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<P>A BRIEFE RELATION Of certain &s;peciall and mo&s;t ma|teriall pa&s;&s;ages, and &s;peeches in the Starre-Chamber, occa&s;ioned and delivered Iune the 1<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">^t^h. 1637. at the cen&s;ure of tho&s;e three worthy Gentle|men, D^r. BASTWICKE, M^r. BVRTON and M^r. PRYNNE, as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes by one pre&s;ent at the &s;ayd Cen&s;ure.</P>
<P>Printed in the Yeere 1637.</P>
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<HEAD>A Briefe Relation of certain &s;peciall and mo&s;t materiall pa&s;&s;ages, and &s;peeches in the Starre-Chamber, occa&s;ioned and delivered Iune the 14^t^h. 1637. at the cen&s;ure of tho&s;e three worthy Gentlemen, D^r. BASTWICKE, M^r. BVRTON and M^r. PRYNNE, as it hath beene truely and faithfully gathered from their owne mouthes by one pre&s;ent at the &s;ayd Cen&s;ure.</HEAD>
<P>_BEtweene eight and nine a clocke in the morning (the 14. of Iune) the Lords being &s;ett in their places in the &s;aid Court of Starre-cham|ber, and ca&s;ting their eyes upon the Pri&s;oners, then at the Barr, S^r. Iohn Finch (chiefe Iu&s;tice of the Common Pleas) began to &s;peake after this maner.</P>
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<SPEAKER>S^r. Iohn Finch.</SPEAKER>
<P>I had thought Mr. Prynne had had no eares, but me thinkes hee hath eares; which cau&s;ed many of the Lords to take the &s;tricter view of him; and for their better &s;atisfaction, the V&s;her of the Court was commaunded to turne up his haire, and &s;hew his eares: upon the &s;ight whereof the Lords were di&s;plea&s;ed they had beene for|merly no more cut off; and ca&s;t out &s;ome di&s;gracefull words of him.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>To which M^r. Prynne replied; My Lords, there is never a one of your Honours, but would be &s;orry to have your eares as mine are.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Lord Keeper replied againe; In good faith hee is &s;omewhat &s;awcy.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>I hope (&s;ayd M^r. Prynne) your Honours will not be offended, I pray God give you eares to heare.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>The bu&s;ines of the day (&s;ayd the Lord Keeper) is to proceed on the Pri&s;oners at the Barr.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>M^r. Prynne then humbly de&s;ired the Court to give him leave to make a motion or two, which being graunted, he mooves.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t that their Honours would be plea&s;ed to accept of a cro&s;&s;e Bill again&s;t the Prelates, &s;igned with their owne hands, being that which &s;tands with the Iu&s;tice of the Court, which he humbly craved, and &s;o tendred it.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keep r.</SPEAKER>
<P>As for your cro&s;&s;e Bill, it is not the bu&s;ines of the day; Hereaf|ter if the Court &s;hall &s;ee ju&s;t cau&s;e, and that it &s;avours not of Li|belling, we may accept of it; for my part I have not &s;eene it, but have heard &s;omewhat of it.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>I hope your Honours will not refu&s;e it, being it is on his Maje|&s;ties behalfe; wee are his Maje&s;ties Subjects, and therefore require the Iu&s;tice of the Court.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>But this is not the bu&s;ines of the day.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>Why then, My Lords, I have a &s;econd motion, which I hum|bly pray your Honours to graunt; which is, That your Lord&s;hips will be plea&s;ed to di&s;mi&s;&s;e the Prelates, here now &s;itting from ha|ving any voyce in the cen&s;ure of this cau&s;e (being generally knowne to be Adver&s;aries) as being no wayes agreeable with equity or rea|&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, that they who are our Adver&s;aries, &s;hould be our Iudges: Therefore wee humbly crave they may be expunged out of the Court.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>In good faith its a &s;weet motion is't not? Herein you are be|come Libellous. And if you &s;hould thus Libell all the Lords and Reverend Iudges, as you doe the mo&s;t Reverend Prelates, by this your Plea, you would have none to pa&s;&s;e &s;entence upon you for your Libelling, becau&s;e they are parties.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>Vnder correction (My Lord) this doth not hold; your Honour need not putt that for a certainty, which is an uncertainty; wee have nothing to &s;ay to any of your Honours, but onely to the Pre|lates.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, proceed to the bu&s;ines of the day; Read the Information. Which was read, being very large; and the&s;e five Bookes annexed therevnto (viz.) a Booke of D^r. Ba&s;twicks written in Latin.</P>
<P>The &s;econd a little Booke, intiteled, Newes from Ip&s;wich. The third intiteled, A Divine Tragedy, recording Gods fearefull judge|ments on Sabbath breakers. The fourth M^r. Burtons Booke, intite|led, An Apology of an Appeale to the Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje|&s;ty, with two Sermons for God and the King, preached on the fifth of November la&s;t. The fifth and la&s;t D^r. Ba&s;twickes Letany.</P>
<P>The Kings Coun&s;ell (being five) tooke each of them a &s;everall Booke, and de&s;canted there at the Barre upon them accor|ding to their plea&s;ure.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M^r. At|torney.</SPEAKER>
<P>M^r. Attorney began fir&s;t with D^r. Ba&s;twickes Latin Booke, pick|ing out here and there particular conclu&s;ions that be&s;t &s;erved for his owne ends, (as did all the other Coun&s;ell out of the fower other Bookes) to the great abu&s;e of the Authors, as them&s;elves there im|mediately complained, intreating them to read the foregoing grounds upon which the &s;ayd conclu&s;ions depended, without which they could not under&s;tand the true meaning of them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ser.</SPEAKER>
<P>Next unto the Attorney, Serjeant Whitfeild falls upon Reverend M^r. Burtons Booke, who vented much bitternes again&s;t that unre|prooveable Booke (as all that read it with an hone&s;t and orthodox heart may clearely perceive) &s;wearing, In good faith, My Lords, there is never a page in this Booke, but de&s;erves a heavier and dee|per Cen&s;ure then this Court can lay upon him.</P>
<P>Next followed A. B. who in like maner de&s;canted upon the Newes from Ip&s;wich, charging it to be full of pernitious lyes, and e&s;pecially vindicating the honor of Mathew Wren, Bi&s;hop of Nor|wich, as being a learned pious and Reverend Father of the Church.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. Little|ton.</SPEAKER>
<P>In the fourth place followes the Kings Solicitor, who acts his part upon the Divine Tragedy; To which part of it, concerning Gods judgements on Sabbath breakers, hee had little to &s;ay, but onely putt it off with a &s;coffe, &s;aying; that they &s;ate in the Seate of God, who judged tho&s;e accidents which fell out upon per&s;ons &s;uddainly &s;trooken, to be the judgement of God for Sabbath-breaking, or
<PB N="6" REF="4">words to the like effect: but enlarged him&s;elfe upon that pa&s;&s;age, which reflected upon that late Reverend (as hee termed him) and learned Profe&s;&s;or of the Law, and his Maje&s;ties faithfull Servant M^r. William Noy, his Maje&s;ties late Attorney, who (as hee &s;aid) was mo&s;t &s;hamefully abu&s;ed by a &s;launder layd upon him; which was, That it &s;hould be reported, that Gods judgement fell upon him for &s;o eagerly pro&s;ecuting that innocent per&s;on M^r. Prynne; which judgement was this; That he laughing at M^r. Prynne while hee was &s;uffering upon the Pillory, was &s;trooke with an y&s;&s;ue of blood in his privy part, which by all the art of man could never be &s;topped unto the day of his death,<NOTE PLACE="marg">a.</NOTE> which was &s;oone after. But the truth of this (My Lords &s;ayth hee) you &s;hall finde to be as pro|bable as the re&s;t; for wee have here three or fower Gentlemen of good credit and ranke, to te&s;tify upon oath, that hee had that y&s;&s;ue long before; and thereupon made a &s;hew as if hee would call for them in before the Lords, to witne&s;&s;e the truth thereof (with the&s;e particular words, Make roome for the Gentlemen to come in there) but no one witne&s;&s;e was &s;eene to appeare: Which was a pretty delu&s;ion, and worth all your ob&s;ervations that read it: And &s;o concluded (as the re&s;t) that this Booke al&s;o de&s;erved a heavy and deepe Cen&s;ure.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M^r. Har|bert.</SPEAKER>
