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A81226	A Venice looking-glasse: or, A letter vvritten very lately from London to Rome, by a Venetian Clarissimo to Cardinal Barberino, protector of the English nation, touching these present distempers. Wherein, as in a true mirrour, England may behold her owne spots, wherein she may see, and fore-see, her follies pass'd, her present danger, and furture destruction. Faithfully rendred out of the Italian into English.	J. B. C.	1648 (1648)	Wing C79A; Thomason E525_19; ESTC R205654	17,303	25

they made a sacrifice of him at last for 800000. Crownes whereupon Bellieure the French Ambassador being convoyed by a Troop of horse from the King towards London to such a stand in lieu of larges to the souldiers he drew out an halfe crown peece and asked them how many pence that was they answered 30. He replied for so much did Judas betray his Master and so he departed And now that in the cours of this Historicall Narration I have touch'd upon France your Eminence may please to understand that nothing allmost could tend more to the advantage of that King then these commotions in England considering that he was embark'd in an actuall war with the House of Austria and that this Iland did do Spain som good offices among other by transport of his treasure to Dunkerk in English bottomes wherunto this King gave way and somtimes in his own Galeons which sav'd the Spainard neer upon 20. in the hundred then if he had sent it by way of Genoa so that som think though France made semblance to resent the sad condition of her Neighbour and thereupon sent the Prince of Harcour and the foresaid Monsieur Bellieure to compose matters yet she never really intended it as being against her present interest and engagements yet the world thinks it much that she shold publiquely receive an Agent from these Parlamenteers and that the French Nobility who were us'd to be the gallantest men in the world to vindicate the quarrels of distressed Ladies are not more sensible of the outrages that have bin offer'd a daughter of France specially of Henry the great 's But to resume the threed of my Narration the King and with him one may say England also being thus bought and sold the Parlamenteers insteed of bringing him to Westminster which had put a Period to all distempers toss'd him up and downe to private houses and kept the former Army still a foot And truly I think there was never Prince so abus'd or poor peeple so baffled and no peeple but a purblind besotted peeple wold have suffred themselfs to be so baffled for notwithstanding that no Enemy appeer'd in any corner of the Kingdom yet above 20000. Tagaroons have bin kept together ever since to grind the faces of the poore and exhaust the very vitall spirits of town and Countrey and keep them all in a perfect slavery Had the Parlement-men when the Scots were gone brought their King in a generous and frank way as had well becom'd Englishmen to sitt among them and trusted to him which of necessity they must do at last as they had gain'd more honor far in the world abroad so they had gain'd more upon his affections then I beleeve they will ever do hereafter But to proceed the King having bin a good while prisoner to the Parlement the Army snatch'd him away from them and som of the chiefest Commanders having pawn'd their soules unto him to restore him speedily in lieu thereof they tumbled him up and down to sundry places till they juggled him at last to that small Ile where now he is surrounded with a gard of strange faces and if happly he beginns to take delight in any of those faces he is quickly taken out of his sight These harsh usages hath made him becom all gray and oregrown with hair so that he lookes rather like som Silvan Satyr then a Soverain Prince And truly my Lord the meanest slave in St. Marks gallies or the abiect's Captif in Algier bannier is not so miserable as he in divers kinds for they have the comfort of their wifes children and frends they can convey and receive Letters send Messenggers upon their errands and have privat discours with any all which is denied to the King of great Britain nay the young Princes his children are not permitted as much as to ask him blessing in a letter In so much that if he were not a great King of his passions and had a heart cast in an extraordinary Mould these pressures those base aspersions that have bin publiquely cast upon him by the Parlement it self had bin enough to have sent him out of the world e're this and indeed 't is the main thing they drive at to torture his brain and tear his very heartstrings if they could so that wheras this foolish ignorant peeple speak such horrid things of our Inquisition truly my Lord 't is a most gentle way of proceeding being compar'd to this Kings persecutions As the King himselfe is thus in quality of a captif so are all his Subjects becom perfect slaves they have fool'd themselfs into a worse slavery then Jew or Greek under the Ottomans for they know the bottom of their servitude by paying so many Sultanesses for every head but here peeple are put to endles unknowne tyrannicall Taxes besides plundring and AcciZe which two words and the practise of them with storming of Townes they have learnt of their pure brethren of Holland and for plundrings these Parlementeer Saints think they may robb any that adheres not to them as lawfully as the Iewes did the Egiptians 'T is an unsommable masse of money these Reformers have squandred in few yeers whereof