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A90516	Nuntius a mortuis: or, a messenger from the dead. That is, a stupendous and dreadfull colloquie, distinctly and alternately heard by divers, betwixt the ghosts of Henry the Eight, and Charles the First, both Kings of England, who lye entombed in the church of Windsor. Wherein, (as with a pencill from heaven) is liquidly (from head to foot) set forth, the whole series of the judgements of God, upon the sinnes of these unfortunate jslands. Translated out of the Latine copie, by G.T.; Nuntius a mortuis. English	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1657 (1657)	Wing P1599A; ESTC R229647	18,209	36

gain'd at least the Parliaments votes unto Thee by giving Honours to them and other vast Largitions Carol. Even that in what I could I attempted But much otherwise God he knowes it come about For my Catholique Nobility and Bishops whose votes I most rely'd on in Parliament were ejected by the adverse Faction They were both indeed very Passionate for my good the Catholiques as hoping I would mitigate the asperity of the Lawes in Force against them by Queen Elizabeths and my Fathers constitutions The Prelates also as probably expecting a conservation of their Meanes and Benefices then threatened in another way From this Head of theirs O God how ridiculous Having lost thus in the House of Lords for the Lower was of little consideration to me more then twenty and upwards of Suffrages who remained more indulgent and Firme to me were intimidated thereto Bookes cast abroad by the tumultuousness of the Apprentices Tradesmen which Seditions the adverse party of the Parliament with all the eagerness that they could fomented At Westmiaster also scandalous Bookes were written against me at the pleasure of those Parliamentary Rebels which their Emissaries farre and neare dispiersing them by some Provincials thereto courted were Subscribed and exhibited suddenly after to the Parliament as though nothing on their part suggested the whole matter had by the People been exacted Henric. The very selfe-same Fraud and Collusion did I practice to the Church its ruine For first of all by writs and declamations who were Refractory of the Clergie I indulged in doing whereof I pretended Reformation and not ruine which was really my Designe like your Rebels who in the beginning of their Defection even by Oath and Publique Faith oblig'd themselves not to attempt against your Person Realms or Church but to defend them with their utmost power though however of some Defects in Church and State by removing frō you certain evill Councellors they seemed to pretend a Reformation And least any thing should have the face of Oppression which I did I procured certaine Bookes to flye abroad with whose Sence I was very well pleased which the Monks in their owne names should write to me neare according to this following Tenor. SInce the goodnesse of GOD with your Highnesse concurrence hath so wrought that in these Later dayes the Darkness of Times past dispierst a new and veritable Light hath appeared unto us We heartily and humbly make Request that you will free us from this Cloistered slaverie the very path unto most certaine Perdition and restore vs to our Spirituall liberty for which doing to express our Gratitude wee freely and not any wayes enforced whom nor feare nor yet collusion Drawes thereto Give you all our Houses Goods and Lands nay Iurisdiction to bee your owne for ever These Bookes I dispierc'd through all the Monasteries and Commanded that every one should subscribe them who would not to be forthwith hang'd But especially all the Abbots Superiors that the rest might by their suffering be intimidated so that divers through the feare of death as though really from their proper motives were induc'd to underwrite these Papers Carol. I have signed also many things constrainedly and what is worse been forc'd to sweare I did so willingly But so farre was this my easiness from availing me especially about the City of London that after all whatsoe're they ask'd me I had given them with a full compliance they still more and more increased their tumults and observing all my Castles Strengths and Navie taken from me with the totall Militia it was then when no meanes else were left me that I betooke my selfe first unto Atmes whereby to Guard my life my Crowne and my Dignity wherefore setting up my Kingly Standart the most faithfull of my Subjects flie to me whose numbers in short time so increased that I wag'd seaven warre with the Parliament During which time it was Remarkable to see how more then others the Roman Catholiques flock'd to me and for my good expos'd their Lives and fortunes Those to wit who were formerly traduc'd by the obloquies of most slanderous Calumniators as suspected to both King and Kingdomes for refusing of the oath of Allegeance in which point they never yet