<P>La&s;tly followes M^r. Harbert, who&s;e de&s;cant was upon D^r. Ba&s;t|wickes Letanie, picking out one or two pa&s;&s;ages therein, and &s;o drawing thence his conclu&s;ion, that jointly with the re&s;t, it de&s;erved a heavy Cen&s;ure.</P>
<P>The Kings Coun&s;ell having all &s;poken what they could, the Lord Keeper &s;ayd to the Pri&s;oners at the Barre.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Lord Kee|per.</SPEAKER>
<P>You heare Gentlemen wherewith you are charged; and now, lea&s;t you &s;hould &s;ay you cannot have liberty to &s;peake for your &s;elves, the Court gives you leave to &s;peake what you can, with the&s;e conditions:</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that you &s;peake within the bounds of mode&s;ty.</P>
<P>Secondly, that your &s;peeches be not Libellous.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Pri&s;oners.</SPEAKER>
<P>They all three an&s;wered, they hoped &s;o to order their &s;peech as to be free from any immode&s;t or Libellous &s;peaking.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then &s;peake a Gods name, and &s;hew cau&s;e why the Court &s;hould not proceed in Cen&s;ure (as taking the cau&s;e <HI>pro confe&s;&s;o</HI>) again&s;t you.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>My honorable good Lord, &s;uch a day of the moneth there came a Subpoena from your Honours, to enter my appearance in this Court; which being entred, I tooke forth a coppy of the Informa|tion, which being taken, I was to draw my An&s;wer, which I en|deavoured to doe, but being &s;hutt up clo&s;e pri&s;oner, I was de&s;erted of all meanes by which I &s;hould have done it; for I was no &s;ooner &s;erved with the Subpoena, but I was &s;hortly after &s;hutt up clo&s;e pri&s;oner, with a &s;u&s;pention of pen, inke and paper; which clo&s;e im|pri&s;onment did eate up &s;uch a deale of my time, that I was hindred the bringing in of my An&s;wer: You did a&s;&s;igne me Coun&s;ell, t'is true, but they neglected to come to me, and I could not come to them, being under lock and key: Then upon motion in Court, yee gave me liberty to goe to them; but then pre&s;ently after that mo|tion (I know not for what cau&s;e, nor upon who&s;e commaund) I was &s;hutt up againe: And then I could not compell my Coun&s;ell to come to me, and my time was &s;hort, and I had neither pen nor inke, nor Servant to doe any thing for me, for my Servant was then al&s;o kept clo&s;e pri&s;oner under a Pur&s;evants hands; this was to put impo&s;&s;ibilities upon mee. Then upon a &s;econd motion for pen and inke (which was graunted me) I drew up &s;ome In&s;tructions, and in a fortnight time &s;ent 40 &s;heetes to my Coun&s;ell; &s;uddainly after I drew up 40 &s;heetes more, and &s;ent to them; My Lord, I did no|thing but by the advi&s;e of my Coun&s;ell, by whom I was ruled in the drawing up of all my An&s;wer, and payd him twice for drawing it, and &s;ome of my Coun&s;ell would have &s;et their hands to it. Here is my An&s;wer, I tender it upon my oath, which your Lord&s;hips can|not deny with the Iu&s;tice of the Court.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wee can give you a Pre&s;ident, that this Court hath proceeded and taken a cau&s;e <HI>pro confe&s;&s;o</HI> for not putting in an An&s;wer in &s;ixe dayes; you have had a great deale of favour &s;hewed in affording you longer time, and therefore the Court is free from all calumny or a&s;per&s;ion, for rejecting your An&s;wer not &s;igned with the Coun&s;ells hands.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>But one word or two, my Lords, I de&s;ire your Honours to heare me; I put a ca&s;e in Law, that is often pleaded before your Lord&s;hips, one man is bound to bring in two witne&s;&s;es; if both or one of them &s;ayle, that hee cannot bring them in, doth the Law (my Lords)
<PB N="8" REF="5">make it the mans act? You a&s;&s;igned me two Coun&s;ellors; one of them fayled, I cannot compell him; here he is now before you, let him &s;peake, if I have not u&s;ed all my endeavours to have had him &s;ighed it (which my other Coun&s;ell would not have done, if this would have &s;et his hand to it with him) and to have put it in long &s;ince.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Coun&s;ell.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, there was &s;o long time &s;pent ere I could doe any thing, after I was a&s;&s;igned his Coun&s;ell; that it was impo&s;&s;ible his An&s;wer could be drawne vp in &s;o &s;hort a time as was allotted; for after long expectation, &s;eeing hee came not to mee, I went to him, where I found him &s;hut up clo&s;e pri&s;oner, &s;o that I could not have acce&s;&s;e to him; Whereupon I motioned to the Lieftenant of the Tower, to have free liberty of &s;peech with him concerning his An&s;wer; which being graunted me, I found him very willing and de&s;irous to have it drawne up; whereupon I did moove in this Court for pen and paper; which was graunted, the which he no &s;ooner had gotten, but he &s;et him&s;elf to draw up In&s;tructions, and in a &s;hort time, &s;ent me 40 &s;heetes; and &s;oone after I received 40 more; but I found the An&s;wer &s;o long, and of &s;uch a nature, that I dur&s;t not &s;et my hand to it, for feare of giving your Honours di&s;tate.</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lords, I did nothing but according to the direction of my Coun&s;ell, onely I &s;pake mine owne words, my An&s;wer was drawne up by his con&s;ent, it was his owne act, and hee did approove of it; and if he will be &s;o ba&s;e a Coward, to doe that in private, which hee dares not acknowledge in publick, I will not let &s;uch a &s;inne lye on my con&s;cience, let it re&s;t with him. Here is my An&s;wer, which though it be not &s;igned with their hands, yet here I tender it upon my oath, which you cannot in Ju&s;tice deny.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>But M^r. Prynne the Court de&s;ires no &s;uch long An&s;wer; Are you guilty or not guilty?</P>
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<SPEAKER>M. Prynne</SPEAKER>
<P>My good Lord, I am to an&s;wer in a defen&s;ive way, Is here any one, that can witnes any thing again&s;t me? Let him come in. The Law of God &s;tandeth thus; That a man is not to be condemned, but under the mouth of two or three witne&s;&s;es. Here is no witnes comes in again&s;t me, my Lord, neither is there in all the Information one clau&s;e that doth particularly fall on mee, but onely in the gene|rall, there is no Booke layd to my charge. And &s;hall I be condemned
<PB N="9" REF="5">for a particular act, when no accu&s;ation of any particular act can be brought again&s;t mee? This were mo&s;t unju&s;t and wicked. Here I tender my An&s;wer to the Information upon my oath; My Lord, you did impo&s;e impo&s;&s;ibilities upon me, I could doe no more then I was able.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well hold your peace, your An&s;wer comes too late. Speake you D^r. Ba&s;twicke.</P>
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<SPEAKER>D^r. Bast|wicke.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Honorable Lords, me thinks you looke like an A&s;&s;embly of Gods, and &s;it in the place of God; yee are called the Sonnes of God: And &s;ince I have compared you to Gods, give me leave a little to paralell the one with the other, to &s;ee whither the compari|&s;on betweene God and you doth hold in this noble and righteous cau&s;e. This was the carriage of Almighty God in the cau&s;e of So|dome: Before hee would pronounce &s;entence, or execute judge|ment, hee would fir&s;t come downe, and &s;ee whither the crime was altogether according to the cry that was come up. And with whom doth the Lord con&s;ult, when hee came downe? with his Servant Abraham, and hee gives the rea&s;on; for I know (&s;ayth hee) that Abraham will commaund his children and hou&s;ehold after him, that they &s;hall keep the way of the Lord to doe Iu&s;tice and Iudgement. My good Lords, thus &s;tands the ca&s;e betweene your Honours and us this day; There is a great cry come up into your eares, again&s;t us, from the Kings Attorney; why now be you plea&s;ed to de&s;cend and &s;ee if the crime be according to the cry, and con&s;ult (with God) (not the Prelates being the adver&s;ary part, and (as it is apparant to all the World) doe proudly &s;et them&s;elves again&s;t the wayes of God, and from whom none can expect Iu&s;tice or Iudgement) but with righteous men, that will be impartiall on either &s;ide, before you proceed to Cen&s;ure, which Cen&s;ure you cannot pa&s;&s;e on us, with|out great inju&s;tice before you heare our An&s;wers read: Here is my An&s;wer, which I here tender upon my oath; My good Lords, give us leave to &s;peake in our owne defence; wee are not con&s;cious to our &s;elves of any thing wee have done that de&s;erves a Cen&s;ure this day in this Honourable Court, but that wee have ever laboured to maintaine the Honor, Dignity, and Prerogative Royall of our So|veraigne Lord the King, Let my Lord the King live forever. Had I a thou&s;and lives, I &s;hould thinke them all too little to &s;pend for the
