exprest Which to require my thankfulnesse I 'l show â—nd that I 'l euer pay and euer owe. On Tuesday morning we with maine and might From Portsmouth crost vnto the â—â—e of Wight By Cowes ftout Castle we to â— armouth hasted And still the windes and Seas fierce fury lasted On Wedn'â—day we to Hursts strong Castle crost Most dangerously sowsd turmoyl'd and tost Good harbour there we found and nothing deere I thanke kinde * â—atthew Figge a right good fellow M. Figge the Porter there He shew'd vs there a Castle of defence Most vsefull of a round circumference Of such command that none can passe those Seas Vnsunke or spoyl'd except the Castle please On Thursday we our Boat row'd pull'd and hal'd Vnto a place which is Kâ—y Hauen call'd The winde still blowing and the Sea so high As if the lofty waues would kisse the skie That many times I wish'd with all my hart My selfe my Boat and Crue all in a Cart Or any where to keepe vs safe and dry The weather raged so out ragiously For sure I thinke the memory of man Since windes aâ—d Seas to blow or flow began Cannot remember so stormy weather In such continuance held so long together For ten long weekes e'r that t is manifest The wind had blown at South or west Southwest And rais'd the Seas to shew each others power That all this space caâ—me weather not one hower That whether we did goe by Sunne or Moone At anytime at midnight or at noone If we did launce or if to land we set We still were sure to be halfe sunke and wet Thus toyling of our weary time away That Thursday was our last long look'd for day For hauing past with perill and much paine And plow'd furrow'd o'r the daugerous maine O'r depths and flats and many a ragged Rocke We came to Christ-Church Hau'n at fiue a clocke Thus God in mercy his iust iudgement sparing Gainst our presumption ouer-bold and daring Who made vs see his wonders in the deepe And that his power alone aloft did keepe Our weather-beaten Bonte aboue the waues Each moment gaping to be all our Graues We sinking seap'd then not to vs to Him Be all the Glory for he causd vs sâ—im And for his mercy was so much extended On me whose temptings had so farre offended Let me be made the scorne and scoffe of men If euer I attempt the like agen My loue my duty and my thankfulnesse To Sir George Hastings I must here expresse His deedes to me I must requite in words No other payment poore mens state affords With fruitlesse words I pay him for his cost With thanks to M r. Templeman mine host So leauing christ-Christ-Church and the Hauen there With such good friends as made vs welcome â—â—â— Some serious matter now I must compile And thus from verse to prose I change my stile GOD who of his infinite wisdome made Man of his vnmeasured mercy redeemed him of his boundlesse bounty immense power and eternall eye of watchfull prouidence relieues guards and conserues him It is necessary that euery man seriously consider and ponder these things and in token of obedience and thankfulnesse say with Dauid What shall I render and the man hauing thus searched considerately the Causer of his being then let him againe meditate for * Men should consider why God hath giuen them a being in this life what cause hee hath a being indeed it may be obiected that almost euery thing hath a being as stones haue being trees hearbs and plants haue being and life Beasts fowles and fishes haue being life and sence but to man is giuen a Being life sence and reason and after a mortal an immortal euer-being This coÌ„sideration will make a man know that hee hath little part of himselfe which hee may iustly call his owne his body is Gods he made it his soule is his who bought it his goods are but lent him by him that will one day call him to a reckoning for the well or ill disposing of them so that man hauing nothing but what he hath receiued and receiued nothing but what is to be imployed in the seruice of God and consequently his Prince and Countrey it is plainely to be perceiued that euery man hath * No man is owner of himselfe the least share or portion of himselfe to boast of I haue written this Preamble not onely to enforme such as know not these things already but also to such whose knowledge is as it were falne into a dead sleepe who doe liue as though there were no other being then here and that their life and being was ordayned onely of themselues neither God Prince or Countrey hauing no share or portion of them or of what they call theirs But oh you Inhabitants of Salisbury I hope there are â—â—â— such crawling Cankerwormes or Commâ—â— wealth Caterpillers amongst you Nay I â—â—â— assured of the contrary that there are maâ—â—â— who with religious piety open hands â—â—â— relenting hearts doe acknowledge that yoâ—â— goods are but lent in trust vnto you and â—â—â— patiently beare the ouer-burthensome â—â—â—uing of many hundreds of poore wretâ—â—â— which were it not for your charity woâ—â—â— perish in your streets This being entred into my consideration that your City is so * Here is an honest course set downe for the inrichingâ—â— your rich and the relieuing of your poore much ouercharged â—â—â— poore as hauing in three Parishes neere â—â—â— besides decayed men a great many and â—â—â— those few which are of the wealthier sort â—â—â— continually onerpressed with sustaining â—â— wants of the needy the City being as it â—â—â— at the last gaspe the poore being like Phâ—â—ohs leane Kine euen ready to eat vp the â—â—â— ones I haue made bold to write this Trâ—â—tise ensuing both to entreat a constant perâ—uerance in those who haue begun to doe goâ—â— workes and an encouragement or animaâ—â—â— of all others who as yet seeme slow in theâ—â— good proceedings And if any thing heâ—â— written by me be either impertinent exâ—â—uagant rude harsh or ouer-bold I humbâ—â— entreat you to impute it rather to my want â—â—â— iudgement learning and capacity then to â—ny presumption or want of loue and duty â—â—â— the City cause which is hereafter handled It is sufficiently knowne that my intent and purpose at this time was not to make any profit to my selfe ' vpon any aduenture as it is deemed by many by my passage from London â—â— Salisbury with a Wherry but I was entread by a * His â—â—â—â— Gregory Bastable and his ordinary place where he â—â—â— or attends his labour is at the Temple and there also â—â—â— Thomas Estman another Wiltshire man which wiâ—â—â—â— Waterman which was born in Salisbury that I would beare him company for the discouery of the sands flats depths shoales Mils and Weares which are impediments and ' lets whereby the Riuer is not Nauigable from christ-Christ-Church or the Sea to Salisbury Which after many dangerous gusts
yeres Maior 1330. Sir Iohn Pultney Draper 2. yeeres Maior 1332. Iohn Preston Draper Maior 1333. Sir Iohn Pultney Draper Maior 1336. Sir Iohn Pultney the tourth time Lord Maior he built a Chappell in Pauls where hee lyes buried he also built Saint Laurence Pultney Church and the Church of little Alhalowes and the Church called the Fryers in Couentrie hee gaue to the poore of Saint Giles in the Fields to the poore Prisoners in the Fleet and Newgate ten shillings to each yearely for euer besides many other deeds of Charity which he did Many of these men did good and charitable deeds but they did them secretly in their liues time Anno 1363. Stephen Candish Draper Maior 1367. Iames Andrew Draper Maior 1381. Ioh. Northampt. Draper 2. yeres Maior 1391. Iohn Hinde Draper Maior Anno 1402. Iohn Walcot Draper Maior 1404 Iohn Hinde the second time Maior he newly built the Church of Saint Swithin neere London stone 1413. Sir William Cromer Draper Maior 1415. Sir Nicholas Wotton Draper Maior 1423. William Cromer Draper Maior 1427. Iohn Gedney Draper Maior 1430. Nicholas Wotton Draper Maior 1433. Ihon Brockle Draper Maior 1441. Robert Clopton Draper Maior 1445. Sir Simon Eyre Draper Maior he built Lraden Hall for a Garnetie for the Citie and gaue fiue thousand markes to charitable vses 1447. Sir Iohn Gedney Draper Maior 1453. Sir Iohn Norman Draper Maior 1458. Sir Thomas Scot Draper Maior 1462. Sir Thomas cooke Draper Maior 1464. Sir Ralph Ioslin Draper Maior 1474. Sir Robert Drope Draper Maior hee lyeth buried in Saint Michaels Church in Cornehill London he gaue towards poore Maids marriages of that Parish twenty pound and to the poore of that Ward ten pound and three hundred shirts and smockes and hundred gownes of Broadcloth 1476. Sir Ralph Ioslin Draper the 2. time Maior 1479. Sir Bartholomew Iames Draper Maior 1481. Sir William Harriet Draper Maior 1484. Sir William Stocker Draper Maior 1489. Sir William White Draper Maior 1503. Sir William Capell Draper Maior 1507. Laurence Aylmer Draper Maior 1509. Sir William Capell the 2. time Maior 1511. Sir Roger Achley Draper Maior 1514. Sir George Monox Draper Maior hee repaired the ruinated Church at Walthamstow in Essex and erected a Free-schoole there and thirteene Almes-houses for aged people also hee built a long Timber Cawsway ouer the Marshes from Walthamstow to Locke-bridge 1512. Sir Iohn Bruges Draper Maior 1521. Sir Iohn Milbourne Draper Maior hee built fourteene Alines houses for fourteen aged poore people neere the Lord Lumleyes house in the crossed or crouched Friers allowing to each two shillings foure pence monthly for euer 1524. Sir William Bailie Draper Maior 1528. Sir Iohn Rudston Draper Maior 1533. Sir Christopher Askew Draper Maior he payed largely to the building of eight Almes houses in Beechlane London for eight poore widowes of his Company 1540. Sir William Roch Draper Maior 1560. Sir VVilliam Chester Draper Maior 1565. Sir Richard Champion Draper Maior a good Benefactor to the poore of Saint Dunstans in the East and to the poore in Saint Edmunds in Lumbard street hee gaue fiftie foure shillings yearely in bread for euer besides other guists 1578. Sir Richard Pipe Draper Maior 1580. Sir Iohn Branch Draper Maior 1584. Sir Thomas Pullison Draper Maior 1588. Sir Martin Calthrop Draper Maior 1614. Sir Thomas Hayes Draper Maior 1615. Sir Iohn Iolls Draper Maior 1621. Sir Edward Barkeham Draper Maior 1623. Martin Lumley Draper Maior These good deeds following were done by others of the said company who were not Lord Maiors IOhn Holmes Draper gaue his house to the poore in Saint Sepulchers Parish for euer the yeerely rent of it being thirty two pound Iohn Russell Draper gaue eighty pound to Schooler and to other pious vses Iohn Quarles Draper gaue sixe pound a yeare for euer to be giuen to the poore in bread William Dummer Draper gaue to the poore thirteene pound eighteene shillings foure pence yeerely for euer Owen Clun Draper gaue to the poore fiue and twentie pound yeerely for euer William Parker Draper towards the maintenance of Preachers at Saint Antlins sixe pounds yeerely for euer Iohn Skeet Draper gaue to the Hospitals at London three hundred pound and to foure poore Schollers at Oxford fiae pound a peece and the like to foure poore Schollers at Cambridge Henry Butler Draper gaue to Saint Thomas Hospitall ten pound to Christ-Church Saint Bartholomewes and Bridewell fiue pounds to each Peter Hall Draper gaue to Christs Hospitall ten pound to Saint Bartholomewes and Saint Thomas Hospitall three pound to each Thomas Church Draper gaue to Christs Hospitall and to Bridewell to each ten pound and to the Hospitals of Saint Thomas and Saint Bartholomew to either fiue pound Humphrey Fox Draper gaue to Christs Church Hospitall fiftie pound Edmund Hill Draper gaue to the poore of Saint Andrew Vnder shaft fiftie two pound Anno 1609. William Guilborne Draper gaue foure markes the yeare for euer to the poore of Saint Katherine Christ Church neere Aldegate and twenty pound he gaue to build a Gallerie in the same Church Iohn Quarles Draper gaue to the poore in Saint Peters in the poore in Brecstreet ward fiftie pound to bee bestowed yearely in bread for euer Sir Richard Goddard Draper and Alderman gaue to the Hospitall of Bridewell two hundred pound Master Benedict Barnham Draper gaue for the reliefe of the poore Prisoners in the seuerall prisons in London fiftie pound Sir Iames Deane Draper and Alderman gaue to the seuerall Hospitals in London a hundred and thirtie pound and to sundry prison 70.1 Lady Bainham sometimes an A dermans wife of the Drapers Company gaue to the poore of the said Company ten pound yearely for euer Lancelot Thompson Draper gaue to the parish of Saint Peters in Cornehill twenty pound for fiue Sermons and a hundred pounds to the poore of the Drapers Companie and fiue pound yeerely to hee bestowed by them in fire and bread on the poore of that Parish Richard shore Draper gaue fifteene pound to build a Church porch at Saint Mildreds in the Poultry Iohn Calthrop Draper built the bricke Wall betwixt the Hospitals of Christ Church and S. Bartholomew Iohn Chertsey Draper gaue to the Hospitals 20.1 and to other charitable vses a 100 pound Master Henry Woolaston Draper gaue to Saint Thomas Hospitall fortie pound with other charitable beneuolences These memorable and pious workes with many more then my weake capacitie can collect or reckon haue beene done by the Drapers or Clothsellers which doth approue the sheepe to be a thriuing happy and a most profitable beast Now to speake somewhat of the Right Worshipfull Company of Clothworkers Anno Domini 1559. Sir William Hewet Clothworker Lord Maior 1574. Sir Iames Hawes Clothworker L. Maior 1583. Sir Edward Osborne Clothworker L. M. 1594. Sir Iohn Spencer Clothworker L. Maior 1596. Sir Thomas Skinner Clothworker Lord Maior gaue to the Hospitals in London and the Suburbs 120. l. 1599. Sir Nicholas Mosley Clothworker L.M. 1606.
