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Querela Qtntahrigienjts : 
 
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 A RE M O N STRANG E 
 
 By way of APOLOGIM, 
 
 For the banifhed Members of the 
 
 late flourishing University 
 
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 -CAM $ WD G &> 
 
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 Bjjomc if the f aid Sufferers, 
 
 S.Mat t m. 10.17,18. 
 Beware of men : for they wiS deliver you up to the 
 Councils, and they wi&fcourge you in their Sy- 
 nagogues. AndyefhaH be brought before Go- 
 vernoursi &c* 
 
 Bafil.MagnEpift.y^.Euftach.Epifc.Sebaftias. 
 
 KaJ yfiv nim Tf'nvv toyd h& f nam* (^Karlf lyi- 
 vim <r2 ©ejpww to mr^yuA^ Kiy>VT^-' \y&<HMV uv& 
 
 oxowty AnnoVem. 1646. 
 

ADVERTISEMENT 
 
 To every indifferent Reader. 
 
 Chriftian Brethren,and Fellow-Sub/cds, 
 
 IT is a mtmsr able faying of an ancient Hea- 
 then Moralifi % Cuiae leves loqautur , iagen- 
 tesftupent : And the tike may be J aid concern 
 ningforrowes ; when they come once to over- 
 charge the heart , they ftttpifie it, and obftrull- thofe 
 parages , by which it fhouldeafe itfelfe of them* 
 Thv hath been our particular cafe : Our being de- 
 prived of ' onr lyvely hoods (for how [m>i& a trip 
 this enfuing Remonflraxee willmanifefi) hath filled 
 our hearts with forrow: But when we cenfidered, 
 not onely the hand from whence this opprtffioncom- 
 methy {even that which pretendeth to the infallible 
 weild of the Sword of fuftice ) but withall that 
 through our fides fuch a fit all ftrofy is given to one 
 of the mofi famous Vniverfities of Chriftendomt : 
 thisfadpro/pett didfo far fur charge us with gr left, 
 that it cafi us for a long time into aft of Mufing^ 
 tiQ, at lafi (the fire being kindled) wefpaie with mr 
 tongue* 
 
 A 2 'An A 
 
The Preface. 
 
 And now that the firing of our tongue is mtyt 
 our earneft dejire is, that none ofthefe its [or row full 
 exprefflonsmay bemif-interpretedby any. And to 
 that end we have prefixed thisadvertifement y to pre- 
 vent three miftakes, which are all we can fojjiblj 
 imagine the malice of our greatefi enemies can any 
 way phaneie againfl this our Remonftrancc* 
 
 I. The fir ft is y That perhaps it may be ground* 
 lejfe, beeaufe we have not therein fet downe the ex* 
 prefj'e words , either ofthoje Protections by which we 
 might fecurely have expelled an lndempnity y or of 
 tbofe Orders by which wefuffered. 
 
 To which we anfwer y That the reafon hereof was 
 pdrtly to avoid tedioufneffe, and therefore we gave 
 onely fome Jhort hints in the margent. And partly 
 beeaufe (being dijperfed) we could not pojftbly have 
 the true Copies of all of them by us. And to publifh 
 any thing that was butfuppofititious, could not con- 
 ft ft with our con ft ant endeavour ftili to maintaine 
 the truth, notwithftanding whatsoever difficulties. 
 to the contrary. But yet (to prevent all miftakes as 
 mere as we can) we have here infer ted the true Co- 
 pies ofiuch as we had by us : whereby the indiffe- 
 rent Reader will not onelygueffe at the reft, but al- 
 fo eafily imagine what rigour and malice there was 
 ufedin the execution of thtm % which we affurehim 
 are as much (or more) then he can pojftbly phaneie, 
 For they being to deale with an Vniverfity, which 
 then had a r -ever end e ft e erne over the whole King' 
 
 domt 
 
The Preface- 
 mme, muft counterfeit Jacobs voice as much as 
 hoffUaly be could in their Orders ^though their hands 
 \vere farre rougher then Efaus in the execution of 
 \hem. And accordingly (though now it u too ap- 
 parent it was but onely in mockery) we hadfent us 
 hefe two following Protections* 
 
 Die Sabbxti 4. Mar. 164a. 
 
 r*Hc Earlc of Holland, Chancellour of tftellniverfity of 
 *" Cambridge ,having; thisday reprefented in the Houfe. the 
 >refent condition or the faid llniverfit\ ;The Lords in Parl- 
 iament apprehending that through the publique diftra&i- 
 >ns, and by reafon or great multitudes of Soldiers referring 
 irom feverall places to the Towne of Cambridge^ fome'di- 
 lurbance might happen to the quiet and ftudyesof the 
 Scholars : For preventing therefore of any fuch mifchief, 
 lave thought fit to declare the cfteeme and care they have 
 )f that ancient ?nd noble Seminary of Learning ; And 
 lave accordingly OrderedjThat no perfon or perfons what- 
 soever, dull prefume to offer any outrage or violence ei- 
 her by rhemfelves or others unto any the Colledges^Chap- 
 xls, Libraries, Schooled, or other buildings belonging to 
 he faid Univerfity, or to any the Scholars or publique Mi- 
 liftcrs thereof: Nor plunder, purloyne, deface, fpoile, or 
 ake away any the Books , gsods, ch3trels 3 or houfhold— 
 (lufte otor belonging to the faid liniverfity, or any Col- 
 edge here, or to any Scholar or publique Miniiter there- 
 of, under any colour or pretence whatfoever , as they wilt 
 mfwer the contrary to this Houle at their utmoft perils. 
 And that Divine Service may be quietly performed and 
 executed throughout all the faid Univerfity according to 
 the fettlement of the Church of England, without any trou- 
 ble, let, or difturbmc-, until! the pleafure of the Parlia- 
 ment be further fignified. Provided neverthelefle that this 
 A 3 Pre- 
 
TheJPreface; 
 
 Prott&ion fiiali not'extend to ftop any diiecourfe of Law^ 
 or proceeding of Parliament, that may or might have had j 
 its courfe if this Protection had not been granted. And T 
 herein ready obedience is to be given by all fuch whom this 
 doth or may conccrne , as they will anfwer the contrary at 
 their perils. 
 
 Jo. B rowne Cleric? arliamentorum. 
 
 ^-pHefe are to will, require, and command you, and every 
 * of you, to forbear e (under any pretence whatfoever) to ; 
 prejudice or offer any dammage to the llniveriny of Cam- 
 bridge ot to any the Schooles, Colledges, Halls, Libra- 
 rifcS^Chappel* , or other places belonging to the faid Uni- 
 vertuy, by plundering the fame or any part thereof in any 
 kind whatfoever. Hereof fa ile not as you will anfwer thes 
 contrary at your perils. Given under my hand and fealei 
 the 7. day of March, lo^z. 
 
 Ejjex. 
 To aU alonds, Lieutenant-Colonels, 
 
 Captaines , and all other Officers 
 
 and SquUIcys of the Army under 
 
 my command* 
 
 Thefe indeed were our Pretentions , but they were 
 blajied in the bud bj thU following Warrant* 
 
 •"pHefe are to authorize you to enter into the houfes of alt 
 ^ Papifb, Malignants, and other perfons whatfoever, that, 
 have or (hall refufe to appeare at Mufters, or to contribute 
 according to the Proportions of both Houfes of Parlia- 
 mem, or refufe to enter into the Aflbciation : And to feize 
 upon all fiich Horfcs, Armes, and Ammunition,as mall be 
 found in their cuftedies, and to apprehend their faid per- 
 fons, and them to be brought before me, or any one of the 
 Deputy-Lieutenants of the County : and in cafe of Refi- 
 nance, to force the lame. Commanding all Mayors, She-i 
 
 rifles 
 
The Prefaced 
 
 life, Captaines, Trained-Bands, and other inferiour,0£ 
 iiicers whatfoever , to be aiding and aflifting to Colonel 
 \o1te herein. Dated JF^.13. 1641. 
 
 Gray ofwark* 
 "0 col: Coke, Lientenemucol: 
 
 Bryldon, ar any other of bis 
 
 Officers. 
 
 This Warrant was iffued out the more fuddenlyl 
 nd profecuted the mere violently, in regard that 
 ur Protections were then in procuring : But the 
 \ igorous profecution of this, made thefe to be oflit- 
 leer no u fe> more then the name , unlejfe it waste 
 hut the Stable doore after the Steed was ftolne. 
 
 or under pretence of Papifts, Malignants, &c> 
 here was, fcarce a Scholar in all the Vniverfity 
 vhich efcaped examination : And h ft our C Hedge- 
 ~happels y Libraries, or Trea/uries, or even the 
 rivateft Cabinet therein, or in any of our Chamb- 
 ers or Studies, fkould (perchance) have been con- 
 terted into Stables for Hurles, or Magazines for 
 Vrmes and Ammunition,*/^ fearched them aH 
 ftr'iUly ,and plundered them a&fo throughly, that 
 othing which they liked efcaped their fingers , our 
 mcient Coynes not excepted. 
 
 When wehadfeen their unparalleled rigour here- 
 's, and how we were fleighted when we made our 
 u(t complaints a gain ft it t we did not much regard 
 vhether they had any Commijfton or not for what- 
 ever they did to us afterward. But like Chrifti- 
 '•nfuferers, when they took our cloaks, we forbade 
 
 A 4 them 
 
The Preface: 
 
 them hot to take our coats alfo : and when the) 
 took out goods, we asked them not againe. Fot 
 we did plainly fee that we were deftinatedto ruine, 
 a*d that *H thefc were but previous difroftiens , to 
 take us downe and fit us for the great ftroke, when 
 they fbouldf leaf e to laj it upon us. And therefore 
 ( emitting alt the reftfhohgh we could infertfome) 
 we fhati here onely adde two other Warrants men\ 
 tiened hereafter : The one their general/ Summons^ 
 the other their fir ft forme of their Writs of Eje> 
 Bj#n. 
 
