. ,.,i».:t;7”~a’Z§,’. ’ “‘»"*“‘*"‘*"“""""t';‘ ' ‘_ it w r ‘ ; ‘ '. ‘ cf‘ 5 us 4; “gm: 5 4:‘ . ‘:3 #3’ ' V. 5 :‘ .4’ ‘V V7 ‘R . V aW( .1»-..., OrtheGREATid Chelmnesford Affizes Held A/1czrcb8, for the County of 153 S .5? X, é _ BETWIXT‘ i HE NR7 Bithop of L0 51:00 .9\(, Piantiff, t i . 1 A N D i ‘ EDMON 7) KER ING I L L Rector oifthe Reecory of’ /1U¢3aints in COLCHES 'I_E Defendant, FAITHFULLY RELATED; ‘kw To ether with the Nature of the Writ ca11’d S M ‘P T‘ L I C A V I Tl: V féldom granted againfl any in thefe Days, more feldorn granted againfi any but common—Rogues, and common-Barreters, and t. commongvillains; yet granted againfl: Mr. Hickeringill : Who waslthereuponcbeund to the Good-Behaviour, at the Court of M K.ing’s-Bench Weflminfler, 06145. ‘Pm’. xxxiv. A‘S ALSO The Articles {worn againfl him, by fix Proétors of Doéiowcommom the Reverend Proétors Names are 1ike—wife (according to the Recordyin the Crown-Office) particu1ariz’d. A n .-——}—. aaubnumrto pzemnttalfz aazpozts.” t ' \ LONDON, I, Printed, efivc. toebe fold by ‘Rickard jaueway, iand moft Bonkfellcrs, I68 2. l. ‘; lf .2 I f i I (3) INTRODUCTIN. A 8 there ever more needthan now (to prevent falfe Reports) when every ‘Coffee-Houfe Table (infiead of a better Carpet) is *eover’d and pefter’d with em: News 2’ . ' I Fa1{é:‘Rumo7urs and News (tbs Epideotical Plagiie) _, - p’ 3 , — a a that our Aneeflors were 12)‘ careful to prevent, that the Lari»: Oracle, Cook. cap. 39. Inllitut. “3. tells us, that) the Law heforethe Conqueit Was, That the Author and Spreader of falfe Rumours amonglt the l People had his Tongue ‘cut out, ifhe redeemed it not by the eflimation of hi§ Head. Int. Leg. Alzzercdi, rap. 28. If this Law: had been reviv’d, iiiompfim, Heraclitw and the Olyfirtzator had much better be Tongue-ty’d; j - For tho Wife-Men‘ and Good-Men (ina juftfcruple of Confcierlce) feorti to read fuch naufeous Rihalcl‘ry,in Reverenee to that of the Wife-rhari 5 (Prov; I 7. 4.) A zviclqzd Docr givetb heed tofizyé Lip; and a Lye? gill/ET/J Bar to a naugh- D t_yTon,g1lt'c 5 knowing that the Reflttor is as bad as the Tbief, and that the Bar that low: to bear (is as bad as the Tongue that love: to fiveak) falle News, and equally Guilty 3 and he that lovjetb, (as well) as he that maker}: a Lye, is rank’d amongll Dogs, and Sorcerers, and Whoreniongers, and Murtherers and Ida- laters. (Rev. 22. I 5.) ,Yet the depraved Nature of _Man is (2zo‘w'ta’ta': avida) , reedy of hearing Tales from’! thevery Cradle 5 and tiiany Englilhmen now, " like the Athenians, .913: t7. 14 i.) {pend their time in nothing elfe, but either to tell or to bear _/awe new-thing. g_ A The Lydian: punillfd thefe falfe News-Mongers with Death, as if a_ Ma’n’§ Reputation was as clear to him as his Life; and the Allaflinate ofa Man's ‘ Name," was accounted a Murderer. A The Grecian: and the French have but one Name or Word to fignify the De- vil T and (his Son) the Slandererg. S2‘o’q2ao7»os, Diable, or Devil 5‘ who was a’ Murtherer from the beginning; (that a Lyer, and theFather of Lyesi And to delight in hearing or reading falfe and fcandalous News, is an Accefl(}yy,- (which in Murder and all Affalfinations) is equally paw;/Ia’d and equally guilty with the 'Prir2c,1pal.t , , r ‘ _ Prudent Men *(tho’) and Men of Courage (like a Lyon, or a‘ right Englifh Mafiiffj fialk and walk on, when little Currs bark at them, ~anl'wering their yelping, only with Contempt ': Con-«z2z'cz'a, _{i irafcarir, ma divulgas, fiireta ex-' tileflitznt, faith Tacitwg If you feel: to revenge Slanders, you proclaim’: them as your own; But if yottdefpife them, they vanilh ofthe-mfelves. A " There are but few Bilhops like Arch-Bilhop Cranmer, who was fo much re-p vird, that hemight have made work enough for the LaWy€li’5a if he Would have ply'd their Courts with Aélions, upon the Statute of Sbandal._ Magaat. but hechofe rather to win Men with his Goodnels, not rendring Evil for Evil, . but (fo ufually) Good for Evil, that it became a Proverb in thofe Days, Do’ T 1»; Lord of Canterbury 4 Dzfjaleafizre, and you have him’ your Friend ever aflerg that’: mo’resChrillian-like, and B-ifhopélike, than if We had caufe to fay, Do’ . my 44,»): s s _ my Lord of --—'— a Difpleafure, and you have him your Enemy ever after. Sure the World is near its end, andtdrawing its laPtBreath, Charity is-fo cold now :1 Days, old and cold, (God knows!) as for Example, and woful Experience, Ea-e Signnnz ! C _ The Prelfures that this Defendant has undergone fince he Writ the jliaheh , fiftutb, (above 51 Y.,€3I;;3gQ)?«. are.,talrno_(l i_pfi;pp§t;rtable,, and enough to make his Back crack, at leaflfi eilough t?fi*)igl9l.§i/15$‘! @019 Writing Oli. fpea_kin§ 417)’ M07‘? Nal{c’ol~TrntlJ: : It was always foa the great Prophet of old made the fame complaint, to fmall purpofe _ (God wot) amongfi fome_Men5 (Ifa. 59. f4, f5.) up len in the Street, and Equity cannot enter» s 3 fiolgprnent is ,tm*ned‘awd}f l7ae‘ki:v2trd,- and fnflieefldndetb‘ afanflofg iJ-fal- I I Ted, ifrntla :faz'letl3., andhe, that .de’pai=teth from iniquity maketh. a Prey 5 and the Lord faw it, and it difpleafed him that there waspno Judgment. -How has this,Defen‘dant been pe{ler’d within this Twelve Months P‘ Four andtwenty greatHeads of Basrretry .p,referr’d againfihitn in the Crown-«Office, about fifty Witnefles fubpoena’d-to prove them, yet, fcarce ten of them fworn, ‘ and fome of them that were frlb'ptI:na’d,profeft'before they were fubpoena’d that they knew nothing of the Matiter,and,yet .fubpoena’d. What-P. run ‘Men down with a Noife? .13 that fuchrPolicy?. or, isit Piety P And when the Defendant’s A Innocence appeafd, and a Verdift to thatpurpo e by the ‘Worthy jury 5. yet, afterwards How was he oz]ite‘cl~and 7)ex°d in the Ecclefiaftical-Courjt of Arches, (Henry Bifhop of London,5Promoter there againll him) ‘and for fome of the‘fame Barr-etry too, of which hehad been honourably acquitted P‘ - . 1 ‘ And when thedanger appear’d of profecuting _him in that Eccleefiaftical—Court for;Ba_rretry (againfi the Statutes of Pruenznnire and Proznfizrs) though Wig- neffes were fworn to them, yet it was upon fecond Thoughts ad ;udg’d‘ eunfafe to infift upon them; and five of the Articleswere laid afide ,:'(Wh€I'€Witl] they had long made a loud noifi and only jive clandefiine Marriages infilled upon,or ,_Marriages without Banes (ffirft publilhed) in time of Divine-Service, (and how can that bewhere ‘there is. no Divine-Service).but the old Rule,Necefl§tnrvinr-it Legem, would not pafs Currant againfi a Law of Man, though it prov’d"a good _ Difpenfa'tion?to:l+lol'y Dnfoidvagainfi a Law. ofGod: But, in all hafle fufpended and filenc’d,_he muft be, dojnot know @1956!!!) whether the Ecclefiaflical Court have Wit in their Anger, and will not do all toe lmrm theycan 5 or, whe- ther they‘ think there is more in Matrimony than a nzotter of Money 5 or-,whle.¢her they tkinkit hard to filence a Minifler from Preaching the Gofpel, tliou h the ’ Regifler°s had not the nine or ten S/filling!‘ (as formerly) from the Defgendant for a Blanck-Licence, whilft fitarce a Man in an Age is filenc’d for Drurz/{e7Inefl', Ignorance, Lazinefi, F ornicotion, or Delmar/oer} 5 or, whether they refolveto be merciful in Conclufion, or, (if that be not fo probable) Whether they fufpend the-execution of the Sufpenfion, that the longer the blow is a bezwing it may fizll 1/re locavier, I cannot tell 5 But they have foundthe Defendant work enough this twelve~Month laft pafl, if he had bad no other work, but to fence and ward o ‘ the Blows made at him: T/zen fix Proélors , (they) fwear againft him Article: . in the King’:-Bench, and ‘procure the Writ of Snpplicawit - againft him, . a Writ fcldom gramgd againft any in thefe Days, (as we aretold by the Cornpleat Salli- fcitor, p. 73,74.) He fails? he remembersthat abouteight Years ago,n(in't-he days‘ofZlfi4rpatz'on, for his Book was printed Anna. Dow. 1666;) .a troublefome imalicious Priefl fued one (namely a Supplicavit) 'again{kafi)me of his Neigh- bouts, buthehad not heard ofany finceg . and the Parties craving r-«it fliould take their Corporal Oath that it is not defirecl for any Malice, iHatred, or En-0} to the Party (furely if the {aid fix Proétors fwore it, they fwore it freely, /zenrtily and clearly I) Befides . ($1) . e n , Belidtes, tho ’tis o Writ ;sare1ygmn:ed, yet, »Wiieh ~ is gramed it is, {mote} rarely ‘granted againiii any: but oommm ‘Rogues, and Vii/aim, com/¢'zo7?'z Barretors, and Ma;z-Cate/zero, Is theregreater Indignityethan to be cmcified atnongfi Tliieoer and Rogue: .9 It has been the Lot of his Betters, (tho) the Defendant offered an ~.//sjfikiaoit in his‘ behalf, made before Judg Do!/zen, l by three Worthy Citizens, ii and defired (with all Humility) that as tbe»Benc/2 had heard ofonefidg Aflidavits againfi him, that they would pleafe to leave one Ear ‘open, to heat fome Afifdooits for him, and fome Pleas in his Definee: intending to infifi up- on the Statute of 2.Edw. 6. I. which if it be’ inforee, then the Ecclefiafiical Courts {it not legally, not can they be called by Names bad enough‘, and if that Statute be not in force", then why did the Lord Chief Juliice Temoerton infifi upon it fo lately at the King’s—Ben_ch Bar, and all?) Mr. Tfot/Ber/sow, for their Client Mr. Weold of Mae/3-Walt/aim: in Eflex, about the time that the lafl: Parliament late at VVeji‘zm‘i:fler,_ telling the Lord Chiefjuflice Scroggr, that‘ he would not urge it warmly (or Words to the like Effeéi) becauie he“ perceivii his LQrdflii_p was not prepaid at that tioze to give an anfwer to‘ that Statute 5 or Words to the like Efieét : A oioot-Cafiz beiike then, and a hard Cafe to bind a Man to the Good-Behaviour, or threaten him with a jaile, when not wifer in ' the confirnétion of the foree of a Statute thantthe Lord Chiefjuflice. , it But ezoilmzg would be admitted to he pleaded in the Defezzdozm Defence, but zttrzziiz /Jorzmz (that 1': not falie Latin, Whatioever qttiféuix is.) ' ' Sade/Joiee (alas 1) [Bad], or_a ail: There is no fence againfi a ail; They that will hear but of one Ear here; iiialltbe tiiade to’ hear on both Ears one Day ‘(th€ Day ofjudgmcnt.) e ~. .7 ’ A - And tho Mr. S/repberd (in his Office of a Juftice of the Peace, pog.‘83.) lays, that in taking a Fxecoginizance upon a Sapplioaoit, the ordinary Sum is ten or twenty Pounds (and difiicultyienough‘ (too) to be procured by a poor Rogue, tho a great Rogue) yet, fince the time and Sum is Arbitrary and in the Breafi of the Jufiices, no leis than a hundred Pound: muff Mt‘. Hickeringi/I be bound in for aifronting the Men ofDoétors-Cotinnons, if the Proétors fwore through- iiitch) nay, , one of the Bench flood Ptifly f'or"2t)o Pounds, (that the Prirmpol ihould Rgezrognize, but (in that) he was over-ruled)‘ and four Sureties in 50 Z. apiece 5 Whereas a’ poor common-Rogzze could hardly have p‘rocur’d two Mz77u- roptorr .4 Ay, Ay 5 he that will have Honour Inuit fometixnes pay for his Am-‘ bition. , t ‘ — , But, as if all thefe troubiesewere too little for the Defendant (befides the Weeklyhfiironts) “By the Week1y1NeWs-Inongiersg ifi their Tomtio}-Pomp/Jletr, ( not to mentiomthofe fimzilior littfe friendiy Court]/sips, and Carefles, oFVz'Iloz‘n,¥ Rogue, Co/c/2efier—H7'ek--—— the great Serioler oft/ac Natfin .' Daring Not.Tbompfon ' reports him to be conoiéf of Perjury, thoNot.,hides his vilet Head for the Fame, ‘' and dare not give an appearance for himfelf and his Conforz‘; to iM1f.G0dfi*e)l ll/oodnmrd Attorney, who has long ‘been p’repar’d for him, if he could come at hm, for villifying and afperfing fuch a~Man as Mr. Hickezringill with to perni- cious and falfe a Slander, all the Kingdorri over.) But thefe are {mall Matters, 10f; Reputation, and to be called and accortnted a’ comoion Rogue-, common 1 Barretor, «Common Villain; afmall ntafler. , , , ~ Oh’! But in the Neck ofall, comes me, (eleeirml undo) the tent}: Wave, an Aéiion of 5000 1. thick, brought by a great Bilhop too, of great Interefi, g,.g§,;‘-power’. great Frie.nds, great Parts,Bgreot Learning, and (great all over‘: again . ( 6 ) . zigainft a poor Priefi, or younger Brother, a Minorite, to Reform him, (zfa;z}-' T ad} could tell bow) and,m;1ke him better: Nay, it will be dangerous "(this " whole long Year) for.Mr.,Hic1geringill to fay, as did the Emperour, at a Gene- rzzlCom2oz'l, (when at the firfi fettingl out and opening thereof, the good Fa- thers Were grzwelfol, dad at 4 lofi, where (Eirfi) to begin to ’mend, t/ae Eccle- fiaflioal Frame being fo horribly out of F mzoze, 3 Mirzoritir, cries one of the great Omar very politickly : no quoth the Emperour,) rather a Mogoritiais let 7:: begin to ’mend the greet Ones. , , g * The ,Noked Truth, with eafe, We tear; Not, fuch as Vizor-Mafque: do Wear; . For Vizor: {come and skreen Men here 5 But Will not always lofi, I fear.‘ « This fam°d Trial came on Morel? 8,. I68 I. at the N5/Zpriw Bar, before the i LordChief uftice, Sir Francis Pembertons The Jury, by the Sheriff of the Cpumy of flex, were thus return°d5 viz». '» “ A / TEHEXH‘. Nomina ]ut. inter Henr.;Et>iC Lonihquitam, Qnerl ‘ Et Edmond. Hickeringill, Cler. Defend. ‘ ‘ i J . Andreas 7emz_er de Dunmom Ilfaggzfi, Bar. « i Ricardw Everard de VVéltbam?NIagn3, Bar. ’ , Edward:/4 Smith de Thoydonihoztizt, Bar. ' W91/ielmzh‘ Appleton de Sbenfield, Bar. . "jiobanner Bram./ion dc Roxwell, Miles Balnei. Marcus Guyon de Coggeflmll .Mogr13, Miles. jobamze: Mar]/Ml, Miles. ' Willielmm Maynard de Walt/JamStow, Ar. VVz'IlieImfu Gldfi‘0£l( de Farnlvam, Ar. ‘ 3.1601211: Nlilbourn de Dzmmozv _Mag7z&,l Ar. Alexander Prefcot de Mouutnefling,' Ar. liillielmztr Port de efid. Ar. ' Samzxcl Hare de Leigh, Ar. A22!/ooniw ./{ode} de Kelvedori, Ar. Rimrdzu Ballet de Hatfield Broad-04/(, A1‘. j‘o/mme: ._Meade de Wenderz, Ar. ‘ (3/aonne; Tendring de Baddow Magrzfi, Ar. Villielmur Peire de Stanfivrd iverr, Ar. Henricu: Pa_[E'/Ml de Baddow gnti, Ar. , Henriru: Hamfr .r de VVe/ibamiizgfield, Ar. . Ricardu: How d i Ingate-flozze, Ar. T Rioordu: Stone: de ./fltfi Ougar, Ar, . .11zre12'u:"Pierc'e}iWzfim4n de Witt:/J7flJ, Ar. 8c1n’.17‘dII.f Tavemer dc Canfielgg A,-_ None of the Jury were challenged by either fideg Mofi of the Gentlemen (Em “awed 30 the Pa1m‘3l> 3PPe31"d and T€r‘V’ds being fworn, a little Councell tremblingiy made a lhift to read the Heads of the Declaration, win. T “ The . . (A33 ‘_. c_.. A‘ -1-’, ( ...-. ). ". ‘ g p 1 _ ,. "IV. .. _ 5 77:2 Declarrztionlin fai-tlafulbtranflated itI9ei r Lcitiii) rm‘to_tbis Efleéi, viz. Trinity Term, xxxiiii; R. Carol. 2. o ‘ E N R T Bilhap of Londzm,‘ one ‘of the Prelates of this Realm , 1?. ‘P ’ — of England, as ‘Well for our Soveraign ‘Lord the King, as for P ‘ hitnfelf, complaineth of Edmond Hirkeringill Clerk, in the Cu- ‘ {iody ofthe Marlhal of the Marj}’m{/‘_En;F for that whereas in the Statute made ‘ill the Parliament ofKing Richard the Seéorid a_fte’r the Conqueli, at Giocefler, ‘ in the Second Year of his Ptaign, held, arnongfi other things, it is Enaéted and ‘ Ptrifily Charged under great pain, _ That none fhould be fo bold as to devife, ‘ {peak or relate of the Prelates, Dukes, Earls, Barons, and other Nobles and ‘ Great Men of the Realm of EngIand,nor of the Cha'ncellor,Treafur_er or Clerk. ‘ of the Privy Seal, Steward of the King’s_ Houfe, Juftice of the one Bench or o-_ ‘; ther,nor of any Great Oflicers of the Realm,any f‘alfe'New's, Lyes, or any ‘ fuch Falfities,whereof any Scandal or Difeotdwithin the faid Ptealni mayarife. ‘And wh~ofo'ever this lhould do, {hould incur the Penalty otherwife ithereoli ‘ ord ined, by the Statute of Wqflnzinfler the FirPt,' as in the faid Statute more ‘ full; it is contained. ‘g ‘ ‘ _ L , P _ ‘Yet the {aid Edmond Hickringill the Statute aforefaid not regarding, not ‘ the Penalty of the faid,Statutc any ways fearing, but craftily deligning the ‘Good Name, State, Credit, Dignity and Honour of the {aid Bifhop to hurt ‘ and blacken, and him the {aid Bilhop into great Difpleali1re,Diltrult and Dill ‘credit of our faid Lord the King that now is,and of the great Men, and great “‘ Oflicers of this Realm ofEngland, and alfo of divers Worthy Perfons, Subjects ‘ of our fltid Lord the King that now is, to bring 5 the fourth day of April, in ‘ the three and thirtieth Year of the Raign of our faid Lord the King,at Cbeln2ne:- l ‘ ford in the County ofEj]éx, divers falle News and horrible Lyes of the laid ‘.Henry, then and yet being Bilh0p0l'L'ondon, and one ofthe Prelates of this ‘ ‘ Realm of England, in the-prefence and hearing of divers of the Subjects ofour D Flaid Lord the King, falfly, tnalicioufly, and fcandaloullydevifed, fpoke, “re .‘lated, publilhed and proclaimed in thefeflnglzfla Words following, viz. T/Jé eLmt I32'jb’op'of London (meaning hirnthefaid Lord Bifhop oFLandon) in‘ a bold ‘daring inzpudent Ma12,fbrféndingfonze Head: in Divinitjptn 41/ Ian Cierg )1 in i/vofé ‘apart: (meaning the Clergywithin the Diocefs"of Lpndgofzz in tholé, Parts) iI«‘£2L'I5 ‘ are contrary to Law (meaning the Laws of the Realm.) . g ‘ And of his further Malice, the faid Edmond afterwards, to wit,‘ the ‘liaide 4 fourth day of April in the three and thirtieth ‘Year abo‘vcIaid,, at C/2eIznne,~f,,.d ‘ in the {aid County.of Efllex, (’candaloully,y.and malicioullv, and further ‘to, Q1 defame and fcandalize the fa1d.Bi[hop_l1kew1lle, deviled, fpoke, related, pub-‘ c mhed and proclamed of the End Henry, then and yet Bifhop of London, upon ¢ 3 Difcourle ofthe fald Bllh0P (hm afldthiereghad, thefe other fall”e,Ne_w’s and ‘ horrible Lies, In thefeEn_gI{/79 Words following, that is to. lay, I-Tit Lordfljip c.- (meaning the laid Henry Lord Bilhop of London) 7': very ignorant. _ g _ " And the {aid Edmond further craltily defigning not only the good Name,» cstzltff, Credit, Dignity and Honourof the {aid Bifhop to hurt and blacken, c and him the (aid liifhop into further great Difpleafure, .Dillr.u[t and Difcredit c. emu: laid Soveraign Lord the King that now is, and of the great Men‘, and I a great Officers of this Kingdom offingland, and ofdiveijsother Worthy Subjects asofour {aid Lord the King, to bring 5 butalfo to caufe him to endtirethe ‘pain ‘ and peril of the Laws and Statutesof this R.ealm,‘againlt Traitors and fi1'ch_Ma«"- ‘ ' ' ‘ l€fo.l&Ul'§§ ( 8, 5) 1 ° lefaétors, made afterwards, to wit the (aid Fourth day of April, in the (aid three ‘ and thirtieth Year ofthe‘Raign of our faid, Soveraign Lord the King" that ‘ now is, atfibelnznexforda afotefaidlhfi the Cduntylgiii divers‘ dtherfalfe News ‘ and horrible‘Lyes’» ofthefitids Hews then and yet Bfihopof Landon, ~ and one - . ' " of the Pirelates of this lm, in the prelence and hearing of divers of the Morning, Wednefcla} the 81:50 ‘ Kings Subjefis, fcanda o‘ufly, falfly, and maliciou{ly*dev'rf'ed,, fpjoke, related, ‘ publithede and declaredin thefe Engli 2:Words' follov_ving.,m'z.. I (meaning him " the faid Bclnional Hickeringil/V)‘ can prove aHi:-R (meaning the fiid Hem} ‘ Lord Bil‘h‘op' ofLo’nolon) to be conqerned in the Danznzzlile Plot, (mea.nin‘g the Po‘ ‘ pifh Plot to“d:efi’roy the Kirig,an'd fupbyrert the Government otithis Realm) late ‘ difcovered‘. , l p ‘ , , p y - pp 1 ~ is ‘D J ‘ By ‘Mea'n'sof which {aid feveral._fall'e News and horribleLyes, the fluids Bi. ‘ {hop is not only hurt and licandalized in his Re‘putat‘ion, Honour and Dignid’ ‘ ty, and the faid‘ Bxlhop hath loft the Favour, good Opinion and Efieem» "which our laid Soveraign Lord the King, and other great Men, and Prelates ‘ of this Realm afore towards him did hear, and divers Rumors and Scandals ‘ between divers of the Nobles of this Realm,and great Men,a.nd otherthe King}; ‘ Subjeéts upon the Occafion aforefaid, within this Realm ate ril7en.at_1d fpread» ‘ abroad, and great Scandals and Difcordsiby reafon of the Premifes,;,betweerp ‘ the {aid Bilhop and others of this Realm are rifen, and daily more A and more ‘ are likely to arife, to the great difiurbanceyof the Peace and Tranquillity of ‘ the Realm, to the Contempt of our faid Lord the King, andpgreat Scandal ‘ of the faid Bifhop, andagainlt the Form a of the _f_i1id Statutewof the ‘ Second,‘ to the Bilhop’s Damage 5000 1. and therefore he brings this Suit. Iflue----Non Cal--p-9 This Trial (of fo great expeétation) came onahoutninea Clock in the i Nlarc,/.1, ;68 I. To prove the Declaration only mfiugle Witnefi was produced for the Plane tiff, namely, one Samuel Harrix, Clerk. A i . W itneffes fivorn on the behalf of the Defendant, Were, The Right‘ Honour-_-, able Edward Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Benjamin Edger, Mr. Anzlmfi FlanneIj,, Rabat Taller, Henry "Bu!/, Cbraflopber Hill, and Daniel Hawk: 5. all except that Noble Earl) Parifhioners of the Parifh of St. BnItaIplJ’.r i'n Colcbejier, and prefent when the Words were pretended to be) fpoken. Aétions for Words ought to be preczfély and pnnilzmlly pr_ov’d, and all the Words together without addition or diminution 5 othervvife, as the Defendant (wlao pleaded his own Caujé) told the Court, the Senfe mult differ, except they be taken to,getl2er,fiwith the antecedent and fubfeqnent Difcourfe, in fifnfn conjun- Eio, not dieifo 5 yointly and not feverally _: adding, that he had a thoufand times (aid, that, 1537‘? if 71? C061 -3 and yet that flying (that looks fo fcandaloufly, At-heiliically and Blafphernoufly, taken disjointed and feverally from the fore- oing Words) are really innocent and harmlefs, and have been fpoken a thou?- gmd times hp every Man, that has a thouland times read or repeated Pfal.14._I. The Fool /sat‘ Jffzid in /ii: Heart, tlvere is not God. a ' . . So allb,‘ in infinite Inflancei, as to lay, It i: not lawful to love God, noritb love our Neiglilzonr di emblingl}, or lypocriticallj 5 take away the lafltywords, and it looks fcandalou y and molt prophanelyg but taken altogether, no harm at all, , but good and true, and like that of the A poftle, -——- Let Love be without Diflitnnlntion. ~ The at The {Enid Harri: (Witnelé for the Plantiff) V had got the Words, pretty ‘Well 1 by Heart, but yet did. notfwear thetnfla razmzll} as was ex_pefl;ffi_ For, (as to the era VVords, namel‘y,, Ylae Lmz Biflwp of London ,-, ,;,,,2,z‘ daring ifizpitdeflt Man, farflvrding fame Head: of Divinity to all /22': Clergy ii: tbeféi part: .-) he fwore them thus, ncamely, T/We Lord Bifiop of London is :2 bold? daring impuclent Man, for fending 4 Printed Taper, wlaereirz were férize Head: ‘of Divinity: which were contrary to Law. , e i Q i i , .1 _ . . But tlheDefendant again examining, and bidding him repeat? the Words; He {aid the Words W€I'€"-—-- T7ae"Lord (Bzflaop of London irtca bald daring impu; dent Man,. for fending fame Heard: ofcDz"w'72z't} in ct Printed Letter zv/aicb 2°: ‘cm-1 frat; to . _c ” .. W . Whereupon the .Defienda.nt taking notice and advantage from the ainaence of the Expreflitons an‘d'aWortls, The Jntlg bid that fame Hzzrrirto repeat the Wordsoncé rnnre as he-would bitleby=.it.e “ _ :' . A *1“ v I Whereupon, Harri: {ware that the Words were=thefe...;_aTlxe:Lord Bzyzygp London it afield daring impudezzt ll/Iaz‘z‘,-.for jéndiargjbwe Head: of,Di'z2z°nity in a y Paper contrary to Law. There the Mercury was fixt after all its feveral flanges; , y The Wordsin the fecond Count, He {wore roundly ()5 Without any Hzefi-I tationg But the Words in the third Count, he did not fwear asthey were laid in the Declaration, and yet without doubt the Declaration was made according to his fingle Information-3 But it pleafed God, he did not {Wear them of? Fe roundl 5 for infiead of thete Words«-—‘- I can prove his Lordflrip to be concerned, in tlse ammzble Plot (meaning) the P0197://J Plat; he fwore thefe Words é-——— I am prove‘-£2‘: Lardflaip to la: concerned in z‘/aé Harrid (Plot againfl my riglxteozeé Name and P62122225 and-that the,Words were fpoken the Defendant with. out any intervenient Cgteliieon, all injone continued Difcourfe. _ Yet they Counfel wouldgladly have'in'finuated tothe Gentlemen that were fworn, That the tWords fliould not be taken‘ together, but to azake a Pamjé at Horrid Plot, as if the next Words, againll my rigbteom Name, did not fl1fllCi~'. ently give the meaning, without any fizbintellzgitur; for who can imagine in fa; ,iberlfl212j?2 that a Man meansffobn az Stiler, when he exprefly lays }‘o/an 4 lV0lq.’.! .3 or,‘ who can imagine that a Man means a Popifla-Plot, when he exprefly lays, a H01'ridPlat againfl my ‘rigbteow Name .3 8(c.». . V . 7 And he and all the Defendants Witnelles argeed in one thing, namely, That not any Colloquium, a Difcourlie or Mention was made of any Popilh Plogduring. the Defendants Pray in the Company, that 4th of April, 1681. i being Eafler.:7 Monday, at the Faid Parilh-‘-Meeting for the Eleéifion ofOflicers for the laid Pa; 31/Ifh Sf St. Euttolp/is in Colcbe/ler, as their yearly cullom Was, mi ever} Eafleré (I77 (1 ’. The} laid Ham’: his Tefiimony was confronted with fix hohefi Witnefles; fubfiantial M311, Who had no defign upon the Defendanfis Benefice of St. But- iolplu, (an Appurtenance to his Reéiory of All-Saints, time out of mind oFMan to the contrary) But the {aid Harri: could not deny, but he had a Pretenfion , thereunto by a Sequeliration granted to him by the Plantiff. And fit-ft Mr. Edgar told the Judg, and thofe that were (worn, that he was prelellt all the fir}? to 14/2, from the {aid Harri: his Coming into‘ the Room at the fa1c1_Par1fh-meeting Where Harri: found the Defendant 5 and gave good att€IltlOn to all the Difcourfe that pal’: «betwixt the Defendant and the {aid Harri: all the While they were together, which Was not long-, the ‘Defendant foon leaving the Room and departing; \ l \ ' ‘ l G « He , , ;'., . ( 1° 3 He was o_rder’d to declare the whole Difcourle, which he did asfolloweth; namely, tliatmhen the faid Harri: came into the faid Parilh-meeting, the fourth of April lafi, The Defendant‘ask’d the faid Harri: what Bufinefs he had there,or what he had to do there in his Parifh P to whom Harri: .reply’d, Ihatihe had 3 Sequeflrationiof . the faid Benefice of St. Buttolph; from the Lord Bilhop of i London. * To whom the Defendant ireplyid, faying, The Lord'Bifhop is not infallible, (and that the ‘Pope is not infallible 5) . forinfiance (continued the Defendant.) The Lord Bilhop of Loudonfent a Printed Letter to every one of the Clergy in thefe parts, .wherein he recommended to them the Obfervation of the Ca- nons of Forty, which Canons are difanulled by Law 5 which Law if the Bilhop. did not know, it was his Ignorance 5 but if he did know it, it ~W’as;Infi:lence. ‘ Befides, ;The Defendant ‘added thefe Words, The%B§$op of London haa apre-- judice againfi me, for I can prove that he was concerned in; the’ Horrid :Plot againfi.'_ my righteoua Nam and Repttation. In (hort, all the Defendants Witneffes a- greed with Mr. Edgafs Tefiimony, andrall-of them fwore pofitively, that they were prefent during the whole Difcour e betwixt the faid Harri: and the De-1 fendant, that they all gave attention thereunto,‘ and that they did hearand take good notice of the whole'Difco'urfe that pal} at that time betwixt the Defendant and the faid Harris, andtthat the Defendant during the whole Difcourfi, nienti-, H and not theft? Wfordt -——The Lord Bifhop of London it a hold daring inipudent Man 5 nor any mention made of any Head: of Divinity, nor thefe Words, Hi: Lordfhip if very ignorant 5 nor the leaft mention made of a Popifh Plot by any‘ in the Room, nor any Colloquium of the Popilh Plot (laid) in the Declaration5 but afl agreed that the Defendant in a continued Dzjiomfe, laid-—-o-I can prove his. Lordfliip to he concern’d in the Horrid Plot again my righteorra Nance and- Reputation 5,but Harri: faid, againli my righteous ante and Perfon. , And yet the faid Harm confefled, that after the Defendant was gone out of the faid Room from the faid Meeting, he went alone by himfelf into another.“ Room 5 and writ fomething, and brought it fo written to fome of the Compa- ny, to the faid Mr. Elanner in particular, and defired him to fubfcribe to the, fame 5 (this fpake his Malice and Defign :) prefently after the Defendant Was, gone away. But the Card Mr. Flanner and the refl held up their Hands (as aftoni(h’d) and blefi themfelves from him, Crying, There was no fuch VVords_ fpoke by the Defendant5 and thereupon Mr. Flanner and Mr. Edgar writ down the Words (as aforefaid) which were fpoken, thinking the Man had fome De- fign againft the Defendant to do him a Mifchief, as it appears fince, too true 5 and, therefore they could not but remember the whole Difcourfe as Well as he : at leafi, all could tell there was no fuch Wordsfpoken. ’ The ‘Preacher was a Trophet when he preach’d of the Horrid Sin of Man- catching 5 It was ez.ehel’s-way to get Nahoth’s Vineyard, and his Life to boot 5 ’tis often fatal to ave aVineyard that other Men covet, I King: 2 I . I 5. ./{nd it. canre to pafi, when jezabel heard that Naboth ma: dead, that Jezabef fizid to A- hab, ./Irrfi, take pofléflion of the Vineyard of Naboth the jezreelite, which he re- fufid to give thee fir Money, for Naboth if not alive but dead. (Cunning Harlot I), And it came to pafr when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rofi: up to go down to the Vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelliteg to take poflljflon ofrit, But this is a Parenthefis. ) , It wasgood fport to the By-fianders, t0 hear IICW the glih—toung’d C03!”/til d 13y on Tongue againlt the Defendant, and to improve their littIe-Evidcnce- Man : They did earn their Guinies, to give them their due. The i (n) The Ldcedooziniaes (a Wife People) baniflfd all Hockey-Oratory out oi‘ their Dominions, as pernicious to their Common-Wealth, becaufe they could (like old Ladies) paintand bedawb their Wrinckles, could blackxpatch their Pimples and Sores, and make them. ‘Beauty-Slooti. Czmdiela de eigri: $3 ole cmzdeeztibzzr om; iCoiulddifguize the Truth, and‘ call Dirt and afperfe wow and where and mom; they lift, an Effeminate-Trade 5 yet for Calumny thele Lawyers are ufually out-done by every Fl/Vzfi: and Butter-ggeant g i But to go on with t-he famous Trial, fome Men are bound to the:Good-Bea ’ haviour, (as the Defendant told Sir George 7:‘efi3~ie.r, in the midi’: of his Hare-‘ rangue,) Vivilhing that /)2‘: Tongue alfo was as faft ty’d and bound to the Goods A \Behaviour,: as isitheiDefendants: And Withal, «told the Gentlemen thatiwere fworn, .. that the lef: heed was to be given to Sir ‘George’: Words, becaufe he‘ was not 4, of/.»z‘:,Word 5' for that Sir George had" prorn'is’d the lalt Aflizes at , ‘Breetwood (a Year and half ago,) that’ he would never be retain’d (nor plead) ' agaiofi the Defendant, tho any Man fhould give him an hundred Guinies 5 no, not againfi Cmfi ye Meroz‘.——-—--. \ But comes me out (before the next Afiizes) thepoor Book, called the 9\QzkeelsTr:tt/9-———the Second Part. ‘ ‘ g » , And then fiend cleorfrom 4 common-Barretor, the Knight had forgot his Prae- mife to Curfije 2Vleroz.——-— " ‘e ’ t g 1' So ficfle 4 Paflion isthisfamesthing’ (called) Love, (as this Defendant now’ told him) neither Man nor Woman knows well when they are {me on’: 5 IFIA were his Lady I. {hould be jealous of him, (my, I f/Jould) if he were as inconé ftant in his Love to me, as ‘ he has prov’d to this-Defendant 5 It fa] again} at this ratehis Lady. will fca-rce know when fl1e'c2m be Cock-fure of his Love 5 (izzeonfiaet Mon .1) Well,‘ perhaps {hermay give him a Rowland, for his Oliver; The Punifhment, the sufizal and Punifhtnenttofa .Lz'quorz;//J Tongue, (3 lufcj. (mos, wanton, extravagant Tongue is to be -plagtfd with a) liquorzy/J T—-—- But’ enough of that at prefent, [am in his Debt, and I’ll certainly pa} bio: of‘ with celebrating*in% Heroick Verfe, the Merits of the nozfi/-Hero and £22‘: Led}, to perpetuate them to all P-ofierity 5 Let hilmihakehis Head, t and (tart: with open-Eyes how he pleafes, ’tis Itrange if.—he fliould not fome time or other meet with his Match 5 we are told-——-g« i ‘ ’ . ‘Poetfl)ould‘oe feezfd i . . W /3671 aogiy, li/the oz. Cometsfiaming Beard; i v o ~ . , He lhall repent his IticonPtanc‘e, (Heflwz, j let him doihisworli. A tithe may come ’?yet, and a Day of‘Ptec=koning, God is Righteous, and he ufually [hows hisjufi=ice_in this World, againfl the greatefi Atheills that live Heétoring and Toryi-ng in defiance of him, do God /Jadforfi/(5372 tine Earth, and xv/aere is the God of §£udgo2ent.§ V ‘ h. ‘ » 'I‘.o;fuppor.t the Credit of their little Witrzefx-Mon, which they craftily fore. {aw wouldtbe .fhre.wdly;{haken by all the Witnelles, they had progvided (ready fort/ae ;w0rk) five Clergy-men, to adorn the little :Black‘-Coat with flve7Cir- .cingiles more, Men ofthefame flramp, (and if poflible,) fwore as boldly and 'venturoullyfor him andthehifhop, as Harri: himfelf-;, and brought for the ‘verynonce. ‘ » l — " But ( I2 l . “But Good Sir George _°;‘efi‘}~z'e: (that never before had told a Lye at the Bar) if you’ll believe him, or any Hackney Breath—fellers, they come not i for the lake of the Guinies, but purely in Devotion to Juflice, and love to their Clyent and his Caufe, tho Pro or Cou, who comes firfi to retain them (rig/at or ;rroug,) Tongue waggs iu the Caufe, if it be retain’d, and if the Angel appear, then the A——— open: his Moutb, (a very pretty World) nay, many of them do not read their Breviats ’till the Caufe be call’d, and then with two Eyes, in all hafie, they are bufy to fpy out Vantagesg (poor Clients are well help’d ‘up’, and what with an ignorant jury, or a Pick’d-jury for that very purpofe, (as this was by Order of the Court of King’s-Bench, the lafi day of the lafi Term, upon the Motion of Sir Frouci: Wit/aim, jufi fuch another Man.) Poor Country- meu have a fine time on’t, to go to Law as Tinkers mend Kettles, to remedy ore hole in their Eflate,they ma/{e twogis not this Remedy worfe than théDifeale .>) What ? do you tbiulgz Lawyer will tell a Lye .3 » . ‘ But the Good Knight, Sir Georgefiefirier, told a Whisker at this time, when the {aid Black-Coats (‘wore to heartily, in Vindication of Harri: his Reputation; One Mr. ‘Powell fwore he had known Harri: a Twelve-month and more, and He never knew any ill by bimg fo fwore one Mr. Kiddier, and Mr. Grove. (1 think his Name was) of London, and fo {wore alfo one Tbompjou, and one Sbeltou, , two Colcbefler Minillers. ' G ” Look you (my Lord) quoth Sir George, here are Clergy-Men {wear to the Reputaiion of the Witneis for the Bifhop, Clergy-Men that here come by acci- dent, and fpying therfi in Court, we makeufe of them. , ' Whereu pon the Defendant ask’d the faid Colcbefier-Miuillerx, T/aompfou and Sbe/tou, whether Sir George was a Man to be believ’d herein, or a Man of his Word, when he laid thefe Clergy-Men came by accident, évc. Speak (Sirs) you are upon your Oaths, Did you come by accident, or for fit purpofi: fiebpceuzfd to give this Teftimony? They anfwered (for they durlt not do no other, be—- ing publickly fubpoena’d) That. they came on purpofi, being fizbpcerufol . . Then, (Good Sir George) retorted the Defendant, W here i: your Veracity, your Truth good Sir George? But Sir George {at down very angerly, his Mouth was flop’d for once, (Is it not aWonder !) and the good Gentleman was zleue’ol,~ his Welfli-Blood flying into his Face, and anfwering for him only witha Blujb : Nay, ’ti: well/ae bod tbe Grace to Blujb, he is not much given to it 5 but this was put upon him from his own Witnefles, the faid Block-Coott, who had all of tbeur morecaufe to blufh, than Sir George, but they blulh’d no more than a Black-D——-— Nay, I’ll trufi fuch Black-Coats with an Oath, as foon as poorer Men, if there be a Bifhop in the cafe, Sud hopes of Favour and Prefermentg what? Can any Man think they will not‘.t?retc/2 it fora Biihop, when (one fays) they will ride down Sun and Moon for a Benefice, a Prebentdary, or a Di nity. ’ The Men were true Sons of the Church, and knew the virtue of the Oath of Canonical Obedience; but unhappily the Defendant fnap’d them with one fin- gle Q1eftion, and made them all fveor (in effefi) Tongue tbou lies‘? 5 and con- tradiétthemfelves and one another, and all upon Oath too.,_, The %eI‘tion put to every one ofthefe Clergy-men (who {Wore _/ll tborow- . flitcb to Harri: bi: Reputation) was this 3 namely, 1: it not an ill tbiug in ya Clergy- Man, and a Vicar ( wbo is f worn to perpetual Rejideuce in bi: to be Nou- 'Re[ideu_t for three quarter: ofa Tear, minding only tbe Fleece but not tbe Flock? i This gravell’d them, for they knew the danger of Perjury, and knew not well how to avoid it. And And therefore 7’o;tid,being askfg the ueftion (and, the reft of them after him, one 2ii_‘_ft,ei'3'"§t*ai7)‘tliaei*) image» ‘a flofid, and knevir not {zvhat to fay. . { Let’: /acme 720 Pumping, no Pumping, ,_I beleeeh you good Mr. Powel, anfwer _ direétly, ( fair} the ‘1)efenot73«7zi‘.) ’9i.1:‘5iti’i-riot‘,tonsillthirzgr for o Mimfler to be Non- Refident ever firm: before Mid-Summer 14%? Yes‘ replyed he, and they (there was no help for it.) .;Well then, Has ozot Mr. Harris been non-flit;/tident and dryer- ted /91': Flockeeerfince Mid-fiimmer lofi .3 Yes, replyed Mr. Towel, and the reft . oftyhenpnfgand yet be_fore, they knew no, '_1ll,thing.,; ,But (Guys _Mp...POWe1) there has been one Differences and Contentions about the Parifhes ofi St. Buttolp/J: and " St. Leoizordfr in Colebe/ter, which the Bilhopgatfe to Horri: by Sequefirati- on: But (repliyiecl the I3efendant.)’ iW6ot’ 2‘: _ tbot to ,_ Fingringhqe,_ to which Vicat'dgejHa_rrz'4 islnfiituted, and to i your /Qzowleetg, . for youwere prel'en,t1"a't“hi_s ‘lnduétion, ._p and I2), was Tbornpfon and Sbelton,,the other éwitnefles-3, wh‘ich,.arl1_ofthem conf‘el‘t?,'(f~br they could not avoid itby. any Evafion or Equii-A iriieatibh) only 1 faid, there was ‘-110, Viciaragei-Houle at Fiflgfirzgboeg to whom the Defendant re_torted,That it might -be fl'giQbd1CéXCllfe f‘or..not refiding upon’ his'Vicarage, if‘ he refided in any other Houfe of the Pariihg but what is that to his leaving, his Flock at the dzflotzce,offottrt'}5 M}7e:, n-aniely, at London, and taking upon him another Cute and Charge, (as Curateunder Mr. Grove .9) and leaving none to fupply the place for three quarters of _a Year, nor four Sermons from Midefgzmzzzer toAMioboelr;m5 and thofe preach’d by ‘a quozzdaot Logg-rider, o,n;eMr.s21z;, Reétor ofD01m}la72d (a_«g.oodrReé’cory) but the Man » 'tho'a iKe&or‘,inever" yet could, not ever was able» to ‘much; asto, read his ACCi"' ,dence 5, yet hethat knpowsnots howto fupply his own ‘Cure as he ought, ,( for ic/»‘.éd‘pnef.i) niumble (to boot) .a‘l_ittle for prime andfizzgle 1:/£".67P,4.,‘..l"/V1.1‘-:3 izefi .