1. THE Benefice of Iohn Wilson Vicar of Arlington in the County of Sussex, is sequestred, for that he in most beastly manner, divers times attemp­ted to commit buggery with Nathaniel Browne, Samuel Andrewes and Robert Williams his Pari­shioners, and by perswasions and violence, laboured to draw them to that abhominable sinne, that (as he shamed not to pro­fesse) they might make up his number eighteene; and hath professed, that he made choice to commit that act with man-kind rather then with women, to avoide the shame and danger that oft ensueth in begetting Bastards; and hath also attempted to com­mit Buggery with a Mare, and at Baptizing of a Bastard child, blasphemously said, openly in the Church, That our Saviour as he was in the flesh, was a Bastard; and usually preacheth, That Baptisme utterly taketh away originall sinne, and that the sinnes committed after Baptisme, are only by imitation, and not by naturall corruption; and hath in his Sermons, much commended Ima­ges in Churches, as good for edification, and that men should pray with Beades, and hath openly said, that the Parliament were Rebels, and endeavoured to starve the King, and that whatsoever the King commands, we are all bound to obey, whether it be good or evill; and hath openly affirmed, that Buggery is no [Page 2]sinne, and is a usuall frequenter of Ale-houses, and a great drinker.

2. The stipend of Iohn Aymes Curate of Lowis in Kent, is se­questred, for that he is a common drunkard, a common haunter of Ale-houses, and a common swearer; and hath affirmed the Parliament to be a Round-headed Parliament, and that their heads should be all shortly chopt off; and wished, that the King might grind them in pieces like a Potters vessell, and for above 15. weekes hath altogether deserted his Cure.

3. The Benefice of Charles Forbench Parson of Heny in the County of Essex, was sequestred, because he is a common swearer, oftentimes breaking forth into fearfull Oathes and Im­precations, and very carelesse of his pastorall function, and wholy neglecteth the observing of the monethly Fast, setting his men to plow, himselfe also working on those dayes in the fields, and hath affirmed, that the Earle of Strafford was no trai­tour, and that he was put to death wrongfully by the Parliament.

4. The Benefice of Stephen Withers Parson of Kelvedon in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he hath sollicited often­times the Wife of Philip Glascomb to commit adultery with him, and divers other women, affirming it to be no sinne to lie with them. And hath not only practised Altar-worship, but urged his people to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper at the railes, and in his Church read the Booke for prophanation of the Sabbath by sports, and will not suffer his people to have above one Sermon on the Lords day, though at their charge; and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament.

5. The Benefice of Emanuel Vty, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Chigwell in the County of Essex, is se­questred, for that he affirmed, that there hath beene no true Reli­gion in England these forty yeares, and that he loved the Pope with all his heart, peremptorily maintaining that whatsoever men of holy Orders speake, they speake by Divine inspiration, and that if the Devill himselfe would have holy Orders put on him, he would be inspired by the holy Ghost, and hath denied the Kings Supremacy, [Page 3]and exalted the Power of Bishops above the Authority of the Prince, affirming them to be the head of the Church; and blasphemously broached, That the Command of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury was to be equally obeyed with the Word of God, and hath declaimed against the Authority of Parliament, and affir­med, That Parliament-men are Mechanicks and illiterate, and have nothing to doe to intermeddle in matters of Religion.

6. The Benefice of Edward Cherry, Rector of the Parish Church of Much-holland in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he usually boweth twelve times towards the East, when he goeth into the Chancell, and his Sermons which were rare­ly above one a Moneth, mostly tend to the upholding and pres­sing of that and the like superstitious innovations, and hath re­fused to give the Sacrament to those of his Parishioners that would not come up to the railes to receive it; and hath taught in his Sermons, That Baptisme washeth away originall sinne, and that all men may be saved if they will, and have free-will thereunto, and hath been very often drunke; and affirmed, that a man may more lawfully play, game and drinke in an Ale-house on the Sunday, then on any other day; and hath published a very scandalous Li­bell against the Earle of Essex, Earle of Warwick, and Earle of Holland, and hath affirmed, That he never knew any good the Parliament did, unlesse it were to rob the Country and pick their pur­ses, and hath deserted his said Cure for above a yeare last past, leaving the same wholy unsupplied, and is reputed to have beta­ken himselfe to the Army raised against the Parliament.

7. The Benefice of Thomas Thrall, Vicar of the Parish Church of S. Mary Mount-thaw London, is sequestred, for that he hath neither Preached nor Catechized on the Lords day in the after­noone, nor suffered his Parishioners to have any to performe the same, though they have desired it at their own charge; And is a common haunter of Tavernes and Ale-houses, spending much of his time there, and hath been often drunke, and not only read the Booke for sports on the Sabbath in his Church, but hath stirred up his Parishioners thereunto, and countenanced [Page 4]them with his presence at Cudgells and the like other sports on that day, and said, that the House of Commons in Parliament was an unjust Court; and doth ordinarily sweare and curse, and useth superstitious bowing and cringing to the Communion Table.

8. The Benefice of Iohn Gordon, Rector of the Parish Church of Ockley in the County of Sussex, is sequestred, for that he is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes, sitting and tipling there, night after night, and hath spent the whole Sab­bath there, so that no Service nor Sermon was in his Church by reason thereof, and is a common drunkard, and hath not preached on any Fast day since it was enjoyned by King and Parliament, and hath published in his Church, all those to be Traitours that lent to the Parliament, and hath deserted his said Church for about six Moneths last past, and is reported to have been seene in the Army of Cavalieres, raised against the Parliament.

9. The Benefice of Lawrence Washington, Rector of Purleigh in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses, not only himselfe sitting daily tip­ling there, but also incouraging others in that beastly vice, and hath been oft drunke, and hath said, That the Parliament have more Papists-belonging to them in their Armies, then the King had about him or in his Army, and that the Parliaments Army did more hurt then the Cavaleeres, and that they did none at all; And hath published them to be Traitours, that lend to or assist the Par­liament.

10. The Benefice of Philip Leigh, Vicar of the Parish Church of Redburne in the County of Hertford, is sequestred, for that he is a common drunkard and haunter of Alehouses, usually drin­king healths, and pressing others thereunto, a common swearer and quarreller, and hath expressed much malignancy against the Parliament.

11. The Benefices of Francis Fothersby Vicar of S. Clements in Sandwich, and Parson of Lingsteede in the County of Kent; are sequestred, for that he is a common drunkard, and common [Page 5]swearer and curser, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, in not only refusing to contribute to the pub­like defence of, but saying, that they that would not lend the Par­liament money, should be sent with Ordinances to Hell.

12. The stipend of Daniel Tutivall Preacher of Suttons Hos­pitall in the County of Middlesex, commonly called Charter­house, is sequestred, for that he hath been often drunke, and that on the Lords day, and hath taught in his Sermons to the said House, that Moses and Aaron being before them (meaning two Pictures set up in the Chappell) and the Organs behind them (newly also set up there) they were a happy people, and what grea­ter comfort could mortall men have? and hath wholy neglected the observation of the Monethly Fast, not preaching thereupon, and procured scandalous and Malignant Ministers to preach there to corrupt his people.

13. The Benefice of Iohn Gorsuch, Doctor of Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Walkerne in the County of Hertford, is sequestred, for that he is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes, and often drunke; and oft sitteth gaming whole nights together, and is seldome in the Pulpit, preaching scarce once a quarter; And hath often denied many of his Parisho­ners the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, without any cause shown, and refused to administer it to such as would not come up to the railes; And endeavoured to hire one Ioanes to ride a Troope-Horse for Prince Rupert, to serve under him against the Parliament, saying withall, he had a snotty nose Iade to send to the Parliament to poison the whole Band, and hath published a wicked Libell against the Parliament, That some of the Lords whom he Na­med, were Fooles, Bastards and Cuckhoulds.

14. The Benefice of Edward Thurman, Rector of the Parish Church of Hallingbury in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a Common drunkard, and hath presented his Pa­rishioners for going from their own Church to heare Ser­mons, when they had none at home; and hath affirmed, that he would drive away all the Puritans out of his Parish, and enforced [Page 6]his Parishioners to come to the railes, and hath wholy deserted his said Cure for the space of halfe a yeare now last past.

15. The Benefice of Robert Snell, Vicar of the Parish Church of Maching in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he hath often refused to administer the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parish that refused to come to the railes to receive it, and there being a Crucifix in the window over the Altar, he useth to bow towards it, and would not suffer it to be pulled downe, notwithstanding the Order of Parliament for it: And hath taught his people, that God hath now an Altar, and that the Table set Altar-wise, put him in mind of God, to worship him the better, and in administring the Sacrament, called one of the Communicants Puppy, for that being left-handed, he put forth that hand to receive the Bread, and caused the Church-war­dens to present such as would not come up to the railes, to re­ceive there, and kneele before them, and hath expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament.

16. The Benefice of Robert Hiliard, Vicar of the Parish Church of Ewell in the County of Surry, is sequestred, for that he said, The Parliament is a Parliament for the Devill, and the Devils Court, and that the Petitions of the Parliament to the King, are like the Petitions of Jeroboam to Rehoboam, commands and not Petitions, and hath discouraged divers from giving or lending towards the publike defence, expressing, that he hoped they that did so should never see penny of it againe, and that he would rather live under the government of a Heathen, then of the Parliament, and is a common frequenter of Tavernes and Ale-houses, sitting tipling and quarrelling there, and is often drunke, and is a common curser and swearer, and hath jeared the holy Spirit of Grace, saying, We have Ministers now, will preach forsooth, and pray by the Spirit, and hath threatned to kill those that have exhibited Articles against him in Parliament, in case they should proceed against him, and went about with the Cavalieres at Kingstone, dire­cting them to plunder honest men there.

17. The Benefice of Ioseph Soane, Vicar of Aldenham in the [Page 7]County of Hertford, is sequestred, for that he is a common Gamester, a common Ale-house haunter, and frequently drunke, and a common quarreller, and hath called the Parlia­ment Souldiers, under the command of his Excellency the Earle of Essex, Parliament doggs.

18. The Benefices of William Fairefax, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of S. Peters in Cornhill London, and Vicar of East-Ham in the County of Middlesex, are seque­stred, for that he hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parishioners as refused to come up to the railes, and refused to let his Parish have a Lecturer on the Lords day in the after-noone, except he might have 50^lb. given unto him for the same: And for the space of eight yeares, refused to let his Parishioners have a Lecturer on a weeke day, which was appointed, and maintenance for the same given by the will of the dead, and useth to prophane the Sabbath-day, by playing at Cards, and hath been often drunke in Ale-houses and other places, and usually seeketh and haunteth the company of women, notoriously suspected of incontinency, and intrudes himselfe into their company, and into the company of other women, walking alone in the streetes in the darke and twi-light, and tempteth them to uncleannesse, leading them into darke pla­ces, and into Tavernes, fit for such workes of darknesse, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and charged the Parliament to be the cause of all the trouble, and disturbances in the Kingdome, and hath greatly neglected his Cure, and in his absence hath provided scandalous Ministers to supply the same.

