Chap. VIII, The H I S T' OR;Y ofthe PURITANS'. , 367 " e This is the corps of Roger Rippon, a fervant of Chrift,. andther ma- Zaneen. " jetty's faithful fubjedt ; who is the laft offixteen or feventeen which that El'zbeah, " great enemy of God, the arcbbifhop of Canterbury with his high cam- migioners have murthered in Newgate within thefe five years, mani- Infcription " feftly for the teftimony of Jefus Chrift;. his foul is now with the uponRtp- " Lord, and his blood crieth for fpeedy vengeance againft that great áBrow f}. " enemy of the faints, and againft Mr. Richardnuns. [a juftice of peace Strype's Añs " in London] who in this and many the like points, hath abufed his Vol. ult. power for the upholding of the romifh antichrift, prelacy, and prieft- 133' " hood. He died A. D. 1592. Many copies of this infcription were difperfed among friends, for which fome were apprehended and con- fined. The privy council taking no notice of the above-mentioned fupplica- tions, the prifoners in the feveral goals about London, joined in the fol- lowing petition to the lord treafurer Burleigh, to which they fubfcribed ! their names. Thehumble petition of many poor chriflians, imprfned by the bops: in fúndry prifons in and about London, to the lord treafurer. " TT7E humbly befeech your honour,. either to grant us a fpeedy trial Petir f, `° // together, or fome free chriftian conference, or elfe in the mean 1ít5 in the " while, that we may be bailed according to law; or elfe put into Bride=prifons. about " wed, or fome other convenient place, where we may be together for our London. `' mutual help and comfort;. or if your honour will not yourfelf alone Stryge': Am. " grant this our requeft, that then it may pleafe.you to be a mean pgx ult, for our fpeedy relief, unto the reft of her majefty's moot honourable " privy council. " The Almighty God, that hath preferved your lordfhip unto thefe ho- " nourable years in fohigh fervice to our fovereignprince, and to the un- " ° fpeakable comfort of this whole land, give your honourable heart fo, cc tender compaffion and careful confderatton in equity, of the poor af- fikted fervants of Chrift, and that (before the lord plead againft this " land for Abel's innocent blood that is flied in the feveral prifons) your cc honour may open your mouth for' the dumb in the caute of the chit- cc dren of [devoted to], deftrudlion, [that] you may open your mouth and judge righteoufly, and judge the caute of the afflidted; as the " people of Ifrael when they went to war firft made peace with God, cc and removed all occafion whereby his wrath might be incenfed, left he fhould fight againft them in battle. For if this fuppref ion of the 46 truth, and oppreflion of Chrift in his members, contrary to all law "' and.
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