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<HEAD>ENGLANDS VVOLFE VVITH EAGLES CLAVVES:
OR
The cruell Impieties of Bloud-thir&s;ty Royali&s;ts, and bla&s;phemous
<HI>Anti-Parliamentarians,</HI> under the Command of that inhumane Prince <HI>Rupert, Digby,</HI> and the re&s;t. VVherein the barbarous Crueltie of our Civill uncivill Warres is briefly di&s;covered.</HEAD>
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<P>1. _ABout the middle of <HI>September,</HI> 1642.
a ba&s;e and barbarous act was performed again&s;t
that faithfull Commander, Captain <HI>Wingate,</HI>
a Member of the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons, being
taken pri&s;oner by the Kings partie in fight neere <HI>Wor|ce&s;ter,</HI>
he was carried pri&s;oner to <HI>Worce&s;ter,</HI> and there
brought before the two <HI>Germane</HI> Princes, <HI>Rupert</HI> and
<HI>Maurice,</HI> and by them with many ba&s;e reproachfull re|vilings
examined, concerning his being in Arms again&s;t
the King, which he wi&s;ely, and as re&s;olutely declared.
At which the bloudy Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> being incen&s;ed to
heare, with an outragious fury, call'd the &s;aid Captaine
<HI>Parliament dog,</HI> telling him, if he had &s;uch a gift of pati|ence,
he &s;hould &s;peedily be made a rare martyr. Imme|diately
after this they marched from <HI>Worce&s;ter</HI> to <HI>Ludlow,</HI>
and this Captain being bound with his hands behind him
was &s;et on hor&s;ebacke, bound fa&s;t to the hor&s;e, guarded
by Troopers that &s;wore Dam them they would pi&s;toll
him. And having rode about &s;ix or &s;even miles, having
oft &s;et their charg'd Pi&s;tolls to his brea&s;t, if he would not
turne they would &s;hoot him. But Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> him&s;elfe
coming to him gave command, if he would not renounce
the <HI>Parliaments</HI> &s;ervice, and turne to the King, he &s;hould
pre&s;ently be &s;tript and ride &s;tarke naked before them to
<HI>Ludlow.</HI> But this faithful Captain &s;till continued his for|mer
re&s;olution, and was pre&s;ently &s;tript, (receiving, as he
&s;aid, more hurt by the cold, then trouble at their cruel|tie
and &s;corne.) And thus the Prince cau&s;d him to ride
through the &s;treet at <HI>Ludlow,</HI> and with jeeres askt him,
If he had now learn'd to &s;uffer, vowing if he would not
recant, to proceed again&s;t him with cruell torments to
put him to death: but he per&s;i&s;ted &s;till in his con&s;tancy,
and being &s;ent to pri&s;on, was u&s;ed mo&s;t cruelly, being
allowed but bread and water. This truth is confirmed
and publi&s;hed by Authoritie of Parliament formerly.</P>
<P>2. Among&s;t the re&s;t one that was hang'd three &s;everall
times, one after another, the halter broke every time as
he was ca&s;t from the ladder, &amp; the la&s;t time of the three,
in a rage they tooke two halters, and twi&s;ted them toge|ther,
but this al&s;o &s;napt in &s;under. When he was ca&s;t off,
and the man was &s;till perfectly alive and well, at which
they were &s;truck to the heart, yet ca&s;t him into pri&s;on,
and there &s;tarved him to death; which upon occa&s;ion by
witne&s;&s;e is to be verified.</P>
<P>3. Their common &s;aying is, They will not be behold|ing
to God to &s;ave them, and that they had rather be
in hell with their Comrades, then in heaven with the
<HI>Round-heads.</HI></P>
<P>4. After the Parliaments Forces were out of the Ci|tie
of <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI> and without the Workes, the Cavaliers re|vilingly
and bla&s;phemou&s;ly told them, they were &s;orry
they could not butcher them, upbraiding them, and ask|ing
where is now your God? where are your fa&s;tings
and profe&s;&s;ions? where is your King Je&s;us, and &s;aid,
King <HI>Charles</HI> &s;hould be King for all King Je&s;us.</P>
<P>5. Another &s;aving of theirs is; The Devill that made
us, dam us, and Dam me and Ram me into the mouth of