<PB N="10" REF="6">maintenance of his Maje&s;ties Royall Prerogative, My good Lords, can you proceed to Cen&s;ure before you know my cau&s;e? I dare undertake, that &s;carce any one of your Lord&s;hips have read my Bookes; And can you then Cen&s;ure me for what you know not, and before I have made my defence? O my Noble Lords! Is this righteous Iudgement? This were again&s;t the Law of God and man, to condemne a man, before you know his crime. The Go|vernour before whom S. Paul was carried (who was a very Hea|then) would fir&s;t heare his cau&s;e before he would pa&s;&s;e any Cen&s;ure upon him; And doth it be&s;eeme &s;o Noble and Chri&s;tian A&s;&s;embly to condemne me before my An&s;wer be peru&s;ed and my cau&s;e knowne? Men, Brethren, and Fathers, into what an age are wee fallen? I de&s;ire your Honours to lay a&s;ide your Cen&s;ure for this day, and inquire into my cau&s;e, heare my An&s;wer read; which if you refu&s;e to doe, I here profe&s;&s;e, I will cloath it in Roman Buffe, and &s;end it abroad unto the view of all the World, to cleare mine inno|cency, and &s;ee your great inju&s;tice in this cau&s;e.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Lord Kee|per.</SPEAKER>
<P>But this is not the bu&s;ines of the day; Why brought you not in your An&s;wer in due time?</P>
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<SPEAKER>D^r. Ba&s;t|wicke.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, a long time &s;ince I tendred it to your Honour, I &s;ay|led not in any one particular: And if my Coun&s;ell be &s;o ba&s;e and cowardly, that they dare not &s;igne it for feare of the Prelates (as I can make it appeare) therefore have I no An&s;wer? My Lord, here is my An&s;wer, which though my Coun&s;ell out of a ba&s;e &s;pirit dare not &s;et their hands unto, yet I tender it upon my oath.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>But M^r. D^r. you &s;hould have beene briefe; you tendred in too large an An&s;wer, which (as I heard) is as Libellous as your Bookes.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Dr. Ba&s;tw.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, my Lord, it is not Libellous though large, I have none to an&s;wer for me but my &s;elfe, and being left to my &s;elfe, I mu&s;t plead my con&s;cience in an&s;wer to every circum&s;tance of the Informa|tion.</P>
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<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>What &s;ay you M^r. D. are you guilty, or not guilty? An&s;wer aye or no, you needed not to have troubled your &s;elf &s;o much about &s;o large an An&s;wer.</P>
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<PB N="11" REF="6">
<SPEAKER>D^r. Bast|wicke.</SPEAKER>
<P>I know, none of your Honours have read my Bookes; And can you with the Iu&s;tice of the Court, condemne me before you know what is written in my Bookes?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>What &s;ay you to that was read to you even now?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>D^r. Ba&s;tw.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, He that read it did &s;o murther the &s;ence of it, that had I not knowne, what I had written, I could not tell what to have made of it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>What &s;ay you to the other Sentence read to you?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>D^r. Ba&s;tw.</SPEAKER>
<P>That was none of mine, I will not father that which was none of my owne.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Dor&s;eit.</SPEAKER>
<P>Did not you &s;end that Booke, as now it is, to a Noble mans hou&s;e, together with a Letter directed to him?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>D. Ba&s;tw.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yea, my Lord, I did &s;o, but withall you may &s;ee in my Epi&s;tle &s;et before the Booke, I did at fir&s;t di&s;clayme what was not mine; I &s;ent my Booke over by a Dutch Merchant, who it was that wrote the addition I doe not know, but my Epi&s;tle &s;et to my Booke, made manife&s;t what was mine, and what was not; and I cannot ju&s;tly &s;uf|fer for what was none of mine.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Arund.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, you heare by his owne &s;peech, the cau&s;e is taken <HI>pro confe&s;&s;o.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yea, you &s;ay true my Lord.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>D^r. Bastw.</SPEAKER>
<P>My noble Lord of Arundell, I know you are a noble Prince in I&s;rael, and a great Peere of this Realme; There are &s;ome honorable Lords in this Court, that have beene forced out as combatants in a &s;ingle duell; it is betweene the Prelates and us, at this time as be|tweene two that have appointed the feild. The one being a coward goes to the Magi&s;trate, and by vertue of his Authority di&s;armes the other of his weapons, and gives him a Bullru&s;h, and then challenges him to fight. If this be not ba&s;e cowardice, I know not what be|longs to a Souldier. This is the ca&s;e betweene the Prelates and us, they take away our weapons (our An&s;wers) by vertue of your Au|thority, by which we &s;hould defend our &s;elves, and yet they bidd us fight. My Lord, doth not this favour of a ba&s;e cowardly &s;pirit? I know, my Lord, there is a Decree gonne forth (for my Sentence was pa&s;&s;ed long &s;ince) to cut of our eares.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="12" REF="7">
<SPEAKER>Lord Kee|per.</SPEAKER>
<P>Who &s;hall know our Cen&s;ure, before the Court pa&s;&s;e it? Doe you prophe&s;y of your &s;elves?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>D^r. Bastw.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, I am able to proove it, and that from the mouth of the Prelates owne Servants, that in Augu&s;t la&s;t it was decreed, that D^r. Ba&s;twicke &s;hould loo&s;e his eares. O my Noble Lords! Is this righteous judgement? I may &s;ay, as the Apo&s;tle once &s;ayd, What, whipp a Roman? I have beene a Souldier able to lead an Army into the field, to fight valiantly for the honour of their Prince; Now I am a Phy&s;itian, able to cure Nobles, Kings, Princes and Emperors: And to curtolize a Romans eares, like a Curre, O my honorable Lords! is it not too ba&s;e an act for &s;o noble an a&s;&s;embly, and for &s;o righteous and honorable a cau&s;e? The cau&s;e my Lords is great, it concernes the glory of God, the honour of our King, who&s;e Pre|rogative wee labour to maintaine and to &s;et up in a high maner, in which your Honours Liberties are engaged: And doth not &s;uch a cau&s;e de&s;erve your Lord&s;hips con&s;ideration, before you proceed to Cen&s;ure? Your Honours may be plea&s;ed to con&s;ider, that in the la&s;t cau&s;e heard and cen&s;ured in this Court, betweene S^t. Iames Bagge and the Lord Moone, wherein your Lord&s;hips tooke a great deale of paynes, with a great deale of patience, to heare the Bills on both &s;ides, with all the An&s;wers and Depo&s;itions largely layd open before you; which cau&s;e when you had fully heard, &s;ome of your Honours, now &s;itting in Court, &s;ayd, You could not in con&s;cience proceed to Cen&s;ure, till you had taken &s;ome time to recollect your &s;elves: If in a cau&s;e of that nature, you could &s;pend &s;o much time, and afterwards recollect your &s;elves before you would pa&s;&s;e Cen|&s;ure: How much more &s;hould it moove your Honours, to take &s;ome time in a cau&s;e wherein the glory of God, the Prerogative of his Maje&s;tie, your Honours dignity, and the Subjects Liberty is &s;o largely ingaged? My good Lords, it may fall out to be any of your Lord&s;hips ca&s;es to &s;tand as Delinquents at this Barre, as wee now doe: It is not unknowne to your Honours, the next cau&s;e that is to &s;ucceed ours, is touching a per&s;on that &s;ometimes hath beene in greate&s;t power in this Court: And if the mutations and revolutions of per&s;ons and times be &s;uch, then I doe mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech your Honours to looke on us, as it may befall your &s;elves. But if all this will not prevaile with your Honours, to peru&s;e my Bookes, and
