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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35917	A Dialogue betwixt Sam. the ferriman of Dochet, Will. a waterman of London, and Tom. a bargeman of Oxford upon the Kings calling a parliament to meet at Oxford.		1681 (1681)	Wing D1353; ESTC R29722	21,830	32

by their Names but he that was the Rump's first General delivered it Sam. He thou art a Fool Will. he is dead at least thirty years since I remember I have seen him as if he had been alive in a Buff Coat amongst the Tombs at Westminster Will. Well I am sure he bears the same Name and probably it may be his Son for this man follows that man's Steps Then there was him that was General of the Horse to the Rump that I am sure is the very Man himself and another Lord that sate in the Rump House of Commons with a Blew Garter about him a thing was never done before Tom. That cannot be I remember that Lord my self he is dead I am confident Will. It may be then it was his Son there was besides another whose Father some say Beheaded the King but if he did not 't is certain he was in Disguise on the Scaffold And then he that set them on all this as it is talked is a little lame purblind Lord that has been a Man in all the Times ever since the first Rebellion and still turned time enough to save himself though others were Hanged for the same Fact He now sets them upon all the Mischiefs done and if he live to it will leave them in the Lurch Tom. That 's Old usual with him and yet he 's no better than those that stood it out to the last and deserved Hemp many a fair Year since Will. He 'll come to it yet for all his Cunning the Devil will cozen him at last All the rest were Covenanters or their Sons except one or two disguised Lords Tom. I hope his Majesty will remember what these men did with his Father and not be advised by any such Sam. Well when all this is said I am still of Opinion London is the fittest place in the Kingdom for a Parliament for there every Body finds their Conveniency His Majesty his House at Whitehall the Nobles their own Houses the Members convevenient Accommodation of Lodging and every Body their Ease Tom. I question whether too much Conveniency for Parliaments be not hurtful to Business For when they are less commodiously served they will mind their Business the better and make more haste with their Work that they may get so much sooner home Not but that I know they may have all Conveniencies at our Town and sufficient Accommodation for all the Followers of a Parliament that are requisite to attend it Will. The plain truth is there are now-a-days abundance of People do follow Parliaments over what there used to be in former Times as I have heard People say And this London has such New Buildings that it lodges them all conveniently if they were five times as many Tom. Thou art in the right of it Will. that there does more People follow the Parliaments a late time than formerly that is the Scoundrel Rabble of London who are ready and have been this Forty Years to back any Seditious Petition and to come down to Westminster and Whitehall like a Land-flood in our River that threatens all the Countrey These encouraged by Discontented Members when they cannot get the Lords to joyn in their malitious Acts threaten no less now than they did to his Majesty's Father God bless him And I think it no great loss if these Gentlemen be left at Home to mind their Trades at London Sam. But the Scholars of Oxford are thought by many will be as unmannerly as the Prentices in London Tom. I 'll tell thee Sam. if the Parliament will behave themselves as they ought to the King's Majesty and the Royal Line and offer no Injury to the Church Bishops Clergy University nor Scholars and give the King his reasonable Requests I 'll warrant thee the Scholars will be as civil as can be but by my Faith if they find either the Church or themselves touched upon it will be a hard matter to rule them They are like Seamen one and all Sam. Still I am for Old London thou knowest the King has borrowed many Hundred Thousand Pounds of the City and the East-India Company and never needed to want Moneys for a fair word to the City Tom. It 's very true but he always paid double Interest for what he had of them So that it was a greater Courtesie to the City to lend it than to the King to have the Loan But now that Business is over they will lend no more Money but upon Parliament-Security Had they continued to have been the same City they were in 1660 and some Years after I believ the King would never have removed the Parliament to Oxford but since they now are become that City they were in 1640. I think the King does wiser to remove the Parliament to Oxford that True Loyal City where every man loves the Name of the King and that shewed so much Fidelity to his Father Then let the Parliament and the Factious City of London send him to Oxford as they did his Father VVill. Then let us all go to Oxford and pray for the good Success of this Parliament A SECOND DISCOURSE BETWIXT Sam. The Ferryman of Dochet Will. The Waterman of London AND Tom. The Bargeman of Oxford Upon the Coming of the Two Last down the River from OXFORD Sam. HOW does all our Friends at the Court at Oxford 'T is strange Will. thou shouldst come again so soon Will. Thou knowest I told thee I mostly follow the Court and 'faith at this time he had been a cunning man that had gone before it his Majesty gave not so good warning of his Return to London as he did of his going to Oxford Sam. But what says Tom. now to his mad Parliament I hope he has no reason to complain of this Parliament Tom. But the Town of Oxford will have reason to complain while they live But the best op't is some Londoners will have Houses to set in Oxford at as good Rates as they took them Had his Majesty made a Cocking or a Hunting-Match at Oxford he had done it a better Turn than to have brought such Guests as these were Will. I heard some say they were so mad they were called from London that they resolved to do something at Oxford should make them be suddainly sent away again and so bilk the Town of their Expectation Sam. They say the Town much matter'd not the Court and the Mayor and the Aldermen of Oxford were as much against it as the Common Council is at London Tom. O that is because the University is so much for the King God Bless him and his Houshold For this is a certain Rule if the University be for the Court the Town will be for the Country as they call it Nay if the University be for Jesus Christ the Town holds themselves obliged in Conscience to be for the Devil Sam. But still Tom. this does not answer what thou said'st of this Parliament which thou would'st a warrant would do