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A95533	Crop-eare curried, or, Tom Nash his ghost, declaring the pruining of Prinnes two last parricidicall pamphlets, being 92 sheets in quarto, wherein the one of them he stretch'd the soveraigne power of Parliaments; in the other, his new-found way of opening the counterfeit Great Seale. Wherein by a short survey and ani-mad-versions of some of his falsities, fooleries, non-sense, blasphemies, forreigne and domesticke, uncivill, civill treasons, seditions, incitations, and precontrivements, in mustering, rallying, training and leading forth into publique so many ensignes of examples of old reviv'd rebells, or new devised chimeraes. With a strange prophecy, reported to be Merlins, or Nimshag's the Gymnosophist, and (by some authours) it is said to be the famous witch of Endor's. Runton, pollimunton plumpizminoi papperphandico. / By John Taylor.; Tom Nash his ghost.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T446; ESTC R212364	32,386	51

Rome and yet he cannot deny that Saint Paul appeal'd to Caesar from whom there was no appeale In the 112 and last page he calls the Rebells that the Kings Forces took at Ciceter good People he complaines much of their hard usage I think he meanes because they were not hanged it was winter he saies and that they were forced to goe barefooted in Triumph to Oxford truly we are beholding to your Faction for the kind entertainment you have given to the Kings good Subjects when you have taken them you have either lovingly cut their Throats in cold blood or courteously hang'd thē or hospitably famish'd them freely imprisoned them bountifully rob'd and plunder'd them and favourably banish'd ruin'd and undone them and all this and more you have done for the Liberty of the Subject by the command of the Publique Faith Moreover he saies that the good People from Cirencester were Chain'd together with Ropes that 's a Bull Sir I doubt not but there will come a time when young Grigge shall teach thee in a trice with a trick that he hath what the difference is betweene a Chaine and a Rope and so I leave Repeating and Paraprasing any more on Prinnes most matchlesse first of his foure Proditorious parts The Reader may wonder why I spend no more Paper about the first part and I doubt all his whole Book is not worthy of so much But I assure you when I had surveyed every limbe of the Monster and pared of the excrescences I had much adoe to finde thus much considerable matter in it yet I am resolved to doe him the honour and afford him the patience to view his second part if it be but for love to his new Hebrew word the Militia for if his Brethren understood that it were Latine the language of the Beast they would never endure the use of it An Answer to Prinnes second Part of his Soveraigne Power of Parliament IN his Preface he complaines of Ignorance ah ungratious Boy dost thou raile against thy Mother in such as understand not a Parliament and that his Books he hopes will be get a firme Peace Indeed he that made light out of darknesse is able to produce good out of evill but how Prinnes Bookes stuffed as full of lies as lines wherein every word breathes Treason every syllable incites to Rebellion and the whole Chaos and confused masse of it is an unshap'd lump of all the Villanies Assassinations Murders Treasons Rebellions Deposings Imprisonments and all the calamities that hath befalne to infortunate Kings and Princes in all Nations either Christians or others since the worlds creation at least as much as his treacherous studious search could finde out he hath pack'd and hudled together purposely to root out and ruinate His sacred Majesty and Royall Posterity to raise a never ending Contention and to make His Majesties Dominions perpetuall fields of blood these are the marrow pith and intention of M. Prinnes sweet Peace-making Bookes At the latter end of his Preface he uses a piece of the Letanie saying Good Lord deliver us But I wish him to take heed that it come not to the hearing of the Members or the Close Committee that he spake such words for then he will be mistaken for a Protestant and so excluded from all grace favour and community with the godly Pag. 3. In this second part you may finde out of Prinnes owne Confession First conveniency second necessity and thirdly custome all concurring for the Kings ordering of the Militia Take heed M. Prinne what you say for if M. Saint-Johns and your Masters of the highest lower House heare you they may perhaps occasion a conference betwixt you and Tom Nash his Ghost to be cryed up and downe the streets as they dealt with your betters before you and if your good Mistresses in London understand it farewell all further Contribution your late Triumphant Bayes will be turn'd to Funerall Ewghe and if you can mend the matter no better then you doe by begging the Question and arguing so barrenly to wit that it must be granted that the whole power of his Majesty and his