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A70276	Divers historicall discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britain and Ireland tending all, to the asserting of the truth, in vindication of Their Majesties / by James Howell ... ; som[e] of which discourses were strangled in the presse by the power which then swayed, but now are newly retreev'd, collected, and publish'd by Richard Royston.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1661 (1661)	Wing H3068; ESTC R5379	146,929	429

INQUISITION AFTER TRUTH WHo vindicats Truth doth a good office not onely to his own Country but to all Mankind It is the scope of this short discourse viz. to make som researches after Truth and to rectifie the world accordingly in point of opinion specially touching the first Author and Aggressor of the late ugly war in England which brought with it such an inundation of bloud and so did let in so huge a torrent of mischiefs to rush upon us Ther be many and they not only Presbyterians and Independents but Cavaliers also who think that the King had taken the guilt of all this bloud upon himself in regard of that Concession he passed in the preamble of the late Treaty at the Isle of Wight The aim of this Paper is to clear that point but in so temperat a way that I hope 't will give no cause of exception much lesse of offence to any the bloud that 's sought after here shall not be mingled with gaule much lesse with any venom at all We know ther is no Principle either in Divinity Law or Philosophy but may be wrested to a wrong sense ther is no truth so demonstrative and clear but may be subject to cavillations no Tenet so plain but perverse inferences may be drawn out of it such a fate befell that preambular Concession His Majesty passed at the Transactions of the late Treaty in that he acknowledg'd therin that the two Houses of Parlement were necessitated to undertake a war in their own just and lawful defence c. and that therfore all Oaths Declarations or other public Instruments against the Houses of Parlement or any for adhering to them c. be declared null suppressed and forbidden 'T is true His Majesty passed this grant but with this weighty consideration as it had reference to two ends First to smoothen and facilitate things thereby to open a passage and pave the way to a happy peace which this poor Iland did so thirst after having bin so long glutted with civil blood Secondly that it might conduce to the further security and the indemnifying of the two Houses of Parlement with all their instruments assistants and adherents and so rid them of all jealousies and fear of future dangers which still lodg'd within them Now touching the expressions and words of this Grant they were not his own nor did he give order for the dictating or penning thereof the King was not the Author of them but an Assentor only unto them nor was He or his Party accus'd or as much as mentioned in any of them to draw the least guilt upon themselves Besides He pass'd them as he doth all Lawes and Acts of Parlement which in case of absence another may do for him in his politic capacity therfore they cannot prejudice his person any way I am loth to say that he condescended to this Grant Cum strict a novacula supra When the razor was as it were at his throat when ther was an Army of about thirty thousand effectif Horse and Foot that were in motion against him when his Person had continued under a black long lingring restraint and dangerous menacing Petitions and Papers daily ob●…ruded against him Moreover His Majesty pass'd this Concession with these two provisos and reservations First that it should be of no vertu or validity at all till the whole Treaty were intirely consummated Secondly that he might when he pleas'd inlarge and cleer the truth with the reservednesse of his meaning herein by public Declaration Now the Treaty being confusedly huddled up without discussing or as much as receiving any Proposition from himself as was capitulated and reciprocall proposalls are of the essence of all Treaties it could neither bind him or turne any way to his disadvantage Therfore under favour ther was too much hast us'd by the Parlement to draw that hipothetick or provisional Concession to the form of an Act so suddenly after in the very heat of the Treaty without His Majesties knowledg or the least intimation of his pleasure Add hereunto that this Grant was but a meer preambular Proposition 't was not of the essence of the Treaty it self And as the Philosophers and Schoolemen tell us there is no valid proof can be drawn out of Proemes Introductions or Corollaries in any science but out of the positive assertions and body of the Text which is only argument-proof so in the Constitutions and Laws of England as also in all accusations and charges forerunning prefaces preambles which commonly weak causes want most are not pleadable and though they use to be first in place like gentlemen-Ushers yet are they last in dignity as also in framing nor had they ever the force of Laws but may be term'd their attendants to make way for them Besides ther 's not a syllable in this preface which repeals or connives