expressed by Saint Paul Romans 9. 3. Where he saith For I would wish myselfe to be separated from Christ for my brethren that are my kinsmen according to the flesh Thus these two blessed Lamps or Beacons which God appointed to illuminate his Church did desire the dreadfull Curse of Gods heauy and eternall wrath to fall vpon them for euer rather then Gods honour should be violated or their brethren befor euer reprobates These two last Curses of Moses and Paul against themselues were so great and good examples of true zeale to God and loue to our neighbours that though it be long since they liued yet I haue not read or heard of any that euer imitated them Moses as a Type of Christ before his Incarnation and Paul as a follower of Christs example after his bitter death and passion did both wish themselues to be accursed to the end that thereby so many of their miserabeb rethren might be blessed so our Sauiour Christ though hee were and is the fountaine of all blessing yet hee was contented to be made a Curse for as many as would lay hold on the promises of God by faith in him Galatians 3 23 14. And thus I conclude my third part of this Treatise of Man Cursing himselfe Fourthly When Man Curseth or Blasphemeth God THis sinne is as it may rightly be called a degree beyond sinne for this is the sword which the Deuill doth put into mad-mens hands wherewith they doe wound themselues mortally for there were neuer yet any that durst to lift vp this Cursed weapon of Blasphemy against God but that the point thereof did alwayes turne into their owne bosomes to their destructions or most grieuous calamities as Pharaoh when hee said Who is the Lord I know not the Lord neither will I leâ—â— Israel goe Exodus 5. 2. and Sennacherib King of Assyria by the mouth of his seruant Rabshakeh blasphemed the Name of the Lord of Hoasts 2. Kings 18. Where he doth impiously extoll the Heathen Idols aboue the God of Israel saying verse 34. and 35. Whence is the God of Hamath and of Arpad Where is the God of Sepharuatm Heua and Iuab How haue they deliuered Samaria out of mine hand The like did Holophernes Iudith 6. 3. when he threatned the Israelites in Bethuliah saying That their God should not deliuer them When he had set vp his golden Image threatning all that would not fall down and worship it with most cruell torments to death he proudly said Who is that God that can deliuer you out of mine hands Nicanor Lieutenant Generall or Captaine of the Host of King Demetrius 2. Machabeus 15. Against Iudas Machabeus and the Host of Israel whom he purposed to inuade vpon the Sabbath day said verse 3. Is there a Lord in Heauen that commandeth the Sabbath day to be kept and verse 4. when they said There is a liuiâ—â— Lord which ruleth in the Heauen who commanded the seuenth day to be kept then he said And I am mighty vpon Earth to command them for to arms themselues and to performe the Kings busines But this Blasphemons miscreant had his hire for he lost 35000. of his men in the battell and himselfe was slaine and his head hand and shoulder brought in triumph to the City of Ierusalem and his accursed tongue cut out and cut in small pieces and giuen to the fowles of the Ayre as the same chapteâ— doth declare The Scribes and Pharises Marke 3. 22. did Blaspheme our Sauiour and said hee had Deuill and that through the power of Beelzebub he did cast out Deuils out of the possessed But as the liues of these and all other Blasphemers were odious and execrable so were their deaths and punishments miserable and remarkable for Pharaoh after the enduring of many most grieuous plagues lost his Kingdome and his life he and all his Army being drowned in the red Sea Exod. 14. 27 28. Sennacherib for his Blasphemy lost in one night 185000. men all of them being slaine by the Angell of the Lord himselfe being forced to flee to saue his life where at his returne to his Kingdome he was slaine by his owne sonnes in the Temple at Nineueh as he was at the vngodly worship of his god Nisroch 2. Kings 19. 37. Holophernes that blasphemous Champion was by Gods iust Iudgement being asleepe in his Tent and drunken although he were in his Camp amidst a great Army of his owne rusty Souldiers yet was his head smote from his shoulders by a woman and carried â—nto the City of Bethulia and there vpon the highest place of the walles set vp in memoriall of Gods vengeance and his peoples victory â—deth 14. 1. Nebuchà dnezzar was for his blasphemy depriued of his manly reason and Kingdome â—nd for seuen yeeres space liued as a beast among the beasts of the field Daniel 4. 30. The Scribes and Pharises who were the onâ—y men in reuerend estimation amongst the â—ewes as being the writers and expounders of the Lawes for their blasphemy were deliuered vp into most miserable captiuity and â—â—erpetuall slauery as is before expressed God is iealous of the honour of his Name that he commanded the blasphemer â—o be stoned to death Leuiticus 24. 14. Which was forthwith executed vpon him in the â—3 verse For which cause when that blessed man Iob was in his greatest afflictions sitting in â—â—shes full of Byles and sores then his wife perswaded him to Curse or blaspheme God and dye Iob 2. 9. She well knowing that the Law was so strict that for euery such â—ffence there was a speedy execution of death and so by that meanes shee would haue perswaded him to haue been quickly dispatched out of his paine and misery Briefly then to conclude this short Treatise Cursing I beseech you brethren by the â—percies of God that you all haue an especiall â—â—are not to blaspheme the holy and glorious Name of our good and gracious Creator Redeemer and Sanctifier that we by our Cursing doe not turne his blessings into a Curse vpon vs and our posterity here and eternally thereafter that wee bee not so much out of â—oue charity and obedience as to Curse our Superiours neighbours or any other persons or lastly that wee bee not so wilfully â—â—ad to Curse ourselues all which Cursed â—â—eanes are the causes to plucke downe vpon our heads the dreadfull Curses of the Almighty as it hath done in all times and ages vpon Blasphemers and Cursers Against Swearing WHen man hath so farre offended God by his disobedience that hee had thereby purchased to himselfe and all his posterity perpetuall damnation not knowing which way to turne himselfe from the Almighties wrath and much lesse knowing how to bee repossest in his fauour when vndeserued vnknowne vnhoped for mans infinite misery was to bee cured by his Creators infinite mercy then at that time if God had giuen man leaue to aske some great gift which he might be redeemed by had he had licence to desire or request what
feete And makes them his perfume alongst the streets A fourth hath got a powne'd Pommander box With woorme-wood iuice or sweating of a Fox Rue steep'd in vineger they hold it good To cheere the sences and preserue the blood Whilst Bellets Bonefire-like and faggots dry Are burnt i' th streetes the Aire to purifie Thou great Almightis giue them time and space And purifie them with thy heauenly Grace Make their repentance Incense whose sweet faure May mount vnto thy Throne and gaine thy fâ—ure Thus euery sence that should the heart delight Are Ministers and organs to affright The Citizens doe from the City runne The Countries feares the Citizens doe shunne Both feare the Plague but neither feares one iot The euill wayes which hath the plague begot This is the way this sickenes to preuent Feare to offend more then the punishment All trades are dead or almost out of breath But such as line by sickenesse or by death The Mercers Grocers Silk-men Goldsmiths Dâ—per Are out of Season like noone burning Tapers All functions faile almost through want of buyer And euery art and mysterie turne Dyers The very Water-men giue ouer plying Their rowing tade doth faile they fall to dring Some men there are that râ—â—e by others falls Propheticke Augurists in vrinals Those are right water-men and rowe so well They either land their fares in Heau'n or Hell I neuer knew them yet to make a stay And land at Purgatory by the way The Reason very plainely doth appeare Their patients feele their Pargatory here But this much Reader you must vnderstand They commonly are paid before they land Next vnto him th' Apothecarie thriues By Physicke bills and his preseruatiues Worme-eaten Sextons mighty gaines doe witine And natty Grane-makers great commings in And Cossin-makers are well paid their rent For many a woefull woodden tenement For which the Trunk-makers in Pauls Church-yard A large Reuenue this sad yeere haue shar'd Their liuing Customers for Trunkes were fled They now made chests or Cossins for the dead The Searchers of each corps good gainers be The Bearers haue a profitable fee And last the Dog-killers great gaines abounds For Brayning brawling currs and foisting hounds These are the grane trades that doe get and saue Whose grauity brings many to theit graue Thus grieued Lonaon sit'd with mones and grones Is like a Golgotha of dead mens bones The field where death his bloudy fray doth fight And kild a thousand in a day and night Faire houses that were latee exceeding deare At fifty or an hundred pounds a yeare The Landlords are so pittifull of late They le let them at a quarter of the rate So he that is a mightie moneyed man Let him but thither make what haste he can Let him disburse his gold and siluer heape And purchase London 't is exceeding cheape But if he tarrie but one three months more I hope 't will be as deare as 't was before A Country cottage that but lately went At foure markes or at three pounds yeerely rent A Citizen whose meere necessity Doth force him now into the Country fly Is glad to hire two Chambers of a Carter And pray pay with thankes fiue Pounds a quarter Then here 's the alteration of this yeare The Citties cheapenes makes the Country deare Besides another mischiefe is I see A man dares not besicke although he be Let him complaine but of the sioâ—c or gout The plague hath strooke him presently they doubt My selfe hath beene perplexed now and then With the wind Collick yeeres aboue thrice ten Wh'ch in the Country I drust not repeate Although my pangs gripes paines were great For to be sicke of any kind of griefe Would make a man worse welcome then a thiefe To be drunke sicke which or'st did credit winne Was fear'd infectious and held worse then sinne This made me and a many more beside Their griefes to smother and their paines to hide To tell a mery tale with Visage glad When as the Collick almost made me mad Thus meere dissembling many practis'd then And mid'st of paine seem'd pleasant amongst men For why the smallest sigh or grone or shrieke Would make a man his meat and lodging seeke This was the wretched Londoners hard case Most hardly welcome into any place Whil'st Country people where so'ere they went Would stop their Noses to auoid their sent When as the case did oft most plaine appeare 'T was onely they themselues that stunke with feare Nature was dead or from the Country runne A Father durst not entertaine his Sonne The Mother sees her Daughter and doth feare her Commands her on her blessing not come neere her Affinity nor any kinde of Kinne Or ancient friendship could true welcome winne The Children scarcely would their Parents know Or did if they but slender duty shew Thus feare made nature most vnnaturall Duty vndutifull or very small No friendship or else cold and miserable And generally all vncharitable Nor London Letters little better spod They would not be receiu'd much lesse be read But cast into the fire and burnt with speed As if they had bin Hereticks indeed And late I saw vpon a Sabbath day Some Citizens at Church prepar'd to pray But as they had bin excommunicate The good Church-wardeÌ„s thrust them out the gate Another Country vertue I 'le repeat The peoples charity was growne so great That whatsoeuer Londonor did dye In Church or Church-yard should not buried lye Thus were they scorn'd despised banished Excluded from the Church aliue and dead Aliue their bodies could no harbour haue And dead not be allow'd a Christian Graue Thus was the Countryes kindnesse cold and small No house no Church no Christian buriall Oh thou that on the winged windes dost sit And seest our misery remedy it Althogh we haue deseru'd thy vengeance hot Yet in thy jury Lord consume vs not But in thy mercies sheath thy slaying sword Deliuer vs according to thy word Shut vp thy Quiuer stay thy angry rod That all the world may know thou art our God Oh open wide the gate of thy compassion Assure our soules that thou art câ—â—r Saluation Then all our thoughts words works wee 'le frame To magnifie thy great and glorious Name The wayes of God are intricate no doubt Vnsearchable and passe mans finding out He at his pleasure worketh wond'rous things And in his hand doth hold the hearts of Kings And for the loue which to our King he beares By sickenes he our sinfull Country cleares That he may be a Patrone and a guide Vnto a people purg'd and purifi'd This by a president is manifest When famous late Elizabeth deceast Before our gracious Iames put on the Crowne Gods hand did cut superstuous branches downe Not that they then that were of life bereft Were greater sinners then the number left But that the Plague should then the Kingdome cleare The good to comfort and the bad to feare That as a good King God did vs assure So he
