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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95416	The Two city iuglers Tichborn, and Ireton: Being a dialogue: wherein, their rebellions, treacheries, treasons, and cheats, are fully discovered and brought to light: vvith some particular demonstrations of adhering to the Rump, and Committee of Safty [sic], to the ruine as they intended both of monarchy, city and country.		1660 (1660)	Wing T3430; Thomason E1851_2; ESTC R209803	4,848	16

The two City IUGLERS Tichborn and Ireton Being A DIALOGUE WHEREIN Their Rebellions Treacheries Treasons and Cheats are fully discovered and brought to light VVith some particular Demonstrations of adhering to the Rump and Committee of Safty to the Ruine as they intended both of Monarchy City and Country Printed for T. Vere with out Newgate 1660 The two City IUGLERS Ireton WEll met Brother where have you bestow'd your selfe since the sad and unhappy Dissolution of the RUMP wherein wée rul'd like Lords of the Sopls and knew no power in competition with our own Tichborn I rambled up and down and ever since thought the most private hole my best security and like that foule Bird the Owle did most of all converse and stir abroad in the darke I. I wonder that wée two whose soules did so much simpathize in contriving and acting of mischiefe could indure such a long divorce of our bodies and society T. I often wisht your company according to the old proverb Birds of a Feather will flock together and being here so happily met I think now wee shall not part untill the gallows part us for shame wil never doe it that wee have swallowed down and drank after it I. Since for our deservings and I th●nk if Iustice be not blind and partiall very few can lay a more deserving claime for their merit in this place then our selves wée are thought worthy to be taken notice of let us solace our selues with a mouthfull of fresh ayre and seasonable disconrse T. Brother lead the way I. By no means you are the elder sSir T. I did alwayes think you more deserving then my selfe and therefore grant you the precedency I. I think 't is no great matter who leads the dance now for certainly wée must both sing the same song and all our mirth will end in Lacryma T. I will rather be unmannerly then tedious and when I goe before I doubt not but you will soon follow and not be long after I. But to begin with our discourse what think you of us now the world is furned and wée turned out of doores T. Nay wee are not turned out but into the doores so fast that I fear there will be no Redemption with out a Habeas Corpus which will convey us to the place of Judgement and from thence to the place of Execution I. It was a most unlucky houre when the Rump was first dissolved and the Committée of villany erected in its place T. Tush had either stood you and I had bin secure for wee had got the trick to play on both sides and what then need wee have cared which part had taken place I But because neither did take place I am now confin'd to such a place from which I would give my estate to be safe delivered but that will not serve turn but I must now arm my self with the patience of Job and with him say Naked I came into the world and naked I must return again for I am much afraid a Pecuniary Mulct w●ll not serre the turn T. No certainly for there is a Law called Lex Tallionis which doth command an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth now if this Law be mad● our Judge then I know what ought and must become of us for certainly wee have not only bin guilty of the undoing of many a family but have bin joyfull instruments in taking away of many lives I. I adhered to the Committée of Treachery not with a respect unto the Nation or City but hoping that by that power I might continue safe and escape the deserved vengeance which the injuries of the people did tel must necessarily fail upon me if I were not secured and protected by that Vsurpt Authority T. You thought alike of Church and State serv'd either to serve your own turne and that being secur'd serv'd neither I. I saw the Church and State tottering which caused me to stick to the strongest side that so I might secure one T. When the Rump was establisht I was a Rumper and when the Committee of Safty was erect d. I thought good there to secure my selfe under their wings I But who would have thought that while these two doggs were striving for the Bone a third party should have stept in and got the purchase from them both T. It was but just that wee that had so long liv'd upon the spoyle should now at length be spoyled our selves I. Wée plaid the game at Chesse but with very bad successe for whilst wee encouraged the Rooks and Pawnes to take the King we were by them taken at length T. My Indulgency to Herisies and Factions which was the false foundation of our tottering building could not continue but must needs molter and fall down I. You made the first breach in the building when you altred the City Rights and Priviledges and submitted to Olivers Tyrannicall power T. Which was seconded by you when you were Lord Mayor when you introduced the stubborn power of the Souldiers to awe and countermand their Liberties and imagined that Huson with his Aule and Coblers ends might at any time stich up such breaches I. I did imitate you but as my example T. Which we both performed with so much resolution and confidence as if it had beene impossible that wee should ever have seene a turn again but now the turn will cause us to have a turn where wee must turn over the Ladder I. Where two wry faces and a Spanish shrugge will finish the worke and then wee shall sufficiently be rewarded for our pains T. But before wee goe to the worke it is usuall and will be conuenient for publique satisfaction that wee make some confession of our lives and actions I. T will not be amisse but you being the elder shall have the precedency T. Let it be so and I doe remember that in my Mayrolty by my continuall complyance with old NOL the Proj ctor that he esteemed of me as one of his most able Instruments I. What did you act then T. Knowing that he had no great esteem of the Church after he had made Pauls a Den of Theeves and a Stable for his Rebellious Iades I brought the Market out of Cheapsideinto Pauls Church-yard where they now buy and fell as they in Jerusalem did in the antient time I. You did not well in defacing the place of Gods worship T. By that means I gain'd resp●ct with Oliver the grand Imposter of all the world was Sainted in his K●llender of Rebellion honour enough for such a poor sneak as I was I. But what did you gain by removing the Market T My gain in that particular was not much only I did shew my dislike of the Churches power and the government thereof but the scent and colour of those wares which are there sold might have given some correction unto the noysom smel of the Augean stables but though the Commodities were sweet yet that Act made me stink ever since