<PB N="13" REF="7">heare my An&s;wer, read, which here I tender upon the word and oath of a Soldier, a Gentleman, a Scholler, and a Phy&s;itian: I will cloath them (as I &s;ayd before) in Roman Buffe, and di&s;per&s;e them throughout the Chri&s;tian world, that future generations may &s;ee the Innocency of this cau&s;e, and your Honors unju&s;t proceedings in it; all which I will doe, though it co&s;t me my life.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>M^r. D^r. I thought you would be angry.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Dr. Ba&s;tw.</SPEAKER>
<P>No my Lord, you are mis-taken, I am not angry nor pa&s;&s;ionate, all that I doe pre&s;&s;e is, that you would be plea&s;ed to peru&s;e my An&s;wer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well, hold your peace. M^r. Burton, what &s;ay you?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>M. Burton.</SPEAKER>
<P>My good Lords, your Honors (it &s;hould &s;eeme) doe determine to Cen&s;ure us, and take our cau&s;e <HI>pro confe&s;&s;o,</HI> although we have la|boured to give your Honors &s;atisfaction in all things: My Lords, what you have to &s;ay again&s;t my Booke, I confe&s;&s;e I did write it, yet did I not any thing out of intent of Commotion or Sedition: I delivered nothing, but what my Text ledd me too, being cho&s;en to &s;uite with the day, namely the fifth of November; the words were the&s;e, &amp;c.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>M^r. Burton, I pray &s;tand not naming Texts of Scripture now, we doe not &s;end for you to preach, but to an&s;wer to tho&s;e things that are objected again&s;t you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>M. Burton.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, I have drawne up my An&s;wer to my great paynes and charges, which An&s;wer was &s;igned with my Coun&s;ells hands, and re|ceived into the Court, according to the Rule and Order thereof. And I did not thinke to have beene called this day to a Cen&s;ure, but have had a legall proceeding by way of Bill and An&s;wer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>Your An&s;wer was impertinent.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>M. Burton</SPEAKER>
<P>My An&s;wer (after it was entred into the Court) was referred to the Iudges, but by what meanes I doe not know, whither it be impertinent, and what cau&s;e your Lord&s;hips had to ca&s;t it out, I know not. But after it was approoved of, and received, it was ca&s;t out as an impertinent An&s;wer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="14" REF="8">
<SPEAKER>L. Finch.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Iudges did you a good turne to make it impertinent, for it was as Libellous as your Booke, &s;o that your An&s;wer de&s;erved a Cen&s;ure alone.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>What &s;ay you M^r. Burton, are you guilty, or not?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>M. Burton</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, I de&s;ire you not onely to peru&s;e my Booke, here and there, but every pa&s;&s;age of it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>M^r. Burton, time is &s;hort, are you guilty, or not guilty? What &s;ay you to that which was read? Doth it become a Mini&s;ter to de|liver him&s;elf in &s;uch a rayling and &s;candalous way?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>M. Burton</SPEAKER>
<P>In my judgement, and as I can proove it, it was neither rayling nor &s;candalous; I conceive that a Mini&s;ter hath a larger liberty then alwayes to goe in a milde &s;trayne: I being the Pa&s;tor of my people, whom I had in charge, and was to in&s;truct, I &s;uppo&s;ed it was my duety to informe them of tho&s;e Innovations that are crept into the Church, as likewi&s;e of the danger and ill con&s;equence of them: As for my An&s;wer, yee blotted out what yee would, and then the re&s;t which made be&s;t for your owne ends, you would have to &s;tand: And now for mee to tender onely what will &s;erve for your owne turnes, and renounce the re&s;t, were to de&s;ert my cau&s;e, which be|fore I will doe, or de&s;ert my con&s;cience, I will rather de&s;ert my body, and deliver it up to your Lord&s;hips to doe with it, what you will.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>L. Keeper.</SPEAKER>
<P>This is a place, where you &s;hould crave mercy and favour, M^r. Burton, and not &s;tand upon &s;uch termes as you doe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>M. Burton</SPEAKER>
<P>There wherein I have offended through humane frailty, I crave of God and man pardon: And I pray God, that in your Sentence, you may &s;o Cen&s;ure us, that you may not &s;inne again&s;t the Lord.</P>
</SP>
<P>Then the Pri&s;oners de&s;iring to &s;peake a little more for them|&s;elves, were commaunded to &s;ilence. And &s;o the Lords proceeded to Cen&s;ure.</P>
<Q><PB N="15" REF="8"><TEXT LANG="eng">
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="censure">
<HEAD>The Lord Cottingtons Cen&s;ure.</HEAD>
<P>I Condemne the&s;e three men to loo&s;e their eares in the Pallace-yard at We&s;tmin&s;ter; To be fined five thou|&s;and pounds a man to his Maje&s;tie: And to perpetuall impri&s;onment in three re|mote places of the Kingdome, namely, the Ca&s;tles of Carnaruan, Cornwall, and Lanca&s;ter.</P>
<CLOSER><POSTSCRIPT>
<HEAD>The Lord Finch added to this Cen&s;ure.</HEAD>
<P>M^R. Prynne to be &s;tigmatized in the Cheekes with two Letters (S &amp; L) for a Seditious Libel|ler. To which all the Lords agreed. And &s;o the Lord Keeper concluded the Cen&s;ure.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
</BODY>
</TEXT></Q>
<PB N="16" REF="9">
<P>THe Execution of the Lods Cen&s;ure in Starre-Chamber upon D^r. Ba&s;twicke, M^r. Prynne, and M^r. Burton, in the Pallace-yard at We&s;tmin&s;ter, the 30^t^h. day of Iune la&s;t 1637. at the &s;pectation whereof the number of people was &s;o great (the place being very large) that it cau&s;ed admirat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on in all that beheld them; who came with tender affections to behold tho&s;e three renowned Souldiers and Servants of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, who came with mo&s;t undaunted and magnanimous courage thereunto, having their way &s;trawed with &s;weet hearbes from the hou&s;e out of which they came to the Pillary, with all the honour that could be done unto them.</P>
<P>D^r. Ba&s;twicke and M^r. Burton fir&s;t meeting, they did clo&s;e one in the others armes three times, with as much expre&s;&s;ions of love as might be, rejoycing that they mett at &s;uch a place, upon &s;uch an occa&s;ion, and that God had &s;o highly honoured them, as to call them forth to &s;uffer for his glorious Truth.</P>
<P>Then immediately after, M^r. Prynne camme, the D^r. and hee &s;alu|ting each other, as M^r. Burton and hee did before. The D^r. then went up fir&s;t on the Scaffold, and his wife immediately following came up to him, and like a loving Spou&s;e &s;aluted each eare with a ki&s;&s;e, and then his mouth; who&s;e tender love, boldnes, and cheere|fullnes &s;o wrought upon the peoples affections, that they gave a marvailous great &s;howte, for joy to behold it. Her hu&s;band de&s;ired her not to be in the lea&s;t maner di&s;may'd at his &s;uffrings: And &s;o for a while they parted, &s;he u&s;ing the&s;e words: Farewell my Deere&s;t, be of good comfort, I am nothing di&s;may'd. And then the D^r. began to &s;peake the&s;e words.</P>
<P>There are many that are this day Spectators of our &s;tanding here,<NOTE PLACE="marg">D^r. Bast|wicke.</NOTE> as Delinquents, though not Delinquents, we ble&s;&s;e God for it. I am not con&s;cious to my &s;elf wherein I have committed the lea&s;t tre&s;pa&s;&s;e (to take this outward &s;hame) either again&s;t my God, or my King. And I doe the rather &s;peake it, that you that are now be|holders, may take notice, how farre Innocency will pre&s;erve you in &s;uch a day as this is; for wee come here in the &s;trength of our God, who hath mightily &s;upported us, and filled our hearts with greater comfort then our &s;hame or contempt can be. The fir&s;t oc|ca&s;ion