Predecessors in the Militia was derived from the Parliament This stuffe he treates on from the third pag. to the twelfth wherein he crosses all that he saies in the third pag. formerly repeated but if you can confirme your fine flourishes no better then by Equivocations Amphibologies and mysticall Sophisticall Fallacies by one while taking the Parliament for King and People as in the usuall sense it ought to be taken and the Lawes made by them all And another while making use of the word Parliament in your owne sense onely for the two Houses in contradiction to the King your Grant must be onely to have and to hold sixe foot in Knaves Acre under an overthwart beame for you hate the name of the Crosse on the highest Promontorie in the Province of Foolciana or if it light in the line of Communication as a speciall part of that Province is scituated neare to them then your Grant may be to have as much roome for your Quarters as you had for your Eares and that your Head may be mounted on London Bridge and made one of the overseers of the City which by your writings seemes to be a speciall part of your Ambition I am sure a just Reward of your most unmatchable undertakings Pag. 12. As for the consequence of denying His Majesty the Militia and of the Parliaments seizing upon Hull with other Ports Forts the Royall Navy Armes Ammunition Revenues and detaining them still from His Majesty which you say His Majesty and all Royalists must necessarily yeild nay you should have entreated to have them yeilded out of curtesie for else you can never inforce them are not his but the Kingdomes in point of Right and Interest they being first transferd to and placed in his Predecessors and himselfe by Parliament Here is an excellent proofe Weaker then that of Tenterton Steeple being the cause of Goodwine Sands for say those Logitians there were no such dangerous Sands before that Steeple was built or sunke so that Steeple was the cause of those Sands but I can conclude more directly and contrariò as thus The Kings of England had alwayes power over the Militia ever since England had a King there But there was a King of England before there was any Parliament and so soon as there is story of any people in England Therefore the Parliament gave not the King of England power over the Militia If the story of Brute be true my Maior cannot be false if any Chronicle of England be true my Minor will not faile how then the conclusion can be denyed I perceive not except in the disputation betwixt the Collier and the Divell which I leave to Prinnes Logick to resolve and reduce the Contradictory by Impossibility which if he doe not in Celarent he cannot escape doing it in Bocardo where I leave him to read

Gibeonites when they deceived Joshua as for allowing or not allowing the King 's meniall Servants 'T is no doubt but the King should be well served if such a Coxcombe as Prinne had Authority to chuse his Servants Page 15. Parliaments have power above Magna Charta I believe Parliaments have power if there be cause to repeale Statutes either in Magna Charta or any other Lawes but though Parliaments have this power yet I would have Master Prinne to understand that Conventicles and factions Assemblies have no such Authority except they steale and usurpe it Page 24. he falls to his old vomit and taxeth his Majesty with English Irish Scottish French and Germane Papists and that they are whole Armies of them maintained by his Majesty against his good Subjects of which you are none therefore you need not feare Page 32. The Parliament hath unwillingly taxed and plundered men your Votes Imprisonments Banishments and Robberies committed dayly on the persons and goods of such as were his Majesties loyallest Subiects they being all firme Protestants and your Mandates and large rewards to the Thieves and Plunderers with your Receits and sale of the stolne goods to strangers Amster-damnable Iewes other forraigners and unnaturall Natives who have either bought the said goods for money with which mony you have maintained this Rebellion or truckd and barterd it for other Commodities as you have done lately with the Hollanders for Butter Cheese Fish c. by these Practices of Robbery and Tyranny it is apparent how unwillingly this Thing called a Parliament hath and dayly doth Tax and plunder In his 33. Pag. he speakes truth That by the same power the Parliament had to raise an Army without the King by the same power they may raise mony to maintaine it which is as much as to say by the same power they had to be Rebells by the same power they might Murder Rob Plunder Ransack and ruinate His Majesties true Leige people and by the same power you have made bold to doe the like with all his Majesties Honours Mannours Royalties and Revenues all which you have done by the same power and liberall grants of that bountifull Potentate who offered to give all the Kingdomes of the world to our Saviour Pag. 34. He taxeth His Majesty with placing of Popish