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A93606	A second beacon fired by Scintilla with his humble information and joynt attestation to the truth of his brethrens former declaration & catalogue, that fired the first beacon. Wherein is remembred the former actings of the papists in their secret plots: and now discovering their wicked designes to set up, advance, and cunningly to usher in popery; by introducing pictures to the Holy Bible: and by sending many young gentlewomen beyond the seas to the nunnes. Also, shewing and setting forth the misery of the whole Company of Stationers: and holding out rather a desolation to religion then a reformation; as more at large appears both in our ministers and churches, in these sad times, when blasphemy, negromancy, popery, and all heresies be printed and publiquely sold, in a most horrid manner without controll or punishment.	Sparke, Michael, d. 1653.	1652 (1652)	Wing S4818BA; Thomason E675_29; ESTC R203511	7,478	11

Sect. 4. and have dealt in Books above 40 years for my self my first master when I was Apprentice dealt much in Popish Books and in the first year of King James reign spent his time in Stafford-shire at Worly-hall in binding vending and putting to sale Popish Books Pictures Beads and such Trash there I learned to abhorre Popery by seeing the grosse ignorance of many amongst them and ever since have made observation of their deceitfull and double dealing and the more in regard of the death of a loving friend that left me so interested with a Papist by which I did more and more observe their fraud But this I leave and to the former onely I adde this by way of observation In my Trading to divers parts I found how all my Chapmen were addicted and dealing with some in Worcester c. amongst the rest with one Francis Ash a Book-binder and ingenious fellow an excellent Workman a strong and secret Papist This man had from time to time written to me for divers Popish Books and I alwayes either put it by or evaded to furnish his Letter in that sort and he being an excellent Workman I employed him and got some friends to do the like for he grew so famous in Bristoll Glocester Shrewsbury Hereford and many places especially with all the Papists in Worcestershire and having got intimation with most of the greatest Papists was in a manner Agent for them got good sums of money and was greatly preferred of all for Popish Books Pictures and the like and found an extraordinary Trade especially to joyn pictures to the English Bible in 8 vo which pictures he had from Mr. Robert Peake who after went to Basing-house so that Mr. Ash after took a voyage to France for Popish Books and pictures for the Bible which the Papists so much extolled so that now the Papists of late will have Bibles in English and the Po●● cannot avoid it but so that all their sorts must have pictures and I fear Popish notes and by this means Ash grew into an extraordinary way to get Trade I am credibly informed there that in France he dealt for the pictures of all the Popish sorts and the most excellent as of Vandikes Draft and there bargained with an excellent workman Mr. Hollard to ingrave and cut them and gave a piece of money in hand to begin withall and they there were begun and divers proffers made of them since But after Ash came home having by Papists got a good considerable summe of money in his hand and the King coming to Worcester and the Parliament besieging it Ash fearing to be plundered flung the said money into a House of Office amongst the filth and after that Worcester was taken by the Parliaments Forces about 14 dayes he would trust none but himself who breaking open the House of Office undertook to sift his Gold and Silver from the filth by reason of which noysome smell he was suffocated and as I may say poysoned and soon after dyed That this is true many in Worcester can affirm But know this that Mr. Ho●●● goes on and is come out of France and lives in Covent-garden and at work on the pieces whereof about fourteen are finished Now Honourable Worthies look to have Popish notes to the Popish pictures and where you heretofore put pictures out of windowes from sight of your Eyes now look to have them in your Bibles to set in the Heart and so to have Popery rooted in you for if you will not come to them the Jesuites have a plot to come to you Honourable Worthies look in time how people swarme to Masses and the Gentry do send their daughters to make Nuns Look with your eyes hear with your Ears pity with your Hearts and consider O consider the grievous complaint and not without cause True Religion is corrupted and the misery of poor perishing Stationers overthrown and how every Pedler Hawker running