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<HEAD>The Ma&s;ter-piece of Round|heads, or an Explanation and Declara|tion of the right Round-heads in deed, And &s;uch as are and &s;hall be the true Round|heads by all con&s;ent and Act of Parliament.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Written by a well-wi&s;her to King, Parliament, Religion and State.</HEAD>
<P>_THERE hath beene a great noy&s;e and rumour about the appellation and name of Round-heads: But it is not yet apparent, neither by Ancient or Moderne Writers, what the&s;e Round-heads &s;hould be, neither to what u&s;e or meanes this name or appellation is applyed, or on what it is be&s;towed or meant. If it be intended by the Author that fir&s;t devi&s;ed this name, that it &s;hould be attributed and con&s;trued to the plaine and right under&s;tanding of the word, as it is a primitive word, and literally;</P>
<P>Then it mu&s;t be under&s;tood of all men as they have Round-heads, al|though &s;ome heads be rounder then others, as if a man have a round &s;houlder, he is called round &s;houldered, and if a man have a bottle-no&s;e, he is called a bottle-no&s;e, and &s;o likewi&s;e in all the like occa&s;ions, men may be termed by &s;uch names and appellations, and &s;o in this con&s;tructi|on, onely thou that fir&s;t &s;et forth this name of Round-head &s;halt be &s;o termed, and my &s;elfe likewi&s;e will be thy brother Round-head. So like|wi&s;e all men in Chri&s;tendome are termed Chri&s;tians, although &s;ome be
<PB REF="2">good, and &s;ome bad, &s;ome of one opinion and &s;ome of another, &s;ome Papi&s;ts, &s;ome Browni&s;ts, &s;ome Anabapti&s;ts, &amp;c. yet all Brothers in Chri&s;t; now as in this &s;ence all men may be termed by the name of Round-heads, it mu&s;t not be under&s;tood and conceived that the Author did intend that all men &s;hould be &s;o termed or reputed, but he had a further reach to at|tribute this name as a nickename, or a &s;candall to &s;ome particular per&s;ons, which opinion verily is by all or mo&s;t men conceived, and not to the &s;en&s;e or con&s;truction of a primitive word onely, for that were nothing, but as may be under&s;tood of all men alike. Now then good brother Round-head, for &s;o we are all in the primitive word, give me leave to expre&s;&s;e your under&s;tanding herein (if you have any under&s;tanding) and to unfold that which hath &s;o long beene hid, and not unmasked, and that you and all the world &s;hall confe&s;&s;e, who are the right Round-heads you meant in particular, for no doubt in the generall, it was intended by you as a by-blow and nickename of &s;candall to &s;ome particular kinde of per&s;ons, and tho&s;e in all mens judgements mu&s;t be meant of &s;uch as de&s;erve &s;candall; for it is in charity conceived, that you would not apply &s;candall but upon &s;uch as de&s;erved it, whether it be in &s;ome particular &s;inne, as Drunkenne&s;&s;e, Adultery, loo&s;e life, or erroneous in their Religion or Doctrine: or in &s;ome outward comportment, or ceremony, or the like, contrary to the civill and lawfull government of our Church, State and Kingdome.</P>
<P>Now then deare brother Round-head, I mu&s;t &s;eriou&s;ly tell you that there are but two &s;orts of men in the world, the one good, the other bad; &s;o Chri&s;tians being men, are &s;ome good, &s;ome bad, &s;o all men are Round|heads in the primitive &s;en&s;e, and &s;o &s;ome good, &s;ome bad: now in cha|rity it is granted that you meant not this nickname nor &s;candall again&s;t the good, how&s;oever the good may be abu&s;ed by the&s;e names: now then to come nearer the matter, how many &s;orts of good men be there, and how many &s;orts of bad men be there? As for the good in this cau&s;e, they