to steale and run away most swift In their conceits and fleights no men are sharper Each one as nimble-finger'd as a Harper Thus Thieuing is not altogether base But is descended from a lofty Race Moreouer euery man himselfe doth show To be the Sonne of Adam for wee know He stole the Fruit and euer since his Seed To steale from one another haue agreed Our Infancy is Theft 't is manifest Wee crie and Rob our Parents of their Rest Our Childe-hood Robs vs of our Infancy And youth doth steale out childe-hood wantonly Then Man-hood pilfers all our youth away And middle-age our Man-hood doth conuay Vnto the Thieuing hands of feeble age Thus are wee all Thieues all our Pilgrimage In all which progresse many times by stealth Strange sicknesses doe Rob vs of our health Rage steales our Reason Enuy thinkes it fit To steale our Loue whilest Foliy steales our wit Pride filcheth from vs our Humility And Lechery doth steale our honesty Base Auarice our Conscience doth purloin Whilest sloth to steale our mindes from work doth ioyâ—â— Time steales vpon vs whilest wee take small care And makes vs old before wee be aware Sleepe and his brother Death conspite our fall The one steales halfe our liues the other all Thus are wee Robb'd by Morpheus and by Muâ— Till in the end each Corps is but a Coarse Note but the seasons of the yeere and see How they like Thieues to one another bee From Winters frozen face through snow showers The Spring doth steale roots plants buds flowers Then Summer Robs the Spring of natures sute And haruest Robs the Suramer of his fruite Then Winter comes againe and he bereaues The Haruest of the Graine and Trees of Leaues And thus these seasons Rob each other still Round in their course like Horses in a mill The Elements Earth Water Ayre and Fire To rob each other daily doe conspire The fiery Sun from th' Ocean and each Riuer Exhales their Waters which they all deliuer This water into Clowdes the Ayre doth steale Where it doth vnto Snow or Haile congeale Vntill at last Earth robs the Ayre againe Of his stolne Treasure Haile Sleete Snow or Riâ—â— Thus be it hot or cold or dry or wet These Thieues from one another steale and get Night robs vs of the day and day of night Light pilfers darknes and the darknes light Thus life death seasons and the Elements And day and night for Thieues are presidents Two arrant Thieues we euer beare about vs The one within the other is without vs All that we get by toyle or industry Our Backes and Bellies steale continually For though men labour with much care and carke Lie with the Lamb downe rise vp with the Larâ— Sweare and forsweare deceaue and lie and cog And haue a Conscience worse then any Dog Be most vngracious extreme vile and base And so he gaine not caring for disgrace Let such a Man or Woman count their gaines They haue but meat and raiment for their paines No more haue they that doeliue honestest Those that can say their Cousciences are best Their Bellies and their Backes day night and houâ—â— The fruits of all their labours doe deuoure These Thieues doe rob vs with our owne good will And haue dame natures warrant for it still â—â— crimes these Sharks do worke each others wrack â—â— reuening Belly often robs the backe Will feed like Diues with Quaile Raile Pheasant â—beâ—â—â— all tarter'd like a Peasant Sometimes the gawdy Backe mans Belly pines â—â—which he often with Duke Humphrey dines â—â— whilest the mind defends this hungry stealth â—â— sâ—ies a temp'rate dyet maintaines health â—â—â—â— cry let guts with famine mourne â—â— maw's vnseene good outsides must be worne â—â— these Thieues rob vs and in this pother â—â—mind consents and then they rob each other â—â—knowledge and our learning oft by chance â—â— steale and rob vs of our ignorance â—â— ignorance may sometimes gaine promotion There it is held the mother of deuotion â—â—â—knowledge ioyn'd with learning are poore things â—at many times a man to begg'ry brings â—â—â— fortune very oft doth iustly fit â—â—l to haue all the woâ—â—â— some all the wit â—â—â—â— robs some men into it list â—eales their coyne as Thieues doe in a mist â—â— men to rob the pot will ne'r refraine Still the pot rob them of all againe â—rodigall can steale exceeding briefe â—ks his owne purse and is his owne deare Thiefe And thus within vs and without vs we â—â—â— Thieues and by Thieues alwaies pillag'd be â—â— then vnto the greatest Thieues of all Those Thâ—â—â—â—â—y is most high and capitall â—â— that for pomp and Titles transitory â—â—your Almighty Maker of his Glory â—â— giue the honour due to him alone â—to a carued block a stock or stone â—â—image a similitude or feature Angell Saint or Man or any creature â—â— Altars Lamps to Holy-bread or Waters â—â—â— shrines or tapers of such iugling matters â—â— reliques of the dead or of the liuing â—is is the most supremest kind of Thieuing â—â—esides they all commit this fellony â—t breake the Sabbath day maliciously â—â—â— giues vs six daies and himselfe hath one â—â—herein he would with thanks be call'd vpon â—â— those that steale that day to bad abuses â—â— God of honour without all excuses Into these Thieues my Thiefe doth plainly tell But though they hang not here they shall in hell Accept repentance and vnworthy Guerdon â—â—rough our Redeemers merits gaine their pardon â—â— there 's a crue of Thieues that prie and lurch And steale and share the liuings of the Church These are hells factors merchants of all euill Rob God of soules and giue them to the Deuill For where the tythe of many a Parish may Allow a good sufficient Preacher pay Yet hellish pride or lust or auarice Or one or other foule licencious vice Robs learning robs the people of their reaching Who in seuen yeeres perhaps doe heare no preaching When as the Parsonage by account is found Yeerely worth two three or foure hundred pound Yet are those Soules seru'd or else staru'd I feare With a poore a In the 93. page of a Booke called The Spirit of Detraction the Author cites 12. parishes in one Hundred in Wales in this predicament Reader for eight pounds a yeere A Preacher breakes to vs the Heau'nly Bread Whereby our straying Soules are taught and fed And for this heau'nly worke of his 't is sence That men allow him earthly recompence For shall he giue vs food that 's spirituall And not haue meanes to feed him corporall No sure of all men 't is most manifest A painfull Churchman earnes his wages best Those that keepe backe the Tythes I tell them true Are arrant Thieues in robbing God of'd due For he that robs Gods Church t' encrease his pelfe 'T is most apparent he robs God himselfe The Patron oft deales with his Minister As Dionisius with b Iupitert Idoll in Siracusa in Sicilia Iupiter He stole his golden Cloake
To Sharke or Shift or Cony-catch for mony But to make me thy Asse thy Foole thy Cony Could not thy Squire and thee a brace of Varlots Rim'd Fool'd Pip'd 'mongst pocky Whâ—res Harlots For two-pence in some drunken Bawdy-booth To please thy Dexy-dells sweet stinking tooth Wheras thou mightst as thou hast often done Some scraps and broken beere for wages wone Which to maintaine thy state had been some meanes Amongst thy fellowes Rascalls Rogues Queanes Thou scuruy squint-eyd brazen-fac'd Iaboon Thou dam'd Stigmaticall foule Pantaloone Thou Tausrne Alchouse Whorehouse Gig of time That for a groat wilt amongst Tinkers rime I 'll hale from Hell grim visag'd Nemesis Whom I will Scull o'r siluer Thamesis Which to and fro shall still tormant and towze thee And none but Runnagates like thee shall howze thee Thine owne tongue trumpet like each where proclaimes Thy selfe a seruant to my Soueraigne Iames When as thy seruice to the King is such As Athiests vnto God and scarce so much It may bee graclesse thou hast graced bin And in the Presence didst admittaince win Where some stolne rimes and some things of thine owne To please the eares of Greatnesse thou hast showne Which at the first hath wonne thee some applawse Although perhaps not worth three barly strawes And you for sooth must presently giue out Amongst your kitching stuffe whor-hedge bird rout What Noble-man your scuruinesse did bring Into the Court and how our Gracious King As on a man most worthy to bestow it Intitled yon his Highnesse Riming Poet. How dares thy ouerweening fancy tongue Presume to doe a Poets name that wrong How darst thou being altogether vile Attribute to thy selfe that Sacred stile Shall that rare Art which gods and men admire Polluted beby such a scurâ—le Squire Shall Heau'n-bred Poâ—sie that so long hath lasted With thy contagious breath be Bussard-blasted Then Homer from thy Toomb with speed returne And Mâ—rre round thee from thy peacefull Vine Braue Naso to the world againe retire And repossesse that rare Promothean fire Which erst inspir'd you heere you may behold The face of Impudency ouer-bold That dares put on that sweet Poetique name Which hath eterniz'd your Immortall fame Reuenge yon Musas vp awake awake Or euer sinke to the Letbâ—an Like And you braue Moderne Poets whose sweet lines All Heau'nly earthly Harmony combines Can you O can your sonâ—â—â— be stupidious And see your selues abused thus persidious Oh if the ease were mine as it is yours I would raine vengeance in rengefull showres Which furious storme for euer should disperse And dath to pieces these base Groomes in verse An Asse in cloth of goldâ— is but an Asse And Riming-Rascalls may for Pooâ—s passe Amongst mis-iudging and illiterate hynds But iudgement knowes to vse them in their kinds My selfe knowes how sometimes a verse to frame Yet dare I not put on a Poets name And I dare write with thee at any time For what thou darst in either Prose or Rime For thou of Poesic art the very scum Of Riff-raff-Rubish wit the totall summe The lothsome Glaunders of all base abuse The onely Filch-line of each labâ—ing Aâ—use The Knaue the Asse the Coxcomb and the Foole The scorne of Poets and true wits Close-stoole But all your Tauerne and your Alehouse prate Is how your entertainment was in State With this great Lord and that embrodered Knight With that faire Countesse and that Lady bright Though where thou come thou shift Iye â—â—â— As welcome as a Dog into a Church Dost thinke the King and 's Courtiers doth not see And know that nothing good can come from thee Can Swine yeeld sweet perfumes Can Swans breed Crowes Can flatt'ring Rogues haue but dissembling showes Can health be hidden in the plague or poâ—â— Can men take pride in fetters bonds or stocks And more vnpossible then are all these It is that thou shouldst any wise man please Except it be a flash a sparke a spurt Soon in soone out and then as sweet as durt Or like a candle's snuffe for pleasing scent Thou leau'st them deeply pleasd with discontent â—â—â— thou like stinking Fish art growne so stale â—â— who le â—â—â—â—â— Rime not worth a pot of Ale â—â—â— shortly doe hope to see braue sport To haue thee soundly whip'd from out the Court For well I know my King will not allow â—â—â— house to harbour such a Rague as thou â—â—â— to God my Ink-horne I 'll not shut â—â—â— steepe shall not mine eyes together put Before each night I write some scourging verse That in reuenge thy Iadish heart shall pierce For I whose credit ne'r before was tainted â—ot euer was with cheating tricks acquainted To be by thee thus basely vsde and crost And in the world my reputation lost And â—ll by thee that merit'st nought but banging â—â—â— sure I thinke thou 'lt ne'r be worth the hanging â—â—â— rather then thou shouldst a hanging want â—â—â— trusse thee vp for naught were Hangmen scant â—â— I would doe it freely and for nothing And giue thy Wife againe my fee and cloathing Which courtesie of mine no doubt would moue The creatures kindnesse to requite my loue â—â— her thou laid'st the fault thou said'st that shee Did force thee basely runne away from mee Thou Dolt thou Dunce more blockish then a Mule None but a Wittall giues his wife the rule No 't was thy Coward heart ful fraught with feare 'T was nothing else that made thee not appeare Hadst thou the conquest got I had not car'd So thou vnto thy word hadst had regard Then sure the Players had not playd a play But thou or I had borne away the day And now to giue the world a little tast Of the strange brunts and puzzles that I past I will not write a word shall be vntrue That men may know thou vsde me like a Iew And that I doe not raile on thee so sore But that my wrongs doe vrge me to doe more The house was fil'd with Newters Foes Friends And euery one their money frankly spends But when I saw the day away did fade And thy look'd for appearance was not made I then stept out their angers to appease But they all raging like tempestuous Seas Cry'd ouâ— their expectations were defeated And how they all were cony-catch'd and cheated â—ome laught some swore some star'd stamp'd and curst And in confused humors all out burst I as I could did stand the desp'rate shock And bid the brunt of many dang'rous knock For now the stinkards in their irefull wraths â—â—epelted me with Lome with Stones and Laths One madly fits like bottle Al and hisses Another throwes a stone and cause he misses He yawnes and bawles and cryes Away away Another cryes out Iohn begin the Play I thinke this Babel of confused action Would sure haue made thee stink with feares distraction One sweares and stormes another laughs smiles Another madly would pluck off the tiles Some runne to 'th doore to get
