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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96861	Anglo-tyrannus, or the idea of a Norman monarch, represented in the paralell reignes of Henrie the Third and Charles kings of England, wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman kings is manifested, together with the real ground, and rise of all those former, and these latter contestations between the princes, and people of this nation, upon the score of prerogative and liberty. And the impious, abusive, and delusive practises are in short discovered, by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome, and the Norman tyrannie founded and continued over them. / By G.W. of Lincolnes Inne.	Walker, George, of Lincoln's Inn.	1650 (1650)	Wing W340; Thomason E619_1; ESTC R203987	46,665	64

must that trust of powr be dangerous to the Nation which lighting upon the most able person proves most destructive to the peoples just and native freedome Thus having briefly represented the most signall and materiall passages throughout this tedious and long reigne of Henry the third in this short Discourse where as in a perspective the Reader may not onely descry actions farre distant in time and near hand as done in our dayes but also take an exact view of the whole mannagement of affairs under the Norman Monarchie together with the real ground and rise of all those former and these latter contestations between the Kings and people of this Nation upon the score of Prerogative and liberty I shall forbear to swell into a volumne by raising unnecessary observations which I shall leave as I have done the paralell where it was plain to every eye to be spun out by each Readers fancie being assured that the most shuttleheaded adorer of our Monarchy must blush in affirming that a fine piece which it appears hath been wrought of such course threds and will onely in short set before you those Tyrannicall abusive and delusive practises by which our ancestors have been bobbed of their Freedome and the Norman Tyranny founded and continued over them William the Norman sirnamed the Bastard taking the opportunity of the Divisions among the English invades the Land and overthrows Harolds weakned much in a fight with the invading Norwegians where though he got the victory he lost the bodies of many and the hearts of most of his Souldiers by his partiall dividing of the Spoil Harold slain and William victorious he is received and crowned King by consent of the English upon taking his oath to maintain the ancient Lawes and liberties of the Nation And now being as the thought settled in the Throne he begins to play Rex in English the Tyrant spoiling the English of their estates which they were forced to purchase again of him who neverthelesse reteined a propriety in them and would have all held of himself as Landlord thus came in the slavish Tenures and the English amongst whom were no bondmen before both Nobility and Commons were made subject to the intollerable servitude of the Norman The English thus exasperated take up arms to regain their liberty and that so unanimously under the conduct of Edgar Etheling then tearmed Englands Darling and Edwin and Morchar Earls of Mercia and Northumberland that the tyrant not daring to fight them assayes to pacifie them by large promises of addressing their grievances and restoring their liberties and by the help of some Clergy men he so prevails that meeting at Berkhamsted an accord is made William taking his personall oath upon the Reliques of the Church of Saint Alhans and the holy Evangelists from thenceforth to observe inviolably the ancient Lawes especially those of Saint Edward whom the Norman wickednesse had sainted among the people so transcendent was tyranny already grown The English deceived by these specious shews lay down their arms and repair to their homes and now William having obtained his end takes his advantage and sets upon them disperst and never dreaming of any assault imprisoning killing banishing all he could lay hands on and forcing the rest to fly into Scotland overthrowing their ancient Lawes and introducing others in a strange language appropriating the old Forests and making new ones by depopulating the Countrey and pulling down Churches Abbies and Houses for thirty miles together and yet prohibiting the people the liberty of hunting upon great penalties the ancicient priviledge and delight of the English thus by treachery and perjury cheating the English of their liberties whom by force he could not bring under his yoke he laid the foundation upon which his Successours have erected the stately trophies of Tyranny amongst us But the English being of a generous and free nature were so impatient of the yoke that upon all opportunities they did endeavour to break it whereupon our Kings were forced still to make use of other props to uphold their tottering edifice which perjury alone was too rotten to sustain and by the Pope Prelates and Lords working upon the credulous superstitious and unstable vulgar did even to admiration shore up their Babel to the confusion of liberty 1. The Pope was the chief Hobgob in in those dark times that scared the people out of their wits for through the superstitious ignorance of men he had usurped the power of God this Iugler with the counterfeit thunder of his Excommunications and curses which his Bulls upon all occasions bellowed forth against the assertors of Liberty and with the pretended omnipotency of his dispensations with the oathes of the Tyrant so amazed the people that he not onely domineered himself but like the Lord Paramount for great Fines let the Land out to be harrowed and the inhabitants to be handled like villains and slaves to his Royall and well beloved sonnes indeed he was a dear father to most of them our immediate Landlords 2. The proud Prelates the Imps of that great Diabolo of Rome were many of them strangers and all of them the Creatures of the Popes and Kings who would choose none but such as were fit for their designs by their good wills and with their ill wills could out any that should thwart them and so either regarded not our sufferings or were bound to augment them to please their Patrons as well as to pamper themselves who being Diocesan Monarchs were no foes to Arbitrary power that themselves might tyrannize ad libitum over their Sees And no doubt but Kings were so crafty as to perswade them No King no Bishop heretofore to heighten their zeal to the Royall cause as Prelats of late have stiffened them with No Bishop no King in obstinacy for Prelacy yet these later have been Prophets against their wils at their fall who in their jollity had little or no will to be Preachers and were so effectuall in their doctrine that they confirmed their calling to be jure divino though Scripture was never so clear against it in the Royall conscience to whom a Crown and Scepter must appear most sacred And now the Father and Sonnes the Pope and Prelates profit requiring it what could there be imagined but that it must be stamp'd with a divine right alas it was easie with them to take sacred from an Oath and confer it upon the perjured Violater they had their holy oyle sent from Heaven by an Angel to Thomas Becket that Metropolitan Saint and Martyr of Canterbury with which Kings were anointed and divers other holy devices to make them sacred not to be touched by prophane Civill Lawes or questioned by any but men in holy orders who being ghostly Fathers might lash curse depose and devote to the Knife Sword c. notwithstanding Sacred and Majesty and holy Vnction and all the rest Emperours or Kings if stubborn or encroaching upon the usurpations of Holy Church For you

