Mercurius Rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646.
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- Mercurius Rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646.
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- Ryves, Bruno, 1596-1677.
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- London :: Printed for R. Royston ... and are to be sold by R. Green ...,
- 1685.
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- Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.
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"Mercurius Rusticus, or, The countries complaint of the barbarous outrages committed by the sectaries of this late flourishing kingdom together with a brief chronology of the battels, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages, from the beginning of this unnatural war, to the 25th of March, 1646." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A58041.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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AN ADVERTISEMENT To every indifferent Reader.
Christian Brethren, and Fellow Subjects,
IT is a memorable saying of an ancient Hea∣then Moralist, Curae leves loquuntur, in∣gentes stupent: And the like may be said concerning sorrows; when they come once to over∣charge the heart, they stupifie it, and obstruct those passages, by which it should ease it selfe of them. This hath been our particular case: Our being deprived of our livelyhoods (for how small a trifle this insuing Remonstrance will manifest) hath filled our hearts with sorrow: But when we considered, not onely the hand foom whence this oppression cometh, (even that which pretendeth to the infallible weild of the sword of Justice) but withal that through our sides such a fatal stroke is given to one of the most famous Universities of Christendom: this sad prospect did so far sur∣charge us with grief, that it cast us for a long time into a fit of Musing, till at last (the fire be∣ing kindled) we spkae with our Tongue.