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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64195	A preter-plvperfect spick and span new nocturnall, or Mercuries weekly night-newes wherein the publique faith is published and the banquet of Oxford mice described.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T498; ESTC R690	12,385	21

enough to keep both the Cow and the Calfe Thus can the Publique Faith taxe a reverend Clergie with corrupted Simonie and yet it selfe can make money of all things it can turne Obedience into Rebellion and Loyaltie into Treason it can molest a good King disturbe and ruinate Kingdomes and in conclusion to wear it selfe so thred-bare that all the Cloath-workers in England will never be able to set a new nap upon it Thus have I declared the almightie and omnipotent sway of the Publique Faith yet I have not related any things concerning particulars but onely touch'd at the generall Heads of the potencie power actions force and vertues of it the Day breakes and our Authour writes nothing but Nightworkes or Deeds of Darkenesse so Good morrow my Masters Friday Night THis Night lamentable Newes was brought that Prince Ruperts Troopes did most unmercifully plunder a poor old woman within foure miles of South-East Wickham the case was pitifull as it was related that the woman kept a blinde smoakie drie Alehouse neare the High-way and that two Tinkers had been there and dranke all her Ale the day before the Armie marched that way but the next day the Souldiers being on their march demanding drinke for their money the old woman told them that she had none left but the Souldiers being offended in a revenging manner entered her house and plundered it of all the water which she had provided to brew withall but took nothing at all from her besides but the poor distressed Ale-wife cried out and wrung her hands saying she was undone she was undone utterly undone at which instant the Prince comming by and hearing the deplorable noyse of the woman demanded what was the cause that made her crie out so extremely she answered that the Souldiers had been the breaking of her by depriving her of the benefit of two Trades at once videlicet a Brewer and an Ale-wife by drinking up all her water whereupon his Highnesse threw her an Angell and rode away laughing at her miserie some say that Boy the Dog of War wagged his taile merrily in a jeering manner at the womans calamitie and this was the most extraordinary outrage that the Prince or his Armie committed at that or any other time for the Malignants say it is no robberie to plunder Rebels But now be amazed astonished and possest with wonder and admiration and if ever we had cause to be beside our selves out of our wits or starke mad with joy now is the time there was this Night brought to light the most horrible terrible detestable cruell Plot that ever was contriv'd since the dayes of Achitophel the Sicilian Even-song comes short of it the Massacre of Paris comes not neare it the Spanish intended Invasion was a toy to it and the Powder Plot was but a blast or puffe in comparison of it but I hold my Reader too long before I come to the unpurposed purpose or marrow of the matter which was as followeth This Night our watchfull Centinels closely and carefully examined all that came neare them and if any were so sawcie as to say they were for God and the King there was a a strict Order for them for being dangerous persons to the State about nine of the clocke or two houres before or behinde a tall fellow disguised with a water tankard on his shoulder stopt with a clout as the manner is which he had filled at the Conduit as he said falsly for it was proved afterwards to be wilde-fire-water this audatious Herostratus knowing where a Souldier stood with his Musket which Souldier had a pound of Powder in a paper loose in his pocket which the Villain having notice of he suddenly stepped to him and plucked out the stopple of his Tankard whereat the water gushed forth with such violence that it fired the Powder and blew the Souldier from the Standard in Cheape over the houses into Milkestreet as farre as Saint What d'ye call hims Church where the learned Master Case teaches the wicked wretch was taken with his watery Engine and upon examination he confest that he and seventy nine more of his fellowes were hired by the Malignant partie to fire the Citie in eleven score and twelve places with this new-found stratagem of Water-tankards for the which Plot the Traitour was committed to Waltham house neare Bedlam and it is thought that publique Thankesgiving must be given for this great Deliverance This Night also there came Newes of two strange disasters which happened at Saint Albans the the one was of one Iohn Robotham Esquire whom the Malignants do call Justice Ignorance this worthy Squire to expresse his Loyaltie did oppresse all such as any way did love or honour the King for which purpose his Clerke and himselfe did drive a great Trade in buying and