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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

Provision every one refusing to lend him or the King a groat so great credit had their perfidie got them Many being clapt up in prison who would not be perjured the Lords and others whose consciences were more tender both of their Oath and Liberties than to believe the Pope or trust the King assemble together in arms for defence of themselves and their liberties and first they send to the King humbly beseeching him to remember his many Oathes and promises but when that would not availe them they advance towards London where the King lay in the Tower waiting the gathering of his forces and the comming over of strangers which he expected and now the Bishops who as they were seldom in any good so would be sure to be cheif in every bad action make such a stir to prevent bloudshed forsooth of which their tendernesse hath alwaies been well enough knowne that the controversy must be referred to the French King to decide much honour got England and much liberty was like to get by such an Arbitratour while she is forced to creep to forraigners to know whether they will please to let her enjoy liberty or no after 47 years oppression under Henry besides what his good Father and Grandsiers had loaded her with But the Lords being perswaded that their Liberties and Rights depended not upon the will of any one Man refused to stand to the partiall award of the French in the English Tyrants behalfe Thus concluded this business as all others commonly did which Bishops had a foot in●● with a mischief to the Common-wealth the King gaining by it not only time for raising but a seeming justice for his using of Forces to compell the Lords to stand to the sentence by which their liberties were adjudged from them No doubt those wise and generous Barons not only disliked but disdained such an Vmpire as being sensible of the advantages Henry of the dishonour their Countrey and of the discommodity their cause would reap by him but that those Fathers in evill under the angelical shape of peace-makers necessitated them to accept of him to avoid the obloquy of being Incendiaries the involvers of their Country in a miserable civill war Let the English High Priests then to their eternall infamy carry a frontlet engraven with Mischeif to England on their foreheads who were the fatall instruments of enforcing their Country to submit her liberty to a forraigne Tyrants decision whose corrupt interest lay in adding fewell to the flames which consumed the Noblest Fabricks the uprightest and firmest pillars in the English Nation Yet that Henry might make a little better market for himselfe he Summons a Parliament at Westminster where whilst openly nothing but redressing grievances composing differences exclaiming against jealousies raised to scandalise the King good man as if he intended to leavy War against his people by factious spirits proceeds from Henry he underhand prepares for War endeavouring to divide the Barons and strengthen himself by all the plots and clandestine tricks he could at last having by sprinkling Court holy-water and promising fifty pound Lands per annum to such as would desert the Lords party drawn divers to revolt unto him he secretly withdraws from Westminster to Windsor and from thence to Oxford so on traversing the Country to patch up and peece together an Army And here we may see it was no new thing which was acted by his late successor who in al his actions made it appeare that he was a right chip of the old block Now pretences of the Barons insolencies against the King and oppressions of the Subjects Declarations of his being forced to take up arms for defence of the just Lawes and Liberties of the people and his own safety with protestations of his good intentions and divers other such knacks are every where on the wing as we have had flying up and down at the tayss of the Royall paper Kites of our times The Lords being thus left in the lurch are not wanting in preparing for defence being unanimously backt by the citizens of London who have hitherto had the honour of bravely standing for Liberty yet first they send to the King putting him in mind of his oathes and promises and desiring him to observe the great Charter and Oxford Statutes but the Drums and Trumpets make such musick in his ears that Henry will heare no talk of any Law but what his will and Sword shall give and for their good Counsell returnes them as tokens of his love the title of Rebels and Traytors which he as frankly bestows on their persons as he doth their Lands on his followers By these course Complements the Lords perceiving which way the game was like to go leave off putting their confidence in the King and trust their cause to God and their good Swords then choosing the Earls of Leicester and Glocester for their Generalls whose hands no manacle of alliance could lock from defending their Countries Liberties though the first had married the Sister the second the Neece of the King they take the Feild may Towns are taken by each party and many skirmishes passe wherein sometimes the one party sometimes the other get the better at length divers Scotch Lords and others with great forces being joyned to the King he marches against Northampton where he heard Peter Montford was assembling forces for the Barons the Town was very resolutely defended untill by the Treachery of some Monks within say some by