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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

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 Nihil medium Libertas habet quae aut tota est quod debet aut amissa parte sui tota fuit et extinguitur Quam ideirco non ignavis neque Brutis ad serviendum natis sed erectis animabus Deus immortalis conservandam tradit Heinsius orat 4. Iustitia pietas fides Privata bona sunt qua juvat Reges eant London printed for George Thompson at the Signe of the white horse in Chancery Lane 1650. To the Right Honourable the Lord President BRADSHAW My Lord THough I may seem bold I am not so blind but that I perceive your Lordship taller by the head than most I can set by you and so come for patronage in hopes of a favourable smile being sure to have frownes enough from them who not able to look over the heads of others croud as it were hood-wink'd after those that goe before them It was the ancient practice of enslaved Rome after death to Deifie her Tyrants and this her badge of slavery we in England have long worn as a Livery of our bondage whose Kings when dead must be of Famous and Blessed Memory though they liv'd most infamous for Cowardize and detestable for Tyranny and though this was acted to flatter their Successors at first yet by custome it hath so prevailed that notwithstanding the cause is now taken away the effect remains among the multitude to whom Logick must give place in their irrationall actings and from a naturall necessity is become a divine institution so that immortall as earthly Crownes are givem them Iure Divino to dye Saints as they live Kings Indeed Rome may have somthing pleaded in her excuse for she had her infernall Gods whom by sacrifice she endeavoured to appease from doing mischief so little inferiour was her superstition to her slavery which was as great as tyranny could create I know our royall Idolaters will lay hold of the Horns of this De mortuis nil nisi bonum but it can afford them little safety and me lesse danger whom the Metaphysicks have taught that bonum verum convertuntur that J cannot write good unlesse J write truth thus what they have taken for their shield is the dart which pierceth their Liver and by what they would ward off they are smitten with the blow of high-treason themselves being the only and grand transgressors against the majesty of History whose Prerogative it is not onely to reward the good with honour and renown but also to punish the evill with ignominie and reproach The case standing thus I am assured of your Lordships protection against all storms such inchantments may raise against me whose rationall eye being able to pierce these foggs doth perceive what hath so long been invelop'd in the mist Thus my Lord having looked aside at selfe yet I constantly kept your Lordship in my eye and your honour stood fore-right my safety but on one side in my choice not out of presumption that my weak endeavours could adde any thing to you but in assurance that others seeing what profit they have received what misery they have escaped in the book will return to the Dedication and with honour read your name who have been so great an iustrumet under God of their deliverance God hath chosen you to judge between a King and a people and your sentence hath shewn you are sufficiently informed of what this Discourse treats yet as a Pharos may be usefull to delight a man with the prospect of those rocks shelves and sands he hath escaped to whom it was a sea mark to guide safe into the Port so may your Lordship with comfort cast your eye upon the ensuing Discourse viewing the dangers you and all good Patriots have past especially having had so great an hand in the steerage into the Harbour And now give me leave to mention your worthy acts that it may be known I am not unmindfull of a good turn it is the onely thanks I am able to repay in the behalf of my Conntrey and self I know some will be apt to condemne such an action as savouring of flatterie but the most free from that vice the most severe the most rigid in the School of vertue a Cato himself hath done the like and that not onely upon the Score of gratitude but to encourage and incite to further gallantry and the most censorious of them may perchance perceive their own black Shadows by your light and from your example take out a new lesson of duty to their countrey whom they ought to serve before themselves You have undauntedly stood the shock of what ever slavish malice could bring against you and have been eminent in vindicating the right God and nature invested the nation with from the power of usurping tyranny no counterfeit rayes no glittering impostures gilded with pretences of sacred and Majestick have dazzeled your eyes but with a steddy and impartiall hand you have guided the Scale of justice wherein that bubble of worldly honour hath been found too light to counterpoise those sinnes of murder and oppression which brought such heavy judgements on the land whose yo●e hath been broken whose guilt hath been removed in a great measure by having justice executed without respect of persons {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith the Philosopher to do good to one is honourable to a nation is heroicall to perform the first is the private mans duty to be able to do the latter is the publick magistrates divinity God hath not onely given you power but a mind also to employ it well you have been good as wel as Great and God hath preserved you honored you in your integrity of which we have received such sure signs that it must argue us more severe than just more suspicious than Charitable but to doubt that the Honour of God the good and freedome of your Countrie shall not still possesse the first part of your affections and be the ultimate end in all your actions that so the goodwill of him that dwelt in the Bush being with you and your fellow Builders may enable you to perfect the great work of Reformation to his glory your own honours and the happinesse and freedome of this nation all which are uufeignedly desired by him who craving pardon for this bold approach as by duty obliged subscribes My Lord Your Lordships most humble servant George