selling of Mittimusses Warrans Bindings over Withdrawings of Recognisance Commitments Releasings Fees Plunderings and gentle Rewards by which meanes he got a wicked deale of money this mightie bottomelesse Justice Robotham did for the service of His Majestie take away all the Armes and Amunition that any of His Majesties Friends had and with the same Armour and Armes so plundered he armed the Rebels and yet all that was done by him was done for the Kings service amongst the rest of the Armes he had an head-piece of his own which he took great pride in for it was light bright white and at the least Elder-gun proofe it was his great Grandfathers Morion a Murrein on 't at the siege of Southampton in Cumberland indeed there was a privie search made for it for the very house of office was examined but no finding could be found and because there were so many Wenches with childe in the Town Mistris Justice Master Justice Ignorant's Wife protested by her Halliday and Womanhood that she had rather have lost his Cod-piece than his Head-piece Also there was one Thomas Sadler who had formerly been a fractur'd Linnen-Draper retired to a Countrey conversation his Lawn transform'd into Land his Holand metamorphosed into Zeal-And himselfe quite devoured by invisible uncharitable Devotion to expresse the ardencie fervencie vehemencie and furiositie of his love to the observation of Church Orders upon a Fast-day he went into his Barne where he congregated his own people and some others there being a great Bucking-tub brought into the Barne the said Tub having two holes which a cole-staffe was to be put through upon occasion through which holes a rope was fastened and Master Sadler being in the Tub the rope was cast over a beame wherewith he commanded himselfe to be hoised up that he might make his preachment where after nine Psalmes and a stretch'd out five quarters prayer he began and proceeded with singular and single Doctrine to perswade his Audience to be loyall in Rebellion and obedient in opposing all Law and Order which Godlesse instructions the Assemblie did not onely give large eares unto but also edified beyond measure thereby at last he being suddenly inspired and transported with a fierie Enthumiasmicall rapture he began to denounce destruction and confusion against the Cavaliers and with his violent expressions and agilitie of action in stamping the word Damnation hard under his foot he thumped out the bottome of his hanging Pulpit whereby his foundation was as bottomlesse as Hell of his Doctrine and withall fell down in the threshing floor where he lay a good while in a tranuce some say he was bruised but the wisest of his Audience do believe that he was in private contemplation with the Spirit And thus upon the Fast-day was this admirable piece of faste and loose It was much disputed in the House what the true meaning of the word Malignant is that is so often repeated in Print and Pulpit one said it was derived from two Latine words Malè lignum an evill wood a crooked knottie sappie unserviceable timber good onely to make Gallouses FINIS Written at London by I. T. for those that will reade and are to be bought where they are to be sold

meat drinke apparell or any manner of necessaries whatsoever except the said parties shall have the gaining possessions of the said necessaries either by the meanes of credit ready money love or by the new made true and lawfull way of stealing and plundering Moreover the said Tuesday Night the Garrison at Wallingford being all Carosists Royalists and Cavaliers are in such distresse that Radishes and Onions are exceeding scarce and to their further griefe Oranges and Limmons are dearer to them than to us so that all manner of meates are like to be in good request amongst them their best and only sawces are stomacke pepper and salt Also this Night was brought from Brainsford to Queenhithe that the Malignant partie did oppose his Excellencie and that they would shew themselves the Benignant partie for the service of God their King Countrey and the Protestant Religion and that we the true Anabaptisticall Brownisticall and zealous Reformers shall be as opposite to the Truth as the Truth is to us which was Voted Also this Night there were papers found with some scriblings written by no bodie wherein our London new Bulworkes Rampires Trenches and Workes were abused with nick-names as they called our Fortifications but Twentyfications and our Bul-workes Cow-workes because the women made them but they said the men were onely for the Ram-peire It was also Voted that by reason of Feares and Jealousies that the Cavaliers would come and plunder the Citie in policie the people should be all plundered by the Parliament Forces so that if the Cavaliers do chance to come they shall finde nothing to take away for we have a purpose to consume all by this kinde of stratagem of robbing one another Wednesday Night THis Night there were Pamphlets scattered one of them was concerning Squares and Rounds the Authour