- (good doing; the 1) This ’tis to be it; Farrow-. with a_ relate, and 't.his"tis'"toinc‘i'ur.the Di{‘pleaTure'ofai Trelote, and tell Izolol Truth; (behold the i difference The Defendant filerzcid‘, }7z'gmoti:;;’d, lzeljd and‘ _/Iander’d, /z2z'lzfi’d as a Co}:mo2zJ/ézrlet and Common,-Bdrretor, paid ofl"-with Indiétments, Informatie _ons, Aflions and Accufations, in Spiritual Court, in Temporal Courts, Henry Bilhop of Lofldorz Promoter, Sulpenfions, Supplicavits, Excommunieations, fines, jontragious Verdifts, Plots and _Complots, ’}”Confpiracies and Horrid p Plotsito‘ ruitie him arid his Family, by tegzricbirzg the’ Rich Bzfltop, and is all 7w/not .3 ‘ For 4 ‘little 9\Cai/gé_d~Trutb. (Sir George je i erie: brought the Books, and pointediwith his Izzdexto the fwoilafii “Lines 0 the ’)B{ack.j1E2an=QLgu_'fg3m[{f2 p21 4 namely _ p Q A A .Bifliop.{ayePt.> Thou lyeft :, Him Comet call OF the Black-‘Regiment, that joyle: us all. ‘The Welflrmn looking merrily at the .Defendant, and glaring in his Face 5) For,SiriGeo1;geinfified_tnore to the jury, concerning the efendanfs Booksgand his "writing orzdfiveoking ogoinfi Lordly Treloq ( than upon the Declaration) , producing two Letters Writ,.by the Defendant to the Bilhop, wherein he com. iplairfd 1’0l=tl1€l3;ill1OphoW hardly he was uled, ‘(I wifh they would Print thofe Letters, as Well asproduce them to the ]uty,) as if it werea Sinto groan when ‘ a Man is pinch7d and tormented: F irlt they make us figh,‘ and then accufe us for fighing to eafe our Hearts. But firft Sir George infiited upon the Title and s Sgperfi-ription of tboje Letter: h (To the Bifhop of London) which Wasdefcanted . upon (notably) by that Critick in Law, Sir George _'feflérie.r5 namely, this i 1» To (14 ) To HE 5\LRTLorclBi1hop P of L0 .9\(_@0 Thefe. Do you fee, Gentlemen, {quoth Sir Ge ea Hear Lord Bi , no m, Sir, (quoth he, to the Defendant) It migaifi have heciorlie you to have A I'd hlifni ....—-Re-vererzd Father in G0d=""""‘. you have not l21id.—-.. To the Right‘ eoeremi Father in God, Henry Lord ‘B1;/bop, 8(c. ‘ P. p ' I _That, quoth Sir George is omitted, and feems to be an Aggravation (at leaf!) if not another Scavdalmir Atfagnaturiz ea nothing but plain Henry Lord Bzflaopg ' A Gentleman of a noble Extraét and Pedigree, I hope the Jury will take notice ofti1(is(;m‘°11lIi"oenf)i]1;1::’is_no—t-1-Reverend Father in Gad. , 3 . ‘fhatis repje t‘ e i at ever aked-Truthon’t, on {E1 1-’ ht, Sir George, there it no Revemzd gather In ‘ the cafe, who dznies it}; lg But, (faid the Defendant) I author innur“’d (nor defire to be innur’d) to Court-Complementrg (I think) to fay Henry Lord ‘Bzfloop, is pretty fair fbrhim, and pretty fairfrom me. " ’ o ‘ - - ’ Sir George makes little or nothin or a Lordfhip belike 5 whereas the Bifho of London's Grand-Father William ompton, liv’d the greatcfi part of hi; Li}: without the Title of Lordfiyip. For indeed mllim Compton (this Bifhop’s Grand-Father) was the firft of the Comptoris that ever was an Ear! fince Adm : And Kin jam: created him Earl of Northampton,(I could tell the Bteader how, and or what too) Armo Dom. I61 8. There are thoufands alive that remember the Eu mefs. But no doubt, but the Bifhop did come of a ‘noble Extra&.: But ~ifSirG‘eor a had not taken notice of it, the noble Family would have been never the wor e; for when Men are always dung in the Teeth with the flame and the lime Bajiz'- mzolo, Self-Prefervation _makes them Rand upon their Guard, and perhaps take the length ‘on’t: and as It happens, this Pedigree (that Sir George did fl) hlzffler with) is notfi long neither-—.--not fo lon or a Wew-‘Pedigree, ap Lama-, a George, ap organ, ap Taphee, ap Llq , is a Pedigree more than twice [E e long. But I fhould have wondred, if the We{/h-man (on this ocoafiorzloo, jozillfizy) . had not 'oapour’d with his Extraéi: and Pedigree. But, to the Bulineli-—-— Here’: no Reverend Father in God .° ’Tis readily granted, nor is the Omiffion a Sin ofOmiflion, ’tis no Crime 5 For a younger Brother to he a Lord that’s prettyfizir, and more honour than his Grand-Father arriv’d unto at his Years": For a Man that was but the other day a Cornet in Captain Compton's Tmop in the Earl of Oxforcfs Regiment ( I think) by the King’s Grace to be made 2! Prelate, and a Lord Bifhop, there”s no reafon in the World that he or any Body elfelhould take it fo in difdain, to be called only Lord rBz:{bop, fince that old Complement (t’of Popifh-Times namely, Reverend Father in God, was never given ’till Priefts rew abominably and loathfomely Proud and Ambitious, when Pride and Preiacv came in Fafhion. The Defendant in his Epiflle Dedicatory t0 the flrch-Brfhop (to avoid of- , fence)‘ in his Book called the ’l51&tlt=iB011W€fltIf0m1lff, does give that old F a- ther, The Stile—-namely, (the Stile that Sir George does to want, and does 12) {tare about to the Jury, to find it milling) To the Reverend Father in God 4 'Wil1iarn, 691‘. But (I5) . hut the Bilhop is 995?"? @’-;g newly come A to the Faith, as heir? young in Years, and a 6'm19¢ Of Horfi‘: Within memory of Youth, an and much a younger Brother to the Defendant, both in::Years, in T;-avcls, in Studies, at the Univerfity, in Experience, nay, as a Souldier too 5.. one a Cornet,“ the other; g_Captain, one a great Traveller as the molt Gentle- men in England 5 theotherfs,,greatefiTravels isbut over, the Dioeefs, f-in (‘airfie- rerzces-,’oI/ifitatiorzr, to gather Procuratiom, and unconfhrtnable Confirmations not accordingto Law (as ‘is. proved in‘the.',B,[a;{g:,1:;5)anz®nnfugmift5),and for the De— fendant to havecalled is (only by the Kings Grace, (as be- ing made ya-Bilhop anda; r) and therefore only) hi:Sem'or, but his younger Brother bymany Degrees in all other as afbreléid 5 if the Defendant had pleated Sir .George’6 Humour, and had fliled, him Reverend F other in God, perhapsthe; Bilhop wouldthavoe thought the Defendanthad jt-er’d him,and then. all the Fat hadbeen in1he'Fire again, and all ina Flame, the other Aftion of Scondo1uraM4gmtuoi- - T: P is D 1 T. - A And let the By-(tenders iudg, whether it had not been as muchfbr the Bi- mop’s Honour, if Sir George had never touclfd upon; the Pedigree, ~ buthave lefi: it quiet as he Found it 5 not yet have (tar’d abougwhen he mitt the old cogging, flatteriflg,Hierar£hical,aGCl Prelatical Complement (OF) Reverend other i1tGod. A Complement now worn out at ,E!lzou~’:, and as tatter’d, trite, and Thread- bare, as---Tour Humble Sermrzt. . V r I D, L A And for the noble Pedigree, the Welfla-man had as good have let it alone, n (ifit had been poflible for a Wag/is-mu to omit the Oceafion 5) but the noble Extra& and Pedigree (which no Body does deny) had refled newer the worfi ifhe had fufl'er’d it to flee}: quietly to all Pofierity, without this his Index ;to 51g‘flurh~it.. , Herefs a flormwg-do with thefe We!/b-roenand‘their Extfaélss and fht‘-fil‘ Pfidir "gree’s.5l.and ifold Adm or Nooh were alive, they wonldequallyilovc 31 Beggar, as one (who;is.as nigh a,Kinsrnan of their Blood) as the Weffla Kuéght; himfialf: Away with this muff}, worm-eaten-Herolqdryfome by pimping (and wQr{e,) have got to be Lords; fland clear there from all his Progeny,rer-nember 2 Rio. 2. Sirra, w.e’ll Scorzdalum Magnet. you l do you not honour a Lord, and a Lord’s Son 2! A Lord’: Son! Can you prove your Words? Now itis the Mode in fonle Countries, for Lodie: that have Lordr, to have alfoo /G81/afit,‘.n throng, ; Baek’d‘ ‘Coach-man,ot. fweaty Foot-man,or ,7Grooin,(Spindle-{hauled Genotlemen-Ulhers _ (ox ujelefx‘) being laid afi'de;:) And now his the Modeethe Covert-Alfie Modqfor a‘Lor,d that has a Wife, to keep a J?74zf£--;-likewifeg 'ThaititWo1ild purzzleathis Esme little =Horri.r (who would make no Bones of a probable Oath (but fwaljlow it r0undly)tofmeor when is a Lord’s Son -3 and yet What a pother Men keep in the World with their Noble Blood, Noble 5 when the Chll‘l1tl'g€0fl fWears,that there is not one ofa hundred Lords (upon trial of Phlebotomy) has fo good D Blood in his Veins as the Defendant. In Guinea, therefore, to lecure the Blood; Royal infallibly (in the Blood and Family-Royal 5) the eldeli Son oft-,he'King’s eldeft Sifter does Heirethcgrown, ‘riot the King’: Son 5 for fo thetetcan be no foulploj. V, . - o = " o But the {aid two Letter: were read, wherein the Defendant inculcated the Commands of our S5950!’ *0 513‘ Difoiplet, that they, (hould not it over one another, (as the Princes and Meniofthe World do :) Lool{1o1t,‘ (fays Sir Francis Withim) hejuflzfie: his {peaking againft Prelates. (As if it were a Sir: to quote our Sa‘viour'S own Words 1) efpeciallyfie and Sir“ George [iorrtfd -when the Defendant (hid, That Prelacyfis condemnid, I T7'm.5.2 I.) gmejs frag» XglyaT@, obfqg. co at mm): alteri prgcférosg without preferring (or, prelating) one before another.) War]? and mrfz, faith Mr. Withim, It-le juflifies,.,here’s Scarr- do/rim ( £16 ) dgi hm Magndtum again; ? ati Aggfaiifiéfién %Gég2tlemeiz,7~"*>iT-“hdpe yoii if/Vi:ll‘:réizibr2}*I2er it in the Damages.‘ ‘v"(2°x‘y§,*‘ Ay’, music ' jouf'~Hééd‘!' :’The- jqryqhen we;-¢:' Wife-menfand had coézn’§.¢l%14seir'Lcfiv i%¢:?p'e;rfeé3c'ly, : ai';‘éiJ‘kvt1éWeith‘éjii"‘BhfineG*A —a’h‘§‘4 what to db,“ *as'well«a§S%ir‘Frm}ri:1 {€11 hi? hiightf‘; *Hai're~fi>ai"d Breath to cvollbie Pottagei §~*'Or2, fdr ‘izeqrt-e’ca1ifé~13§%‘a1’lc§ jet Whéti his Tongue did} not go,‘ ‘ 'l.1z'&’ Hm! weffi; (at; every (fiiufé ind Peri;>fd~“=u:&hde f?améti:ii“e‘s* ét;e?xzer§ii l Word) lifting up hie Héhdfgnd —.tehe‘g1itvh‘j:éj(‘5‘a_deet/ieé,3- éhezhad feén*«jthé singing: men hpwvbey anti tI:“e'z!*"'7’FV2i}eJ>r;3-A‘IiifiW’V~l_ien the Wards of the "I."eftEi' were , of heav?y_"l¢o"mp1aints; __lnifi_dIei3t*¢)*~t’lié this fendhnf, at e'veryPeriod,‘9 or Claufé, Hab*—i( léth‘3ire As when {ii the Better t=h’e%Defend(mt5 i. complaiak; that the-‘Bi cl4nd‘ej;l.i»‘;‘ Aflidaviixea Heb‘! quoth Sir ':Frcmcz': abo‘t1t?li_l'1€ faI(i;;Afcct1{’ations ;Of—iB3’fretry-——- T Hab ind: gaken illegally (Ha/2%-eh ?Cé1‘1'r‘t - ’ when ~th‘ere" iwas ificf Caufe depending-+--1 (>P}a£r;-—): not anyiilffue joined.-”-1-—e ( nor aiijri Caufethat was of Ecclefiafticalgco niza1}ce'-?—--- (H_a/.v....'....) and {worn by t‘w(j= Bum-lifl'€-i-*'*M4"i" 3’l*1d'€7"‘?’9'”a ’ F‘€4ll6w33{ofthe~baf‘efi’ Conver- fi1tion;3-=—}£_- («‘Hab———-es) éthe Eb:-rner, Mix}-ti'iz3‘—e' whip’-‘cl r» A Thief; if)-‘ in‘ (Hub-—)7._a1id‘the Rec(9rdithereof'pi‘ddtic’él,“ and ««p7r0‘v’d at the? Aflizes,_ _by‘Mr.~»George Gdterby, T Town-Clerk of Suzlirmjr (Ha/2-‘=-‘——«(lill quoth¥- Sir Franéisir) And tlilateéthe Fellowsfwoi'e%thr<3ugh‘?an Inch-Boardgiis fwearing_ F againft Records (Hal:-———-) _ancl after this Lorclfhi‘p=kn;e"w this to true, yet_He:. or his*Charicell’9r- SireT-b0.e'Ex¢ani, or ‘the llegillerrg:-:e—l a"r1d:;Be‘tt.é, r or afl of them; e£till- proteeutecl Defendant» ’{a"s aCb:iii1:1ojn=i3\ai»retor_;.(H;3/;__".j: and fat‘ féking a Bribe_for:gran_ting an Adqiinifiratieti‘ 'to»;.§l?bq32}&4 Sbortlaréd which‘ they fknew by-Ftheir lfiegifiere-Baolgs1vv:ls“nevef‘ l and (know; ing "all this) 5 they fuff‘er’d this Martin to-fwear thaf her rought~‘t~he’%Atlmini{fra- , tioh from ‘€i5eIvme:ford, from the Re f’Pcer’s-Oflice"bftl.w«CbupIé.;; §Marrz': and Beth; and Gram (their Appqrimf _t Comp‘anior1s§«§in their—“Spiritua-l Courtg ("wore he ~faw thefAdmin~iftration und“eriSeal of the ‘Court,’ and e’ g:r§II"t€C4l["t“ Thoma byvthe. Defendimi2,' is Sur‘rogqte*5f whén?tbe)fl(vérvi‘:ill‘ v"v:.isfael(“e as God is"{ru'e',i anti etffatihetzthe Defeqdamg but Gr’lb.¢ré*-Arch4Bifhbp‘ofCapier- bar} (in the Prerogahveaeéogmhewhefé the~Defeti?&ant-wé’s1i‘ever co'i1‘cern’d in his Lif'e?)54i!i’!d Marcy: Cattle‘ (note ¢7Harri:,< ndr ‘Befi.r?Fueg’ifiers) ‘and under the 'Seal offiié'Ar‘ch¥BilhOp :f fuch ‘Vexation_‘s« and Grievances the Defendant —_ humbly icoiiiplains, ’(bl;t~fmdrtl;- and waéigtét too‘) in his Letters to" the Bifhop, V 'and‘h‘ujinhlyjehf1'eats‘ the Bifhop; eitheffté Qgiye ‘him: repawitibiz for 7‘theDamages he has éaiufélefslyfi‘ been. put unto 5 E org: ifhe‘ would fiaird \ip‘on7the ‘Plea or 'Inhbcetme?a*nd Jufiifieatigyn (that ihe;w’c:n'fld'plea{E: mfigive this Defimdant the Bene‘fiv;>‘¢f righting himfelfiby Baw..u:.:_(Ha£e—+) And that the {aid Bifhop "Wo1‘Jld'be*’p‘leafed to wave’ his §Priv=iledg,}- afKl«.egive*‘A‘ppeiarancelto the Defen- "dants.Attomey Mr.»C1‘ale:'wa1’b--‘- *a’nd~ 'ci)in‘eii‘?iniamongfi the refl of xbe Confpirators and‘ Plétens aga'i"nQ5§he‘béfendanthiighteous Name‘ and Re- 'putatiOn--- (Hab———l-) «And; thatail eheiieimifehieffizsd their rife from that old itvxvciteg-age piece of Maliee (fflfab--u—) Sir 057235412?--—~ ( whg with- ‘outlany4-lawfu1‘Power»qftAr;thoii;y—ubJ h'ad*%gken clandeF_tine1Af3- fidavits A (1445,. ) ih=’h:1é’¥Hbufi5 asoummretry (Ha:/2:s.~_',;)~a i deg. pending ihthe King's-Bepch——=—‘ (H&5u-+)il:wheref$ivi§‘5bn19baw izacrw ‘Autho- rit) to giver): take an ? (H45-$5‘-5)’ iigi (iHab4+:.j*~5’gainfi the Laws of the [sand (Hals—§;i):i-and t‘nb'ée-them~~reafi'yHagainfi ': ‘th1éer’.BilhOp came down, to ‘fat the Bifhop tdR‘oil Mr; H71,‘/{§,!"in‘g5I15 =i7ih<§m§" heeiknew, 3 would wt . «tawely fufferhimfélfarid’hisReputation‘tbl§eillégall*y~‘a1ad»jpiablickl.ybrought in ~qué_&ion by any ?Bi{h"6§ 'm=t~3h£iile*rndo“mL-" ‘ ° “ — V This ) l I7’ )*’ s This was the Sum and Subftance of thofé two Letters which the I Ijefendaiii: writ to the {aid Bifhop, that were never anfwered, but only (as Men are woe» age}, dye prefl to Death,) with-4- more Weiglrt-— more Weiglat-A 4 - The Defendant, in vain, oppofed the reading of his private Letters, litying it was not gezztieel, civil nor manly to produce fuch Evidence, and nothing to the prefent Declaration, and that tho there was nothing in them but what was modeli and true, yet private Letters are, and ought to be {acted in their Pri- vacy, and that —-—‘-(S15 liceat parvirtcompoaere rizagna.) King Charles I. ( If it be lawful to compare great with fmall) did juflly upbraid the Parliament with the Incivility of publilhing his private ‘Letters taken at Na/é/2}, tho there was no- thing in them, (nor in this Defendants Letters) for which any Man need blufh, or be blam’d. But tin‘: isthe Eoclejieflical-Candor 5 any Method to expofe the Defendant, no Vengeance is great enough, no Fine or Verdict outr'agious_ enoughgo crulh one that dares (as the Defendant has) difcover the Aflyfiery of “Ir77'qm'f)' Eccle/iafiical, in Extortions, illegal Fees, Oppreflions, and Courts kept intfilefiance of the Statutes of this Realm, Excommunications, Abfolutions, Prophanations, Procurations, Vifitations, (namely) Vexations, (five. , There’: a Vzllain indeed! Plague him, All Hands aloft, all’s at Stake, down goes.——-—- if you do not help; This Fellow is another (Germaaa il/a Beflia qua: 790.12 emu; Aurum, a) German Beaft that regards not Preferment,as the Cardinal told the Pope when he chid him, becaufe he could not (by tarnpering with Lat/oer, and the profler of Gold, and a Cardinal’: Cap) prevail with him, not take him offfrom writing and preaching againli the Abominations and Cor-' ruptions of the Church and Church-men. ’ Cbztrr/J a72d~C/mrc/.2-merz.’ Ay, fit but the Cl€l'gyl—‘--‘-F upon a Man, and '5 need not let any Dogs,uporrl1irn to Worry him Po ' ' L _ _ A , Cbzzrcla and Clmrc/J-areal Ha l do yougknow who you fpeak againlt what? Find fault with Oppreflions and Extortions of Ecclefialiical-Courts, with Ap- paritors, Regiliers, Commillaries, and all that Fry of Lay-Elders? C/Jzzrc/J and C/sure}:-area! Ha I Do you fpeak againlt Prelacy? Say that Word again, lay it again before Witnels-a—--i-Sirrah, Villain, Rogue 1 How dare you at this time of day fpeak Seripture,dangetous Scripture,Scripture againli Statute- Law, 2, Rich. 2.5. which Statute makesa Prelate, dds ,ws;cis, A6}: 8.9. fome great One 5 and you, Sirra, would have him, as your Saviour and the Gofpel would have him, aStit_*values ’his"Oath;i his a Soul, i and hiS;(}(YQ$fmén€&s'ab0Véihe:eou1d' fibt? ftregzh, "tivhen h’é":was not tl»e7f~ef‘5 ‘ But. he ’was eall’d to prove fi2m- prizmte Difrourjé that the Defendant had with him, in I22‘.-‘c zplriwte Chamber, ewhither the Defehdant came" (in Dgéforr Cofmiféoirr, they being old Acquaintance) and the Defendant deefirfedxthe fatd‘ 'Doé?or Ex‘to2zto medi- atean Accommodation betwixt «him and thebifhop, as afcomrnon Friend to’ both; ;?€'v'h_it‘:h‘ Sir‘51»’»lIi2i5hd.'r?“undertook'tQ db’, .vt“Il1et"1“ th‘éi‘3Defiend_2int ingenu- oufly inade a‘ private Co‘riE:fli6n‘§'tb¥ him of thetrpth of‘ the Cafe, to the very _‘iE1me" eife&, that the ?Defendante'* W'itnefTesiu_hiihi‘i‘11ouTl'}:Ii rwgre —.i't5 namelysthat the Defendant ‘didafpeak ofa Prihzed P&zpe;r,i ,‘whie'he the Plantifl‘ lent down to every Clergy..man',c beginning with thefe iWordsl -so-j-Good Brother -—-- (y’~c;, “and ending with thefe Words-——-Tom'~"Lb. Brother‘, Lézzzfofl. ‘V L -i ‘j_ In which Papier“the.~Bi{l1opreconirnended tothe Clergy the'C)bfervat'ion: of -the 55. 66. and 9.: Canons or Confiitutions of'f’For.ty -, (Awh;’1‘c§*h4,tfyhe Defeiljdialjt. faid~agJaininopeflCO}1rt‘were Iirfar from being ’aécordjng“ ‘t~o‘t’1L"a_‘23tV7i,‘ he that it was ‘ Non—fi2nceT,'forafmneha‘Aa7s the Conftittrtlonsiof Forty,have niot"6i‘§;fi:or' 6.6 Canons, -nor above eleven? ; "and therefore itiivdi fnfo1enee' l’:.):l‘ilIII"l];_)'1.‘1(i"l\"eaé‘s g g;mZ'{Z§j);_*tI.2.eje‘ Ward: wereflqokeiz to ‘him $1 the DefeAz2alziz12t'tz'nj‘ private,‘ With him his Cha“nibe’r ?-‘-4-To which the D0630)” then (arid izot "ti/I i/Ben) teplyecg That the:Defe'nd;mt came to him as his old Aeqiuaintagnceg (‘but a fizljé .Friei2,d 222 be i B flare) that he would ufe his Interefi with the Bifhop, to accaiazzzodaie thofe ’Mat-3 tersg which ‘honeft Oflice of a Peace-iniaker Siri’I72o2}i‘as u'ndertook,: and pro- mifed to give the Defendant the Bifhop’s Anfwerfwith all Convenient fpeed; th'e‘Bilh‘op being thenfiat his Countiry-Houfe, at Falzamz. B Ayg But when the Defendant came again to his Chamber, to hear the Bi-" {hoffs Anfwer, Sir Thomas begun with vbrinckled Bram to tell this Defendant,,f That-I-y-Did be (the Defendant) think that after all the Mifchiefs he-had done to the Bilhop's-Courts ‘(A1, 1/nere,tZ2‘ere,it pin,ch’d); inhis late Books all the King»; dom over, that the Matter could be taken up with a private Sz2ba2{[]ion in a parcel offairand Word: .3 Will you t(q'uoth' Sir ‘T/Jovaai) pnblickly and in \ Print retraét and refute your Books calledthe Narhizd-Truth .3 Who, I? (ieplyed ’ the Defendant) what’? The fame Hand that' Lave the Wound give the “Cure .3 What .5 Vrzlraw o'pemq5'.tulit’:? continued Mr. [git/Qeringill. Nothing like it,qu0th Sir T/.:oI7aa:5 No,‘*no,i (repljed the Defl:22dani) you are high enoi/lg/J already, but I’ll fee you all as big}: 4: Teal: firftg, Wyhereuponlthfi Defendant departed from’ . him, for'et2erparted.' And let all. ingenuous Gentlemen judge. howiiizn-‘Kniglw 1&9.‘ itfigéflfeelail 7111-‘ Cbrgflian, and In/aumane it was in Sir T/Jamar, to make his Table a Srzareg and to A be an Evidence to improve ‘(tho he could not prove) the prelent Aétion of . Scandalum Magaatzm, from Wordsingenuoufly confeffed to him in private as B a Common-Friend and Mediator betwixt the Bilhop and the Defendant. Can any Man imagine,or can it be in the leaft p'robable,that any Man lhduldi‘ give morefcandaloz/4 Word: againft the Bilhop, at the 7>e2~}»_ti{;ée, and to the zzerj Manvthat undertook to beta Peac;e~Maker_.? "and" did not (0 much as take the 16% Exception: againfi What Was fpoken 5 but Went to treat the; Bilhop to terms’ . of_,{ccommoa’atio7z, until the Defendant peremptorily refufisd to retra€’t, or -Write" againlt the Books called the jT*)a'ketI=@I1:utI}, the §econd Part; in lieu of which Retraéfion, the Defendant did Write again indeed, but mended the Matter, in g the ')BIack=jBu1{=QEnufngmi{t 5‘ Thefe are the dear, dear Books, that has cq/ithe Defendant fiz dear, and m/uft behis Raine, if combined Clergy-Malice and Re- taerrge-Evclegfia/iical Wil_l_’ClO the Feat. " Barrzaby-'-+'—‘- Ta/{t for a Warning, neither write nor fpeak (as this Defimdarzt Km)" againft ‘ theevile Corruptions, abonfi: nable Extortions of the Men‘ of Doé?or’:=-Coiiarzaorixg Hem! Heu ls W05 Alas! a . s x W‘ B I")e7jor'at ,Aecipiter, vexat cenfira Colum’z’2af.~ if The Birds of Prey are never vext, But the poor Doves muft be perplcxf; a Or, .Make Rome therefoi‘ the Birds of Prey 5" But fright the poor Doves quite away. a Let the Vexations, Citations, Attions, Articles,‘ Promotions; Writs.» see-= plicavits, and Oaths of the Ecclefiaftical¥Men, and’ Men of D08C0f'S‘Comm’on§ (the only Aflidwit-Men againll Mr." Hickeringill) be [branicled fa all Pqfleritjy e‘ l M F toge-" ( 22 ) together with that unconfcionable, inhumane and outragious.Fine of 22000 I. by a pickd ~_‘)‘ur} (pick’d and appointed "on let purpofe) ‘together with the Names of the precious ]ury-men; and let them pray that the righteous God do not deal as feverely with them and theirs, to. their mine, as they have nnnierci- figllj and unchriflianlj ruin’d the Defendant and his Family, Wife and Children. God is 31:57 (not only hereafter, but) in this World, wait and fee the Finger of God in this Affair 5 ‘(ball he not avenge his own Eleét, "tho he bear long with. them? Yea, he will avenge them fpeedil} 5, _ he muft, he will, to vindicate his Word,’ his Gofpel, his Chrift, and his Apoftles, (publick Enemies to Prelatical Pride) agaiuli all the Hypocrites that put on Religion, ‘Religion; the Church,- the Church, for a Cloak to their Tantiivege-Aezarice, and high-flown Ambition. Good God‘! Arzfe, and let thine Enemies he jZ‘atter’d, and let all that hate thee, flee befbre thee. A fingle Arm has done Wonders when upheld by God. We read indeed, Eph. 5. 1 Is. that God gave fome Apofller, fome ‘Prophet.r,, and fome Ezzangeliflr, and fome Taflor: and Teachen, for the perfeéting ot the Saints, for the work of the Minillry, ~e§~c.. But who the Devil brought that Man Sin, that Son of Perdition into the Church P 2 Tim. 2. 3, 4. that fits -in the Yencple of God, and oppofeth, and ex- alteth, himfelf above all that is called Cod? (viz. the Magilirate.) _ Away,‘ Away, With thefe carnal rnillenariex, the Kingdom of Chrili it not ofthiir World, not the true ./rjooflle: and Difciples of Chrift ambitious to fit neither on the Pin- ” nacle of the Temple, nor the Pinnacleof the Palace. When Bilhops begun to be very Rich, then, then, they begun to be high- minded~and to mgfl in ‘uncertain Richer, rather than in (the Words of the living God, I Tim. 6. ,I7. the Words of our bleffcd Saviour and his Apoflles againlt Tyrannicaland Lordly Prelacy 5 and when they left the Word, then they ‘to clap their hands upon thetarne Magifirates Sword, if one would not, the other flmnld 5 this is the plain Truth on’t, and obfi:rv’d by all that obferve any thing. For who heeds their Excommunications, their Sufpenfions, their Silencings, their Ecclefiafiichl Mifchiefs, Curfes and Anathema’s._. if it were not for the old Writ invented firtt by Popifh Prelates, and fince and now {till made ufe of to this day, to eckeont their Spifitual-Weapons, which every Man can take the len :12 o . ’ . Sfhefbloody and numerous 'Set& of the Donatiff: in ,/ffrica, what Mifchief brought that Herefy to the Chriliian-World, and all the quarrel arofe, becahfe Donatt/4 (that Diotrephe: that loalal to have the preheminence, 3 Ep. fob. 9. or, was anzhitiow of [icing a Prelate, 4: the Original properly fi-gnifies) ruflled with Ceciliamla‘ for the Bifhoprick of Carthage. Solomon fays, from Pride comes Contention; for a Man ambitious to fit perking upon the Pinacle of the Temple (the fitteli place -(the crafty Devil thought) to inlinuate his Temptations upon our blefled Saviour) he will en- deavour to break that Man’s Neck, that fays come down, into the Seat of the Church amongfl your Brethren, Where our Saviour has plac’d yous nay, and the (haves?) Canon: too. i What inhumane Cruelty did the Prelates (in the Council of Confianoe) exercife to poor john Wicklifi our Country-man, Reéior of Luttexworth in Lciceflcrjh1'rc,and (his Naked-Truth in 45 Articles) that cut them to the very Hearts, becaule it cut their Combs for them 5 and not content with killing him, after he was buried one and forty years, they cauled his Bones to be digged up (harharow and cruel Earle]?/lifk-V 3) and to be burn’d (inhnnzane, D2’-vines! ) Nay, That great Advocate or Prelacy (Sir George jefiries. «in this Affizes, took notice, that of all the 'Witneffes that fwear at the A rzes, the Clergy. ’ men, ( 2} ) men, the ~—-=-Clergy tell‘ the fl-ra.lnge£’t~Tatles, and themofl: oddely, and molt impertinently, ’ of all other Witnelles, (perhaps ’tis beeaule» they are forced to preach at the Aflizes‘ Without Book. ) t .a..- D Butof all the Clergy-VVitnefl':, never did any thing’ look fo beflvriaapeh andi appall‘djas that lame little ,Harrz'~:, the ‘Bijbop’: jjtecial Wjtmgfi :, truly the Man, has reafon to god fizips, and have half of the 2000 1. given. in Damages to the.” Bilhop. i ~ ; » b For neither the Bilhop, nor any Man ali‘ve,. had to this day ever heard of thole fcand-alous Words in the Declaration, if he had not b7roach’di them, and been the Author of them 5 for after the Defendant was gone, little imagiining‘ (asneit:-herany in the Compaénye) that any 'Ofl’ence was t3%'l{€Il",— or my Ex- ceptions.-made,. no not fo much as by Harri: (thelMa=n-catcher.) The little Blade goes to another’ Room, Writeswhat he lifts, or What he ren'1e‘tnber$ (and fuch a Man, had need of a‘ good Memory) but ’tis%treacherous; and out he brings his own, Saawdalum Magnatum,. hoping to get fomeone in the Company to be (if poflible) as wicked his little Clergy./bip: But by God's good Pro- vidiencfe Irrilfing his Aim, away he truclges, left he fhould be called to an ac-‘ count fbr his own deviléd Scandals, and be forced to find the Author; away trudges he, as fiufl as his wicked Legs could tremblingly carry him, to that oldAPiece of,Ma.lice, Sir}; S. that has always an open Heart, as Well as open Ears, at a Piece of Mifbhief againll the Defendant. Harris could fearcely (on this fideyflell) have metwith a fitter Tutor, whofe Friendlhip is Arti-’ fice and fuperficia-l5 but his Ma-licc, Revenge, and Wicltednels is natural, innate, deep, as/32': bum, own Self.’ Nor could any .‘Pre/érzt be more welcome to the Bifhop, (it feems by the confeqnence) than Articles againft tbe Man that finds fuch faeultwith his illegal Confirmations, Vifitations, Vexati_ons, 29%;, y_\‘ Therefore Call a Court come to the Cabal all the Breath-jellefr, Trade alfo is endangered by the wicked Defendant :' Search old Statutes, (for the pro17n_oting'WhereofEmpfbn‘ and ‘Dudley’ were hang’d) vex and ruin the Aid of a good Jury ) the Defendant, and his Family 5 and only for at liippufltd Tranfgrefiion, proved by a /lender and fizlfcontradiéliag Evidence, that fwore three times, and ever} timetzaried 5 and yet I’le warrant) he had laid them over and over, fince lall Eaffer, oftner than he had faid his Prayers: bznt 2e)was not fuffered tofwear by Book, tho he prayer and preaches all bf 00 v t . 0 ,0 I For ifat the-firfl time’) he fwore the Words true, the other was falfe D and he at falfe Varlet, and not to be believed by any Jury, that were not re- . Words than the Defendant fpake, and bringing them to the tell of the Com- foleed 5 and fame ywouldvnet have been fizfiéred D to attempt the third time, , . D 1. He iivas but a fingle Evidence, and therefore neither ‘the Bilhop oatgbt to have believed‘ him at fir/3, nor the Jury now, fwearing againfl a 'Pre:b}tefs becaufeth: Holy Scripture (4: tbs Defemlam‘ urged) ought to have fonie reé ‘ fpecft and obfervance, (from :1 Bilhop efpecially ) who Is commanded, 43417715‘ an Elder not (fo much as) to’ receive an ./ilccufatitm, but under two or tbree D Wiitneflee. , y _ _ . y i l This little I4/emf; was not to be believed, becaule p1az'nt-blank contrizried by fix Wiet¢zeflE.c, who were not negative Witnefles only, but 8flll‘mItiV€' and pofitiye; if for they did not only fwearthey did mi bear any fuch Words,’ but all jointly and prfitivel} aflirrned, that they heard the wbolepD'1f30UFf5a h‘-Wd ‘ all tbe Words, and well remerfibred them, becaufe Harrie (after the Defenw dant’s departure, not befere) going into andther Room. and writing other P3 “Y (224 s-) s pany to fubfizribe, they.;wsrita:clowns.the true Words Whilltfrefli in their Memo- ries, and? all turn’d Abborrer: of l fovqile a Man, and fo wicked a Defign : And i / tll this was upon Oath made appear tofithe j‘mlg.rltch, the Scab, the Morphew, the Boyls, the Uncombs, the Carbuni cles, the.:I;e‘profy*, the Pimples, ( a Pox) and the Nodes, are but Skin—DilEafes,Y and Deformities coming immediately from the vicious or, and Gluten of the third Conooffiong (at third hand’, poor par-hoylingi Fnnéfion, but it cannot help‘ it) fovthe Mifchief, the Mzfi‘hief,, the Author and Origine of all this Mzfihief, is the Wnteicle“, «tihat’s»erronious, and outfiof order. " i A If the Bithop (theJOrig‘inal (guys of 311. this Difcourfe and" Stir, in fending down a-Sequeftration ‘ofthe £'rnallTithes of St. Battolph:‘(the Defendant’s Free-‘ hold) .by_th1‘s l‘;mag~.;§:Iarrir, in hopes to ‘do the Deféngdanit a or Difplea; fare’); had rzotheen ‘mflaken in this his Attempt, tliefe‘ Evils had not ‘come,’ they wgre bgt@the'tht't‘d Concoflion, and neceliary Confe'?"’ nts of the Bilhop’s Error. Except fame thought; perhaps thatMr. Hzckeringi! ' so him) is, (as Heraclitn: now calls it ( 13 ) hini) an AC‘, good for nothing but to be burthen’d5 _,or*,»Wo'r(e than a Worm, and—--- lhould lay-A--—Prelote _co{nze tread me, come, [lamp -upon me. I know, fuch an A]? likefottijionefi had been, (asit, proves) the «wilefl way, becaufe thc cheapell way, i-~—-But whatPatience can endure to be fir nnfled .3 t 4 < . e And fo the Word ——--fnzpndeynts——-rif (4: it ought) itihave reference to that fionfenfical (atlcafi) Impofition, npan‘tI:e Clergy, and to the Statute; who can deny but that it is Infilencearld Inzpndence too, for a Bifhop fo to infult over the Clergy, as either to recommend to,them;Articles to obferve,which are no where to be found, or which interfere, or are not warranted by the Statute ? I t ' And if the Defendant had not been over-ruled by afortof Lawyers, ‘ha; would have pleaded the Words, fpecially. as they were fpoken, —ab_./’q5./soc, And not to come upon an I/fire Non-Cnlp._—a—-sagainfta Fellow that (every Bod} ofl’nr’d In‘/n) would fwear rig/it-downTbnnzp 5 and yet his Memory fail’d him, for he could not for his Life repeat the firft Words, right 5 nor any one time repeat them, one like anot/oer and nniforrn. But let the, World judge, whether any flirty Witnefi be not good enough, when a Bzflaop 2': ‘Plantzfi, and before fizc/9 a jury, and fuch a --—-;'»-- (God /aelp, 1) do its will not always be thusg Let not the Tory Pamphleteers ever henceforth prate of an Jgnorarm/4-_'7'nrj5 Here’s a Billla-71cm jury (an Efléx-jar} to a Proverb) that fhallgive tlaern /Ja/fuzzy, and l yet over-run them: (But all this long Parenthefis by the way.) .Sir , ranci: 'Pcn:berton goes on to this Efieét, tho not. perhaps in thevery Words,.---_"l.'hat the jury had heard the Defendants ingenuous Acknowledgment, and that" he 'mu{‘t direét them to find good Dnnzage:,if they find for the Plantiffg faying that. the Bilhop of London is a ‘worthy and learned Bilhop, as any in England‘ Qthafs a large Place, and :1 lat e Word, and alarge Comparifong Iknow; not how the old Arch-Bifhop of rmter/.‘-ur} would talte it, if he fhould hear on’t 5) and therefore (quoth the judg) you mull vindicate his Lordlhip’s Rep"uta'tion,and give good Damages, if you find the Words---—-~ . T ,4 And they are fvvorn unto,by__one that__isa Clergy-mans he is (laid the’]t1dg) a fingle Witnefs (for What Sir.T/a’onr_a: Bxton fays, (he told them)’ they mull: not take tobe any proof of this Declaréation) but if they find that this fingle Witnels fwears true, eontrnrjto the other for the Defendant 5- (for, he faid, he muft fay the Evidence IS quite contrary one to the other, and cannot both be true 5) then (if they find for the Plantiff) he told them they might have fome refpeét to Sir T/Jozna: Exton’s Evidence in Aggravation of Damages: but faid again, (very honefily) that Sir T,/yonzao proved nothing as to the Declara- tion; but told them that Sir Tlaonnz: Exton is a Man of nnfloined ‘Reputation; the judg not refleéting in the leaf}, upon, the known and conflant B2étortionsi~ and Corruptions of Doélorbr-6‘oInnzon:,.3 nor, takingthe;leaPt noticeof Dr. Ex-: , ton’s difingenuity, in being a pnlvlick Evidence in Aggro-nation, for Words fpolien upon treaty of Snbnnflion, and as to a Friend, and without any exception or gufl, (Well liked of, by the Do€’tor,) at leaft, nnrnnnlyto make /J1’: Table 4 Snare, except a Man had ft;oke,Treafon 5 (but tbiri: the Condor of an Ecclrejinfiicol-y ‘ Lay Elder, or Lay-lzcar-Gerzernlg) For that 15 his place, ‘ he is the Bifhop of ‘London’s Vicar-General, the Bifhop cannot help it, he has a Patent for it for. ' his Life, granted by Hnnzpbrey late Bilhop of London Good doings! when our Soul: mull be Tutor’d by a Lay-Vicar that cannotpreach, but has got a Pa-~ tent .tO (end us to the Devil, and (at his good Pleafure) back again; rare do-1 ingr.’ Thisis the Man of Reputation) Who is (fire jndg goes on) unblémiflfdz; in his Repute: telling the Jury, that heymuft fay, as to the. Reputationof this: , fingle Evidence for the Plantiff (for indeedothe Caufe‘ depends wholly upon ; ls ’ 1 E demy; Villany, like Youth, mutt have time to his ‘fin-gle Reputation) [incl that tho i ~0r2-réjliéleflbe lze an ill thing, and that prov’d uponhim, and cannotbe denied 5 yet a Man may be a good Witnels, thohe do tranfgrels a Statute; ‘none of us ( faid be) but do tranfgrefs a Sta- tute fome time. or other. Note by the way, this is not the-lame Direction given at Mr. _Roufle’s Trial, when for the Breach of la Statute ( bf ’Umfirmz‘zy ) the Dilientters could not be admitted to be jury-men, (the Qfilatit jflntpqtarga fflzttlift risigood for fomething yet, for fiance the publifhing of the Qlélatk £19911: tflnfflzmiit thofe new Laws are not re‘peated5)and if they are by the Breach of a Statute uncapable of giving a Verdi&, furely they are much more incapaci- tated to give an Evidence. But he goes on —-—~ telling the jury, Non-reficlence‘ is not good, it is an ill thing, (indeed it is) butGod forbid but a Man may be believed upon his Oath, tho he be Non—relident. E ( And 720 dozzlat o2z’t, ’tz’i‘- ‘very true, ,..dnd mgajiat No-rz-confbrzmft alfizfizrely, (God forbid elfe) and with emtcbimore reafon .- For the one_[im~ (if Non-conformity be fiich a Sin) out of Weaknefi 5 but this Non—refidefit ( whom the Judg excusid fimfel t/Jree ggarter: of a Tear wilfully and zvickadly 5 a mjl dzflerezzce I (How imam}/‘Blah-‘ iili/I365‘ am Epzfcopal Favour draw at Curtain over, and /aide ! ) And indeed the judg (if a Body mayyfay lb) mightily miliook (through wantfot” Memory, or wore) in fumming up the Evidence thus to the Jury : - for the Defendant did not examine and force the Clergy-men to’ {wear Harrifs Neon-relidence, ash" thereby uncapable ofbeing a Witnefs, ( as the juclg fumm’d it) the Defendant was never guilty of fuch Nonfence and Impertinence, (and therefore the judg miliook himlelf but the ‘Defendant made the Clergy-men (that brought to fupport Harri: his Credit )to (wear his Non—refidence,that with their own Tongue: they might {Wear that they tbemfelve: were not Men of Credit, nor fit to be be- lieved, and thereforewore zmfit to prop another Man’s Credit, that had ruin’d (for ever), their oyvn, by {wearing contrary things, and impoflible to be true .3 namely, That they'2zet;er knew my ifl thing by him, and yet’ they were forced after that to {wear him a Non-refident, that (contrary to his Oath Canonical, and his Duty to God and his Flock,) had left them to a Log-river, that cannot read his Accidence, much lefs fupply his own Cure, the {aid Mr. Syllr. (The . f7\('o1zcor2f'am27:/l: have not got all the Mecbanick Preacbergthe Church oFEngland hath got Tome, Log-ri22er.r,Brol@72 Tradefimen, and I /{now no/50.) But lilien to the Judg, be gee: on, but takes no notice of what the Earl of Lincoln {wore it/gainfl Harris, no notice of his fmfwearirzg biezfelf for the‘ Company of a yerzcb, no notice of his being a Mdudlz’r2—Drm2kard, no notice of Hrrrir his De_/ign to (enfimre the faid Earl out of the Fee-{imple of the Manor of Time- kiugbam, " goo l. pergammm, ‘by a Deed writ in'Cdurt-hand, which he thought the Earl could not read, when the Earl intended onlyto fettle the Mannorot‘ Tbrockingbam 5 and for thispiece of Knavery, the Earl fwore, that he was cre- d1b1,yfmformed,. that Hezrrirwas to have, if it fucceeded, a hundred Guianjer. .‘7\Cewo reperzte fit improlmg No Man can be a great Rogue per filtzmt, fud-i . grow, gradetim. , But the Honefl judg took no notice of the Villany fworn againlt this Harrir, and thus par’ticulariz’d by that Noble Earl, that flarce 4 gfztry inst/3e Werld noeulcl ibdlig 4 Dog uponfizcla Etziderrce. But lilten to What the Judg (aid, to this efi'e€’t, telling ‘the Jury that he left ii to them. But on the‘ other tide, {aid the judg, the Defendant has made indeed a verylarge Defence, and has told true, that this Statute of 2 Riel). 2. upon which this Aéiion of Scamlal. ¢flI'ag27at. is brought, » was made when Popilh Prelates bore a great Sway 5« but itie not rctpealed, ( re- member that) It is in force, and is not yet repealed. And tho (‘nS”tlie De- fendant hath alledged) Religion now is not. 1'/38 flare, nor has the fame Head, * l nor‘ ( 30) nor the fame Face confequently 3 yet the Statute isnot repealed. The Defen-'1 dant has produc’d fix Witnefles, to contradiét the Bilhopfefingle Witnefs’: they do fwear contrary one to another,’ bot/act}.-eir Te inzonier” cannot be true : They: fwear, that fonieof them writ down the Words, upon Mr; Harri: his coming to them to have them fitbfcri/9e his Paper, which they refufed, faying, foon after‘ the Word: were fizoken, that the Words were not fo fpoken by the Defendant, but _/o and, as now they all unaninzonjly fiill agree in 5 and if you believe them, you muli find for the Defendant. _ 0 .Thus have I given the Reader a true ./{ec0unt,' and alfo an ample and full Account of this Trial (fo much talk’d of) nor have I omitted any one t‘naterialThing, fpoken by the Counfel, or the judg, or given in E ”- ‘. dence, on either fide, but without partiality have given ‘a faiihztil Account. ’ . ‘ i » T But the jury withdrawing, (and Dinner ready) theiCrier odjourn’d the . Courtg but before he had full} crfd out bi: Cr}, ‘Hold, hold, cries Sir°George_ " jefirier, and Sir Fmncz‘: Witbenr, to the Crier 5 and he obeyed : whillt they whifper’d to the judg, and defired him to Pay a little longer, ‘for the jury would f peedily return (they knew their Mind: and Refizlution: belike) with their Verditft, thinking and intending to,fnap the Defendant ‘in Court, and ‘have 0 him committed to Prifon,if they knew how, without Bail, as the Statute enjoins“ in the Cafe, if fcandalous Words be found (by the Verdiéi of Twelve‘TMen) to be fpoken of i a ‘Prelate. Make Room there ——-———-—-»- Take heed, Gen- tlemen, talte ‘warning 5' l and if you will avoid hard Imprifonment, and 2000 1. and 811 11I1Hl€I’ClfU1 and CrU€1]ury, fpeak not againli the Prelate not a Word, no, tho it be God’s Word 5 and therefore rrrake an Index Ex- pnrgatorim, and blot out of your Bibles, Luk. 22, 25, 26, 27. and 2 Tet. 5.