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<HEAD>A MOST LAMENTABLE INFORMATION OF PART OF THE GRIEVANCES OF MUGLESWICK Lord&s;hip in the Bi&s;hoprick of Durham, &s;ent up by Ma&s;ter George Lilburne, Major of <HI>Sunderland</HI> to be communicated to the Hou&s;e of Commons.</HEAD>
<P>TO all Chri&s;tian people to whom the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come, know that we are a people in that our Pari&s;h of <HI>Mugle&s;wicke</HI> who have beene de&s;titute of a preaching Mini&s;ter; yea, ever &s;ince any of us that now are breathing were borne, to our &s;oules great griefe and dreadfull hazard of de&s;truction; neither is it our ca&s;e alone but al&s;o ten, yea or twelve Pari&s;hes all adjoyning are in like manner void of the meanes of &s;alvation, who&s;e ca&s;e and condition is deepely to be deplored: And as for us in <HI>Mugle&s;wicke</HI> wee have had none, neither good nor bad &s;ince <HI>Martinmas,</HI> Anno Dom. 1640. but &s;uch as the Scotti&s;h Presbiterie furni&s;hed us withall (bemoaning our mi&s;erable e&s;tate) for hee who then &s;upplyed the place, departed this life about the day of the date above mentioned; and wee immediatly after his death rode to one Ma&s;ter <HI>Jam<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</HI> Mini&s;ter of <HI>Riton,</HI> being one of the Prebends of <HI>Durham,</HI> intreating him with all earne&s;tne&s;&s;e with an humble Petition, becau&s;e he then was in authoritie, and no more of that &s;ect left in the Countie, but all fled becau&s;e of the Scots; that this our poore Pari&s;h of <HI>Mugle&s;wick</HI> might once at length have the fruition of a faithfull Mini&s;ter, but hee an&s;wered that they <HI>(viz.)</HI> the Pre|bends had already appointed us a man, namely one <HI>Iohn Duery</HI> whom we knew; Then with all our &s;oules wee be&s;ought him that we might be exempted of that <HI>Duery,</HI> becau&s;e wee knew him to be no Preacher, and his life and conver&s;ation &s;candalous, and had two plaees at that pre&s;ent already as we told him; and al&s;o that he publikely confe&s;&s;ed in a Pulpit before an open a&s;&s;embly that hee could not preach, and yet that a&s;piring Prebend (who&s;e lifele&s;&s;e con&s;cience we leave to your cen&s;ure) replyed that they had once authorized him, and wee neither could nor &s;hould depo&s;e him, and he al&s;o told us in plaine tearmes, that if he could reade the prayer booke, and an homily, it was nothing to us what kind of man he was; &s;o when things would be no better, it behooved us to come home with the&s;e cold comforts, having heavy hearts that our &s;oules &s;hould a longer &s;ea&s;on be inthralled to &s;uch a &s;imple, yea (we dare &s;ay) &s;infull Mini&s;ter, who is ignorant of the very principles of Religion: (yet our All&s;ufficient God (&s;eeing that we were but breeding and beginning in Chri&s;tianitie) would let no more be laid upon us then we were able to beare) and &s;o &s;eeing us unwilling to accept of him he gave over. Then the place being void for the &s;pace of a whole yeare, wee our &s;elves betwixt griefe and nece&s;&s;itie went abroad to &s;eeke, and it plea&s;ed our God to &s;end &s;uch an one as our &s;oules longed after, and no &s;ooner found we one whom our minds affected, but immediatly tho&s;e Prebends (who whether they were friends or foes to Chri&s;t, judge yee) that will not &s;ticke to hazard their heads, &s;o they may hinder the truth, doe impo&s;e one <HI>Braidly</HI> upon us, a bird brought out of the ne&s;t of their bo&s;omes, who (we may &s;ay without &s;inne) is one of the mo&s;t deboi&s;t among&s;t the &s;onnes of men, for hee will neither preach him&s;elfe nor yet permit others, but upon the Sabbath day hee tooke the Locke from the Church doore, and fa&s;tned on one of his owne, &s;o as that the Pari&s;hioners were forced for to &s;tand in the Church yard to di&s;charge divine duties with their Mini&s;ter in cold fro&s;t and &s;now, to the infinite di&s;honour of the Almightie the great griefe of their minds, and the dreadfull indangering of them&s;elves in that &s;tormy time of the yeare; other times before he came into the Church whil&s;t our own Mini&s;ter was in his exhortation, and &s;tood up be&s;ide him reading with a loud voyce in a booke to overtop the &s;ound of his words, Afterward pulled him by the coate when hee was in the Pulpit, but when neither of the&s;e would cau&s;e him to de&s;i&s;t from duty, he goes and rings the Bels all aloud; neither is this all, but out of malice cals a Commu|nion and enters upon the &s;acred action without any preparation Sermon before the day. Now the people having prote&s;ted before as they were directed to doe before by the Parliament again&s;t all Popi&s;h innovations, they doubted and therefore dur&s;t not communicate with him in the&s;e his corrupt cour&s;es. And likewi&s;e the &s;ayd <HI>Braidly</HI> had affirmed before the open a&s;&s;embly, that the Prote&s;tation was fal&s;e. Then hee after that venteth his inveterate envie with his &s;ecret and &s;infull intention, for after that he had come and collected a Catalogue of the names of tho&s;e that had re&s;trayning con&s;ciences; at the next Se&s;&s;ions after he indicted them all above 14. yeares old and above, yea many of them being &s;uch as a prudent Pa&s;tor would in no wi&s;e have admitted to partake of tho&s;e precious ordinances, by rea&s;on of their minoritie and nonage, and &s;o at this in&s;tant &s;carce liable to the cen&s;ure of the Law, to the number of 67. &s;oules or more, yea many of them being indicted a|gaine and againe, are &s;o pro&s;ecuted and perplexed as that they are even forced to for&s;ake their vocations and callings, and ca&s;t them&s;elves upon the Lords &s;peciall providence, and others of them that &s;taie, are driven to exce&s;&s;ive expences, many of them to more then they have of their owne; and others againe, namely old women, and infirme women, being &s;o great with child or &s;o newly delivered of child that they can neither ride nor goe, therefore doe de&s;ire to keepe out of their clawes, yet their owne hou&s;es cannot keepe them &s;afe from certaine pe&s;tiferous Bayliffes, who through the procurement of the &s;ayd <HI>Braidly</HI> are preferred to the office, that like for lewd lives they could no where el&s;e have found among Chri&s;tians, for they are full as inhumane as tho&s;e Rebels in