the subtilty of the Kings Forces say others who advancing close under the Wall undermined it whilst the Captains within parlying with the King on the other side a breach was made so large that forty Horse might enter a brest by which Henry gained it by assault This Town being taken ran the same fortune Leicester lately did for Henry drunk with successe and rage like a violent Torrent swept all before him killing burning and spoiling where ever his Army came but here so unmanly was the cruelty of the Tyrant that he would have hanged all the Oxford Schollers a band of which were in the Town for their valour shewed in the brave resistance of his forces had not some of his Counsellers perswaded him from so doing for feare the only curb to an ignoble soule of exasperating their freinds against him by his cruelty many of the Schollers being young Gentlemen of good quality Here by the way we may observe the miserable effects of bad Governours in the Vniversities by whom such degeneratenesse was wrought in our youth that none in our times were found more desperate engagers against the cause of Liberty than young Schollers who heretofore were the most resolute Champions for it Let us therefore make no sinister constructions when we see our Governours diligent in purging the fountaines if we desire to have the streams run cleere But Northampton put a period to Henries fortune for although he caused the Barous to raise their siedge from Rochester yet in the

The Lords netled with this Prelats peremptorinesse which the King bore him out in depart with more indignation vowing to spend their Lives in this cause concerning their liberties so much hereupon the K. sends for whole Legions of Poictovins then summons them to appear in the Parl. called on purpose to intrap them but they were so wise as to avoid the snare so resolute as to send him word That unles he would mend his manners by the common Counsel of the kingdom they would expell both him and his evil Councellors the Land But all this avayled them not for upon their refusall to repair to him at Glocester the King without the judgment of his Court or their Peers causes them to be proclamed Out-Laws seizes upon all their Lands which he divides among his Poictovins the Panisaries that guarded and boulstered out this Grand Sultan and his Visier Basha Winchester in their tyrannies and directs out Writs to attach their Bodie But now give me leave a little to digresse and shew how our bloud-hounds have run counter on the same foile have acted the most of this scene in our dayes For thus though our King wanted not so great a stock of strangers to set up with there being so many base spirited Englishmen which would be instrumentall in enslaving their Countrey a thing our noble and generous Ancestors abhorred to do yet German horse were to have bin brought over to help to improve the Trade and lye for factourage of Tyranny in every County Thus the Earl of Straffora tels the King he had an Army in Ireland which might be brought over to bring England under the yoak a Counsel which cost the Giver his Head Thus were Swedes Danes French Scots Irish and Dutch sent for over and invited by the King to help him Thus the Members were illegally proceeded against the Lords summoned to York and the Parliament commanded to Oxford and all that refused handled without mittens their Estates being conferred on those who would engage for Tyranny and themselves proclamed Traytors and Rebels indeed these things considered it was no marvell God was so often called to witnesse that Tyranny was not intended and impiety used to create credulity God mocked that men might be abused sith no reason could be given to gain our belief and make us give our own eyes the lye The Lords though much weakned by the revolt of some of themselves the King having won the Earl of Cornwall and Winchester with a thousand marks bought the Earls of Chester and Lincoln to his party repair into Wales at that time very sensible of their oppression and the Earl of Kent to cry quittance with the K. and make amends for his former faults breaks prison and joyns with them hereupon the K. in person marches against them but he is beaten and forced to retreat with dishonor to Glocester his Foraigners also being again sent against them runne the same chance their Generall and thousands of them being slain on the place being frustrated therefore in his design of force the King employes a Fryer to cajole the Earl of Pembroke General of the Forces raised by the Barons but all the flatteries promises and threats of that crafty instrument could not shake the constancy of that Noble Lord who gallantly told him That he feared no danger nor would ever yeeld to the Kings will which was guided by no reason that he should give an evill example to relinquish the justice of his Cause to obey that will which wrought all injustire whereby it might appeare he loved worldly possessions more than Right and Honour Thus the promise of restauration of his former estate with the addition of great Lands in Herefordshire nothing prevailed with him in whose heroik Mind Honour and his Conntryes good were Commanders in chief No way therefore now being left but that the King tryes what may be done by Treachery and takes a truce with them in the mean while seizing all those great possessions which were left the Earl in Ireland by his famous Ancestor the Earl Strongbow that thereby he might draw the Earl over thither this design