Mercury now hath got the trade of Bibles Popish Blasphemous Conjuring Hereticall impious and slanderous Books and Libels to the dishonour of God scandall of Religion the decay of Piety and the disgrace of your Government Doe you not see Right Honourable Governours of our State you cannot chuse but see and bear a●● know how this spreading Gangreen runs quiet and vent blasphemous helish and horrid Books I shall not stand to Catalogue all for so I should muster an Army of them only I will name one instar onmium which is that Fiery flying Roll of Copps where heterms the Holy Bible the Scripturian Whore Was not one hanged in Qu. Elizabeths dayes for a Book not like that Have not I of late seen many Books that had they been published in the Bishops dayes how had a man suffered I know and with grief I speak it I heard an Anabaptist as he professeth himself affirm it to my face when I told him I marvelled he would print such a Book as he had then printed and how he could in conscience publish a Book so erroneous his answer was in these plain ungodly termes he got by it and well too I told him although a man got never so much yet he should have a care what he Printed his reply was thus if the Devill himself should give him or bring him a Book that he was sure to get by he would print it so I left him to be the Devils Stationer for I know none will desire that place yet too many now vend Books for him Oh you High and Worthy Members of the House you that sit at the Stern you are or at least should be the Watchmen of our Common-wealth as I doubt not but you will look to the swarmes of Ladies daughters and young Gentlewomen hurryed beyond the Seas to be Nuns Next look into Pauls Churchyard how many have lived bravely kept good houses invited entertained Clergy Gentry and all sorts to their Tables were able to give entertainment to men of learning men of parts knowing-men travellers strangers of most Christian Nations and able to entertain and welcome any and to give liberally to the poor and who so well respected in Court City or Countrey as Stationers knowing men honest men pious men men in name and fame of credit and happy were the strangers that travelled these parts that knew Stationers and now now now poor honest Stationer where 's thy glory where 's thy fame where 's thy plenty Alas alas in penury where as yearly came a hundred or at least eighty great Dryfats from beyond the seas with Books now four or five Dryfats serves where multitudes of people and no mean ones and all like Bees brought Honey to their Hive now it may be comes a Drone a Waspe it may be a Spider and all to suck from them I dare 〈◊〉 and I have heard it and from honest Stationers that have had brave plentifull Ware-houses full Shops excellently stored and able to fit any Customer and these have told me and I

find and know it to be too true that they have not taken 20 s. a week and their Rent to be paid was so much without Firing Beer and Bread with much more charges c. nay I have heard others that have been excellent well furnished that they took not above 12 s. a week some not so much How O how can these pay that they have not and I write it with grief I know it where 500 l. since this unhappy war was expended in Paper and Printing and a great deal of it for the Parliaments glory the good of this Common-wealth and for Gods glory and all in Printing and Paper and sodainly after sold for 75 l. I know where 1000 l. more hath been turned to wast paper and that which cost 10 or 12 s. a Ream sold at 2 s. 6 d. the very same Should here my brother Stationers come forth and at a generall Muster call'd to accompt there is not that man now living that hath Reason Conscience or Judgement but would presently say Poor honest Stationer get thee gone and associate thy self with thy brother Girdler and brother Imbroiderer and the Lord raise and comfort you up again for I fear you will be in as small use for the Soule as they be for the Body for now your religious learned godly Authors of Books your Divines who had plentifull Studies and all Books of worth will yeeld little or no money have not I known a Learned Reverend Divines Study that cost at least 400 l. sold for 60 l. and what a world of Books in all parts of this Land of Noblemens Gentlemens Ministers and others are now sold at so poor and low a rate as it is a shame that ever Learning should be so undervalued should I undertake to muster an Army of these which if I should I should exceed my intentions for should I but shew the swarmes of Flyes and Lice I may say now of the base filthy stinking a term it pleased an unlearned marryed woman of late not for want of Ignorance to put upon our old Divinity Books which is and may be very