were found defective though falsly therefore called Recusants but which also exacted from their Consciences an abjuration of the Popes authority and an acknowledgment of my Spirituall Supremacy these very men I say though they tooke not that Oath yet unsworne they never stucke at any thing in the which they might be Loyall to me and faithfull But the Covenanters call them Protestants or Puritanes what did they though against their Oathes and highly abjuring any such kind of Practice but ev'n Tooth and naile bend all their forces to deprive their King of Life and Dignity Nor wanted these their Plots at last success For money falling short to pay the Soldiers whom I therefore was constrained to dismisse being my Selfe of all things destitute to extremity I was glad as to my very last refuge to betake my selfe wholly to the Scots But oh unheard of and most shamefull perfidiousness those sold me to who would give most for me by which meanes thus tost from Prison to Prison these miseries as you see have overwhelmed me Henric. I wonder not by the Parliaments authority and insinuations that some of thine have left thee But how commeth it that thy Country-men the Scots have taken Armes against thee joyning with thy Enemies Carol. This threefold defection by the Scots was indeed my utter ruine and overthrow for if only I had contested with the English by the ayd of other faithful of my Subjects more in number very many then the Rebels aswell in England as also in Ireland I should easily have made good my Prerogative But the Scots on this occasion fell from me I fancying forsooth as Head of the Church that it belonged most peculiarly unto me that not only the same tenor of Faith through the extent of my whole Dominions but the same Service also Rights and likewise Ceremonies should be uniformly in the same observed the Archbishop thereto most of all exhorting me whom I Reverenc'd as though indeed some Patriarck I commanded the Book of Common Prayer a Forme of thy Son Edwards first composing and the Surplice to be used by the Scots who had not any either Publique forme of worship or other decency of Ornaments in their Church but as now it is the fashion at Geneva every one Babbl'd as hee pleases his owne impertinencies strictly threatning with Exemplary punishment who thereto should not yeeld due obedience which the people of Scotland observing and that already it was put in practice cryed out Popery is now violently Forced upon us Then tumults day by day increased which the Calvanist Ministers fomented who consulting the Puritanes of England especially Hambden the chiefe of that faction joyntly brought in the Scots upon this Nation then in Peace who with their Armies invaded it

wonder if to the astonishment of Kings and Kingdomes thou hast suffered at the doores of thy Pallace an ignominious and opprobrious Death But knowest thou not over and above that this very Pallace the House of thy abode was the dwelling place of the Bishops of Yorke which I extorted from Cardinall Wolsey A man sometimes highly advanc'd by me whilest serving my unbridled Lust but whom afterwards I utterly Confounded when I judg'd it for the availe of my Avarice Nor prophan'd I only the Episcopall houses to ungodly and Nefarious uses but Compelled ev'm themselves the Bishops from their Obedience to the Roman Sea into an acknowledgement of my Iurisdiction in Church affaires unlesse only who presided over Rochester whom when neither with faire words nor menaces I could draw into the defection of the rest I beheaded to compleat my Sacraledge Behold therefore if or not it were fatall and most agreeable to the Heavenly justice that this Head of the Church so Admentitious should have been cut off before the doores of the Bishop To give Promotion to the affaires of my Primacy I made me a Vicar of one CROMVVELL of those Times a man of very meane extraction unto whom and hee of Lay condition both the Bishops and Archbishops were as underlings Now another of that name and like discent Rules as absolute over all thy Nobles and Guides the minutes of thy Life and Death The very same I made my Principall instrument of keeping from their meanes the Church its children and of bringing on the Baine of that Religion so long practiz'd in the Times of my Ancestors which I would call The Reformation of the Church I enter'd to this Kingdom from my Father when it was Blemishless entire and truly Regall nor in any thing unto any one obnoxious only as fitting in things that were Spirituall paying submission to the Vicar of CHRIST Thou received'st it when strengthless and wounded rent and torne from the yoke of St. Peter so just so sweet and so amiable wholy slav'd unto the Vicars of the People chose to governe by the votes of the multitude Carol. Too too true by the losse of my Head have I found those very things which thou hast said to me and now lately unless by others