<PB N="17" REF="9">of my trouble was by the Prelates, for writing a Booke again&s;t the Pope, and the Pope of Canterbury &s;ayd I wrote again&s;t him, and therefore que&s;tioned mee: But if the Pre&s;&s;es were as open to us, as formerly they have beene, we would &s;hatter his Kingdome about his eares: But be yee not deterred by their power, neither be affrighted at our &s;ufferings; Let none determine to turne from the wayes of the Lord, but goe on, fight couragiou&s;ly again&s;t Gog and Magog. I know there be many here who have &s;et many dayes apart for our behalfe, (let the Prelates take notice of it) and they have &s;ent up &s;trong prayers to heaven for us, wee feele the &s;trength and benefit of them at this time; I would have you to take notice of it; wee have felt the &s;trength and benefit of your prayers all along this cau&s;e. In a word, &s;o farre I am from ba&s;e feare, or caring for any thing they can doe, or ca&s;t upon mee, that had I as much blood as would &s;well the Theames, I would &s;hedd it every droppe in this cau&s;e. Therefore be not any of you di&s;couraged, be not daunted at their power, ever labouring to pre&s;erve Innocency, and keep peace within, goe on in the &s;trength of your God, and he will never fayle you, in &s;uch a day as this; As I &s;ayd before, &s;o I &s;ay againe; Had I as many lives as I have heires on my head, or dropps of blood in my veynes, I would give them up all for this cau&s;e. This plot of &s;ending vs to tho&s;e remote places, was fir&s;t con&s;ulted and agitated by the Ie&s;uites, as I can make it plainely appeare. O &s;ee what times wee are fallen into, that the Lords mu&s;t &s;it to act the Ie&s;uites plots! For our owne parts wee owe no malice to the per&s;ons of any of the Pre|lates, but would lay our necks under their feet to doe them good as they are men, but again&s;t the u&s;urpation of their power, as they are Bi&s;hops, wee doe profe&s;&s;e our &s;elves enemies till doomes day.</P>
<P>M^r. Prynne &s;haking the D^r. by the hand, de&s;ired him that hee might &s;peake a word or two. With all my heart, &s;ayd the Doctor.</P>
<P>The cau&s;e (&s;ayd M^r. Prynne) of my &s;tanding here,<NOTE PLACE="marg">M. Prynne</NOTE> is for not bringing in my An&s;wer, for which my cau&s;e is taken <HI>pro confe&s;&s;o</HI> again&s;t mee. What endeavours I u&s;ed for the bringing in thereof, that, God and my owne con&s;cience, and my Coun&s;ell knowes, who&s;e cowardi&s;e &s;tands upon Record to all ages. For rather then I will have my cau&s;e a leading cau&s;e, to deprive the Subjects of that
<PB N="18" REF="10">liberty which I &s;eeke to maintaine, I rather expo&s;e my per&s;on to a leading example, to beare this puni&s;hment: And I be&s;eech you all to take notice of their proceedings in this cau&s;e. When I was &s;erved with a Subpoena into this Court, I was &s;hut up clo&s;e pri&s;oner, that I could have no acce&s;&s;e to Coun&s;ell, nor admitted pen, inke or paper to draw up my An&s;wer by my In&s;tructions, for which I feed them twice (though to no purpo&s;e) yet when all was done, my An&s;wer would not be accepted into the Court, though I tendered it upon my oath. I appeale to all the world, if this were a legall or ju&s;t pro|ceeding. Our accu&s;ation is in point of Libell (but &s;uppo&s;edly) again&s;t the Prelates. To cleare this now I will give you a little light, what the Law is in point of Libell (of which profe&s;&s;ion I have &s;ometimes beene, and &s;till profe&s;&s;e my &s;elfe to have &s;ome know|ledge in) you &s;hall finde in ca&s;e of Libell, two Statutes: The one in the &s;econd of Queen Mary; The other in the &s;eaventh of Queen Elizabeth. That in the &s;econd of Queen Mary, the extremity and heighth of it runs thus: That if a Libeller doth goe &s;o farre and &s;o high as to Libell again&s;t King or Queen by denomination, the higth and extremity of the Law is; that they lay no greater fine on him then an hundred pounds, with a moneths impri&s;onment; and no corporall puni&s;hment, except he doe refu&s;e to pay his fine; and then to inflict &s;ome puni&s;hment in liewe of that fine at the moneths end: Neither was this Cen&s;ure to be pa&s;&s;ed on him, except it were fully prooved by two witne&s;&s;es, who were to produce a certificat of their good demeanor for the credit of their report, or el&s;e confe&s;&s;ed by the Libeller. You &s;hall finde in that Statute 7. Eliz. &s;ome further ad|dition to the former of 2. Mariae, and that onely in point of fine and puni&s;hment; and it mu&s;t &s;till reach as high as the per&s;on of King and Queen. Here this Statute doth &s;et a fine of two hundred pounds; the other, but one: This &s;ets three moneths impri&s;onment; the former but one: So that therein onely they differ. But in this they both agree, namely, at the end of his impri&s;onment to pay his fine, and &s;o to goe free without any further que&s;tioning: But if hee refu&s;e to pay his fine, then the Court is to inflict &s;ome puni&s;hment on him corre&s;pondent to his fine. Now &s;ee the di&s;parity betweene tho&s;e times of theirs, and ours. A Libeller in Queen Maries time was fined but an hundred pounds, in Queen Elizabeths time two
<PB N="19" REF="10">hundred: In Queen Maries dayes but a moneths impri&s;onment; in Queen Elizabeths three moneths; and not &s;o great a fine, if they li|belled not again&s;t King or Queen. Formerly the greate&s;t fine was but two hundred pounds, though again&s;t King or Queen; Now five thou&s;and pounds, though but again&s;t the Prelates, and that but &s;up|po&s;edly, which cannot be prooved: Formerly, but three moneths impri&s;onment; Now perpetuall impri&s;onment: Then, upon paying the fine, no corporall puni&s;hment was to be inflicted: But now, in|famous puni&s;hment with the lo&s;&s;e of blood and all other circum|&s;tances that may aggravate it. See now what times wee are fallen in|to, when that Libelling (if it were &s;o) again&s;t Prelates onely, &s;hall fall higher, then if it touched Kings and Princes.</P>
<P>That which I have to &s;peake of next, is this: The Prelates find them&s;elves exceedingly agrieved and vexed again&s;t what wee have written concerning the u&s;urpation of their calling, where indeed wee declare their calling not to be <HI>Jure Divino.</HI> I make no doubt, but there are &s;ome Intelligencers or Abbettors within the hearing, whom I would have well to know and take notice of what I now &s;ay. I here in this place make this offer to them, That if I may be admitted a fayre di&s;pute, on fayre termes, for my cau&s;e; that I will maintaine, and doe here make the challenge again&s;t all the Prelates in the Kings Dominions, and again&s;t all the Prelates in Chri&s;ten|dome, (let them take in the Pope, and all to help them) that their calling is not <HI>Iure Divino.</HI> I will &s;peake it againe; I make the chal|leng again&s;t all the Prelates in the Kings Dominions, and all Chri|&s;tendome to maintaine, that their calling is not <HI>Iure Divino.</HI> If I make it not good, let me be hanged up at the Hall-Gate: Where|upon the people gave a great &s;hout.</P>
<P>The next thing that I am to &s;peake of, is this: The Prelates find them&s;elves exceedingly agrieved and vext again&s;t what I have written in point of Law, concerning their Writs and Proces, That the &s;ending forth of Writs and Proces in their owne name, is again&s;t all Law and Iu&s;tice, and doth entrench on his Maje&s;ties Prerogative Royall, and the Subjects Liberties. And here now I make a &s;econd challeng again&s;t all the Lawyers in the Kingdome in way of fayre Di&s;pute, That I will maintaine, the Prelates &s;ending forth of Writs and Proces in their owne names, to be again&s;t all
<PB N="20" REF="11">Law and Iu&s;tice, and entrencheth on his Maje&s;ties Prerogative Royall, and the Subjects Liberty. Lea&s;t it &s;hould be forgotten, I &s;peake it againe, I here challeng all the whole Society of the Law upon a fayre Di&s;pute to maintaine, That the &s;ending forth of Writs and Proces in the Prelates owne names, to be again&s;t all Law and Iu&s;tice, and entrencheth on the Kings Prerogative Royall, and the Subjects Liberty. If I be not able to make it good, let me be put to the tormentinge&s;t death they can devi&s;e.</P>