 ^Hcfe are to will and require you upon fight hereof, tc 
 give fpeedy advertifement^w medivs & modulo Ma- 
 tter, Fellowes, Scholars, and Officers of your Colledge 
 to be refident in your faid Colledge the 10. day of M ard 
 next enfuing , to give an account wherein they ihall be re- 
 quired , and to anfwer fuch things as may be demanded bj 
 me, or fuch Commiflionersas I mall appoint.Given undei 
 «ry hand and feale the z6.o?Feb, 164$. 
 
 £. Mancbefter. 
 To the Prefident or Locum tenens 
 of Colledge. 
 
 |3Yvertueof an Ordinance of Parliament, entituled 
 An Ordinance for regulatingthe univerftty of Cambridge 
 smd the removing of Scandalous Minifters in the f even Af 
 facial ed Counties ; giving me likewife power to ejeft fuel 
 Matters of Colledges as are fcandalous in their lives ©: 
 4o&rines, «r doe oppofe the proceedings of Parliament : 
 
 I do ejecT: from being Matter of ... . 
 
 Colledge in Cambridge , for oppofing the proceedings o 
 Parliament, and * otner fcandalous ads in the Univerfit) 
 
 * Mark. It was not FOB, fcandalouj ifljjLiitforcpp^Hg, 
 
 « 
 
The Preface^ 
 
 of Cambridge. And I require you to fequefter «fce Profits 
 of his Mafterfhip tor one that i fhall appoint in his place ; 
 and to cut his name out of the Butteries , and to certiHs me 
 of this your aft within one day. Given under my hand and 
 
 fealethc 13. of March, i<?43- w . * 
 
 E. Mancbeft&\ 
 
 To the Prefdent and Fellowes 
 
 of colledge in 
 
 Cambridge, 
 
 T his ,we hope ^ will fat is fie the indifferent Reader 
 concerning the truth and ground of our Sufferings* 
 
 1 1. But left afecond mifiakefiould arife, That 
 (fuppofingthemtobetrue,yet) they are not (per- 
 haps) fo great as we pretend, becaufe that for the 
 mofi part we have given but a jleight glance dt 
 them ; we held it very requifite to give this further 
 Advertifement : 
 
 I. That in matters of this nature, a man ought 
 not to macerate his foule too much by reflecting** 
 hisownemifery , 'left the devill thereby get mad- 
 vantage upon him, to tempt him to a melancholy de- 
 Jpaire. 2. Though we defire hereby to move every 
 companionate Chriftian to a fellow-feeling ofemr 
 miferies ; yet have we endeavoured (as much as we 
 could) to for bear e the long inftfiing upon particu- 
 lars, lejlwejhould offend his eares, inflead of mo- 
 ving his compaffion. For as in Mufique, the harjh- 
 neffeofadifcord may be omitted, if it be not too 
 long produced; fo have we fludiedto temper theft 
 barjb notes to the tender eare of the Chrijtian Au- 
 
The Preface: 
 etitor, by mak**g ajpeedy tranfition from one to ano- 
 ther, 3. fVehadfo many matters of complaint, 
 {and might have had many more , if we had keen 
 all together to confcrre our Sufferings) that this 
 fmall Remonftrance would have /welled to (an 
 Iiiada malorum) ajufi Volumc\if we hadnotpur- 
 fofely endeavoured to comprife an Ilias in a Nut- 
 ihell, by inftancing onely in fome , and reducing 
 thofe to as [mad a model! *$ poffibly we could. And 
 to this end alfo we have u fed as much plainnefeef 
 freech in our exprejfions , as ingenioufnejfe of the 
 truth of the thing it felfe. And indeedif we fhould 
 but a little have indulged our fenne the liberty of a 
 Rhetoric all flourijh, we fhould thereby have made 
 our fufferings {which in themf elves are almoft be- 
 yond belief e) to have feemed altogether incredi* 
 'ble. 
 
 III. Butourgreatefi and laft fear e is, left the 
 intoUerable weight of thofe heavy prejfures under 
 which we have jo long groaned \h Ave {perhaps) ex- 
 torted from us fome exprejfions which maj notfeem 
 altogether to become persecuted ChrifiUns, And 
 in this we fubmit our felves whntty to the candour of 
 the charitable Reader, defirirtgh m*o interpret all 
 things in the be ft fenfe. For th ugh we have ufed 
 our endeavours to av$id all manner of exprejfions 
 which might feem* to favour of malice jet carrying 
 about us thofe paffions which accompany fiejh and 
 blood, it is impoffiklc but we Jhouidj ometimes fiip. 
 
 We 
 
'• The Preface. 
 
 We kpow very welly and acknowledge, that Prayers 
 and teares are the onely defenjive weapons of a 
 Chriftian again ft perfections : And if any thing, 
 which u not fully conjonant hereunto, hath pa fed 
 from our pen, we defirc it may be imputed to our 
 many infirmities ; feeing we are fliU ready to pray 
 for our Per [centers, that God would open their 
 eyes, that they may yet fee and repent of thofe ma- 
 ny etnd great wrongs which they have done to him, 
 his true Religion and Service , to his Anointed our 
 gracious Sever aigne, as alfo to us in particular, 
 and other their fcUow~fub]ee~ls. Which if it would 
 pleafe him to grant unto them, we might quickly 
 recover the temper aH peace of this diftracled King* 
 dome, and they the pojfibility of enjoying ever loft- 
 ing peace in the Kingdome of Heaven* 
 
 £htereU 
 
I P B T. 4* **• 
 
 If any man fuffer as a Chrifiian 5 let him not 
 
 be ajhamed, but let him glorifie God on this 
 
 be half cj. 
 
 Act. 5. 41. 
 They departed from the frefence of 'the Coun- 
 
 rill, rejoycing that they were counted worthy 
 
 to fuffer Jhame for his Harney. 
 
 John 16. 33. 
 
 In the world ye fhall have tribulation : but be 
 of good cheer c^ I have overcome the world. 
 
 Aug. mPf*l. 9 i. 
 Boni laboranc quia fiagellantur ut filii : mali exultant quia 
 damnancur ut alieni. * 
 
 Idem in Pfal. 115. 
 Sicut qui feminat per hyemem non deterretur ab opere 
 propter hyemem : Sic & nos preflura mundi non debe- 
 mus a bono opere deterreji^quia qui feminant in lachry- 
 mis, in gaudio metent. 
 
Querela Cantabrigienfis ; 
 
 o R, 
 The Univerfities Complaint. 
 
 T Hough an A po logic for our long filence might 
 better become us then any other forme of Pre- 
 facing, yet were there fome that thought it better 
 to fit downe in the made ofcoolc patience, and 
 fweeten the fad profped of our owne miferies,by 
 reflecting on the great publike woesof this Kingdome,then 
 incur the fufpicion ofr qucrelous natures, fuch as are apt to 
 cry out only at the imagination of being hurt. But feeing 
 oiu: miterie* are reall, and our fufferings not fo much in- 
 tended againft us,as againft that famous llniverfity, where- 
 of by right, we arc ftiil a&uall members ; And that the 
 adverfe party, hath hitherto made fo much advantage of 
 our tamenefle, as ro fteal away our livelyhood from us,and 
 conceale the Theft : though our owne Mothers mouth be 
 flopped, by violently feizing her prefle 3 and thereby not 
 fufrered to fpeake, but (like Apollos flame of old) j lift as 
 the evill fpirit fpeakes in her, which at this time utters 
 little elfe but difloyalty and Rebellion : yet feeing it hath 
 pleafed the hand of providence to give us this happie op- 
 portunity freely to bewaile our owne mifcries ; We are at 
 length refolved to doc Juftice to thefe Mens iniquitie and 
 our owne innocence, that our fellow-fubjefts may know, 
 (and if they leave fo much learning as to fpeak in another 
 language,the whole world may hereafter underftand) how, 
 and by what Arts the limpperdnllings of this Age (who / 
 — — — — - t hi n k 
 
2 Querela Cantebrigienfs : 
 
 thinke fhortly to make themfelves Kings of this Siori) have 
 reduced a glorious and renowned University, almoft to a 
 meere Munfler, and have done more, in leffe then three 
 yeeres , then the Apoftate Julian could erred in all his 
 
 Sraigne, vi\, broken the he3rt-nVings of Learning and 
 learned men, and thereby luxated all the joynts of Chnfti- 
 anity in this Kingdome. 
 
 The particulars whereof, and the barbarous courfes taken 
 tb bring thefe defignes to effect, as we mall truly and im- 
 partially fet them downe, (b we feare not to appeale to any 
 imparciali Judge s whether if the Goths and Vandalls, or 
 even the Turks themfelves, had over-ru.-a this Nation,they 
 would more inhumanely have abufed a flourifhing Univer- 
 fity,then thefe pretended advancers of Religion and Lear- 
 ning have done ; it being a conftanc cuftome ( if not alfo 
 the law of Nations) in the fierccft encounters of the moft 
 enraged parties 3 to exempt and priviLdge Scholars from, if 
 not protect them by their Martiall proceedings. 
 
