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<P>THE CHARACTER OF A COUNTRY Committee-man, With the Eare-marke of a SEQUESTRATOR.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed in the Yeare, 1649. <ADD>August. 21</ADD></P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>MADAM,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>NEver were the Scales &s;o even be|tweene pre&s;umption and di&s;paire as they are now poy&s;ed in the a&s;|piring votary, for as the height of your Judgement makes me ju&s;tly diffident of my unworthy offering, &s;o I am a&s;&s;ured your cen&s;ure will relent in pardon; when you looke upon it as an error of devotion, the &s;ame alter which di&s;dains the acceptance of my blemi&s;hed &s;acrifice, will neverthele&s;&s;e give refuges and protection to your grove|ling offenders: Madam, It is a violation of your worth, to pre&s;ent you with vanities, all &s;acriledge is not dre&s;&s;ed after the fa&s;hio|nable cut of this age, in Rapine and Rob|berie, it may bee committed in giving,
<PB REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 9 -->where the gift is a demunition and by a &s;candalous homeline&s;&s;e, profane&s;&s;e, as it were the very con&s;ecration, but I will not traver&s;e your Ladi&s;hips commands by plea|ding the meane&s;&s;e of the trifle you have dey|ned to require, I am re&s;olved to obey you at all adventures, and with the lo&s;&s;e both of credit and mode&s;tie to inhance my ob&s;er|vance, let others in their addre&s;&s;es &s;eek af|ter fame, and by choo&s;ing Honourable Go&s;&s;ips to their pettie I&s;&s;ue, drive a lu&s;tre from their Dedications, my endeavours are of a more ba&s;hfull Mode, then to aske ble&s;|&s;ing of the &s;unne, yet &s;ince your Ladi&s;hips &s;ummons hath beene plea&s;ed to intitle them to a roome in your Cabinet, that Ca|binet which alone is Theater &s;ufficient for all the rarities and perfections of the Age, they &s;hall attend you Madam, but &s;triped of all intere&s;t &s;ince a &s;inceere obedience, as you may &s;ee by my enclo&s;ed Committee|man, who is &s;o voyd of Ornament that he &s;eemes to be &s;haped, after his new Modell of &s;elf deniall, Madam it is a Britti&s;h tri|bute
<PB REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 9 -->that Antiquity paid in the head of wolves, how aptly this pre&s;ent of the Committee-man revives the Cu&s;tome; for as his ravenous nature hath a neere alliance with that of the other, &s;o nonefitter to re|turne to the fir&s;t fruits, of his tributary pu|ni&s;hment.</P>
<P>Than your Ladi&s;hip who have &s;uffered &s;o much by the &s;avage Bea&s;t in your worry|ed fortune, in which my attempt of vin|dicative Ju&s;tice, if my abillities have not kept pace with my de&s;ire, if my revenge be not as keene and poynant as the malice of my &s;ubject, it will be your Charity to ima|gine that I was dull upon de&s;igne, and did indu&s;triou&s;lly rebate my Edge to prolong the Torment of his execution, I de&s;ire Madam, let me bee your &s;upplyant in this, that when you have guilded the Pa|per with the beams of your propo&s;all, you will confine it after to &s;hade and &s;olli|tude, both becau&s;e <HI>Satyrs</HI> like Bandog ac|quire a fiercen&s;s by being tyed up, and with|all becau&s;e it is the opinion of your &s;ervant
<PB REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 10 -->that publi&s;hed Compo&s;itions are but &s;o many Breves that wander for the Al<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="bleedthrough" EXTENT="3+ letters">s
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<CLOSER><SALUTE>MADAM,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>He that with reverence ad|mires your vertues. <HI>I: C.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Character of a Country Committee Man with the Eare-marke of a Seque&s;trator.</HEAD>
<P>A Committee man by his name &s;hould be one that is po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, that's number enough in the compel|lation to make it an Epithite for Legion; he is <HI>per|&s;ona in concreto</HI> (to borrow the Soleci&s;me of a mo|derne State&s;man) you may tran&s;late it by the red bull phra&s;e and &s;peak as properly, enter &s;even devills <HI>&s;olus,</HI> It is a well tru&s;t title that contains both the number and the bea&s;t. For a Committee-man is a noun of Multitude, he mu&s;t be &s;pel|led with figures, like Antichri&s;t wrapped in a paire, Royall of Sixes, thus the name is as mon&s;trous as the man, a com|pleat notion of the &s;ame linnage with accomulative trea&s;on, for his office, it is the re&s;urrection of the Heptarchy or <HI>Eng|land</HI> fritters, it is the broken meat of a Crumbling Prince, only the Royalty is greater, for it is here, as in the miracle of Loaves the voyder exceeds the Bill of fare, the Pope and he rings the Changes; here is a plurality of Crowns to one head, Joyne them together and ther's harmony in di&s;cord, the Tripple crowned Turn-Key of Heaven, with the tripple headed porter of hell, A Committee-man is the reliques of Regall Go|vernment, but like holy reliques he out bulks the &s;ub&s;tance