that had before in the eighth year of his Raign made himself of age for his own ends yet now is not ashamed upon the same score to pretend nonage in the ninth year wherein he confirmed both the Charters Thus if the King say 8. is more than 9. the people must believe it for it is treason no doubt to question their Soveraignes words or actions and Rebellion to chop Logick with him And now this cancelling having annulled all hopes of a subsidie He hath a new shift to drain the peoples purses by making a new Seal and forcing all which held any thing by the old to renew their Patents fining at the pleasure of the Chief Iusticiarie not according to their ability It seemes the Old Seal was under age too and for this he had a Bul but whether from the Pope or somebody else is the question These perfidious and oppressive courses so incense the people that the Lords appoint a Randezvouz at Stamford intending it seems to bait these Buls by force to keep them from goring The King is startled at this news hearing his Brother the Earl of Cornewall was also joyned to them and by feare brought to promise a redresse and so pacifies them at Northampton and buyes his brother to side with him with his mothers Dower and all the Lands in England belonging to the Earl of Britain and late Earl of Bullogne These are the uneven paths which necessity forces Tyrants to stagger through scraching up here and leaving a piece there using the Rake with this hand and the Fork with that Peter must be rob'd to pay Paul these pilled and polled to bribe the other but these shifts will be quickly thredbare by which what is got in the Hundred is lost in the Shire The King having bound himself by his Procurators at Rome to the payment of Tenths it seems the Pope would not do a job of journeywork for nothing cals a Parliament that the Legat might demand them but though the Legat was impudent enough to ask the question yet the Laity were so modest as to deny him the Clergy being over-reachd by Segrave one of the Kings Counsell consented and found a very hard bargain of it for the ravenons Legat exacted them at a set day and those that miss'd it were sure to be hit home with an Excommunication Thus between the Lyon and the Wolf the Flock went to wrack for no doubt but the King had a feeling in the cause or his Counsell would never have beene so diligent in the businesse but all this would not do he therefore exacts great summes of the Clergy whom the Pope could rule and would it being his turn now and the City of London for redemption of their liberties an excellent way to make them free for they seldom are so of themselves yet have they given down largely in this Cause to their Honour be it spoken and may they be so moderate as not to kick over the palle in the upshot and forces the Iews to pay the third of all their moveables to maintain his Warres he then began in France whither he goes leaving them to pray that he might deal more Christianly with them for the future But his evill gotten goods thrived not and the King besides an infinite expence of treasure having lost divers Nobles and valiant men without any glory returns home bringing with him the Earle of Britaigne and many Poictovins to suck up what could further be wrung from the poor people of England and in order to this calls a Parliament wherein upon pretence and promise of sending supplyes into Spain against the Saracens he obtains a fifteenth of the Laity and Clergy but the Popes turn it seems was come who falls a cursing all that had any hand in with-holding Tithes from those multitudes of strangers which he had preferr'd to benefices and the King makes a strict inquisition after them forces them all to runne to Rome for absolution of this horrible sin of resisting his Pastors in the main work of their Ministery few of them having more English than would serve to demand their tithes but it was enough with the Pope they had that whose special care was to see the Flock might be fleec'd for teaching that might have spoyl'd devotion to Rome which ignorance is the sirurest Nurse too a strange way to Heaven that the blindest hit best Christs servants are the Children of Light Sure then his Holinesse must be Vicar to the Prince of Darknesse whose best Subjects see least A Parliament also is called at Westminster which expecting deeds from him before they would do any thing and he not being poor enough nor so shiftlesse as to fall to mending so soon breaks up with a flat denyall of any money Hereupon by the advice of the Bishop of Winchester sith the Parliament was so drie he fals to squeeze his own Spunges and amongst the rest his darling Hubert de Burgh Earl of Kent and his Chief Iusticiarie feels the weight of Kingly kindnesse which loves a man so long as he is usefull but if any advantage shall accrue it is very Rebellion should affection be so saucy as to plead privilege against Royall profit and naw kenning of Kingcraft for Kings to be more nice than wise O the wretched estate of that man who to curry favour with a Tyrant cares not how he acts nor what he does aside he is thrown so soon as his great Master hath served his turn on him and being down is sure to be trampled on to some purpose by the enraged people who in the servants misery seek a recompence for the Masters tyranny and this hath been told us by a King and Prophet long ago Put not your trust in Princes men of high degree area lye And now the Bishop of Winchester is the Court Minion but as he tript up the Earl of Kents heels so will he be laid on his back shortly and the same noose he made for others will catch the Woodcock himselfe ere long who was returned from the Holy Wars abroad to begin it seems wicked discord at Home for he shewing the king that Foraigners were the only journey-men to drive on his trade of Tyranny and fittest instruments to keep the English in slavery causes him who for his own ends cared neither whom nor what he made use of to displace all the chief Counsellors and Barons of the kingdom and to bestow all places of concernment either Military or Civill on strangers These strains of so strange and insufferable violences so exasperate the Nobility that many combine for defence of the publique and the Earl of Pembroke in all their names tels the King how pernicious and dangerous these courses would prove whom the Bishop of Winchester insolently answers That it was lawfull for the K. to call what strangers he would to defend his Crown and compell his proud rebellious Subjects to their due obedience that is tame slavery