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<P>Some of M^r HOVVELS <HI>MINOR</HI> WORKS, Reflecting upon the TIMES: Upon Emergent Occa&s;ions.</P>
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<FIGDESC>woodcut of English rose</FIGDESC>
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<P>Printed in the Year, 1654.</P>
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<P><HI>THE</HI> INSTRVMENTS OF A KING: <HI>OR,</HI> A SHORT DISCOVRSE OF
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<ITEM>The <HI>SVVORD.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>SCEPTER.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>CROWNE.</HI></ITEM>
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<L><HI>Satis habet Rex ad poenam,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Quod Deum expectet Ultorem.</HI></L>
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<L>'Tis puni&s;hment enough for th' King,</L>
<L>That God will Him to judgment bring.</L>
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<FIGDESC>royal arms of England, circa 1648</FIGDESC>
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<P><HI>LONDON.</HI> Printed in the Yeare, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>The <HI>Author's</HI> Apology&punc;</HEAD>
<P>_I Am no Lawyer otherwi&s;e then what nature hath made me, &s;o every man, as he is born the child of <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> is a Lawyer, and a <HI>Logitian</HI> al&s;o who was the fir&s;t kind of Lawyer: This di&s;cour&s;ive <HI>faculty</HI> of Rea&s;on comes with us into the world accompanied with certaine generall notions and principles to di&s;tin|gui&s;h Right from Wrong, and Fal&s;hood from Truth: But touching this following <HI>Di&s;cour&s;e,</HI> becau&s;e it relates &s;omething to <HI>Law,</HI> the Authour would not have adven|tured to have expo&s;ed it to the world, if, be|&s;ides tho&s;e common innate <HI>notions</HI> of Rea|&s;on, and &s;ome private <HI>Notes</HI> of his owne,
<PB REF="4"> he had not inform'd &amp; a&s;certain'd his judg|ment by conference with &s;ome profe&s;&s;ed Lawyers, and tho&s;e the Eminente&s;t in the Land, touching the truth of what it Treats of; therefore he dares humbly aver that it containes nothing but what is con&s;onant to the fundamentall and fixed Con&s;titutions, to the knowne clear Lawes of this King|dome.</P>
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<HEAD>THE INSTRUMENTS <HI>OF</HI> A KING.</HEAD>
<P>_IN a Succe&s;&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ng|dome, as ENGLAND is known and <HI>acknowledged</HI> to be by all Parties now in oppo&s;ition, There are 3 things which are inalienable from the Per&s;on of the KING: they are,
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<ITEM>1. The <HI>Crowne.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>2. The <HI>Scepter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The <HI>Sword.</HI></ITEM>
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<P>The one, He is to carry on His Head, the other in His Hand, and the third at His Side; and they may be tear|med all three the en&s;ignes or peculiar in&s;truments of a KING: by the fir&s;t, He <HI>Reignes,</HI> by the &s;econd He makes <HI>Lawes,</HI> by the third He maintaines them: and the two fir&s;t are but bables without the la&s;t.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="2" REF="5"> <MILESTONE N="1"> 1. Touching the <HI>Crowne</HI> or royall Diadem of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> there is none, whether <HI>Presbyterian, Independent, Prote&s;tant,</HI> or others now in action, but confe&s;&s;e that it de&s;cends by a right hereditary Line, (though through divers Races, and &s;ome of them Conquerours) upon the Head of CHARLES <HI>the fir&s;t</HI> now Regnant: 'tis His owne by inherent birthright and nature, by Gods law, and the Law of the Land, and the&s;e Parliament|men at their fir&s;t &s;itting did agnize &s;ubjection unto Him accordingly, and recognize Him for their Soveraigne liege Lord: Nay, the <HI>Roman Catholick</HI> denies not this, for though there were <HI>Bulls</HI> &s;ent to di&s;pen&s;e with the Engli&s;h Subjects for their allegiance to Queen <HI>Eliza|beth,</HI> yet the Pope did this again&s;t Her as he too<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> for a <HI>Heretique,</HI> not an <HI>U&s;ur</HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> he knew <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> enough that She had been <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 chunk">timate by the Act of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Parliament.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> Crown of <HI>England</HI> is adorned and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> with many faire Flowers, which are called, <HI>royall Prerogatives;</HI> and they are of &s;uch a tran&s;cendent na|ture, that they are unforfeitable, individuall, and un|transferable to any other: The KING can only &s;um|mon and di&s;&s;olve Parliaments: The KING can onely Pardon (for when He is Crowned, He is &s;worn to rule in <HI>mercy</HI> as well as in <HI>ju&s;tice:</HI>) The KING can onely Coyn Money, and enhance or decry the value of it: The power of electing Officers of State, of Ju&s;tices of Peace, and A&s;&s;i&s;e is in the KING; He can only grant &s;overaign Commi&s;&s;ions: The KING can only wage War, and make Out-landi&s;h Leagues: The KING may make all the Courts of ju&s;tice ambulatory with His Per&s;on, as they were u&s;ed of old; 'tis true, the Court of <HI>Common Pleas</HI> mu&s;t be &s;edentary in &s;ome certain place for &s;uch a time; but that expired, 'tis removeable at His plea&s;ure:
<PB N="3" REF="5"> The KING can only employ Amba&s;&s;adours and Treat with forain States, &amp;c. The&s;e, with other royal Preroga|tives which I &s;hall touch hereafter, are tho&s;e rare and whol&s;ome flowers wherewith the Crowne of <HI>England</HI> is embelli&s;hed, nor can they &s;tick any where el&s;e but in the Crowne, and all confe&s;&s;e the Crowne is as much the KING'S, as any private man's Cap is his own.</P>
<P>The &s;econd regall In&s;trument is the <HI>Scepter,</HI> which <MILESTONE N="2"> may be called <HI>an in&s;eparable companion,</HI> or <HI>a nece&s;&s;ary ap|pendix to the Crowne;</HI> this inve&s;ts the KING with the &s;ole Authority of making Lawes, for before His confir|mation all re&s;ults and determinations of Parliament are but Bills or <GAP DESC="foreign">, they are but abortive things, and meer Embryos; nay, they have no life at all in them till the KING puts breath and vigour into them: and the antient cu&s;tome was for the KING to touch them with His <HI>Scepter,</HI> then they are Lawes, and have a virtue in them to impo&s;e an obligation of univer&s;all obedience upon all &s;orts of people, It being an undeniable maxime, That <HI>nothing can be generally binding without the King's royall a&s;&s;ent,</HI> nor doth the Law of <HI>England</HI> take notice of any thing without it: This being done, they are ever after &s;til'd <HI>the King's Lawes,</HI> and the Judges are &s;aid to deliver the King's judgments, which agrees with the holy Text, <HI>The King by judgment &s;hall &s;tabli&s;h the Land:</HI> nay, the Law pre&s;umes the <HI>King</HI> to be alwaies the &s;ole Judge Paramount, and Lord chief Ju&s;tice of <HI>England,</HI> for he whom He plea&s;eth to depute for His chiefe&s;t Ju|&s;tice, is but &s;til'd <HI>Lord chief Ju&s;tice of the King's Bench,</HI> not Lord chief Ju&s;tice of <HI>England,</HI> which title is peculiar to the KING Him&s;elf, and ob&s;ervable it is, that where|as He grants Commi&s;&s;ions and Patents to the Lord Chancellour (who is no other then <HI>Keeper of His Con|&s;cience</HI>)
<PB N="4" REF="6"> and to all other Judges, He names the Chief Ju|&s;tice of His own Bench by a &s;hort Writ only containing two or three lines: Now, though the <HI>King</HI> be liable to the Law, and is contented to be within their verge, be|cau&s;e they are chiefly His owne productions, yet He is &s;till their Protector, Moderator, and Soveraigne, which attributes are incommunicable to any other conjunctly or &s;eparately.</P>
<P>Thus the KING with His <HI>Scepter,</HI> and by the mature advice of His two Hou&s;es of Parl. which are His highe&s;t Councel &amp; Court, hath the &s;ole power of making Laws; other Courts of judicature doe but expound them and di&s;tribute them by His appointment, they have but <HI>Juris dati dictionem</HI> or <HI>declarationem,</HI> and herein, I meane for the Expo&s;ition of the Lawes <HI>the twelve Judges</HI> are to be <HI>believed before the whole Kingdom be&s;ides.</HI> They are as the Areopagites in <HI>Athens,</HI> the chief Pre&s;idents in <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Spaine</HI> in an extraordinary <HI>Junta,</HI> as the <HI>Cape-Syn|diques</HI> in the <HI>Rota's</HI> of <HI>Rome,</HI> and the Republique of <HI>Ve|nice</HI> who&s;e judgments in point of interpreting Lawes are incontroulable, and preferred before the opinion of the whole Senate whence they received their being; and who hath &s;till power to repeal them, though not to ex|pound them. In <HI>France</HI> they have a Law-maxime, <HI>Arre&s;t donn&eacute; en Robbe rouge e&s;t irrevocable,</HI> which is, <HI>a Scarlet Sentence is irrevocable,</HI> meaning when all the Judges are met in their Robes, and the Client again&s;t whom the Cau&s;e goes, may chafe and chomp upon the bit, and &s;ay what he will for the &s;pace of 24 howers a|gain&s;t his Judges, but if ever after he traduces them, he is puni&s;hable: It is no otherwi&s;e here where every igno|rant peevi&s;h Client, every puny Bari&s;ter, &s;pecially if he become a Member of the Hou&s;e will be ready to arraign and vie knowledge with all the reverend Judges in the
<PB N="5" REF="6"> Land, who&s;e judgement in points of Law &s;hold be only tripodicall and &s;terling: &s;o that he may be truly call'd a ju&s;t King, and to rule according to Law, who rules ac|cording to the opinion of his Judges; therfore, under fa|vor, I do not &s;ee how his Maje&s;tie for his part could be call'd inju&s;t when he leavied the Ship-money, con&s;ide|ing he had the judges for it.</P>
<P>I now take the <HI>Sword</HI> in hand, which is the third In&s;tru|ment <MILESTONE N="3"> of a King, (and which this &s;hort di&s;cours chiefly <HI>points</HI> at) it is a&s;well as the two fir&s;t, incommunicable and inalienable from his Per&s;on; nothing concernes his honor more both at home and abroad; the <HI>Crown</HI> and the Scepter are but unweildy and impotent naked indefen|&s;ible things without it. There's none &s;o &s;imple as to think there's meant hereby an ordinary &s;ingle &s;word, &s;uch as ev'ry one carrieth by his &s;ide, or &s;om imaginary thing or chymera of a &s;word; No, 'tis the polemical publique &s;word of the whole Kingdom, 'tis an aggregative com|pound &s;word, and 'tis moulded of bell-metall; for 'tis made up of all the ammunition and armes &s;mall and great, of all the military &s;trengths both by Land and Sea, of all the Forts, Ca&s;tles and tenable places within and round a|bout the whole Ile: The Kings of England have had this &s;word by vertue of their royall &s;ignory from all times, the Laws have girded it to their &s;ides, they have employ|ed it for repelling all forren force, for revenging all for|ren wrongs or affronts, for quelling all inte&s;tine tu|mults, and for protecting the weal of the whole body po|litike at home: The peeple were never capable of this &s;word, the fundamentall con&s;titutions of this Kingdom deny it them; 'tis all one to put the &s;word in a mad mans hand, as in the peeples; or for them to have a di&s;po&s;ing
<PB N="6" REF="7"> power in who&s;e hands it &s;hall be. Such was the ca&s;e once of the French &s;word, in that notorious in&s;urrection call'd to this day <HI>La Jaqueris de Beauvoi&s;in,</HI> when the Pe&s;ants and Mechanics had a de&s;ign to wre&s;t it out of the Kings hand, and to depre&s;&s;e all the Peers &amp; Gentry of the Kingdom; &amp; the bu&s;ines had gone very far, had not the <HI>Prelats</HI> &s;tuck clo&s;e to the Nobility; But afterwards poor hare-brain'd things they de&s;ire the King upon bended knees to take it againe; Such popular puffs have blowen often in <HI>Po|land, Naples</HI> and other places, where while they &s;ought and fought for liberty by retrenching the regall power, they fool'd them&s;elfs into a &s;lavery unawares, and found the rule right, that <HI>exce&s;s of freedom turns to thral|dom,</HI> and u&s;hers in all confu&s;ions. If one &s;hold go back to the nonage of the world, when Governers and Rulers began fir&s;t, one will find the peeple de&s;ir'd to live under Kings for their own advantage, that they might be re|&s;train'd from wild exorbitant liberty, and kept in unity; Now <HI>unity</HI> is as requi&s;it for the welbeing of all naturall things, as <HI>entity</HI> is for their being, and 'tis a receiv'd max|im in policy, that nothing pre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ves Unity more exactly then Royall Government: be&s;ides 'tis known to be the noble&s;t &s;ort of &s;way; In &s;o much that by the Law of Nations, if Subjects of equall degrees, and under differing Princes &s;hold meet, the Subjects of a King &s;hold take pre|dency of tho&s;e under any Republique, and tho&s;e of a <HI>&s;uc|ce&s;sif</HI> Kingdom, of tho&s;e that are under an Electif.</P>
<P>But to take up the <HI>Sword</HI> again. I &s;ay that the <HI>Sword</HI> of public power &amp; authoritie is fit only to hang at the Kings &s;ide, &amp; &s;o indeed &s;hold the <HI>great Seal</HI> hang only at his gir|dle, becau&s;e 'tis the Key of the Kingdom: which makes me think of what I read of <HI>Charlemain,</HI> how he had the impe|riall Seal embo&s;s'd alwaies upon the pommell of his
<PB N="7" REF="7"> &s;word, and his rea&s;on was, that he was ready to maintain what&s;oever he &s;igned, and &s;ealed.</P>
<P>The Civilians, who are not in all points &s;o great friends to Monarchy as the Common Law of England is, &s;ay, there are &s;ix <HI>Iura Regalia,</HI> &s;ix Regall Rights, <HI>viz.</HI> 1. <HI>Po|te&s;tas Iudicatoria,</HI> 2. <HI>Pote&s;tas vitae &amp; necis,</HI> 3. <HI>Arma|menta,</HI> 4. <HI>Bona ade&s;pota,</HI> 5. <HI>Cen&s;us,</HI> 6. <HI>Monetarum va|lor:</HI> to wit, <HI>Power of Judicature, power of life and death, all kind of arming, ma&s;terle&s;&s;e goods, Se&s;&s;ements,</HI> and <HI>the va|lue of money.</HI></P>
<P>Among the&s;e <HI>Regalias,</HI> we find that <HI>Arming,</HI> which in effect is nought el&s;e but the Kings <HI>Sword,</HI> is among the chiefe&s;t; and 'tis as proper and peculiar to his per&s;on, as either Crown or Scepter. By the&s;e two he drawes a loo&s;e voluntary love and opinion onely from his Subjects, but by the <HI>Sword</HI> he drawes reverence and awe, which are the chiefe&s;t ingredients of allegiance, it being a maxime, <HI>That the be&s;t mixture of government is made of feare and love.</HI> With this &s;word he conferrs honor, he dubbs Knights, he creates magi&s;trats, the Lord Deputy of <HI>Ire|land,</HI> the Lord Mayor of London with all other Corpo|rations have their &s;words from him, and when he en|treth any place corporat, we know the fir&s;t thing that is pre&s;ented him is the <HI>Sword:</HI> With this Sword he &s;hields and pre&s;erves all his peeple that ev'ry one may &s;it quietly under his own Vine, &s;leep &s;ecurely in his own Hou&s;e, and enjoy &s;weetly the fruits of his labours.</P>
<P>Nor doth the point of this &s;word reach only to ev'ry corner of his own dominions, but it extends beyond the &s;eas to gard his Subjects from oppre&s;&s;ion, and denial of ju&s;tice, as well as to vindicate the publike wrongs, make good the intere&s;ts of his Crown, and to a&s;&s;i&s;t his con|federates; This is the &s;word that <HI>Edward</HI> the third tied the
<PB N="8" REF="8"> <HI>Flower deluces</HI> unto (which &s;tick &s;till unto it,) when ha|ving &s;ent to France to demand that Crown by maternall right, the Coun&s;ell there &s;ent him word that the <HI>Crown of France was not tied to a di&s;taff,</HI> to which <HI>&s;coffing</HI> an&s;wer he replied <HI>that then he wold tie it to his &s;word,</HI> and he was as good as his word. Nor is this publike &s;word concredited or intru&s;ted by the <HI>peeple</HI> in a fiduciary conditionall way to the King, but it is properly and peculiarly belonging unto him, as an in&s;eparable concomitant, perpetuall U&s;her and attendant to his Crowne. The King, we know, u|&s;eth to maintain all garri&s;ons upon his own charge, not the peeples; he fortifies upon his own charge, not the pee|ples: And though I will not averr, that the King may im|pre&s;&s;e any of his Subjects, unle&s;&s;e it be upon an actuall in|va&s;ion by Sea, or a &s;udden irruption into his Kingdom by Land, as the Scots have often don, yet at any time the King may rai&s;e Volunteers, and tho&s;e who have received his money, the Law makes it <HI>felony,</HI> if they for&s;ake his &s;ervice.</P>
<P>Thus we &s;ee there's nothing that conduceth more to the glory, and indeed the very e&s;&s;ence of a King then the <HI>Sword,</HI> which is the Armes and military &s;trength of his Kingdome; wherfore under favor, there cannot be a grea|ter point of di&s;honor to a King then to be di&s;armed, then to have his Sword taken from him, or di&s;pos'd of and intru&s;ted to any but tho&s;e whom he &s;hall appoint; for as <HI>&agrave; minori ad majus.</HI> the Argument often holds, if a privat Gentleman chance to be di&s;arm'd upon a quarrell, 'tis held the utmo&s;t of di&s;graces, much greater and more public is the di&s;honor that falls upon a King, if after &s;ome traver&s;es of difference 'twixt him and his Subjects, they &s;hold offer to di&s;arme him, or demand his &s;word of him: when the Eagle parted with his talons, and the Lion with his teeth and ongles, the Apolog tells us how
<PB N="9" REF="8"> contemptible afterwards the one grew to be among Birds, the other among Bea&s;ts. For a King to part with the Sword politic is to render him&s;elf &s;uch a ridiculous King, as that logg of wood was which <HI>Jupiter</HI> let down among the froggs for their King at the importunity of their croaking; 'tis to make him a King of clouts, or as the Spaniard hath it, <HI>Rey de Havas,</HI> a Bean-King, &s;uch as we u&s;e to choo&s;e in &s;port at Twelf-night.</P>
<P>But my hopes are, that the two pre&s;ent Hou&s;es of Par|lement (for now they may be call'd &s;o, becau&s;e they begin to <HI>parley</HI> with their King,) wilbe more tender of the honor of their Soverain Liege Lord, which, together with all his Rights and Dignities, by &s;everall &s;olemn Oaths, and by their own binding in&s;truments of <HI>Prote&s;tation and Co|venant,</HI> (not yet revok'd) they are &s;worn to maintain, and that they will demand nothing of him which may &s;avour of <HI>A&s;pert&egrave;</HI> or force, but what may hold water hereafter: But now, touching the <HI>Militia</HI> or Sword of the Kingdom, I think, under favor, the King cannot transfer it to any other; for that were to de&s;ert the protection of his peo|ple, which is point-blank again&s;t his Coronation Oath and his Office: What forren Prince or State will &s;end either <HI>Amba&s;&s;ador, Re&s;ident</HI> or <HI>Agent</HI> to him, when they under&s;tand his Sword is taken from him? What reformed forren Church wil acknowledg Him <HI>Defender of the Faith,</HI> when they hear of this? Nay, they who wi&s;h England no good will, will go neer to paint him out, as not long &s;ince another King was, with a fair velvet Scabbard, a &s;pe|cious golden hilt and chape, but the blade within was of wood. I hope that they who &s;way now, will make bet|ter u&s;e of their &s;ucce&s;&s;es: Many of them know 'tis as <HI>dif|ficult a thing to u&s;e a victory well, as to get one;</HI> there is as much prudence requir'd in the one, as prowe&s;&s;e in the o|ther;
<PB N="10" REF="9"> they wilbe wi&s;er &s;ure then turn it to the di&s;honor of their King: it being a certaine rule, that the glory of a Nation all the world over depends upon the glory of their King, and if he be any way ob&s;cur'd, the whole Kingdom is under an eclip&s;e.</P>
<P>I have ob&s;erved, that among other characters of gal|lantry, which forren Writers appropriat to the Engli&s;h Nation, one is, that they u&s;e to be mo&s;t zealous to pre|&s;erve the Honor of their King; I tru&s;t that they who are now upp will return to the &s;teps of their Progenitors, both in this particular and divers other; that their &s;ucce&s;&s;es may &s;erve to &s;weeten and moderat things, and &s;uppre&s;&s;e the popular Sword which &s;till rages; And it had been hearti|ly wi&s;hed that a &s;u&s;pen&s;ion of Arms had preceded this Treaty, which u&s;eth to be the ordinary fore-runner, and a nece&s;&s;arie antecedent to all Treaties; for while acts of ho&s;tility continue, &s;om ill favour'd newes may intervene which may imbitter and di&s;turb all: nor can it be expected that the proceedings will goe on with that candor and confidence, while the old rancor is &s;till in action; 'tis im|po&s;&s;ible a &s;ore &s;hold heale till the inflamation be taken a|way; To ca&s;t <HI>water</HI> into a wound in&s;tead of <HI>oyle</HI> is not the way to cure it: or to ca&s;t <HI>oyle</HI> upon a fire in&s;tead of <HI>wa|ter</HI> is not the way to quench it; poor England hath had a con&s;uming fire within her bowells many yeeres, &s;he is al&s;o mortally wounded in all her members, that &s;he is &s;till in a high Fever, which hath made her rave and &s;peak idle a long time; and 'tis like to turn to a <HI>Hectic</HI> if not timely prevented. I p ay God &s;he may have no occa&s;ion to make u&s;e of the &s;ame complaint as <HI>Alexander</HI> the great made when he was expiring his la&s;t, <HI>Perti turba Me|dicorum: too many Phy&s;itians have undon me.</HI></P>
<P>To conclude in a word, there is but one only way, under
<PB N="11" REF="9"> favor, to put a period to all the&s;e fearfull confu&s;ions; it is, to put the great Ma&s;ter-wheele in order, and in its due place again, and then all the inferior wheels will move regularly; let the King be re&s;tor'd, and ev'ry one will com to his own, all intere&s;ts will be &s;atisfied, all things quick|ly rectified; till this be done, 'tis as ab&s;urd to attempt the &s;etling of peace, as if one &s;hold go about to &s;et a Watch by the gnomon of an horizontall Diall when the Sun is in a cloud.</P>
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<Q>Dolor Capitis e&s;t Caput Doloris.</Q>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Jam. Howell.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE>16. Septemb. 1648.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>A Venice Looking-Gla&s;&s;e: OR, A LETTER VVRITTEN very lately from LONDON to ROME, by a <HI>Venetian Clari&s;simo</HI> to Cardinal <HI>Barberino,</HI> Protector of the <HI>En|gli&s;h</HI> Nation, touching the&s;e pre&s;ent di&s;tempers.</P>
<P><HI>Wherein, as in a true</HI> Mirrour, ENGLAND <HI>may behold her owne &s;pots, wherein &s;he may &s;ee, and</HI> fore-&s;ee, <HI>her Follies pa&s;&s;'d, her pre&s;ent Danger, and</HI> future <HI>De&s;truction.</HI></P>
<P>Faithfully rendred out of the <HI>Jtalian</HI> into <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fas e&s;t, &amp; ab ho&s;te doceri.</HI></P>
<P>Printed in the yeare, 1648.</P>
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<HEAD>THE TRANSLATOR TO HIS COUNTRY.</HEAD>
<P>O <HI>England,</HI> (&s;pecially thou be&s;otted City of <HI>London</HI>) if thou bee'&s;t not pa&s;t cure, or grown carele&s;&s;e and de&s;perat of thy &s;elfe, be warn'd by this Stranger, who, having felt thy pul&s;e, and ca&s;t thy water very exactly, di&s;covers in thee &s;ymptomes of inevitable ruine. Divers of thy owne Children have oftentimes admoni&s;h'd thee with teares in their eyes, and terror in their hearts, to recol|lect thy &s;elfe, but they have been little regar|ded: Let a <HI>Forreiners</HI> advice then take place, and make &s;ome impre&s;sions in thee, to pre|vent thy utter de&s;truction.</P>
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<HEAD>TO HIS EMINENCE, THE LORD <HI>FRANCISCO BARBERINI,</HI> Cardinal of the mo&s;t holy Apo&s;tolick See, and Protector of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Nation, at his Palaces in <HI>Rome.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_MY la&s;t to your Eminence was but &s;hort, in regard I had been but a &s;hort time in this Countrey, I have now made a longer &s;ojourn here, and taken a lei|&s;urely information of all matters; therefore I &s;hal give your Eminence an account proportionably: For by conver&s;ation with the mo&s;t indifferent, and intelligenc'd men, and by communication with the Amba&s;|&s;adors here re&s;ident, I have taken &s;ome paines to pump out the truth of things.</P>
<P>I find, that angry &s;tar, which hath lowr'd &s;o long upon <HI>Eu|rope</HI>
<PB N="2" REF="12"> in generall, hath been as predominant, and ca&s;t as direfull a&s;pects upon this poor Iland, as upon any other part: Truly, my Lord, in all probability this people have pa&s;&s;'d the Meridi|an of their happine&s;&s;e, and begin to decline extreamly, as well in <HI>Repute</HI> abroad, as al&s;o in the common notions of <HI>Religion,</HI> and indeed in the ordinary faculty of <HI>Rea&s;on:</HI> I think verily the Ill Spirit never reign'd &s;o much in any corner of the earth by tho&s;e inhumane and horid things that I have ob&s;erv'd among them, Nor is it a petty Spirit, but one of the greate&s;t Caco|daemons that thus drives them on, and makes them &s;o active in the pur&s;uance of their own perdition.</P>
<P>To deduce matters from their Originall, Your Eminency may plea&s;e to under&s;tand, that this King at his acce&s;&s;e to the Crown had deep debts to pay, both of His Fathers, and his own, he was left ingaged in a fre&s;h warre with <HI>Spain;</HI> and had another pre&s;ently after with <HI>France,</HI> and both at one time, but he came off well enough of tho&s;e: Afterwards never any Countrey flouri&s;hed in that envied happine&s;&s;e, and wanton kind of pro&s;pe|rity; This City of <HI>London</HI> was grown to be the greate&s;t Mart, and mi&s;tre&s;&s;e of Trade, of any in the world, In&s;omuch, as I have been certainly inform'd, the King might have eaten meer|ly upon His cu&s;tomes 4000 crownes a day: Moreover, &s;he had a va&s;t bank of money being made the <HI>&s;cale</HI> of conveying the King of <HI>Spaines</HI> trea&s;ure to <HI>Flanders:</HI> In&s;omuch that in a few yeers &s;he had above ten millions of his moneys brought hither, which &s;he might have remitted in <HI>&s;pecie</HI> or in marchandize, and for which this King had five in the hundred for coynage: Yet could he not get beforehand with the world, having a &s;i&s;ter with &s;o many Nephews and neeces, having a Queen with diver&s;e children of His own, (at lea&s;t 16 of the Blood-Royall) to main|taine, with divers profu&s;e Courtiers be&s;ides, which made Him more par&s;imonious then ordinary. The Warres then growing more active 'twixt <HI>Spaine</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> as al&s;o 'twixt <HI>Holland</HI> and <HI>Spaine</HI> both by Land and Sea, and divers great Fleets of Men
<PB N="3" REF="12"> of War as well <HI>French</HI> (who were growne powerfull that way) as <HI>Dunkerkers, Spaniards, Hollanders,</HI> and <HI>Hamburgers,</HI> appea|ring daily in His narrow Seas, and &s;ayling clo&s;e by His <HI>Cham|bers,</HI> the world wondred this King had no greater &s;trength at Sea, in ca&s;e that any of the fore&s;aid Nations &s;hould doe him an affront, as &s;ome of them had already done, by denying to da&s;h their Colours to His Ships: In&s;omuch that in <HI>Holland</HI> and other places he was pa&s;quill'd at, and pourtrayed lying in his cradle lullaby'd and rock'd a&s;leep by the Spaniard: Hereupon being by adverti&s;ements from His Agents abroad, and frequent advice of His Privie Councell at home, made &s;en&s;ible of the danger, and a kind of di&s;honour he was falne into, and having intelligence that the French Cardinall began to que&s;tion his title to the Do|minion of the Narrow Seas, con&s;idering He employed no vi&s;i|ble power to pre&s;erve it, He began to con&s;ult of meanes to &s;et forth a Royall Fleet: but in regard the Pur&s;e of the Crowne was lightly balla&s;ted, and that he had no mind to &s;ummon the three E&s;tates, becau&s;e of &s;ome indignities he had received in former Parliaments by the <HI>Puritan</HI> party, (a race of people aver&s;e to all Kingly Government, unle&s;&s;e they may pare it as they plea&s;e) his then Atturney Generall, a great cryed-up-Law|yer, put it in his Head to impo&s;e an old Tax called <HI>Ship-mony</HI> upon the Subject, which the &s;aid Lawyer did warrant upon his life to be Legall, for he could produce diver&s;e Records how ma|ny of his Progenitors had done the like: The King not &s;atis|fied with his &s;ingle opinion, referred it to His Learned Councell, and they unanimou&s;ly averred it to be agreeable to the Law of the Land; yet this would not fully &s;atisfie the King, but He would have the Opinion of His twelve Judges, and <HI>they</HI> al&s;o affirmed by their &s;everall vouches the &s;aid Tax to be warrantable; Hereupon it was impo&s;ed and leavied, but &s;ome refu&s;ing to pay it, there was a &s;uite commenc'd, during which all the Judges were to re-deliver their opinions joyntly, and the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e being maturely debated and canva&s;ed in open
<PB N="4" REF="13"> Court divers months, and all arguments produc'd <HI>pro &amp; con,</HI> nine of the &s;aid twelve Judges concluded it Legal: Thereupon the King continued the impo&s;ition of the &s;aid Tax, and never was money imployed &s;o much for the Honour and advantage of a Countrey, for he &s;ent out every Summer a Royall fleet to &s;cowre and &s;ecure the Seas; he cau&s;ed a Galeon to be built, the greate&s;t and gallante&s;t that ever &s;pread &s;aile: Nor did he pur&s;e up, and di&s;po&s;e of one peny of this money to any other u&s;e, but added much of his own Revenues yeerly thereunto: So the world abroad cried up the King of <HI>England</HI> to be awake againe; <HI>Trade</HI> did wonderfully encrea&s;e, both Dome&s;tic and forrein in all the three Kingdomes; <HI>Ireland</HI> was reduced to an ab&s;olute Settlement, the Arreares of the Crown payed, and a con&s;ide|rable Revenue came thence cleerly to the Exchequer of <HI>England</HI> every year, the &s;alaries of all Officers, with the pay of the &s;tan|ding Army there, and all other Charges being defrayed by <HI>Ire|land</HI> her &s;elf, which was never done before. Yet for all this height of happine&s;&s;e, and the glorious fruites of the &s;aid Ship-money, (which was but a kind of petty in&s;en&s;ible Tax, &amp; a thing of no|thing to what hath happened &s;ince) there were &s;ome fooli&s;h people in this Land which murmured at it, and cryed out no|thing el&s;e but a Parliament, a Parliament; and they have had one &s;ince with a vengeance.</P>
<P>But before this occa&s;ion, it was ob&s;erved, that the &s;eedes of di&s;obedience, and a &s;pirit of in&s;urrection was a long time en|gendring in the hearts of &s;ome of this peace-pampred People, which is conceived to proceed from their conver&s;ation and comerce with three &s;orts of men, <HI>viz.</HI> the <HI>Scot,</HI> the <HI>Hollander</HI> and the <HI>French Huguenot.</HI> Now an advantage happened that much conduced to nece&s;&s;itate the convoking of a Parliament, which was an ill-favoured traver&s;e that fell out in <HI>Scotland;</HI> For the King intending an Uniformity of Divine wor&s;hip in all His three Kingdomes, &s;ent thither the <HI>Lyturgie</HI> of this Church, but it found cold and coor&s;e entertainment there, for the whole
<PB N="5" REF="13"> Nation, men, women and children ri&s;e up again&s;t them: Here|upon the King ab&s;olutely revoked it by Proclamation, wherein He declared 'twas never His purpo&s;e to pre&s;&s;e the practice there|of upon the Con&s;ciences of any; therefore commanded that all things &s;hould be in <HI>&s;tatu quo prius,</HI> but this would not &s;erve the turn, the <HI>Scot</HI> took advantage hereby to de&s;troy <HI>Hierarchy,</HI> and pull down Bi&s;hops to get their demeanes: To which purpo&s;e they came with an Army in open Field again&s;t their own Native King, who not di&s;ge&s;ting this indignity, Mu&s;tred another <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> Army; which being upon the confines of both Kingdomes, a kind of Pacification was plai&s;tred over for the pre&s;ent. The King returning to <HI>London,</HI> and con&s;ulting His &s;econd thoughts, re&s;ented that in&s;olency of the <HI>Scots</HI> more then formerly: Here|upon He &s;ummons a Parliament, and de&s;ires aid to Vindicat that Affront of the <HI>Scot.</HI> The <HI>Scot</HI> had &s;trong Intelligence with the Puritan Faction in the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Parliament, who &s;eemed to abet his quarell, rather then to be &s;en&s;ible of any nationall di&s;ho|nour received from him; which cau&s;ed that &s;hort-lived Parlia|ment to di&s;&s;olve in di&s;content, and the King was forced to finde other meanes to rai&s;e and &s;upport an Army by private Loanes of His Nobler &s;ort of Subjects and Servants: The <HI>Scot</HI> having punctuall Adverti&s;ments of every thing that pa&s;&s;ed, yea, in the Kings Cabinet Councell was not idle all this while, but rallies what was left of the former Army (which by the articles of Pa|cification &s;hould have been ab&s;olutely di&s;mi&s;&s;ed) and boldly in|vades <HI>England,</HI> which he dur&s;t never have done, if he had not well known that this Puritan Party which was now grown very powerfull here, and indeed had invited him to this expedi|tion, would &s;tand to him. This forrein Army being, by the per|nicious clo&s;e machinations of &s;ome mongrell <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> afore|mentioned, entred into the Bowels of the Country, the King was forced to call this pre&s;ent Parliament, with whom he com|plied in every thing, &s;o far as to &s;acrifice unto them both Judge, Bi&s;hop, Councellor and Courtier; yea, He yeilded to the tum|bling down of many tribunalls of Ju&s;tice, which were an ad|vantage
<PB N="6" REF="14"> to his Prerogative; He a&s;&s;ented that the Prelates, who were the mo&s;t Ancient and Prime Members of the upper Hou&s;e, and had priority of all others, &s;ince the fir&s;t con&s;titution of Parliament in the enrollment of all Acts, He a&s;&s;ented I &s;ay that the&s;e, who were the greate&s;t prop of His Crown &s;hould be quite outed from among the Peers; He granted them al&s;o a <HI>Trienniall</HI> Parliament, and after that, this <HI>Perpetuall;</HI> which words, to the apprehen&s;ion of any rationall man, carry with them a gro&s;&s;e ab&s;urdity in the very &s;en&s;e of the thing: And touching this la&s;t Grant, I had it from a good hand, that the Queen was a friend to this Parliament, and your Eminence knowes how they have requited Her &s;ince, but the maine open Councellor to this fatall Act was a <HI>Scot.</HI></P>
<P>Now the rea&s;on which they alledged for this everla&s;ting Parliament was one of the balde&s;t that ever I heard of, it was, that they might have time enough to pay the <HI>Scots</HI> Army, whereas in one morning they might have di&s;patched that, by pa&s;&s;ing &s;o many Sub&s;idies for that u&s;e, and upon the credit of tho&s;e, they might have rai&s;ed what money they would.</P>
<P>The Parliament finding the King &s;o pliable, and His pul&s;e to beat &s;o gently, like ill-natur'd men they fall from inches to ells in &s;eeking their advantages: They grew &s;o peremptory as to demand all the military &s;trength of the Kingdom, the Tower of <HI>London,</HI> with the whole Royall Navy, which they found in an excellent equipage, gramercy &s;hipmony; &s;o that the bene|fit of Ship-mony, which they &s;o clamoured at, turned mo&s;t to their advantage of any thing afterwards.</P>
<P>The <HI>Scot</HI> being Fidler-like returned to his Country with meat, drink, and mony, the King went a while after to keep a Parliament there, wherein he filled every blank, they did but ask and have, for He granted them what po&s;&s;ibly they could propound, both for their Kirk and State, many received Ho|nour, and they divided Bi&s;hops Lands among&s;t them: for all which unparallel'd Conce&s;&s;ions of Princely grace, they cau&s;ed an Act already in force to be publi&s;hed, <HI>viz.</HI> that it &s;hould be
<PB N="7" REF="14"> damnable Trea&s;on in the highe&s;t degree that could be, for any of the Scots Nation conjunctly or &s;ingly to levy armes, or any mi|litary Forces, upon any pretext what&s;oever, without His Maje|&s;ties royall Commi&s;&s;ion; and this they caus'd to be don by way of gratitude, but how they perform'd it afterwards the world knowes too well.</P>