Governours in his Garrisons and such Commanders in his Armies indeed you are not to be blamed much for your being greived at those Governours and Commanders because through God's assistance by them and their good directions you have been often times greivously beaten and questionlesse they are not quite out of your debts except you mend your manners they are such just paymasters that they will pay you all also every body will not beleive that all are Papists whom you please to call so Now I come to the survey of his ample Appendix wherein at the first he rakes up Romes Foundation and to small purpose he hales Romulus Remus Numa Pompilius and all the Heathen Kings and Emperours out of their Vrnes and Tombes then he hath a bout with the East and Westerne Empires and all their wicked Emperours with their Tragicall ends In his 11. Pag. he blaspheamously outfaceth S. Paul and his Doctrine both Rom. 13. 1. to 6. That Kings are Subjects to the highest powers which highest powers Prinne interpretes to be the people take heed though you have the pestilent art to make Law to be no Law and stealing to be no theft yet it is dangerous to pervert or juggle with holy writ But why doe I cast away admonition upon an Atheisticall railing Rabshekah who hath perverted wrung wrested construed and mis-applied the Patriarks Prophets Apostles yea Christ himselfe Pag. 12. he presents the miseries of the unfortunate and perfidious King Zedechias how his children were murdered before his face his eyes put out and after how he was carried Prisoner in Chaines to Babylon Also he mentions many other deplorable deaths and disasters that fell upon divers Kings and Princes All which Testimonies and presidents are so applyed as nothing else but Treason and Villany can be found in the applications In the 14. pag. he is saild into Sparta amongst the Kings of the Lacedemonians and there he makes enquirie how many of them have been brought to untimely ends In pag. 15. he tells us how the Sabeans confined their Kings to their Pallaces and used to stone them if they went out of their bounds without leave But your Scholars the Tumultuous Rabble did in Routes and Roguish Assemblies with cudgells march with their Tatterdmallians against White-Hall when his Majesty was there last Pag. 18. 19. and so to pag. 51. He runs through all the History of France to finde proditorious presidents to prove Treason to be Lawfull in England pag. 51. he makes a skip into Spaine and doth as much there pag. 60. he hath found out a Kingdome of Oreida and that there many of the Kings were deposed or Murdered pag. 62 and 63. he travells Aragon and Navarre and from thence into Castile Portugall Cordova Vallencia Granado Gallicia pag. 80. he is got into Hungaria pag. 82. he is in Bohemia pag. 85. you may have him in Poland pag. 89. he is making a privy search in Denmark pag. 98. he forrageth through Sweden pag. 99. he makes a step into Assyria Cyprus Lombardia Naples and Venice and in the 100. pag. he is come backe into Scotland and there he tarries raking up all the Treasons in that Kingdome from the raigne of Fergusius their first King till these mad bad times which theam he followes to the 112. pag. Then he postes into Asia amongst the Kings of the Gentiles Israel and Iudah He is now in Persia feasting with Ahasuerus and presently you have him in Babylon eating Grasse like an Asse with Nebuchadnezzer from whence he makes a spirt to see King Darius and kindely he visites Daniel in the Lyons Den. Thus you may perceive how nimble and active this Gentleman hath been to play the Kennell-raker in grubling in all the nasty common Sewers and contagious Dung-hills of damnable Treasons and perfidious Treacheries in all the Kingdomes of the World malitiously and purposely to defend maintaine and countenance this odious Rebellion now on foot in England And it is to be conceived that he could never have Travelled from Region to Region and from Realme to Realme with such Celerity and Subitorie quicknesse but that he had the helpe of some Mephostophilus or Familiar or else he bought begged or stole some Windes from a Lapland Witch without which aydes from the Instruments of his Grand Maister Don Diabolo he could never have flowne to and fro to so many Territories to fetch mischiefe hither Pag. 125. He saith David was made King by Gods Appointment and the Peoples Election I tell thee thou Owleiglasse if thou didst understand what thou sayest thou wouldest say somewhat more understandingly to be understood for if thou note what God himselfe saith to David by the