well retorted back to their new stinking stuffe daily Printed able to fire Church and State and fit for the Devils Imps and no way to reforme Religion or S●●te nor as I see like to be reformed for our Reformation is now a Desolation for how many poor Ministers Wives and Children come daily to beg and how many Ministers cannot have sufficient to cloath and feed their own Families at home and abroad Witnesse Burmuda Reformation and Plantatiō where is not one Minister left in that Country for want of means then how should they buy Books that cannot buy shoes to their feet or cloathes to their backs Now our new Praters or Preachers have gifts they will say and that passes Humane Learning It is too true there be many gifted men for hath not one a place in the Excise a shop with Wares near the Exchange and a preacher near S. Albans I hope they will not have three wives In the Bishops dayes we thought it not fit one should have three Benefices at once but now such hold it nothing to have three Callings as the gifted men say But their Disputations which begun in Coleman-street and at the Spittle will not end in Bow-lane nor Milk-street nor Beech-lane I leave them to argue and dispute and the Impoverished poor Ministers in a complaint untill a Reformation which now as it is in a perfect Desolation we see for how many Churches in Wales and some other parts are turned to Hogsties Cow-houses Stables Gaming-places do we not see and have we not seen the Ten Commandements put out where the Nine Pins and a Bowle is put in Let any judge which is the better place of Pauls the upper part or the lower had the Booksellers had shops in the two outward Isles of Pauls and the middle been a walk or passage or had it been made an Hospitall for our Lame Souldiers an Almshouse or an Armoury it would have been more commendable I know no reason but they that have the Timber and Lead should repay to me and 10000 more the money we lent for the repair being Lead is such a commodity for the Dutch I hope it will be considered and we to be paid back in money But what say some a Meeting house is more convenient then the Church I remember when I was in Leyden they had one and I and my Comorades fellow Travellers saw them Excommunicate all in that Meeting house to the last single man and that was their brave agreement God send us a better But now say the Welch up to the Mountain and to the highest Mountain and there we shall finde Christ another sayes to the Sea-shore and hear our Brother out of the Ship for there 's Christ another comes to the Market-house and there he will sell Christ I hope not Judas for no money Go but to Carmarthen and there with bleeding Heart and watering Eyes see and hear and beleeve the miseries of those parts And here I implore the Honourable Parliament and all the Members thereof the Councell of State and all to joyn and help now or never for now here is fire the second Beacon is on fire and all cry Fire fire fire and we know when Fire is here in London cryed all comes the Lord Maior the Sheriffs the Commons the Poor the Rich the Master the Servant one brings a Brome another a Bucket a third a Payle some Ladders some Hooks and the Lord Maior and Sheriffs call for the ☞ Engine to play and quench the fire Honourable and Honoured you Parliament Members you the Honourable of the Councell of State come bring out the ☞ Engine come and begin thi● Reformation against base poysonous Popish Books against Conjuring horrid Blasphemous Books and Disorders in Church and State Execute those your Acts upon such horrid Books as hath been Printed also set out Licensing and Licensers Look to Pedlers Hawkers Running Mercurists and sellers of Pop●sh Blasphemous Books you can do what you please to them that de●y Assessements or Taxes and presently curb them and why not 〈◊〉 to the abusers of Printing unlicensed Books and you that can punish for old Primers can punish for Masse Books lying scandalous Ranting Books Blasphemous Scurrillous Books for poysonous Popish Pictures and for what you please you know a File of Red Cotes can command Taxes for you Let this command your Ordinances for Gods glory and execute Law Justice and Equity and we shall for ever give God the Glory you the Honour and Praise And if Scintilla have offended I humbly submit and thus I leave this Beacons Fire not to go out untill the 19 of the Acts ●●e 19 be performed to Gods Glory which God grant And thus I end only wishing I may live not to see this Fire go out untill I see all Blasphemous Books of Conjuration and the Turkish Alchoran and all Hereticall Schismaticall Ranting Scandalous and Libellous Books with Bawdery and Scurrility be consumed by this second Beacon set on fire by Scintilla