at any former Law of the Land therefore those Laws that so strictly inhibit English Subjects to raise armes against their Liege Lord the King and those Lawes è contrario which exempt from all dangers penalties or molestation any Subject that adheres to the person of the King in any cause or buarrell whatsoever are still in force Furthermore this introductory Concession of the Kings wherein he is contented to declare That the two Houses were necessitated to take Armes for their defence may be said to have relation to the necessity à parte pòst not à parte antè self-defence is the universall Law of Nature and it extends to all other cretures as well as to the Rationall As the fluent Roman Orator in that sentence of his which is accounted among the Critiques the excellentest that ever drop'd from Cicero Est enim haec non scripta sed nata Lex quam non didicimus accepimus legimus verum ex natura ipsa arripuimus hausimus expressimus ad quam non docti sed facti non instituti sed imbuti sum●…s ut si vita nostra in c. For this meaning self-defence is not a written but a Law born with us A Law which we have not learnt receiv'd or read but that which we have suck'd drawn forth and wrung out of the very brests of Nature her self A Law to which we are not taught but made unto wherwith we are not instructed but indued withall that if our lifes be in jeopardy c. we may repel force by force Therfore when the House of Parliament had drawn upon them a necessity of self defence And I could have wish'd it had bin against any other but their own Soverain Prince His Majesty was contented to acknowledge that necessity As for example A man of war meets with a Marchant man at Sea he makes towards him and assaults him The Marchant man having a good stout vessell under him and resolute generous Seamen bears up against him gives him a whole broad-side and shoots him 'twixt wind and water so there happens a furious fight betwixt them which being ended the

Divers Historicall DISCOURSES Of the late Popular INSURRECTIONS In Great BRITAIN And IRELAND Tending all to the asserting of Truth in Vindication of their MAJESTIES By Iames Howell Esquire Som of which Discourses were strangled in the Presse by the Power which Then SWAYED But now are newly retreev'd collected and Publish'd by Richard Royston The first TOME LONDON Printed by I. Grismond 1661. Belua multorum capit●…m Plebs vana vocatur Plus satis Hoc Angli ●…uper docuere Popelli 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I H The People is a Beast which Heads hath many England of late hath shew'd This more then any TO HIS MAJESTY SIR THese Historical Discourses set forth in such variety of dresses having given so much satisfaction to the world for the asserting of Truth in Vindication of Your Royal Father of ever blessed Memory and som of them relating also to Your Majesty I humbly conceiv'd might be proper for Your Majesties perusal Patronage Concerning the Author therof his name needed not to have bin prefix'd He being so universally well known and distinguishd from other Writers both at home and abroad by his stile which made one of the Highest Wits of these Times say of Him Author hic ex Genio notus ut Ungue Leo. God Almighty blesse Your Majesty with a continuance of Happiness and daily encrease of Glory so prayeth Your Majesties most loyal and humble Subject ROYSTON A Catalog of the severall Peeces that are here contain'd I. A Dialog twixt Patricius and Peregrin presently after Kintonfield Battaile which was the first Book that came forth for Vindication of His Majesty II. The second part of that Discours III. A seasonable Advice sent to Philip late Earl of Pembrock to mind him of the severall solemn Oaths wherby he was bound to adhere to the King IV. A Manifesto sent in His Majesties name to the Reformed Churches and Princes beyond the Seas touching His Religion V. Apologs and Emblemes in whose Moralls the Times are represented VI. Of the land of Ire or a Discours of that horrid Insurrection in Ireland discovering the tru Causes therof VII The Sway of the Sword or a Disurs of the Common Militia or Soldiery of the Land proving That the Command therof in chief belongs to the Ruling Prince VIII An Italian Prospective through which England may discern the desperat condition she stands in IX A Nocturnall Progresse or perambulation of most Countries in Christendom X. A Vindication of His Majesty touching a Letter He writ to Rome from Madrid in Answer to a Letter which Pope Gregory the 15th had sent Him upon passing the Dispensation for concluding the Match XI Of the Trety of the I le of Wight and the Death of His Majesty XII Advise from the prime Statesmen of Florence how England shold come to Her self again which can be by no other means under Heaven but by calling in the King and that in a free confident way without Articles but what He shall be pleas'd to offer Himself THE TRU Informer WHO DISCOVERS To the World the first grounds Of this ugly REBELLION And Popular TUMULTS In England Scotland and Ireland Deducing the Causes therof in an Historicall Discours from their Originall Neutrum modò Mas modò Vulgus Written in the Prison of the