- i 2, 3. and I Tim. 5. 21. 1 Tina. 3.3,6. Atffr 20. 29. For thefe, and many more, condemn a brawling, proud, young, covetozo: Aéfion-driver, and Proznoter, (tho :1‘ Prelate,., fo much the worfe) condemn all. Prelacy that infults over, tyrannizes over, or lords over the Brethren, and like greedy and grievous W olzzer, entring in,notfl2aring the Flock; as if the Flock of Chrilt was made to [re eat up, and de.' , voured, not to be fed, and as if the rich Biflop: could not thank God, and be content with their rich Palaces and Endowments, but they mufl enrio/2 't/Jernfilver with the Team‘, Crier, and Green: of the Widow and Or};/ions; A blelied Time ! ~ » i 2 But fome fay, That the Bilhop of London intends to build -‘Paul’: with this 2000 I. (when he gets it) as far as 2000 I. will go. -e——-.I’le (‘peak more to that in the following Obfervations. 1 Q g But firlt let us conclude the Trial. The -fury, after fome Confultation amongli th€mf€1V€S, foon agreed upon their Verdi&,— being foou reflzlrfd upon the Prennfw, and the Conelnfion, ( not before-hand furely) but they made‘ no great Paufi upon the Matter ; the Cafe Was :1 clear Cafi’ as any thing, not to“ be que[tion’d, and about a Trifle --—— only--——-- 5000!. Damages. Who are you for? a filly (hrefiion not to be nam’d? W /20 areyou for .3 T For the Defendant, do you fiiy ? (a likely matter) when there is a great Bifhop, and Privy-Councellor, and great with the King and Court 5 For the Defendant .3 not 21 Man d8I'€ W33 {Q fimP]e. ‘ _ .What ! do you think wife Men do not know which {ide of their Bread the Butter lies on? “ ~ A T ' And ‘Andyet one of the Defendant's Counfel, (For he had retaitfd Coiiniel, and feed them again at the Aliizes, rather to avoidthe Itnputation oi‘ P4c1‘_]1p1g~syr; than of anylntent he had to make ufe rot. them) Jjcame to the {Defend-,mi; Whiliit at Dinner, and 'iv.hi{'pe.ring him iytiithe Ear, allufd hitri that the private _ Verdiét was given in, and for the Defendant. \ . After him came 'another with :he~fimeEm;«m1, iwhietlieri decieiired i Weakrrej}, ordeligning to deceive the Defendant through Vf’z’c."{czeIn2:f:, I lhhll notdetermine. ‘ '. _. A 1 p - t i This is certain, the Plot was to inveigle the Defendant into the belief of the Verdiéi, which the Defendant did To far believe, for neither he, nor any unbiafifd Men could imagine any other Verdift than for A the Defizzderzrg the Declaration being but fiammeringly,_ uneertainly, varioully, and Contyrarif ly repeated by the Epzfcopdl Iiziplefiteffit, little Harri! 5 hitnfelf prov’d* infamous‘ by a Noble Peer, ( whole Oath not to credit, was the greater Smdaz. Magnet; i ofthetwo) and ex'a[2m2dant_z', fix fubliantial pWitneHes Contradkiéiing that ir1fam01;.r Engine of W/icI'{€d72€_/3'.) Belides, 4 the Deblamfiorz riot pretrial :32 the leaf}; namely, that the Scandals were fpokenlbefore diver: it/ae K2223’: Srzbjeéir : Here Was btit ‘one Snbjeét, and he me of tbe ~ And accordingly the Defenpdantfi Was treatingwith his Landlord at the. White-lHorfi, hoyv and with what Tuitablia‘ Accommodation to treat the jury, (for that is the Culiom belilte) 5 but ihe Jury‘ were wzfir, and expeéied a‘ better Treat, (for a quite-coizirarj I/trains}; "by 2i gt'eaterPurfe. op _ , _. H ,_ ,_ The Plot was to . cajole the Deferzdarzt into" a good Opinion of the Privy-3 Verdiél‘, that ifo-Praying in Town, the Adverfary might {nap him with a . Cap-§ tion, ready gut and dried,» to hale him to Jail. _ And if they had lhceeeded it}, that After-Garr’2e, it had been td thetii Worth ten fl/ch Xferdifisg For if they had got him into L06:-pound for fix Months, Idb‘ not know but the Same Doublet iiiigbt bdbé lafied /aim bis’ Lzfeezeze. But; they Were not more cunning than he was crafty and being itifortn’d his faithful Friends (that could fee as far into a Mill—fione as the bell of them )i | and as privy as the mfi} I/erclzfl was, they fiented it : And thereupon the De; fendant, with five more of his Friends, tooli Horfe, and rid for Ltwelon, 22.?/.7ei‘£'?i be new is, giving their Wiles theiGo-lay," to their great Grief, and yvill ndt appeat till helift, in good Time, and when Time {hall Ierve,‘ , Well (catch him, We’i1potm‘d hifii, qhoth (sir Sm'2)..; , A , .‘My'Friends—-:-it is not to be done. I ‘ ‘ \ ii For a Man that is in {Erie Harbour to’ put out to S'e':i ’tz'll.ihe Storrri Ire hirer)? 'a,rg,u_esiFolly indeed; the Fool (Solomon fa'y's") goes to’ the Correéfioiz of the Stvékts 01‘; Wtsihlié N55l$iDf9§h€C°1‘3T- « , . ~ . . , L To abieond For Treafon, AMu_rd‘e'r, Robbery,Fellony or Debt, wéjuld indeed be dilhonourables to the Author of jI2aken;@rmiJ', A , ’ But, (blefied be God,) The Mam-Catcher: have laid nothing 4} £5 i Charge, bu‘tWords fpoken againli their prettj~Coum and Prelater, and thefe mefted too) flew" their true ezemng, (as {hall be prof/ed.hereaf‘ter in the Sap-I plicavit-(Bit/irgeyfirtj Ifworthy Men, and Men of great Reputation and Renoivvnl may bectedited Co much as’ Harri: amdt/oeflx Troflori. p _ . y __ And thefe accufe the Defendant of nothing but fomé 771/71 Weed: MQ thee}? dfifbe wbrii) they lay 7'20 to‘ his Charge, but fuch’ as‘ is comma to Men; efpecially to Men of the D”efenda'nt’s Cori_1pl'exion. V J . ‘ _ _ p For he is a Man fubjefii (above many others) to vim} 1t7_/Irmifiex, fomiéfwhag O Ciholoricktb‘ysNetz1re and (fi3oI1li_itutiion“, (Wh'ich' tho" he ftrives (1/rrroug/3 GMCQ toquell, yet ’tis‘hard‘q'uite to’ extifpate Nat‘ur'e.)' But “If none but fitclftf (age . CV5- l ( P 7- ) . - never fpolte a rafh Word, not ever fpokge worfé Word: than is laid to the De; fendanfs Charge) lliouldcaftthe Stone at him, or put him in laile, i’tis hoped he might fafely walk the ‘Street: again, and go to his Grave in Peace. ‘ In the Interior he alafcoadr neither for Debt, Treafon nor Felony, (that’s a great Mercy in thefefliamming-Timer) but enjoys the Happineis of walking ir7c‘()g77it0 (a Happinefs that. Princes feldom can arrive unto,and becaufe of their publick—Station are (in vain) ambitious of) and fees and hears what’s done in the World, fees and obferves-,--— fees and takes Notes-—--fees, (as in an Balcony) the bufiling Cavalcade in the Streets, and yet not annoyed with the clamorow arrdfreaty Crowd 5 fires and is not feen—-—- There’s the Pleafitre as well as the Grandieur offietirement, a Grandieur that great Men may en-vy, but macapahle to obtain the Felicity, as well as the Safety, the %iet andjthe Security5 made the whore conformable by Neceliity and the gentle hand of God5 P ( for efome good end no doubt) a Peetirement happily freed from the Noife and Bufinefs of the World, thebawlings, brawlings and yawlings, the buftle andruflie of the Barr and Pulpit, the throng and crowd of vexatious Turmoils and im_per—_ tinent Vilits5 ( a Happinefr not ’tz'll rzow " enjoyed, ) to be buried. alive, to be buried and yet live, in hope: of a joyful ariling5 to be‘ buried {afe from the poymmt Malice of Enemies, (for Envy ceafes in the Grave, and they are malicious to purpofe, that envy him this poor- play of ———- Hide and Seeh.__. and Bo‘~peep .-) and yet alive and hrisk fit]! with fome Friends, and with his belt Friend on Earth-———H7': Loyal Confort 5 V the happy Mother of ten lufty Children, and {even alive Ptill, bleiled be God 5 Heirs enough for his Eliate, and Eftate enoughfor his Heirs, if the Bifhop do not make them poor er2oagl;..__. (God knows 5) at lealt--It is to be fear’d--- Nohlerzefi of Nature 2'; aotgyewy Body’: Portion 5 But God help, however 5 For the Defendant (if he be wife) will never beggar himfelf and his Family, to build Cathedral: for Singing-Boy;__ -be as cunning as they can-—-And they are fithtle-,--very fubtle-—-- Ay——- _/E) they are-,-—(-1-and fo might others too, with one quarter of the Power they have in their Han s 5 D i i D :..—._..—. Fight on .Macdzzfi,' And let‘ him fall that firfi fays, Hold .’--—~ enough. Before (it came to) Extremity, has not the Defendantfludied Peace and pur-l fued it, once, twice, thrice—--if poffible--—And a: hatch as in him lie:, (23 you will hear anon) by all the methods and ways of Meeknels and Submillion, as fir as is confiliant with aMan of Honour P . i 5 And have they not been inexorable, and like the Meridian-Shadow: (ofhtleny , running North-ward) which flys the fafler, the falter they are purfued? Are they not inexorable to any Terrm, but what is worfiz than Death, and ill becomes a Gentleman or a Chriftian P c . ‘ Has the Defendant lived fifty Years in the World, and t_ravell’d half the Globe of the Univerlit, with all the advantages of an ingenuous Education, in fludying Men and Books, and is he yet to feek to know fuch Men? He knows what is in Man5 knows what is in Men fIulh’d with Power and Intereli, and A fleflfd with Succefs and Revenge. ‘ ' ‘ ' . Let them be beaten with their own Rod, whiehwith fuch Induftry, Joy, Intereft, Friends, Power, Glory, and Combination they have to eagerly contriv’d: " s , » ~ '——--TheScabbard’s throwti away’-5-_-Come on Maedafi,‘ And Coward he that firft fays——4HoIelJ'! .—-— enough. Horzelly 4 C L Miflrefsof Fools) WofulExperience,_yqmltoo late. Honefly 7°: the by} Policy? and fo fzwac/3ia'vellz'zzm_) will find (to their 00]} in time 5 and C£~rzflimzz'ty is the greatell Wéfdom 5 and Perfec':ution.,! T yranny,-‘ Opgpreflion, and lEXtO!’tiOD»‘,tl1€ gryzatc’/2 Fall} in the World 1 But,,_ 06 3e. Fool: ' wine}: will ya ‘be .3 f.iit‘h Solozmn, when will ye be igoodé- Neezer, me-vei~,fome Men will never be good (lmt like 4 Spaniel) ’till they be beaten to’t, by (the A little Honefly and Chriflianity is foon and eafily attained unto; and will do Wonder: in Goverjzment, and wit}: ea/2‘; whereas, (at «2 Lyar /24;! med. /Mzxecé, goad Mammy, and yet is often put to his Trumps.) a Mac/sicmellimz; gwith allyyhiig, (xiii-ks, and S/mm, and Subornings, and Tricks, is as very a “Fool as Pope ./{lexander the 6th, and his Son Ccefizr 'Borgzy}z.r,V (to whom (the I'7l0re2z,t_z.'1_2_¢) Macjbiaml, was both Secretary and Tutor in that Blade-Art,’ ~ ealled .‘(M;m/;.;.( wellian) P0l7'iA‘)') both of themeoming to an illiends and a violent Death,f;il_lirig’ into the very, ‘Pit they dz'gg’d for others, and p0_yf02z'd\Weith.the very Drugg: they prepaid for the Italiazz-Pr,i_m:e:, , by,the jufijzzdgsment of the righteous‘“God-—..—j that [its in .Heaven,—,and lzmgb: (the Atheifl) to Scom——-i-yea the Lord ]/32211 . . ,‘ . I have them in Deriflon. ( _, - . And let fome Men triurnphgzroviriand infult,at Viétory they by; little.-Tool, and efpecialtly (that famejfiecial-fury) and glory that they have Ii-i lenc’d_ him (the Sin and Shame-lye at their Door) ; flapping bi: Mazzt£2,J becaufe ofcbeap-Marriage: without a Licenfe 5 and he {hall be in his Church of .A’/!- ‘ _Sai:;{t: the next, Lord’s_ Days, (God willing) 0 and fo oni letithem do their worfl-, 0 No Man that falls by great Power,--—c:an (pol/Ebly) fi1llworegezztl}'————-norfiai lef:Ofl'ences; 1!‘ - . . ., ,- ;There’s nothiingifivvorn againCt.hirn,nor laid to‘ his Charge, for which dnlgood i.Mm,~ orMan,of Honour Ina: eaufgjoyblufi, a_nd,I2e-ruby his Cheeks. '7 , . The ’Bj{hop..fi1fi offends in fending‘ an ItnmqrrqiéwbleSeqztflretigrz,. (thei'e’s the em,-,"g_¢‘_,;,\¢; ,3)" and fbr t/air occafion, the Defendant fizfiarx and pays. 2000 1. there’s’ the Confeguerzce of that Orlglne, ,or'_iQrigimzl Sin. ~ 1 I , . I V A's___f()on‘;é1s the Judg bad filled his_B,elly,‘l_1ereturtfdto the ahd fo_catch‘ the Defendant, but tl1‘€ Bird 129:1! flown. - _ . . i 0 V -.Y The Verdiét was for the Plzmtzfi,’ Damagey 2000!. (And fo they. Bid all,»bei.ng agreed upon, t}_3_e .B:4fing,Cr,,‘,and.tiheir Fore-than (Sir ./{;zdrew_'7',e”12nér) their Learned’ ‘ Speaker, or Spoke:-man. V Thus ended this Famous Tr1ial,oF~whiicllwhen I -have maclefome Objérvafionxg‘ "(For theT.ory's have Wt £034‘//.1/Jcj 0_bferz;4tor’s. on their fideg) I will giye youan :_tcco_unt ofithat other Ecclefidflicql-Engiize to batter the,,Defendan(, byiAl‘lidav>its: ftyorn by fix Ecelefiaflical Lay-PerfQnsca1l_ed -s(Proé?or,: of Doéhr’:-Comzzzorzx ,5 (Ay, there, there the Mifchiefs‘ (againfi the Nakd-Truth) ,a.r€ hatCh’d‘5.. They _ for Life, at lealfi, for ddirt} Lively/,»ood, _ W~l¥iCl1_:f€€mS -to Hand on" ..Tz'g-Tae,~' t_Q.t_t'e1-ing,_ and jufi ypon the goe.) “And therefore they Would; I/Vire-drazii baog in VI/.q/{m_in_Eer:iH4l1_,(baG; In.di’gnity,l') to prop yuipfitlieir rotten and; tottering Frame, by craving (Forfootb !) fiomyithenee Aid, in a Writealled Szg15plicaz2it,' ' I '_ . ‘ -‘M .. . , V‘ w " .0-xx ‘ ;“;’;1f‘ ;~,..Ii5.11"S.l.l1I{.h" Let ustztoft o.zzer-pa : this Signal 'I'riaI.Wiichouts»1“ome Rematiks,“ or 01fin‘;a:1ons.* e s _ s- 0 ' 7 i < :22 OBSERVATIONS Made (by an unkown Hand)i Upon the foregoing T R IA L.“ Irft, we will ab/em the Ohfereation: that have been already made of this 2202]} Trial by the Tory Tamphleteerr. ’ ’ . s e The Tory Ohférvator is wzfir than to trouble himfelf ‘with difquieting - Mr. Hickeringill, or to abufe himfélf by nicknaming others,whether out of refpeét or fenfe of Honour, or out of fear of Mr. Hickeringilfs {marten Pen, (that never fcratches but when Defendant) we will not determine. But Ihompfon and Hereclittle-——— ‘t . i in a How now? Thonzpfon and Heraclitw! Will any Man of Honour floop /3 iow to take notice of fuch contenzptihle Wretehe: .3 Wretches below‘ all {corn 1 ” Wretches that would have no Name but for the III: they do. For they‘ like Eroflratw) are ambitious of aName,- by committing una- «heard-of Villaniee, -tho they thereby mine themjélwfa 4114 4*‘ (07769 ,-fit?’ 91]) i Chnrch. ‘ V V t _ And (without offence be it-fpoken) it‘ isa Condefien/ion yc(nzeritorione) for any Man to dehnf} -hirnjélffia much as to takeinotice of fuch defpicable and A for- lorn Brnwir, (the Objeéts every honourable and honeft Man’s Contempt) , -any otherwife, or with anyfother defign than (thofe charitahle V2‘ It‘! made to , the Jail, when common Robbers and Murtherers are condenzn’d to the Gala- lowsi) to enquire (either) after Good: (by them flollerzg or, by {hewing them the Evil of their Ways, bring the condemid illain: to Repentance, before they be ohatlgld- it A ‘ s ' — Which A6? of ‘Charity, Humility, and lzonntifiil Condefcenfion, I:(n02v) Pie oufly take upon me, by (thin) ohflzrving their Ohfizrwtiom. (Nay, the To. rie: [hall not have all the Ohflarwtort on their ficle, the Whig: {hall have forne 5» for (to tell (you-the naked Trnth on’tf the politick and piano‘ Torie: have bereft me of hetterfimtiloyment, and very cnnningl} hazzegizzen me lezfi/re to (do little elfe but ) ‘ohferve their Motions. reward them-according to their Piety, arid their (Works, and let them fall into the Pit that with fuch cotnbia ned Inter’-e{t(. Cunning and Power‘) fo induftrioufly they have digg’d~. - — ‘r ‘And: firfi fi;n:.Thmzpfon, fo vile a Moth, that he is too much honou’r’d _’to be , emflfd with the hliwt End of my ‘Pen. no But I fife him ‘here, as he will be surfed when he comes“ (‘among{t’other'(condetfi»n’d) Murtherers and AfTafl_i~nates>of Mens~Lives and Reputations) éat Tjhnrn,"?(n'amely)'~t'o, tie up iandholter the greatefi Rogue 0‘ -_ ‘, - Fegihxl If~lwe—£1one with himfor ever ; (the very'*firR time) It came near him, no rotten Carcafl: or fake: comes nigh him for a Scentg He Rinks above * ‘ Ground -———- moft abominably and naufeoufly, in the Nojiril: of all that have not loft their Senfes. Hie Roguefiip heing -very ignorant, and alfo fuch a hold, daring, inzpndent. Man,Z’or finding fame Head: of ----»~ Lie: —--- in hit Printed open-— eoitrarj to am; whence it will appear, that he is concerned in the . 7910! v------ the horrid Iilot againfi Mr. Hickeringilfs righteous Name and Rep”- tation, ( 35) iation, —---””‘ii*'ii belyingshimi all the Kingdom over, as a Man caaqao? ‘of'Per]'ary, To aflaflinate: bi: Honour and Reputation; the only Anfioer (yet) made '( ifi defence of the lilxtortions and Opprellions F0 impudently continued to this day ‘in Ecclelialilcal Courts, lmfdefiance of the Statutes of ‘ this Realm, and contrary) to the Naked Trnt/3. I am not able to endurethe Carrion any longer, and therefore I leave him ’ to the Juflice of the Nation, and to Mr. Hic/{erz'ngill’s fwinging Aétion againlt him, and his pretty Confort 5 and except he hide hisyhated Head for ever, he will be ,puni{h’d for that dangeroz/4 and damnable Lie and Slander againfi the righteous Name and Reputation of Mr. Hie/geringill, in fliying, he was coma: of Peijmy. Nay», they would conviff Mr. Hie/{eringifl offomewhat worfe than Perjnry, { I fear) if they could getiany Man-catchers, or"Ieague.r 0.Dz’oe1ly, in- to his Company : nay, there Was one Mortlacé, asfslack-fmith of Colcfaefler, , "that asking aCnnning-Lawyer’: Advice, what he fhould fwear againli Mr. 1“:1z'cke- ri~ngz'll-.3 ‘ *Br’ea«thsfellei‘ replied, -——— Canfl than not fweaf Treafln againfl lain .9’ C Or, that he is a common Drunkard, or a common Whotemafier, or a common ' Sweater? Treafon? qu0th"Mortlac/(, yesl can, In what? (replied Petty- fogger) in Words or Deeds P Mortlaokanfwer’d, In VVo7‘d:, Treafonalole Wordr. But Crafiyreplied, How/ong ago? How long is it fince you can prove you were in his Company ? and in what place P Mortlackanfwefd, That he heard the Words fpoken in the Kings Highway, near Dilbridge, about four Months before that Time, (for he could not prove thatever he was in Mr. Hi¢~;§erin- g1'lZ’s Company except that time, when there were alfo above twenty People -IIIOTE. ‘ . (Where-upon quoth Crafty, Speak no more then of Treafonable Words, for you will be -l‘l‘21l1l}g’d for concealing Treafon thus long 5 but What fay you to ’¢h€0th€~r ? ; i. , -keringill, that he is no common Drunkard, nor conzrnon W laorenzafler, but (he took: great upon it, fayi~ng;,) I will fwear that he is a common .S,wearér,‘ and that never a Wotdcomes out of his Mouth, but an Oath Comes out. , And he was as good as bis Word, and got two more to fwear (1/Je fiznze) along’-wsith-Ihim, both of which have with_Tears (fince) and on their bended Knees, befgfl Hz‘ckg:r‘z'ngz’i1’s Pardon, (that’s more than T/aompfon hath done) and he ififiiikly and generouf-lay did forgive them, a and they live in Coir/otfler to this day 5 but.Mortlack is fled for it ever fince. _ o » C C . Fo‘t%by«the Craft of Sir -5'. before,sSi»r»J\/Inndzfind Brain/ion (as Mailer in Chancery) the? Villains fwore to Articles, whereupon a Supp/icaoit‘ ( this Doc7or: {’on:n2on’o Snpplioavii. is not the firfi, nor‘th’e ,]z"r$7 S nppliravit devis’d againlt him ~ by ;that Root of Bitternels and Revenge, Sir ) was granted againll him; and bound he was in Chancery, in 20 l. the Principal, and I0 I. the Manu- cagptors 3' and thus was he put _to fomeilittle Trouble and Charge. And. Mr. Hit: A [ggring-z'llifiandsa(?to this day) in Chancery (upon Record) aComnron-Su2earer,8cc, . and yet he never -fwore fo much as one ralh Oath in his Life. What will not Malice and Man-catchers fwear? t ’ . i _ ? ' ' A Butmonethat knows ‘Mr. Hiokeringill believes them,. but knows they ~at'e perjufid gafid Ciikethis Tbompfoirz,» or Parfon Tbomfi/on of (golrifig . ' as like his Name-fake até-— as one Devil to an0t‘l‘1e1") the Senna .ofA/Iankiazol, andfo bloc/_{ iflfbé Moutb with continual Lies and S/andezv, (bothofi thenl) a;1d,efigooia1l1-again]i Mr. H2'c}(erz’ngz'll, that no Recording Ink C2111 paint ‘their’ , {nutty F€‘.I3_.t‘i11‘,€S,;d,1;/‘i714’! 01‘ black enough, they are R) He!/7/7) and Imp-12'/re, Vt here I-jleswesthems ritedifcourfe. with , Part,y-per-pale, htlf Fool, half Knaveg y; ‘ .F(J(/Z, ortlaok anfwered, It is too apparent-to allthat know Mr. Hz'c- a ,._, .. ".fiL ___' ,,- “#4 ( ;*6 5 s ’ Pool, or 7efler, -———.and. Know in Earneff, Heraelifzér 3, WhatObler\?i1ii’ofh does he make of this famous Trial ? p, , . W t It Bufy Heroclitm Num. 59. treating oi-"gthis Affair (this I/72.znoiel’s Hand m_uPt be cogairzji ‘every Bod ', is it not meet that ‘every Man’s Hand. lhould be againll i ti/air Privy and Mafquerade-Aflzl/inote of Men’s Reputation ? Saying, He (Hick; Forfzotb 1’) wilhes by this time he had made ufe of an abler Counfellor. No doubt, Tricks and Merrie: in Low, are belt defeated by Men oc'on5‘7oné’ol to firob ggerbg ancl.Tricks, the difgnize of Truth, and the olefieot of many an honefi Caufe. ThefeQt1irks (the Rabble that ufe them) are ulelefs in the ” = Zlnited Pro-vince.r, where every Man plead: bi; own Czznfeg ‘of wbieb the flame Sun that views the firfi Procefs,fees the End and Determination before it fleeps in the Ocean. « ' , Whereas we labour withour nice Pleadings, Quirks and Tricks,’ 'VVr'i'ts of, Errors, Pleas, Rejoynders and Demurrers eternally. A Man was lnclifled--—quia\fnratw eff Eqzmnz, becaufe h_e «Role a Horfe, A in Holland he had dy’d forit) but with us the Indiélment Was quaitrd for lack of Form, there wanted (Forfootb the Word) Felonice 5 and therefore ill. 29~x/fl4s- r . o u ~ , A Man was Indiéted that he was conzrnnnir Lotro, a common Thief; and the Indiétment was held vicious, becaufe too general --—-never coming on to the particular Proof. ‘ i at l A Man Murder’d another, but the Indictment (by the Clerks overfight‘, or worfe, was only Interfizcit) and was quallfd for want of the Word llalnrelroekit. Thoufands oflnltances might be given of pretty Qrirks and Niceties (that are now made fuch effential parts of the Law) that he is accounted the Man o Law, that is molt nimble at them, to take a Caufe with a--—- .W£2y not 5 Ticki- Tackg as iffome defign had been to make the Law (‘like Sieve: and Cnllenderrj -fit” of Hole: for (be nonce. t ' s M . ‘ But, Come may lay th’en—-—What {hall become of the Ver2nz‘ne,‘th.e Loonfi‘:‘o'no’l tbe Catterpillorr, that (like thofe Plagues of Egypt) eat up every green tbingi: in tl3eL4nd.3 .. , . How now? Irtbis good ‘Behaviour .3 Is Smp/an bound? or bound with _Withs offmal Cords, made on purpofé to be bro4_en.> Explain your felf, who do you mean by the Vermine, the Loculls and the Caterpillars, that eat every green thing in the Land, and is the great plague-fore thereof? Wlvo do you mean ? Sir. i i ‘ i ' . ., You, that are fo blunt and fucha plain Dealer, do you mean thofe Tbrong: about Temple-.Bor, and C bancery-Lane ? thofe Crond: of Pen and Inbborm? 'that:‘ a Man can fcarce flit there without being jnfiledor run down by them ortheir Coaches? Speak out, who do you mean by -? the Verznine ofthe Land, the L0- cufls, and the Caterpillars? ii ‘ i Why then, really, truly, and plainly, I eel! 1lJo_/é Loeuflr, and Caterpil- W lars, and Vermine, that live on we Sweat of other LVIen’s Brows, and of the fveet Labour anal lndnflry of-the painful Hnrbandneon, and Country-man, who (iftheywere not Foolr) would agree their Qtarrels over a good Fire, and a Pot ofA1e, by the Wen of tbeir [Wig/Sbourbood, ( for it mull come to that at 14/3, and nab} not as well atfirfl .3) before the éfiate be woyled, time confurn’d,- with Donceing Attendance to Vermine, * ~ ‘ ‘ ‘ M But what [hall the Locnfl: and Caterpillar: do .3 Ask Mr. Wilfen, tells‘ ' you in his Defcription of the new Plantation, called Carolina, that there is‘ good Air, room enough-for the Locnfl: and Caterpillars, thole uni-profitable‘In-3 feéls and Devourers. Room enough for the He’: and Sl:c’:, let them go therctla‘ an ( 37 and warkdfld Eegerzder 5 Why _//Jould not Spider} ffzirz .3 5. And yet (with Heraclitzz: my good leave)‘ the Defendantdid (ifit watt the,m,,en»tioning ) ( in his pleading this Caufe ) tbi: Tick-tack which rgi,ight,as well have been kept ficret, but that Hefaclitw will not be pleafed without it; , - -. - I Qrfthef Declaration, is only zm"Prel4t. not zm’Magz2at. and though the Plantiff does declare as Epzfcop-Land. and m2’rPrelat, yet (laid the Defendant,) it does not appear (by. the ,Dec.laratz'o12,) ’ that the Plantiif is zm’Magmzt, and therefore.no_t within the Statute. V ‘ ,2 ' , _ .iFor5th’e_ ‘Defendantfaid further, . that he had eonfulted the Record: ‘of tbcyé tiuges, .whefe.byr,the meaning of the Words (B2:/710p and Trelate) in thofe days, is belt el;ea_regl ,5, and does not find that ever by Prelates or Bifhops is meant Mai(g7raier,g,.,o,t' le Grzmtz., or [e Sez°g7z7'eur.r---- and . therefore Scandalumr Praela-9 toru17z,,no1;2\_._§can4:{zzlu722, épiféoporum, can poflibly by. that Statute be meant Shanclalum agnatzmz- 2'5-.'EdW-'~-3-’ ‘:T~h,¢ Proceedings and Judgment of Death againfi Sir Wil/icmii de Tboigg, Chléfllutfiice) for Briéerj, and brought into Parliament, which the King C.a,\.Ill§id(_-{Q iJ¢.ar§8d f«O~_Z{3,7ft’773l2i deverit Ie: grantz de Parlement 8(c. openly? before,;t;he Qreat _fMene-,-,—-¢ coram Magnatilm, that could nottbe the Bifhops, 1,£\bbjOtS,_:Pt‘:lO§§,'.I10t7.P1‘€lat€S--—-—- for they were (always withdrawn) inthofe days, out of _thC;H:OL1f€ of,Lords-—--t in. judgments or Inquefi upon Life and Death, _ was,—+-¢..F0r' the C/3z'ef:.}uflice was bang’-d for /27’: Bribery : right, \ o. v and good rea_/072, -—-—- C_av§,_ a Cave.) 5 v, ,42--, Sitjfl/:Wi4¢t:L€.€, iSteWar;d_0f the King’s Honfe, was char ed in P31.’ 1i3IIl¢i1S; ?j,f01'= f‘3,V}€T 31-, Mifdemeanors -—— Et Apre: manger vindrent le: ‘I§relat:,- ,, ,:_u-’r,: Dinner came» the -Prelates, Dukes, Counts, dm Hem, Cbeinggbuta Mifdenteanor) the Prelateswere prefent, it not being in a Q}1¢)fl1on_,of‘Life or Death._ s t » * _ , 75o Be/w.s‘§.,.‘;;A1ipg,:‘Z°err«er:s. wastaccufedfor Breach of an Ordinance, (F0 is the Record, but it was really a Statute, which in thofe Days was called an » 'Qr'dina.ngt:e)i 4it.'v_em'r~d‘e7Jzmt’ le: Prelatr, @161 Seignieur: du Pqrlement ‘ ' D Whi,_Eh':£{lfo was not in? a Queliion of Blood, and therefore the Prclatei‘ are namid, as yqell‘ as~thee_M+,zg2zate:, ‘or lc.t__Seigneur:; « Manyflinftatneespf thjs,Nature ma.y’{be‘,given,i wherein Prelates were never’ t figniiied: y\]Q_rds,f Magnates, le Gramtx, or Ie Seignieurr, or Peer: Fol‘ t_hey.,are-',tr,!,f3iritna1: Seignienr: : That our Lord the Kin may well hold hie ‘Parliament by Himfelf, and his Temporal Lords, and by his Commons, without tbe Spiritual Lordt, 8tc._ Yet ( by virtue of their '73aronie:) they have Ri ht to (it in the Houfeof Peers, tho*-their ‘Bretbren-‘Prelate: (Abbot: and riorr) be outed, and the Privilege’ of Sitting in the Houfe of Lords does not now continue (de a 39:30) to thofé Gentlemen that now enjoy ' tl.vo_/é Bszronie: vobicb the Abbot: bool,With--all their Privileges and Imrnunities,e§~c. Of which Privileges and Immunities, &c. this was one, to int/ae Honfe o Peers, and granted and regranted, in the fame manner the Abbots, éc. held thefl: Toronier. But I doanot know-He 3nre, how‘ for this Immunity does ex- tend, nor is it my Province to argue it, ~ tho! ainrpoflefled of the ‘Barony of the Prioryof Wz‘rl{e:ein Ffix; to me and my Heirs, with all the Immunities,é~c. and therefore one would think] might claim the Privilege of a Prelate, out of \ that old Statute, 2 2. that hath caulfed all this Debate and Debait. Nay, all Clergy-men ( that are Reéiors) are Prelatesg fo'ieLjnolwood, a Doélorr-Common: Oflloial, in‘ his Prooincialr. Con. Ofbot f:cerOrdo. ‘verb. illite- mmr, 052348;],-g1!0t’dIz¢1'a melt?) magi: oletefiaendageflet 'in8ptfiopo, rnojori Prelato», If there was a major Prelate,then there was a rninor 'Prelate-*5 little Men are Men, 4 tho itho little. A, hundred Inftafnces I could give, that all Clergy-men that are Reéifors are Prelates; . t t * ' .- _ “Now if the fpeaking againliany l Prelate who is not ¢7Uagr'2a».r, (nor fo men- tioned in the Deelarati_on, ( as here it is“not mentioned ‘ that the Plantitf‘ is Magyar). and if in the Language and Dialeéi of thofe Times, the Word ‘"82?- fbopi does not imply Mdgiidtef, or [ex GM72tI,) then furely all ‘prclater, and all that have the Fee-fimple of thofe Lands and qiaronier, granted..to the King, and hisHeir,s and Afiigns, by A6’: of Parliament, and given and regranted to others, together with all thelmmunities and Privileges that the Abbot: /Sad and enjoyed by ‘virtue of t/nzfl Lamb and ‘Baronial, &'C. ought to have the Benefit of thissstatute of Scandal. c7l’[ag72at. qzrfi Trelat. Why they {hould not enjoy the "P-1'I.‘ZJ1'l€g‘€ of ‘Prelater in that A8: of 2 R. 2. of Scmzdal. Alagnat. and all other Privileges that ever the Abbotsenjoyed by virtue of their Lands and Ba- 1-onies; meer, Temporalr, ( notiGofpel nor Spiritual Priviledger ) I cannot: §m*a“gin*e,o i "the Bilhopse do enjoy 'thefe Benefirse-—’— qufi Pre/ati, or quiz‘ 'Bwoue:.. vHoWfoeV‘€r the other Priviledg, of fitting in the Hazgfle of Lordr,may beloft, for thelong Interval! or Vacation of not being call’d thither (time wt of mind of 1714412) fon, it is not needfu'l'he‘re to difcufi. t - . , y ' F or, if the Bi-{hop‘s litnot in the Houfe of Lords purely flex Gratid Raga, but qua Baroner, by reafon of their Baronies, then é forripri, much more may thoie Gentlemen that have the lAbb0t’s Baronies, and"orher' Prelate’s Baronies, claim the oldPrivileges belonging to their Baronies, and for which and other Im- tnunitiestheyhave an A8: of Parliament to them and their Heirs: Since Bi- fllopshave not fifirw’ 4Te?mre of their Baronies, and the Privileges,. Tempo- , ralities, and Immunities thereunto belonging, beeaufe they hold them ex Gram? Regir, and for Contempt may lawfully be forfeited, . and feized into the King’s Hands: Butthe Baronies of Ustthat hold them -in Fee-fimple, and by Aét of’ Parliament, (With the Immunities and Privileges anciently belonging to the Abbot-Prelater, and Prior-1_’relate.r) cannot for fuch Contempt, ad libitum Re- gir, ‘ be fo forfeited or leized. A i ~ t » y ' j Nay, fince many ‘Recforr in England have 'Rz‘rom‘er annex’dst1o their Refin- iries, and their ,Parfor;igz‘g',e¢iHoz1_fe’ is thefIJI4.mor-Hozzfl’, where Court -t-Barons are kept to thisday, and"thei~Tenants1dotheir ‘Homage mi Fealty, and they are really and truly freldter, Ifeenb *Re_a'fon,in Law or Equity, but they may havethe Benefit of this Statute 2 Rich. 2. of Scandal. J1/lizgmzt. if it per- rain to Prelater, qu& Prelati. And ‘then every little Reétor may bring his Afiion upon this Statute, Qgi tang, Sac. forContempt of his Clergy-(hip, and Prelate- fhipg and then {He} day 1) we {hall have alittle Pope in every Parifh, anda f iritual Hagen Wogen in every Reéiory. -——-— Hey I then up go we, and then’ iebompfim and Heracliiur look to’t, well pay you off for your Nick-names, you had better have been tongue-tfd. Andnone can givea Reafon, wh * this Defendant {hould not alfb have the ‘Privilege of r a Preiate, which h1sPredecefiors had, (the Abbots of Wz'e-Inf) when this Statute was made, whofi: Sueceflbr is this Defendant in the Barony, and to him andhis He-its» for ever.‘ . , g l - ‘Nay, really, Tbompfan and Heflzclirzzr, I’ believe the Defendant is in earneli, fince fo much Money as aooo lfmay be mined out of old Statute; 5 there are Landon ]uries, and ¢37l4z'é1dlgfix]uries, as well as Eflex juries -——-— Look to°t. ’Tis readily granted, that there 'is,.adifference betwiitt the Bilhop and the Defendant, as to Riches, (fir. "gut vvhat then .3 As a'PreIate, a poor Prelate Thas as much Figbt to his Priviledges‘ as the Rich, and more need of it a great deal : he King’: Writ, be loll, or -—-——- for what other Rea- 7"_";;:~a;.:" ’ ’ 1 . , ~. v t 5 ( 4° ) n ‘(ital : lt is lzuzrd to pull ojf Hair: the bald Crown 5,, or, tore!» the Spittlerg but there is no charity, nor reafon, to take the few Hair: from the bald Crown ‘to make a Wigg on, for him that has a good Head of Hair of /an own, and needs no Wigg, nor fueh jizperflnona Additarnentt. I grant, indeed, Bilhops are Trelat: and Baron: too : So is the Defendantai ‘ little one, and more than fo, the Defendant's Barony cannot be feized into the King’s Hands, as the Bi[hop’s_ may, for Contempt 5 therefore I called the‘ Biihops, a fizrt or kind of Barons‘. y s A i '1 ; Not fuch Barons as the Temporal Lords, who ‘cannot forfeit them to the King, nor the King cannot feize them for Contempt, as aforefaid 5 therefore there is a vaft difference betwixt a Baronwho is a_Peer of tbe l§ealnt,i;md*'a,' Spiritual Baron; the one is Magnae natna, borna Peer, and fits 1n.the,I-flotiléa of Lords, as his Birth-right and Inheritance; the other is Great:/4, and {its ex Gratill Regts, and may, upon the King’s Difpleafure, or Contempt," lofe his Seat near the Wool-Packs, and his Baronies and Temporalities forfeited into the King’s Hands. _ ' P s , 1 A , 0 P But, what non- fence is it for Heraclitina to prate, Numb. 39. f2iys,They (the Whiggs) clamour and fiiy, the Dammages are €XC€ffiV€ :.(Ho‘n4g_1,‘/an fora Pool or gfler) Why fo P (jay: Earnefl, or Soberfidet) iI"think,éan_dfo muff every ‘Man t at thinks at all, (in one Dollar’: Opinion be nzig/at bat:/ééid ‘rig a very cheap penny-worth to that which the honefi Man Honefi" 4! qnotfi he I and a Pro6lor’: Boy .3 good fence, and Tory-like) had, that pull'd,01,fHiel{’$ (iv/tat .3 plain Hz'ck_-—-—- _/lill .3 no dread of the 2. Rich. 2 ? Will Mennezier take’ warning, till tbe} be nzaul’d 2000 1. thick? "Sure, the Fellow. think: the Defifendayyg cannot get as good lg 3227'} in London, or Middlefex, as waeglatelj ‘;n1«:{r¢x_ Hz'clg——-) Hat, except the Privileges of the Saintlhip be ascgreatiasfthoferof the Peerage. . ' P ‘ Peerage I The wife Fellow thinks,that Bilhops are Peers, and thinks there’s no difference betwixt Word: (that are but wind) and Blowt, or Aliault and Bat- teries, and Challengings to fight. 0 A . — I . P The Bifhop is great, Wino denies it .9 But ’tis not fo longago fit-ice the De- ’ fendant being then C46‘ now, ( for he it no Cbangling) iP\€i.&0l‘ Of A”'S4i’71'-f 1:. and Cornet Cornpton quartering in Colcbefler, I doubt the Defendant being an old Captain, by Commiflion from two Kings, of Sweden and Portugal, by Sea and by Land, vvould not one tl.rongl.t binzfilf obliged, in good Manners, togive him the Wall; except he had, as Sir George did, firfi told of his Pedigree 5 then (indeed) then, I grant. , . - C ‘But not a word of this ihould have been laid, but that they come fo with their Comparifons, when the Defendant had told them, (in the firlt Words of th€ flaktfl Wtlltl), Second Part) that be honoured Bilhops, but did ,not Ido- lize them; could {ay—--my Lord, but—--not-—-my God. But thefe Hireling Pantpltletierr do fo dezfy them, that they are netled, when Men do not fall down and vvorfhip the - i « The Diiiance is great l --- None envie: Lordjlaipt greatnej} 5~ the Diftance is great, the King made it jo great as it it, and can as eafily makethe Diliancje lcfs when he lift. l i P But enoughof this Folly, (for, fuch I acltnowledg it) but-—-only that the Wife Man bids us anfwer 4 F001 4“‘0"d5’?g_t0 his F011)’, (that is) beafflfie F401 . at bi: own Weapon. _ , s i - 45. Edw. 3. The two Houfes join, Conntt, Baron: év Comnmnet, and reg prefent to the King, how the Government of the Kingdom had been a long time in the Hands of the Clergy, (do YOU fee? an old Complaint 5 '‘ they were ( Papilis Pa;p1{_’c§*’ b’u:t)'A 1tue:bo;mVEng[1’flmen,eandAecould ‘not A téfl ‘how to Zv21‘cQ"é toa M1tr_e.¢3t Lawn-flee7J655'*0r sthat VV qflrizizzfler- H41] fhou]d ,=,.,,cek[—eA to Doéhrié, ‘ :Cs_0775.”¢0‘?73’1.“"(ae_. great Indignity and ae fhamefull ‘13urem . ,3 M. . ,. D4zmm'age:font.ave2wz,e Sic. ,1-‘or thegreat 'MifZ:h%eFs«and’e Ifigggiges etheifeby, ‘€;’?*c:\ filys tbs Terliawent-R0111.» e I ! gut; notwuhftanding 11 Wis, t/Je ‘Prelate: Lafiéied both King, Lords Qua . ,(,‘ommons,; havingtheir Spiritual Weapomg/1}. out with two ‘Temporal Writs _ 5 \ ea»-'-x-namely, deeHeretz'co coI¢t[2ztLre7a'z10‘:‘-——~ the other de Excommzzmmfo Capie” f do :-————~ The forfner (wit/2 mucbfizwloe) is damn’d to Perdition, for the flames it made in fl§Smitbfie[d5%~«3fld 311 the Kflflgdcm OVCI‘: the other: «:16 Excorit/7zu2z"‘caio3 wpiendo, .~-e..——-‘as yet if: farce, and fills the jayls deayly, with e. Men Excommuni- “sated; many abcut_.IVIfony-mat‘ters,, and.Fees, Illegal-Fees, and‘Opprei:fi0nSl Extorns, as n0tpayingjtheeKnave a Grbaet; ‘ évé. _ e ‘ ~ ~ e 1 « ~ ~’ FdreW&1en;dn€'fP;:0;3’ifl1 Pjelates cazzld eizot-Imrrz any that Hood in their Way {Of "'a Heretic‘k.,:r1*yet,a4'obfiiimte ‘and“con‘temptuo_us, they fem him to the Dive! and . 3% » L Obedience to Holy—C/mrcb. . theqhe and the Chancellpurs, and the .King’s»bepch, and the 3~herigS. « V pooresouleburyed ahve1t1e&a4]ay1, till fie dyed,‘ or fubmitted, and "fa/szo’reg('k)‘::;tt;,}:: havin X '4 ‘ band) .C1aW’d it away, and to flqp Men’: Woutb: fgom mugééiiéngfiezgfyfizfg Statwlteg’ 5. V Q . . , % f 2 . A ‘ . e‘ A 3 IS Na areas eunnin “to prelerve their Prelae , as;..=..;.;. f9‘ 3 ‘ K5€fipI¥1W€;5 and hfiis ?A%o{Heshavi:ng declafd :31, ./1!)/Jormgzce Sf Pride; £C:¢3¢fi37Bti¢a1713y:ra;nny;and‘Oppre1fion;,~(cal»1ing them greedy 1).; 3-. that can have .,an‘de?Wélw: in’ Slieep’: vlodtbing, ‘note fparifig 51$ A bhtimifig: ’“4’%§iMd edevvwiflgit) 115 C0fl€~'ern’d4:hem ~‘tO’~fi} t'o Fvrée 'm/rd Tem oral Poe§7eh~;fin of tIheir,a‘bomi;iaa1§lec .Hjep3;~,-€55, they 1 S 5 ffirategee-x*$1na:;fi1dfedays§) §¥i?1¢hat.fi2reeFe,as}g..‘e.eand,wha$t“j3r' pom, whatfor Tm?» vmmit,'.orm keep Pxqfiyvéezt (fince there vvaseno otéherevveay.) gave his Mi‘“:’“‘?"‘ {Rance toflilefiwfteanécl the falfe Prosphefg‘ (mm me and Pie ckzw te/ice: Rev: :1; j"f”“°-"6 e _e 1e5,, ;1;6,1"7.. Jud 162 had .pawer to give Life‘ zmtotbe Imageegfetke ‘jgeafiaevthgt :Seven-Year's afi;er this or :25. 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Ei hteen Years after this‘St3tute,;+::. the - 0f Came ~Kingz . c5orhpi8iI1z3Ig'a>—+*94h4¢¢Q}<7'i.<§pt35@ many B§/bop: ébeut him in h’ C ' a_d72a;zced tbfm ggfl {heir flflzrtaéevj;-. 4 The King did vat" or A the noufmfier htmtb ‘) Heed /3m:~5'va12]eé1’:'%1ei:ein;' (as eafZ)reC1id.3 ‘ ‘ ’ if ; ("Ppor:Kiwg) aig §>1\(_1iz’d‘his Zr1;1in'e*: e fdr after he Md the‘. ms Of his Ziiiegaple, it was not a.~;'Léywn Sleeves, ’:m'd flmtteering Syedphanté, and Pm-«».. é;fitica1<.:debaucht Courtners vaufd gguarci bim»frOm.t};*¢ m,ju;fi Arms of , ,1/hewbeshadgot the Peoplesiflear.-ts, only becaufe%%the$§1aWfu1 King had lofi them. 7b’Y~adher§I1g'“Kfi ]z:l}a‘aEL;fe::i?inate§‘xdebé1ucht‘.Crew. .. V W0bferve“the ac idtvillian-:kiJ£~.9ff$beJagineerssg Whit" e. ~ 3. Ecclefiafiicks ( Divine and La} conjumbléd) have co22zmcnc"d[1lx2f ri"f57;:1tic}fl{ts,t}.;:1% (For a p1ece ofcunn1ng4e&-them Lalomee 3!.‘2")-,;i!VheI“l Advoéats and COL1nTell0I's; Civilians ‘qr no Cifilians, Lawyers and Divines, V Clergy and Lay, mm, The Pro&ox.s_.:md Avsumeys, =jtheav“Pualpit2 anfiithe ejBar~, 5( &i3rédte}»]i»lier: all fife in 1... ' “ ' . / ‘ ‘ , Con; a . (42), y , Conjunfiioin againli a poor Whig, to bring him to mine, to trample on his conqur.