19. The Benefice of Iames Bradshaw, Vicar of the Parish Church of Chalfont, S. Peters in the County of Bucks, is seque­stred, for that he is not only a practiser and maintainer of all the late innovations, but hath also preached in his Sermons, That the Commissaries Courts were the suburbs of Heaven, and the Commissaries and Officers of that Court, the very supremacies, next to Arch-Angels, and that it was a damnable sinne for any warned to that Court not to appeare, and that to preach twice on the Lords [Page 8]day is a damnable sinne, and that to use any prayers besides the Booke of Common-prayer, was likewise a damable sinne, and wished, that all Lecturers were hanged.

20. The Benefices of Robert Cotesford, Doctor in Divinity, Re­ctor of the Parish Church of Hadleigh and Munkes Ely in the County of Suffolke, are sequestred, for that he is a strict observer of the late Innovations, still continues bowing towards the East in divine Service, and hath often preached for auricular con­fession of sinnes, and that the reason why so many fall into despaire, is, because they come not to their ghostly Father to confesse their sinnes, and that men have by nature free-will to all good, and that Baptisme doth wash away originall sinne, ex opere operato, and hath been often drunke, consuming his time in tipling and drinking, sometimes from morning to night, and hath oft at­tempted the chastity of his maid-servant, that she could not live in the house for him, and seldome preacheth; and for five Moneths last past, wholy deserted his said Cures, so that the Church-wardens were inforced through his default, to make some provision for the said Cure of Hadleigh, and hath not only refused to reade the Declarations of Parliament, and especially that of the 22^th. of October, 1643. concerning his Majesties Commissions granted to Papists to raise forces, commanded to be read in Churches, but hath expressed otherwise great malig­nity against the Parliament and the proceedings thereof.

21. The Benefices of Nicholas Andrewes, Doctor in Divi­nity, Rector of the Parish Churches of Guilford, and Vicar of Godalmine in the County of Surrey, are sequestred, for that he is not only negligent in preaching himselfe, but hath also ex­pressed himselfe to be an enemy to frequent preaching, inveigh­ing in his Sermons against long Sermons, saying, that Peters sword cut off but one eare, but long Sermons like long swords, cut off both at once, and that the surfet of the Word is of all most dangerous, and that the silliest creatures have longest eares, and that preaching was the worst part of Gods worship, and that if he left out any thing, he would leave out that, and refused to give the Parishioners [Page 9]leave to have a Lecturer to preach unto them, and hath presen­ted his Parishioners that went to heare Sermons at other Chur­ches, when they had no preaching at home; and caused the Church-wardens and Sides-men to be presented, for not pre­senting such into the Ecclesiasticall court: And in delivering the Bread in the Sacrament, he elevateth it, lookes upon it, and bowes low unto it, and useth other frequent bowing in admi­nistring the Sacrament, and in his Sermons greatly exclaimes against that Doctrin which teacheth, that the greatest part of the world should be damned, and frequenteth Tavernes, and con­sumes his time in sitting and tipling there: And hath refused to publish the Order of Parliament, concerning the remo­vall of superstitious and Idolatrous pictures and Images, and hath substituted to officiate for him in the said Cure, very scan­dalous and Malignant Curates, viz. Bacock, Leverland, Pastor­loe, Heath, and one Blane, who is in the Army raised against the Parliament, and when his people have propounded honest and Orthodox men to be his Curates, he hath refused them.

22. The Benefice of Ephraim Vdall, Rector of the Parlish Church of S. Austins London, is sequestred, for that he hath af­firmed, That the great reformers of the Church now were Hypo­crites; and hath made, framed and published a Booke, intituled, Noli me tangere, without Licence, Charging the Parliament with Sacriledge, in endeavouring to abolish Episcopacy, and to take away the Lands of Deanes and Chapters, to amend therewith the maintenance of preaching Ministers, and that they have thereby brought a Nationall sinne upon the Land, as was formerly done by them in taking away the Monasteries, and that an uncleane spirit did breathe these things into their minds, a devout Devill, pretending care of Gods service, and that all their goodly pretences are hipocriticall, and the maske of vile iniquity and holy theft; and that it is a thing senselesse, that Lay-men should have any Tithes, and that Tithes are Jure divino, and that to alien the Lands of Cathedrall Churches, to maintaine preaching Ministers, is, to pervert the will of the dead that gave them; and otherwise ex­pressed [Page 10]great Malignancy against the Parliament.

The Benefices of [...] Ieofferis, Doctor in Divinity, Vicar of the Parish Churches of Feversham and Ticehurst in the County of Kent, are sequestred, for that he hath preached, That the King may take not only part, but the whole of his subjects Estates, if it please him; And in the same Sermon wished, that evill might befall those that went about to take away governement by Bishops, which had its plat-forme from Heaven, and that the go­vernement by Bishops, Priests and Deacons under the Gospell, was from God, as under the Law, the governement of High-priests, Priests and Levites, and that he knew not from whence the Presbite­rian governement came, but from Corah, Dathan and Abiram: And hath opposed and hindered the Lecturer from preaching a Lecture in the said Church, although appointed by the House of Commons thereunto; And said of the Parliament, That Schismaticall and Pragmaticall fellowes were met together to make new Lawes; and he hath neglected the monethly Fast, and the Lords day, there having been for divers Sabbaths, neither prea­ching nor prayers in the said Church, and hath deserted his said Cure, for the space of halfe a yeare now last past.

24. The Benefice of Iames Mountford, Rector of the Parish Church of Jewing in the County of Hertford, is sequestred, for that all hath refused to deliver the Sacrament to his Parishio­ners, for not coming up to the railes, though some of them begged it with teares, and openly reviled them for not confor­ming to that superstitious Innovation, calling them Doggs, Rogues and Beggers, and presented them to the Commissaries Court for the same, to their great damage and vexation; and hath published in his Church the Booke of Sports on the Lords day, and commended the same, and hath publikely in his Ser­mons affirmed, That preaching is not necessary for the sanctifica­tion of the Sabbath, and that the Sabbath was made for Ministers to rest in as well as for the people, and that Lay-men ought not to meddle with the Scriptures, but must beleeve as the Church beleeves, which Church he made to be Arch-bishops and Bishops; And [Page 11]the railes being removed, he placed formes instead of them, making his people kneele at them to receive the Lords Supper: And hath preached, That if the King should set up flat Idolatry, we ought to submit, and not to take up Armes, as some doe now; and en­veighed against the Parliament, for endeavouring to take away Episcopacy, and hath not only refused to joyne in the publike defence, but hath also discouraged such as have so done.

25. The Benefice of Iohn Peckham, Rector of the Parish Church of Hosteede parva, in the County of Sussex, who giveth out that he is the Kings Chaplaine, is sequestred, for that he hath been very negligent in his Cure, absenting himselfe from his Parishioners, sometimes a whole Moneth together, without leaving any to Officiate for him, and hath refused to admini­ster the Lords Supper to those of his Parish that would not come up to the Railes; and is a common drunkard, and noto­rious adulterer and uncleane person, having drawne divers wo­men to commit uncleannesse with him, and hath bragged, that he could lie with women, and never get them with child, and hath used sordid and beastly carriages towards women, to intice them to satisfie his lust, not to be named among the Heathen, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament and proceedings thereof, and hath affirmed publikely, that a man might live in murther, adultery and other grosse sinnes from day to day, and yet be a true penitent person.

26. The stipend of Iohn Kidd, Curate of Egerton in the County of Kent, is sequestred, for that he preacheth not to his Parish above once in a fort-night, sometimes not once in a Moneth, or two Moneths, though there be in the said Parish neere 400. Communicants, nor provided any other to instruct them, and hath used frequent and unreasonable bowing to the Com­munion-Table in his said Church, and perswaded his people so to doe, and called them openly unreverent Puppies that passed by it without such bowing, and in administring the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, when he had received himselfe, and was going to administer the Bread to his people, assaulted one of the [Page 12]Communicants; and pulled him by the haire of the head, and thrust him out of the Church and Congregation without any just cause, and hath never preached to his Parishioners upon any of the Fast dayes.

27. The Benefice of Griffith Roberts, Vicar of the Parish Church of Ridge in the County of Hertford, is sequestred, for that he hath not only practised the late Innovations, and neg­lected the publike Fast, and imployed his neighbours to carry home wood for him upon a Fast day, but hath openly decla­red the Earle of Essex and all his followers, and Armies of the Parliament to be Traitours, and that whosoever sent Horses, Mo­ney or Plate to the Parliament, were also Traitours, and that this Land was governed by Children and Fooles, and that the Parlia­ment had done that that they must die for, even the best of them, if ever the Lawes were setled, and that the said Roberts is a common drunkard and tipler in Ale-houses, and drinker of healths, quar­relling with them that will not pledge him therein.

28. The Benefice of Peter Dausem, Vicar of the Parish Church of Camberwell in the County of Surry, is sequestred, for that he is a common drunkard, and drunke at the times of his officia­ting at Burials and Baptizings; and hath by his debaushed conversation, disabled himselfe from preaching, and hath not preached for these 12. yeares and upwards, and did protect and hide a Romish Priest in his house, from the Officers that came to seek him, and hath extorted undue and unreasonable fees from his Parishioners, and after the administring of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, expended the money given to the poore in Sack, and dranke it in the Church; And in deli­vering the Sacrament to one Mistris Wilson, one of his Parishi­oners, cast the Bread upon the ground, saying to her, take it there if thou wilt have it, and is a common curser and swearer, and hath read in his Church his Majesties Declaration against the Parliament, concerning Levies; and being told of an Ordi­nance of Parliament against the reading of such things, answe­red, He cared not for it.

29. The Benefice of Iohn Mountford, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Austie in the County of Hert­ford, is sequestred, for that he hath introduced into his said Church and other Churches, a turning of the Communion-Table Altar-wise, and having a great Crucifix and Picture of the Virgin Mary in the East window over the said Table, used bowings and cringings before the said Table and Crucifix set Altar-wise, and caused the said Table to be railed in, and the Jesuits Badge to be set upon the Carpet there, compelled the people to come up to the railes, there to kneele to receive the sacrament, teaching them, that God was alwayes present at the Altar by the presence of his grace, and was therefore to be bowed unto, and in his going up to the Table to reade second Service, usual­ly caused that part of the 43. Psalme to be sung, viz. Then shall I to the Altar goe, of God, &c. And hath endeavoured to leaven his people with the doctrines of Arminianisme, and hath for­bidden, by vertue of a Commissary or Surrogates place he held under the Deane and Chapter of Paules, preaching in the after­noone on the Lords day, and expounding of the Catechisme within his Jurisdiction, only tying them to use the same by bare Questions and Answers, and pressing the reading of the Booke of Sports on the Sabbath day, and usually enveighed in his Sermons, against those that went out from his said Parish Church to heare Sermons when they had none at home, and did arrest the Church-wardens of the said Parish and the Gla­sier, for pulling downe the said scandalous Pictures in the said window, in obedience to Order of Parliament, and hath prea­ched against praying ex tempore, as unlawfull, and hath in his absence, substituted a very scandalous Curate, very supersti­tious in his practises, who preached that that conscience was nei­ther good nor quiet, that could not be content with one Sermon a day on the Lords day, and charged them as Rebells, that did not ob­serve his superstitious practises of the late illegall Innovations, and that his people are bound in conscience, to believe whatsoever he and the Doctor did preach, and that the materiall Church was the [Page 14]Misticall body of Christ, and to give any thing to it, was to beautifie Christs body, and that to goe out to heare Sermons on the Lords day, when they had none at home, was spirituall whoredome; And the said Doctor being informed of his said Curates superstitious practises and false doctrines, and desired to remove him, refused it; af­firming, that he would mainetaine him in whatsoever he had said or done.