a Cannon, and &s;hoot me nine miles into hell.</P>
<P>6. They drinke a health to King <HI>Charles,</HI> in whom
they live, move, and have their being.</P>
<P>7. How &s;hould wee forget that bloudy ma&s;&s;acre of
<HI>Byron</HI> in Che&s;hire, that in coole bloud murthered no le&s;&s;e
then 1500. that fled into a Church for &s;helter, by fiering
the &s;ame, and all the&s;e innocent poore &s;oules burnt
therein.</P>
<P>8. At <HI>Crowland</HI> in <HI>Lincoln&s;hire</HI> about the middle of
<HI>May,</HI> 1643. the Cavaliers coming to a neighbour Town
call'd <HI>Spawling,</HI> they be&s;et the hou&s;e of one Ma&s;ter <HI>Ram,</HI>
a godly painfull Mini&s;ter of that Towne, they took him
with one Ma&s;ter <HI>Harington,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Horn,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Sla|tor,</HI>
all worthy religious Gentlemen, and carried them
away pri&s;oners, and there kept them at <HI>Crowland</HI> for
three weeks.</P>
<P>9. After which time they of <HI>Spawling</HI> be&s;et <HI>Crowland,</HI>
hoping to relea&s;e the&s;e worthy Gentlemen and their
Mini&s;ter. Whereupon the&s;e Cavalerian <HI>Crowlanders</HI>
tooke the&s;e worthy Gentlemen out of pri&s;on, apiniond
them all together, and &s;et them on the top of their bre&s;t|workes
of the Towne, in the face of their friends that
came to relieve them, who not knowing who they were
at &s;uch a di&s;tance, &s;hot fiercely at them, and one Captain
<HI>Harington,</HI> &s;on to Ma&s;ter <HI>Harington,</HI> then pri&s;oner, &s;hot
three &s;everall times at his own father not knowing him,
but at la&s;t perceiving this cur&s;ed wile, the fight abated
on that &s;ide where they were plac't.</P>
<P>10. Herein appeared the admirable providence of
God, that in &s;o many violent and furious &s;hots, not one
of the&s;e worthy Gentlemen were toucht or hurt by the
&s;hot, God guiding the Bullets not to hurt his &s;ervants.
Thus they were miraculou&s;ly pre&s;erv'd, and the Town
taken.</P>
<P>11. <HI>Cice&s;ter</HI> pri&s;oners coming neere to <HI>Oxford,</HI> divers
Inhabitants went to &s;ee them, the pri&s;oners were tyed
two and two together with cords or Match, two Mini|&s;ters
tra&s;ht through the durt as the re&s;t: when they came
before his Maje&s;ty, in the mire they fell upon their knees for his Maje&s;ties fa|vour;
but it was in vaine, his Maje&s;ty return'd this an&s;wer, they had brought
that mi&s;ery upon them&s;elves: five or &s;ix dyed the &s;ame night they came to <HI>Ox|ford</HI>
with their mi&s;erable u&s;age; and one to end his mi&s;ery cut his own throat.</P>
<P>12. They al&s;o tooke after the fight five of the Parliaments Souldiers, and
tyed them by the hands with ropes, and forc't them into the Thames, where they
were drown'd.</P>
<P>13. Among&s;t the re&s;t one hone&s;t woman, <HI>Jane White,</HI> that reprov'd them for
&s;wearing, was &s;hot with a brace of Bullets through the backe and belly, being
great with childe, and within three weeks of her delivery, &s;he dyed immediately.</P>
<P>14. At <HI>Banbury,</HI> though his Maje&s;ty gave his hand and &s;eale to the contrary,
that no injury &s;hould be done, yet mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly they fell to plunder the
whole Towne, to the utter ruine of the &s;aid Inhabitants, &s;aying, The King did
not know the &s;tate and condition of warre.</P>
<P>15. One <HI>William Wright,</HI> of <HI>Abington,</HI> being well affected to the Parliament,
advis'd the Inhabitants to &s;tand upon their guard, and oppo&s;e the enemy, who
being di&s;covered, by Prince Plunderers command was condemn'd by martiall
Law, and hang'd at his own dore.</P>
<P>16. A Gentleman of good worth they hang'd up in a With upon a tree, for
&s;aying, he was for the King and Parliament.</P>
<P>17. At <HI>Ipbeworth</HI> an hone&s;t religious man, &s;aying he was for the King and Par|liament,
they cut off both his eares, and gave him thirtie wounds; and after threw