admit no divi&s;ion, and therefore we mu&s;t leave them, as no part of our Di&s;cour&s;e, becau&s;e it will not be denied by the Authour him&s;elfe, but that they were cleared of this nickname or &s;candall, and was never inten|ded again&s;t them: Well then, it mu&s;t be under&s;tood (as farre as we can gather) how many &s;orts of bad men there be, for they are not as the good are, but may be divided, and &s;urely are alwayes divided, for they can never agree; and &s;o to know again&s;t what &s;ort of bad this name was in|tended. Now to come yet a little nearer to my brother Round-heads mea|ning, let the bad be of as many &s;orts as can be thought of, for it were too much for one to remember them all. It is conceived that among&s;t all
<PB REF="2">the&s;e bad &s;orts of people in the world, he intended this nickname or &s;can|dall upon that &s;ort of bad that are contrary, oppo&s;ite, or differing in Reli|gion and ceremonies to the Doctrine of the Church of <HI>England.</HI> Now up|on this point it mu&s;t be knowne who, and how many &s;orts of religions, Ceremonies and practi&s;es there be, which are contrary to the true and Orthodox Church of <HI>England;</HI> but becau&s;e there be &s;o many &s;orts, it will be too tedious to recite them all, and to tell you of the whole nine and twenty &s;ects of late &s;et forth, but onely touch tho&s;e that are knowne to be the mo&s;t enemies to the Church and State, as the Papi&s;ts, the Browni&s;ts, the Anabapti&s;ts, the Separati&s;ts, and a new Religion, and yet no Religion, called Cavalliers, which is lately &s;prung up, <HI>Jam nova progenies barathro &s;ublata &s;ub imo, Chara diaboli &s;oboles</HI> &amp;c. They in &s;ome &s;ort would imitate the Apo&s;tles that were fi&s;hermen, for with the&s;e Cavalliers all is fi&s;h that come to their net. And yet to come a little nearer my brother Round-head, it mu&s;t be knowne al&s;o which of the&s;e &s;orts or &s;ects hee meant or intended by this nick name of Round-head. Now becau&s;e there lyes the hidden my|&s;tery, this riddle was never di&s;&s;olved, nor none by him ever named, who or what particular &s;ect was the intended Round-head, therefore it mu&s;t, &s;hall, and can be not otherwi&s;e intended and meant, but that all &s;ects, as Papi&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts, Separati&s;ts, Cavalliers, and what&s;oever el&s;e are not with, or any way again&s;t the true prote&s;tant Religion maintained by the King, Parliament and State of this Kingdome, are and &s;hall be from henceforth deemed, reputed, and taken by the names and appellations of Round-heads, and &s;hall be from henceforth &s;o authorized to be named and reputed by Act of Parliament, and the afore&s;aid hone&s;t Prote&s;tant to be cleared herein: and this no doubt was the true meaning and intention of the author, how&s;oever it hath beene mi&s;applyed many times by the&s;e afore&s;aid Round-heads, to unload them&s;elves and ca&s;t this a&s;per&s;ion upon the true, hone&s;t, Religious, and Zealous Prote&s;tants, whom neither King, or Parliament, or good men could ever detect; and therefore, me thinkes, the Authour was not &s;o wi&s;e neither (as God might have made him) for if he had he might have expre&s;t and &s;et down every particular Round|head, with a &s;everall addition, whereby they might have beene the better knowne to the Kingdome, and done him&s;elfe much honour to cleare his meaning, in expre&s;&s;ing him&s;elfe and his good will, in clearing tho&s;e good Prote&s;tants that were no wayes to be accompted among&s;t that rable, as that rable would make them: as for example, the Papi&s;ts in regard of this, many mi&s;chievous Machiavile plots and con&s;piracies again&s;t this State and Kingdome, as that of 88. and that of the Gunpowder Trea&s;on, with many other Machiavilian devi&s;es, continually practi&s;ed again&s;t our