 To begin therefore with the hrft occasion (as we con- 
 ceive) from whence they pretended any caufe of this rage 
 and perfecution againft us, (though the meere confeience 
 of fojfenflefle a Rebellion cryed up onely by the illiterate 
 herd, might afford reafon enough for them to look afejuint 
 upon all Scholars qua tales) 1 he contribution of a fmall 
 pittance of Money to our Soveraignes cxtreame neceility 
 before any Warre was thought on by us, is made to be our 
 impardonable crime, (though not then prohibited by any 
 Order or Ordinance} which (added to the tendernefle of 
 our confcicnccs in refufing their wicked confedcracie, com- 
 monly called the covenant) by the help of their Legifla- 
 tive engine, has bereaved us of all, and caft us from our 
 livelyhoods, maintenance and Colledgcs. 
 
 For when His Sacred Majefty (whom they made to be 
 the firft Grand Delinquent, and wnofe Growne -Re venues 
 and Eftate, together wr.b his Townes, Ships, and Maga- 
 zines, they fequeftred and fehed on) daigned ( by His 
 
 Royall 
 
Ot 9 The Vniverfities Complaint. % 
 
 Roy all Letters} to acquaint his poorc Univerfity with his 
 , ftrange wants, even of fuftenancc for his very houfhold : 
 t Our hearts burned within us, to heare our living Founder, 
 whom we expe&ed to be made ("by that time) a great and 
 i glorioM fyng y (&$ was promifed him) mould almoft ftarve 
 while we had bread on our Table. Whereupon out of our 
 poverty, a fmall and inconfiderable fumme of money was 
 colle&ed and tendered, as a Tcftimony not onely of our 
 Loyalty to him as King, or of our gratitude as our moft 
 gracious and bountifull Prote&or and Benefactor ; but al- 
 fo of our Charity to him as a Chriftian , then in extreame 
 want and neceflity. We hope our Perkcutors will pardon 
 us this cxpreflfon, feeing our Metafhyfic^s may with lefle 
 danger of Treafon abftraft CW/w from King then their 
 bullets -, And this was the firfr flower out of which they 
 fuckt all that venome which fliortly after they difeorged 
 upon us. / & 6 
 
 Hereupon his Sacred Majefty ( knowing well how 
 eager that partie was in revenging the leaft feeming provo- 
 cation, and being informed of that Cloud which was then 
 hanging over us & ours,for that action of Humanitie, Loy- 
 alty , and Chriftianity) out of his care and tendernefle, 
 proffered to fecure our Colledge plate (if we were content 
 to depofit it in his hands) which their intended Revenge, 
 | had already fwallowed without any Giace, fo much as of 
 the fublick fa l b J an d therefore wrot his moll: gracious 
 Letters to us to take an exa& furvey of it, not only for the 
 weight, but alfo of the forme of every piece, together with 
 the Names, Armes, and Mottoes of the,rcfpedive Donors, 
 that if (perhaps) his Majefty could not preferve it entire 
 as it was, he might reftore it hereafter in the fame weight 
 and forme, and with the fame markes : AH which he gra- 
 cioufly infured upon his Royall word. 
 
 It behoved not us to refofe protection frcm that hand 
 to which God (for that end) had entruftcd a Scepter, 
 especially cornering the concurrence of Actions about 
 
 chat 
 
4 £*&*l* Cantabrigienfis : 
 
 *hat rime. Ic is not unknowne to moft parr of this King- 
 dome, that not long before this , the zealous Brethren of 
 F.jj'ex and Suffoll^e had packc themfelves together in a Re- 
 ligious Rout , to give the fir ft EfLy of a Popular Refor- 
 mation : How happily this work did thrive in their hands^ 
 has been already pu^liflied to the Kingdome , and the ru- 
 ines of the two magnificent houfes of the Countefle Rivers 
 (with many other Gentlemens houfes of quali- 
 Vid. Mercwr. ty) are ftili difmall witnefl'es. So that (having 
 Ruffle, z. found the fweet of their labours) the Reformers 
 would in all likelyhood have profecuted the 
 greet tvoi\ as farre as Cambridge 3 iot a leffe prize then our 
 llniverfiiy, (thanks be to God and our good Benefa&ors.} 
 And we had good reafon to fear the inereafe or their Army, 
 if they had come neere us, feeing the infenour part of the 
 Towne, had provided Arms, and yet had no Commanders; 
 And fome that durft difcharge a Mufquct , made it their 
 practice to terrifie us, and difturbc our Studies by moot- 
 ing in at our windows. And there- 
 This particular appear eth hy fore left our Plate fliould become 
 s. faper delivered into the a bait to have our Libraries rifled, 
 Megifte-rs Office , under the our Colledges pulled downe, and 
 hands (if not alfo upon the perhaps our throats cut , wee 
 Oatkes) of M after Chrifto- thought it our wifeft courfe to fe- 
 pber Temc,andM after An- cure all, by fecuring that m His 
 ihony Walker,fotf& of Saint Majefties gracious hands. 
 Johns Colledge , who had Upon thefe rea r ons (which na 
 Mufquets fever all times judicious man will efteeme other- 
 ttifebarged in at their win- wife then weighty) we endeavow- 
 dowes , as alfo divers o~ red to convey away fome pare of 
 thers. our Plate about the beginning of 
 
 Ah^ujI, i 64 a. (which by the way 
 was before either His Majefties Standard was erected, or 
 bis Proclamation ifTued out to that end : However many of 
 ik, and others .have fuffered for it, as fomenters of this 
 Warre) But within a few dayes'after, (fee how the juft 
 
 grounds 
 
Or, T he Vxtverjities ComfUini. f 
 
 grounds of our feares concentrated) one Matter Cromwell, 
 Burgcfle for the Towne of Cambridge , and then newly 
 turn'd a Man of Warre, was font downe by his Matters a- 
 bove, ac the invitation of his Matters below , (as himfelfe 
 confefiedj to gather what ftrength he could to flop all 
 paflages that no plate migh: be fent : But his defignes be- 
 ing fruftrated, and his opinion as of an a&ive fubtile man, 
 thereby foniewhat ihaken and endangered , he hath ever 
 fines bent himfelfe to worke what revenge and mifchiefc 
 he could againft us. In piirfuit whereof, before that month 
 was expired, downe he ccoies againc in a terrible manner 
 with what Forces he could draw together, and furrounds 
 divers Coiledges, while wc were at our devotion in our fe- 
 verall Chappels,taking away Prifoners, fevcral Do&ors of 
 Divinicv, Heads of Coiledges, vi\. D.Beate, Mafter of S. 
 Johns ColIedge,D.itftf/'2i7*,Mafter of Queens Col: and D. 
 Sterne Mafter ofjefus Col: men of fuch eminent worth and 
 abilities,as render them above the reach of our commenda- 
 tion, and thefe he carryes with him to London in triumph: 
 And though there was an expreHc Order from the Lords 
 Houfe for their imprifonmenr in theT0ra>*r,whichmet them 
 at Tot:enbam'Higb-croffe y (vihcrcm notwithftanding there 
 was ho Crime exprefled)yct were they led captive through 
 Bartbolmevp F<«>e,and fb as farre as Temple-Bar, and back 
 through the City to prilbn in the Totver 9 on purpofe that 
 they might be homed at ,or ftoned by the rabble-rout. 
 
 Since which time, now above three yeeres together they 
 have been hurryed up and downe from one piifon to ano- 
 ther at exceffive and unreafonable charges, and fees exa- 
 cted from them, farre beyond their abilities t© defray, ha- 
 ving all their goods plundered, and their Mafterfhips and 
 Livings taken from them , which fhould preferve them 
 from famifhing. And though in all this time there was ne- 
 ver any Accufation brought, muchlefle proved againft any 
 of them ; yet have they fuffered intolierable imprifonment 
 ever fince 3 both by Land and Water, cfpccially that in 
 B the 
 

 6 Jgtsercld Cantabriglenjls : 
 
 the Ship, where for ten dayes together, they (with many 
 ether Gentlemen of great rank) were kept under deck , 
 without liberty to come to breathe in the common ayre, 
 or to eafe nature, except at the curcefie of the rude Saylors, 
 which oftentimes was denyed them. In which condition t 
 they were more like Gaily- flaves „ then free-borne fub- 
 jects, and men of fuch quality and condition jand had been 
 & indeed, might fome have had their wills, who were bar- 
 gaining with the Merchants to 
 Alex. Rigby the Law- fell them to Argiers, or as bad a 
 y«\Vide DecUr.of the place , as hath been fince notori- 
 Parl.&t Qxf.Mar.jp. oufly knowne upon no falfe or 
 1^43, fraudulent information. 
 