30. The Benefice of Edward Brewster, Rector of the Parish Church of Lawshall in the County of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he hath refused to administer the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to such of his Parishioners as would not kneele at the railes, and after they were taken downe, from the place where they had stood, caused divers of them to be presented in the Ecclesiasticall Court, for not kneeling at their first coming into the Church, and compelled them to doe penance for the same, and hath refused to observe the late day of Thankes-giving, appointed by the Parliament, for the discovery of the late hel­lish Plot against the City of London and the Kingdome, and is a common Ale-house haunter, and hath been found guilty thereof upon Inditement at the Assises, which he never traver­sed, but submitted unto a Fine thereupon, and hath continued since his frequent sitting and tipling in Ale-houses, and hath spoken very disgracefully of the Earle of Essex, and hath ex­pressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and neglected the keeping of the monethly Fasts, and out of meere wilful­nesse, hath refused to baptise children brought to the Church unto him for that purpose.

31. The Benefice of Richard Hart, Rector of the Parish Church of Hargrave in the County of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he is a common Ale-house haunter, and upholder of pri­vate Ale-houses, and commonly sitteth drinking in them di­vers dayes together, and lately continued drinking and tipling there, from Tewesday till Sunday-morning, and that morning being come home, durst not come to Church, his face was so battered and beaten, and forced his Parishioners to goe to [Page 15]other Churches by reason of his inability to reade Divine service or preach unto them; And used on the Lords-daies in the after­noones after his reading of Divine service, to draw his Parishio­ners with him to his house, forcing them there to drinke, untill they be drunke, causing every one to cast a Dye in their course, and to drinke up so many cups as fell to their chance, perswa­ding them that if they will take their cups, he can forgive them that sinne, and when he hath preached on the Fast-day, hath told his Parishioners, that he knew not wherefore the Fast was, and that it was not materiall to be kept, and consumeth the af­ter-noones of such dayes in drinking with some of his Parish in his owne house, or at some private Ale-house. And upon Whit-sunday last, though he had administred the Communi­on in the fore-noone after Evening prayer read, he drew a man and his wife to a private Ale-house, and there kept them drin­king till night, and after led them to his owne house, and there made the man so drunke, as he fell a sleepe, and then enticed the mans wife up into his Chamber, where they were all night suspitiously together, and drinking and taking tobacco, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, pro­fessing, he would rather carse them, then pray for them.

32. The benefice of Edward Ienkinson, Parson of the Parish Church of Panfield in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he did set the Communion Table Altar-wise, and railed it in, and commanded the Church-wardens to present such as refused to come and receive at the railes, and called them that refused, Wall-eyed Horses, and hath in his Sermons taught, That the Table is Gods Altar, and that those that would not bow here at the Name of Iesus, should bow in hell hereafter. And that such as taught them they need not bow, were blind guides; And hath com­pared the godly, reverend Ministers, living about him to Salt­bitches, which Doggs runne after, and to roasted Doggs, which draw away other mens Pigeons, because his people went to heare them preach, when they had no Sermon at home. And hath said, that such as preach twice a day, are but praters, and that hee, [Page 16]will want of his will, but he will put by preaching in the after-noone, himselfe being a Judge in the Ecclesiasticall Court; And he is an encourager of prophaning the Lords-day, sending then for Cudgels for his people to play withall; and being present himself at the Cudgell playing: And hath expressed great malignancie against the Parliament.

33. The Benefice of Black Novelty, alias Notly in the Coun­tie of Essex, is sequestred from Ioseph Plumm Parson thereof, for that he is a common Ale-house and Taverne-haunter, and hath beene divers times drunke, and not onely used superstiti­ous bowing himselfe at the Name Jesus, but hath presented the Church-wardens for not bowing, and threatned his Pa­rishioners, because they refused it, commanding his Church­wardens to looke to them, and hath absented himselfe from his said Cure, for the space of eighteene weekes last past, and is re­ported to have betaken himselfe to the army of the Cavaleers, and hath otherwise expressed great malignity against the Parlia­ment.

34. The Benefice of William Graunt, Vicar of the Parish Church of Iselworth in the County of Middlesex, is sequestred, for that he hath called the singing Psalmes, Hopkins Ligges, And affirmed, That he had rather heare a paire of Organs ten to one, then the singing of them; And hath read the Declarations and Proclamations, set forth by his Majestie against the Parlia­ment in his Church, and hath refused to reade the Ordinances of Parliament, enjoyned to be read, and hath often preached against the present Defensive Warre, averring the same to be against the Kings Person, and wishing, their hands might rot off, that should be lift up therein, and preached in like manner before some Regiments of the Parliament souldiers, and hath also preached, That they that went about to change the Lawes and Go­vernment of the Church and Ceremonies, would at last change their Religion too: And hath absented himselfe from his said Cure e­ver since the Kings Forces were at Branford, and hath said, That the Court of Parliament, was a Court of no equitie, and affirmed, [Page 17] the marrying of the Clergie to be the undoing of them, and that it would never be well with our Church, untill auricular Confession be set up againe in it. And is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes, and that on the Lords-day, even since the Order of Parliament for observing the Lords-day, and hath beene often drunke, and that many times in one weeke; And that he com­plained, that all good fellowship was laid aside in his Parish, but he would bring it in againe and maintaine it, and invited and enter­tained all he could procure, to come to his house on Sundayes after prayers, to sit there with him and consume their time in drinking and tipling.

35. The Benefice of Henry Hancocks, Vicar of the Parish Church of Fornax-Pelham in the County of Hertford, is seque­stred, for that he hath preached, That it is as lawfull for a woman if she dislike her Husband, to leave him, and take another, as for one to goe out of his Parish to heare another Minister; And that to goe to another Church, was as the sinne of Witch-craft and Idolatry, and filleth as well his Sermons as his ordinary discourses, with bit­ter invectives and slanders against those that are religiously af­fected, especially presenting them under the names of Puritans and Round-heads, and hath said in his Sermons, That the Pu­ritans forced the Parliament to make Lawes according to their own fantasies, and not according to the Law of God; And after the fight at Edge-hill, said in his Sermon, That he was overjoyed, to thinke that God should put it into the heart of the King, to fight the Lords battell on the Lords day, to uphold the ould antient Catholike Faith; And fearing the pulling up of the railes about the Commu­nion-Table, he walked with his Sword about the Church-yard in the night, saying, he would rather loose his life, then suffer them to be pul'd up, and that if the Bishops should command him to weare a Kettle upon his head, he would doe it, and is a common tipler and haunter of Ale-houses, and a prophane swearer of bloudy oathes.

36. The Benefice of Alexander Clarke, Vicar of the Parish Church of Bredfield in the County of Suffolk, is sequestred, for [Page 18]that he hath used very frequent bowing to the Altar, in his go­ing and returning from it, and hath pressed the observing there­of upon his Parishioners, and refused to let the Church-war­dens levell the ground where the Altar stood, because it was holy and consecrated, and not fit to be throwne out or mixed with common earth, and hath enveighed in his Sermons a­ginst praying by the Spirit, calling it a Monster, conceived, borne, and dying all in an instant, and hath read the Booke of Sports on the Lords day, and incouraged his Parishioners to observe the same, telling them, that it was sitter to play and follow their businesse on the Lords day then on holy dayes, and hath publikely sported himselfe with his parishioners on the Lords dayes at Barly-breake, and hath taught to the people, that he hath ab­solute power to forgive sinnes, blaming them that they did not send for their ghostly Father to have them forgiven, and hath seldome observed the monethly Fast enjoyned by Parliament, and hath endeavoured to draw his Parishioners to the Forces raised a­gainst the Parliament, affirming, that the Parliament had driven the King away from them, and that the proceedings of them about the King were just, and that there was not a Papist neere him; And hath affirmed, that the Earle of Strafford did die wrongfully, and that the Parliament put him to death without a cause, and hath spo­ken reproachfully of the Earle of Pembrooke, and hath threatned his neighbours to give a list of the Names of them to the King, that incouraged any to contribute to the Parliament.

37. The Benefice of Zachary Tusham, Vicar of the Parish Church of Dallington in the County of Sussex, is sequestred, for that he is a common drunkard, and hath solicited the cha­stity of one Alice Thorpe, and is a common quarreller, and did way-lay one Edmund Gore about mid-night, and fell upon him, and beare him, and hath greatly neglected his Cure, sometimes deserting the same for two-Moneths together without any sup­ply, and hath spoken very disgracefully of the Earle of Essex, and expressed great malignity against the Parliament.

38. The Benefice of Nicholas Wright, Doctor in Divinity, [Page 19]Rector of the Parish Church of Thoydon-Garnon in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he hath not preached above twice or thrice a yeare to his Parishioners, and yet hath presen­ted divers of them, and put them to great charges in the Eccle­siasticall Courts, for going to heare Sermons in other Churches when they had none at home, and brought also such Mini­sters as they heard so preach into trouble; And hath procured the Communion-Table to be set Altar-wise, with stepps to it, and railes about it, and constantly bowed towards it at his coming and going out of the Church, refusing to administer the Sacrament to divers of his Parishioners without any cause, other then his own wilfulnesse, and read the Booke for Sports on the Lords day in his said Church, and preached to main­taine the lawfulnesse of it, by meanes whereof the Lords day hath ever since been much prophaned, by Foot-ball playing and other ungodly practises, and hath deserted his said Cure ever since Palme-Sunday last, and betaken himselfe to the Army of the Cavaleeres, and is in actuall War against the Parliament and Kingdome. And hath brought and continued long under him for his Curate, a drunken, lewd and scandalous person, that hath been indited and found guilty at the Sessions for a common drunkard.

39. The Benefice of Iohn Woodcock, Vicar of the Parish Church of Elham in the County of Kent, is sequestred, for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses, and commonly drunke, and abuseth them that will not keepe company with him at the Ale-house, and is a common swearer, by Wounds, Bloud, and other like execrable Oathes, and a common curser, and hath deserted his said Cure ever since the first of August last, and hath expressed great Malignity against the Parliament and the proceedings thereof.