<PB N="2" REF="5"><!-- PDF PAGE 11 -->whereof he is a remnant, ther's a &s;core of Rings in a Com|mittee as in the reliques of the Cro&s;&s;e, ther's the number of twenty, This is the Gyant with the hundred hands that weilds the Scepter, the tyrannicall Beade-Roule by which the Kingdome prays backward, and with a kind of <HI>Rebus</HI> at every Cur&s;e drops a Committee man, Let <HI>CHARLES</HI> be wayned who&s;e conducing clemency agravates the de|fection, and make <HI>Nero</HI> the que&s;tion, better a <HI>Nero</HI> then a Committee, Ther's le&s;&s;e examination by a &s;ingle Bullet then by ca&s;e &s;hot.</P>
<P>Now a Committee-man is a party coloured officer, he mu&s;t be drawne like <HI>Janus</HI> with Cro&s;&s;e and Pile in his countenance, as he relates to the Souldiers, or face about to his fleecing the Country, looke upon him Martially and he is a Ju&s;tice of Warre.</P>
<P>One that hath bound his <HI>Dalton</HI> up in Buffe, and will needs be of the <HI>quorum</HI> to the be&s;t Commanders, he is one of <HI>Mars</HI> his Lay Elders, he &s;hares in the Government, though a Non-conformi&s;t to his bleeding Rubick, he is the like Se|ctary in Armes as the Platonick is in love, keep a flattering in di&s;cour&s;e but proves haggard in the action; he is not of the Souldiers and yet of his flock, it is an embleme of the gol|den age (and &s;uch indeed he makes it) to him, when &s;o tame a Pigeon may commerce with vultures, Me thinks a Com|mittee hanging about a Governour and Bandleirs, dangling about furd Alderman have an Anagrame re&s;emblance, ther's no Syntax between a Cap of maintenance and a helmet, who ever knew an enemy routed by a Grand Jury, and a <HI>bil|la vera:</HI> it is a left handed Garri&s;on where their authority perches, but the more prepo&s;terous the more in fa&s;hion the right hand fights while the left rules the Reins, the truth is the Souldier and the Gentleman are like <HI>Don Quicchott</HI> and <HI>Sancho Pancha</HI> one fights at all adventures to purcha&s;e the other, the Government of the I&s;land, a Committe-man pro|perly &s;hould be the Governour Natro&s;&s;e to fit his tackle, and to new &s;tring him with &s;innews of Warre for his chief u&s;e to rai&s;e a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements in the neighbouring Wapentake.</P>
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The Country people being like an Iri&s;h Cow, that will not give downe the Milk unle&s;&s;e &s;he &s;ee her Calf before her: hence it is, he is the Garri&s;ons dry Nurce, he chews their Con|tribution before he feeds them, &s;o the poor Souldiers live like <HI>Trochilus</HI> by picking the teeth of this &s;ated Crocoadile.</P>
<P>So much for his warlike or ammunition face which is &s;o preturnaturall that it is rather a vizard then a face, <HI>Mars</HI> in him hath but a blinking a&s;pect, his face of Arms is like his <HI>Coate partie per pale,</HI> Souldier and Gentleman much of a &s;cantling.</P>
<P>Now enter his Taxing and deglubing face, a &s;queezing look like that of <HI>Ve&s;pa&s;ians</HI> as if he were breeding over a clo&s;e&s;toole. Take him thus and he is the Inqui&s;ition of the pur&s;e, an Auchentick Gyp&s;ie, that Nips your bung with a canting Ordinance, not a murthered fortune in all the Coun|try but bleeds at the touch of this malefactor, he is the &s;pleen of the body politick that &s;wells it &s;elf to the con&s;umption of the whole, at fir&s;t indeed he ferretted for the Parliament, but &s;ince he hath got of his Cope, he &s;et up for him&s;elf, he lives upon the &s;ins of the people, and that's a good &s;tanding di&s;h too, he verifies the Axiom <HI>Ei&s;dom mutritur ex quibus com|poniter,</HI> his dyet is &s;uitable to his con&s;titution, I have won|dred often why the plundred Country-men &s;hould repaire to him for &s;uccor, certainly it is under the &s;ame notion as one who&s;e pockets are pickt goes to <HI>Mol: Cutpur&s;e</HI> as the predomi|nant in that faculty.</P>
<P>He out dives a Dutchman, gets a noble of him that was never worth &s;ix pence, for the poore&s;t e&s;cape not, but Dutch like he will be dreyning even in the drye&s;t ground, he Aliens a Delinquents E&s;tate with as little remor&s;e as his other ho|line&s;&s;e gives away an Hereticks Kingdome, and for the truth of the Delinquency, both Chapmen have a little &s;hare of Infallability, Lye is the Grand Sallad of Arbitrary Govern|ment, Executor to the Star-Chamber, and High-Commi&s;&s;ion for tho&s;e Courts are not extinct, they &s;urvive in him like Dol|lary changed into &s;ingle monys, to &s;peak the truth hee's the univer&s;all tribunall for &s;ince the&s;e times, all cau&s;es fall to his