Coach like a Pagan an Heathen an Insidâ—ll or Atheist obserues neither Sabbath or holiday time or season robustiously breaking through the toyle or net of diuine and humane law order and authority and as it were contemning all Christian conformity like a dogge that lyes on a heape of Hay who will eate none of it himselfe nor suffer any other beast to eate any euen so the Coach is not capable of hearing what a Preacher saith nor will it suffer men or women to heare that would heare for it makes such a hideous rumbling in the streetes by many Church dores that peoples eares are stop'd with the noyse whereby they are debard of their edifying which makes faith so fruitlesse good works so barren and charity as cold at Midsummer as if it were a great Frost and by this meanes soules are rob'd and starued of their heauenly Manna and the kingdome of darkenesse replenished to auoyd which they haue let vp a crosse post in Cheapside on Sundaies neer Woodstreet end which makes the Coaches rattle and rumble on th' other side of the way further froÌ„ the Church from hindring of their hearing The Nagaians Iughonians the vngodly barbarous Tartarians who knew no God or diuell Heauen nor hell and who indeed are Nations that haue neither Townes Cities Villages or houses Their habitations are nothing but Coaches in their Coaches they eate sleepe beget children who are also there borne and from place to place with them The World runnes on Wheeles continually for they are drawne in droues or heards 20 30. or 40000. together to any fruitfull place or Champion plaine where they and their beasts doe stay till they haue deuoured all manner of sustenance that may maintaine life and then they romoue to a fresh place doing the like thus wearing out their accursed liues like the broode of Cain they and their houses beeing perpetuall vagabonds and continuall ruunagates vpon the face of the earth They are so practized and inured in all kinde of Barbarisme that they will milke one Mare and let another blood and the blood and the milke they will Charne together in their Hats or Caps till they haue made fresh cheese and creame which the Diuell will scarce eate from these people our Coaches had first originall and I doe wish with all my heart that the superfluous number of all our hyreling hackney Carryknaues and Hurry-whores with their makers and maintainers were there where they might neuer want continuall imployment For their Antiquity in England I thinke it is in the memory of many men when in the whole Kingdome there was not one and there was another principall vertue as good as themselues came with them for the Prouerbe saith That michiefe or mischances seldome come alone and it is a doubtfull question whether the diuell brought Tobacco into England in a Coach or else brought a Coach in a fogge or mist of Tobacco For in the yeere 1564. one William Boonen a Dutchman brought first the vse of Coaches hither and the said Boonen was Queene Elizabeths Coach-man for indeede a Coach was a strange monster in those dayes and the sight of them put both horse and man into amazement some said it was a great Crab-shell brought out of China and some imagin'd it to be one of the Pagan Temples in which the Canibals adored the diuell but at last those doubts were cleared and Coach-making became a substantiall Trade So that now all the world may see they are as coÌ„mon as whoreâ— may be hired as easie as Knights of the poâ—â—â— The Cart is an open transparant Engine thâ—â— any man may perceiue the plaine honesty â—â—â— it there is no part of it within or without bâ—â— it is in the continuall view of all men On thâ— contrary the Coach is a close hypocrite for iâ—â— hath a couer for any knauery and curtaines tâ—â— vaile or shadow any wickednes besides like â—â—â— perpetuall cheater it weares two Bootes â—â—â— no Spurs somtimes hauing two paire of legâ—â—â— in one boote and oftentimes against nature most preposterously it makes faire Ladiesâ—â— weare the boore and if you note they are carried backe to backe like people surpriz'd bâ—â— Pyrats to be tyed in that miserable manner â—â—â— and throwne ouerboord into the Sea Moreouer it makes people imitate Sea-crabs in being drawne side-wayes as they are when they sit in the boote of the Coach and it is a dangerous kinde of carriage for the common-wealth if it be rightly considered for when a man shall be â— iustice of the peace a Serieant or a Councellor at law who hope is it that all or many of them should vse vpright dealing that haue beene so often in their youth and daily in their maturer or riper age drawne aside continually in a Coach some to the right hand and some to the left for vse makes perfectnesse and often going aside willingly makes men forget to go vpright naturally The order of Knighthood is both of great Antiquity and very honourable yet within these latter times there is a strange mystery crept into it for I haue noted iâ—â—â— that when a Gentleman hath the sword laid vpoÌ„ his shoulder either by his Prince or his deputy or Generall in the field although the blow with the sword be an honour to the man yet by a kind of inspiration it cripples his wife though shee be at that time 300. miles from her husband for if you note her you shall see her lamed for euer so that she can by no means goe without leading vnder the arme or else shee must be carried in a Coach all her life time after forgetting in a manner to goe on her feet so much as to Church though it be but two Quoytes cast for I haue heard of a Gentleman that was lamed in this manner who â—â—â— her man to Smithfield from Charingâ—â—â—â—â—â—to hyre a Coach to carry her to Whiteâ—â—â— another did the like from Ludgate-hill â—he carried to see a Play at the black Fryers â—â—â— in former times when they vsed to walke â—â— foote and recreate themselues they were â—â—â— strong and healthfull now all their exâ—â—cise is priuately to sawe Billets to hang in a â—â—â—nge or to rowle the great rowler in the alâ—â—â— of their garden but to go without leading â—â—â— Riding in a Coach is such an impeachment â—â—d derogation to their Calling which â—â—sh and bloud can by no meanes endure Euery man knowes that were it not for the Cart the Hay would rot in the medowes the Corne perish in the field the markets be emptily furnished at the Courts remoue the King would be vnseru'd and many a Gallant would â—â—â— enforced to be his owne Sumpter-horse to carry his luggage bag and baggage himselfe and finally were it not for the mannerly and â—â—â—rteous seruice of the Cart many a well deseruing ill condition'd braue fellow might goe on foote to the Gallowes A Cart by the iudgement of an honorable and graue Lawyer is elder brother to a
to death exilde from Gods sweet fauoor Which blisse or bane there 's many daily heares Who leaue their hearts at home bring their easesâ— And lest their reck lesse heads the Word should smother As soon as'tenters t 'one it 's out at tother For let a Preacher preach vntill he sweats Denouncing heau'ns great wrath in thundring threatâ—â—â— Gainst sin and sinners 'gainst high hearted pride Gainst murder which hath oft for vengeance cride Or enuie Lechery Auarice or Swearing Or any other vice they le giue the hearing And say the Preacher wondrous paines did take And did a very learned Sermon make But what good Reformation hence proceeds Are Mountaine words and little Moâ—e-hill deeds Tell Vs'rers they are banisht from Gods hill Yet they 'le continue in extortion still Tell the proud Courtier that he is but earth He 'le o're the poore insult and bragge of birth Expostulate the great Almighties Ire And tell the murdrer hell shall be his hire Yet e're he 'll pocket vp the least disgrace His en'mies guts shall be his Rapiers case Tell daily drunkards hell shall be their lot Thei 'l knocke and call to haue the tother pot Tell Panders Bawds knaues and adultrous whoors How they in hell must pay their cursed scores Tell Mizer chuffes who charitie doe banish How they from heau'n eternally must vanish Tell all in generall of their liues amisse And tell them that hels bottomelesse abysse Must be their portions if they not repent Till true repentance heau'ns iust wrath preuentâ— Yet when the Preacher all he can hath told Soules vnto firme are daily bought and sold. The Mizer with his lecherie of Chinke On earth will giue his dropsie soule to drinke And though the Word beat on his Anuile heart From Vs'ry and extortion he 'l not part The picbald Gallant to the Church will come To heare his soules saluations totall summe Yet his high pride is in such hauty dotage Fogets he 's sprung from a poore country Cotage The murdrer heares how reprobated Caine Was curst of God that had his brother slaine Yet when hee 's from the Church forgets it all And stabs a man for taking of the wall Should I through all mens seu'rall actions runne I know my businesse neuer would be done The rich man hates the poore man and the poore Doth enuie gainst the rich man for his store This is the blest soules euerliuing Bread In bounteous measure all the earth or'espread Some on the high way falls and takes no roote But is of no esteeme trod vnder foote Some falles on stones and some alights on thornes Deuor'd with fowles or choak'd with scoffs or scornes Some little portion fals in fruitfull ground Th' encrease of which is to be seldome found For let men waigh their good deeds with their bad For thousand ils one good will scarce be had And yet no doubt but God in store doth keepe His neere deare children his best stocke of sheepe For though vnto the world they are not knowne Yet t is sufficient God doth know his owne For though Elius thought himselfe was all That had not offered sacrifice to Ball Lebonah answer'd him seuen thousand more In Israel did this Idol not adore But who so much in this vile life are hated As those which to saluation are created For let a men refraine to drab or dice Out he vpon him then he 's too precise Let him forbeare to lie to sweare or banne O hang him rascall he 's a Puritan And sure I think the Deuill by that false name Hath added thousands soules vnto his flame Some man ere hee 'l be cal'd a Puritan Will turne a damned Machiauilian A Libertine Papist or else what not To keepe his name from so impure a blot I speake not this regarding their estate Who from our Church themselues doe separate For good indifferent Ceremonious rites And 'gainst our Churches gouernment backbites Nor doe I praise the louing Sisters loue Who often makes the Brethren's spirits moue And if 't were lawfull they would gladly kno To dresse their meate the Sabbath day or no. And wherefore now the Churchmen of these daies Ride to and fro to preach so many waies When Christ to his Apostles gaue in charge That they should seek and teach all nations large The way that in his Lawes they might abide Christ bade