over his Fleta it may teach him more Law and Conscience then to excuse the Rebellion in England by a Rebellion in Ireland of their owne making as that is the best colour which yet this Brazen face can cast upon it Pag. 25. and 26. he comes upon us with a drove of Bulls of his owne usuall Breeding That the Parliament meaning the two Houses onely cannot be guilty of Treason secondly that the Statutes against Treason extends not to them thirdly that they are greater then the King fourthly that the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy bind onely in Relation to the Pope and Forreigne States but not with reference to the Houses or onely out of Parliament time not whilest the Parliament is sitting These are such Mockado Fustian Non sense and such silly Childish shufflings as that the sense in plaine English is to say That the King hath Authority against other Princes but no power over his owne Subjects or that those in his owne Realmes are his Soveraignes and other Soveraignes are his Subjects or when he consults the most carefullest for the good of his Kingdomes he desires to be required by being unking'd by them such strange Paradoxes absurd Solesismes and monsters of Policy Morality Reason Nature and Religion are the off-spring of this new State Emperick who perhaps expects other applause or at the least Approbation as he is assured of his owne Narcissian admiration onely because he sees but the shadow understands not the substance of what he superficially delineates by a Pen that drops Poyson instead of Inke to support the pretended Feares and Iealousies by an enumeration and malitious interpretation of all the acts of Iustice since the third yeare of his now Majesties Raigne upon those who were restrained from bringing this Rebellion sooner to the Birth give Prinne but such another Fee as he had at his Triumphall Returne to London and he will be an Advocate for those in the third of Iacobi and for those in the 13 of Queene Elizabeth yea for Ravilliac Iudas and Lucifer for all were but Rebells and Traitors onely one was a little elder then the other Thus from the 25 pag. to the 40. he reckons up a pack of grievances wherewith the Subject was charged which were all redressed long agoe assoone as His Majesty was rightly certified of them but no Acts of Grace can procure an expiation from inexorable Master Prinne But why trouble I my selfe to satisfie one whom Reason cannot satisfie one whom no Protestations or Oathes of Princes no Acts of Grace or Statutes past in Parliament can satisfie and therefore let him rest unsatisfied till he be hanged He is ill to trust who will trust no body the Proverbe tells us yet for this once let him goe on give him Rope enough and he will hang himselfe In his 40 pag. he saith the King hath no power to chuse his Privy Councellors but Prinne and his Magnificent Members would have the chusing and authorizing of new Privy Counsellors and Officers of State for those he tells us his Vtopian Parliament hath power to appoint yet the King may not chuse or appoint any of them their servants he should have added in time of Rebellion In pag. 41 to 64. and so from thence to 65 and 79 he prates to little or no purpose that the King hath no Negative Voyce but what the undeceived Majesty of the vulgar Captaine Highshoes and Colonell Mawworme and their companions please to propose must be granted who till those can agree whether the Lord Say or the right horrible Kimbolton shall be Protector his Excellency or the Lady Waller high Constable of England Pym or Prinne for I hope he will not plead all this while for other folkes and forget himselfe Lord Keeper of the new great Seale Sergeant Wilde or Speaker Lenthall Master of the Rolls Burton or Marshall Archbishop for that calling would be as lawfull in one of their hands as the Court of Wards was when the Lord Say was Master of it Peard Glinne or Prideaux chiefe Iustices Feilding or Stamford for they are both vertuous and thrifty men Lord Treasurer I would entreat Warwicke to provide for his owne and their security in the Admirall Ship of Fooles and wish a faire Gale for them as farre as New-England till they shall learne more sincerity in Religion more loyalty to their Soveraigne more charity to their Christian Brethren and Prinne cease falsifying and perverting Records Presidents and Allegations and then a Property maker hath promised to restore his Eares againe in the meane time let him confesse himselfe worthily Branded for Falsifying Lying and Slandering even Scandala Magnatum Forgerie False witnesse bearing Perjury and all manner of Villany with which his Bookes swarme as thick as the lower House doore did with Brownists Anabaptists at the beginning of this Parliament or as Westminster-Hall and the Pallace yard did with Tumults before the death of the Earle of Strafford or the putting the Bishops out of the House or as the high wayes and streets did with Puritan Punks when Prinne and his fellowes St Rebells return'd from Limbo to be Canoniz'd at London which City they have ever since transform'd to be a Hell upon Earth Further to roote the seduced people in dislike of his Sacred Majesty and to make them Irrevocable Rebels as also to blast the Integrity of his Majesties Royall Person his Honourable Councellours and Servants he names Ganestone and the Spencers Empson and Dudley and others that were displaced