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A44760	The trve informer who in the following discovrse or colloqvie discovereth unto the vvorld the chiefe causes of the sa[]d distempers in Great Britanny and Ireland / deduced from their originals ; and also a letter writ by Serjeant-Major Kirle to a friend at VVinsor.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Kirle, Robert.	1643 (1643)	Wing H3122A; ESTC R30343	38,453	46

first tumult that happened this Parliament whereof so many followed after their example being not onely conniv'd at but backed by Authoritie for there were prohibitions sent from the Parliament to hinder all processe against some of them These Myrmidons as they termed themselves were ready at a watch-word so that one might say there was a kinde of discipline in disorder Peregr Were there any troubled for delivering their Votes in the Houses I thought that freedom of opinion and speech were one of the prime Priviledges of that great Nationall Senate Patr. Yes Those that were the Minions of the House before became now the subjects of popular malice and distraction because against the dictamen of their consciences they would not vote the Earle of Strafford to death and renounce their owne judgements and captivate it to the sense of others yet they stood firme to their first grounds that hee was a delinquent in a high nature and incapable ever to beare o ffice in any of his Majesties dominions Per. I perceive Sir by your speeches that one of the chiefest causes of these combustions may be imputed to the Citie of London which may be called the Metropolis of all these evils and I little wonder at it for it hath beene alwayes incident to all great Townes when they grow rich and populous to fall into acts of insolence and to spurne at government where so many pots so many braines are a boyling there must needs be a great deale of froth but let her looke to her self for Majestie hath long armes and may reach her at last But the truth is that London beares no proportion with the size of this Island for either one should be larger or the other lesse London may be well compared to the liver of a cramm'd Italian goose whose fatning emacerates the rest of the whole body and makes it grow leane and languish and she may well be termed a goose now more than ever for her feathers are pluck'd apace but now that you have done with the Earle of Strafford what is become of all the rest who were committed Pat. They are still in durance and have continued so these two yeares and upward yet are not proceeded against nor brought to their answer to this very day though al theCourts of Justice have been open ever since Many hundreds more of the best sort of Subjects have beene suddenly clapt up and no cause at all mentioned in many of their commitments and new Prisons made of purpose for them where they may be said to be buried alive and so forgotten as if there were no such men in the world and how this can stand with Magna Charta with the Petition of Right to vindicate which there was so much paines taken the last Parliament let any man of a sane judgement determine Yet one of the Judges who hath an empeachment of high treason still lying Dormant against him though he be not Rectus in curia himselfe is suffered to sit as Judge upon the highest tribunall of England whereas another for a pretended misdemeanour onely is barr'd from sitting there Others who were at first cryed up and branded to be the most infamous projectors and Monopoliz●s of the land are not only got loose but crept into favour and made use of Per. Hath the House of Commons power to commit any but their owne members without Conference with the Lords Or hath any Order or Ordinance of one of the Houses singly or of both conjunctly to enjoyne a virtuall binding power of generall obedience without the Royall consent Pat. The power of Parliament when King Peeres and Commons which is the whole Kingdome digested into one volume is indefinite but what either of both Houses can do of themselves singly or joyntly without the King who is the life of the Law I dare not determine especially when a visible faction reignes amongst them tantas componere lites nonopis est nostroe But for mine owne opinion I think it is as impossible for them to make a Law without the King as it was for Paracelsas to make a man without coition either for abolishment of old or establishment of new Lawes The results of Parliament without the Royall consent are as matches without fire And it is an incontroulable principle that the old Law must be our guide till new be made nor is any Act of the Subject justifiable but what is warrantable by the old But to proceed in the true discovery of these Domestick scistures my Lord of Strafford being gone we hop'd faire weather would follow He who was the cause of the tempest being throwne over-boord but unluckie mists of jealousie grew thicker and thicker Yet the Scots were dismist having had Fidlers fare meat drinke and money for eleven long moneths together So his Majestie went to Scotland where the Parliment there did but aske and have any thing though it be the unquestionable prerogative of Majestie to grant or denie Petitions and to satisfie his conscience before any Councell But during his sojourne there this formidable hideous Rebellion broke out in Ireland which though it may be said to be but an old play newly reviv'd yet the Scene was never so Tragicall and bloody as now for the Barbarismes that have been committed there have been fo sanguinarie and monstrously salvage that I thinke posterity will hold them hyperbolicall The Irish themselves affirm there concurr'd causes to kindle this fire One was the taking off Straffords head who aw'd them more then any Deputy ever did and that one of his Accusations should be to have used the Papists there too favourably Secondly the rigorous proceedings and intended courses against the Papists here in England Lastly the stopping of that Regiment of Irish who was promised by his Majesties Royall word and letter to the King of Spaine who relying upon that imployment rather than to beg steale or sterve turned Rebels And that which hath aggravated the rebellion all this while and heightned much the spirit of the Irish is the introduction of the Scot whom they hate in perfection above all people els and the designe spoken of in our Parliament to make an absolute Conquest and Nationall Eradication of them which hath made them to make vertue of necessity and to be valiant against their wills Per. Indeed I heard that Act of staying the Irish Regiment considering how the Marquesses de Valada and Malvezzi and Don Alonso de Cardenas who were all three Ambassadours here for the King of Spaine at that time having by relyance upon the sacred word and letter of a King imprested money and provided shipping for their transport and been at above 10000. Crowns charges I say this act was very much censured abroad to the dishonor of his Majesty and our reproch Patr. I am very sorry to heare it Well Sir His Majesty by his presence having setled Scotland was at his returne to London received with much joy and exultation but though he was brought in with