<PB REF="3">King, this pre&s;ent Parliament, and State, and therefore it had beene a very fit addition to have called them by the name of a Machiavile Round|head, &s;o likewi&s;e the Browni&s;ts, becau&s;e they Preach and teach at the backe&s;ide of <HI>Brownes</HI> Barne, from which name and Barne they had their denomination of their Religion, and therefore it had beene very well to have knowne them (as hereafter they &s;hall be) by the name of a Browne Round-head. So likewi&s;e the Separati&s;ts and Anabapti&s;ts, they u&s;e to re|baptize in Rivers, and preach in Tubs, and other &s;ecret places, and &s;uch like odde devi&s;es, and therfore it is very proper to have them called by the name of Tub Round-heads. And &s;o likewi&s;e the&s;e Cavalieres, who&s;e Religion is &s;o hidden and not knowne indeed to be any at all; and not to have any meanes of living, but <HI>Ex damno alterius,</HI> and the&s;e are tho&s;e that &s;weare God dam'me, and therefore there can be no name or addition more proper to di&s;tingui&s;h them from the other, then to call them dam'd Round-heads, and this is the dam'd Round-head indeed, <HI>Projicit am|pull as &amp; &s;e&s;quipedalia verba;</HI> and it is mo&s;t certaine, if they doe not amend their lives damnation will be their end, which God have mercy upon them, and give them repentance. The&s;e, and many more might be expre&s;t, but that it were too tedious, I will name onely one &s;ort more, which are as ill or wor&s;e then the re&s;t, and the&s;e are the Pulpit men, Mini&s;ters, and perhaps there might be gleaned out &s;ome that ta&s;te of every &s;ort of the&s;e before named Round-heads, but they &s;hall goe with their followers. But here &s;pecially is meant tho&s;e Pulpit men, that upon all occa&s;ions are of all Religions, that will drinke up iniquity as bea&s;ts drinke water; I meane the &s;candalous Mini&s;ters, <HI>qui &s;unt Rebelles lumini,</HI> that will pro|fe&s;&s;e with the good, but act with the bad, which are a &s;hame and &s;candall to them that are good Mini&s;ters indeed, &s;uch as are Drunkards, Adulte|rers, contentious per&s;ons, mankillers, common Barrettors, like that Mi|ni&s;ter that had forty and odde Articles again&s;t him in Print, and like the two noted &s;candalous mini&s;ters in <HI>Suffolke,</HI> named <HI>Thomas Fowkes,</HI> and <HI>John Lowes,</HI> the one found guilty of killing a man, the other Arraigned for witch-craft, and convicted for a common Barretror, as appeares on Record, and as they are lively &s;et forth in a Printed Booke called the <HI>Magazine of Scandall:</HI> the&s;e are the devilli&s;h crue, that are not onely bad them&s;elves but infect others, and carry a brand and plague with them where&s;oever they come, not onely by their in&s;ufficiency, diver&s;ity, and uncon&s;tancy of Doctrine, but al&s;o by their example of evill life and con|ver&s;ation, <HI>quorum non &s;olum vita, &s;ed oratio e&s;t execrabilis,</HI> and therefore they &s;hall (as mo&s;t proper to them) beare the name and brand of devilli&s;h Round-heads, and of the&s;e the Parliament have had notice of &s;ufficient|ly,
