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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95181	A true relation of some passages which passed at Madrid in the year 1623. by Prince Charles, being then in Spain prosecuting the match with the Lady Infanta. As also, severall observations of eleven ominous presages, some of them hapning in the same hear whil'st the said Prince was in Spain, the rest of them hapned from that time untill his death. With a discovery of some of the wayes which the then Popish Bishops used to bring Poperie into this nation. / By a lover of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the wellfare of this nation.	Lover of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the wellfare of this nation.	1655 (1655)	Wing T2918; Thomason E842_18; ESTC R207227	15,273	24

the most part he did there make a prayer of three quarters of an houre long it was as effectuall a prayer as any Divine in England could make in that prayer he prayed that the Gospell of Jesus Christ might still continue and flourish in this Nation and after praying for the Gospell he again cried these woes as formerly and when he had made his prayer at Whitehall-gate with his hat under his arme all the time of his praying and journey for so he called it his journey as you shall see by and by he then betook himself to march through the City praying this prayer and crying these woes and cursings against Popery as aforesaid He began his journey at Whitehall-gate and marched as far as there was any house in White-chappell East-smithfield Shoreditch Islington St. Giles in the fields the Barrough of Southwark and many other walkes and in this manner he past through all or the most part of all the streets in London and although he made the most part of his prayers at Whitehall-gate King James being then there yet no man reproved him for it or asked why he did so til one day Sir Harry Spiller saw him crying these woes at the upper end of Holborn did send him to the new Bridewell neer Clarken-well where he remained three weeks and then being charged as Peter and John were by the Jewish Rabbins that he should teach no more in that name he was let go but he regarding not their threats did cry these woes a long time after at length he went to his house in Buccingamshire thinking to cry these woes no more but went to fall to work at his trade yet when he was at his work he had not the power to finish it but threw it aside and came up to London the second time to crie these woes which he did a long time after I did once meet him neer Bishopsgate-street as he was coming back from crying these woes where a man of his acquaintance met him and asked him if he would drink a cup of beer he said he would for said he I have done my journey therefore it is evident he was sent of God to cry these woes against the Papists as the Lord sent that man to Jerusalem many years before it was destroyed and at last cryed Woe woe to himself and immediately was struck dead by a clap of thunder It is much about 32. years since this man did cry these woes in London and who knowes but the Lord may very speeddy purge this Nation of all those blasphemous opinions which do now swarme in it and of all those that do seek to uphold Popery or any other false opinions which this Nation is now overrun with and I beseech you to consider that this mans crying these woes just in the interim when the Prince was in Spain acting against the Gospell it is necessary that we should take notice of it and of other things of the like nature and to the same purpose for afoer be was King and had married the Queen out of France he did entertain Signier Con the Popes Nuncio and one Price Superior of the Benedictine Monks a very great Polititian and Statesman he was wch two men were so great with Laud then Bishop of Canterburyh that they had free accesse to him and Windebanck at all times and they were so great with Laud he being a Jesuiticall Monke that he gave out that he should have the Cure of the Church in Cowen Garden This Signier Con and this Price had so much power with Laud and Windebanck that they did brave the pursevants which had Commissions for the apprehending of Priests and Jesuns and did threatten them to cause their Commissions to be taken from them and Windebanck himself did revile the Pursevants calling them Knaves and threatning them that if they did ever meddle with any more Priests and Jesuites he would make him smart for it I my self having seised a great number of Popish books in English Bishop Laud would send for them to the Registers Office for the high Commission Court and the same night would deliver them to the owners of them to be disperst through the Nation so that it is evident that if the King were not Popishly inclined yet the chief Bishops and the chief officers about him were absolutely Popish I could name many more that were in great places about the King that were Papists and known to be so by many that grieved to see it at that time But let me speak a little more of this man in all the time that he was crying these woes he was never seen to beg or receive any thing by way of relief of any man yet he wanted nothing that ever I could heare of he alwayes wore one sute of cloth whole and sound and there is no question but the Lord did keep him while he was doing his work But if there be any that do distrust the truth hereof there be many thousands this day living in London that did both hear him and see him as well as my self while he was doing his work V. After this one of the Crownes and Vanes of the tower was turned over the top of the spindle whereon it was placed by a very small gale of winde and so both Crown and Vane hung at the foot of the spindle three quarters of a year of more at which time new ones were set up The Crown and Vane did weigh 100 weight at lest and was forelockt one to the top of the spindle with a forelock of iron surely if a greater providence then this small gale of winde had not took it off the spindle it might have remained there untill this time but the Lord had ordered it so to be that some though not all might look upon it as from the hand of God for many thousands did see it and did take notice of it as from the hand of God at that time VI. There is one thing more to be looked on as from the all seeing eye of heaven which fel out very strangely concerning the late King His hand and Scepter broke off from his Statue at the Exchange and fell down to the ground even at charge time to the admiration of all the beholders the Change being then full of Merchants and others at the same time and the next day it was set up again it was taken as a sad Presage by all that beheld it yet I believe there be many that will make no account of these remarkable passages but will slight them as things not worthy to take notice of but my simple thoughts do lead me to conceive that the falling down of the hand and Scepter did presage the taking of the Government out of his hand as is seen this day and I could wish that all those that do so slight the former passages to consider better and not to slight the next that follows which is very remarkable VII There was an ancient Gentlewoman