried of a child begotten by him. And while the Rails were standing about the Communion Table, he refused to administer the Sacrament to such as would not come to them. And hath been very negligent of his Cure, absenting himself without any care taken for supply thereof a month together, whereby the bodies of the dead have been left unburied several days, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
91. The Benefice of john Hurt, Vicar of the Parish Church of Horndon upon the hill, in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common frequenter of Taverns and Alehouses, and a common drunkard and gamester, a common swearer and curser, and hath been convicted before the Justice of peace for six oaths at a time, and then swore by God, he did not swear, and hath a very evil report of uncleanness and abuse of women, and hath spoken basely of the Parliament and expressed malignancy against the same, and taught his Parishioners on fast-days in the afternoon to follow their worldly occasions, and used himself then to spend that time in the Alehouse.  
92. The Benefices of Paul Clapham, Vicar of the Parish Church of Farnham in the County of Surry and Parson of the Parish Church of Martin Worthy in the county of southampton, are sequestered, for that he hath lived in adultery with several women, and hath had divers bastards and charged the Parish with the keeping of them, and hath two bastards at this time kept, one of which he payeth for the maintenance of, and is bound with his son to pay for the maintenance of the other. And hath called the Parliament and their adherents, Rebels and Traitors, and exhorted men to contribute and take up Arms against the Parliament, and hath deserted his said Cure and betaken himself to the Army of Cavaliers about January last.  
93. The Benefice of john Amnes, Parson of the Parish Church of Charleton in the County of Kent, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard, and hath been drunk on the Fast-days, and useth to drink healths, and in them to wish, That he might be cursed by Father, Mother and all his Kin, that endeth one health and will not another begin; And hath kept a common Alehouse, and is a profaner of the Sabbath day, by common sequenting of Alehouses thereon, and is a practiser of the late Innovations, and would never preach himself, nor suffer others to preach on the sabbath-days in the afternoon, and hath attempted the chastity of divers women, and used unchaste behaviour towards them.  
94. The Benefice of Robert Shepard, _____ of the Parish Church of Hepworth in the county of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he is a common drunkard, and frequenter of Taverns and Alehouses, lying and continuing drunk in the said houses divers nights, sometimes twice or thrice a week, and is greatly suspected of incontinency, having had divers maidservants depart from his house great with child, none living in the house with them but himself, and some of them have returned again to live with him, and within a short time have been with-child again; And hath been a great practiser of the Altar-worship, an inforcer of his Parishioners to receive the Sacrament at the rails, and hath put 15. at a time from the Sacrament for refusing to receive it at the rails; And in his Catechising and preaching, calls his parishioners, Blackmouthed hellhounds, Limbs of the Devil, Firebrands of Hell, Blow joggers, Bawling dogs, Weaverly jacks, and Church-Robbers, affirming, that if he could term them worse he would; And hath endeavoured to persuade poor men to forswear themselves for him, and hath affirmed, That the Parliament were but a company of factious spirits.  
95. The Benefice of john Woolhouse, Vicar of the Parish Church of West-Mersea in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common and excessive tippler and drinker both at home and abroad, a common Alehouse haunter and drunkard, and on the Lord's day going from the Church to the Alehouse in the forenoon, and continuing tippling there till the afternoon service, and useth to entice and provoke others to join in the same excess with him, even to drunkenness, and is a common dicer and gamester for money, enticing his tippling companions thereunto, and is a common curser and swearer, and hath tempted women to incontinency, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.  
96. The Benefice of Henry Hannington, Vicar of the Parish Church of Hougham in the county of Kent, is sequestered, for that he is a common and notorious drunkard, and oft lying dead-drunk in highways, and hath continued so for the space of twenty years and upwards, and useth to sing in his cups in the Alehouse bawdy songs, which he calleth Cathedral Songs, and on Easter-Eve and the several saturdays before and after that, he was so drunk that he was scarce able to speak, and yet did administer the Communion on the three Sundays following them; And being likely to recover the Peer of Dover to be within the bounds of his Parish, he was asked how so great a number could have room in so small a Church as his, and his answer was, Let them pay me their offerings at Easter, and let them all go to the Devil at Whitsuntide, and hath been so negligent of his Cure, as children have been six or seven weeks unbaptised, and the rest of the parish wholly neglected; And when he read the Book of Sports on the Lord's day, there was Beer laid into his Barn, and dancing and drinking there that day, and to give them the more time for it, he dismissed the Congregation with a few prayers, and left off preaching in the afternoon; And was at the time of the late Innovations, a very forward promotor, and diligent practiser of them, and threatened the Churchwardens when they took down the communion-Table into the Church, and when young people and servants have come to him to pay their offerings and be examined of their fitness to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, his manner always was, to ask them, How many Pigs their Fathers and Masters had, and how many Fowl they kept, and how many Lambs, and when they had fully informed him thereof, admitted them to the Sacrament without any further examination.  