<PB REF="3">and have promi&s;ed a cour&s;e accordingly to purge the Church of them. Now brother Round-head, if you had taken this cour&s;e to have given your di&s;tinction and addition in this kinde, you had not left a gap open for the di&s;paragement of any other hone&s;t religious good Prote&s;tant Mi|ni&s;ter or Layman, as the&s;e Round-heads have taken advantage to doe, thinking thereby to cleare them&s;elves of that imputation. But let it be granted that the&s;e Machiavell, Browne. Tub, Dam'd, devilli&s;h Round|heads, will apply this name of Round-head to an hone&s;t, good and zea|lous Prote&s;tant (as none el&s;e will) then it cannot be attributed to him, nor can he have any other addition then a good Round-head, for el&s;e we are cleane again&s;t our former ground, that all men (and &s;o all Round|heads) are either good or bad, and good admits no divi&s;ion as before &s;uffi|ciently is made manife&s;t, but of bad you may &s;ee how many divi&s;ions there be, &amp; as long as a Prote&s;tant be good as no doubt there is none good, but a true zealous Prote&s;tant, then let the&s;e afore&s;aid Macheavell Round, tub, dam'd, devilli&s;h Round-heads, call them what they will, they care not, neither was it ever taken to them&s;elves, neither will any man of any rea|&s;onable judgement, ever thinke that it was the Authors meaning to attri|bute it to them, and let my brother Round-head cleare him&s;elfe in this point, for if he meant otherwi&s;e then here is formerly expre&s;&s;ed, he &s;hall no longer be my Brother Round-head, in the &s;imple and primitive con|&s;truction and under&s;tanding of the word, as before is declared, but &s;hall be adjudged and deemed for ever hereafter to be one of the other former right Round-heads indeed, and &s;o among&s;t them &s;hall be declared to be by Act of Parliament, as all Machiavell, browne, tub, dam'd and devilli&s;h Roundheads &s;hall be. And although thou &s;houlde&s;t be &s;uch a Round-head as that thou &s;houlde&s;t meane otherwi&s;e then before is expre&s;&s;ed, yet then thou mu&s;t thinke that no hone&s;t, no wi&s;e man will judge or accompt thee to be either hone&s;t or wi&s;e in thy intentions, for who can de&s;erve any nickname or &s;oandall, but &s;uch as are again&s;t our true Religion, &s;uch as are di&s;quieters of our publique peace, &s;uch as are evill Coun&s;ellors to King or State, &s;uch as will or would make divi&s;ion betwixt King and Parliament, or State, but for their owne ends.</P>
<P>And what are the&s;e but &s;uch or the like kinde of Round-heads, as be|fore are manife&s;ted? I pray tell me unto whom &s;hould we attribute a|ny nicke name or &s;candall but to &s;uch, who are the Round-heads now? Can any man &s;peake the contrary? Can any man (I meane of the &s;ober and hone&s;t &s;ort) attribute any nicke name or &s;candall to hone&s;t and good men? yet &s;ome of the&s;e &s;orts of Round-heads have not beene a&s;hamed to abu&s;e the mo&s;t Religious, well governed Prote&s;tants, yea &s;ome of the very
<PB REF="4">highe&s;t Court of Ju&s;tice, from whence we have had, mu&s;t, and ought to have our chiefe&s;t being both for our Religion, lives, and e&s;tates, or el&s;e we mu&s;t peri&s;h, and by who&s;e daily un&s;peakeable labours, doe endeavour to pre&s;erve the Kings Maje&s;ty, them&s;elves, and all good Subjects from that mi&s;erable condition in which we are ready to fall into by the meanes of tho&s;e Round-heads, if they doe not like good hearted Souldiers, per&s;evere in this good worke, and &s;tand in the battle with an invincible con&s;tan|cy, again&s;t all oppo&s;ition and corruption that can be, &s;ecretly, openly, or cunningly, projected, divi&s;ed, imagined or intended again&s;t the Kings Maje&s;ty, his Parliament, and body, and heart of this famous Kingdome, as hitherto they have done. Plea&s;e his Maje&s;ty, and the Parliament una|nimou&s;ly to con&s;ent to roote out the&s;e forenamed Round-heads (as no doubt but they will:) O then our feares and rumours of warres will va|ni&s;h as mi&s;ts again&s;t the morning Sunne.</P>