<P>The King returning to <HI>London,</HI> in lieu of a wellcom to his two Hou&s;es of Parliament (to whom al&s;o before his departure he had pa&s;&s;ed more Acts of Grace then all his Progenitors, take them all in a lump) they had patch'd up a kind of <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> which was voted in the dead of night, wherein they expos'd to the world the lea&s;t moat in former government, and aggravated to the very height every grievance, all which the King had redre&s;&s;ed before; and this <HI>Remon&s;trance,</HI> which breath d nothing but a ba&s;e kind of malice, they pre&s;ented as a no&s;egay to their Soverain Prince, to congratulate his &s;afe return from a forren Countrey; which they caus'd to be printe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &amp; publi&s;h'd before he could give any an&s;wer thereunto. The King finding &s;uch a viru|lent &s;pirit &s;till raign in the Hou&s;e, and knowing who were chiefly po&s;&s;e&s;s'd with it (whom he had impeach'd before, but &s;aw he could get no ju&s;tice again&s;t them) in &s;uch an extremity, he did an act like a generous Prince, for taking the <HI>Pal&s;grave</HI> with him, he took the fir&s;t coach he met withall at his Court gate, and went to his Hou&s;e of Commons in per&s;on to demand five Mem|bers, which he wold prove to be Traitors in the highe&s;t degree, and to be the Authors of all the&s;e di&s;tempers, prote&s;ting upon the word of a King, that they &s;hold have as fair &amp; legall a tryall as ever men had; in the interim he only de&s;ir'd that their per&s;ons might be &s;ecur'd: The walls of both Hou&s;es, and the very &s;tones in London &s;treet did &s;eem to ring of this high cariage of the Kings, and the &s;ound went thence to the Countrey, whence the &s;illy Plebeians came pre&s;ently in whole heards to this City, and &s;trowting up and down the &s;treets, had nothing in their mouths, but that the priviledg of Parlement, the priviledg of Parl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ment was broken, though it be the known cleer Law of the Land, that the Parlement cannot &s;uper&s;ede or &s;helter any trea&s;on.</P>
<P>The King finding how violently the pul&s;e of the gr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ly &s;edu|ced people did beat, and there having been formerly divers rio|tous
<PB N="8" REF="15"> crues of ba&s;e Mechaniques and Mariners, who had affron|ted both his own Court, and the two Hou&s;es be&s;ides, which the Commons, to their eternall reproach, conniv'd at, notwith&s;tan|ding that divers motions were made by the Lords to &s;uppre&s;&s;e them, the King al&s;o having private intelligence that there was a mi&s;chievous plot to &s;urprize his per&s;on, remov'd his Court to the Countrey.</P>
<P>The King departing, or rather being <HI>driven</HI> away thus from his two Hou&s;es, by this mutinous City, he might well at his go|ing away have obraided her in the &s;ame words as <HI>Henry</HI> the 3. did upbraid <HI>Paris,</HI> who being by &s;uch another tumultuous rabble driven out of her in the time of the <HI>Ligue,</HI> as he was lo&s;ing &s;ight of her, he turn'd his face back, and &s;ayed, <HI>Farewell ingratefull Cittie, I will never &s;ee thee again till I make my way into thee through thy Walls:</HI> Yet, though the King ab&s;ented him&s;elf in per&s;on thus from the two Hou&s;es, he &s;ent them frequent me&s;&s;ages, that they wold draw into A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s what he had already a&s;&s;ented unto, and if any thing was le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t yet undon by him, he wold do it; ther|fore he will'd them to leave off tho&s;e groundles feares and jea|lou&s;ies wherwith they had amus'd both Cittie and Countrey; and he was ready to return at all times to his Palace in We&s;t|min&s;ter, provided that his Per&s;on might be &s;ecur'd from the for|mer barbari&s;ms &amp; outrages: But in lieu of a dutifull compliance with their Prince, the thoughts of the two Hou&s;es ran upon no|thing but war: The King then retiring into the North, &amp; think|ing with a few of his &s;ervants only to go vi&s;it a Town of his, he was denied entrance by a fatall unlucky wretch, who afterwards was &s;hamefully executed, with his elde&s;t &s;on, by command of his new Ma&s;ters of the Parlement: The King being thus &s;hut out of his own town (which open'd the fir&s;t dore to a bloudy war) put forth a Declaration, wherein he warn d all his people that they &s;hould look to their proprieties, for if <HI>Hee</HI> was thus barr'd of his owne, how could any private Subject be &s;ure to be Ma&s;ter of any thing he had, and herein he was as much <HI>Pro|phet</HI> as <HI>Prince;</HI> For the Parlement-men afterwards made them|&s;elfs Land-Lords of the whole Kingdome, it hath been u&s;uall for them to thru&s;t any out of his freehold, to take his bed from under him, and his &s;hirt from off his very back. The King being
<PB N="9" REF="15"> kept thus out of one of his townes, might well &s;u&s;pect that he might be driven out of another, therefore 'twas time for him to look to the pre&s;ervation of his Per&s;on, and the Countrey came in voluntarily unto him by thou&s;ands to that purpo&s;e, but hee made choice of a few only to be his gard, as the Parlement|teers had don a good while before for them&s;elfs: But now they went otherwi&s;e to worke, for they fell a levying, li&s;ting, and arming men by whole Regiments and Brigades till they had a verie con&s;iderable Army a foot, before the King had one Mu&s;|queteer or Trooper on his &s;ide: yet the&s;e men are &s;o notorious|ly impudent, as to make the King the fir&s;t Aggre&s;&s;or of the war, and to lay upon Him all the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lood that was &s;pilt to this day, wherein the Devill him&s;elf cannot be more &s;hameles. The Parliamenteers having an army of foot and hor&s;e thus in per|fect Equipage, 'twas high time for the King to look to him|&s;elfe, therefore he was forced to di&s;play his royall Standard, and draw his &s;word quite out: Thus a cruell and mo&s;t cruentous civill war began which la&s;ted neer upon foure yeers without intermi&s;&s;ion, wherin there happen'd more battailes, &s;ieges and skirmi&s;hes, then pa&s;&s;ed in the Netherlands in &s;oure&s;core yeers, and herein the Engli&s;hmen may be &s;aid to get &s;om credit abroad in the world, that they have the &s;ame blood running in their veines (though not the &s;ame braines in their &s;culls) which their Ance&s;tors had, who were ob&s;erved to be the acti|ve&s;t peeple in the field, impatient of delay, and mo&s;t de&s;irous of battaile then any Nation.</P>
<P>But it was one of the greate&s;t miracles that ever happen'd in this Land how the King was able to &s;ub&s;i&s;t &s;o long again&s;t the Parlamenteers, con&s;idering the multiplicity of infinite advanta|tages they had of him by water and land: for they had the <HI>Scot,</HI> the <HI>Sea</HI> and the <HI>City</HI> on their &s;ide; touching the fir&s;t, he ru&s;hed in as an Auxiliary, with above 20000. Hor&s;e and Foot compleatly furni&s;h'd both with &s;mall and great ammunition and arms, well cloth'd and money'd: For the &s;econd, they had all the Kings Ships well appointed, which are held to be the greate&s;t &s;ecurity of the I&s;land both for defence and offence, for every one of them is accounted one of the moving Ca&s;tles of the Kingdome: be&s;ides they had all the other &s;tanding &s;tone-Ca&s;tles,
<PB N="10" REF="16"> Forts, and tenable places to boot: Concerning the la&s;t, (viz. the City) therein they had all the wealth, bravery, and prime ammunition of England, this being the onely Maga|zin of men and money: Now if the King had had but one of the&s;e on his &s;ide, he had in all probability cru&s;h'd them to no|thing: yet did he bear up &s;trangely again&s;t them a long time, and might have don longer, had he kept the campane, and not &s;pent the &s;pirits of his men before Townes; had he not made a di&s;advantagious election of &s;om Commanders in chief, and la&s;tly, had he not had clo&s;e <HI>Traitors</HI> within dores, as well as o|pen <HI>Rebells</HI> without; for his very Cabinet Councell, and Bed-Chamber were not free of &s;uch vermin, and herein the Parle|menteers &s;pent unknown &s;ums and were very prodigall of the Kingdomes money.</P>
<P>The King, after many traver&s;es of war, being reduced to a great &s;treight by cro&s;&s;e &s;ucce&s;&s;es and Coun&s;ells, rather then to fall in|to the hands of the Parlementeers, withdrew him&s;elfe in a Ser|vingmans di&s;gui&s;e to the Scors army, as his la&s;t randevous, and this plott was manag'd by the French Agent then re&s;iding here; A man wold think that that Nation wol'd have deem'd it an e|ternall honor unto them to have their own King and Countrey|man throw him&s;elf thus into their armes, and to repo&s;e &s;uch a &s;ingular tru&s;t in them upon &s;uch an Extremity: but they corre|&s;ponded not &s;o well with him as he expected, for though at fir&s;t when the Parlamenteers &s;ollicited their <HI>deer Brethren</HI> for a deli|very of the Kings per&s;on unto them, their note was then, if any forren petty Prince had &s;o put him&s;elf upon them, they could not with honor deliver him, much le&s;&s;e their own Native King; yet they made a &s;acrifice of him at la&s;t for 800000. Crownes; whereupon <HI>Bellieure</HI> the French Amba&s;&s;ador being convoyed by a Troop of hor&s;e from the King towards London, to &s;uch a &s;tand, in lieu of larges to the &s;ouldiers, he drew out an halfe crown peece, and asked them how many pence that was, they an&s;wered 30. <HI>He replied, for &s;o much did Judas betray his Ma&s;ter, and &s;o he departed</HI></P>
<P>And now, that in the cours of this Hi&s;toricall Narration I have touch'd upon <HI>France,</HI> your Eminence may plea&s;e to under|&s;tand, that nothing allmo&s;t could tend more to the advantage of
<PB N="11" REF="16"> that King, then the&s;e commotions in England, con&s;idering that he was embark'd in an actuall war with the Hou&s;e of <HI>Au&s;tria</HI> and that this Iland did do <HI>Spain</HI> &s;om good offices; among other, by tran&s;port of his trea&s;ure to Dunkerk in Engli&s;h bottomes, wherunto this King gave way, and &s;omtimes in his own Gale|ons, which &s;av'd the Spainard neer upon 20. in the hundred, then if he had &s;ent it by way of Genoa; &s;o that &s;om think, though France made &s;emblance to re&s;ent the &s;ad condition of her Neighbour, and thereupon &s;ent the Prince of <HI>Harcour,</HI> and the fore&s;aid Mon&s;ieur <HI>Bellieure</HI> to compo&s;e matters, yet &s;he never really intended it, as being again&s;t her pre&s;ent intere&s;t and en|gagements: yet the world thinks it much that &s;he &s;hold pub|liquely receive an Agent from the&s;e Parlamenteers, and that the French Nobility who were us'd to be the gallante&s;t men in the world to vindicate the quarrels of di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Ladies, are not more &s;en&s;ible of the outrages that have bin offer'd a daughter of France, &s;pecially of <HI>Henry the great's.</HI></P>
<P>But to re&s;ume the threed of my Narration, the King (and with him, one may &s;ay, England al&s;o) being thus bought and &s;old, the Parlamenteers in&s;teed of bringing him to We&s;tmin&s;ter, which had put a Period to all di&s;tempers to&s;s'd him up and downe to private hou&s;es, and kept the former Army &s;till afoot: And truly I think there was never Prince &s;o abus'd, or poor pee|ple &s;o baffled, and no peeple but a purblind be&s;otted peeple wold have &s;uffred them&s;elfs to be &s;o baffled: for notwith&s;tand|ing that no Enemy appeer'd in any corner of the Kingdom, yet above 20000. Tagaroons have bin kept together ever &s;ince to grind the faces of the poore, and exhau&s;t the very vitall &s;pirits of town and Countrey, and keep them all in a perfect &s;lavery: Had the Parlement-men, when the Scots were gone, brought their King in a generous and frank way (as had well becom'd Engli&s;hmen) to &s;itt among them, and tru&s;ted to him (which of nece&s;&s;ity they mu&s;t do at la&s;t) as they had gain'd more honor far in the world abroad, &s;o they had gain'd more upon his af|fections then I beleeve they will ever do hereafter.</P>
<P>But to proceed, the King having bin a good while pri&s;oner to the Parlement, the Army &s;natch'd him away from them, and &s;om of the chiefe&s;t Commanders having pawn'd their &s;oules un|to
<PB N="12" REF="17"> him to re&s;tore him &s;peedily, in lieu thereof they tumbled him up and down to &s;undry places, till they juggled him at la&s;t to that &s;mall Ile where now he is &s;urrounded with a gard of &s;trange faces and if happly he beginns to take delight in any of tho&s;e faces, he is quickly taken out of his &s;ight. The&s;e har&s;h u&s;ages hath made him becom all gray and oregrown with hair, &s;o that he lookes rather like &s;om Silvan Satyr then a Soverain Prince: And truly my Lord the meane&s;t &s;lave in St. <HI>Marks</HI> gallies or the abiects Captif in <HI>Algier</HI> bannier is not &s;o mi&s;erable as he in di|vers kinds, for <HI>they</HI> have the comfort of their wifes, children and frends, they can convey and receive Letters, &s;end Me&s;&s;eng|gers upon their errands, and have privat di&s;cours with any; all which is denied to the King of great Britain, nay the young Princes his children are not permitted as much as to ask him ble&s;&s;ing in a letter. In &s;o much that if he were not a great King of his pa&s;&s;ions, and had a heart ca&s;t in an extraordinary Mould, the&s;e pre&s;&s;ures &amp; tho&s;e ba&s;e a&s;per&s;ions that have bin publiquely ca&s;t upon him by the Parlement it &s;elf, had bin enough to have &s;ent him out of the world e're this, and indeed 'tis the main th ng they drive at, to torture his brain, and tear his very heart&s;trings if they could: &s;o that wheras this fooli&s;h ignorant peeple &s;peak &s;uch horrid things of our <HI>Inqui&s;ition,</HI> truly my Lord 'tis a mo&s;t gentle way of proceeding being compar'd to this Kings per&s;ecu|tions.</P>
<P>As the King him&s;elfe is thus in quality of a captif, &s;o are all his Subjects becom perfect &s;laves, they have fool'd them&s;elfs into a wor&s;e &s;lavery then <HI>Jew</HI> or <HI>Greek</HI> under the <HI>Ottomans,</HI> for they know the bottom of their &s;ervitude by paying &s;o many Sultane&s;&s;es for every head; but here, peeple are put to endles, unknowne, tyrannicall Taxes, be&s;ides <HI>plundring</HI> and <HI>Accize,</HI> which two words, and the practi&s;e of them (with <HI>&s;torming</HI> of Townes) they have learnt of their pure brethre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Holland: and for <HI>plundrings,</HI> the&s;e Parlementeer Saints think they may robb any that adheres not to them as lawfully as the <HI>Iewes</HI> did the <HI>Egiptians:</HI> 'Tis an un&s;ommable ma&s;&s;e of money the&s;e Re|formers have &s;quandred in few yeers, whereof they have often promis'd and &s;olemnly voted a publike account to &s;atisfie the Kingdome: but as in a hundred things more, &s;o in this pre|cious
<PB N="13" REF="17"> particular they have di&s;pens'd with their Votes: they have con&s;umed more trea&s;ure with pretence to <HI>purge</HI> one Kingdome, then might have &s;erved to have <HI>purchas'd</HI> two; more (as I am credibly told) then all the Kings of England &s;pent of the public &s;tock &s;ince the <HI>Saxon</HI> Conque&s;t: Thus have they not only beg|ger'd the whole Iland, but they have hurld it into the mo&s;t fear|full'&s;t Chaos of confu&s;ion that ever poore Countrey was in; they have torne in pieces the reines of all Government, trampled upon all Lawes of heaven and earth, and violated the very Dictamens of nature, by making mothers to betray their &s;onnes, and the &s;onnes their fathers, but &s;pecially that great <HI>Charter,</HI> which is the <HI>Pandect</HI> of all the Lawes and Liberties of the free-born Subject, which at their admi&s;&s;ion to the Hou&s;e they are &s;olemnly &s;worn to maintaine, is torn in flitters: be&s;ides tho&s;e &s;everall Oaths they forg'd them&s;elfs, as the <HI>Prote&s;tation</HI> and <HI>Co|venant,</HI> where they voluntarily &s;weare to maintain the Kings Honor and Rights, together with the e&s;tabli&s;hed Lawes of the Land, &amp;c. Now I am told, that all Acts of Parlement here are Lawes, and they carry that Maje&s;tie with them, that no power can &s;u&s;pend or repeale them, but the &s;ame power that made them, which is the King &s;itting in full Parlement; the&s;e mon|grell Polititians have bin &s;o notoriou&s;ly impudent as to make an inferior <HI>Ordinance</HI> of theirs to do it, which is point-blank a|gain&s;t the very fundamentalls of this Government, and their owne Oaths, which makes me think that there was never &s;uch a perjur'd pack of wretches upon earth, never &s;uch Mon&s;ters of mankind.</P>
<P>Yet this &s;imple infatuated peeple have a Saint-like opinion of the&s;e Mon&s;ters, this fooli&s;h Citie gards them daily with Hor&s;e and Foot, whereby &s;he may be &s;ayd to ki&s;&s;e the very &s;tones that are thrown at her, and the hand whence they came, which a dogg wold not do: But &s;he falls to recollect her felf now that &s;he begins to be pinch'd in Trade, that that her <HI>Mint</HI> is &s;tarv'd, and that the Prince commands both Sea and River: yet the leading'&s;t men in her Common-Councell care not much for it, in regard mo&s;t of them have left traffiqueing abroad, finding it a more ea&s;ie and gainefull way of trading at home, by purcha&s;ing Church-lands, plunder'd goods, and debts upon
<PB N="14" REF="18"> the <HI>Public Faith;</HI> thus the Saints of this Iland <HI>turn godline&s;&s;e into gaine.</HI></P>
<P>Truly my Lord, I give the Engli&s;h for a lo&s;t Nation, never was there a more palpable oblae&s;ion of the brain, and a more vi&s;ible decay of rea&s;on in any race of men: it is a &s;trange judge|ment from heaven, that a peeple &s;hold not be more &s;en&s;ible how they are becom &s;laves to Rebells, and tho&s;e mo&s;t of them the &s;cumm of the Nation, which is the ba&s;e&s;t of mi&s;e|ries: how they &s;uffer them to tyrannize by a meer arbitrary ex|trajudiciall power o're their very &s;oules and bodies, o're their very lif<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s and livelihoods; how their former freedom is turn'd to fetters, Molehills into Mountaines of grievances, <HI>Ship-mo|ney</HI> into <HI>Accize,</HI> Ju&s;tice into Tyranny: For nothing hath bin and is daily &s;o common among&s;t them as impri&s;onment with|out charge, and a charge without an accu&s;er, condemnation with|out apparance, and forfaitures without conviction.</P>
<P>To &s;peak a little more of the King, if all the infernall fiends had ligu'd again&s;t him, they could not have de&s;ign d &amp; di&s;gorg'd more malice: they wold have laid to his charge his fathers death, as arrand a lie as ever was hatch'd in hell: they wold make him fore-know the in&s;urrection in Ireland, whereas the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Amba&s;&s;ador here, &amp; his Confe&s;&s;or who is a very reverend Iri&s;h man, told me, that he knew no more of it then the grand <HI>Mogor</HI> did: they charge him with all the bloud of this civill warre, wheras they and their in&s;truments were the fir&s;t kindlers of it, and that fir&s;t prohibited trade: they intercepted and prin|ted his privat letters to his Queen, and hers to him, (Oh barba|rous ba&s;ene&s;&s;e!) but therin they did him a plea&s;ure, though the intent was malitious, their aym in all things being to imbitter and envenom the hearts of his peeple towards him; and this was to render him a glorious and well-belov d Prince, and for making him rich, all which they had vow'd to do upon pa&s;&s;ing the Act of Continuance, they have made him poorer then the meane&s;t of all his va&s;&s;alls, they have made him to have no propriety in hou&s;e, goods, or Lands, or as one may &s;ay, in his wife and children: 'Twas u&s;uall for the father to hunt in his Park while the &s;on hunted for his life in the field, for the wife to lye in his bedds, while the husband layed wait to
<PB N="15" REF="18"> murther him abroad; they have &s;eiz'd upon and &s;old his pri|vat Hangings and Plate, yea his very Cabinets, Jewells and Pictures.</P>
<P>Nor are they the honorable&s;t &s;ort of peeple, and men nobly extracted (as in Scotland) that do all this, (for then it were not &s;o much to be wondred at) but they are the meane&s;t &s;ort of Sub|jects, many of them Mechaniques, whereof the lower Hou&s;e is full; &s;pecially the &s;ubordinate Committees, who domineer more ore Nobles and Gentry, then the Parliament-Members them&s;elfs their Ma&s;ters.</P>
<P>Touching tho&s;e few Peers that &s;it now voting in the upper Hou&s;e, they may be &s;ayed to be but meer Cyphers, they are grown &s;o degenerate as to &s;uffer the <HI>Commons</HI> to give them the Law, to ride upon their backs, and do mo&s;t things without them: There be many thou&s;and Petitions that have been recommended by the&s;e Lords to the lower Hou&s;e, which are &s;cornfully thrown into corners and never read; their Me&s;&s;engers have us'd to dance attendance divers houres and dayes afore they were vouch&s;afed to be let in or heard, to the eternall di&s;honor of tho&s;e Peers, and yet poor &s;pirited things they re&s;ent it not: The Commons now command all, and though, as I am inform'd, they are &s;um|mon'd thither by the Kings Originall Writt but to <HI>con&s;ent</HI> to what the King and his great Coun&s;ell of Peers (which is the true Court of Parlement) &s;hall re&s;olve upon; They are now from <HI>Con&s;enters</HI> becom the chiefe&s;t <HI>Coun&s;ellors</HI> yea <HI>Controw|lers</HI> of all; nay &s;om of this lower Hou&s;e fly &s;o high as to term them&s;elfs <HI>Conquerors,</HI> and though in all conferences with the Lords they &s;tand bare before them, yet by a new way of mix'd Committees they cary them&s;elfs as <HI>Collegues:</HI> The&s;e are the men that now have the vogue, and they have made their Priviledges &s;o big &s;woln, that they &s;eem to have quite &s;wal|lowed up both the Kings Prerogatives, and that of the Lords: The&s;e are the G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">andees, and <HI>Sages</HI> of the time<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">, though mo&s;t of them have but crack'd braines and crazy fortunes; Nay &s;om of them are &s;uch arrand Knaves and coxcombs, that 'tis que&s;tiona|ble whither they more want common hone&s;ty, or common &s;en&s;e; nor know no more what belongs to true policy then the left legg of a joint-&s;toole: They are grown &s;o high a tiptoes,
<PB N="16" REF="19"> that they &s;eem to &s;corn an Act of Amne&s;tia, or any grace from their King, wheras &s;om of them de&s;erve to be hang'd as oft as they have haires upon their heads; nor have they any more care of the common good of <HI>England</HI> then they have of <HI>Lapland,</HI> &s;o they may &s;ecure their per&s;ons, and continue their Power and Authority, is &s;weet, though it be in Hell. Thus, my Lord, is England now govern'd, &s;o that 'tis an ea&s;y thing to take a pro|&s;pect of her ruine; The Scot is now the ri&s;ing man, who is the third time &s;truck into her bowells with a numerous Army: They &s;ay he hath vow'd never to return till he hath put the Crown on the Kings head, the Scepter in his hand, and the &s;word by his &s;ide; if he do &s;o, it will be the be&s;t thing that ever he did, though &s;om think that he will never be able to do Eng|land as much good as he hath don her hurt; He hath extremely outwitted the Engli&s;h of late yeers: And they who were the cau|&s;ers of his fir&s;t and la&s;t coming in, I hold to be the mo&s;t pernici|ous Enemies that ever this Nation had; for 'tis probable that <HI>Germany</HI> will be &s;ooner free of the <HI>Swed,</HI> then <HI>England</HI> of the <HI>Scot,</HI> who will &s;tick clo&s;e unto him like a burr, that he cannot &s;hake him off; He is becom allready Ma&s;ter of the Engli&s;hmans &s;oul, by impo&s;ing a religion upon him, and he may hereafter be ma&s;ter of his body.</P>
<P>Your Eminence knowes there is a periodicall fate hangs o|ver all Kingdoms after &s;uch a revolution of time, and rotation of fortunes wheele; the cours of the world hath bin, for one Nation, like &s;o many nailes, to thru&s;t out another; But for this Nation, I ob&s;erve by conference with <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ivers of the &s;adde&s;t and be&s;t weighd&s;t men among them, that the &s;ame pre&s;ages foretell their ruine as did the <HI>I&s;raelites</HI> of old, which was a murmuring again&s;t their Governors; It is a long time that both <HI>Judges Bi&s;hops,</HI> and <HI>privy Coun&s;ellors</HI> have bin mutter'd at, wherof the fir&s;t &s;hold be the oracles of the <HI>Law,</HI> the other of the <HI>Go&s;pell,</HI> the la&s;t of <HI>State-affaires,</HI> and that our judgments &s;hold acquie&s;ce upon theirs; Here as I am inform'd; 'twas common for evry ignorant client to arraign his Judg; for evry puny Clerk to cen|&s;ure the Bi&s;hop; for evry &s;hallow-brain home-bred fellow to de&s;cant upon the re&s;ults of the Councell Table: and this &s;pirit of contradiction and contumacy hath bin a long time foment|ing
<PB N="17" REF="19"> in the minds of this peeple, infus'd into them principally, by the Puritanicall Faction. Touching the &s;econd of the&s;e (I mean Bi&s;hops) they are grown &s;o odious (principally for their large demeanes) among this peeple, as <HI>Monks</HI> were of old, and one may &s;ay it is a ju&s;t judgment fallen upon them, for they were mo&s;t bu&s;y in demoli&s;hing <HI>Convents</HI> and <HI>Mona&s;teries,</HI> as the&s;e are in de&s;troying <HI>Cathedralls</HI> and <HI>Ministers;</HI> But above all, it hath bin ob&s;erv'd that this peeple hath bin a long time rotten|hearted towards the &s;plendor of the Court, the very glory of their King, and the old e&s;tabli&s;h'd Government of the land: 'Tis true there were a few &s;mall leakes &s;prung in the great ve&s;|&s;ell of the State, (and what ve&s;&s;ell was ever &s;o tite but was &s;ub|ject to leakes?) but the&s;e wi&s;eakers in &s;topping of one have made a hundred: Yet if this Kings raign were parallell'd to that of Queen <HI>Elizabeth's,</HI> who was the greate&s;t Minion of a peeple that ever was, one will find that &s;he &s;tretch'd the Prerogative as much: In her time as I have read in the Latin Legend of her life, &s;om had their hands cut off for writing again&s;t her matching with the Duke of <HI>Aniou,</HI> others were hang'd at Tyburn for tra|ducing her government; &s;he pardon'd thrice as many Roman Prie&s;ts as this King did, &s;he pa&s;&s;'d divers Monopolies, &s;he kept an Agent at Rome, &s;he &s;ent her Sargeant at Armes to pluck out a Member then &s;itting in the Hou&s;e of Commons by the eares, and clap'd him in pri&s;on; &s;he call'd them &s;awcy fellowes to meddle with her <HI>Prerogative,</HI> or with the government of her hou&s;hold, &s;he mannag'd all forren affaires, &s;pecially the warrs with <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;oly by her privy Coun&s;ell; yet there was no mur|muring at her raign, and the rea&s;on I conceave to be, that there was neither Scot or Puritan had then any &s;troke in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Yet, for all their di&s;obedience and grumblings again&s;t their Liege Lord the King, this peeple are exactly obedient to their new Ma&s;ters of the Hou&s;e of Commons, though they &s;it there but as their <HI>Servants</HI> and entitle them&s;elfs &s;o; and al&s;o though in lieu of the &s;mall &s;cratches which England might happily have receiv'd before (all which the King had cur'd) the&s;e new Ma&s;ters have made &s;uch deep ga&s;hes in her, and given her &s;uch deadly wounds, that I believe are incurable.</P>
<P>My Lord, I find by my re&s;earches, that there are two great
<PB N="18" REF="20"> Idolls in this Kingdome the greate&s;t that ever were, they are the <HI>Parliament</HI> and the <HI>Pulpit;</HI> 'tis held a kind of bla&s;phemy, if not a &s;in again&s;t the Holy Gho&s;t to &s;peak again&s;t the one, and the whole body of Religion is nailed unto the other, for there is no devotion here at all but preaching, which God wot is little better then prating. The abu&s;e of the&s;e two hath bin the &s;ource of all the di&s;tempers which now raign: touching the latter, it hath &s;erv'd as a &s;ub&s;ervient Engin to prop up the pow|er and popularity of the fir&s;t; the&s;e malicious Pulpit-men breath out nothing thence but either &s;edition, &s;chi&s;me or bla&s;|phemy: poor &s;hallow brain'd Scioli&s;ts, they wold que&s;tion ma|ny things in the old Te&s;tament, and find Apocrypha in the New: And &s;uch is the violence wherewith the minds of men and women are tran&s;ported towards the&s;e Preachmen, and no o|ther part of devotion be&s;ides, that in all probability they will in time take a &s;urfet of them: &s;o that give this giddy peeple line enough there will be no need of <HI>Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">holique</HI> Arms to reduce them to the Apo&s;tolic Church, they will in time pave the way to it them&s;elves, and be glad to return to <HI>Rome</HI> to find out a Religion again.</P>
<P>There was here before, as I am informed, a kind of a face of a Church, there were &s;ome &s;olemnities, venerations and decen|cies us'd that a man might di&s;cover &s;ome piety in this peeple; there was a publick Liturgie that in pithy Patheticall prayers reach'd all occa&s;ions; the Sacraments were admini&s;tred with &s;ome reverence, their Churches were kept neat and comly; but this na&s;ty race of mi&s;creants have nothing at all of &s;weetne&s;&s;e, of piety and devotion in them; 'tis all turn'd to a fatuous kind of more zeal after learning, as if Chri&s;tianity had no &s;obriety, con&s;i|&s;tence, or end of knowledg at all: The&s;e &s;illy things, to imitate the Apo&s;tles time, wold have the &s;ame form of di&s;cipline to go|vern whole Nations, as it did a chamberfull of men in the in|fancy of the Church, they wold make the &s;ame coat &s;erve our Saviour at 30. yeers, which fitted him at three: 'Tis incredible how many ugly &s;orts of here&s;ies they daily hatch, but they are mo&s;t of them old ones newly furbi&s;h'd; they all relate to <HI>Aeri|us,</HI> a perfect hater of Bi&s;hops, becau&s;e he could not be one him&s;elf. The two Sectaries which &s;way mo&s;t, are the <HI>Pre&s;|byterians</HI>
<PB N="19" REF="20"> and <HI>Independents,</HI> the <HI>Presbyterian</HI> is a &s;pawn of a <HI>Puri|tan,</HI> and the <HI>Independent</HI> a &s;pawn of the <HI>Presbyterian:</HI> there's but one hop 'twixt the fir&s;t and a <HI>Iew,</HI> and but half a hop 'twixt the other and an <HI>Infidell;</HI> they are both oppo&s;ite to Mo|narchy and Hierarchy; and the latter would have no Go|vernment at all, but a parity and promi&s;cuous confu&s;ion, a race of creatures fit only to inhabit Hell: and one of the fruits of this ble&s;&s;ed Parlement, and of the&s;e two Sectaries is that they have made more Jewes and Athie&s;ts then I think there is in all Europe be&s;ides; but truly my Lord I think the judgments of Heaven were never &s;o vi&s;ible in any part of the Earth, as they are now here, for there is Rebell again&s;t Rebell, Hou&s;e again&s;t Hou&s;e, Cittie again&s;t Army, Parlement again&s;t Scot, but the&s;e two Sectaries I mean the <HI>Presb<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">terian</HI> and <HI>Independent,</HI> who were the fire-brands that put this poor Iland fir&s;t in a flame, are now in mo&s;t deadly feud one again&s;t the other (though they both concur in this to de&s;troy government:) And if the King had time enough to look only upon them, they would quickly hang, draw, and de&s;troy one another.</P>
<P>But indeed all Chri&s;tian Princes &s;hold ob&s;erve the motions &amp; &s;ucce&s;&s;es of the&s;e two unlucky Incendiaries, for if they &s;hold ligue together againe (as they have often plaid fa&s;t and loo&s;e one with another) and prevail here, this Iland wold not terminate their de|&s;ignes, they wold puzzle all the world be&s;ides. Their Preachmen ordinarily cry out in the Pulpit, there is a great work to be done upon earth, for the reforming all mankind, and they are appoint|ed by Heaven to be the chief In&s;truments of bringing it about: They have already bin &s;o bu&s;ie abroad, that (with va&s;t &s;ommes of money) they brought the <HI>Swed</HI> upon the <HI>Dane,</HI> and the very Savages upon the Engli&s;h Cavalier in <HI>Virginia;</HI> and could they confederat wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">h <HI>Turk,</HI> or <HI>Tartar,</HI> or Hell it &s;elf again&s;t them, they wold do it: they are mon&s;trou&s;ly puff'd up with pride, that they &s;tick not to call them&s;elfs <HI>Conquerors;</HI> and one of the chief ring-leaders of them, an ignorant home-bred kind of <HI>Brewer,</HI> was not a&s;hamed to vaunt it publiquely in the Commons Hou&s;e, that if he had but 20000. men, he wold undertake to march to <HI>Con&s;tan|tinople,</HI> and pull the <HI>Ottoman</HI> Emperour out of his throne.</P>
<P>Touching the other grand Idoll the <HI>Parlement,</HI> 'tis true that
<PB N="20" REF="21"> the primitive con&s;titution of Parlement in this Iland was a whol&s;ome peece of policy, becau&s;e it kept a good corre&s;pon|dence, and clos d all ruptures 'twixt the King and his people, but this thing they call Parlement now, may rather be term'd but a cantle of one, or indeed a <HI>Conventicle</HI> of Schi&s;matiques, rather then a great Coun&s;ell; 'tis like a kind of headle&s;&s;e Mon&s;ter, or &s;om ectropiated carkas; f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r there is neither King nor Prelate, nor &s;carce the &s;eventh part of Peers and Commons, no not the twelfth part fairely elected; neverthele&s;&s;e they draw the peeple, &s;pecially this City, like &s;o many &s;tupid animalls, to adore them.</P>
<P>Yet though this in&s;titution of Parlement be a whol&s;om thing in it &s;elf, there is in my judgment a great incongruity in one par|ticular; and I believe it hath bin the cau&s;e of mo&s;t di&s;tempers; It is, That the <HI>Burge&s;&s;es</HI> are more in number then the <HI>Knights</HI> of <HI>Shires;</HI> for the <HI>Knights</HI> of the <HI>Shires</HI> are commonly Gentlemen well born, and bred, and vers'd in the Lawes of the Land, as well as forren governments, divers of them; but the <HI>Burge&s;&s;es</HI> of Townes are commonly Trade&s;men, and being bred in Corpo|rations, they are mo&s;t of them inclining to Puritami&s;m, and con&s;equently to popular government; the&s;e, exceeding the <HI>Knights</HI> in number, carry all before them by plurality of Voices, and &s;o puzzle all: And now that I have mentioned <HI>Corporations,</HI> I mu&s;t tell your Lord&s;hip, that the greate&s;t &s;oloeci&s;m in the policy of this Kingdom, is the number of them; e&s;pecially this mon|&s;trous City, which is compos'd of nothing els but of <HI>Corpora|tions;</HI> and the greate&s;t errors that this King, &s;pecially his Fa|ther committed, was to &s;uffer this town to &s;pread her wings &s;o wide; for &s;he bears no proportion with the bigne&s;&s;e of the Iland, but may fit a Kingdom thrice as &s;pacious; &s;he engro&s;&s;eth and dreines all the wealth and &s;trength of the Kingdom; &s;o that I cannot compa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>England</HI> more properly then to one of our <HI>Cre|mona</HI> gee&s;e, where the cu&s;tom is, to fatten onely the heart, but in doing &s;o the whole body growes lank.</P>
<P>To draw to a conclu&s;ion, This Nation is in a mo&s;t &s;ad and de&s;perate condition, that they de&s;erved to be pittied, and pre|&s;erved from &s;inking, and having ca&s;t the pre&s;ent &s;tate of things and all intere&s;ts into an equall balance, I find, my Lord there be three waies to do it, one good, and two bad:</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="21" REF="21">1. The fir&s;t of the bad ones is the <HI>Sword,</HI> which is one of the &s;courges of heaven, e&s;pecially the <HI>Civill &s;word.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;econd bad one is the Treaty, which they now offer the King in that &s;mall Iland where he hath bin kept Captif &s;o long, (in which quality the world will account him &s;till while he is detain'd there) and by that Treaty to bind him as fa&s;t as they can, and not tru&s;t him at all.</P>
<P N="3">3. The good way is, in a free confiding brave way (Engli&s;h|men like to &s;end for their King to London, where City, and Countrey &s;hold petition him to &s;ummon a new and free full Parlement, which he may do as ju&s;tly as ever he did thing in his life, the&s;e men having infring'd as well all the e&s;&s;entiall Privi|ledges of Parlement, as ev'ry puntillio of it, for they have often ri&s;en up in a confu&s;ion without adjournment, they had two Speakers at once, they have mo&s;t perjuriou&s;ly and beyond all imagination betrayed the tru&s;t both King and Countrey repos'd in them, &s;ubverted the very fundamentalls of all Law, and plung'd the whole Kingdom in this bottomle&s;&s;e gulf of calami|ties: another Parlement may happly do &s;om good to this lan|gui&s;hing Iland, and cure her convul&s;ions, but for the&s;e men that arrogat to them&s;elfes the name of Parlement (by a locall puntil|lio only becau&s;e they never &s;tirr'd from the place where they have bin kept together by meer force) I find them by their a|ctions to be &s;o pervers, &s;o irrational and refractory, &s;o far given over to a reprobat &s;en&s;e, &s;o fraught with rancor, with an irrecon|cileable malice and thir&s;t of bloud, that <HI>England</HI> may well de|&s;paire to be heal'd by &s;uch Phlebotomi&s;ts, or Quack&s;alvers; be&s;ides they are &s;o full of &s;cruples, apprehen&s;ions, and jealou|&s;ies proceeding from black guilty &s;oules, and gawl'd con&s;cien|ces, that they will do nothing but chop Logic with their King, and &s;pin out time to continu their power, and evade puni&s;h|ment, which they think is unavoydable if there &s;hould be a free Parlement.</P>
