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, [Page 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 frequently [Page 3]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 call [Page 4]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.