<P>O what a happy &s;tate our Kingdome will be reduced unto! for then no doubt but his Maje&s;ty as head, may be compared like the Sunne in the fir|mament with his body of &s;o many &s;tarres about him, yea &s;o many milli|ons of inferior &s;tarres, as there be inferior Subjects in his three Kingdoms, will &s;hine about him with joy full hearts, and crying loud acclamati|ons of Joy. What a wickedne&s;&s;e is it to thinke that the head &s;hould be di|vided from the body, in which body we all know the heart lies? Oh the heart of the Subject is a pre&s;ervative and cordiall thing to a Prince, and &s;o al&s;o the head being taken away, the heart dyes. O what a devili&s;h damn'd tricke of the Devill was this, to bring or &s;end &s;uch Machevile dam'd Round-heads and incendiaries into the World, to worke &s;uch an un|heard of plot as (if they could) to divide the King and the Parliament! <HI>O tempora, O mores!</HI> And none but the devill and his agents and &s;ervants could ever have devi&s;ed the like; but yet for all this the body and the heart will not be divided from their head, <HI>invito diabolo;</HI> they worke day and night without breathing or &s;leeping to draw and obtaine their head unto them <HI>(Vis unita fortior)</HI> they will not be divided, they will endeavour to &s;upport the King out of the hands of his &s;ecret enemies, and rai&s;e his Ma|je&s;ties honour and &s;tate, they will draw him with cords of love, and hands of love, how&s;oever the devill, and the&s;e forenamed Machevile dam'd Round-heads endeavour to overthrow both King and Kingdome, and weigh him like <HI>Bel&s;hazzer, qui inventus e&s;t minus habens,</HI> but it is God hea|ring our prayers will ca&s;t out all the&s;e devils from among&s;t us; for by pray|er it mu&s;t be done, and the&s;e Round-heads his &s;ervants will not faile of them&s;elves, and then &s;eeke a new Country, where they will get new foot|ing, and perhaps may hope for new projections el&s;e where, if in the meane
<PB REF="4">time the Gallowes or &s;ome other place of execution doe not &s;toppe them. Now to conclude that which is the matter treated of, that is the Declara|tion and &s;ettling of this name, of the Right Round-heads indeed, I mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech his Maje&s;ty, and that mo&s;t honourable body and heart of the Kingdome, to give their approbation and opinion in this affaire, and &s;o to countenance the good, hone&s;t, zealous and true prote&s;tant, and to di&s;|charge them in your good opinions of this terme of Round-head (as no doubt you can doe no otherwi&s;e) and to lay and &s;et it (as due of Right be|longing) upon the afore named Round-heads, with their additions, as namely the Machevile Round-head, the Browne Round-head, the Tubb Round-head, the dam'd Round-head, and the devilli&s;h Round-head, the&s;e being the chiefe, yea the onely troublers and enemies to Religion, the King, State, and Kingdome, and to whom this appellation or terme was without all que&s;tion; fir&s;t attributed and de&s;ervedly intended, it being un|po&s;&s;ible that any good men &s;hould de&s;erve any nickename or &s;candall, or that any man that could but write or reade Engli&s;h &s;hould intend or ca&s;t it upon any good man, much le&s;&s;e the Author thereof; and thus by your good countenance and approbation the Round-head may be thus known and di&s;tingui&s;hed from hone&s;t men by Act of Parliament, that is, by con|&s;ent both of King and Parliament; which I being &s;ure not to be denyed; it is granted that they mu&s;t for ever hereafter be &s;o named, reputed, and ta|ken. Now to &s;et forth the watchfull wi&s;edomes, the laborious careful|ne&s;&s;e, the continuall diligence, and un&s;peakeable ble&s;&s;ings God hath given this Parliament to enable them to prevent all the&s;e plots and con&s;piracies, whereby they have pre&s;erved both the King, them&s;elves, and Kingdome; It were a folly yea a pre&s;umption