<P>Touching the King he comports him&s;elf with an admired temper'd equ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nimity, he invades and o'rema&s;ters them more and more in all his an&s;wers by &s;trength of rea&s;on, though he have no &s;oul breathing to con&s;ult withall, but his owne Genius: he gaines wonderfully upon the hearts and opinion of his peeple,
<PB N="22" REF="22"> and as the Sun u&s;eth to appear bigger in winter, and at his de|clen&s;ion in regard of the interpo&s;ition of certain meteors 'twixt the eye of the beholder and the object, &s;o this King being thus o'reclouded and declined &s;hines far more glorious in the eyes of his peeple; and certainly the&s;e high morall vertues of con&s;tancy, courage and wi&s;dom com from above; and no won|der, for Kings as they are elevated above all other peeple and &s;tand upon higher ground, they &s;ooner receave the in&s;pirations of heaven; nor doth he only by &s;trength of rea&s;on our wit them, but he wooes them by gentlenes and man&s;uetude; as the Gen|tleman of Paris who having an Ape in his hou&s;e that had taken his only child out of the cradle, and dragged him up to the ridge of the hou&s;e, the parent with ruthfull heart charmed the Ape by faire words and other blandi&s;hments to bring him &s;oftly down, which he did; England may be &s;aid to be now ju&s;t upon &s;uch a precipice, ready to have her braines da&s;ht out, and I hope the&s;e men will not be wor&s;e natur'd then that brute animal, but will &s;ave her.</P>
<P>Thus have I given your Eminence a rough account of the &s;tate of this poor and pittifully deluded peeple, which I wil perfect when I &s;hall com to your pre&s;ence, which I hope will be before this Autumnall Equinox; I thought to have &s;ojourn'd here longer, but that I am growne weary of the clime, for I feare there's the other two &s;courges of heaven that menace this I|land, I mean the famin and pe&s;tilence, e&s;pecially this City, for their prophanenes, rebellion and &s;acriledge: it hath bin a talk a great while whether <HI>Anti-Chri&s;t</HI> be com to the world or no, I am &s;ure <HI>Anti-Je&s;us,</HI> which is wor&s;e, is among this peeple, for they hold all veneration, though voluntary proceeding from the inward motions of a &s;weet devoted &s;oule, and cau&s;ing an out|ward genuflexion, to be &s;uper&s;titious, in&s;omuch that one of the Synodicall Saints here printed and publi&s;hed a Book entitling it again&s;t <HI>Ie&s;u Wor&s;hip.</HI></P>
<P>So in the profunde&s;t po&s;ture of reverence I ki&s;&s;e your ve&s;t, being</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>London <DATE>this 16. of Augu&s;t, <HI>Stylo loci,</HI> 1648.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your Eminences mo&s;t humbly devoted <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="23" MS="y">
<P>A WINTER DREAME.</P>
<Q><L>Quae me &s;u&s;pen&s;um <HI>In&s;omnia</HI> terrent? <BIBL><HI>Virg.</HI></BIBL></L>
<L>Saepe futurarum prae&s;agia <HI>Somnia</HI> Rerum.</L></Q>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>woodcut of crowned English rose</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>woodcut of crowned Scottish thistle</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE>
<FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>woodcut of crowned fleur-de-lis</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
<P>Printed <HI>Anno Domini</HI> QuanDo ReX AngLoruM <HI>VectI</HI> vIctItabat CaptIvus, 1649.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="printer to the reader">
<PB REF="24">
<HEAD>The Printer to the Reader.</HEAD>
<P><HI>BEcau&s;e the Interpretation of this Dream may be obvious to all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">pacities, I have pre&s;umed, with the Authors leave, to prefix here the names of tho&s;e Countreys he hints at.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>1. The States of Holland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. High Germany.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. The Kingdom of Naples.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. The Republic of Venice.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. The Kingdoms of Spain.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. The Kingdom of France.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. The Kingdoms of England, and the confu&s;ions thereof by way of Apolog.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. The Scots.</ITEM>
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<PB N="1" REF="24">
<HEAD>A Winter Dream.</HEAD>
<P>IT was in the dead of a long Winter night, when no eyes were open but Watchmen, and Centinell's, that I was fallen &s;oundly a&s;leep, the Cinq out-Ports were &s;hut up clo&s;er then u&s;ually, and my &s;ences &s;o treble lock'd, that the Moon, had &s;he de&s;cended from her watry Orb, might have don much more to me then &s;he did to <HI>Endymion</HI> when he lay &s;noaring upon the brow of <HI>Latmus</HI> Hill; nay, (be it &s;poken without prophane|ne&s;&s;e) if a rib had bin taken out of me that night, to have made a new model of a woman, I &s;hold hardly have felt it.</P>
<P>Yet, though the Cou&s;in-german of Death had &s;o &s;trongly &s;eiz'd thus upon the exterior parts of this poore Tabernacle of fle&s;h, my inward were never more actif, and fuller of employ|ments then they were that night.</P>
<Q><L>Pictus imaginibus, formi&s;&abque; fugacibus ad&s;tat</L>
<L><HI>Morpheus,</HI> &amp; variis fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">git nova vultibus ora.</L></Q>
<P>Me thought my &s;oul made a &s;allie abroad into the world, and fetch'd a va&s;t compas; &s;he &s;eem'd to &s;oar up and &s;lice the air, to cro&s;&s;e &s;eas, clammer up huge Hills, and never re&s;ted till &s;he had arriv'd at the <HI>Antipodes:</HI> Now &s;om of the mo&s;t judicious Geometricians and Chorographers hold that the whole Ma&s;&s;e of the Earth being round like the re&s;t of her fellow Elements, ther be places, and poizing parts of the Continent, there be
<PB N="2" REF="25"> Penin&s;ulas, Promontories and Ilands upon the other face of the Earth that corre&s;pond and concenter with all tho&s;e Regi|ons and Iles that are upon this &s;uperficies which we tread; Countries that &s;ymbolize with them in qualities, in tempera|ture of air and clime, as well as in nature of &s;oile; The Inhabi|tants al&s;o of tho&s;e places which are &s;o perpendicularly oppo&s;it, do &s;ympathize one with another in di&s;po&s;ition, complexions and humors, though the A&s;tronomers wold have their Ea&s;t to be our We&s;t, and &s;o all things <HI>vice ver&s;a</HI> in point of po&s;ition, which divi&s;ion of the Heaven is only mans in&s;titution.</P>
<P>But to give an account of the &s;trange progres my &s;oule made that night; the fir&s;t Country &s;he lighted on was a very low flat Countrey, and it was &s;uch an odd amphibious Countrey, being &s;o indented up and down with Rivers and armes of the &s;ea, that I made a que&s;tion whither I &s;hold call it Water or Land; yet though the <HI>Sea</HI> be invited and u&s;her'd in into &s;om places, he is churli&s;tly pen'd out in &s;om other: &s;o that though he foam and &s;well, and appeer as high Walls hard by, yet they keep him out, maugre all his roaring and &s;welling.</P>
<P>As I wandred up and down in this Watry Region, I might behold from a &s;treight long Dike whereon I &s;tood, a &s;trange kind of Forre&s;t, for the trees mov'd up and down; they look'd afar off as if they had bin bla&s;ted by thunder; for they had no leafs at all; but making a neerer approach unto them, I found they were a nomberle&s;&s;e company of Ship Ma&s;ts, and before them appeer'd a great Town incorporated up and down with Water;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Amsterdam.</NOTE> As I mu&s;'d with my &s;elf upon the &s;ight of all this, I concluded, that the Inhabitants of that Countrey were notable indu&s;trious peeple, who could give Law &s;o to the angry <HI>Ocean,</HI> and occupie tho&s;e places where the great <HI>Leviathan</HI> &s;hould tum|ble and take his pa&s;time in; As my thought ran thus, I met with a man, whom I conjectur'd to be 'twixt a Marchant and a Mariner, his &s;alutation was &s;o homely; the air al&s;o was &s;o foggie that me thought it &s;tuck like cobbwebs in his Mu&s;tachos; &amp; he
<PB N="3" REF="25"> was &s;o dull in point of motion, as if his veines had bin filld with buttermilk in lieu of blood: I began to mingle words with him, and to expo&s;tulate &s;omthing about that Coun|trey and peeple; and then I found a great deal of downright ci|vilities in him: He told me that <HI>They</HI> were the only men who did miracles of late yeers; Tho&s;e innumerable piles of &s;tones you &s;ee before you in &s;uch comely neat fabriques, is a place (&s;aid he) that from a Fi&s;h <HI>Market</HI> in effect is com to be one of the greate&s;t <HI>Marts</HI> in this part of the world, which hath made her &s;well thrice bigger then &s;he was 50. yeers ago; and as you be|hold this floating Forre&s;t of Ma&s;ts before her mole, &s;o if you could &s;ee the foundations of her hou&s;es, you &s;hold &s;ee another great Forre&s;t, being rear'd from under ground upon fair piles of timber, which if they chance to &s;ink in this Mar&s;hy &s;oyl, we have an art to &s;crue them up again. We have for 70. yeers and above without any intermi&s;&s;ion, except a &s;hort-liv'd truce that once was made, wra&s;tled with one of the greate&s;t Potentates up|on Earth, and born up &s;toutly again&s;t him, gramercy our two next neighbour Kings, and their <HI>Rea&s;on of State,</HI> with the advan|tage of our &s;ituation. We have <HI>fought</HI> our &s;elfs into a free State, and now quite out of that ancient alleageance we ow'd him; and though we pay 20. times more in taxes of all &s;orts then we did to him, yet we are contented: We have turn'd <HI>War</HI> into a <HI>trade,</HI> and that which u&s;eth to <HI>beggar</HI> others, hath <HI>benefited</HI> us: Be|&s;ides, we have bin and are &s;till the rendevous of mo&s;t di&s;conten|ted Subjects, when by the motions of unquiet con&s;ciences in points of Religion, or by the fury of the &s;word, they are forc'd to quit their own Countreys, who bring their arts of Manufa|cture, and moveables, hither; In &s;o much that our Lombards are full of their goods, and our banks &s;uperabound with their <HI>gold</HI> and &s;ilver which they bring hither in <HI>&s;pecie.</HI> To &s;ecure our &s;elfs, and cut the Enemy more work, and to engage our Confiderats in a war with him, we have kindled fires in evry corner; and now that they are together by the Eares, we have bin content
<PB N="5" REF="26"> lately, being long woo'd thereunto, to make a peace with that King to whom we once acknowledged va&s;&s;alage; which King out of a height of &s;pirit, hath &s;pent 500. times more upon us for our reduction, then all our Countrey is worth; But now he hath bin well contented to renounce and abjure all claimes and rights of Soverainty over us; In &s;o much, that being now without an Enemy, we hope in a &s;hort time to be ma&s;ters of all the comerce in this part of the world, and to eat our Neighbours out of trade in their own Comodities: We fear nothing but that exces of Wealth, and a &s;urfet of ea&s;e may make us careles and breed quarrells among our &s;elfs, and that our Generall, be|ing married to a great Kings daughter, may&mdash;</P>
<P>Here he &s;uddenly broke the threed of his di&s;cour&s;e, and got ha&s;tily away, being hal'd by a &s;hip that was &s;ailing hard by.</P>
<P>Hereupon my &s;oul took wing again, and cut her way through that foggy condens'd aire, till &s;he lighted on a fair, &s;pacious, cleare Continent, a generous and rich Soile mantled up and downe with large woods, where, as I rang'd to and fro, I might &s;ee divers faire Hou&s;es, Townes, Palaces and Ca&s;tles, looking like &s;o many <HI>Carka&s;es,</HI> for no humane &s;oule appear'd in them; me thought I felt my heart melting within me in a &s;oft re&s;entment of the ca&s;e of &s;o gallant a Countrey, and as I &s;tood at amaze, and in a kind of a&s;toni&s;hment, a goodly per&s;o|nage makes towards me, whom both for his comportment, and countenance, I perceiv'd to be of a finer mould then that companion I had met withall before: by the trace of his looks I gue&s;&s;ed he might be &s;om Nobleman that had bin ruin'd by &s;om di&s;a&s;ter: having aco&s;ted him with a fitting di&s;tance, he be|gan in a Ma&s;culin &s;trong winded language full of a&s;pirations and tough colli&s;ion of Con&s;onants, to tell me as followeth: Sir, I find you are a &s;tranger in this Countrey, becau&s;e you &s;tand &s;o aga&s;t at the deva&s;tations of &s;uch a fair piece of the Con|tinent, then know Sir, becau&s;e I beleeve you are curious to carry away with you the cau&s;es thereof, that tho&s;e ruthfull ob|jects
<PB N="5" REF="26"> which you behold, are the effects of a long lingring war, and of the fury of the Sword, a cruentous civill War that hath rag'd here ubove 30. yeares: one of the grounds of it was the infortunate undertaking of a Prince, who liv'd not far off in an affluence of all earthly felicity; he had the greate&s;t Lady to his wife, the be&s;t pur&s;e of money, the faire&s;t Stable of hor&s;e, and choice&s;t Library of books of any other of his neighbour Princes. But being by de&s;perate and a&s;piring coun|&s;ells put upon a Kingdome, while he was catching at the &s;ha|dow of a Crowne, he lo&s;t the &s;ub&s;tance of all his own ancient po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions: by the many powerfull alliances he had (which was the cau&s;e he was pitched upon) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he feud continued long; for among others a <HI>Northern</HI> King took advantage to ru&s;h in, who did a world of mi&s;chiefs, but in a few yeers that King and he found their graves in their own ruins neer upon the &s;ame time; but now, may heaven have due thanks for it, there is a pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce concluded, a peace which hath bin 14. long yeers a moulding, and will I hope, be &s;hortly put in execution; yet 'tis with this fatall di&s;advantage, that the &s;aid Northerne pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ple, be&s;ides a ma&s;&s;e of ready money we are to give them, are to have firme footing, and a warm ne&s;t ever in this C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">untrey hereafter, &s;o that I fear we &s;hall hear from them too often: upon the&s;e words this noble per&s;onage fetch'd a deep &s;igh, but in &s;uch a ge<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erous manner, that he &s;eem'd to breake and check it before it c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me halfe forth.</P>
<P>Thence my &s;oule taking her flight o're divers huge and hor|rid cacuminous mountaines, at la&s;t I found my &s;elfe in a great populous Towne, but her buildings were mi&s;erably battered up and downe, &s;he had a world of Palaces, Ca&s;tles, Convents and goodly Churches: as I &s;tepped out of curio&s;ity into one of them, upon the We&s;t &s;ide there was a huge Grate, where a creature all in white beckned at me, making my app oach to the Grate, I found her to be a Nun, a lovely creature &s;he was, for I could not di&s;tingui&s;h which was whiter, her <HI>hue</HI> or her
<PB N="6" REF="27"> <HI>habit,</HI> her vaile other face, it made me remember (though in a dream my &s;elf) that &s;aying, <HI>If Dreams and wi&s;hes had been tru, there had not been found a tru maid to make a Nun of ever &s;ince a Cloyster'd life began fir&s;t among women;</HI> I asked her the rea&s;on how &s;o many ugly deva&s;tations &s;hould befall &s;o beautifull a City, &s;he in a dolorous gentle tone, and ruthfull accents, the tears trickling down her cheeks like &s;o many pearles, (&s;uch pearly teares that wold have di&s;&s;olv'd a Diamond) &s;obb'd out unto me this &s;peech: Gentle Sir, 'tis far beyond any expre&s;&s;i|ons of mine, and indeed beyond humane imagination to con|ceive the late calamities which have befallen this faire though infortunate City, a pernicious popular Rebellion broke out here upon a &s;udden into mo&s;t horrid barbari&s;mes, a Fate that hangs over mo&s;t rich popular places that &s;wim in luxe and plen|ty; but touching the grounds thereof, one may &s;ay that rebel|lion entred into this City, as &s;in fir&s;t entred into the world by an <HI>apple:</HI> For our King now in his great extremities having almo&s;t halfe the world banding again&s;t him, and putting but a &s;mall tax upon a basket of fruit to la&s;t only for a time, this <HI>fruit-tax</HI> did put the peeples teeth &s;o on edge, that it made them gna&s;h again&s;t the Government, and ru&s;h into Armes; but they are &s;en&s;ible now of their own follies, for I thinke never any place &s;uffered more in &s;o &s;hort a time: the civill combu&s;tions abroad in other Kingdomes may be &s;aid to be but &s;mall &s;quibs compar'd to tho&s;e horrid flakes of fire which have rag'd here, and much adoe we had to keep our <HI>Ve&s;tall fire</HI> free from the fu|ry of it: in le&s;&s;e then the revolution of a yeer it con&s;um'd a|bove four&s;core thou&s;and &s;oules within the walls of this Ci|ty; But 'tis not the fir&s;t time of forty, that this luxurious foo|li&s;h peeple hath &s;marted for their in&s;urrections and in&s;olencies, and that this mad <HI>hor&s;e</HI> hath o'rethrowne his Rider, and drawn a wor&s;e upon his back; who in&s;tead of a &s;addle, put a pack-&s;addle and Panniers upon him: but indeed the voluptuou&s;ne&s;&s;e of this peeple was growne ripe for the judgement of heaven;
<PB N="7" REF="27"> &s;he was then beginning to expo&s;tulat with me about the &s;tate of my Countrey, and I had a mighty mind to &s;atisfie her, for I could have corre&s;ponded with her in the relation of as &s;trange things, but the Lady <HI>Ahade&s;&s;e</HI> calling her away, &s;he departed in an in&s;tant, obedience &s;eem'd to be there &s;o preci&s;e and punctuall.</P>
<P>I &s;teer'd my cour&s;e thence through a mo&s;t delicious Countrey to another City that lay in the very bo&s;ome of the Sea, &s;he was at fir&s;t nothing els but a kind of po&s;ie made up of dainty green hillocks, tied together by above 400. bridges, and &s;o coagulated into a curious Citie; though &s;he be e&s;pous'd to <HI>Neptune</HI> very &s;olemnly once evry yeer, yet &s;he &s;till re&s;erves her maydenhead, and beares the title of the <HI>Virgin Citie</HI> in that part of the world; But I found her tug|ging mainly with a huge Giant that wold ravi&s;h her; He hath &s;hrewdly &s;et on her skirts, and a great &s;hame it is, that &s;he is not now a&s;&s;i&s;ted by her Neighbours, &amp; that they &s;hold be together by the eares when they &s;hold do &s;o nece&s;&s;ary a work, con&s;idering how that great Giant is their common E|nemy; and hath lately vow'd <HI>&s;even yeers</HI> warrs again&s;t her; &s;pecially con&s;idering, that if he comes once to <HI>ravi&s;h</HI> her, he will quickly <HI>ruin</HI> them; She (to her high honor be it &s;poken) being their only rampart again&s;t the incur&s;ion of the &s;aid Giant, and by con&s;equence their greate&s;t &s;ecurity.</P>
<P>From this <HI>Maiden</HI> Citie, mee thought, I was in a trice carried over a long gulf, and &s;o through a Midland Sea, into another Kingdome, where I felt the Clime hotter by &s;ome Degrees; a rough hew'n &s;oile, for the mo&s;t part, it was, full of craggie barren <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ills; but where there were valleys and water enough, the coun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rey was extraor|dinarily fruitfull, whereby nature (it &s;eems) made her a com|pen&s;ation for the &s;terility of the re&s;t. Yet notwith&s;tanding the hard&s;hip of the &s;oyl, I found her full of Abbeys, Mona|&s;teries, Hermitages, Convents, Churches, and other places of devotion; As I rov'd there a while, I encountred a grave
<PB N="8" REF="28"> man in a long black cloak, by the fa&s;hion whereof, and by the brimms of his hat, I perceived him to be a Je&s;uit; I clos'd with him, and que&s;tion'd with him about that Coun|trey: He told me the King of that Countrey was the great|e&s;t Potentat of that part of the world; and, to draw power to a greater unitie, they of our <HI>Order</HI> could be well conten|ted, that he were univer&s;all Head over Temporalls, becau&s;e 'tis mo&s;t probable to be effected by him, as we have already one univer&s;all Head over Spiritualls: This is the Monark of the Mines, I mean of Gold and Silver, who furni&s;hes all the world, but mo&s;t of all his own Enemies with money, which money foments all the warrs in this part of the world: Never did any earthly Monark thrive &s;o much in &s;o &s;hort a tract of time; But of late yeers he hath bin illfavou|redly &s;haken by the revolt and utter defection of two &s;orts of Subjects, who are now in actuall armes again&s;t him on both &s;ides of him at his own doors. There hath bin al&s;o a long deadly feud 'twixt the next tramontan Kingdom and him, though the Queen that rules there be his own &s;i&s;ter, an unnaturall odious thing: But it &s;eems God Almighty hath a quarrell of late yeers with all earthly Potentats; for in &s;o &s;hort a time there never happen'd &s;uch &s;trange &s;hocks and revolutions: The great Emperour of <HI>Ethiopia</HI> hath bin outed, he and all his children by a petty companion: The King of <HI>China</HI> a greater Emperour then he, hath lo&s;t almo&s;t all that huge Monarchy by the incur&s;ion of the <HI>Tartar,</HI> who broke ore the Wall upon him; The grand <HI>Turk</HI> hath bin &s;trangled, with 30. of his Concubines; The Emperur of <HI>Mu&s;|covy</HI> hath bin content to beg his life of his own va&s;&s;alls, &amp; to &s;ee before his face divers of his chief Officers hack'd to pee|ces, &amp; their heads cut off &amp; &s;teep'd in &s;trong water, to make them burn more bright in the market place. Be&s;ides theabove mentioned, this King hath al&s;o divers Enemies more, yet he bears up again&s;t them all indifferently well, though with
<PB N="9" REF="28"> infinite expence of trea&s;ure: and the Church, &s;pecially our Society, hath &s;tuck clo&s;e unto him in the&s;e his exigents: whence may be inferr'd, that let men repine as long as they will at the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of the Church, <HI>they are the be&s;t anchors to a State in a &s;torme,</HI> and in time of need to pre&s;erve it from &s;inking; be&s;ides acts of charity wold be quite lo&s;t among men, did not the wealth of the Church keep life in them: Hereupon drawing a huge paire of Beads from under his cloak, he began to aske me of my Religion; I told him I had a long journey to go, &s;o that I could not &s;tay to wait on him longer; &s;o we parted, and me thought I was very glad, to be rid of him &s;o well.</P>
<P>My &s;oule then made another flight over an A&s;&s;embly of hideous high hills, and lighted under another Clyme, on a rich and copious Countrey re&s;embling the form of a Lo|&s;enge, but me thought, I never &s;aw &s;o many poor peeple in my life; I encountred a Pea&s;an, and asked him what the rea&s;on was, that there &s;hold be &s;o much poverty in a Coun|trey where there was &s;o much plenty: Sir, they keep the Commonalty poor in pure policy here; for being a peeple, as the world ob&s;erves us to be, that are more humerous then others, and that love variety and change, if we were &s;uffered to be pamper'd with wealth, we wold ever and anon ri&s;e up in tumults, and &s;o this Kingdome &s;hold never be quiet, but &s;ubject to inte&s;tine broyles, and &s;o to the hazard of any inva&s;ion: But there was of late a devilli&s;h Cardinall, who&s;e <HI>humour</HI> being as &s;anguin as his <HI>habit,</HI> and working upon the weaknes of his Ma&s;ter, hath made us not onely poore, but &s;tark beggars, and we are like to continue &s;o by an eternall war, wherein he hath plung'd this poore Kingdom, which war mu&s;t be maintained with our very vi|tall &s;pirits: but as dejected and indigent as we are, yet upon the death of that ambitious Cardinall, we had ri&s;en up a|gain&s;t this, who hath the Vogue now, (with whom he hath
<PB N="10" REF="29"> left his principles) had not the fearfull example of our next tran&s;marin We&s;tern neighbours, and the knowledge we have of a wor&s;e kind of &s;lavery, of tho&s;e endles arbitrary taxes, and horrid confu&s;ions they have fool'd them&s;elfs lately into, utterly deterr'd us, though we have twenty times more rea&s;on to ri&s;e then ever they had: yet our great City hath &s;hew'd her teeth, and gna&s;h'd them ilfavouredly of late, but we find &s;he hath drawn water only for her owne Mill, we fare little the better, yet we hope it will conduce to peace, which hath been &s;o long in agitation. I cannot remember how I parted with that Pea&s;an, but in an in&s;tant I was landed upon a large I&s;land, and me thought, 'twas the temperat'&s;t Region I had been in all the while; the <HI>heat</HI> of the Sun there is as harmles as his <HI>light,</HI> the evening <HI>&s;erenes</HI> are as whol&s;ome there, as the morning <HI>dew;</HI> the <HI>Dog-daies</HI> as innocuous as any of the two <HI>Equinoxes.</HI> As I rang'd to and fro that fair Iland, I &s;pied a huge City who&s;e length did far exceed her latitude, but neither for length or latitude did &s;he &s;eem to beare any politicall proportion with that Iland: &s;he look'd, me thought, like the Je&s;uits hat whom I had met withall before, who&s;e brimms were bigger then the crowne, or like a petticoat, who&s;e fringe was longer then the body. As I did ca&s;t my eyes upwards, me thought I di&s;cern'd a &s;trange In&s;cription in the aire which hung ju&s;t over the mid&s;t of that Citie written in &s;uch huge vi&s;ible characters, that any one might have read it, which was this: <HI>Woe be to the bloody City.</HI></P>
<P>Hereupon a reverend Bi&s;hop pre&s;ented him&s;elfe to my view, his gray haires, and grave a&s;pect &s;truck in mee an extraordinary reverence of him: &s;o performing tho&s;e com|plements which were fitting, I asked him of the condition of the place, he in a &s;ubmi&s;&s;e &s;ad tone, with clouds of me|lancholy waving up and downe his lookes, told me; Sir, this Iland was reputed few years &s;ince to have been in the
<PB N="11" REF="29"> complete&s;t condition of happine&s;&s;e of any part on earth, in&s;omuch that &s;he was repin'd at for her pro&s;perity and peace by all her neighbours, who were plung'd in warre round about her, but now &s;he is fallen into as deep a gulf of mi&s;ery, and &s;ervitude, as &s;he was in a height of felicity and freedom before: Touching the grounds of this change, I cannot impute it to any other then to a &s;urfet of happine&s;&s;e; now <HI>there is no &s;urfet &s;o dangerous as that of happines:</HI> There are &s;uch horrid divi&s;ions here, that if they were a foot in hell, they were able to de&s;troy the Kingdom of Satan: truly Sir, there are crep'd in more opinions among us about mat|ters of Religion, then the Pagans had of old of the <HI>Summum bonum,</HI> which <HI>Varro</HI> &s;aith were 300. the under&s;tandings of poor men were never &s;o puzzled &amp; di&s;tracted; a great while there were two oppo&s;it powers who &s;wayed here in a kind of equality that people knew not whom to obey, many thou|&s;ands complied with both, as the men of <HI>Calecut</HI> who adore God and the Devill, (<HI>Tamum Squantum,</HI> as it is in the Indian language) the one for love, the other for feare: there is a mon&s;trous kind of wild liberty here that ever was upon earth; that which was complained of as a &s;talking hor&s;e to draw on our mi&s;eries at fir&s;t, is now only in practice, which is meer <HI>arbitrary rule;</HI> for now both <HI>Law, Religion,</HI> and <HI>Allegiance</HI> are here arbitrary: Touching the la&s;t, 'tis quite lo&s;t, 'tis per|mitted that any one may prate, preach, or print what they will in derogation of their anointed King: which word <HI>King</HI> was once a Mono&s;yllable of &s;ome weight in this Ile, but 'tis as little regarded now as the word <HI>Pope</HI> (among &s;om) which was al&s;o a mighty Mono&s;yllable once among us: the rule of the Law is, that the King can <HI>do</HI> no wrong, there is a contrary rule now crept in, that the King can <HI>receive</HI> no wrong; and truly Sir, 'tis a great judgement both upon Prince and peeple, upon the one, that the love of his va&s;&s;alls &s;hold be &s;o alienated from him; upon the other, that their
<PB N="12" REF="30"> hearts &s;hold be &s;o poy&s;ond, and certainly 'tis the effects of an ill &s;pirit; both the one and the other in all probability tend to the ruine of this Kingdom. I will illu&s;trat this unto you, Sir, by an Apologue as followeth.</P>
<P>There happen'd a &s;hrewd commotion &amp; di&s;temper in the Body Natural 'twixt the <HI>Head</HI> and the <HI>Members;</HI> not one|ly the <HI>Noble</HI> parts (&s;om of them) but the common inferior organs al&s;o banded again&s;t him in a high way of unnaturall pre&s;umption; The heart, which is the &s;ource of life, with the <HI>Pericardiu~</HI> about it, did &s;well again&s;t him; the <HI>Liver,</HI> which is the &s;hop of &s;anguification, gather'd ill blood: all the humors turn'd to <HI>Choler</HI> again&s;t him; The Arms lift up them&s;elfs again&s;t him, neither back, hams or knees wold bow to him, nay the very feet offer'd to kick him; The foure and twenty ribs, the reines, the <HI>Hypocondrium,</HI> the <HI>Diaphragma,</HI> the <HI>Mi&s;e|raic,</HI> &amp; <HI>Emulgent</HI> veins were fil'd with corrupt blood again&s;t him: yea the <HI>Hypoga&s;trium</HI> and the bowells made an <HI>inte&s;tin</HI> war again&s;t him. While the feud la&s;ted, it hapned that the&s;e tumultuary Members fell out among them&s;elfs; The <HI>Hand</HI> wold have all the fingers equall, nay the <HI>toes</HI> wold be of even length, &amp; the re&s;t of the &s;ub&s;ervient members wold be independent: They grew &s;o fooli&s;h, that they wold have the <HI>fondament</HI> to be where the <HI>mouth</HI> is, the <HI>bre&s;t</HI> where the <HI>bask,</HI> the <HI>belly</HI> where the <HI>braine,</HI> and the <HI>yard</HI> where the <HI>no&s;e,</HI> the <HI>&s;holders</HI> &s;hold be no more &s;aid to be backwards, nor the <HI>leggs</HI> downwards; A bloody quarrell fell 'twixt the <HI>Heart</HI> and <HI>Liver,</HI> which of them receiv'd the fir&s;t formation, and whither of the two be the chiefe&s;t officine of &s;anguificati|on; which que&s;tion bred &s;o much <HI>gaul</HI> 'twixt the <HI>Ari&s;totelians</HI> &amp; the <HI>Galeni&s;ts;</HI> While this <HI>Spleen</HI> &amp; &s;trange <HI>tympany</HI> of pride la&s;ted, it cau'sd &s;uch an ebullition and heat in the ma&s;&s;e of <HI>bloud,</HI> that it put the Microco&s;m, the whole Body in a high burning Feaver or Frenzy rather, which in a very &s;hort time grew to be a <HI>Heptic,</HI> and &s;o all peri&s;h'd by a fatall con&s;ump|tion.</P>
<PB N="13" REF="30">
<P>I fear the &s;ame fate attends this infortunate Iland, for &s;uch as was the condition of that naturall head, this Apolog &s;peaks of, the &s;ame is the ca&s;e of the politic Head and Body of this Iland; Never was Soverain Prince &s;o banded again&s;t by his own Subjects, never was the patience of a Prince &s;o put upon the tenter; He is &s;till no le&s;&s;e then a Captif, his children are in bani&s;hment in one Countrey, his Queen in another, the greate&s;t Queen of bloud upon earth; a Queen that brought with her the greate&s;t portion that ever Queen did in trea&s;ure; yet in twenty yeers and upwards, her join|ture hath not bin &s;etled as it &s;hold be; nor hath &s;he bin crown'd all this while according to matrimoniall Articles; notwith&s;tanding that, for the comfort of this Nation, and the e&s;tabli&s;hment of the Throne, &s;he hath brought forth &s;o many hopefull Princes.</P>
<P>But now Sir; becau&s;e I &s;ee you are &s;o attentive, and &s;eem to be much mov'd at this Di&s;cour&s;e, as I have di&s;cover'd un|to you the generall cau&s;e of our calamities, which was not onely a &s;atiety, but a &s;urfeit of happine&s;&s;e, &s;o I will de|&s;cend now to a more particular cau&s;e of them; it was a Nor|thern Nation that brought the&s;e cataracts of mi&s;chief: upon us; and you know the old &s;aying,
<Q><L>Out of the North</L>
<L>All ill comes forth.</L></Q> Far be it from me to charge the whole Nation herewith; no, but onely &s;ome pernicions In&s;truments that had in&s;inu|ated them&s;elfs, and incorporated among us, and &s;way'd both in our Court and Coun&s;ells: They had a hand in eve|ry Monopoly; they had out of our Exchequer, and Cu|&s;toms neer upon 400000. Crowns in yeerly Pen&s;ions, <HI>viis &amp; modis;</HI> yet they could not be content, but they mu&s;t puzzle the peace and policy of this Church and State: and though they are people of differing Intellectualls, differing Lawes, Cu&s;tomes, and Manners unto us, yet for matter of con&s;ci|ence
<PB N="14" REF="31"> they wold bring our necks into their yoak, as if they had a greater talent of rea&s;on, &amp; cleerer illuminations, as if they under&s;tood Scripture better, and were better acquain|ted with God Almighty then we, who brought them fir&s;t from Pagani&s;me to Chri&s;tianity, and al&s;o to be reformed Chri&s;tians: but it &s;eems, matters have little thriven with them; nay the vi&s;ible hand of heaven hath bin heavily up|on them divers wayes &s;ince they did lift <HI>their</HI> hands again&s;t their <HI>native King;</HI> For notwith&s;tanding the va&s;t &s;umms they had hence, yet is the generality of them as beggarly as ever they were; be&s;ides, the Civill Sword hath rag'd there as furiou&s;ly as here, and did as much execution a|mong them. Moreover the Pe&s;tilence hath beene more violent, and &s;weeping in their chief Town then ever it was &s;ince they were a peeple. And now lately ther's the notable&s;t di&s;honour befaln them that po&s;&s;ibly could light upon a Nation, in that 7000. of ours &s;hold upon eeven ground encounter, kill, &s;lay, rout and utterly di&s;comfit thrice as many of theirs, though as well appointed and arm'd as men could be: And truly Sir, the advantages that accru to this Nation are not a few by that exploit; For of late yeers that Nation was cried up abroad to be a more Mar|tiall peeple then we, and to have baffled us in open field in divers traver&s;es: be&s;ides, I hope a &s;mall matter will pay now their Arrerages here, and el&s;where; but principally, I hope they will not be &s;o bu&s;ie hereafter in our Court and Coun&s;ell, as they have been formerly.</P>
<P>Another cau&s;e of our calamity is a &s;trange race of peeple &s;prung up among our &s;elfs, who were confederat with tho&s;e of the North; they wold make Gods Hou&s;e cleane, and put out the candle of all ancient learning &amp; knowledg; they would &s;weep it only by the light of an <HI>Ignis fatuus:</HI> but 'tis vi&s;ibly found that they have brought much more rubbage into it; and wheras in reforming this hou&s;e, they &s;hold ra|ther find out the <HI>groat</HI> that is lo&s;t, they go about to take away
<PB N="15" REF="31"> the <HI>mite</HI> that's left, and &s;o put <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> Spou&s;e to live on meer almes: true it is, there is a kind of <HI>Zeal</HI> that burns in them, (&amp; I could wi&s;h there were &s;o much <HI>piety</HI>) but this zeal burns with too much violence and pre&s;umption, which is no good &s;ymptom of &s;pirituall health, it being a rule, that as the naturall heat, &s;o the &s;pirituall &s;hold be moderat, els it commonly turns to a frenzy: and that is the thing which cau&s;eth &s;uch a giddines and di&s;traction in their braines; This (proceeding from the &s;ugge&s;tions of an ill &s;pirit) puffs them up with &s;o much mentall pride; for the Devill is &s;o cunning a Wra&s;tler, that he oftentimes lifts men up to give them the greater fall: they think they have an inerring &s;pirit, and that their <HI>Diall</HI> mu&s;t needs go tru, how&s;oever the Sun goes: they wold make the <HI>Go&s;pell,</HI> as the <HI>Caddies</HI> make the <HI>Alchoran,</HI> to decide all civill temporall matters under the large notion of <HI>&s;lander,</HI> whereof <HI>they</HI> to be the Judges, and &s;o in time to hook in all things to their <HI>Cla&s;sis:</HI> I believe if the&s;e men were di&s;&s;ected when they are dead, there would be a great deale of Quick-&s;ilver found in their braines.</P>
<Q><L>Prob Superi, quantum mortalia pectora coecae</L>
<L>No<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 chunk"> habent!&mdash;</L></Q>