40. The Benefice of Iohn Manby, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Cottenham in the County of Cambridge, is sequestred, for that while the Table was set Altar-wise, he did constantly bow to it eight or nine times in a fore-noone, [Page 20]and though he knew that the Parishioners could not heare him, yet did alwayes reade second Service at the Altar, and affirmed, That it was no matter whether they heard or not, for he prayed for them at the Altar, which was, Sanctum Sanctorum, and affirmed, That God was there more peculiarly present, then in any other place of the Church, and hath pressed his people in his Sermons, That they ought to bring their offerings to the Altar, and offer them there to him, for that he was there in Gods stead to receive them, and preached, That he had power not only to pronounce absolution, but had undoubted power to forgive sinnes, and that the same was gi­ven him by the Bishops laying on of hands, and that the Holy-dayes ought to be kept with as much reverence as the Lords day, and that he read the late new Cannons, and exhorted the people to re­ceive and observe them as Scripture, affirming them to be drawn out of Scripture; And refused to Baptise children brought to the Church on the Lords day at evening Prayer, though earnestly desired, giving no other reason for it, but be­cause it was not his pleasure, and hath preached openly, That Ecclesiasticall government doth not belong to the King; but as the King had power to make Lawes to governe the Temporall estate by, so the Prelates had power to make Lawes and governe in Ecclesiasti­call things, and hath affirmed, that he ought not to be judged by a temporall Magistrate, and is a common swearer and curser, Woundes and Bloud, and Pox and Plague, and such like horrid oathes and curses doe commonly proceed out of his mouth, and did bragge, that he hath out-sworne a great swearer, and is a fre­quent Gamester, even upon the Lords dayes, and when the late Innovations were growing to an height in the Church, he did openly say in the said Church, That the Kingdome had been go­verned by Puritans, but now he hoped they would be rightly gover­ned, and hath read in his said Church, all such Declarations and Proclamations as came forth in the Kings name, and refu­sed to reade the Ordinances of Parliament, or to contribute to the Parliament, or associate for the publike defence.

41. The Benefice of William Muffet, Vicar of the Parish [Page 21]Church of Edmonton in the County of Middlesex, is sequestred, for that he is a common frequenter of Tavernes and Ale­houses, and a common swearer, curser and blasphemer, and is a common fighter and quarreller, not sparing his Majesties Of­ficers, and is commonly drunke, and scarcely sober at all, but when he wanteth money to consume in drinke, and in his drun­kennesse, goeth up and downe the said Towne, breaking glasse windowes, which hath cost him twenty shillings at a time to re­paire, and is a common drinker of healths, and forcer of others to doe the same, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

42. The Benefice of Iohn Denn, Vicar of the Parish Church of Dartford in the County of Kent, is sequestred, for that he is a common Ale-house and Taverne haunter, and commonly drunke, and on Sabbath dayes, useth to sit till twelve of the clock at night, sending for bottles of Wine, and clubbing, and in a Sermon, described a drunkard to be only such an one as lies in the Cart-way, foaming at mouth, and not able to remove from the Cart-wheeles, and refuseth to preach on the Lords dayes, and Fast dayes, and is unwilling to suffer any to doe the same, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and the proceedings thereof.

43. The Benefice of Richard Tanton, Parson of the Parish Church of Ardingly in the County of Sussex, is sequestred, for that hee is a common drunkard and Ale-house haunter, and in his Ser­mons hath wished, That every knee might rot that would not bow at the name Iesus, and hath read in the said Church, Declarati­ons in his Majesties name for raising of horse and money to maintaine warre against the Parliament, and against the Militia, and hath stirred up his Parishioners to joyne with the Kings for­ces, and hath affirmed, That he would beare out his Curate in refu­sing to deliver the Sacrament to such of his Parish, as would not come to the Railes to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Sup­per.

44. The Benefice of Thomas King, Vicar of the Parish Church of [Page 22] Chesill magna in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses and Tavernes, and very frequently drunke, even upon Fasting-dayes, and upon the Lords-day, and hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper for divers yeares to his Parishioners that would not come up to the Railes, having set up the Table Altar-wise, and used bowing and cringing to it, although they did upon their knees intreate it at his hands in the Chancell, where they were wont before to receive it, and hath deserted his Cure for a­bove three months, and did reade the book of sportes in his said Church for prophaning of the Sabbath.

45. The Benefice of Edward Alston, Parson of the Parish Church of Pentloe in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he hath attempted the chastity of some women, and hath used very unchast demeanours towards other women, snatch­ing a handkerchiefe from one, and thrusting it into his bree­ches, and forcing her hand after it, and putting his yard into her hand, pulling up the coates of another, and thrusting his hand into the placket of another, and using other wicked temp­tations, to draw them to his lust, and was a forward maintai­ner and practicer of the late illegall Innovations, and hath ex­pressed great Malignancy against the Parliament affirming, That they sate to make Lawes by authoritie, and brake them without authority, which was meere hypocrisy. And in his Pulpit spake against the present defensive warre, protesting that now when every child lift up his Sword to shed innocent bloud, it was high time for him to lift up his voyce like a trumpet; And did reade in his Church Declarations set out in his Majesties name, but refused to reade any Declarations of Parliament. And at Christ­mas was 12. moneth having appointed a Communion, and all things were ready for it, and the Parishioners prepared, he tur­ned his backe and went away, refusing to deliver it, because the Surplice was not there. And falsly affirmed, That the Parliament gathered great summes of money to enrich their owne purses.

46. The Benefice of Christopher Webb, Vicar of the Parish Church of Sabridgworth in the County of Hertford; is seque­stred, for that he is a Common drunkard and Ale-house haun­ter, negligent of his Cure, and not suffering others to preach, when himselfe would not, and hath expressed much malignity against the Parliament, affirming among other things, That he hoped in God he should see the Confusion of the Parliament.

47. The Benefice of Iohn Reynolds, Parson of the Parish Church of Haughton and Witton in the County of Huntington, sequestred for that he is a common Ale-house haunter and tip­ler therein, and swearer, and in stead of preaching did reade the Booke of Canons, condemned in Parliament, to his people; and pressed them to observe the same, commending them for the admirablest things and wittiest peece that ever was set forth, and affirmed, The Synod or Convocation of the Bishops to be of more force and authoritie then all Parliaments, and to be before any of them. And hath altogether left his said Cure for foure months last past.

48. The Benefice of Edward Ashburnham, Vicar of the Pa­rish Church of Tunbridge in the County of Kent, is sequestred, for that he is a common Ale-house haunter and Taverne haun­ter, and very often drunke, even upon the Lords-days; and hath driven divers of his Parishioners with their families from their dwellings, by pursuing them for not comming up to the Railes to receive the Sacrament, and seldome preacheth upon the publike Fast-days, and made a publick speech for the in­couraging of the late Insurrection and Rebellion at Tunbridge, and to contribute to the maintenance therof.

49. The Benefice of Nicholas Bloxam, Parson of the Parish Church of great Waldingfield in the County of Sussex, is seque­stred, for that he is a common drunkard and inticer of others to that beastly vice, a common swearer by great and bloudy oaths; and hath bin very carelesse and negligent of his Cure, seldome preaching above once a month, and never on the Fast-dayes, and is seldome present at Church on the Past-dayes, and often absent on the Lords-day, when he hath drunke hard the day before, [Page 24]and hath carried himself very lasciviously towards severall wo­men, and is greatly suspected of Incontinency.

50. The stipend and Benefice of Iohn Man, Curate of the Pa­rish Church of Stroode neare Rochester in the County of Kent, is sequestred, for that he is a common drunkard and frequenter of Ale-houses and Tavernes, drawing others to the same ex­cesse with him, and is a common swearer by bloudy oathes, and useth to curse, and is a common quarreller and fighter, and said, That he scorned the Parliament, and that the Parliament-men were not Gentlemen of quality, and hath otherwise expressed great malignity against the Parliament.

51. The Benefice of Nicholas Lowes, Vicar of the Parish Church of Much-Bently in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he hath beene often drunke, and useth to sit tipling in Ale-houses seven or eight houres together, even on the Lords dayes, and affirmed, That he hoped to see them all hanged that had set their hands against Bishops and Papists, and he and by his exam­ple the people spend the greatest part of the Lords day in pa­stimes and drinking at the Ale-house, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

52. The Benefice of William Evans, Parson of the Parish Church of Sandcroft in the County of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he is a common Ale-house haunter, and notorious drun­kard and campanion of Ale-house haunters, and hath altoge­ther neglected the publike Fast, even since the Order of Par­liament for the better observation thereof, and spent the same dayes, or the greater part of them in Ale-houses, and wholy neglected to preach in the after-noones on the Lords day, or to suffer any other to doe it; And hath driven divers of his Pari­shioners out of the Parish, by prosecuting them in the Ecclesia­sticall Courts, for going to other Churches to heare Sermons, when himselfe preached not, and in his Pulpit delivered, That those that did give or lend to the Parliament, were accursed, and insteed of a Sermon on the Lords day, read to his people a De­claration set forth in his Majesties name, concerning the Mi­litia, [Page 25]the Ships, Fortes and Towne of Hull.

53. The Benefice of Iohn Squire, Vicar of the Parish Church of Shorditch in the County of Middlesex, is sequestred, for that he hath publikely in his Sermons affirmed, the Papists to be the Kings best Subjects, for their Loyalty, and for their liberality, and that like Arauna, many had given like Kings to the King, to main­taine his Honour against the rebellious Scots, and for their patience, that enduring the many grievances under his Majesty, they had buried all in oblivion, and the Protestants would afford him nothing but in a Legall way, yea but in their own way, and exhorting that none should come to the Sacrament, unlesse they were so affected to his Ma­jesty as the Papists were, and compared his Majesty, to the man that went from Hierusalem to Jericho, and fell among theeves, that wounded him of his Honour, robbed him of his Castles and hearts of his people, the Priest passing by, was the Protestant, the forward pro­fessour the Levite, but the Papist was the good Samaritan, especially the Irish Papist, and that the Subjects and all they have, are at the Kings command.

54. The Benefice of Iohn Clarke, Rector of the Parish Church of S. Ethelburrough within Bishops-gate London, is sequestred, for that he hath endeavoured to corrupt his auditory with the lea­ven of Popish doctrine, that the Bread and Wine after the words of consecration, cease to be Bread and Wine, and differ specie from what they were before, and that the Virgin Mary was the window of Heaven, and the very clouts and raggs wherein Christ was wrapped, were glorious raggs, and that the crosse whereon Christ was crucified, was made of foure sorts of wood, and that he is a common haunter of Tavernes and Ale-houses, and useth to sit tipling there till he be drunke, and hath exprest great malignity against the power and proceedings of Parliament, saying, That the Parlia­ment could not meddle or settle the businesse of the Church, they being not Schollers, but Mechanick men.

55. The Benefice of Richard Nicholson, Parson of the Parish Church of Stapleford Tawny in the County of Essex, is seque­stred, for that he is a common drunkard and swearer, and hath [Page 26]expressed great Malignancy against the Parliament, saying, They were a company of Factious fellowes, and that this Parliament is no Parliament, and that the major part of the Lords and Commons being with the King, they were the Parliament, and used divers other wicked speeches against the Parliament, and against se­verall Lords in the House of Peeres, and had three wicked and scandalous Libells against the Parliament found in his Study, and did sing one of them in an Ale-house.

36. The Benefice of Francis Wright, Vicar of the Parish Church of Witham in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he hath tempted divers women, both his servants and Pari­shioners to uncleannesse, and is a common haunter of Ale­houses and Tavernes, and a common drunkard and prophaner of the Worship of God, by publike performing of the same in his drunkennesse, and a common swearer, and common user of corrupt communication, and hath not officiated in the said Cure for the space of twelve Moneths last past before the seque­stration.