Fleet Anno 1642. CASUALL DISCOURSES AND Interlocutions BETWIXT Patricius and Peregrin Touching the Distractions of the Times VVith the Causes of them Patricius SUrely I shold know full well that face and phisnomy O Heavens 't is Peregrin Gentle Sir you are well met and welcom to England I am heartily glad of your safe arrivall hoping now to apprehend some happie opportunity whereby I may requite part of those worthy favours I received from you in divers places t'other side side of the Sea Peregrin Sir I am as joyfull to see you as any friend I have upon earth but touching favours they deserve not such an acknowledgment I must confesse my self to be farr in the arrear therfore you teach me what I shold speak to you in that point But amongst other offices of Friendship you have bin pleased to do me from time to time I give you many thanks for the faithfull correspondence you have held withme since the time of our separation by intercours of Letters the best sort of fuell to warm affection and to keep life in that noble vertue Friendship which they say abroad is in danger to perish under this cold Insulary clime for want of practise Patricius Truely Sir you shold have had an account of matters hence more amply and frequently but that of late it hath bin usuall and allowed by authority to intercept and break open any Letters but private men need not complain so much since the dispatches of Ambassadors whose P●…ckets shold be held as sacred as their Persons h●…ve bin commonly open'd besides some outrages offered their houses and servants nay since their Maj●…sties Letters under the Cabinet Signet have bin broke up and other counterfeit ones printed and published in their names Peregrin Indeed I must confesse the report hereof hath kept a great noise abroad and England hath suffered much in point of national repute in this particular for even among Barbarians it is held a kind of sacriledge to open Letters nay it is held a baser kind of burglary then to break into a House Chamber or Closet for that is a plundering of outward things onely but he who breaks open ones Letters which are the Idea's of the mind may be said to rip up his brest to plunder and rifle his very brain and rob him of his most pretious and secretest thoughts Patricius Well let us leave this distastfull subject when these fatall commotions cease this custom I hope will be abhorred in England But now that you are newly arrived and so happily met I pray be pleased t●… make me partaker of some forraign news and how the squares go betwixt France and Spain those two great wheels that draw after their motion some more some lesse all the rest of the Western world and when you have done I will give you account of the state of things in England Peregrin I thought you had so abounded with domestick news that you had had no list or leisure to hear any forrain but to obey your commands you know that I have been any time these six years a Land-loper up and down the world and truly I could not set foot on any Chr●…stian shore that was in a perfect condition of peace but it was engag●…d either in a direct 〈◊〉 or collaterall war or standing upon it's guard in continuall apprensions and alarmes of fear For since that last flaming Usher of Gods vengeance that direful Comet of the yeer 1618. appear'd in the heavens some malevolent and ang●…y ill-aspected star hath had the predominance ever since and by it's maligne influxes made strange unusuall impressions upon the humors of subjects by inci●…ing them to such insurrections revolts and tumults which caused a

those watery fogs and mists which are drawn up out of fennie and rotten low grounds here upon earth so in the Region of the mind the ill vapors which ascend to the brain from rotten and impostumated hearts from desperate and mal●…-contented humorists are the causes of all civil commotions and distempers in State But they have much to answer for in the world to come though they escape it in this who for any private interest or respect whatsoever either of Promotion Vain-glory Revenge Malice or Envie will embroyl and plunge their own native Country in any publick ingagement or civil war by putting a partition-wall betwixt their soverain Prince and their fellow-subjects Truely in my opinion these may be called the worst kind of Betrayers of their Countreys But I am too far transported from satisfying your request in relating the true causes of these calamities I will now fall to work and bring you to the very source of them Ther is a pack of perverse people composed for the most part of the scummie and basest sort multiplied in England who by a kind of natural inclination are opposit so point blank to Monarchy in State and Hierarchy in Church that I doubt if they were in Heven whither 't is to be fear'd they run a great hazard ever to enter it being a rule that he who is rotten-hearted to his King can never be right-hearted to his Crea●…or I say if these men were in Heven they w●…uld go near to repine at the Monarchical power of God Almighty himself as also at the degrees of Angels and the postures of holiness in the Church triumphant They call every Crotchet of the brain