by Parliaments for Delinquencie 't is right William but those Parliaments had proofes for what they did and the King was with them and confirm'd their censures but you are not so much as the bares Skelliton of a Parliament which if it were a full Body yet it wants a head therefore all your Votes and censures are Headlesse Page 48. his running head talkes of a Parliament in Running Mead near Windsor wherein King John Assented to such Acts of setling and securing Magna-Charta and all other good Lawes and Liberties formerly granted I tell thee Prinne that King Iohn did well in so Assenting to his Peeres and Commons for then and there their requests were just and Lawfull neither did King Charles a more Christian and surer Titled King then King Iohn ever deny his Royall Assent to any just request for the Redresse of greivances releife of His Subjects and Tranquillity of his Kingdomes Page 55. He hath a fling at Alice Pierce King Edward the Third's Concubine 't is marvell that Rosamond and Jane Shore scap'd him and it had been as congruent for him to have brought in Lais Thais Faustine Messalina and all the rabble of royall and base Whores that have been since the Creation for what though Alice Pierce being her selfe proud of the favour of so puissant a King did sometimes with impudent and uncivill behaviour intrude her selfe to sit with the Iudges on the Bench to countenance and preferre some private Causes for her own ends

Master Prinne with Papall Authority would dispence withall yet his Majesty hath good and faithfull Subjects enough who scorne and deride your foolish traiterous dispensations and doubt not by God's assistance to mould you and your seduced Rabble of Rebells into better fashion Page 13. If the King himselfe shall introduce Forreigne Forces and Enemies into his Realme to levy Warre against it or shall himselfe become an Enemy to it This doubtfull supposition is so idle and triviall that the best Answer to it is to laugh at it page 14. he talkes how King Henry the second of France was casually slain at a Tournament by the Lord Montgomery and then he tells us of Sir Walter Tirrell's Arrow glancing against a Tree slew King William the second of England presently he makes a step into France again and brings us word that King Charles the first being mad there was deprived and kept clsoe and that the deaths and deprivations of these Kings was then proved to be no Treasons because they were done out of no malitious intents This is Bombast to stuffe out his big-wombe Book and as neare the matter as Braseol and Banbury Page 17. He playes the Huntsman and compares the Keeper of a Parke and the Deere in it to a King and his People Suppose this Comparison were granted then you must also grant that you have rebelliously broken down the Parke pale or wall so that the Deere are scattered and divided the best of them I am sure the truest Harts do keep within their bounds and live under the protection of their Keeper whilest you have got all the whole Heard of Rascals amongst you and much good may do it you with them In Page 22. he makes a leape from hence into Asia and relates strange Newes how Tamberlane conquered Bajazet and put him in an ironcage then you are sure it was not a Pillory but if a time of Peace were were it not for depriving the Hangman of his due I would begge thee and shew thee in Fates and Marts for a Motion whereby thee and I could not chuse in short time but be without abundance of money From page 23. to page 60. he tautologically talkes Naturall Non-sense and Artificall Impertinencies which in page 60. he saith he gathered from one Albericus Gentilis page 61. he stumbles upon Truth again and sayes That it is out of controversie that no man ought to resist against the King Page 63 64. he cites 32 Arguments of Scripture to maintain the Cause the chiefe of them is Daniel in the Lions Den he might as well have brought in Jacob's Well and the Woman of Samaria In pag. 66. be brings in the story of Ioram 2 Kings 6. how he sent a messenger to the Prophet Elishaes house to take away his head and that the Prophet did cause the doore to be shut to keep out the King's messenger from whence the learned logicall Prinne inferres that because the Prophet did not obey the King but shut his doore against the Messenger therefore King Charles his Subiects may oppose resist and rebell a very trim Argument From thence to page 73. he repeates old fusty businesse over and over and there he runnes for more luggage headlong into the Red-Sea and dragges the memory of crowned Pharaoh 〈◊〉 example of God's iudgements on that obdurate and impenitent King this was somewhat to the purpose but I cannot perceive where or how Page 81. The King with the Lords and Commons in Parliament have the whole Realme entrusted with them of which great trust the King is onely Chiefe and Soveraigne now I agree with you Sir if your writings had been all such as this and your Members and Committees Votes and Orders