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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<P>S^t^. Edwards
GHOST:
OR,
Anti-Normani&s;me:
Being a patheticall Complaint and
Motion in the behalfe of our
Engli&s;h Nation again&s;t her grand
(yet neglected) Grievance,
<HI>Normani&s;me.</HI></P>
<Q>Quaenam (mal&ugrave;m) e&s;t i&s;ta voluntaria Servi|tus?</Q>
<BIBL>Cicer. <HI>in orat.</HI> Phil. 1.</BIBL>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI>
Printed for <HI>Richard Wodenothe</HI> at the Starre under
<HI>Peters</HI> Church in Cornhill. 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
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<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>Ad Lectorem.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THis E&s;&s;ay having long waited for roome and free au|dience
on the publick &s;tage,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Being written <HI>Anno Dom.</HI> 1642.</NOTE> doth now appeare; if
thou ha&s;t a mind to quarrel with it, it mu&s;t be again&s;t
the matter or the forme; again&s;t the matter thou
who art Engli&s;h can&s;t not without betraying either
thine ignorance in not knowing thy Nations deare&s;t<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>i. e.</HI> the title and quality of a free Nation.</NOTE> Rights, or
thine impietie in oppo&s;ing them; being no other then what &s;he injoy'd
and joy'd in, till &s;he lo&s;t them by <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See pag. 15.</NOTE> perfidious Robbers; But if it be
the forme that thou di&s;reli&s;he&s;t, I confe&s;&s;e it needs much favour,
and therefore &s;hould gladly have &s;een thee or &s;ome other to have
prevented it with a better; yet for thy better bearing with the pro|lixity
of the hi&s;toricall part of it (occa&s;ion'd by the copiou&s;ne&s;&s;e of
the &s;ubject worth and oppo&s;ite arrogance,) thou mai&s;t remember
that it was King <HI>Aha&s;huerus</HI> his choice recreation to review the
Acts of his Ance&s;tors, and that the Jewes could heare even Saint
<HI>Steven</HI> reciting their high Pedigree, patiently; however, it &s;hall
&s;uffice mee in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to have attempted to have done worthi|ly,
and I doubt not but every true Engli&s;h-man will not only in|dulge
the works weakne&s;&s;e, but al&s;o lend both his heart and hand
in all lawfull meanes toward the accompli&s;hing of its <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See pag. 19.</NOTE>Demands,
as without which obtained (at lea&s;t in a good degree,) this Nation
can never be Honourable nor (con&s;equently) Happy. <HI>Vale.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>JOHN HARE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="errata">
<HEAD>ERRATA.</HEAD>
<P>Page 1 line 8 read magnanimity. <HI>p.</HI> 2 in margine <HI>r. vide Virgilium. ibid.</HI> l.
20 for right <HI>r.</HI> weight. <HI>ibid.</HI> l 21 <HI>r.</HI> &s;ulphureous. <HI>ibid.</HI> l 27 <HI>r.</HI> ingenuous <HI>p.</HI> 3 l.
<HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> r.</HI> unnatural'd. <HI>p. 9</HI> l. 9 <HI>r. Cimbri p</HI> 7 l. 1 <HI>r.</HI> &s;ymptomes <HI>ibid.</HI> in margine, for
&s;ubject <HI>r. &s;cilicet. ibid&punc; r. Excre&s;centia. ibid.</HI> l. 19 r. recordeth. <HI>ibid.</HI> l. 25 <HI>r.</HI> con|fe&s;t.
<HI>ibid.</HI> l. 27 <HI>r.</HI> their. <HI>ibid</HI> l. 38. <HI>r.</HI> activene&s;&s;e&punc; <HI>p.</HI> 6 l. 14 for of <HI>r.</HI> as. <HI>ibid.</HI> l. 16
for is <HI>r.</HI> are. <HI>ibid.</HI> l. 26 <HI>r. Bulloigne p.</HI> 13 in margine <HI>r. Varian&acirc;. Praeter alia le|viora.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="treatise">
<PB REF="3">
<PB N="1" REF="3">
<HEAD>Saint EDWARDS Gho&s;t:
OR,
Anti-Normani&s;me.</HEAD>
<P>_WHile I behold and revolve the great and<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exordium.</NOTE>
laborious inver&s;ions and ever&s;ions of things
effected by the repre&s;entative body of this
Kingdome in this and precedent Parlia|ments,
with that liberall and va&s;t ex|pence
of Engli&s;h bloud, lives, labour and
co&s;t, which with the height of animo&s;ity
and &s;eeming magnamity, former genera|tions
have be&s;towed, and the pre&s;ent doth not &s;pare in a&s;&s;er|ting
the publick cau&s;es of this Nation,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Viz.</HI> The aba|ting of Prero|gative, aboli|&s;hing Courts, Monopolies, &amp;c.</NOTE> and all excepting whats
about &s;ome Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall nicities, for the &s;ecuring (or enlar|ging)
of our E&s;tates and Priviledges from dome&s;tick oppre&s;|&s;ion,
and concentred in the object of ea&s;e and commodity,
and &s;uch like petty advantages; I cannot but with &s;hame and
greife of mind look upon the genius of our Nation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nebuchadnez.</NOTE> as &s;eem|ing
to have tran&s;migred from that metamorpho&s;ed Prince of
<HI>Chaldea,</HI> who being tran&s;mitted from the top of humanity in|to
the condition of bea&s;ts of the field for a great part of
his en&s;uing age, made fodder and other bruti&s;h accommoda|tione
the proper &s;ubject of his content and contentions, not
harbouring in the meane time a back-looking thought towards
that Royall E&s;tate, by the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion whereof hee had been once
the mo&s;t eminent of the mortals of his age; or as re&s;embling
<PB N="2" REF="4">
&s;ome &s;trange Heros, who being captived and marked for a &s;lave,
&s;hould have his &s;en&s;es &s;o captivated al&s;o, as to be more ambi|tious
for to bee chamber'd in his Iayle, and to gli&s;ter in guilt
fetters, then to be re&s;tored to his lo&s;t freedome and reputa|tion,
contending with earne&s;t extremity for the one, but not
breathing &s;o much as a wi&s;h for the procurement of the o|ther.</P>
<P>That this is our ca&s;e I would that the heavy long and ever|la&s;ting,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Narratio oneris Nomini Angli|co incumbentis.</NOTE>
(heaven grant not everla&s;ting) groans of the <HI>hereditary
Libertie and Honour</HI> of our Nation, (the choyce&s;t and mo&s;t e&s;|&s;entiall
fundamentals of her temporary wel-being, and the mo&s;t
precious part of her earthly Patrimony, the happy ornaments
of her youth) long &s;ince overthrowne, and for many ages to|gether,
lying patients mo&s;t wretchedly under a ma&s;&s;e of unwor|thy
oppre&s;&s;ion, did not too evidently evince, whil&s;t wee (her
&s;onnes) in the interim &s;paring no endeavours in the behalfe of
our le&s;&s;e valuable rights, are in this re&s;pect &s;o &s;tupidly &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e,
that whereas wee have cau&s;e enough with that <HI>Aetnean</HI> pri|&s;oner
<HI>Enceladus</HI> (the eternall monument of dejected great|ne&s;&s;e)
to te&s;tifie the right of our di&s;graceful burthen with fie|ry
fighs and &s;ulphurous bla&s;ts of indignation;<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Virgilium. Aenead. 3.</NOTE> wee contrariwi&s;e
are &s;o farre from any reluctance as to lie in a dead &s;leep under it,
as under our grave-&s;tone, having in&s;cribed thereon the Epitaph
of our honour in red letters of &s;hame, not daring, or not wil|ling
&s;o much as to breath forth a complaint, or to wi&s;h for a
removall of that, then which there is nothing under heaven
more in&s;ufferable to ingenious men, and to &s;uch as would be ac|counted
other then the progeny of <HI>Cham</HI> preordained to &s;er|vility.</P>
<P>This mountaine of di&s;honour which the Engli&s;h name hath &s;o
long groaned under,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">x<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">licatio.</NOTE> and yet we have never once adventured to
complaine of, much le&s;&s;e endeavoured to remove, is no other
then that infamous title of a conquered Nation, and that by &s;o
infamous a conque&s;t; but more e&s;pecially the &s;till vi&s;ible fetters
of our captivity, the evidences of that title; tho&s;e forraigne
Lawes, Language, Names, Titles and Cu&s;tomes, then intro|duced,
and to this day domineering over ours, our &s;tupid de|generatene&s;&s;e
con&s;i&s;ts in this, that in all our contentions by pen
<PB N="3" REF="4">
or &s;word, in all the e&s;&s;ayes of our Poets or Orators (excepting
&s;ome few, whereof <HI>Ver&s;tegan</HI> de&s;erves to be memorized) I could
never yet find any con&s;iderable endeavour for our vindication
from this thraldome and di&s;grace, but rather like tamed Crea|tures
or unnaturall Ianizaries, wee &s;ooth and applaud our &s;elves
in the&s;e gyves and &s;ervile robes as patrician Ornaments; and
(that which mee thinks no true Engli&s;h man can ob&s;erve with|out
