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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90515	A messenger from the dead, or, Conference full of stupendious horrour, heard distinctly, and by alternate voyces, by many at that time present. Between the ghosts of Henry the 8. and Charls the First of England, in Windsore-Chappel, where they were both buried. In which the whole series of the divine judgments, in those infortunate ilands, is as it were by a pencil from heaven, most lively set forth from the first unto the last.; Nuntius a mortuis. English.	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1597; Thomason E936_4; ESTC R203144	12,116	19

Justice for my Impiety I divorced my self from my lawfull wife and pretended Law for it On the same account I brought the goods of divers men into my Treasury whosoever opposed me I impeached them of Treason and caused them to suffer accordingly for it therefore when I did acts of unrighteousness and pretended Law I ought not to wonder if I my self should suffer punishment in the same nature Charls Should a King suffer by his Subjects Henry We deserve greater punishments because we commit greater offences they offend against a mortall King we against a King immortall but could not you unless by the divine providence you were destined to be a Sacrifice for the expiation of the Crimes of your predecessours and your own could you not by your own power dissolve the Parliament and so bring about your own Counsailes for the managing of the affaires of the Nations according to your own will Charls I told before that I had dissolved many sever all Parliaments but understand what followed My native Subjects the Scots did by force of Armes invade England and whiles I staid at York to carry on with more vigour the Affaires of the War the Lord of Kimbolton did present me with a Petition to which twelve of the Nobility had set their hands When king Henry had heard the name of Kimbolton he fetched a déep sigh as if from the bottome of his heart and said Henry Ah! At Kimbolton it was that the most excellent Mirrour of her sex and the Example of all Vertues my first wife Queen Katharine dyed whom I divorced from my bed that I might bring into it Anne Bollen an incontinent woman whom not long afterwards being taken in adultery I caused to be beheaded by the common Hangman That this divoree from my first wife contrary to all laws both divine and humaine might remaine unquestioned being not able to defend one wickedness but by another I did assume unto my self to govern this nation by an Arbitrary power which was the original of all the calamities that have since befallen either to my self or you or to our unfortunate Kingdomes Charls Having rashly as I have said estranged my selfe from the love of my English Subjects and finding the Scots to grow more and more upon me I was inforced to make use of those Counsailes which I thought most expedient for my present safety I observed that my dissolution of so many Parliaments called to give redress to the sufferings and complaints of the people was one of the greatest reasons that at first did pull upon me their suspition and afterwards their hatred they feared also that I would introduce amongst them an Innovation of Religion which laying a force upon their Consciences they accounted the greatest tyr any that could be in the world therefore to give them a plenary and a thorough satisfaction on the one side and to be discharged of the Scots Army on the other side I gave order that a Parliament should be called againe not to be dissolved by me without their own liking and approbation To this many of the most apparent of my Counsaile did readily agree with me and amongst others my own kinsman the unfortunate Duke of Hamilton Henry You were more tame beleeve me then I would have bin had it bin in my time my subjects should have found I would have dealt more roundly with them but I most plainly do perceive that the measure of my iniquities was compleated in you my successour and the divine vengeance did mark you out for destruction The houses got by me by violence and rapine must be pluckt from you to be established on another that is more worthy of them Were you so weak that when it proceeded so far you could not with largesses and honours procure and confirm unto your self a strong party even in that Parliament Charls I did indeed attempt it but all things did fall out cross to my Expectation for all the Bishops and the Catholick Lords who were faithfull to me were cast forth by the adverse party who were more powerfull and numerous They used their utmost Indeavours to promote my Interests The Catholicks hoped that I would moder ate that severity of the Laws which were made against them by you and Q Elizabeth and King James my Father laying a great penalty on all those who would not acknowledge them to be the supreame Governours in the Territories of their Dominions The Bishops and Prelats were eager to maintaine my cause that so they might preserve their own Dignities and Fortunes that is their Bishopricks and Benefices which seemed otherwise to be in a most ruinous Condition Having by this meanes lost above forty voyces in the upper House those who remained were more flexible and did conforme themselves to the temper and resolution of the rest Henry But could you by no printed papers insinuate into the minds of your Subjects how much you stood devoted to their safety and prosperity When I was resolved to use my Arbitrary power that I might appeare unto the world to undertake nothing by force I caused books to be dictated according to my own pleasure which were presented to me as if they came from the Monks themselves If any refused to subscribe unto them I caused them to be hanged up especially the chiefest of them to be a terrour to the rest Thus when I was pleased to exercise my will I caused divers for fear of Death to subscribe to what I did propound unto them and that so handsomly as if it had been their own motion Charls But I did deal more gently nevertheless being resolved at the last to have recourse to Armes I did betake my self to the Northern part of my Kingdome and having erected the Royall Standard not far from Notingham the most faithfull of my Subjects did from every part of the Kingdome resort unto me whose number in a short time was so great that they hold out a War for above the space of seven years against the Parliament It is remarkeable to see with what resolution above all the rest the Roman Catholicks did adventure their lives and their fortunes for me and that not onely in one field but wheresoever their War made triall of their valour but the Army of the Parliamen prevailed and I being driven to the greatest extremities did betake my self unto the Scots as to my last refuge amongst whom I did not long continue but I was delivered to some of Note in the English Army who carrying me from one place to another have at last brought me hither in this sad Condition wherein you see me Henry The English were alwayes much addicted to their Parliaments in which they found a constant redress for all their greivances it is therefore less to be admired that they revolted from you but how came it to pass that those of your own Nation the Scots should make war against you Charls The Revolt of the Scots was the cheifest cause of my