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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<P>THE COPY OF A LETTER SENT TO AN HONOURABLE Lord, by Doctor <HI>Paske,</HI> Subdeane of <HI>CANTERB&V;RY.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London printed,</HI> September 9. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>THE COPIE OF A Letter &s;ent to an Honourable LORD.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My ever honoured Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_DId it not conduce unto the Publique, I &s;hould not pre&s;ume to interrupt your Lord&s;hips weighty affaires, but the long experience of your Lord&s;hips zeale for Religion, and vigilancy for your Univer&s;ity of <HI>Cambridge,</HI> hath a&s;&s;ured me of your Lord&s;hips Patronage of our whole Church in generall, and (as the ca&s;e now &s;tands) of this Mother-Church in particular: Wee expected peace, but have found much trou|ble from the Troopers &s;ent among us: With what barbarou&s;ne&s;&s;e they have behaved them|&s;elves at <HI>Roche&s;ter,</HI> and in other parts of this County, I leave to the Relation of others, and beg your Lord&s;hips patience only to be informed what hath hapned here with us, and wherein I am more neerely concerned by mine office in the ab&s;ence of our Deane.</P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="3">Colonell <HI>Sandis</HI> arriving here with his Troops on Friday night, pre&s;ently cau&s;ed a &s;trict Watch, and Sentinels to be &s;et, both upon the Church, and upon our &s;everall hou&s;es, to the great affright of all the Inhabitants. This done, Serjeant Ma|jor <HI>Cockaine</HI> came to me, and in the name of the Parliament, demanded to &s;ee the Armes of the Church, and the Store-powder of the County, which I pre&s;ently &s;hewed him, when he po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ed him&s;elfe of the Keyes, and kept them in his owne cu&s;tody. The next morning we were ex|cluded the Church, and might not be permitted to enter, for the performance of our Divine ex|erci&s;es, but about 8. of the Clock, Sir <HI>Michael Line&s;ey,</HI> attended with many Souldiers, came un|to our Officers, and commanded them to deliver up the Keyes of the Church to one of their com|pany, which they did, and thereupon he depart|ed: When the Souldiers entring the Church and Quire, Giant-like began a fight with God him|&s;elfe, overthrew the Communion Table, toare the Velvet Cloth from before it, defaced the goodly Skreen, or Tabernacle worke, violated the Monuments of the dead, &s;poiled the Organs, brake downe the ancient Railes and Seates, with the brazen Eagle that did &s;upport the Bible, forced open the Cupboords of the Singing men, rent &s;ome of their Surplices, Gownes, and Bi|bles, and carryed away others, mangled all our Service-bookes, and Books of Common-prayer,
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be&s;trowing the whole Pavement with the Leaves thereof; A mi&s;erable &s;pectacle to all good eyes: But as if all this had been too little to &s;atisfie the fury of &s;ome indi&s;creete Zealots among them (for many did abhorre what was done already) they further exerci&s;ed their malice upon the Arras hangings in the Quire, repre&s;enting the whole Story of our Saviour; wherein ob&s;erving divers figures of Chri&s;t (I tremble to expre&s;&s;e their Bla&s;phemies) One &s;aid, here is Chri&s;t, and &s;wore that he would &s;tab him; another &s;aid, here is Chri&s;t, and &s;wore that he would rip up his bowels, which they did accordingly, &s;o farre as the Figures were capable thereof, be&s;ides ma|ny other villanies: And not content therewith, finding another Statue of Chri&s;t in the Fronti&s;|piece of the South-Gate, they di&s;charged again&s;t it, forty &s;hot at the lea&s;t, triumphing much when they did hit it in the head or face, as if they were re&s;olved to Crucifie him againe in his Figure, whom they could not hurt in Truth.</P>
<P>Nor had their fury been thus &s;topped, threat|ning the ruine of the whole Fabrick, had not the Colonell, with &s;ome others come to the reliefe and re&s;cue.</P>
<P>The Tumults appea&s;ed, they pre&s;ently depart|ed for <HI>Dover,</HI> from whence we expect them this day, and are much afraid, that as they have al|ready vilified our Per&s;ons, and offered extreame indignity to one of our Brethren, &s;o they will
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plunder our hou&s;es at their returne, unle&s;&s;e the care of the Maior, the Colonell, and &s;ome Mem|bers of the Hou&s;e of Commons (Sir <HI>Edward Ma|&s;ters,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Nut</HI> now with us) who have promi&s;ed to pre&s;ent their knowledge to that Ho|nourable Hou&s;e) doe prevent the &s;ame.</P>
<P><PB N="7" REF="4">YOur Lord&s;hip will be plea&s;ed to pardon my ha&s;ty expre&s;&s;ions, which proceed from a grieved heart, and I am confident the Ho|norable Hou&s;es of Parliament being rightly in|formed herein, will provide again&s;t the like abu|&s;es and impieties in other places; In the meane time we &s;ubmit with patience to the Providence of him who can and will bring good out of evill, which is the earne&s;t Prayer of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hips mo&s;t obliged Servant.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE>Chri&s;t-Church Cant. <DATE>Aug. 30. 1642.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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