<P>But I could pitty the <HI>giddine&s;&s;e of their braines,</HI> had they not &s;o much <HI>gaules in their brea&s;ts,</HI> were they not &s;o thir|&s;ting after blood, &s;o full of poi&s;on and irreconcileable ma|lice, in &s;o much that it may be very well thought, the&s;e men are a kin to that race which &s;prung out of the Serpents teeth: the&s;e are they which have &s;educed our great Coun|&s;ell, and led this fooli&s;h City by the no&s;e to begin and fo|ment this ugly War, in&s;omuch that if tho&s;e numberle&s;&s;e bo|dies which have peri&s;h'd in the&s;e commotions, were ca&s;t in|to her &s;treets, and before her doores, many thou&s;and Citi|zens no&s;es wold bleed of pure guilt.</P>
<P>Not to hold you long, the&s;e are the men, who have baf|fled
<PB N="16" REF="32"> common <HI>&s;en&s;e,</HI> bla&s;ted the beams of <HI>nature,</HI> and offered violence to <HI>rea&s;on;</HI> the&s;e are they who have infatuated mo&s;t of the peeple of this Iland; &s;o that whereas in times pa&s;t, &s;om call'd her the Ile of <HI>Angells,</HI> &s;he may be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erm'd now the Ile of <HI>Gulls,</HI> or more properly the Ile of <HI>Doggs,</HI> or ra|ther indeed the Ile of <HI>Wolfs,</HI> there is &s;uch a true <HI>Lycanthropy</HI> com in among us: I am loth to call her the Iland of <HI>Devills,</HI> though &s;he hath bin branded &s;o abroad.</P>
<P>To conclude Sir, the glory of this I&s;le is quite bla&s;ted; 'tis tru they &s;peake of peace, but <HI>while the King &s;peakes to them of it, they make them&s;elfs ready for battell;</HI> I much fear, that <HI>Ixion</HI>-like, we imbrace a cloud for peace, out of which ther will i&s;&s;ue out <HI>Centaures,</HI> and <HI>Mon&s;ters,</HI> as &s;prung out of that cloud.</P>
<P>Touching that ancient'&s;t holy <HI>Order</HI> whereof you &s;ee me to be; I well hoped, that in regard they pretended to <HI>reform</HI> things only, they wold not have quite extirpated, but <HI>regu|lated</HI> only this <HI>Order:</HI> it had bin enough to <HI>brayle</HI> our wings, not to have fear'd them: to have lopp'd &amp; prun'd, not to have de&s;troid root &amp; branch of that ancient tree which was plan|ted by the hands of the Apo&s;tles them&s;elfs: In fine Sir, we are a lo&s;t peeple, 'tis no other <HI>Daedalus,</HI> but the high D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y of hea|ven can clue us out of this labyrinth of confu&s;ions, can extri|cat us out of this maze of mi&s;eries: the Philo&s;opher &s;aith, 'tis impo&s;&s;ible for man to quadrat a <HI>Circle;</HI> &s;o 'tis not in the power of man, but of God alone, to make a loyall Subject of a Roundhead: Among other things that &s;trangers report of this Iland, they &s;ay that <HI>Winter here hath too many teares in his eyes:</HI> Helas Sir, 'tis impo&s;&s;ible he &s;hold have too many now, to bewaile the lamentable ba&s;e &s;lavery, that a free-born peeple is com to: and though they are grown &s;o tame as to ki&s;&s;e the rod that whips them, yet their Taskma&s;ters wil not throw it into the fire.</P>
<P>Truly Sir, as my tongue is too feeble to expre&s;&s;e our mi&s;e|ries,
<PB N="17" REF="32"> &s;o the plummet of the be&s;t under&s;tanding is too &s;hort to &s;adom the depth of them.</P>
<P>With this, the grave Venerable Bi&s;hop giving me his be|nediction, fetcht &s;uch a &s;igh, that wold have rended a rock a&s;under; and &s;uddenly vani&s;h'd (me thought) out of my &s;ight up towards Heaven. I pre&s;ently after awoke about the dawnings of the day, when one could hardly di&s;cern Dog from Wolf; and my &s;oule, my <HI>Animulae vagula blan|dula,</HI> being re-entred through the Horn gate of &s;leep into her former man&s;ion, half tyr'd after &s;o long a Peregrination; and having rub'd my eyes, di&s;tended my limms, and return'd to a full expergefaction, I began to call my &s;elf to account touching tho&s;e world of objects my fancy had repre&s;ented unto me that night; and when by way of remini&s;ence I fell to examine and ruminate upon them; Lord, what a ma&s;&s;e of <HI>Ideas</HI> ran in my head! but when I call'd to mind the la&s;t Countrey my &s;oule wandred in, me thought I felt my heart like a lump of lead within me, when I con&s;iderd how pat every circum&s;tance might be applied to the pre&s;ent con|dition of <HI>England:</HI> I was meditating with my &s;elf what kind of dream this might be; whereupon I thought upon the common divi&s;ion that Philo&s;ophers make of dreames, that they are either
<LIST>
<ITEM>Divine,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Diabolicall,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Naturall, or</ITEM>
<ITEM>Humane.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>For the fir&s;t, they are <HI>Vi&s;ions</HI> more properly or <HI>Revelations,</HI> whereof there are divers examples in the holy Oracles of God, but the puddled cranies of my brain are not roomes clean enough to entertain &s;uch: Touching the &s;econd kind, which com by the impul&s;es of the Devill, I have heard of divers of them, as when one did ri&s;e up out of his &s;leep, and fetcht a poyniard to &s;tab his bedfellow, which he had don,
<PB N="18" REF="33"> had he not bin awake; Another went to the next chamber abed to his mother, and wold have ravi&s;h'd her; but I thank God this dream of mine was not of that kind? Touching the third &s;pecies of dreames; which are <HI>naturall</HI> dreames, they are according to the humor which predominats; if Melancholy &s;way, we dream of black dark&s;om devious pla|ces; if Phlegm, of waters; if Choler, of frayes, fightings and troubles; if Sanguin predominat, we dream of green fields, gardens, and other plea&s;ant repre&s;entations; and the Phy&s;itian comes often to know the quality of a di&s;ea&s;e by the nocturnall objects of the patients fancy.</P>
<P><HI>Humane</HI> dreams relate to the actions of the day pa&s;t, or of the day following, &amp; &s;om repre&s;entations are clear &amp; even; others are amphibious, mongrell, di&s;torted and &s;qualid ob|jects, according to the &s;pecies of things in troubled matters; and the object is cleer or otherwi&s;e, according to the tenui|ty or the gro&s;&s;nes of the vapors which a&s;cend from the ven|tricle up to the brain.</P>
<P>Touching my dream, I think it was of this la&s;t kind; for I was di&s;cour&s;ing of, and condoling the &s;ad di&s;tempers of our times the day before: I pray God &s;om part of it prove not propheticall; for, although the Frenchman &s;ayeth, <HI>Son|ges &s;ont Men&s;onges,</HI> dreames are delu&s;ions, and that they turn to contraries, yet the Spaniard hath a &s;aying,
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Et ciego &s;onnavaque viae,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Y era lo que querria.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The blind man dreamt he did &s;ee light,</L>
<L>The thing he wi&s;h'd for happen'd right.</L>
</LG></Q> In&s;omuch that &s;ome Dreams oftentimes prove tru; as S. <HI>Au|&s;tin</HI> makes mention of a rich Merchant in <HI>Milan,</HI> who being dead, one of his Creditors comes to his &s;on to demand &s;uch a &s;um of money which he had lent his father; the &s;on was confident 'twas paid, but not finding the Creditors Receipt, he was impleaded and like to be ca&s;t in the Sute, had not his
<PB N="19" REF="33"> fathers Gho&s;t appeared to him, and directed him to the place where the Acquittance was, which he found the next day accordingly. <HI>Galen</HI> &s;peaks of one that dreamt he had a wooden leg, and the next day he was taken with a dead Pal|&s;ie in one whole &s;ide. Such a Dream was that of <HI>William Rufus,</HI> when he thought he had felt a cold gu&s;t pa&s;&s;ing through his bowells; and the next day he was &s;lain in the guts, by the glance of an arrow, in new Forre&s;t, a place where he and his Father had committed &s;o many Sacrile|ges. I have read in <HI>Artimedorus,</HI> of a woman that dreamt &s;he had &s;een the pictures of three faces in the Moone like her &s;elf, and &s;he was brought to bed of three daughters a little after, who all died within the compas of a moneth. Ano|ther dreamt, that <HI>Xanthus</HI> water ran red, and the next day he fell a &s;pitting of blood.</P>
<P>To this I will add another fore-telling Dream, whereof I have read, which was thus: two young Gentlemen be|ing travelling abroad in &s;trange Countreyes, and being come to a great towne, the one lay far in the Citie, the o|ther in an Ho&s;try without the walls in the Suburbs: he in the City did dream in the dead of night, that his friend which he had left in the Suburbs ru&s;h'd into his chamber panting and blowing, being pur&s;ued by others; he dreamt &s;o againe, and the third time he might &s;ee his friends Gho&s;t appeering at his beds &s;ide with blood trickling down his throat, and a Poyniard in his bre&s;t, telling him; Dear friend, I am come now to take my la&s;t farewell of thee, and if thou ri&s;e be|times, thou &s;halt meet me in the way going to be buried; the next morning his friend going with his Ho&s;t towards the Inn in the Suburbs where he left his friend, they met with a Cart laden with dung in the way, which being &s;taid and &s;earch'd, the dead body was found naked in the dung.</P>
<P>I will conclude with a notable Dreame that <HI>O&s;man</HI> the great Turk had, not many yeers &s;ince, a few dayes before he
<PB N="20" REF="34"> was murthered by his Janizaries, 1623. He dreamt, that be|ing mounted upon a huge Camell, he could not make him go, though he &s;witch'd and &s;pur'd him never &s;o much; at la&s;t the Camell overthrew him, and being upon the ground, onely the bridle was left in his hand, but the body of the Camell was vani&s;hed: the <HI>Mufti</HI> not being illuminated e|nough to interpret this Dream, a <HI>Santon</HI> who was a kind of Idiot, told him, the Camell repre&s;ented the <HI>Ottoman Empire,</HI> which he not being able to govern, he &s;hould be o'erthrown, which two dayes after proved tru.</P>
<P>By the&s;e, and a cloud of examples more, we may con|clude, that Dreams are not altogether impertinent, but &s;om|thing may be gathered out of them; though the application and meaning of them be denied to man, unle&s;&s;e by &s;peciall illumination.</P>
<Q><L>Somnia <HI>venturi &s;unt prae&s;cia &s;aepe diei.</HI></L>
<L>By Dreames we oft may gue&s;&s;e</L>
<L>At the next dayes &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</L></Q>
<DIV2 TYPE="conclusion">
<P>THus have you a rough account of a rambling <HI>Noctiva|gation</HI> up &amp; down the world: I may boldly &s;ay, that nei|ther Sir <HI>John Mandevile,</HI> or <HI>Coryat</HI> him&s;elf travell'd more in &s;o &s;hort a time: whence you &s;ee what nimble Po&s;tillions the <HI>Animal Spirits</HI> are; and with what incredible celerity the <HI>imagination</HI> can cro&s;&s;e the <HI>Line,</HI> cut the <HI>Tropiques,</HI> and pa&s;&s;e to the othe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Hemi&s;phere</HI> of the world; which &s;hewes, that humane &s;oules have &s;omthing in them of the Almigh|ty, that their faculties have a kind of ubiquitary freedom, though the body be never &s;o under re&s;traint, as the Au|thors is.</P>
<P>The la&s;t Countrey that's here aim'd at is knowne alrea|dy; I leave the application of the re&s;t to the <HI>di&s;cerning</HI> Reader, to whom only this Dream is addre&s;s'd.</P>
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<P>A LETTER TO THE EARLE OF PEMBROOKE Concerning the Times, and the &s;ad condition both of Prince and People.</P>
<Q><HI>The Land mourneth becau&s;e of Oaths.</HI></Q>
<P>Printed in the Yeare, 1647.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
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<HEAD>To the Right Honourable <HI>Philip</HI> Earle of <HI>Pembrock,</HI> and <HI>Montgomery,</HI> Knight of the mo&s;t Noble Order of the Garter, and one of His Maji&s;ties mo&s;t Honourable Privy Coun&s;ell, &amp;c,</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THis Letter requires no Apologie, much le&s;&s;e any par|don, but may expect rather a good receprion, and thanks, when your Lord&s;hip hath &s;eriou&s;ly peru&s;ed the contents, and ruminated well upon the matter it treats of, with your &s;econd and third thoughts, which u&s;ually carry with them a greater advantage of wi&s;edome: It concernes not your body, or temporall e&s;tate, but things reflecting upon the noble&s;t part of you, your &s;oule, which being a beame of Immortality, and a type of the Almighty, is in|comparably more precious, and rendreth all other earthly things to be but bables and tran&s;itory trifles. Now, the &s;tronge&s;t tye, the &s;olemne&s;t engagement and &s;tipulation that can be betwixt the &s;oule and her Creator, is an <HI>Oath.</HI> I doe not under&s;tand common tumultuary ra&s;h oaths, pro|ceeding from an ill habit, or heat of pa&s;&s;ion upon &s;udden contingencies, for &s;uch oaths bind one to nought el&s;e but to repentance: No, I mean &s;erious and legall oaths, taken with a calm prepared &s;pirit, either for the a&s;&s;erting of truth, and conviction of fal&s;hood, or for fidelitie in the execution of &s;ome Office, or binding to civill obedience and Loyaltie, which is one of the e&s;&s;entiall parts of a Chri&s;tian. Such publick oaths legally made with the Royall a&s;&s;ent of the So|veraign
<PB REF="37"> from whom they receive both legalitie and life, el&s;e they are invalid &amp; unwarrantable, as they are religious acts in their own nature, &s;o is the taking and ob&s;ervance of them part of Gods honor, &amp; there can be nothing more derogatory to the high Maje&s;ty and holine&s;&s;e of his name, nothing more dangerous, de&s;tructive &amp; damnable to humane &s;ouls then the infringment and eluding of them, or omi&s;&s;ion in the perfor|mance of them. Which makes the <HI>Turks,</HI> of whom Chri|&s;tians in this particular may learn a tender peece of huma|nity, to be &s;o cautious, that they &s;eldom or never admini&s;ter an oath to Greek, Jew, or any other Nation, and the re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;on is, that if the Party &s;worn doth take that Oath upon hopes of &s;ome advantage, or for evading of danger and puni&s;h|ment, and afterwards re&s;cinds it, they think them&s;elves to be involved in the Perjurie, and acce&s;&s;ary to his damnation: Our Civill Law hath a Canon con&s;onant to this, which is, <HI>Mortale peccatum e&s;t ei prastare juramentum, quem &s;cio veri|&s;imiliter violaturum; 'Tis a mortall &s;in to admini&s;ter an Oath to him who I probably know will break it;</HI> To this may allude ano|ther whole&s;ome &s;aying, <HI>A fal&s;e Oath is damnable, a true Oath dangerous, none at all the &s;afe&s;t.</HI> How much then have they to an&s;wer for, who of late years have fram'd &s;uch for|midable coercive generall Oaths to &s;erve them for engins of State to lay battery to the Con&s;ciences and Soules of poore men, and tho&s;e without the a&s;&s;ent of the Soveraign, and op|po&s;ed point blank to former Oaths they them&s;elves had ta|ken: the&s;e kind of Oaths the City hath &s;wallowed lately in gro&s;&s;e, and the Country in detaile, which makes me confi|dently beleeve that if ever that &s;aying of the holy Prophet, <HI>The Land mournes for Oaths,</HI> was appliable to any part of the habitable earth, it maybe now aplied to this de&s;perate I&s;land.</P>
<P>But now I come to the maine of my purpo&s;e, and to tho&s;e Oaths your Lord&s;hip hath taken before this di&s;tra|cted
<PB REF="37"> time, which, the world knowes, and your con&s;cience can te&s;tifie, were divers; They were all of them Solemn, and &s;ome of them Sacramentall Oaths (and indeed, every <HI>So|lemn</HI> Oath <HI>among the Ancients was held a Sacrament:</HI>) They all implyed, and impo&s;ed an indi&s;pen&s;ible fidelity, Truth and loyalty from you to your Soveraigne Prince, your Liege Lord and Ma&s;ter the King: I will make &s;ome in&s;tan|ces: Your Lord&s;hip tooke an Oath when Knight of the Bath <HI>to love your Soveraigne above all earthly Creatures, and for His Right and dignity to live and die:</HI></P>
<P>By the Oath of Supremacy you &s;wear <HI>to beare faith and true allegeance to the Kings Highne&s;&s;e, and to your power to de|fend all Iuri&s;dictions, Privileges, Preheminences and Authori|ties belonging to His Highne&s;&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>Your Lord&s;hip took an Oath when Privie Coun&s;ellor, <HI>to be a true and faithfull Servant unto Him, and if you knew or under&s;tood of any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or</HI> &s;poken <HI>again&s;t His Maje&s;ties</HI> Per&s;on, <HI>Honour Crown, or Dignitie, you &s;woare to let, and with&s;tand the &s;ame to the uttermo&s;t of your po|wer, and either cau&s;e it to be revealed to Him&s;elfe, or to others of His Privy Coun&s;ell:</HI> The Oaths you took when Bedchamber man, &amp; L. Chamberlain bind you as &s;trictly to His <HI>Per&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>Your Lord&s;hip may al&s;o call to memorie when you were in&s;talled Knight of the Garter, (whereof you are now the olde&s;t living except aK. of <HI>Denmark</HI>) you &s;olemnly &s;wore <HI>to defend the Honour, and Quarrels, the Rights and Lord&s;hip of your Soveraigne:</HI> Now the Record tells us that the chiefe&s;t ground of in&s;tituting that Order by that heroick Prince <HI>Edward</HI> the Third was, that he might have choice gallant men, who by Oath and Honour &s;hould adhere unto him in all dangers, and difficulties, and that by way of reciproca|tion he &s;hould protect and defend them; Which made <HI>Alfon&s;o</HI> Duke of <HI>Calabria</HI> &s;o much importune <HI>Henry</HI> the
<PB REF="38"> Eight to in&s;tall him one of the Knights of the Garter, that he might engage King <HI>Harry</HI> to protect him again&s;t <HI>Charles</HI> the Eighth, who threatned then the conque&s;t of <HI>Naples.</HI></P>
<P>How your Lord&s;hip hath acquitted your &s;elfe of the per|formance of the&s;e Oaths your con&s;cience (that bo&s;ome re|cord) can make the be&s;t affidavit; Some of them oblige you <HI>to live and dye</HI> with King <HI>Charles,</HI> but what Oaths or any thing like an Oath binds you to live and die with the <HI>Hou&s;e of Commons,</HI> as your Lord&s;hip often gives out you will, I am yet to learne: Unle&s;&s;e that Hou&s;e which hath not po|wer as much as to admini&s;ter an Oath (much le&s;&s;e to make one) can <HI>ab&s;olve</HI> you from your former Oaths, or haply by their omnipotence <HI>di&s;pence</HI> with you for the ob&s;ervance of them. Touching the <HI>Politicall</HI> capacitie of the King I feare that will be a weak plea for your Lord&s;hip before the Tri|bunall of heaven, and they who whi&s;pers &s;uch Chimeras in|to your eares abu&s;e you in gro&s;&s;e; but put ca&s;e there were &s;uch a thing as politicall capacitie di&s;tinct from the per&s;onall, which to a true rational man is one of the gro&s;&s;e&s;t Buls that can be, yet the&s;e forementioned Oaths relate mo&s;t of them meerly unto the Kings <HI>Per&s;on,</HI> the individuall Per&s;on of King <HI>Charles</HI> as you are His dome&s;tick Coun&s;ellor, and cubicular Servant.</P>
<P>My Lord, I take leave to tell your Lord&s;hip (and the Spectator &s;ees &s;ometimes more then the Gam&s;ter) that the world extreamely marvels at you more then others, and it makes tho&s;e who wi&s;h you be&s;t to be transformed to won|der, that your Lord&s;hip &s;hould be the fir&s;t of your Race who de&s;erted the <HI>Crowne,</HI> which one of your Progenitors &s;aid, he would &s;till follow though it were thrown upon a hedge: Had your Princely Brother been living he would have been &s;ooner torne by wild hor&s;es than have banded a|gain&s;t it, or abandoned the King his Ma&s;ter, and fallen to
<PB REF="38"> &s;uch gro&s;&s;e Idolatry as to wor&s;hip the <HI>Bea&s;t with many heads.</HI> The world al&s;o &s;tands a&s;toni&s;hed that you &s;hould confede|rate to bring into the bowels of the Land, and make Elogi|ums of that hungry people which have been from all times &s;o cro&s;&s;e and fatall to the Engli&s;h Nation, and parti|cularly to your <HI>own</HI> honour: Many thou&s;ands do wonder that your Lord&s;hip &s;hould be brought to per&s;ecute with &s;o much animo&s;ity and hatred that reverend <HI>Order</HI> in Gods Church which is contemporary with Chri&s;tianity it &s;elf, and whereunto you had once de&s;igned, and devoted one of your deare&s;t Sonnes &s;o &s;olemnly.</P>
<P>My Lord, if this Mon&s;ter of Reformation (which is like an infernall Spirit clad in white, and hath a cloven head as well as feet) prevailes you &s;hall find the &s;ame de&s;tiny will attend poore <HI>England,</HI> as did <HI>Bohemia</HI> which was one of the flouri&s;hing&s;t Kingdoms upon this part of the earth; The Common people there repind at the Hierarchy and riches of the Church, thereupon a Parliament was pack'd where Bi&s;hops were demoli&s;h'd, what followed? The Nobles and Gentry went down next, and afterwards the Crown it &s;elf, and &s;o it became a popular confus'd Anarchicall State, and a Stage of bloud along time, &s;o that at la&s;t, when this Ma|got had done working in the braines of the fooli&s;h people, they were glad to have recour&s;e to Monarchy againe after a world of calamities; though it degenerated from a &s;ucce&s;|&s;ive Kingdom to an Elective. Me thinks, my Lord, under favour that tho&s;e notorious vi&s;ible judgements which have fallen upon the&s;e Refiners of reform'd <HI>Religion</HI> &s;hould un|beguile your Lord&s;hip, and open your eyes: For the hand of heaven never appeared &s;o cleerly in any humane actions: Your Lord&s;hip may well remember what became of the <HI>Hothams,</HI> and Sir <HI>Alexander Cary</HI> who were the two fatall wretches that began the War fir&s;t, one in the <HI>North,</HI> the o|ther
<PB REF="39"> in the <HI>South;</HI> Your Lord&s;hip may be al&s;o plea&s;ed to remember what became of <HI>Brooks</HI> the Lord, and <HI>Hampden,</HI> the fir&s;t whereof was di&s;patched by a deafe &amp; dumb man out of an ancient Church which he was battering, and that &s;udden|ly al&s;o, for he fell &s;tone dead in the twinkling of an eye; Now, one of the greate&s;t cavils he had again&s;t our <HI>Lyturgie</HI> was a clau&s;e of a Prayer there again&s;t <HI>&s;udden death,</HI> be&s;ides the fagge end of his Grace in that journey was, that if the de&s;ign was not plea&s;ing to God, he might peri&s;h in the acti|on: For the other wi&s;eaker he be-&s;prinkled with his bloud, and received his death upon the &s;ame clod of earth in <HI>Buck|ingham</HI>-&s;hire where he had fir&s;t a&s;&s;embled the poore Coun|try people like &s;o many Gee&s;e to drive them gaggling in a mutiny to <HI>London</HI> with the Prote&s;tation in their Caps, which hath been &s;ince torne in flitters, and is now grown ob|&s;olet and quite out of u&s;e. Touching <HI>Pym</HI> &amp; <HI>Stroud,</HI> tho&s;e two worthy Champions of the <HI>Vtopian</HI> cau&s;e, the fir&s;t being ope|ned, his &s;tomack and guts were found to be full of pellets of bloud, the other had little or no braine at all left in his skull being dead, &amp; le&s;&s;e when he was living: For <HI>Hollis</HI> who carried the fir&s;t &s;candalous Remon&s;trance (that work of night, &amp; the verdict of a &s;tarv'd jury) to welcome the King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rom <HI>Scotland,</HI> and was the fir&s;t of the <HI>five</HI> Members who were impeached by his Maje&s;tie, he hath been &s;ince, your Lord&s;hip knowes, the chiefe of the <HI>Eleven</HI> Members impeached by them&s;elves, but with this difference, that they had ju&s;tice again&s;t him, though the King could get none: But now this St. <HI>Hollis</HI> with the re&s;t are a kind of Runnagates beyond the Seas, &s;corn'd by all mankind, and baffled every where, yea, even by the <HI>Boors</HI> of <HI>Holland,</HI> and not daring to peep in any populous Town but by owle-light.</P>
<P>Moreover I beleeve your Lord&s;hip hath good cau&s;e to re|member that the &s;ame kind of riotous Ra&s;cals which rabled
<PB N="7" REF="39"> the King out of towne, did drive away the Speaker in like manner with many of their Memb^&s;^p^s, among&s;t whom your Lord&s;hip was fairly on his way, to &s;eek &s;helter of their Ia|nizaries: Your L^P mu&s;t needs find what deadly fewds fall daily 'twixt the Presbyterian and the Independent the two fiery brands that have put this poore I&s;le &s;o long in combu|&s;tion. But 'tis worthy your Lord&s;hips &s;peciall notice how your deare Brethren the Scots (whom your Lord&s;hip &s;o highly magnified in &s;ome of your publike Speeches) who were at fir&s;t brought in for Hirelings again&s;t the King for them, offer them&s;elves now to come in again&s;t them for the King: Your Lord&s;hip cannot be ignorant of the &s;undry cla&s;hes that have been 'twixt the City and their Member&s;hips, and 'twixt their Member&s;hips and their men of war; who have often wav'd &amp; di&s;obeyed their com|mands: How this tatterdimallian Army hath reduc'd this cow'd City, the cheated Country, and their once all-com|manding Ma&s;ters, to a perfect pa&s;&s;e of &s;lavery, to a true a|&s;inin condition; They crow over all the ancient Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdome, though there be not found among&s;t them all but two Knights; and 'tis well knowne there be hundreds of private Gentlemen in the Kingdom, the poore&s;t of whom, is able to buy this whole Ho&s;t with the Generall him&s;elfe and all the Commanders: But 'tis not the fir&s;t time, that the Kings and Nobility of England have been baffled by petty companions: I have read of <HI>Jack Straw, Wat Tyler,</HI> and <HI>Ket</HI> the Tanner, with divers o|thers that did &s;o, but being &s;uppre&s;&s;ed it tended to the ad|vantage of the King at la&s;t; and what a world of exam|ples are there in our &s;tory, that tho&s;e Noblemen who ban|ded again&s;t the Crown, the revenge of heaven ever found them out early or late at la&s;t.</P>
<P>The&s;e, with a black cloud of reciprocall judgements
<PB N="8" REF="40"> more, which have come home to the&s;e Reformers very doores, &s;hew that the hand of divine ju&s;tice is in't, and the holy Prophet tels us, <HI>When Gods judgements are upon earth, then the inhabitants &s;hall learne justice.</HI></P>
<P>Touching your Lord&s;hip in particular, you have not, under favour, e&s;cap'd without &s;ome already, &amp; I wi&s;h more may not follow; your Lord&s;hip may remember you lo&s;t one Sonne at <HI>Bridgenorth,</HI> your deare Daughter at <HI>Oxford,</HI> your Son-in-law at <HI>Newbury,</HI> your Daughter-in-law at the <HI>Charter-hou&s;e</HI> of an infamous di&s;ea&s;e, how &s;ickly your el|de&s;t Son hath been; how part of your hou&s;e was burnt in the country, with others which <HI>I</HI> will not now mention.</P>
<P><HI>I</HI> will conclude this point with an ob&s;ervation of the mo&s;t mon&s;trous number of Witches that have &s;warm'd &s;ince the&s;e Wars again&s;t the King, (more <HI>I</HI> dare &s;ay) then have been in this i&s;land &s;ince the Devill tempted <HI>Eve;</HI> for in two Counties only there have been neer upon three hun|dred arraign'd, and eight&s;core executed; what a barba|rous devili&s;h office one had, under colour of examination, to torment poore &s;illy women with watchings, pinchings, and other artifices to find them for Witches: How others by a new invention of villany were conniv'd at for &s;eizing upon young children, and hurrying them on &s;hip-board, where they were &s;o transform'd that their Parents could not know them, and &s;o were carryed over for new &s;chi&s;ma|ticall Plantations. My Lord, there is no villany that can en|ter into the imagination of man hath been left here un|committed; no crime from the highe&s;t Trea&s;on to the meane&s;t Tre&s;pa&s;&s;e but the&s;e Reformers are guilty of. What horrid acts of prophanes have been perpetrated up and down! the Monuments of the dead have bin rifled! Hor&s;es have been watred at the Church Font, and fed up|on the holy Table! Widows, Orphans, and Ho&s;pitals
<PB N="9" REF="40"> have been commonly robb'd, and Gods Hou&s;e hath been plunder'd more then any! with what infandous bla&s;phe|mies have the Pulpits rung, one crying out, that <HI>this Par|liament was as nece&s;&s;ary for our Reformation, as the comming of Chri&s;t was for our Redemption:</HI> Another belching out, that if <HI>God Almighty did not pro&s;per this Cau&s;e, 'twere fitting hee &s;hould change places with the Devil:</HI> Another, <HI>that the wor&s;t things our Saviour did, was the making of the Domini|call prayer, and &s;aving the Thief upon the Cro&s;&s;e.</HI> O immor|tall God, is it po&s;&s;ible that England &s;hould produce &s;uch Mon&s;ters, or rather &s;uch infernall fiends &s;hap'd with hu|mane bodyes! yet your Lord&s;hip &s;ides with the&s;e men, though they be enemies to the Cro&s;s, to the Church, and to the very name of <HI>Je&s;us Christ;</HI> Ile in&s;tance only in two who were e&s;teem'd the Oracles of this holy Reformation, <HI>Peters,</HI> and <HI>Saltmar&s;h;</HI> The fir&s;t is known by thou&s;ands to be an infamous, jugling and &s;candalous villaine, among o|ther feats, he got the Mother and Daughter with Child, as it was offered to be publickly proved; <HI>I</HI> could &s;peak much of the other, but being dead, let it &s;uffice that he died mad and de&s;perate. The&s;e were accounted the two Apo&s;tles of the times.</P>
<P>My Lord, 'tis high time for you to recollect your &s;elfe, to enter into the private clo&s;et of your thoughts, and &s;um|mon them all to coun&s;el upon your pillow; con&s;ider well the &s;lavi&s;h condition your dear Country is in, weigh well the &s;ad ca&s;e your liege Lord and Ma&s;ter is in, how he is be|reav'd of his Queen, His Children, His Servants, His Li|berty, and of every thing in which there is any comfort; ob&s;erve well, how neverthele&s;&s;e, God Almighty works in Him, by in&s;piring Him with equality and calmne&s;&s;e of mind, with patience, prudence and con&s;tancy, how Hee makes His very Cro&s;&s;es to &s;toop unto Him, when His Sub|jects
<PB N="10" REF="41"> will not: Con&s;ider the mon&s;trou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the Propo|&s;itions that are tendred him, wherein no le&s;&s;e then Crown, Scepter, &amp; Sword, which are things in-alienable from Ma|je&s;ty, are in effect demanded, nay they would not only have him tran&s;mit, and re&s;ign his very intellectuals unto them, but they would have him make a &s;acrifice of his &s;oule, by forcing him to violate that &s;olemne &s;acramentall Oath hee took at his Coronation when hee was no <HI>Minor,</HI> but come to a full maturity of rea&s;on and judgement: make it your own ca&s;e, My Lord, and that's the be&s;t way to judge of His: Thinke upon the multiplicity of &s;olemne a&s;tringing Oathes your Lord&s;hip hath taken, mo&s;t whereof directly and &s;olely enjoyne faith and loyalty to his Per&s;on; oh my Lord! wrong not your &s;oule &s;o much, in compari&s;on of whom your body is but a rag of rottenne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider that acts of loyalty to the Crowne are the fai|re&s;t columns to bear up a Noblemans name to future ages, and regi&s;ter it in the temple of immortality. Reconcile your &s;elf therfore &s;peedily unto your liege Lord &amp; Ma&s;ter, think upon the infinite private obligations you have had both to <HI>Sire</HI> and <HI>Son:</HI> The Father ki&s;s'd you often, ki&s;&s;e you now the <HI>Sun</HI> left he be too angry; <HI>And Kings,</HI> you will find, my Lord, <HI>are like the Sun in the heavens, which may be clou|ded for a time, yet he is still in his &s;phear, and will break out a|gaine, and &s;hine as gloriously as ever;</HI> Let me tell your Lord|&s;hip that the people begin to grow extream weary of their Phy&s;itians, they find the remedy to be far wor&s;e then their former di&s;ea&s;e; nay they &s;tick not to call &s;ome of them meer Quack&s;alvers rather then Phy&s;itians; Some goe fur|ther, and &s;ay they are no more Parliament, than a Pye-powder <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ourt at <HI>Bartholomew-Fair,</HI> their being all the e&s;|&s;entiall parts of a true Parliament wanting in this, as faire|ne&s;&s;e of elections, freedome of &s;peech, fulne&s;&s;e of Mem|bers,
<PB N="11" REF="41"> nor h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve they any head at all; Be&s;ides, they have broken all the fundamentall rules, and Priviledges of Par|liament, and di&s;honoured that high Court more then any thing el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e: They have ravi&s;h'd <HI>Magna Charta</HI> which they are &s;worn to maintaine, taken away our birth-right, and tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed all the lawes of heaven and earth: La&s;tly, they have mo&s;t perjuriou&s;ly betrayed the tru&s;t the King repo&s;ed in them, the tru&s;t their Country repo&s;ed in them, &s;o that if rea&s;on and law were now in date, by the breach of their Priviledges, and by betraying the double tru&s;t that is put in them, they have di&s;&s;olved them&s;elves <HI>ip&s;o facto</HI> I can|not tell how many thou&s;and times, notwith&s;tanding that mon&s;trous grant of the Kings, <HI>that fatall Act of continu|ance:</HI> And truly, my Lord, I am not to this day &s;atisfied of the legality (though I am &s;atisfied of the forciblene&s;&s;e) of that Act, whither it was in his Maje&s;ties power to pa&s;&s;e it or no; for the law ever pre&s;uppo&s;eth the&s;e clau&s;es in all conce&s;&s;ions of Grace, in all Patents, Charters, and Grants what&s;oever the King p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;eth, <HI>Salvo jure regio, &s;alve jure coronae.</HI></P>
<P>To conclude, as I pre&s;ume to give your Lord&s;hip the&s;e humble cautions and advice in particular, &s;o <HI>I</HI> offer it to all other of your rank office, &amp; order, who have &s;ouls to &s;ave, &amp; who by &s;olemn indi&s;pen&s;able Oaths have engaged them to be true and loyall to the Per&s;on of King <HI>Charls.</HI> Touch|ing his <HI>politicall</HI> capacity, which <HI>fancy</HI> hath been exploded in other Parliaments (except in that mad infamous Parlia|ment where it was fir&s;t hatched) and Acts pa&s;&s;ed that it &s;hould be high and horrible Trea&s;on <HI>to &s;eparate or di&s;tin|gui&s;h the Per&s;on of the King from His Power; I</HI> beleeve, as <HI>I</HI> &s;aid before, this will not &s;erve their turne at the dreadfull Bar of divine ju&s;tice in the other world: indeed that Rule of the Pagans makes for them, <HI>Si Jus jurandum violandum
<PB N="12" REF="42"> est, Tyrannidis cau&s;a violandum e&s;t, If an Oath be any way fran|gible, tis frangible for a Kingdom:</HI> We find by wofull ex|perience that according to this maxime they have made them&s;elves all kings by violation of &s;o many Oaths; They have monopoliz'd the whole power &amp; wealth of the king|dome into their own hands; they cut &s;huffle, deal, and turn up what trump they plea&s;e, being Iudges and parties in e|very thing.</P>
<P>My Lord, he who pre&s;ents the&s;e humble adverti&s;ements to your Lord&s;hip, is one who is inclin'd to the Parliament of England in as high a degree of affection as po&s;&s;ibly a free-born Subject can be; One be&s;ides, who wi&s;heth your Lord&s;hips good, with the pre&s;ervation of your &s;afety and honour more really then he whom you intru&s;t with your &s;ecrete&s;t affaires, or the <HI>White Jew</HI> of the Vpper Hou&s;e who hath infu&s;ed &s;uch pernicious principles into you; moreover, one who hath &s;ome drops of bloud running in his veines, which may claim kindred with your Lord&s;hip: and la&s;tly, he is one who would ki&s;&s;e your feet, in lieu of your hands, if your Lord&s;hip would be &s;o &s;en&s;ible of the mo&s;t de&s;perate ca&s;e of your poor Countrie, as to employ the intere&s;ts, the opinion and power you have to re&s;tore the King your Ma|&s;ter by Engli&s;h waies, rather then a hungrie forrain people, who are like to bring nothing but de&s;truction in the van, confu&s;ion in the reare, and rapine in the middle, &s;hould have the honour of &s;o glorious a work,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>So humby hoping your Lord&s;hip will not take with the left hand what I offer with the right, I re&s;t Your mo&s;t truly devoted Servant.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>A TRANCE: OR, Newes from Hell, Brought fre&s;h to TOVVNE BY <HI>Mercurius Acheronticus.</HI></P>
<P>LONDON, Printed, <HI>Ann: Dom.</HI> 1649.</P>
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<HEAD>Paraene&s;is Angliae.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O England, England</HI> If thou bee'&s;t not given quite over to a repro|bate &s;en&s;e; If the lea&s;t sparke of <HI>Grace,</HI> the lea&s;t ray of <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> be yet remaining in Thee, be warn'd, be warn'd by this <HI>Trance,</HI> by the dread|full objects, the hideo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s and horrid apparitions thereof: If no <HI>temporall</HI> respects can win Thee, let the apprehen&s;ions of <HI>eternall</HI> ruin work upon Thee: If the hopes of Heaven cannot prevail with Thee, let the tor|ments of Hell deterr Thee, which are repre&s;ented to the very life unto Thee in this en&s;uing Vi&s;ion. Be not acce&s;&s;ary to thy owne <HI>de&s;truction,</HI> to thy own <HI>damnation;</HI> Let not thy children be deluded any longer with chymeras of more liberty, and advancement of common good. 'Tis true, <HI>To love one's Countrey</HI> (which is the specious pretence of all the&s;e in&s;ur|rections) is a commendable thing, yet it is but a <HI>Pagan</HI> precept; <HI>To feare God, to honour his Prie&s;ts, to give</HI> Cae&s;ar <HI>his due, not to do evill that good may come of it,</HI> the&s;e are all <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> precepts, and <HI>Scripture</HI> principles.</P>