him on the dunghill, &s;aying in a &s;coffing manner, Let the dogs lick him whole.</P>
<P>18. They tooke another man in the &s;ame Towne, and fa&s;tened a coard to his
feete, and drag'd him about the &s;treets: at la&s;t being weary of their crueltie, thus
they &s;aid; Why &s;hould we weary our &s;elves with this P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">rliament dog, and &s;o
di&s;charg'd three Pi&s;tolls at him to end his torment and life together.</P>
<P>19. A young man at <HI>Leeds</HI> for refu&s;ing to beare Arms again&s;t the Parliament,
was hor&s;t by the Cavaliers, and great weights hung at his legs, which &s;o hurt him
that he bled and fild his boots with bloud, and his Mother weeping offered large|ly
to take him off, but they would not, &s;o that within a &s;mall &s;pace after he dyed.</P>
<P>20. Great cruelty was u&s;ed to the pri&s;oners at <HI>Oxford</HI> to force them to take
the Prote&s;tation by the tyrant <HI>Smith,</HI> by tying lighted Match between their fin|gers,
burning them to the bones, of which there were eye-witne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>21. Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> coming to <HI>Brainford</HI> with his cruell Cavaliers, he exerci&s;ed
mo&s;t inhumane outrages there, plundering a Brewers hou&s;e, &s;poyled and let out
his beere, tooke from him ten or twelve Hor&s;es, drew his wife out adores in her
&s;moake, with her young infant in her armes, having layen in but a weeke before;
&s;hee dyed &s;oone after.</P>
<P>22. All tho&s;e Pri&s;oners which were taken at <HI>Brainford</HI> fight, they pinion'd to+gether
with match and ropes, &s;tript them to their &s;hirts, whipt them, and drave
them before them like dogges to <HI>Houn&s;lo,</HI> over &s;urres and prickly bu&s;hes, bare|head
and bare-foote. Some of the&s;e poore wretches fled from them into the
Thames for hoped &s;afety, were &s;hot by the&s;e barbarous Cavaliers; and thus ma|ny
were drown'd.</P>
<P>23. In <HI>November</HI> 1642. by that cruell and devilli&s;h <HI>Cataline,</HI> the Lord <HI>Dig|by,</HI>
entering the Towne of <HI>Malbrough</HI> with his cruell companion Sir <HI>Daniel O|neale,</HI>
that <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> bloudy Rebell, having with granadoes fired the Towne in foure
&s;everall places, rod furiou&s;ly through the &s;treets, and with drawne &s;words cut
and hackt all they could meet with, whether men or women.</P>
<P>24. Then they brake open their &s;hops, and took away
all &s;orts of goods they met with, &s;etting their &s;words
and pi&s;tolls to men and womens brea&s;ts, threatening to
kill them, if they would not confe&s;&s;e where their money
was, and what goods they could not carry away, they
brake and &s;poyl'd.</P>
<P>25. One Cavalier above all the re&s;t coming an hone&s;t
Gentlemans hou&s;e in <HI>Malbrough,</HI> utter'd the&s;e words in
a mo&s;t in&s;olent outragious manner; God dam me, ram
me, &s;ink me nine miles into hell, if I &s;uffer one Round|head
to continue here.</P>
<P>26. In a &s;hort time after the Lord <HI>Digby</HI> or <HI>Grandi|&s;on</HI>
came into the &s;ame Gentlemans hou&s;e, who had ma|ny
children, and told him he mu&s;t pay 500.^1. within foure
dayes after at farthe&s;t; the Gentleman told him he had
not wherewith po&s;&s;ible to pay 100.^1. he had been &s;o
plunderd lately; and be&s;ides he had 18. children to main|taine,
and now nothing left to keepe them: but this Lord
&s;wearing his common Oath, God dam him, what did he
tell him of 18. children, why did he not tye them two by
two together and drown'd them; then demanding where
they were, he &s;aid, if he would not drown them he would
and then &s;wore the &s;ame oath as formerly, if he would
not pay that &s;um, he would hang him at his own dore.</P>
<P>27. Another Cavalier in the Town profferd a Town&s;|man
twenty &s;hillings, to teach him a new Oath, that he