-r’d Corps, to infult over his Grave, to drink and cry -—-- Hnzzahl the Enemy is fled, we are Co‘nquerors,, and {hall yet (in; firight ofFate and the, I naked Truth) live and rule the R031}, opprefs and extort, make Havocl; of e of Souls, Bodies and Eliates, hang up or jayl their Bodies, damn their Souls, beggar their Families, fwallow and grow Fat with their Eftatesg (not fo greedily there, have a care of choaQng,) come let»us carowzeiandedrencha our felves, revell and be drunk, with the Tear: of the Widow and Orphamg Haz- zah! -——~ Hnzzah-—-lincomparable Epicuresl ~ I _ Nay,? I am told, from a very good Hand,that the good Bilhop of London,irj great piety and devotion, intends to dedicate ( this 20001.) to St; Paul,’ for a Deodand 5 and’ build up Panl’s ‘Ruin: here in London with the .Defendant’s aooo 1. (ac far a: 2ooo I. will go) Oh! molt Exemplary and Epzfcopal Zeal! worthy his great Soul-and noble Extraét, and fit to be chronicled to all Po- ‘ fierity. This Heroick Charity {hall be writ upon his Tomb, where he [hall lie in Panl’s (vvhen’tis built) nay, helhall lie (as great Menufe to lie) in State, and his Exequies adorn’d with the magnificence of this grand Exploit, celebrated in Heroick Verfe, anfwerable to it and hi: own Grandienr : I am jufi now (before my F anc} cool) writing his Epitaph, to beureadsy for him; We are all mortal. ‘ ’ . V ' But yet, the greateft glory of this Atchievement, does belong to Inchsboard a Harrir, that fnzall Heroe mufi come in to ‘the Meeter and Merits, the one half of the 2000 l. he earn’d it dear, and {wore hard for it, he has more ri ht to it than any Man alive, except the jury-Men 5 for the 'j'udg (upon the Whole Matter, withfome grains of [Allowance to humane Frailty and Temptation) was there or thereabontr, at leaf}, he was the belt of them; a judg {wears to have no refpeét of Perfons in Judgment, (Oh hard I hard I) And therefore, I fay, though the Glory of the Aéiion, and the -Honour of the Foyl, {hall be given to the precious jury-e7l/Ien alone, (for they only did the Bulinefs, and the molt that the Counfel laid toethe Matter, except Railing and Ribaldry, againft the Defendant, was ,’_not every pertinent to ‘the Declaration for want of Matter in it, no doubt :. yetthe uéhole profltof the"Verdz'6f does re- ally and truly belong to Harri: 5 he gag’d his poor Soul for it, let him have it 5 I Guy, ’tis more than gfudar got 5 he has my Vote for it, andthat fignifies more thereunto than all the Votes of all the Men in the World belidesg for if I fay——-no-—-He never get: a Penn} of it, not all the Prelate: in s Chriftendom on this fide the Alper. I s . ‘ Therefore do not blafpheme St. Peter nor St. ‘Paul, by thinking to Wheedlee them into the Contra’&5 for they were rnonjleffl when .alrve, and; have lefs need of aooc l._now the are dead. »'~ ' I , God tells us he’ hates obber} for a Burnt-Ofiéring 5 and if Tanl’s will not be built, or go on but (lowly, God know, (there’s my 35:. buried (already ,) I Wifh I had it in- my Pocket again, for this Trick, the Fool and his Mony Ihould not be fo foon parted’ to help to build a Cathedral, Whofe ‘Wall: mull be cemented with the brin} Tear: of the Widow and Orphans; and the «noife of the Singin -Men and Singing-Boys drowned with the "Groom, Cries and Howl- ings of Jglen difirefid and jailed by a Bi_/hop; ‘ ' , , ..___ —— For his great Honour I ' ‘ Another ‘B ~ n 5 ( Thi: jhould not have been here inferted, for it 1': part of an fpitaph belike. I " .,%i_ . But ‘V , g i _( 4.; ) But l’l'e "divert my Reader, and _recre;zte_ on the doleful C ifueltiex, and tragieal 1 ‘ Adzgeittzgrer ‘j of Ec;l€[ia_[Zi_aéI 1>;.1,-‘C,’ (Oh! W0! wo! and alas I that ever a 'Bg'[b,op! aged lJ_i.tClerk::(l1_()uld be ("(5 ;{tdf;)"';.;hear. ted): lfle cheat you though, C and ’’‘J'. I90: . 5ifld7!_,0, 711026157471 576651;; in this Confinement and Retirement) with mufing on,t_hofe z.72z'*fc/Jievol/ft Roclqp ‘(y 1153,’- the Ifle of Sill}, at the Laud:-end of England, to fatal: to AyMa‘r1ners§ and calf led (I am in earnefl indeed) by Sea.-men, time out of mind of Man to the T contrary) The 'Bzj7Jop and hie Glerlgg; t lnxa Dialogue hetvirixéfl 3 -‘-‘P‘_EiEiT ‘ ai1d'~ 0 ’ hie . Hofe iatal;Ree£;i(ifi 35,13 that Fe P TNear]:h'lfle of Silly, nigh the Land; (By Marriners fof{hun’d andblam’d ‘ TI.ae.Bz;//oop and Clerk: are nanfd. - But, prethee Thy) tell me why They were To call’d fiir Rytbiize) truly? Tor}. It was fome Wbigg firfi calld theni f0,‘ Meet Scarzdalum Magiidt. Itr0W._ _ t Be. A Whigg, ( dofififay?) that is not Io, Whi s were not born To long ago. To. Not Erzfizzed (bythat Name) you mean. (Bo. Ever fince Abel Whiggs have been; ,Imufi\conf'elI3 5 By Twj;Cdin - Poor Abel petfecuted ‘was flain. jNo Tory” can this Truth confute, For Tor]-Cain ‘did,_Perf‘ecu'te, For Difference in Religion too, ' Plagu’d the Dzflenter 5 (Is’t to now ? ) pp pF0r~VVb1;gg1j7J Abel was to flout, , i ‘ He Would not,’ cringe, nor face about e ‘To Eafi not Wiefi, nor yet comply With th’ /{at of vnifizrmy Which‘ Cain hacf made 3 but did implore _; His Makers Mercy; andadore . _ j The befl mt} that becould, and ii) 5 _ did befi approve o'n’t too; ‘ Not walking in the W 41)’ of Cain. But, his Religion was his Bane, i i i For Naked-Truth Abel was flain. . ~ But toethe Ql_1€fllOl'l keep and tell, ,4» H Why that Name fuits thofe Rocks fo well? - ii Bzflipp and’: Clerk: 5 Call you Rocks 12‘) P i ] (Harm I come here, and fwear once mo’e! ) Would you make Billlops flan}-hearted .? And have [book band: wit}: Grace and parted ? Or, make them as of Old P when as 'Bomeer a Friend to jaylors was ? L 2 I y bean} ‘Fancy; froni nieditatingt’ _ - ...,...—-‘...e._. F, A... ._ ‘..»-y - ~ «- q- » ~ ——- ‘.‘-—-s.-qpom ——-. <« t Fabrick may tumble down, CGod'_blefsus!‘)' ‘* " ‘ <44) A ‘B02374: A- g When Bilhops by CanonicalOatl1' j Efirnbflh? 1,5. A Wereiboundv, it is the~nak-ed--Troth ) 11- 3- 1260- ’ By "‘_ Canon-Law to keep a Jayl, ‘ Or two, or fometiméthree for fail.‘ \ , Can. u;,Ed.3». "Bo. Hard Hap! ~When 'Cler1{.r‘a1"e made of Prone, 1351- y Andtyetra Name iDz'm‘ne dares own.‘ * ‘ Who e’re (4145 ! ) does eome them nigh, Or, touch upon thefe Rocks, they-‘die: , . A. l Behold yond’ Wreck (fwims there) .1 (by, y A {tately Shipityvttsthis diy, 1 1 l ‘ i With Flags and ‘Streamers in her trim, A t ‘ (How pwwttww t¢fJéeI»erM:v«!’) t . e ~ How loftily {he lourifd! no fight “ i . Ere pleasfd the Eye withmore delight. To gaze on‘ her fome'ceas’d‘to_e‘ar, e , With icy’ forgetting Work andMea‘t.‘ ‘i A Iyluflfifall-Ship {he Was r in ’ ' ” V V But her btfi Chrality tvas‘8peed : “ ; W No ./1/gerirzer fwifii thohgh they be -- She could With‘ eafe 'w’edt7Jer them all i.-r . So 22z'2'n‘bl}r cut the Wéiviesais {he : ‘ 2 No Friggatstfre crtis"tifitheSea, iii '_ v = ‘ r But {he couldbrihgthem to her i ' ~ . ' < At the longzmt, bothifireét " ° t A No Man orwar didjlmmei ‘ “ A T/Je 3Ezaken=¢n’1ti) ; '(WI4f1VaS her Name) : » But now fhe’s fplit, ahdeiimk to boot’:’« ' (That :6’ Bzflmp and we/erzg //mug ‘do? I ) j F irll, they torizzerzt 1Is‘till‘We groan‘! 5 » t 5 = Then fayle us (next!) jbecaufe we Have they not rackie Heirts of Stones? . To. Why doithefe ‘Rgclg-‘rfo lie 2’ ‘ .. _ Drowrfd in tbeif"Sezts, rllfitl "fi‘o‘m “ the Eye, g Men lqfl, ue’re they thefe Rocks efpyi’ ' '30. Poor W idem:-fig/J: does them rfurround, And Orp/Jan: Team, e’till are di"oW7n?d,‘ ‘ 4 Oh! but fay Come Prelates, and high-floM'In‘Churehmen5‘ ’arenot To Ronya liearted, nor fuch Tantiviex, fiding POE ‘f0’ fhe'[9€§il‘,u' and fdriviqg Men to Heaven or Hell, with Szvitcb and Spur,‘ ‘eff think‘fo1‘”5 ‘But,,‘Order‘ 1‘: 4 good t/sing 5 and fince the jliakewfittttlj, zihdéfuch 'Books,“’taxes them fo fmartly, as if they were good fi;r'lz'ttlé buti't'o*I2e ’m2zde:1ant1;rcFo;:med,— The Ecclefiafiical Robert Groflbead, Bifhopt(iFLinc§ln,“‘T;3X't ‘{li§,1ficfifl‘A%h§o:minatiOnsetofthe Court of Rome, in his Letters to thei¥1o;"aé;t*that ‘it hiticléredt him from being Canoniz’d hnd Sainted,tthougih’he defen/d ~1a":Red Letter’ better than"‘any Papift in theKalerzd'ar 5*-he was,’it3be not“(tv5Ifraéii£¥‘ib in '2{dje&'0) an‘ bone ~Pa'z- Pf/3 5_ andif the afld'i9i!‘C/0'/(In-Cofflvwej ‘had ‘not’ been flvfljr carted and impenetrable, beyond zilI‘amendn1ent*a'nd epolilhiinggi neither Lutber, Caz.‘ m, not the Protefiant Name had ever ?oe’en‘he'ar& _tofithis*day- s . By . k ‘I 7 ‘ ' .._...«............................r. _ . . y i ( 45 ) Gro§7keod’s Counfel Rowe’ had flood; ._ Had {he not vow’d ne’re to ' be good. lRol2., Grofibeod, the Author of a great deal of ,No;’{ed-Truth, Tpite of the Pope) £73710" 12505 and defines —‘——~Herefi (to be) an Opinion ml keen and ’c/9o_/En of 22 Way’: 0129:: Bnziaz, contrary to Holy Scrzpture, openly mm. , Mined, and defended. -4 _ Thisis a true, good, and bomfl Defcfiption of Herejjlg and if fo, for Godis lake tell me true: If Pfeldcj be .C0l2ff'd7_'}' to Scripture, contrary to the holy. Commands of Chrilt andhis Apofiles, in plain (not doubtful ) Words 5 and if Men maintain it, and ‘openly ‘defend it, (with Aétions, Statutes, Sui?- penfions, Silencingsa Qurftesa Anathema’s, Excommunications and jails) for God’s fake who is the Heretick now? V ‘ i f - , _ _ ‘. Tell not me of Statutes, they are void ipfifizéfo ‘as foot) as made, if they be, contrary to the Statutes of God and Chrifl, faith the Lordcoaa, the Oracle of D the Law, who (tho a Lawyer). was not .a{ham’d to be a Chrillian. - o , Away with Hypocrify and Cheat! It flml/, it {hall tumble down, and fall on the Heads, and crulhall that {boulder it up, and endeavour to fupport it It flmll, I fay‘ 5 I cannot tell you when, but it {hall in o!ue‘Time5 they on whom this Stone {hall fall, it {hall grind them to Ponder. Stay till the Iniquity oftbe. Amorites be full, and till they have drunk 'Brz'mme'r": full of the Tears of Widows and Orphans, Huzzob I tillthey have fill'd the jails full of - Howlingu, W0 and Lamentation, then downDogon, down to Hell, for evepr-down -L--- t ‘ It is an infallible Truth, That not only what contrary to God, and the Sence and Meaning of his holy Gofpel,’ {hall come to 1247/g/.>t 5 but a alfo what is contrary to the Sence and Meaning, and Defires of’ the greoteft‘ Part ofétbe 1’7\(‘_atz'on, mufl tumble down, efpecially when it‘=has‘ no Foundation ._of Truth or Honefty, but Ptands upon frail and rotten Crotches :. the neitt Puff, or great Wind,» {land Clear for down it goes; or the next (alm, when the Mafia- Builders have Time and Leifure to view it, and find its Danger, and its Malig nity, down it goes-—- I _ , e g Thc,Houj7:-of Lord-5 reprefent thcmfelves, but the Houfe of Commons _'are the ‘Reprefintatioé: of oz]! the ‘People in England .- What therefore the Genera- lity of the People, affeét, that,I lay, in time /7241! become 4 Lam The Honou- rable Houfe of Commons hazvenot onlyflmck at this Statute, 2 R. 2. which the Prelates make futh Work with; but the Refp”eal?thereof paft the Houfe with g€H€ffl1APPf0b3tl0Da and was committed, and. {em up to theLords for their Concurrence therein, it _/iopp’d tbere.-=—e-"So much for this time, , g Q g The .WOtdS -e-r—~ called Sca(2dal.M:gnot. which mull coll this Defendant, aooo I. are not awonalyle, taken in finflt oonjmiéfo, (as learned Lawyers fay) not can the Izmuendoin the‘ third Count lie, —bec'aufe,he that drew the Decla- iation forgot to mention theiCol/oquium 5 for if it had (but) beenin’, no doubt but W71? Wollld h3V€ {Wore -it through and through : wha‘t.a’n Ov‘erfig'ht Was , this ? Therefore fay fome tothe:Defendant,, B‘-tit;/3.3 Writ of Em» next Term, and qualll it, and there’s an End of on ozetrogiow iexelizff, of a 'defperatee jury. Or elfe motion for a new Trial, becaufe the Declaration is, That the .Words . were gpokenbefore divers of the l£in“g’s Subjeéts, aiiii hut one little Subjeét a p- , peare . i ‘ A Writ of Error! wise to.beangu¢a .>i in they Ex‘e}2eqiier- Chamber, before allthejudgesz ~ . . ' ~ - T 1 A i A M " This . .46 ) Thi-s is a cmming Wit}, more Grifi to the Millg as good be in the Clutches of an mznzerei zzl Prelate, as nnnzerczful Breath-_/Ellen. s G Mr.- Chamherlin, Mr. Hollie, Sir john Elliot, &c. that were Jailed i for refu- ling to pay Cuftoms and Ship-Money, in Charterthe FirPt’s Time, becaufe there was‘ no Law for the fame, ( a clear Cafe )5 they took this Courfe, and the judges (ten of twelve) gave the Caufe againli them: they loft their Fees, and their Caufe, and this Defendant gets nothing butWit. Exchequer Chamber.’ He knows a Way worth two on’t5 he’ll keep himfelf and his Eliate out of all their Clutches, keep in Harbor till the Storm blow over, let it blulter. And to jail the Defindant, looks but like that Inhnnmo mt} of arresting a dead Corps for Debt, which ill becomes a Bifhop at this time of Day. P ‘ Money, a great deal of Money will Gadhnr} get, and more’ than ever the Bilhop will [get by this Affair; for, Ieéiere qni neqneant Snperor, .//eherbnta mozrehunt‘. The Horary Queliions will be, Where the Defendants Eliate is? where his’Lands .9. where his Goods? where his Moneys? (if any Body could tell; forl believe the Defendant himfelf can (Earcely tell that) and lafily, Where he himfelf is? whether within a Mile of an Oak, or jufi under the 'Bvjhop’.c Nofe? And when all comes to all, the Inquifitors will but throw good Money after , had; for the Devil will cheat them, as he did Madam Cellier, both, of the Mo- ney and the Sham-plot. And after all ----a—— the A/3--trologer knows no more (by all his Intelligence with Mercury and the Moon) where the Defendant is, than I do -3 perhaps not fo well 2 nor ever fhall, till the Time come when .Tmtb is valued more than Hypocrzfjg when Innocence is a fuflicient Guard againfi’ Power-3 when Gaffe! is preferfd before an obfolete worm-eaten Low, made in the Days of Popilh Prelacy 5 then and not till then) {hall the Defendan appear to their Shame.“ T » - r And in the Interim, make them know how deep and finartly, a tingle Pen can wound, when whetted and made fharp with Truth, and edg’d by Defpair, through the inveterate Malice (butjifly Policy) of unreafonable and wicked Men : [hrifioeornnzonfiratore mm didicernnt, They never learnt this Policy of their Saviour. _ g This Method is like the Policy of the late Snhornerx, that would have wheedled the Man into Perjury, by telling him of two ‘Sort: of Advancement; if one would not, the other fhouldg if Preferment, and Money, ‘and Gold would not make him fwear Treafon a ainft -‘--—--- then he {hould be advan- ced to the Gallows, and Boo-—— {houl fwear Treafon againfi him. Wicked Human, (that devillilh ‘Privy-Connceflor to the King Ahajnerw) had experience of both thefe Advancementsg efirfi, to be a Favourite; and fecondly and lalily, to the Gallows prepared for Jlordecai. This brings to my mind a true Star}, and commonly known: There wasia great Man, but he was an Athezfl, but (in pretence) a‘Pap:' 5- r and being ficlt on his Deagh.Bed, he called for two Piétures, that he ha“ provided againft {uch a laft Extremity, and hung one an the one jide of his Bed, and the other on the other flde. e ‘ One was aPit:1:ure of God Almighty, (you may know, he was a Papzfl by . that) the other was the Pifture of the Devil, (you may know he was an .-/Ythezfi by that 5 ) in the firli Pi&ure--—- this M0tto,--—- Si tn non vie, (Ifthou wilt not); but in the Devil’s Piéture, on the other fide his Bed, this Motto:-+- {fle rogitat, (Here's one will.) ‘ Even 6' an Even Po, Beloved, like thefe two Motto’s, there is belike, as the éuliorheise fay, two Sort.rofAd'vaneeirzent5 one by fair nieatls, the other by foul .' AS iF\ Cicero himfelf, (whole Eloquence is meer Canting, and a jet, little pedagogical way of chanting Words, (by the filly) adinir’d for Oratory above Rbonzbzar hjmi- felf) {hould fay, If Money and fair Word: will not make you a ‘perjufd Vil-- lain, and a Teagtte O Dive]/J2, then the Gallows iak thee, and the foal Fiend. O the PI}/pocrifj of fome Mens Religion! What have we to do with a De- vil in the likenefs of Sanniels? the white Devil is the molt devillifh, the religi- ous Devilg no Man croiies himfelf, nor blefles himlielf from hit-n,, nor from the foul Fiendg when the Snborner prays like a Saint, and when this Son of ‘Perdition, and Devil incarnate, appears to the World in the lzkencfi of a Pro- plvet, and yet has no God but lair Belly, no Lechery like Revenge, no Food like Man’s Blood, no Recreationlike Illuing out Excorii. eap..::.... and filling the Jails, the {Royal Seat of his Soul being in his Bell} and Midrifl‘, the Throne of the Bell}-God. ‘ T _ , Leteno Man envy the Gentleman his Employment; for if!» had ‘a Dog that was Tucli a biting, nzzfe/aievo:/4 Carr, and Worrj-Sheep, I would hang kink.‘ Look him in the Mouth, do but fee there, I told you on Clsapr were blood}, he has not lick’d his Lips finee be tolda Lieg for his Religion is nzeer Cheat, as the , King faysg Hia Voice is ]ac0b's Voice, but his Hands, /air Hand: gthe bloody Hands of this Nimrod) look you, Gentlemen, his Hands‘ are t e Hands of Eflmfir Seal thofe Ca]?-W-7--‘ there 5 are you fure they are all lent to the Devil 2* . Yes, Ecee Signnni! Then pals them-—~— fill the ]ails full ———-— fall ’tis done , one cries -'-—-'- the Devil take them -‘-—--5 the other cries--L Take them Jailor l-4-; A glorious Work! Sure the Fool lays in his Heart, T/Jere in‘ no God No, the Devil of Hell is notfo devillifh an Atheifi: "Tis the old Fool, that willles (and lives as if‘ ) there were no_God. ' ‘ _ H * Naturalifls tell us of Roots called the Matzdraker, in proportion and_ parts like a Lfllan and Woman, (for like the Palm-Tree, there is difference of Sexes, ‘Male and Fenaale of them, and thefe Mandraks are never found in the Earth alone, but Wale and Female together lie, ( that’s more than fotne Men do with their Wives) bedded together in the Groundfrom whente it cannot be eradicated and plat/z'd‘np by any living», Creainie, but it proves the Death of that"Creature that doesit 2 Therefore they. provide a Dog, good for notbing el/E, as molt fit for that Oflice and Employment, firfl digging about the Mandrakes to Facilitate the Feat, and up come the Mandrakes with aGroan, and down falls the Dog dead, dead, fiarkdead 5-nay, no matter, ’tis linta Dog. s V , ,Com'pare we true Devotion ( in the confcieneious d'ife'harge of the Duties of Chriftianity) and Religion to be this Mandrafi, at which the perfecuting .N‘ero’s, Dioclgflanh, jnliatfs, &c. the Po‘pi{h.Inq"uifition, the Prelatical High- Commiflion, With theirtflmlf/Jma’:, and their Capiaa, and their Conftables,‘ and Jailors, and Executioners; have long been plucking, tugging, and {wen- i ting, and enaéting, to eradicate it,‘ that Rome might be made inftead thereof, to plant their own Inventions, conformable and uniformableg to {ecure their Lordly fpi.r1_t,ualPride, Tyranny, Covetoufnefi, and Oppreffion‘, and Ecclefi- aftical Policies and 3t1l)t1ltl€Ss by’ Capiafs and Cuties, Aéts and Writs agaihft {Hf offenfive People : Let them alone with their Employment, their Bayliffi and Bum’s, their Oflicers and Apparitors, their Commifiioners and Executioners, Hangmen and jailors, and the refteof the Black Regiment; let them alone, it will be the Death of the Dog: : And ' i . How now ?--——-A what am I going to write? No near-1--A (as the Seamen phrafe it } . . . Starboard ‘ 1 A / ' (43) Starboard your Helm, and keep your Loof——-- no near-+—-I Sreddy your Helm, e-———- keep her thus —-—- {teddy ———- there. I mull not fay at prefent what I was going to fay, and therefore I’le take 0E I my Pen, and amufe my felf with a We[flJ-Man a while, one Mr. Sol. S/Jaw, a . Man Mr. Hickeringill never faw nor heard of before, who from Monmouth in Walla-, (no worfe Place I aflure you ) lent Mr. Hickeringill this following Let:~ ter and Lines, in a Cover direéted to. Mr. R. jarzewzzj, in °cz;_,eg,,_.~-H¢ad._/Illtgjz, London 5 whichfor the Honour of Sir George jefiérier, ( her own, Country) I will make bold to print, «(if itbe but to lhew, that more Welfla-men than Sir George have been in Love with Mr. Hickcaringill.) But (befides ) in my judgment the Reader, confidering all Circumftances, will think them worthy this lalling Zllemorandum. . r ' For Mr. Richard janeway, in Q4eens»Head-‘/1lIeyin~ Pater—NoPter-,' ‘ ‘Row, London. 3 1°12, - » 9THe great difiance between me and London, with a long difcontinuance . ' C . from the City, my Acquaintance being now worn out, andhavingt no, ‘ Correfpondent, hath caufed me to direct this unto you, being the Printer of ‘ the 3l*2akzIJ=’QT,tutI) 5 and though I am a Stanger, I hope you will not take it ' ‘ amifsg if you think it worth your pains, you may give it to Mr. Hickcringil ‘ in print 5 and when I come to London, I will return you Thanks, , I Cm24lemafi'—day,. ‘ I —~ ~ I Your Friend, » Feb; 2. 168',-. . F .~ 1 80 L._ SHAWE. e9\4orzmomfb, Candlemafs-day, 17617.2. 168:, . Reverend S ir, ‘ Have fent you, in the next Page, fome Gratulatory Lines upon the l ~ reading of your Jtlakensfitrutb, 8:6. I find your Books, in thefe parts; ‘ to_ be like Univerfisl Pills 5 they have various Operations, and work upon all ‘ Bodies Politick one way or other, by Sweating, Vomiting, Purging, Urin,é*c; ‘ but generally the People take them as Cordials, and digeft them with a great . ‘ deal of comfort; for we are true ‘Britain: in the Weft, and are glad to ' ‘ hear there is one wife Man in the Eafig we hope there are more. We are ‘ fo yoaked with Confiflory Collars, that our Necks are worn bare, I and our .‘ Withers gauled 5 and if we offer to winch, or draw back, we are prelently ‘ pinchld, and fuch Goads run into our Sides, that we are forced to go as they ‘ pleafe, for they -muff needs go that the Devil drives: And tho’ we have but‘ ‘ fhort Pafiure on our barren Mountains,‘ and lean Livings in Wale_:, that W6- ‘ can‘but jufi keep Life and 30111 together, yet our fat Task-mailer does to ex‘ ‘ aét, that we can fcarce keep Skin and Bones together; we are fopoor, we, I ‘ cannot creep 5 we are to drained in our Purfes, that we areTno’way able to‘ ‘ wa e War with the Beaft. ' Our tremblingVicars,Levite—IiM,~ conform to all, ‘ an Iflizc/Jar-like, bear any Burdens that are laid upon their Backs, and knoW* C HOE I \ “not how to help «thernfelves. And our’poor' Church—Wardens Cap in‘ ‘Hand to the Worlhipful Mr. Arch—Deacon,' the Reverend Do‘éto°f and ‘ Commi{Ta.ry; and the Sir _ReVerence the Regifier 5 and are glad they can get ‘ ofl] and be difpatched, by payingof their Mony, (which is“a Parilh Chafrge, ‘ that grudg to give them allowance for their Time : And if the Chiurch’-W are _‘ den offer to fpealt, ‘the Arch-Deacon nods, and the lCo‘mmi{fary fro_wns, and ‘the Regilier mouths and rails, and calls them Saucy, threatning them to march * ‘from Court to Court, and wait attendance uponhis Ar—'--that they are to" K-\xJ~\a ‘ ‘ tired in Body and Spirit, that they have no heart to their Drudgery 54 they ‘ had’ rather be of any ,Ol"fice, (Scavengers to empty Dung) than to be Church: ‘Wardensg forthey are forced to ("Wear and forfwear themlelves, whether ‘ they will or no, for it is impoflible for them to keep their Oaths, if the p ‘ offer to fpeak, their Mouths are {‘top’d with a‘Can‘on" Ballet, :1 Book of Ar- ‘ ticler is given them, to prelent their peaceable Neighbours by. The Margin t ‘doth quote feveral Canonstwhich they cannot read, neither do they know 9' when or where they were made: Nay, they tell ‘them of unwritten Tradi- ctions, ofCul‘toms,x and Ancient Ufagesg and frighten them with high ‘ Words, and fnap them up, fitying, Take the Boo/{, bore 2': the Guide you ruufi c go by, and Prqient, or selfi: you are forfworn. And when they make Returns‘, 4‘ which is writ by one or otherof their Proétors, For which they give at ‘S611. ‘ ling, and fubfcribe, Onmio bone; they will not believe them‘, but tell them, .‘,Tbe Court is informed otberwijé-3 and put’ pulling (Al€l’i'10I1S“ to e‘n’tangl‘ei them, ‘andwill not take intheir Prelentrnents, ‘ till they have put in the Names of _ . ‘ Tome of their but Parilhioners, (but they fnult not be Qua/{err} 5 aihd thus ‘ the Whole Parilh is let in aflame by thefe In’cendiar'ies 5 an-d poor ignorant “‘ Creatures, they cannot help » it: If there be any dronifh or debauched ‘ Clergy-man that they complain of, they cannot be heard, and they under- ‘ Ptand that fome have been proved Prophane in Life, and’ common fpeaki-ng,:‘ ’ ‘ and Heretical and Popilh in their publick.Prea'c‘hing, that the High Archean’ ‘ do only check them, and continue them in their Livings 3 to’ the ericouraoieé l ‘ ment of Debauchery,and the hazard of the precious Souls of their Hearei‘s "ii ‘ But if . there be but one pious and painful Preacher, the whole inquiry is af- ‘ ter him 5. What doth that Man, do P" is he conformable in every Point to the ‘ King’s Ecclefiaftical Laws“ 3 and if there be the left iota or Ceremony‘ omit- ‘ ted at any time, he7'rs prefently fufpencled, 412 Ofiicio 6‘ Benejzbio 5 and thus ‘the Shepherd is fmitten, and the Floclileattereds. ',Sir, I have held you too‘ ‘ Iong, Ihavebeen inthe Company of the Clergy, Where your Books have ‘ been mentioned 3 and fonieemodeft Men have fpoken, that t/'Jcre'werc nanny ‘it/az'ng: too true : But the High Heétors have run them down,and railed againl‘t“ ~ ‘ your Book and you, fayin_g,l Toe} [(720217 Wt /Jute you may be a e uit,,( which‘ A “ they never faid whi‘le you drudged for"the‘m) :’ They fay, Tmt 4 75’a‘1:’ory is 6 5,0,3 fit firyou than o_‘Pulpit, and at Rope than a ("CW _. Th.ey fly, Ere long a /‘your Mouth will be flopped, they will out }our,GiIl, and then Hic@r n9«';1ere you ‘ will. T/36}: have Silver‘ and Gold Spurs, your: are but M'IfIt?'4la 37761‘ 1' M’) ’£’~°>‘é[ I ‘flafli yo;/5 they will- pick» out your Eyes, and crow over you :, theyzvi/l not /ewe re” ' ‘ Feat/oer on your Back, ord v‘Q7«_l1'1[t0"z7'7a[<'¢ you 4 Pan to fcri:'2z’2le nu"!/.1.-, I/76-fay zjaifl cw’; your Comb, nndyour Stonertoo, and make a Gelding of ,~.;ou, (whit yr:-.-.«s ;:;;J:)) i 6 M1)» fizrve on a Door-keeper for their Nunr, 3(C. But l {hall detain you no <-lgmger, but fubfcribe my felf, A ' " ' - ' , Sir, Yours to hO‘n0ui' and fiqrfi-'69 Sir, Your Friends long to hear when the Term , p _ ' will be over, and how it fates with you. 5'0 L. S H A Wk. N. , 99> (50) So much the ’13;~o/2*, nextlfollows the flritijh ,9"!/Iufi, bred done I Pernallus, the Penmenmaur. THY .TI‘)aR2U=§lCtl!tIJ (brave Hickeringil) out.-fhiines I The glittering Silver, and the golden Shrines. Of great Diamag all her Vanities Are clearly feen by Naked Verities. ' This makes Demetriw, and his crafty Crew, it With Purfevants fo hotly to purfue: For now their Trade is likely to go down, They cry Diana round about the Town. The Church, the Church is come into difgrace : An uproar now is rais°d in every place. Confufion is to great, they"r in a {mother 5 Some cry out one thing, fome cry out another. The greatefi part know not the reafon, Why ‘They’r met together to make Hue and Cry. 0 for a Town Clerk th’ Rabble to allay, And fend th’ Affembly peaceably aways , ' - S For jliakenflttutb robs not the Church, {he g Difcovers ohly her Deformity, ‘ S Refioring her to Primitive Beauty. } And when a lawful Convention of State, Shall meet together, to take thy Relate Into their ferious Confult, ’twill be found , There’s nothing’ writ, but on a Scripture-ground. They’l fee, that Canon is not "Statute Law, ‘ But only like a blazing Wifp of Straw, Toafeare the Simple to Conformity, ‘ » . Againfl their Confcience, Law and Liberty.’ . A T It’s only hiffing Wild-fire that doth finge, ' a ' To make Fools tinto Ceremonies cringe. “ A And by this means they will find a jufieycaufe, . ' To regulate fuch Arbitrary Laws : i . For King and Parliament have-not confirmed Their Canon Laws, therefore they ma be mended. Except unto the Romifh Church they , T’uphold confuied Babel-Hierarchy. _ And this thy Jliakebzfilirutb doth fhew as. much, ‘ Except they are refolved to be fuch. ~ What tho’ thy 3Bak2tt’QZrut_b' by fome be blamed ?' , Yet Jllfllifiwclflftltb will never’ be alhamedn And what tho’ thou (like 'Paul) wert formerly, * ’ T In Commifiion by Scribe and Pharifee, C . ~ ' . To drudg for thfm. Opprefling fome with Fines, T ‘ i That would not how and (loop to their Defigns !' " ‘ Yet if thou now converted art, ’tis Well 5} Thour’t in the way to-Heaven, they to Bell. a And what tho’ many of the Saints do fear . Thou do’fi diilemble 5 bccaufc they do hear 3 . Q ~ 4 How ,'s;;:.'_“ us. ~ ,_- d-"~-, ' .1‘) (, 5 How thou didit perfécutiei ti Yet thou proceeding in Zeal to be T’ A Convert true, it Will rejoice their Hea1'ts; That God hath railed theeto taken their parts. p And what tho’ Priefis do iziiaitpby Writ of Giape .3 Yet by Form: Basket thouilljalt have efcape. Their Rufhns {worn to talié thy’ Lifeyayvajr, Bye Providence {hall miié their hoped Prey. Tho’fome may quefiion, ithinkifig that. thou art; r _ No true Difciple froifi th“y’V'e1*y Heart 5 6 p Yet when it {hall be known;what thou hafi Writ; And preached t‘c)'<5‘i, thou Wilt? be quite acquit. a When by thy the Church hath éafe, T It will the Brethren in all placesipleafe. But let me.te‘l"l' thee‘, Mr. ‘Hi‘cl{ei~i%2gill, '1‘ A e‘Saints, and hailed ; Their Perfons innocent unto the Jayll A i What tho’ at prefent they be fhy of thee? A Arro'th‘er Zlliérlii/Y7: Tho’ many Grave'Di¥vines approve «thy Pilli,- T ‘ Prelats and proud Priefls ray, thou haft no*skit1. The Gout“, the Strangut-y‘,’ arid {ugh Diane:-,e —. May, by a Velvet Couch; ‘receive fomep‘ea‘fe‘,‘ _ And Golden Chariots‘ rockin‘ them doth p‘le‘afe.~ i ' t A Body fullof‘ Humours; a‘l can‘ tell, * Difgufis that Phyfick that will thefh‘exp_elI' Becauk it makesp them keeli”, arid“ ifofiiit up, ‘ Their fweetefi Morfels,_ like :1’ bitter ; 4. ~ . . » ‘ Thou putrgeftHiead',ithe Reina; and Liver too‘, Fluxeth the Body, and makes fuch ado‘, That all their Rottennefs will be‘ difcovered : V They like not this thy way to be recovered A5‘ . But will keep rathejr't‘heir'pDiflemper ffiillf,‘ i L Than Purge arrd» Vomit‘thu§ toflma-kae them‘ ill‘. Difeafes foul, Phyfi‘eia’nsai.Wiil‘I conceal‘, " ' .; And groié Uifienrperr theytil\7vil'l5 not reveal: The Credit is the Patient’s;’5 .Cain"S their own 5’ This thou regard‘efl" not, but makes all known ii iTho"they tormer1te’d‘iare‘v,i and full’ pfaifn, _ l Yet they have Riches, Profits; I’-'lon‘our~, GZIIH5 And they are dourtedt too, have great Retinues To wait on them; and th‘ey‘h‘ave’greatRevenues‘ :9 Now this they l‘oye,; and‘ will not change their flare; For all thy l’amp'hlet4printiln'g’, arid thy pra;t‘e.‘ .’ They fay, ta MIung‘reT-Mountebaflk thou art, That mountstythe Stage’, buit"hath‘no‘treal“ Art-' Thou runa from Town to‘ Tcjvm to {how thy Felars; ‘ And" vend rbyymouiayDrags,"whichtar¢‘5’ufChem?’ Thou railft aagainut the Grace, bu‘-ti doll‘ p1Il'1<§l1_13,, ‘ Picking Men’s Pockets bothof’ Croféf aI1ci*Co1ri;~ A T Thou hafi noLi'cen'ce to be thy" Déf°endi€f, Therefore againlt the Law thou art offender.» . N‘ 2» a ‘sick ..Phyfieh»-they don’t‘ like tho’ that muff t¢ure');é r , i This they refolved‘ are not to endure. r ' ll- Another Merlin. 52 ) If this be true, there’s ground enough, I trovv, By Scandalum Magnatum to oire-throw, And bring thee down upon thy bended Knees, To ask Forgivenefs, and to pay thy Fees. Therefore the Scribes dolay for thee their Snares, ‘L And doconfult to take thee unawares. The Officers of Dofiorr Common: meet ‘ Together often, and their Heads do beat ; What courfe to take 5 The Learned Chancellors, Crafty Civillians, foul-mouth’d Regiflers, ' Arch-Deacons, Surrogates are in a Huff, , The Proftors and Appariters do fnuff : ‘Our Wealth is gone, if we let this alone, We mu{’t with th’ Irilh, cry, 0/Jone, Obozze. ‘They all combine, and never will give out, Until they have giv’n Hickeringill the rout. _ Their Cobweb-Canons, and their Lime-twig-Laws,‘ Thou valueft no more than rotten Straws. ' Thou feareft not their hollow Pot-gun noife, Being good for nothing but to fright the Boys. They therefore now appeal, and crave the aid Of Statute-Laws, to help them in their Trade. ~ Look to thy felfi they are refolv’d (now in) To lofe the Saddle, or the Horfe to win: They firive to make ‘Pilat and Herod Friends, And then the Confiftory have their Ends. Now Velvet Saddl’s offend, with Gold Fringe, Richly adorn’d with fplendid Trappelingg ~ And when the Saddle’s on theirBack, they’l get, ‘ ‘ A Snaffel in their Mouths with Iron Bit, Except God give them Grace, and better ‘Wit. For when they’r mounted, they will fpur them on, Unto their own, and thy deflruftion. It is by this means they fupport their hope, To get thy Neck into a Hempen Rope. ,. ( The Crols tlioulikeft not, and will not have) . A Gibbet’s good enough for fuch a Slave. If they can get the Learned Lawyersin ‘To take their part, as they now do begin." ‘ L This was the way they dealt with Chrift (him kil’d) And poor St. Tau! his Back with Ptripes was fi1l’d. \ But it is hoped (that will be forbidden) 5' For honell Lawyers will not be Prieft-ridden : For they will {how no Mercy, fwitch and ride, Till they have got unto the Romilh fide., Lawyers themfelves at laft will yoaked be, Becoming Traitors to their Liberty : For if the Statute do their Canons draw, They’ll keep the King’s Liege-Subjeéts in fuch aw, . Ad By railing up a Spaflilh lflqllifition, Bringing all down to ruin and perdition. 1 They? .-. i ' O the Confufion that will follow then! r‘? ‘ And fo conclude withpEé2gland’s Letany, ‘ " s t "53 3 .; They’ll let the Mitre up above the Crowti; 4? And bring all Law, and all Religion down‘. ‘ But Iforbear, and will hold in Pen 5 Defend us, Lord, from Front]: and Popehy‘, ;p And God fend» thee a are Delivery. SOL. s HAW. i “' We are commanded to-—------ love the Truth dad Pwe,we11 put together; for Truth feldotnmeets Peace without, tho it always makes Peace within. Truth , (eldom gets in thisWclrl_d external Peace, but never mifles internal and eter-*9 nalPeace.« ". ‘ ~_ , ‘ T The Word ‘of Truth, Truth it felt; outbleffed saviour, and his Apofiles, never failed of inward Peace‘ of Conleience,‘ and Joy in the Holy,-:Gho{t, 11¢- ver fail’d neither of externalkuflles, and War fi-om withoutg and therefore i he faid, He came net to fend Peace on Earth, but 41 Sword. P It always was (B from the beginning, is now, and ever [hall -be, thai War ihould be betwixt the Seed of the Woman,‘ and the Seed of the Serpent. But there can be no 7’eaee'(faith my God) lo the Wicked '5 neither Peace ex?- T ternal, internal, nor eternal. ' _ a For Truth is the Eflence of ‘Peace, the Life and. Soul of Peace; it ceales -to be Peace’, when Truth is abfent, and is rzieer War, Confufion, and Con4 i a ,_ Ipiraéy. How I have fiudiedthesway of Truth, let good Men judg, and how have Pcudied ‘theWay of Peace, this following Letter to Henry Bilhop of L0):- don will evince. And not further to difpleafe Sir George jefirier, (for I hate . this vain jangling about Words, and Titles, and Genealogies) as‘, it happens, ' (the Wellh Knight willsnow be pleafed, Far) the lafl Letter fent from this De; fendant to the Bifhop was as linodth, docile, coilrtly, and Alapéode, as the beft C0lfl‘liE9'« af tbemall can write. And that the Defendant ab/it irrtzidia *uerbz':) has been assgreat at Traveller as St. Tapbee, oras that great Weljb-mum and Kill- Cow Hero, (Capt. foyer hirnfelf) that (aid, he had a Priviledg or Patent whereby he could lie by ‘Authority, (wonderful Preferrnent!) the Wel/I.»-mm was proud on’t tho. _ . ‘ _ p The Letter verbatim, thus: Viz; ‘ To the G’Qve}'end Father in god, 'Hentyi~Lord Bzflaop of London‘; at London-Houfia, m Aldérligate-S’treet. W4, it p/e'a_i/é jam” L(/7'‘dfli'ip, ‘ His isthe féeondlm/2721218 Addrefs that have made to your Lordlhip, that T all Difiieizee:,_ as well as the Aéiionof _Scanc1alm;z e7l44gmzt um, brought agginfi me by your Lordfhtp, may be amicably compoled, before the, utmofl: ~ . Extremity be tried. If I had fpoke the Words mode 63“ -formfl, as they are laid in your Declaratioen, I know not whether upon any Sjubmiffion your ’ Lordfhip would find Mercy enough to remit them. But, my Lord,iif‘ you witl vouchfafe me a Hearing, with (or without) your own“ Witnefs, or‘Wit—?f nefies, Idonbt not, but he or they will evidence my Innocence, that I never - O “ {poke fpoke the Words 44 Ilse} are laid, ,Wid]0_.l1!t,‘a__ny i-Interruption {or Intermifliori; in a continued DifcourCe,i I, did explain, 1 and e_x,.p1ain,, and exprefs what /Jarred ‘Plot it was, which I {aid your Lord-{hip had a,haI_1d1in,, avian‘. egairzft’ m}zrig/3;; tee:/4 Name and Repzztatiorg ‘in’ t!5e,,B{zri_j;epgr, j I . \ i s f And that thofe ungrateful . .IgIz,0Tdnt, (which are odious, if confidfitfici r§fe,,r¢l1,¢.€s,0,fl1Y*m1Ia:‘DilEouife we had of a printed Paifper ‘your L,ordlhipg;qcgn1megded,.tp the Clérgy of Eflzx in vour1aftVifitation, (and attiongfl: other things) the Obfervationiof the (321-- J l nons of '40, by Name, drifallogwedthyg ~1,3.Car. 2.1%. ' i Which Statute if your Lordlhip knew not, I laid, you;were ignoraizt there- of, or if you knew it, it was impudetzt to confront the faid A6’: of King and _Parliarn€net,e Opgofing ypntfiqnce .§3g3ifll1‘.;1l3éif54.. ,5"? Whidla are not taken t&géi,Z,zer,,,,nor,,aga,ii1£l the : Statute, ifltrue sr {but thefifl Word: were‘ very ralhly irreverentlyw fpoken, and-tgam fo far from iallfiifyifg ' the Irretzereriee and Iadecemy of the Eicpreffions, (what Provocation foevea':“:I might, hayp) that I Will-give your:I ;.qt_;;l[h"ip 1Vhgt&?fl:t1:J_f£?fii07z your Ldrdflaiplfllall area/?2?zsv?2Yy":‘é.75'it~e; swim aI1§Humi1ity .:*a.1‘1.d;‘\C9r.#¥'i_£vio‘n.;\l. And .1 the rather ' hopeful ofhthe gQf0d_'SucceI§ of this my bwzdzle Sakmfliofig —be-p;aut?e<:(sITi — your Lordfitip intended nothing elfe ir_1x_bringing.the only to bring me tO_.z¢—‘é!_7QW[€61gfllC”# of it‘/.2_e Irretziergenee, Exp{e{{mflS;: and not with a defign to ,er;rr2'e/nyoutgelf any Moneypfigntline, ':pr'undoi;¢g §1_jt£_',4fl_dW¢j; Yet, “my Lord, I oiibt not but toIma,itegitap}?€aI‘=(if you-_vv,i,ll'~adtnit’ame‘;) to your Lordfhip) tltattthie Aiétion a'gaih'Pt‘me is ill that ‘you, wlil certain- ' ly be 2zon_-fiazjted, athogit he no,Polioy to,tell your Lordihip ]oem_and»:12>laerei;2 at this time’ of Day ,:i ,1’-lowe.ver., itwiil gpp/l‘0¥¢’_II1€ ingezzuoges-»totmrc,1s your flaip, and that I do as indulirioufly avoid a Couqueff, aswell, as all Contefi your Lordihip, and that this.,Subn1iffion‘proceedstfiom noblef Principles than Fear can fuggefi. But I have had -fo.«il1SucceI§.in all my former Applications to your Lordlhip, that I have but little Faith or «Hope in: the SUCCSG sof tltiag , however nothing on my part (hall bf: wring togan A€00II1I7¢0d4fi’.0:!