takes effect and the Earl endeavouring to regain his livelihood lost his life circumvented by treachery Thus noblest souls are soonest intrapt who measuring others their own thoughts are the least suspicious but his death wrought such effects as caused the King to disown the businesse and lay the load upon his Counsellors shoulders In a Parl. at Westminst. the King being plainly told his own the Bishops threatning to proceed by Ecclesiasticall censure both against him and his Counsellors and seeing no way to subsist and get his ends but by temporizing consents to them calls home the Lords removes the strangers and brings his new officers to account now the storm fals so violently that Winchester with his Bastard are forced for shelter to take Sanctuary untill by large Fines the King was appeased who to get money was very ready to doe any thing Escuage is granted toward the marriage of his Sister whom he bestowed on the Emperour with 30000 marks for a Dowry besides an Imperiall Crown and other Ornaments to a great value The King marries Elianor Daughter to the Earl of Provence a match which beside the distance of the place was infinitely disadvantagious having no Dowry getting a poor kindred which must needs draw means from this kingdome A Parliament also is assembled at London which the King would have held in the Tower but that the Lords refused to come in which Sheriffs were removed for corruption and the new ones sworn to take no bribes Now the King endeavours to change his officers and to take the Seale from the Chancellor the Bishop of Chichester who refuses to deliver it which he had by the Common Councell of the kingdom without assent of the same and having carryed himself unblamably in his office is much favoured by the people Also he receives some old cast officers into favour such was his levity and irresolution moved with any Engine to doe and undo and all out of time and order wherein he ever loses ground and goes about by the Popes Authority to revoke his former Grants which addes to the already conceived displeasure of the people In another Parliament or the same adjourned the King demands relief and upon promise to confirm the Charters and not seek to infringe them upon any pretence as want of the Popes confirmation c. a thirtieth part of all moveables is granted yet upon condition that it should be gathered by four Knights in every shire and laid up in Abbies or Castles that if the King performed not his promise it might be returned that he should leave the Counsell of Aliens and use only that of his Naturall Subjects Which being done and to make shew on his part some old Counsellors suddenly removed and others chosen which were sworn to give him good and faithfull advice yet I hope he

had a Negative voice and might chuse whither he would hearken unto them and be no King or no the Parliament concluded and with it ended all his goodly Promises For he presently hastens to Dover receiving a Legat without acquainting the Lords with the cause of his comming exacts the Subsidie contrary to order is wholly swayed by the Counsell of his Queens Vncle an Alien sends for his father in Law to help away with his monie marries Simon Mountford to his sister the Widdow of William Earl of Pembroke a professed Nunne and of a banished Frenchman makes him Earl of Leicester But the Legat and Earl of Leicester proved better than was expected no thanks to the King who doubtlesse was no Prophet the one endeavouring to pacifie not foment divisions which before was held a property inseparable from his office The other becomming a most earnest assertor of the English Liberties as the Sequele will manifest The Lords incensed with these perfidious and tyrannous dealings Remonstrate against him and tell him of the profusion of his Treasure gotten by Exaction from the Subject and cast away upon strangers who onely guide him of the infinite sums he had raised in his time how there was no Archbishoprick or Bishoprick except York Lincoln and Bath but he had made benefit by their vacancies besides what fell by Abbyes Earldoms Baronies and other Escheats and yet his Treasure which should be the strength of the State was nothing encreased Lastly That despising his Subjects Counsels he was so obsequious to the will of the Romans that he seemed the Popes feudary the King hearing this harsh note and perceiving the Londoners and whole people ready to rise against him first by the Legat attempts to win his Brother now the head of the Lords party to side with Him but failing in this he cals a Parliament whether the Lords come armed Whereupon to gain time the businesse is referred to the order of certain grave personages Articles drawn sealed and publikely set up with the eals of the Legat and divers great men the King taking his Oath to stand to their determinations but whilst the businesse was debating he corrupts his Brother and the Earl of Lincoln whereby the Lords are weakned the businesse is dash'd and the miseries of the Kingdom continued Simon Montford is thrown out of favour and the Seal taken from him and his brother Geoffrey a Knight Templer put out of the Counsel Men much maligned as evil Counsellors so inconstant are Tyrants in their favours they lost their places for refusing to passe a grant of 4 pence upon every sack of wool made by the King to the Earl of Flanders the Queens Vncle to whom the next year he gave a pension of 300 marks per annum out of the Exchequer and here by their