<P>As the Author was in a <HI>Trance,</HI> &s;o &s;ure thou art in a <HI>fit</HI> of <HI>madnes:</HI> Poor thing, thou want'&s;t a <HI>Phy&s;itian</HI> to cure thee, rather than a <HI>Divine</HI> to confute thee: Return then, O return to thy wits, to thy old Engli&s;h tem|per again, els 'tis high time for Thee to make thy la&s;t Will, and that the Bell &s;hould ring out to invite thy Neighbours to the funerall of thy <HI>Li|berty;</HI> And becau&s;e I have already half promis'd, I will lay this <HI>Epitaph</HI> upon Thee:
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<HEAD>TO <HI>ENGLANDS</HI> Imperiall Chamber, THE Renowned City of LONDON: To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Right Wor&s;hipfull the Sheriffs, the Court of Al|dermen, and Common-Councell, the Noble Com|pany of Merchant-Adventurers, and Home-Corporations; to all the hopefull Apprentices, and all other Inhabi|tants, Inmates, or Aliens, within the &s;aid &s;pa|cious City and Suburbs, is addre&s;&s;ed what followeth.</HEAD>
<P>Perditio tua ex Te, L:
<Q><LG>
<L>O <HI>London,</HI> under&s;tand thy woe,</L>
<L>Thou art thy <HI>Self</HI> thy greate&s;t <HI>Foe;</HI></L>
<L>Be warn'd, be wi&s;e, prevent the Fates,</L>
<L>De&s;truction bounceth at thy gates,</L>
<L>And know, There is no earthly thing</L>
<L>Can make thee happy, but thy <HI>King.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Think with what Honour the fir&s;t dagger came</L>
<L>Into thy Shield, the Times are now the &s;ame.</L>
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<HEAD>A TRANCE.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The Proeme.</HEAD>
<P>_SVch is the force of Fancy, &s;o large is the reach, &s;o boundle&s;&s;e is the prerogative of humane <HI>Imagi|nation,</HI> that though the &s;mall concave of a &s;cull &s;ome two or three &s;pans compa&s;&s;e be her ordina|ry and naturall habitation, yet the whole Globe of the Earth, nor all the elementary world can totally confine her, but &s;he will at plea&s;ure clime up to the skies, and make a &s;cale of the Starrs to conduct her to the Empyrean Heaven; Thence &s;he can de&s;cend in a trice to the great Aby&s;&s;e, and take a &s;urvey of the Kingdom of darkne&s;&s;e; And though it be a maxime among Divines that <HI>ab Orco nulla redemptio,</HI> there's no return out of Hell, and that the pa&s;&s;age back thence is irreme|able, yet the Imagination of man hath this privilege, that &s;he can make egre&s;&s;es and regre&s;&s;es, &s;he can enter, and come off cleer thence when &s;he li&s;t, and all this if need be in an <HI>in&s;tant;</HI> wherein &s;he &s;eemes to partake of that admired quality which is inherent in that mo&s;t comfortable creature the <HI>Light,</HI> who is held the &s;overaign of all &s;en&s;ible qualities among the Philo|&s;ophers, and to come neere&s;t to the nature of a Spirit, which creature requires but an in&s;tantaneous moment and point of
<PB N="5" REF="45"> time to performe his office of illumination, and dilate him|&s;elf throughout the Hemi&s;phear; whence &s;ome inferre that he is not corporeall, in regard it is an unque&s;tioned principle in nature that all <HI>bodies require a &s;ucce&s;sion of time in their moti|on:</HI> but there is this difference twixt the <HI>Imagination</HI> and <HI>Light,</HI> that there be &s;ome places whereinto Light cannot enter, but there is no part of the Vnivers &s;o impervious, where the Ima|gination may not make his acce&s;&s;es and rece&s;&s;es at plea&s;ure; as will appeare by the following example.</P>
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<P>IT fortun'd very lately that I was in a <HI>Trance,</HI> a &s;trange kind of Exta&s;ie &s;urpriz'd me on a &s;udden, which la&s;ted a good while; during the time, me thought I was tran&s;ported to the remote&s;t place, and of the greate&s;t di&s;tance that po&s;&s;ibly could be from Heaven; me thought I was in <HI>Hell,</HI> in <HI>Hell,</HI> God ble&s;&s;e us, among the Devils, and damned Spirits; I had nei|ther that golden branch, nor the help of a <HI>Sybilla Cumana</HI> to conduct me up and down as the Trojan Prince had, but me thought a Spirit did lead me gently and &s;oftly all along till I came to <HI>Pluto<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> Palace, where a &s;peciall Coun&s;ell was held to take a &s;trict examination what &s;ervice the three Furies, <HI>Alecto, Ti&s;yphone,</HI> and <HI>Megaera,</HI> with other inferiour Fiends that were their A&s;&s;i&s;tants, had done on Earth, towards the advancement of the Kingdom of darknes, &s;ince their la&s;t <HI>mi&s;sion</HI> thither, which was pre&s;ently upon the apparance of the la&s;t blazing Star in the yeare 1618. Pluto vouch&s;afed to be pre&s;ent and pre&s;ide at this Coun&s;ell, and to be <HI>Chaireman</HI> him&s;elf, to which purpo&s;e he had a &s;trong Legion of <HI>Cacodaemons</HI> for his guard, but the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was prepared and facilitated for his hearing before hand by a <HI>Committee</HI> appointed of purpo&s;e for that end, whence I inferred that <HI>Committees</HI> were fir&s;t hatcht in Hell, e&s;pecially &s;ome of tho&s;e that we have now adaies. The three gha&s;tly daughters of Night appeard with dreadfull fiery countenances before Puto, in lieu of aire they
<PB N="6" REF="46"> evaporated huge flakes of fire, which they tooke in, and let out with the accents of their words, huge bunches of Snakes with their tailes rooted in their &s;culls hung dangling and waving a|bout their heads like di&s;chevelld haire: A furious conte&s;tation fell between them who &s;hould be Proloquutrix, but in regard that <HI>Alecto</HI> and <HI>Ti&s;yphone</HI> had given an account of their former mi&s;&s;ions, the one of the <HI>League</HI> in France, the other of the <HI>re|volt</HI> of the Hollander, it came now in due turn that <HI>Megara</HI> &s;hould have the priority of &s;peech, &s;o the younge&s;t of the <HI>Tar|tarian</HI> Girls began as followes;</P>
<P>May your high <HI>Acherontic</HI> Maje&s;tie vouch&s;afe to under&s;tand, that &s;ince the la&s;t happy Comet, which by the Parallax was found to be in the Heaven, appeard, we have for 30 yeares toge|ther been more active, and more eager in your Maje&s;ties &s;er|vice than ever we were; We have incited the affections of the fooli&s;h Inhabitants of the earth to war, and to worry one ano|ther like Wolves in mo&s;t places; To effect which our pra|ctice hath been to bring the <HI>beggerlie&s;t</HI> and <HI>toughe&s;t</HI> people up|on the <HI>riche&s;t</HI> and <HI>&s;ofte&s;t;</HI> We brought the <HI>Swead</HI> upon the <HI>German,</HI> the <HI>Catalan</HI> upon the <HI>Ca&s;tillian,</HI> the <HI>Tartar</HI> upon the <HI>Chinots,</HI> the <HI>Sco<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> upon the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and now la&s;tly, the <HI>Turke</HI> upon the <HI>Venetian,</HI> and the <HI>Co&s;aque</HI> upon the <HI>Pole;</HI> We have continued a lingring bloudy war in <HI>Germany</HI> for thirty yeares together, which entangled into it mo&s;t of the neighbouring States; We have thru&s;t divers Princes out of their ancient Inheritances, among others the Duke of <HI>Lorain,</HI> and the <HI>Pal&s;|grave</HI> of the <HI>Rhin;</HI> We brought two Grand Turks to be &s;trang|led which never happened before; We have often puzzled <HI>Italy,</HI> we have made the Kings of <HI>Spaine</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> though Brothers, to bandy &s;o fierce one again&s;t the other, as if the one had been an Infidell, the other a Jew; But Sir, the mo&s;t advan|tagious and &s;ignall &s;ervices we have done to your infernall Ma|je&s;tie have been in the Iles of great <HI>Britaine</HI> and <HI>Ireland:</HI> For whereas we divided our &s;elves before, and went &s;ingly among
<PB N="7" REF="46"> other people, we went jointly thither all three, becau&s;e we might be &s;ure to bring out ends home to our aime. The Nati|on fitte&s;t for us to work fir&s;t upon was the <HI>Scot,</HI> who have been &s;o obedient to their Kings, that of above a hundred they brag of, &s;carce two parts of three dyed in their beds; We did &s;u|&s;citate them fir&s;t again&s;t their native King, and to appeare in a daring ho&s;tile manner before him upon the borders; At which time it co&s;t us a great deale of labour &s;o to be&s;ot the Engli&s;h, to aba&s;e their courage, and entangle them with Factions (ha|ving &s;ure confidents among them to that end) that they dur&s;t not pre&s;ent them battell, and this Sir was an important peece of &s;ervice, for had they fought then, or had they been &s;en&s;i|ble afterwards of the Nationall di&s;honor they received at that time, their King being in the field, and con&s;equently had they &s;tucke to him afterwards to have vindicated it, all tho&s;e Wars we have fomented &s;ince might have been prevented: We &s;hortly after tran&s;mitted the &s;ame Spirit of In&s;urrection into <HI>Ireland,</HI> who being encouraged by the good &s;ucce&s;&s;es the <HI>Scot</HI> had (for he had what he li&s;t, yet could he not &s;it quiet) and the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Commi&s;&s;ioners being but har&s;hly entertained by this Engli&s;h Parlement who intended to &s;end over a Deputy that &s;hould pinch them more than they were before in their con|&s;ciences, be&s;ides in that they revoked that leave which the King had granted under hand and &s;eale to the Spani&s;h Amba&s;&s;adors to have &s;ome part of <HI>Straffords</HI> Army in <HI>Ireland</HI> (which were our prime in&s;truments for the Rebellion) to go for <HI>Spaine,</HI> with other incentives, we &s;tird the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> al&s;o to ri&s;e in bloud, which they did to &s;ome purpo&s;e. Then came we to worke up|on the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> whom we found as fit to receive our impre&s;&s;ion as Flax is to take fire, in regard of their long &s;urfet of peace and plenty. We broke up one Parlement becau&s;e mo&s;t of the Members thereof were not for our turn; The fir&s;t thing we did in <HI>this</HI> Parlement was to indue them with a faculty to create feares and jealou&s;ies whereof we have made excellent u&s;e, and
<PB N="8" REF="47"> although all tho&s;e feares and jealou&s;ies appeare &s;ince to the common people, and City of <HI>London,</HI> more plain than their no&s;e on their faces to be but forgeries, yet we have &s;o infatu|ated their intellectualls that we make them &s;till adore the In|ventors of them. And to give your <HI>Stygian</HI> Maje&s;tie among divers others one more pregnant and undeniable demon&s;tration what footing you have got you in that I&s;land, we have within the&s;e few yeares rai&s;ed more <HI>Pythone&s;&s;es</HI> (which the vulgar call witches there) than ever were in that I&s;land &s;ince your Maje&s;ty tempted <HI>Eve:</HI> And we enabled our <HI>Pythone&s;&s;es</HI> to &s;end their Imps abroad in pur&s;uit of your &s;ervice. We &s;tood at the Kings elbo when he pa&s;&s;ed that happy <HI>Act of continuance,</HI> and and a <HI>Scot</HI> was our cheife&s;t engine to work that; The City of <HI>London</HI> &s;tood us al&s;o in excellent &s;tead to bring our de&s;ignes about; We made the riff-raff of that City, as <HI>V.</HI> with his Myr|mydons, and <HI>B.</HI> with his bandogs (for &s;o they called the rak|ells they had rai&s;ed) to <HI>rabble</HI> th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> King out of Town; We brought al&s;o into <HI>London</HI> the &s;illy Swaines of the Countrey in whole &s;warmes upon they knew not what; VVe were in <HI>Kin|ton</HI> field, and made, the youthfull Generall of the Kings Ca|valry <HI>de gayete de coeur</HI> to pur&s;ue the Parlements Cavalry &s;o far, as the day was lo&s;t by it, whereas if he had &s;tuck Glo&s;e to the Infantry the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e had been di&s;patch'd then on the Kings &s;ide, and &s;o your Maje&s;ties &s;ervice &s;ince had been fru|&s;trated; VVe were at <HI>Mar&s;ton</HI> Moore, and made the &s;ame Generall &s;o impatient that he could not forbeare fighting till the next day, el&s;e he had taken all the Roundhead Army in a pound; VVe took great paines at <HI>Leyce&s;ter</HI> that the King &s;hould not march Northward, but fortifie the place and go backe to <HI>Na&s;eby</HI> where we had our Imps that be&s;tird them|&s;elves notably; VVe &s;o manag'd the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e afterwatds that we made the King, becau&s;e he is a profe&s;t enemy to your Ma|je&s;ty, to go di&s;guis'd in a Servingmans habit to his Countrey-men the <HI>Scots,</HI> and we prevail'd &s;o far with them that they
<PB N="9" REF="47"> delivered him over as a Sacrifice, and betraid him like <HI>Iudas</HI> to the Engli&s;h who have crucified ever &s;ince like <HI>Iewes,</HI> by to&s;|&s;ing, and tumbling him up and down, and by compul&s;ory meanes to work upon His con&s;cience, and &s;tretching it upon the tenter; VVe made <HI>Pembrock</HI> Ca&s;tle, and <HI>Colche&s;ter,</HI> with other &s;ingle (or rather &s;imple) Counties to ri&s;e of purpo&s;e to betray them&s;elves: In &s;umme, we have reduced that Kingdom to a new conformity with this of your Maje&s;ties, to a &s;weet Chaos of all confu&s;ion, we have brought the &s;way &s;olely into the com|mon peoples hands; And never did common people more tru|ly act the part, and di&s;cover the genious of a common people more lively, who&s;e nature is &s;till thur&s;ting after novelties and Utopian reformations, though they foole them&s;elves thereby into a ba&s;er kind of &s;lavery, finding when 'tis too late tho&s;e &s;precious idaeas, and confu&s;ed formes of Government they ap|prehended before, and hugg'd in their own conceits to be meer ab&s;urdities, when they come to the application and practice of them.</P>
<P>And Sir, the mo&s;t advantagious in&s;truments we have u&s;ed to bring all this about, have been the <HI>Pulpit</HI> and the <HI>Pre&s;&s;e;</HI> by the&s;e we diffus'd tho&s;e &s;urmi&s;es and &s;uppo&s;itious feares for|merly &s;poken of, to intoxicate the braines of the people: In &s;tead of <HI>Lights</HI> we put <HI>Firebrands</HI> into their Churches, who, as we did dictate unto them, did bawle out nothing but Sedition and Bloud, we have made &s;ome of them to bring divers to have as good an opinion of the <HI>Alchoran</HI> as of their Liturgie; we have made &s;ecular <HI>Ordinances</HI> to batter down all ancient Eccle&s;ia&s;tick <HI>Canons;</HI> we have made them to un&s;aint all tho&s;e whom they call Apo&s;tles in heaven, and to rob their Churches on earth; we have made them put divi&s;ion twixt the <HI>Trinity</HI> it &s;elf; we have made their Pulpiteers to preach the Law and <HI>your Kingdome</HI> in the Church, but the Go&s;pell and Heaven in the Chamber; we have brought them to keep their <HI>Fa&s;t</HI> day more &s;olemnly then the <HI>Sabboth,</HI> upon which, we have made them not only to &s;it in Coun&s;ell, but to put in execution all
<PB N="10" REF="48"> de&s;igns of bloud. But the main, and mo&s;t materiall thing we have made u&s;e of, was <HI>&s;pirituall pride,</HI> your Maje&s;ties old ac|quaintance, which we have infu&s;ed into the mind of every Mecanique and Countrey Swaine, who will boldly now under|take to expound any Text of Scripture, New or Ol, dupon the warrant of their owne braines, and by the light of their own fires; In&s;omuch that we have made that Book which they call the <HI>Bible,</HI> that was ordained fir&s;t for their <HI>Salvation,</HI> to be the chiefe&s;t In&s;trument of their <HI>Damnation</HI> VVe have brought the&s;e Exotic words, <HI>Plundering</HI> and <HI>Storming,</HI> which were never known among them before, and that once abomi|nable word, <HI>Exci&s;e,</HI> to be now familiar among them, they are made all three free Denizons, and legitimated among them; VVe have rais'd an Army of the dreggs of the people, though of precious &s;tuffe to your Maje&s;ty, and &s;o puffed them with the pride of their good &s;ucce&s;&s;es, and &s;o fle&s;h'd them in Bloud, that they are no more tender of a mans or womans life then they are of a dog or a cats; We have made tho&s;e that came Pe|titioners for Peace to be <HI>murthered,</HI> and tho&s;e that came for VVar to be thanked and <HI>hugged;</HI> VVe have reduced them to &s;uch &s;lavery as to make the very countenances of men to be commented upon, and their very thoughts to be plundred; We have made the mother to betray her child, the child the father, the husband his wife, the &s;ervant his ma&s;ter; VVe have brought a perfect tyranny ore their very <HI>&s;oules</HI> and <HI>bodies;</HI> upon the one, by tedious and endle&s;&s;e impri&s;onment, with the forfeiture of all their livelihoods before conviction or charge; upon the other, by forcing them to &s;wallow contradictory Oaths. On that fooli&s;h &s;uper&s;titious day call'd <HI>Chri&s;tmas,</HI> with other Fe|&s;tivalls, we have brought them to &s;hut up their Churches, and open their &s;hops, &s;o that in time they will forget the ve|ry memory of their Saviours Incarnation; We have brought them to have as little reverence of their <HI>Temples</HI> as of their <HI>Tap-hou&s;es,</HI> and to hold the <HI>Church</HI> to be but a Charnell-hou&s;e
<PB N="11" REF="48"> of rotten bones; and though they cringe, and knee, and &s;tand bare before any wrangling Bench of Common Pleas, yet we have &s;o &s;tiffned their <HI>joints,</HI> and made their <HI>heads</HI> &s;o tender in that which they call Gods Hou&s;e, that they can neither <HI>bow</HI> the one there, nor &s;carce <HI>uncover</HI> the other; We have fil'd lately the Tribunals in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> Hall with Favourers of your Cau&s;e, which makes &s;ome of them look rather like <HI>Iuglers</HI> than <HI>Iudges;</HI> We have made the Fundamentals of Law to be term'd but Formalities; We have caus'd <HI>Magna Charta</HI> to be torne to a thou&s;and flitters, and &s;tretched the privilege of the Com|mons &s;o wide, that it hath &s;wallowed up all other; We have grub'd up and ca&s;t away tho&s;e hopefull Plants that grew in their two <HI>Seminaries</HI> of Learning, and &s;et in their room grafts of our own choice. And Sir, your precious children, and our deare brethren, the Angels of the Army, have comported them|&s;elves notably for the improvement of your Maje&s;ties &s;ervice in all the&s;e things, into whom we have infus'd &s;uch principles that <HI>Machiavill</HI> him&s;elf were he alive there, would be accounted a Baby in compari&s;on of them. Among divers other whol&s;ome maximes, we have in&s;till'd this into their braines, that <HI>Villa|nies mu&s;t be &s;upported by Villaines, and mi&s;chief cannot be &s;afe but by attempting greater;</HI> We have made the wealth of Town and Countrey, of poore and rich, to glitter in Plunder upon their backs; We make them to command Free-quarter of tho&s;e who who were fitter to aske <HI>them</HI> Almes; We have made them to rifle the Monuments of the Dead, to rob the Lazaretto, to &s;trip the Orphane and Widow, to violate and pillage all things that were dedicated to God; We have made them wreek their revenge upon the very vegetables, to make &s;ocks of Surplices, to water their bea&s;ts at the Font, to feed them on the Commu|nion Table, and to terme the thing they call a Sacrament, a Two penny Banquet: Sir, we have turn'd &s;uppo&s;ed <HI>Super&s;tition</HI> to ab&s;olute <HI>Prophane&s;&s;e,</HI> Government to Confu&s;ion, and Free|dome to pure Slavery; We have brought their King to live
<PB N="12" REF="49"> in a manner upon Charity, and His Queen to beg of the French Friers, and His Children to be a kind of Runnagates up and downe the world; We have &s;o intoxicated that deare Daughter of yours the City of <HI>London,</HI> that &s;he knowes not which way to turn her &s;elf; And whereas her Apprentices did ri&s;e up like <HI>Tigers</HI> again&s;t their King, they are now become as &s;o many &s;illy <HI>Sheepe</HI> again&s;t our Army; We have puzzled them with &s;uch vertiginous fancies and feares among them|&s;elves, that one neighbour dare not tru&s;t the other. To conclude Sir, we have eclips'd the glory of the Engli&s;h Nation, we have made them by all people far and near that ever had knowledge of them, to be pittied by &s;ome, to be derided by others, to be &s;corn'd of all, and to become the very taile of all Nations; In fine Sir, we have brought that Kingdom to &s;uch a pa&s;&s;e of con|fu&s;ion, that it is a fit place only for your Imperial <HI>Phlegetontic</HI> Maje&s;ty to inhabit; And Sir, there's never a Cro&s;&s;e now there fright you, unle&s;&s;e it be upon their Coines of Gold and Silver, wheron they leave Cro&s;&s;es to be &s;till in honour of your <HI>Pluto|nian</HI> Highne&s;&s;e, as you are <HI>Dis,</HI> and God of riches.</P>
<P><HI>Megaera</HI> having thus given up her account in behalf of her &s;elf and her two Si&s;ters, they all bowed their &s;naky heads down to their feet, which were toed with Scorpions, before the black Throne of <HI>Pluto,</HI> who giving a humme that made all Hell to tremble, an&s;wered thus:</P>
<P>MY pretious and mo&s;t tru&s;ty <HI>Tartarean</HI> Daughters, we highly approve of the &s;upererogatory &s;ervice you have done us for the propagation of the Stygian Empire upon earth, and &s;pecially in great <HI>Brittany:</HI> we have &s;ued a long time to have a Lea&s;e of that Iland (touching <HI>Scotland</HI> we have no mind to go thither our &s;elf) and we hope to obtaine it, therefore when you have vi&s;ited tho&s;e of that Nation whom you have &s;ent hither already to people this <HI>P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t,</HI> I would have you returne thither, and prepare that place for one of my principall habitations: The proper'&s;t in&s;trument you are to employ, is the <HI>Army,</HI> and
<PB N="13" REF="49"> you mu&s;t continue to infu&s;e &s;uch principles into their heads, that they never de&s;i&s;t till they have quite thru&s;t out <HI>Religionem ex &s;olo, Regem ex &s;olio,</HI> and <HI>Dominium ex &s;alo.</HI></P>
<Q><L>Nec &s;ic recedant odia, vivaces agat</L>
<L>Violentus ir as animus, &amp; &s;avus furor</L>
<L>Eterna bella pace &s;ublata gerat.</L></Q>
<P>Make Rebell to fight again&s;t Rebell, Independant again&s;t Pres|byterian, London again&s;t the Army, and all again&s;t the <HI>Cava|lier,</HI> till that Nation be wholly extingui&s;h'd, that one may not be left to pi&s;&s;e again&s;t a wall; Let them never re&s;t till they have made an end of the King who is our greate&s;t enemy; Let tho&s;e Idolatrous <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> which in that idle legend their <HI>Go&s;pell</HI> are call'd <HI>Angells,</HI> be utterly extirpated, and the very name of them bani&s;h'd for ever, as the <HI>Tarquins</HI> were once at <HI>Rome;</HI> Let not a Church or Chappell, or any con&s;ecrated place &s;tand in the whole I&s;le, I intend to have a new Almanack of Saints made at my comming, for I have &s;ome Star-gazers there already fit for my purpo&s;e; make ha&s;te, for feare a peace be &s;huffled up on a &s;udden, and acquit your &s;elves of your duties, and I may chance get you <HI>Scotland</HI> for your reward.</P>
<P>The three Furies with a mo&s;t profound reverence replied, May it plea&s;e your Maje&s;tie, your Ferriman <HI>Charon</HI> is hourely &s;o pe&s;ter'd with &s;uch multitudes of Engli&s;h and Scots Round-heads, that we were forced to &s;tay a long time ere we could get a pa&s;&s;age hither, and we feare we &s;hall be &s;o hindred againe; therefore we mo&s;t humbly de&s;ire for our expedition, that your Highne&s;&s;e would vouch&s;afe to give us a &s;peciall warrant to be &s;erv'd fir&s;t with a <HI>non ob&s;tante</HI> when we come to the bankes of <HI>Styx.</HI> You &s;hall deare Daughters, &s;aith <HI>Pluto,</HI> and my warrant &s;hall be adre&s;&s;ed to a new Journey-man, an Engli&s;h Tarpaling that came thither lately to &s;erve <HI>Charon,</HI> upon whom I will lay my commands of purpo&s;e to attend you upon all occa&s;ions.</P>
<P>Having all this while li&s;tned unto what pa&s;&s;ed 'twixt <HI>Pluto and his Furies,</HI> my Spirit lead me up and downe Hell to &s;ee
<PB N="14" REF="50"> the various &s;orts of torments that are there, which indeed are innumerable: the fir&s;t I beheld was <HI>Ixion,</HI> tied with vipers to a wheele, and whirld about perpetually, I might perceive a multitude of le&s;&s;er wheeles newly made thereabouts, whereun|to great numbers of Engli&s;h, and divers of my acquaintance were bound; hard by I might di&s;cerne a huge company of windmils, and bodies tied with ugly Snakes at every wing, tur|ning round perpetually; a little further there were a great many broken by mill&s;tones, who were whirld with them perpetually about; in another place I might perceive black whirlepooles full of tormented &s;oules turning ince&s;&s;antly about: I asked what might be the rea&s;on of &s;o many whirling tortures, my good Spirit an&s;wered, all the&s;e except <HI>Ixions</HI> wheele are new torments appointed for engli&s;h <HI>Roundheads,</HI> who have de&s;troy'd from foundation to top, all Government both of Church and State; and as their brains turn'd round there, after every wind of Doctrin, &s;o their &s;ouls turn here in perpetuall paines of rota|tion: A little further I &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed <HI>Prometheus</HI> removed thither from <HI>Cauca&s;is,</HI> with a ravenous Vulture tearing and feeding upon his Liver, which as one part was eaten, renewed pre&s;ently after, and abundance of new commers were tormented in the &s;ame manner, the&s;e I was told were Engli&s;h men al&s;o that are pu|ni&s;hed like <HI>Prometheus,</HI> becau&s;e as he is tortured &s;o for &s;tealing fire from heaven, &s;o tho&s;e <HI>fierie Zelots</HI> of <HI>England</HI> would pre|&s;umptuou&s;ly pry into the &s;ecret, and Cabinet Coun&s;els of God Almighty, and dive into tho&s;e high points of Prede&s;ti|nation, Election, and Reprobation, being not contented <HI>&s;apere ad &s;obrietatem,</HI> but expect ever and anon to have new lights and fla&s;hes of illuminations. Then came I to the bottomle&s;&s;e tub which <HI>Danaus</HI> Daughters were a filling, a numberle&s;&s;e company of other &s;uch tubs were there, and Engli&s;h women and men were ince&s;&s;antly labouring to fill them up with the &s;tenchy black waters of <HI>Acheron:</HI> Tho&s;e I was told were tho&s;e over-curious people in <HI>England</HI> which would be never &s;atisfied with
<PB N="15" REF="50"> Chri&s;tian Knowledge, and had no other devotion then to be <HI>alwaies learning and never comming to the Truth,</HI> as the&s;e re&s;tle&s;&s;e fillers never come to the bottome; Then I beheld the mo&s;t horrid tortures of tho&s;e Giants that would have thu&s;t <HI>Iove</HI> out of heaven, and a world of Engli&s;h among them, who partaked of the &s;ame puni&s;hments, becau&s;e they had con&s;pired upon earth to dethrone their lawfull King; Not far further I might e&s;pie glowing fiery tubs made Pulpit like, and I was told they were prepared for tho&s;e profane and pre&s;umptuous Mecanicks and other Lay men, who u&s;e to preach in <HI>London,</HI> and abu&s;e the Sacred Oracles of God; and <HI>Vzza</HI> was not far off tormented there for being &s;o bold with the <HI>Arke;</HI> A little thereabouts I &s;aw hoopes of Iron were made <HI>Garter</HI>-like, of hot glowing &s;teele, the&s;e I was told were de&s;igned for tho&s;e perjured Knights of St <HI>George</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> to weare upon their legs, when they come thither for breaking in the late war that &s;olemn Oath they had taken at their in&s;talement, to <HI>defend the honour and quarrells, the rights and dignities of their Soveraigne;</HI> A little di&s;tant I might &s;ee divers bra&s;&s;e hoopes glowing with fire, and they were &s;carfe-like, I was told they were ordained for tho&s;e Knights of the <HI>Bath</HI> to weare for Ribbands next their skins when they came thither, for infringing that Sacred Oath they made at their Election, which was, <HI>To love their Soveraigne above all Earthly creatures, and for his right and dignity to live and die;</HI> A little beyond I &s;aw a <HI>Copper</HI> Table, with Chaires of the &s;ame, all <HI>candent hot,</HI> I was told tho&s;e were for perjured Engli&s;h privy Concellors, who had broak their Oath to the King, which they took <HI>to be true and faithfull &s;ervants unto Him, and if they knew or under&s;tood any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or &s;poken again&s;t His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, Honour, Crown, or Dignity, they &s;wore to let and with&s;tand the &s;ame to the uttermo&s;t of their power, and cau&s;e it to be revealed, either to him&s;elf, or any other of his Privy Councell;</HI> Some few paces off I might de&s;cry a little <HI>round</HI> place like a Porters Lodgeat Court with a Fane
<PB N="16" REF="51"> on the top of it, where was a new kind of exqui&s;ite torment provided, but I could not di&s;cerne it by rea&s;on of the &s;moake; for once a Secretary of State and his Son in <HI>England,</HI> who though they were of differing opinions in every thing el&s;e, yet jump'd in this, to de&s;troy their King and Countrey; Hard by, I &s;aw a little furnace &s;o candent glowing hot that it look'd of the colour of an <HI>Emerauld</HI> or <HI>Carbuncle,</HI> I was told that was to clap in the Ma&s;ter of the Kings Jewell-hou&s;e when he comes thither, for being &s;o perfidious and &s;o perjurious to his Ma&s;ter; I asked whether there were any other infernall tortures be&s;ides <HI>fire,</HI> yes I was an&s;wered, for to &s;peake of fire to a people habi|tuated to a cold clime, were not only to make them to &s;light Hell, but to invite them to come to it; So my Spirit brought me Northward a little, and &s;hew'd me a huge lough, where there were <HI>fro&s;ted</HI> mountaines up and down, and I might di&s;co|ver among them a world of <HI>Blewcaps</HI> lying in beds of Ice with their no&s;es and toes nipt, the ice&s;icles &s;tucke to their fingers ends like hornes, and a bl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ak his pid wind blew ince&s;&s;antly up|on them, they made the mo&s;t pitious noi&s;e that me thought I heard in all Hell; for they wawld, &s;creechd, and howld ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ever and anone this note, <HI>Wea is me, we a is me, that ever I betrayd my gid King.</HI></P>
<P>Among all the&s;e damned &s;oules, I de&s;ired to &s;ee what pu|ni&s;hment an <HI>Athei&s;t</HI> had: my Spirit an&s;wered me, there were no Athie&s;ts in Hell at all, they were &s;o on earth before they came hither, and here they &s;en&s;ibly find and acknowledge there is a God by his <HI>Iu&s;tice and Iudgement:</HI> For there is here <HI>pana &s;en&s;us,</HI> and <HI>paena damni;</HI> the outward torments you behold is not &s;o grievous as the inferiour regrets and agonies the &s;oules have to have lo&s;t Heaven, whereof they were once capable, and to be eternally for&s;aken by their Creator; adde hereunto that they know the&s;e torments to be endle&s;&s;e, ea&s;ele&s;&s;e, and remedile&s;&s;e: Be&s;ides the&s;e qualities that are incident to the damned &s;oules, t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ey have neither <HI>patience</HI> towards them&s;elves in their owne
<PB N="17" REF="51"> &s;uffrances, nor <HI>pitty</HI> towards others, but their nature is &s;o accur&s;ed, that they wi&s;h their neighbors torments to be greater then their own: Be&s;ides, their torments never le&s;&s;en either by tract of time or degree of &s;ence, but they per&s;ever alwaies the &s;ame; they are &s;till fre&s;h, and the &s;oule able to beare them. I &s;aw that <HI>everla&s;ting Villaine</HI> who committed the fir&s;t Sacrilege we read of, by burning <HI>Dianas</HI> Temple, and his torments were as fre&s;h and violent upon him as they were the fir&s;t day he was thrown in thither; <HI>Iudas</HI> was in the &s;ame degree and &s;trength of torture as the fir&s;t moment he fell thither; <HI>Iack Cade, Wat Tyler, Iack Straw, Kit the Tanner</HI> did fry there as fre&s;h as they did that in&s;tant they were ca&s;t thither: Among&s;t whom it made my heart to melt within me to &s;ee &s;ome of their new-com'd Coun|treymen among&s;t them, whereof I knew divers: And though <HI>Society</HI> u&s;eth to be &s;ome <HI>&s;olace</HI> to men in mi&s;ery, yet they conceived no comfort at all by the&s;e fre&s;h com|panions.</P>
<P>It is high time for us now &s;aid my good guiding An|gell to be gone to the other world, &s;o we directed our cour&s;e towards the Ferry upon <HI>Styx;</HI> Lord, what varities of lurid, and ugly &s;qualid countenances did I behold as I pa&s;&s;ed! There was one &s;ort of torment I had not &s;eene before, there were divers that hung by their tongues up|on po&s;ts up and down; I asked what they were, an&s;wer was made, that they were Engli&s;h Divines, and Lawyers, who again&s;t their <HI>Knowledge,</HI> as well as their <HI>Con&s;ciences,</HI> did &s;educe the ignorant people of <HI>England</HI> in the late Ci|vill Warre. A little further I might &s;ee abundance of <HI>Committee-men</HI> and others, &s;lopping up drops of moulten lead in lieu of French-barley broath, with a rabble of Ap|prentices
<PB N="18" REF="52"> &s;weeping the gutters of Hell, with brooms tufted with Addars and Snakes, becau&s;e they re&s;orting to the Wars, had thereby broke their Indentures with their Ma&s;ters, and their Oaths of Supremacy to their Prince.</P>
<P>Pa&s;&s;ing then along towards the Ferry, a world of hide|ous &s;hapes pre&s;ented them&s;elves unto me; there I &s;aw <HI>Corroding cares, panick feares, pining grief, lethargy, &s;leep, ugly rebellion, revengefull malice, &s;nakie di&s;cord, and &s;pirituall pride,</HI> the &s;in that fir&s;t peopled Hell: Couches of Toads, Adders, and Scorpions in a corner hard by, I ask'd for whom they were prepared, I was an&s;wered, for &s;ome Engli&s;h <HI>Evangelizing, Anabapti&s;ticall, and Legi&s;lative La|dies,</HI> which make writing of Notes at Sermons, and Re|ligion a meere vaile to cover their hypocri&s;ie; So having me thought by a miraculous providence charm'd <HI>Cerbe|rus</HI> by pointing at him with the &s;igne of the Cro&s;&s;e upon the fingers, we pa&s;&s;ed quietly by him, and being come to the Ferry, I found true what <HI>Pluto</HI> had &s;aid before, that there was a new Engli&s;h <HI>Tarpaulin</HI> entertained by <HI>Charon,</HI> but he was in a mo&s;t cruell torture, for his body was covered thicke all over with Pitch and Tarre, which burnt and flam'd round about him: And here the <HI>Trance</HI> left me.</P>
<P>Having thus come out of this &s;ad &s;wound, I began by a &s;erious recollection of my &s;elf to recall to my thoughts tho&s;e di&s;mall and dreadfull objects that had appeared un|to me; for though I was in Hell I did not ta&s;te of <HI>Lethe</HI> all the while, &s;o that I did not forget any thing that I had &s;een; all things &s;eem'd to appeare unto me &s;o really, that if I had been of that opinion (wherof many have been) that Devills are <HI>nothing el&s;e but the ill affections, the exorbi|tant pa&s;sions, and perturbances of the mind,</HI> it had been able
<PB N="19" REF="52"> to have convinced me. The Reader may ea&s;ily imagine what apprehen&s;ions of horror the&s;e apparitions left in my braine: For as a River being by an inundation &s;well'd out of her wonted Channell leaves along the neighbouring Medowes &s;eggs and &s;ands, and much riff-raff &s;tuffe be|hind her upon her return to her former bed; So did this <HI>Exta&s;is,</HI> with that deluge of objects wherewith it over|whelm'd my braine, leave behind it blacke &s;udds, and ga&s;tly thoughts within me, which have done me no hurt I thank God for it, it being a true rule that <HI>Malum cognitum faci|lius evitatur:</HI> And I wi&s;h they may produce the &s;ame effects in the Reader as they did in the Author. VVe find in the Sacred Oracles that <HI>Dives</HI> in his di&s;cour&s;e from Hell with <HI>Abraham,</HI> wi&s;h'd that &s;ome body might be &s;ent from the dead to informe and reclaime his Brothers upon earth, becau&s;e the words of a <HI>dead man</HI> would gaine more credit with them then any others. Let the Readers of this <HI>Trance</HI> make account that the Author was <HI>&s;uch a one;</HI> for he hath been <HI>buried</HI> many years, and &s;o let it work within him accordingly.</P>
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<P><HI>Bella Scot-Anglica.</HI></P>
<P>A BRIEF OF ALL THE Battells, and Martiall Encounters which have hap|pened 'twixt <HI>ENGLAND</HI> and <HI>SCOTLAND,</HI> from all times to this pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>VVherunto is annexed a Corolla|ry, Declaring the cau&s;es whereby the Scot is come of late years to be &s;o hight|ned in his &s;pirits; With &s;ome <HI>Prophecies</HI> which are much cryed up, as reflecting upon the fate of <HI>both Nations.</HI></P>