57. The Benefice of Curthbert Dale, Rector of the Parish Church of Kettleburrough in the County of Suffolk, is seque­stred, for that he was a constant observer of the late illegall In­novations in the Worship of God, and presented and troubled his Parishioners in the Ecclesiasticall Courts, for not comming up to the railes to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, and not observing other of the said Innovations, and is a com­mon swearer and curser, and in his Sermons hath maintained, That the Angells did mediate for the children of God, and that men might drinke one pot for necessity, a second for recreation, and a third for good-fellowship, and that it is not the blood of Christ that takes away sinne before God, but it is repentance and teares that washes away sinnes, and hath read the Book of sports on the Lords day, and hath slighted and neglected the Monethly Fast, and suffered his servants to worke thereupon; And seeing a stran­ger in the Church put on his hat in Sermon time, he openly then called him, sawcy unmannerly Clowne, and bid the Church­wardens [Page 27]take notice of him, and the next Lords day tooke oc­casion in his Sermon againe to speake of him being then absent, and to call him Lobb, sawcy Goose, Idiot, a Wigeon, a Cuckoe, say­ing, he was a scabbed Sheepe, a stragler, and none of his flock, and is a common Ale-house and Taverne haunter, and hath been often drunke, and frequently in his Pulpit, upbraideth his Pari­shioners, calling them Knaves, Devills, Raskalls, Rogues and Vil­laines, using other opprobrious speeches against them, and in one of his Sermons affirmed, That he hoped the late Lord Cooke was in Hell, for maintaining Prohibitions, and hath been very negligent in his Cure, oft absenting himselfe from it for many weekes together, and leaving the same in his absence to very scandalous Curates, and hath wholy deserted his said Cure, for above nine weekes last past, and hath expressed great Malig­nancy against the Parliament.

58. The Benefice of Thomas Goade, [...] of the Parish Church of East-Hatley in the County of Cambridge, is seque­stred, for that he was for his scandalous life and misdemea­nours, deprived of his Benefice at Guningson in the County of Nottingham, about 20. yeares since, and hath not since re­formed his life, but is still a common frequenter of Ale-houses, and very often drunke, and oft on the Lords day; And on Newyeares-day was twelve-moneth, the Sacrament of the Lords Supper being to be administred in his Church, he came from an Ale-house where he had been all night, and was so drunke, that he fell downe twice or thrice in the presence of the Parishioners, who expected him at the Church-doore; And hath beene oft likewise drunke when he should have been preaching, and taken up drunke in the Church-yard coming to performe that duty, by reason whereof, divers times his Pa­rishioners have had neither prayers nor preaching on the Lords day; And hath oft sate so long drinking, that he hath bepist himselfe, and sometimes the roome where he sate, and is an out­ragious common swearer and curser, and in his Tipling useth to say, Now Devill, doe thy worst, and caused his servants to goe [Page 28]to their earthly laboures upon the Fast-dayes, and finding his neighbours Hoggs trespassing, wished the plague of God in Hell might take her and her Hoggs, and hath been a great practiser and presser of the late illegall Innovations in the Worship of God; And because his Parishioners would not come up to the railes to receive, caused the Parish-Clarke to carry away the Bread and Wine, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

59. The Benefice of Nicholas King, Vicar of Friston and Snape in the County of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he is a common Ale-house haunter, and companion of scandalous per­sons, and men of evill fame, and oft drunke, and attempted the chastity of Elizabeth Scotchmer, who going to his house to pay him some moneyes, he inticed her to lye with him, and did strive a long time with her to abuse her by force, and would have corrupted her thereunto with moneyes, but she protesting unto him she would not sell her soule to the Devill for money, he replied to her, She was a foole, for God did forgive the greatest sinners, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Par­liament.

60. The Benefice of Edward Turner, Parson of the Parish Church of S. Lawrence in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a common swearer, and common Ale-house haun­ter, and strong to beare strong drinke, and useth to sit five or six houres together tipling at Tavernes, sometimes whole dayes and nights tipling and drinking, and sometimes drunke, a com­mon practiser and presser of the late illegall Innovations, and hath deserted his Cure for the space of a yeare now last past.

61. The Benefice of Iohn Wells, Parson of the Parish Church of Shimplyn in the County of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he is a common Ale-house haunter and common drunkard, and in his drunkennesse hath layne abroad in the fields, lost his hat, fallen into ditches, and so bemired himselfe, that he hath been faine to be washed, and hath attempted the chastity of divers women, and sould his Calves for kisses with them, and [Page 29]having lockt himselfe up in a chamber in an Inne with a lewd woman, after a long time the doore was broken open upon him, upon his refusall to unlock it, and he found in a very suspitious manner upon a bed with her, after which he conveyed her se­cretly away, and sent guifts unto her; And hath affirmed, That the Land was governed by wicked men, and that the Papists were the Kings best subjects, and is a common swearer of very great Oathes.

62. The Benefice of Thomas Geary, Vicar of the Parish Church of Beddingfield in the County of Suffolke, is sequestred, for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses, often drunke even to vomit, and hath been and is a common swearer of bloo­dy oathes, and curser in a fearfull manner, as God damne me, the Devill damne me, refused to preach for many Sabbath dayes to­gether, and said, he thought preaching would doe his Parishioners no good, and useth in his Sermons to raile upon his Parishioners, calling them, sowded Piggs, Bursten Rammes, and speckled Frogs, and one of the chiefe women of the Parish, greatly grieved at such miscarriages, and going out of the Church, the said Geary openly in his Pulpit thereupon said, that if there were but one Whore in the Parish, she would kick and fling, and never keepe her seate, and affirmed, that he had absolute power to forgive sinnes, and said, that though this doctrine had laine hid for many yeares, yet he blessed God that it was now revived againe, and on a Fast­day disheartend men from attending on that sacred Ordinance, and was a great promotor, practiser and urger of the late illegall Innovations, and when the railes were taken away, affirmed, that the place was the worse for thowant of them, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

63. The Benefice of Thomas Darnell, Vicar of the Parish Church of Thorpe in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is an usuall prophaner of the Lords day, by sports and playes, and by making cleane his Cow-house and out-houses, and other like servile workes, and read the Book of sports on the Lords day in the Church, with approbation thereof, and [Page 30]is a common swearer and curser, and a notorious drunkard and Ale-house haunter, even upon the Fast-dayes, and is a common Gamester at unlawfull games, and hath been convicted of in­continency and adultery before Doctor Warren and others, Justices of peace, and began suite at Law in an action of slan­der for the same, but durst never proceed therein, and hath prea­ched, That he that would not conforme to his Prince in any Reli­gion, ought to be burnt, and was a constant practiser of the late Innovations, and put such of his Parish from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, as would not come to receive it at the railes, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

64. The Benefice of Iohn Wood, Vicar of the Parish Church of Marden in the county of Kent, is sequestred, for that he did reade the Booke of sports upon the Lords day in his Parish Church, and did preach for the maintenance thereof, and is no­toriously infamous for sundry adulteries, a common Ale-house haunter, oft drunke, a common gamester and quarreller in ga­ming, a great swearer, and was punished at a quarter Sessions for adultery, committed with the Wife of one Prior of the said Parish, and having contracted one Margaret Parkes his ser­vant to Thomas Maplesden, his own Wife happening to die, af­terwards tooke to Wife the said Margaret, against the will of the said Thomas Maplesden; And on the Fast-dayes, useth to sit drinking and tipling two or three houres together in an Ale-house, in the company of other mens wives, by him seduced thereunto, and hath said, That the Parliament hath no power to doe any thing in the Kings absence, no more then a man without a head, and hath otherwise expressed great malignity against the Parliament.

65. The Benefice of Thomas Heny, Vicar of the Parish Church of Arundell in the County of Sussex, is sequestred, for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses and Tavernes, and hath beene often drunke, a common swearer, and hath oft procured Ale-houses to be set up in by-corners of the said Towne in despite of the Magistrate, and not onely preacheth [Page 31]very seldome himselfe, except it be for speciall reward, but re­fuseth to suffer others to preach to his Parishioners, when him­selfe doth not, and checks them for desiring preaching so much, telling them, That he would make them content with a Homily, and before he had done with them, would make them glad with one Ser­mon in a moneth: And by his power in the Ecclesiasticall Courts, hath caused scandalous persons to be placed for school­masters in the said Towne to corrupt the youth, and hath ex­pressed great malignancie against the Parliament.

66. The Benefice of Erasmus Laud, Rector of the Parish Church of Little-Tey in the Countie of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a common drunkard, even on the Lords day, thereby disabling himselfe to officiate his Cure, and sitting drinking late on a Satur-day night, was demanded, who should preach on the next day, he answered, Let the devill preach, give me another cup of sacke, and is a common swearer, and hath used frequent superstitious cringing to the Altar, and seldome preacheth to his Parishioners, not above once in five or six weekes before the Parliament, and divers times through his neglect, his Church-doores have beene shut up all day on the Lords-dayes and Fast-dayes, and at those times set his servants to worke, and did work himself with them.

67. The Benefice of Anthony Hugget, Parson of the Parish Church of the Cliffe in the County of Sussex, is sequestred, for that he hath preached, that it was more lawfull to steale or doe servile workes upon the Lords day, then to goe to other Churches to heare a Sermon, when there was none at home: And hath sued di­vers of his Parishioners for going to other Churches to heare Sermons, when he preached not, and forced two of them to doe pennance for it, and to acknowledge openly, That they had offended God in it, and grieved, and gave offence to their fellow-Pa­rishioners, And procured one of them to be excommunicated for it. And put one Peter Pennell, whom he had 7. yeares before ad­mitted to the communion, from the Sacrament of the Lords Sup­per, because he would not come among the boyes to be cate­chized; [Page 32]and likewise refused to deliver the Sacrament to Willi­am Pennell, because he was lame and could not kneele to receive it. And hath beene bound at the generall quarter Sessions to his good behaviour for severall Misdemeanours, and in stead of a Sermon on the Lords day, did reade to his people the late new Canons, and is greatly suspected of Incontinency, and hath had the French-pox, and was cured thereof by one M. Abell for 10. pound promised him. And the said Huggets wife, asking him for a peece of gold, which he tooke from her, and gave to a light woman, in furie he spurned her on the belly, when shee was quicke with child, so that she was forced presently to take her chamber, and was delivered of a dead child, notwithstan­ding wch he vowed he would never have more children by her: And hath wholy deserted his Cure for above 6 months from the time of the said sequestration, and hath been seene in the Army of Cavaleers raised against the Parliament.