 And now that we are mentioning our Reverend and wor- 
 thy Heads of Houfes, we may not omir,what our long exile 
 from the faid University will notfufrer us othcrwifc then by 
 certainc Report to be apprchenfive of: Namely, that a ve- 
 ry great number ot them are fince in the fame condition 
 with us, that is, deprived of all, and baniftied : Particu- 
 larly, the Right Reverend Father m God, the Lord Bimop 
 oi Exeter, egainft whomrheir malice could invent no more 
 then chat he was a Bijhop a nor pretend any thing, but that, 
 being V.ce-chancellour , he did according to his office 
 preach a learned and pious Sermon in Saint Maries 3 M ay. 
 27. 1^45. bing theday of His Majcfties moft happy inau- 
 guration. To whom we may adde that moft reverend and 
 learned man, Do&or Collins? His Majefties Profeflbr of 
 Divinity, vvhofe extraordinary worth and paines had conti- 
 nued him in that plac* almoft thirty yeercs , and made his 
 name famous, and his perfbn deferable in every Protectant 
 tlniverfity in Chriftendome : And yet his Loyaltie and con. 
 Science caufed our new pretended Reformers to think him 
 unworthy fo much as of a Country Cure, (for they fcque- 
 fired iikewife both his Livings) though fince, as we hcare, 
 they havcreftored him to his Profeilors place, which none 
 ©f them are able to difcharge 9 and he living in their Quar- 
 ters, 
 
Oi 9 TheV*iverfities Complaint) y 
 
 rcrs, durft not deny. Thus likewife have Doftor Cmber, 
 D. Pvtslt, D.Cefin, and D. Lmy been deprived of their fe- 
 rerall Maftcrihips<and Livings, and iome of them alfo 
 plundered ©f their goods, -rhough all of tkem be very 
 eminent for their Learning, Prudence, Judgement and Pie- 
 ty, among all that know them, and have no prejudice of 
 them. And for conclusion (as the epitome of all) we adds 
 D. Holdfworth ,whofe univerfall approbation put him up- 
 on the troublcfome office of Vicecruncellorihip for three 
 yeeres together in the beginning of thefe troubles j yet be- 
 fore his Triennial! cfBce was expired, his pcifon was lei- 
 zed upon and imprifoned, firft in Ely-honfe, then (becaufe 
 they thought that was not cxpenfivc enough, though they 
 had plundered him of all ) they thruft him into the 
 ToBW,onely for his Loyaltic in feeing His Majcfties Com- 
 mands executed for the printing of fucb Declarations ac 
 Cambridge's were formerly printed at Yorfcwhich though 
 the Committees before which he appeared have alwayes 
 objected againft him zaLicenfing the Kings Books,yet hath 
 he everdeoyed it, (for the manner,though not for the mat- 
 ter) pro felling himfelf before them, not to be lb faucy as to 
 offer to Licenfe any thing which His Majcfty comman- 
 drd to be Printed : bur yet ftill enpyning the Printer ("as 
 he would anfwer the contrary at his periii) that the thing 
 might be performed according to HisMajeftles Command. 
 And that the whole Body of the linivaiity might fare no 
 better then the Heads j not long after the carrying up of 
 the firft three, they gave us an Argument of a fad prelage. 
 what was like to become of that ancient and famous Semi- 
 nary of Learning and Religion , when thofe Rooi-and- 
 Branch-mem chofe that place for tie prime (Jarrifon and 
 Rendezvous of their AJjtiiation : whereby the fubcile En- 
 giniers of the great prerended work of Reformation ho- 
 ped not fo much to gaine fecurity to their difloyall action* 
 by any fortifications of that To vne, (which it never was 
 capable •f, as how plainly appearesj as lomc countenance; 
 B z and 
 
8 1 JZgerela Cantabrigienfis : 
 
 an«f authority raiher (which they had more want oQ from 
 the facred name of an University to be Med Tbeirs.By this 
 meanes inftead of carrying us all to London Gaoles Jfaznks 
 be to our multitude, not their mercy) they found a device 
 to convey a Prifon to us, and under colour of Fortification 
 confined us onely in a larger inclofure, not differing any 
 Scholars to pafle out of the Towne, unleffe fome Townes- 
 man of their Tribe would promife for him that he wa« a 
 Confider, as they call it. 
 
 And after this intrenchment for almoft two yceres to- 
 gether, (we are forced with unfpeakable grielc of mind to 
 chink) what prophanatiom, violence, outrages and wrongs 
 our Chappels, Coliedges and Perfbns have fufFered by the 
 uncontrolled fury of rude Soldiers, notwirhftanding two 
 feverall Protections to the contrary, one from the Hoitfe of 
 Peeres i the other from the Gentialifjimo the Earl of Ejfex. 
 It is grievous to our memories to recount, how our Vice- 
 chancellour and Heads of Colledge* folemnly aflembkd 
 in Confiftory, being many of them thr^efcore yeares old 
 and upwards, were kept Prifoncrs in the Publique Schools 
 
 in an exceeding cold night till midnight, 
 On Good Fri- without any accommodations for food, fi- 
 day , Mar, 30. ring or lodging j and for no other reaion, 
 1^45. but onely becaufe they could not in c©n- 
 
 fcience comply or contribute any thing 
 to this deteftabie Warre againft His Majefty : Yet they , 
 notwiihftanding all terrours and ill ufige the day follow- 
 ing this their imprifonment , did constantly and unani- 
 mously avouch and declare before the then Gencrall of the 
 Aflbciacion, That it was againft trite Religion and good 
 Conscience for any to contribute to the Parliament in this 
 Warre, Whereupon our Learned and Reverend P,ofeff6rs , 
 two of Divinity, and one of the Lrw, the very Junior 
 whereof (as well as the other twoj had faithfully difchar- 
 ged his place alrnoft (b long as that by the Imperi&U Laws 
 (hi* uwne profefiion) ever tfnee Valens die Emperour 3 he 
 
 might 
 
Or, Tht Vnivtrftties CompUlnf* ^ 
 
 might have challenged to have been* Comes Imperii i yet 
 all the encouragement any of 
 
 them could get from thefe was * Imperator Valcns Cram" 
 perpetually to be hari g wed by maticos^Sophijtas^ Legum 
 Plundering and tedious im- ProfefTorcs, qui per vigin- 
 prifonment to betray their ti annos probe munere do* 
 Loyaltie 3 Learning,and Con- cendi fundi [ant ^annume* 
 fciences to the advancement rati &> honor ari cum iis^ 
 of this prefsnt Rehellion, till qui ex vicaria fint pinci- 
 at laft that Reverend man pis dignitate jubet s & in~ 
 (whom Pofterity will honour ter Comites. Greg. Tho- 
 henceforth as much for his lojfan.Syntag. lib. 19. ex. 
 Loyalcie as his Learning ) §. 8. ubi citat l. mi de 
 Doftor Samuel tfard (a man Profejfor. qui in urbe Cm~ 
 of knowne integrity and uni- ftantinep. lib. 1 z. £. tit a. 
 verfall approbation even a- junclarub.&gl. 
 mongft thofe who were his ad- 
 
 verfaries in this Caufe) took the wings of a dove to Eye 
 away and be at reft : whofe dying words (as if the caufe of 
 his Martyrdome had been written in golden letters upon 
 his heart; were breathed up to heaven with his parting 
 foule a GOD BLESSE THE KING. 
 
 And though the grave refolutions of all the Reverend 
 Profeflbrs of Divinity and Law in fo famous an llniveriity 
 ought to be more facred and powerful! with them then the 
 noyfe of their new Teachers and obftreperous American 
 Lay-Le&urers 3 yet they are not afhamed, after all thefe 
 fupon mature deliberation and confutation with the reft of 
 the learned men of that famous Uraiverfity) have pubUque- 
 ly and unanimouily declared their proceedings to be Ha Ay 
 contrary to Christian Religion and Loyalty , ("and have 
 flood therein even to imprifonment and death) to perfwade 
 the filly abufed muititude 3 that all is for the Defence ofHtf 
 Maiefty, and the Froteflant Religion. 
 
 Neither is their wild fury confinahle within thofe banks,, 
 it fwells yet higher ; for as the Tyrant wiihed that Rome 
 
 B 3 had 
 
1 gnereU CAnuM^ienfis : 
 
 had but ont neck , that he might cut it off at one ftrofce ; 
 fb thefc having got the opportunity, imprifoncd the whole 
 Univerfity, March 23. 1643, which day the whole Senate, 
 (the Reprefentative Body or it) being folemnly aflembled 
 in the Regent hot* ft, were there violently invironed with 
 great Band* of Armed Soldiers, who wanted nothing but 
 the Word to difpatch us, becaufe we would not vote in a 
 matter as they would have us, though that matter did not 
 any whit concerne them or thejr Caufe , more then the 
 conferring of a Degree upon fuch a man as the whole 
 Univerfity in their confcicnccs judged unworthy of it : And 
 one Mafter Danes , (Generall of that famous Expedition, 
 but formerly a Member of that houfc which he then fo abu- 
 fedj adding Perjury to his former finnes, came in a terrible 
 manner, (concrary to his Oath formerly taken to his Mo- 
 ther the Unitrerfity^and flatly denyed the Vice-chancellour 
 leave to diflldvc the Congregation, unleiTe he would firft 
 promife that the matter fhould be voted, as they required .* 
 Whereupon fundry Members of that Senate, being obfer- 
 ved to make ufe of that Stacute-hberty and frcedome , 
 which was eflentiall to that Aflemblie, were forthwith fei- 
 fced on, and imprifoncd by the Committee, in no better 
 Lodgings then the common Court of Guard .Which ftrange 
 and violent perverting of oux Univerfities proceedings, wc 
 wondrcd at the lefle, for that this Captainc had not done 
 more to us, then Captaine Venmxh his Raggamuffins 
 had done formerly to the f acred Senate of the -whole King- 
 dome. 
 
 And that all Academicall Exercifes might expire and lb 
 the face of an Univerfity be quite taken away , a grave Di- 
 vine (the Lady Margarets Publiquc Prea- 
 M. Potve r r cher) going to Preach Ad Clerum, (according 
 to hi j office) pridic Termini, was furiouily 
 pur Cued over the market place by a confufed number of 
 Soldiers, who in a barbarous uncivill manner cryed out 
 A Pepe, A Pope, and \owed high revenge if he ottered 
 
 to 
 
Or, The Vniverfttles CempLwf* j j 
 
 to goe into the Pu!pit;whercupon the Church was flraighc- 
 wayes filled with great multitudes, and when fome who 
 accompanyed the Preacher, told them. It was an Umvcf- 
 fity Exercife 3 and to be by Statute performed in Latine, they 
 replycd, Theyl^new no reafon why all Sermons fhoutdmt be 
 performed in Englijh, that all might be edified, tbrcatning 
 withall to teare the Hoods and Habits which Graduats then 
 wore 3 according to the llnivcrfity Statute. Yet all this may 
 perhaps be extenuated as a fudden uproareof undifciplincd 
 Soldiers, but ("which is the aggravation ©fall, and makes 
 us bcleeve that thefe petty Reformers were bur the ienfltffe 
 inftruments of higher Agents} when all this was related to 
 their then Gene rail of the Affatiatim, no 
 courfe was taken at all to prevent thefe L$ d Graf 
 growing mifchiefes, bat the Divine appoin- of War\e» 
 ted by Statute to preach Ad Cler urn , was in- 
 forced to returne Re infeUa.^ and glad he could efcape fb ; 
 And this is the great protection whieh Learning is like to 
 find from thefe grand pretenders to advance it. 
 