<PB N="4" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 12 -->Cognizance, as in a great infection di&s;ea&s;es oft turn to the plague it concernes our Ma&s;ters the Parliament to look about them <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> he proceeds at this rate, the Jack may come to &s;wallow the Pike, as the intere&s;t often eats out the principall, as his commands are great, &s;o he looks for reverence accordingly; He is very pun|ctuall in exacting your hat, and to &s;ay right, it is his due, but by the &s;ame title, as the upper garment is the vailes of the exe|cutioner; There was a time when &s;uch cattell would have hardly been taken upon &s;u&s;pition for men in office, unle&s;&s;e the old proverb were renewed, and beggers make a free company, and tho&s;e their wardens; you may &s;ee what it is to hang toge|ther, look upon them &s;everally, and you cannot but fumble for &s;ome threeds of charitie, but oh they are Tarmagants in con|junction, like Fidlers who are Rogues when they goe &s;ingly, and joyned in con&s;ort, gentlemen Mu&s;itioners. I care not much if I untwi&s;t my Committee-man, and &s;o give him the receipt of this grand Catholican, take a State Martyr, one that for his good behaviour, hath paid the Exci&s;e of his ears, &s;o &s;uffered Captivitie by the Land-piracie of Ship-money, next a primi|tive free-holder.</P>
<P>One that hates the King, becau&s;e he is a Gentleman tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ing the <HI>Magna Charta</HI> of delving <HI>Adam.</HI> Adde to the&s;e a Mortified Bankerupt that helpes out his fal&s;e Weights with &s;ome &s;cruples of con&s;cience, and with his peremptorie &s;cales can doome his Prince with a <HI>Mene tecall.</HI> The&s;e with a new blew-&s;tocking'd Ju&s;tice lately made of a good basket-hilted Yeoman, with a &s;hort-handed Clerke tack't to the Reare of him, to carry the Knap&s;ack of his under&s;tanding, together with two or three Equivocall Sirs, who&s;e Religion like their Gentility is the Extract of their Acres, being therefore &s;piri|tuall, becau&s;e they are earthly; Not forgetting the man of Law, who&s;e corruption gives the <HI>Hogan</HI> to the &s;incerer Jun|cto; The&s;e are the &s;imples of this pretious Compound, a kind of Dutch hotch-potch, the <HI>Hogan Mogan</HI> Committee|man.</P>
<P>A Commettee-man hath a Side-man, or rather a &s;etter hight a Seque&s;trator, of whom you may &s;ay, as of the great
<PB N="5" REF="6"><!-- PDF PAGE 12 -->Sultans hor&s;e, where he treads the gra&s;&s;e growes no more. Hee is the States Cormorant, one that fi&s;hes for the Publique, but feeds him&s;elfe, the mi&s;erie is, he fi&s;hes without the Cormo|rants propertie, a rope to &s;treighten the gullet, and to make hime di&s;gorge. A Seque&s;trator! hee is the Devills Nuthooke, the &s;igne with him is alwaies in the clutches. There's more Mon&s;ters retaine to him, then to all the limbes in Anatomie. 'Tis &s;trange Phy&s;icians doe not apply him to the &s;oles of the feet in a de&s;perate Feavour, he drawes farre beyond Pigeons: I hope &s;ome Mountebanke will &s;lice him, and make the Expe|riment. Hee is a tooth-drawer once removed, here's all the difference one applauds the Grinder, and the other the Gri&s;t. Never till now could I verifie the Poets de&s;cription, that the ravenous Harpie had a humane vi&s;age: Death it &s;elfe cannot quit &s;cores with him, like the Demoniack in the Go&s;pel hee lives among Tombes Nor is all the holy-water &s;hed by Wi|dowes and Orphans a &s;ufficient Exorci&s;me to di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e him. Thus the Cat &s;ucks your breath, and the Fiend your blood; Nor can the Brotherhood of Witchfinders &s;o &s;agely in&s;tituted with all their terrour weane the Familiars.</P>
<P>But once more to &s;ingle out my imbo&s;t Committee-man his Fate (for I know you would fain &s;ee an end of him) is either a whipping Audit, when he is wrung in the withers by a Committee of Examinations; And &s;o the &s;punge weeps out the moy&s;ture which he &s;oaked before, or el&s;e he meets his pa&s;|&s;ing peale in the clamorous mutiny of a gut-foundred Garri|&s;on; For the Hedge-&s;parrow will be feeding the Cuckow, till he mi&s;take his Commons, and bite off her head. What-ever 'tis, it is within his de&s;ert, for what is ob&s;erved of &s;ome Crea|tures, that at the &s;ame time they trade in productions three &s;tories high&punc; &s;uckling the fir&s;t, bigg with the &s;econd, and cliket|ting for the third; A Committeman in the Counterpoint, his Mi&s;chiefs &s;uperfetation a certaine &s;cale of de&s;truction, for hee ruines the Father, beggars the Sonne, and &s;trangles the hopes of all po&s;teritie.</P>
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