68. The Benefice of Iohn Sydall, Vicar of the Parish Church of Kensworth in the county of Hertford, is sequestred, for that hee is a common frequenter of Ale-houses, and commonly drunke, and hath severall times refused to administer the Sa­crament to such as would not come up to the Railes to receive the same. And when the Railes were taken away, said it was the beginning of the abomination of Desolation, and that Whore-mon­gers and Drunkards are as excusable as those that goe from their owne Parish to heare Srrmons, and that Papists were better Subjects then Puritans: And hath neglected his Cure for severall Lords dayes without any supply, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

69. The Benefice of Iohn Rannew, Parson of the Parish Church of Kettlebaston in the county of Suffolke, is sequestred, for that he is a common Ale-house haunter, and much given to tipling and drinking, and useth to provoke others to the same, and hath been often-times drunke, and hath preached in his Sermons, That Originall sinne is washed away in baptisme: And read the booke of sports on the Lords day, and encouraged his [Page 33]Parishioners to practise the same, and hath procured some of his parishioners to be punished in the Commissaries court, for go­ing to heare Sermons in other Churches when they had none at home; and hath sundry times wholy neglected the monethly Fast, and employed his servants in their weekely labours and worke on the same; And hath been a zealous practiser of the late illegall Innovations, and hath wholy deserted his Cure for halfe a yeare and upwards.

70. The Benefice of Ieoffrey Anherst, Doctor in Divinity, Rector of the Parish Church of Horsemauden in the county of Kent, is sequestred, for that he hath been a diligent practiser of the late illegall Innovations in the Worship of God, and re­fused to administer the Sacrament to those that would not come up to the railes, reproaching such as would not comply with him in those Innovations, as such as shall have no part with the Saints in light, nor inherit the Kingdome of Heaven, and is a common swearer and haunter of Ale-houses, and hath been often and extreamely drunke, and hath wholy deserted his said Cure for above seven Moneths last before the said sequestration, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament.

71. The Benefice of Miles Goultie, Vicar of the Parish Church of Walton in the county of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he is a great practiser and presser of the late illegall Innovations in the Worship of God, and hath refused to give the Sacrament to his parishioners that would not come up to the railes to receive the same, and being pressed much by his parishioners to preach twice a day, or to give them leave to procure one to doe it, he utterly refused, professing he would bring no such new orders among them, and in his Sermons usually enveighs against his parishioners for going to heare Sermons at other Churches when they had none at home, and finding his Curate painefull in preaching twice on the Lords day, he put him away, and en­tertained in his roome a most drunken scandalous and idle Cu­rate, and is a common frequenter of Tavernes and Ale-houses, [Page 34]sitting ripling there foure or five dayes in a weeke, and oft till mid-night, and hath been often drunke, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

72. The Benefice of Samuel Alsop, Vicar of the Parish Church of Acton in the county of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he hath attempted the chastity of divers married women, and frequented the company of women greatly suspected to be lewd and of ill fame, and got a maid with child in the house where he sojourned, and hath set up in his chancell the Je­suits Badge in gold, in divers places thereof, and hath expres­sed great malignancy against the Parliament, and hath wholy deserted his said Cure for halfe a yeare last past before the said sequestration.

73. The Benefice of Robert Senior, Vicar of the Parish Church of Feering in the county of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a common frequenter of Ale-houses, and commonly drunke, and hath been admonished by his Ordinary for it, and yet hath not left it, and was for his continuance therein suspen­ded by the Ordinary, and yet still persisteth in the same, and commonly marries any manner of persons even without li­cence, and of the monethly Fast said, he wondred who a pox devi­sed it, and sware by his Maker, that he would preach no more on it, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and great affection to the Cavaleeres, and Army raised against the Parliament, as more suitable to his spirit.

74. The Benefice of Henry Kybert, Parson of the Parish Church of S. Katherine-Coleman London, is sequestred, for that he got into the said parish indirectly, by meanes of a false Certificate, subtilly procured by false suggestions, from divers of the parishioners of the said parish, who having complained and Articled against him and Percivall Hill his predecessor, for great misdemeanours, pretended that he was upon some hope of preferment else where, and that if his parishioners would subseribe to a Certificate and testimoniall of his good behaviour, they should be rid of him, and having thereby obtained such subscriptions, [Page 35]the said Hill and he went to the Bishop of London, Patron of the said Church, and the said Hill to flie from the censure of Parliament upon the said Articles, resigned the said Church, and upon vehement affirmation, that the said Certificate was true and fairely gotten, procured the said Bishop to present the said Kybert to the said Church, who was thereupon instituted and inducted; And the said Kybert is a common frequenter of Ta­vernes and Ale-houses, and commonly frequents the company of a married woman of very ill fame, and hath been seen to imbrace and kisse her very lasciviously, and hath been in a ve­ry suspitious manner in private with her, and hath not been a­shamed in Divine-service, publikely to expresse unseemely ge­stures and behaviours towards her in the Church; and being told that he was seen to be in such private miscarriage with her, answered, that he would after be more cautions, which according­ly he observed, resorting commonly to her house afterwards by night and not by day, and hath since his institution into the said Church, seldome preached, and in his absence committed the Cure to drunken, lewd and lascivious Curates, and hath been a great practiser and presser of the late illegall Innova­tions in the Worship of God, and hath expressed great malig­nancy against the Parliament, and hath deserted his said Cure, for more then foure Moneths last past before the said sequestra­tion.

75. The Benefice of Walter Mattock, Parson of the Parish Church of Storrington in the county of Sussex, is sequestred, for that he is a zealous practiser of the late illegall Innovations, and hath not preached above once or twice in foure or five yeares in his Parish, and refuseth to Church women if they have not on a Vaile, and come not up to the raile, and hath gi­ven his Curate charge to observe the same; And is a common swearer and curser, and a common gamester at Cards and Dice, and useth to sit tipling with loose and lewd companions, and hath been over-seen in drinke, and hath said, That none but a company of giddy-headed fellowes would preach twice a day, and [Page 36]caused and countenanced the reading of the Book of Sports in his Church to prophane the Lords day, and hath sent his Armes to assist the illegall Commission of Array, and to oppose the Forces of the Parliament, and hath otherwise expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and hath wholy deserted his said Cure ever since the first of February last.

76. The Benefice of Clement Vincent, Rector of the Parish Church of Danbury in the county of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a great practiser of the late illegall Innovations, and doth not only encourage sports and playing on the Sabbath­day before his own doore, but hath also been a practiser him­selfe thereof, giving ill example thereby, and neglected the keeping of the monethly-Fast, and instead of fasting, suffered on the Fast-day, Foot-ball playing in his own ground, himselfe being a spectator thereof, and is a common drunkard, and com­mon swearer and curser, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

77. The Benefice of Matthew Clay, Vicar of the Parish Church of Chelsworth in the county of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he hath very little resided upon his Parsonage-house, but letteth one live in it that turneth it to an Ale-house, in which there is very much disorder, even upon the Lords dayes, and hath neg­lected the observation of the monethly-Fast, affirming that the time for them is expired, and is a common swearer, a haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes, and hath been oft very drunke; And hath often preached, That sinnes of ignorance and sinnes of infir­mity doe not grieve the Spirit of God, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, and hath wholy deserted his said Cure for above foure Moneths before the said seque­stration, leaving upon his departure a scandalous Curate, a drun­kard that state in the stocks for his misdemeanours, and for di­vers Lords-dayes the Church doores have been shut up, and the Parish left without prayer or preaching.

78. The Benefice of Daniel Horsmande [...], Doctor in Divi­nity, Parson of the Parish Church of Vlcomb in the county of [Page 37] Kent, is sequestred, for that he did affirme, That the late Deputy of Ireland was put to death wrongfully, and was sacrificed as our Sa­viour Christ was, to give the people content, and is and hath been for eleven yeares last past, a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes, and very often exceeding drunke, and hath ex­pressed great malignity against the Parliament, and preached, That to heare a Sermon on the weeke dayes, was a will-worship.

79. The place and stipend of Ioseph Daves, Curate and Hos­pitler of S. Thomas Hospitall in Southwarke, is sequestred, for that he is a common drunkard, and common haunter of Ta­vernes and Alehouses, and a common swearer, and hath ex­pressed great malignancy against the Parliament, affirming them, to be all Rogues, and that he was consident God would shew no mercy to them that died in the Parliaments service, and that all that went forth in their service, were Rogues and Rascals, and that those that died in their service at Edge-Hill went to the Devill.

80. The Benefice of Henry Osbalston, Doctor in Divinity, Parson of the Parish Church of Much-Parudon in the County of Essex, is sequestred, for that he in his absence, supplied his said Cure by scandalous and insufficient Curates, and hath in his Ser­mons preached against frequent preaching, affirming it to be proper­ly no service of God, and that it was never a merry world since there was so much of it; and that if he could preach twice a day, he would not, and that once hearing of Common-prayer, is better then 10. Ser­mons, and hath read in his said Church, the Booke of Sports on the Lords-day, and encouraged men to Foot-ball and other like sports on that day; and hath taught his people, That the water in Baptisme doth wash away originall sinne, and being desi­red to pray for a sick child that was two yeares old, said in his prayer, That actuall sinne it had committed none, and as for ori­ginall, it was done away at Baptisme, and hath pressed his pari­shioners to come up to the railes to receive the Sacrament, pro­fessing that otherwise he would not deliver it unto them; And hath threatned to present such of his parishioners as went to heare Sermons elsewhere, when they had none at home, calling them [Page 38] Hypocrites, and of the tribe of God, and said to one of his pari­shioners, that he could not abide him, because he shanke of two Ser­mons a day; And being demanded to contribute to the associa­tion of the Counties for the publike defence, said he would first have his throate cut before he would.

81. The Benefice of Humphrey Dawes, Vicar of the Parish Church of Mount-Nezing in the county of Essex, is sequestred, for that he hath discouraged his parishioners from assisting the present defensive War, affirming, That they are damned and are Traitors to the King, that have lent money to the Parliament, and that he hath read the Book of Sports; and incouraged his pari­shioners to prophane the Sabbath, and hath been often drunke, and came so drunke to Church on the Lords day, as he bad his people sing a Chapter in the Hebrewes for a Psalme, not knowing what he did.

82. The Benefices of Richard Taylor, Parson of the Parish Churches of Buntingford, Westmill and Aspeden in the county of Hertford, are sequestred, for that he hath not only used fre­quent bowing to the Communion-Table set Altar-wise, but affirmed, That there was a more peculiar presence of God there then in the Church, and hath compelled his people to come up to the railes to receive the Sacrament, refusing to administer to such as scrupled to doe it; and there being a Crosse at the head of the Font in his Church, upon every approach towards the Font, used to bow to it, and urged some of the parish to make auricular confession to him, affirming that he could forgive them, and having the Office of Surrogate in the Ecclesiasticall Court, he did improve his authority to introduce the late In­novations into the Church, and in his preaching also pressed his people to bow three times at their comming into the Church, and keepeth a picture of Christ in his Parlour, which hee hath confessed, was to put him in mind of his Saviour, and hath affirmed the fourth Commandement, to be meerely cere­moniall, and accordingly useth to hire servants, ride journeyes, buy wood, and send his Hopps to market on the Lords day, [Page 39]and upon the dissolution of a late Parliament, he said, If he were as the King, he would never have Parliament more, while he lived: And affirmed, that the last Parliament was the weakest that ever sate, because they went about to question the Kings servants and the Ministers that went to the Table to say second Service, and said, There was no need of a Parliament, for the King might have money another way; and charged this Parliament with doing great wrong in committing and executing the Earle of Strafford, and would neither preach on the Sabbath daies in the after-noone, nor suffer others to preach, though he could doe it, as he said, with halfe an houres study, and prosecuteth his people for going to other Churches to heare Sermons, when they had none at home, and hath expressed great malignity a­gainst the Parliament, and refused to publish the Protestation, and hath deserted his cure ever since a fort-night before Easter last.