<P>Printed in the Yeare 1648.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Bella Scot-Anglica.</HI> A Briefe of all the Battels and Martiall Encounters, which have happen'd 'twixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> from all times to this pre&s;ent, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="preface">
<HEAD>The Proeme.</HEAD>
<P>THe De&s;ign of this &s;hort Di&s;cour&s;e, is to relate the Quarrels, and &s;undry traver&s;es of Warre, which have pa&s;&s;ed from time to time between <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> Extracted out of the mo&s;t approved and impartiall Hi&s;torians, as well Scotti&s;h, as Engli&s;h, French, and others.</P>
<P>Out of which premi&s;&s;es are deduced the&s;e Conclu&s;ions;</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, That <HI>Scotland</HI> hath been alwayes apt and forward to apprehend any occa&s;ion to invade and vi&s;it her Neighbour <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, That when &s;he was at the highe&s;t pitch of &s;trength, and had the greate&s;t advantages again&s;t her, when &s;he had a|ctive and martiall Kings for her Generalls, and the French for her firm Confederates, with other Coadjutors and Auxilia|ries, &s;he could never be a match no, not by many degree, for <HI>England,</HI> whether you re&s;pect the intrin&s;ick <HI>power</HI> of the <HI>Coun|try,</HI> or the innated <HI>prowe&s;&s;e</HI> of the <HI>people:</HI> All which will clearly appeare by the circum&s;tances and &s;ucce&s;&s;e of divers Battells and interchangeable Exploits which being indiffe|rently ballanc'd it will be found that if <HI>Scotland</HI> did &s;ome|times beat <HI>England</HI> with the <HI>&s;cabbard, England</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ay bee truly &s;ayd to have beaten her more often with the <HI>blade.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="2" REF="55">
<P>I Will not look back and take the a&s;hes of antiquity &s;o far, as to &s;peak of the <HI>&s;ociall</HI> warre they entred into with the ancient <HI>Brittaines</HI> and <HI>Picts,</HI> again&s;t the Engli&s;h, when they began to take fir&s;t firme footing in <HI>England.</HI> Nor, of that &s;o famous battell 'twixt <HI>Athel&s;tan</HI> and them, at which time they had a great Army of <HI>Danes</HI> joyned with them; when being above twice more in number then the Engli&s;h, King <HI>Athel&s;tan</HI> carried away a compleat victory by a kind of back|blow (<HI>Parthian</HI>-like) For the two Armies being ready to joyne, the Engli&s;h made &s;emblance to fly away, leaving all their baggage behinde, and much matter for booty, which as the Scots and Danes were &s;haring, the Engli&s;h &s;uddenly wheeled about by the advantage of a woody hill, and finding them in di&s;array, and the Souldiers laden with pillage, they ru&s;hed upon them with that re&s;olution, that above fourty thou&s;and of them fell, and as <HI>Buchanan</HI> their Prime Chrono|loger recordeth, the flower of their Nobility peri&s;hed that day.</P>
<P>But I intend not to involve my di&s;cour&s;e in the&s;e mi&s;tie times, but will take my ri&s;e from the Norman Conque&s;t, for indeed the Hi&s;torie of great <HI>Brittaine</HI> being overclouded with &s;o many incertainties, ca&s;teth but a dim light before tho&s;e times, whereas &s;ince, &s;he &s;hines with &s;uch a lu&s;tre, that what &s;tands upon Record may be a&s;&s;erted for cleere and undenia|ble truth.</P>
<P>At that time, I mean the time of the Conque&s;t, <HI>Scotland</HI> did <HI>England</HI> a very good office by pre&s;erving the Engli&s;h blood-royall (which not long after returned to the Crowne in <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;econd) but it was ca&s;ually&punc; For Prince <HI>Edgar</HI> and his Mother, with his two Si&s;ters, intending to goe for <HI>Denmarke,</HI> (&s;ome &s;ay for <HI>Hungarie</HI>) and being by di&s;tre&s;&s;e of weather driven upon the Scotti&s;h coa&s;ts, they were ho&s;pita|bly r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ceived by <HI>Malcoline,</HI> then King of <HI>Scotland;</HI> At which time civility with the Engli&s;h tongue took fir&s;t footing in the Scotti&s;h Court, as the French did among&s;t the Engli&s;h.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="3" REF="55">
<HEAD><HI>WILL.</HI> the &s;econd.</HEAD>
<P>THe fir&s;t dart of War that was thrown 'twixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> after the Conque&s;t was in <HI>Will. Rufus</HI> his raign, when the Scots having made divers incur&s;ions into the Eng|li&s;h Pale, <HI>Moubray</HI> Earle of <HI>Northumberland</HI> was &s;ent again&s;t them, who Encountring their King <HI>Malcoline</HI> with his elde&s;t &s;on in the field, they were both &s;lain, and the whole Army overthrown. Afterwards the Scots choo&s;ing the dead Kings brother, King <HI>William</HI> went in per&s;on and depos'd him, cau|&s;ing <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;econd, &s;on of the &s;lain King, to be crowned, and making him to &s;weare fealty and homage to <HI>England;</HI> But the Scots obtain'd the favour of King <HI>William,</HI> that nei|ther <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> or <HI>Norman</HI> &s;hould beare any office of State in <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>King</HI> STEPHEN.</HEAD>
<P>KIng <HI>Stephen</HI> having oblig'd the Scots by many high fa|vours, by giving <HI>Cumberland</HI> to <HI>David</HI> their King, and making his elde&s;t &s;on Earle of <HI>Huntington;</HI> Yet &s;o ingratefull did they prove that they provok'd him to &s;end <HI>Thur&s;ton</HI> then Archb. of <HI>Yorke</HI> with &s;uch an Army, that meeting with the King him&s;elfe in the head of his Forces, he utterly di&s;comfi|ted him, with the death of 10000. of his men.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>HENRY</HI> the &s;econd.</HEAD>
<P><HI>HEnry</HI> the &s;econd, though the pul&s;e of tho&s;e times did <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eat high, and that he was di&s;tracted with a world of confu&s;ions, yet employing the <HI>York</HI>-&s;hire Knights, <HI>Humphrey Vile; Scutvill</HI> and <HI>Ve&s;cy,</HI> they with their victorious Armes tooke the Scots King in the field, and tendred him pri&s;oner at <HI>Northampton,</HI> whence King <HI>Henry</HI> carried him along to at|tend him in his warres in <HI>France.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>RICHARD</HI> the fir&s;t.</HEAD>
<P><HI>RIchard cotur de Lion</HI> cau&s;ed <HI>William</HI> King of <HI>Scotland</HI> to carry the Sword before him at his &s;econd Coronation at his return from the holy Land: At which time King <HI>Rich.</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="56"> pa&s;&s;ed a Royall Charter, that when&s;oever the King of <HI>Scot|land</HI> was &s;ummond to the Engli&s;h Court the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Dur|ham,</HI> and Sheriffe of <HI>Northumberland,</HI> &s;hou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d receive him at <HI>Tweeds,</HI> and accompany him to <HI>Teis,</HI> from <HI>Teis</HI> the Arch|bi&s;hop of <HI>Yorke</HI> &s;hould attend him to the borders of that County, and &s;o the Bi&s;h. and Sheriffs of other Counties, untill he came to the Engli&s;h Court.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>King</HI> JOHN.</HEAD>
<P>King <HI>Iohn</HI> one of the weake&s;t Princes, and the mo&s;t for|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orne that ever <HI>England</HI> had con&s;idering how the Pope and all the world did bandy again&s;t him, and what fearefull exigents he was reduced unto, yet finding <HI>Alexander</HI> the &s;econd then King of <HI>Scotland</HI> to give &s;anctuary to his fugi|tive clergy, and foment others again&s;t him, made an expe|dition thither him&s;elfe, but the two armies being ready to buckle, the Scot &s;eing fire and &s;word to gape upon him, &s;ub|mitted him&s;elfe, and &s;ub&s;cribed to &s;uch termes as the Con|queror propounded.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>EDVVARD</HI> the Fir&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>NOw come I to the &s;courge, or, as his Tombe in <HI>We&s;tmin|&s;ter</HI> tells me, the hammer of the Scotts-men.</P>
<Q>Edwardus primus Scotorum malleus hic e&s;t.</Q>
<P>He cau&s;eth <HI>Balioll</HI> to come to <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> to &s;weare Fealty and homage to him, who after flying to the French King, <HI>Edward</HI> was &s;o netled for this his defection, that though he had a farre greater arrand in <HI>France,</HI> yet he cho&s;e rather to employ <HI>Edmund</HI> Earle of <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> thither, and to march him&s;elfe to <HI>Scotland</HI> in the front of a pui&s;&s;ant army; where the Scots in farre greater numbers &s;hewed their teeth only but dur&s;t not bite. King <HI>Edward</HI> &s;ummons <HI>Balioll</HI> to <HI>Ber|wicke</HI> when he re&s;ubmitted him&s;elf with all the Nobles in o|pen Parliament which he held there; And for caution brought the King him&s;elfe along with him, leaving the Earle of <HI>Sur|rey</HI> Warden of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>Not long after the Scots revolted againe notwith&s;tanding
<PB N="5" REF="56"> their King was in <HI>England,</HI> having one <HI>Wallis</HI> for their ring|leader, who did much mi&s;chiefe on the frontiers. And their in&s;olency grew to that hight, that be&s;ides their inrodes, they began to rhime upon him.</P>
<P>What this <HI>Edward</HI> with his lang &s;hanks? But he payed them for their rhiming with a vengeance; He goeth againe in per&s;on and at <HI>Fonkirk</HI> battaile kild out right 200. of their Nobles and Gentry, with 40. thou&s;and common Souldiers.</P>
<P>Then he &s;ummons a Parliament at <HI>Edenburgh</HI> where all the Nobles &s;weare him fealty againe; He carrieth away the Ragman roll, the blacke cro&s;&s;e, and the &s;tone wherein they &s;ay the fate of their Kingdome is fixed.</P>
<P>Then was there offer'd a third provocation, when le <HI>Bruce</HI> was crowned King of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Pembrooke</HI> was &s;ent again&s;t him, who utterly defeated him at <HI>Iohn&s;ton.</HI></P>
<P>Hereupon <HI>le Bruce</HI> flyeth to the Popes pantofle making him Lord <HI>Paramount</HI> of <HI>Scotland,</HI> which moved King <HI>Ed|ward,</HI> notwith&s;tanding the menaces and fulminations of the Pope who wi&s;hed him to forbeare the Scots (becau&s;e they were an exempt nation belonging to the Roman Chap|pell) to make a fourth expedition thither where he con&s;trai|ned <HI>le Bruce</HI> to fly to <HI>Norway,</HI> where he blew on his nayles while K. <HI>Edward</HI> lived. And &s;o eager was this great King in pur&s;uite of this action, that falling &s;ickly upon the way, He &s;aid If I die before I enter <HI>Scotland,</HI> I charge you to go on couragiou&s;ly. and carry my body round about the Country; but it plea&s;ed God to reprieve him untill he had done his bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e him&s;elfe.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>EDVVARD</HI> the &s;econd.</HEAD>
<P>BUt here comes a cooling-card for the Engli&s;h, <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;econd who&s;e greate&s;t honor was to be &s;on to a Peer|les <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ather, and father to an incomparable &s;on, <HI>Ro&s;a &s;pinam, &s;pina ro&s;am genuit.</HI> In his time all went to wrack e&s;pecially in <HI>Scotland.</HI> At <HI>Bannocks</HI> battaile <HI>Gilbert de clare</HI> Earle of <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> and 40 Barons more, with 700 Knights and Gentle|men;
<PB N="6" REF="57"> and as &s;ome &s;tories record above 40000. more were &s;laine. Which defeat was imputed principally to the ill choice of ground the Engli&s;h had taken. The Scots had be|hind them rocks, hills, and woods to fly into if nece&s;&s;ity re|quired, before them loughs, and moores, that the a&s;&s;ailant could not march further. Adde hereunto the pu&s;illanimity of the King (and the &s;pirits of men are much ray&s;ed by their leader) who was &s;ayd to fly fir&s;t: and better it is for a lion to lead &s;heepe, then for a &s;heepe to lead a company of lions.</P>
<P>The Scots hereupon were &s;o agog that they enter <HI>Ire|land</HI> with an Army under the conduct of <HI>Edward Bruce</HI> the Kings brother, who landing at <HI>Karig Fergus</HI> ran&s;ack'd all the North parts, where he tooke &s;uch firme footing, that he pro|claym'd him&s;elfe King of <HI>Ireland,</HI> though he had onely over|ranne <HI>Ul&s;ter.</HI> At which time there was &s;uch a direfull famine, that in &s;ome places of <HI>Ireland</HI> dead bodies were digged up, and their fle&s;h boyled in their &s;culls to be eaten, as the &s;to|ry tells.</P>
<P>But two yeares after, Sir <HI>Io. Bremingham</HI> then chiefe Ju|&s;tice, with the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Armagh,</HI> went with &s;uch a pow|er again&s;t this up&s;tart King, that at <HI>Dundalke</HI> they got a mo&s;t compleat victory, one <HI>Manpas</HI> as it &s;eemed having kild the King hand to hand, for both their dead bodies were found together, and <HI>Manpas</HI> covering the Kings body.</P>
<P>In <HI>England</HI> another Army was &s;ent again&s;t the Scots, cal|led the <HI>Yorke</HI> Army, which was al&s;o overthrowne at <HI>Milton</HI> upon <HI>Swayle.</HI> Nevertheles the King would venture once more in Per&s;on, and with a numerous Army invaded <HI>Scotland;</HI> The Scots fly into the woods, and places of fa&s;tnes; And for want of provi&s;ion in that hungry country, the Engli&s;h were for|ced to retire, but in the retraict they were &s;o pur&s;ued that they lo&s;t all their ammunition, which was attributed to the trea&s;on of Sir <HI>Andrew Harkley.</HI> But your criticall Anna|li&s;ts a&s;cribe it to the poverty of &s;pirit in the royall head, who being become hatefull to God, and man, fir&s;t for perjury, by infringing the oath he made to his Barons; then by di&s;obedi|ence to his father who in his death bed charged him upon his
<PB N="7" REF="57"> ble&s;&s;ing to abandon <HI>Piers Gave&s;ton,</HI> whom neverthele&s;s he &s;till doted upon with the <HI>Spencers,</HI> by who&s;e coun&s;els hee guided him&s;elfe, And it was alwaies &s;een that Princes of an ill de&s;ti|ny follow the wor&s;t coun&s;ells.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>EDVVARD</HI> the third.</HEAD>
<P>BUt here comes a &s;pirit who will &s;oundly vindicate his fa|thers affronts. <HI>Edward</HI> the third, a Prince that was the &s;oone&s;t a man, and the longe&s;t that la&s;ted &s;o of any in the whole catalogue of Engli&s;h Kings; yet being but young when the Diadem fir&s;t begirt his temples, after an encounter at <HI>Stan|hope</HI> Park, where great multitudes of Scots appeared, but va|ni&s;hed away like meteors, skulking in woods and mountains.</P>
<P>In the Parliament held at <HI>Northampton,</HI> the King of <HI>Scotland</HI> was relea&s;ed of his homage; But &s;ome years after, when the young King began to under&s;tand him&s;elf, hee &s;ent an army with <HI>Balioll,</HI> whom he cau&s;ed to be crowned at <HI>Scone;</HI> And af|terwards there was a Battell fought at Hallidowne, where the Engli&s;h made the Scots a bridge of gold to fly over, for they betook them&s;elves all to their heeles.</P>
<P>King <HI>Balioll</HI> being thus re&s;tored, <HI>Scotland</HI> became feudita|ry to <HI>England</HI> againe.</P>
<P>But a few years after king <HI>Ed.</HI> being deeply engag'd in his French wars, and thinking <HI>Hoc agere,</HI> the Scots pre&s;uming his ab&s;ence would prove advantagious to them, make cur&s;orie &s;allies out of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and plunder all before them in the North, by the in&s;tigation of the French.</P>
<P>But the Queen and the Lords of the North make &s;uch a levy of Martiall forces, that they entred <HI>Scotland</HI> like thun|der, and at a mighty battell one <HI>Copland</HI> takes the King pri&s;o|ner, whom, pleading the law of arms he would not deliver the Queen, untill the King had &s;ent order from <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>This overthrow was given upon Saturday, and upon Satur|day &s;ix weeks before the battell of <HI>Cre&s;&s;y</HI> had bin fought, with another again&s;t the Duke of <HI>Brittain;</HI> in all which king <HI>Edward</HI> prov'd victorious. And being triumphantly return'd from <HI>France,</HI> with the Flower-de-luces upon his &s;word, and redoub|ted now by all the Princes of the Chri&s;tian world having a triumverate of kings his pri&s;oners, one would think the Scot would have bin quiet, but they &s;till provoked him &s;o far, that
<PB N="8" REF="58"> in the dead of Winter (and King <HI>Ed.</HI> was a Prince for all wea|thers) he went thither in Per&s;on him&s;elf, tooke <HI>Berwick,</HI> and had all <HI>Scotland</HI> re&s;ign'd unto him, by the King him&s;elfe, and the Nobles who joyntly &s;wore fealty and homage to him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>RICHARD</HI> the &s;econd.</HEAD>
<P>NOw the grand-childe of this great King (who turn'd the wheele of his times every where up and downe the Chri&s;tian world as he plea&s;ed) mounts the &s;tage. The Scots begin to infe&s;t the borders, and doe other acts of ho&s;tility being actually a&s;&s;i&s;ted by the French king, who &s;ent thither his Admirall with a 1000. men at armes, and 60. &s;ayle with furniture to arme 12000. men more.</P>
<P>King <HI>Richard</HI> mu&s;ters up an Army worthy of a King, and ru&s;heth into Scotland like a whirle-wind as farre as <HI>Dondee,</HI> and neither Scot or French appeared to make oppo&s;ition.</P>
<P>The Scots (as the French annales &s;ay) not &s;ymbolizing with the humour of the French grew weary of them, and ca|&s;heered them, but they kept <HI>Jean de Viene,</HI> the great Admi|rall pri&s;oner in a manner, untill the French king had payed his ran&s;ome, which he did, otherwi&s;e his Admirall might have laine at dead anchor there all his life-time.</P>
<P>But being returned to <HI>France,</HI> le&s;t he &s;hould &s;eem to &s;hew no fruits at all of his voyage, he informs the King, that hee had pried into the uttermo&s;t intrin&s;ique &s;trength, both of <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>England,</HI> and found that <HI>Scotland</HI> was able to put in the field about 30000 men, and 5000. hor&s;e, and <HI>England</HI> 60000.<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Charles</HI> the 6. of <HI>France,</HI> cal|led <HI>le phren|tique.</HI></NOTE> foot, and 8000. hor&s;e, This relation induced <HI>Charles</HI> the frantique to attempt the inva&s;ion of <HI>England</HI> the yeare following, with a formidable Army, and Fleet, which was to make &s;ayle from the Sluce, and for Land-forces far exceeded the invincible Armada of the yeare 88. But the Admirals ac|count was found fal&s;e, and to have reckoned much without his ho&s;t, for as the French Hi&s;torians report, King <HI>Richard</HI> had levied neere upon 100000. Foot and 20000. Hor&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>HENRY</HI> the fourth.</HEAD>
<P>IN <HI>Hen.</HI> the fourth's time the tumultuous Scot &s;tirs againe, and pilfers about the Marches at la&s;t he compo&s;eth the bo|dy of an Army, whom <HI>Hen. Hot&s;purre</HI> encountred, and kil'd more enemies then he had men in his own Army.</P>
<PB N="9" REF="58">
<P>Sir <HI>Robert Umphreyvile</HI> being Vice-Admirall, takes 14. great &s;hips laden with corn, together with the great Galeon of <HI>Scotland,</HI> hard by <HI>Lith,</HI> which &s;o abated the price of corn, that hee was commonly called Sir <HI>Rob. Mend-market.</HI></P>
<P>A little after the young Prince of <HI>Wales</HI> hurld him&s;elfe &s;even daies march into <HI>Scotland,</HI> and did what he would.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>HENRY</HI> the fift.</HEAD>
<P><HI>HEnry</HI> the fift that man of men, and mirrour of chivalrie (and the &s;trange&s;t Convert that ever was) being come to the Crown, he falls like a Politician to worke in erecting Forts on the frontiers of <HI>Scotland,</HI> which he did without controule.</P>
<P>After he took the young King <HI>James</HI> the fir&s;t pri&s;oner, in a very hot incounter, and carried him up and down with him in the French warres.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>HENRY</HI> the &s;ixt.</HEAD>
<P><HI>HEnry</HI> the &s;ixt for &s;ome gallant parts in the afore&s;aid young King <HI>James</HI> the fir&s;t of <HI>Scotland</HI> married him to the Lady <HI>Iane,</HI> Daughter to the Earle of <HI>Somer&s;et</HI> his Neece; But he proved afterwards hatefully ingratefull, and per&s;idious to King <HI>Henry,</HI> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nding all his main forces again&s;t him but he was &s;hamefully re|pell'd and beaten by Sir <HI>Ralph Gray,</HI> and the Knights of the North.</P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>EDVVARD</HI> the fourth.</HEAD>
<P>ANd no le&s;&s;e i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> gratefull and treacherous was <HI>Iames</HI> the third in <HI>Edward</HI> the fourths time, who de&s;iring in mariage <HI>Cicilia</HI> the Kings daughter, it was conde&s;cended unto &s;o farre that he had part of her portion advanc'd him; yet he fell to acts of ho&s;tility and frames an Army, which the Duke of <HI>Gloce&s;ter</HI> with 15000 men ill favourdly beat (though they were twice more in number) and got <HI>Berwicke</HI> againe.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>HENRY</HI> the &s;eventh.</HEAD>
<P>NOw come I to that great <HI>Magus</HI> of his dayes <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;e|venth who was &s;aid to be hanted with walking &s;pirits <HI>Simuell Warbecke,</HI> and <HI>Perkins,</HI> whom hee cha&s;ed away by &s;prinkling of bloud.</P>
<P>The Scots entertained <HI>Warbecke,</HI> t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ough they knew him to be an Impo&s;tor, and rai&s;ed an Army for him.</P>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Surry</HI> and Bi&s;hop <HI>Foxe,</HI> were &s;ent again&s;t it, who drive the King and <HI>Warbecke</HI> with the whole Army before them &s;ix dayes march into the Country, at la&s;t the Scots King &s;ent a de|fiance for a battell, which being to be fought the next day, the Scot &s;teales away the night before in a &s;ilent march.</P>
<P>Hereupon a Peace was concluded, provided that <HI>Warbecke</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="59"> &s;hould bee bani&s;hed <HI>Scotland</HI> whom notwith&s;tanding they furni|&s;hed with &s;hips, to goe to try his fortune with the Corni&s;h Rebels.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>HENRY</HI> the eight.</HEAD>
<P>ANd now come I to the glory of his dayes (e&s;pecially two thirds of them) <HI>Henry</HI> the 8. for never did Prince ri&s;e with a g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eater lu&s;tre in <HI>Englands</HI> hemi&s;pheare, and &s;et in a darker clowd. And being extreamly bu&s;ied in the warres of <HI>France,</HI> who &s;hould di&s;turb him but his own brothervin-law, <HI>Iames</HI> the fourth, excited by the French, who contributed great &s;ummes of money towards the &s;upport of the warre; The King &s;ends pre&s;ently from <HI>France</HI> to the Earle of <HI>Surry</HI> to make head again&s;t them; At fir&s;t the Earle &s;ent Sir <HI>VVilliam Bullmer</HI> with 200. Archers upon the borders to ob&s;erve their motion.</P>
<P>The Lord <HI>Humes,</HI> entreth with 8000. men and as he thought to returne with his booty, Sir <HI>VVilliam Bulmer</HI> having reinforced his 200. to 1000. fell upon the 8000. Scots, with that fury, that he ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d 500. took &s;o many pri&s;oners, and intercepted the whole booty. This made the young Kings blood boyle within him for revenge, and compo&s;ing a royall Army of the utmo&s;t &s;trength of <HI>Scotland</HI> went in the head thereof him&s;elfe.</P>
<P>The Earle of <HI>Surry</HI> was not idle, but rai&s;ed an Army of 26000 men, and his &s;on then Admirall came to him from <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> with 1000. old Sea &s;ouldiers. The two Amies met in <HI>Flodden,</HI> where af|ter many hot incounters victory fluttered a long while with doubt|full wings, at la&s;t the King him&s;elfe, with the Archb. of St. <HI>Andrews</HI> his brother, were &s;lain, with 12. Earles, and 14. Barrons, and 12000 Gentlemen and others and there fell of the Engli&s;h but 1500. only, nor could the Scots re&s;cue the body of their King, but to mend the matter a little, gave out it was not the Kings body, but one <HI>Elfin&s;ton</HI> attired like to him, to encourage the Army.</P>
<P>But afterwards, though they acknowledged it was his body, yet would not <HI>Henry</HI> the 8, permit him to have the due rites of Prince|ly buriall, becau&s;e he had &s;o perjuriou&s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> violated his faith with him.</P>
<P>Some few years after the Duke of <HI>Albany</HI> rays'd an Army, but he was prevented to do any hurt by the Lord <HI>Roos</HI> and <HI>Dacres,</HI> who made Bonefires of above 80. Villages without &s;eeing the face of an enemy, No &s;ooner were they returned, but newes came, that the Duke of <HI>Albany</HI> had by this time in perfect equipage an Army of 30000. men.</P>
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<P>Hereupon the Lord Trea&s;urer and Admirall, were &s;ent to finde him out, but both Armies being come to &s;ight of each other, the Scots not enduring well the countenance of the Engli&s;h Forces, ran away and &s;hamefully disbanded. &s;o that if the Lord Generall had had then commi&s;&s;io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> ample enough, they might have given a fatall blow to <HI>Scotland,</HI> as they them&s;elves con<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;&s;ed, but by the interce&s;|&s;ion of the Queen Dowager, <HI>Hen.</HI> the eights &s;i&s;ter, they obtained truce.</P>
<P>After this King <HI>Hen.</HI> condi&s;cended to meet <HI>Iames</HI> the fift at <HI>York</HI> but he fayled, &s;ending certain Commi&s;&s;ioners, and &s;o cunning was the Scot, that their Commi&s;&s;ion, and private in&s;tructions looked two wayes, and as they were treating, tydings came, that the Scots had ru&s;hed into, and rifled the Marches mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly.</P>
<P>Hereupon the Earl of <HI>Norfolke</HI> was &s;ent with 20000. men, who for 8. daies did what he would within the bowels of the Country.</P>
<P>Anothor Army was &s;ent under the Command of the Lord <HI>Dacres</HI> and <HI>Wharton,</HI> who gave them &s;uch a mortall blow, that eight Earls were taken pri&s;oners, and 200. Gentlemen and 800. more, and the &s;tories concurre, that there was &s;carce a &s;ouldier, but had at lea&s;t his two pri&s;oners, this was <HI>Solmemo&s;&s;e</HI> battell.</P>
<P>Yet for all this &s;uch is the inc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ination of the Engli&s;h to bee at peace with their neighbours, that a match was concluded, and ra|tified by act of Parliament, with a &s;peciall in&s;trument under the Scots Noble-mens hands between Prince <HI>Edward,</HI> and the young Queen <HI>Mary,</HI> yet by the cunning negotiation of the French, the Scot fell off. Hereupon old king <HI>Henry,</HI> who could dige&s;t no indig|nities, &s;ent 200. &s;hips laden with &s;ouldiers to the <HI>Frith,</HI> under the Earl of <HI>Hereford,</HI> who marched as far as <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> burnt the town, and part of the ca&s;tle, returning with revenge and rich bootie. A while after the Scots under&s;tanding the King was gone to <HI>France,</HI> thought to &s;erve them&s;elves of that advantage, and to fall upon the borders, but the Earl of <HI>Hereford</HI> repelled them,</P>
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<HEAD><HI>EDVVARD</HI> the &s;ixt.</HEAD>
<P><HI>EDward</HI> the &s;ixt, though yet in his minority, &s;eemed to be &s;en&s;ible of the affront the Scot had put upon him for a wife, though his Father had vindicated it pritty well, but as the ca&s;e &s;tood, nothing could concerne <HI>England</HI> more, then to hinder that the French of any in the world &s;hould have her.</P>
<P>And now am I come to the la&s;t true battell that was fought 'twixt
<PB N="12" REF="60"> <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;ince the Conque&s;t. The Duke of <HI>Sommer&s;et</HI> was appointed Generall, the Earle of <HI>VVarwicke</HI> his Lieutenant Generall, the Lord <HI>Clinton</HI> Admirall had 60. &s;hipps of warre, which were to hold cour&s;e with the Land-forces. So from <HI>Barwicke,</HI> with a &s;ober Army they entred <HI>Scotland,</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">on&s;i&s;ting of about 13000. foot and 1200. men at arms, 2500. light hor&s;e, 16. peeces of Ordnance, every peece having a guard of Pioners who came in all to 1400. They had marched as far as <HI>Mu&s;&s;elborough,</HI> far within the Country, and with infinite pains did they &s;urmount the naturall and arti|ficiall difficulties of the wayes, three &s;mall Ca&s;tles they &s;eized upon in their march without offering any act of violence to &s;mall or great.</P>
<P>They under&s;tood the Regent of <HI>Scotland</HI> did far exceed them in number, and there came Recruits hourely to him, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or the fire cro&s;&s;e was carried about by the Heralds through all parts, which is two firebrands upon the point of a Spear, that all above 16. and under 60 &s;hould re&s;ort to the Generall rendezvous &s;o that the Hi&s;torians on both &s;ides leave the number of them indefinite to this day, but they all agree, that they were at lea&s;t twice as many and they had twice as many Ordnance, yet notwith&s;tanding many other advantages it plea&s;ed God to give the Engli&s;h a compleat victory (and victories are the decrees of Heaven when there is no tribunall on earth to de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ermine the quarrell. This hapned preci&s;ely the &s;ame day that <HI>Flodden</HI> field battell was fought 34. years before. There were 14000. &s;lain out-right, whereof there were 3000. Kirk-men; Fryars and Monks, above 1500. taken pri&s;oners, whereof young <HI>Huntly,</HI> and other great Lords were of the number; the &s;poiles of the field 30000 jacks. and 30. peeces of Ordnance were &s;hipped for <HI>England,</HI> and the Engli&s;h plundred the Country up and down 5. daies march further.</P>
<P>To the&s;e exploits at home may be added a &s;mart blow the Engli&s;h gave the Scots in <HI>Ireland</HI> in Sir <HI>Io. Perrots</HI> government, for &s;ome 2000. Red&s;hanks being come over by the <HI>Burks</HI> means, like a &s;warm of Catterpillers they proll'd and pill'd up and down, Sir <HI>Ri. Bing|ham</HI> then Governour of <HI>Connaught</HI> made head again&s;t them, with a &s;mall contemptible number, and at the river of Earn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> neer <HI>Sleg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> &s;lew them all out-right &s;o that not one &s;oule e&s;caped, to return <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o <HI>Scotland</HI> with newes what became of the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Touching the&s;e late traver&s;es of warre 'twixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scot|land</HI> 'tis true that infortunate <HI>England</HI> hath drawne upon her <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">elfe a great deale of di&s;honour in the opinion of the world abroad &s;pe|cially
<PB N="13" REF="60"> among tho&s;e who under&s;tand not the true carriage of things; For the&s;e late ru&s;hings in of the Scot cannot be &s;o properly call'd <HI>inva&s;ions</HI> a <HI>invitations,</HI> by &s;ome &s;purious and mo&s;t unworthy de|genero<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;hmen, who from a long time had plotted the bringing of them in, and it was the mo&s;t pernicious and ba&s;e&s;t trea&s;on that ever wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> practis'd again&s;t poore <HI>England:</HI> But to give a fu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">atisfactory relation of this Warre, I wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l deduce the bu|&s;ine<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> from the beginning.</P>
<P>Before this un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ucky &s;torme fell twixt <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> there were certai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>clowds</HI> i&s;&s;uing from the vapors of divers di&s;contented braines, p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ainly di&s;cern'd to hover up and downe a long time in both Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">gdomes &s;pecially in that Northerne Region: The fir&s;t which appeard was, when &s;ome yeers after his Maje&s;ties acce&s;&s;e to the crowne, there was an act of revocation pa&s;&s;ed, where &s;ome things which had in&s;en&s;ibly &s;lipped away from the crowne, and o|ther things which were illegally &s;natch'd from the church were re|&s;um'd, and reannex'd to both; which lighting upon &s;ome of the great ones, they were over heard to murmure though this was done with as much moderation as po&s;&s;ibly could be and by the mature advice of the Coun&s;ell of &s;tate there, with the free opinion of the appro|ved'&s;t Lawyers of that Kingdome, and from hence i&s;&s;ued the fir&s;t &s;ymptome o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;contentment.</P>
<P>Not long after his Maje&s;ty being inform'd of the meane and &s;er|vile condition of the Mini&s;ters of that Kingdome, which have the charge of the con&s;cience, and &s;ervice of God, and make up a con|&s;iderable part of the free borne &s;ubjects; his Maje&s;ty under&s;tanding what poore pittances they receiv'd for their &s;ub&s;i&s;tence, and for tho&s;e &s;mall &s;tipends al&s;o, or rather almes of benevolence, they de|pended upon the plea&s;ure of the Laiks, His Maje&s;ty by a &s;peciall Commi&s;&s;ion to that end found away to augment and acertain that allowance, and free them from that &s;lavi&s;h kind of clientele and de|pendency they had upon the &s;eculars; Whence may bee in&s;err'd what mon&s;ters of ingratitude tho&s;e men &s;hew'd them&s;elves to be af|terwards, by exa&s;perating and poy&s;oning the hearts of the people a|gain&s;t their &s;overaigne in their virulent and &s;editious preachments, and inviting them to armes. Not long after, when the poore husbandman and owners of corn were bound to pay tithes to lay per&s;ons call'd there the Lords of the erection, were much incommodated by them, be cau&s;e they could not take in their corn till the Par&s;on had fetch'd away his tithe, who &s;ometimes to &s;hew his power or &s;pleen peradventure
<PB N="14" REF="61"> would defer of purpo&s;e the taking in thereof, whereby the whole crop, by not taking advantage of the weather, would oftimes &s;uffer: His Maje&s;ty for the redre&s;&s;e of this grievance, appointed Commi&s;&s;ioners who found a way to purcha&s;e tho&s;e tiths, and bring the impropriators to take a pecuniary certain rent counterveylable unto them: Hereupon the Laie Lords and Gentlemen finding that the re&s;pect and dependen|cy wherby the Mini&s;ters and owners of corn were formerly oblig, d unto them to be hereby le&s;&s;en'd did tacitly di&s;cover much animo&s;ity and di&s;|plea&s;ure: Moreover his Maje&s;tie when he went thither to be crown'd having conferr'd honours upon &s;ome whom he had found indu&s;trious to promote his &s;ervice, envie (which is alwayes the canker of honour) began to raign among divers of them which did turne v<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ibly after|wards to di&s;contentments.</P>
<P>The&s;e were the conceal'd and private grounds, now the open and a|vowed cau&s;es were the introduction of our Liturgy, the booke of Ca|nons, Ordination and Con&s;ecration with the high Commi&s;&s;ion Court among them: and it hath bin found &s;ince that tho&s;e things were in|troduc'd by the cunning of tho&s;e di&s;contented &s;pirits, that thereby there m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ght be &s;ome grounds to &s;u&s;citat the people to ri&s;e, which plot of theirs tooke effect.</P>
<P>Adde hereunto that after the King of <HI>Swed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ns</HI> death divers Scots Commanders came over, and made a flori&s;h in our Engli&s;h Court, but being Souldiers of fortune, and finding no trading here, they went to <HI>Scotland</HI> and joyn'd coun&s;ells wi h tho&s;e di&s;contented &s;pirits to beget a warre that they might be in action.</P>