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

Tyranny whose rationall and undaunted souls disdaininga Brutish slavery freely offered up their bodies on the High places of the field a rich oblation for Englands freedome which together expired and lay butchered by them The losse of this battell was imputed to the cowardice of the Welsh who in great numbers ranne away in the beginning of the fight not to the injustice of the cause of which the people had a sacred opinion but the truth is there was an accursed thing an Achan in Leicesters host old Henry attended with whole troops of perjuries matters and oppressions against whom incensed heaven was injustice engaged And now that the world might take notice Tyranny was again in the saddle cruelty in the height of revenge pranceth through the field for the dead body of noble Leicester was most barbarously abused and cut in pieces the head with the privy members fastened on either side the nose being sent as a Trophy to the Lord Roger Mortimers wife a present indeed as fitting for a Lady to receive as it was becoming a Prince who was Leicesters nephew to send but the people made a Saint of him whom his enemies by making reliques of rendred themselves little better than Devils and the dismembred body gave a fragrant sent whilest the dismemberers rotted and stank alive thus after death Leicester leads a triumph over Tyranny which may instruct us how far a free and generous soul is above its reach And here notwithstanding the calumnies and reproaches wherewith the Royall party backed with successe and parasiticall Chronologers then and since have loaded Leicester yet we may take a guesse of the worth of that noble Lord by the love of the people and malice of the Tyrant the former cannonizing him for a Saint do what the latter could for his heart and sure the common people had more than ordinary cause which could make them practice after an unusuall manner which was to judge contrary to event had his pride and his sonnes insolency been such as some would make them who endeavour with their shame to make a cloak for their adversaries knaverie Henry need never to have been so timerous as he was who not onely confessed he feared the father more than any storm but could never be quiet untill he ezpell'd both mother and sonnes the Land though she was his sister a Lady of eminent note both daughter and sister to a King and they upon delivering up their strengths were seemingly received into favour thus dreadfull and hatefull to a tyrant are free and generous spirits which must expect such usuage when they are within the verge of his power and such effects of an act of oblivion must our noble Patriots have felt from Charles had not providence in men been pleased to have put bounds to the paralell by erecting us a pillar with a ne plus ultra upon it Let each following line then teach here thankfulnesse to Heaven wherein we shall read from what a labyrinth and maze of misery divine mercy hath freed our unworthy selves in which our forefathers were miserably imprisoned and devoured and let us prize the clue which hath led us out among our choicest jewels that giving glory to the hand and honour to the instrument we may in some measure walk worthy of the mercies we have received Henry now again where he would be breaths nothing but bloud and revenge against all who had stood for liberty following and pursuing them with such unheard of fury that had not some potent favorites interposed he had burnt the whole City of London Thus the Metropolis of England had been laid in ashes which so generously and often hath ventured for Liberty had not God had a work to doe wherein London was to be gloriously instrumentall and so delivered it out of the paw of the Lyon A Parliament now is summoned to Winchester which considering the season was likely to do the people much good and in this all who took part with the Lords are disherited all the Statutes of Oxford are repealed the wealthiest Citizens of London cast into prison the City deprived of it 's Liberties and all the posts and chains taken away These things being put in execution for such Acts must be kept another Parliament meets at Westminster wherein the Acts of VVinchester are confirmed Thus topsie turvie is the world changed that Assembly the onely refuge and Assilum for the people to fly to so lately the assertor of their Freedoms is becom the Mint wherein the Tyrant stamps for current what he lists and makes the basest metall passe for Gold backing his lust with pretence of Law O now I warrant you Henrye's conscience is tender in keeping Acts of Parliament and it is no lesse than a piaculum to go about to infringe them Henry in this latter comming to Westminster to shew his goodnesse and bounty freely bestows on his Hang-bies sixty Citizens houses together with their furniture and all the lands goods and chattels belonging to their owners Yet at length he was pleased to pardon the City upon the payment of twenty thousand marks and giving Hostages of the best mens Sonnes to be kept in the Tower at their Parents charges Businesse thus dispatched at London away hies Henry to Northampton where the Popes Legat holding a Synod curses all those who stood for Liberty and Henry had been undutifull had he not helped his Holy-Father who all along had bin so kind to him he good man was agreed with before it was all the reason then in the World that the Pope should make his market thus the poor slaves were to purchase their fetters double so costly was slavery unto England justly then may such be termed niggards and base who will grumble now though with a round sum to purchase their Liberty And now it seems Henry made not his journey for nothing for the gratefull Pope by his Legat this Synod grants the tenths of the Church for a year unto him so bountiful in rewarding one another were these Foxes with what they lurched from the Geese Henry passing his time in such pranks as these at last Glocester finding his turning not to serve his tongue as he expected takes his time changes his footing and assembling an Army seizes on London this puts the King and Legat so to their trumps as brought both unto their last stake making the one pawn the shrines jewels and reliques the other spend the curses and excommunications of the Church most liberally but the Legat might have been sent packing with his Sonne at his back in Pontificalibus had not Henries Golden Gods wrought the miracle which having thousands of Angels at command quickly brought in great Armies of Forraigners by whose aid Glocester was forced to submit he and all his partakers fining for their offence to Henry who no doubt made them pay for putting him into such a fear as well as unto such a charge which could be no small sum were he like