indignation (many of tho&s;e that would be accounted to
have honoured our Land with their pens,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Viz.</HI> Some Po|ets and He|ralds.</NOTE> have placed that their
honouring us for a great part, in celebrating the glory of that
Normani&s;me and Franci&s;me which the de&s;ert of our &s;ins hath
inflicted on us, and &s;eeme to have &s;acrificed their love and duty
to their owne Nation, together with their di&s;cretion for an ho|locau&s;t
on the Altar of that name, which is diametrically enmi|ty
to the Engli&s;h; and &s;uch are tho&s;e that a&s;cribe &s;o much worth
to the Normane bloud, and &s;trive to pen up all nobility and
gentry within the accur&s;ed Catalogue of tho&s;e names that came
from the gallick continent.</P>
<P>Indignities that merit a <HI>Lucans genius</HI> and <HI>Tullius dicendi vis,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eju&s;dem tole|rati Redaergutie</NOTE>
to lay open and explode them; But &s;ince the &s;uch of this Nation
contrary to my perpetuall and earne&s;t wi&s;hes and expectation,
are undutifully &s;ilent herein; duty to my countrey &s;hall make
it no indi&s;cretion in mee to undertake the taske, though (a|las)
performing it rather by an intimation then due illu&s;tration
of the truths which follow.</P>
<P>There is no man that under&s;tands rightly what an Engli&s;h man
is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Aturpitudine demon&s;trat&acirc;.</NOTE> but knowes withall that we are a member of the Teutonick
Nation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. A Claritate generis nostri.</NOTE> and de&s;cended out of <HI>Germany;</HI> a de&s;cent &s;o honourable
and happy (if duly con&s;idered) as that the like could not have
been fetched from any other part of Europe, nor &s;carce of the
univer&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hi&s;toria gentis Teutonicae.</NOTE> which will be plaine and manife&s;t if we take a ju&s;t
&s;urvey of the gloriou&s;ne&s;&s;e of that our Mother Nation, and
that in the &s;undry re&s;pects of her ancient and illu&s;trious Ori|ginall,
her generous qualification and magnifick and warlick na|ture;
her atcheivements, domination&punc; greatne&s;&s;e and renown;
her Maje&s;ty and other heroicall points of excellence, wherein
&s;hee is &s;o tran&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">endent, and which make her &s;o Princely, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">
that no other Nation in every re&s;pect (the Scythick ex|cepted)
<PB N="4" REF="5">
may without arrogance dare to compare with
her.</P>
<P>To begin with her Original of it, I may &s;ay as <HI>&V;irgil</HI> of Fame,
<HI>Caput inter nubila condit</HI> &s;hee is a primitive Nation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eju&s;dem anti|quitas.</NOTE> and vaunts
her de&s;cent to be from no other place, then from the top of
<HI>Nimrods</HI> Tower, where was made the fir&s;t divi&s;ion of man|kind
into Nations; &s;hee derives not her &s;elfe (like tho&s;e of her
Neighbours that boa&s;t &s;o much of their great birth) from the
conquer'd relicks of ruined <HI>Troy;</HI> whence al&s;o <HI>Virgil</HI> took &s;o
much paines to deduce his Romans, or from any other Nation,
but as mo&s;t conceive the fir&s;t tran&s;migration that the <HI>Teutones</HI>
made, was (as is afore&s;aid) from the building of <HI>Babel,</HI> from
whence they were conducted by the great <HI>Tui&s;co</HI> (who&s;e name
they &s;till retaine) and placed in tho&s;e &s;eats, which they have not
only ever &s;ince defended again&s;t all invaders and intruders,
but al&s;o mo&s;t notably inlarged the &s;ame upon their Neighbours;
others in more ignorant times, conceited they had their Origi|nall
and Spring (like the Gyants,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tacitus, &amp;c.</NOTE> Myrmidons, <HI>Cadmus</HI> his new
men and other warlick breeds) from the &s;oyle and earth under
them, as which was never known otherwi&s;e then appropriate
to their name and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>To this Antiquity of the Teutonick hou&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fraenobilitas &s;eu Protogenia.</NOTE> there wants not
a con&s;piring quality of bloud effectuall to make it the mo&s;t il|lu&s;trious
and primer Nation of Chri&s;tendome; For <HI>Gomer Ja|phets</HI>
elde&s;t Son is acknowledged by Hi&s;torians to have been the
fir&s;t King and Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or of <HI>Europe,</HI> who&s;e heyre and fir&s;t borne
was <HI>Askenas,</HI> the father &amp; denominator of the German Nation;
the Jewes at this day calling the Germanes Askenites, and the
Saxons (our Progenitors) as the mo&s;t noble tribe, &s;till retai|ning
(with a little Metathe&s;is) as well the name as bloud of
the &s;ame Royall Patriarch, but whether he were one and the
&s;ame with <HI>Tui&s;co,</HI> or el&s;e his Progenitor, is left uncer|tain.</P>
<P>For the generall qualification of the&s;e our Ance&s;tors, it hath
ever &s;poke them to be no other then the true Sonnes of
<HI>Tui&s;co,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Genii excel&s;i|t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters">do.</NOTE> that is of <HI>Mars</HI> (as &s;ome interpret him.) The fir&s;t
character that was given of them to the world, was by
great <HI>Alexander</HI> him&s;elfe, and re&s;ulted from that com|pendious
<PB N="5" REF="5">
di&s;cour&s;e betwixt him and their Amba&s;&s;adours,
when upon their worthy An&s;wer to his proud que|&s;tion,
(as the &s;upplement to <HI>Curtius</HI> his Hi&s;tory record|eth)
he pronounced them an haughty and cavaliering Nati|on,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Germanos &s;u|perbose&s;&s;e.</NOTE>
envying that any &s;hould bee as magnanimous as him|&s;elf.</P>
<P>The next light that was given of them to the &s;outhern world
was in lightning terror;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bellico&s;itas &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Prae&s;tantia ani|mi Corpori&s;que cum rebus ge|&s;ti<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> this was by that fam'd expedition of the
Cymbri and Teutones peculiarly &s;o called, when as tho&s;e our
more immediate Ance&s;tours, wanting elbow-roome in their
native Countrey of Low-Germanie and the Cymbrik Cher&s;o|ne&s;&s;e,
undertooke in a party of 300 thou&s;and adventurers to
&s;eek and mend their fortunes in forraine Countries; the fir&s;t
Countrey they tooke in their way was <HI>France,</HI> then called <HI>Gaule,</HI>
a Countrey preordained for the exerci&s;e and &s;ubject of our Con|que&s;ts,
and bearing a Nation at that time e&s;teemed the Paragon
of the world, and for &s;trength, valour, and numerou&s;ne&s;&s;e in|vincible;
this <HI>France</HI> and french Nation till then unconquered
and in their maiden glory, that Almane Army overran, &s;ubdued
and trampled under foote, thereby leaving to us the progeny
of their Nation, the prime right and Title of conquering them
againe; this Province being ran&s;ackt, over the belly thereof
tho&s;e &s;econd Anaki<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">es bore on their uncontrolled March to|wards
the Alpes and <HI>Italy,</HI> where lay the terme and &s;cope of
their re&s;olution and de&s;igne, which was to try ma&s;teries with
<HI>Rome</HI> for the Empire of the world; <HI>Rome</HI> was not then in her
infancy, under the di&s;plea&s;ure of heaven, and propugned by a
di&s;orderly and unskilful multitude as <HI>Brem<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">s</HI> found her, but
flouri&s;hing in the height of her fortune, &s;trength, and youth|full
vigour; her Di&s;cipline unmatchable, her Armies almo&s;t in|vincible,
and tho&s;e mannaged and conducted by the greate&s;t
Generall of that age <HI>Caius Marius,</HI> &s;o that well might the&s;e
po&s;itive advantages concurring al&s;o with &s;undry accidental ones
(which la&s;t were indeed the mo&s;t efficacious occa&s;ions of the
event) lend the Romanes the fortune at that time over tho&s;e
our Ance&s;tours; but although by the di&s;po&s;ition of the &s;upreme
Will they &s;ell &s;hort of their de&s;igne, and left the honour of
<HI>Romes</HI> de&s;truction for &s;ome others of their Countreymen, in
<PB N="7" REF="6">
en&s;uing ages; yet did they &s;hew forth &s;uch famous &s;umptomes of
more then human daringne&s;&s;e and abilities,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Subject the Goths.</NOTE> that the affrightment
which they ca&s;e before them, &s;hoke all <HI>Italy,</HI> and loaded the
Romane Altars with prayers at that time, and long after with