<P>Wee pray&s;e the Lord, wee feare none but God and the King: Had wee re&s;pected our Liberties, wee had not &s;tood here at this time: it was for the generall good and Liberties of you all that wee have now thus farre engaged our owne Liberties in this cau&s;e. For did you know, how deepely they have entrenched on your Li|berties in point of Popery; If you knew but into what times you are ca&s;t, it would make you looke about you: And if you did but &s;ee what changes and revolutions of per&s;ons, cau&s;es and actions, have beene made by one man, you would more narrowly looke into your Previledges, and &s;ee how farre your Liberty did lawfully ex|tend, and &s;o maintaine it.</P>
<P>This is the &s;econd time that I have beene brought to this place, who hath beene the Author of it, I thinke you all well know: For the fir&s;t time, If I could have had leave given me, I could ea&s;ily have cleered my &s;elf of that which was then layd to my charge: As al&s;o I could have done now, if I might have beene permitted to &s;peake, That Booke for which I &s;uffered formerly, e&s;pecially for &s;ome par|ticular words therein written, which I quoted out of Gods Word and auncient Fathers, for which notwith&s;tanding, they pa&s;&s;ed Cen|&s;ure on me; That &s;ame Booke was twice licen&s;ed by publike Au|thority, and the &s;ame words I then &s;uffered for, they are againe made u&s;e of, and applyed in the &s;ame &s;ence by Heylin in his Booke lately printed, and dedicated to the King, and no exceptions taken again&s;t them, but are very well taken.</P>
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<P>Aye (&s;ayd Dr. Ba&s;twicke) and there is another Booke of his licen&s;ed, wherein hee rayles again&s;t us three at his plea&s;ure;<NOTE PLACE="marg">D^r. Ba&s;t|wicke.</NOTE> and again&s;t all the Martyrs that &s;uffered in Queen Maries dayes, calling them Schi&s;maticall Hereticks. And there is another Booke of Pock|lingtons licen&s;ed; they be as full of lyes, as doggs be full of fleas; but were the Pre&s;&s;es as open to us, as they are to them, wee would pay them and their great Ma&s;ter that upholds them, and charge them with notorious Bla&s;phemy.</P>
<P>Sayd M^r. Prynne, You all at this pre&s;ent &s;ee,<NOTE PLACE="marg">M. Prynne</NOTE> there be no degrees of men exempted from &s;uffering: Here is a Reverend Divine for the Soule, a Phy&s;itian for the Body, and a Lawyer for the E&s;tate: I had thought they would have let alone their owne Society, and not have medled with any of them. And the next (for ought I know) may be a Bi&s;hop. You &s;ee they &s;pare none of what &s;ociety or calling &s;oever, none are exempted that cro&s;&s;e their owne ends. Gentlemen, looke to your &s;elves; If all the Martyrs that &s;uffered in Queen Maries dayes, are accounted and called Schi&s;maticall Here|ticks and Factious Fellowes: What &s;hall wee looke for? Yet &s;o they are called in a Booke lately come forth under Authority. And &s;uch Factious Fellowes are wee, for di&s;covering a Plott of Popery. Alas poore England, what will become of thee, if thou looke not the &s;ooner into thine owne Previledge, and maintaine&s;t not thine owne lawfull Liberty? Chri&s;tian people; I be&s;eech you all, &s;tand firme, and be zealous for the Cau&s;e of God, and his true Religion, to the &s;hedding of your deare&s;t blood, otherwi&s;e you will bring your &s;elves, &amp; all your po&s;terities, into perpetuall bon|dage and &s;lavery.</P>
<P>Now the Executioner being come, to &s;eare him and cut off his eares, M^r. Prynne &s;pake the&s;e words to him: Come friend, Come, burne mee, cut mee, I feare it not. I have learn'd to feare the fire of Hell, and not what man can doe unto mee: Come &s;eare mee, &s;eare mee, I &s;hall beare in my body the markes of the Lord Ie&s;us: Which the bloody Executioner performed with ex|traordinary cruelty, heating his Iron twice to burne one Cheeke: And cut one of his eares &s;o clo&s;e, that hee cut off a peice of his Cheeke. At which exqui&s;it torture hee never mooved with his body, or &s;o much as changed his countenance,
<PB N="22" REF="12">but &s;till lookt up as well as he could towards heaven, with a &s;miling countenance, even to the a&s;toni&s;hment of all the beholders. And uttering (a&s;&s;oone as the Executioner had done) this heavenly &s;en|tence: <HI>The more I am beate downe, the more am I lift up.</HI> And re|turning from the execution in a boate made (as I heare) the&s;e two ver&s;es by the way on the Two Characters branded on his Cheekes.</P>
<Q><P>S.L. STIGMATA LAVDIS.</P>
<P>STIGMATA maxillis bajulans in&s;ignia LAVDIS Exultans remeo, victama grata Deo.</P></Q>
<P><HI>Which one &s;ince thus Engli&s;hed.</HI></P>
<Q><P>S.L. LAVDS SCARS.</P>
<P>Triumphant I returne, my face de&s;cries, LAVDS &s;corching SCARS, Gods greatefull &s;acrifice.</P></Q>
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<HEAD><HI>M^r. Burtons</HI> heavenly and mo&s;t comfor|table Speech, which hee made at the time of his &s;uffering, both before, and while hee &s;tood in the Pillary, which was &s;et &s;omething di&s;tant from the other double Pillary, wherein <HI>D^r. Ba&s;t|vvicke</HI> and <HI>M^r. Prynne</HI> &s;tood.</HEAD>
<P>THE night before his &s;uffering, about eight a clocke, when he fir&s;t had certaine notice thereof, upon occa&s;ion of his wives going to a&s;ke the Warden, whither her hu&s;|band &s;hould &s;uffer the next day, immediately he felt his &s;pirits to be ray&s;ed to a farre higher pitch of re&s;olution and courage to undergoe his &s;ufferings, then formerly he did, &s;o as hee intreated the Lord to hold up his &s;pirits at that heigth all the next day in his &s;ufferings, that hee might not flagg nor faint, lea&s;t any di&s;honour might come to his Maje&s;tie or the cau&s;e: And the Lord heard him: For all the next day in his &s;uffering (both before and after) his &s;pi|rits were carried aloft as it were upon Eagles wings (as him&s;elf &s;ayd) farre aboue all apprehen&s;ion of &s;hame or paine.</P>
<P>The next morning (being the day of his &s;ufferings) hee was brought to We&s;tmin&s;ter, and with much cheerefullnes being brought into the Pallace-yard unto a Chamber that looked into the Yard, where hee viewed three Pillaries there &s;et up: Me thinkes (&s;ayd hee) I &s;ee Mount Calvery, where the three Cro&s;&s;es (one for Chri&s;t, and the other two for the two theives) were pitched: And if Chri&s;t were numbred among theives, &s;hall a Chri&s;tian (for Chri&s;ts cau&s;e) thinke much to be numbred among Rogues, &s;uch as wee are condemned to be? Surely if I be a Rogue, I am Chri&s;ts Rogue, and no mans. And a little after, looking out at the ca&s;e|ment towards the Pillary, hee &s;ayd: I &s;ee no difference betweene looking out of this &s;quare window and yonder round hole, (poynt|ing towards the Pillary) hee &s;ayd: It is no matter, of difference to
<PB N="24" REF="13">an hone&s;t man. And a little after that, looking &s;omewhat wi&s;ely upon his wife, to &s;ee how &s;hee did take it; &s;hee &s;eemed to him to be &s;omething &s;add; to whom hee thus &s;pake: Wife, why art thou &s;o &s;add? To whom &s;hee made an&s;wer; Sweet heart, I am not &s;add: No &s;ayd hee? See thou be not, for I would not have thee to di&s;ho|nour the day, by &s;hedding one teare, or fetching one &s;igh: for be|hold there for thy comfort my triumphant Chariot, on the which I mu&s;t ride for the honour of my Lord and Ma&s;ter: And never was my wedding day &s;o wellcome, and joyfull a day, as this day is; and &s;o much the more, becau&s;e I have &s;uch a noble Captaine and Lea|der, who hath gonne before mee with &s;uch undauntednes of &s;pirit, that hee &s;ayth of him&s;elfe, I gave my backe to the &s;miters, my cheekes to the nippers, they pluckt off the haire, I hidd not my face, from &s;hame and &s;pitting, for the Lord God will help mee, therefore &s;hall I not be confounded, therefore have I &s;et my face like a flint, and I know I &s;hall not be a&s;hamed. At length being carried toward the Pillary, hee mett D^r. Ba&s;twicke at the foot of the Pillary, where they lovingly &s;aluted and eimbraced each other; and parting a little from him, hee returned (&s;uch was the ardency of his affection) and mo&s;t affectionately embraced him the &s;econd time, being heartily &s;orry hee mi&s;&s;ed M^r. Prynne, who was not yet come before hee was gonne up to his Pillary, which &s;tood alone next the Starre-Chamber, and about halfe a &s;tones ca&s;t from the other double Pillary, wherein the other two &s;tood: &s;o as all their faces looked Southward, the bright Sunne all the while for the &s;pace of two howers &s;hining upon them: Being ready to be put into the Pillary, &s;tanding upon the Scaffold, hee &s;pied M^r. Prynne new come to the Pillary, and D^r. Ba&s;twicke in the Pillary, who then ha&s;ted of his band, and called for a Handkercher, &s;aying, What, &s;hall I be la&s;t? or &s;hall I be a&s;hamed of a Pillary for Chri&s;t, who was not a&s;hamed of a Cro&s;&s;e for mee? Then being put into the Pillary, hee &s;ayd: Good people, I am brought hither to be a &s;pectacle to the world, to Angells, and men; And how&s;oever I &s;tand here to undergoe the puni&s;hment of a Rogue, yet except to be a faithfull Servant to Chri&s;t, and a loyall Subject to the King, be the property of a Rogue, I am no Rogue. But yet if to be Chri&s;ts faithfull Servant, and the Kings loyall Subject, de&s;erve the puni&s;hment of a Rogue, I glory