<P>The only pretence they tooke for their ri&s;ing then, was our Com|mon Prayer Booke, hereupon his Maje&s;ty &s;ent a Proclamation to be publi&s;hed wherein he declar'd that 'twas not his purpo&s;e to pre&s;&s;e the practi&s;e of that book upon any ones con&s;cience, therefore he was wil|ling to di&s;charge them from the u&s;e and exerci&s;e of it, and to aboli&s;h all acts tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> tended to that end and that all things &s;hould be in <HI>&s;tatu quo prius.</HI> But this would not &s;uffice, for they went on to fi&s;h in the&s;e troubled waters, having a de&s;igne to drayne all the Epi&s;copall <HI>&s;ees</HI> in the Kingdome, and turn them to laic land: Hereupon they entred into a holy league which they ter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">'d Covenant, without his Maje&s;ties privity, and th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s was point blank again&s;t an Act of Parliament 1585. which utterly prohibits all leagues, covenants or bands what&s;oever without the Kings con&s;ent: Hereupon the bo|dy of an Army was <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ai&s;ed, and one <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ley</HI> was made Generall, &s;o they ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ched to <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="4 letters"></HI> Hill within five miles of <HI>Berwicke</HI></P>
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<P>Where the rendevouz was: They gave out they came with a petition to his Maje&s;ty, though they brought it upon the pikes point. There were many noble Engli&s;h hearts which &s;well'd high at this in&s;olency of the <HI>Scot,</HI> and therefore went with wonderfull alacrity to attend his Maje&s;ty to <HI>Berwick,</HI> but there were others who were luke-warme in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and tho&s;e of the greate&s;t Ones, which the <HI>Scots</HI> knew wel enough, for there was nothing tran&s;-acted or &s;aid in the Kings Cabinet Coun&s;ell or Bed-chamber, but there was intelligence given them: Hereupon a pacification was &s;huffled up, and &s;o both the Armyes were di&s;per&s;ed. The King being returned to <HI>London,</HI> grew more and more &s;en&s;ible of the&s;e indignities of his Subjects of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and having called a Parliament ex|pre&s;ly for that purpo&s;e in <HI>England,</HI> &s;ome of the cheife Mem|bers thereof were &s;o intoxicated by the <HI>Scot,</HI> that they did not only not re&s;ent this bravado he had done to <HI>England,</HI> but &s;eem|ed to approve of his actions. His Maje&s;ty finding the pul&s;e of his Parliament beat &s;o faintly for enabling him to vindicate the&s;e indignities upon the <HI>Scot,</HI> di&s;&s;olv'd it, and propos'd the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to his privy Coun&s;ell, who not only advis'd him, but &s;upplyed him with noble &s;ummes to repaire his honour by War; hereupon the former Forces were rallied, and made up into the body of an Army: The <HI>Scot</HI> was not idle all this while, but reunited his former Army, whereof there was a good part undisbanded (contrary to Article) and choo&s;ing rather to make another Country the theater of the War then his own, he got over the <HI>Tweed,</HI> and found all pa&s;&s;ages open, and as it were made for him al the way til he came to the <HI>Tine,</HI> &amp; though there were con&s;iderable Troupes of Hor&s;e and Foot at <HI>New|ca&s;tle,</HI> yet they never offer'd as much as to face him all the way; at <HI>Ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">burg</HI> there was a &s;mall di&s;pute, but the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Infantry would not fight, &s;o <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> gates flew open to her inve|terate Enemy, without any re&s;i&s;tance at all, where he had more Freinds than Foes, and the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> General rather then to be put to unworthy compo&s;itions retired in di&s;order: Whither this happened either by &s;ecret faction, or want of affection in in the Souldier, or by the faults of the Generall, I will not
<PB N="16" REF="62"> determine; but &s;ure I am it was di&s;honourable enough to poor <HI>England,</HI> who was bought and &s;old in this expedition. This was the fir&s;t entrance the <HI>Scot</HI> made into <HI>England</HI> &s;ince the&s;e un|happy Wars; but this invitation was private, the la&s;t was pub|lick, being voted by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Commons, and they ru&s;h'd in, in the dead of Winter; notwith&s;tanding that his Maje&s;ty had taken a toyl&s;ome journey not long before to &s;it among&s;t them him&s;elfe in Parliament, where he conde&s;cended to every thing they could imaginably de&s;ire, and they acknowledging his unparaleld Grace, de&s;ired that Act to be reviv'd whereby it was Trea&s;on in the highe&s;t degree that could be, for any of the Sub|jects of <HI>Scotland</HI> of what degree or condition &s;oever to levy a|ny Mlitary Forces without his Maje&s;ties expre&s;&s;e Commi&s;&s;i|on, and this they did to expre&s;&s;e their gratitude: as they &s;aid. But the yeare came &s;carce about before they had moulded ano|ther Army, not only without, but expre&s;ly again&s;t his Royall Commi&s;&s;ion, and Counter-command, and would intrude them&s;elves to be Vmpires twixt him and his <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Subjects whither he would or no; &s;o in they ru&s;h'd againe in dead of Winter, and for Martiall exployts, the little credit they got by &s;torming of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> was nothing countervaylable to that which they lo&s;t before <HI>Hereford,</HI> where the <HI>Wel&s;h-men</HI> bang'd them to &s;ome purpo&s;e from before the town, and made their Generall to tru&s;&s;e up his pack and away, &s;ending him a fat Sow with Pigs after her, and a blew bonnet upon her head for his break-fa&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>COROLLARIE.</HEAD>
<P>THus have I run over, and faithfull related by collation of many Authors, with their concurrent te&s;timonies, tho&s;e traver&s;es of warre which have pa&s;&s;ed betwixt the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Scots</HI> &s;ince the Conque&s;t, having omitted many circum&s;tances which might have tended further to the glory of <HI>England,</HI> to avoyd prolixity, for I intended at fir&s;t that this Di&s;cour&s;e &s;hould be like a skein of Silke wound up clo&s;e upon a &s;mall bot|tome, which a freer hand might put upon the loom and draw to a large peice.</P>
<P>Any man of a clear and unpa&s;&s;ionate judgement will hence inferre that the <HI>Scots</HI> have been alwayes farre inferiour to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> (except in the&s;e latter unlucky Inva&s;ions) in poynt of true prowe&s;&s;e, and National Power: In &s;ome examples you may finde how the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> carryed away more Captives then they were Souldiers of them&s;elves, driving them as &s;heep before them; mo&s;t of the Battails they fought were in <HI>Scotland</HI> her&s;elf, when the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had been tir'd with long marches, over un|couth, and &s;trange places, being ignorant of the advenues, and advantages of them.</P>
<P>Indeed in <HI>Edward</HI> the Seconds reign they got three battails, and one at the fag end of <HI>Hen.</HI> the 8. wherein Sir <HI>Ralph Evers</HI> was &s;laine, but it was more by &s;tratagem than &s;trength, and be&s;ides the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> might have been &s;aid to have fought rather again&s;t the Heaven and Elements then men, having Wind and Sun in their faces, but that might have been tearmed more pro|perly a petty defeat then Victory, for there fell not above 200. But what u&s;e did the <HI>Scot</HI> ever make of tho&s;e Victories, though the North parts have many places of fa&s;tne&s;&s;e, and tenable, yet I reade not of any place they kept except <HI>Barwick;</HI> all the re&s;t of their Warres were but tumultuary &s;allies, and predatory deva&s;tations, and pilfrings. But the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> have taken foure
<PB N="18" REF="63"> of their Kings captives, killed two of them in the Field, car|ried away their Crown (which they give out to be greater and more weighty than that of <HI>England</HI>) their <HI>Ragman-Roll,</HI> the <HI>Blacke Cro&s;&s;e,</HI> with other in&s;truments of Soveraignty, and did &s;undry acts equivalent to a Conque&s;t. They pierced the very heart of the K<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ngdom, and the <HI>Scot</HI> may be &s;aid to have onely trod upon <HI>England</HI> toe, for they never came farther than the Walls of <HI>Yorke,</HI> till the reigne of this thing that cals it &s;elfe Parliament. But if one &s;hould aske me why the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ha|ving made &s;uch firme Inva&s;ions from time to time into the very bowels of <HI>Scotland,</HI> did not reduce it to a va&s;&s;allage and perfect provincial obedience, as well as to make their Kings fuedetary in which &s;tate they continued towards <HI>England</HI> near upon five hundred yeares?</P>
<P>My An&s;wer &s;hall be the &s;ame that <HI>Suetonius</HI> gives in behalfe of the <HI>Romans,</HI> who notwith&s;tanding they lorded, over the re&s;t of <HI>Brittany</HI> four hundred and odde yeares, yet they never went about to conquer <HI>Scotland,</HI> becau&s;e they knew the prize would not have countervail'd the paines, by rea&s;on of the craggine&s;&s;e of the Countrey and incommodity of habitation, therefore they thought it enough that <HI>Adrians</HI> Wall which extended from <HI>Tinmouth</HI> to <HI>Solway Frith,</HI> near upon four&s;core miles &s;hould be the We&s;terne Bounds of their Empire.</P>
<P>Out of the precedent Examples we may al&s;o gather, that the <HI>Scot</HI> hath been alwayes of a genius apt and forward to &s;tir again&s;t <HI>England</HI> upon any the lea&s;t occa&s;ion. For of tho&s;e five and twenty Kings and Queens that have been &s;ince the Conque&s;t, onely five have been free of their in&s;olencies: yet did <HI>England</HI> never begin with them till &s;he was ju&s;tly provo|ked thereunto, nor could Alliances nor Leagues, or any tyes of Treaty confirmed by Solemne Oathes (which are tho&s;e re|ligious Bonds that pa&s;&s;e 'twixt God and the Soul) detain the <HI>Scoti&s;h</HI> Kings from puzling and di&s;turbing <HI>England,</HI> when her Kings were mo&s;t di&s;tracted in Warres with <HI>France,</HI> and the better halfe of her &s;trength imployed abroad, &s;o that the <HI>Scots</HI> may be &s;aid to have been from time to time as goads in <HI>Eng|lands</HI> &s;ides, or a thorne in her toe; and <HI>France</HI> leaguing meerly
<PB N="19" REF="63"> for his own advantage with them, may be &s;aid to have made u&s;e of <HI>Scotland</HI> as the Fox did of the Cats foot to pull the Apple out of the Fire for his own eating: yet for all the&s;e eager and irrefragable Combinations 'twixt the <HI>French</HI> and Her again&s;t <HI>England, England</HI> ever bore up, and made her party good, and that in a victorious way again&s;t both, and for <HI>Scotland</HI> &s;he may be &s;aid to have given Her blowes for phil|lips.</P>
<P>But it &s;eemes that <HI>Italian</HI> was well ver&s;ed in the <HI>Scoti&s;hmens</HI> humours, who under&s;tanding of the late Vnion between the two Kingdomes, &s;aid that <HI>England</HI> had got no great catch by the addition of <HI>Scotland,</HI> &s;he had onely got a Wolfe by the eares, who mu&s;t be held very fa&s;t, el&s;e he will run away to <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>Some there are who much magnifie and cry up the <HI>Scots</HI> of late yeares, for great Souldiers, tacitly derogating thereby from the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> as if they &s;hould &s;tand in &s;ome apprehen&s;ion of fear of them; but I cannot imagine upon what grounds they &s;hould do it; true it is, that &s;ince the Revolt of the <HI>Hol|lander,</HI> and the&s;e &s;eventy yeares Tumults in the Netherlands, &s;ome of them are much improved in the Art of Warre, and knowledge of Armes from what they were; they have al&s;o pu&s;hed on their Fortunes in the Warres of <HI>Denmarke, Sweden, Ru&s;&s;ia, Germany,</HI> and <HI>France;</HI> for <HI>Poland,</HI> their Profe&s;&s;ion there is to tru&s;&s;e Packes rather than traile Pikes. By rea&s;on of the quality of the Soile and Clime they have tough and hardy bodies, and it may adde to their courage that they venture for a better Countrey, in regard they cannot go to a wor&s;e than their own. Now it mu&s;t be granted that the greate&s;t ad|vantage wherewith Nature doth recompence a mountainous and &s;terile Soile above a luxurious and ea&s;ie, is, to make it produce &s;uffering bodies; which made the <HI>Romans</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e nine-&s;core yeares conquering of <HI>Spain,</HI> when they were but nine conquering of <HI>France.</HI></P>
<P>For the fir&s;t, 'tis an&s;wered, that if the <HI>Scot</HI> hath made &s;allies abroad into other Countries of late yeares, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> al&s;o have done the like, and are in &s;ome places in greater nu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|bers,
<PB N="18" REF="64"> as in the Low-countries, where at this day they treble the number of the <HI>Scots,</HI> &s;o that the <HI>Netherlands</HI> may be &s;aid to be a Military Yard for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> as well: and he that is never &s;o little ver&s;ed in the Moderne Stories will finde that the Foundation of that State hath been chiefly cimented with <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Bloud.</P>
<P>For the Ea&s;t-countrey, 'tis true, there are many able <HI>Scots</HI> Leaders, and there are al&s;o many <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> of abilities and fame.</P>
<P>To the &s;econd, if the <HI>Scots</HI> are a hardy People becau&s;e of their cragges and mountaines: I an&s;wer that the <HI>Welch</HI> and <HI>Corni&s;h</HI> with them that dwell about the Northerne Alpes in <HI>England,</HI> are as mountainous as they, and I believe have as &s;uffering and &s;turdy bodies; which makes the world yield it for a Ma|xime, that no Prince of Chri&s;tendom hath a better choice to make Souldiers of than the King of Great <HI>Britain.</HI></P>
<P>I will conclude with certain Prophe&s;ies the <HI>Scots</HI> do much &s;peak of. The fir&s;t is out of <HI>Polychronicon,</HI> whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e the Authour <HI>Ranulphus Cistren&s;is</HI> relates the words of a certain Anchorite who lived in King <HI>Egelbert</HI> his time, now near upon 900. yeares ago, and the words are the&s;e, <HI>Angli, quia proditioni, ebrietati, &amp; negligentia domus Dei dediti &s;unt, prim&ugrave;m per Da|nos, deinde per Normanos terti&ugrave;m per Scotos, quos vili&s;&s;imos ha|bent, conterentur: varium erit &s;aeculum, &amp; varietas mentium, de&s;ignabitur varietate vestium.</HI> 1. <HI>The</HI> Engli&s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en <HI>for that they wonneth them&s;elves to trea&s;on, to drunkenne&s;&s;e, and wretchle&s;ne&s;&s;e of Gods Hou&s;e; fir&s;t by the</HI> Danes, <HI>then by the</HI> Normans, <HI>and la&s;tly by the</HI> Scots, <HI>whom they holden lea&s;t in e&s;teem, &s;hallen be overthrown, 'twill be an in&s;table Age, and the variablene&s;&s;e of mens mindes &s;hall appear by the variablene&s;&s;e of their ve&s;tments.</HI></P>
<P>The <HI>Dani&s;h</HI> and <HI>Norman</HI> Conque&s;t have happened &s;ince, and the third is to follow in the &s;ame manner, &s;ay they, not by Succe&s;&s;ion, but by the Sword.</P>
<P N="2">2 The &s;econd are tho&s;e Prophe&s;ies of <HI>Merlin,</HI> who much tampers with the &s;ingle Lion, and of the Feats that he &s;hould do, which they &s;ay, is meant of their Lion within a double Trea&s;ure Rampant, <HI>Mars</HI> counterflowred.</P>
<P N="3">3. Then come they to the Stone wherein they &s;ay, the Fortune
<PB N="19" REF="64"> of their Kingdom is fixed, which hath lain in <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> now near upon five hundred yeares.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>Ni fallat fatum, Scoti quocunque locatum</L>
<L>Invenient Lapidem regnare tenentur ibidem.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If Fate &s;ailes not, the <HI>Scots,</HI> where ere they finde</L>
<L>This Stone, there they &s;hall reigne and rule man-kinde.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P>Which they interpret al&s;o mu&s;t be by the Sword not by Suc|ce&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="4">4. Then do they apply to them&s;elves a Prophe&s;ie that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> have very frequent among&s;t them, which is, <HI>That the day will come, when the</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>&s;hall weep over the</HI> Engl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hmens <HI>graves.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. La&s;tly, that which is &s;o common in the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> mens mouthes, [Lincolne <HI>was,</HI> London <HI>is, and</HI> Yorke <HI>&s;hall be</HI>] which they &s;ay, &s;hall be at la&s;t the Seat of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Empire, to be erected there by them.</P>
<P>But I am none of tho&s;e that afford much faith to rambling Prophe&s;ies, but will conclude with a late much cried up Wi&s;e-man, (Sir <HI>W. R</HI>) that <HI>Prophe&s;ies are as &s;eeds &s;own in the va&s;t field of time, whereof not one grain of a thou&s;andcomes to grow up:</HI> yet the&s;e Prophe&s;ies may &s;erve as &s;o many Pro&s;pe|ctives for <HI>England,</HI> to behold, though a far off in a mi&s;t, the danger and de&s;tiny which may befall her, from this <HI>growing</HI> Nation if not timely prevented.</P>
<P N="6">6. Hereunto may be added another very old and il-favoured one, which &s;hall fore run her fall.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L>Gens tua te <HI>prodit,</HI> proh Anglia, Scotia <HI>rodit.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>&mdash;O England,</L>
<L>Thine own People thee betray,</L>
<L>And <HI>Scotland</HI> makes of thee a prey.</L>
</LG></Q>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>THE VOTE, OR A POEME ROYALL, PRESENTED TO HIS MAIESTIE <HI>for a New-yeares-Gift.</HI></P>
<P><HI>By way of Di&s;cour&s;e 'twixt the</HI> Poet, <HI>and his</HI> Mu&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Calendis Januariis</HI> 1642.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed by <HI>T. Badger,</HI> for <HI>Humphrey Mo&s;ley,</HI> at the <HI>Princes Armes,</HI> in Paules Church-yard, 1642.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="67">
<PB N="1" REF="67">
<HEAD>POEMA <GAP DESC="foreign">.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THe world's bright <HI>Eye, Times</HI> mea&s;urer, begun</L>
<L>Through watry <HI>Capricorne</HI> his cour&s;e to run,</L>
<L>Old <HI>Ianus</HI> hastned on, his temples bovnd</L>
<L>With Ivy, his gray haires with hollie crownd;</L>
<L>When in a &s;erious quest, my thoughts did mu&s;e,</L>
<L>What Gift, as best becomming, I &s;hould chu&s;e,</L>
<L>To <HI>Britaines Monarch</HI> (my dread Soveraigne) bring</L>
<L>Which might &s;upply a <HI>New-yeares</HI> offering.</L>
<L>I rummag'd all my &s;tores, and &s;earch'd my cells</L>
<L>Where nought appear'd, god wot, but bagatells:</L>
<L>No farre fetch'd Indian gemme, cut out of rock,</L>
<L>Or fi&s;hd in &s;hels were tru&s;ted under lock,</L>
<L>No peece which <HI>Angelo's</HI> &s;trong fancy hitt,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Titians</HI> pen&s;il, or rare <HI>Hyliards</HI> witt,</L>
<L>No Ermines, or black-&s;ables, no &s;uch Skinnes,</L>
<L>As the grim Tartar hunts, or takes in ginnes:</L>
<PB N="2" REF="68">
<L>No Medails, or rich &s;tuff of Tyrian dye,</L>
<L>No co&s;tly Boules of fro&s;ted argentry,</L>
<L>No curious Land-skip, or &s;ome Marble peece</L>
<L>Dig'd up in <HI>Delphos,</HI> or el&s;e-where in <HI>Greece,</HI></L>
<L>No <HI>Roman</HI> Perfumes, Buffs, or Cordouans</L>
<L>Made drunk with Ambar by <HI>Moreno's</HI> hands,</L>
<L>No arras, or rich carpets freighted o're</L>
<L>The &s;urging Seas from <HI>A&s;ia's</HI> doubtfull &s;hore,</L>
<L>No Lions cub, or beast of &s;trange a&s;pect,</L>
<L>Which in <HI>Numidia's</HI> fiery womb had &s;lept,</L>
<L>No old <HI>Toledo</HI> blades, or Damaskins,</L>
<L>No Pi&s;tols, or &s;ome rare-&s;pring'd Carrabins,</L>
<L>No <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Ginet, or choyce &s;tallion &s;ent,</L>
<L>From <HI>Naples,</HI> or hot <HI>Afrique's</HI> continent,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In fine, I nothing found, I could de&s;cry</L>
<L>Worthy the <HI>hands</HI> of <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> or his <HI>eye.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My wits were at a &s;tand, when, loe, my <HI>Mu&s;e</HI></L>
<L>(None of the Quire, but &s;uch as they do u&s;e</L>
<L>For laundre&s;&s;es or handmaids of meane rank</L>
<L>J knew &s;ometimes on <HI>Po</HI> and <HI>I&s;is</HI> banks)</L>
<L>Did &s;oftly buzz.</L>
</LG>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mu&s;e.</SPEAKER>
<L>Then let me &s;omething bring,</L>
<L>My han&s;ell the New-yeare to <HI>CHARLES</HI> my King,</L>
<L>May u&s;her in bifronted <HI>Ianus</HI>&mdash;</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="3" REF="68">
<SPEAKER>Poet.</SPEAKER>
<L>Thou fond foole-hardy <HI>Mu&s;e,</HI> thou &s;illy Thing,</L>
<L>Which 'mongst the &s;hrubbs &amp; reeds do'&s;t u&s;e to &s;ing,</L>
<L>Dar'&s;t thou peck up, and the tall Cedar clime,</L>
<L>And venture on a King with gingling rime?</L>
<L>Though all thy words were <HI>perle,</HI> thy letters <HI>gold,</HI></L>
<L>And cut in <HI>rubies,</HI> or ca&s;t in a mould</L>
<L>Of <HI>diamonds,</HI> yet &s;till thy lines would be</L>
<L>To meane a gift for &s;uch a Maje&s;tie.</L>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Mu&s;e.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>I'le try; and hope to pa&s;&s;e without di&s;daine</L>
<L>Jn New-yeares-gifts the <HI>mind</HI> &s;tands for the <HI>maine,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Sophy,</HI> finding 'twas well meant, did daigne</L>
<L>Few dropps of running water from a &s;wayne,</L>
<L>Then &s;ure 'twill plea&s;e my <HI>Liege,</HI> if J him bring,</L>
<L>Some gentle dropps from the <HI>Ca&s;talian</HI> &s;pring.</L>
<L>Though Rarities J want of &s;uch account,</L>
<L>Yet have J &s;ome thing on the forked <HI>mount.</HI></L>
<L>Nor i'&s;t the fir&s;t, or third acce&s;&s;e J made</L>
<L>To <HI>Cae&s;ar's</HI> feet, and thence departed glad.</L>
<PB N="4" REF="69">
<L>For as the Sun with his <HI>male</HI> heat doth render</L>
<L><HI>Nile's</HI> muddy &s;lime fruitfull, and apt t'engender,</L>
<L>And dayly to produce newe kinds of creatures</L>
<L>Of various &s;hapes, and thou&s;and differing features,</L>
<L>So is my fancy quickned by the glance</L>
<L>Of <HI>His</HI> benigne a&s;pect and countenance,</L>
<L>It makes me pregnant, and to &s;uperfaete,</L>
<L>Such is the vigor of <HI>His</HI> beames and heate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Once in a <HI>Vocall Fore&s;t</HI> I did &s;ing,</L>
<L>And made the <HI>Oke</HI> to &s;tand for <HI>CHARLES</HI> my King,</L>
<L>The be&s;t of trees, whereof (it is no vant</L>
<L>The greate&s;t <HI>Schooles</HI> of <HI>Europe</HI> ring and chant)</L>
<L>There you &s;hall al&s;o find Dame <HI>ARHETINE,</HI></L>
<L>Great <HI>Henries</HI> daughter, and Great <HI>Britaines</HI> Queene,</L>
<L>Her name engraven in a Laurell tree,</L>
<L>And &s;o tran&s;mitted to Eternity.</L>
<L>For now I heare that <HI>Grove</HI> &s;peake's be&s;ides mine,</L>
<L>The language of the <HI>Loire,</HI> the <HI>Po,</HI> and <HI>Rhyne,</HI></L>
<L>(And to my <HI>Prince</HI> (my &s;weet <HI>Black Prince</HI>) of late,</L>
<L>I did a <HI>youthfull</HI> &s;ubject dedicate.)</L>
<L>Nor do I doubt but that in time, my <HI>Trees</HI></L>
<L>Will yeeld me fruit to pay <HI>Apollo's</HI> fees,</L>
<L>To offer up whole Hecatombes of prai&s;e</L>
<L>To <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> if on me he cast his rayes.</L>
<PB N="5" REF="69">
<L>And if my lamp have oyle, I may compile</L>
<L>The <HI>moderne Annals</HI> of great <HI>Albion's</HI> I&s;le,</L>
<L>To vindicat the truth of <HI>CHARLES</HI> his raigne,</L>
<L>From &s;cribling Pamphletors, who &s;tory &s;taine</L>
<L>With loo&s;e imperfect pa&s;&s;ages, and thru&s;t</L>
<L>Lame things upon the world, t'ane up in tru&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I have had Audience (in another &s;traine)</L>
<L>Of <HI>Europes</HI> greate&s;t Kings, when <HI>German</HI> maine</L>
<L>And the <HI>Cantabrian</HI> waves I cro&s;sd, J drank</L>
<L>Of <HI>Tagus, Seine,</HI> and &s;ate at <HI>Tybers</HI> bank,</L>
<L>Through <HI>Scylla</HI> &amp; <HI>Charybdis</HI> I have &s;teerd,</L>
<L>Where re&s;tle&s;&s;e <HI>Aetna,</HI> belching flames, appeerd,</L>
<L>By <HI>Greece,</HI> once <HI>Palla's</HI> garden, then J pa&s;st,</L>
<L>Now all ore &s;pread with Jgnorance and wa&s;t.</L>
<L>Nor hath faire <HI>Europe</HI> her va&s;t bounds throughout</L>
<L>An <HI>Academe</HI> of note J found not out.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But now J hope in a &s;ucce&s;&s;efull <HI>prore,</HI></L>
<L>The Fates have fix'd me on &s;weet <HI>Englands</HI> &s;hore,</L>
<L>And by the&s;e various wandrings true J found,</L>
<L>Earth <HI>is the common Mother, every ground</HI></L>
<L><HI>May be one's Countrey, for by birth each man</HI></L>
<L><HI>Is in this VVorld a</HI> Co&s;mopolitan</L>
<L><HI>A free-borne Burge&s;&s;e, and receives thereby</HI></L>
<L><HI>His denization from Nativity:</HI></L>
<PB N="6" REF="70">
<L><HI>Nor is this VVorld, at be&s;t, but a huge</HI> Inn,</L>
<L><HI>And men the rambling pa&s;&s;engers, wherin</HI></L>
<L><HI>Some warm lodgings find, &amp; that as &s;oone</HI></L>
<L><HI>As out of Nature's clo&s;ets they &s;ee no one,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And find the table ready layd; but &s;ome</HI></L>
<L><HI>Mu&s;t for their commons trudg, and &s;hift for roome:</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVith ea&s;ie pace &s;ome clime</HI> Promotions Hill,</L>
<L><HI>Some in the</HI> Dale, <HI>do what they can, &s;tick &s;till.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Some through fal&s;e gla&s;&s;es &s;miling</HI> Fortune <HI>&s;py,</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVho &s;till keeps off, though &s;he appeares hard by:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Some like the O&s;trich, with their wings do flutter,</HI></L>
<L><HI>But cannot fly, or &s;oare above the gutter,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Some quickly fetch and double</HI> Good-Hopes Cape,</L>
<L><HI>Some ne're can do'tthough the &s;ame cours they &s;hape:</HI></L>
<L><HI>So that poore mortals are &s;o many balls</HI></L>
<L><HI>To&s;sd, &s;ome o're line, &s;ome under Fortune's walls.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>And it is Heavens high plea&s;ure Man &s;hould lye</HI></L>
<L><HI>Obnoxious to this partiality,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That by Indu&s;trious ways he &s;hould contend,</HI></L>
<L>Nature's <HI>&s;hort pittance to improve and mend.</HI></L>
<L><HI>And</HI> Indu&s;try <HI>ne're fail'd, at la&s;t, t'advance</HI></L>
<L><HI>Her patient &s;onnes above the reach of</HI> Chance.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<SP>
<PB N="7" REF="70">
<SPEAKER>Poet.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<L>But whither rov'st thou thus?</L>
<L>Well; &s;ince I &s;ee thou art &s;o &s;trongly bent,</L>
<L>And of a gracious looke &s;o confident,</L>
<L>Go, and throw down thy &s;elfe at <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> feet,</L>
<L>And in thy be&s;t attire thy <HI>Soveraigne</HI> greet,</L>
<L>Go, An au&s;picious and most bli&s;&s;efull year,</L>
<L>Wi&s;h <HI>Him,</HI> as e're &s;hin'd o're this Hemi&s;pheare,</L>
<L>Good may the <HI>Entrance,</HI> better the <HI>middle</HI> be,</L>
<L>And the <HI>Conclu&s;ion</HI> be&s;t of all the three,</L>
<L>Of joy ungrudg'd may each day be a debter,</L>
<L>And evry morne &s;till u&s;her in a better,</L>
<L>May the &s;oft gliding <HI>Nones</HI> and evry <HI>Ide,</HI></L>
<L>With all the <HI>Calends</HI> &s;til &s;ome good betide,</L>
<L>May <HI>Cynthia</HI> with kind looks, &amp; <HI>Phoebus</HI>'s rayes,</L>
<L>One cleere his Nigh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s, the other <HI>guild</HI> his dayes.</L>
<L>Free limbs, unphy&s;ick'd health, due appetite,</L>
<L>Which no &s;auce el&s;e but Hunger may excite,</L>
<L>Sound &s;leepes, and &s;anguine dreames, which repre&s;ent,</L>
<L>Symptomes of health, and the next dayes content;</L>
<L>Cheerfull and vacant thoughts, not always bound</L>
<L>To Coun&s;ell, or in deep Ideas drown'd:</L>
<PB N="8" REF="71">
<L>(Though &s;uch late traver&s;es and tumults might</L>
<L>Turne to a <HI>lump of care</HI> the ayrie&s;t wight)</L>
<L>And &s;ince, while fragile fle&s;h doth us array</L>
<L>The humors &s;till are combating for &s;way,</L>
<L>(Which were they free of this reluctancy</L>
<L>And counterpoys'd Man would immortall be)</L>
<L>May &s;anguine ore the rest predominat</L>
<L>Jn <HI>Him,</HI> and their malignant flux abate.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>May his great <HI>Queen</HI> (in who&s;e Jmperious eye</L>
<L>Raigne's &s;uch a world of winning Maje&s;ty)</L>
<L>Like the rich Olive, or Falernian Vine,</L>
<L>Swell w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th more <HI>gemms</HI> of <HI>Cions</HI> ma&s;culine;</L>
<L>And as <HI>Her</HI> fruit &s;prung from the <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> and <HI>Luce,</HI></L>
<L>(The be&s;t of &s;temmes Earth yet did e're produce)</L>
<L>Js tyed already by a <HI>Sanguine</HI> lace</L>
<L>To all the Kings of <HI>Europe's</HI> highborne race,</L>
<L>So may they &s;hoot, their youthfull <HI>branches</HI> o're,</L>
<L>The &s;urging &s;eas, and <HI>graffe</HI> with evry &s;hore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>May home-Comerce, and Trade encrea&s;e from farre,</L>
<L>That both the <HI>Indies</HI> meet within his barres,</L>
<L>And bring in Mounts of Coyne <HI>His</HI> mint's to feed,</L>
<L>And <HI>Banquers (Trafique's chiefe &s;upporters)</HI> breed,</L>
<L>Which may enrich his Kingdomes, Court and Towne,</L>
<L>And ballast &s;till the Coffers of the the Crowne,</L>
<PB N="9" REF="71">
<L><HI>For Kingdoms are as &s;hips, the Prince his che&s;ts</HI></L>
<L><HI>The balla&s;t, which if empty, when di&s;tre&s;s't</HI></L>
<L><HI>VVith &s;tormes, their holds are lightly trimm'd, the keele</HI></L>
<L><HI>Can run no &s;teedy cours, but to&s;&s;e and reele.</HI></L>
<L>May his <HI>Imperiall Chamber</HI> alwayes ply</L>
<L>To his de&s;ires, her wealth to multiply,</L>
<L>That <HI>&s;he</HI> may prize his royall favour more</L>
<L>Than al the wares fetch'd fro~ the great <HI>Mogor,</HI></L>
<L>May the <HI>Great Senat</HI> with the &s;ubjects right</L>
<L>Put in the Counter-&s;cale, the <HI>Regall might</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>flowrs of th'Crown,</HI> that they may propp each other,</L>
<L>And like the Grecian's <HI>twin</HI> live, love together.</L>
<L><HI>For the chief glory of a people is</HI></L>
<L><HI>The power of their King, as Their is His.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>May <HI>He</HI> be &s;till within him&s;elfe at home,</L>
<L>That no just <HI>pa&s;sion</HI> make the <HI>rea&s;on</HI> rome,</L>
<L><HI>Yet</HI> Pa&s;sions <HI>have their turnes, to rou&s;e the Soule,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And</HI> Stirre <HI>her &s;lumbring Spirits not</HI> controule,</L>
<L><HI>For as the Ocean be&s;ides ebb and flood,</HI></L>
<L><HI>(VVhich Nature's greate&s;t</HI> Clerk <HI>ner'e under&s;tood)</HI></L>
<L><HI>Is not for &s;ayle, if an impregning wind</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fills not the flagging canvas, &s;o a mind</HI></L>
<L><HI>Too calme, is not for Action, if de&s;ire</HI></L>
<L><HI>Heat's not it &s;elfe at</HI> pa&s;sion's <HI>quickning fire,</HI></L>
<PB N="10" REF="72">
<L><HI>For Nature is allow'd &s;ometimes to mu&s;ter</HI></L>
<L><HI>Her</HI> pa&s;sions, <HI>&s;o they only blow, not blu&s;ter.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>May <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> &s;till in her true &s;cales appeare,</L>
<L>And <HI>Honor</HI> fix'd in no unworthy &s;pheare,</L>
<L><HI>Unto</HI> who&s;e <HI>palace all acce&s;&s;e &s;hould have</HI></L>
<L><HI>Through</HI> vertues <HI>Temple, not through</HI> Plutos <HI>Cave.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>May his true &s;ubjects <HI>hearts</HI> be his chiefe <HI>Fort,</HI></L>
<L>Their <HI>pur&s;e</HI> his <HI>trea&s;ure,</HI> and their <HI>Love</HI> his <HI>Port</HI></L>
<L>Their <HI>prayers,</HI> as &s;weet Incen&s;e, to draw downe</L>
<L>Myriads of ble&s;sings on <HI>his Queene</HI> and Crowne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now that his glad pre&s;ence, did a&s;&s;wage,</L>
<L>That fearefull tempe&s;t in the <HI>North</HI> did rage,</L>
<L>May tho&s;e frogg-vapours in the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> skie,</L>
<L>Be &s;catter'd by the beames of Maje&s;ty,</L>
<L>That the <HI>Hibernian</HI> lyre give &s;uch a &s;ound,</L>
<L>May on our coa&s;ts with joyfull Ecchos bound.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And when this fatall planet leaves to lowre,</L>
<L>VVhich to to long on Monarchies doth powre</L>
<L>His direfull influence, may <HI>Peace</HI> once more</L>
<L>De&s;cend from Heaven on our tottering &s;hore,</L>
<L>And ride in triumph both on <HI>land</HI> and <HI>maine,</HI></L>
<L>And with her milke-white &s;teed esdraw <HI>Charles his waine,</HI></L>
<L>That &s;o for tho&s;e <HI>Saturnian</HI> times of old,</L>
<L>An age of <HI>Pearle</HI> may come inlieu of <HI>Gold.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="11" REF="72">
<L>Be all his thoughts borne perfect, and his <HI>hopes,</HI></L>
<L>In their events fall out beyond their &s;copes,</L>
<L><HI>Vertue</HI> still guide his cour&s;e, and if there be</L>
<L>A thing as <HI>Fortune</HI> Him accompanie.</L>
<L>May no ill <HI>Genius</HI> haunt <HI>him,</HI> but by's &s;ide,</L>
<L>The be&s;t protecting Angell ever bide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>May <HI>He</HI> go on to vindicate the right</L>
<L>Of holy things, and make the Temple bright,</L>
<L>To keep that <HI>Faith,</HI> that Sacred <HI>Truth</HI> entire</L>
<L>Which <HI>He</HI> receiv'd from <HI>Salomon</HI> his fire.</L>
<L>And &s;ince we all must hence, by th' Iron Decree,</L>
<L>Stamp'd 'mongst the black Records of <HI>De&s;tinie,</HI></L>
<L>Late may his <HI>life,</HI> his <HI>Glory</HI> ne're weare out,</L>
<L>Till the <HI>great yeare</HI> of <HI>Plato</HI> wheele about.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>So prayeth The wor&s;t of</HI> Poets, <HI>to The be&s;t of</HI> Princes, <HI>yet The mo&s;t loyall of His Votaries and Va&s;&s;alls</HI> Iames Howell</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="notes">
<PB REF="73">
<NOTE PLACE="foot"><L><HI>Arhetine,</HI> id est, Vertuous.</L>
<L>Anagram. of <HI>Henrieta.</HI></L></NOTE>
<NOTE N="b" PLACE="foot">The Parlament.</NOTE>
<NOTE N="c" PLACE="foot">Hippocrates.</NOTE>
<NOTE N="d" PLACE="foot">King Iames.</NOTE>
</DIV1>
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</TEXT>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="74" MS="y">
<P>AN INQUISITION AFTER BLOOD.</P>
<P>To the PARLIAMENT <HI>in &s;tatu quo nunc,</HI> AND To the ARMY Regnant; Or any other whether Royalli&s;t, Presbyterian, Inde|pendent or Leveller, whom it may concern.</P>
<Q><L><HI>Blood</HI> is a crying &s;in, but that of Kings</L>
<L>Cryes loude&s;t for revenge, and ruine brings.</L></Q>
<P>Printed in the Yeer, 1649.</P>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB REF="75">
<PB N="1" REF="75">
<HEAD>AN INQUISITION AFTER BLOOD.</HEAD>
<P>_THE &s;cope of this &s;hort di&s;cour&s;e is to make &s;ome re&s;earches after Truth, and to rectifie the world according|ly in point of opinion, &s;pecially touching the fir&s;t <HI>Author</HI> and Ag|gre&s;&s;or of the late ugly war in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> which brought with it &s;uch an inundation of blood, and &s;o let in &s;o huge a torrent of mi&s;chiefs to ru&s;h upon us. There be many, and they not only Presbyterians and Indepen|dents, but <HI>Cavaliers</HI> al&s;o, who think that the King had taken the guilt of all this blood upon him&s;elfe, in regard of that Conce&s;&s;ion he pa&s;&s;ed in the preamble of the late Treaty at the <HI>I&s;le of Wight;</HI> The aime of this Pa|per is to cleere that point, but in &s;o temperate a way, that
<PB N="2" REF="76"> I hope 'twill give no cau&s;e of exception, much le&s;&s;e of offence to any: the blood that's &s;ought after here, &s;hall not be mingled with <HI>gaule,</HI> much le&s;&s;e with anie ve|nome at all.</P>