allowance that I had nothing either of Life or Kingdomes which was not wholy in the hands of the Parliament since puff'd up with fond pride and contumacy by thy Example I have swarved from the Church yet fear'd I not the qublique Hatchet would have struck me by the hands of Rebels with such pompe and seared impudence at my death but much more dreaded Secret councels and impoisonings Henric. But of that thou shouldst the least have been afraid for the punishment would not have answered the offence Publique sinnes must have publique Expiations nor sought I corners in which to perpetrate my wickednesses but sinn'd boldly after once I had begun only I drew indeed the masque of justice upon the Face of my iniquities the Supremacy as though my due of the Church unto my Self I arrogated calling a Parliament by a Decree whereout I quite abolished the Roman Seas authority I repudiated by pretence of Right the woman that was my lawfull Wife the Possessions likewise wholy of the Clergie under the same colour I occasioned to be confiscated whosoever was averse to my Supremacie as though guilty of High Treason I put to Death Wheresote when our sinnes for which wee worthily are punished are couered over with the veile of justice no wonder if the selfe same vizard likewise veile us when our selves at last we come to suffer Carol. But these Audacities from their Subjects unto Kings are the effects of most unheard of wickednesse Henr. I confesse it but with how much greater wickedness are those insolencies by our selves deserved Such sin only against a mortall Prince but we Princes against an aeternall Deitie But you Sir unless a mark'd out Sacrafice God so willing for your sinnes enormities could you not have mocqu'd that arrest of Popular judgement by your Prerogative in dissolving of the Parliament Carol. I did what I could to dissolve it but I pray heare what follow'd after my so doing The Scottish men my naturall Subjects in hostile sort invaded England with their Armies whom opposing in their march at Yorke an humble Booke came to my hands by Kymbolton under written by certaine Noble men of my Kingdome Henric. King Henry hearing Kymbolton nam'd after fetching first a very deepe sigh Oh Katherine sayes he 〈…〉 Kymbolton that Woman of all other most deare to me as excelling all her Sex in vertue whom I Banish'd Heav'n forgive me from my Bed to make place therein for that Strumpet Anne of Bollen afterwards publiquely beheaded for Adultery hath exchanged this so hated Life This Divorce against both heav'ns and humane Lawes to the end that I might make it firme made me usurpe unto me the authority of the Church when unless with so horrid a Sacraledge I could not uphold the impiety of that villany Hence broke upon our selves and both our Kingdomes the inundation of all these pressing miseries Carol. When holding forth Kymboltons Booke from this sayes he as by one wave of a Deluge hath also flow'd the totall Sea of my disasters for unadvisedly O my griefe I condiscended they so craving to a Treaty with the Scots in which J bound my selfe firmly to make Good what in my name should by my Delegates be agreed upon These Deputed O imprudent Drones or rather indeed perfidious Traytors gave concessions to the insidiating Scots to take strong Holds into their hands within my Kingdom till such time as by my Kingly authority the Parliament then dissolved should be revoked Writs therefore I accordingly issued forth The Scots are most Liberally gratifi'd nor doe they suffer them sooner to leave England then that first J had engaged my Princely Faith by a writing under my Hand and Seale this Hamilton also unhappily Councell'd me that unfortunate kinsman of mine not to anull the said new Sessions of Parliament till such time as they should all thereto assent Henric. Oh stupiditie or rather extreamest Madness Didst thou not see when to thy stiffe-neck'd People thou Granted this that thou putt'st a finall Period to the sway of thy Kingly Authority This was one and the self-same thing as if thou hadst given into the hands of the Parliament thy Scepter and thy Princely Diadem on condition not to have them again untill such time as they should please to restore them Thee But much otherwise should I have handled mine Though now it is as cleere as noone day that the measure of my Sins hath been made-up in Thee by Thy unhappie Participation of my Schismes and that by blinding the eyes of thy mind in Propitiation of the offended Dietie Gods just vengeance hath brought on Thee destruction Whom God will destroy hee taketh away their Right understanding But when once it was come to that passe Thou shouldst have

