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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37397	A Declaration of the several treasons, blasphemies and misdemeanors acted, spoken and published against God, the late King, his present Majesty, the nobility, clergy, city, commonalty, &c. by that grand wizard and impostor William Lilly of St. Clements Danes, other wise called Merlinus Anglicus presented to the right honourable the members of the House of Parliament : in order to secure him from acting any further villanies against His Majesty.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.; Lilly, William, 1602-1681.	1660 (1660)	Wing D767; ESTC R8151	4,206	12

A DECLARATION Of the several Treasons Blasphemies and Misdemeanors Acted spoken and published Against God the late King his present Majesty the Nobility Clergy City Commonalty c. By that Grand Wizard and Impostor WILLIAM LILLY Of St Clements Danes Otherwise called Merlinus Anglicus Presented to the Right Honourable the Members of the Houses of Parliament in order to secure him from acting any further Villanies against His Majesty LONDON Printed for Dan. White at the seven Stars in St Pauls Church-yard 1660. To the Reader HEre is a true discovery of the malicious and treasonable expressions of William Lilly published frequently in severall Almanacks and Pamphlets Yet notwithstanding this infamous Fellow hath the impudence to offer at a Vindication which is published for him by the Parliamentary Intelligencer wherein he protests no Subject the King hath to be more joyful of his arrival into the Throne than himself unto which Dominion he saith he said and publikely Printed 1644. the King should arrive in the twenty ninth or thirtieth year of his Age which though it be most false nor can Lilly shew any such thing unless he mean the Cockeril in his Pamphlet yet for avoiding of dispute it shall be admitted he said so and then by comparing that with the ensuing Observations it will demonstratively appear how full of lies and devillish malice this vile Wretch hath alwaies been The truth is he was the States Balaam who for hire would curse and bless for the Rump and Oliver according to their respective Instructions and Dictates upon pretence of Art wherein he hath no more skill than the Beast his Predecessor rid on There is only this difference between the two Wizards that God was pleased to make the former an Instrument of blessing to the Children of Israel but for our sins he hath permitted this Pretender to be more Instrumental than any to bring upon the whole Nation the greatest curse that ever was For proof of which assertion I refer you to the following Discourse 1701 Several Treasons Blasphemies and Misdemeanors humbly offered to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament against William Lilly of S. Clements Danes styling himself Merlinus Anglicus 1. THat the said William Lilly under pretence of his skill in Astrology and his familiarity with Demons and wicked spirits did urge on and further that horrible Murder of our late gracious Soveraign Charles the First and for lucre and the base gain of 200 l per annum which he hath confessed he received from the Murderers by the hands of Mr Frost did say publish and set forth as followeth viz. In a Book by him published and called Observations on the Life and Death of King Charles p. 119. he saith That the Parliament did no other thing but Justice and what in Conscience they were bound to do for preservation of this Comonwealth in cutting off King Charles his head And presently falls a commending Mr Goodwin another mercenary Wretch like himself who had lately writ a Book in defence of that abominable Act and saith His Book is unanswerable 2. That the said William Lilly did procure or set on or knew of the procurement and setting on and did personally know that Regicide whoever he was that had the savage heart to execute that bloudy fact of beheading the King For in his Book called Monarchy or no Monarchy p. 51. speaking about the Death of King Charles he hath these words Many have curiously enquired who it was that cut off the Kings head I have no permission to speak of such things only thus much I say He that did it is as valiant and resolute a man as lives and one of a competent fortune c. 3. That the firmer his Masters might stand and the longer he enjoy his Salary he in several Books and Almanacks most traiterously and maliciously did publish many false slanders lies and treasons in derogation of the honour of our King and Nation viz. In his book called Observations upon the Life and Death of King Charles p. 79. That the Original of the Family of the Stuarts were but Bayliffs or Stewards to a Scottish Family And presently after in the same page most falsly avers That the King left one or two natural Children behind him And saith Pag. 81. That the King was never sorrowful for the slaughter of his People Pa. 85. Taxes his late Majesty as guilty of his Fathers death Pag. 114. That he cared not for the Nobles in England and beggered the Prince of Orange Pag. 116. That he was more lamented as he was a King than for any affection any one had to his Person as a Man And many hundreds such venomsome passages as these 4. That the said William Lilly hired as abovesaid the better to secure his Masters Titles and to raise them monies Traiterously published in his Almanack 1651 p. 5. That seeing the Bastard Norman had long since overcome our Fore-fathers by that very Law we had expulsed his Successors and that we will maintain it for ever And in the Epistle to the Almanack 1655. The Bastards brood is left for ever That God Almighty was the Parliaments viz. the Rumps loving Patron and Guardian that all Persons that should endeavour to destroy them should perish And for a final Judgement take his positive opinion in his Almanack 1650. p. 2. That Providence and the inevitable decrees of Heaven hath at the last produced this Catastrophe this Innovation this Change of Monarchy into a free State against which whoever lifts up his hand must expect divine vengeance from Heaven to fall upon his Carkass and a woful destruction upon his earthly possessions in this world And for obtaining of moneys whereof he expected part himself behold this grand Impostor offers to all that party and to the simple whom he could seduce his General Warranty for their security of those ill-gotten Lands in these words in Almanack 1651. p. 1. in the Epistle So that now you may safely buy Houses purchase Lands either Crown Bishops Deans or Delinquents with full confidence of possessing your Purchases untill Doomsday There is no scruple in the Parliaments Title Nor shall we have any more Kings to raign over us 5. That so soon as Oliver Cromwel had turned Lillies Masters out of doors the said William Lilly for 100 l. per annum did then set forth and publish in his Almanack 1654. That that Parliament were unthankful to all that served them that they had private ends of their own that no faith was to be given to their Votes that they Lorded it over others being the day before their dissolution honourable but the next day no more worshipful than a And then in order to settle the said Oliver in his Power and to derogate from his own Prince in his Almanack 1655. p. 1. he saith That the Honourable and high Actions of Oliver are so plainly delivered by him that unl●ss an envious Generation of obstinate people disparage his glorious