 And that Religion might fare no better then Learning 
 in thellniverfity Churchy (for perhapj it may be Idolatry 
 now to call it Saint Maries) in the prefenee of the then 
 Generall our Common Tray er-boo^ was tome 
 before our hces y notwithstanding our Prote&i- See the 
 on from the Houfe of Peeres for the free u(e Pre/ate* 
 of it 5 fome ("now great one} encouraging them 
 in it j and openly rebuking the llnivcrfity Clark, M.Ctom* 
 who complained of it before his Soldiers. Thus well, 
 thofe Reverend Fathers, the Compilers ofit s 
 who fealed the truth thereof with their deareft blood, be- 
 ing content to burne at a ftake for the light of the Gofpef^ 
 are now this fecond time martyred and tome in pieces 
 in their Lyturgic , yet all this under pretence of Reli* 
 gion. 
 
 It will not be Grange now to heat how our perfons have 
 been abufed^ feeing Religion and Learning have fuSared 
 
 B 4 fo 
 
I % Querela Cantabrigienfis : 
 
 fo deeply amongft us : how divers of us have been imprl- 
 foned without fo much as pretending any caufe, but fnatcht 
 up in the ftreets, and throwne into prilbn at the plcafurc 
 of a fmall fneaking Captainc , where we have 
 Jordan. Iaine three or foure moneths together, notfo 
 much as accufcd, much lefie heard, but quite and 
 cleane forgotten, as if there had been no fuch thing in na- 
 ture. How fome of us (and many others With us) have been 
 thruft out of bed in the night, that our Chambers might 
 
 fotthwith be converted into Prifon Lod- 
 
 So at Saint gings : How our young Scholars with ter- 
 
 Johns Coll, rour have been commanded to accule and 
 
 cut out the names of their owne Tutors ,and 
 fome of them throwne into prilbn for not being old enough 
 
 to take their Covenant* : But ( to pane 
 * So tvm Jo: higher) how often have our Colledges been 
 Bullock of befet, and broken open , and Guards tbruft 
 5. Johns. into them fometimcs at midnight, while wc 
 were afleep in our beds ? How often our Li- 
 braries and Treafuries ranfackt and rifled, not fparing fo 
 much as our ancient * Coyns? 
 *SoatSaint]ohnsColledge a which thofe that know any 
 whence they too\ in Ancient thing, know to be a great 
 Coynes to the value of % z. /. light to the underfbnding of 
 4C cor ding to weight. Hiftorie. How often hath 
 
 that fmall pittance of Com- 
 mons which our Founders and Benefactors allotted for 
 our fuftenance , been taken from off our Tables by the 
 wanton Soldier ? How often have our Rents been extorted 
 from our Tenants, or if received, re-mandedof our Bur- 
 fars and Stewards, and by force taken from them > And all 
 this under the old odious title of Plundering, which word 
 though they cannot endure to lieare of, lince that new 
 tcrme of Seauef ration was invented ; yet the thing is the 
 fame, and more pra&iced then ever, they having for above 
 two yccrcs together fee themfdves upon little elfe then to 
 
 feize 
 
Ot,Thc Vnherjttles Complaint. 1 5 
 
 fcize and take away our goods and furniture belonging to 
 our Chambers , prizing and felling away our Books at a 
 tenth pan of their value, which are our oncJy roolcs and 
 hiftruments whereby the trade and profciTion of Learning 
 ihould be holden up. And to this end they have conftituted 
 a decay'd Hatter, Plunder mafter Gen rail, 
 who ( together with a Conventicling Barber Fortune. 
 and a Confiding Tayler) hath full Commiffion, Parrell. 
 for our propriety fake 3 to Lord over us, and di- Cnrd. 
 fpofe of our goccb as they pleafe : So defpica- 
 ble a thing to them is an Univerfity , or any that belong 
 unco it. 
 
 Bdt their malice is unfatiable, and cannot be contained 
 within the Line of th.ir Fortifications, and therefore to 
 propagate their owne wickedn-fie 3 and make us odious and 
 abominable to the whole Coumrey, as we were already 
 (though mod undeferyedly) to fome of themfelves 5 they 
 have invented a pretty device to refcrve out of their plun- 
 der all forts of piftures, were they but paper prints of the 
 twelve Apoftles, and every market-day to burne them o- 
 penly in the market- place , proclaiming them the Popifi 
 Idols of the Univerfity, untillwe became fo hated by the 
 weaker fort of the deceived people , that a Scholar could 
 have fmall fecurity from being Honed or affronted as he 
 walkt the ftreets. 
 
 But why doe we infift fo long upon particular mens 
 plundering, when whole Collcdges (wherein not onely the 
 prefent, but alfo the future propagation of Religion and 
 Learning is concerned) have drunk fo deeply the dregs 
 of their malice •? For beiides the cutting down of our 
 Walks and Orchards, (contrary to their oYinGeneraliffimo's 
 Orders of wane) they have cut down the Woods 
 and Groves belonging to our Colledges, nnd So at Re- 
 fold them before our eyes to a great value ,when [m Coll. 
 by an Ordinance they were declared not Seque- 
 strable : And (which was likewife contrary to an Order; 
 
 they 
 
14 <J!hurcU Cmafrigieyifisi {$ 
 
 they have feizcd and taken away the Materia Us of our ini 
 tended buildings, to the worth of three or foure hundred 
 pounds in Timber, which our pious and charitable Benefa- 
 ctors had out of their devotion conferred to- 
 Clai't-haU. wards the re- edifying of an ancient Colledge 
 which Time had impayred : And, to (hew 
 what violent paflion? they are tranfported withal,they have 
 pulled down, demoitfhed and defaced five 
 S.Johns, Trin. or fix faire Bridges of Stone and Timber 
 Icings fi arret belonging to fcverall Colledges, and have 
 Hoft/e , md fpoylcd a goodly Walk with a new Gate 
 2. at Qiieenes. pertaining to one of our * Colledges, upon 
 * Kinzs Coll. P retence °f keeping out Cavaliers, and yet 
 & for forty (hillings they would fainc have 
 
 been hired to fp;re it,and caft up a Work beyond. And let 
 the world judge whether this was not done to get the coun- 
 tenance of a Contribution from a Colledge to their For- 
 tifications , and confequently to this Warre againft the 
 King. 
 
 But (as if Bridges and materials forBuildings were no- 
 thing) they have yet proceeded further, even to the very 
 Structure it felt of one of the faircfl Col- 
 S. Johns Cell, ledges in our Univerfity,which they plun- 
 dered the true owners of,for above fixteen 
 moneths together, as an cfpeciall argument of their love to 
 Learning,and have converted all the old Court thereof into 
 a Prifon for His Majefties Loyall Subjects, (which before 
 the other was fcuilt, has contained above three hundred 
 Students at a time) not fuffering any whom it concerned 
 to remove any Bedding or other goods, whereof the Gao- 
 ler could make any ufe or benerit, but renting them all 
 out together with the Chambers at above five hundred 
 pounds per Ann. 
 
 And as if fpoyling of one Colledge were not enough , 
 their malice has fince extended it felre to all the reft , in 
 Quartering multitudes of Common Souldiersin thofe glo- 
 rious 
 
Otjthc Vnivtrfttles Comflainf. 1 5 
 
 ribas and ancient Struftures a whieh our devout and RoyaU 
 Founders defigned for Sanctuaries of Learning and Piety, 
 but were made by them meerc Spittles and Bawdy-houfes 
 for fick and debauched Soldiers, being filled with Queans, 
 Drabs, Fiddlers, and Revels night and day. Which black 
 deeds ofdarkneffe being divers times complained or by us 
 to their Officers 3 and the particular men ihewed them , 
 who had thus lewdly abufed our Col ledges, 
 none of thefe new Reformers were ever pu- Pemkr. Hall. 
 nilht , nor the holy Sifters removed 3 nor fo 
 much as called before any that then bore rule among us. 
 By which meanes, (fee what Religion they fight for, and 
 what a glorious Reformation we may expccY) they have 
 dishonoured God, countenanced leudnefle/candajlized mo- 
 deft and civ ill men, and dnven from us, or poyfoned a- 
 mong us thole young Students which were left. 
 
