Articles of Treaſon and other miſdemeanors, exhibited to Iſaac Pennington by Maſter Chamfield, alias Captain Cloakbag, againſt Edward Dobſon, the Malignant Stationer without Newgate.

I. IMprimis, That the ſaid Edward Dobſon, hath and doth refuſe to go out with the ſaid Captain to fight the Lords battails a­gainſt the Lords Annointed, ſaying, that he is reſolved to un­dergo any corporall puniſhment, rather then to fight for a Rid­dle; which he accounts our fighting againſt the King, and yet fighting for him.

2 That he being told of the death of the noble Lord Brooke laught, ſaying, Now the Browniſts Dagon is faln, their Idoll; and againe ſmiled, ſpeaking in the Noſe, The Glory of Iſrael is de­parted.

3 That the ſaid Malignant, hath been alwayes forward by Diſputations, Arguments, and the like, to maintain (to the great prejudice of out Cauſe which we fight for) that Churches are more convenient, decent, and fitting for us to preach and exer­ciſe our gifts in, than Chimney-corners, Hollow-trees, Woods, Sawpits, or the like; and that the ſaid Malignant hath been the greateſt offence to our uprightneſſe, that ever hapned without the Gate of our New Jeruſalem.

4 That he being told of the Trenches which we were dig­ging at the Sixe Windmils, anſwered, that they were the fitteſt places for ſuch giddy braines to lye in, and ſaid to our great diſ­paragement, that when Prince Rupert came, we would all turn Round like thoſe Windmils.

5 That he hath oftentimes threatned to publiſh a Book in­tituled,2 Flagellum Sciſmaticorum & Browniſticorum, or, a Scourge for Schiſmatickes: Upon the Frontiſpeece of which (as he ſaid) ſhould be the picture of a Weather-cock and a Windmill, a Weathercock for new-England, and a Windmil for old England, and that he would haue enſculpt, the picture of a man kneeling down to a Windmill, calling it the Browniſts Devotion.

6. That he called the new elected Enſigne of your ſaid Cap­tain Thomas Andrews Grocer, Cholerick Cock-braind, Codpiece Tom; and ask'd him who was drunk the laſt night of the firſt Mo­neth when he carried my Colours to the Exchange; and ſaid, that a Knave in grain was the fitteſt to carry the Colours of our New-Militia, which was lately buried in Houndſditch, and all this he ſaid for no other reaſon, but becauſe my Enſigne called thoſe Gentlemen that came to his ſhop the Kings Rogues, and ſaid that the King had none but Rogues about him, which alas he ſaid out of conſcience, haveing lately taken the late Oath and Proteſtation to defend the Kings honour.

7. That he hath often ſpoken againſt our Rebaptiſm, affirming that our going to Hackney-Marſh with our cleane ſhirts and ſmockes to be baptiſed in the little Riuer there, which we call our Iordan, is unlawfull; Alledging for his proof the ſaying of popiſh Auguſtin, and Proteſtant Perk ns, whoſe opinion is, as he ſaid, that being once baptiſed (though according to the cuſtom of the Church of Rome) is a ſufficien teſtimony of our outward Reception into the Church of Chriſt and that other baptiſme is needleſſe and frivalous.

8 That he hath Philoſophically and vainely maintained by ar­guments and diſputations, that Browniſts and Roundheads doe commonly begert Children with long viſſages, long ears, and Long Noſes, long viſſages the emblem of ſimplicity, long eares that they may ouer-reach the ſhepheards voyce when he calles for a feaſt amongſt the rich Saints; and long Noſes that they may the more eaſily ſmell the ſweet ſaviours of the holy plumbroth.