they have often promis'd and solemnly voted a publike account to satisfie the Kingdome but as in a hundred things more so in this precious particular they have dispens'd with their Votes they have consumed more treasure with pretence to purge one Kingdome then might have served to have purchas'd two more as I am credibly told then all the Kings of England spent of the public stock since the Saxon Conquest Thus have they not only begger'd the whole Iland but they have hurld it into the most fearfull'st Chaos of confusion that ever poore Countrey was in they have torne in pieces the reines of all Government trampled upon all Lawes of heaven and earth and violated the very Dictamens of nature by making mothers to betray their sonnes and the sonnes their fathers but specially that great Charter which is the Pandect of all the Lawes and Liberties of the free-born Subject which at their admission to the House they are solemnly sworn to maintaine is torn in flitters besides those severall Oaths they forg'd themselfs as the Protestation and Covenant where they voluntarily sweare to maintain the Kings Honor and Rights together with the established Lawes of the Land c. Now I am told that all Acts of Parlement here are Lawes and they carry that Majestie with them that no power can suspend or repeale them but the same power that made them which is the King sitting in full Parlement these mongrell Polititians have bin so notoriously impudent as to make an inferior Ordinance of theirs to do it which is point-blank against the very fundamentalls of this Government and their owne Oaths which makes me think that there was never such a perjur'd pack of wretches upon earth never such Monsters of mankind Yet this simple infatuated peeple have a

but a kind of petty insensible Tax a thing of nothing to what hath happened since there were some foolish people in this Land which murmured at it and cryed out nothing else but a Parliament a Parliament and they have had one since with a vengeance But before this occasion it was observed that the seedes of disobedience and a spirit of insurrection was a long time engendring in the hearts of some of this peace-pampred People which is conceived to proceed from their conversation and comerce with three sorts of men viz. the Scot the Hollander and the French Huguenot Now an advantage happened that much conduced to necessitate the convoking of a Parliament which was an ill-favoured traverse that fell out in Scotland For the King intending an Uniformity of Divine worship in all His three Kingdomes sent thither the Lyturgie of this Church but it found cold and coorse entertainment there for the whole Nation men women and children rise up against them Hereupon the King absolutely revoked it by Proclamation wherein He declared 't was never His purpose to presse the practice thereof upon the Consciences of any therefore commanded that all things should be in statu quo prius but this would not serve the turn the Scot took advantage hereby to destroy Hierarchy and pull down Bishops to get their demeanes To which purpose they came with an Army in open Field against their own Native King who not disgesting this indignity Mustred another English Army which being upon the confines of both Kingdomes a kind of Pacification was plaistred over for the present The King returning to London and consulting His second thoughts resented that insolency of the Scots more then formerly Hereupon He summons a Parliament and desires aid to Vindicat that Affront of the Scot. The Scot had strong Intelligence with the Puritan Faction in the English Parliament who seemed to abet his quarell rather then to be sensible of any nationall dishonour received from him which caused that short-lived Parliament to dissolve in discontent and the King was forced to finde other meanes to raise and support an Army by private Loanes of His Nobler sort of Subjects and Servants The Scot having punctuall Advertisments of every thing that passed yea in the Kings Cabinet Councell was not idle all this while but rallies what was left of the former Army which by the articles of Pacification should have been absolutely dismissed and boldly invades England which he durst never have done if he had not well known that this Puritan Party which was now grown very powerfull here and indeed had invited him to this expedition would stand to him This forrein Army being by the pernicious close machinations of some mongrell Englishmen aforementioned entred into the Bowels of the Country the King was forced to call this present Parliament with whom he complied in every thing so far as to sacrifice unto them both Judge Bishop Councellor and Courtier yea He yeilded to the tumbling down of many tribunalls of Justice which were an advantage to his Prerogative He assented that the Prelates who were the most Ancient and Prime Members of the upper House and had priority of all others since the first constitution of Parliament in the enrollment of all Acts He assented I say that these who were the greatest prop of His Crown should be quite outed from among the Peers He granted them also a Trienniall Parliament and after that this Perpetuall which words to the apprehension of any rationall man carry with them a grosse absurdity in the very sense of the thing And touching this last Grant I had it from a good hand that the Queen was a friend to this Parliament and your Eminence knowes how they have requited Her since but the maine open Councellor to this