¢-’ A 7 And fince Almighty God. ( .Mer'c} _),, ,d0es~not 4fi=:,t'1,c—l *a Tlmnderliolt for every’ fa‘/7) 041/), 01‘ 60873’ irreverent'Worq i Name; 5 j70ur‘LOl'Cllhip, I faintly hope, will, after hislilxainple, find Mercy and Grace enough to remit,» Lord,‘ a ' A , i Your Lordfhip’s humble Servant, - -, ‘ / ép M. iH1GKE,iRINGI‘iL. Now let the Reader judg, whether any fiIfi.COIzce.;[[ion or Submiflions can mollify this -fizrt of Men :' Fiints wi1l»hreak,..upon a Feather-Bed; ‘but the Bzflmp and /sis Clerk: (near the lfle of Seilly are harder than Flint, harder than the Adamant,‘ or the_nether Millioné. - , 3 4 ..,,. L ‘ What Advantage did Sir Francis Pemberton, the Lord Chief Jufiice, take at the Defe-ndant’s ingenuous Conceflions (which were more than needed ). intheCa(e? ‘ » ‘ iF0r’t‘hiere are not any Words laid in the Declaration, (if njever- (0 true, and W611-}'itov’d) that are aiiionable, ‘or within that Statute, l but are ju{iifia- ble '(I5..I.6€)’ ‘(were jfokm. And upon aWrit of Error, it willtappear, (for they Oathiof’ the judges is, to have no reffieéf of ‘Perfinn in Judgment) That tfée‘ is A ‘ ' Wot s- _Word§s in all? the. three fe3_aera_l Count3snne;not aflzionafhle, ‘nor iicandalofis ’5 and i jiffo,' then this None as like ethelfihiearrngtof Hogs; a«,great Cr}/, and alittle *4 f; {J i 3:? 3 . ._ _ ., . " V ‘I u urdnzp 2: men isvvmvtis*tiW°~;erI1és—andif he he cozrfgitg fas (aforefiiidj ,S£;.i.fiP4JA1',£‘didi,:3llld% f0‘:5'aarete:, and:‘allr, zvfa (he, \ re or Iincem, Agar or:Sr2§éann;.~_sbnet>fi"tl1eni,*fiyS; .I.4?21i.»vzor'e brrmfi ;?l2e.n 412} M43. 5'7/9 ¢/556 - rt Mirna.‘ t That=.Dangerris overt; Eh: other 13696’. ‘_ _ : « vi A s‘ A " l . ‘ For tpfay jrz feizfit cozzj;m6fo,- nay/.,<.alI¢z divifi2'v_,-§Tha—t his Lordihip is a hold ‘JV/4:2: A.'SDul.dier {llO3Ald fo,n111oh morewhen isa Souldier ofbriflfifnuch more he ~n1ount-sfo high d».r;"to.11e. 4.-»§Prq5late,-,,=he,_liad need be bold or zlarirzg, becaufe of the many Qgpofitions the anufi expeflfitb‘ e‘n'cou_nter_5 The Apofile bids us Rand waimqmn t/.)e7:¢v£¢n‘let,:A6‘r7tor o_f‘sG(2d,,'andfld72d*, and Wllenrwe have done-galls tesfiand; s » i '1 ~ l A “ if L _,,/1fr'tfia§1e‘:andrall the Philofophers make F ortimde to‘! be one of the four Care ,',,( I-never heard it wasfitandalous before‘ to fziy a_‘ Man is ‘bold 4224’ daring,‘ ifit had on the contrary been faid) his Lardflsip 1': féarfrgga Coziozzrd; and then 5 Then, #16’? mdfifid the Sttafldal. a2agn4t.-Wot1ld be greatilyfldndalowg and Within the Statute} _and the .Aél:ion1would well lie, but not -to fiy, Hz)‘-or L0I”dj7Ji]7 53 4 [W4 5147‘ i’7*g,¢fl.4a‘'l7t -3 though. you add a.l:_old,s»daring’,~ emf ‘ art, forfendiflg fame Heads, of Divinity. in a .printedfPa lrlcontra:ry=5to*Law. L i . Is it notlmpndence to live in the Peraétice and 0 »e- Epif‘co‘pa‘l, Vaéting con; trary tothofe Methods, Rules, andkuhricks commanded in the Statutes by King and Parliament, and contrarytothe Common-Prayer Book, and A8: Uniformity? 1'21, .,,.;mu(t f3ty;—+—~for.a Bifhop cannot plead Igzmrance,‘ nor“ Frailty, for then his :£lfh.ip would (indeed be oerfignorant. The Defiendant is : n thattwill prove, ( if any Body haste the Face to deny it, and when Tirne lhall fergve. that there isfa ‘B'i(hop,Within a Mile ofan Oak, that has liv’d in thePra&ice and Ofice E:pifl'op4l,", aéting contrary to thofei M.ethods,,B.ules, and Rubricks, commanded in the Statute by King and Par-' , liament, and Common-Prayer Book, and A6} of Uniformity. . i As for Inftance: -He that confirm: qll (omen, Handflover Head,‘ without it Exception. Withofit Examination, A-without Cer-tifieaite, withontrkinowing tth;'a’tf: 5 they are Baptfzfdior Catecbjfd 5 sis .351: this’ abominable, bold,_ daring, and if hnpudent? 1, ;‘ , _ , \ ’ l y W l 3 No great Man (if he be a ) is too great for the Law, not too great to be correfied, , reforrn’d, had better taught 5 not too. great for King and P211‘-.' liarnent,~ and their Statutes: It is Treafon to‘ deny this Truth. ‘ W/mt .3 {hall i Confirmation, (of which the Papifis make a Sacmzzéegzt, and Proteftants make an Ordimmce and Statute-Law,) be flubbefd over againfi the very Defign of it P be flubhe-r’d over, by confirming fuch as have neither Suretie: there, nor any Wit-A’ zrzefr, nor« any God-Father or lGod-Mother, nor any Minifter, to teffzfi that ever they were baptized? O abominable ! What is bold, daring, and impu-S -dent, if thisbe not? _The Canon Law fays, Epzfcopw mm potefi flatware com; mt }'m'a. Lynd WODCl in Can. Otb. quid ad‘z2e7"z«. 22. corrigend. e .. The-nt 2d{y5 For the ,B_oWings, Npddings to the Eafl, to the Altar,‘ to the Wax-Candles : Is it notbold and daring, (fire. to (“atop or countenance Ce-,. rernonies, againli the King's Laws, and Afts of ‘Uniformity, that were never _ daring, ahominably impudent’ a t a ‘ of God’s makir1g,‘I1‘0.t0f the King_and-Parliamentiemaking .> Is not this bold,» than ‘Hi. ’,‘I§' . r( 56 3 C ' 5 Then gdljs To recommend in a printed Paper, Canons for the Clergy to ' . obferve, (the 65, 66, and 3, of the Canons of Forty,) ’ 9 Epi/Eopus nanpatgjf when there never was any fuch in the World. And as for Petere 21 fitbdltlés "35 thele Larnbetl: Canons, that (to make all the Republicks P”””“i’éli‘ A“ fig .9’ in the World our Enemies) fallely aliert that Monarchy we érC‘""’""' Con‘ is 7:15-e divinoi b the prime Law of Natdre and at lar e Oth°b'd0"M' at-hm conf titdiin flrtttb 2d Part It was Im d ge L-yndwood Provtm.-.. ‘ r _~ ~“ .. . ' 1 ° . p a P“, en“. in the Clergy to make that firft-of-the-Lamlyetln-Canons at 'fir{i, and greater Ignorance’; (that a whole. Convocation fhohld be no zvzfer, , and yet fo bold, daring, and intpndent, as -toimpofe upon the Clergy and Lay- People fuch Untrntbx and Fa/fboodr, ,as:i.are in that firft Article of the Con- {titutions of Forty) but firangely bold, daring, and irnpndent, for any.) Man ‘at this day to jnfiify, vindicate, recommend, or defend tlaenz. ‘C ‘The Naked Tm/2, ad Part, has confiited the Vanity and Ignorance of the C = " Conzrocqiiorz in that firli Article of their Lonzlrlet/2-Canonr, ' H0553 4- 6-, 36' or Confiitutions of Fort}, againft all Contradiction, and ’ 3“"f‘ ’b"" 5”]? "lé5‘°‘1 beyond the Skill of all the Bilhops and Cler FE l d _ . A . . _ /gy 0 ng an f:':'é,mtI,::g,’ fig?’ 321$ to anfwer-, at leali,h1therto:, they have flept quietly upon’t, 1,, 6-,], be no pr,-,1; ,0 ",9. and {hall a fingle Bilhop, and one of the jonngefi Sort too‘, L H05 4_ 7,839,103,, 1, revive them, and yet cannot iuliify the very fzi-fl of 2%-eni, Que Ignoramia multb which is not the worfi of then: neither, as is fully and par-* mag‘? J9‘?/land‘ WI“ ticularly, and at large proved by the,Def‘endant in his for- Epifi=0P0: I“? W’). mer Works, and condemn’d by the great'W{[do2n of the 15;; ‘(’,g€,j;";m';g;j- Nation in an Ordinance. s wb'.iHm'ra,0,_" “ ' his ’tis for Men to fiand on the,_trnofi ‘Pinacle of the ' Temple, and overlee and corn ‘all others, when a lower Seat of the Charo/J would be as well or more eafilyfupplied by them. What Mifchief to the Church (inall Ages) has it brought .3. Tomake Boy- Cardznalr, an{d B0}-Bzflaopr, and Novices, greatFbeFore they be good, and to command wi er Men than themfelves.»-*=’Like re J-router, and Conrtier-Ca min} of Ships, and yetknow not Larlaoard from Stnfiboord, or how to r}'gIl:t‘tl2e Helm, nay, perhaps can neither box not (fo much as) /22} tbeir ’Co2npofi5 and yet thefe muft be Pilots and Governors : ’tis the Rum of the Fleet. Or to fit up or prop a Church of Chrilt with the zmfiritalrle and rotten Props of Cruelty and Force 5 as if Clarzflianitj dellroyed ( what it came to amend , Humanity, or that to be a C/mflian Governor, is to be an in/mrnane Devil, good‘ for nothing but to run up and down, jéeking whom he may devour, and Worle than Turkr, jaws, Heatbem, and Infidelr. .« C T I t is this Eoclgfiaflical Polio}, that has ruin’d the moltrejjalendent Empire of the Chriltian World, (Spain) not ('0 terrible in her inex/Janflible Treafures, and Indie-Mines, as formerly in her Warlilre Hand: 5 yet, How coniemptible now .3 how depopulated? how defpicable to all their Neighbours, that were to formidable ( fl) 14118)) to England, and the Chri(ti'- an World ? How did King fame: court them ? and King Hifloric. Colleél. (fbarle: the Firlt humble himfelf, in hopes of an Alliance .Vol. I. p. 82. with Spain! Whatcringing Letters (uponthis Hope) » were writ to his Holinels? what Complements (for I hope they were notin earnefi) to Pope Gregory the I 5th, ( that Wretch ) ? ' Sam?!‘ znte Pater, rBe4titudim'5 vqflre Literas, éc. Nzmquarn tanto qua feriinm‘ jiudio, mmquam ton: ar&'o 65» ton: indzfllnbili vinculo, nlli wortalinnt teonjnngi cz2- M perentt/«.¢, cnju: odio cligionen: profiquerefitm‘, 6%‘. Zlt, tent owner unanz indi- vidum Trinitatern, unmn C brzflum cruczfibcunn confiternnr, in nnanz Fidenr ' ’ rorzlcjoaan (57) .¢'-aalefévarimgt : Qgod at afiqaatiiur, laborer owner! atgg toigiliao, Regnpmm 3:54”, dye’; . Vflac peficu/a pt27'7Jt' pézrd.-"mz.I.r, l€’y:‘»('.l , K _ _ J , Blefs usl Wlmt Promtles are here of Propenfity to Rome, even to the Ha-» zard of I.’ifZ>, Kz'ngdoa‘z;, and All, in (l€VOt10fl to his (B/eflédflfifi, ( foghe is Iii? led) who will not liir alSte'p from his Infizllibilitjxg one wvould think, that to have met him /nalf tea}, had been Devotion C7701!-gb in all ;Con~li:ienCe, Reafon, Scripture, Law a or Equity 5 and for fuch mighty and wile Kings and Princes (too )/will fly )' "as Were King jamer, and King Charles the Firfl, in F0 (1 hope) - i ‘never to be again imitated Condefcenfioa and Submiflion. It makes Heart ake to think on’t, or read the Letters publifhed at length by the indefatigable Mr. ‘Ruflawortb, (as before’quoted,) and all the Pope’s Demands figncdl by the King and Prince, p.73. of his Hillorical Colleé’t.iPart I. ' And, all this for what? For the Spam:/7: 2.-7/latch And now Spain is glad to woo, infieadof‘ tang w'ooed“5 glad to court and addrefi, infiead of recei- ving Adclre.-{Tess glad with Gifts, Pen/iom, even to_, the emptying of their . mexhahfiible Tteafure) beggar tire,mfe7ve.r,an‘d keep themfelves poor and Pegmy- jlefs, to keep Cart on Wheels 5» d 3 d h > h ay, and all will fcarce do neither. An why. an W ya. " They are depopalated the Iaqaz:/ition, tbeSe'z2erity and Terflcatioa accor- to Law tho. And, their Trade is decayed, bye reafon of their foppilh _ and numerous Holy-Days, or Play-days-3 Familiesare needy and ftarved, be- caufi: not fuffered to work upon the Six‘ Days, Wherebn God fays, thou {halt labour.»--— That, were it not that the Indian Mines did fupply them with mer- ‘cegnaj Souldierx, ( poor Refuge to truft unto, God knows ) tbe}. bad given up the G/aofl long ago. Anclnow —--..~ do not they gape for Help, or fome poor ' A ' Comfort, i (like Men dtdwiflg 015,‘ or) at the [all Gaflz. ~ by _Na:.t,7l my know, ‘(fierce any Man better) that if there were War betwixt Eagamland Spain, (Whichfew“Men defire) ' in this ’Conjun€ture ) jmazra, and the Wind-Award I_/Zaézd; alone, are ten, Men to one of all the na- . tural Spaniard: in the Indie: :, and without the help of Eflglzmd, either in Men ,orShips, Money, or Ammunition, could I know what —-——- But ...‘.... 11¢ ‘V ‘terms it to another Seaflm. [know on what Score -—-- the brave ‘Raleigh ‘ was fitctificed to Guaafamortfs Revenge, the Spaazfla Embafffador. t , 2 Yet fome ,P,o1itiCi8.ns, (the Scholars and Difciples of Nat. Tboaafoa,l_L’.EjZrange, and Hera’clit'u‘:,‘) -think thatthe, belt Way to keepa Kin dom quiet, is to depo- pulate, jail thetn, beggar-«them, {ham-p“l',,ot them’, fen them to the Devil, and thejail 5 {P031 3l1iTf8_Cl€, ---F di{'C0«ura_§.e all Adventures to. Sea ----r-—- as if Men. were Dogs, ——-é- and goodfizr nothing at to be I:a.ag’d. And yet the wig, _ Man found it true, Tbatlapprep $0.12 fizdéer 4 wzjé «Wan mad 5 and with all his ’ Wzfilom, and his Politzo£.,.f,. he found (too late) that. he was mafedyand bear. , deal by his own Servant,1and he none of the belt neither —--— jeroboaoz, who taking advantage of the Peoples Difcontent and Murmutings, (wanting only . ~ ,, Had) to relieve themlelves, foon vvon eleven of the twelve Tribes from the Fool, -that would ltften to. no Advice, no Addrefi, _ but that of the young ,['our,‘tierr, Faying, —-—- M} Fatbermade your To,/{e heavy, but I will add to Jyogr To/(3 -—l——'Fat£>er.o/1653?,/ed you wit/.1 T/V}.r,ip:, hail! obaflzfi you with Scorpi- “ om. Figzggeri /_7Ja7l bent/Jioéervtban my Father? Loim. , ‘Cunning Fobl I ands fitlfiil Politician .! nay, the Text fays,~,-5-I'Kiu,g.1 2,15. i that the Caafi" (why the King hearknetl not Ltl;l,§O (hf-' People) was from the _L0rd..'..--fO1"l"llS ‘}{uz'7z------- ‘ ‘ , ii . ' *' _ " " ‘ No No Wonder then the People grew :/bark mad (Cruelty and Oppreflioiz baa made them fr} mad .3, and yetwe do not read that Kelmboam not Solomvoiz op- preft the People, but that tbey load a Law on tbeir fide to votzc/.2 the Whipa and l the Scorpions too 5 (Remember Emfon and Dudley!) No wonder (then) the People run into Rebellion totbirday,'V. 19, and . run {tark mad, and after _a fooliflo Religion too, but they that were made defie- M rate by bad ztfizge and cruelty (it might be better With them, & Could not be ‘worfie, tbey could but lofé tbeir Liver, or tbeir Livingr, Lands, Goods, and Li- berty (more dear than Lift) and_ therefore they public/{ly beat up tbeir Dram: to a Pointof War——and makes the Trumpets—-—,i-jZmi2di—°——:-To Horfe..._...To iH0rfi——Ver. 16. So when all Iflael {aw that the King hearkped not unto them :, the People a-nfwered the King, ( to bi: Head, and to bi: Face, mofi ir-‘ reverent! la in 1--What Portion havewe in David .3 Neither havewe J Y 3 Inheritance in the Son of gtefle: To your Tents, 0 Iflael 5 Now fee to tby Ho‘ufi».....i-Datiid. 1 King. 12.16, 17,18, 19,20. This, ’tis, to take no .mmz—, ing, no Counfel, no Advice, but of a fort; ofyomzg, m2experiem:°d,bufiE22g, ‘wpouring, fimguinary, bluflering, bold daring Coxcombs, and very igiioraiit 5 the poor Foolilh King found it fo. ( to bi: cofi) good Mair; ‘ And what Mifchiefs have come to the Church, tothe Nations, to Chri[‘tia-’- nity and Chrifiendotn, by thele ralh {anguinary Ways? ( for etgery tbirig is mofl certainly befl preferzfd, by tbe fizme Mean: and Method: by wbicb it may made 5 nor was the Peace of Chriftianity, norits-e Propagation, by Migbt, izorby Power, but by my S pirit, faith the Lord of Hofts). The World {hall have alarge and partirular. Account thereof, (if Mr. Ifickeritigill live) and can come. a at ‘Peri, Ink, and ‘Paper, of which his Enemies (With all their Policies and Subtil— ties) have -not bad power enough, am yet, toideprive him.-i——-' ‘ . But will, no doubt, drive on (in the ujbme Road) _'}‘ebu-like-—--{land /and fee what an old Houfé fome Men have a mind to bring over tbeir own Head:---—let them alone---you cannot advi/é tbem more mifcbiewufly ’to them- felves, than to bid them follow tbeir own Advice," and coinfizlt only with their own malice, ba1red,, and revenge, cruelty and mifibief---.-Let them, alone ” and give tbem fiope ezi'ottgb—-3'-go on. Mr. Hiolgeringi/I will alfo publiokly make appear, God fpare him‘ Life, J Health, and Liberty) particularly and at large, bow baizeful it barbeezz to tbe Cburcb, to make Chu_rch-men and Spiritual Petfom, vafily rich, and vafily» powerfiil in Temporalr, (fo incongruous and incompatible witb tbe ./ipofller, the, Gofpel, nay, Cbrtfl bimfeb‘, whole Kingdom in“ riot of tbia World) and who never encouraged ( as fimre dojbut difgtouraged a 'n>orldbI,proud,pragmaticalTribe, over-topping Clergie and Lay, as much as their Catbedral: ozzertop our Houfes : Though _they:h:rve endeawuredta fiat bim out of the Pulpit a While,by the help of an old Statute and a Jury, ‘they have not power to {but the Doorrof tbe e Pref}, ( Godbe thanked ). Luther and Calvirfs Reformation of the Idolatries» and Superfiitions of Rome, could never, have fpread ( far and wide) if Pam- ing hadnot been invented: A few e7”4WfWiPfI might have been handled about, to {ome few particular Perfons, and learned Men: But the Tyranny Prelatical, and Opprefliorfs of Romp, ip England, Sc0t[dI7d,‘1r€la1Id,- Frarioe, Sweden, Ggrvtamy, Denmarks Holland, Scc. could‘ never (Without a Mira- cle)’ have been defeated. But by the Printing-Pref’, Well, em ploy’d, by able and Learn Pens, (riot ‘frurrilow New:-monger.r).e * . P The thr e aforetaid Crimes, afé only perfonal and fingulars but there are” other abominable Crimes, of which the reft are guilty 5 or, the mofl of tbem Q- Is is not this too Scandahtnz Magnatnm .3 Of which fome for Example: 1 ’ ‘ 4 N g ‘ Namely, Their Conniyance, "confident and hold pernzzflion of all their 'uinde"r-} Officerstin their E/cclefia/tieal Courta, ( if not their inconragenzent, a./jziflanee, , and’ by their Power and Intere{‘t,3. a‘ hold fconntenance) of the daily, conflant; pnhlich, and int-pttdent Extortion: and Oppreffions of the King’s Suhjeéts; againft the Statute: of this Realm, that limit the. jult Fees‘) in Citatiom, Pro- ‘hate of _Wi[/I, Adminifirations, .@*c.. nay, againfi their own Canon-Law, (Concil. London. 3. Edto. '3. Anno Done. 1328.) and againfttheir ‘own Tahle of Fee: : Wretched, univerfal, and abominable Irnpudencel no Name can be bad enough, for this wilful and daring Attempt, and ‘Contempt : What‘?riri God’s Name, are any Prelats greater than the Law, pr too hig to he fit/yieétitfi the Kings Laws, or too. great tobe good :3 God forbid. No wonder the a whole Tribe unite their Power againft the Man, who has courage to charge thofe things honze. upon them, and whom they (therefore) hate, becauie he is, (and fins Men nzore) acquainted with their Myfieries of Iniquity, and knows how to“ charge them, home : No wonder therefore they to much dread hint, and do 16 unite their Common-Forcet, and Joint-Interefi, to ruin him,’ or __7a}»l him, and fotie his Hand)", as well as _/top hi: Month, /by their Ecclefialtical-Canon.-' Shot, ,of Sttfperzfiom, Sileneingr, Excommunications, Cmfia, and the like SP1- ritual-Artillery; they aét for Life, (as Men that are drawing on). The Silvel-.[ Smiths cried out-——-Ggreateis Diana of the Epheflam : And yet to tell you true, this chaltr Diana, whofe Image (a: the Priefi: flzid) came down from jupiter; ‘Land the Fool: and Bigot: helieved it, ( Tooth and Nail) 5 and the craft} Priejti; and the Shrine-nza1{er:,‘and Silver-Smiths, (falfe Loom ~.’ ) ‘they knew that their; ‘great Wealth depended upon the helief on"t ." no Wonder then that ‘they cry, and“ i whoop, -and hollow, (and the F oiols and Bigot: eeeho’d to the my which the Shrine; i makers made)~—---_-—G'reat it Diana the Epheflamg and yet to tell yotl the ‘ .Nak§d~Trttth‘or2't, this chafi Diana Was ’a Conznaon-Hztntrefi and Coltrltton-Stmm; pet and Baggage, andtas arrand a Whore as any in ‘Renae. ' I of the Apoiiles) do fay, (as the Apofiilfs did, A151‘: 6. 2, 4. It it not meet, 2 ’ Where is there a Clergy-man, now-a-days, that will fay, as of old, Nolé Epzfio ari I will not'Bi(hop it, (if I might) or would gneld hinzflalf ( as fome have done) to make themfelves ttneapahle of s Lawn-/Ieever :-’ ' No,- rather rim and ride, with Friends and Re1ations,"Mony and Plattery, "(fringing and Popper}, to.thisMiIs,-to that Mi J‘, Mony and Complyance a- I gainft their Conleiences, by hoo/z_ and I2} crook, haveat it 5 though good Men‘ find ‘how hard it it for a Rich Man toenter into the Kingdom of l Heavens much more dzfiienlt‘ for a Rich Man ‘to be a good C httreh-n2an. , — For they that will he Rich, ( I Tir'n.,6. 9.) fat! into Temptation, and a Snare; find ‘into ma”) fbbli/I’ 4”‘! b"mf”l L”./ii’: .WhiCh 51701???’ M3” (Jets the} zxentnre mahy inftanees may be giyefié into Deiiruéiion and Perdition; For the love of Mon}! it the Root of all Evil, i which zizhile fonze cotoetede tfter, they have heeiz fidnced front the Faith, and pieri-ed themfilve: through with warty forrowt. 7 l ’ ‘ y r 2o.Rich. i. TheCornntom complain to the King, tshzit the King kept {(5 many Bilhops about him in hisCourt,' (re. and ladoaneed them‘ and their Fol- lowers.‘ (An old complaint ~ i " , = Whenthe Devii,.tem_pted our Blefled Saviour, lhewed him the King‘; idorns of the World, and the Glory, of them; Mat;4. 8, 9,10. Then Jefug {aid unto him~—~.A3c'oioh~~Satan. ‘ t l e i ‘ g s But how many of our Apoliolical Men, ( that zzannt’ theitifizlvet s,uc'¢e{I0,~g that \ , ( 60 ) that we floould leovzze the Word of God and férve Tables‘ .9 But we will give our (elves co)m°mm/1} to Projter, cmclfo t/Je vziniflr) of the Word. l t i Ay, Ay, that’s a good Work, the beji Work, and work enough, and they moji proper Work fior Apoftolical Men. We never readthat any Apofile turn’d Afiion-Drz'roer, or Promoter, furroundéd with the black Regiment of Apari-i tors, Proétors, Hangmen, and jaylors. , s Again, what bold daring imyndence is it, for them to keep Courts, and not inthe Name and Style of the King, contrary to 22. Edw. I; if it be in force? A'Statute thought fo neceflzry for the Reformation, and fo agreeable to the" King’: Supremacy, in the wifdom of our Ancellors, that one would wonder any good Subjeét fhould fcruple at its obfirvance, much lefs live in contempt of It. i l . . . , It is‘a Statute lawfully made,_and never repealed. " ’ I-know what Coke lays of it, and wherefore he dw:/1 jlzy no more, during the Tyranny of the High-Commifltiong. which Hig/.)-.ComI;2z1/ion alone, kept of gill), punilhment from the Tr-anfgrefliors thereof: °an extrajudicial judgment was (once) given agamfl it. 2 ~ i L But where 2': t/ye fudg will declare ogainfl it: force, and fay in WcjZwz‘nfier..l V Hafl that it is repealed P _\ I grant, in Qteen Mow-fs Reign, all the Statutes againft the Pope’s Supre- macy are repealed, and her _Repeal, is: repealed by (A1eeniBlz‘zzzbet1a and King owes. , . ‘But the Pope’s Supremacy 'continues in France,iaud"yet.Prooce1§ Ecclefiafiical ‘ might (if the French King pleas’d) run in hisjoWn~Name, and yet the Pope and he continue very “good Friends, and the‘ Pope’s Supremacy continue‘: therefore the repealing the Statutes made againft the Pope’s Supremacy, is, no repeal of this Statute; there goes more than general words to repeal a Law, and fucha Law.‘ A ' i , l A r If this Statute be repealed, Wk} doe: not tlve judge: fo declare it .3 If it bg in force, no Name is bad enough, nor,any_P1cmflmze:ut sour/.22‘: ffde Deaftb,. for ' the wilful and flubborn Tranfgreflhrs thereof and _”tis my» _wonae:, that no Men in Englcmd _Will put it home, tefhtive it argued, that it may not continuie a Snare to the Klngs Sub;e€i's 5 for if that Statute had not promis’d fair, and molt Learned Counfellors at Law of the fime Opinion, the Contell with , Eccleliafiical Courts had never been continued againfr them, for any‘ thing, but only becaufe of their vile Extortions and Opprelfions, in bigb coriitevzpf of the Law of God and lMo?I,, braving bi: e7744je_/ifs Lem, histStarutes", their own - Carton Laws, their own Table of Fees, ‘eagitinli juflice, Confcifence, and Equz‘. ‘ 95 What is Impudence if this be not .3‘ The King ‘mayfifeize their Tempm-311- ties for Contempt---no wonder they fiirk, being ‘fo netledg How, they _/him for Life .3 ‘ - And for the words in the left Count, more need notbe laid, than that it it 1 ridiculom to infifl upon them 5 and therefore Sir Fran. Within: faidffhey would “ take a Verdiét only F01‘ t.h€ ivordrin the Count : For inftead of ciamnolole ' i'-Plot (meaning) the Plot their own little jingle Witne/3-,' ‘Han-ig, fwore againlt them, namely, Horrid Tlot agoinfl my 7Rig/Jteom 7‘Camee ma Terjérz .- gthoughthat word 'Pefin‘Was flzlfi: too',.for inflead of ‘1>erfan,. it was . Reputation, and fo didall the Wimfié: agree-j, never‘ was fix}; ,, C4,,/5 on the Tefiimony of fo infézmow a Man, aMan.of. 1,44 Me,,,,,,},,t1m cmfld not tell in‘; Tale rig/at twice togetber, norflcwice the-a _/owe my, and therefore though he had not been proved infitmous, {by tha:,Nob1e Em) yet the ,,,,g;_,, not I ( 6: ) .' . we to hatve heezz helievecl, againli the Tellimony "of To manyfubflantial Wit?- nefles (that if they were not crazy) muft needs have better Meméorie: than? he. - ‘ Lafily, He (wore for himfilf, i and iri fevenge,‘ aiid td get the Defeaalazztir (B€?7€]€C‘€; , ' And yet the preciozri l}’ar} would not may believe him againft fo many, but would not only find the words, that are not aeétibaahle ii: thetizfélezet 5 as has beeti prov’d at large, and beyond all contradiéiion. i at For Men, thus to ruin a “Max, and beggar him, to enrich a Rleh «Man that has erzotzgh already, daze nioulzl think) or, at leali, as much 4! he defirtoer, is [0 - like the _Parahl‘e, in 2’t§'a.t;a. 12. I, 2, 3,‘ 4.. of the Ewe-Lat/eh, (the poor Manis a whale Sahflarzce {of} at a elap) that thejury may thank God that they efcape King Daerid’saThreat.: For Daivicfs Anger, ( V er. 5.) Was greatly kindled againfl: the Alan 5' and he {aid to Nathan, AS the Lord liveth, the Matt that hath done » (bi-_r I/Jlifigi flmll /arel} die. A And he {hall irefidre the Lamb foar—fold,l Mark that, four time: 2000 pozmdxg HOW much is that P 8000 l.) hecaufe he did thit thmgg am! hecaafi he had ho pitty. ‘ j ~ To dilhonour God, by a ralh Oath, taking his Name in ‘vain,.is, that ( by Our Law) ttoeltxe peace for the temporal Punifhment. A " And to defitfme a Prelat, ( that in eomparifon of God 2‘: hat iWorzm-meat) , {hall the temporal Punilhment he ndilefs than I'mp’rifonment, of 2000 I; — in Mony P Ohnic>:1lit<}t1s l The Merrie: of the VVz'ehecl are Crlrelty. But cruel Menlhould remember (in time they may have We to remember) the wretched End of Erapfim and Dtidle}, thdfe grand Pick-pockets, that from the Breach of old Statutes, and Penalties, did rt1ine_Families. 0, 0 - . I ' Sir ‘Richard ’Bezler,= : p. 2 47. tells u_s,\ that their principal Working 0 was upon Tenal St-aitates, (‘to ufe his Words,) they cdkn{ider’d notwhether the Law was oblblete, orin tile; and had ever a Rabble of f‘Prot7toter.r, (a brave Employ for a Terflm of Honour and leading fiarorr, ( mark that too at their Corn- ritarzel. They liv’d, and they liv’d to be haagd for their Pains, after three lon Years; fdr foldng God fuffered them to drink the Tears of Widows and Or- » phans-,-enamely, from Amro Dow. 1406, till 1409'.) «And the Promoterr, (marl: tl1attteiO3)‘‘’'(3}aahy, ’ ipage, S with; Derby, -Wight, Sir};/hie, and $'toe@on,, ( ’tis their loathediNahre: fljoald he chronicled to all 73¢/legit)’, aizal fit ‘_/hall others” too that drive the firae Trade) t"con‘demn’d to the Pzl/or},l and then to ridethrou h the City-with PaperaflosrztheiriHeadJ§,and their Faces toward: the Horfir-tailx. All Even-died llrangely~in_feven‘ Days after,» (in .‘7\(;ewgate ) for Very fhame, 0. ~ The7re’s‘an’-Ends afraretrheti End bfa Pack of \/Vretchesy parlflcl jurorr, and ‘Promoterrft “-The Righteous God will hear the Groansi and Cries of’ the Wi-, dows~a‘nd» Orphans, byunrealbnable‘ and wicked Men ruitfd and undone, and will pay off the flotiyehearted Cait1fi's (that have ldli all Bowels of Humanity and:CQmplalfi0n ) _with 21 Verxgeance. ~ ~ That Atheills may know that there a God that jzzolgethi ii: the Earth; and pays men intheir own Coin. Thistfldoaihezek (too late) acknoWledg’d,wh¢n his Thumebss and great Toeswere cut Off, (the Very tame» Cruelty Wl1lCl'l_lléhaCl in~ V fii€’te.Cl»iipbn.others.)jA‘rid'thus,the‘fMercile(7s, that v(WithOu'C remotle) delight in the Ruii1'‘0*"‘ '3 M3fi3'311d his Houfe. p‘aIlia't»ing Reiféfigetwith ah iHypocriti-i- caliDeodand, tp t‘uir«1’a Man and his He”ritage, when 0 Goal had rewarded them 341 their own kind, each dfthem over their own liuitles‘ {hall fay, with fldoaihe-j « ' Judg. I. 7. A: I have done, fit God hath regaiteol ate. Q__ ' For For Truth hath laid it, Y‘/i7€j_/17,111 find judgment without Mere}, who have ,7£’W€d no ewercy. Tho this tnuft be faid in the behalf of ‘that Jury, ( that tho it was reported in London (before the Trial) What the Illue has 'prov’d, yet it is alfo faid,) that the jury info great a Fine, as 2000 I.) intended nothing therein of Pre- judice to the Defendant, but to bring him‘ to _aSubmiflion,- in vindication of the Bi{hop’s Credit, which (how true it isis) Time will difcover. _ ' But in truth the Bifbop’s Reputation had been fufliciently and lnettertroinolicae ted, if they had given credit to fix fuhfiantial Witnefles, whoacquitted the Defendant that the=Words in the Declaration were not fpo'ken~.as they are e . laid, rather than to that little ‘Body, who was prov’d upon Oath to be fl inf}:-‘ mom a ‘Peafon, by that Noble Earl 5 and by his own Vouchers prov’d to have fo little regard to his Duty, which he ows to God, to his own Soul, and to his Parilhioners, and to his Oath of Refidence in his faid Perpetual-Vicarage, as to leave them utterly, and forfake them, taking another Care and. Flock, and leaving his own to the Care of one that was lately a filly Log-river, and knows not well how to difcharge his own Cure, nor to read his Joeidence. And all this, when notonly all the laid Witneffesyfor the Defendant did [wear nega- tively, that they did not bear fuch Words, but pofitively fwore that they heard the whole Difcourfe, and writ down the Words immediatly upon ‘Harri: his falfe Recital of them, and his bringing themhin Writing to the Witnel-fest for l themto fubfizribe, which with abhorrence and aftonilhment they refufed, (the Defendant being gone out of the Room before, and knowing nothing thereof, and alfo gone out of Town) , and the Witnefles of tbeir own Accord writing down the true Words, which they fwore to, (and feveral more of the Com- pany might have been brought to teliify the lame )5 for tho there wanted ' no Endeavour by all means (pofiible) to gain out one Witnefi to back Harri: his Evidence,-—-e-—ye,t fimnd tbe} none ....—- At lafi came one fmglefizlfiz Witnefo, who (as ’tis faid) be Indiéfed thereupon for Perjury for his Pains, and Witneffes, filhfiantial "Witndfes to prove it upon him, let him claw it off as well as he can, or his Friéndrtotbiw; Man is too great for the Law ‘ fuch Fellow-.9‘ nmfl be made Example: of,,‘th,atfvv.ear tboroto-fiitob, and become falfe Witnefles, to get Nobotlfs Vineyard from him, when it can be done no other way, muft it be done by a fingle Son‘ of Beliol .3 .‘.WCooot/J had yet the Honour to fall two Son: of Belzol 5 Hard ‘Cafe! Muff the Defendant be mind by- one-alone, fire}: on one, and one fo infamous ?. Nay, there was not only two againft .o‘7(3¢l2ot/2, but alfo there was not fix pofitive Witnefl»: for him, as there was for this Defendant, to fwear pofitively that they were in Company all the Time, and heard all the Words, which were not fir, but fo, and fl). And lafily, were this little~Blade of Fortune reéfw in came, not had .any,Defign upon the De- fendant’s Vineyard, and never fo honefi, yet it is againft pofitive Scripture, and God's holy Word, for the jury to bring in a Verdict (thereupon), againft the Defendant, (as the Defendant well told them ) becaufe ogainfi on Elder M2. Aeenfition ought not to be reeeitzed, out at the Montb of two or time’ Witnefi: And neither Common-Law,’ Statute-Law, Civil-Law, Canon-Law, no, the Bifhop (of Rome) himlelf _ can give the Jury a Dzfpenfotion againfl God’s holy Word; and that they will findone Do} for [E7 a Sin, and fofiirly forcwarrrd thereof by the Defendant. .....,. God forgivethem! 1; is in for Men cthat are but’Worms-meat) to fin wjlfiall , and indefiance of the H91} Will and Wordof their Creator. . lg , A ;, K » -r t In {and in this Cafe particularly, wherein God’s Truth is concerned dgdirrfl the r a defiance of the King’s*Laws, in Oppreflions, illegal Fees, and Extortions, in t (‘I 6; > y In the Ir1!€riI}’2,'—'-—+- tho the Salreamand Caldeam ruin’d fob, yd tt},te§; Wefe but Infilruments ( the Defendant fees the Finger of God therein, and fltys with _'j‘o.6,) The Lord barb talxerztazvoy blefliol be the Name of the Lord. ‘ - The World (hall End in this » otidGod’s righteous jufiice, i(t;5ot’: my Foil/{:~) Cruz/tier, Opprej/zbm, and apparent, bold, and irrzpudent Extortiom, and illegal Fees of the. Ecz'le/izz37icdl Farm, fo unanfwerably revealed by ’theDef"end ant, in Wilief of the King; Suojeéir, whoare in behalf of their Saab, (plagud with their Arm!/semis and Excommunications) in behalf of their Bodies, (hu r4- ried afterward to jails) inlbehalf of»tl*1eirt Pmjfor, Liberties, and Eftates, F0‘ mangled by this Nell (at Do&‘or:-Comoiom, and all the Kingdom over) by ,‘Bz'rdx of tloe" fame Feat/oer, that no wonder they flock together to ruine tbs Man that will be the Rr4z’ne.of tbeir wz°cl{edjTrade5 and all- the Powers on Earth will not long uphold them, to live thus as they do, in publi-ck, and daiy open contempt of the many Statutes ‘made againit them, andnow in force, if any be in force 5 furelythey are. as much, in force, as that of :2 “Ric-b. 2. about Soarzclolz‘ Magoat. «made when the Prelates ( Po;>zfi’J Prelotes) were rampant,alas I alas! too rampant; both Laymen and Clergy,-men (little Clergy-men) were more afraidtof .them thanzof Serpents, Toads, Tygers, «or Wolves 5 and well they might, for thofe venemous Creatures, and ravenous Brutes, were leis dangerous, lefs mifchievous, and lefs fierce and cruel, than thofe Prelates,When they got a Man at adrzanmge. _ , A ;tDo_you mark -me? I lay, tbofe Prelates, -—-- do not catclv, mind the Collo- qm'zm2' ( before-going of Popzjb Trelater, (we are fpeaking of Popilh Prelates, vcthatwerei more wéfi'bicww,_ more inexorable, and hard-hearted, than Snakes, Tygcrs, Bears, Dogs, '01‘: Wolves, " - or any other perfecuting Worry- Sbeep,_or-:1 «Cruel ‘rBl0od—/Jourz‘d:. I -_ a ti s ‘ r . And yet thofe (mind what I joy ) Popifh Prelates, with all their Sufpenlions, Cu-rfir, Aoattiemrix, and Excommunicatiorzr, and fuch kind of T/azmder, were efteemed by wile Men, even -in theft: Days‘ (fcroing your P2:efimce,Sir-* reverence) a weer Crackfizrt. Pope Paul‘ the Third’ excommunicated our K%lflg=.E,I9’?2‘j.t_h€‘Elgl]tl),f with fuch e a ‘Pope’s Bull, that (the yflaiflorian flzys) the like wasnesver known before nor fince. Nojwonder hebellow’d and roar’d ft), (for take a grgedyfacclefiallick by the Poo1{et, and hinder his Cheat and Ex~ tortions, (as Hen. 8. did) and you tnakehim. roar and bellow like mad, asif you had got his 1134,71-€.‘..B[0'0d,i and allthe joy and Heaven fame feem to aim at if we may judg the Trees by their Fruit ) no wonder they drew their fpiritual A 'Wea pons, and fling about Curfizr, £12141/.veIr1a’s, Silencings, Sufpenfions, and grow blaclrerwitll haunting "lo many jajlvrx, }a}le_:, Bumlr, Promoterx, Hzmgvnerz, 3? the ‘l ' . , And notwithftanding all this thundering Scclefioflical Blafl, and flifly Crepe’-' M4, thefirnperor C/aorle: the 5!/.>, and Frrmcia‘ the Fuji, the French [{'mg,)( two of thegreiateft Chtiflisan Princes then in the World, orthat ever were in the World, ) and’-many more Popilh ‘(nay-», Italiarz=),..P1'l1’ié€S and Republicks (whillt ~Idm..~s;,8;s:'&ooc_l excommunicated by the Pope) did confirm their Leagues, and entred upon new Treaties and Confederations With him. . But I hear that fome-boo/y (I’le name no-body) is mightily concern’d,fay°mg, ' that the -Defendanfs OWH Witnefles proved the greatelt , Scanddlum Magnatum againfl him, in Words that all of them unanimoully fworé, namely, —-- That ' ' A the Defendant faid at the fame Parilh-Meeting, (only they are not, nor could no; ’ ' . l we 5.: life’: (64 well be laid in line Dccllzratiorz) namely, -——-— That the Bilhop of London is not ixfdllilzle, and the Pope is not infizllib-le. But for that, — or any thing elle {worn by the Defendants Witnelles concerning an fuch fcandalous Words, the De- fendant told the Plantiffis Counfel, that if t e} were oggriezfd-, they had their liberty to bring another Aflion ofScandalum Mognatum, if they had not enough ' of.tl.»z‘4 : , And perhaps they will thinkrtlfey have enoughof fuch Promotions in time, when they have leifure Without being drunlgwitb Paflion, and a little over- em in Malice, and will take time) to call up theiriAccounts‘5 and’ when the examine What they are out of Purfe, and what they have loll in the Opinion of the World, and are come to themfelves, v’vill'erepent,...r__ too late repent-c-~ - ' P o ‘ T And if they had repented of their Extortiom, Pride, Avarice, and Opprelhw ons, all Men know that it had been better for them; but now the more they fix», the more theygflink. . ~ Andif any lhould be angry at thefe Words, the Bzfflaop of London 2': not -1122 a/lilzle, and the Pope 2‘: not infallible, and bring a new Action of Samdolum :37/lagnotzmz, or Scandal againll~Prelatcs, let them know, * I T ‘ The Defendant will not plead, (as now) Noiz—cul-=-—- but jullify it by infal-o» lible lnflances. « To omit man} on tloisfide the W oter, and allythe great Abosninationsi oFROme, a He inflance in one Particular, wherein. all the Papills {halls take my part (here’s a Wonder and a Miracle I a true one) ‘againft the Pope himfélfia 7nar’nely,~ Pope i . Imzoeentiw, (in his Epifiles) afierting (as alfo did St. Juflin) that the Lord’s Supper wasequally neceflary for ’Children’s Salvation, and to be received as much and as -necellarily’ as Baptifm itfelfi ’ " n V Therefore Popes have erred, (in the opinion of the Pope and the Papifls ii at this day ) and St. Aufiin hath erred herein 5 or elfe the Papzfi: and Church.” of England err in holding the contrary, jointly againft St. .1u3?z'g;.in the? Point. r’ And if it were notithat this Trial gives me occafion to obfesve to the Rea-F ' der theleufeful..Hirit:, and lucky Hz't:, I‘ lhould r(. as the Reader well may be by this time quite weary of it: ‘ {ind alfo it is refolv’d ‘they fhallhave their 'Bell}-full of Mr. Hickeriugill, till they be glutted, and confels, for all» their gaping fo greedily with open Mouth, and Teeth, and Fangs” to devour bim, and fvallow bin: up quick, in time they’le {but their Mouth, and acknowe ledg, that they have enough of bin: in all Confciencfl - S Nor will-‘he leave them, not go (as he hears they defign ) beyond Sea, a‘ , little Governor in Carolina, &c.» No, he has more Work firft to do in his “ Native Soil; they (hall not be fo rid of him, nor yet get one Farthing of- the aooo 1, except they can catch it, and they mull be very-‘cunning if they can; perhaps they may (as they have hitherto) throw a a great deal Core and Pains, Trouble and Vexation, and goodrMoney afier bad. ' r Malice is like its Fat/9er,, namely, Tho it go up and down, {eeking whom it may devour, yet ( like the Devil alfo) it is never wear; of lW7fcbiefi- as long as there is any Glimpfe of Hope: toeompoj} it, and accomplzf/9 it: though a» worfe Hell upon Earth, nor greater Torment can befall them, than to go on, (as they are willing and eager-eenotigh without bidding, and to) proceed Halloo ! h Thus I cant u on themg that°s theiwor and the have dime -their’ nwr . But out . P 9 Y and nearefiway to advance himfelt, and prelerve the Life of the People of Thy Wifl be‘ done z'n,Eart/3 as it 1': in Heaven; s Naked came I out of my Mo- Job 1- M?