9 That he is a great admirer at that which we deſpiſe and con­temn, Namely wit and Learning which are flat popery, and the very markes of the Beaſt, and that he did often and frequently3 ſpeake againſt our new Goſpell, which teacheth us (as he ſaies) to rebell and reſiſt the King and likewiſe againſt the miniſters that brought it ouer from New-England, the Land of Canaan, As Mr. Peters, whoſe zealous Doctrine we have ſtayed ſo long to heare on a Faſt day, that we have even bepiſt our our ſelves againe, and alſo againſt Mr. Caſe, whom he calles my Lord Maiors Trumpeter, M. Marler the button maker, againſt Mr. Till who though carnally blind yet a ſpirituall ſeeing man, ye & feeling too, for he his lately betroathed to a ſiſter in matrimony. But J can­not thus paſſe by Mr. Peters, a man that hath done ſo much good for us, eſpecially by his indefatigable pains in every pariſh in Lon­don to find out thoſe our many Babes borne out of the eſtate & covenant of Grace (though by this Malignant called Baſtards) and convayed dilligently to New-England, by whoſe meanes the ob•ects of our owne viledneſſe are taken away from our our perpetuall remembrance.

10 He hath moſt abominably ſpoken againſt the Practices of our Lay Divines as Mr. Greene the feltmaker, Spencer the Horſe­rubber, Quarterman the brewers Clarke, and Iohn Gaile the Sowgelder of Wallingford, who have been very laborious to edi­fie us our & wiues in the truth, & that he hath lately beaten at his ſhop one of our cheif Divines, Namely Nicholas Tew the Gird­ler at the exchange, who teacheth at Whitechappel in a Chamber every Saboath day, and as if that were not ſufficient to fill up the Meaſure of his wickedneſſe, he afterwards fell to buffet him, and then (moſt tyrannically) turned him over to be buffetted by Satan.

11 That the great Malignant Stationer doth many times ſpeake againſt that which we call diſtrayning, calling us Iſraelites and thoſe of his opinion Egiptians, ſaying that we do rob and ſpoyl them of their ſilver and Gold plate when verily we do but bor­row and take it without their conſent.

12 That he did ſtrongly endeavor to defend the Biſhops and their calling to be (as he ſaid) by the Iuſtitution of Chriſt proving it out of the firſt of the Acts, and that he did vſually a nights be­fore his going to bed, ſing the Common prayers, which we call4 the Common Maſſe, in the Tone and Tongue of the Beaſt, and that he did ſpeak againſt our ſilencing of 60. Divines, ſaying, that when we had put out the Candles we might at play at blindman buffe, both the City, Cloſe, and inviſible Committee, and that when the lights were out, we might fall co the holy ſiſters in the dark, when in ſincerity we need not, for we can do it faſt enough in the light.

13 That the ſaid Malignant did commonly ſay that we did rob the wicked to cloath the godly, and inſtanced, our taking Cloth from the Drapers in Pauls Church-yard, and that he did liken our teaching, to the wilde and frantick preaching of Brow­niſts or Anabaptiſts in Germany, and ſaid that in the End, we would ſerve the Malignant Citizens as they did the Germans, firſt rob them of their goods, and then of their lives.

14 That he did uſually reproach our Outlandiſh Teachers, calling them New-Engliſh Canaanites, Ridiculous Lecturers, and ſaying, that they did commonly pray blaſphemy, and preach treaſon, Rebellion, and ſedition, which (as he ſayd) were the chief cauſes of our miſeries, and did liken them to the Poets of old who made Comedies to pleaſe the people,Populo ut place-rent quas feciſſet fabulas. Terent. Pro. Sermons, and ſaid that they were the Locuſts ſpoken of in the Revelation, that came out of the bottomleſſe pit, alſo that he did call my Lord Mayors worſhip the Lay Antichriſt, becauſe he had (as he ſaid) uſurpt the Keys and the ſword which was an evident marke of the man of ſinne. And thus have I (with the advice of my brother Potter, being both of us the new deviſed Common-councell-men for the pariſh of Sepulchers) preſented unto your grave worſhip, fourteen Articles of treaſon againſt the ſaid malignant, deſiring in the names of our ſelves, and all the Seperatiſts of the ſaid pariſh, that the ſaid Dobſon be put to anſwer to all and every of the ſaid Articles and accuſations that ſo ſuch proofes and proceedings may be made againſt him, as may be correſpondent and anſwerable to the judaicall law; with our expoſitions and notes upon the ſame.