Errours For vexing with much cruelty the Catholiques and usurping or maintaining this Supremacy I certainly never innovated Religion of all others have bin mildest unto Catholiques nay even next of all acceded to their Tenents In fine I have exerciz'd this Supremacy with a moderation surpassing all the rest and by reason I did not judge it fitting or becomming any Lay-mans undertaking The whole charge thereof at least the greater part J recommended to the Arch-bishop of Canterburie Henric. But hast thou not observ'd that of the whole English Episcopacie only Canterbury in these troubles lost his head both Documents of the highest instruction Thou for Kings and that Patriarch for Prelates who if their Heads they would have stand upon their shoulders must not make themselves Heads of the Church by hereafter prejudicing the Roman Iurisdiction but what avail'd it thee to have approximated unto Popery unlesse throughly thou hadst embrac'd that Faith for it sufficeth not to stand in the Portch unless thou enter into the bosome of the Church Moreover many in these gulfes below the Earth are much more grievously Tormented and vex'd because they knew but have not exerciz'd the Truth that in some things King Agrippa was a Christian was not sufficient to worke his Salvation No for that throughly hee was not converted by Paul hee now burnes with me in aeternall flames did I not my Self sometimes professe that Faith in all particulars only abslracting from the Popes Supremacy but Sinning in that one sole defection I am guilty of all those other Abominations But hee that spar'd not Paul his incredulity doing things of which he then was ignorant will not spare this most execrated Head of mine who have wittingly nay and willingly perished But how frivolous is that which thou pretendest to extenuate the malice of thy crime when thou faist thou didst not exercize the Supremacy onely left it unto Canterbury to doe it As though indeed thou hadst not Exerciz'd that charge whereunto thou hadst deputed another Nay more I hold that Strafford lost his Head so Provided by the aeternall Iustice for that also He then carried thine as being thy Vicar in the Church of Ireland Carol. As I have not wholly been exempt from all fault so having proceeded much more moderately in the Supremacy and promoted more the Peace of the Church then all these others who have passed before me I would faine know why I am the most of all punished Henrie Thou hast not observ'd it seemes that jealous God who punisheth in the Child the Fathers faultiness how he scourgeth the impieties of the wieked to the third and also fourth Generation least if only hee should scourge us in our selves we might think that any enormions impiety would be easily and more suddenly expiated nor deferres he to punish till so long after that his memory who sinneth should die but least it should be forgotten that he was punished for sinning Thou art the third now from the cradle of Schisme who hath raigned King in which Generation thou sufferest For though my two Daughters first Mary then Elezabeth have Successively inherited the Crowne yet those two with their Brother King Edward who was my Son make up but one Generation if you number therfore either the Kings or Generations Edward me James him and thou James have successively and in order followed nor hath it happened but by the hand of God that the heavenly vengeance should have fallen upon thy head the most innocent and moderate of all the rest To shew that not so much thy private Sins have been chastized by his Rod of Iustice as the Hereditary evils of thy office with what impieties still attend thy Titles as it is said The fathers have eaten sower Grapes and the Teeth of their children have been set on edge Ezek. 18. Which take not as though Children intirely innocent should be overwhelmed by their Fathers faultiness For the Soule that sinnes it selfe shall Dye But that such who are lesse faulty nay ev'n innocent as it were in comparison of their Fathers crimes doe yet suffer often something of their merit For if that punishment had happen'd in the time of any wicked and luxurious Prince I should not have sought for its infliction any where else then from the crimes of such a Trus'd-up Potentate But that my Subjects who stile themselves Protestants should by taking off thy head thus punish thee whom thy very Enemies cannot asperce with any crime came not indeed by any other way to passe but through that Capitall transgression of our Pride in presuming to be Heads of the Church and as I was the last of my name both King and also Head of the Church so thou Oh too too unfortunate Charles art the first of thy name that ever Raigned and the last that shal be Head of the Church Carol. I feele indeed the judgements of God to have fallen very heavily upon me for as out of one false Principle in Faith many absurdities arise of Opinions so out of one unhapple Apostacie from the Church many others have followed after at the heeles which the newer and more recent that they are the more dangerous and more to be took heed of Thou began'st others increas'd that Sacraledge which when