fatall Act was a Scot. Now the reason which they alledged for this everlasting Parliament was one of the baldest that ever I heard of it was that they might have time enough to pay the Scots Army whereas in one morning they might have dispatched that by passing so many Subsidies for that use and upon the credit of those they might have raised what money they would The Parliament finding the King so pliable and His pulse to beat so gently like ill-natur'd men they fall from inches to ells in seeking their advantages They grew so peremptory as to demand all the military strength of the Kingdom the Tower of London with the whole Royall Navy which they found in an excellent equipage gramercy shipmony so that the benefit of Ship-mony which they so clamoured at turned most to their advantage of any thing afterwards The Scot being Fidler-like returned to his Country with meat drink and mony the King went a while after to keep a Parliament there wherein he filled every blank they did but ask and have for He granted them what possibly they could propound both for their Kirk and State many received Honour and they divided Bishops Lands amongst them for all which unparallel'd Concessions of Princely grace they caused an Act already in force to be published viZ. that it should be damnable Treason in the highest degree that could be for any of the Scots Nation conjunctly or singly to levy armes or any military Forces upon any pretext whatsoever without His Majesties royall Commission and this they caus'd to be don by way of gratitude but how they perform'd it afterwards the world knowes too well The King returning to London in lieu of a wellcom to his two Houses of Parliament to whom also before his departure he had passed more Acts of Grace then all his Progenitors take them all in a lump they had patch'd up a kind of Remonstrance which was voted in the dead of night wherein they expos'd to the world the least moat in former government and aggravated to the very height every grievance all which the King had redressed before and this Remonstrance which breath'd nothing but a base kind of malice they presented as a nosegay to their Soverain Prince to congratulate his safe return from a forren Countrey which they caus'd to be printed publish'd before he could give any answer thereunto The King finding such a virulent spirit still raign in the House and knowing who were chiefly possess'd with it whom he had impeach'd before but saw he could get no justice against them in such an extremity he did an act like a generous Prince for taking the Palsgrave with him he took the first coach he met withall at his Court gate and went to his House of Commons in person to demand five Members which he wold prove to be Traitors in the highest degree and to be the Authors of all these distempers protesting upon the word of a King that they shold have as fair legall a tryall as ever men had in the interim he only desir'd that their persons might be secur'd The walls of both Houses and the very stones in London street did seem to

A Venice Looking-Glasse OR A LETTER VVRITTEN very lately from LONDON to ROME by a Venetian Clarissimo to Cardinal Barberino Protector of the English Nation touching these present distempers Wherein as in a true Mirrour ENGLAND may behold her owne spots wherein she may see and fore-see her Follies pass'd her present Danger and future Destruction Faithfully rendred out of the Jtalian into English Fas est ab hoste doceri Printed in the yeare 1648. THE TRANSLATOR TO HIS COUNTRY O England specially thou besotted City of London if thou bee'st not past cure or grown carelesse and desperat of thy selfe be warn'd by this Stranger who having felt thy pulse and cast thy water very exactly discovers in thee symptomes of inevitable ruine Divers of thy owne Children have oftentimes admonish'd thee with teares in their eyes and terror in their hearts to recollect thy selfe but they have been little regarded Let a Forreiners advice then take place and make some impressions in thee to prevent thy utter destruction TO HIS EMINENCE THE LORD FRANCISCO BARBERINI Cardinal of the most holy Apostolick See and Protector of the English Nation at his Palaces in Rome MY last to your Eminence was but short in regard I had been but a short time in this Countrey I have now made a longer sojourn here and taken a leisurely information of all matters therefore I shal give your Eminence an account proportionably For by conversation with the most indifferent and intelligenc'd men and by communication with the Ambassadors here resident I have taken some paines to pump out the truth of things I find that angry star which hath lowr'd so long upon Europe in generall hath been as predominant and cast as direfull aspects upon this poor Iland as upon any other part Truly my Lord in all probability this people have pass'd the Meridian of their happinesse and begin to decline extreamly as well in Repute abroad as also in the common notions of Religion and indeed in the ordinary faculty of Reason I think verily the Ill Spirit never reign'd so much in any corner of the earth by those inhumane and horid things that I have observ'd among them Nor is it a petty Spirit but one of the greatest Cacodaemons that thus drives them on and makes them so active in the pursuance of their own perdition To deduce matters from their Originall Your Eminency may please to understand that this King at his accesse to the Crown had deep debts to pay both of His Fathers and