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act_n	law_n	parliament_n	repeal_v	2,928	5	12.0628	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81226	A Venice looking-glasse: or, A letter vvritten very lately from London to Rome, by a Venetian Clarissimo to Cardinal Barberino, protector of the English nation, touching these present distempers. Wherein, as in a true mirrour, England may behold her owne spots, wherein she may see, and fore-see, her follies pass'd, her present danger, and furture destruction. Faithfully rendred out of the Italian into English.	J. B. C.	1648 (1648)	Wing C79A; Thomason E525_19; ESTC R205654	17,303	25

they made a sacrifice of him at last for 800000. Crownes whereupon Bellieure the French Ambassador being convoyed by a Troop of horse from the King towards London to such a stand in lieu of larges to the souldiers he drew out an halfe crown peece and asked them how many pence that was they answered 30. He replied for so much did Judas betray his Master and so he departed And now that in the cours of this Historicall Narration I have touch'd upon France your Eminence may please to understand that nothing allmost could tend more to the advantage of that King then these commotions in England considering that he was embark'd in an actuall war with the House of Austria and that this Iland did do Spain som good offices among other by transport of his treasure to Dunkerk in English bottomes wherunto this King gave way and somtimes in his own Galeons which sav'd the Spainard neer upon 20. in the hundred then if he had sent it by way of Genoa so that som think though France made semblance to resent the sad condition of her Neighbour and thereupon sent the Prince of Harcour and the foresaid Monsieur Bellieure to compose matters yet she never really intended it as being against her present interest and engagements yet the world thinks it much that she shold publiquely receive an Agent from these Parlamenteers and that the French Nobility who were us'd to be the gallantest men in the world to vindicate the quarrels of distressed Ladies are not more sensible of the outrages that have bin offer'd a daughter of France specially of Henry the great 's But to resume the threed of my Narration the King and with him one may say England also being thus bought and sold the Parlamenteers insteed of bringing him to Westminster which had put a Period to all distempers toss'd him up and downe to private houses and kept the former Army still a foot And truly I think there was never Prince so abus'd or poor peeple so baffled and no peeple but a purblind besotted peeple wold have suffred themselfs to be so baffled for notwithstanding that no Enemy appeer'd in any corner of the Kingdom yet above 20000. Tagaroons have bin kept together ever since to grind the faces of the poore and exhaust the very vitall spirits of town and Countrey and keep them all in a perfect slavery Had the Parlement-men when the Scots were gone brought their King in a generous and frank way as had well becom'd Englishmen to sitt among them and trusted to him which of necessity they must do at last as they had gain'd more honor far in the world abroad so they had gain'd more upon his affections then I beleeve they will ever do hereafter But to proceed the King having bin a good while prisoner to the Parlement the Army snatch'd him away from them and som of the chiefest Commanders having pawn'd their soules unto him to restore him speedily in lieu thereof they tumbled him up and down to sundry places till they juggled him at last to that small Ile where now he is surrounded with a gard of strange faces and if happly he beginns to take delight in any of those faces he is quickly taken out of his sight These harsh usages hath made him becom all gray and oregrown with hair so that he lookes rather like som Silvan Satyr then a Soverain Prince And truly my Lord the meanest slave in St. Marks gallies or the abiect's Captif in Algier bannier is not so miserable as he in divers kinds for they have the comfort of their wifes children and frends they can convey and receive Letters send Messenggers upon their errands and have privat discours 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 blessing in a letter In so much that if he were not a great King of his passions and had a heart cast in an extraordinary Mould these pressures those base aspersions that have bin publiquely cast upon him by the Parlement it self had bin enough to have sent him out of the world e're this and indeed 't is the main thing they drive at to torture his brain and tear his very heartstrings if they could so that wheras this foolish ignorant peeple speak such horrid things of our Inquisition truly my Lord 't is a most gentle way of proceeding being compar'd to this Kings persecutions As the King himselfe is thus in quality of a captif so are all his Subjects becom perfect slaves they have fool'd themselfs into a worse slavery then Jew or Greek under the Ottomans for they know the bottom of their servitude by paying so many Sultanesses for every head but here peeple are put to endles unknowne tyrannicall Taxes besides plundring and AcciZe which two words and the practise of them with storming of Townes they have learnt of their pure brethren of Holland and for plundrings these Parlementeer Saints think they may robb any that adheres not to them as lawfully as the Iewes did the Egiptians 'T is an unsommable masse of money these Reformers have squandred in few yeers whereof they have often promis'd and solemnly voted a publike account to satisfie the Kingdome but as in a hundred things more so in this precious particular they have dispens'd with their Votes they have consumed more treasure with pretence to purge one Kingdome then might have served to have purchas'd two more as I am credibly told then all the Kings of England spent of the public stock since the Saxon Conquest Thus have they not only begger'd the whole Iland but they have hurld it into the most fearfull'st Chaos of confusion 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 sonnes and the sonnes their fathers but specially that great Charter which is the Pandect of all the Lawes and Liberties of the free-born Subject which at their admission to the House they are solemnly sworn to maintaine is torn in flitters besides those severall Oaths they forg'd themselfs as the Protestation and Covenant where they voluntarily sweare to maintain the Kings Honor and Rights together with the established Lawes of the Land c. Now I am told that all Acts of Parlement here are Lawes and they carry that Majestie with them that no power can suspend or repeale them but the same power that made them which is the King sitting in full Parlement these mongrell Polititians have bin so notoriously impudent as to make an inferior Ordinance of theirs to do it which is point-blank against the very fundamentalls of this Government and their owne Oaths which makes me think that there was never such a perjur'd pack of wretches upon earth never such Monsters of mankind Yet this simple infatuated peeple have a