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A47616
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The Scots scovts discoveries by their London intelligencer, and presented to the Lords of the covenant of Scotland, 1639.
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1642
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Wing L10; ESTC R16797
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Vox Regis For their Base Vox Clerici for their Discords Vox consilij for their Treble Vox populi for their Counter Uox pauperis for their Meane Vox pueri for their Consort Vox Cali for their comfort Vox Dei The voice of this Musicke hath beene heard throughout all England and is like to grow lowder unlesse some course be taken to stop it That there are a kind of Beadles runs up and downe about the towne yelping out your destruction crying Oh the valour of the Welsh-men which are gone to kill the Scots well looke you have Leeks and causbobby and give them good words and call them bold Britains and then you may doe with them what you will That Halter and Ballad-makers are two principall trades of late Ballads being sold by whole hundreds in the Citie and Halters sent by whole barrels full to Barwicke to hang up the Rebels with as soone as they can catch them That old Iohnson the Poet being dead great moane is made for one of that quality to write the Bishops wars yet two have petitioned for the place and each of them have something for tryall which because you may see their straine I thought fit to insert as followeth 1. POET The Doughty Dane the force of Spaine Morocco rude and rout The Irish wild the English mild And Welsh men bold and stout Are taking Armes and vowes great harmes To Scotland they will bring For Bishops right they meane to fight To please their Royall King 2. POET The English-men both bold and strong The Irish stout and hardy The valiant Welsh-men will be first To take the Scots men tardy Our ships by sea our men by land Will pull their courage downe And make men know King Charles will keepe The Myter next the Crowne The tryall of these verses were put to two Iohns poetically affected who allowed of the Latter for two reasons First because the former makes them fight for Nations to one which is too much odds where the other mentions onely three being somewhat unequall too Secondly because the former forgets the Kings ships whereupon depends the hopes of the successe and honour of the Kingdome which the latter observing he shall therefore write the history but hee must not begin untill hee heare the successe of the first Battell which if it proves unfortunate then it spoyles a Poet That the newes at London is so uncertaine that no man believes it sometimes we heare of Peace and then the Papists storme and fret saying the King is too mercifull For my Lord Howard not the chiefe of the Howards hath three sonnes all Colonels newly come over from the Cardinals Campe who threaten if the King will give them leave they will pluck the Scots out of their trenches by the eares but when newes come they must fight and that wee shall have blowes for blowes then they tell us that the Kings forces are two weak for the Covenanters but as soone as the Irish will come over Dunluce and his Dimilances will drive them all into the Mountaines That such newes as this comes out by owlelight in little Bookes or Ballads to be sold in the streets And I feare it s held a prime peece of policy of state For otherwise how could so many false Ballads and Bookes be tollerated yet the next morning Sunne exhales all their vaine Evening vapours As that newes of taking Lesley Prisoner killing of Colonell Crayford and imprysoning most of the Nobility but I never beleeved it because if it had beene true Ballads would have beene sung by day light Bookes printed Bonefires made and a solemne Procession with a Te Deum at least had not beene wanting at Lambeth That I went one day to the Star-chamber to see what Lords where left at home where I heard Colonell Crosby and others fined for reporting that the Lord Deputy of Ireland going to Knight a poore man Sir Knave with a Cane hee hit him so hard as hee kill'd him when in truth hee died not untill three dayes following At which sentence little Laud made a Sermon of an houre long telling them how the Deputy had cozened the Scots in Ireland of all their armes and was providing men to weare them into Scotland against their owne Countrey-men And that it was a fortune that followeth all men in high places and authority to bee evill spoken off But it was not so of old for then the man whom the King did honour should ride in his Chariot bee apparelled with the Kings Roabes and esteemed the second person in the Kingdome but now if the people might have their wils quoth hee those whom the King honoureth should have Hamans reward with this hee concluded keeping the application to himselfe whereupon I went out and wrote these Verses following and left them in the window Now wicked Will doth raigne as King And Finch sing sweet by Windybanks The Priests placebo still doe sing But the Scots if crost will play mad prancks The next day I tooke my journey homewards and left one to take notice of passages in my absence And a first night I lay at Ware where my host shewed mee the great bed and told mee that 24. Captaines lay altogether in it and named it the bed of honour If said I honour could bee goe with lying in fether-beds few would bee without it But sure said I they will lye both worse and further asunder before they returne home againe When I came at Yorke I heard the King was bravely entertained there and that the Recorder had so tickled his eares with flattery and fables that both hee and the Major were knighted well thought I this makes good the old Proverbe Some may better steale a goose then others stick downe a feather For if the Scots had done so they had beene called fawning fellowes by open Proclamation When I came to Durham all the Drummers were drunke for the Bishop had bestowed good store of wine upon them to forbeare beating because the noise of the Drummes should not drowne the sound of the Organs I needed no guide to Newcastle for whole troopes of souldiers lay lame by the way This Towne is now called little London albeit it hardly deserve the name of Coale-Castle I went round their Towne to see the workes and thought to have seene a Castle in it but mine host told mee that the Scots had long agoe laid the Castle levell with the ground and least they should doe the like with the Towne the King had sent a garison to defend it When I came first to the Campe I was examined what I was I told them I was Chaplaine to the Lord High Crown'd Howard and was come on a message to his chiefe Upon this I had a faire pasport but never came neere him The first newes I heard there was that the Marquesse was sent to find out the floting Islands and that hee had beene round about England and most part of Scotland but could not find them