prai&s;es to their deities, for the deliverance of their City from
&s;o formidable an inva&s;ion, a deliverance that endowed <HI>Marius</HI>
with the preeminent name among&s;t Romes pre&s;ervers, as being
from the inva&s;ion of &s;uch who&s;e performances proclaimed them
a Gigantean Army, and the mo&s;t valiant men that ever the Ro|manes
had to deale with.</P>
<P>Neither did our Ance&s;tours glory faile to increa&s;e with the
increa&s;e of time;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exce<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">tia</NOTE> for the next age produced <HI>Ariovi&s;tus,</HI> with
his martiall Army from Germany over the Rhine to the &s;e|cond
Conque&s;t of <HI>France;</HI> &s;o that twice was that Nation &s;ub|dued
and broken by our Ance&s;tours the Teutones, before ever
the Romane Eagles dur&s;t a&s;&s;aile it; and had not the Romanes
then interpo&s;ed all <HI>France</HI> as well as <HI>Belgia</HI> had long before the
time of <HI>Pharamond</HI> fallen into the Germanes po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, the&s;e
Germanes at that time (as <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> recorded) had the French
in &s;uch va&s;&s;alage and &s;ubjection as that they dur&s;t not &s;o much
as mutter out a complaint, or petition to their Romane friends
for reliefe again&s;t them; nor did the French who had beene
accounted of all Nations the mo&s;t valiant in that age pre&s;ume
in any &s;ort to compare them&s;elves with the Germanes, but (as
the &s;ame great Authour witne&s;&s;eth) con&s;i&s;t in plaine termes that
they were not able &s;o much as to with&s;tand their fulminating
looks; and by the reports of the Germanes formidablene&s;&s;e,
(concurring with the Cymbrick memory) &s;o &s;cared even <HI>Cae|&s;ars</HI>
Legions, that all his Centurions fell to a di&s;po&s;ing either
of their per&s;ons to a more &s;ecurity by flight, or of their e&s;tates
to their friends by Te&s;tament; and who&s;oever &s;urveyes the wri|tings
of <HI>Cae&s;ar, Tacitus,</HI> and other Romane Authors of tho&s;e
times, no le&s;&s;e eminent for judgement then Authority, &s;hall
find in them the Teutones our Ance&s;tours to have been alwaies
accounted (in effect) the Anakiti&s;h and mo&s;t &s;ouldiery Nation
of the world, and for per&s;onage the floure and quinte&s;&s;ence of
mankind, cho&s;en and advanced above all Nations to the digni|ty
of the Cae&s;arian Guard; by nature con&s;ecrate to heroick at|cheivene&s;&s;e,
<PB N="6" REF="6">
di&s;daining other then &s;anguinean de&s;udations, and
who during the whole age of the Romane Monarchie re|&s;i&s;ted
the violence thereof, and was as often invaders as inva|ded.</P>
<P>After the di&s;&s;olution of the Roman Empire,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exundationes.</NOTE> how did the
Teutonick glory and pui&s;&s;ance break forth and diffu&s;e them&s;elvs;
the Germane Colonies filled all Europe; the Frankes &s;eized up|on
the tran&s;alpine Gaule, &s;ithence from them named <HI>France;</HI>
the Lombards upon the other Gaule afterwards called Lom|bardy;
the Goths on <HI>Spaine,</HI> and the Saxons or Engli&s;h, (our
peculiar Progenitors) in a more plenary way, upon the be&s;t part
of <HI>Britaine</HI> which we now po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e&punc; to which wee have &s;ince
al&s;o added the command of the Wel&s;h, Iri&s;h and Scots, &s;o that
in all the Regions afore&s;aid of the Soveraignty and Royalty, &s;o
al&s;o mo&s;t of the Nobility, and in <HI>England</HI> the whole commo|nalty
is Germane, and of the Germane bloud, and &s;carcely
was there any worth or manhood left in the&s;e occidental Na|tions,
after their &s;o long &s;ervitude under the Roman yoake un|till
the&s;e new &s;upplies of free-borne men from <HI>Germany</HI> reinfu|&s;ed
the &s;ame and reinforced the then &s;ervile body of the We&s;t,
with a Spirit of honour and magnanimity; in &s;o much that as
<HI>Dubartas</HI> hath well ob&s;erved, that Land may well be &s;tiled the
<HI>Equus Trojanus</HI> or inexhau&s;ted fountaine of Europes worth and
worthy men, which was al&s;o apparent and con&s;picuous in that
ever-glorious and renowned expedition of the We&s;t for the ho|ly-Land
under the conduct of <HI>Godfrey</HI> of <HI>Bullaine,</HI> wherein there
was &s;carce a per&s;onage of worth, but who (together with the
plurality of the inferiour &s;ouldiery) was Germane by birth or
bloud.</P>
<P>As this out Mother Nation hath been tran&s;cendent above o|thers
in her atchievements,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Amplitudo.</NOTE> and her noble and fruitfull i&s;&s;ue of
Tran&s;migrators and Colonies, wherewith &s;hee hath repleni&s;hed
and reedified her &s;i&s;ter Nations of the re&s;t of Europe, and there|by
enabled them to hold up their heads, as now they do among
the potent Monarchies of the world; So is &s;hee no le&s;&s;e emi|nent
in the va&s;t bulke of her owne body, and the ample tract of
Land which &s;hee holds and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;eth, and &s;o ever hath done
again&s;t all the world, being indeed the heart and maine body of
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Europe, as reaching from the Alpes, neare to the frozen Ocean
one way, and from <HI>France</HI> and the Briti&s;h &s;ea, unto <HI>Poland</HI>
and <HI>Hungary,</HI> the other way, conteining for Members her &s;everal
tribes of the imperiall Germanes, the Switzers, Belgians,
Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Goths and Vandals, (be&s;ides us
Engli&s;h;) Tis true that the Celtick Nation was once very great
and famous, as po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing both the <HI>Gallia's</HI> and <HI>Britaine,</HI> but &s;he
hath long &s;ince in all her three &s;eats &s;urrendred up her po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i|ons,
(or liberty) together with her name to the incroachments
of her Teutonick Neighbours; and doubtle&s;&s;e were all the fore|&s;aid
limbs of the Teutonick Nation as united in the political a&s;|&s;ociation
of one head and heart, as they are in the naturall li|gaments
and communion of bloud, lawes, language and &s;itua|tion,
that Empire would not only be the head of the We&s;t as
now it is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Turk.</NOTE> but al&s;o able to wra&s;tle with the Orientall Competi|tor,
for the command of the world, or at lea&s;t to &s;houlder out
of Europe his intruding u&s;urpation.</P>
<P>One more flower of this our mother Nations Royall Garland,
and a point of her Prerogative above other Nations not only of
Europe,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Libertas inte. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, &s;eu <GAP DESC="foreign">.</NOTE> but al&s;o of the re&s;t of the world (the Scythick excepted)
is her unconqueredne&s;&s;e, her untainted virginity and freedome
from forraine &s;ubjection, which from her fir&s;t foundation and
Cradle, &s;he hath &s;o con&s;erved and defended, that none can truly
boa&s;t to have bin her ravi&s;her; the Roman inva&s;ions indeed often
a&s;&s;ayed her, but could never force her; as for <HI>Alexander,</HI> the
Germanes heard of him, but never &s;aw him otherwi&s;e then by
their Amba&s;&s;adours, who gave him and the world notice by
their honourable An&s;wer to his in&s;olent que&s;tion, how much
they feared him; and la&s;tly for <HI>Charlemains</HI> Germane Wars
they were but as civill and dome&s;tick, his Francks and more
particularly him&s;elfe being then in all things (but habitation)
Germanes, and con&s;equently al&s;o his archeivements may by
good right al&s;o be reckoned among the Germane acts; what
other Nation can glory of the like? Tis confe&s;t that the Greeks
and Gauls were for many ages famous a&s;&s;ertours of their Liber|ties,
but the latter of the two never enjoyed theirs &s;ince the
time of <HI>Ari<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">vi&s;tus</HI> and <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar,</HI> and the poore (never e|nough
to be lamented) Greekes, be&s;ide their ancient &s;ub|jection
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to <HI>Rome,</HI> have in the&s;e latter times lo&s;t not only their
Liberty, but al&s;o an Empire to boot, together with their Lawes,
Religion, Honour, and never before conquered language, to the
cruell oppre&s;&s;ion of turki&s;h Barbari&s;me, all which the Teutones
have by the &s;peciall favour of heaven, from their fir&s;t begin|ning
pre&s;erved inviolate again&s;t all invaders; indeed our Neigh|bours
the Scots boa&s;t much of the like priviledge, but upon no
equall grounds, for their remotene&s;&s;e and inacce&s;&s;iblene&s;&s;e to|gether