<PB N="25" REF="13">in it, and I ble&s;&s;e my God, my con&s;cience is cleare, and is not &s;tained with the guilt of any &s;uch crime, as I have beene charged with, though otherwi&s;e I confe&s;&s;e my &s;elf to be a man &s;ubject to many frailties and humane infirmities. Indeed that Booke intiteled, An Apology of an Appeale with &s;undry Epi&s;tles, and two Sermons, for God and the King, charged again&s;t me in the Information, I have and doe acknowledge (the mi&s;printing excepted) to be mine, and will by Gods grace never di&s;clayme it whil&s;t I have breath within mee. After a while, hee having a No&s;egay in his hand, a Bee came and pitched on the No&s;egay, and began to &s;uck the flowers very &s;avourly, which hee beholding and well ob&s;erving, &s;ayd, Doe yee not &s;ee this poore Bee? She hath found out this very place to &s;uck &s;weetnes from the&s;e flowers; And cannot I &s;uck &s;weetnes in this ve|ry place from Chri&s;t? The Bee &s;ucking all this while, and &s;o tooke her flight. By and by hee tooke occa&s;ion from the &s;hining of the Sunne, to &s;ay, You &s;ee how the Sunne &s;hines upon us, but that &s;hines a&s;well upon the evill as the good, upon the ju&s;t and unju&s;t, but the Sonne of righteou&s;nes (Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, who hath healing un|der his winges) &s;hines upon the &s;oules and con&s;ciences of every true beleever onely, and no clowd can hide him from us, to make him a&s;hamed of us, no not of our mo&s;t &s;hamefull &s;ufferings for his &s;ake: And why &s;hould wee be a&s;hamed to &s;uffer for his &s;ake, who hath &s;uffered for us? All our &s;ufferings be but fleabitings to that hee endured, hee endured the Cro&s;&s;e, and de&s;pi&s;ed the &s;hame, and is &s;et on the right hand of God: Hee is a mo&s;t excellent pat|terne for us to looke upon, that treading his &s;tepps, and &s;uffering with him, wee may be glorified with him. And what can we &s;uffer, wherein hee hath not gonne before us, even in the &s;ame kinde? Was hee not degraded, when they &s;cornefully put on him a purple Robe, a Reed into his hand, a thorny Crowne upon his head, &s;alu|ting him with Hayle King of the Iewes, and &s;o di&s;robed him againe? Was not hee deprived, when they &s;mote the Shepherd, and the Sheepe were &s;cattered? Was not violence offered to his &s;acred per|&s;on, when hee was buffited, and &s;courged, his hands and his feet peirced, his head pricked with thornes, his &s;ide goared with a Speare &amp;c.? Was not the Cro&s;&s;e more &s;hamefull, yea and more painfull then a Pillary? Was not hee &s;tript of all hee had, when hee
<PB N="26" REF="14">was left &s;tarke naked upon the Cro&s;&s;e, the Souldiers dividing his garments, and ca&s;ting lots upon his ve&s;ture? And was hee not con|fin'd to perpetuall clo&s;e impri&s;onment in mans imagination, when his body was layd in a Tombe, and the Tombe &s;ealed, lea&s;t hee &s;hould breake pri&s;on, or his Di&s;ciples &s;teale him away? And yet did hee not ri&s;e againe, and thereby brought deliverance and victory to us all, &s;o as wee are more then Conquerors through him that loved us? Here then wee have an excellent Patterne indeed. And all this hee uttered (and what&s;oever el&s;e hee &s;pake) with marvailous ala|crity.</P>
<P>One &s;ayd unto M^r. Burton, Chri&s;t will not be a&s;hamed of you at the la&s;t day. Hee replied, Hee knew whom hee had believed, and that Chri&s;t was able to keepe that he had committed to him again&s;t that day. One a&s;ked him how hee did? Hee &s;ayd, never better, I ble&s;&s;e God, who hath accounted mee worthy thus to &s;uffer. The Keeper keeping off the people from pre&s;&s;ing neere the Pillary; hee &s;ayd, Let them come and &s;pare not, that they may learne to &s;uffer. This &s;ame Keeper, being weary, and &s;itting him downe, a&s;ked M^r. Burton, if hee were well, and bad him be of good comfort. To whom hee replied, Are you well? If you be well, I am much more, and full of comfort, I ble&s;&s;e God. Some a&s;ked him, if the Pillary were not unea&s;y for his neck and &s;houlders. Hee an&s;wered: How can Chri&s;ts yoake be unea&s;y? This is Chri&s;ts yoake, and hee beares the heavier end of it, and I the lighter, and if myne were too heavy, hee would beare that too. O good people, Chri&s;t is a good and &s;weet Ma&s;ter, and worth the &s;uffering for! And if the world did but know his goodnes, and had ta&s;ted of his &s;weetnes, all would come and be his Servants; and did they but know what a ble&s;&s;ed thing it were to beare his yoake, O who would not beare it? The Keeper going about to ea&s;e the Pillary by putting a &s;tone or a bricke batt betweene, M^r. Burton &s;ayd, Trouble not your &s;elf, I am at very good ea&s;e, and feele no wearine&s;&s;e at all: And e&s;pying a young man at the foote of the Pillary, and perceiving him to looke pale on him; Hee &s;ayd, Sonne, Sonne, what is the matter you looke &s;o pale? I have as much comfort as my heart can hold, and if I had need of more, I &s;hould have it. One a&s;ked him a while after, if hee would drinke &s;ome <HI>Aqua vitae.</HI> To whom he replied, that he needed it not; for I
<PB N="27" REF="14">have, &s;ayd hee, (laying his hand upon his brea&s;t) the true water of life, which like a well doth &s;pring up to eternall life. Paw&s;ing a while, hee &s;ayd with a mo&s;t cheerefull and grave countenance, I was never in &s;uch a Pulpit before, but litle doe yee know (&s;peaking to them that &s;tood about him) what fruits God is able to produce from this drye tree; They looking &s;tedfa&s;tly upon him, hee &s;ayd, Marke my words and remember them well, I &s;ay, Little doe you know, what fruites God is able to produce from this dry tree, I &s;ay, remember it well, for this day will never be forgotten; and through the&s;e holes (poynting to the Pillary) God can bring light to his Church. The Keeper going about againe to mend the Pillary, hee &s;ayd, Doe not trouble your &s;elf &s;o much: But indeed wee are the troublers of the world. By and by after, &s;ome of them offering him a cup of wine; Hee thanked them, telling them, hee had the wine of con&s;o|lation within him, and the joyes of Chri&s;t in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, which the world could not take away from him, neither could it give them vn|to him. Then he looked towards the other Pillary, and making a &s;igne with his hand, cheerefully called to D^r. Ba&s;twicke, and M^r. Prynne, a&s;king them how they did. Who an&s;wered, Very well. A woman &s;ayd unto him, S^r. every Chri&s;tian is not worthy this ho|nor, which the Lord hath ca&s;t upon you this day. Alas (&s;ayd hee) who is worthy of the lea&s;t mercy? But it is his gracious favour and free gift, to account us worthy in the behalf of Chri&s;t to &s;uffer any thing for his &s;ake? Another woman &s;ayd, There are many hun|dreds which by Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance would willingly &s;uffer, for the cau&s;e you &s;uffer for this day. To whom he &s;ayd, Chri&s;t exalts all of us that are ready to &s;uffer afflictions for his Name with meekenes and pa|tience: But Chri&s;ts military di&s;cipline in the u&s;e of his &s;pirituall war|fare in point of &s;uffering, is quite forgotten, and wee have in a man|ner lo&s;t the power of Religion, in not denying our &s;elves and fol|lowing Chri&s;t a&s;well in &s;uffering, as in doing. After a while M^r. Burton calling to one of his friends for a Handkercher, returned it againe, &s;aying it is hott, but Chri&s;t bore the burthen in the heate of the day; Let us alwayes labour to approove our &s;elves to God in all things, and unto Chri&s;t, for therein &s;tands our happines, come of it what will in this world.</P>