such an out-cry with Merchants concerning their new Impositions As it made the old Farmers 〈◊〉 for a court Lord and a citie Captaine to assist them who came ruffling into their offices with such violence as for feare of Goring it made al the Virginian Merchants to run away and leave their Plantations For Tobacco was growne so cheape as the Kings customes came to more then the Merchants had for it For it was taken by a worse name and sold by the measure of Iacobs staffe whereupon when the old Pinder saw such shavers come to share in his office he gave over and left the Dawes to shift among the Rooks which the common people seeing they prayed that their Court Customer might dye drunke in his new Impositions of Wines and the Crispe Citie Captaine might break as fast as doth his glasse beads Whilst I stayed at Custome-house I heard a muttering of a red Deere Pye full of gold going to the Nuns of Nancy from the holy sisters in England under colour of a peece of Venison sent to the Prince of Peymont from Catholico Mariano But they said a wilie Wayter had put his finger further into the Pye then was fitting and after it was discovered it was husht up no man can tell how Likewise I heard that the Cardinall of Cordel◠being cast away in crossing of a River his hat came floating up to the custome House where it was taken up for a miraculous monument and carried to the Lord Treasurer for a wreck who hath order to keepe it untill some fitting person bee found to weare it This accident makes good the old Proverbe Quot homines tot sententia for some sayes our countrey man Con the Popes Legate must have it others say Sir Tobit Mathewes doth better deserve it some say that as soone as the King hath established Bishops againe in Scotland St. Andrew shall have it instead of a blew Bonnet and others say Canterbury must be served before him But some say it s kept untill St. Paul have a new coat and then hee must have it for his hat or else when Pauls is quite built it must be carried round about it procession and then left on the high altar for a religious Relique That all Lent long His Majesties Chaplaines instead of Fasting preached fighting and instead of Peace preached punishing of Rebels amongst whom wilie Warner of Rochester having got a Bishopricke for making one Sermon hee gave the King an other gratis wherein he so rayled at the Rebels as his Patron hath promised a better Bishopricke when it fals That such time-serving Clergie men as have not the gift of Preaching seeke preferment by rayling as one Harison who lookes for a Deanery at least for calling Judge Hutton Traytor when hee sate on the seat of Iustice for speaking his conscience for the subject against Prerogative That the case of ship-monie was fully argued first by foure Councellors and afterwards by the twelve Iudges whereof the Gold-finch Vernon and five punies past for the King and five Seniors whereof two were capitall stood for the countrey but what can withstand fortune for most voices mis-carried it Neverthelesse the Lord Say would faine have had another assay at the matter but could not be heard That about Mid-lent the names of all strangers as well French and Dutch as Scots were collected in and about London and sent to the King viz. 60000. French 40000. Dutch and 900. Scots but if Priests Friers Iesuits and the rest of the Romish Rabbies had beene also collected they would have exceeded the number of the Scots and if the Papists and Protestants of the French and Dutch had beene likewise collected the number of the Protestants had stood but for a cipher to the other The voice went that all the Protestant strangers should have beene sent into New England if the King could have spared shipping and the others should have made a catholicke Army to have gone against the Scots But now the Scots taking their new oath to fight against their consciences and countrey and the rest paying in their money without grumbling they may all stay in Old England if they please That albeit with the pilling and polling of the Commonalty England is fallen into a very dangerous disease which growes every day worse and and worse in so much as one Sunday at one Master Shutes Parish Church a Bill was delivered that Iohn Common-wealth of England being sick of the Scots disease desires the prayers of the Congregation for calling a Parliament the great Physician of the Kingdome to cure their infinit infirmities That all men must contribute to this holy and zealous expedition whereupon the Citie of London having made a collection of at least 6000. l. presented it to the King who thankt them for their loves but would not receive it because some say it was too little others say that he will come home by them and then they must present him with a golden Calfe and a greater gift for a peace offring But in the meane time its said that Yorke must bee made the Royall Citie of the Kingdome but when no man knowes yet the Merchants care not if both Court and Towne bee carried thither so long as they cannot carry Thames with them also For if their wives loved Courtiers no better then they doe their roomes were farre better then their company That the King being resolved upon his Iourney wrote his Letters to all Noble-men in the Kingdome to attend his Royall Standard at Yorke The first day of Aprill with fitting men and furniture according to their birth and qualities degree and honour where by the Papists report his Majesty will be with 100000. English 20000. Welsh 20000. Irish 20000. chosen Catholikes all in compleate armour and that the King of Spaine would send him 20000. of his old souldiers if he had no use for them himselfe The King of Denmarke would send him 20000. of his Drunkards if he could spare them The King of Morocco would send him twenty tun of Barbary Gold if Argier and Tunnis stood not in his way and the Pope would send his Benediction if he thought it would doe him any good That the King was by the Prelates so exasperated and made so eager on the busines as he tooke his Iourney on his Coronation day which some think unfortunate But the Papists Proverbe prevailed The better day the better deed At this departure hee had Canterburies blessing and a book of Remembrances what is fit to be done to such a rebellious people That all things are much altered since the Kings departure from London White-hall is become an Amazonian Castle St. Iames an Hospitall for strangers Somerset-House a Catholicke Colledge Westminster a receptacle for Seminary Priests and Iesutis London is like a private friend in close mourning Coaches and Carts are halfe idle for want of imployment and great Horses Sedans and wherries fight for their imployment Porters are taken up for Gentlemen Vshers Clergy