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A50914	Nevvs from hell, Rome and the Innes of court wherein is set forth the coppy of a letter written from the devill to the pope : the true coppy of the petition delivered to the King at Yorke : the coppy of certaine articles of agreement betweene the devill, the pope, and divers others : the description of a feast, sent from the devill to the pope : together with a short advertisement to the high court of Parliament with sundry other particulars / by J. M.	Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1642 (1642)	Wing M42B; ESTC R23068	14,420	30

their damnable actions for our honour We are pleased to take speciall notice of that service which they most willingly endeavoured to effect for the confusion of all the hereticks inhabiting England Scotland Ireland and the Netherlands by the late conceived Invincible Armado procured from Spain in the yeare of our raigne 5660. Which through the providence of the celestiall powers then over them and the disturbance of Martin Harper Trump here below failed of that successe which wee together with them expected and hoped for to our no lesse sorrow then theirs Nor can we but applaud the diligent care taken by our children and servants of greatest quality in that Kingdome in preventing the discovery of that Invasive plott by the hereticks and their small well-meaning State through their speedy flight to Dover Rode and private conference there with Don Oquindo the Generalissimo of Spaine to that effect All which was most exquisitely performed especially by our hispaniolized lack-latine Lord our dearely beloved servant And lastly our hope is that this present plot set on foot by these our trusty and well-beloved children and servants afore-named and by their earnest endeavours and our assistance once effected will crowne all our labours to our unspeakable terrestriall glory and their eternall favours by us to bee conferred on them in our Royall Pallace of perdition where we have already imposed our Royal command upon our trusty and wel-beloved cozen and counsellour Peter Tretyacove Chancellour Evane Becklemeesheve our Knight Marshall Richardo Slowe Treasurer and Don Serborus grand Porter of our said Pallace to give them free admittance into our Royall Presence Thus no wayes doubting of your singular care and diligence in fulfilling this our Royall will and pleasure hereby expressed we doe further impose our Royall favour and Princely respect to be by you presented unto our trusty and wel-beloved cozen and counsellour your present Nuntio in the Court of England as also unto our beloved children and servants the Bishops Jesuites Priests and Seminaries our faithfull agents in this invincible plot and also to all our faithfull subjects and servants the Roman Catholicks of England We are pleased to remaine your Royall Soveraigne and Patron of all your damnable plots and stratagems now in hand Given at out Infernall Pallace of perdition this first of September and in the 5661. yeare of our most damnable raigne Postscript Since the above-writtē we are credibly informed of the intention of a most scandalous Petition to be delivered by a small number of hereticall Lords unto their King at York which doth not a little touch our honour the discovery of this our present stratagem Our expresse will pleasure is that there be some speedy course taken for the suppressing of the same and the authors thereof severely punished and Pomfret Castle allotted unto them for their abode untill our will and pleasure be further knowne and this our designe be effected of which faile you not as you tender our Royall favour the successe of this our designe and your owne safety Farewell Antonio Furioso Diabolo Principalio Secretario Consider this and marke the substance well It seemes a letter from the Feind of hell What ere the form or method seeme to be Th' intent thereof was quite the contrarie Had not this rung a knell in some mens eares They 'd nea'r been freed from their slavish feares Of tyranny oppression and th' Bishops pride Judges and Lawyers a wicked crew beside Of Doctors Proctors that the Realm did sway Trod under foot Gods truth turn'd night to day Strove to confound Great Brittains Monarchy Justice and Truth pervert advanc't impiety And all by this Romes doctrine to prefer Obey the Pope and serve King Lucifer That is the cause why them he doth applaud That he thereby with them may have the LAUD And honour due unto his servants all That strive by him to worke Great Brittains fall A true Coppie of the Petition which was by the Lords presented unto the KING at York September the 12. 1640. To the Kings most Excellent Majesty THe humble Petition of your Majesties most loyall subjects whose names are here under subscribed in the behalfe of themselves and divers others Most gracious Soveraigne The sense of that duty we owe to Gods sacred Majesty and our nearest affection to the good and welfare of this your Realm of England have moved us in all humility to beseech your Royall Majesty to give us leave to offer to your Princely wisdom the apprehension which we others your faithful subjects have conceived of the great distemper and danger now threatning this Church and State your Royall person and of the fittest means to remove and prevent the same The evils and dangers whereof your Majesty may be pleased to take notice of are these That your Majesties sacred person is exposed to hazard danger in this present expedition against the Scottish Army and that by occasion of this warre your Majesties revenues are much wasted your subjects burthened with cote and conduct mony billiting of souldiers and other military charges and divers rapines disorders committed in severall parts of this your Realm by the souldiers raised for that service and the whole Realme full of feares and discontentments The sundry innovations in matters of Religion the oath of Canons lately imposed upon the Clergy and others of your Majesties subjects the great increase of Popery and imploying of Popish Recusants and others ill affected unto Religion are established in places of power trust especially in commanding of men armes both in the field in sundry other Counties of this your Realm which by the lawes they are not permitted to have any armes in their owne houses The great mischiefe that may fall upon this Kingdom if the intention which hath beene credibly reported of the bringing in of Irish and forraigne forces should take effect The heavy charge of Merchants to the great discouragement of trade The multitude of Monopolies and other Patents whereby the commodities and manufactures of this Kingdome are much burthened to the great and universall grievances of your people the great griefe of your subjects with the long intermission of Parliaments and the late and former dissolving of such as have beene called without the happy effects which otherwise they might have produced for remedy whereof and prevention of the danger that may ensue to your Royall person the whole state They do in all humility faithfulnesse beseech your Majesty that you will be pleased to summon a Parliament in some short and convenient time whereby the causes of these and other great grievances which your people suffer under may be taken away the Authors Counsellors of them may be brought to such legall tryal condigne punishment as the nature of their offences shall require and that the present warre may be composed by your Majesties wisdom without bloudshed in such a manner as may conduce to the honour