correspondent then we had had no Rebellion and your high prized Bookes would have been iustly valued to be worth nothing A little after he sayes The King is the supreme Member of the Parliament thou ill bred Fellow thou mightest have said HEAD and that contrary to the trust and duty reposed in Him through the advice of evill Counsellours wilfully betrayes this trust and spoiles and makes havocke of his People and Kingdomes these are but the old lyes feares jealousies doubts ifs and ands newly revived and furbushed as in page 86. he hath another which is If the King should command us to say Masse in his Chappell to which I answer If the Skie fall c. and the one of those ifs is as possible as the other Page 108. He musters up 51 of the ancient Fathers to lend him their hands to defend his falsities wherein he hath wrested and abused their integrity sufficiently but I observe that he meddles with neither of the Gregories either the Great or Nazianzen his policy is not to mention them because then young Gregory herhaps may be put in minde of him for Prinne is crafty and observes the Proverbe He must have a long Devill that eates with a spoone Page 92. He hath wrested the sword out of the hands and cut off the heads of all his opposite Goliahs 'T is well bragg'd but if it be true that you have cut off all the heads of your opposites you have been bloudily revenged for the losse of your eares I prithee when thou diest bequeath one of thy law-bones to be kept amongst the dreadfull Weapons and Ammunition of the Members Magazine it may do strange things amongst a Crew of Philist●ms Pag. 134. He contradicts himselfe with Statutes of King Henry 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Eliz. That words against the King even in preaching are high Treason as well as raising Armes very right and those Statutes being yet in force what would become of all your reverend railing Pulpit-men I will not slander them to call 'em Preachers upon my conscience thy destiny and theirs would be all one if the said Statutes were duely executed and you would all leave your old Trades and deale in the two rich commodities of Hempe and Timber till your last gaspes Pag. 142. he railes at the King again as if he were hired to it or that he had nothing else to do also he be labours the Cavaliers ex tempore by the Titles of Cut-throates bloudy inhumane and barbarous with other such pretty names as the Gentleman pleases to bestow upon them for which I hope they will not all die till some of them be out of his debt Page 143. Christians did not resist persecution under Pagans ergo Christians must not resist Christians and because Subjects are Christians as well as Kings therefore Christian Kings must not resist Rebells In his last Leafe he hath waded through this weighty Controversie and proved that both by Law and Conscience this Rebellion is justifiable and thus the Reader may perceive how Prinnes Judgement and Conscience is biassed Vpon Prinnes fourth Quarter or part of his Soveraigne Power of Parliaments IN page 13. he brings in a messe of musty Presidents like the mouldy Bread ragged Cloathes and clouted Shooes of the

Prophet Nathan 2. Sam. 12. 7. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel I anointed thee King over Israel and I delivered thee out of the hands of Saul where is the peoples Election here God saith he chose him from the sheepfold to be a King Psal 78. 71. and seeing God did chuse and anoint David King I must crave M. Prinnes leave to beleeve the people did it not but it is certaine that David was made King by Gods onely Assignation and that he that made the Peoples hearts did also give them grace with unanimous consent to be obedient to his Ordinance so that with loud shoutes and acclamations of Ioye the people exprest their Loyalties and loves at Davids Coronation in which they had no Election at all as this pretender pretends Pag. 127. That God and Davids designation of Solomon to the Crowne did not take away the Peoples Liberty Right and Power to elect and nominate their Kings my sweet Stercucian prudent Prinne neither God or David did ever take that Liberty Right and Power from the People for the people never had any such priviledge or prerogative to elect and nominate and therefore such Right and Power which they never had was never taken from them Pag. 146. he names Zimri Omri and other Parricides and Homicides Vsurpers Rebells and Castawayes these he brings in to fill up the measure Pag. 149. is cram'd as full of Treasons and Revileings as he was able to put in till he comes to the 153 pag. and there he tells me old newes How Darius set Princes over his Kingdomes and Provinces And that Nebuchadnezzer set Daniel over the Province of Babylon let the Reader judge if Prinne doth not give himselfe the Lie How dares this Varlet alleadge that King Charles hath not Power to set Deputies and Lievtenants over His Dominions and Provinces or to chuse His Privy Councellors Officers of State