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B02231	The rebellion of the rude multitude under Wat Tyler and his priests Baal and Straw, in the dayes of King Richard the IId, Anno. 1381. Parallel'd with the late rebellion in 1640, against King Charles I of ever blessed memory. / By a lover of his King and countrey.	Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4698A; ESTC R223909	69,217	170

grave on Tower-hill or Smithfield where the faithfull lieges of his Crown were torn in pieces by these Canibals The reverence due to the annointed heads of Kings began to fall away and naked Majesty could not guard where Innocency could not But Tyler blinded with his owne fatall pride throws himself foolishly upon the Kings sword and by his over-much hast preserves him whom he had vowed to destroy The Heathens make it a mark of the Divinity of of their Gods that they bestowed benefits upon mortal men and took nothing from them The Clownes of the Idoll upon this rule were not very heavenly they were the meeke ones of those times the onely inheritours of right the kingdom was made a prey by them it was cantoned out to erect new Principalities for the Mock-kings of the Commons so their Chiefs or Captains would be called Here though the title of the Rebellion spoke fair was shewn somewhat of ambition and no little of injust private interest no little of self-seeking which the good of the people in pretence onely was to give way to and no wonder for the good of the people properly was meerely to be intended of themselves and no where but amongst those was the Commonwealth Had these Thistles these Brambles flourished the whole Wood of noble Trees had perished If the violent casting other men out of their possessions firing their houses cutting off their Heads violating of all Rights be thought Gods blessing any evidence of his owning the Cause these Thieves and Murderers were well blessed and sufficiently owned Such was then the face of things estates were dangerous every Rich man was an enemy mens lives were taken away without either offence or tryall their reign was but a continuation of horrible injuries the Lawes were not onely silent but dead The Idolls fury was a Law and Faith and Loyaltie and Obedience to lawfull power were damnable Servants had the rule over Princes England was near a slavery the most unworthy of free and ingenious spirits of any What I relate here to speak something of the Story I collect out of Sir John Froissart a French-man living in the times of King EDVVARD the third and his Grandchild King RICHARD who had seen England in both the reigns was known and esteemed in the Court and came last over after these Tumults were appeased and out of Thomas of Thomas of Walsingham a Monk of St. Albanes in Henry the sixth 's dayes who sayes Bale in his centuries of him writes many the most choice passages of affairs and actions such as no other hath met with In the main and to the substance of things I have made no additions no alterations I have faithfully followed my Authors who are not so historically exact as I could wish nor could I much better what did not please me in their order No man saies Walsingham Hypod. Neust can recite fully the misehiefs murders sacriledge and cruelty of these Actors he excuses his digesting them upon the confusion of the combustions flaming in such varietie of places and in the same time Tyler Litster and those of Hartfordshire take up most part of the discourse Westbrome is brought in by the halves the lesser Snakes are onely named in the Chronicle What had been more had not been to any purpose Those were but types of Tyler the Idoll and acted nothing but acrording to the Original according to his great example they were Wolves alike and he that reads one knowes all Par. Wals Wiston c. Per Thomae Sanguiuem salva nos Breviar fest S. Tho. Cant. Rishang Polyd. D'Avilla Jaques Clem. the Paricide of Hen. 3. of France was prayed for as a Saint Thomas of Becket Simon of Montfort the English Cataline Thomas of Lancaster Rebels and Traitors of the former years are Canonised by the Monks generally the enemies of their Kings miracles make their Tombes illustrious and their Memories sacred The Idol and his Incendiaries are abhorred every where every History detests them while Faith Civility Honesty and Piety shall be left in the world the enemies of all these must neither be beloved nor pitied THE IDOL OF THE CLOVVNES THe Reigne of King Richard the second was but a throw of State for so many yeares a Feaver to whose distempers all pieces of the home Dominions contributed by fits * Gui●… the forrain part onely continuing faithfull in the fourth yeare of his reigne and fifteenth of his Age the dregs and off scum of the Commons unite into bodies in severall parts of the Kingdome and forme a Rebellion called the Rebellion of the Clownes which lead the rest and sh●wed the way of disobedience first Of which may truly be said Though amongst other causes we may attribute it to the indisposition and unseasonablenesse of the age that the fruits of it did not take it was strongly begun and had not Providence heldback the hand the blow had fallen the Government had broke into shivers then The young King at this time had few besides Thomas of Woodstock his Unkle Earle of Buckingham and after Duke of Glocester but the servants of his house in ordinary about him the Lord Edmund of Langly Earle of Cambridge after Duke of Yorke with the Lords Beauchamp Botercaux Sir Matthew Gourny with others of the Nobility and Gentry had set saile for Portugall the Duke John of Lancaster another of his Unkles was in Scotland treating a peace when this commotion brake out Though no cause can be given for Seditions those who designe publick troubles can never want pretences Polidore as much out in this story as any gives this reason for this The Polle money sayes he imposed by Parliament a groat sterling upon every head was intollerable It was justly imposed and so by some to whom Law and Custome of England were intollerable not to be indured but we shall find in the tyranny breaking in not onely fifth and twentieth parts and loanes forced out of feare of plunder and death but subsidies in Troops and Regiments by fifties more than Sequestrations and Compositions not under foot low sales for what had these Rascalls to give but downright Robbery and violent usurpation of Estates Thus would Polidore have it in defence of his Priests who blew the fire and thrust the silly rout into the midst of it He takes it ill that Baal valle he calls him should be supposed by I know not what flaterers of the Nobles to have filled these sailes to have let these windes out of their Caverns In the fourth yeare of this King sayes the Monk there was a grievous Tax exacted in Parliament after cause of great trouble every Religious paid half a Mark every Secular Priest as much every Lay-man or Woman 12d This might discontent the people but who prepared the Mutineers for such dangerous impressions who fell in with them after and pushed them forward will be soon found Froissart complaines of the servitude of the villanes or Bond-men now Names worne out