‘ In all this job. finned not, not charged God foolzjbly. 33012 I. '2 I, 22. . (659 ~ Thusihayeilidone -at prefent With this mighty Stdflddlttrit Magtrattttmi, the Defendentis Adyerlaries have done too, p and gone as far as. they,ca,n5, that is, to make him retire, and give him leifure to ’0bfit;i1ei/Jeir Motiom, ahd dd‘; of the Eater {hall come forth eat, and out of the Stroflg, fweetmfflr. ' _ And really I do notthink that Mr..Hick_'erz'22g2'll has to much as a difpleafing Thought, or rzflng of Heart, againft this Providence of God : forit is Gods" doings, inthefecret methods of hisDivineWifdorn5 and he beftknoiws, by the flteming-crttfi-motions, (as in the Wheels of a Watch or Clocks)’ how to carry on the Maker’s Defign, which puzzles none but the ignorant and fhort— . fighted. 'Davz‘d—-—_fpeaks experimentally 5 Ihave been young, and no‘wa'm‘ gld, yet have I not feen the Righteous forlaken’, nor his Seed begging read. _ g I .9, . . i , _\ Who would have thought that 70 epb’s Imprifonmefit fllould be the fhortefit God ? , . , , Who would have thought, when job was on the Dunghil, that his latter End {hould doubly tranfcend his Beginning P therefore let us lay and pray.------- thers Womb, and naked fhalll return thither: The Lord gave, and we Lord 22- lyatb taken away, (and yetthe cruel Sabazam-, and the ravenous C/Jaldeam, were the Tools and Initruments of the Rapine) bleffed be the Name of the Lord. Nay, in a greater Tryal of his patience than this, (namely, theupbraiding , and Curtain Leéture of liis‘Scdlding and difcontented Wife) he kept bi: Ground, Job 2. 9,10. and retainfd his Integrity, andfthe refignation of his own Will, to the ,W-illof hisCreator 5 ~ -for';in,—all this did not ‘jobfin-with his Lips. «_. job 2. 9, I0. I No Man; can blame the Defendant (;notwithPtanding.) that.he_ did fo lufiily‘ iand_ copioufly defend_,hiti1f€lf, in fhewing, to the utmoft, the vanity of that fiatile flontrioance againlt him, j from‘ fuch flemlerf wmis, and fo flemlerl}, all i grounded, umn an old Statute made upon Popilh Prelacy, were rampant, and were willingito fhelter themfelves by, force ofStatute~Iz.,aw, (which theyfou//I and didm1,@;.,_when ‘and“;as‘:threy lift), to fence againft the jut} reproof of ’ all good Men, ready to .ope_n_: ,a,t~,them,' if their Mouths hadmot thus b,een‘ftop'd 5 ye; fine Hoztfit (If '_Com1no2'z: :(-notyvith_’f.’tanding,)»werg ,jgzat, afraid, afterwards, no. ;.'2;-, to complain Bgainfi them, in. the 5&4”? 0f 1.’.-’€aC.0.W7I0m.¢'9f Efig/4'74’: and to perfwade the King not to difoblige his People, for the fake of ,a few Qourt-Pre1_ats.;. But do..you think ‘that:that* untbtulg*ag.=.King would/sear them ,2 And did notthelbfit t/2eii'.Heart: thereby 3 :~ —And‘ did they not all ioinwith an Z)fia-per_ gain}? gbifii, that had noffitle to; theqcrown, 'nor'a,tIooufimd Men (at Pfal-33. :63 am) whenhe4anded.e,., a .- .~ . s a _~2 K _ One faysyqelli, Zege Hg’/iorizwi, fie fid5_H2'flor‘ia : Let us obferve the Hiltory of "Times pa{l',‘ leftour inconfiderate Aétions fill theChronieles of Times to _. . 9 'Let,11g_remember,Re/iolaozmt, and Richard---2&1. ,— , ..s__‘,I d_a,re;fay,.» the Defendant{ does not fa-much or z'rz_a»-w;;It‘_ iregfet VVh8t'5 P833 for all 1 thit§gs,fltall~?work~-tvgetber fbr’gp'o;1,.8(¢, ,"I.'is fonly flJ0rt;[igbt,ednej3', and want of'‘F.47°t1J; 77? God, that makes Men flag atidfiiefpond: -Nay,» no good tbing will be with-bold fromthem that (dejire to) * .Wi1lk uprightly. . r _' ,And what unrigbteoujhefi hasthe malice ofthé Adverfary been able to, prove againfi Mr. Hicégringill 5 and yet there are ~1VIa.n-'c.atehers* enough that have .. - ‘ ‘ ‘R perverted , it (M) perverted his Words, which were butdue and juft Reproofs againfi a wicked, , foolilh, and perverfiz Generation. . W - ‘ . lg The Defendant has caufe ( any other have more mafia) to fay, with Holy ‘[31-3% 16' David, P121}. 37. 4, 6. My Soul is among Lions; and I lie evenamong them Q, I R that are fet on fire 5 and the—Sons of Men that are let on fire, whofe Teeth ‘ are Spears and Arrows, and their Tongue‘ a {harp Sword : They have pre- y; ,m 3., 3 pared a Net for my Preps, my Soul is bowed down: They have di'gged a Pic 7' I °’ '° ' before me, in the midft whereof they are fallen themfelves. God {hall fend from Heaven, and fave me from the reproach of him that would fwallow me " ' up. He travaileth with Iniquity, and hath conceived Mifchief; ahd brought a H fallhood. Hide me fecretly, in thy Pavilion, from the ftrife of Tongues, un- til this Tyranny be overpaft. 2 if Pf-.3s6.2,5. My Enemies (in tbe Hebrew M43-£41058?!) Would daily fwallow me up, : ?f,1.56_S 5_ frained to declare thy Truth to the grea H for they be many that fight againfi me, ohsl thou molt High. Every day they wrelt my words, -all their thoughts are agaénft me for evil, yet have I not re- ongregation : and therefore they . gather themfelves together, they hide themfelvesg they mark my Preps, when 3 P{al.22. :2, they Wait for my Soul. Pfizl. 22. 12, 13,16, 19, 210,221, 22. Many Bulls have l 13, i6, 19, compaffed meg {lrong Bulls of Baflmn have befetme round. They gapedup- 5 ‘2°>“a“- on me with their M0uthS5 yea, the very abjeéis gathered thernfelves again{l:~ me, making mouths at me, and ceafed not. For Dogs .have compalfed me; the Aflembly of the Wicked have inclofed me. Deliver my §oul from the Sword 5 my Darling from the power of the Dog. Save me from the Lion's Mouth 5‘ Jud then, I will declare thy Name unto my Brethren: In the midi} {of the Congregationl will,prai{‘e thee. i ' 2 ipm_l56_7’3, ‘Pfizl. 56.7, 8,9, 3, to, II. Shall they e{Eape by Iniquity? In thine Anger I 9,3,,o,,,_ caft down the People, oh God. Thou tellefl my Wandrings, put thou my Tears into thy. Bottle: Are they not in thy Book? When I cry unto thee, 1 then {hall mine Enemies turn back: This I know, for God is for me. What time I am afraid, I will truft in thee. In God will I praife his Word 5 in, the Lord will I praife Word. In God have I put my truft, I will not fear P{‘a1.57.t. What Man can do unto me. .Tfl:l. 57.1. In the ‘“{hadow of thy Wings wi11I make my Refuge, until‘ thefe Calamities be overpafl. ' PW-SR3-6:7: ‘Pflzl. 58. 6, 7, 8, 9, lo, 1 1. Break their Teeth,O God, in their Mouths,é~o. in I 8=9>‘°>"' The Righteous {hall rejoice when he {eeth the Vengeance; He {hall wafh his Feet in the Blood of the Wickedg fo that a Man {hall lily, verily there is a Reward for the Righteousg verily there is a God that judgeth in the Earth. . .1 ~ t « ’ » t ' if , ~But of all tie whole Book of Pfizlam, there if not one Pflzloz better _/xiii: bio Pm’ 9*‘ Condit2'o‘n,or adminifler: more Comfort, than ever] V81,‘/8’ 0f Pfal. 94... It was when David hid himfelf, and play’d Bo-peep, [I Sam. 23. 14,-‘ 15. in the Wil- 4 derne{§ of Zipb, in a Wood. He fled not from Golia/.7, When band to band, but he would not contend with the Power of the King 5 and yet he did {iudy Self prefervation (Who can blame bio: .3 ) againlt combin’d malice. . And wberefore were Da-vz'd’s Enemies‘ fo malicious? not for any fault of mine, (he faith, Pfltl. 59. 2, 3.) for, loe, they lie in wait for my Soul, the Mighty are gathered together againft me, not for my Tranfgrcfion, nor for my Sin, 0 Lord! for they compafled him about with Words of Hatred, and ’ fought againfl him, Tfil. I09. 3_. wrtboqt a cqufi. ~ . g . Y6-fa thou h they compafled him about, yea, they compaffed ‘him about, (yet, /Jebad air}: to fa}, Pfal. I 18. 11, 12. that though they compafled him about. about like Beer, (flinging, fling}, and in Swarm!) yet (in Faith) he faid‘, iii the Name of tlne Lord I will deflro} them. i e _ _ L e Ay, but when? might fome fay to Dot2{'d--—.-‘-Wbe‘7z;? c2z’rz you tell zkeflnai '3 for to a carnal Eye there was little probability of it._ V , A Nay, in the very next Onfet, k7’fil. I I8. 13. Tlwou bafl jlzitb‘/ne) rm]: /ore at we tlmtl might fall, but the Lord helped me. e e _ i % _ e _ That whole I 18 Pflzloz, is fpoken of Chrilt and his Kingdoni, under the A , Type of David, and hi: Su]j"Erirgg:;.;—;-typilied; and hie 'Refiz‘rr'e’£lz'on and A]Z‘en- flan, by David’: Vz’é‘z'ory at lengths then God bad delivered him fiom the band: of all bi: Erzemier, (it PM “long (be was glad to fly for it and fiom the Hand of Soul. A l V a t A g. i , .. But at length, Ver/.‘e22. of that I18 Pfalriz, the Storze which the Birilder: re. fitjed, (typified of Chrilt, and verified alfo in David) the fame 1'»: become the ‘Head of the Comer This, 1': the Lord '1 doing, dad it 2': Iimrvello/to in our Eyes. i A ~ .. " ‘ i In Mr;&cn:r;»g;1rs—Retiremen:, his Mufi (Ehe Heavenly and ‘only Co£1ip;i;t« e aion of his Solitude) compos'd tbi: Pfalm (an Infalliblet Antidote ( 4 flm§fzf'ed) againfi” all Dilitontent, (the éor1zmon¢,Pla+g?ze of _, Mozzkirzd) Sor- rows, and Fears 5 Andrwhichfor that purpole he fent ( fince his ‘Fiery-5 Tryal) to his mofiidearly beloved W2‘ e, to Confirm ber, (not to Bzjlaop bar) but to firengtben her agairfi the Bifr’J0p’S Promotions and Suits 5 which for" ‘the%Publick-Good, Oi‘ Common-Weal, Ihefe Publifh, viz. V T Hat which difquiets mail’: Toor Mortals here,‘ i t e ‘ Is not the Pains they feel, but what they flari And what wefear; Eitlaer--«it will not come», Or ellie-«-fooner may come out fotgl Doom’, -And free us, lodging ugéin our Long—I-Jame, I Where neither 931'/loops nor his Clerk: will come ' Tolwrack us any more. Then do notvwhine, The ptefent Good or III alone) is thine; V e But---What’s i’th’ depth of future Timese-can’l’ttell f? i ‘Thou Fool! for thou tl2e' Marrow knoW’l’t not well 5 No; where thou ifl1'al’t to morrozo be -, not tell —Whc_th€r on Earth, (thou’lt be ) in Heaven, or Hell. Let Pools and Knaves than for the Morrow Pine, ' e Andfear they know not what, not can divine : And let the marrow for its {elf take care‘: i Suflicient for the day its Evils are. But Of .th1i3§~ (at prefent, at lealh) let ‘us in the next place conlidet the ‘Doughty ./Irtzclel, (fvoorneby fix Doi&or’s-Commons Reverend Fellows; called ‘1§)gflCt02.5 5) on which was bottonfd, and founded; a" Supplieooit ) namely 5 . R2 “e ARTE % (68) 4_ .o1=THE, ‘en-an eenavmurt ‘Exhibited-in theCourt of our Lord ghe King, rbe- Q fore the King, at ll/eflmirgfler, againfi_E'dmoml Hicofieriugifl, Rector of Ah-Saints in (lolchefier in the County of Efl,"eoc,Clerk, for Teveral vMif. demeanours by him committed. - t on Imeprimis; THat in TriuityiIermlafl,}1rticlet nhrereofixhihited agaiufll ‘the fizid A ' Edmund: Hiekeringil}, in the Archer Court of Canterbury,’ for Claude/line Marriages, at the promotiouof Henry Lorol Bzfhop of London’ which high Crime: he jlill fiauoleth accujeol ; and the [aid Edmund *Hi*ckering'1l},t did feveral Court day: make hu Jppear_ar2c'e iu‘ the faz’a_’"Court, aud hehaa/ed hz}u- c felf irrevereatlj, and did afiroout the the faid Court, aucltmore particularly 3} 20th ofjan. Anno vi£eiT1111p atzelttio o/:‘thi5'King, did ugaiucmahe his Appearance ‘ in the [aid Court then held in the common of Do_€t'—or1+Common: London, h} Sir Richard Lloyd K'uight,‘:.U0c"lor on wLaw.r,c. theta’; sfthe faid Court, withmarty perfim aloigg fuvit_l:‘hzr‘2g,.~__of ;1tbe rzumher ofthj,-tf, or twenty Perm as t,fl—,),_..da..e¢2ertl}I heltewze,-. 1‘h0;‘TIl'Ie)f, Tho Smith, Jug-. ad prediét primum Articn1um*,Tho. Tiyllet. & Tho.Sm1rh4 ~m~ cur. diefp_r¢d1&,_ \ Hillar. AIIDO XXXiii° Rfgfia“. _ 2. Item; That the fat}! ‘H*iekeringil1w.did;,ou thefaicl _tw?utz'eth 9’ * January, tlieir arid there‘he'h’aé2e himfilf the Co»urt;o1_"_'_ 4_r§h§.!‘ theuflttiug, as, aforefaid, var; iudecentljand iufileutl] ‘to the ‘C'ou_rt;“ heepihg his Hat .ou, tho h} the judg of fame G0;57_'t‘:fi3'()£’7’4l titri6'3—"rfitortt'fhed to 'the‘coutrar] ; ogmd‘ than the Ofiicer of the fatal Court hylthe. gfudg his [omozaudtahitzgeafi his Hat, he put it on again in a contemptuousyuanuer. Tho.‘;'lTy1l_o_t. Tho.Sr_niI:h, Cha. Tuckyr, Jur. ad prediét. fecundum°Afticnlum Tho.-Ty1lel:,Tho. Smichcfx: Carolus Tpckyr, v . in cur. die 8: Anno fupradiéi’; ’ e‘ ’ 3. Item, The [aid Edmund Hiokeringill, then 7/er} fawcil} and irupudergtl; declaring to the fudg ofthe faid Court of flrchey, That the Arch-htfhofyhiuofélf’ was there he would not [land uucovered : Jo. Millelr,t Tho. Stoker, ”Char.‘ Turkry,]ur. id prediét. tertium Articplum ]o‘hann‘eS Miller, Ibo: Stokes 8:" Carolus Tucker in cur. die & Anno fupradiét. h ' e t (4. Item, 35 J0h31?9*=§s{7*?l5?’$liT1is;di€i&eA““° {“Pf3di5’€-'~ , ( 5% } 4-. w:'T5.4Z“,Z‘77¢’ Edmund H1Ck€1'i11_.gl:U,,ifl the open (3'§2ls4i5t,'z;Zzcrc,a97z0i.2;'gj ~ot/yeriolppfohiawxlyggkgfgiyaéiyive Léagzgzmge there *5} hi??? to at/aeaC0iz7*t,—‘ fzzid itwanw Ego”; »3I,~.2mo', zgfid 2‘/mt '2‘/1:7 bad 12jo_power_ to czzll’79z‘7;7z éefore tljgm ; ml tifgit s {per/nt;bf.":t77'e , ‘Court $6563“ do him, fzz_ but I/Mt itbej flcrzzer ‘ megae_a,sar h2<,u[¢4l "to Thoascdker, Cokeg;~e’j*§h ad p'¥eéIi‘ét;*.qt1aftui11‘ ‘Agrtiedlum, Stokes ,¢]ohannes“?Co1s:‘,é*r, iin>éii»:; the jfazjzllllidmutld Hickexihg7i1ldid‘tl§e;2 in 4 ¢d‘p§*a5‘ribfw manizer, M1,:-%e tl_be.f;zz'a’ Court, t/feat, ;T,aaa¥l:.»/14d.ie1’ozfim "t/webs, ém‘ F2243 ya in a’4=ntii1é’z‘eh*‘:ilfli 5 ‘ti/mil‘ Zfers /Md Poijbig z;i‘»”?2‘b§7,73'; 5:12‘ t/aeir Fiefk was an extréwri diam Medicifieg 0/ to W6? ; and A, I/jahtsaerzzezy ez‘/ye wilefl or worfl 3)”4iGoaZ%~ Creature: ‘/r.ziZfki?7iqtbing::qf‘good in it, fitvz}¢g,,itlmts,eCourt,, wlaic/2»l:*e‘ tkemrfaid ne=ve5~ did dvrgévdlflii €”¢?’,W°W>0’ ‘vim. fie“ M We #53 Pwfimis or‘;mez)"«9ftb%iv2 ibazti» af,¢i2‘2ié,,;l‘*i’}§{g2,ie‘t"k,,c’ omit 9" Arcde:,wz‘th the faid ,Ed,miin‘d1Hlic;l{ei‘l‘ti‘gil*l’, §lau;g3%e£1’¥ztlbn§3o‘2i’f’7?’/73in‘ 1713 _fl¢id Hicykeringill fazid, followed him oz2z‘;éift>'9e’ij2zlz‘a»z' \ rm: with Tho. Smi: ,' john iColc'er~,;]ur. ad prediét, quintum Articulutn, ‘Tho. Smith, 3 ‘*1 r V In %ancf,o,, Dominm Rex verfws Edmtind Hickeiini-E" gi1l7¥Clé%ien—m.l Eremy .Iive:;“Chee,I7m’ongetand ,Citizen of London,’ lflfl_7‘_,bI ‘not 3{lerting_‘theit Court to be the King’s Couttgand as aforefaid to be kept in the Kings Name and Stile ‘; and by his Authority: Ml. Hiclcerizz. gill would not be uncovered, faying, That it was againift the Oath.ofoC_anoV- nical Obedience, againfi the Oath of Supremacy, againlt the Canon,s_and the Statut-es,to own anyCourt 13cclefi;afiical,.but whiat fate byoth*e_King’s ‘Authotity and Commiflion,s and eaéted in the Name and Stile Ofjth€.KiU'g ’: A if [hag Cyourt of Arches 7was only the Arch-bifhop’s Court, He"thefaid Mr. ‘Hic/feriflgifl duxfl not, not vsfouldi he be uncovered befote thesiA5tchig.bi{hoP hitnfelf if he were prefentiv, becaufe it is contrary to theittovvu Canon-Law tiirid the Oath of Canonical Obedience, fora Presbyter to flapgl mite.-,;headedt \ in Prefenee of any Biihop: or, heiufed words ttowthe like efi‘€¢$t;.‘;Sa.ying, A lg-_h;1ti,f'th€y-tgéflldvea_1’g{1€,hiSflat off his I-lead byitSt2.t.tutite-Law,‘ iCasnon—VL.aw_.,. ‘ \Civiil,—Law, oreiGo"inmon-La:w,s it fhouslds be at’t.hei‘r]Serv,iee, and%lv;hg.=::, x,vQuId It-and bareoheaded before them; or, he ufed words tothelilce efftfit. lAgd thekfaid Mr,Hiakerz';2gi[l d’l11‘«lng_hiS whole {lay there, tufted no sothetstv%Al&1Qni.5, nor Speeches; that might give jufi Offence ; unlefs the Taid Sir «Richard "took Offence, ‘when he at the fame time laid,‘ That ever iIea~tur.es.that God made ‘wasgooctand had fome "go in it; that a Pearl was fometimesfoutid inthe Headi of a Toad, and t.he‘Toad~s«Ple{lais‘anflntidote .tag3;inl’£l its own sVer;,orn; Andche befi Cordial and Venice-Tteacle is madeofithe 'FleTh of thelfmoft I poyfonful; ‘and Italian Vipers. But (laid Mr.iHickefl';¢gz'll the Mifchiefs, Extortions, «and Oppzellions of the King’s Subjeéts are appatentyand many, and great, and daily‘* committed by you in defiance of the Statutes : But {how _ but one Good you do, or have done in thettmemoryse of Man, eorthatany V , . Chronicle, or Hifiory mentiofns to be done by any Eéjclefiafiical Court, and then I may ackpowledg yogr Ecclefiaflical Fabrick to be of Gofel’s~ma'kif‘ng cg he ufed Words to the like effeét. » i T’ C 4 furl’ 053%). die Feht.‘Am2o R. R. Garoli e fer; Ives. l i W V fe'czmdz', &’.C. tricefzzzco quarto comm. ’ i " DOLBEN. tsamtel Wells. ‘ X ‘ :53; / . 4 g (77) 'E T all nnéjafi’d men, and honeft Citizens ("who know thenfe Gentle?" men, know their Qnilit], their good Reputation) Whether it be In01‘€ probable that they, who have no livelihood at flake, ( by fuch Aflidavits to win, or lofe, or wreck their malice and fpleen) men of Confcience and Honour {hould atteft the Truth, ofntntter of Phil‘, the truth whereof above‘ Twenty more fubflantial Citizens can (and are ready) if needful to attefi: Or, Six Prorftor: afDac7or: Conzmanx, whrofe conltant ule, or rather, abufe,-e is to cheat and opprefs, by injuries and Extortiens in illegal Fees, and con- trary to Law. i And Whether they are not likely to have impndence enough to mre/i‘,~xul1c>fe &ld}1.%.t0VfbCfi;-DB’.-i‘6.fid4.flt,' and inve- :gg';-*acy gm3etQieTvet'y»maa ;'itmight atrlegflscraate nfenlonfie that -'the Articles o'n>w‘hich<—the Snfpl:'cn+vt't~ was fo11nded,m1'ght= peffibly be {worn ‘unto out of heat ', malice, ‘ hatred; rage '01?!-‘flVCII'gC;. Bay , molt‘ .not0ri0n_/Zy »_pra5nély it mtg/It éefo, That ’tis a wonder thefnaiges (to whom God has gi- ia¥éf&i*:,?‘_a'fld W\h'0are'fWOm:.(in tllfi: Gab‘). tfztf’ttdge).t0 have no re_/‘bet?’ §af‘}terfaia:ina"]iiiign1ent,.‘.i(tE)iit e!eead«fui;.Oad3.l and that made judge Hale: tretnble when he thought thereof, :hehad lets eauie than 0- thers: feitéibeafraid, qiérrhc .vmade'§€eh£bienee of hi;s0a.th, and neither the - —whilpers at‘ Court»ie'rs.i»-norithe ‘Kings private Letters would he regard in a. Caijfe. of jufiice) ’tis a wonder, Ifay, that fince one jingle n;mI(aclde'd orleftiv’ :+(,fi,_.7 alter “tnafincel and vv\ords,.tlnaey would fuller no’ ;»t§fijm0ny tciibé heard of the But tiagainfl him. as many . leae.y , . l V s. as is the lmrder meafure, beeaufe it is ufual to delay the lending out the Writ of Sttpp/itnvit (fo feldotn granted at all) againi’t‘anv’man, efpe-’ l cially a Man of Ellate 5 till firfi he be fummon’d to [new canfe’ ( if he ean)why fuch a Writ V/banlal not be granted, and molt efpecially no-t accuflomed to be ' fo haltily granted againlla Divine, and alfo 3. than Of kfl0Wl1 and Vifiblc . PE;£’yate, from which there was no fear he lhould fly for the penalty of I00 fpoken as the Profiors fwore them. But, iftbey xvzrey/fa/zento the [ante (fleet, t/Mt t/Ie other Gentlemen and Ci- tizens have attefied upon Oath, and the fame that feveral Citizens and Gen-' tlemen (then and there prefent) can 4/fa atte/Z, then the words are not fie‘ "‘iiI’<‘)und, and all fotiwords too that are not wort/2’ 4 Lwtfi, if they. had been 7711“?/J Ax!/ilwt], but may fafely be Ipoken in ( and to) any lawful Courtin i - h ' »T. V/’<:/?*' .14 u.'_ uni. _. _... . .._...._._..- pm... - -4...._....._-.,-... _~_._, ._..,_ ——— — -——-—~———- ~—- *~<__j_-_ C73 ) PV;fi‘mini,’?er—H4/I, upon. occalion. I Mitch) mdre, in and to a Court, which‘, whether it be a lawful Court isioutof Quefiion,‘ if the Statute 2.Ed222ard 5, be in force, (which no judge yet ever did take upon him in fl/IfIminfZer— Hall to -declare tobe Repealed, forjudges are but to declare the Law, not,to make Laws, nor repeal them, that is the, work of a Higher Power.) And if that Statute be Repealed, ’tis llrange, that Sir Fr4mz'J«Pemh.ertoI2'lhouled fo urge that Statute (as aforel"aid)to‘ Sir H/i/[tam Sc-roggs, fo lately upon the Bench:, and he then at the Bar, during the Seffions ofthe lafi Parliament at //V:-/fmzaz/Zer,gSirFmnc:2c laying, 777.41‘ he fare here to urgeiit rvarmlfiheczm/e he g/5tppo.s’d that hi: Lordjhip mu‘ not prepared at that time to give a that Stat/ate an anfvcr~: or words to the like effeét. « D ~ - : Which if he did fay,openly at the Kings-Bench Bar,or words to the like efl’e£’t,then it is beyond all Contradiétion , that. Sir Francis Pemhezfton .(whilft at the Bar) did quefiion the legality of their Courts Ecclefiafiical as now managed as well,as much,nay more,and moredangeroully to them then Mr. Hie‘/eerizzgilldicl. C in . * r And if it bequeflion’d, whether he did urgethe faid S_t-astute, 12 Edmé. 1, (as aforefa id) for his Client Mr. PI/eilal of Mach-Waltham, - the {aid Mr. //Pieild , and alfo divers others are ready to attell the Truth thereof; if any body dare deny fo publick aTruth. D n‘ g —_ - 3 2 "And let any i»di[feret1t,impa1‘tial. and unbiaflmen judge, whether~it~+be not hard meafure to be {em to Jayl (or Wl'llChEl$ as bad, find Bail) and all about the decilion of a point of Law, fotdifputable; and quefiionable , that lawyers of known and great worth and Learning (without exception )»a_5 any other,has urged that Statute fo lately in ifeitminfler-hells. and confefl. fed , that he thought the Chief Juflice was not then prepared to give, it‘ an Anfwer ; I wonder what Anfwersir Fnmci: Pemhertofl twill giveyttnoiv He is Chief-jufiice ; it may very probably,nay oughtibefolferhim to in queflion, when fo many of the Kings" Subjeéts are excammutzicatedgg thofe Eccleliafiical Courts, and Forty Days afterlits publication, ,f€I1l3;':t0 Jayle, For if that Statute be in force , the. Ecc1eliaPtical.;Fel1ows, are guiltywoif a Premtmire , nay worfe, nor can fcarcely any name or punilhmem; bg gag; enough for them '; or bad enough. i . -.1 t » ‘ But, time the laid Chief ]uf’tice faid he would hear no Plea’s in the fendants Defence , nor fulfer any xiflidavitsito‘ be read or heard in his De- -fence-—-God Help ~ ‘ " '2 2 ’ _ To Divert the Reader , I’le here make hold wit/m Friends; and-ore rint the lafi Verfes of the late M» Satyr ( c4ll’d the Mufhioom) in the Pofl- ‘ rip: thcreof,namely-—-— ~ . t; a - . C .;‘_-1 I .. .7 Q .. . _ 9 » A. V , - ‘ ' . I . C 79) To fame drum (of State) aRe'negaJe,? (That has his can/cien.ce,god and [gag betraydjd Sometimes a bafe I nterpreter’ ‘is made, ‘ ThOug11I1e anflt}2ei/Z be in Mafquerade 5 A And in rich robe: (through dvilldany) drrafd: d Yet, tl1is}4’Poff4c} nv/étoplare upbraid 5 d TheVz'llian firm andfee1ns rtotdafiaifl pt.[70rnersf131.o‘5’aree fhoyvn in Czz*z2iléacle; €7'opu51zc/g.a§};;;b niadydiiable be made : Oh ! tlaenmfve :i*i11;;;n._m1z fodrajall be mad . d 9 $.33 Q ’ .‘\ 1 7,. § °’ 1 have h¢ara;a£E‘a‘certaiiarmnee .(}\o$‘=§ia flinging bugs Empa) ~tH2t fiid; 5.~""'*"’="‘.€f?~.*£’fT:le:1”€*2""‘..”’{“""‘~'*=R‘¥31”{“:"‘§4.f4‘€{£€3§>«- wbém .é1§3..’% M We Met Relzgio» and 5»/94214.», 11;/2.‘ ‘A’ ‘ . d 3 3 v 33 us '2. _ * If, He had alfo-‘fgiiidgz an‘d'.‘what3‘]u~tie}S}I‘e1i,f’C>fl€% 15fl«.e.é§;£:¢rz'e.r., if. I Jlifiry, He had nickt»£h~‘3ebUfiflr¢f5 and in1’read.of 2, faying 0u~r:Goods;d our Efiates, our. Lives,ofiFVVi6'e’s;o1fr Children, Oufflafids :2ind‘* ‘;‘I.*1’11~)ee“1‘;tdies are own‘ , it would be dquefiionable , whether we mightfay , our Souls aredur own,- but (worfe than the Tantivec-Preacher, For He only faid) Cazflzr _//94/1 /mrue ]0fl7',. Goods, Jag; Badies,y_azgr Lands, }pur_Cln'_ldre;_z anqlyour //I/z'rue:,&ce Geflzr [ball 0 ba ' l}a?ve" gill, ‘Z711 i:d‘Céfii:;ii)n'the otftfide of {yourdsdulds i,~-5-But ;f:he:y;belo_nge to‘ God,,G,qd flagll have yiour S&oul.s—-— And if “-he wouidv mike ehis.w'L>rd~ good ,' 4. we” 1wQuld‘é1;¢ip up the 'fbafgqin;im'mediiatc1y,and upbdéthac Conditipn, V chat‘ Hey’. g‘oQd‘,:' p I0ur'«Sbul.5 ,§‘«.~Let‘.‘Cae/Itf take ou1‘__ Wivesfiour Lanc1s,ou1‘ Chii'dren,:<5ur-B V’ d1es,hay ,our Lures ; ( and A the fooner 3 ihebét°t'er)Wefl1a‘llf1bt=gri1t‘ch‘thi:*Eii¢finge; ; A - .- 'f\ ., ‘N ,3, ‘ r‘, L .-g V. A. I, , , . . , '1; ?~._’;~_; .ButH5L.t:d:7zéif:.f:?2zfd_is"Mr. F1_7icke"r*’z‘ga'giill’«‘s"Ca{?*.',«r with thefc Eoclefiamcal Felldws, who’ are ej;I1§r‘?rery§ ig;2‘or'zz>iz§ Vor very‘ifiz}iaatent.thus £o.lai.ly,ap4 4,,-.: ‘ 1 ‘ ' ' ndfhalt fare better in\/V6/lW'”fl€r:ml.l;, fhehthe n‘1an‘.th‘a"t 1*i~,p1f““V‘t:sf';t;i1e“m“,’ hjdw induf’crio‘ufly lhasf e our wife .g¢nce.‘, ii»gggg.‘;q;:;¢nfronc tfiélfiiilgs Lavva; Ea ' \ flor; fenC’4i@fi§i!l&’t.hé1E‘P(‘gue.§‘§(bF"M§3fikind)’dProfi=bter: .9 Twféidltm -v---- :.-‘i _ ~ ' ;. ' , cw caflsfhem» ‘[flfift:..£.‘€dF.88’. » I - u . 2‘ 7 ‘ ’ .‘ ‘K ‘ ‘I. .__; r ’ ’ ‘ 5-‘. \ C 3 2 3 . 18. £1i'z.’5.--——— 23; £liz.._ 1;. j54c.I4. Implzic/114/Z about 36 ‘old obfoleté Statute: (Snare: with which Promote rs can/at men) were at once repealed; and «yet {ays Cake, notwithllanding all ithefe Statutes againfi P7’07790f€7’5---- Four rnifchiefs Ptill remain’d, Icould ‘ha: e told him ,cnemore—— that makes Fivemifihiefs : but 2 1. fac. 28. didfome good againfi this fort of Cattle, who under the re-uerezul Mantle of and jufiice inflituted for proteétioti of thelnnocent, and the good of the Commonwealth (tis Calm own words,» III/2. 3. 5.880) VCX pCrlZe -IhC‘;SUb_jC& men jjgvpgy tgkg warning ?/ and commonly the poorer fort, for malice ‘(mark that) or private ends, and neverforlove offujiice-._ - . . o _ . Shall Horiefiy and Ingemzitf alzvajs~5e‘ out’ offaflriom. and amder the .»Hmhe:, and vile rim:-[craving S/4'06: (againfl their own Confciences Slaves) always keep above Deck? '¢ 5 ~ ‘ ‘F l ' to 7 ~ ' i - Where do welive 6 that pimping, 5flWd],[}.‘lI7'7'1.l0I!A‘P0€f4/Z67’! {hall impum‘: Libel the I-‘iomargzfile Pegramil Pzitriotr cfxhe Kingdom, and the :na,0g/orzl 0144 City in the unzverfe? 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E and ée ”“”‘€7” M “‘i$‘e't‘1 ‘t‘0‘W i T “’ g”bOd"breétfi'r1g3“‘: Scrogg: an «e 774;zg’d go llim) for a filly Villian 2’ ~.5'crogg: (quoth a) that! was .élzfc¢rded or difc/nzrged ‘honourably : Scruggs that was qkfifiifioged fox 2_y,mc_6 My/zis lzfk4w,¢4J3?0rtb\ in.Par1iamenr :5‘! Scruggs 5 (quoth *a)aI'ae1 2?afc‘zz/I] kna“v e-'()1]‘ fQO1"('1?1'.C w’a’rran"t9h’iflm) to talk fuch non-fenfe ; does not the fod§ defei°v'e co1~h-we a writ "5317?/ivdvitfent after‘ him to bind him tq teb§?egoo.dbé%haviour 3 ‘ VA e V A « ~ , ‘ ‘_. WBllt-Ik[1'()W not ;Z;qifl1 thefe ap§eArv;;t,ions, “ati.1l'I have Cali away 0H6 look more upon ave!/j2r‘—~§f;gg4g’rg 6g (_3Q,dn¢-—_-j}‘I,€I_‘a_Crli§l';'l‘_,l_S_ , fayes gthis Week, Numé. 59. March. 15.» 8?”: Where fpeaking of Eezlick‘-—-¥—~—V%(asi1.i1g‘0bd‘mzvmers the .b1ade:i§ §’24n KW? /4 dfleiliiiéz W W5 15¢ i0rflF5ee’?7?2’? W?W:.e T5%€f ((0 ?!!7:33?!,7.r5’ 4%. ./ff’/9» 551/1411 1% 2oool.; .j»¥!nd;et’tfi: 423 AC1: ,(aegakih) Iplmfe we M c_,? but I dazvét hffiads 4. 7.34;‘ #41 9/" Wit, £22 .?/w.tf0rr,6ez;q;2 Pr‘orv6.r5f-**!fif*“.:1"11¢. A 6*-+--( it’s well ’tt_':*no mfrfe) that {L1 ppofes ‘himlelf a‘ S‘tég‘ (takihg biséeares ( I fuppofe) for . Homes) does find, that he 2‘: al ecez‘vvea£‘vv11en he is to leap owe? a Ditc/9. Formerly, they gave him /2,zrd—-mmw, fuch as Knave, R4fc4l,' Fo2ruto'i‘e-d of L1 ' I,’6r— C 32 Di Perjury, The Great Scrihler of the ‘Nation (meek not) And nowitt all [,4/;‘ They make an Aft of him; this IS Language mofi {az'tah_le to fuch M'ensyGe- aim and may of Writings, ( which eflandcrs in ‘time they may..rePem5) 3"“ y as for his being an Aft, Is it not tootrtte *3 _ For who hut an A]: would Write or fpeak 1'0 much plain‘ amli;2a] Or did fomee.Sqtyrs who had finn’d « And by the fiiflyaps fentenc’t were ‘ In Linnea toebetpinnfli. t 315 Tpgiw f}??fiF0gfi£'13fii¥fW£ffif ? J . I :2 wt ~Or did the Gondeliensvsfho fire ‘ ' ~ “ ’ ” “A “" Rome: $2;/hop with infulting feet A d e Tread on (great Fredrick: neck, that he ~ i In Venice City {hame might meet 2 ' Fer whichdtb’ Old fDomoft‘Pégr:'fof.th_e_ Realm ; one would think ( I fay ) fuch Bilhops, .4_]€te;f._-f_9;~_]_€1‘¥l1’.4;.ll4J€&l,. r_I1.ight;/4} Grace. and blcls God for /227: goodrtfi to them, and newer dz/Zurl’£hemfelve‘s,‘ nor the Neigoourbood, with being Promotfrtf,_1fi-VQIQICJQS,-1lflfzigtz-olrj*v¢r;,,exa&eI-3 of Penalties and utmofi Rigour of gold ’S.tatI1:.t’eS',Ai for¥ivfiitl5i‘criit2etf'7izpfl9n and Dudley werehanged. _ "‘ s . /l/lmt an odd fight it it to ‘fee slaw»-flwet furroundedwith 19.-mom and ]3Yl0T5: and flpparitorsa 31.195 .P’0m?W.’!§; 803 S€T5‘a.flF$39d B3-Ylifli, z4flz",da- '2/it men, and hung about with /irticletg Writs,‘ Labels, ‘and Libels, Decla. rations , Ififormatiom, Indifitmentsg and then Pr_oé~tors_and alittle Black. Coat at his elbow ( lumgr] for ti’ ‘liwz‘ng’,Yan§l_‘1feadyj to fw’e‘a‘r 't‘brougl2-/ljcla,when his own Intereft, and the avour of {'al1g9“z,4m‘;»‘is in thiféafee - VVl-tat Wanton pride as “well asgcrutlfy,‘ and hard £l‘€d7‘t€6_'lfl(:_/If to delight in I/z']z'tzztiom , 1/ exatiom , when he_ might__\y_elllenogpgh oontgm (me would think) with his exceeding many "floc/ex and bard: (which the Piety and Charity of our.devout Ancefiors, andthercunning and avarice of others, has Monopoliz,’d to them, leavingt_h'eTp'oor ‘(now)’ ggtite outiof flirt} (old and primitive) jbare thereof and good ‘rigllt ttrttoifi nritltottt HIE mum» Bdfilimy and ' greedy Appetite after his Nei hbou1f9_iittle ‘3£uv¢;-.l::tt(}';i';:I1)dallJtl7e_fu6fiamg and fubfilience of a man and _, ishotile , no though he lhould;pretend to dedicate his A/eigflzours little Ewe-Lamb to God, as a Sacrifice, or an Jnathe; ma, or a C orozm, by grand Hypocrify gag/if God Almighty did not, hate R05. oer} much more C melt} (undef colottrg and theltelp of Sr/mimuimijua, or t/re rigour of Law) forafltzrrtt ofring '.' And; iftto left‘ Willflrzze the Bifhop of Zom1on’s charity, then to give zeool‘. -‘towards the building of Paul: 9 itis more honour to take it out of own .I.Wtr.t€ro.m flock: 4rztU2erd:_ _(which once the poor had 4: much Title i rntoi, as the Rich Prelate, before Avarice and Pride came in faflzion-Ecclefiafiical)flndtnotgo to rob; ntbe.S"1:ittle for a deo. (land and by force or rigour of Law. ‘ 0 ; - Ihave knowna Gezztlemzm , that had one add lmmottr and you‘ will lay , it was a very ill ottmour 5 that after "dinner when lit’: Belly ma, Full of good Vifluals , and Wine, and f’tr0,ng.drink; the Fop gtewfo wanton, ' and the Ape nwjo mzfclrietvoxg/I] gamef}, and with good chear lmlfdrtml’, or lb lmlf-Tipfcj, that hefofir forgot himfelf, that inftead offaying Grace, he would be flno/ting andnipping thofethatat nigh, or within bit re4cb,_ef'pe_¢ cially (if he had an; old Pique againfl them) he would nip arzdpimlz, ’till he made all élacltud 512119, or left t_I1eg‘Pri:2t of /11? Nayles in their flelh; Ecce » Sirinttrlt. ,e ., _; L »‘ ._ 3 _ a . éI’le coxtlude tlrzk ejfq , .. with an £Pitome of the riot‘? confider4oletParts and paflages in this long‘ Book) that has f walled beyondthe Primitiwe iizterztioit) and will,6efl[cr"oe thofe (that will aotfinil lei/‘are toread the whole) in this ‘a following’-letter , long yet P10]? competadiow, moi’: Emp/Jatital, mall Humé/e,’ and molt’ Sabmiflive letter . writ by _Hic£eringil lzimfilf, verbatim, To cc 87) ‘fa the.Right Reverend Lord Bilhop gf Lox-D05\(~,r at Londo¥n»How[e..y ~My Lord,~* M l 'llO little /Zeccefs has attended .all'l‘7ihyl former Alddreflles that I atléiolmoiied g ‘ /.I0‘DP[:*'[‘\ of this“; but7underfland'ing that your Lordlhip expeefed my a licmon, no deficieneylhoeuylld be on,erny.‘part. l ,,Though Imul’t'confel's,° that had it notbe-en for this worthy Gentleman 4;; Mr. Firmzw, (the Bearer hereof) Iwasnoc readily. perfwaded to write toyou.; 4 my _ t ‘ ‘ y r - Becaufe you carry my Letters to your Lawyers for them to pic/e °7:m7ztzzge:, and accordingly two of my Letters to your Lordlhip mo/2‘ 'dgfz¢ge7w‘oufly were read ggaanll me at the; Tryal, But the Judg told them they were no‘? proof of‘ your Declaration5 =yet Sir lffzlgncis /Wit/vim he made mimick and du‘mb?,fignS,;t0 the Jury at every ._SY9:I£‘1t nay,‘ my very Book: were brought i1l.r_1_toHCjourt,, and Sir George jofl‘j}4e'/1 izmot/Jler man (as the woman faid1(that otherfloféefol Council)‘ lie_‘poi1}ted latymy Books l Vyithe his Index, as hot knowing what tofoy againll "them without blzzflaizog, (of which (get) het_i_s_nQ‘t Very gullty) and onely/'l«zi2.4d;e'olm2zb]79oz?125 too, wllich were not canable of anfwer or vindication, yet were ’fzafi5'c‘2‘e;2t hz'2zt;: to a willing Jury t‘*]3.[‘kneWT.t}J.9iZ’ meoningléyrty/weir mumping, ;a;2d.tIJez'rgapz'ng ; , and accordingly I ggtye a’Verdl& (contmryfto allariem ex;zze452‘lez'tz'o;es‘)‘ zigainll me, and damma- l e es’ ; ' ~zroéOiI.- (3 good r_0fl»nd_fiam‘,rtwoH‘or{e—lo‘acls, andtherefore would-’ Ereekthe bércli of one ’Horle; no'wonder t'h_eeln‘a Pmj/"on lhould lhrinle or fink underlthe uizcorzfcioiméle 1o4d.)l " * e f” Yetl underftand th2it'thislunreal'odngble Verdiélf isllfo pleafing to you,- that/in the jollity of devotion you have made it atDeod¢z:¢:r_{’; Rand intends to De- dieate..the Tropbee of eyourevlfiory towardscthe building’ ‘of Pools. L lffo, ;I_.feAar.y\ourI’iety zzotmof the Cabal; or yCal7metl-Cozmcsvl with your clmrity ; not will you find that it is pl_ela§_fing to*'God to‘ make a man an Ofl fender for owoml, (and no mzgbty ynzofrds oeitbair ) ‘j if Tm»/op had fwore true, for hem/yollyt acyzeitted woe of the words 1n the 3:1. Cozizet, and yet they were words of hls own making too, of l’llS own [Log/e z'm.2e;¢tzo;¢,e and of hts own Ordering and morfbzlling 2'72 the Declaration, and which 220 flef/2 alive hgaiurld me fpeakbut /aim‘/elf, as was éattelled by all the B]-fl4fld~€75, that fwore not onely negatively a'gainl’t.tl1is' Evidence, but pofitively and contrari-. ly.a_s’the Jyudg declared; gnd’that’they were not fo, but lo, and fog as they pennfjd t,l:1etI)n drgvvn (txlzyliilfl frelhin_'t'.hei11]* n1e1:1moriesb,lxZhen2I wasdgodea ind occa 1on_y y mzrri: yis oin intoalnot er oom ‘ im e , an wria ting his own man-czztcbinkg-j7Ja§7z:, gvhichy heybroughlt to thje cor‘:/i;\{':1ny'to foo- fcriée, whichwitll ado/Jorreme and ddeteftatgqn they all aéohiimzted? and both ill‘??? and /123‘ PI'o;e&s,tha;t (wit/1.!/7e-/oeylp ofa pickt, zyznelffveczla//7 appozntedfzery) havcbeenfl¢cc:fifol.;eand*whom you may xyell tb4;;k,Qr 6//:cyofu/Md now z9€'e';¢ 5;; my debt, I10tI_l(1 yours: nor ever was] inyoup debt nor éeoolzim toyozo for a coumgfy (tl1e‘m3_l’t trlvtal Courtefy) jn"my‘lieFe,“wl11lcl1 _I did not requite fen time: over,but mifchief you have done not in e_1boundyane,contrary to law. .t Indeed, you /mi prozfiol your Deciararion that the wordS (firll) were fpogkcnlr before dive)‘: the Kings Subjefts ( nay the \\’O1‘ClS in the lafl Coum: Q 1(;v3~a) 71‘d 5: ‘A :63! C 3 3 ) were not fwom unto by yottr own Implement, (though he deviled them) but (by cro/5 and ttnexpeéleol quellions) he was forc"t to fwear againfi your own and Ink Innuendo the Popifh Plot, and 1110 fwore, infiead, of artlantnahle Plot (which he {wore at firfl) dwindled its to aHorr-id Plot .(onely) again/z‘ my rtghteom name anal perfon; though there he f wore falfly, formy words were ' againfi my righteous name and reputation in the Barr-etry, and the ‘very —, fame words I writ to your Lordfhip , and Harri: alfo confeft there was fome yranfe or Comma, but-no interlocution or interruption betwixt the Word ‘Plot—g- and rtghteotta name whzch yetthefe Lawyers would have 1mprov’d, though Harris contracltilecl them therein, and htrnfelf alfo. ' at And as for the other words of ignorance atlol irnyutdence, you will the ra~ ther remit the rafhnefv and firvertq of the expreffion, fine: yottr injnflice in kndjrig that illegal Segtteflration of the profits of‘ the f'mallT1thcs'of the Parilh of St, Bnttolpht, ( to which I was Inlhtuted and Induéted as Reétor of All-Saint: long before you were gaartereal in C0/0/refler with your Brother Corngton’s Troop. And therefore, if you olonte no good,‘ you didils’ mtfelejly to provoke me, I and in hope: to do me a nit’/chief, you did all illegally, and contrary to Law. And all thitin favour of an infanaoa: Creatnre, that had not the clottlity and exallncft af nternory that my Parrot hat, for if ihe could not have more Perfeéfly conn’cl and repeated the few words in the Decilaratrion more exaétl and uniformly than he did, and have learn’t by heart and ofilhoohtn half 21,5 time he has had to tonne them (and of his own making too) 1' would pluck of her head. a _ I .y And do but think impartially with your felf what a edtfparagemenc it is to your judgment and 5/till in men, not onely to prefer to your favour fuch a Creature hefore nae, but in favour of hint, to endeavour by anillegalfegne. flration to wrong me of my right,» and lb take what is mine and give it to him : you may do lawfully what you will with your own, but what have ou to do (unlawfully) to ta/ee mine from me to give it to hint? a Pbllowt at is not fo good‘ as ztdiiip in Broth. e I never was nor ever will he ambitious of a Prelateffatz/ottr if I can but keep out of their Clutches; and out of harm:-way, and keep them from do- ing me a mzfchief, iris all the flwottrl ever expeéled, or ever will expel? from them -, you will not fuller me quietly to keep my right} to which I amlanrfttlly in/lttttted , which wrong of yottr: has octa zon’ol all this flit‘; thus the orzginal fin is yours, but the pnmfhrnsnt thereo is mine_; there is no can/cirnce nor equity for it though ; let me tellzyou,‘ without incurring your farther clifpleafure , as hitherto I have, becaufe I dar/l he fo hold as a worm, namely to turn again, when trod ttpon by you , again]? the lazy of the Land; And becaufe of laying this truth, and complaining to you for remedy and cry- ing out and groaning , when you preis me nnrnercifall , as well as illegally; without Compaflion as well as without Law, nay contrary to Law, Therefore you double my Prelliures--—-—-with-——-—-n‘tore weight -———+-g-more nveight. Fir/2 you torment me ’till I groan, ~ And then you pinch me, ’caufe I moan; , s And all this you know to he true, and ‘yet your" heart (I fear will be) hard- u I ned as much as ever, becaule Icannot make fizlfefithmtflion: , and tonficfiom of fault: that were occafioned by your own lnja/lice and caufelefs revenge, and default, (to Cdlllt n.o worfej i V lffzzch Iubmilfion or f atisfizolion as becomes a Gentleman, -or a C/art‘/lian to par c I ) » a pay you, will fer-no your turn, you 9{hall have tbern cbearfizlfii and readily, but bafe Coneejjionr, againft Truth and Honour, all the Prelats in Chrillendom (united), {hall never extort from me, ulewhat Cruelties you pleale, or fhevv the World your tleill in Men, your Policy, and foiidity of your jlndgnirent and difcerning, iniprefierringfite/oa Wretc/J to my Eftate, Whom I doubt nottbut ‘fpeedily to conviét of Perjury, (notwithftanding all the afliliance you can t give hint) and make an Example ‘of fuch an Epzfcopal Tool, of tholt: Ears, that can hear more than all the liltening and attentive Company; and yet fo filg, that he cannot repeat tbofiz flaort word: twice together nniforznly 5 who was alfo protfd infarnow, by his endeavour to cheat the Earl of Lincoln, in hope: of an 100 Guinies 5 and allo by his forfwearing himfelf for the company of a Wencb,and by being ufually a Zllandlin-Drunkard 5 And this is your Man,(who you have in your great Care of Sonlt, in your judgment and Skill, with fa nmeb bnfile and {letriment to th..e Part:/bionerr, preferr°d not only before me, but to my Rights in Law. .. y " Well, nothing bnt fire/J Coztnfelr flill pleafe you-—--Then Hill, go on.