 To this we may adde, bow they have torne and de&ccd 
 thofe Reverend buildings, puli'd downc and burned the 
 Wainfcot of our Chambers, our Bcd-fteads,Chayrs,S tools, 
 Tables, and Shelves for our Books, fo as they may now 
 have fome plea for multiplying of Gaolcs, if the Liberty 
 of the Subjeft mall fo require. And when their ragged 
 Regiments which had lyen lowzing before CowUnd nigh 
 a fortnight, were commanded to Cambridge forthwith the 
 Colledges are appointed for their Kennels , and fourfcore 
 were turned loofe into one of the leaft Halls , ^ 
 
 in the Univerfity,and charged by their Of. 
 fleers to {hift for thcmfelves ; who without any more ado 
 broke open the Fellowes and Scholars Chambers ,and took 
 their Beds from under them. But when the Kings Prifoners 
 taken at Hilfdenboufe were brought famiflied and naked 
 in triumph by Cambridge to London, fome of our Scholars 
 were knockt downe in the ftreets , onely for offering them 
 a cup of fmall biere to fuftaine nature, and the drinke 
 throwne in the kennell, rather then the fimiihed and par. 
 ched throats of the wicked, as they cftccmM them, mould 
 
 ufurp 
 
l6 Slgerela CoHtabrigienfis : 
 
 ufurp one drop ct the creature. And it is much to be fea, 
 red,thcy would have ftarved them in prifoj 
 
 MiftruCum- there, if a valiant Chamber-maid had no 
 
 bers maid. relieved them by force, trampling under he 
 feet in the kcnnell their great perfecuter s 
 
 Homes. Lubberly Scotch Major. 
 
 What mould wc mention moreover how we have bee* 
 overwhelmed with infupportablc Taxes extorted from u 
 by plundering, feffed not by any of our ownc Body, bu 
 (which is direftly contrary to our eftablifhcd priviledges 
 by the Arbitration of a few confiding Aldermen , our pro 
 fefled Enemies, who inftead of that gratitude which ver 
 nature requires at their hands a now repay us with unfatiabll 
 malice and En vy : which properties of theirs have fine* 
 commended & qualified them tobcappointedComiffioneiT 
 and Judges to (trip us of our eftatcs and livelyhoods. Ant 
 when neither our confeiences nor Eftates could extend 
 any further to defray tbdr impofts for our very Chamber, 
 ("which their Soldiers then poflefled and burnt) befides all 
 excifes, weekly payments,Taxes, fift and twentieth pan 
 upon all our Rcvenews, and other fuch new termes of proJ 
 pertie and libertic,all the favour]we can expeft from them. 
 is,quietly to be thruft into prifon without /further abu' 
 fings. 
 
 And although all thefeare but fad theames to be thus 
 farre inlarged and dilated upon , yet they thinke the) 
 can flop the noyfe of all thefe juft complaints wkh their 
 ufuall grinning objection, tbatfunirie ef our Students 
 are in the Kings Amy : making that to be their crime, to, 
 which if their owne innate Loyalty did not draw them, yet 
 their haughty & heathenifh ufage would of neceffity drive 
 them : for who had not rather fall upon the bed of honor, 
 and affert with his deareft blood, his fteligion,Loyalty,and 
 Liberty, then live a flave under them, to fet his furviving 
 foot-fteps upon the graves and aihes of expired 
 
 Loy- 
 
Or * 7 be VniverfttUs CompUintl \j 
 
 oyalty, Nobility, Gentry, Clergie, and Civility ic 
 
 m 
 
 And now to tell how they have prophaned and abufed 
 
 r fevcralj. Chappies ; though our pens flowed as faft 
 tth vineger and gall,as our eyes doe with teares, yet were 
 impomble fufficiently t« be cxprefled : when as multi- 
 des of enraged Souldiers(lct loofe lore for me) have tarns 
 >wn all carved worke, not refpe&ing the very Monu- 
 ents of the dead : And have ruinM a bcautifull carved 
 rudure in the Univerfttie Church (though indeed that was 
 )t done without direction horn a great one, 
 
 appeared after upon complaint, made to M.Cromwell. 
 imj which flood us in a great fumme of 
 .oney, and had not one jot of Imagery or ftatue worfce 
 x>ut it. And when that Reverend man the 
 ^en Vicc-chancellour told them mildly, That D.n'&rd. 
 fey might be better im ployed, they returned him 
 ich Language, as we arc afhamed here to expreffe. 
 
 Nor was it any whit ftrange to find whole Bands of 
 oldiers trayning and cxercifing in the Royall Chappeli 
 f King Henry the fixth : Nay c?en the Comman- 
 ds thcmfelves (being commanded to fhew their K in & 
 ew Major Generail * how well hey underftood Coll, 
 leir trade) chole that place to trayne in , 
 whether in policy to concealc their My- Crawford. 
 ierie , or out of feare to betray their igno- 
 ance,or on purpofe to ihew their Souldiers how littleGods 
 ioufewasco be regarded, let the world conjecture.) And 
 >ne who calls himftlfe lohn Dowfirtg, and by vertue of a 
 •rctended Commiflion goes about the Country like a Bed- 
 am breaking giaffc windowes, having battered and beaten 
 lowne all our painted glafle, not only in our Chappies, 
 >ut(contrary to Order)in our publique Schooles, 
 ^olledgs Halls, Libraryes, and Chambers, mi- See the 
 taking perhaps the liberall Arts for Samts (which Pref, 
 hey intend in time to pul down tooj and having 
 
 (againft 
 
I* $l*f re l a Cantahrigienfii s 
 
 (againft an Order)defaced and digged up the floors of oui 
 Chappds, many of: which had lien fo for two or three hun- 
 dred ycares together, not regarding the duft of our founders 
 and predeceffors,who likely were i:uried there j compelled 
 ms by armed Souljicrs to pay forty fbilloigs a CoIIedge 
 for not mending what he had fpoylcd and defaced, 01 
 forthwith to go to PrifonrWc mall need to ufe no more in 
 fiances then thefe two a to (hew that nciiher pIace,perfon noi 
 thing, hath any reverence, 
 * Majitr Pawfon of Sidney or refpeft amongfl: them, 
 CoIIedge y though fince bee * A Fellow of one of oui 
 hath proved bimfelfe m ar- Colledges was violently 
 rant honed man, and is re- pluckt from the Communion 
 warded for it with a Tel- as he was ready to receive 
 lowjbip in S. Johns. that holy Sacrament before 
 
 the folemne EJe&ion of a 
 Mafter of that CoIIedge, and throwrie into Gaole , to the 
 great difturbance of the Election : And at anothet 
 
 * CoIIedge the Communion Plate was mofl fa- 
 S. Johns, crllegioufly feized upon and taken away from 
 
 the very Communion Table, notwithstanding 
 it was (upon a former Plunder) rcftored to the faid Col- 
 Jedgs by an Order from the Clofe Committee of the i8.of 
 Septemb.i6^. under the hands of the Earle o£ Pembroke. 
 Eaile ofDeniigbi Lo: Say 3 Lo: Howard , Sir will.waUer\ 
 and M . Pym. 
 
 And yet all thefe aftions of theirs, were but preparatory 
 Pils to difpofeour whole Body for its final purge of Refor- 
 mation, when ever they mould pleafe to think it fick of us: 
 And that is this lafl aft, which is none of the leaft argu-i 
 ments, of this ©ur fad complaint. For although we were 
 feldome in any freedoms for any time ncere thefe three 
 yeeres from fome P rote fiat ion, Oatb^Affotiation, Vow and 
 Covenant j& c.mt naced upon us,yct this Jdftoncly brought 
 with it the fatalldoome of our finpll extirpation: thoughi 
 we muft have leave to wonder that nil liberty of confeienet 
 
 fSculd 
 
Ox^JheVnlverfttief CtmpUint. ip 
 
 Should be denied us by them, who lately pleaded nothing 
 his againft the eflablifhcd Eccleiiafticall lawes, and now 
 pretend partly to fight for the fame : But indeed the Co- 
 venant was no: the true eaufe but the pretence only for 
 3iir Ejcftionfcor that is the word of Art for this newly in- 
 Rented Miftery} *s appears by feverall writs illucd ouc 
 mder hand and feale without mention of rcfufmg the Co- 
 venant. The thing was abfolutely determined" by a pc- 
 femptorydecree,to plane a new Vniverfuie for propagating 
 tt leaft, if not inventing a new Religion : And to that end 
 he Oldc one muft be removed, at leaft fq much of k s for 
 he pref?nc, as mighc hinder this great defigne ; Only (brae 
 ncanes and plaufible pretences were yet wanting. 
 
 The firft that was attempted was to fummon all thofe 
 hat were abfent to retume within ten dayes. Bur then they 
 vere fo far to feeke for rcafons of Ejection, as that after 
 Umoft half ten dayes more ftudy all they could infert in 
 heir writ was, For oppofing the proceedings ef 
 ?arliament y and other Scandalous Actions in See Prcfi 
 the ymvetfitie-y Their tongues thereby te- 
 stifying their mindes, though perhaps out of incogitancie, 
 vhich arefo furioufly fet upon their great worke o( refer— 
 nation as to punifh the oppoftngof ScandaloHsAclions } mth 
 he lone of all a mans livelyhood.Whcther thcywere afha- 
 ned of the phrafe or not we know not 5 but they had very 
 ^ood reafontobe afliamed of the Aft, being fo different 
 rom all Ihew of: Juftice, as to enjoyne impoflibilkies in 
 lommanding men to returne within twelve dayes, after hr 
 Iiing the fummons, which at that time were above two 
 mndred miles diftanc , and had two Armyes to paflc 
 hrough all the wayes : or enjoyning them to be reiident 
 it Cambridge, whom themfelves at the fame time kept 
 aft Prifonersat London: And yet for nonappearance , 
 "or no man knowes any other caufe, thefe muft be eje- 
 cted. 
 
 But though this be not fo plau£ble, yet they haVe a Hire 
 
 referve. 
 