with the unprofitablene&s;&s;e of their &s;oyle, have been their
thiefe protection from following the fortune of their Mother
Nation of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and yet not &s;o protected them, but as their
owne Chronicles confe&s;&s;e their Land hath been wonne from
them, and they forced into exile for 60. years by the Romans,
and their Nation more then once &s;ubdued by our <HI>Edward</HI> the
fir&s;t, when they &s;o often &s;wore fealty and &s;ubjection to the
Crowne of <HI>England:</HI> and for the Scythians, as they of all the
world have the be&s;t right to compare them&s;elves, as having
never &s;ubmitted their necks to any externall power, &s;o may
they al&s;o for that Priviledge in part thanke their remotene&s;&s;e
and barren Climate, that have rendred their va&s;t Countrey
not worth the conquering, and them&s;elves as difficult to bee
found as vanqui&s;ht by &s;trong and well appointed Ar|mies.</P>
<P>But that which makes up the &s;umme and apex of this Nations
preeminence,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Imperium.</NOTE> is her imperiall Crowne the Crowne of Chri&s;ten|dome,
which the divine providence upon &s;pecial choice hath
devolved on her, that &s;o &s;hee might be no le&s;&s;e in title then me|rit
the Queen of Nations; this her po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ive dignity was long
&s;ince foretold by the <HI>Druides</HI> who (as <HI>Tacitus</HI> recordeth) pro|phecied
that the Empire &s;hould be tran&s;lated from <HI>Rome</HI> over
the <HI>Alpes,</HI> and is no other then what &s;he was borne to in the
right of <HI>Askenas</HI> his bloud, educated to in inviolated free|dome
and generous exerci&s;es, and &s;etled in by the purcha&s;e of
the &s;word and <HI>Romes</HI> adoption, and the &s;ame hath been for ma|ny
ages by her without competition enjoyed, &s;hee po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing al|&s;o
mo&s;t of the other Kingdomes and Principalities of the&s;e
parts by her Colonies, in &s;o much that the Germane Nation
may ju&s;tly &s;eem to have been created and appointed, for heire
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of the we&s;tern world, even as the Scythick of the Ea&s;terne, as be|twixt
which two Nations &amp; their Colonies, both the &s;overaign|ty
and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the mo&s;t part of Europe and <HI>A&s;ia</HI> is divided,
they being in all things Parallels and Competitors; heaven
grant that at length our Teutonicks, &s;haking off their euervating
vices and divi&s;ions, with the &s;ame manhood wherewith in ancient
times their Ance&s;tors retunded that Scythick inva&s;ion of the
Huns, mawling that <HI>orbis malleum,</HI> and in after ages cha&s;ed the
Turks (another tribe of the &s;ame Nation) from the holy Land,
and repre&s;&s;ed their encroachings on Chri&s;tendome, may al&s;o in
the&s;e la&s;t times at lea&s;t un-Europe the &s;ame Enemy and his Bar|bari&s;me,
and readvancing the Eagle in the mid&s;t of <HI>Con&s;tanti|nople,</HI>
recover to great <HI>Tui&s;coes</HI> name that right and honour in
<HI>Thracia,</HI> (which as may be conceived) his per&s;on there &s;ome|time
enjoyed under the name of <HI>Mars,</HI> confirmable by the &s;til-la&s;ting
analogy both in roots and accidents betwixt the Greek
and Teutonick Idiomes.</P>
<P>Such is the tran&s;cendent quality of our mother Nation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tran&s;itio &agrave; ge|neae ad gentem.</NOTE> and
in the&s;e &s;undry re&s;pects, &s;hee &s;ufficiently appeares to be the
cheife and mo&s;t honourable Nation of Europe; of all which
honour of hers, wee are true inheritors and partakers, either
as Members of that body or as children of that mother, we be|ing
fle&s;h of her fle&s;h, and bone of her bone, yea of the mo&s;t an|cient
and noble of her tribes, (according to the Germanes opi|nion)
The Saxon, &s;till retaining the name (with a little meta|the&s;is
as is before related) of the Patriarch <HI>Askenas,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Pag. 4.</NOTE> and this &s;o
totally and entirely that what&s;oever bloud among us is not Teu|tonick
is exotick;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pag. 7.</NOTE> for (as is al&s;o before intimated) our Progeni|tors
that tran&s;planted them&s;elves from <HI>Germany</HI> hither, did
not commixe them&s;elves with the ancient inhabitants of this
Countrey the Britaines (as other Colonies did with the Na|tives
in tho&s;e places where they came) but totally expelling
them, they took the &s;ole po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the Land to them&s;elves,
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Quae contra|ria apud quo&s;|dam Nomogra|phos reperiun|tur &s;unt ine|pta figmenta &agrave; Gal&s;rido Mon|muthen&s;i &amp; e|jus a&s;&s;eclis di|ctata.</NOTE> thereby pre&s;erving their bloud, lawes, and language, incorrup|ted;
And in this panegyrick of the Teutonick bloud I have &s;o
prolixly in&s;i&s;ted, not only to vindicate our own&punc; as being a &s;tream
of the &s;ame, and to evince the nobility thereof, but withall to
convince the folly of tho&s;e wretches among us, who aver&s;ing
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ours do &s;o much adhere unto and dote upon de&s;cents from
<HI>France</HI> and <HI>Normandy.</HI></P>
<P>But lea&s;t any that cannot reproach us as Germanes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pueritia gentis nostre ingenu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; liberatis.</NOTE> &s;hould
calumniate us as tran&s;migrators, the con&s;ideration of the gene|rall
quality of &s;uch will be our &s;ufficient Apology, for that it is
well knowne that mo&s;t Colonies and tran&s;migrators are made
up and con&s;i&s;ting of the floure and choice youth of that
Countrey from whence they are tran&s;planted, and being &s;uch
<HI>caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt,</HI> though they
change aire they retaine their Spirits; and this is moreover
ob&s;ervable for our advantage that wee left not the Land of
our Fathers either as exiled for demerits with the Parthians,
nor forced and profligated by Neighbours as many others, nor
yet with the mind of Rovers that goe unju&s;tly to de&s;poile o|thers
of their goods and Countrey, but (then which nothing
could be more honorable) the fir&s;t cau&s;e and occa&s;ion of our
comming into this Land, was at the earne&s;t &s;uit and intreaty of
the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Britaines, the ancient po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of the &s;ame, to
relieve and &s;uccour their oppre&s;&s;ed Nation again&s;t the barba|rous
and more then unneighbourly va&s;tations and inva&s;ions of
the Scots and Picts, who with the height of in&s;olence and fero|city
domineered at that time over this part of Britaine; this
was no le&s;&s;e honorably atcheived then undertaken by our An|ce&s;tors,
for Prince <HI>Hengi&s;tus</HI> with a &s;mall band of Engli&s;h vo|luntiers
which hee brought over from Saxonie, renownedly re|pre&s;&s;ed
and quelled the pride and in&s;olency of the Scots, and
with his additionall forces &s;o &s;ecured this land again&s;t them,
that for many ages after they dared not to &s;et fo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> out of their
own limits; nor ever &s;ince could the mo&s;t &s;ure e&s;&s;efull of their in|cur&s;ions
penetrate to the walls of <HI>Yorke.</HI></P>
<P>But did wee therefore leave the free-Countrey of our Ance|&s;tors,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ingenu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> adole&s;centia.</NOTE>
and come over hither to releive and deliver others from
forraine &s;ubjection, that weet our &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters">ves might &s;ucceed in &s;ervi|tude,
&s;ure it will &s;carce appeare that wee had any &s;uch intent
by our en&s;uing doings and &s;ufferings, for after that upon our fa|tall
falling out with the Britaines about pay, wee had long wra|&s;tled
with that Nation for the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of this Land, and with
infinite expence of blood and labour gained it wholly to our
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&s;elves (<HI>Hengi&s;tus</HI> his a&s;&s;i&s;tance to the Britaines being much of
kin to that of <HI>Ariovi&s;tus</HI> unto the Sequani&s;h Gauls,) what in|undations
of inva&s;ions did wee &s;u&s;taine, what numberle&s;&s;e con|flicts
and encounters did we continually maintaine, for the kee|ping
of our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions and pre&s;ervation of our honour and Li|bertie,
as they were derived inviolate from our Progenitors?