tenderness of conscience forsooth which being well examined is nothing else but a meer spirit of contradiction of malice and disobedience to all higher powers which possesseth them Ther are no constitutions either Ecclesiastical or Civil can please them but they wold cast both into such and such a mould which their crack'd brains wold fain devise yet are never able to bring to any perfection They are ever labouring to bring Religion to the dock and to be new trimm'd but they wold take down her fore-Castle and scarce allow her the Kings Armes to adorn her They are great listners after any Court-news and prick up their ears when any thing is spoken of King Queen or Privie Councellour and are always ready though upon loose trust to take up any report whereby they may whisper in conventicles and corners and so traduce the Government These great Z●…lots use to look upon themselves most commonly through multiplying glasses which make them appear to be such huge Santons that it renders them not onely uncharitable in their opinions of others but Luciferian-like proud in their own conceit insomuch that they seem to scorn all the world besides beleeving that they are ●…he only Elect whose souls work according ●…o the motion of the Spirit that they are ●…he true Children of promise whose faces alone look towards Heven They are more pleased with some new reach or fancy that may puzzle the pericranium than a Frenchman is in some new faction in cloathing They are nearest to the nature of the Jew of any people upon earth and will converse with him sooner than with some sort of Christians And as in their pharisaicall Dispositions they symbolize with the Iew so in some of their positions they jump pat with the Iesuit for though they are both in the extremes and as contrary one to the other as the points of a diameter yet their opinions and practises are concentrique viz. to depresse regall power Both of them wold bind their Kings in Chaines and the Nobles in links of Iron They both deny all passive obedience and as the one wold have the morter of the Temple tempred with blood so the other wold beat Religion into the brain with the poleaxe Their greatest master-piece of policy is to forge counter●…eit news and to divulge and disperse it as far as they can to amuse the world for the advancement of their designs and strengthing their party But the Iesuit doth it more cunningly and modestly for he fetcheth his news from far so that before the falshood of it can be contrould his work is commonly done and the news forgotten But these later polititians use to raise lies hard by home so that the grosseness and palpablenesse of them is presently discovered Besides to avoid the extremes of the other these later seem to fall into flat prophanness for they may be called a kind of enemies to the very Name Crosse and Church of Christ. Touching the first They repine at any reverence to be done unto the name of Jesus though spontaneous not coercive For the second which was held from the beginning to be the badg and Banner of a Christian they cry up the Crosse to be the mark of the b●…ast And for the last viz. the Church they wold have it to be neither beautifull holy nor amiable which are the three main properties that God requires in his house To conclude when any comes to be season'd with this sower leaven he seems to degenerat presently from the nature and garb of a Gentleman and fals to be of a sordid and low disposition narrow hearted and close handed to be timerous cunning and jealous and far from the common freedom and sweetness of morall society and from all generous and loyal thoughts towards his King and Country These these have bin the chiefest machinators and engeneers Englands unhappy divisions who Viper-like have torn the entrailes of their own mother their dear Country But ther were other extern concurrent causes and to find them out I must look Northward for there the cloud began to condense first You know Sir the Scot's nation were ever used to have their King personally resident amongst them and though King Iames by reason of his age bounty and long breeding there with other advantages drew such extraordinary respect from them that they continued in good conformity yet since his death they have been over-heard to mutter at the remotenesse and absence of their King and that they shold become now a kind of province by reason of such a distance some of their Nobles and Gentry found not at the English Court nor at his Majesties Coronation in Edenburgh that Countenance Familiarity Benefit and Honours which haply they expected and 't is well known who he was that having been denied to be lorded David Lesley took a pet and went discontented to his country hoping that some title added to the wealth he had got abroad should have purchased him more respect These discontented parties tamperd with the mercenary preachers up and down Scotland to obtrude to the p●…ple what doctrines they put into their mouthes so that the pulpits every where rung of nothing but of invectives against certain obliquities and Solaecismes and I cannot tell what in government and many glances they had upon the English Church