of Square-dealing was one Homo Quadratus the other was Non Angulus Rotundus wherein some worthy Citizens of Oxford were both taxed and vindicated namely T. Gol. Iacke of all Trades W. G. a diligent zealous brother in warning and meeting at holy Conventicles with many others meritorious brethren and sisters who have forsaken Oxford and their King Religion and Alleageance who now suffer worthily for their holy Rebellion as the Book of Homo Quadratus doth most abusively and truly deliver and lay open Also there came from the Presse A New Learned Weake Description of Weekly Newes it was so acute that it did cut and curry the Cavaliers in such fearfull fashion that a deafe man would rejoyce to hear it this Volume of one sheet was called Mercurius Civicus the Authour never wrote before that time and died in his first Week of his Travels it is said by the Malignants that he was most unfortunately choaked with seventeen neat and palpable Lyes which he had carefully invented and incerted in the said Book for the credit of our Armie he is worse than dead for his reputation is buried with this Epitaph Here Mercurius Civicus lyes in his throat for we are resolved to believe any thing that makes for the advancing of our Cause and likewise we suppresse and politiquely give no credit to such Newes or Losses as do make against us in briefe we have lost a profitable Member by the death of this painfull Authour but hang him it is reported that he is alive again or the Devill in his likenesse however it is to be conjectured that he that was so nimble to abuse and tell the Malignant partieso roundly in one week no doubt but if he had lived longer he would have bang'd them backe and side beyond all beliefe and credit It it almost certain that Bruno Combertus the High and Mightie Emperour of Aethiopia and Quoba Cond●na Pheodorwich the puissant King of the large Territories of the invincible and invisible Utopia it is said that they are both in our Narrow Seas with a thousand shippes gallies sloopes and other Vessels for the War they have brought two thousand Tunnes of Gold Silver pretious stones and some Hangings they are come to aid us against the Rebels that obey the King they have brought five thousand Pieces of wooden Ordnance powder more than can be counted or to be spoken of and shot beyond reckoning with all other necessaries for War or Peace they were feasted bravely aboord our Admirall and they will be ready to give Battail at Brumingham as soon as ever the waters are high enough to bring the shippes thither Newes came this Night that the Authour of a seditious Pamphlet was taken at Lewis in Sussex It was a Book wherein was declared the goodnesse and happinesse of the King that beyond all example or record in 15 yeares Raigne had not any Nobleman Gentleman or any Subject that arose against him in any way of opposition or Rebellion so that the Sword of Justice had no occasion to be drawn to cut of Treason a blessing unparallel'd in this Kingdom or any other for so long time till now the Book said further that when Augustus Caesar raigned our Saviour was borne and that the Emperour was Monarch of all the discovered Kingdomes of the World and that Peace was then over the face of the whole Earth which whole Earth Augustus commanded to be taxed Luke 2.1 Shortly after there was raised a Rebellion in Spain by an Armie of Thieves under the command of one Crocotus a mad hare-brain'd desperate ambitious fellow This Crocotus with his crew troubled Caesar and committed many outrages upon peaceable people and to suppresse the Rebellion the Emperour caused Proclamations to be set forth that whosoever could vanquish the Rebels or take their Generall Crocotus and bring him alive or dead should have twenty five thousand Crownes for his service and pardon withall for any former faults committed as soon as Crocotus heard of this Proclamation he began to fear that some of his own Souldiers would cut his throat or surprise and deliver him to Caesar for so great a reward as was proclaimed upon which consideration he wisely disguised himselfe ran away from his Armie and fell at Caesars feet claiming the benefit of the Proclamation for he had brought Crocotus alive and so revealed himselfe and was received into grace and favour mending his manners contrary to all expectation The application of this storie was that it was desired that every offender would imitate Crocotus Thursday Night THis Night much Time was spent in drinke smoake and talke at the Signe of the Man in the Moon without Dowgate where after some halfe a score rouses every one began to talke of that which they had nothing to do withall amongst the rest one ignorant fellow was bold to aske what manner of thing the Publique Faith is and what the reason is that it is laid to pawn for Money every where but that which made him most wonder was wherefore any one man would be so mad as to adventure to lend any thing upon it except upon especiall good and lawfull grounded Reasons therefore he