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<P>A Chri&s;tian freind &s;ayd to M^r. Burton, The Lord &s;trengthen you. To whom hee replied, I thanke you, and I ble&s;&s;e his Name hee doth &s;trengthen me. For though I am a poore &s;infull wretch, yet I ble&s;&s;e God for my innocent con&s;cience in any &s;uch crime as is layd again&s;t mee; and were not my cau&s;e good, and my con|&s;cience &s;ound, I could not enjoy &s;o much un&s;peakeable comfort in this my &s;uffering as I doe, I ble&s;&s;e my God. M^r^i^s. Burton &s;ends com|mendation to him by a friend: Hee returned the like to her, &s;aying, Commend my love to my wife, and tell her, I am heartely cheere|full, and bidd her remember what I &s;ayd to her in the morning, na|mely, That &s;hee &s;hould not blemi&s;h the glory of this day with one teare, or &s;o much as one &s;igh. She returned an&s;wer, that &s;hee was glad to heare him &s;o cheerefull; and that &s;hee was more cheerefull of this day, then of her wedding day. This an&s;wer exceedingly re|joyced his heart, who thereupon ble&s;&s;ed God for her, and &s;ayd of her, Shee is but a young Souldier of Chri&s;ts, but &s;hee hath already endured many a &s;harpe brunt, but the Lord will &s;trengthen her un|to the end: And hee having on a payre of new gloves, &s;hewed them to his freinds there about him, &s;aying, My wife ye&s;terday of her owne accord bought me the&s;e wedding gloves, for this is my wedding day.</P>
<P>Many freinds &s;pake comfortably to M^r. Burton, and hee againe &s;pake as comfortably to them, &s;aying, I ble&s;&s;e my God that called me forth to &s;uffer this day. One &s;ayd to him, S^r. by this Sermon (your &s;uffering) God may convert many unto him. Hee an&s;wered, God is able to doe it indeed. And then hee called againe to D^r. Ba&s;t|wicke and M^r. Prynne, a&s;king them how they did. Who an&s;wered as before. Some &s;peaking to him concerning that &s;uffering of &s;hed|ding his blood: Hee an&s;wered, What is my blood to Chri&s;ts blood? Chri&s;ts blood is a purging blood, but mine is corrupted &amp; polluted with &s;inne. One freind a&s;king another &s;tanding neere M^r. Burton, If there &s;hould be any thing more done unto him; M^r. Burton over|hearing him, an&s;wered; Why &s;hould there not be more done? For what God will have done, mu&s;t be accompli&s;hed. One de&s;iring M^r. Burton to be of good cheere. To whom hee thus replied: If you knew my cheere, you would be glad to be partaker with mee; for I am not alone; neither hath God left me alone in all my &s;uffe|rings
<PB N="29" REF="15">and clo&s;e impri&s;onment &s;ince fir&s;t I was apprehended. The Halbertmen &s;tanding round about, one of them had an old ru&s;ty halbert, the Iron whereof was tacked to the &s;taffe with an old crooked nayle; which one ob&s;erving, and &s;aying, What an old ru&s;ty halbert is that? M^r. Burton &s;ayd, This &s;eemes to mee to be one of tho&s;e Halberts, which accompained Iudas when hee went to betray and apprehend his Ma&s;ter. The people ob&s;erving M^r. Burtons cheerefullnes and courage in &s;uffering, rejoyced, and ble&s;&s;ed God for the &s;ame. M^r. Burton &s;ayd againe, I am per&s;waded that Chri&s;t my Advocate, is now pleading my cau&s;e at the Fathers right hand, and will judge my cau&s;e (though none be found here to plead it) and will bring forth my righteou&s;nes as the light at noone day, and cleere my innocency in due time. A freind a&s;king M^r. Burton, if he would have beene without this particular &s;uffering. To whom hee &s;ayd, No not for a world. Moreover hee &s;ayd, that his con&s;cience in the di&s;charge of his Mini&s;teriall duety and function, in admoni&s;hing his people to beware of the creeping in of Popery and Super&s;ti|tion, exhorting them to &s;tick clo&s;e unto God &amp; the King in dueties of obedience, was that which fir&s;t occa&s;ioned his &s;ufferings, and &s;ayd, as for this truth I have preached, I am ready to &s;eale it with my blood, for this is my Crowne both here and hereafter. I am jealous of Gods honour, and the Lord keepe us that wee may doe nothing that may di&s;honour him, either in doing or &s;uffering, God can bring light out of darkenes, and glory out of &s;hame: And what &s;hall I &s;ay more? I am like a Bottle which is &s;o full of liquor, that it cannot runn out freely; So I am &s;o full of joy, that I am not able to expre&s;&s;e it.</P>
<P>In conclu&s;ion, &s;ome told him of the approach of the Executio|ner, and prayed God to &s;trengthen him. Hee &s;ayd, I tru&s;t he will, why &s;hould I feare to follow my Ma&s;ter Chri&s;t, who &s;ayd, I gave my backe to the &s;mitters, and my cheekes to the nippers, that pluc|ked off my haire, I hidd not my face from &s;hame and &s;pitting, for the Lord God will help mee, therefore &s;hall I not be confounded, therefore have I &s;et my face like a flint, and I know that I &s;hall not be a&s;hamed.</P>
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<P>When the Executioner had cut off one eare, which hee had cut deepe and clo&s;e to the head in an extraordinary cruell manner: Yet this Champion of Chri&s;t never once mooved or &s;tirred for it, though hee had cut the veyne, &s;o as the blood rann &s;treaing downe upon the Scaffold, which divers per&s;ons &s;tanding about the Pillary &s;eeing, dipped their handkerchers in, as a thing mo&s;t precious, the people giving a mournefull &s;hout; and crying for the Chirurgion, whom the crowd and other impediments for a time kept off, &s;o that hee could not come to &s;topp the blood: This Patient all the while held up his hands, and &s;ayd, Be content, it is well, ble&s;&s;ed be God. The other eare being cut no le&s;&s;e deepe, hee then was freed from the Pillary, and come downe, where the Chirurgeon waiting for him; pre&s;ently applyed remedy for &s;topping the blood after a large effu&s;ion thereof, yet for all this hee faynted not, in the lea&s;t man|ner, though through expen&s;e of much blood hee waxed pale. And one offering him a little wormewood water; hee &s;ayd, it needs not, yet through importunity hee onely ta&s;ted of it, and no more, &s;aying, his Ma&s;ter Chri&s;t was not &s;o well u&s;ed, for they gave him gall and viniger, but you give me good &s;trong water to refre&s;h me, ble&s;&s;ed be God. His head being bound up, two Freinds ledd him away to an hou&s;e provided for him in Kings Street, where being &s;et downe, and bidd to &s;peake little, yet hee &s;ayd after a paw&s;e, This is too hott to hold long: Now lea&s;t they in the roome, or his wife &s;hould mis-take, and thinke hee &s;pake of him&s;elf concerning his paine, hee &s;ayd, I &s;peake not this of my &s;elf: for that which I have &s;uffered is nothing to that my Saviour &s;uffered for mee, who had his hands and feete nayled to the Cro&s;&s;e: And lying &s;till a while, hee tooke M^r. Prynnes &s;ufferings much to heart, and a&s;ked the people how hee did, for (&s;ayd hee) his &s;ufferings have beene great. Hee a&s;|ked al&s;o how D^r. Ba&s;twicke did, with much compa&s;&s;ion and grief, that hee (being the fir&s;t that was executed) could not &s;tay to &s;ee how they two fayred after him. His wife being brought to him, be|haved her&s;elf graciou&s;ly towards him, &s;aying, Wellcome Sweet heart, wellcome home. Hee was often heard to repeate the&s;e words: The Lord keepe vs that wee doe not di&s;honour him in any thing.</P>
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<P>TH&V;S Christian Readers, you have heard the Relation of &s;uch a Cen&s;ure (and the Execution thereof) as I dare &s;ay, all circum&s;tances layd together, cannot be paralled in any age of man throughout the Chri&s;tian world, and I thinke I may take in even the world of Pagans and Haethens to it. Which though it be not drawen up in &s;o elegant a&s;traine as it was delivered and de&s;erved, nor all the Heavenly words and eloquent &s;peeches recorded, which were uttered by the&s;e Three Worthies of the Lord, both in the pre|&s;ence of the Lords them&s;elves at their Cen&s;ure, and al&s;o at the place of Execution: Yet I earne&s;tly be&s;eech you in the bowels of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, that you doe not in the lea&s;t manner under-value the glory and dignity, either of the per&s;ons, or the cau&s;e, but rather lay the blame upon the rudenes and meane capacity of the Compo&s;er, who is an unfeyned Well-wi&s;her to them both.</P>
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