and all but again&s;t Dani&s;h Intruders; a people that were out
Con&s;anguineans, our ancient Countrey-men and Brethren,
who&s;e prevailing over us would have introduced &s;carce &s;trange
Lawes or Language, nor other bloud then Teutonick, and al|though
in proce&s;&s;e of time, being overladen with their inexhau|&s;ted
numbers, and to avoide further profu&s;ion of Chri&s;tian and
Teutonick bloud, we conde&s;cended to &s;ome compo&s;ition with
them, and permitted them a cohabitation with us; yet after|wards
did wee &s;ufficiently quit our &s;elves of them and their in|truding,
and by a generall execution made them an example
for &s;uch like U&s;urpers; &s;uch was our ancient antipathy to &s;ervi|lity,
and the abhorringne&s;&s;e of our Nations genius from clo|&s;ing
with di&s;honour.</P>
<P>Neither was this our genero&s;ity of bloud and freene&s;&s;e of
de&s;cent and condition,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eju&s;dem habi|tus.</NOTE> the &s;umme of our inheritance or the
whole &s;tock of honour that the bounty of heaven had commit|ted
to our po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion; we were al&s;o ble&s;t with a hopefull lan|guage
and happy Lawes, Lawes envied but not equall'd in <HI>Chri|&s;tendome,</HI>
and by hi&s;torians admired as mo&s;t plaine and com|pendious,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide <HI>Daniels</HI> Hi&s;tory.</NOTE>
and of &s;uch a politick &s;tructure, as made our Prince
a true and happy Monarch, and yet our &s;elves as free as any peo|ple
of Europe; our language was a dialect of the Teutonick,
and although then but in her infancie, yet not &s;o rude as hope|full,
being mo&s;t fruitfull and copious in &s;ignificant and well-founding
rootes and Primitives, and withall capable and apt
for diffu&s;ion from tho&s;e her roots into &s;uch a Greek-like ramo|&s;ity
of derivations and compo&s;itions, beyond the power of the
Latine and her off-&s;pring dialects, as might have with Maje&s;ty
delight and plainne&s;&s;e interpreted our conceptions and the wri|tings
of forraigners to the capacity of any Engli&s;h man, without
tthe helpe of a dictionary or the knowledge of two or three o|ther
languages, which now is requi&s;ite to him that will rightly
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under&s;tand or &s;peake even u&s;uall Engli&s;h; and our Lawes and
Language being not only thus laudable, but al&s;o congenite and
appropriate to our name and Nation, were mo&s;t e&s;&s;ential parts
of our honour, and no le&s;&s;e deare unto us (and that worthily)
then our bloud, and &s;o the plea&s;ant &s;ubjects of our delight and
&s;tudy, as al&s;o our Princes and nobility being no le&s;&s;e naturally
our owne, were the ju&s;t objects of our zeale and affection, as
was te&s;tifyed in that title of the Prince <HI>Edgar Atheling</HI> who
was &s;tiled <HI>Englands</HI> darling, for his blouds &s;ake, and in oppo&s;i|tion
to the Normane.</P>
<P>ANd is it then &s;uitable to the dignity,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Complexio prae|mi&s;&s;orum &s;cili|cet Red<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">guti|onis &agrave; Turpit<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">|d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ne.</NOTE> or tolerable to the Spi|rit
of this our Nation, that after &s;o noble an extraction and
de&s;cent, &s;uch honorable atcheivements performed, &s;o much done
and &s;uffered for our Libertie and honour again&s;t the mo&s;t migh|ty
of Monarchies and pui&s;&s;ant Nations, and after &s;uch Priviled|ges
conferred on us from heaven, wee &s;hould have our Spirits &s;o
broken and un Teutonized by one unfortunate Battaile, as for
above 500 yeares together and even for eternity, not only to
remaine, but contentedly to re&s;t under the di&s;gracefull title of
a <HI>Conquered Nation,</HI> and in captivity and va&s;&s;alage to a for|raigne
power?
<Q><L>Siccine in antiquam virtutem animosque viriles</L>
<L>Et Pater Aeneas &amp; Avanculus excitat Hector?</L></Q></P>
<P>Did our Ance&s;tours therefore &s;hake off the Romane Yoak with
the &s;laughter of their Legions,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Scilicet in caede varian&acirc;.</NOTE> and during the whole age of that
Empire (as <HI>Tacitus</HI> confe&s;&s;eth) re&s;i&s;t the pui&s;&s;ance thereof, that the
honor &amp; freedom of their bloud might be re&s;erved for an untain|ted
prey to a future Conquerour? could not they indure the &s;ight
of a Cae&s;arean Trophie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">&V;ide Tacitum.</NOTE> &s;et up by <HI>Germanicus</HI> in their Land? and
can wee not only endure, but embrace the title and En&s;ignes of
a Conque&s;t over us, that even &s;till triumphs in our Land, in her
full in&s;olence, while wee can turne our eyes and meditations no
where about us, but we meet with &s;ome object that reproa|cheth
us as Captives: if we addre&s;&s;e a look toward our Lawes,
they &s;till &s;corne to &s;peak otherwi&s;e then in the Conquerours
Language, and are (if Ma&s;ter <HI>Daniel</HI> and others write true)
for the mo&s;t part his introductions, &s;hutting up the remaining
Liberties of our Nation, under the name and ntion of franchi|&s;es,
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as if we were no further to be accounted free, then enfran|chi&s;ed,
that is adopted into the quality of French-men, or made
denizens of <HI>France,</HI> whereby the fir&s;t point that occurres to
the Reader of our Lawes, is our &s;hame; if wee &s;urvey our Lan|guage,
we there meet with &s;o much tincture of Normani&s;me,
that &s;ome have e&s;teemed it for a dialect of the Gallick: if wee
contemplate the heraldry and titles of our Nobility, there's
&s;carce any other matter then inventories of forraine villages,
that &s;peake, them to be not of Engli&s;h bloud; but tell us (as
their Ance&s;tors &s;ometimes told King <HI>John</HI>) that their Progeni|tors
conquered this Land by the Sword; and la&s;tly if wee but
heare the Royall title rehear&s;ed, we heare it likewi&s;e attended
with a <HI>po&s;t Conque&s;tum,</HI> &s;o that we cannot move with our &s;en&s;es,
but we hear the chains of our captivity rattle, and are put in mind
that we are &s;laves; <HI>vinci humanum e&s;t,</HI> no people but may bee
overcome, that may be borne withall; but <HI>&s;ub victoria acquie&s;|cere,</HI>
for &s;o many hundred yeares together, and in a &s;o long
continued po&s;&s;ibility of excu&s;&s;ing di&s;honour and regaining Li|bertie,
to &s;it as it were &s;noaring in a captive and &s;ervile condi|tion,
and to be fed with the bread of captivity, were more
proper to an A&s;iatick Nation, (tho&s;e <HI>natis ad &s;ervitutem</HI> as <HI>Tul|ly</HI>
calls them) then to one of Europe, and to any European
then a Teutonick, and indeed to tame Creatures and
Cattell then to tho&s;e that profe&s;&s;e them&s;elves free-borne
men.</P>
<P>But let us a little reflect upon the nature and quality of the&s;e
Conquerours with their conque&s;t over us,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Aggravatio.</NOTE> perhaps they may be
&s;uch as for their dignity may &s;ay unto our Nation, as that <HI>Her<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI>
in the Poet, <HI>Solamen habeto mortis ab Ae<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5+ letters"> quod &s;is jugula|tus
Achillo,</HI> and their domination over us &s;uch as again&s;t the
right and equity whereof there is no pleading: But alas what
was that Tenth Worthy (whom we are not a&s;hamed even &s;till to
&s;irname our Conquerour) but a Normane Ba&s;tard (as a Scoti&s;h
writer well tearmes him) or at be&s;t, a Va&s;&s;all Duke of a French
Province and what his Argyra&s;pides, his gallant followers the
Normans, but a people compacted of the Norwegians and Nu|e&s;trians,
that is, of the off-&s;cowring and dre&s;&s;e of the Teut|nique
and Gallick Nations, who&s;e ambitions Leader upon a
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pretence of a various title to this Crowne intruding upon us in
a time of di&s;advantage, and being thereupon put to try it out