them goe he bade them not to ride These idle questionists these schismatickes I hold no bettter then ranke heretickes But this I thinke not well when honest hearts Shall haue this impure name without desarts How then can my comparing be gaine stood For men are like to trees some bad some good But tatry Satyre thou too fast dost trot There 's one thing more I had almost forgot And this is it of Ale-houses and Innes Wine-Marchants Vintners Brewers who much wins By others losing I say more or lesse Whose sale of hufcap liquor doe professe Should neuer bee to any office cald Or in no place of Iustice be instal'd The reason is they gaine by mens excesse Of diuellish quassing and damn'd drunkennesse For why should men be moderate in their drinke Much Beere and bottle-Ale should stand and stinke And Mounsieur Claret and sweet Signior Sacke Would lowre and turne vnto the Marchants wrack The Vintners then within their cellers deepe Such coniuring at midnight would not keepe This swynish sinne hath man of sense bereauen To bandy balles of blasphemy 'gainst heauen It is the way the dore the porch the gate All other vices entor in thereat A drunken man in rage will stabbe his brother Hee 'l Cuckold his owne father whore his mother Reuile and curse sweare speak dangerous treason And when he 's sober hangs forn 't by th' weason How then should men a reformation giue To mend those crimes that by those crimes do liue The Patriarke Noah did first plant the Vine And first did feele the powerfull force of wine And righteous Lot by wine depriu'd of wit Foule Incest with his daughters did commit And Holophernes drunken lay in bed Whilst strong-faith'd weake-arm'd Indith cut offs head Great Alexander out his Fauchion drewe And being drunke his best friend Clâ—tus slew If euery haire vpon the heads of men Were quils and euery quill were made a pen Were Earth to paper turn'd and Seas to inke And all the world were writers yet I thinke They could not write the mischiefs done by drink And such a custome men haue tane therein That to be drunke is scarce accounted sinne But honest recreatiue merriment The time is term'd that is in tippling spent A Marchants ship is richly fraught ariues And for thanksgiuing that so well he thriues He makes a feast and store of money spends Inuites his kinsfolke creditors and friends Where stormes and Rocks and Pirats are forgot And triumphs made to Bacchus and the Pot. A rich mans wife 's deliuered of of a boy And all the houshold must be drunk for ioy The prisoner that 's
12 Offa 13 Sâ—lred 14 Suthred 5 Northumberland was sometimes diuided into two kingdomes It contained the â—â—ies of Yorkshire Durham Lancashire Westâ—land Cumberland and Northumberland this Kingdome beganne in the yeere of our Lord â—7 and expired in 926. continuing 379. â—eeres vnder 23 Kings whose names were 1 â—â— 2 Adâ—â—a 3 Theodwald 4 Frethulfe 5 Theâ—â—â—â—â—â—ick 6 Ethelrick 7 Ethelâ—rid 8 Edwin 9 Osâ—â—â— 10 Oswy 11 Egfrid 12 Alkfrid 13 Ofred 14 â—â—red 15 Oswolfe 16 Ceolnuph 17 Egbert 18 Oswicke 19 Edilwald 20 Alured 21 Ethelâ—â—â— 22 Alswald 23 Osred Amongst these â—dwin was their first Christian King 6 The East Angles vnder 15 seuerall Kings continued 353 yeeres beginning in Anno 575. â—â—d ended in 914. their Territories were â—â—lolke Norfolk Cambridgeshire and the â—â— of Ely their Kings names were 1 Vffa 2 â—â—â—lus 3 Redwald their first Christian King â—â—â—wold 5 Sigebert 6 Egrik 7 Anna 8 â—â—â—bert 9 Ethwald 10 Aldwolâ—e 11 Aswald 12 Beorn 13 Ethelred 14 Ethelbert 15 Edmund â—â—â— The seuenth Kingdome were the Merâ—â—â—â—â—â— who had 20 Kings and 17 shires â—nder their command their Kings wereâ—â— Creda 2 Wibba 3 Cheorle 4 Penda 5 Peada â—heir first Christian King 6 Wolfere 7 â—â—helred 8 Kenred 9 Chelred 10 Ethebald 11 Offa 12 Egfrid 13 Kenwolfe 14 Kenelme 15 Chelwolfe 16 Bernulfe 17 Ludecan 18 â—â—itlafe 19 Bertwolfe 20 Burdred Their â—ounds and dominions were 17 Counties as of Northampton Leister Darby Lincolne Huntington Rutland Notingham Cheshire Oxfordshire Staffordshire Worcestershire Glostershire Shropshire Warwickeshire Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire and â—artfordshire Yeeres after Christ. 98 Vortiporus 578. 99 Malgo 581. THis Vortipore from good Kings did decline Kept his wiues Daughter as his Concubine And Malgo pâ—t his Wiâ—â—e to broady slaughter To liue in â—ncest with his brothers Daughter About this time Augustine the Monke Mellitus Iustus and Iohn all â—â—â— men came from Rome and preached the Gospell to the English mâ—n Vortipore reigned 4. yeeres Malgo his raignâ—â— was short and wicked 100. Careticus 586. GVrmundus hither out of Ireland came And with the Saxons ioyn'd with sword and flame The King to Wales did flye his ifeâ—tâ— saue Whereas he chang'd his Kingdome for a Graue He reigned 3. yeeres and now the Saxons had all England the Brittaines and their Kings being expulsed and chased to the West sides of the Riuers Seauerne and Dâ—â— Cadwane 613. THis Cadwane did the Saxon â—orce withstand Of Ethelfridus of Northumberland And made him to entreate and sue for peace Raign'd two and twenty yeeres then did decease Yeeres before Christ. 102. Cadwallin 635. CAdwallin slew King Edwin Egfrids Sonne He Penda Merciaes King did ouer-runne He neuer fought but Conquest home did bring And eight and forty yeeres did raigne a King Cadwallin was buried at London in Saint Martins Church neere Ludgate 103. Cadwallader 685. THis King renowned was both neere and farre The last of Brittaines Kings Cadwallader The name of Brittaine was quite alterd then The Kings of England subiects Englishmen Then in this Land of Kings there raign'd so many That Subiects knew not to obey all or any Their names and times of raigne I meane to tell Should I write more my Book too big would swell Here the inhabitants lost the name of Brittaines the land being called Anglia or England and the people Englishmen 687. Cadwallader left his Crowne went to Rome and dyed there These Kings following were of the West Saxons 726 Ethelard was King of the West Saxons Yeeres before Christ. 740. Cuthred succeeded him 757. Sigebert next him was slainâ— by a Swineheard 758. Kenulphus was slaine by Kinsman of Sigebert 786. Brithricus In his time iâ— rained blood IN the 800. yeere of Christ the Danes landed at Poâ—â—land but Brithricus beat them backe and afterâ—â—â—â— was poysoned by his wife Ethelburga Egbriâ—us King of West-Saxons 839. â—â—â— 839. Adelnulphus ouercame â—â— Danes that came to inuaâ—e the Kingdome with 350. ships 857. Athelbald Yeeres after Christ. 860. Athelbrict 866. Etheldrid 872. AElfred 900. Edward surnamed Seâ—ior Heere end the Kings of the West-Saxons now follow the Kings of Britaine 104. Athelstane reigned 15. yeeres 905. THis King did tame the Welsh the Danes subdu'd He conquered Scotland and the Marches rude The Danish Gyant Colebrand in Hyde-meads â—y Gâ—y the Earle of Warwick was struck dead King Athelstane was crowned at Kingstone hee fought this Land againe to one sole Monarchy hee was buried at Mâ—lâ—â—â—bury Yeeres after Christ. 105. Edmund 940. 106. Eldred 640. EDmund reign'd next his brother Athelstane And after fiue yeeres was vntimely slaine Nine yeeres was Eldrid Englands King instil'd Th' insulting Danes he from this Realme exilde Edmund was buried at Glastenbury Eldred was brother to Edmund hee was crowned as Kingstone hee expelled the Danes and was buried at Winchester 107. Edwin 955. 108 Edgar 959. THen Edwin as his right obtain'd the Crowne For Rape and brutish Lust he was put downe His brother Edger a man iust and wiâ—e By Edwins fall vnto the Throne did rise The Church and Commonweâ—le long time deform'd He by his Iustice and good Lawes reform'd Raign'd sixteen yeeres and then by death assail'd As he had liu'd belou'd he dy'd bewail'd Edwin was Eldreds kinsman crowned a Kingstone he deftowred his owne kinswoman and slew her husband for which â—â—â— acts hee was deposed of all Kingly dignity and his brother Edgar was in his stead crowned at Bathâ— Edgar had 3600 skips to withstand the inuasion of his enemies hee founded and repaired 47. religious houses hee was buried at Glastenbury 109 Edward 975. 110 Etheldred 978. EDward was slain by his accurst Stepmother Ayded by Etheldred his cruell brother This Etheldred caus'd all the Danes be slaine And dyed the thirty eightth yeere of his raigne He was crowned at Kingstone be reigned 3. yeeres and was buried at Shaftsbury Etheldred was buried in St. Pauls Church in London 111 Edmond Irònside 1016. THe Danes came to reuenge with sword and fire Both Kings to Combat single did desire On equall tormes their valours both were tride In loue the Realme betwixt them they deuide Edricus a traitor murdered King Edmond Ironside for the which Canutus the Dane caused him to bee tormented to death griâ—â—uously as he deserued 112 Canutus 1018. THis mighty Danish King foure Kingdomes held Danes Norway England Scotland he compeld Taxes and toles he rais'd in England here And dyed when he had gouern'd twenty yeere In Canutus his raigne the Danes possessed all England he â—â—â—â— buried at Winchester 113 Harold 1038. 114 Hardianutus 1041. HArold from England did exile his Mother And kild Allured his King and his Brother Hardianutus then the Crowne obtain'd Who quaâ—â—ing died when he 3. yeeres had raign'd Harold was a Tyrant hee was called Hartfoott â—â— hâ—â—â—â—â—â—â— running be murdered Prince Allured hee raigned three yeeres and was buried at Westminster Hee caused the body of Harold to be digged out of the graue and cast into the Thames in reuenge of his brother Allureds death he
with Daâ—iâ—â— doth dally And Simei with Saphira will dispute That nine moneths after the doth beare the fruite When Zimri kissing Iezabel doth greet And Cozbi with her brother Câ—am oh sweet 'T is fit to trye their humors to refresh A Combate twixt the spirit and the flesh Prouided that they doe it secretly So that the wicked not the same â—py These youths deride the Sutplesie Crosse and Ring The knee at Sacrament or any thing The Church holds Reuerend and to testifie Their bastardy the Fathers they deny And of themselues they frame Religions new Which Christ and his Apostles neuer knew And with vntemper'd morter of their owne They build a Church to all good men vnknowne Railes at the Harmonious Organs and the Coape Yet in each Church of theirs they raile a Pope Cals it the badge of Antichristian drosse When they see butter printed with the Crosse And yet for coine they â—eny man beguile For when they tell it they turne vp the pile Vpon the Sabbath they ' l no Physicke take Lest it should worke and so the Sabbath breake They hate to see a Church-man ride why so Because that Christ bad his Apostles goe Against our Churches all they haue exclaimed Because by Saints names most of them are nam'd If these new Saints no old Saints will abide From Christendome they must or run or ride Saint George from England chases them away Saint Andrem doth in Scotland beare like sway From Ireland good Saint Patriske them will banisn Saint Dennis out of France will make them vanish Saint Iames will force them out of spaine to fly So will Saint Anthony from Italy And last of all whom I had halfe forgot Saint Dany out of Wales will make them trot And what vngodly place can harbour then These sugitiue vnnaturall Englishmen Except that with the Turke or Insideâ—â— Or on or in the Sea they meane to dwell That if in lesser roome they may be cram'd And liue and dye at Amfier and be dam'd And sure I hold some Romane Catholikes Much better then these selfe-wild Scilmatickes For Papills haue good affability And some haue learning most haue Charity Except a Iesuit whom I thinke a man May tearme a right Papistick Puritan And for the Sep'ratist l justly call A Scismatick Impuritanicass Bâ—t yet the Iesuit's constant in his mind The Scismatick is wauertingly inclin'd Besides he thinkes whilst he on earth doth liue 'T is charitie to take and not to giue There are a sort of men which conscience make Of what they say or doe or vndertaker Who neither will dissamble sweare or lye Who to good ends their actions all apply Who keepe the Sabbath and relieue the poore According to their portions and their store And these good people some men doe backbite And call them Puritanes in scotne and spight But let all know that doe abuse them so That for them is reseru'd a fearefull wo I loue and reuerence onely beare to such And those that here inuectiuely I touch Are Birds whose Consciences are more vncleane Then any Cormorant was