in the Nostrills of the people I. How could you walk undiscovered to the eye and censure of the world T. Because all that sate at the sterne of Government were of the same disposition I made Religion my Stalking-horse wherby I did compasse my Game and was counted a Saint while in very truth I was a white Divell I In the mean while where was conscience T. That is a méere Bugheare to awe Fools I serv'd my god Mammon thought it policy to thrive any tray Sacrilidge if it brought in profit was Piety Learning and Conscience I esteemed as things méerly unnecessary and inconsistent with the times I. Did you allow of cheating T Yes as a necessary Ingredient to the composure of a thriving man and now I think on 't I le tell you a Story A necessitated Captain of the Army having much mony due for Debentures was inforced to sel them at what rates he could he maks his applycation to me made his propositions although I seemed unwilling at the first to deale I was sharp set at the bait e after some smal time we agreed upon the consideration I was to give him for them which was very smal when he cam for his monyl told him I was not at that time provided with moneys but that he must take wares for his Debentures which his necessities did inforce him to doe so I noos'd the poore Captain who by that means for he was inforst to take the wares at my own rates for his three hundred pound had but little above the tythe of me Now Brother let me h●are some of your good deeds I. I was alwayes since the beginning a true Servant in Rebellion an Enemy to Monarchy and serv'd the Rump with as much fidelity as Scot did the wench when he gave her five pounds for a nights lodging in her Q●●rters T. You were very liberally rewarded by them for your good service I I should have bin if I could have obtaind to have held the Office of Lord Mayor the second Yeare which they endeadoured and I made suite for T. How came it that you were dismist of it I. The Court of Aldermen and Common-Councell did withstand me T. For what reasons upon what grounds I. For no great cause but because I was a faithfull servant to the Rump and did joyn with them against the City T. Why would you be an adversary to that place whereof you were then the head I In pollitick proceedings ther 's no respect to be had to private Relations I sought by that means to bring the● to obedience to that power which then did and ought to bear tule for I found them to be as weary of that Government as any prisoner of his confinement T. What means did you use to suppresse their murmurings and hinder them from breaking out into action I. By the Correspondency I held with my Brother Rumpers and with the Souldiery whose mouths I knew did water at the riches and treasury of the City and I tell you Brother and nothing but the truth If I had obtained my second Mayrolty I would have so curbed this contumations City and made it as fame as any Brewers horse I would have put such a bit into their mouths that I would have turn'd them which way I had pleased T. Was your consent with the Rumpers for pulling down the City Gates and introducing the Souldiery into the City before that time when Hewson caus'd his Brother to be kil'd I. For the admittance of the Souldiery into the City I did no otherwise then as a Member of the Rump not by any private directions or advise but for the puiling down of the Gates I had a full and perfect consent therein neither was Haslerigge nor any who had interest in the Rump more forward then my self rather then they should have prevaild against the power then on foot I should have bin contented to have seen Hasleriggs intended sate to have befallen this City to have seene London in a flame and then I might have appeared a child of light though my ●ctions and the world say I am a sonne of d●rknesse T What reward do you expect for all these your good services done Wee have gotnow a more just Master then wee served before and I make no question but he wil take care wee haue our due I. I 'm sure wée deserve as much as any for our actions have bin as notorious as any of the act ors who are taken more notice of T. Rest a while content our turnes will come when wee shall be rewarded according to our deserts when I beleeve we may sing the old Catch Wee have oft bin Rogues together Now must hang twixt wind and weather I. But Brother my stomack is somthing squeazy I would you would send to Pauls-Church-yard for a Sallet for me I know you have good credit amongst the Hear be Women T. Wee are both fick of the same disease and I think a little Extractum Zunalis or extracted Hemp rightly applyed will worke the cure on us both I. I could laugh methinks T. For my part I am not so jocondly dispos'd but say let them laugh that wins but how-ever were our Brother Hall Martin here I would adventure upon a Catch and make up the three mens Song I. As I was going lately to take the ayre I met him sneaking néere Bloomsbury for now he is altogether for a suburb●●● life but he was very rich for he had as many Ca●●nnckles about him as there are starrs in th● Firmament in a frosty night and more stinking Vlcers then ever poor Lazarus had but they stunk so much that the doggs refus'd to be charitable unto him and give them 〈◊〉 lick He went into a Cooks shop and no Mea● would serve his appetite but a Rump py● unseasoned for Pepper is a great Enemy ane vexation to men in his condition T. I heare he intends to rally up a Regiment of Pickt-hatch Souldiers and march with them into France they wil need no other Ammunition but what they have abou● them for they are wel enough furnisht to destroy an Army were it twice as great a● the Turks I. Now for want of his company we will conclud our discourse hoping to have it befor● next Sessions then wée may sing the three mens song together and take our leaves like loving Brothers one of another Three merry boyes and three merry boyes and three merry boyes are wee That ever did sing three parts in a string under the Tripple Tree Finis