dejection we may observe that Officers under bad Princes are not alwayes so bad as men account them and that when the Master playes the wreaks the servant bears the burden But it seems one Gulph sufficed not to swallow up the substance of the Kingdom and therefore the Pope adds extortion to the Kings exaction and sends to have 300 Romans preferred to the next vacant benefices in England which mandate so amazed the Archbishop of Canterbury that seeing no end of these Concussions of the State and liberties of the Church he gives over his Sea and payes 800 marks to the Pope for his Fine We need never doubt sure but that they paid well for it who were to have it when so much was given by him that left it He demands a tenth also of the Clergy who flying to the King for protection against the Popes rapine were referred to the Legat yea and the chief of them offered to be delivered up unto him by the King who joyned with the Pope we may see to aw and punish the Kingdom and though they in the Councell then called stood out for a while against the Legat yet at length by the Treason of division the body of the Councel is entred into and the Pope prevails in this businesse Neither was Pope and King enough the Queenes kindred must have a share one of whose Vncles comes into England is feasted sumptuosly Knighted and the Earldom of Richmond with other gifts bestowed on him and the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury conferred on his Son but the poor Jews fasted for this who were forced to pay 20000 marks at two Terms that year The King being set agogg to be doing in France by his Father in Law and others the authors of his first Expedition summons a Parliament and moves the matter therein but it was generally opposed as a design not feasible and expensive besides the unlawfulnesse of breaking Truce Money also was denyed though the King came in person most submissively craving their aid with a letter from the Pope to boot in his hand Neverthelesse what by gifts and loans from particular men by begging and borrowing he scraped so much together that he carryed over with him 30 barrels of Stirling Coin and yet before the end of the year he got Escuage toward his charges which he lay spending at Bourdeaux to little or no purpose He sent for Grain Bacon had 10000 quarters of Wheat 5000 of Oates and as many Bacons shipt away most of which perished by Ship-wrack the very Elements seeming discontented as well as the English Lords at his unworthy carriage in undervaluing their Counsels and preferring strangers upon whom he consumed his treasure in such sort as caused his Brother and most of the English Lords to desert him and come over the wiser they for the Earl of Leicester and others which staid behind ranne behind hand too as wel as the King by borrowing large sums to defray their expences at last He was driven to make a dishonorable Truce with the French King and return having not gained so much as 30 emptie barrels were worth The Stangers having made up their mouths of him abroad follow him hither also so greedy were these Harpies after prey and so easy and ready was he to be made one to them and now the Countesse of Provence the Queens Mother bringing another doughter with her arrives at Dover is sumptuously entertained and sent away richly rewarded her daughter being immediately bestowed on the Earle of Cornewall who it seemes had as good a stomack to forraigne flesh as the King his brother that he could fall too so soone without sauce but the Earle was well beforehand in the world and so might the better dispence with the want of a portion Next slips in Martin the Popes collectour furnished with such ample power of cursing suspending excommunicating pardoning having whole droves of blanke Bulls which might be filled up according to occasion and all other accoutrements belonging to and necessary for St. Peters successors trade which was fishing for money not men that the former Legats were but fleas if compared with this horseleech who sucketh so

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

some of his late successors in defraying only the charges laid out for guilded clouts besides what must be given to set the little Dagons in their places againe and appease their and their Priests fury Thus Glocester received the reward of his base deserting Leicester being forced by his kind Master to find sureties for his good behaviour And now this Earl being brought under the yoak Henry turns against those Barons who stood out and were possest of the Isle of Elie. These he first attempts by the Legat his forlorne Hope and reserve too it seems who is beaten back with this repulse That unles the Statutes of Oxford might be observed and Hostages delivered that they might peaceably enjoy the Island untill they should perceive how the King would performe his promises they were resolved to stand it out and with the venture of their bodies seek to preserve their Souls upon which lay most sacred and solemne ties So great an incouragement was the opinion of their cause that it made them stand upright and undaunted after all these storms and so great a distrust had Henries perfidie created that his subjects durst not let him come within their swords point without Hostage given to keep him to his word and indeed this Tyrants gaine by their violations that none dare believe them but will rather fight it out to the last as expecting revengefull and treacherous usage from them