by the &s;word with his then u&s;urping Competitor, by &s;ubtle|ty
(not valour) obtained the hand over him, and &s;o as Le|gatee
and Kin&s;man of Saint <HI>Edward</HI> (the la&s;t rightfull Engli&s;h
King) and upon his &s;pecious and faire vowes and promi&s;es to
pre&s;erve inviolate our Lawes and Liberties, was admitted to
the throne, &s;o that all the alteration and di&s;honour that fol|lowed,
was by his villainous perjuriou&s;ne&s;&s;e and treachery in|troduced
upon us, and that title of a Conquerour was not at
fir&s;t, but by the flattery of &s;ucceeding times attributed to him,
and hath been ever &s;ince by our &s;ordid treachery again&s;t our
Countrey continued,<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Duke of <HI>Lenox</HI> in his Speech to the King concer|ning warre a|gain&s;t the Scots.</NOTE> whereas had he a&s;&s;umed it at fir&s;t, (as
was well ob&s;erved by an illu&s;trious per&s;onage of our Neigh|bour
Nation the Scots, (who are generally more &s;en&s;ible of our
di&s;honour in this re&s;pect, then mo&s;t of our &s;elves; perhaps
worthily mindfull of the ancient extraction of the mo&s;t and
cheife of their South-Landers from the Engli&s;h bloud;) as he
(I &s;ay) hath well ob&s;erved in a late &s;peech of his made to his
Maje&s;ty,) he mu&s;t either have come &s;hort of his ambitious ends,
or have &s;ought after a new people to have exerci&s;ed his title up|on,
&s;o odious at that time was the Title of a Conquered Nation
to our Ance&s;tors.</P>
<P>But admit it were &s;o that he wonne this Land by the &s;word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Redargutio &s;e|cunda ab Ini|quitate.</NOTE>
as hee and his followers afterwards boa&s;ted, and that he obtai|ned
&s;uch a di&s;mall victory over us as the Normane writers pre|dicate,
(whereas notwith&s;tanding if wee may beleeve <HI>Aemilius
Veronen&s;is,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Paulus Aemili|us veronen&s;is de<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ebu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters"> ge&s;tis Francorum. <HI>fol.</HI> 91.</NOTE> in his French Hi&s;tory, a more impartiall writer in
this cau&s;e, there was no &s;uch matter; who taxing tho&s;e Nor|mane
writers of arrogance, reports that the truth of it was that
our Engli&s;h Souldiers, whom <HI>Harold</HI> the u&s;urping King brought
into the field again&s;t the Normanes, were no le&s;&s;e di&s;plea&s;ed
with him then with his adver&s;aries, and that they only put them|&s;elves
in a po&s;ture of defence,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Non ip&s;i homi|nes &s;ed cau&s;ae defuncti victa extinctaque. ib. <HI>fol.</HI> 91.</NOTE> without caring to offend the ene|my,
and that when in the beginning of the battaile, <HI>Harold</HI>
chanced to be &s;laine by an Arrow, the Controver&s;ie was pre&s;ent|ly
ended without more bloud-&s;hed, an agreement made, and
the Normane admitted in re&s;pect of his claime, and upon his
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promi&s;es aforementioned, this he reports) but were it &s;o that
our Engli&s;h Nation was directly vanqui&s;hed and conquered by
the Normanes, (at the &s;ound whereof every true Engli&s;h mans
&s;tomack may well ri&s;e,) have not we more then once required
their Nation in the like kind? how often have our Armies van|qui&s;hed
and conquered not only <HI>Normandy</HI> but al&s;o <HI>France</HI> it
&s;elfe, whereof the other is but a va&s;&s;al Province? and why one
victory of theirs over us &s;hould be of more moment and effect
again&s;t us, then &s;o many of ours again&s;t them, I &s;ee no other
cau&s;e or rea&s;on then injuriou&s;ne&s;&s;e towards us and retchle&s;&s;e|ne&s;&s;e
in us.</P>
<P>But were it &s;o al&s;o,<NOTE PLACE="marg">In&s;titio.</NOTE> that the Normane race were as Lawfull
Lords and domineered by the &s;ame right, of an ab&s;olute Con|que&s;t
over us, as the Turkes doe at this day over the Grecians,
(betwixt who&s;e ca&s;e and ours (Religion excepted) there is a
neere affinity;) will any rea&s;onable man be &s;o unju&s;t? or any
Engli&s;h man be &s;o impious as to define it for unlawfull in us,
to endeavour to recover our Right and lo&s;t honour and Libertie?
would any man be &s;o ab&s;urd as to &s;tigmatize and dete&s;t it for
rebellion, in the Greekes to &s;hake off (if they were able) the
Turki&s;h Yoake, and to recover from that enimies u&s;urpation
their ancient honour, Lawes, Libertie, and Language that now ly
overwhelmed and buried in Turci&s;me as ours in Normani&s;me?
&s;urely wee our &s;elves &s;hould condemne them, if they would not
endeavour it, while our owne Lawes attribute not to the
wrongfull di&s;&s;ei&s;our, any &s;uch right to his forceably gotten po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ions,
but that he may with more right be redi&s;&s;ei&s;ed by the
the fir&s;t Owner or his heyres; and indeed it were &s;o farre from
injuriou&s;ne&s;&s;e both in the Greeks and us, to di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the V&s;ur|pers,
that in the meane time we are mo&s;t injurious to our &s;elves,
our Progenitors and our po&s;terity, while wee &s;o traiterou&s;ly
yeeld up to tho&s;e Robbers, what our Ance&s;tors &s;o dearely pur|cha&s;ed
and pre&s;erved for us to enjoy, and afterwards to tran&s;|mit
and leave to their and our Name and bloud in all &s;ucceeding
ages; but in this we are farre more inexcu&s;able then the Greeks,
for that they never yet enjoyed the meanes of a deliverance,
which we either in a faire or forceable way &s;carce ever wanted;
and &s;urely if our right doth call, our honour doth cry out up|on
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us, that if our Progenitors ma&s;&s;acred the Dani&s;h Garri&s;ons
that u&s;urped over them, we &s;hould not (like the Jewes eare|board
&s;laves,) for ever &s;erve the Progeny of their Subjects the
Norwegians, that wee who in&s;tead of being conquered with
other Nations by <HI>Charlemain,</HI> have conquered even the French
them&s;elves, would not live captives to their va&s;&s;als the Nor|manes;
and that &s;ince our Ance&s;tours never &s;ubmitted their
necks to the Yoake of <HI>Rome,</HI> wee &s;hould not &s;uffer ours to be
for ever wedded to one brought over from <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters">&s;tria</HI> the mea|ne&s;t
&s;hire of one of <HI>Romes</HI> (anciently) captive Provinces, un|le&s;&s;e
perhaps it bee more honourable for our Countrey to bee a
Normane <HI>municipium,</HI> then a Romane Province, to u&s;e the Nor|mane
Lawes then the Civill of the Empire, and the Normane
Language rather then the Latine; any of which (notwith&s;tan|ding)
the Romane Emperors during their prevailing over
&s;ome skirts of our ancient Countrey of <HI>Germany,</HI> as <HI>Batavia,
Rhaetia,</HI> and the borders of the Rhine, never obtruded on our
Countriemen there, but de&s;iring only (for their worth) their
per&s;onall a&s;&s;i&s;tance in the warres, permitted them (and them
only of all Nations) the continuance of their owne Lawes, Lan|guage
and Liberties in all things; But all the&s;e wee their de|generate
po&s;terity have in a large degree betrayed to the u&s;ur|pation
of a Normane Colony.</P>
<P>But if wee thinke we have not yet received &s;hame enough by
this Normane Conque&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Redargutio ter|tia ab Incom|modo.</NOTE> in being thereby &s;tripped and &s;poiled
of all that Stock of honour which might have de&s;cended to us
from our Ance&s;tors, and of all that our Nation had to take
plea&s;ure in, wee want not a further degree of the &s;ame &s;hame
to con&s;ider our &s;elves in, that is as we are by this pretended
Conque&s;t ca&s;t into &s;uch a Predicament and condition as makes
as uncapable of acquiring new honour ever after &s;o long as we
remaine therein; the evidency of this wee may de&s;cry in our
owne Lawes, wherein wee find that &s;uch as are in the nature of
Villeines, are uncapable of enjoying free-hold Lands, but
though they purcha&s;e never &s;o much, it belongs all to their
Lords; &s;hould the Turkes J<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters">ries under their Ma&s;ters con|duct
