Votivæ Angliæ, Englands complaint to their king:, or, The humble desires of all the zealous and true-hearted Protestants in this kingdome, for a speedy and happy reformation of abuses in church government, being the onely meanes to remove these distractions, and to avert the judgement of God from us. : As they were expressed in sundry petitions, remonstrances and letters, lately presented from them to the king, upon sundry occasions. / Collected by a wel-wisher to reformation.

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Votivæ Angliæ, Englands complaint to their king:, or, The humble desires of all the zealous and true-hearted Protestants in this kingdome, for a speedy and happy reformation of abuses in church government, being the onely meanes to remove these distractions, and to avert the judgement of God from us. : As they were expressed in sundry petitions, remonstrances and letters, lately presented from them to the king, upon sundry occasions. / Collected by a wel-wisher to reformation.

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Spencer, John, 1601-1671.

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London :: Printed by H. Dudley.,

1643.

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Subject terms

Charles -- I, -- King of England, 1600-1649.

Reformation -- England -- Sources.

Great Britain -- History -- Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660.

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"Votivæ Angliæ, Englands complaint to their king:, or, The humble desires of all the zealous and true-hearted Protestants in this kingdome, for a speedy and happy reformation of abuses in church government, being the onely meanes to remove these distractions, and to avert the judgement of God from us. : As they were expressed in sundry petitions, remonstrances and letters, lately presented from them to the king, upon sundry occasions. / Collected by a wel-wisher to reformation." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a93669.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE HIGH AND MIGHTY MONARCH CHARLES by Divine provi∣dence King of Great Brit∣taine, France and Ireland, &c.
• A DISCORSE OE DIVERS PETITI∣ONS OF HIGH CONCERN∣ment, and great consequence.
  • This Petition was written upon the Booke for the re∣creation upon the Lords day, and I delivered it to King Iames at Greenwitch: hee tooke it with him in his Coach, and committed mee to Mr. Hut∣chinson, of the guard, for a certaine time, and was graciously pleased to have great care of mee for my dyet and lodging, and after divers disputations with Bishop Neal, and Bishop Buckridge, set mee at libertie.
  • A Petition delivered to King Iames at Bletfoe.
  • A Petition delivered to our gracious King Charles at Finchingbrook, at his going to his Army Royall, Anno, 1639, March 28.
  • A Petition delivered unto our gracious King Charles, upon this occasion; The King was to go towards New-market upon Munday, but the waggon and the hounds went thorow Cheapside upon the Lords day, which was not lawfull, O King: I never heard that they removed since upon the Lords day, so gra∣cious was the Kings care herein.
  • A Petition unto our gracious King Charles, upon the late setting forth of the Book for Recreations upon the Lords day.
  • A strange and strong transportation upon the Lords day, April 27. 1639.
  • A Coppie of a Letter to a great Peer of this Land, upon a strange discontentment betwixt him and his beauti∣full Lady, about the passing of two Manners unto his onely Sonne as brave and as noble a gentleman as this Kingdome afforded; the Letter I delivered unto his owne hand: he read it, and retired himselfe into an inward Chamber, wept much, and came out againe unto me, gave me thanks, and said never man desi∣red more to gaine awoman than he did to gaine her: to this effect, never did I in al my time know such great dislike about such a slight occasion, betwixt two so vertuous, so noble, so beautifull and amiable, and so long reioycing in happy enioying one another, as will appeare in this dolorous discovrse.
  • A Coppy of a Letter sent to the Earle of Cleveland and Tho. Lo. Oliver St. Iohn, for ending of a g suit betwixt Iustice Fish, and Mr. Mordant, con∣cerning a seat in the Church at Northill.
  • letter
  • document
  • A Letter to Sir William Litton Knight, con∣cerning Master Spencer, that famous learned man, committed to prison for the refusing to stand to the hard award of Mr. Noades, but was upon this let∣ter speedly released, and Sir William Litton tooke him againe into his favour, and was a noble friend unto him during his life.
  • A Coppy of a Letter to Mr. John Harvy, My Lord St Iohns Steward.
  • account
  • A Copy of a Letter to my Cousin M. Bullie, a grave Preacher in new England.
  • A charitable Consideration, of new Englands plantation.
  • Mtr. Brightman a little before he died, translated the Canticles into verse, whereupon I wrote these verses.
  • A charitable Supposition of Mtr. Brightmans sudden Dissolution.
  • epitaph
  • A Coppie of a Letter sent to a great Lady.
  • letter
  • letter and exposition
    • A Copy of a Letter to the prisoners at Bedford, with a Booke of common Prayer, and M. Dods exposition upon the Commandements bound up together with bosses and claspes.
    • exposition
  • A Copy of a Letter to M. Hutchinson, to whose hands King Iames committed me, after I delivered unto him the petition for the Sabbath.
  • letter
  • account
  • A Copy of a Letter to Sir Oliver Luke Knight, when he was high Sheriffe.
  • A Copy of a letter to his brother Nicholas Spencer, to disswade him from his inordinate delight he took in Cock-fighting, which soon after he happily and abso∣lutely gave over.
  • letter
  • The direction for Master Rochester Carr.
  • A Copie of a Letter to a vertuous Gentlewoman greatly afflicted in minde, which it pleased God to give unto her great comfort.
  • account
• A Discource of mad Dogs, and the danger of their bi∣ting, with some directions to cure the same.
• A TRACTATE OF MELANCHOLIE.
  • 1. Of the humours in generall.
  • Of the Blood.
  • Of Phlegm.
  • Of Choler.
  • Of Melancholy.
• parable
• In this heavy affliction in parting with so deare Beau∣tifull and Vertuous a wife.
• A Speech, Master Spencer made upon this occasion, their was agreat discontentment, and quarell betwixt Sir Iarrad Harvie, and his neighbours of Caring∣ton, about a Levie had not the God of peace, framed their heartes to peace, by the powerfull sermon that Master Saule that famous Preacher, and the great importunity of Master Spencer, which tooke such happy successe, that they lived together like loving Friends untill the death of that valiant Knight, who's death was much lamented, and he lies their in∣terred in a Magnificent Tombe: in Mr. Sauls Text was,

  Beho'd how good, and how pleasant, It is for Brethren to dwell together in unite

  Psal. 133. 1.
• A PRAYER which Master Spencer doth use ordinarily in his famil∣ly, Morning and Evening, which he doth earnestly desire might be zealously and de∣voutly performed in every family in this Kingdome, that are not provided of a better.