This Answer to the Legat so netled Henry that he could not choose but wince and well it might for his galled conscience could not endure the mention of keeping an Oath which was a tacit exprobration of him no more than his tyrannicall humour could of the Oxford Articles which carried in them a sound of Liberty a thing he supposed he had by the sword ript out of English breasts And no doubt but it must be thought great incivility in these Barons to dare to believe their eyes before royall perjuries and great saucinesse in them to make or pretend to make more conscience of Oathes then their King for what was this other than to endeavour to appear more religious more honest more true and more just than their sacred Soveraigne Away with such precise and puritannicall fellowes there can never be a good world so long as such are suffered to goe unpunished into the High Commission Court with these Sectaries that the Legat may hamper them bring these seditious fellowes before the King and the Honorable privy Councell that they may receive the reward of their presumptuous questioning the legality of obeying King and Cardinall right or wrong nay what is more they are not contented to be slaves as others are let them be tryed for Traitours and Rebells for they have taken up Arms against the King and talke of defending their Liberties by the Sword Thus rang the peale among the flattering Courtiers and the like verdict hath been past upon us by the Royall jury men who in all things have followed these their foremen Here we may perceive then through the veile of pretended Protestantisme and Conscience the rrue rise of the Royalists assertions for the Parasiticall Papist hath done the like to whom the reformed Religion was unknown or abhorred flattery being the motive not Conscience the desire to cologue with a Tyrant not the fear of displeasing God And upon these worthy considerations Henry and his faction decree ruine to these Barons and the fate of Liberty was unable to resist their vowes for Prine Edward with a great Army quickly forces them out of their strengths in that Isle whose courage was greater than their force and their resolutions more numerous than their party thus were the last glimmerings of Freedom extinguished and the whole Land envolved in darknesse the English being left to grope in a blind obedience after the will of their Tyrannicall Master Henry by treacherie having thus triumphed over liberty He convenes a Parliament at Marlborough where in a flourish he confirms the great Charter either on purpose to make their teeth water or to quiet the grumblings on foot against his Tyranny by this act of grace which was likely to be kept now the Bugbears of prerogative those resolute Lords and Gentlemen were destroyed Now twentieths fifteenths or what ever he would demand are readily granted and glad he would be so contented and all things go as well as Henry can wish who promises to be a good Lord to them so long as they shall continue humble vassals contented slaves unto him no mumbling or talking must be of Oxford Acts which it was high treason but to think on so wise the world was now grown over those former mad Parliaments And thus after he had at least twenty times confirmed and as often violated those just decrees notwithstanding all the solemnities both civill morall and ecclesiasticall used in the acts of ratification and after all the hard strivings and wrastlings between tyranny and liberty with such bad successe to the people whose foolish credulity and sinfull pitty undid them in the seven and fiftyeth yeare of his raign Henry and Magna Charta slept together his Sonne Edward succeeding him in his Tyranny to which he was Heire as to the Crowne for he made an higher improvement of his royalty and got the domination of this State in so high and eminent manner that as one saith he seemed to be the first Conquerout after the Conquerour his little finger was heaviour than his Fathers loynes laying insupportable taxes on both Clergy and Laity even unto the halfe of their Estates the Barons and people not daring to quitch or move for removall of grievances untill at last needing a vast Summe to maintaine his Wars he Summoned a Parliament wherein he was pleased to confirme the Charters to stop their mouthes and open their purses and this he often did when his occasions urged him to it which like all other royall promisers he performed by leasure Never was Royalty more Majestick and glorious than in this Kings Raign and the people lesse able to oppose but I shall conclude his Character with what DANIEL saith of him he was more for the greatnesse of the Kingdom than the quiet of it for having been nurst up in slaughter he as it were thirsted after bloud so that never any King before or since except our last Charls shed and caused so much to be spilt in the age following within this Isle of Britaine But all that we shall observe from his Raigne is this that as it was said of the Emperour Frederick He was a good Emperour but a bad Man so the most warlike politick and temperate Princes have been the greatest Tyrants and oppressors of the people the vicious and debauched by their lewd lives and unmartiall natures giving the people more advantage and better opportunity to regain and revive the claim of their liberties which the other by oraft force and a kind of respect created by their morality kept them from needs then

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