---~ and endeavour the ruin of me and‘ mine; and yet with a Corban or Jnatbe- nza, imagine to atone for the zmntercifnlnefxg go on---I Iay——-thus with aflnce of Devotion, in pretence to pleale him that hates ‘Robbery for a Burnt Ofiering, and would not permit the bire of a Wbore, not the price of a Dog, to enrich i or adorn bio Sané?nary—i—-+1-but go on then-—-and under colonrof Law, or rrgonr, or ficrnnznnz jna, make blaudilhments for Cruelty and ' ‘Revenge, and cement Panl’s with the briny-Tear: of my Widow and Orp/.van.r--—---when you have bus tied me ina Jaylg nay, carouze in their Tearr, and cry, Hnz,z,a’s with jollity and full layls, fill'd with the Sighs and’ Curfes of thofe you bereave, whilft thus you endear andhonour the Name of a,Bifl1op-and Prelatg and by being a_Promoter and’ a Striker, or Aétion-Driver, in Temporal in Spiritual Courts, flrikethuswith your two-edged Sword, that cuts both Ways, and, meditate to _enricb= your filfg, or, (to avoid that imputation’) defign or pretend to build a Temple of Stone: ‘upon the ‘Ruin: of (the living Temples of the Holy Gholi, and) Ternp.~’e.r of Bone:. This Counli-l, (thong/J 175735’ rnifcbiezjotta and t fiztal to you, and the wot:/t your a can take for your (elf, your Reputation, and Honour, and Profit too 5 yet be- caufe pleafing to Malice, Hatred, and,,Revenge, ’tis poflible you may follow itg , but firlt judg how fui.tabl'e it isto your Office and Family) or rather tbie bone ft, found, honourable andfait Propofal: iNa,mely . t I That, fince (of this ontragiona Verdict) you {hall never have a Fartbing, (though you perhaps may throw more good Worry againfi bad) not any mighty Credit 5 becaufft it Was the Verdiéf of a picked for the nonce, and of .Men that held Coznnnfjionsonly ,a.t1 nutnne, and good pleafure of the Court, where you have great Influence at prefent. And fince all you can get, or flldll get--t--is mv B0fi9J---—-if you can catch to/gene 5 -——— And perhaps you will never catch t/2e};,,if.;..;.nor will {ever for it, my'Friends and Enemies (hall not fi2 be quit of me.----——- ‘But if you do get my Corps,--——-it is but like the arrefling of , a-————dead Corp:---l‘ometimes (but rarely) pra8cis’d, and that (only) by inhu- mane Creditor;-—---a barbarity that 'Wlll_i1l beconze Bilhops at 1/13‘ 177773 0f dd},---- how ‘confident jbezxer they be, or may flatter tbcznfizlner. a ., i Belides, fines the V6 difi, and alfo your Proferution, was exprelly againli the Word of God, 1 Tim. 5. 19. which commands (you ,tfl>€€7‘d/ly) not to receive an Acculation againlt an Elder (older than your ) but Hilde? ‘W0 01‘ tl1l‘5C... Witnelles: Here was but one, and an infinnona one, and a Man keen With {at- Y Interfl __=—g.,.;- - .a ..—. .« Vzr» -'\.4.-." .——q—« _.._ ;.§:_ :':2i':;‘{—=:.,a . __A:«§= *2 fig» ;<«_;.~ .,_, - l W.“ _ _ ,c._ .. - ._ Interefi and .Preten_{.7on: to the Profits of my Beneyiceg though moft illegally, and an Intruder, and could not {wear it »perfe&ly neither. a For what Sir Tho. Exton (your other preciona Witnefi) did lay, the Judg declared, it was nothing to the proofof the Declarations and thereforeought . not to be accounted any thing to fwaythe ]ury, as to finding forgthe Plantzfi (whatever or however his Tefiimony, or my private Letters, , might aggra- vate the Dammages) yet firfi the Declaration ought to have been well‘pror)’d, (for °tis not Scandal till communicated) before Men ufe to talk of Darnmages: but it was ('0-far from being well prozfd, that the (worfe than) Parrot,’ could not flay it nnifornily twice together, not alike. - ‘ _ Nor did your other Witnefs, Sir Tho. Exton, get more credit amongfii all e ingerinoi/4 and nnprey'ndic’d Men, by making my private Snbmiflionr, and What I fpoke in Conftj/ion to him, (as an old Friend, and in mediation of Peace, _and an Accommodation) a publick Accnfation and Aggravation 5 but, judg you, —-—- how inhumane, nnchri[lian——--un-Knight-like, an-Man-like, and im- gentile is it for a Man to be treacberona, and make his Table a Snare?-——-a Turk or Bravo ( amongft the Spaniards) that line by filling Men, will yet rather die than be treacherono, or, betray any Man nnder colour of Friendjhip. ‘ Many that hug the Treafon, hate the Traytor, and Will be _/by of him; at leaft, they ought to avoid him, as an Enenayto all Society, Commerce, and Con- verfation, as a Serpent in the Bofoine, or a Toad, or any dangerous Villain. 0 7 God keep all good Men from trnjting to the Honour and Ingenuity-Eicclefia- fiiCal,efpecially that sofa Lay—Vicar,(bleI§ us ! from the Herniophroditel or Chnrch. Monfier ! ) or———Gray-Fryar, as Sir Thomas Exton, Doéior Exton is, in one fence. ‘ » T V It was an Exton too,that treacheronfly and cowardly came behind King Richard the Second, and‘ murdered him with a bacbcblow, when his valliant Hands Iwere bufied with three or four Rogue: more, (he killed one or two of them tho! ) before that treacberot/4' and cowardly Villain-—-Exton-———-lirook him be-'- hind, and did his Bufinefs. 3 But, I (end this to your Lordlhip, that you may ‘ /how it to your two donghty Confidenta and Witngfler, and Lawyers (if you pleafe) as formerlyg but ra- ther as an Expedient to acquit your félf, with Hononrandl Profit to you (more than to my felf ) from this ontragion: Verdiof of a pick’d jury, fingled out by fpecial Order of the Court of King’: Bench, ( I {hall live to thank them), which Verdict, (notwithflanding) with all your Interqt, Friends, Power, and Greatnefi nnited, {hall never be worth one Farthingto »you, (I fay it) nei- ther in Many, nor Reputation and Honour : i , But, on the contrary, This fair and equal Propofal, {hall be both, certain Pm. fit inhand, and as certain Honour; Namely--— t ‘ M That, confidering the Prernzfer, and the outragious Dammages of 20001. (if they had given you 40 1. all the unprejudidd World would blame them on fuch an infanion: fingle Evidence, againft fo many other Witnelies, as Well as againfl God’: Words and that 40 .r. would have been better for you, in Mony and Reputation than the 2000 1. ‘ 0 v For, if the Jury, on a flretch, did it to vindicate your Honour and Reputa- i ’ tion, then they are guilty of the greater Scandalnnz Magnatnni, to prize your Honour but at two Thonfand pounds. Thus they have let the i rice on’t, in full value in their Opinion 5 for, as for Damrnages (you fufiaind) there was none prov’d. ' A ‘ ’ x .- The tage Hill; I Will Conlent, that you {hall clrufe what County in England, Efléx, ‘ It (lo you will be {use of fomething) 5 Andl will alfo give you fizfiicient Sean; for/the paiment ofgwbatflzetzer anotlrer jury {hall give you upon atNezio‘ Tryal, r 9; J l , Toe Propofal 1'; rim, viz. you, upon demand, jingle Co/lo, (or, if you haiie lion-3 fcience to take it) double Coflr, as the Mailer of tbe Ofliceflzall tax them, rity , if the caufe go for you. I V , _ , Nay, to have an equal and indifierent _'}‘ury, I Will give you far niore Adina; Middlefiex, Torn-flaire, or Where you pleale, for the Venue, and to try the Caufe in, over again, upon this only condition, that the Pannelr. of juriei, ‘return’d the lalt Aflizes, in other Cauies, in ,Priu:, in any County, yon pleafe, or [ball cbufi, to draw any of them by Lot, not looking intotherln, ’till you (or fome for you) have drawn and are fi3c’d And let the Tryal be managed bywhat Learned Counfeli foever, all England over, and before what judg foever bell pleales you, and I will have no Afliflance in the management, .( but as the lalt time) God, and my felfi and my Witneffes, and the juftice ’ of my Caufe. , i . And, if you will not accept tbi: fair, this honourable, this profitable Propo- fil, theniconfider--~-bow lo_/l will the Juliice of your Caule be in the Opinion of. all Men, nay, even in your own Opinion, if you be afraid to try another grapple, before an indzfiiarent and equal jury, not prpepoffefl, not piek’d, not pack’ d, not depending upon-'—-~—-to help you out with it. y I , , , And, though you have now given me a Foyl, you had twelve flrcb kind of ‘Men to helpyoug but it will abate the good Opinion of your courage, the good Opinion of the jujlnefi of your Caufla, even in your own opinion, if you dare not, upon" to fair Terms, let go the /catching hold you have got, and take fizir bold, when you may aflure your‘ ’Mony, your Coils, your Credit, and ’ your Dammages, (all now defperate) only by playing the Prize over again act once more before indifferent and equal _’7’udge:5 and ou floall /Jane e7l/Iony of me too for playing the Prize again, with a naked, fingle, Priell, firiendlefi, /.relp-‘- : Ieji (but) not bopele/}, though you are arnid with all youo Power, Friendx, Richer, (and confequently) Learned Counfel, High (Placer, and Interelt, and (allb) wit}: your late~Vi&ory and Succe/3'. _ i , _~ Fleoenture all I have in the World upon tlri: Contefl, if you will flake an i equal Gage : What? Sloallfiiclv a Man as I ant be run down with one little, fingle; ill—tbriven, infamous Priell, againfl God’: Holy Word, and fii rnany fziljlantial Witne/fixg nay, a Priell that cannot tell /vi: own Tale oyfoook, with the exadtnefs, uniformity and docillity of a Parrot .3 The World cries _//Jame ant, and of fitc/J a ur . t 7N; ,. (further) I here pronoi/Z2 thatl will furceafe the profeeution of that lame Earrzfa, in order to eonviét him of Perjury, ’till (fiijl ) this new Tryal be over, he fhall have loeggarly Ear: a little longer on this condition ; _That’s fome comfort for this Epzfcopal Witnefi. t A I ‘L i Thefe-are the certain Benefits and Honour you may be aft!‘ ‘'41 “fa by ".’”fi’”t‘ ing to a new Trial: 7 And if you do not confent, I doubt “Oi but. the Judges will grant me a new Trial, whether you will or no, at the Term, upon fuch Suggeliions as I {hall make to them, and upon fuch M0tiV€S as /M been pretua-P” lent with them in other Cafes 5 and why I flmuld not /me jig/lice, ‘nay, their‘ Cwmtemnce too, more than -z2ile'Extortioner:, Oppreflors, or their Abettors and Partakerx, I do not underfland : I believe I {hall live to _./Ee the day, that Judge? . I P Y 2 will I will value the Oath of a ]udg, and have no refpeét of Perfons in Judgment, though never fo great 5 (Oh ! for ]udg Hale: at this day, and in this Affair!) or, if they warp, will warp on the riglst fide, and countenance the innocent Sufferer for telling Men of their Sin:, and not Warp in confizderacy witli the Sin- _ner.r, and grand Contemners of the Kings Laws, who are very ignorant, or elfe, bold, daring, and inzpndent, to aft fo contrary to Law, in vile Extortions, évc. At a fair Hearing, my Lord, you can never jnflifi the Wrong: you have done 3 me, in defpight of his Maje[ty’s Laws, and God’s Lawsg (where is Mr. W1‘- thin: with his dumb fhows to give Item hereof?) His dumb (hows couldxno: keep him in the Parliament-Houfe from his Knees. How can yonanfmer the invading of my Legal Rights by an Illegal Segue. flration, contrary to Zifagna Cbarta, and the Petition of ‘ Right .3 ‘ How can you anfver it, to turn ‘Promoter in the Spiritual Court? Is it for a " Bilhop to be a Striker, that is," an Action-Driver or Tronzoter .3 and to {trike with his two-edged Sword, and back and hew both Ways? as you have hacl.r’d me in Spiritual Court, and Temporal Courts? Ecce duo gladii ! The Popilh- glofs, fays, Temporal and Spiritual Sword, but what is that to you P How can you anfver it, to vex me in defpight of a Premunire, with Law- Suits,andAccufations of Battery, in the Spiritual Courts, (as you have done) in defiance of the many Statutes of Prow'for.r.3 Are you above t/ie Law? are you indeed ? We will try that one day : It is no. Scandalnnt Magnattmt, to fay, that greater Men than you ever were ( or ever {halls be) have been glad to kneel, and fulnnit their flnrdy Neck: to the Laws of England. ’ « 3 How can you anfwer it,’ to vex me in the Spiritual Court for Barre-try’, in thofe very Inftances, whereof I have been honourably acquit, upon a fair Hearing in tbe Court: of our Lord the King .3 . How can you anfwer it, as Promoter, to cite me, and profecute me, in the Name of ‘Rolaert Wifinzan, Dorilor and Knight, or Iénozv not who, from In Home, my Employment, my Cure, (that ‘you ought to farther, not binder) and not in the Name and Style of t/ac King, as enjoyned 2. Edw. 6. I. a Sta- tute that I doubt not but to make good againfi you all .3 and then, what will become of you all .3 3 How can you anfiver it .3 when you were, or might be.‘ convinc’d at the King’: Head in Colclsefler, that eyllartin and Groorne, 6‘-c. your Apparjton-9 who forfwore themfelves againli me, and againft the Ecclefiafiical Records and Re- giftries, flill to countenance the Profecution P And when I was acquit (honou- rably) _/till to vex me again, and turn ‘Promoter to plague nee for Crimes (of which I was prov’d Innocent,and to vex me in a Court that cannot take cogni- zarice thereofi and bone incnrr’d the dan er of a Prenmnire, for the vexation you have done me therein caufelefly, an for the illegal Profecution? for you ( as Promoter) fvore Witnefle: to t/Jofe Articletg and cited I was, at your Pro- motion, to attend your Motions thereon, at Lexden; Manent altrl nzente re- pq/tain, when time (hall ferve, you {hall hear on t. O And when you had plagu’d me almoft a Year with thefe Barretry-Articles, then they dwindled only to’ Marriage: uritlaout Baner, or not . ying your Regi- fiers, or your under-Oflicers Mony (asl ufed to do) for Sillznclg-Licenfit, or marrying too cheap, this is the worft inconvenience thereof; and I think that I can prove that I have as much, or more Authority to give Blank-Licences, then your Lay-Vicar, Doétor Extott, or, your Lay-Regifters 5 (a fine World!) when Matrimony mull be the Benefit of tliofi Gray-Fryarr, (inftead of -the Benefit of the Clergy) becaufe the Hernzop/irodite: lay their Place:, or hire them. Befides, p which (if I prove to be true) how can you or the fudgex, in jfu/tire or Ho. Z uou; C 9; ) Eelides, There is not a Minifier in our Town, or (almolh in the whole Country but does the fame, and why do not you turn Promoter ugztitzfl them alfo, if Jultice be not only the Preteuce, but malice , fpleen and revenge at the hottom? why do you make jh of one and flefh of another-.' why a Picque at mee only ‘i’ or is it becau e none of th the Grace, not honeflzy, nor courage to difcover the Ecclefialiical Corrup. tions, which you are too privy unto, and ought to tzmertol and not houl/ler them up; lam afhamed ont; and fo may others too in time , and of fuch grand Partiality. Befides thofe poorfive couples, which I am acculed off, (for marrying without Bamesfir/I publilhed in time of divine-fiervice in the Parilh-Church or Churches) is a fault impoflihle to he avoided; for elfe the couples could a never have heett ( Legally and in firifinefs of Law) murryed, having n0‘Pa¢ n]h—Churoher, nor any divinesfervice at that time ; and yet your Profiers in the Articles f more they were high crimes. Oh !._(/W] Lord) would you be willing to he fojerv/’d, and ‘to be F0 done h; , ayou have done h] we ( to be plagu’d, vext and {'ufpended‘of your Benefice and Oflice three years, for tnmfigreflt'ug;the Ruhric/e in the Common-Prayen Book, which you lb oluyly tram/grefi (as wellas other Statutes) in your Nou- coztformtfl illegal Confirmations, and the like; which in time I can prove up- on you, and not aiways hear and hear your blows , and be ulmujer Defi-;;.. dent. ' Or, If I jhould hejitch a fool as to give you zoool. how can you in Conjeteme or honour take a penny on’t, when you are not dammfied a penny ? A re m¢;.; bound to Repair vx hen there are no Dilapidutéon: *3 which of your many Hi gh- Places or Preferments hrueyou (thereby) /ofl, either Tem porai or SpIr.tu- al 4:’ what minute favour of the King have -you loft by this Scandal, that had are-oer hcen heard of, if Harm had not broacht it *3 A What dtfpleofitre of the King or great men of the Realm have you incurred hereby '.’ Iknow not what you may do tho’, by being tlnme-rczful, Cruel, or Hard-Hearted in uflug your power ( quite Contrary to the Apolhes) and uhus fing it and your felf---for Dejlruétion, not Edzfoztion ; you know nut yet how apt mifchief is to rehouml , or the Etcho to tell ta/er out of School (as all Ecoho’: do) and of its Father: motions, and ring all he,Kin;;d=:m «er, and make good the Proverb fiurm watch, Harm catch-——-or homyou will rm- fiver it, for your negleét of gathering the King’s ‘I enth’s, ol fingrmg hue 5 or, not returningthe default, a Pecoadillo to your other Crime: in this Letter minutely mentioned. . The greatefi murthers (as that of‘ Nuhoth) was done by form of Law, and twofom of Be/ial for falfe witneffes to prove the Declaration; but my zoool. mufi go upon the Tefiimony of one So» of Beliali ; (Fy on’t let’: hear no more on’t) my hap is harder then Nahothr : Robbersare neverthc- the lefs Rohhen , though they have a Vizard on. If you will not coufent to a new Tryal. upon {'0 profitable, fo honourable and fo advantagious Terms, what will men think and fly of you? how will thei rfealouficr of foul play be Increafed, when you darenot let go t/rt’: catch- ing hold,and takcfitir ‘holdhefore egualfudge: ; efpeciall y lince this verd-i&(as I am told by fubfiantial witnelfes) was difcourfed upon tliefloyulfxchougc be- fore'theAlfizes,Th11t 316] UFV _Would give averdiét for the Plantiifiand zoool. dammages - If this he /0, This is to hang at mznfir/hand judge him afterwards, em had the I/Vit, or at leaf}, not , - .. .- 1. _ ...L.¢._.g&r1.." C 94 ) fiallfrefufe a new Trial , that will be fo” profitahle to you , efpecially if you conquer : whereas now you will get nothing hnt my hones, which are old and will do you more harm then good ; you will will} you had not troubled your felf with them 5 they will prove as fatal to yon asyou can. be fatal and mif- chievous to me ; .( ifyozc do catch them) andit will be fome lofs of ready money to catch them ; there will be _/once craft in the catching of them, We allure you, with all your power, and yetl will feldom be a Mile from your A houfe, perhaps jzcfl under your nofe; mufi Men be run down with one jingle Infamous,Ill-loo/ting, elnterefied, Ill-rhrioen, Revengeful, Befhrimpeny For- i getful, Dull Priefi, in defiance of God: word, and in defiance of the Tefli- mony of ]o many hone/l and fubfiantial Wttnelles , whom no Yépgptargan conlcl corrupt ! never think on’t, it cannot, it [hall not he; yes! perhaps ’ you may get my Children: heel: from under them, Iknow not how l’tony-hea1~g._ ed you will be ; and yet (Ida) in part. Shall you frfl occa can all thic hy cloin me wrong, and {ending the wretch to at/arp my Legal Rights by Vertzce (or ‘ ice rather) of your Illegal feqneyim, rjon: mutt I fnfer for your miflake and ignorance at leaf’: 5 (If it he no worfé) Ifit be no worfe, it mull be through your Ignorance of my Title; and your profecuting me for Barretry (as Promoter) in the Spiritual-Court, mull be through your Ignorance of the Law, ignorance of the Statutes of Prom:/or: or worfe then Ignorance 5 for———Ignorantz'a cra_/fa not excnflzt~..'...—- A Bilbo and aPrivy -Councellor (above all others) cannot, nay, will not he aclznitte to plead Ignorance of thofe Laws that were made on pnrpcfe acgam/2_ Prelatical Infolence and Llfurpations ; for if your Profecuticn was 1/legal, hlufl and rye»: at leafi, and make me Restitution for hcing Promoter there: of, if Lega , why did you ahandonjt and clnr/l not mention it in the Sentence :7? Igovirever , it is mentionedin the Procefs, and you {hall hear on’t a/lofyon, .i I ive. — ' e ’ Nor can yonplead ignorance of the fundamental-Laws and Conflitutions vol‘ the Realm , and yet to commend, recommend in Print, and in public}: conrfi (in the pre-fence of the Mayor and Aldermen of Colche/ter,at your loft. Vzfication, kept at the King’s-Head ‘T a-vent in Colchefler, and in prefcnce of divers other witne erand worthy Gentlemen) to feem to juflzfie the Canopy, and Con/Zitntions o forty ; nay, the very firjl and war/l of thern----that (foo-y lilhly as well as falflzly allerts that)the rnofl High and SacreclOrc1er offing: 2'3- ofDivvin,e-right, hung the Ordinance of.Gocl hz'mfelf,Fotcnclecl in the Prime-Law: ' of Nature and clearcly eftahlilhed hy ex re]: T ext hath of the old and new Tee ftament 5 (Right lanzheth . Arch-bi op Land: nowne lelfe !) The mifehievous and bloudy confequents of this Do&rine IS aboundantly. difcovered in my ad. part of Naked-Truth, p. 7. which if you had impar- tially read, you and Ihad been friends not foes .- And none of you (yet) did or have been fin hold as to anfiner it, or attempt to confute, otherwile then by ‘ oaths of Ecclcfiaflicalefellows , Whifpers , Cabals , Pointings, and Dumb-lhows of Counc1lto;ban,:apprehenfive’ ]ury( to endeavour my ruin ancl howudid you gnarrelm iltlthe fame time at your Vzfitation upon rhn «ve- ry contefl, lhakeing your head, and'faying, now you hegnn to know me (not for a Taativice, even! Cttrfi? ye Meroz was a true Engliflz-man) but laid. am’ (and ifylw [Md notfiid if, this Letter might have been fpared) that you never dcfirecl tofpsah rr10‘re‘nn5;»,e', ¢',~‘jl{*‘ ; yet you could tt:.{mPr0moter againlt .‘£Tf1.l‘.‘i!l the Ecelelialhcal Court «, «as.-i 5 ~;l..Fame me (to a perfon of Honour) an a and vex .m'~::' so « y. with Action: upon Afiions (I never was C 95. D was quiet one week _/ime that write]? when yoiifoiol hegim: tohiiow me} Articles! Supplicavits, Libels, Inforniations, Verdirfi of lyour .p'l'Ckt‘J..ury’A4(773/46:6 to your Honour) Promotions, 0%. But becaufe youiaid (then) y.Ol1‘5heg:i;it0i know me, you and the world have therefore (Ence that time) lmonm we eat- ter, and do krzongjoii hotter too, upon that difference betwixt us, the rite, ground oatifi and occafion of all our oflsr cootefls, and therefore you ‘took my place of Surrogate from me, the next day, for I alfo hogan to hnonzjoii them and was ozorejoyfiilly difinifi inhopesthat I andthe world may know you hot- ter, and publickly renounce thefe Canons of 4.0. which you publictkly eom~ mended particularly, that (which yroufhezzjgwqiedi tliefirfl Cdfl07il_.’i1_Cl‘COf, that fame Arch--—Z.ou:d: Canon, the S}hthoirpionfCa11¢._0n, away with themfor » fhome! Momporing: Cimozi ; for our difference theireuhpon is a disfierence a- bout this mofl oorzfiderahle point ( this day) in the ojlom, a pointotz which all £;2glifl;-,:nen’s lives, Efiates, Liberties, their Chi dren and their Wives, does, depend; a ‘point of oi'iflere72ce hetzoixt me onoijori also! your com/otzttiozz K and Canon of 40. which not a Tory for}, but a Parliament had i need rode- title. - K ‘ i‘ What 1’ H4? Is it come to this? I; the hoyle Ripe, that has been To long it hreeding ? Is the Pzifh come to is Head ?‘ ,T‘lS high time to let out the Corruption.‘ * ' Behold thagho/ll)’ Cicotrizesflill.' or rather wounds "which were (Ithooght) quite clofed , and muli men rend and tear them open again Impzlmé .? i ’Tis true , Dr: loud, Sihthorp and Monmoring got preferment by this Timtivee (before they oizirft make it it Ckrzozz) principle ; Loud was flrohhijhop and Chiefe Minion ; Bot Zlloimmrzqg ijecgzgoteol in the]Parliament~h0ufe iipon Menmringz a his /thee: with Tears, and was grievoully Sentenc’t , 4.. Carol. 1. I62 8. _ by meme‘ hoth hoiijet of Parliament, to be firfl imprifoned (the Bi/hop: could not help‘him,)during the pleafure of the Houfe; 2. He was fined 1000 pound ' (that was hot zooo pound to the King {and yet hi; o ’ en_ce_horder’,d upon it 2‘. were not quite Tree/on) and the Original-Ri/e o_f_1_ny Offence, 0725!; my di/like ‘offiich villimozis and damnable Doéirines. 3. He was to make fubmilfion 3; V and acknowledgment of his offences at the Barr of the Houfe of Commons,‘ ' merciful fuolgesgl for the Poyfoiz of this Doc7ri;a,e ofDem'l: afterwards occa- fion’d on one fide our late bloody Civil-Wars ; and muff we recommend andjuflifie at this time of day .?._is it come to that after fo much blood-fhed 2" ‘an Qggyarzzittiofl, an aggravation ! as W2‘:/xiii: faid , --——-——remember 40. and ihe.C'anons of 4.o.'1'as Wellsas 41. or 42. when Arch Loud lofi his head; andthe King and Kingdom all moi’: ruin’d , and dare any mannpubliquely . eat it again, when His Majefiy has fly often declored that he will keep 5;‘; Goth , his Coronation Oath inviolably , when fo man] Addreffes elm heeiz made to His Majeliys thanking him that he promifes that he Willnot ‘hreah his Oath , nor rule us arbitrary 5 but as (we are) Engli/hmen and"he' a good fioglifh King ; we do not ‘live in Turk] , Mu/Zoo} , nor yet’"ixI"Fiom;e; How. hafiil y foever , and furioufly Tome men drive Slaves an§l_ySy§coph,ants ,tbat?l1av;ing,fno Children, no Iitheritagzce nor pofierity ,‘ care how they rztine pofterity to get a iittle prefent piwltr} Preferhieizt price‘ of their flattering Souls) nay , they ruine themfelves by thefe Principles as well as endeavo._ur to mine the ‘King and Kingdom; {he}; logo; £¢’r-mzgg:.Qught not to come near the King-ear, for they wriglé 2'}; e&io.ni what they Kean, blefied be God , His Majefiy is not ,capa,ble of ‘fu_g:iI,imPi'e’liio1is V;/no ‘thanks to Earwigs--_-»( like other men infefied with the"Pla'gue) they care not how mam: 76*. (96) many they infefi, when they themfelves have got the Tizntiroee Sic/ene{.:,"or, like Devils, care not how many they tempt to damnation, being themfelves condc.-mn’d‘ (the expreffion is not harfh,better for men to be cur’d with Ink than aHatchet)You have no better way to acquit your felf from jealoufies and Fears, then By as public}: an awning of me, as you have ptzh/itlely vext nze werfince I ./poke again]! your con/litutions of 40. D D 4.. Manmarring was to be ful pended for three years (gentle 1 molt gentle!) and yet his crimes were more mifchievous and fatal then to marry people too cheap or without banes, or without a blank-Licence , (meer Tnzngom’: for want of other faults,’ and thus it alwayes is, when men are rgfiiud to findn hole in 4 man’: Coat, and rather then fail the7’le ma/ee one where there is none, and then get Profiers, Apparitoir, and Dollars, andan Epif eo1ml- ./ ‘ool, tofaveizr inn willing Court Lo here ! here is great holes! High Crimes D whereas Manmaring:-Doifrine and fiich li/re Doélrine oecalioned the mine of our flowrilhing Kingdom and Common-Wealth. i y i A 5' He was difabled to have any Ecclefiafiical Dignity or Secular-oflice, (but hitfine was pardoned hf King Charles the fir/Z, and the D0301‘ punz]ht with the two hefl living: in England, namely the R:;€io.r}> of S tampfordkzkvers in Eflex, and the’Re&ory of St. Gfle’: in the Fields, and hada dii‘pe'nl'atfe>n to hold them both (do not Tantiveesi know the may to the wood =3 and the may not to he plagued with Promoters, Bijhofiu, Articles, lnformations, fuits, Suppli- vavit’s, Declarations and outragious Verdiéis, they are wifla and know a. my worth two on’t; and willing to be of the Religion Mr. Sherzf is oil’, efpe- cially if the Court do but command him, to jingle out and efpecial fury for ' that very purpofe and expedition. 6. That he fhall be for ever dzfahled to preach at theConrt hereafter : (and all fttth as he, they might well have added (allfiich .S)ffrc‘:2h,4nt Pretzthers might Well be fparcd, even in Lent, the Very Hartxejl for (.o~;tt 1Dfé.:.z‘6'}J}92.“}zt;~;' ,- all s fuch Po}jon—Seller:, that for mifchief might out 2/)’: th Po}/‘one H‘ of France.) But the belt on’t is our King (blelled be God ) dfies not ovcrmuch heed -vain Pttlpitetrs, and does but {mile when the Bigot!) fiatv.-:’r make: them talk idlely and prate impertinently (like the Gov» Philofipher Phornnio, that never faw a {word drawn in anger, or (if he did) trernblingly knock! his knee: toge-’ ther, and yet the F012 made hold to read militia Leflure: to H4nih41~——-of the art of War. ) D No thanks (tho’) to theft. we/l-miller: to the Mathematichs -, ' though wifi: Kings fhut their Ears, or {mile to hear a pragtndticdl Co.xcomh,"or imhof‘ 3}. got, who mounted upon the Stage of the over-topping Pu/pit (blefs us I) How liherallje he flings about -- H47/e at afli within: his reach -- And is as terrihle‘a a~French jlfinifler when he cockes his Beaver, looks grim, and lifts up his threatning-Arm heaV’d up and arm’d»m'th 4 Geneva-Bihle Gentle. ;ne;;.——-——- look to your heads -———- look to your Hitt: -————~—~ do not do}; your heads‘ there —---~ the man 2?; aw in earne/l -—--— Draw-can-Sir means no harm, he may fright Fool: andlittle Bigots; butcan not hurt them.~ For his 771reat.v are in ineflicaciom perhaps as the Bzjhopk-Benediifion -——- (of Paris) when the flocking-Beggars 5%: his Lordlhips Coach, and hegg’d his x/lm: ; ihfiead of opening hi: Pttrje, though he was clojeufijled, he jpread 3/92? empty Palm, and laid them gently upon each of their heads, muttering hie ft!‘-form of words, and gave them (infiead of a cdrdectt or :1farthing(4fi6C€) which they expeiled, (to him) (or more readily come by, or always rmdier at hand) acheaper Commodity) His Epifeopal—Bened’i&ion, “ A}: 99) r a At whiélydj d,,b}2at'nt)tz£ht"the’ fem Beggars told his ood Lord/hi)’, That if lttoflt/5af't‘7z‘ , or Bi " ’s_B‘e. gocdtdltan, hadfnot been in his Lordlhliyps good Opinion the cheaper it not ) the viler Alnigs of thefltogwo, his Lordlhipwould not he fo_’ prodigal «fit. «, ~ . , -_ ‘J , ~ g t y I, The Hillory does not lay, whether they grew fltfl tn the [Queer ever lifter, as not willing to lineel on the cold hard Stones‘, or in the Dtrt, any more, for his Lord/hip: Benedtt?ian‘.——But the Furtfidnr, and jetting nichgrtng Shop..h_eepcr.v, fmil’d to fee the wretches leneel fa devoutlyfor an Aims, and yet be angry when they -thought themfelves 'dtflzppotnte_dund fob'dbyf truth the ernpty Befledtflton of L,4n7n—Slee)ve.c, (I mean ) that Popilh Lawn-Sleeves, who fmil’d in his Sleeves, and fa1d..—-.S,'t' peptllk vult decz1>i,dec;‘pt4tur..;-.as‘il' he mould fay.....The World it 4 great cheat--The I(nuve: cheat the fooltfh Btgots. - ' -But if that Purtfiun frenchified Bi/hop had been forc’d by Law to give a Sauce or a Shilling to every one he fo Bi/hofd, that as he pretended to hath the two ‘Swords, the Temporal and -the Spiritual, to do mifchicf with, to he might be forced tp hath the two Churttxex, the Temporal and the Spirit_ual..~.'.‘to do 3994.1”:/7...’ And be ton/trained hy Luw to be good in fprght of his 'l_‘eeth, as well as cruel and milchievous, and to be 4; hone/tea: tl_ae~Puhliclm, that fagld-..-Half my Good: 1 gave unto _the. [fear 5 and if I haye taken any thing from any Man, fulf: Accufittton, (' more thut) l_o l _l reliore him four-fold :- And If the Bilhop had to given ,,he1>0or_their aldMoety, and I’2'tmtfnve.{h4re, rnhzs Manners, Tithes, and Giebes, or, at leall, let them, go jntps with him. In getttng 4 Shilling , f 09‘ ‘V90 ’””ea .4”d‘V‘_"’,')' M477: Woznun, dud Child, to whom he fio lilerully (higgle..tee-:picltle-tees handover head) gave /J15 Bentdlflmn‘ : ,1 atnof o intern, the Popzjh Biyhop, whatever the Proteflunt Bi/hop: may, would not /mop often uhout then‘ Dtoceflllff in he uent Vtfituttonr, Procurations, Mony; more.mony,, Canfcrencet, €§’c; but rather lhut up their Doors, and‘ eep a hig over- grow” pom», to heep out the croudtng Voturm from fuch Benedxflxon. _ e _ p However,'the Oflice of fuc/748:/hop wouldbe (then) good for /omething, and they would be (giving jrwelveépeuce 4 Blefling) fiirttuully and temporally churztuhle, as now. fome are with their two-e-dged sword, - Spiritual and Tenaporalj nzofl ttoublefonte and mtfchtevouc, (in France ) by , Sufpehfions, Silence.” ings,.Church-Cenfures, titles, and Anathema s, and Mony...-more Many-.~Excommumcations, Prifons, jayls, Hey-day.’ for an Ape/tolzcul Mun, ulunzode de _Frunce .'_ ‘ _, _ M Come," my Lord-——open the Pulpit Door: of All-Setmt: ugutn to me, (or elfe I’le open them my {elf ) which _ gpgth /5 much .440 you have endeavoured to /hut, and exclude me, and bolt me out you could "tell how for a Bthb!e;hahhle—---marrying toorheuyo‘, or not With aBlunc/e..Ltcenf¢,. ( as hundreds othels do‘ un’checlt’d ) therefore a& not in Revenge, not purtutlly, In devotton to your Regtflerx, that ufed you untvorthil , (' in many Mens Opinions ) in mdhtng 4 Promoter of you, for the accompliihment of their viler and hexflr End, ,— And let there be no more flrife ( 44‘ Ahrdhum fad to Lot ) betwixt me and thee, betwixt my People and eh,- People, for we are B_rethren-.-...why lhould we thus quttrrel uduyx, and thus fufl out by the zpny.....-abou; your’ Regillers, Blanc_k_Lxcenl'es, or Fees 1llegaL;.-or Mony .— -~'->3.A.l‘ld a lmle ,Mony hue (to my knowledg) oftepi mpg}, 3, 15,‘, De/froze Wltll,th€r.n-I--,Zi.01' you know--_--Motzy u all they Aim at, that buy their places, or hire, thlent;-.you know it well enough 5...... or: if you onot, 1 can tell you how, and where, dml tohozn, and to m...-- - \ And as For your little H4rrt7c‘hit Evidence: ( if it were true ) confider the provocution you gave :ne,j- through your ignorance of my Title to the Benefits of the {mall Ttthes of St. Buttol,oh.r', to uflofp tohtch from‘ ‘me illegally, you lent the Creuture wtth your Segueflrutton 5 would you he fa done 6}, I or have your Superi, ors to take from you your Reg/Its,’ and You mutt not {peak for your -{elf 2 and tell them, they are ignorant and miflaken in your Title, or‘, if you do--Zflap-...-faysthe ufurpur with anoath upon you, and reports your words in the worfl fence, und another fence than you {poke them. i , V For Hmu hut not mt, memory, nor doctltty, to repeaf my wot-(35. tmce together ulthe o_f:-hao{; and mun; Ipgy e ooo l. becauie he wants Wit or Grace? My Lord, tu hard. you would fay your felt, if it were your own ca e. . : , , Why lhduld we make ourfelves than the T own-tulle, the I(_tngdont: talk,’ the 51,4, of every ,41,_g,,,,.;, amt Co (8.. mu e? l l . V » " fiihis might have b¢cn..-.:tn time fore/‘ten 5 ;......but you did not {now one, when'_yat; [did you hogan to em...‘ ’ me, ill. you had, you nvouldnot hntzeyentured t‘a,4tt¢mpt. to-—-lwrong one of my {aid Rights, to pleafe ten’ thoufand fuch on Harris, 4 little Mouton, that neither you nor_the Church can have uny credit of, more than of a little F ucuts good for nothing but to putnt your Cheek; with a bluflr; "and to fay too late-..--I had not ,.;,0,,g/,;_ better lute thrtye ( tho ) than never...-s'_--I alfare your Lordlhrp (41 I did fimnerly _) I have not done h.zlf my he/I, ( that 1s—-—my»tvor/l, as you and cull it perhaps) 3 and you will find it true, and the Men, g‘ Doc‘i‘ar: Common: too, (fuy)1tell you fo 5 whereas I, aslfald before, do lie on the ground, and can‘ fall no lower, lam‘ /hot-freef, or, 1f with fo much advantage of Power, and the outragious Verdi<.°t of your e I?jc[€d~?u7jy, you._l_tit my Body, yet you {hall never finger my E/lute, and__my old Corp: will but make you‘ flee of them, and prove futul to you, and annoy you, if you do catch them_; extend t en your utmoil cruelty that your great Power or Revenge can contribute, yet fiany.heurtednefi_w1ll bring no other renown to the B:/hog and hi; C Ierklg €XC€'P.t thl: external blame and fame of 5010: mt/chtevom to all Pollerity, by virtue of’ a fin le Oath of an infamous Wretch, that {wore for his own Emit; agamll all the By./luuderx, and believed by agur fingledout for the Semce, againli the Word of God fit exfre“/Iy to the contrary, as aforéfaid; a Bi op ould not countenance this 3 nor is Scanddlzqyz Mdgndtum an Ollence at Common Law, but an Of.‘ 7 fence only again]? a Penal Statute, e- and the Penalty, Dlmprilonment ( only.) ’till the Author be found out...1 but the yery words of 2.. Rich. 1.. are fcetrce intelligthle in the lall words ; Yet,» no Punilhment of the Author is me_ntione_d_in the Statutes 3 and Penal Statutes o,ught.to be taken lb-i&ly....and not eattended to Damm:-' ges...( as the Lawyers have finely f pun it out )—-- efpecially when no harm have you recctved, nor ever could, . if Harri: hadnot broach’d his own Lies, and f4ther’d hie, flurious Brats on me-.-.-and I mull be c'hurg’d with them 2.5901. thick, 5} falfi decuflction .' Remember Z16’?!-Tilda Luk. I9. 8. 4 But, not_aPennY (upon aojword) {ball you get, except you will confent, as aforefaid, to afair neat ;(-,;,',,l, by an indflerent iuryo em annell’d:'n other Gauges, and not picle’d forth}: Exploit only. 1, This is nota Time (my Lord) or Bifhops to rule mt uRod of Iron, and break Men in pieces like 4 p,,,_,,,, Vgflel ,-, Chtllt and his Apoliles dig not fo. r. . . . y l, , This method might have done ( {imply tho ) in Qeen Murfs day, and in the Inquiftion of Spain, and in England too,‘ when the High-(.'orIMV'.h'3WI-Court was. up; but the »ro:gmg' of the Nofé hrewght ygzlrtlz A‘ at on ».-..--.._~—-o-— -- « x--.—.w..3-or.»-a-... , the.D¢vi1for Non-canfknrhitg 3 .f.£gy3d=9n»whece,liv¢-wg I :1”! §'1‘\D ' Wadmtxé {hr ‘ogl__<:os§sé<~anf .111? Riizixam Meéila, thpugh th¢.)i.1_x1qy.haue fdhiefittk excentri¢:l&:truiti_¢inStnf~ their own‘ &.»Fo1', zzzlmr- ‘€129’ the geuemlizjy of this Nlmon doesuafifiefl oa>-._»da'[4fiF¢i*i‘.xt-%6a¢gmg:4..L4n».;—.Q1: is_nak§.d.Ituzh),— e.. % e av! 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((3135 I; «i*‘0«* wééfr? ‘£32, ¢ 1 O 2. and fupinely lleeping by his falfe Friends and Sychophants. , We are told this day by N43‘. Temp/2m’s Intelli, génce [ Numb. 134. ] that 301:2: Wolf [Ido not know whether your Lordlhip ever heard of him or no] that notorious Piclc pacgr, when he was [on Saturday: F65. I8_Inl’tant] at Saltxéurj, drawn to Eexcution, con, felled that he had pickt Pockets at St. ‘}ame:’s Chappel, at the time of receiving the Sacrament, €52. God, blefs lislfom C/rare/7- l’icQ—l’oc{et:.' Amen. ' H . Thus [faith Mr. Roufé to the Speaker] you have heard the Voice of the wicked one._. 74:14; (quid daémk .9 _) what will you give me 2 [two good Livings and Preferment and Favour , Tantivie] And I will beta ay this State, Kingdom, and Common-wealth. And obferve how 1lI4n'rv4ring nicltt the time for rendring thi’s"damnable Dofirine, namely .——in the Heart of the Loan, and printed in the Term that ended in axtmittirur, So that you might guefs [faith be] there might be a double Plot —--u [namely --6 at Wefllmlfiflfr-Hall as well as in the Pulpit at Wbite—Hal1]- by the Law... and Confcience to fer on fire the Frame and Ellate of this Common-wealth, was Mr. 1444”. ,,,,;,',;g _....... [ yull fuch another Man as he that yulirfies the Canons and Conliitutions of 40 .3 well ....hc got Prtferment by it, but it was In? mine; ] _as well as the like Dofitines the mine of this Kingdom and l Common-wealth. e _ And by his Divinity [faith Mr.Roxafe] he [M4nb4ring'] would delh-oy both, King and Kin dom ,-l mark that] the King, for there can be no greater Mifchlef, than to put the 0pih5an,ofDieg -—-. whofc , ,111s.; Law] into /11: Ear: : [yet how ignorantly and impudently, by that L4m6erI2-.g-mad, attempted in that am, 1. of the Conliitutions ofao, from, falfely pretended exprefs Dirim Scripture : Will Men never-_ take warning 2 ,_ For if [continues Mr. Rom] fromthe King’s Ears, it/bouldlmve pafled to /2:": Heart, it had been Mortdl .