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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66761	Mercurius rusticus, or, A countrey messenger informing divers things worthy to be taken notice of, for the furtherance of those proceedings which concerne the publique peace and safety.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3171; ESTC R19091	13,618	18

a severe judgement that mis-judgeth his brother but doubtlesse he exposeth himselfe to a greater condemnation that judgeth scandalously of a whole Nation and the honesty and faithfulnesse of such a one is justly to be suspected Now to prevent the murmurings of those seeming to be on the Parliament side who grumble at the mony which they are to receive from us towards their Expedition to New-eastle the honest countrey people hold it good counsel to put these murmurers in mind First how cold this winter may prove and perhaps the next also if the Collieries there be not set open to us before a passage be made thither by Forces from this place Secondly how much it concerns us to have the Scots ingaged with us in our Cause as now they are And lastly that the money wherewith by Gods help they may finish that work is not probably so much as would be required to raise carry thither bring back an Armie sent from us to that purpose though it should cost nothing during their abode there There is cause of hope that by means of the New-great-soale which is now comming forth Justice will have her course more freely then of late and many mischievous designs of the Kings ill Counsellors wil be prevented If it had power also to conjure down the spirit of Malignancie which is raised in these I lands and take away Faction hypocrisie self-love and discord from among us it were a qualification which I feare it hath not yet perhaps it may be a means to further those proceedings which will much hinder their evill effects for the present and abate at least the predominancie of those vices ere long We are incredibly informed from Oxford that the King had no considerable losle at the skirmish by Alborne or at the battell neere Newberie as we have been made beleeve It is true indeed that he lost many Men and Subjects but they are but trifles and it is almost generally supposed though hoped otherwise by me things which he regards not He lost also many good horses as his own partie doth confesse but he had them onely for taking up and hath takers enough to recrute them He lost Lords and a great Officer c. but that is a losse the least worth notice of all the rest for they are toyes which if he please he can make of the veryest rascals in his Army they did wel therefore to give God thanks that their losses were no greater But had they been so great on our side we should rather have addressed our selves unto him by way of humiliation then have mocked him with a counterfet Thanksgiving as they have often done and may now doe againe for their late overthrows in Lincoln-shire and at Hull It is further certified from Oxford or else Mercurie deviz'd it which is very probable that the Arch-bishop of Canterburie hohourable in nothing but in this that he will be the occasion of rooting out the Prelacie from this Kingdom hath made a motion that Prince Rupert who was there Incorporated and made Master of Arts when that little good Bishop then dreaming not of such a change entertained him and His Majestie might proceed Doctor to make him the more capable of a Bishoprick which it is presumed the Papists will procure the Popes Holinesse to confer upon him for his good services in their Cause at his return I know not-whither for habitation he hath none and that makes him so mischievous to those that have It is there thought also by some of His Majesties servants as our Mercurie verily beleeveth that the Queen will not have so many Masks at Christmas and Shrovetide this yeare as she was wont to have other yeeres heretofore because Inigo Iones cannot conveniently make such-Heavens and Paradises at Oxford as he did at White-hall because the Poets are dead beggered or run away who were wont in their Masks to make Gods and Goddesses of them and shamefully to flatter them with Attributes neither fitting to be ascribed or accepted of and some are of opinion that this is one of the innumerable vanities which hath made them and us become so miserable at this day We heare not yet any particulars of the late Ambassadours entertainment at Oxford but wagers may be laid that he shall heare there many lying vaunts of their valorous atchievements and untrue allegations against the Parl. for what will not they aver in private discourses who are not ashamed to belie them in publique and to their face We are informed of many strange Sermons preached every Lords day at Court some tending to P●perie some to Tyrannie or to the encouragement of their Auditors to a furious prosecution of this unnaturall War And we hear of as many preached in other places to as ill purposes another way Insomuch that the well-affected Countrey people are perswaded that if God had not by the Parliaments wisdom and their exemplarie loyaltie caused those false Prophets to dissemble their secret desires many of them if they have not done it already would have preached Treason and animated to that Rebellion wherof we are falsly accused by the promoters of Tyrannie because we wil not desert the reality of Allegeance to professe and practice the bare complements thereof to the destruction both of our Liege Lord His Kingdoms and our selves Other Doctrines are also vented among us by some pretending to Reformation which all the Reformed Churches would be loth to owne and which will prolong our miseries if the Parliament and Synode with whom they in some things comply for their present security do not as we hope they wil timely discover and prevent their increasing Heresies and false Maximes There was lately a meeting at one of our Countrey Exchanges where Mercurie being in the Chaire many particulars pertinent to the present affaires of the time were put to the Question but what is fit to be resolved or voted thereupon it is referred to your conscience who now shall read them The Questions put are these First Whether the King being yet constant in the Protestant Religion and reall according to all his Protestations made before God and Man touching this Church and State the prevalencie of his Queen may not make him contrarie to his present purpose doe for a womans sake as much as Solomon and the flatteries and importunies of his young and evill counsellors bring him to as great a losse as Rhehoboams whether also he may not be permitted to slip into some failings for our sins which drew down these judgements for our chastisement as it befell the Israelites for Davids sin And whether he may not repent also as well as David and be at last reconciled to God and us to the publique advantage and his encrease of honour when we have repented our transgressions Secondly The Queen having ●o many yeers after her first comming enjoy'd the love even of those of this Nation who are of a contrary Religion might not then haue been won to