afterwards some had fully perfected I at last bore the Heft of all Thou tearing from the Roman Obedience thy people and Bishops of England would'st be accompted J and wert independent and the Head of the reformed Church Now a Sect of Independants hath broke out God revenging so the Sin of thy Sacraledge who regarding neither King nor Bishops first tooke off my Spirituall head then my owne Cut and sever'd from my shoulders one Cromwell in thy time then liv'd of thy Cabinet and most secret Councels who perswaded thee a King to spoyle the Church now another of that name and not unlike him forc'd the People to destroy their King Oh how just are the judgements of God and his wayes inscrutable For if not sooner in our selves in our Posterities shall we at last be punish'd in that very kind in the which we have offended Oh God that whilest I lived in this world I had seriously pondered these things at the least when so much leafure sometimes serv'd me in the time of my most tedious imprisonment Happie man had I paus'd upon the series of Gods judgements from above so threatning me in the ama●itude and bitterness of my Soule I had leasure indeed to dally with my Pen and write a Booke of other things a whole one as my Armies how they came to be destroyed of the miseries and distresses of my Life and the insolencies those especially of the Souldiers but never once call'd to mind those very things which I should most of all have printed on my thoughts Oh Juxonius so I call'd the Bishop of London or else Lawd my faithful Counceller and friend why have neither of you admonish'd me of these things either by Letters or Friends that did commune with me for being three yeares a Prisoner before my Death I had time enough to think of all these things But they had Eyes and they could not see Oh how Blind were all these that saw mee and well may what followes be appli'd to us At Length we Phrigians but too late grew wise Henric. This also I would have men duly Ponder how the Parliament the very name whereof's so Idol'd especially by the effacinated English is devolv'd now into a Lower house both the Bishops and the Lords Ejected in whose Votes was once the totall Authority the House of Commons being not any thing regarded A just punishment indeed for their flattering me into a presumption of being Head of the Church who themselves are now all trodden under foot sometimes sitting as the Heads of Parliament And this by that third Order without order unto which they are so shamefully subjected For England as now plainly it appeareth from a Paradice is translated into a Hell in which no Order but perpetuall horror inhabiteth where A man strong in Armes keepes our Court and holds peaceably his usurp'd Possessions This third Order being growne to that height that Kingly Government which had its Period in thy Fate unless by Miracle can never hold up its Head Hence learne O yee Kings to bee wise and take instructions you that Iudge the Earth The Souldiers then at hand of CROMVVELL understanding this hard fate of Monarchy which should hardly ever rise from out its Ruines tooke good heart and with great noise and laughter ran in crouds from out the Church of Windsor each one glad that he had lent a hand by cutting off this head of the Church to the execution of the Heavenly justice But not knowing or lesse happily Ruminating that the Father oft-times burnes the Rod with the which hee doth chastise his Child IN MALEVOLOS HUJUS Narratiunculae obtrectatores ZOILE ne laceres morsu mea scripta canino Néve meris dicas omnia suta dolis Extimus historiae cortex volo fictus habetor Vera sed huic intùs ligna subisse scies Istaque corporeis licèt auribus invia nostris Mentis at internis sensibus hausta putes Eia age mendacem me carptor inepte Poëetam Occine narranti res dabit ipsa fidem R. P. ZOILVS desist with Currish Teeth to teare This worke of mine Nor it as meerly jeare Made up of Frands The outmost Barke indeed Is Fiction But Truth dwels in the in-side And what th' Eare strucke not outwardly That know Our Minds most inward sence both Heard and Saw Cease Criticke then nor sing my Booke hath Ly'd That story will find Faith which Truth doth write G. T. An Extract out of the 8. Centurie of Michael Nostrodamus his Prophesies Stroph. 71. Printed the yeare 1603. in the beginning of King James his Raigne Father of King Charles late deceased touching the Government now at present in England A Warrier not a King shall England awe One Low-Borne shall by Force that Empire Sway Loose Faithlesse Lawlesse shall the earth begore Whose Time 's so neare at hand I sigh therefore Glory be to GOD. FIN 1660. CaroLVs Del GratIa AngLIae ReX SVCCefsIVe seCVnDVs RegnabIt seCVrVs et tVtVs Crouogramma Restaurationis CAROLI Secundi hoc ipso Anno 1660. E Numericis Alphabetae Literis ex eodem Diductis CCCCC D.D.LL.X.VVVVVVVVV.IIIII 1660. Auspiciis Adsit Numen vivatque Reversus