- you know how Heradperilhed : [I may add‘, you know how King Hamlet perilhed and died by this Ear. Poyfon ] Will Men never take warning a- ' _ _ King Alexander the Great, well anfwered his Sycophant Courtiers, that Diefied him o-—--‘. He’that em- pties my Clofe—liool, is not of your Opinion; nor did the Wenches that lay with fupiter and Hercules‘ think tliemd to be Gods ', 01': but -VCTY lullful, beallly, Goatllll Gods. fupiter appeared to 10 more like 3 Bull than a Go . ‘ Now [continues Mr. Ram] this Man [Mamvaring] gives Participation of .Omm'potence to Ifingx .- tho a Part may feem to qualify, yet all doth feem again to fill up that Qgalification, and very dangcroully, if _ we remember, that God faith of himfclf, I am 4 jealous God. -_ He oes about to drflro} this Kingdom‘ and Commonwealth 5} In’: Divinig. But do we find’ in Scripture fucha ellroying-Divinity ? [)e.r, yes, we believe it whole .§'ynod,‘¢md 6¢l4e'v_e the Conflttatiozx of 40,173} Lard, mifchievous Canons of 40. I may well fay, and to may all mine, and this poor Kingdom too, rninedi and undone by fuch Synchophant.Tantivee-Do&rincs.] Surely I find there [namely in Scripture conria‘ ‘ nuts Mr. Ram] that God, is the God of Order, and not of Cocrzfa/ion ----and that the Son of ‘God came, ro fave, [ mark that -— an} Lord] and not to deflroj. By wbi It feems he hath not his Divinity [mark that too .-a. my Lord] from God, not from the Son of God ---— And that we may be fure he went to Hell :0; his Divinity, he names fundryjefuits and Friars, with whom he hath confulted (mark that too and trade‘! for his Divinity. » But not to be-lyHell it felt’ , the Jefuits are honelier than He [mark that too for if he had. not brought more Hell unto them, then he found with them, he had not found this Divinity, in them, which he hath brought forth 5 yes, in his Quotations he hath ufed thofe Shifts and Fallhoods, for which Boys are to be whip’d [ mark that too] in Schools, and yet by them he thinks to Carry the Caufe or a Kingdom, [mark that too, my Lord] you fee the Ground and Occafion of this ....1)i&'ercnce betwixtyour Lordihip and my {elf [begun in the Prefence of Mayor and Aldermen of Colcluflcr] is not private Pi ues. bu_t an ad- iudgcd Cafe long ago _.a in many Parliaments, and called in 162.8, in Parliament, The C4}: ofd Ictzigdom,‘ and to it is, an will be----Ste the. Book called, The Loyalty of the 14/? Lox‘{.I’4rl:'4men:..... wherein, tho there was :1 Ion Bill of Penfioners ( who may yet liv e to be hanged, for it is far worfe than robbingby the High-way) fai tobe found amongfi them, fuel: as the :l‘rcal'urcr had gratified with two hundred thirty‘ one thoufand lix hundred and two Pounds in two Years time__...... (Oh liberal! on a poor Kingdom’s Stock, and fo empty an Exchequer -as as the Widows and Orphans howl !_) Yet the major part of the Parli-f ament did, and for ever will continue true Englilh- men to ‘the ancient Conltitution and Frame of —- Govern- ment, and the Fundamental I.aws..—- ( the Scorf of Tories and Tantivies. ) ‘ D This Loyal Long-Parliament plainly told the King in their Addrefs agalnfl Duke Lamlerddlc ...-. F66. 2,3,...- 7$. (not 41 not 40. ) that he was abufed ....~. faying some Perfons in great Employment under your M9,. jelly, have fomented Deli ns contrary to the Intcrett of your Majelly, and People, intending to deprive as of our Ancient Rights and iberties, that thereby they might the more eafily intr0,¢lu_Ce the Popilh Religion; and an Arbitrary Form of Government (well coupled in troth -— Papili and Tantivie ——.tpgethcr) to they ruine and defiruaion of the whole Kingdom, £6‘c. ( then partlcularizing) The Duke of Lauderdale, did pub. licltl affirfin in the Prtfencc of your Ma fitting in Council ( I am apt to think your Lordlhip heard him and efore divers of your Majellies snbjefrs then atrending, that your Mayeliies Ediéts ought to be obeyed ..., for your Ma_)e[lies Edifis are equal with Laws, and ought to be obferved in the iirli place.--. Thereby jun}. tying the {aid Declaration ( of Marc]: 1 5, 7 1. ) and the Proceedings thereupon, and declaring his Inclinati- ons to Arbitrary Councels, in terrour of your Majellies good Subyeéts. ' They conclude thus --We do therefore in all Humility implore your Sacred Majelly ——- That for the cafe of the Hearts of your People who are poflell with extream Grief and Sorrow to fee your Ma jelly thus abufed, andthe Kingdom cndangere 5 th«‘It.1g_ttr Majelly would gracioully be plcafed to remove the {aid Duke of Ldmierddlt from all his EmPl°)’ “‘“,“5s --‘-t".‘J'c. e V wherein, ifhis’Maje{iy has gfltlfid his People to cafe their Hearts from the {aid Terrour, your Lordlhip ’ lmows better than I. ., , god in their Addrefles againfl the King’: Declaration of Indulgence .'.,., they tell his Majeil plainly, but with all Humility --a That Penal Statutes in Hatters Eccleliallical ( mark that j cannot be In pendfid but by AR oi Pariliament ---sand yet fame ]udges have been of another Opinion, (1 know whoaand where, and when, when time {hall lerve.) . . Md ‘ll? 513 Majtfiy tell them in anfwer ...- That they queflion his Power‘ in ECCl€fiafilCli$a Which he Ends’ 90' 303‘ 19 ikkfizn 05 any of his Anccflors. ' This (ale! ,_ And in finch--‘-— His Majefcy did_ defert the‘ misivnfornlalsioiis of Earwigs, and adhered (as l"afe) to his great Councel of Parliament, and did cancelfithat Declaration ‘ r (notwithltar-1ding?‘», V the fuggeltedr7’OVi{er in Ecclefialt-ieks) and declared it fihouldbe-no P-rcfident for the future; Let noql , periment is not impoflible; nay « if we had a thoufand’ Bilhops ,E2vglmml"they could not at all do --——- man"dare rnalieany fuch fuggeltions for the future, and may lueh ‘Earwigs alfoebe banilh’3t to any part of ; Earth, or into; the Earth , i rather than thus to pliague-aéliing and Ki»ngdorn—at this rate, in all i Ages, and vex and grieve his Sacred Majefly and his Parl:iaments 2 '; whata potherand a doe have Parliaments had, with thefe Tantivies in all Ages? And. howfruinous and ruful were the Confequents R Iknovv not whither , 011 =-'-—---, my Lord, can remember, But ' lcau, by..wofulexpe- i . you l.aid'Y01'4. 68311 to know i l‘10,-’W"YO1I know me better, and’ I know you f .... in pay; lhope Ilhall lrnouz you better, i the onely defignof this Lets-sac l I vvilh Synods, and Lamlmla Convocations, and Bilhopsa w%ou.ld k.eep..to their Bibles, and" mind their own bulinefs (work enough,‘ in confcience, for I0OQ~BIlll‘_l0-PS in England if they would {loop to’ ; be Co_nformii’ts’to the A8: of Uniformity, and morethan a t-houfand B-ilholps can legally perform, if there were re many in England (for there was a greater number in ‘a far leis s fpot of ground in Afri— 4 ca, Contemporaries with S. . 'Auflz'n the Bilhop of little Hippa, ,;that was never E bigas. 1/Zingran) which the confirming vvorkalone , . let alone the Work in the Houfe of Lords, and at the Councel- 1 Board, and their promotions at _D0é—for:,Cam1am:, and ther Aétions, Suites, and_Declarations and Libels, _as Aflion-drivers and Promoters, and Vifitations, and vcxations) of ruinous confequence to the Proieélors as well as to the Kingdom) fuch as the Tanti,vi=e~.eDoétrine~ of Manwaring and little Laud that had better minded his Boole, his excellent Book againll: Fzjher then to turn Politick-Engineer, and MaIler«Gunner in planting of Canons againft the Fundamental Laws, that fuch Tantivies are not skill’Cl but if they read butof at I§.in.ge in Scripture, though it be Re/aobcfazm, (thlalt Ft%ol)L0r tlkcfar (dthlalt %eathen)ftl1€n Heysday il~ for the Pulpit ‘ ' or" the Sync ' ey or amactla aizl at e sanonso 40. e _ K J ' _ But, you will fay, what have I to do ( a P.'eIt alfo) with thefe State-matters? ' , ‘ To which Ian rm. 1. Thefe Statematters )lmpr0perly or foolilhly handled by your Tantivee‘-, Archbilhop Loud, and yourTantivees (E_3ilhops that WOUlLvz'cb me- vrr any King was more Happ than H: in that-“H Yet (though) chofen in a time of Languilhiug Expe- é’ration,after the Profit; an Bcmfit: of a King (which we had too long wanted) they were Encgléfla-znen itill-;.—--And he’s an A13 that expeéts alfitter iunéture or morcaufpitiouss El.e5l5i0n--—~for the choice of 1>,z;»1g,;,,,mt;o carry on any Defignsbut what are C’atbo£ick,a5;nd according to the G'aod‘01dC41¢fe--—-I mean the Fundamental L»’m7!-Which notafew fwearingiand beggarlly Pamphletirtg Tories, and unthinking and very impudent Tanziv¢cs,and Willllal very ignorant, are abilf, £0 defeat , tl'rou'gh‘ they draw dloqvvnf . ' K , . 3' s’ heir? C their Cmmixiof 40.-H’ ; s which f-‘thought had’. been nail’él’and danin"d.,ar'1d ramid 4o. year; ago, by the Tom; Themljelves -and‘Tant_i,ae‘e3,to who‘ni‘they'pro_v’d fo‘ fatal-it-5——-— will ‘men neverjtalrye warning? muft Parliament: always beplaguzd WIth~-théféfdrwzggx and Tamwee:?F-laterers and Court Sycophamtg, and Blzzfphemom I22fimmtoi*:§‘o'f 'Divi2zity _into Humanity by a mofi: Athezfliml ‘1’77‘Z/6’7’I't'1._.07‘i of ’ a New B .1 0-. flatical ‘Union A Butthe Holy TI"lfl"lty"a'dmltS no Partners,though the Priefts.teach us.,or inculcate never fo villanoufly,traitei‘oufly,falfely,illegally,unfcripturely, irrationally, or blafphernoufly. It is" . a high lhame,t-hat’s the truth on’t,that fuch Tmgfivee-Defirines Ihould thrive»-and fiich as ftand u ‘ ’ for the Ancient Lam and~Libertzes mul’c‘fufl’er above all others .- ’tis a flia,me,power'fliould be thus abulz fed (like a filk worm )«to‘ ruin and conlume its felf to**be,decl<- worfe Ve_rrr'1in—"—’tis a fhame--I will not ‘venture’ to fay any more but draw a‘ Curtain over fonie mens fhame,bccaufe I will not fhow--all—— their Nakednefs 1 forbear--y-L-A-s-my Lord,I have _done,-«And leave you to ithink‘ fadly to think (and with forrow (1 hope) and repentance: too) for yuftifyin g this firfi Cdrzori of the Confiitution: of 40. thofe Claequer-mark: of different Hue» black and white--‘good and bad--- efpecially the F irfl of them—— nigro carbon: nommur--let you andl remember that Firlt fatal Cananof the 1.01’ the Ci'onflim:iam‘o£.4/o. that has been fo mortal already,and will {till prove (without very timely and immediate Repentance) baneful to one of us, or rueful to both of _us.,_ or to this Kingdom, State, and Commonwealth.» ' t s But {till you will objeé‘t-- what have I to do to difcufi thefe State-matters,fit chiefly for a,Pqr/£4»-gm? I anfwer-— That you have given the occafion (the fadoccafion) It now becomes me,’and ‘be‘comes"ne-he , celfary what before had been as iijnpertinent as for a. or 3}’/lad-(mm to meddle in the State-affairs. g F But 2. Do you compare iny SIQIZ or Learning ‘of Undeizflahding in‘ Laws and Sfazte:-z,}22zt,.t‘c‘i*3ii‘ , Land,the Iludy of men,and the Law: and’cmp‘er: and‘C«ii2jlz'mzz*am. of Farrezgn M7/ingdoms, more whereof l I have feen than fome T antime Circingle: ever read oi’? ( in I-1eylz'n’s Geography,if they have, _i ) ~ And do you compare my Knawlcdg-Salt-‘water—Sqnldiers I§rio_wledg in State-m4.tter:,‘Do you compare us that have been Souldiers (at leaft on this lide the Water in times of Peace) with meet Cajfackmrz ? l~Hope there is no Compare,at leall the Comparifon is as odious,as groundlefs. _ But, I had alrnoit forgot the Provoftlof Eaton, where I left him ' (Mr. Row to the Speaker) fay- 1ng—~ ‘ ‘ ' ‘F ‘ ’ ' t , Fora Conclufion,to give you the true Charafhr of {this man (Dr. Edward /I/1'42’nvariug,l whonil never few, I will {hew it you by one whom [know to be contrary to him-.-—'Samml.—' (we knowall to be a true Prophet,now we read of Sarrmel- that he_wri‘t the Lam? ‘of the King-domtin a Book,'and laid it up before the Lord.And this he did as Mr. Mazwqrings own Authors affirms——Tbat the King my Iqmw what ta com- mand, and t_h‘e;Peop"le what to élzey. * ‘ F ‘ i i ‘ F But, Mr-Manwaring,filding t the prelence,of the Lord(rs'glat Tantiwée) in a Pulpit,th’at the Kin g -may not know what to cammzmd,nor the People what to obey. ' ’ F’ = F r ~._.—.—-a. . Thus Ml.'.fV1’a177w¢.rz71g bein g contrary to a true Prophet,mult needs be a falfe One, and the Judgment of a falfe PI'0pl1€t(markt/Mt) belongs to him. t F ~ " I have {hewed you an evil Tree,that bringeth forth evilxfruit,and now-it relies for you to determine, \ ; whether the following fen-tence {hall follow, cutlit downgend Acnfi itinto rlaefire. ’ Thus have you feen,my Lord,what ad Pother and a do_,thelc Clergymen have made in the Kingdom,’ A how Parliaments have been plagu’d with thcfc Tahtime-j’¢hn’s, (nay I(_in‘gs rnoft of all, and themfelvesi alfo) the Rafla Plmetorfs letting the world in‘a -flame by arnbitioufly mbiintying and. driving fwifcla and fpur, Gallop and Tantivee in achariotthey havePride to?m0t1I1t,b11t'i1o sk11lto‘drive,findging and burn- ing themfelves to boot in flames of theirown kindling. V ~ ' “ ‘ a ~ ‘ ‘ In your next Vifitation,I h'ope;we {hall hear no more of theTe*Cai'ions and Con ftitutions of- .40 -— I wilh it for my own l'al<,e,that would avoid all occalions of Conitefts‘, Differences, Suits and Difputcs withall 'meu,more efpecially with you,-burl with it alfo morefor your‘ own fake, you will molt repent‘ it in Conclufion,if it take Air,and be nois’d abroad fo loud, till it come to the Ears of the King and Parliament, (when wager one) His M81633’ has promis’t‘»his Subjects frequent Pdrlianzcnty; the Funda- mental Laws ; which wliofoever attempts to undermine,and liker another Fame, to blow up, it will be hish-uin,énd fall heavy on his head. . ' ‘ ' ' - A Better leave no Lands,no Fields to our I-Ieirs,than Akt’lddmA,S only, or Fields of Blood —-,. or elf: in be {'e Tenure,at the Will of the Lord-‘———much worfe,at the ‘mercy of every Court Sycophant that may well beg us and our Eltates for Fools,’if we be willing to part with our Fundamental LHWS for Magn- 1mri2«g’s Sycophantry,or,your lo magnified Ca1i.I. of the Conftitutions o a 4-0» * And A t vvinij‘ meet Caifockmen, meet Synod-mm,thatin.ever yet were lic_k’t into other Form or Fa_lliiofi,"” than their own Tantiwe Will and Irzclimzria/z——-undifci])lin’d,unrefin’d in ]udgment,by the ftudy of the Law of the he Law of this Kingdom Wri-tten in B'ooks,tears it in pieces, and that in . ‘lfloti. long be b_linde'd ( under pretence of Loyaltyjto ab_ul'e the King,the Conftitutions of the Kingdom > Slaves ! willing by cowardly Pedantry or ambitioussycophantry to he Hoodwink’t,ancl led by thcNolE§ Spor_t,or, Collars, about their]Necks,becsaul"e‘enamell’d perhaps be , pbitee-——~poor hearts I of-p-—-40.) I ing the Old Hatzfe over his Head. 6 to nudge your next Vilitation‘,not my S_ufFerings_ will fofardaunt theEngzzfi:-cze;;gy,but that they will remember,theyvare‘_Ei7glfl7:mcn,nott Scots, nor Inyt Toirz'es,nor,Lambet/a cam..m‘m Eyes area little more opened with more Naked-Tratba for jllagm e/z‘~aerz:,/uses» prmzalebir, Meriwill‘ and ithemfelyes and their I.3olterities-, nor be Willing to boild‘their Liberties, their Eftates, their Lives, ‘their WIVES and their Livings ad mwm Epzfcapz, no, not dd lzhzmm Rcgzs, but ad [ihimm Legir. Oh vile to a certain Precipice and ruine,or,to have a Ring put through their No1"e,and_ led about like Bears for _ g _ _ y A , _ ,c=r made of Silver -~——— and fnapping and biteing and fnarling at‘lum.ab‘ovesall others that would take theCollars offiwnuld unringlethem,would unhoodvvink the‘ blind—men Buffs in fpightof their Teeth : I’le do’t,l am refolv’d,let them fnarle and; g it is their natLire4-»- they cannot help 'it,nor can I in reafon expeét other re-3 quital ofmy ,Charit‘y,I know them, the men and their Communicarion———-the men and their iunate en», 1! yy,and peevilh revenge: In time-,theyw1l_l grow better, when pICjUC1lC€13Hd pallion makes them not‘ forget that they are Efigléflzmetl (I105 Irijh-mm) Chriltians, (not Bigots) and willing to be governed by } our ancient _E22glzfl4 can/Zzgmons and Laws (not the Mammy and Lam'z"s Canons and COI1i)Ci-EU.ElOI1S .._...._... Have: we,with-fo much‘adoegbeehvpuzzlliilgiall this'1whi'le,c"t_he,fe 40 Years, and are we not yet got 0» ‘g ve;;ii1al’rC"'Lazi22l2e.f/2—C'¢zz2ans and C."0’i'2'_/?itit!1'0'7z'J ofito ?, rnull: the Ch ‘rich’ and Kingdom twice be, fplit on the -l fame Rock 3’ fome men géndeavourit mightiandmain-,or: elfe :¢\he,,LoyaL Laflg{I’m"lz'z1:me77t. were not the ; Happy Haufie of _Co_m‘m‘an: ( as the King flzyles th_,em)at leafl: notihpppy in their Intelligence,if they {truck fo violently (Withotit fulhcient Reafon) againflf Duke -L4_”der,ddi1andvthe Earl of D4225)’, for this very. tau {'3 of the I{.ingdom,TIaa Good 0ldC awji’) gvyithout a S;4rc4f9i)G_oodfor t/76 I(z'27g and K’i27g«2’0m,.th€ bell: and fureft,if not theonlyvvay to make theK1ng andKingdom happy,fafe andplealantly united,aga{ nit 7 which (the old and true foundation and principle ).none ever yet attempted,b;:t it protfld his rm'72e,ér.irz‘g-4 » 4 And when you hav impartially weighed the mifchiefs that have attended thefe new Sybthorpimz Do-' 1 Ehiines, Maawwring and Dr. Land: falfe Canon of—-t-—4o. you andl lhall never more quarrel, na.y,lct us V . now lhake hands,enter the Ring again,and try the other touch in a New T ryz1,or,1et uslhake hands,and ; becfriends,andson Condition you he fia Good N4mr’a' as to Wflzitit19i3“U716'072flia72éHe 2md0,atr.»giou: Verdzff i I to lhew my Ggod Namre,ins requital will Remit the Injurie: aforefaid, ‘the .0n;gm1 Sin that has tainted the Conféqamzt Dzjfkrem‘-6; and Cafltdfs, Ihope I have in this Long Letter givcfljour Lorafllaip filch fi1i‘hCi— f ent tatisfaction about the Canon: of 40 «-5-..the'wmz't'y,th,e ‘Mzfi-kief and Falflaoaal efpecially of the 1.C':z—- I .n.m thereof that‘, like eager Dzfpumm':,‘W¢ lhall end jufl; where we began, and yet, both be wifer and a better. and the tI<'z’ag,a’o’m too,for this Coi2tefl,aI1d then this Omr . g . u T . ) agiou: and Oncanfcioneble and ‘U§22rmfimz- a late Verdifi Wlll have a Happy I/]3te,1;1_ either Curing the St. Antbonzes Fm: Heat and Tantioee-Flame, that has not only endamaged Me,but Ezzdzmgefid the Peace of the Kingdom, if We believe the late Lang and Loyal ParliZm_2eat,or if not convert,at leall: convict and rife up in Judgment againfl: thofe Eroflmm:’s , that getgreat Tztle: by fetting_th%:C/mrch on Fire againiby {ugh Tam-wee—He..«i; have a skittifh Property,and are fooner kill’/d than )ai_l’d, or tputinto pound, except they be, the Ceremony of Brtflielr of Fleas, only to (pick 3 quarrel-—~‘For To the rTyrrzm2ic4l, Bzzjlnewrpbf Egyptat this 5 men -, for if it be profit,orj my money y0uI°eek,that I will fecure,if you recover byan _i_r1difFerent ']a-- , fry ; if Honour,that is better fecur’d,by this Prapofal *: for it can be no Ijlonour to you ,-If you dare not, itrv the caufe before (not a pitckt Jury for the nonce) but fileha Jury as 1.5 .lI1dli.i3l‘€I1Ely:I‘€turn’d upon other Tryals; i T T ' And if nothing will prevail with you but Y011’l keep the catching hold you have 3015.; 1101‘ lifren to pal-='».._ n-y thing but revenge,revenge, except I make difhonourable and bafe 'Submiflions,thei1 . in V’ . Scabbard! be gone—-— fight one--be bold, % And let him fall that firft fays--_hold, , g, i fecond part. fecond Edition, lfhould have been more in your ooks then the Canons and C0_nfl:ituti«- :~ ons f0l‘[y‘. read 2 I Hm. 8." 13. or Alix. 6} 2.. 4. againlt Spiritua1-Apof1giical—perfons rnedllng with { temporal Councels and Employments, _difdain not to hedrawn. out of a Pit with tags -—--—-- and do § by me as you would be done by, when time fhall Ferve; for thefe contefts are but a kind of hot-cock» les, there will be no fport if we do not lye down in our turns 5 efpeclally when I prophefy fo right, why, and how, and who it is that {more me. i " ~ i . t ‘ , Neither defpife nor rejeét with {corn the good Admoziitiomin this Letter 5 if I had not lovid you well , and better than you deferve at my hands, I would not have beflgowed for much pains upon ou. . Y But there is feldome a greater Plague attending Grtrtnefi than the flattery of their own judgmentse i and conceits, as well as the flattery of sycophants without ; but what non-fenfe is it? . - , The K ing can make a mana Knight but he cannot make the Knight one jot the wifer or more A l:arued (he may be the poorer‘) for his Title: The King can make. a Biflm , but all the Kings in Cbrz‘- I fiendonie cannot with the Lord convey Learning and Wifdom, but ufually els-, fora Lard-Bzflnop has 5 more Diverfiom from his 5t‘Udi€-5 and Books, by attending Councils, and 1’a-rliaments, and Confirm» tiom, and Pramratiam, and I/'z_'/imtiom, Pramotiom, Suits. andivexaeions, that it is next to impoflible? that he can ftudyfo much as a Country Vicar. s I believe you do not read my Books,for if yoil had impartiallyweighed the 7th.Page of N364 Twitlé Robert Grotfbead, Bifhop of‘ Lincoln, writ a Letter Monitory to the Papa, and the diltance betwixt ' them two waswas far greater than betwixt your Lqrrlfbip and my felf ' nay,ZAl9l7or Bernard chid Pope , Eugcniw, and Ca'll’d him allto nangiitfi,-——-T GWWIJ is the better for t efe Igetttrs, though Pope Eu- genia: was hardnedin wickednefs, and incorrigible, till the Council’ of cazyiancc tookhim in hand convcn’d him before them, imp1'ifon’d and unpo'p’t the Old Gentleman, an an Adulter-er, Sodornite, symoniacks,e’~s. . ‘ l ‘ r . I (, 1 e 5 ) lam fare of one good event of this Letter, namelyl have acquit my {elf in my own Corzfciem‘ ' that I have thus itudied th€:W3Y of P5405‘ 35 Well as ‘Tmth———and by my fair propofal ford» ‘new Tryal ‘gucif you rejeét ityou get nothing but my Bone: when you catch them-, but the Honour will b mine, in that you will feem to be conviéted in your own Confcierfle, that if I have fair play, 1 mm worlt you, having fix to one againlt you , fix honefl Wimejjies to one little infamousone-—-that ha not the docility or memory“of a Parrot or Magotte-Pye. For alhnen that have any briskilhn-efs of Spiritare herein like Témzi:—Balt:, which you may fafely handleand play with, nay, tofs and handy too fometimes-, but if nothing will ferve your turn but with violence to throw them right down, or down-right, ’tis odds, if they do not rebound, and hit you in the face with eagernefs anfwerable to theimpetuofity. « And if no other Councils but what are violent, will reach your Ears and Heart i go on In i time you will find ( 4: at T enmés) Iwlll return your very bell: with Excellent dcfig-:2, and perhaps into yourhazzard-——- or hit the hazard of your ~Pdrtm’r.r and Parm/ears; nay, ,I will write your Epi- I tath, that in memory of your conquefc, and how obtained, lhall outlall: your tomb, and Celebrate your j imme and fame to Pofterity -, though I cannot fay, but it might have been more Iaommrqble to ya to f port * with Flora (44 you do now) at Fullmm, then to be a Promoter (by my Pen Recorded far) a Promoter. ’ For eveigy thing has two handles, if a Prudent man cannot hold it by one, he can certainly hold it by the otfir--—— nay -, even when he falls he falls but like a dye, which fiur’d or cog’d or thrown which way you will, always refts on a true fide and right bottom ; 1t is true I fulfer, but the Orzgimlfim was yfonrs, in that illegal fequeltrations, and the yuftifymg that firlt and ivory} Cami: of the Conllgitutions ‘ o Forty. e \ ‘ ' - ‘ , " Thus am lwhipt upon others backs that deferves the lalh more then my felfz» fometimes you holdgme * ‘ up to the men of Dofforr Common: (as Promoter)and they {lalh me with fiafpenfiom,Excommunicatian; and fometimes they take turn and hold me up to you by {wearing againft me,and then you fwing’d me with Supplicawi, Afiidaoits, Onmagiam Verdifls, between you both, I have had‘a good time out, I thank you (with twelve mm to /selfyau) , pay’d me offto fome tune at———|-—Cl2_elme:ford. _ ‘ Now if you would be but as good to me as you were to the men of Doétors-Commons,the Empl - ment would be lefs Drudgery, and more honourable as being a piece of fuflice for which the N ati It would call you b1elI’ed—--—-namely ~———--l that ‘you would turn Pramoter or I_nfa'mer againlt them for their many and impudent, dayly exetortions and opprcflions of the Kings Subjeéts ‘till they groan a- ain-—-——-or, if that will not pleafe you———-do but hold them up to me--——-fee how I’le make them 1 risk again yet a little nearer ‘yet nearer let mce but have them“within my reach, And I will IO chaftife them, that the whole Kingdom lhall joy in me. ‘ 3 . . But I confefs to your Lorlhipl do not like the ‘ fportf, I had rather be quiet, if you and they would fuffer me to relt, ‘ y * y . . ‘ My Ilord,‘ Xour Lordlhips (humble as Well as)» Humbledi $1: Rvnmjrg I “ A " ,ovl «ab -4.92. 4 an =,I{gc/W-i»g;12., i C106) sp 0 S‘I’..S,CiRI av IN CE lwrit this, Imif{ing§f'Mr. Firmmz , (whom '1 never.{:aw) cariryed this Letter My vfelf intending to prefent it, as we-llas write it, with my; ow.n hand but your Por— ; ttr and zmzid (all the family Icould find at London-laoufe) told me thh you kept not Hofpita- , _ lity there, but was gone to your Country-haufi’, for this Sumr_ner,I know not how well to get at to your hands’, nor how, nor when _I {hall haveayour anfwer, [going home to morrow , aid ‘there. :22; ‘rs:saga:.‘:::;:::.::;;:‘::é::::P;2§ ;‘;i:,:::;:;;W’“ s the New And yet both may mifcarry, for 1 could never yet find that you did ever read my Letter: , except to ((f1'avtl'l at ahem, and produce my very ?.pologie(sIas e}ide‘)nce againft ngel-, for my part Lknow not how to ea wit you you are too cunning or me am are too power u . _ And when the, quarrelfirflz began about this, Tantiwt, Heylim, jl/Itmwttrings, Sylatlatrp , Laud: pr-in. ii tiple and Canon, you did fo efpauft tlot caufe againfl: me and the good old cattfe and was {'0 angry, that be- the lv‘I‘a‘:31tt<331;;:1d Aldeatnfieni of Ctlchtjzr (you could have diTgrac’t me thereby) you paflionately 1 --—-.-- , never qtrt morete ta mt me. _- - I (for, (I cfonfjefs) I‘ was pretty warm upon gou for your Lttmlittla Cdnofif, and you‘ couldnot have net- _e me wor e t an to frzg t me (with what t e lateLoyal-lang—P4rlmment in their faid Addrfi to his Ma- lijeftylconfeffedato be azterror to them, and grief of heart to His Majellies Subjeéts) to he ,0!‘ a Man- ! wm'ng,a.Heylin,1ak Laud; a Saybthorp, redi'viv’d,or their Canon: or Principle: Io dcyiructive t he F unda- mental Laws or i e Goo 01 Carafe. ‘ V l l ' t i ' l 5 « ( But you are fo feldom Refident at London (the great Eptfcopal Woiékhoufe for a Bilhop of Londan’s, gj lgefinct anclll Re{Edeg1c§)andlStbFulbzm the greateft part of the year, That if ‘you would admita co_n-i ‘ rencewit. me wt ic wou _ e goodfor bttbof us) yet I know not how too stain it ' except Igoto E, Fullaam, -whichis ‘out of mytmy (and fo will be) till you come to London, where the perpetual Refidence gof a Bafhop of Landon ti: altfalmly mteffary,(efpecially,fince the New-Buildings’ have almofi:idoub§1ed .3U3urDiocefs) That if you had notlaitg-to do there-, but only to Bzfltop or Confirm All Saints’ and"AH Souls _ therein, if you were as High and Great (and I believe you are now pafl’ (the-Age‘ of) g/ewt’ 3, ’ but if you were now as great) as the Giant Brjttrcm that had 100 hands, they would allbe too It tle for the 3, -¥l”—fOrl5nan,c_€‘of (am fmgle Epzfiopal Badge) the C onfir/nation in the C0mIfi0n—Pray er—Book. E l e N or does the Rttboickfaygu that Men are bound to take a pair 05 Oarsgnd. go by Water to Fulldum . ' to be ronfirrziaoia-—-‘—-..-—.as ii‘ men were dip: withthe Ems admbaptzyiicnlgnd thought: it neceH‘anyita;go.to t‘Hea.ven lzyy x‘zm:,~(morethen needs); '.: e - - i_. .. :* 4. r M ah i” e‘ [ ., Surelyg; out came latelytfxormteading tl1e‘EImmt'mm‘given'tp b,ib-of(1'na double-Scnce) that old T4ntivee—Bard-—+—-+.a1Retgr Ht9v!t':z,-iipontth’at:;2dr'rizbi{bt:"§, and iwbuld nothave you (whami V ‘ love fa well) [0 be to ambitious as to define to be hisSutctfl%r,(though)_to follow his Iteps: I hope yo i f‘ brill b€_1I7r"ji7:l,,£jtfare,yé1t.ca}rzetqtbe G'r4az.;;?‘they are.da_hgerous Reps for §’o1L—-believe Me. 2 it ,7’/ac COJ\(cLvsIo5\{,"l’”" ’ HIS Letter is the ,Qz'ztteffence and Epi 'om;,of the whole Book,and may(far‘a flgift) 5 ferve thole that will not or mmrfin lhlfure to read the whale Book, and though writ raptimitnd izt hafle, yet (though I fay it that lhould not lay it)~_Worthy for t ,, §,t.hc, mutt‘m.b¢nr1t,,jpgL¢¢t;g,:,g{~Gold,and tranfmitted to all Pol1er1ty;thc Sula- # jett~i‘:"/it Gaol,{5‘fi:afbnzb1é,a£iaer6;z2edftfl to 5e lmmlled. , . ‘ For however it happen to work tlattbtfitlly upon Teague: and Irijb-Tories , and flavifh , prbg~it;em(_,atid;(J4g/e;gey{£?a;g’tblet1e§r: ; (whofe only Relzgian Ls their=Gam)yetI doubt not but it has fufficient Vertue -in it to eC'on'tuert all Engliflt Tories andafantivees, that are not fmarrt-fla*ve:,and rnake them perfefl WHIGGS: trlzofe Number:inc1'eafe daily (they 3-T6 g never the fewer for me and this Come/Z witltt/2e,Bt]l7op) and multiply wonderfully ; and /5 l...w.i'(l,;'{¢'lz’, . 1' ' fit; well-to22fider’tl {iii impartially-weighed ,’ according to our tint-ic~tti,’°.’S!o‘}zozir& lg‘, eaf-.5, and moft excefilent Engltfb,Frame, and Con{’citution.of Ga- F tvernmmt-, Our Kings are Kings of Fnmte, but (God forbid) they fheuld be like the t ,LFre22t'/2 Klttg ; then indeed (as the Tmtivee-Preacher ratled it) our «very Saul: would not be mar om}; , nor (fcarcely) would God be fuflered quietly to enjoy thCtI1245 /Jz':fl2are,but‘ flll waztlaf ée Ctefirgour Eflatex, our Zibertiet, our C‘/ziltlren, our 1.41145: our Live: and our l ‘T If/ivet, .(Io7) ; And then. what fhallwe haves’ nay,what fhall Goal have elf 241! be Cafltm’ fu - Taativeeg-F"ops and fencelefs Preaching-Sot: deferve to be haag’d,and till fome ofthem . flit/erveal Or, maole Exampels of, we {hall never be freed of theft: ENGLISH [mega arias; (Tory-Pulpiteers, and Tory Pamphleteers) but be ruin’d (twice in aa Age) wi i one and they Plagues and Pel'ts.'And' work (as Negroes do in Barhadoerj hf da}If01‘ the Malters,and at aight lie with their Wives to get‘ /[aver for theirlzllajters too: And is it n better to have no Charte'r:,no Priviledges, then to ferve a wearyApprentylhip and gi Money to boot,-fog; our Freedom,and yet hold them. by no f arer Tettare, then till a Cou tier'be difpleas’d,or wants Money 6 And as for Ecclefialtical Courts',if 16 Car 1,: 1. o in force,and was neverrepealed,andi that the I 3Car.2.1 2.(repealing 17 Car. 1./’can nev be confiruedie to Repeal,16 Car. 1. _ , M T i Thea w at forte have they or Power toward , impofe or inflia any pain, penalty, &“ nor olitlt orpdar/Z they infiiél: any pain or penalty (as loath to V€fl£UrC_ 100 l. for ever ofiencej nor did they cenfure any,,till I 3 Car.2.I2. repealed 17 Car. 1. I I. but if itfdi not repeal 16 Car. I. I 1. as it is evident upon the Parliament Roll, it is 16 C'ar.1. 1 1. th repeals the branch of I Eliz.-—i——I think theyhave brought their Hogs to a Fine Marke and (land liable for all the mifchief they have done,to-Souls, to Bodies,and to Bones. . t I believe fome in the Parliaateat (at leaf’: did intend) to repeal 16 Car.1.r 1 .but if if . ( as it is a great tniftake) it is fatal, andnot to be remedied,hat hy aP.4R1ZI/f/I15/VT,an if ever they lhould be fo bold and daring as to infliét any penalty apoa me————have at the for the 1oo.l. ’ i_ ’ \ ’ . g . Befides, Idoubt not but I Ednt.6.2. is in force 5 for though it is repeal’d by 1 Mar.2 yet that I'Mat.2. is repcal’dby I fatohgzs - and Samfoa is unbound again Remote Imp dimento Revtveftit; and herewith agreeth. the Book-Cafe in 15.‘ £21. 3. tit. Petitio l:5lacit.. 2. Cake mag. chart, 686. p . . ’."I’is ‘tt.riucth_at't4;;-Jacob two queflions were moved, firlt whether any Bilhops ‘mad i efpecially.i'fin‘ce_ the firfi day of that firft Sefl'io_n_s of‘Parliament_. .1 acob. were lazvftt or no. \ t . g . - p , -2, Whether the Proceediggsig, the Ecclelia_l’tical+Courts, being made antler the /tam ’ a Stile and Sealwof the Btflof were warranted by Law he i" The Chief jfztfttcek agreed that .1 Edw. 6.2. was in force » for though theiA€l’t I‘ :E_.liz; 1.-.s~Revi,ve the 25. Hen. 8.2o. Which Empowers Bilhops to A6} as formerly ,o (and conlequenily o:r obliq}uely_ th_e.,_fi?Ed. 6. 2. is-firuckat) y.et‘C'an any man in hi right wits imagine thatit is either true or fafe , tlilatpa Statute ihould be repealed ob ‘liquely, and by confequence without the-leall thought thereof in the Legiflators er thi watt/alhe of theft dangerom toafigaente. But the Legiflators could not think of repealin that which Wags aétaally and exprelly at that time} repealedalreadycby 1. Mar. 2. nor Li repealingt.” 2. by Land 2. Phil. and Mar. 8., which was repealed already by 1 Mar.aj_._. I.’ 2. Phil. Mar. that does not repeal *1 Ed. 6. 2.. h} name .333 503. . fiequents will not do,i norinferencesnhis is tricks and vtiredrawing, to defeataistail _tuteaLaw_by Wfinefsor nioety of Wit. or Lawyers,-Criticifms.’ And therefore there is no need offlflrzgyto 1Eliz. 1. for the repeal af 1. 2. Phil, Mm-.‘8. yet the jpdges. ge-g _ gerally extrajudiciallywere of another opinion. ’ . . . . . t * fphe caledeferves the Refolti‘tion.of the Judges in open-Court,’ or? in 3‘ Parliament; O'r.(_t;oth ; a.n_extrajttdi_ct'al j?°adgmentthen hat heetsin ]cm4. and 1 July 1 5; 7 and the *e§ig3,»VC their-opinions asthe Bilhops beltliked, (Dr. Laud efpecially) but theiarne Jg_glg€S alfo to pleafe him , V were for the Legallity ofship-mone , and cu (‘tomes ,(uhlet; 1¢€1.by Parliament ) lee Appendix of “ Dr. Goaolphfa: Abri gment of Laws. and Cgég,[flfiiC.-C. 2. p. 68;. 686. the Lord Coke was ovcrawed-by the High-Commillion (;Q;_u~t , now the Law .18 hot in awe, though the Gear/emaa that gives the Narrative of , the.Faid ryalldid not take it in fhort-hand (he that has fo 7/afl“ a memoryfhall not need) not‘ yetis willing tobe known to be the Author of thefe oble1‘Vations;' not that there isa. a word or line in this boak that he is not prompt, a ml at hand and (to the/e) willir;_g,{ ‘ < . l t . ~ gt; tr e ‘ F 0 I (108) ible and well known truths, ackt with the Gofpel and the law ; Ha «I Let me have igramhliag--—you may Whifper, Point, make Dumb-[hows and Signs; but--——— Iwill a tie no gr»/rrzhltrzg aloud. But he is fiat zvilling to put hit Name to thit Boole 45 ziztthor, yet iverthelefs (‘according to the CormaomCaftome of Learned Authors that Preface their prks withtheir ow» Piéfurcs or Efiigies (the) [hall riot rteeol rteithenfcme of them are not ihandflmr, no more then the courle face of this‘ Blunt Author ) Neverthelefs the uthor (to humour the Common vanity) gave me leave to give you part of his fifiigier, ai halfe-face of him, pourtray’das followeth (riot in his hat la/Z Page of his hoole) :7‘ you be Oedipoffes) you may foon unriddle the enigma; the Author hasa foul fo great 1’le fay no more on’t———-- -but as for his fancy and invention the whole Creati- fi is To immediately at its heclc, that (like Chamhers to he let ready farrzrfhed) it er wants ft Epithites, Metaphors, or Exprefliom to Elticidate the thoughts of his iriigrtier mat» ime---his Memory) like the French King, feizes all it can lay hold ofi”,right or wrong : or éke the men that drive the Common:,impounds all that come: to hand--or,like a Drag Net,- if-ilweeps all,and retain: flit, the Good, the Bad, but what it! hatter fudgraertt purpofelf graves and throw: away,or like a S erjearzt,a B tm1,a Smp,a Trap,or a right Eriglzjhéflla/Yirve iever lets go its hold, except the piece come oat,whe_n it has once laid hold; and married, goupled or match‘: with a Body fo perfeét a Slave to the greater ,Soul,that it never tyre: or layer the fade when fet at workfometime tmmercifttlly and mofi: Tyrannically u§’d, and let the willing Slave, like good-Horfes, eeps it’Lfe1fin Good Cafie, tight and in good ulight,& for aSim:er,if it w ere not i'orne‘timesPriefl'ridderz,or rid with the fpiritaallncu. »w,or night-m'are,Ifiy,for fo great aSinner--well to Litre-Plump & fat—defideraattcr catera. Thus have I with a Pen, not Pencil drawn the /lather:-Pillar: 5 and there i_s in form: ffzlla*thcr:,that it is needlefs to write the Authorssname (as was, over dull ‘painting, ac. cufiomed of old)-*--—Tbi: is Cock, This aBu1l. ‘ . . | ; For the notoriety is as eafie and rcmar£ahle,as a P¢'cle’t€-°ttrfiOl‘ aTory Sherzf; or a Htmted but any eafie Sagacity’ may fix I: hit» outfrom the Comma); Herd. ‘ . g ‘‘ But do not you, (ye week y Libellersand dirt Pampbleteers!) Do not you prophane {any more this Efigiet; efpecially Trufly Roger, .Ohfcrruator ! tremble at afperfiomleafl: the Villanous Attempt you made againfi the Printer: Widow, (now Mr.D--—s Wife)riie upin Iludgment againfi you,to her unfpotted Honour, and your firange and unheard lof Vi lany,look too’t--—- And dare not to bring your Works of Darknefi; to Light , The‘ gimodefi Gentlewoman, which your Goatlhip would have prophan’d, isye live to attefl: }your Villany, though you promis’d her,that,if {he would confcnt to,yo§oatlhip, or owner: Heat (above the rage of Do her to Print all the Qatar: Book; andgunlicen/ed Pamphlet.v———only {he - ihould lay them Kafide before your coming to make a fearch,of which you would give ‘her timely notice, Ah! Villainy-——-—to make the Kings Favour and Trufl in T raj}; Roger,A§PIMP to Trufiy -.,~...-.....,..—-may —»-o-.....a Reading Dox’s of the Pulpit!) do not heneaftertake matter out of his fffee/elyPamphJet:l " for your Reading .Z.ec‘Iure: in a C ozmtr]-Church-—---blulh at your I/Vhorj, Roar7,Scor7,To-’ i I 5 ermtiomtoseheck, if pqlfible) your prophane Billingtgate ; as if you were ;fw01‘n Scavinger as well as Penfioner to the Tories and 7'arm't2ee:--——but I {pare you at preli:nt.. However deface not This Pourtra}/tare--This is 00 C0fi-W0fi £f5gt',€3,n0r every mans mare- This is not the Face of an Hermophrodite or Lay-Vicar (falfe and bafe, as itreacherous and low --—-— Extcm—- What-.'g prefer the Favour of a Bilhop before Hiélceriagill-.'I.t is 3 Sin to call dirt upon this Medal: But if any filly Tor] or unthinking Tantifvce be /2; Foo]. lifie, if any dare he fit hold, daring and impzcderrt, or fo very ignorant as to oppole thefe pro-s ;:r and judgment. But (which are feldom pairsin one man) his memory (Ay, that,that 3uen’s Style: as in Face: and Features,fuch peculiar Idiotic: and dif’tin7gui—ihing ifflyres from i Deer, that may indeed (endeavouring ihclter)awhile be concealed amongfi the Crowd , - da}.t)you would, being then Prefi- he/tar, permit i i1t’0ger:Goatilh Luff, Oh Tantitzee:—r- biuih at your Olg/Erwtor, do not hereafter (ye _ ’ ;}o6f2‘1"l/1307'; of which,Mr.OhjErvator,I cannot but.in kindiaefs to you, make this 06- i‘ Hmtahc l‘“‘’“’5 he mayiiaja/I Reqiritalgxpeat (but that the? are.h'ot worthy)aWh:;ggz]b l MUSHROOM. P IN S. ‘é , ., .2‘ RARE BX 5155 .H5 1682 -62!‘ uuwmm or mucous - cownnu ELL SPC RRE RARE IIIIIIliiiifilliiliiilzlllllll 636 01 O—0O5924