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A90515	A messenger from the dead, or, Conference full of stupendious horrour, heard distinctly, and by alternate voyces, by many at that time present. Between the ghosts of Henry the 8. and Charls the First of England, in Windsore-Chappel, where they were both buried. In which the whole series of the divine judgments, in those infortunate ilands, is as it were by a pencil from heaven, most lively set forth from the first unto the last.; Nuntius a mortuis. English.	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1597; Thomason E936_4; ESTC R203144	12,116	19

Ruine for if I had to deal onely with the English I could have kept them in obedience or have reduced them to it by the assistance of my faithfull Subjects both im England and in Ireland But the Scots fell off from me upon this account It was my desire that throughout all my Dominions there might not be onely the same form of faith but of Rights and Ceremonies and that the Liturgy of the Church of England together with the Surplice might be used by the Ministers of Scotland This I must confess I did by the perswasion of the Arch-bishop of Canterbury whom I did reverence as a Patriarch which when the people of Scotland understood and perceived that it began to be put in practise they presently cried out that Papistry and the abomination of Rome began be introduced hereupon seditions began to increase which were much fomented by the Pulpits At the last the Scots were resolved to defend their Religion by Armes and as already I have made mention they invaded England and possessed themselves of New-Castle Henry It is cleerer then the noon day and you see all along what it is to govern by an Arbitrary power Charls Too late I perceive it but I do not yet understand wherefore those Calamities did not overwhelm you who did first practise it with so much constancy and so much cruelty Henry Ah Charls you are much deceived if you think me free from punishment punishment doth alwayes follow sin neither was there ever any one that hath got cleerly off and not payed for his Impiety Not to speak of the torments which I do now indure What pangs did I not feel within me whiles I was alive being perpetually scourged with rods of knotted steel by the three Beadles of Avarice Cruelty and Incontinency In the first place my Avarice was so unsatisfied that after I had overthrown three hundred and seventy six Monasteries and with one Edict taken away all their Goods and Lands one year was not fully expired before I oppressed my Subjects with greater taxes then before Being palate-taken by this first Morsell not long afterwards I brought into my treasury all the other Monasteries of the Kingdome it is not easy to comprehend how many how rich they were Whiles I made havock of these I did feed my Subjects with vain hopes that the goods thus gotten would so cram my treasury that they should never have need to fear any more Subsidies which news was so welcome to the people that they were greatly pleased and much applauded what I did But they were so deluded of their expectations that after this I exacted more upon them then all my Predecessors had done in five hundred years before After that I had Plundred and levelled to the ground about one thousand Churches and converted to my use the goods appropriate to them after that by force I had seized upon their gold their silver and consecrated vessailes and sold the brass the lead the stones and timber belonging to them and out of the Church of Canterbury alone had taken two great Chests so full of gold and precious stones that four men could hardly stir either of them I was driven to so extreame a penury that whereas at first by my Proclamation two ounces of brass were to be mixed with ten ounces of silver I afterwards gave order that two ounces of silver should be mighled with ten ounces of brass After this manner was I tormented by my Covetousness neither did I suffer less by my cruelty Secondly for the first 20 years before I exercised any violent arbitrary power no King before me did shed less blood In all that time there were but two Noble men that lost their lives but after that I began to show my self in my own colours I was as greedy of blood as I was before of gold and made a great laughter of all ages sexes and orders whatsoever and for no other trespass but that they opposed my pleasure Four Queens that successively had bin married to me did lose their lives either by the Axe or by a grief as fatall as the Axe I proscribed two Princesses two Cardinalls and the third who was not onely my Kinsman but at that time out of the Kingdome I did put to Death by the common Hangman 12 eminent personages who were either Dukes or Marquesses or Earls or the Sons of Earls two and twenty Barons and Knights sixteen Abbots and Priors seventy seven Priests and Religious men and others of a lower rank almost not to be numbred And in this so black a cruelty I was feared by none more then by the most faithful of my won friends as the Events of Wolsey Norris of the Family of the Bullens and of the Howards have declared Thirdly Moreover I did so prostrate my self unto Lust that after the divorse of my best and my first wife I saw no Lady handsommer then other with whom I not presently fell in love neither made I love to any whom I would not enjoy Was it not for the punishment of my sins that you and your Father were crowned Kings of England when I left nothing unattempted that I might hinder you from the possession of the Kingdom of England and by some heir of my own might confirm it in my own house Two wives I did drive out of my bed and two out of the World the fifth I caused to be ripped up alive being then in labour and full of her childing throwes that her child might be preserved adding to the cruelty these barbarous and inhumane words that Wives could more easily be found then Children I married the sixth wife and intertained thoughts of taking her our of the World when not long afterwards I was taken out of the World my self But in this great care of mine and iudeavour for posterity not any of my race lived threescore years after my Death It is true that a child of mine of nine years of age did succeed me in the Government but not well able to govern himself much less the Kingdome and who departed out of the World before he departed out of his nonage My Daughter Mary did afterwards receive the Crown but rejected the Religion of her Brother I might well expect to have had issue by her being five years Married to Philip the Catholick King of Spain but God the Revenger of so many Murders and abhominations committed would not that my Race should inherite the Land for he is not to be mocked neither doth his word fall upon the ground which saith For the sins of the Fathers the daies of the Children shall be shortned She therefore in a short time dying without issue the Kingdome is translated unto you It is true that my Daughter Elizabeth succeeded my Daughter Mary but being never Married she also without issue descended into the sleep of Death Thus do I find true what the Kingly Prophet did foretell me The seed of the wicked shall perish Psalm 37.