conquer the whole world, yet could they not ju&s;tly gaine
to them&s;elves the name of men of honour, but only of
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&s;tout and dutifull &s;laves; which is al&s;o illu&s;trated by that Apo|thegme
of <HI>Tully,</HI> who defining the way for one that would at|taine
to highne&s;&s;e, <HI>Tunc</HI> (&s;aith hee) <HI>incipiat aliis imperare
cum &s;uis iniqui&s;&s;imis Dominis parere de&s;ierit,</HI> let him fir&s;t un-&s;lave
him&s;elfe before he talke of getting honour in in&s;laving others;
and therefore though both <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Spaine</HI> &s;hould bee by
us never &s;o often conquered, yet could our name thereby take
no true lu&s;tre, till it be cleared of this fa&s;t-&s;ticking blemi&s;h,
and that wee have unconquered our &s;elves; but as an ill-hu|mour'd
or deformed body is not rectified by nouri&s;hment, but
finds its pravity to increa&s;e and dilate with its &s;elfe; &s;o &s;hould
our name and fame by our atcheivements be extended to the
worlds both temporall and locall ends, yet thither al&s;o would
our di&s;grace accompany it in equall Characters, and proclai|ming
that wee are a conquered and &s;till-captive people, qua&s;h
all honour that otherwi&s;e might accrue or adhere unto
us.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tran&s;itio ad o|peris &s;copum.</NOTE></P>
<P>I &s;hould be voluminous &s;hould I fully de&s;cribe how injuri|ous
and di&s;honourable it is to our Nation, for to continue under
the title and effects of this pretended Conque&s;t, being &s;uch as
wee &s;ee and feele even the barbarous and contemptible Iri&s;h to
be more then &s;en&s;ible and impatient of the like, while with &s;o
much hazard of their lives and fortunes, and again&s;t &s;uch for|midable
oppo&s;ition, they endeavour the excu&s;&s;ion thereof; But
I am farre enough from exhorting to an imitation of their vio|lent
and horrid practi&s;e, we feele too much thereof already a|mong
us, although for lighter ends; neither (I hope) is any &s;uch
way needfull, &s;ince we all from the greate&s;t to the lea&s;t profe&s;&s;e
our &s;elves Engli&s;h, and would &s;eem to aime at the honor of the
Engli&s;h name, his Maje&s;ty for his part having by many pa&s;&s;ages
&s;hewed him&s;elfe the mo&s;t indulgent Patron thereof and our
Nobility and Commons on both &s;ides contending, (or at lea&s;t
pretending) for no other, none (I hope) among us di&s;&s;en|ting,
that if any &s;hould oppugne it, he were worthy to be pro|&s;cribed
and pro&s;ecuted either as a viperous malignant or as a
publick Adver&s;ary; &s;o that it is but the Carka&s;&s;e of an enemy
that wee have to remove out of our territories, even the Car|ka&s;&s;e
and bones of the Normane Dukes injurious and dete&s;ted
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perpetrations, much more meriting to bee dug up and ca&s;t out
of our Land,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vide <HI>Daniels</HI> Hi&s;t.</NOTE> then tho&s;e Relicks of his body that were &s;o un&s;e|pulchred
from his grave in <HI>Caen;</HI> let us therefore untill we
have wiped off this &s;hame of our Nation, and demoli&s;hed the
monuments thereof, no more talke of honour, as being a thing
that we have lea&s;t to doe withall, but yeelding that and the glo|ry
to the Normane Name, re&s;erve unto our &s;elves nothing but
the inheritance of &s;hame and confu&s;ion of face; yea let us ei|ther
confe&s;&s;e and profe&s;&s;e our &s;elves for ever, meere va&s;&s;als and
&s;laves, or el&s;e attempt to uncaptive our &s;elves (the end and &s;cope
of this whole di&s;cour&s;e) that is effectually, (yet orderly and le|gally)
to endeavour the&s;e following particulars.</P>
<P>1.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Po&s;tulatorum capita.</NOTE> That <HI>William</HI> &s;irnamed the Conquerour be &s;tript of that
in&s;olent Title (which him&s;elf &s;carce ever a&s;&s;umed after his victo|ry,
much le&s;&s;e pretended to before, but hath been &s;ithence im|po&s;ed
on him by Normane arrogance and our &s;ervile flattery)
and that he be either reputed among our lawful Kings by force
of Saint <HI>Edwards</HI> legacy, or adjudged an u&s;urper; however,
that he may no longer &s;tand for the Alpha of our Kings in the
Royall Catalogue.</P>
<P>2. That the Title to the Crowne bee ungrounded from any
pretended Conque&s;t over this Nation, and that his Maje&s;ty bee
plea&s;ed to derive his right from Saint <HI>Edwards</HI> legacy, and the
bloud of the precedent Engli&s;h Kings<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">As being de|&s;cended both of <HI>David</HI> the male heir, and of <HI>Maud</HI> the heire female of the Engli&s;h Bloud.</NOTE> to whom hee is the un|doubted
heire; and that he re&s;tore the ancient Engli&s;h Armes
into the Royall &s;tandard.</P>
<P>3. That all the Normane Nobility and Progeny among us,
repudiate their names and titles brought over from <HI>Normandy,</HI>
a&s;&s;uming others con&s;i&s;tible with the honour of this Nation, and
di&s;claime all right to their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions here as Heyres or Succe&s;|&s;ors
to any pretended Conquerours.</P>
<P>4. That all Lawes and u&s;ages introduced from <HI>Normandy,</HI> be (
<HI>eo nomine</HI>) aboli&s;hed, and a &s;upply made from St. <HI>Edwards</HI> lawes or
the Civil, and that our Lawes be deve&s;ted of their french rags,
(as King <HI>James</HI> of worthy memory once Royally motioned)
and re&s;tored into the Engli&s;h or Latine tongue, unle&s;&s;e per|haps
it may &s;eem honourable for Engli&s;h men to be &s;till in the
mouth of their owne Lawes no further free then Frenchified,<NOTE PLACE="marg">vide &s;upra <HI>p.</HI> 14</NOTE>
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and that they only of all mortell men &s;hould impri&s;on their
Lawes in the Language of their enemies.</P>
<P>5. That our Language be cleared of the Normane and French
inva&s;ion upon it, and depravation of it, by purging it of all
words and termes of that de&s;cent, &s;upplying it from the old
Saxon and the learned tongues, and otherwi&s;e correcting it,
whereby it may be advanced to the quality of an honourable
and &s;ufficient Language, then which there is &s;carce a greater
point in a Nations honour and happine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>(To which may al&s;o be added the removall of an Indignity of
kin to the former in quality though not in cau&s;e, namely the ad|vancing
of the French Armes above ours in the Royall &s;tandard,
as if by our Ance&s;tors conque&s;t of that Nation, we had merited
nothing but the publick &s;ubjection of our honor to theirs; The
Scots (though an inferiour Nation) denying us any &s;uch Privi| in
their owne Kingdome.)</P>
<P>The&s;e things thus obtained and Normani&s;me thus aboli&s;hed,
we may then (and then only) have comfort in our name, as af|ter
our excu&s;&s;ion of that which is utterly de&s;tructive to the ho|nour
of our Nation, which is the motive unto us to demand
and require the&s;e things; neither want there rea&s;ons &s;ufficient
on the other &s;ide why they may and ought to be granted,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3+ letters">etica.</NOTE> &s;ome
ledge whereof are the&s;e.</P>
<P>For his Maje&s;ty,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Ad Regem.</NOTE> it will be no prejudice to his title, nor im|peachement
of the honour of his bloud, &s;hould he wave his
de&s;cent from <HI>Normandy,</HI> but rather an improvement of the
&s;ame, by how much it is more honourable to be derived from
free Kings then va&s;&s;al Dukes, and from <HI>Saxony</HI> the heart and no|ble&s;t
part of <HI>Germany,</HI> then from <HI>Nu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tria</HI> or <HI>Norway;</HI> and it wil
moreover &s;ettle him a&s;wel in the true affections as on the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ words">
of this Nation, which none of his predece&s;&s;ors &s;ince the preten|ded
Conque&s;t could rightly enjoy, there being too much tin|cture