e're knowne or seene He stand toth censure of all honest men If they disproue me I le ne're write agen A Trust-breaker THE ARGVMENT A Foe to Iustice a corrupted Friend Anouâ—ward Angell and an inward Fiend A hidden Serpent a most subtile Fox A Sugred poyson in a painted Box A Syrens song assuring to mishap A Snzre to Honesty and Vertuestrap THe Rich Trust breaker vpon whom hell waites Doth thrust into the Riuer of Estates His soule deuouring Beake and at one prey Will swallow fourteene Tradesmen in a day As many of the Country Lordships slips Flapdragon like by his insatiate lips The Father sometimes hath beene oft vndone By too much trusting his vnnaturall Sonne And a Trust-breaker hath a tricke in 's pate To bring a rich Ward to a Beggers state For some corrupted men haue got tuition Of rich mens Heires and changed their condition With false inducements to Recusancy Or suffring them through prodigality To run so farre in debt that all their Lands Are lost before they come into their hands Faire schooles of learning haue bin built frÌ„o ground For Boyes whose fathers were not worth fiue pound But false Trust-breakers hold it for no sinne To keep our poore mens Sonnes take rich mens in This Breach of Trust is multiplide in time T' a Catholike and vniuersall crime That man to man is growne so much vniust That hee 's a wise man that knowes who to trust But if therebe such they doe want much care Who trust not in the world nor trusted are Collectorships the Common wealth may lurch For Burnings Highwayes Bridges or the Church For losse at Sea for Hospitals and Schooles One hundred knaues may make ten thousand fooles Yet these things are so needfull as I wot Hee 's a base villaine that contributes not But hee 's a Hell-bound that their Trust deceiues And the right due from those that want bereauesâ— Why this Trust-breaking hath the excâ—lent skill To make a Wise to burne her Husbands Will Because his first Wiues Children should not haue The Portions that within that Will he gaue And oftentimes a gasping man for breath Distracted with the griping pangs of death Hath to a forged will suscrib'd his hand And dispossest his owne Sonne of his land Trust breakers may a sencelesse hand to â—â—e Though being sixe houres dead â—o write a Name A rich man's wealth that 's deadâ— like vnto â—â— old And that 's because it's neuer truely toldâ— For like to pitch it hath polluting tricks And some vnto the fing'rers fingers sticks But of all Rascals since the world began The Banckrupt Pollitick's the onely man In courteous fashion many hee'lvndo And be much pittyed and rewarded too For hauing got much wealth into his clawes He holds it faster then a Cormorants jawes Can hold a silly fish and at the last Himselfe himselfe will into prison cast And hauing broke for thousands there the hound Compounds perhaps for ten groates in the pound Sets richly vp againe till him he sees To breake to prison againe againe agrees And thus a cunning knaue can with a trice Breake and be whole againe once twice or thrice These Cormorants are worse then theeues therefore And being worse deserue a hanging more A Thiefe speaks what he means and takes your purse A Banckrupt flattering robâ— you ten times worse The one doth seldome rob ye of all your pelse The other leaues you nought to helpe your selfe And yet the one for a little the euins may At Tiburne make a hanging holyday Whilest the great Thiefe may with a golden prop To faire Reuenues turne a Pedlers shop In this voracity Father stands not free From his owne Sonne nor from his vnckle he Being made Executor to 'th Scates of men My Corm'rant is a piddler to him then He will by cuning and vexation draw Heire wealth and All into his rauenous maw And when his gorge is full vp to
prophane and great abuse To turne the brethrene linnen to such vse As to make Paper on 't to beare a song Or Print the Superstitious Latine tongue Apocrypha or Ember-weekes or Leus No holy brother surely will consent To such ldolatry his spirit and zeale Will rather trouble Church and common-weale He hates the Fathers workes and had much rather To be a bastard then to haue a Father His owne interpretation he 'll affoord According to the letter of the word Tropes Allegories Types similitudes Or Figures that some my sticke sense includes His humour can the meaning so vnfold In other fashions then the Fathers could For he dogmatically doth know more Then all the learned Docters knew before All reueread Ceremonies he 'l oppose He can make an Organ of his nose And spin his speech with such sincerity As if his bridge were falne in verity The Cope and Surplesse he cannot abide Against the corner-Cap he outhach cride And calls them weeds of Superstition And liueries of the whore of Babylon The Crosses blessing he esteemes a curse The Ring in marriage out vpon 't 't is worse And for his kneeling at the Sacrament In sooth he 'le rather suffer banishment And goe to Aâ—â—â—erdamd and liue and dye E're he 'l commit so much ldolatry He takes it for an outward Seale or Signe A little consecrated bread and wine And though it from his blessed Saulour come His manners takes it fitting on his bum The spirit still directs him how to pray Nor will he dresse his meat the Sabbath day Which doth a mighty mysterie vnfold His zeale is hot although his meat be cold Suppose his Cat on Sunday kill a Rat She on the Munday must behang'd for that His faith keepes a continuall Holy day Himselfe doth labour to keepe it at play For he is read and deeply vnderstood That if his faith should worke 't would doe no good A fine cleane fingerd faith must saue alone Good workes are needlesse therefore ho'l do none Yet patience doth his spirit so much inspire He 'l not correct a Seruant in his ire But when the spirit his hot furie layes Hee congregates his folkes and thus he sayes Attend good Nichodemus and Tobiâ— List to your reuerend Master Ananias And good Aminadab I pray attend Here 's my man I smael highly did offend He told a lye I heard his tongue to trip For which most surely he shall tast the whip Then after some sententious learned speech The seruant humbly doth let fall his breech Mounts on his fellowes backe as on a Mule Whilst his pure Maister mounts his rod of rule The boy in lying with his tongue did faile And thus he answers for it with his taile O Vpright Sincere Holy execution Most patient vnpolluted absolution Shall Paper made of linnen of these men Be stain'd with an vnsanctified pen In sooth who ere doth so beâ—'t he or she They little better then the wicked be Children of Sathan and abhomination The brood of Belials cursed congregation The bastard off spring of the purple where Who doe the Babylonish Beast adore From the Creation to the generall Fleed The name of Paper no man vnderstood But by tradition still from Sire to Son Men liuing knew the deeds by dead men dont Yet many things were in the Deluge san'd In stony Pillars charactered and grau'd For the most part antlquity agrees Long since the floud men writ in barkes of trees Which was obseru'd late in America When Spanish Cortois conquered Mexica Then after in Fig-leaues and Sicamour Men did Characters their minds explore â—â—â— when it is worne to Rags it is made into Paper Long after as ingenuous spirits taught Rags and old Ropes were to perfection wrought Into quare formes yet how to giue a name Vnto their workemanship they could not frame The Originall of Paper Some Authors doe the name of Paper gather To be deâ—iu'd from Papa or a Father Because a learned man of Arrius sect Did Christendome with heresie infect And being grear errors much mistooke Writ and divulged in a Paper booke And therefore Nimphsâ—ag thus much doth inferre The name of Paper sprung from Papaerr Some bold the name doth from a Rush proceed Which on Egiptian Nilus bankes doth breed Which rush is call'd Paptr us for on it Th' Egiptian people ofteneimes had writ And some againe of lesse authoritie Because it 's made of rags and pouerty In stead of Paper name it Paâ—peris Be sure thinkes they take their markes amisse For foure and twenty sheets doe make a Quire And twenty Quire doth to a Reame aspire And euery Reame were kingdomes for their strength â—â— that they want a single 1 in length A Reame of Paper therefore keepes great port And were a Realme wer'â— not an 1 too short Besides we haue an old Proguâ—â—icater An erring Father quast arta Pater â—â—â— euerlasting Almanack tels plaine How many miles from hence to Charles his waine From â—â—â—â— vnto Mercury how farre To venus Sol and Mars that warlike stâ—rre From Mars to merry thunder-thumping Ieaâ— And thence to fullen Saturns highest aboue This if I lye not with advice and leasure Old Erra Pater to an inch did measure But hollow Muse what mounted to the sky I 'le clip your soaring plumes for you and I Must talke of Paper Hemp and such as this And what a rich commodity it is It was time to remember my selfe for I was a degree too high The best is I haue elbow roome to trace I am not tide to times to bounds or place But Europe Asia Sun-burnt Affrica America Terraâ—â—â—â—â— The Christians Heathens Pagans Turkes Iewes And all the world yeelds matter to my Muse No Empire Kingdome Region Prouince Nation No principality Shire nor Corporation No Country County City Hamlet Towne But must vse Paper eyther white or browne No Metropolitane or gracious Primate No Village Pallace Cottage function Climate No age sex or degree the earth doth beare But they must vse this seed to write or weare How it Propagates the Gospell This Paper being printed doth reueale Th' Eternall Testament of all our Weale In Paper is recorded the Records Of the Great all-Creating Lord of Lords Vpon this weake ground strongly is ingrau'd The meanes how man was made and lost and sau'd Bookes Patriarchall and Propheticall Historicall or Heauenly Mysticall Euangelicall and Apostolicall Writ in the sacred Text in generall The sacred memory of Patriarchs Prophets Euangeiists Apostles and Fathers Much hath the Church our Mother propagated By venerable Fathers workes translated Saint Ierome Gregoris Ambrose Augustius Saint Basil Bernard Cyprian Constantive Eusebius Epipleanssu Origen Ignatius and La ctantius reuerend men Good Luther Caluine learned Zwinglius Melancton Beza Oecolampadius These and a world more then I can recite Their labours would haue slept in endlesse night But that in Paper they preseru'd haue bin T' instruct vs how to shun death hell and sin The memoriall of Monarchies and Wonders with their
obiects to satisfie euery sence is there abundantly so that nature seemed to make that Country her store house or granary for there is nothing wanting except mens gratitude to God for such blessings The first night we lodged there at a pretty towne called Comoda which towne by negligence and occasion of fire had fifty houses burnt two dayes before our comming thither it beeing eleuen Dutch miles from Pragus There we hired a waggon 7 dutch miles to a towne called Slowne from whence we walked on foot along 16. English miles to Prague which long looked for Citty wee could not see vntill we came within an houres trauell of it within halfe a dutch mile is a fearefull place being frequented with inhumaine and barbarous murderrers that assault trauellers first shooting and murdring them after searching their pockets where if they haue mony or not all is one it is but so many slaine for these villains haue a wood and a deepe valley to shelter themselues in that they are hardly taken afterwards but if they chance at any time to be but apprehended they are racked tortured to make them confesse afterwards their executions are very terrible But I thanke God we past that place many other as dangerous as that where some were robbed murdered as report told vs both before vs behind vs and on each side and we saw in our iourny aboue score Gallowses and wheeles where theeues were hanged some fresh and some halfe rotten the carkases of murtherers broken limb after limb on the wheeles and yet it was our happines only to see the dead villaines escape the liuing I came into Prague on Thursday the 7. of September whither if I had come but the Friday before I had seene a most fearfull execution of a notorious offenders the manner how with their faults as it was truely related to me by English Gent. that saw it I think it not much impertinent to relate The one of them being taken apprehended and racked for ripping vp a liue woman with child for taking the infant out of her body did sow a liuing puppy into her belly all w ch he confessed he