<P>We know there is no Principle either in <HI>Divinity, Law,</HI> or <HI>Phylo&s;ophie,</HI> but may be wre&s;ted to a wrong &s;en&s;e; there is no truth &s;o demon&s;trative and cleere, but may be &s;ubject to cavillations; no Tenet &s;o plaine, but per|ver&s;e inferences may be drawne out of it; &s;uch a fate be|fell that preambular Conce&s;&s;ion His Maje&s;ty pa&s;&s;ed at the Tran&s;actions of the late Treaty, in that <HI>he acknow|ledg'd therein that the two Hou&s;es of Parliament were nece&s;|&s;itated to undertake a war in their owne ju&s;t and lawfull de|fence, &amp;c. and that therfore all Oaths, Declarations, or o|ther public In&s;truments again&s;t the Hou&s;es of Parliament, or any for adhering to them, &amp;c. be declared null, &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, and forbidden.</HI></P>
<P>'Tis true, His Maje&s;ty pa&s;&s;ed this grant, but with this weighty con&s;ideration, as it had reference to two ends.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, to &s;moothen and facilitate things thereby to ope a pa&s;&s;age, and pave the way to a happy peace, which this poor Iland did &s;o thir&s;t after, having been &s;o long glutted with civill blood.</P>
<P>Secondly, that it might conduce to the further &s;ecu|rity, and the indemnifying of the two Hou&s;es of Parle|ment, with all their in&s;truments, a&s;&s;i&s;tants, and adherents, and &s;o rid them of all jealou&s;ies, and fear (of future dan|gers) which &s;till lodg'd within them. Now touching the expre&s;&s;ions and words of this Grant, they were not his owne, nor did he give order for the dictating or penning thereof; the King was not the <HI>Author</HI> of them, but an <HI>A&s;&s;enter</HI> only unto them: nor was He or his Par|ty accus'd, or as much as mentioned in any of them, to
<PB N="3" REF="76"> draw the lea&s;t guilt upon them&s;elves. Be&s;ides, He pa&s;s'd them as he doth all Lawes and Acts of Parlement, which in ca&s;e of ab&s;ence another may do for him in his <HI>politic</HI> capacity, therefore they cannot prejudice his <HI>per&s;on</HI> a|ny way. I am loth to &s;ay that he conde&s;cended to this Grant,
<Q>&mdash;C&ugrave;m &s;tricta novacula &s;upra,</Q> When the razor was as it were at his throat, when ther was an Army of about thirty thou&s;and effect if Hor&s;e and Foot that were in motion again&s;t him, when his Per&s;on had continued under a black long lingring re&s;traint, and dangerous menacing Petitions and Papers daily obtru|ded again&s;t him. Moreover, His Maje&s;ty pa&s;s'd this Conce&s;&s;ion with the&s;e two provi&s;os and re&s;erva|tio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that it &s;hould be of no vertu or validity at all, till the whole Treaty were intirely con&s;ummated.</P>
<P>Secondly, that he might when he pleas'd inlarge and cleer the truth with the re&s;ervedne&s;s of his meaning here|in, by public Declaration: Now the Treaty being confu|&s;edly huddled up, without di&s;cu&s;&s;ing, or as much as recei|ving any Propo&s;ition from him&s;elf as was capitulated, (and reciprocal Propo&s;als are of the e&s;&s;ence of all Treaties) it could neither bind him, or turne any way to his di&s;|advantage: Therfore under favour, ther was too much ha&s;t us'd by the Parlement, to draw that hipothetick or provi&s;ional Conce&s;&s;ion to the form of an Act &s;o &s;uddenly after in the very heat of the Treaty, with|out His Maje&s;ties knowledge, or the lea&s;t intimation of his plea&s;ure.</P>
<P>Add hereunto, that this <HI>Grant</HI> was but a meer pream|bular Propo&s;ition, 'twas not of the e&s;&s;ence of the Treaty it &s;elf: And as the Philo&s;ophers and Schoolemen tell us, there is <HI>no valid proof can be drawn out of Proemes, In|troductions</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="77"> or <HI>Corallaries</HI> in any &s;cience, but out of the po&s;itive a&s;&s;ertions and body of the Text, which is only argument-proof; &s;o in the Con&s;titutions and Lawes of England, as al&s;o in all accu&s;ations and charges, forerun|ning prefaces and preambles (which commonly <HI>weak</HI> cau&s;es want mo&s;t) are not pleadable: and though they u&s;e to be fir&s;t in place, like gentlemen-U&s;hers, yet are they la&s;t in dignity, as al&s;o in framing, nor had they ever the force of Lawes, but may be term'd their attendants to make way for them.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, ther's not a &s;yllable in this preface which re|peales or connives at any former Law of the Land, there|fore tho&s;e Lawes <HI>that &s;o &s;trictly inhibit Engli&s;h Subjects to rai&s;e armes again&s;t their liege Lord the King,</HI> and tho&s;e Lawes <HI>&egrave; contrario,</HI> which <HI>exempt from all dangers, penalties or mole&s;tation any Subject that adheres to the per&s;on of the King in any cau&s;e or quarrell what&s;oever,</HI> are &s;till in force.</P>
<P>Furthermore, this <HI>introductory</HI> Conce&s;&s;ion of the Kings, wherein he is contented to declare, That the two Hou&s;es were nece&s;&s;itated to take Armes for their defence, may be &s;aid to have relation to the <HI>nece&s;sity, &agrave; parte p&ograve;&s;t,</HI> not <HI>&agrave; par|te ant&egrave;: &s;elf-defence</HI> is the univer&s;all Law of Nature, and it extends to all other creatures, as well as the rationall: As the fluent Roman Orator in that &s;entence of his, which is accounted among the Critiques the excel|lente&s;t that ever drop'd from him; <HI>E&s;t enim haec non &s;crip|ta, &s;ed nata Lex, quam non didicimus, accepimus, legimus, ver&ugrave;m ex natura ip&s;a arripuimus, hau&s;imus, expre&s;simus, ad quam non docti, &s;ed facti, non in&s;tituti, &s;ed imbuti &s;umus, ut &s;i vita no&s;tra in</HI> &amp;c. For this (meaning &s;elf-defence) is not a written, but a Law born with us; A Law which we have not learnt, receiv'd or read, but that which we have &s;uck'd, drawn forth, and wrung out of Nature her &s;elf; A Law to which we are not taught, but made unto,
<PB N="5" REF="77"> wherewith we are not in&s;tructed, but indued withall, that if our lifes be in jeopardy, &amp;c. we may repell force by force. Therefore when the Hou&s;e of Parliament had drawn upon them a nece&s;&s;ity of &s;elf-defence (and I could have wi&s;h'd it had been again&s;t any other but their own Soveraign Prince) his Maje&s;ty was contented to ac|knowledge that nece&s;&s;ity. As for example: A man of war meets with a Marchant man at Sea, he makes towards him, and a&s;&s;aults him; The Marchant man having a good &s;tout ve&s;&s;ell under him, and re&s;olute generous Seamen, bears up again&s;t him, gives him a whole broad &s;ide, and &s;hoots him 'twixt wind and water; &s;o there happens a furious fight betwixt them, which being ended, the Marchant cannot deny but that the man of war, though the fir&s;t A&s;&s;ailant, was nece&s;&s;itated to fight, and that ju&s;t|ly in his own defence, which nece&s;&s;ity he drew upon him&s;elf, and &s;o was excu&s;able, <HI>&agrave; po&s;teriori,</HI> not <HI>&agrave; priori;</HI> As the Civilians &s;peak of a clande&s;tine marriage, <HI>Fieri non debuit, &s;ed factum valet;</HI> It ought not to have been, but being done 'tis valid: whereunto relates another &s;aying, <HI>Multa &s;unt quae non ni&s;i per acta approbantur.</HI> There are many things which are not allowable till they are pa&s;&s;'d.</P>
<P>The Kings of <HI>France</HI> have had &s;undry civill warrs, ma|ny bloudy encounters and cla&s;hes with their Subjects, &s;pecially the la&s;t King <HI>Lewis</HI> the thirteenth, which turn'd all at la&s;t to his advantage; among other Treaties upon that of <HI>Lond<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n,</HI> he was by force of Article to publi&s;h an Edict, <HI>Dons lequel le Roy approuvoit tout le pa&s;&s;&eacute; comme ay|ant e&s;t&eacute; fait pour &s;on &s;ervice,</HI> &amp;c. Whrein the King approv'd of all that was pa&s;&s;'d, as done for his &s;ervice, &amp;c. and the&s;e conce&s;&s;ions and extenuations are u&s;uall at the clo&s;e of mo&s;t civill warrs; but there was never any further ad|vantage made of them, then to make the adver&s;e party
<PB N="6" REF="78"> more capable of grace and pardon, to enable them to bear up again&s;t the brunt of Lawes, and &s;ecure them more firmly from all afterclaps; They were pa&s;&s;'d in order to an <HI>Act of Abolition,</HI> to a generall pardon, and con&s;equent|ly to a ree&s;tabli&s;hment of Peace; now, <HI>Peace and VVarr</HI> (we know) <HI>are like VVater and Ice, they engender one ano|ther:</HI> But I do not remember to have read either in the French &s;tory, or any other, that &s;uch Royall Conce&s;&s;i|ons at the period of any inte&s;tin war were ever wrung &s;o hard, as to draw any inference from them, to ca&s;t therby the guilt of blood or indeed the lea&s;t &s;tain of di&s;honor upon the King; For Royall Indulgences and grants of this nature are like nur&s;es brea&s;ts, if you pre&s;&s;e them gently there will <HI>milk</HI> come forth, if you wring them too hard you will draw forth <HI>blood</HI> in lieu of milk: And I have ob&s;erved, that upon the conclu&s;ion of &s;uch Trea|ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s in France, both pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ties wold hugg and mutually em|brace one another in a gallant way of national humanity; all rancor, all plundrings, &s;eque&s;tration, and impri&s;on|ment, wold cea&s;e, nor wold any be pro&s;ecuted, much le&s;&s;e made away afterwards in cold bloud.</P>
<P>Touching the Comencer of this mon&s;trous war of ours, the world knows too well, that the fir&s;t man of bloud was <HI>Blewcap,</HI> who &s;hew'd Subjects the way, how to pre&s;ent their King with Petitions upon the pikes point, and what vi&s;ible judgements have fallen upon him &s;ince by &s;uch confu&s;ions of di&s;cord and pe&s;tilence at home, and irreparable d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;honour abroad, let the world judge. The Iri&s;h took his ri&s;e from him: and whereas it hath been often &s;ugge&s;ted, that his Maje&s;ty had fore|knowledge thereof, among a world of convincing argu|ments which may cleer him in this particular, the Lord <HI>Maguair</HI> upon the ladder, and another upon the Scaffold, when they were ready to breath their la&s;t, and to appear
<PB N="7" REF="78"> before the Tribunall of heaven, did ab&s;olutely acquit him, and that <HI>&s;pontaneou&s;ly</HI> of their own accord, being un&s;ought unto, but only out of a love to <HI>truth,</HI> and the di&s;charge of a good con&s;cience: But touching tho&s;e cru|entous Iri&s;h warrs, in regard there was nothing where|of more advantage was made again&s;t His late Maje&s;ty, to imbitter and poi&s;on the hearts of his Subjects again&s;t him then that Rebellion, I will take leave to wind up the main cau&s;es of them upon a &s;mall bottome.</P>
<P N="1">1. They who kept intelligence and complied with the <HI>Scot,</HI> in his fir&s;t and &s;econd in&s;urrection.</P>
<P N="2">2. They who di&s;mi&s;s'd the fir&s;t Iri&s;h Commi&s;&s;ioners (who came of purpo&s;e to attend our Parlement with &s;ome grievances) with &s;uch a &s;hort unpolitic har&s;h an|&s;wer.</P>
<P N="3">3. They who took off <HI>Straffords</HI> head, (which had it &s;tood on, that Rebellion had never been) and afterwards retarded the di&s;patch of the Earl of <HI>Leice&s;ter</HI> from going over to be Lord-Lievtenant.</P>
<P N="4">4. La&s;tly, they who hindred part of that disbanded Army of 8000. men rais'd there by the Earl of <HI>Strafford,</HI> which His Maje&s;ty, in regard they were &s;ouldiers of for|tune, and loo&s;e ca&s;heer'd men, to prevent the mi&s;chiefs that might befall that Kingdome by their in&s;olencies, had promi&s;ed the two Spani&s;h Amba&s;&s;adors, the Mar|que&s;&s;es of <HI>Velada</HI> and <HI>Malvezzi,</HI> then re&s;ident in this Court: which &s;ouldiers ri&s;e up fir&s;t of any, and put fire to the tumult to find &s;omthing to do.</P>
<P>They, I &s;ay, who did all this, may be ju&s;tly &s;aid to have been the true cau&s;es of that horrid In&s;urrection in Ireland; and con&s;equently 'tis ea&s;ie to judge upon the ac|count of who&s;e &s;ouls mu&s;t be laid the blood of tho&s;e hundred and odd thou&s;and poor Chri&s;tians who peri&s;hed in that war: and had it been po&s;&s;ible to have brought o're
<PB N="8" REF="79"> their bodies unputrified to England, and to have ca&s;t them at the lower Hou&s;e door, and in the pre&s;ence of &s;ome Members, which are now either &s;ecluded, or gone to give account in another world, I believe their no&s;es would have gu&s;h'd out with blood for di&s;covery of the true murtherers.</P>
<P>Touching this la&s;t fire-brand of warre, which was throwne into <HI>England,</HI> who kindled it fir&s;t, the con&s;cien|ces of tho&s;e indifferent and unbia&s;&s;ed men are fitte&s;t to be judges, who have been curious to ob&s;erve with impar|tiall eyes, the carriage of things from the beginning: I confe&s;&s;e 'twas a fatall infortunate thing, that the King &s;hould put &s;uch a di&s;tance 'twixt his Per&s;on and his Par|liament, but a more fatall and barbarous thing it was, that he &s;hould be <HI>driven</HI> away from it, that there &s;hould be a de&s;perate de&s;igne to &s;urprize his Per&s;on, that <HI>Ven</HI> with his <HI>Myrmidons,</HI> and <HI>Bourges</HI> with his Bandogs, (for &s;o they call'd the riffraff of the City they brought a|long with them) &s;hould rabble him away, with above four parts in five of the Lords, and neere upon two parts in three of the Commons: Yet 'tis fit it &s;hould be re|membred, what reiterated Me&s;&s;ages his Maje&s;ty &s;ent from time to time afterward, that he was alwaies ready to return, provided there might be a cour&s;e taken to &s;e|cure his Per&s;on, with tho&s;e Peers and others who were rioted from the Hou&s;es; 'tis fit it &s;hould be remembred, that there was not the lea&s;t motion of war at all, till <HI>Hotham</HI> kept his Maje&s;ty out of his owne Towne King|&s;ton upon Hull, where being attended by a few of his meniall Servants, he came only to vi&s;it her, which act of &s;hutting the gates again&s;t him was voted warrantable by the Hou&s;e of Commons, and it may be call'd the fir&s;t thunderbolt of war: 'Tis fit it &s;hould be remembred, that a while after there was a compleat Army of 16000.
<PB N="9" REF="79"> effect <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f Hor&s;e and Foot inrolled in and about London to fetch him to his Parliament by force (before he put up his Royall Standard) and remove ill <HI>Coun&s;ellors</HI> from about him, and the Generall nam'd to live and die with them: and very ob&s;ervable it is, how that Generalls Fa|ther was executed for a Traytor, for but attempting &s;uch a thing upon Queen <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> I meane to remove ill Coun&s;ellors from about her by force. 'Tis al&s;o to be ob&s;erved, that the &s;ame Army which was rais'd to bring him to his Parliament, was continued to a clean contrary end two yeers afterwards to keep him from his Parle|ment. 'Tis fit it &s;hould be remembred who <HI>interdicted Trade</HI> fir&s;t, and brought in <HI>Forraigners</HI> to help them, and who&s;e Commi&s;sions of Warre were neere upon two moneths date before the Kings. 'Tis fit it &s;hould be re|membred how his Maje&s;ty in all his Declarations and public In&s;truments made alwaies deep Prote&s;tations, that 'twas not <HI>against his Parliament</HI> he rai&s;ed Armes, but again&s;t &s;ome &s;editious <HI>Members,</HI> again&s;t whom he had onely de&s;ired the common benefit of the Law, but could not obtaine it. 'Tis fit to remember, that after any good &s;ucce&s;&s;es or advantage of his, he &s;till Courted both Parlement and City to an Accommodation; how upon the Treaty at <HI>Uxbridge,</HI> with much importu|nity for the generall advantage and comfort of his people and to prepare matters more fitly for a peace, he de&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed there might be freedom of trade from Town to Town, and a Ce&s;&s;ation of all Acts of Ho&s;tility for the time, that the inflamation being allayd, the wound might be cur'd the &s;ooner: all which was denied him. 'Tis fit to remem|ber how a Noble Lord at that time told the Parlements Commi&s;&s;ioners in his Maje&s;ties Name, at the mo&s;t un|happy rupture of the &s;aid Treaty, <HI>that when he was at the highe&s;t he wold be ready to treat with them, and fight with
<PB N="10" REF="80"> them when he was at the lowe&s;t:</HI> 'Tis fit the pre&s;ent Army &s;hold remember how often both in their Propo&s;alls, and public Declarations they have inform'd the world, and deeply prote&s;ted that their principall aime was to re|&s;tore his Maje&s;tie to honor, freedom and &s;afety, where|unto they were formerly bound, both by their own Pro|te&s;tation and Covenant, that the <HI>two Commanders</HI> in chief pawn'd unto him their &s;oules thereupon. Let them remember, that &s;ince he was fir&s;t &s;natch't away to their cu&s;tody, he never di&s;pleas'd them in the lea&s;t particular, but in all his Overtures for Peace, and all his Propo&s;iti|ons he had regard &s;till <HI>that the Army &s;hold be &s;atisfied:</HI> let it be remembred, that to &s;ettle a ble&s;&s;ed Peace to pre&s;erve his Subjects from rapine and ruine, and to give content|ment to his Parlement, he did in effect freely part with his Sword, Scepter, and Crown, and ev'ry thing that was per&s;onall to him: Let it be remembred with what an admired temper, with what prudence and con&s;tancie with what moderation and man&s;uetude hee compor|ted him&s;elfe &s;ince his deep afflictions, in&s;omuch that tho&s;e Commi&s;&s;ioners and others who re&s;orted unto him, and had had their hearts &s;o aver&s;e unto him before, return'd his Converts, crying him up to be one of the &s;anctified&s;t per&s;ons upon earth: and will not the blood of &s;uch a Prince cry aloud for vengeance?</P>
<P>Let it be remembred, that though there be &s;ome Pre|cedents of depo&s;ing Kings in this Kingdome, and el&s;e|where, when there was a competition for the right Title to the Crown by &s;ome other of the <HI>blood Royall,</HI> yet 'tis a thing not only un&s;ampled, but unheard of in any age, that a King of England who&s;e Title was without the lea&s;t &s;cruple, &s;hold be &s;ummon'd and arraign'd, tryed, con|demn'd, and executed in his own Kingdom, by his own Subjects, and by the name of their own King, to whom they had &s;worn Alleagiance.</P>
<PB N="11" REF="80">
<P>The meane&s;t Bari&s;ter that hath but ta&s;ted the Laws of the Land can tell you, that it is an unque&s;tionable funda|mentall Maxime, <HI>The King can do no wrong,</HI> becau&s;e he acts by the mediation of his Agents and Mini&s;ters, he heares with other mens eares, he &s;ees with other mens eyes, he con&s;ults with other mens braines, he executes with other mens hands, and judges with other mens con|&s;ciences; therefore his Officers Coun&s;ellors or favorits are puni&s;hable, not <HI>He:</HI> and I know not one yet whom he hath &s;par'd, but &s;acrificed to Ju&s;tice. The Crown of England is of &s;o coru&s;cant and pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e a mettall, that it can|not receive the lea&s;t taint or blemi&s;h; and if there were any before in the per&s;on of the Prince, it takes them all a|way and makes him to be <HI>Rectus in Curia.</HI> This as in many others may be exemplified in <HI>Henry the Seventh,</HI> and the late <HI>Queen Elizabeth:</HI> when the fir&s;t came to the Crown 'twas mention'd in Parlement, that the <HI>attainder</HI> might be taken off him, under which he lay all the time he liv'd an Exile in France; it was then by the whole Hou&s;e of Pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lement re&s;olv'd upon the que&s;tion, that it was unne|ce&s;&s;ary, becau&s;e the Crown purg'd all. So likewi&s;e when <HI>Queen Elizabeth</HI> was brought as it were from the <HI>Scaffold</HI> to the <HI>Throne;</HI> though &s;he was under a former attainder, yet 'twas thought &s;uperfluous to take it off, for the Crown wa&s;heth away al &s;pots, and darteth &s;uch a brightne&s;&s;e, &s;uch re&s;plendent beams of Maje&s;ty, that quite di&s;pel al former clouds: &s;o that put ca&s;e King <HI>Iames</HI> died a violent death, and his Son had been acce&s;&s;ary to it, (which is as ba&s;e a lie as ever the devil belch'd out) yet his acce&s;&s;e to the Crown had purg'd all. This bu&s;ine&s;&s;e about the play&s;ter which was applied to King <HI>Iames,</HI> was &s;ifted &amp; winnow'd as nar|rowly as po&s;&s;ibly a thing could be in former Parlements, yet when it was exhibited as an Article again&s;t the Duke of <HI>Buckingham,</HI> 'twas term'd but a <HI>pre&s;umption</HI> or <HI>mi&s;de|meanure</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="81"> of a high nature, and 'tis &s;trange that the&s;e new accu&s;ers &s;hold make that a <HI>parricide</HI> in the King, which was found but a pre&s;umption in the Duke, who in ca&s;e it had been &s;o, mu&s;t needs have been the chiefe&s;t Acce&s;|&s;ary.</P>
<P>And as the antient Crown and Royall Diadem of England is made of &s;uch pure allay, and ca&s;t in &s;o dainty a mould, that it can receive no taint, or contract the lea&s;t &s;peck of enormity and foulene&s;&s;e in it &s;elf, &s;o it doth en|dow the per&s;on of the Prince that weares it with &s;uch high Prerogative, that it exempts him from all &s;orts of publique blemi&s;hes, from all Attainders, Empeachments, Summons, Arraignments and Tryalls; nor is there or ever was any Law or Precedent in this Land, to lay any Crime or capitall charge again&s;t him, though touching civill matters, touching propertie of <HI>meum</HI> and <HI>tuum,</HI> he may be impleaded by the meane&s;t va&s;&s;all that hath &s;worn fealty to him; as the Subjects of France, and Spain may again&s;t their Kings, though never &s;o ab&s;olute Mo|narchs.</P>
<P>In the Con&s;titution of England, there are two incon|troulable Maximes, whereof the meane&s;t mootman that hath but &s;aluted <HI>Littleton</HI> cannot be ignorant: the fir&s;t is, <HI>Rex in &s;uis Dominiis ne&abque; habet Parem, nec Superiorem.</HI> The King in his own Dominions hath neither Peer, or Supe|rior. The other is <HI>Satis habet Rex ad poenam quod Deum ex|pectet ultorem:</HI> 'Tis puni&s;hment enough for a King that God will take revenge of him. Therefore if it be the Funda|mentall Con&s;titution of the Land, that all ju&s;t Tryalls mu&s;t be by <HI>Peers,</HI> and the Law proclaimes the King to have none in his own Dominions, I leave the world to judge, what capacity or power tho&s;e men had to arraigne the late King, to be in effect his Judges, Accu&s;ers; and that an exorbitant un&s;ampled Tribunall &s;hold be erected,
<PB N="13" REF="81"> with power and purpo&s;e to <HI>condemn</HI> all that came before it, to cleer none, and that &s;entence of death &s;hold pa&s;&s;e without conviction or Law, upon him that was the head and protector of all the Lawes. La&s;tly, that they who by their own confe&s;&s;ion repre&s;ent but the Common <HI>people,</HI> &s;hould a&s;&s;ume power to cut off him who immediately repre&s;ented God, <HI>Cui dabit partes &s;celus expiandi Iupiter?</HI> Well, we have &s;een &s;uch portentous things, that former Ages never beheld, nor will future Ages ever be witne&s;&s;e of the like: And now with thoughts full of con&s;ternati|on and horror; with a heart full of amazement and trem|bling for the flagrant and crying &s;ins of this forlorn Na|tion, which hath drawn &s;uch an endle&s;&s;e warr, and an unheard of &s;laverie upon it &s;elf, I will conclude with this &s;hort prayer, which carrieth with it as much of uni|ver&s;all charity, as of particular: God amend all, and me fir&s;t.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<PB REF="82">
<PB REF="82">
<P><HI>Ah,</HI> Ha; Tumulus, Thalamus: Two Counter- POEMS,</P>
<P>The Fir&s;t, an <HI>ELEGY</HI> Upon <HI>Edward</HI> late Earl of Dor&s;et;</P>
<P>The Second, an <HI>EPITHALAMIVM</HI> to the Lord <HI>M.</HI> of Dorche&s;ter.</P>
<Q><LG>
<L><HI>Invicem cedunt Dolor &amp; Voluptas,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Funera,</HI> Taedae,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Sorrow</HI> may endure for a Night,</L>
<L>But <HI>joy</HI> cometh in the Morning.</L>
</LG></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Humphrey Mo&s;eley,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop at the <HI>Prince's Armes</HI> in St <HI>Paul</HI>'s Church-yard. 1653.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="publisher's advertisement">
<PB REF="83">
<HEAD>An Advertizement to the READER.</HEAD>
<P>IN regard ther are divers imperfect and &s;pu|rious Copies of the&s;e two Poems di&s;per&s;ed abroad, I obtain'd leave of the Author to com|mit them to the pre&s;s a&s;&s;uring the Reader that the&s;e are concordant with the Originalls.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>H. M.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB REF="83">
<HEAD>AN <HI>ELEGY</HI> UPON THE MOST ACCOMPLISH'D AND HEROIC LORD EDWARD EARL OF <HI>DORSET,</HI> Lord Chamberlain to His late Maje&s;ty of <HI>Great Britain,</HI> and Knight of the mo&s;t Noble Order of the Garter, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>Alluding to
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Quality of the Times,</ITEM>
<ITEM>His admired Perfections,</ITEM>
<ITEM>His goodly Per&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>His Antient Pedigree,</ITEM>
<ITEM>His Coat of Armes cre&s;ted with a <HI>Star;</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Condition of Mortality,</ITEM>
<ITEM>The Pa&s;&s;ion of the Author clo&s;ing with an Epitaph.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV1>
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<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="elegy">
<PB REF="84">
<HEAD>AN ELEGY UPON THE LATE EARL OF <HI>DORSET.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>LOrds have bin long <HI>Declining,</HI> (we well know)</L>
<L>And making their la&s;t Te&s;taments, but now</L>
<L>They are <HI>Defunct,</HI> they are <HI>Extingui&s;h'd</HI> All,</L>
<L>And never like to ri&s;e by this Lords Fall;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>A Lord, who&s;e <HI>Intellectualls</HI> alone</L>
<L>Might make a <HI>Hou&s;e of Peers,</HI> and prop a Throne,</L>
<L>Had not &s;o dire a Fate hung o're the Crown,</L>
<L>That <HI>Privilege Prerogative</HI> &s;hould drown;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Where e're he &s;ate he &s;way'd, &amp; Courts did awe,</L>
<L>Gave <HI>Bi&s;hops Go&s;pell,</HI> and the <HI>Judges law</HI></L>
<PB REF="84">
<L>With &s;uch exalted Rea&s;ons, which did flow</L>
<L>So cleer and &s;trong, that made <HI>Astraea</HI> bow</L>
<L>To his Opinion, for where He did &s;ide</L>
<L>Advantag'd more than half the <HI>Bench</HI> be&s;ide.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But is great <HI>Sakvile</HI> dead? Do we Him lack,</L>
<L>And will not all the Elements wear black?</L>
<L>Whereof he was compos'd a perfect man</L>
<L>As ever Nature in one frame did &s;pan.</L>
<L>Such Highborn <HI>Thoughts,</HI> a <HI>Soul</HI> &s;o large and free,</L>
<L>So clear a <HI>Judgement,</HI> and va&s;t <HI>Memory,</HI></L>
<L>So Princely <HI>Ho&s;pitable</HI> and Brave <HI>Mind</HI></L>
<L>We mu&s;t not think in ha&s;t on earth to find,</L>
<L>Unle&s;s the Times would turn to Gold agen,</L>
<L>And Nature get new &s;trength in forming men.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>His <HI>Per&s;on</HI> with it &s;uch a &s;tate did bring</L>
<L>That made a Court as if <HI>He</HI> had bin King,</L>
<L>No wonder, &s;ince He was &s;o neer a Kin</L>
<L>To <HI>Norfolks Duke,</HI> and the great <HI>Mayden Queen.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="85">
<L>He courage had enough by conquering One</L>
<L>To have confounded that whole Nation,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e parts which &s;ingle do in &s;ome appear</L>
<L>Were all concentred here in one bright Sphear,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For <HI>Brain, Toung, Spirit, Heart,</HI> and <HI>Per&s;onage</HI></L>
<L>To mould up &s;uch a Lord will a&s;k an age,</L>
<L>But how dur&s;t pale white-liver'd Death &s;eaze on</L>
<L>So dauntles and Heroic a Champion?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yes, to Dye once is that uncancell'd debt</L>
<L>Which Nature claymes, and ray&s;eth by E&s;chet</L>
<L>On all Mankind by an old Statute pa&s;t</L>
<L><HI>Primo Adami,</HI> which will alwaies la&s;t</L>
<L>Without Repeal, nor can a &s;econd lea&s;e</L>
<L>Be had of Life when the fir&s;t term doth cea&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Mount noble Soul, Among the &s;tarrs take place,</L>
<L>And make a new One of &s;o bright a Race</L>
<L>May <HI>Jove</HI> out-&s;hine, that <HI>Venus</HI> &s;till may be</L>
<L>In a benign Conjunction with Thee,</L>
<PB REF="85">
<L>To check that Planet which on Lords hath lowr'd,</L>
<L>And &s;uch malign influxes lately powr'd;</L>
<L>Be now a &s;tar thy &s;elf for tho&s;e which here</L>
<L>Did on thy Cre&s;t, and upper Robes appear,</L>
<L>For thy Director take <HI>that Star</HI> we read</L>
<L>Which to thy Saviours Birth three Kings did lead.</L>
</LG>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A Corollary.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>THus have I blubber'd out &s;ome tears and Ver&s;e</L>
<L>On this Renowned Heroe, and His Her&s;e,</L>
<L>And could my Eyes have drop'd down <HI>Perls</HI> upon't</L>
<L>In lieu of <HI>Teares,</HI> God knowes, I would have don't,</L>
<L>But <HI>Teares</HI> are real, <HI>Perls</HI> for their Emblems go,</L>
<L>The fir&s;t are fitter to expre&s;s my Wo;</L>
<L>Let this &s;mall mite &s;uffize untill I may</L>
<L>A larger tribut to his a&s;hes pay,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In the mean time this Epitaph &s;hall &s;hut,</L>
<L>And to my Elegy a period put.</L>
</LG>
<DIV3 TYPE="epitaph">
<PB REF="86">
<L>HEre lie's a <HI>Grandee</HI> by Birth, Parts, and Mind,</L>
<L>Who hardly left his Parallell behind,</L>
<L>Here lie's the <HI>Man of Men,</HI> who &s;hould have been</L>
<L>An Emperour, had <HI>Fate</HI> or <HI>Fortune &s;een.</HI></L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Totus in lachrymas &s;olutus &s;ic &s;ingultivit</HI> I. H.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>UPON THE NUPTIALLS OF THAT PRINCELY PAIR HENRY LORD M of <HI>DORCHESTER,</HI> AND The Lady <HI>KATHERINE STANLEY,</HI> Daughter to the late Heroic Earl of <HI>DERBY,</HI> An <HI>Epithalamium</HI> by way of Dialog 'twixt <HI>Philemon</HI> and <HI>Sylvius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Alluding to their
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<ITEM>1. Complexions,
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<ITEM>He Sanguin,</ITEM>
<ITEM>She Black and Fair.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>2. Coats of Arms,
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<ITEM>Both <HI>Field-Argent,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>His a Lion Rampant in an orb of <HI>Cinqfoyls.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>3. Countries.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Pedigrees.</ITEM>
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<P><HI>Going on with an</HI> Hymenaeum, <HI>or Vote, comprized in four Mu&s;icall Stanzas, the three fir&s;t Ayrie and Poeticall, the la&s;t</HI> Serious.</P>
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<HEAD>The DIALOGUE.</HEAD>
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<SPEAKER>Philemon.</SPEAKER>
<L>VVHat Object's that which I behold</L>
<L>Dazzling my eyes with gemms and Gold?</L>
<L>Her Face, me thinks, darts &s;uch a ray</L>
<L>That adds more brightnes to the Day,</L>
<L>Her breath perfumes the place, Her curls and hair</L>
<L>Like Indian &s;pice aromatize the Air,</L>
<L>A &s;parkling white and black breaks from her &s;ight</L>
<L>Like to the Diamonds redoubling light,</L>
<L>As &s;he doth walk the very ground and &s;tone</L>
<L>Turn to Field-<HI>Argent</HI> which &s;he treads upon;</L>
<L>A Mortal &s;ure &s;he cannot be</L>
<L>But &s;ome tran&s;cending Deitie;</L>
<L>My deare&s;t <HI>Sylvius</HI> pray unfold</L>
<L>Who's that rare Creature I behold?</L>
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<SPEAKER>Sylvius.</SPEAKER>
<L>SHe is a Prince&s;s and a Bride</L>
<L>Goes to the Temple to be ti'd</L>
<L>In Nuptiall bonds, her &s;tarrs will not permit</L>
<L>That at the Ve&s;tall fires She longer &s;it;</L>
<L>She's Derbie's <HI>Royall</HI> bloud, <HI>Derby le Gran,</HI></L>
<L>And now She travells to the <HI>Ile of Man,</HI></L>
<L>She of the Princely <HI>Orenge</HI> is a branch</L>
<L>Imp'd on the high <HI>Trimovillan</HI> &s;tem of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>Two of the faire&s;t Kingdomes &s;trove, and try'd</L>
<L>Their Utmo&s;t to compleat this Lovely Bride.</L>
<L>'Tis &s;he which makes 'twixt gemms and gold</L>
<L>That Con&s;tellation you behold.</L>
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<SPEAKER>Philemon.</SPEAKER>
<L>BUt who's that comely &s;anguine Peer</L>
<L>Which on her heart-&s;ide walks &s;o neer?</L>
<L>He likewi&s;e makes all <HI>Argent</HI> as he goes,</L>
<L>Look at his feet how thick the <HI>Cinqfoyl</HI> grows.</L>
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<SPEAKER>Sylvius.</SPEAKER>
<L>TIs Wi&s;e and Wealthy <HI>Pierrpont,</HI> who renowns</L>
<L>With Titles, <HI>Three</HI> of Englands chiefe&s;t Towns,</L>
<L>A precious pond'rous Lord, who&s;e &s;ole E&s;tate</L>
<L>A Jury of new Barons might create,</L>
<L>Patron of Virtue, Chivalry, and Arts</L>
<L>'Cau&s;e he him&s;elf excells in all the&s;e Parts;</L>
<L>'Tis He who by the hand doth hold</L>
<L>That Demi-Godde&s;s you behold.</L>
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<SPEAKER>Philemon.</SPEAKER>
<L>IS't &s;o? then my Autumnall Mu&s;e &s;hall &s;ing</L>
<L>An <HI>Hymenaeum,</HI> and fetch back Her &s;pring,</L>
<L>This Subject a fre&s;h vigor doth in&s;pire,</L>
<L>And heats my brain with an unu&s;uall fire.</L>
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<HEAD>AN HYMENAEUM, OR BRIDAL-SONET, Con&s;i&s;ting of four <HI>Stanzas,</HI> and to be &s;ung by three voices, according to a choice Air &s;et thereunto by Mr. <HI>WILLIAM WEBB.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD>1. <HI>Chorus.</HI></HEAD>
<L>MAy all Felicity betide</L>
<L>This Princely Bridegroom, and his Bride.</L>
<L>May tho&s;e delights this morn &s;hall bring</L>
<L>Be endle&s;s as their Nuptiall Ring,</L>
<L>May they be con&s;tant, and exceed</L>
<L>Each Others Wi&s;hes, Hopes, and Creed,</L>
<L>May the three Regions of the air</L>
<L>Powr &s;howrs of ble&s;&s;ings on this pair,</L>
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<L>May <HI>Sol</HI> and <HI>Cynthia</HI> with their rayes,</L>
<L><HI>Silver</HI> their nights and <HI>gild</HI> their dayes.</L>
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<HEAD>2. <HI>Chorus</HI></HEAD>
<L>All joyes attend and be&s;t of Fate</L>
<L>This noble <HI>Marques</HI> and His Mate.</L>
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<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>YEe gentle Nymphs of <HI>Trent</HI> and <HI>Dee</HI></L>
<L>Make ha&s;t to this &s;olemnity,</L>
<L>Your &s;treames and beds now meet in one</L>
<L>By this <HI>High-&s;prung</HI> conjunction,</L>
<L>Ye Wood-nymphs who green garlands wear</L>
<L>In <HI>Shirewood</HI> launds, and <HI>Delamer,</HI></L>
<L>Yee Dames of <HI>Helicon</HI> attend,</L>
<L>And <HI>Graces</HI> your &s;weet pre&s;ence lend,</L>
<L><HI>Lucina</HI> com, and pray ther be</L>
<L>Employment in due time for thee.</L>
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<HEAD>Chorus.</HEAD>
<L>May all Felicity betide</L>
<L>This noble Bridegroom, and his Bride.</L>
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<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>MAy they &s;uch gallant Males produce</L>
<L>Both to the <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> and <HI>Flowerdeluce,</HI></L>
<L>That Englands Chivalry and French</L>
<L>May multiply, and <HI>bourgeon</HI> hence,</L>
<L>Who&s;e branches &s;hooting o're the Main</L>
<L>May knit, and blo&s;&s;ome here again,</L>
<L>That <HI>Pierrponts Lion</HI> and <HI>Cinqfoyl</HI></L>
<L>May <HI>ramp</HI> and <HI>root</HI> in every &s;oyl;</L>
<L>Nor may this noble Race wear out</L>
<L>Till <HI>Plato</HI>'s Great year wheel about.</L>
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<HEAD>Chorus.</HEAD>
<L>May all Felicity betide</L>
<L>This noble Bridegroom, and his Bride.</L>
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<HEAD>4. <HI>Stanza</HI> Clo&s;ing with a &s;erious <HI>graduall</HI> Vote.</HEAD>
<L>MAy all the <HI>Elements</HI> con&s;pire</L>
<L>To make them ble&s;s'd in their de&s;ire,</L>
<L>May all the <HI>Stars</HI> on them reflect</L>
<L>Their milde&s;t looks in <HI>Trine</HI> a&s;pect,</L>
<L>May all the <HI>Angels</HI> them defend</L>
<L>From every thing doth ill portend,</L>
<L>May <HI>Angells, Stars,</HI> and <HI>Elements</HI></L>
<L>Affoord Them &s;uch compleat contents</L>
<L>That They have nothing els to wi&s;h</L>
<L>But a Per&s;everance of Bli&s;s.</L>
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<HEAD>Chorus.</HEAD>
<L>All joyes attend and be&s;t of Fate</L>
<L>This noble Marque&s;s and his Mate.</L>
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