had never heard &s;worne.</P>
<P>28. The &s;poyle at this time was mo&s;t lamentable, be|&s;ides
what they convayd away, letting out whole hog&s;|heads
of oyle, and ve&s;&s;els of &s;trong water, Aqua vitae,
Treakles, &s;pice, and fruit, which was all throwne about
the &s;hops, and &s;treets, be&s;ides the burning and taking a|way
of large Bibles, and all &s;orts of good books, with
which they made great fires.</P>
<P>29. In one mans &s;hop, wherein was Hemp, Flax, Oyle,
Pitch, Tarre, Ro&s;in, and &s;uch like combu&s;tables, they
kindled a fire, and left it burning when they left the
Towne, which was timely di&s;covered and quenched.</P>
<P>30. At this time they drave at lea&s;t 200. pri&s;oners be|fore
them to <HI>Oxford,</HI> bound two by two, &amp; forced them
on foote through all the dirt and mire where their Can|nons
went: of which number about thirtie were hone&s;t
able Town&s;men; they were mo&s;t cruelly u&s;ed in the
Tower of the Ca&s;tle, not being allowed fire, candle, or
&s;traw to lie on, but the bare boards and plankes of the
roome, and a peny in bread, and a farthing beere, depri|ving
them of all friends, or &s;upply otherwayes.</P>
<P>31. And when <HI>Smith</HI> their cruell Gaoler was &s;olicited
to pitie them; his an&s;wer was, Hang them damn'd rogues,
villaines, traytors, the Devill take them, they are u&s;ed
too well, and when &s;ome of them were ready to dye,
and he told of it, he would &s;uffer nothing to be admini|&s;tred
for their helpe or recovery.</P>
<P>32. Note moreover, that be&s;ides all this &s;poyle by
plunder, and otherwayes, of this di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Towne, the&s;e
wicked Cavaliers burnt downe 35. dwelling hou&s;es, and
made at lea&s;t 150. able per&s;ons homele&s;&s;e and harbour|le&s;&s;e;
&s;ix or &s;even barnes full of Corne burnt and de|&s;troyed,
be&s;ides &s;tables, wood piles, and out-hou&s;es, and
all their hor&s;e taken away: the lo&s;&s;e of this Towne in all
is by eye-witne&s;&s;es and &s;ufferers confirmed to be 50000.^1.</P>
<P>33. This Tyger-like Tyrant <HI>Smith</HI> hath &s;o pincht his
pri&s;oners with cold and thir&s;t, denying them water to
drinke, that when they have been brought forth and exa|mined
by their mercile&s;&s;e Judges, they have gladly drank
the water wherein Gentlemen had wa&s;ht their hands,
and raine-water in the Ca&s;tle Court, yea, many have
drunke their own urin.</P>
<P>34. After &s;ome were brought to &s;uch mi&s;ery, then
they were promis'd a peny a day in chee&s;e, and their li|bertie
at length, if they would take that <HI>Oxonian</HI> cur&s;ed
Prote&s;tation. Whereupon divers poore &s;oules tooke the
&s;ame, and within three dayes after their chee&s;e was de|nied
them, and all hope of libertie, unle&s;&s;e they would
pay the Tyrant <HI>Smith</HI> large fees, or &s;erve in armes for
the King.</P>
<P>35. And others had their heeles and neckes tyed to|gether
for 44. houres, not &s;uffering them to have one bit
of bread all that time, or drop of water: &s;ome were &s;o
tyed or manacled three weeks together, without inter|mi&s;&s;ion,
becau&s;e they would not take that Prote&s;tation.</P>
<P>36. The perfidious dealing of Prince <HI>Rupert</HI> at <HI>Bri&s;toll,</HI>
violating all Articles of agreement at the &s;urrender of the
Towne, as &s;oone as they had entred plundering all hou|&s;es
as well Malignants as others.</P>
<P>37. They al&s;o tooke women by the throats, one e&s;pe|cially,
and put a rope about her neck, threatening to
throttle her, if &s;hee would not reveale where her hu&s;|bands
money lay, and ty'd a &s;heafe of hemp to her body,
and began to &s;et it on fire, thereby to force her to con|fe&s;&s;e
the &s;ame.</P>
<P>38. Some gave money to &s;everall Officers, that they
might e&s;cape, yet were plundred, and found no redre&s;&s;e;
others were greatly fined to recover tho&s;e goods that
were taken away.</P>
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