did to make properties for witch craft and being further tortured he confessed when and where he had commited 35. murthers more the other in respect of him was but a petty offender for he in all his lifetime had murthered but 14. For the which execrable facts their deserued executions were as followeth First they were brought out of the Iayle naked from the girdle vpward and so being bound fast on high in a Cart that the spectators might see them then the Hangman hauing a pan of coales neere him with red hot pincers nip'd off the nipple of one breast then he tooke a knife and giues him a flash or cut downe the backe on one side from the shoulder to the wast and presently gaue him such another flash three inches from the first then on the top he cut the flashes into one and presently taking pincers tooke hold of the crosse cut tore him downe like a Girse below the middle letting it hang downe behind him like a belt after which he tooke his burning pincers pluck'd of the tops of his fingers of one hand then passing to another place of the Towne his other nipple was plucked off the other side of his backe so cut and mangled which they call by the name of rimming if it had beene riming I would neuer haue written but in prose his other fingers nip'd off then passing further all his toes were nip'd off with the burning pincers after which he was enforced to come out of the Cart and goe on foote vp a steepehill to the Gallowes where he was broken with a wheale aliue one bone after another beginning at his legs and ending with his necke and last of all quartered and layd on the wheele on a high post till Crowes Rauens or consuming time consume him This was the manner of both their executions but I speake of the greatest murtherer particularly because it is reported that all these torments neuer made him once to change countenance or to make any signe or action of griefe to call to God for mercy or to intreat the people to pray for him but as if be had beene a sencelesse stocke or stone hee did most scornafully and as it were in disdaine abide it whilst the other villaine did cry rore and make lamentation calling vpon God often the difference was not much in their liues and manner of their deaths but I am perswaded the odds was great in their dying The Citty of Prague is almost circular or round being diuided in the middle by the Riuer of Moldoue ouer which is a faire stone Bridge of 600. paces ouer and at each and a strong gate of stone there is said to be in it of Churches Chappels 150 for there are great numbers of Catholiques who haue many Chappels dedicated to sundry S t s and I was there at 4 senerall sorts of diuine exercises viz. at good Sermons with the Protestants at Masse with the Papists at a Lutherans preaching at the Iewes Synagog 3 of which I saw heard for curiosity the other for edification The Iewes in Prague are in such great numbers that they are thought to be of men women and children betwixt 50. or 60000. who doe all liue by brocage and vsury vpon the Christians and are very rich in mony and Iewels so that a man may see 10. or 12 together of them that are accounted worth 20.30 or 40000 l.a piece and yet the slaues goe so miserably attired that 15. of them are not worth the hanging for their whole ward-ropes The Castle where the King and Queene doe keepe their Court is magnificent and sumpruous in building strongly scituated and fortified â—â—â— by nature and art being founded on a high â—â—â— so that at pleasure it keepes the towne in command and it is much mere spacious in â—â—â—â—â— for receipt in Gardens Orchards then the Towre of London I was in it dayly the space of 20 dayes and saw it royally graced with the presence of a gracious King Queene who were honorably attended by a gallant Courtly traine of Lords and Ladies and Gentles of the High Dutch and Bohemians where was free bounâ—â—â—â—â— entertainment to strangers in aboundance I must euer humbly and thankfully acknowledge the Queenes Maiesties goodnesse towards me whole vndeserued fauours were helpfull vnto me both there and in my tedious iourny homeward Moreouer there I saw had in mine armes the King and Queenes youngest Son Prince Robert who was borne there on the 16 of December last a goodly child as euer I saw of that age whom with the rest I pray God to blesse to his glory and his Parents joy and comfort There for a token I did thinke it meet To take the shooes from off this Prince his feet I doe not say I stole but
so himselfe himselfe doth ouerthrow The Philistines his childrens bloud did spill And with his Sword King Saul King Saul did kill 2. Samuel King Deuids royall heart is fild with woe For Ionathan and Saul his friend and foe In Regall state he liues and flourisheth And loues Sauls Grandchild lame Mephibosheth Affection blinds him on Vriahs wife T' accomplish which her husband lost his life The King 's reprou'd by Nathan and repents And by repenting heau'ns high wrach preuents Incestuous Amnon Absâ—lon doth kill For forcing Tamar gainst her Virgin will He 's reconcil'd vnto his louing Sire And proudly to the Kingdome doth aspire The old King flees and ouer Iordane hies The Sonne pursuing and the Father flyes Achitophel himselfe hangs in dispaire And Absolon dyes hanged by the haire The King for his rebellious Sonne doth mourne His people numbred are at his returne The Lord is wrath the pestilence increast That seuenty thousand dye and then it ceast 1. Kings The Kingly Prophet valiant Dauid dyes His Throne is left to Salomon the wise False Adoniah Ioab Shimei kild By his command as erst his Father wild With speed he sends for workmen from farte Coasts To build a Temple to the Lord of Hosts Before or after him was neuer such That had of wisedome or of wealth so much A thousand women some wed some vnwed This wise King to Idolatry misled He dyes and 's buried by his fathers toome And Rehoboam doth succeed his roome Now Israel from Iudah is diuided Both Kingdomes by bad Kings are badly guided Yet God to Iacobs seed doth promise keepe And raises faithfull Pastors for his sheepe 2. Kings Eliah worketh wonders with his word By inspiration of the liuing Lord He 's taken vp aliue and his blest Spirit Doth doubly in Elishaâ—s breast inherit Some Kings doe gouerne well most gouerne ill And what the good reformes the bad doth spill Till Isr'el Iudah King and Kingdome 's lost To great Nebuâ—hadnâ—zzar and his host 1. Chronicles Here euery Tribe is numbred to their names To their memorials and immortall fames And Dauids acts t' instruct misguided men Are briefly here recorded all agen 2. Chronicles The state of Israel Iâ—dah and their Kings This Booke againe againe Recordance brings Their plagues of plague of â—â—mineâ—â—lâ—uery sword For their contemâ—ing heau'ns All sauing word Mâ—â—â—ssâ—â—â— Praâ—er Mâ—â—â—ssâ—â— almost drown'd in black despaire Gaines mercy by repentance and by prayer Ezrs. The Persian Monarch Câ—â—â—â— granteth haue The Iewes once more their freedomâ— should receiue When at Ierusâ—lâ—m they make abâ—d They all with zeale â—â—â—â—â— the house of God Malicious men with poysnous â—â—â—â—â— fild Makes Artaâ—â—â— â—irdeâ— tho'e that build Yet God so workes that Israels is loâ—e and zâ—ale Resâ—mes againe their ancient Church and weale Nehemiah The booke of Ezra doth concord with this Commanding good forbidding what 's amisse And godly Nehemiah â—â—â—â—â— reform'd What sinne and Sathan had long time deform'd Esther Here he that dwels in heauen doth deride Queene Vshy's and ambitious Hamans pride The Iewes are sau'd by Esters suite from death And Haman and his Sons hang'd loose their breath Poore Mordecay is held in high account And to great greatnesse humbly he doth mount Thus God doth raise all those his Lawes doe seeke He layes the lofty low exâ—lâ—s the meeke Iob. No lusse of Sonnes and Daughters goods and all Make not this man into impatience fall Assailing Sathan tempring wife false friends With perfect patience he â—ll woeâ—â— defends I â—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— quoth he into this world And â—â—â—â—d herâ—â—â—â—â—â— I shall be hurâ—d God giues and takes according to his word And blessed euer bee the liuing Lord. Psâ—lmes The blessed Kingly Prophet sweetly sings â—â—â—nall praises to the King of Kings Gods Power Iustice Mercy Fauour looke For they are comprehended in this Booke Prouerbs The wisest man that euer man begot In heauenly Prouerbs shewes what 's good what 's not Ecclessiastes Health strength wit valour wordly wisdome pelfe All 's nought and worse then vanity it selfe Salomons song This Song may well be call'd the Song of Songs It to the heauenly Bride and Groome belongs It truely shewes Christs loue vnto his loue His Church his Wife his Virgin Spouse his Doue Isaâ—ah This worthy Prophet truely doth foretell How Christ shall come to conquer death and hell Rewards vnto the godly he repeats And to the godlesse he denounceth threats Ieremy This Man of God long time before foreshoes Ierusalems Captiuity and woes Lamentations He wishes here his head a fountaine deepe That he might weepe weepe nothing else but weep That he might gush forth flowing streames fo teares For Iuaah's thraldome misery and feares Ezeâ—hiel In Babylon this Prophet Captiue is And there he prophesies of bale and blisse How all must come to passe the Lord hath said How Iudgement surely comes although dalayed Daniel The Kings darke dreame the Prophet doth expound For which he 's highly honour'd and renown'd Nabuchadnezzar doth an Image frame Commands all paine of death t' adore the same Three godly Iewes by no meanes will fall downe And for contempt are in the fornace throwne Where midst the flames vnhurt they sweetly sing Which wonder doth conuert the tyrant King Here Daniel Prophesies of Christ to come Of Babel Persia Graâ—ia and Rome Hosea He tels misgouern'd Israel their sinnes And how the losse of grace destruction winnes Ioel. This Prophet tels the stubborne hearted Iewes How heau'ns consuming wrath apace ensues He therefore doth perswade them to contrition And by contrition they shall haue remission Amos. Mans thanklesse heart and Gods vnmeasur'd loue This Prophet doth to Isr'els faces proue Obadiah He comforts Pudah ouer-prest with woes And prophesies destruction of their foes Ionah Here Ionah tels the Niniâ—itrs except Repentance wrath of Heauen doe intercept In forty dayes high low rich poore great small The Lords hot fury shall consume them all With hearts vnâ—aign'd the sinfull Citie mournes The Lord grants mercy Ionah backe returnes Micah He speakes of Isr'els and of Iuda's crimes And tels them their confusion comes betimes Nahâ—m The Niniâ—ites againe forsake the Lord And are subdu'd by the Assirian sword This Prophet comforts those that are opprest And tels the godly they shall be releast Habakkuk He doth be waile th' oppression of the poore For mercy humbly he doth God implore To keepe the Captiu'd Iewes from fell despaire He teâ—ches them a heauenly forme of Prayer Zephaniaâ— He fils the good with hope the bad with â—eare And tels the Iewes their thraldome draweth neere Haggay He exhorteth them to patience in their paine And bids them build the Temple once againe Zachariah He tels the Iewes why they haue plagued beene He bids them shunne Idolatry and sinne Malachi For sinne he doth reproâ—e both Peince and Priest And shewes the comming both of Iohn and Christ. Which Christ shall be a Sauiour vnto all That with true faith obey his heauoâ—ly call Apâ—â—ryphâ— These bookes doe all in generall intimate The State