2° Querela Cantabrigicttjis : 
 
 refervc, their Solemnt League and Covenant , which com. 
 ming from their deare Brethren of Scotland , they thinkc 
 no penalty too great for refufall of it : And this ? becaufe 
 it carries in its frcnufpicce a pretence ofRcforfftation t comzi 
 not alone, but (though without any vifibie Order; accom- 
 panyedwith a new Lcg':fl stive fangle called.^ Oath of dip 
 covery, but indeed was an oath ot Treachery, a wild un- 
 limited deviie to call whom ihey would before them^ anc 
 make them accufe their neareft and dearcft Friends, Bene 
 factors, Tutors, and Mailers, and betray the Members zmc 
 Acts of their feverall Societies, manifeftly contrary to oui 
 "Peaceable Statutes formerly fworne unto by us, which pro 
 vide againft all faction and (edition,which thefc men onl) 
 hunt after, \Vi\. Non yevelabU aliquod fecretum Col/cgii 
 If on malum aut damnum inferes CoUegio aut cuilibet Soci 
 mum:*} And apparently reviving the Oath Ex Offijbioja 
 their Comniifiioners fpell it) aboliihed this prefent Parlia 
 ment, to accufe our felves : For what is it elfc to accufi 
 our owne Societies and Corporations , whereof our felves an 
 parts and members ? 
 
 And though we would not any whit derogate from th« 
 Oath Ex Officio as it is ufed this day in moft Chriftia; 
 Kingdomes and Commonwealths, nay even in Scotlam 
 and Geneva, and may be of excellent ufe , if not ftretche< 
 beyond the due limits of Law : yet this Oath ofDifcovery 
 all, we thinke, except one or two, refufed, perceiving tha 
 thereby the defigne of a fecond Century was to be promo 
 ted. for they finding no acculation or crime objected again! 
 any of us, wherewith to colour their ugly purpofes whic 
 they had already plotted in private againft us, and ye 
 their Covenant mufl be for Reformation, they refolved t 
 fhrive us with an Auricular Confefjion fanctified to th 
 Caufe, that fo we might help them out with their malice 
 which wasotherwife like to be borne blind, though hkhert 
 it hath jfe n Eagle-eyed over our moft veniall flips ; An 
 forthwicjrupan refufall of this Oath was their Solemn 
 
Or, ThtVmverfities Complaint, zi 
 
 league and covenant urged upon us. 
 
 We cannot but fignifie by the way , that feeing it mttft 
 be tendered to the univerfity, as their printed inftru&ions 
 told us, we hoped it fhould have been to the whole body 
 Statuteablie aflembled, either to admit of, or otherwife 
 humblie to {hew reafons of deniall ; but they were wife 
 enough to forefee what entertainment fuch fluffe was like 
 to find from all the learned Men of fo famous an llniverfi- 
 tie, and were not willing it fhould be blaftcd with their 
 ilniverfall refufall. And therefore contrary to our hopes, 
 a fele&cd number of particular men are cull'd out,partly as 
 the lot fell, for it much refembled a lottery, but cheifly of 
 fuch whom they moft redoubted ,and of whom by feme pettie 
 information, they had received a black Character of Loy~ 
 altie termed Malignancy , and to thefe, yet federally, was 
 tendered the Oath ofdifcovery 3 and after that the Cove* 
 nant. 
 
 And though indeed we fhould,byGods help s as often have 
 refufed it, as it mould have bin offered^yet after one fingle 
 deniall, without a fecond tender , Contrary to the Elea- 
 rventh Article of the Inftruclions y z warrant was ftraightway 
 liflued forth under the Earle of Mancheftershand and feale 
 ifor our Ejection and Banijhment from the Univtrfitie of 
 {Cambridge for re fifing to ta\c the Solemne league and Co- 
 venant, and other Mifdemeanors in the faid univtrfitie, 
 which were furely no other then the denial! of the Oatb 
 »/ difcovery ,for not one of us who were there prcfent, had 
 ianyone accufation brought,much leifc proved againft him, 
 (when we appeared upon their Summons. And without 
 flny delay our names are cut out of the Colledge Tables, 
 and we (triCily commanded in three danes [pace to quit the 
 \Uuverfitie andTowne under p aim of Imprifonment and 
 Vltmder, if any thing was left. , 
 
 And it is here not to be paffed by, that whereas by the 
 Jaws of the Land we were ever reputed to have as good an 
 insereft ineur feveral fcllowfliips during lifers any of our 
 C fel- 
 
a * Querela Cantabrlgienjis : 
 
 fellow Subjects in his fee Simple, provided we carried our 
 felvel according to thofe Statutes by which our feverall 
 Colledges were refpe&ively to be governed, yet now we 
 are utterly deprived of them by the mecr Arbitrarie power 
 of one of our fellow- Subjects without tranfgreffing of any 
 one Statute, or being called to anfwer for any pretended 
 offence whatfoever. Nay, fo little was Propriety valued, 
 that a paire of* Camp-Chaplains 3 or one of 
 *M.Ajh y and them, might expunge, eject, and banifli 
 
 M. Good, whom they pleafed, efpecially fuch as would 
 not facrifice their Loyaltie and Confidences 
 to the nerves and cement of this Rebellion, called the Cove- 
 nant. For inftance,whcn a Warrant for Ejection of certain 
 Fellows of Saint Johns Colledgewas iffuedout under hand 
 and feale, and their names exprefly mentioned in it, yet 
 M. Ajh knowes very well who it was that expunged M. 
 Henmans name, and put in M.Botelws, without fo much as 
 writing the Warrant over againe. 
 
 And now (feeiegwhat courfes were taken) it will not 
 feeme ftrange to the Reader, to heare that no lefle then 
 31. Fellowes, (together with the Matter; have been thruft 
 out of the faid Colledge, the emoluments of whofe placet 
 have been ever fince lwallowed up by not halfe the num- ' 
 ber,and not content with that neither. And in 
 Queenes another they have made a through Reformation, 
 Cotledg*. Root and Branch, leaving neither Fellow nor 
 Scholar. In others indeed they have left per- 
 haps one or two, (or more as they fee good; like Gibeo- 
 nites, to hew wood and draw water , till fuch time as they 
 have difcovered unto them all the myfteries concerning 
 their Colledge Revenues, and by that time they will findc 
 enow gMly men of their owne Tribe, learned enough to 
 pocket the profits of wo Fellowfhips apiece, which is the 
 end of all this blefled Reformation. Thus is their old pre- 
 tence of Regulation v^nKhed, in place whereof their true 
 intention of a totall Extirpation of the whole ancient Body 
 
 of 
 
Or, The Vmverpties Ccmplainf. 23 
 
 of the Univerfity doth now fo plainly appeare 9 that th e y 
 which runnc may read it; which though a gnat many wou^ 
 notbcleeve, till by wo full experience they found it, yet 
 was it confpicuous enough from the very beginning to any 
 that was buttollerably provident in maters of this na- 
 ture. 
 
 For it was hardly poffible that Cambridge mould be free 
 from thefe two crying finnes of Sacriledge and Rebellion , 
 which the devill hath long endeavoured to make this whole 
 Kingdome guilty of ; and to that end (mif-calling them by 
 the names of Religion and Liberty) had masked under the 
 counterfeit vizard of a Covenant for Reformation : by 
 which means though the fimplicity of the vulgar was much 
 abufed , to the extreame hazard of this once flouri(hing 
 Church and State 5 yet feeing it could not be able to en- 
 dure the drift fearch , which in fuch an Univerfitic of all 
 (brtsof learned and conlcientious men it was not like to 
 sfcape ; it could not be otherwife expected, but that thofe 
 who were his inftruments herein, would lay a fure founda- 
 tion, and (how moderate foever their pretences were) 
 rcforme Roet and Branches they called it, that feeing they 
 :ould not make the Univerfity of Cambridge to rebell by 
 .aking their Covenant, they might at leaft make a rebelli- 
 ous Univerfity at Cambridge which fhould take it. 
 
 And to this end thofe new intruders which falfly call 
 -.hemfelves Matters and Feliowes of our feveral Colledges, 
 inftead of thofe folemne Oathes which our pious and pru- 
 ient Founders and Legislators enjoyned to be taken, ("and 
 vithout taking of which, no man can pretend any right to 
 my of their foundations; onely take their Covenant againe, 
 md make a Proteftation to reforme all our wholfomc Laws 
 ;md Statutes according to that Covenant. 
 
 A Covenant with bell, begot betweene M unjier and 
 Uecba, by the help of a Jefuite, the moft impious and un- 
 :hriftian confederacie that their grand matter the devill 
 ;ould contrive : the chiefe end whereof is to dethrone the 
 C a Lsrds 
 
M guercU Ctntabrigicnfts : 
 
 Lords anointed, and throw downe the Church and Apofto- 
 licall government thereof, and to force not only their fel- 
 low- Subjects to contradift their Oathes of Allegiance and 
 Supremacie ,but even their moft gracious Soveraigne t<s 
 perjurie, in "violating that his facrcd Oath which hec fo- 
 lemnly made at his Coronation. And to compleat thai 
 their moft horrid and heinous fin, to joyne in Armes witr 
 a formgne Nation t io lay defolate their owne native Coun 
 try to ftain this Earth with the Bloud of their owne Coun- 
 try-Men and fell ow-Subj efts, and to expofe the treafurc 
 of England, the Cream of thefe friutfull vallies, to th< 
 Empty and hungry maw of a Rebellious Scot : and thei 
 yow never to have peace, but what {hall be written in th. 
 bloud of their Enemies (his Majefty and his Loyall Sub 
 jefti) and laftly, moft cruelly and wickedly to exhort an< 
 folicite all Proceftants in the Chriftian world to under, 
 take the 1 ke courfc with them by rifing in Rebelliou 
 Armes ; thereby expofing the throats and lives of all ou 
 Brethren the Proteftants in France and elfe where to tht 
 Juft jealoufy of their feverail princes. And yet ffcrfooth 
 this covenant is made the foundation of the great work 
 ef their glorious Reformation, and under pretence of refit- 
 fing this we rnuft be banifhc, and thruil: out of all w» 
 