Ireland, that neither doubt nor dread &s;uperiour powers; yea they will not &s;ticke to bur&s;t and breake open doores, picke barres, and being come within the hou&s;e they draw their Swords, and hold out Pi&s;tols again&s;t poore womens brea&s;ts, commanding them to light candles, otherwi&s;e they &s;hall let them &s;ee a lamentable light with their Pi|&s;tols; and doe &s;o a&s;toni&s;h poore &s;imple women with children that they drive them to a de&s;perate condition, well nigh be&s;ide them&s;elves. Some of the &s;aid parties got a Warrant from a Ju&s;tice to bind them to the peace, and delivered it to the Bayliffe to &s;erve, and &s;o they went before &s;ome of his Maje&s;ties Ju&s;tices of peace (whereof Sir <HI>John Conyers</HI> was one) who refu&s;ed to binde tho&s;e deboi&s;t fellowes; now the Bayliffes names are as followeth, Ma&s;ter <HI>Clement Richard&s;on</HI> (who &s;ayd that they who had taken the Prote&s;tation had need to goe to the Parliament to beg a par|don or el&s;e they would be beggered) <HI>Hugh Joplin, Thomas Fo&s;er</HI> &s;onne in law to the &s;aid <HI>Joplin, Cuthbert Hopper</HI> and <HI>Robert Simp&s;on,</HI> the&s;e through the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of one <HI>Thomas Mi&s;&s;e,</HI> who is intimate with authority, and makes his brags openly that he is the author of all the&s;e troubles, and onely u&s;eth the re&s;t as agents for the effecting of the&s;e his mi&s;chievous prankes. Now know to whom&s;oever the&s;e pre&s;ents &s;hall come, that wee are a poore people, not fully as yet brought forth by the &s;pirituall birth, and therefore helpe, helpe, helpe, as you tender the honour of your hea|venly King; and finally know this, that all herein is truth, and nothing but the truth, as all tho&s;e who&s;e names are here &s;ub&s;cribed will te&s;tifie.</P>
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<ITEM>Mr. <HI>William Moore.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Iley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>I&s;ahell Iley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth Iley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Oliver.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard March.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iane</HI> His wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn March.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas March.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iane March.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth March.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Edward Ward.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Margret Ward.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Raw.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Read&s;haw.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth Read&s;haw.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Loborne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iane Loborne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Arde.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Francis Lampton.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Read&s;haw.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Rippon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth Rippon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Anne Carrudders.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rowland Harri&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iane Harri&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Lon&s;edale.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Francis Ward.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cuthbert Ward.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cuthbert Ward,</HI> Elder.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mary Ward.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth Ward.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cuthbert Harri&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iane,</HI> His wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Hopper.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Anne Hopper.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Margret Ioplin</HI> Widdow.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Ioplin,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>William Ioplin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth Ward.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Margret Ioplin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Richard Che&s;ter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Blenkin&s;op.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cuthbert Palle&s;or.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Robert Kirkeley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alice,</HI> His wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Madde&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Anne,</HI> His wife.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Thomas Madde&s;on,</HI> Jun.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Anne Madde&s;on,</HI> Jun.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Alexander Madde&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Andrew Raw.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nicholas Kirkeley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>George Raw.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Arthur Kirkeley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iane Kirkeley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth Kirkeley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Steven Raw.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Darnell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Margret Ioplin.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Elizabeth Wheeteley</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Margret Wheeteley.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iames Carie</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Mary Richard&s;on.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nicholas Maughen.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Iohn Dridon.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Matthew Stokoe.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>The&s;e are all indicted.</P>
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