in me to endeavour to doe or &s;ay more therein; being impo&s;&s;ible for me to doe: But thus much for conclu&s;ion, I am &s;ure I may, and can, and will &s;ay; God ble&s;&s;e the King, and his Parliament, and confound all tho&s;e afore&s;aid Round-heads, or any other that wi&s;h a|ny hurt either to King, Parliament, or Kingdome, or goe about to work any divi&s;ion or &s;eparation betwixt the King and the Parliament, or Sub|jects. And &s;o I de&s;ire all hone&s;t men to remember, and know who are the Right Round-heads indeed, and to &s;hun them and all others that to this will not &s;ay, Amen.</P>
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<L>TO Cavaliers, that hang in the briers, and &s;o to every Ju&s;t as,</L>
<L><HI>Quidlibet audendi &s;emper fuit aequa pote&s;tas.</HI></L>
<L>They drinke and fight, from morne till night, but &s;till lodge where their whore is,</L>
<L><HI>Laudandi ne quid cogitent tolerare laboris.</HI></L>
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<L> Rob and &s;teale, &amp; cut piecemeale, the&s;e Round-heads never repent them;</L>
<L><HI>Mon&s;trum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.</HI></L>
<L>The battle &s;pun, the&s;e Roundheads run, you mu&s;t know where their flight is:</L>
<L>For, <HI>Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis.</HI></L>
<L>When &s;poyle they get, they cry more yet, but none will &s;ay, <HI>Dolebo;</HI></L>
<L>But, <HI>Flectere &s;i nequeo &s;uperos, Ach<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ronta movebo.</HI></L>
<L>They have open throats, Red Lou&s;ie Coates, I care not for their lice I;</L>
<L><HI>Spectatum admi&s;&s;i ri&s;um teneatis amici?</HI></L>
<L>In zeale and heate, of love &s;o great, with whores they plea&s;e with <HI>verbis:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Hei mihi quod nullis amor e&s;t medicabilis herbis.</HI></L>
<L>They plunder our food, and envy our good, and they live where none but &s;lime is:</L>
<L><HI>Invidus alterius rebus macre&s;cit opimis.</HI></L>
<L>They have fiery &s;words, and blu&s;tring words, and &s;weare God dam'me Ile eate thee;</L>
<L><HI>Nam mirandacanunt, &s;ed non credenda poetae.</HI></L>
<L>From death and harmes, yea without armes, our God from devils will ea&s;e us;</L>
<L><HI>Daemona non armis, &s;ed morte &s;ubegit Je&s;us.</HI></L>
<L>Without all grace, with ill looking face, which &s;hew they will infult you:</L>
<L><HI>Heu quam difficile e&s;t crimen non prodere vultu!</HI></L>
<L>The&s;e roaring dawes, will put downe Lawes, &amp; turne things top&s;ie-turva,</L>
<L><HI>Argentum atque Aurum faciunt recti&s;&s;ima curva.</HI></L>
<L>Let the&s;e red-coats, pul out our throats, let's &s;leepe till they have pluckt us:</L>
<L><HI>Quos ego? &s;ed motos prae&s;tat componere fluctus.</HI></L>
<L>Shal's fire them all, both great and &s;mall, and thus &s;eeke to decline the&s;e?</L>
<L><HI>E&s;t modus in rebus, &s;unt certi denique fines.</HI></L>
<L>King and Cavaleeres, Parliament and Peeres, the Kingdome do deplore ye:</L>
<L><HI>Sol<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">men mi&s;eris Socios habui&s;&s;e dolore.</HI></L>
<L>They live on the lurch, but neere goe to Church, prophaning with vice they have plenty:</L>
<L><HI>Petere nec temphem, venerare nec omnipotenti.</HI></L>
<L>The work &s;hall be no mans, to make us al <HI>Romans,</HI> tis God that bids them repent them,</L>
<L><HI>Tantae molis erit Romanam condere gentem.</HI></L>
<L>The great <HI>French</HI> pock, <HI>Venerean</HI> &s;mocke, and rot is come among um,</L>
<L><HI>Cum multis aliis quae nunc per&s;cribere longum.</HI></L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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