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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE COPIE OF A LETTER WRITTEN By <HI>MERCVRIVS BRITANICVS</HI> To <HI>MERCVRVS CIVICVS.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_BRother <HI>Civicus,</HI> conforme to your de&s;ire, I thought good to write to you of the e&s;tate of <HI>Britannia,</HI> with its adjacent <HI>Irelandia.</HI> But in regard the greate&s;t matters are yet in <HI>firie;</HI> And becau&s;e of the wonderfull con|fu&s;ion which every where appeareth, I cannot write as I would: For the PARLIAMENT cryes, <HI>Law, Law;</HI> the KING cryes, <HI>Aw, Aw;</HI> the QVEENE cryes <HI>Ave, Ave,</HI> and the COVNTRIE cryes, <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e, W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI> but alwayes thus much for your &s;atisfaction I perceive there are three parties in their Kingdomes, which for brevitie I will ex|pre&s;&s;e in <HI>ab&s;tracto,</HI> to wit; <HI>Pietie, Policie,</HI> and <HI>Poperie:</HI> Each one of the&s;e hath a Ba&s;tard-brother; <HI>Pietie</HI> hath <HI>Independency,</HI> a Ba&s;tard which <HI>Singularity</HI> begat upon <HI>Nouelty: Policie</HI> hath <HI>Athei&s;me,</HI> a Ba&s;tard which <HI>Super&s;tition</HI> begat upon <HI>Ignorance:</HI> And <HI>Popery</HI> hath <HI>Prelacy,</HI> a Ba&s;tard which the man of &s;in in his full &s;trength, begat upon one of the d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ughtres of <HI>Mammon.</HI> The&s;e three parties I finde diver&s;ly ranked in the&s;e Kingdomes: For <HI>England</HI> putteth <HI>Policy</HI> fir&s;t then* <HI>Pietie&punc;</HI> and then <HI>Popery. Scotland</HI> putteth <HI>Pietie</HI> fir&s;t, next <HI>Po, licy,</HI> and then <HI>Popery. Ireland</HI> putteth <HI>Popery</HI> fir&s;t, then <HI>Policie,</HI> and la&s;t <HI>Pietie.</HI> In each of the&s;e Kingdomes there is a pryme patron to which the&s;e fore&s;aid parties addre&s;&s;e them&s;elves, Hence it is that in <HI>England Policie</HI> runneth to the King, <HI>Popery</HI> to the Qeene, <HI>Pietie</HI> to the <HI>Parliament.</HI> In <HI>Scotland Pietie</HI> runneth to a <HI>Covanant,</HI> whence &s;ome are called <HI>Covenanters, Policie</HI> runneth to a Band, whence &s;ome are called <HI>Banders</HI> and <HI>Baberders:</HI> And <HI>Ppoerie</HI> runneth to <HI>For|tifications,</HI> or el&s;e is forced to leave the Countrey. In <HI>Ireland</HI> the&s;e partis have a contrarie current; For thire <HI>Poperie</HI> runneth to fire and &s;word, <HI>Policie</HI> to a Ce&s;&s;a&s;ion, and <HI>Pietie</HI> to a Po&s;ture of defence The <HI>Policie</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> and <HI>Poperie</HI> of <HI>Ireland</HI> have put all the&s;e Kingdomes in bloud, and are greived that they cannot meet together as they would for mutuall &s;upply; And unle&s;&s;e the <HI>Pietie</HI> of <HI>Scotland</HI> di&s;appoint their de&s;ignes, by all likelihood they will worke our ruine. For <HI>Policie</HI> will never lay downe Armes &s;o long as that que&s;|tion of <HI>Thine</HI> and <HI>Mine</HI> is undi&s;cu&s;&s;ed: <HI>Poperie</HI> will never lay downe Armes, &s;o long as the Name of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> is heard of under the Heaven. And as for their Souldiers, who &s;erve any of them for mo|ney, they will never lay downe Armes &s;o long as there is either pay or plundering to be gotten. The &s;turring of the&s;e Malignants hath put each godly hearted <HI>Scots man</HI> into a Militarie condition. And therefore to the confu&s;ion of all the powers of hell bee it knowne, that <HI>Scotlands Pietie,</HI> now marching in the fields, is re&s;olved never to lay downe Armes, tell it hath rectified <HI>Englands policie,</HI> and ex|tirpated <HI>Irelands Popery,</HI> which that it may be &s;peedily accompli|&s;hed by the power of heaven, is the humble and daily prayers of.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your loving Brother. M B</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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