his own he was left ingaged in a fresh warre with Spain and had another presently after with France and both at one time but he came off well enough of those Afterwards never any Countrey flourished in that envied happinesse and wanton kind of prosperity This City of London was grown to be the greatest Mart and mistresse of Trade of any in the world Insomuch as I have been certainly inform'd the King might have eaten meerly upon His customes 4000 crownes a day Moreover she had a vast bank of money being made the scale of conveying the King of Spaines treasure to Flanders Insomuch that in a few yeers she had above ten millions of his moneys brought hither which she might have remitted in specie or in marchandize and for which this King had five in the hundred for coynage Yet could he not get beforehand with the world having a sister with so many Nephews and neeces having a Queen with diverse children of His own at least 16 of the Blood-Royall to maintaine with divers profuse Courtiers besides which made Him more parsimonious then ordinary The Warres then growing more active 'twixt Spaine and France as also 'twixt Holland and Spaine both by Land and Sea and divers great Fleets of Men of War as well French who were growne powerfull that way as Dunkerkers Spaniards Hollanders and Hamburgers appearing daily in His narrow Seas and sayling close by His Chambers the world wondred this King had no greater strength at Sea in case that any of the foresaid Nations should doe him an affront as some of them had already done by denying to dash their Colours to His Ships Insomuch that in Holland and other places he was pasquill'd at and pourtrayed lying in his cradle lullaby'd and rock'd asleep by the Spaniard Hereupon being by advertisements from His Agents abroad and frequent advice of His Privie Councell at home made sensible of the danger and a kind of dishonour he was falne into and having intelligence that the French Cardinall began to question his title to the Dominion of the Narrow Seas considering He employed no visible power to preserve it He began to consult of meanes to set forth a Royall Fleet but in regard the Purse of the Crowne was lightly ballasted and that he had no mind to summon the three Estates because of some indignities he had received in former Parliaments by the Puritan party a race of people averse to all Kingly Government unlesse they may pare it as they please his then Atturney Generall a great cryed-up-Lawyer put it in his Head to impose an old Tax called Ship-mony upon the Subject which the said Lawyer did warrant upon his life to be Legall for he could produce diverse Records how many of his Progenitors had done the like The King not satisfied with his single opinion referred it to His Learned Councell and they unanimously averred it to be agreeable to the Law of the Land yet this would not fully satisfie the King but He would have the Opinion of His twelve Judges and they also affirmed by their severall vouches the said Tax to be warrantable Hereupon it was imposed and leavied but some refusing to pay it there was a suite commenc'd during which all the Judges were to re-deliver their opinions joyntly and the businesse being maturely debated and canvased in open Court divers months and all arguments produc'd pro con nine of the said twelve Judges concluded it Legal Thereupon the King continued the imposition of the said Tax and never was money imployed so much for the Honour and advantage of a Countrey for he sent out every Summer a Royall fleet to scowre and secure the Seas he caused a Galeon to be built the greatest and gallantest that ever spread saile Nor did he purse up and dispose of one peny of this money to any other use but added much of his own Revenues yeerly thereunto So the world abroad cried up the King of England to be awake againe Trade did wonderfully encrease both Domestic and forrein in all the three Kingdomes Ireland was reduced to an absolute Settlement the Arreares of the Crown payed and a considerable Revenue came thence cleerly to the Exchequer of England every year the salaries of all Officers with the pay of the standing Army there and all other Charges being defrayed by Ireland her self which was never done before Yet for all this height of happinesse and the glorious fruites of the said Ship-money which was

ring of this high cariage of the Kings and the sound went thence to the Countrey whence the silly Plebeians came presently in whole heards to this City and strowting up and down the streets had nothing in their mouths but that the priviledg of Parlement the priviledg of Parlement was broken though it be the known cleer Law of the Land that the Parlement cannot supersede or shelter any treason The King finding how violently the pulse of the gr●sly seduced people did beat and there having been formerly divers riotous crues of base Mechaniques and Mariners who had affronted both his own Court and the two Houses besides which the Commons to their eternall reproach conniv'd at notwithstanding that divers motions were made by the Lords to suppresse them the King also having private intelligence that there was a mischievous plot to surprize his person remov'd his Court to the Countrey The King departing or rather being driven away thus from his two Houses by this mutinous City he might well at his going away have obraided her in the same words as Henry the 3. did upbraid Paris who being by such another tumultuous rabble driven out of her in the time of the