of your Majesties person safety the cōfort of your people uniting of both the Realmes against the common enemies of the reformed religion your Majesties petitioners shall c. The names of such Earles and Barons as subscribed this Petition viz. Earles Bedford Hartford Essex Mougrave Warwicke Bullingbrooke Rutland Lincolne Exeter Vicounts Lord Say and Seale Mandifield Brooke Harford North Willowby Savell Wharton Lovelace Saint John Articles of agreement made concluded and done this 28. of September in the yeare of grace 1641. and of the world 5662. by and between the high and mighty Prince Lucifer King of Sticks and Phlegeton the holy and most superstitious Primate of the Roman Church the Cardinals Bishops Jesuites Priests and Semenaries of the one party and Judge Bribery Lawyer Corruption Atturney Contention Solicitor Sedition Justice Connivence Jaylor Oppression and State Negligence of the other party in manner and forme following Imprimis IT is this day mutually agreed by and betweene the severall parties above-named That there shal be a league offensive and defensive concluded and confirmed by both parties at or before Holy-roode day next ensuing the date hereof Item That whereas there hath beene lately by the subtill practises of some Parliamentary reformists a discord dissension raised between the State Ecclesiastick the state of the Inns of Court wherby there hath hapned no small prejudice unto the ecclesiastick state the likes whereof is to be doubted may also fall upon the state of the Innes of Court and so consequently upon the Crown and dignity of our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer It is therefore mutually agreed that all former controverfies and contentions betweene both parties shall cease and that all unity peace and concord shall be imbraced on either side according to the expressions in the precedent Article to the honour of our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer his crowne and dignity Item It is agreed that the said state of the Inns of Court and the state Ecclesiastick afore-said shall joyntly severally use the uttermost of their strength power and policy to resist and suppresse all such proceedings of this present Parliament which shall any way tend to the Reformation and suppression of Oppression Extortion Bribery Contention Tradition And that they shall and will with all their might power and policie endeavour and strive to broach advance and maintaine all the said severall impieties again to the honour of our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer his crowne and dignity Item It is agreed by betweene our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer and the whole state Ecclesiastick of the one part and Judge Bribery That forthwith upon the dissolution of this present Parliament He the said Judge Bribery is then again to put in practise the taking of bribes passing of false judgment and maintaining his false corrupt sentences and decrees to be things sacred and infallible oppressing the innocent by close imprisonment and also favouring all Jesuites Priests and Semenaries if any of them happen by the Instruments of Justice to be laid hold on animating and instructing all Atturnies Soliciters and Clarks for and to the sowing of strife and contention amongst the people of the land to the honour of our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer his crowne and dignity Item It is agreed by betweene our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer Lawyer Corruption that he the said Lawyer Corruption shall notwithstanding any powerfull Parliamentary reformation still persist in taking fees both of plaintife and defendant nor shall ever bring any honest cause to its period untill he hath in fees devoured the whole substance both of plaintife and defendant neither shall he the said Lawyer Corruption ever at any time give any true and prevalent advice to any his clyents but shall delude and delay them untill hee hath draynd them as afore-said to the utter ruine of them their wives and children to the honour of our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer and the propagation of his Crowne and dignity To their owne present rich impiety and assured successefull perdition Item It is agreed and concluded by and betweene our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer and Atturny Contention That he the said Atturny Contention shall and will at all times in all places and upon all occasions use his best diligence to sow debate strife variance contention amongst the people of the land without exception of persons yea he shall not omit to set the father against the son and the son against the father as also one brother against the other to the utter ruine of their estates houses and families to that end he shall dispose of himselfe and all his imphes into all the quarters and severall corners of the Kingdom neither shall there be any market-towne or place of habitation but hee shall seat himselfe there to the intent and purpose afore-said to the honour of our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer his Crown and dignity and to the advancement of the said science of iniquity Item It is agreed by between our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer and Solicitor Sedition That he the said Solicitor Sedition shall will at all times use his best endeavour to stir up animate and encourage all people of what condition degree profession soever unto ● in the law and that he the said Solicitor Sedition shall will prove faithfull unto all Lawyers and Atturnies and shall will be slow in the prosecution of any mans cause whatsoever spin out the thred thereof unto its full length especially in the Courts of equity by multiplicity of begging orders and by not omitting to have this clause inserted into every of his orders viz. unlesse cause be shewed to the contrary at the next court day by the defendant as also by falsifying of orders through the corrupting of registers and corrupting of counsell in an honest cause by deceiving his clyents through false and unjust bils of charges by brybing the Judges of the severall Courts and the masters of the Chancery richly to the honour of our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer his Crowne and dignity and the eternall damnation of Solicitor Sedition Item It is agreed concluded in Perpetuum between our Soveraigne Lord King Lucifer Jaylor Oppression that whereas through the rigour of the law many poore Christian soules are committed unto his keeping and safe custody for sundry causes sometimes for no just cause at all He the said Jaylor Oppression shall will by himself his clarks servants be void of all mercy compassion towards them and shall and will as much as in him lyeth endeavour to worke the utter ruine of the estates and lives of all such as shall be committed to his custody and to that end he the said Jaylor Oppression shall nor will not bee slacke in giving bribes otherwise stiled new-yeares-gifts yearly unto all the Judges of the Courts of Justice for and towards the better incouragement and animation of them to the commitment of all such to