97. The Benefice of Samuel Sowthen, Vicar of the Parish Church of Malendine in the county of Essex, is sequestered, for that he is a common haunter of Alehouses and Taverns, and often drunk even upon the Lord's day, and is a common provoker of others to drink excessively, rejoicing when he had made them drunk; and is a common swearer and curser, and hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to his parishioners that would not come to the rails to receive, and useth to bow to the Elements in the Sacrament, lifting them up and embracing them, and hath administered the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in one kind only, and preached in maintenance thereof, and hath been a diligent practiser of the late Innovations, and persuader of others thereunto, and hath frequently enveighed against painful Preachers and their hearers, comparing them to Pedlars and Ballad-singers, that have most company, when rich Merchants have but few, and hath persecuted his Parishioners even to excommunication, for going to hear Sermons at other Churches on the Lordsday in the afternoon, when they had none at home, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and is vehemently suspected of living incontinently, and in adultery with Katherine Hayward, and hath been several times presented to the Ecclesiastical Court by the Churchwardens and sides-men for the same.  
98. The Benefice of Thomas Herd, Vicar of the Parish Church of West-Tukely in the County of Essex, is sepuestred, for that he is a common drunkard and companion of drunkards, and hath been so drunk, that he hath tumbled into ditches and mire, and hath been oft drunk since he was complained of in Parliament, and in one of his drunken fits, called for a fire to be made, and vowed he would burn his Wife and children in it, and refused to deliver the Sacrament to his Parishioners for not kneeling at the ledge of the rails, though they did present themselves kneeling near unto it within his reach, and when the former Parliament broke up, said boastingly, That he hoped then to live to see all the Puritans hanged.  
99 The Benefice of Samuel Scrivener, Parson of the Parish Church of Westhropp in the County of Suffolk, is sequestered, for that he did frequently bow towards the communion-Table, affirming, That there was an inherent holiness in that place, and hath committed adultery with Margaret the Wife of George Woods, and is a common frequenter of Alehouses, and hath been often drunk, and hath said, That the County of Suffolk had chosen such factious fellows for their Knights, that the Parliament was not like to hold, and hath preached against this present defensive war of the Parliament and Kingdom.  
100 The Benefice of Ambrose Westrop, Vicar of the Parish Church of Much-Totham in the County of Essex, is sequestered, for that he doth commonly profane the ordinance of preaching, by venting in the Pulpit, matters concerning the secrets of Women, to stir up his auditory to laughter; And hath taught in his Sermons, That a man that useth carnal copulation with his wife the night before the administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, unless his wife require him so to do, ought not to come to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; and that a woman that hath Monthly sickness, ought not to come to the Sacrament; That a Woman is worse than a Sow, in two respects; First, Because a Sow's skin is good to make a Cartsaddle, and her Bristles good for a souter. Secondly, Because a Sow will run away if a man cry but Hoy, but a woman will not turn head, though beaten down with a Leaver; and that all the difference between a Woman and a Sow, is in the nape of the neck, where a Woman can bend upwards, but the Sow cannot, and that a woman is respected by a man, only for his unclean lust, and that she that is nursed with Sow's milk, will learn to wallow; and divers modest women absenting from Church, because of such uncivil passages, he affirmed, That all that were then absent from Church were whores: And having been a suitor to a Widow whom he called Black Bess, who rejected him and married another, he observed in his Sermon out of one of the Psalms, That David prayed to God, not to Saint or Angel, nor yet to black Bess, who was then in the Church before him; and that Jacob to deceive his brother of the blessing, made lie upon lie, but when Esau came home and perceived it, he fling away with a pox, and speaking against such as pleased him not in paying the tithes, in the Pulpit he turned toward his brother in-law then in the Church, and said, You brother Blockhead will pay no tithe-Bushes neither, And being angry with one whose name was Kent, he said thus in the Pulpit, they say the Devil is in Harwich, but I am sure he is in Kent; And speaking of the Parable of those that made excuses for not coming to the marriage, he observed, That the married man had no excuse, but said in plain terms, he could not come, Nay said he, the married man cannot come, but must go to Hell in his whore: And at another time told a story in the Pulpit of two several women, that in their husband's absence had familiars, and said, that when it was night they went up into the chamber together with a candle, and put out the candle, and there is sport, heavenly sport, such sport as never was in little Heaven; and when their husbands come home, they must inquire the way by Horne-row, and that Rahab was a whore, and kept an Alehouse at Jericho, and that so are all Alewives whores and their husband's Cuckoulds; And being a suitor to one Mistress Ellen Prat a Widow, he did write upon a piece of paper these words, Bonny Nell, I love thee well, and did pin it on his cloak, and beware it up and down a Market-town, which woman refusing him, he did for five or six weeks after, utter little or nothing else in the Pulpit, but invectives against Women; And being suitor to another woman, who failed to come to dinner upon invitation to his house, he immediately road to her house, and desiring to speak with her, she coming to the door, without speaking to her, he pulled off her head-geere and road away with it, and many other like passages fall from him in his preaching, and were proved against him.  
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