any people upon earth and will converse with him sooner than with some sort of Christians and as in the Pharisaicall Disposition they symbolise with the Jew so in some of their Positions they jumpe pat with the Iesuit for though they are both in the extremes and as contrary one to the other as the scales of a Diameter yet their opinions and practices are concentrique to depresse Regall power both of them would binde their Kings in chaines and the Nobles in linkes of iron they both deny all passive obedience and as the one would have the morter of the Temple tempered with bloud so the other would beat Religion into the brain with the Pole-axe Their greatest master-piece of policie is to forge counterfeit newes and to divulge and disperse it as farre as they can to amuse the world for the advancement of their Designes and strengthening of their partie but the Iesuit doth it more cunningly and modestly for he fetcheth his newes from farre so that before the falshood of it can be controll'd his worke is commonly done and the newes forgotten but these later Polititians use to raise lyes hard by home so that the grosnesse and palpablenesse of them is presently discovered Besides to avoid the extremes of the other these later seem fall into flat prophanenesse for they may be called a kinde of enemies to the very Name Crosse and Church of Christ Touching the first they repine at any reverence to be done unto it though spontaneous not coercive For the second which was held from the beginning to be the badge and banner of a Christian they crie it up to be the marke of the beast and for the last they would have it to be neither beautifull holy nor amiable which are the three main properties which God requires in his House To conclude when any comes to be season'd with this sower leaven he seemes to degenerate presently from the nature and garbe of a Gentleman and fals to be of a sordid and low disposition narrow hearted and close handed to be timorous cunning and jealous and farre from the common freedom and sweetnesse of morall societie and from all generous and loyall thoughts towards his King and Countrey These these have been the chiefest machinators and engineers of these unhappy Divisions who Viper like have torne the entrailes of their own mother their dear Countrey but there were other externe concurrent causes and to finde them out I must look Northward for there the Cloud began to condense first You know Sir the Scotish Nation were ever used to have their King personally resident amongst them and though his late Majestie by reason of his age bountie and long breeding there with other advantages drew such extraordinary respect from them that they continued in good conformitie yet since his death they have been overheard to mutter at the remotenesse and absence of their King and that they should become now a kinde of Province by reason of such a distance some of their Nobles and Gentrie found not at the English Court nor at his Majesties Coronation in Edenburgh that countenance familiaritie benefit and honours which haply they expected and 't is well known who he was that having been denied to be lorded took a pet and went discontented to his Countrey hoping that some Title added to the wealth he had got abroad should have purchased him more respect These discontented parties tamper'd with the mercenary Preachers up and down Scotland to obtrude to the People what Doctrines they put into their mouthes so that the Pulpits every where rung of nothing but of invectives against certain obliquities and soloecismes and I cannot tell what in Government and many glances they had upon the English Church yet all this while there was not matter enough for an insurrection nor to dispose the Peoples hearts to a mutinie untill by the policie as some affirmed of the said discontented partie the English Lyturgie was sent thither this by the incitement of those fiery Pulpiteers was cried up to be the greatest Idoll that possibly could be brought into their Kirk insomuch that when it was first offer'd to be read the women and baser sort of mechanickes threw stooles and stones at the Bishops heads and were ready to tear them in pieces and here began the storme His Majestie having notice hereof sent a most gracious Proclamation signifying that whereas he had recommended that Book to be practic'd amongst them wherein he himselfe served God Almightie twice a day he did it out of a pious endeavour to breed an uniformitie of publike Divine Service in all his Dominions specially in that his native Kingdom But since it had produced such dangerous effects he was contented to revoke it absolutely for it was never his purpose to presse the practise of the said Book upon the consciences of any he did onely commend not absolutely command the use of it therefore he exhorted and required that every one unto whom it had given any scandall should returne to his pristine obedience and serve God as formerly offering here with a gracious pardon and to passe an Act of Amnestia for an abolition of all faults passed Peregr And would not this suffice In naturall motions we finde that the cause being taken away the effect ceaseth and will not this hold in civill Actions Patr. No this would not serve the turne but there was a further reach in it and for an inch to take an ell you know the Scots since their single Lion came to quarter with our three are much elevated in their spirits more respected employed and trusted abroad and heightened in their resolutions and aimes and will questionlesse be dayly more and more You have heard of a mine that reach'd from our Exchecquer to Edenburgh And I beleive you have not forgot Boccolinies balance that was shewed us in Italie wherein Lorenzo de Medici weighed all the States of Christendom and throwing in England amongst the rest you know how much he made her to weigh lesse by this addition The former Proclamation I say and Pardon would not suffice but they took opportunitie to fish in those troubled waters and vent their spleen further by an utter extirpation of Episcopacie and by trampling the Mitre under their feet hoping to have some of the birds plumes being pluckt to feather their own nests and they brought their worke about Good Lord what a deal of dirt was presently thrown into the Bishops faces by every rurall petty Clerke what infamous Ballads were sung what a thicke cloud of Epidemicall hatred hung suddenly over them so farre that a Dog with blacke and white spots was called a Bishop amongst them up and down the streets The chiefest Contrivers of this uproar finding their Designe to go on so well and perceiving the whole Countrey so eagerly bent against Bishops and what artifices and suggestions were us'd to render them so odious is incredible but finding withall his Majestic unwilling to alter the Government