Rowland Yorke and Sir William Stanley turned Trayâ—â—rs September 13. 11. An English Gentleman * This Stafford was a Gentleman well descended his Mother was of the Bed chamber to the Queene and his Brother Leiger Ambassador in France at the same time William Stafford nam'd Was by the French Ambassador perswaded That if hee 'd kill the Queene he should be fam'd For by her death might England be inuaded Besides for it the Pope would thankfull be And all the house of Guise should be his friends But Stafford to their plots feemet ' agree Yet told the councell on his knees their ends These things vnto th' Ambassador were told And Stafford did auouch them to his face Which he deny'd audaciously and bold Much ill beseeâ—â—ing his estate and place Thus what foâ—euer gainâ—t our Church was wrought God still did bring their purposes to nought year 1587 12. This yeare Spaine with a mighty preparation With tweluescore Vessels loadeth Neptunes backe With thirty thousand men attempts inuafion Of Englandâ— Kingdome and Elizâ—â—s wracke Then many a bragging desperate doughty Don Proud of the strength of that great huge * The Spanish fleeâ— were in all of Ships Gallâ—ons Gallies and Pinaces 242. of Souldiers Mariners and Galley â—â—â—â—â— 31030. of great Ordnance 2630. Our Fleet were in all but 112. the Campe as Tiâ—bury were 22000 foot and 12000. horse Armadâ— Went barely off though they came brauely on The power of Heauen opposing their branado Our numbers vnto theirs inferiour â—arre Yet were they tane sunke slaine bang'd thump'd batter'd Because the Lord of Hosts the God of Warre He was our trust and ayde our â—oes he scater'd His name is oner all the world most glorious And through his power his Church is still victorious year 1588 13. Lopez a Doctor by descent a â—ew A Portâ—â—gaâ— by birth the Queenes physitiâ—n Forgetting duty to his Soueraigne due Would poyson her to further Spaines ambition The Spaniards and the Doctor are compacting How this sweet piece of seruice might be done They promise gold and he doth vow the acting A bargaine wisely made is partly wonne But this base Iew is taken in the trap The Queene preâ—erâ—'d the Spaniards cake is dough The Doctor wrong'd his breeches by mishap And hanging his reward was good enough Still treasons working though its lucke be ill Gods gracious power his Church defending still year 1589 The Queene had beene gracious and beautifull to this same Lopez many wayes and hee was accounted a man of good integrity till hee was corrupted by the Pope and Spaniard At his Araignment feare made him wrong his â—â—â—ches he was hanged at Tyâ—â—rns 14. Tyrone supported by the Pope and Spaine Had put our English Kingdome to much cost Perceiuing all his treasons were in vaine His dangers desperate fruitlesse labour lost Although his Holinesse from Rome had sent A plume of Phoenix feathers for a blessing Which bable from Tyrone could not preuent Rewards of Iustcie for his long transgressing To the Lord Deputy be doth suâ—mit Craues the kings mercy and obtained the same Yet afterward he did his faith forget And new rebeilions did in Ireland frame At last with guilty minde away he flyes Thus God confounds his Churches enemies year 1587 Tyrone an Irish Earle a man of great power and Policie a most peruitions and dangerous trayter 1604. bee came into England and was most graciously pardoned by the King yet afterward would haue leâ— all Ireland rebellion but faâ—ling of his purpose fled to Rome 15. Mongst all these dangers Queene Elizabeth Preserued still and reigned â—oyally Defended all her life from violent death And seauenty yeares of age dy'd naturally To her succeeded as his propâ—r right King Iames Great Britaines blessed Salomon When straight began new tricks of Romish spight For Church and King and Laâ—ds subuersion Watson * They would haue altered Religion brought in Forraigne power imprisoned the King and raised Arbella Watson Clarke Master George Brooke executed Clarke two Priests two Popish brothers Seduc'd Lords Cobham Gray two Noblemen Sir Walter Rawleigh Markham Brooke and others To take the King and him in pâ—fon pen. The plot 's found Iustice would th'â—â—â— ndors kill But the Kings mercy sau'd what L. w might â—pill year 1603 The Kings mercy saued the Lord Cobham Lord Gray Sir Walter Rawleigh Sir Griffith Markeham at the Blocke as the stroake was readis to bee giuen 16. Now treason plotted in th' infernall Den Hâ—ls mischiefe master peece began to worke Assisted by vnnaturall Englishâ—â—â— And lesâ—ites that within this Land did lurke These would Saint Peter-to Salt peâ—â—er turne And make our Kingdome caper in the ayre At one blast Prince and Peeres and commons burn And fill the Land with murder and dispaire No treasonere might be compar'd to this Such an escape the Church had nere before The glory's Gods the victory is his Not vnto vs to him be praise therefore Our Church is his her foes may vnderstand That he defends her with his mighty hand year 1605 Percy and Catesby would needs be heads of this treason and their heads are aduanced for it on the Parliament house they were killed with powder being both shot and burnt and powder was the mainâ— Instrument of their hopes All the Traytâ—rs falling into the ' Pit which they had prepared for vs. Not any of all these treasons but eyther the Popâ— the Spanish King Priests or Iesuites had a hand in it 17. The dangers of a long and tedious way The perils of the raging Sea and Land The change of ayre and dyet many a day And Romes temptations which thou did withstand And after all thy safe returne againe Amongst those blessings make vp much more blest In mind and body â—â—â—â— from Rome and Spaine For which our â—â—â—â— to heauen is â—â—â—â—â—â—â— prest Long mayst 〈…〉 Gracious instrument To propagaâ—e his Gospell and his glory All Antichistian foes to 〈…〉 And with thy aâ—â—s to fill a royall story That 〈…〉 truly may â—â—â—â—â— These Deeds were done by Britaines CHALES the Great year 1623 Great â—â—â—â— the interprize and hazard of our gracieus Pride â— but greatâ—â—â— was Gods iâ—guiding and guarding him backe againe to all Ioy and Comforts 18 And last of all with Heart and â—â—nds erected Thy Church doth magnifie thy name Oâ—Lâ—â—â—â— Thy prouidâ—â—ce p 〈…〉 thy power protected Thy planted â—â—â— according to thy Word My God what shall I rende â—â—â—â—â—â—â— For all thy guise â—â—â—â— doâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—â— Loue and vnfained Thankeâ—â—â—â—â—â— shall be Ascribed for thy Mercies â—â—â—â—â—yes To thee my Priest my Prophet and my King My Loue my Counsellor and Comforter To thee alone I onely praised sing For onely thou art myâ— Deliuerer All Honour Glory Power and Praise therefore Ascribed be to thee for euermore The Churches Thankesgiuing to God for all his Mercies and her Deliuerances The Church of Christ doth acknowledge no other Intercessor Desenrer Maintinrer and Deliuerer but onely Christ himselfe FINIS
and tempestuous stormes at Sea which I haue recited in verse before it pleased God that at the last we entred the Riuer which in my opinion is as good â—â—â— Riuer and with some charge may bee made as passable as the Riuer of Thames is vpwards from Brentford to VVindsor or beyond it the shallow places in it are not many the Mills â—need not be remoued and as for the Weares â—no doubt but they may with conscience bee compounded for By which meanes of Naâ—uigation the whole City and Country would be relieued loyterers turned into labourers penury into plenty to the glory of God the dignity and reputation of your City and the perpetuall worthy memory of all benefactors and well-willers vnto so noble a worke If you will but examine your owne knowledges you shall find that in the whole dominion of England there is not any one Town or City which hath a Nauigable Riuer at it that is poore nor scarce any that are rich which want a Riuer with the benefits of Boats The Towne of Kingston vpon Hull in Yorkshire the Riuer there was cut out of Humber by mens labours 20. miles vp into the Countrey and what the wealth and estate of that Towne is by the onely benefit of that Riuer it is not vnknowne to thousands but you men of Sarum may see what a commodity Nauigation is neerer hand there is your neighbour Sauthampton on the one side and your deere friend Poole on the other are a paire of hansome looking-Glasses for you where you may see your want in their abundance and your negligence in their industry God hath placed your being in a fertile soyle in a fruitfull valley enuironed round with Corâ—le and as it were continually beâ—â—â—eged with plenty whilst you within haâ—â—ing so many poore amongst you are rather lookers vpon happinesse then enioyers moreouer by Gods appointment Nature hath saued you the labour of cutting a Riuer for I thinke you haue one there as old as your City ready made to your hands if you will be but industrious to amend those impediments in it I dare vndertake to be one of the 3. or 4. men which shall bring or carry 16. or 20. Tuns of goods betwixt the Sea and your City Now with extreme toyle of men Horses and Carts your wood is brought to you 18. or 20. miles whereby the poore which cannot reach the high prices of your fewell are enforced to steale or starue in the Winter so that all your neere adioyning woods are continually spoyled by them which faults by the benefit of the Riuer would be reformed for the new Forrest standeth so neere to the water that it is but cut the wood and put it into a Boate which shall bring as much to your City as twenty Carts and fourescore Horses besides by this Riuer you might draw to you a trade of Sea-coale which would enrich you and helpe the plaine and inland Townes and Villages where no wood growes And for the Exportation of your Corne from Port to Port within our owne Countrey as it is well knowne what abundance of your Barley is continually made into Mault amongst you which if you had carriage for it might bee brewed into Beere wherewith you might serue diuers places with your Beere which is now serued with your Mault besides carriages of Brickes Tyles Stones Charcoales and other necessaries which is now carried at deare rates by Horse or Carts which now you send in Carts or on Horses backes to Southampton to Bristow and to many other places so that the dearenesse of the Carriages eats vp all your commodities and profit which discommodity may be auoyded if your Riuer bee cleansed and what man can tell what good in time may redound to your City from the Sea by forraigne goods which may bee brought into Christ-Church Hauen by Shipping nor can it be truly imagined what new and vsefull profitable businesses may arise in time by this meanes Our Forefathers and Ancestors did in their liues time in former ages doe many worthy and memorable workes but for all their industry and cost they did not or could not doe all but as there was much done to our hands so there was much left for vs to doe and very sitting it was that it should bee so for it is against common sence and reason our Fathers should toyle in good workes like drudges and wee spend our times loytring like Drones no what they did was for our imitation And withall that wee should bee leaders of our posterities by our examples into laudable endeauours as our progenitors haue before shewed vs wee are their sonnes and off-spring wee haue their shapes and figures we beare their names we possesse their goods we inherit their lands wee haue materials of Stones Timber Iron and such necessaries which they had if not in greater abundance and hauing all these let vs withall haue their willing and liberall hearts and there is no question to be made but that our Riuer of Auâ—n wil quickly be clensed to the honest enriching of the rich and the charitable relieuing of the poore I am assured that there are many good men in the City and County of Wiltshire and others of worth and good respect in this Kingdome who would willingly and bountifully assist this good worke but like Gossips neere a Stile they stand straining courtesie who shall goe first or the Mice in the Fable not one will aduenture to hang the Bell about the Cats necke So that if one good man would begin it would bee like a health dranke to some beloued Prince at a great feast pledged most heartily and by Gods grace effected most happily You haue already begun a charitable work amongst you I meane your common Towne Brew house the profit of which you entend shall be wholly imployed for the supply of the poore and Impotents which liue in your City from which sort of people being such a multitude the Brewers there haue found their best custome for no doubt but the meanest begger amongst you is in some sort more valiant then the richest man because the one dares to spend all he hath at the Alchouse so dares not the other for the poore man drinks stifly to driue care away and hath nothing to lose and the rich man drinks moderately because he must beare a braine to look to what hee hath And of all Trades in the world a Brewer is the Load-stone which drawes the customes of all functions vnto â—â—â— It is the mark or vpshot of euery mans ayme and the bottomlesse whirlepoole that swallowes vp the profits of rich and poore The Brewers Art like a wilde Kestrell or vnmand Hawke flies at all games or like a But leâ—â— boxe at Christmasse it is sure to winne whosoeuer loses In a word it rules and raignes in some sort as Augustus Casar did for â—â— taxeth the whole earth Your Innes and Aâ—â—-houses are Brookes and Riuers and their Clyents are small Rills and Springs who