THE REBELLION Of the Rude Multitude UNDER WAT TYLER And his PRIESTS BAAL and STRAW In the Dayes of King RICHARD the II d Anno 1381. Parallel'd with the late Rebellion in 1640 AGAINST King CHARLES I. Of ever Blessed Memory By a Lover of his King and Countrey London Printed and Sold by J. R. and in Westminster-Hall and at the New Exchange Flee●street and St. Pauls Church-Yard John of Lydgate lib. 4. ANd semblably to put it at a prefe And execute it by clere experience One the most contrario●s mischiefe Found in this earth by notable evidence Is onely this by Fortunate violence When that wretches churlish of nature The estate of Princes unwarely doth recure A Crown of Gold is nothing according For to be set upon a knaves heed A Foltish clerk for to weare a Ring Accordeth nat who that can take hede And in this world there is no greater drede Then power give if it be well sought Vnto such one that first rose up of nought There is no manner just convenience A royall Carbuncle Ruby or Garnet Nor a chast Emeraud of v●rtues ex●…ence Nor Inde Saphirs in Copper to be set Their Kind'ly power in foule metal is let And so the State of politike puysance Is ever lost where knaves have Governance For a time they may well up ascend Like windy smokes their fumes sprede A crowned asse plainly to comprehend Voyde of discretion is more for to drede Then is a Lyon for that one indede Of his nature is mighty and royall Voyde of discretion that other beastiall The gentle nature of a strong Lyon To prostrate people of kynde is merciable For unto all that fail afore him doun His tryall puisaunce cannot be vengeable But churlish Wolves by rigour untreatable And follyshe asses eke of beastialty Fay●ing reason brayde ever on cruelty None is so proude as he that can no good The l●…er heed the more presumption Most cruelte and vengeance in lo●…e blode VVith malapertnesse and indiscretion Of C●…urle and Gentle make this division Of outh●… of the●… I dare right well report Frothens thei came thereto the wy● re●orte To the Reader THe beginnings of the Second Richard's reign are turmoiled with a Rebellion which shoke his Throne and Empire A Rebellion not more against Religion and Order than Nature and Humanity too A Rebellion never to be believed but in the Age it was acted in and our owne in which we finde how terrible the overflowes of the common people ever delighted in the calamities of others untyed and hurryed on by their own wills and beastly fury must prove though Masanello is short of Tyler yet if we compare that Fisherman with our Hinde the Neapolitan Mechanicks and our Clownes we shall not finde them much unlike not in their sudden flourish and prosperity not in the mischiefs they did and the barbarous savage rudenesse in the doing them Masanello made a shew of foolish unseasonable Piety to the Prince and Archbishop which became not his part which made him the more imperfect Rebell the worse Polititian however he might seem the bette● man but these too might be but counterfeit reverences this might be his disguise and he might have come up to more according to the new lights which we may imagine were breaking in The continuance and misrule of these Worthies were much of a length in a few dayes the brands themselves had fired broke upon their own heads they were pluck'd up before their full growth like airy flitting clouds they were blown over ere they could pour down the storm they were big with The colours of these tumults were fair and taking such as their Architects Baal and Straw the Priests had layd such as the Masters of these Schooles have delivered in all ages The Weal publick the liberty of the free-born people pilled and fl●yed by the Kings taxes and the cruell oppression of the Gentry Justice Reformation or Regulation of Fundamentall Laws long subverted considerable names if we may believe them set them on The King his Glory his Honour his Safety The King and the Commons are cryed up But the King was compassed with Traitours and Malignants they will have it so and it is their care to remove them root and branch they will fire the house to cleanse it much other businesse they had much was amisse much to be reformed but in the first salley all is not noysed what was not handsome what might give a fuller fright was lapped up in folds to be discovered as they had thriven to be swallowed but gilded with a Victory We know crimes carried in a happy streame of luck lose their names in it are beautifull and must be thought so The Ordale of the Sword justified Caesar and condemned Pompey not his cause Adversae res etiam bonos detractant sayes Salust Good men if they miscarry doe not onely lose themselves but their integrity their justnesse their honesty they are what the Conquerour pleases and the silly multitude which ever admires the glitter of prosperity will hate them Providence preserved the English Nation from this blow The Lawrel of success crowned not the Rebels they crumble to their first dust again are ruined by their own weight and confusion They had risen like those Sons of the Dragons teeth in tempests without policy or advice Their leaders were meerly fantastical but goblins and shadows men willing to embroyl and daring whose courage was better then their cause and who to advance the design would not boggle at a peece of Honesty an Oath a Protestation or Covenant a Verse of St. Paul or St. Peter a Case of Conscience in the way of brave bold manly spirits yet without heads or wits to manage the great work which in so vast a body suddainly composed like the spawns of Nile of slime and dirt of so different parts so unequall members was fatall to the whole Tyler had no brains he could not plot not contrive and those about him were as heavy as very Asses as himself He is said to be a crafty fellow and of an excellent wit but wanting grace yet crafty enough he was not for the great and dangerous enterprise a Marius however impious for such he must be pace pessimus fitter to remove things to overturn overturns than for peace but as Plutarch of him subtill faithlesse one who could overdo all men in dissembling in hypocrisie practised in all the arts rf lying and some of these good sleights Tyler wanted not one who had sense and judgement to carry things on as well as desperate confidence ●…o undertake had become this part incomparably had gone through with it how easily under such a Captain if we look upon the weaknesse of the opposition and the villainous baseness of the Gentry had the frame of the ancient building been rased the Modell must have held Richard whose endeavours of defence or loyalty alone should have been killing had not fallen by the sword of Lancaster he had found his