Ligue as he was losing sight of her he turn'd his face back and sayed Farewell ingratefull Cittie I will never see thee again till I make my way into thee through thy Walls Yet though the King absented himself in person thus from the two Houses he sent them frequent messages that they wold draw into Acts what he had already assented unto and if any thing was left yet undon by him he wold do it therfore he will'd them to leave off those groundles feares and jealousies wherwith they had amus'd both Cittie and Countrey and he was ready to return at all times to his Palace in Westminster provided that his Person might be secur'd from the former barbarisms outrages But in lieu of a dutifull compliance with their Prince the thoughts of the two Houses ran upon nothing but war The King then retiring into the North thinking with a few of his servants only to go visit a Town of his he was denied entrance by a fatall unlucky wretch who afterwards was shamefully executed with his eldest son by command of his new Masters of the Parlement The King being thus shut out of his own town which open'd the first dore to a bloudy war put forth a Declaration wherein he warn'd all his people that they should look to their proprieties for if Hee was thus barr'd of his owne how could any private Subject be sure to be Master of any thing he had and herein he was as much Prophet as Prince For the Parlement-men afterwards made themselfs Land-Lords of the whole Kingdome it hath been usuall for them to thrust any out of his freehold to take his bed from under him and his shirt from off his very back The King being kept thus out of one of his townes might well suspect that he might be driven out of another therefore 't was time for him to look to the preservation of his Person and the Countrey came in voluntarily unto him by thousands to that purpose but hee made choice of a few only to be his gard as the Parlementteers had don a good while before for themselfs But now they went otherwise to worke for they fell a levying listing and arming men by whole Regiments and Brigades till they had a verie considerable Army a foot before the King had one Musqueteer or Trooper on his side yet these men are so notoriously impudent as to make the King the first Aggressor of the war and to lay upon Him all the blood that was spilt to this day wherein the Devill himself cannot be more shameles The Parliamenteers having an army of foot and horse thus in perfect Equipage 't was high time for the King to look to himselfe therefore he was forced to display his royall Standard and draw his sword quite out Thus a cruell and most cruentous civill war began which lasted neer upon foure yeers without intermission wherin there happen'd more battailes sieges and skirmishes then passed in the Netherlands in fourescore yeers and herein the Englishmen may be said to get som credit abroad in the world that they have the same blood running in their veines though not the same braines in their sculls which their Ancestors had who were observed to be the activest peeple in the field impatient of delay and most desirous of battaile then any Nation But it was one of the greatest miracles that ever happen'd in this Land how the King was able to subsist so long against the Parlamenteers considering the multiplicity of infinite advantatages they had of him by water and land for they had the Scot the Sea and the City on their side touching the first he rushed in as an Auxiliary with above 20000. Horse and Foot compleatly furnish'd both with small and great ammunition and arms well cloth'd and money'd For the second they had all the Kings Ships well appointed which are held to be the greatest security of the Island both for defence and offence for every one of them is accounted one of the moving Castles of the Kingdome besides they had all the other standing stone-Castles Forts and tenable places to boot Concerning the last viz. the City therein they had all the wealth bravery and prime ammunition of England this being the onely Magazin of men and money Now if the King had had but one of these on his side he had in all probability crush'd them to nothing yet did he bear up strangely against them a long time and might have don longer had he kept the campane and not spent the spirits of his men before Townes had he not made a disadvantagious election of som Commanders in chief and lastly had he not had close Traitors within dores as well as open Rebells without for his very Cabinet Councell and Bed-Chamber were not free of such vermin and herein the Parlementeers spent unknown sums and were very prodigall of the Kingdomes money The King after many traverses of war being reduced to a great streight by crosse successes and Counsells rather then to fall into the hands of the Parlementeers withdrew himselfe in a Servingmans disguise to the Scors army as his last randevous and this plott was manag'd by the French Agent then residing here A man wold think that that Nation wol'd have deem'd it an eternall honor unto them to have their own King and Countrey-man throw himself thus into their armes and to repose such a singular trust in them upon such an Extremity but they corresponded not so well with him as he expected for though at first when the Parlamenteers sollicited their deer Brethren for a delivery of the Kings person unto them their note was then if any forren petty Prince had so put himself upon them they could not with honor deliver him much lesse their own Native King yet