83. The Benefice of Thomas Baily, Rector of the Parish Church of Brasteed in the county of Kent, is sequestred, for that he hath endeavoured to corrupt his people with the leaven of false Doctrine, teaching them, that ex tempore prayer was Pharisaicall at the best, and that no prayer ought to be longer then the Lords prayer, and that people ought not to pray privately or secretly any prayer that was not first written, and shewed to and al­lowed by a Priest, That though people confesse their sinnes to God, yet they ought for more surety of forgivenesse to confesse them to their Priest, their ghosty Father, and that for want of auricular Confessi­on, some have beene brought to confesse at the Gallowes. And hath laboured by his preaching and otherwise to draw his people to auricular confession, averring that he had power to absolve them, and that the Priest, though wicked, had power to forgive others sins, though not his owne, and that such as refused to give their children and servants liberty on the Lords day, after their observation of the time of publike-worship, to sport and play, did breake Gods Commande­ments. That Offering on the Altar upon their knees is of absolute necessity; and accordingly, while the Church-wardens are col­lecting [Page 40]the monies, given at the Sacrament, he useth to suspend the celebration thereof, and when it is brought up to the Table takes it from them, layes it on his booke, blesseth it, offers it up, and re-delivers it unto them, and then proceeds. And hath also publikely preached, That it is a great griefe to Gods people, that Abbies are not againe erected, because divers could not endure to live publikely, & that the curse of God was on them that kept the Abby-Lands, and therefore they did not prosper. That he turned the communion-Table Altar-wise, railed it in, used frequent bowing before it, urged his people to come thither to receive, set the Jesuites badge with a glory about it over the communion-Table on the East-wall, and on the north-wall neare the Altar, caused the picture of a flying Dove to be set over the Font to re­present the Holy Ghost, altered the deske in the Church to a place in the chancell, where he was not seene nor heard of ma­ny in the Church, and hath refused to reade the Act of 21. Iaco­bi, against swearing, saying, he knew a better meanes to helpe it, namely by confession and pennance. And hath refused to reade the buriall service at the buriall of some children, because they dyed before Baptisme, and in visiting the sicke, useth to mumble somewhat overthem, and then to crosse them upon the face and the fore-head, and hath expressed great malignity a­gainst the Parliament.

84. The Benefice of Richard Duxon Doctour in Divinitie, parson of the Parish Church of St. Clement-Danes without Temple-barre London, is sequestred, for that in his cate­chising in his said Church he hath taught, That children dying after Baptisme are saved by the faith of the God-fa­thers and God-mothers: And spendeth much of his time in gaming for money, and useth to sweare by the faith of a Priest before God, and upon his salvation, and is very superstitious in bowing and cringing to the Altar, and pra­ctising the late illegall Innovations, and compared them that vsed ex tempore prayer, and enlarged themselves therein with pertinent expressions, to Baals Priests, who thought to be heard [Page 41]for their much bauling. And neglecting to preach himselfe up­on Christmas-day last in the after-noone, and finding a very great congregation met to heare M. Evans the Lecturer preach, kept the Pulpit and deske himselfe, with a strong hand, refu­sing to let the Lecturer preach, and openly protested to the congregation, that they should have no Sermon then; and in the pulpit read a few collects to them, and then charged the Church-wardens to drive the congregation out, or to shut them in, and so inforced the congregation to depart without any Ser­mon in great discontent: And speaking of the present troubles said, It had beene a happy thing for the Kingdome, if they had made choice of such Parliament-men, as they might have trusted without any Puritans. And reading in his Church an Ordinance of Par­liament for a collection for maimed souldiers, to discourage his people from giving to that pious use, told them, That charitie did begin at home, and for his part, he thought their own poore had more need of it, And hath not onely refused to take the late Protestration, but also being desired to lead his people in taking the late Covenant, answered openly in the Church before them, That he would not lead the people into sinne, and yet was a great promoter of the Church-wardens and Sides-men of the said Parish to take the Oath of the late new Canons with him­selfe, and hath otherwise exprest great malignity against the Par­liament, and hath extorted excessive fees from his Parishioners for burials, viz. twenty shillings for a Sermon, when there was none, twelve shillings for the use of a black-cloath, han­ged about the Pulpit at the time of the buriall, not being desi­red and otherwise, and hath deserted his cure for six weekes last past, before the said sequestration, and hath betaken him­selfe to the Army of cavaleers, raised against the Parliament, and was seene in Oxon since in a coloured hat and coat.

85. The Benefices of Edward Marten, Doctor in Divinity, Parson of the Parish Churches of Houghton-Conquest in the county of Bedford, and of Dunnington in the county of Cambridge, is se­questred, for that he usually prayed openly for the Saints and [Page 42]people departed this life, and that they may be eased and freed of their paines in Purgatory, and hath said, that preaching is prophaned when it is in a dining-roome, or other place, not hallowed by the Bishop, and that the Ordinance is prophaned by the place, and doth not consecrate the place: And that having great yearely revenues, did notwithstanding upon the Sabbath-day steale wheate­sheaves out of the field in harvest, and laid them to his tithe shock, and hath not preached since he was Parson of Hough­ton-Conquest in five yeares, not above five Sermons there, and hath substituted there in his absence very scandalous and ma­lignant Curates, and was a great promoter of the late new Ca­nons, and is most unreasonable in adoring of the Altar, ma­king five low cursies in his going to it, and two at it, and then falling downe upon his knees before it, with his eyes on a cru­cifix, being in the East window over it. And when hee did preach, his Subject was mostly in exalting of holy ground, and pressing the practise of the said illegall Innovations, and he forced divers women that came to be churched to come up to the Altar; and there to ducke and kneele unto it, and at their comming and going from it, and had made his Parishioners, not onely to cringe to the said Table, and come up to the Rails, but also to offer money there unto him, holding a bason for the fame purpose on his knees, commanding them so to offer their gifts. And hath openly preached that the Parliament goeth about in a factious way, to erect a new Religion, and hath confessed before the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning plundered Ministers, that hee had lent and given money to the King to maintaine this unnaturall warre against the Parliament and Kingdome.

86. The Benefice of Iames Buck, Vicar of the Parish Church of Stradbrocke in the county of Suffolke, is sequestred, for that he hath preached openly, That the Pope is the head of the Church, and head of the spiritualty, and that there would never be any con­formity in the Church, till a Patriarch should be above a Bishop, a Bishop above a Priest, a Priest above a Deacon, and the Bishop of [Page 43]Rome above them all. And that this is my Body in the Sacra­ment of the Lords Supper is to be understood in the literall sense, and that there is a Transmutation of the bread and wine into the body and bloud of Christ, as in John 2. the substance of water is turned into the substance of wine. And that the words, Doe this, are spoken to the Priest to create the body of our Lord, affirming, the Priest to to have power to create the very body and bloud of Christ, and that it is lawfull to invocate Saints and Angels, and that Infants dying after Baptisme, become Interceders, even for their Parents: And that auricular Confession to the Priest is absolutely necessary to salva­tion, once a yeare, or at least once in a mans life. And hath also laboured to maintaine universall grace, and that the Church of Rome is as honourable a Church as any in the world: And that he useth to make as low obeysance at the mentioning of the Vir­gin Maries name, as he doth at the name Jesus. And doth not onely bow thrice at his going, and thrice at his returne from the Communion Table set Altar-wise; But teacheth, That Adoration is due to it, when the holy mysteries are absent; and that it is as lawfull to worship the Altar, as for the woman that touched the hem of his garment to worship Christ, and as it was for the 24. Elders in the Revelation to worship before the Throne, And hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords-Supper to divers of his Parishioners, though they desired it on their knees at the Railes, meerely upon his owne will, and denied the cup to divers to whom he gave the bread, and hath often preached, That if a child die baptized, it is undoubtedly saved, but if it die before baptisme, it is undoubtedly damned, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

87. The Benefice of Thomas Vaughan, Curate of the Parish Church of Chatham in the county of Kent, is sequestred, for that he hath beene a great practiser of the late illegall super­stitious Innovations and presser of the same upon the conscien­ces of his auditory, protesting against them that would not comply with him therein, as men of a devillish spirit, and hath been very negligent in his Cure, many times not prea­ching [Page 44]above once a moneth, and affirmed, That to preach in sea­son is to preach on Sundaies in the fore-noone, and out of season in the after-noon: And endeavoured to hinder his parishioners from going to heare Sermons else where, when they had none at home, affirming to them, That it was as lawfull for him to use Dalliance, or lie with his neighbours wise, as for any of them to goe from their owne Parish. And is a common frequenter of tavernes, sitting a tipling there, and hath been often drunke, and drew one to the taverne that had vowed not to drinke wine, and mingled wine and beere and drew him to drinke it, and then clapt him on the shoulder and bad him make vowes no more, for he had now broken it; and did preach openly, That to preach nothing but Scripture without authority of the Fathers, was like the devils sheering of hoggs, a great cry, but a litle wooll. And said upon the dissolution of the late Parliament, that the Mem­bers of that Parliament were a company of logger headed fel­lowes.

88. The Benefice of Richard Goffe, Vicar of the Parish Church of East-Greensteed in the county of Sussex, is sequestred, for that he is a common haunter of Tavernes and Ale-houses, a common swearer of bloudy oathes, and singer of baudy songs and often drunke, and keepeth company with Papists and scandalous persons, and hath confessed, That he chiefly stu­died Popish Authours, highly commended Queene Maries time, and disparaged Queene Elizabeths, as an enemy to learning, and hoped to see the time againe that there should be no Bible in mens houses. And hath openly preached, That such as goe to other Parish Churches then their owne, are in the state of damna­tion, and that after the bread and wine at the Sacrament is conse­crated, it is no more bread and wine, but the body and blood of Christ. And in a funerall Sermon at the buriall of a woman, said, That she being regenerated in Baptisme did live and die without sin: and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament, say­ing, That he hoped to see it confounded, and that he cared not a figg for the Parliament.

89. The Benefice of Thomas Staple, Vicar of the parish Church of Mundon in the county of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a common frequenter of Tavernes and Ale-houses, and a great drinker, and companion with drunken, debaushed and malignant persons: And upon the first of June in this in­stant yeare, 1643. being the next day after the Fast, invited to his house a riotous company, to keepe a day of prophanenesse by drinking of healths round about a joyn'd-stoole, singing of prophane songs with hollowing and roaring, and at the same time enforced such as came to him upon other occasions, to drinke healths about the stoole with him, untill they were drunke. And hath taught, That it is not for Lay-men to meddle with the Word, nor yet to search the Scriptures. And hath oft left his parishioners destitute of preaching on the Lords-day, even within these 12. moneths, and when he hath been absent from them, hath substituted in his roome very drunken and debau­shed Curates, and hath professed, that if any of his parish that did not like of his course of life should be sicke, and send for him to be reconciled to him, hee would not come at him, though hee were sure to save his soule thereby. And hath taught, That children dying without Baptisme are all damned, and if any Infant that received the Sacrament of Baptisme should bee damned, he would be damned for him.