Trust and Meniall Servants and yet he confesseth that two Heathen Kings Darius and Nebuchadnezzar had power to doe it and did it and for any thing that I can perceive those Kings had power so to doe and did use that power without asking their Subjects leave or consent From pag. 154. to 160. he brings in Chimeraes Whimseyes and meere Connundrums in such store as they would furnish sixe French and Italian Mountebanks to vent their sophisticated Oyles Vnguents Drugges Album Greaka or black white Dogges da●es Pag. 177. he saies that a Prince or Lord of a Country are not Princes without Subjects very right if a King hath no Subjects then he is no bodies King but you and your Comrades would have no King and therefore by that rule you are no Subjects or I am sure no good ones From pag. 177. to 186. he makes a long Relation of the causes why the Netherlandish Provinces fell from the King of Spaine as suitable to his purpose as Mustard and Mince-pye together and then he brings in Julian the Apostate slaine by a Christian Souldier Pag. 188. That the Pope and Prelates alone without the consents of Parliament Peeres or People have deposed and judged Hereticall and Tyrannicall Kings to death and devote them to Assassination This is but crowding upon the old fidle because the Pope hath done so to wicked Kings therefore you will take a devillish power somewhat worse then a Popish to supplant and ruinate a Just King and His Posterity Pag. 189. he presents Tarquin Nero Vitelius their banishments and deathes Pag. 204. That Queen Elizabeth did ayde and succour Protestants that lived in other Countries and that the King of Spaine did the like for Romane Catholiques This is Prinnes Foble Boble as plaine as a Pack-staffe I wish that he and his Tribe would imitate that good Queen and succour the Protestants and not destroy and begger them dayly as they doe Pag. 208. he swells and blisters out his Volum with the sentence of degradation and deprivation of Wenceslaus the Emperour as much pertinent as the fift wheele in a Coach Pag. 216. he is vehement in perswading men to be Loyall Rebells to be Valiant true Traitors to persist in their execrable disobedience for which he promises everlasting felicity and lastly he peremptorily concludes all Temporall and Eternall losse dishonour and perpetuall torments to be the Portions of all true Subjects and then he closes with zealous Prayer and Invocation for the continuance maintenance and prosperity of Treason and Rebellion And thus have I delineated or rather Anotomiz'd and disected the foure Quarters of this Monster Now I proceed to his Head and the workes of his Head-peece his Opening of the New Great Seale William Prinnes Opening of his New Great Seale of ENGLAND ADulterate Presidents are very seldome Parents to Legitimate Consequences This New Great Seale is Begotten and Borne into the World lick'd into fashion by Committees Members Votes and Ordinances and Nurst Cherish'd Drest Trick'd and Trim'd by M. Prinne who hath painfully searched through the very Bowells of Antiquity to finde out the originall of Seales and whence his New Seale may lineally derive its first being and pedigree To begin which goodly piece of service he loades his Margine with Notes and Testimonies of Scripture The first marke whereby you may know from whence this Babye is descended he quotes the Signet which Judah left with his daughter in Law Tamar as a Pledge when he had committed Incest or Adultery with her as it is in Gen. 38. A very faire beginning to prove this Seale lawfully borne and bred from Judah's Signet which was left in pawne as a token for Bawderie The second descent of it he proves to be from Theft Covetousnesse and Murder as 1. Kings 21. 8. How Jezabel stole Ahabs Seale and with it sealed counterfeit Letters in the Kings name whereby Naboth was perjuriously accused and Murthered and Ahab had the Vineyard And from that Seale and the notable effects which it produced M. Prinne derives his New Seale and presageth what worthy acts it may produce I will name but one more of his Marginall Testificandums Estber 3. and 12. there he mentions King Ahsuerus his Ring which he delivered to Haman wherewith he sealed an Edict that all the whole Nation of the Iewes young and old that liv'd in the Kings large Dominions 127. Provinces should all be slaughtered in one day But I desire the Reader to take notice that though Haman was a proud ambitious man yet he did use no counterfeit Seale nor usurped any power but what he had from the King but M. Prinne and his Maisters have neither the Kings Seale leave or power to destroy His Subjects and Ruinate His Kingdome but I would not have them to forget and make application too that Haman was hanged although his fault was not Treason But this is another strong Argument what shall become of the Protestants and His Majesties Loyallest Subjects if M. Prinnes new founded Seale were in force and vigour And thus out of his owne Annotations he hath proved