 It will not be more then what upon tryall will be foun. 
 true, if we here mention a myfterie which many (we con 
 oeive; will not a little wonder at, vi\. 1 hat this Covenant 
 for which all this perfection hath been , confifteth of 6 
 Articles, and thofe Articles of 666.vtords. This is not th 
 firft time that a perfecution hatharifen in England upon € 
 Articles, (witneffe thofe in the raigne c 
 * Set M. Vox, King Hen. the 8.*) But as for the num 
 sift, and Mon. her of the beaftjo anfwer diredly to th 
 Vol. i. p. 443. words of thofe fix Articles , it is a thing 
 Edit. London, which (confidering Gods blefled provi 
 i<or. dence in every particular thing) hat 
 
 3 mad 
 
OtyThe Vniverfities. Complaint. 25 
 
 made many of us and • others (erioufly and often to reflect 
 upon ic j though we were never fo fuperfthioufly c&balli- 
 flieall as to afcribs much to numbers. This difcovery (wc 
 confefle) was not made by any of us,but by a very judicious 
 and "worthy Divine,formerly of our Univerfity, 
 and then a Prifoner (for his Confcicnce) within M.Geaft* 
 the precincts of it, and not yet reflored to his 
 liberty, but removed to London. And therefore we fhalJ 
 forbeare to infill any farther, either upon it, or the occafi- 
 on of it. 
 
 For our own particulars we mail only adde thus much, 
 that feeing fome of our owne Reaions with which we had 
 armed our felves againft that Myfierie of Iniquitie have 
 fince that time been publiihed to the world (in fuch hu- 
 militie of phrafe as well became Chriftian fufrerers,though 
 in fuch diftra&ion as may fufficicntly tefhfie who were the 
 Aurhors and what their Condition J we appeale to any who 
 with Judgment and ; moderation hath or fhall read the fame; 
 whether we have cauflefly and foolishly trifled away thole 
 faire advantages wherewith God by the meanes of our 
 renowned Benefa&ors had endowed us, for the advance- 
 ment or his Glory , and further propagation of learning 
 and true Religion 5 or whether we had not rather furret'd 
 3 n unjuft dc pri val 1 of all our Iivelyhoods under the merci Icfle 
 hands of crueli Tyrants 9 who neither feare God nor refpefr 
 the juft Icruples offender Conferences. 
 
 For when a Member of ourVniverfnie wa s M.Sald&ff. 
 brought upon this occafion before the E. of 
 Manchefter,and being not fatisfyed in confeu nce^defired his 
 LoP that his Chaplains (then prefent) migh: rcfolve him 
 in fome Scruples about it j to this motion (being then 
 thought not unreafonable by his LoP, and much prelled by 
 fome that were there prefent) his Reverend Chaplain learn- 
 edly replyed before the whole Company, that he came not 
 thither to refolve Mens Consciences, but to peach to his 
 LP. Whereupon the Gentleman was not long after lent 
 
 Up 
 
26 Querela CantabrlgUnfis : 
 
 up prifoner to London by the faid Earlc for tendring the 
 Reafons of his refufing the Covenant, though invited and 
 required thereunto by his Lordfhip : And there without 
 farther hearing committed to prifon , where he cammed a 
 long time at exceflivc charges, which is all the fatisfa&ion 
 he could find (or any other can exped) from them, for the 
 fcruples of a tender confeience. 
 
 Thus are we iraprifoncd or banifhed for our confeiences, 
 being not Co much as accufed of any thing elfe, onely fufpe~ 
 fted of Loyalty to our King, and Fidelity to our Mother 
 the Church of England 5 and not onely fo, but quite ftript 
 of all our livelyhood.and expofe<l to beggery, having no- 
 thing left us to fuftaine the neceflities of nature, and many 
 of us no friends to goe to, but deftitute and forlorne, not 
 knowing whither to bend one ftep when we fet footing out 
 of Cambridge, having one onely companion , which will 
 make us re Joyce in our utmoft affii&ions, vi\. A clear t 
 Confeience in a righteous caufe: humbly fubmitting our 
 felvcs to the chaftifement of the Almighty, who after he 
 hath tryed us, will atlaft caft his rods into the fire. 
 
 As for us,God forbid that we mould take up any rayling 
 or curfing, who are commanded onely to blejfe : we are fo 
 far from that, that we have rather chofen to let the names 
 of our greateft perfecuters rot in our mines, then fb much 
 as mention them with our pen^ fave onely where neceflity 
 compelled us unto it. 
 
 But though we fpare their names, we hope we may with- 
 out offence to any defcribe their qualities : And therefore 
 if Pofterity mail ask s Who thruft out one of the eyes oftbii 
 'Kjngdome ? Who made Eloquence dumbe , Phylofophie 
 fottim, widdowed the Arts,and drove the Mufes from their 
 ancient habitation ? Who pluckt the Reverend and Or- 
 thodox Profejfors out of their Chaires , and filenced them 
 in prifon or their graves ? Who turned Religion into Re- 
 bellion, and changed the Apoftolicall Chaire into a Deske 
 forBlafphemy, and tore the garland from of? the head of 
 
 Lear- 
 
Or ,Tbe VnherfitUs Complaint. 27 
 
 Learning, to place it on the dull browes of diiloyall Igno- 
 rance ? If they fhall aske, who made thole Antient and 
 beautifull Chappells,thc fweet remembrancers and Monu- 
 ments of our fore-fathers Charitie, and kind fomenters of 
 their childrens devotion, to become ruinous heaps of duft 
 and ftones ? or who unhived thofe numerdus fwarrro of la- 
 bouring Bee s y which ufed to drop honey- dews over all this 
 Kingdonae , to place in their roomes fwarmes of fenfleflc 
 Drones ? Tis quickly anfwered , Thofc that were, who en- 
 deavouring to mare three Crownes, and put them in their 
 owne pockets 3 have transformed this free Kingdome into a 
 large Gaole, to fyep the liberty of the Subjcft : They who 
 maintain 1000 00. robbers and murtherers by fea & land, 
 to proteft our lives, and the propriety of our goods : That 
 have gone a King- catching thefe three yeeres, hunting 
 their moft gracious Soveraigne lify & Partridge on the 
 mountaines in his owne defence ; They who have pofleii 
 themfelves of His Majeftics Townes, Navie, and Maga- 
 zines, and robbed him of all his revenues , to make him a 
 glorious King : Who have multiplyed Oathcs, Protecti- 
 ons, vowes, Leagues and Covenants for the cafe of tender 
 consciences: Filling all Pulpits with jugglers for the Caufy 9 
 ranting Sedition, Atheifme, and Rebellion, to root out Po- 
 pery and Babylon, and fettle the Kingdome of Chrift ; 
 who from a trembling guilt of a legall tryall have engaged 
 three flouriming Kingdomes , and left them welcring in 
 their owne bloud ; They (laftly) which when they had 
 glutted themfelves with fpoyle and rapine, hilled for a/er- 
 raigne viprr to come and eat up the bowels of their deare 
 mother : The very fame have ftopt the mouth of all Lear- 
 ning, ("following herein the example of their elder brother 
 the Turfy) left any mould bewifer then themfelves, or Po- 
 {Verity know what a world of wickedneflc they have com- 
 mitted. 
 
 And now feeing they are not content to deprive us of 
 our cftates,butCwhich is much more greivous unto u$)havc 
 
 allb 
 
2$ Sl*L ere l a Cantabrigitnfis : 
 
 alfo robbed us of our good names ? branding all of us in our 
 leverall writs of Eje&ment with a black Chara&cr of 
 Mifdemeaners in gencrall (and yet not any one particular 
 was allcdged againft any one of us,which were then there, 
 much Iefie ottered to be proved by any one fingle witnefTe, 
 although efpeciall care was taken by an Ordinance for ap- 
 pointing a Committee to fit at Cambridge for that purpofe) 
 %ve challenge and conjure them as they will one day an- 
 swer for this flander and oppreifion, that they declare and 
 prove what thofe Mifdemeanors are ; which if they doe, 
 the fhame and guile will be ours : if not (as we are confi- 
 dent they cannot) we mull appeale herein from thefe un- 
 juft Judges to the impartial! Tribunall of the righteous 
 Judge of Heaven and Earth, who knowes our integrities 
 and to whom we fubmit our felves and caufe,Hurnblie be- 
 fceching him. not to lay this Sin to their charge. For 
 though for our many fins againft him we -may juftly re- 
 ceive at his hands, heavier judgments then thefe : yet^our 
 Innocence will plead Not G nil tie, to the face of. any Man 
 who fliall objeft againft us any Civill Mifdemeanors, 
 whereby we can more juftly be. deprived of our Fel- 
 low- (hips then any free Subject in England of his fee 
 Simple, if they pleafe to fay he is guilty of Mifdemea- 
 nors. 
 
 And as it hath pleafed our gracious Mafter (whole Mini- 
 fies we are) to make us examples (though but of fuffer- 
 ing) to the reft of our Brethren : So we hope he will con- 
 tinue unto us his grace of humiliation tinder bis mightie 
 band 3 as an earned: of his exalting us in due time : And in 
 the interim, that he will lay no more upon us,then he mall 
 be pleafed to ftrengthen our infirmities to beare : And that 
 he will (till preferve unto us a good confcience,that -whereas 
 our pcrfecutors {p ea\ evill of m as of evill doers, they may 
 he ajhamed that falfly accufe ear good convention in 
 Chrifl. FINIS. 
 
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