90. The Benefice of Peter Allen, Vicar of the Parish Church of Tolsbury in the county of Essex, is sequestred, for that he hath lived incontinently a long time with severall women, that is to say with Mary Tim, who went from his house with child by him, Frances Smith, by whom he also had a bastard. And with Ann Cooper whom he hath kept for the space of 7 yeers last past, and yet keepeth in his house, who miscarried of a child begot­ten by him. And while the Railes were standing about the Communion Table, he refused to administer the Sacrament to such as would not come to them. And hath beene very negligent of his Cure, absenting himselfe without any care ta­ken for supply thereof a month together, whereby the bodies [Page 46]of the dead have beene left unburied severall daies, and hath ex­pressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

91. The Benefice of Iohn Hurt, Vicar of the Parish Church of Horndon upon the hill, in the county of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a common frequenter of Tavernes and Ale-houses, and a common drunkard and gamester, a com­mon swearer and curser, and hath beene convicted before the Justice of peace for six oathes at a time, and then sware by God, he did not sweare, and hath a very evill report of uncleannesse and abuse of women, and hath spoken basely of the Parlia­ment and expressed malignancy against the same, and taught his Parishioners on Fast-dayes in the after-noone to follow their worldly occasions, and used himselfe then to spend that time in the Ale-house.

92. The Benefices of Paul Clapham, Vicar of the Parish Church of Farnham in the County of Surry and Parson of the Parish Church of Martin Worthy in the county of South-hamp­ton, are sequestred, for that he hath lived in adultery with seve­rall women, and hath had divers bastards and charged the Pa­rish with the keeping of them, and hath two bastards at this time kept, one of which he payeth for the maintenance of, and is bound with his son to pay for the maintenance of the other. And hath called the Parliament and their adherents, Rebels and Traitours, and exhorted men to contribute and take up Armes against the Parliament, and hath deserted his said Cure and betaken himselfe to the Army of Cavaleers about January last.

93. The Benefice of Iohn Amnes, Parson of the Parish Church of Charleton in the County of Kent, is sequestred, for that he is a common drunkard, and hath beene drunke on the Fast-daies, and useth to drinke healths, and in them to wish, That he might be cursed by Father, Mother and all his Kin, that endeth one health and will not another begin; And hath kept a com­mon Ale-house, and is a prophaner of the Sabbath day, by common sequenting of Ale-houses thereon, and is a practiser [Page 47]of the late Innovations, and would never preach himselfe, nor suffer others to preach on the Sabbath-dayes in the after-noon, and hath attempted the chastity of divers women, and used un­chast behaviour towards them.

94. The Benefice of Robert Shepard, [...] of the Parish Church of Hepworth in the county of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he is a common drunkard, and frequenter of Tavernes and Ale-houses, lying and continuing drunke in the said houses di­vers nights, sometimes twice or thrice a weeke, and is greatly suspected of incontinency, having had divers maid-servants depart from his house great with child, none living in the house with them but himselfe, and some of them have returned againe to live with him, and within a short time have been with-child againe; And hath been a great practiser of the Altar-worship, an inforcer of his Parishioners to receive the Sacrament at the railes, and hath put 15. at a time from the Sacrament for refu­sing to receive it at the railes; And in his Catechising and prea­ching, calls his parishioners, Black-mouthed hell-hounds, Limmes of the Devill, Fire-brands of Hell, Plow joggers, Bawling doggs, Weaverly Iacks, and Church-Robbers, affirming, that if he could terme them worse he would; And hath endeavoured to perswade poore men to forsweare themselves for him, and hath affirmed, That the Parliament were but a company of factious spirits.

95. The Benefice of Iohn Woolhouse, Vicar of the Parish Church of West-Mersea in the county of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a common and excessive tipler and drinker both at home and abroad, a common Ale-house haunter and drunkard, and on the Lords day going from the Church to the Ale­house in the fore-noon, and continuing tipling there till the after-noon service, and useth to intice and provoke others to joyne in the same excesse with him, even to drunkennesse, and is a common dicer and gamester for money, inticing his tipling companions thereunto, and is a common curser and swearer, and hath tempted women to incontinency, and hath expressed great malignancy against the Parliament.

96. The Benefice of Henry Hannington, Vicar of the Parish Church of Hougham in the county of Kent, is sequestred, for that he is a common and notorious drunkard, and oft lying dead­drunke in high-wayes, and hath continued so for the space of twenty yeares and upwards, and useth to sing in his cupps in the Ale-house baudy songs, which he calleth Cathedrall Songs, and on Easter-Eve and the severall Saturdayes before and after that, he was so drunke that he was scarce able to speake, and yet did administer the Communion on the three Sundayes follow­ing them; And being likely to recover the Peere of Dover to be within the bounds of his Parish, hee was asked how so great a number could have roome in so small a Church as his, and his answer was, Let them pay me their offerings at Easter, and let them all goe to the Devill at Whitsontide, and hath been so negligent of his Cure, as children have been six or seven weekes unbaptized, and the rest of the parish wholy neglected; And when he read the Book of Sports on the Lords day, there was Beere laid into his Barne, and dancing and drinking there that day, and to give them the more time for it, he dismissed the Congregation with a few prayers, and left off preaching in the after-noone; And was at the time of the late Innovations, a very forward promotor, and diligent practiser of them, and threatned the Church-wardens when they took downe the communion-Table into the Church, and when young people and servants have come to him to pay their offerings and be examined of their fitnesse to receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, his manner alwayes was, to aske them, How many Piggs their Fathers and Masters had, and how many Fowle they kept, and how many Lambes, and when they had fully informed him thereof, admitted them to the Sacrament without any further exami­nation.

97. The Benefice of Samuel Sowthen, Vicar of the Parish Church of Malendine in the county of Essex, is sequestred, for that he is a common haunter of Ale-houses and Tavernes, and often drunke even upon the Lords day, and is a common pro­voker [Page 49]of others to drinke excessively, rejoycing when he had made them drunke; and is a common swearer and curser, and hath refused to deliver the Sacrament of the Lords Supper to his parishioners that would not come to the railes to receive, and useth to bow to the Elements in the Sacrament, lifting them up and imbracing them, and hath administred the Sacra­ment of the Lords Supper in one kind only, and preached in maintenance thereof, and hath been a diligent practiser of the late Innovations, and perswader of others thereunto, and hath frequently enveighed against painfull Preachers and their hea­rers, comparing them to Pedlers and Ballad-singers, that have most company, when rich Merchants have but few, and hath perse­cuted his Parishioners even to excommunication, for going to heare Sermons at other Churches on the Lords-day in the after-noone, when they had none at home, and hath expressed great malignity against the Parliament, and is vehemently suspected of living incontinently, and in adultery with Ka­therine Hayward, and hath been severall times presented to the Ecclesiasticall Court by the Church-wardens and sides-men for the same.

98. The Benefice of Thomas Heard, Vicar of the Parish Church of West-Tukely in the County of Essex, is sepuestred, for that he is a common drunkard and companion of drun­kards, and hath been so drunke, that he hath tumbled into dit­ches and mire, and hath been oft drunke since he was complai­ned of in Parliament, and in one of his drunken fitts, called for a fire to be made, and vowed he would burne his Wife and children in it, and refused to deliver the Sacrament to his Pa­rishioners for not kneeling at the ledge of the railes, though they did present themselves kneeling neere unto it within his reach, and when the former Parliament brake up, said boasting­ly, That he hoped then to live to see all the Puritans hanged.

99. The Benefice of Samuel Scrivener, Parson of the Parish Church of Westhropp in the County of Suffolk, is sequestred, for that he did frequently bow towards the communion-Table, [Page 50]affirming, That there was an inherent holinesse in that place, and hath committed adultery with Margaret the Wife of George Woods, and is a common frequenter of Ale-houses, and hath been often drunke, and hath said, That the County of Suf­folk had chosen such factious fellowes for their Knights, that the Parliament was not like to hold, and hath preached against this present defensive war of the Parliament and Kingdome.

100. The Benefice of Ambrose Westrop, Vicar of the Parish Church of Much-Totham in the Countie of Essex, is sequestred, for that he doth commonly prophane the ordinance of prea­ching, by venting in the Pulpit, matters concerning the secrets of Women, to stir up his auditory to laughter; And hath taught in his Sermons, That a man that useth carnall copulation with his wife the night before the administration of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, unlesse his wife require him so to doe, ought not to come to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; and that a woman that hath Monethly sicknesse, ought not to come to the Sacrament; That a Woman is worse then a Sow, in two respects; First, Be­cause a Sowes skinne is good to make a Cart-saddle, and her Bristles good for a Sowter. Secondly, Because a Sow will runne away if a man cry but Hoy, but a woman will not turne head, though beaten downe with a Leaver; and that all the difference betweene a Woman and a Sow, is in the nape of the neck, where a Woman can bend upwards, but the Sow cannot, and that a woman is respected by a man, onely for his uncleane lust, and that she that is nursed with Sowes milke, will learne to wallow; and divers modest women absenting from Church, because of such uncivill passages, he affirmed, That all that were then absent from Church were whores: And having been a sutor to a Widdow whom he called Black Besse, who rejected him and married another, he observed in his Sermon out of one of the Psalmes, That David prayed to God, not to Saint or An­gell, nor yet to black Besse, who was then in the Church before him; and that Jacob to deceive his brother of the blessing, made lie upon lie, but when Esau came home and perceived it, he flung a­way with a pox, and speaking against such as pleased him not in [Page 51]paying the tithes, in the Pulpit he turned toward his brother in-law then in the Church, and said, You brother Block-head will pay no tithe-Bushes neither, And being angry with one whose name was Kent, he said thus in the Pulpit, they say the Devill is in Harwich, but I am sure he is in Kent; And speaking of the Pa­rable of those that made excuses for not coming to the marriage, he observed, That the married man had no excuse, but said in plaine termes, he could not come, Nay said he, the married man cannot come, but must goe to Hell in his whore: And at another time told a story in the Pulpit of two severall women, that in their husbands absence had familiars, and said, that when it was night they went up into the chamber together with a candle, and put out the candle, and there is sport, heavenly sport, such sport as never was in lit­tle Heaven; and when their husbands come home, they must enquire the way by Horne-row, and that Rahab was a whore, and kept an Ale-house at Jericho, and that so are all Ale-wives whores and their husbands Cuckoulds; And being a sutor to one Mistris Ellen Pratt a Widdow, he did write upon a peece of paper these words, Bonny Nell, I love thee well, and did pin it on his cloake, and ware it up and downe a Market-Towne, which wo­man refusing him, he did for five or six weekes after, utter little or nothing else in the Pulpit, but invectives against Women; And being sutor to another woman, who failed to come to din­ner upon invitation to his house, he immediately roade to her house, and desiring to speake with her, she coming to the doore, without speaking to her, he pulled off her head-geere and rode away with it, and many other like passages fall from him in his preaching, and were proved against him.