of domination in their rule and of captivity in our obedi|ence,
and this is confirmed by that love and honour which the
mo&s;t glorious Kings of this Realme have here gained by their
inclining this way, Witne&s;&s;e <HI>Henry</HI> the fir&s;t, approved and be|loved
above his Normane predece&s;&s;ors, who for that &s;ole pur|po&s;e
took to Wife <HI>Edgar Athelings</HI> Neese, the female <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of
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the Engli&s;h bloud; next <HI>Edward</HI> the fir&s;t, who&s;e memory is no
le&s;&s;e acceptable for his being the fir&s;t reviver of that Name in
that line, then for his enlarging the honour and dominion of this
State; Thirdly, <HI>Edward</HI> the third, the mo&s;t glorious renow|ned
and precious of all our Kings, not only for his famous vi|ctories,
but withall for re&s;toring in a good degree the u&s;e and
honour of the Engli&s;h tongue formerly exiled by Normani&s;me
into contempt and ob&s;eurity; to which purpo&s;e al&s;o it is ob|&s;ervable
that none of our Kings &s;ince <HI>William</HI> the pretended
Conquerour and his Sonne, have bore their name, the impo&s;ing
whereof on our Princes their Royall Parents &s;eeme purpo&s;ely
to have avoided as ju&s;tly odious to the Engli&s;h Nation, whereas
with what honour they have continually u&s;ed both the name and
&s;hrine of Saint <HI>Edward,</HI> I need not recount, And if the&s;e Kings
&s;o lately after the Conquerour, and while the Normane bloud
ran almo&s;t fre&s;h in their veines, thought it their duty in &s;ome
&s;ort to profe&s;&s;e for the Engli&s;h name again&s;t Normani&s;me,
how little mis-becomming will it be for his Maje&s;ty after his &s;o
many ages ingra<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ment into this Nation and di&s;union from the
other, and having in him for one &s;tream of the Normane
bloud, two of the true Engli&s;h, to profe&s;&s;e him&s;elfe altogether
Engli&s;h, and to advance that Nation to the greate&s;t lu&s;tre he
can, whereof he profe&s;&s;eth him&s;elfe the natural head, yea it
will &s;o farre transferre him above the honour and felicity of his
Predece&s;&s;ors, as it is more honourable and happy for a Prince
to be called and accounted the naturall father of his Countrey,
then the exotick Lord of the &s;ame, of which titles the very Ty|rants
of <HI>Rome</HI> were ambitious for the formes, but rejected and
dete&s;ted even the one halfe of the latter.</P>
<P>For the Normane Progeny,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Ad Progeniem Normannicam.</NOTE> they may con&s;ider that them&s;elves
(as Norwegians) are originally (as <HI>&V;er&s;tegan</HI> hath well ob&s;er|ved)
of one and the &s;ame bloud and Nation with the Engli&s;h,
namely the Teutonick, and that in doing what is here required,
they &s;hall but &s;hake off that tincture of Gallici&s;me which their
Ance&s;tours took in <HI>N<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters">&s;tria,</HI> and rejoyne them&s;elves with
their ancient Countrimen, which al&s;o even their owne honour
requires of them, even according to the opinion of the ancient
<HI>Treviri,</HI> who as (<HI>Tacitus</HI> recordeth) though inhabitants of
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<HI>France,</HI> yet di&s;dained to be accounted of the French bloud, but
ambitiou&s;ly adhered to their de&s;cent from <HI>Germany;</HI> the <HI>Gallick</HI>
Nation having been &s;ervile ever &s;ince the time of <HI>Julius Cae&s;ar,</HI>
and no other their language which wee &s;o much honour and
dote upon, then an effect of the Romane Conque&s;t over them,
and a te&s;timony of their long va&s;&s;alage and &s;ubjection to that
Empire.</P>
<P>But if they can reli&s;h no honour but what mu&s;t ari&s;e and
fetch life from our &s;hame, let them revolve how loath they
would be to be &s;erved as &s;ometime the Romans dealt with
the in&s;ulting Gaules, the Relicks of <HI>Brennus</HI> his Army, whom
they utterly rooted out of <HI>Italy, Nequis ejus gentis &s;upere&s;&s;et
qui incen&s;am a &s;e Romam jactaret,</HI> as an Hi&s;torian hath it; and if
they will needs continue the Danes Succeeders in in&s;ulting o|ver
us, they may al&s;o remember that wee are the po&s;terity of
tho&s;e Engli&s;h who ma&s;&s;acred them, and that when they had a
potent Kingdome at hand to revenge it, which the&s;e others are
to &s;eeke for.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, State-policy requires it,<NOTE PLACE="marg">3.</NOTE> it being requi&s;ite to the good
and &s;afety of the Kingdome in generall;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ad Ordines &s;eu Procuratores Regni.</NOTE> for if ingenuous va|lour
in the people, and their love to their King, State, Nobility
and Lawes, with their regard to honour, be the cheife &s;trength
of a Realme again&s;t forraine inva&s;ions (for in&s;tance and te&s;tifi|cation
whereof we need looke no further then the Scots) it is
nece&s;&s;ary that if our State would enjoy that &s;trength, our Na|tion
enjoy the&s;e demands; for how can we love and fight for
tho&s;e Lawes which are ours only by our enemies introduction,
and are our di&s;grace in &s;tead of honour, or for that Soveraign|ty
and Nobility, in who&s;e very Titles (as before is related)
we read our Countrey to be already in Captivity, and that the
alteration of the State will be to us, but changing of u&s;urpant
Ma&s;ters? Neither will the recordation of our ancient honour be
any better a provocation to that purpo&s;e; &s;hould the Turke go
about to exhort his Grecian Souldiers to valiantne&s;&s;e in his
cau&s;e and again&s;t his forraine Enemies, by commemorating
unto them the ancient glory and prowe&s;&s;e of their Nation,
would not that cohortation merit to be taken as an in&s;ulting irri|&s;ion,
and &s;hould not the fir&s;t effect there of be a vindictive incite|ment
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of them again&s;t him&s;elfe as the mo&s;t proper object there|of
in all re&s;pects, &s;o al&s;o cannot the remembrance of our anci|ent
glory (if we con&s;ider our &s;elves aright) incite us to any
thing more then to the clearing of our &s;elves from this in&s;ul|ting
Conque&s;t; as already and long &s;ince pre&s;&s;ing us with that
di&s;honour, which other dangers at mo&s;t but threaten; and as
upon the&s;e grounds, wee can &s;carce find courage to fight for
the &s;afety and pre&s;ervation of the State, &s;o for the &s;ame rea&s;ons
have we as little heart to pray or wi&s;h for the &s;ame, untill our
Nationall honour be re&s;tored to a coexi&s;tence therewith.</P>
<P>Since therefore the&s;e things are &s;o behoofefull for our Nation
to demand,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Peroratio.</NOTE> and for our State to grant, if after due con&s;ideration
thereof we continue to want the happy fruition of the &s;ame, it
mu&s;t be a&s;cribed either to an overgrown ba&s;ene&s;&s;e of mind in the
one, or an natural malignity in the other as indulging rather to a
forrain Name then to the Nation wherof the &s;aid State is a part
and intru&s;ted with the welfare and honor therof; and in this &s;till|&s;ervilizing
ca&s;e it will be ridiculous for us (the Nation) to pre|tend
to honour or renownedne&s;&s;e, but more proper for us for|ever
to profe&s;&s;e our &s;elves of that quality wherein we take up
our re&s;t, to wit, captivedne&s;&s;e and &s;ervility; but if we may de&s;|cry
a glorious morning and <GAP DESC="foreign"> of our benighted honour re|fulging
in the happy accompli&s;hment of the&s;e our de&s;ires, then
&s;hal we with alacrity pre&s;&s;e all that the Engli&s;h name inve&s;teth,
unto the defence and inlargement of the Engli&s;h Dominion, and
in&s;tead of di&s;claiming our Nation and transfuging to others, as
many of us now doe, and have done e&s;pecially in <HI>Ireland,</HI> wee
&s;hall joy to make Anglici&s;me become the only &s;oule and habit
of all both <HI>Ireland</HI> and great <HI>Britaine. Dixi.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATE>Octob. 1642.</DATE>
<SIGNED>I. H.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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