their Brother and my Son If therfore you do number the Generations or the Kings Edward succeeded me James succeeded him and you succeeded James Neither do I beleive it is without the providence of God that so direfull a revenge hath fallen on you the most moderate and the most innocent of them all that so all might understand that not so much your sins as the hereditary Evils and the wickedness annexed to your Crown and your titles are taken vegeance of in your person according to that of the Prophet The Fathers have eaten a sowre bunch of grapes and the teeth of the Children are set on edge Ezekiel 18. Which is not so to be undestood that children altogether guiltless and innocent should be overwhelmed in the punishments of their most ungodly fathers For the Soul that sinneth shall dye but that Children not so guilty and as it were innocent in comparison of their fathers are oftentimes involved in their punishments for if this punishment had come to pass in the dayes of some luxurious and wicked King I should have looked to further for the causes of it but on the Crimes of so dissulute a Grovernour But that your Subjects who do call themselves Protestants should affict upon you so ignominious a Death as by making you shorter by the head when your Enemies can accuse you of no gross offence must certainly be imputed to nothing else but to the Capitall sin of my misgovernance in which though not so visibly others and your self no doubt have partaken with me Charls O how just are the Judgments of God and his wayes past finding out For in whatsoever a man finneth he either sooner or later shall be punished by it either in himself or in his posterity I would to God when I was alive and in my prosperity or that in the time of my Imprisonment when I had leasure enough that I had seriously thought on these things O that in the bitterness of my soul I had observed the proceedings of the divine Justice ow slowly it came on and how long it did hang over my devoted head An incomparable Scholler and highly esteemed in the days of my Father and Q'een Elizabeth hath left recorded that God doth most for Kings and Kings againe do least for God But be wise O you Princes and learn righteous Judgment O you Judges of the Earth O that the flattery of being obove all Laws had never sounded in my eares O that I had never been accused of Arbitrary Government O that I had known that my highest Prerogative had b●en the love and the obedience of my Subjects I had leisure enough to write and to compose a whole Book on other Anguments as on the overthrowes of my Armyes on my own miseries and calamities and on the insolencies of other men But these things which I ought to lay most neer unto my heart and on which above all things I ought most to meditate did never enter into my thought I would to God that the Bishop of London honest Juxon for so I was accustomed to call him or he who intirely loved me and was to me a faithfull Counsailer in all other things and who laid down his life for my sake William Laud the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury had advertised me of these things either by Letters from himself or by words of mouth from his friends he had before his Death the tedious leisure of three years Imprisonment to meditate and to ruminate on them But they were hid from their eyes O how blind were my seers But Jam sero sapinus sed sine fruge Phriges True Trojans we whose hapless Fates Is to grow wise when'tis too late Henry You do confess that you came more neer in your Religion to the Church of Rome the either your Father or Queen Elizabeth if you had been absolutely a Catholick I do beleive it had been better for you for what doth it profit you to have inclined to the Roman Catholike Faith unless you altogether did profess it It doth not suffice to sit down in the porch unless you enter into the Church It was not sufficient to Salvation for King Agrippa that he was almost a Christian nay because he was not wholly converted when Paul preached he is now howling with me in the Kingdome of Darkness You acknowledge that you were more inclined to the Catholike Church then either of your two Predec effors that immediately swayed the Scepter before you had you been wholly devoted to it it is likely that it might have been better for you Charls It is likely that my Armies were the more unfortunate because I was so indulgent to it The super stition of the Papists and the most petulant probhaneness of the other part of my Army have rendred me a greater Subject of Calamity and Contempt then I believe I should have otherwise appeared to the World I have bled enough already Think not to give new wounds unto me by striking at me in my Religion What the sacred Authority of the Word of God and the light of my own Conscience hath convinced me unto What neither the frequent solicitations of forraign Princes nor the hourly Importunity of my dearest Wife could disswade me from What dying I commanded my children to imbraces I shall never after Death be induced to retract In this resolution I do expect the day of a joufull Resurection the Morning ayre whereof I do already feel refreshing me The unrighteous shall then tremble at the sound and the summens of a Trumpet from Heaven they shall wish that the Rocks and the Hills might cover them that sobeing hid from the presence of the Lamb they might lye for ever confin'd to the dull peace of a Grave The End In malevolos hujus narratiunculae obtrectatores ZOile me laceres morsu mea Scripta canino Neve meris dicas omnia suta dolis Extimus historiae cortex volo fictus habetur Vera sed huic intus ligna subesse scies Istaque corporeis licet auribus invia nostris Mentis at internae sensibus hausta putes Fia age mendacem me carptor inepte Poetam Occine narranti res dabitipsafidem R. P. DEtractor tear not with a dogged tooth These leaves nor yet upbraid them with untruth Though counterfeit the bark without be found Know that the Tree within is good and sound And what 's not obvious to the outward eare More deep Impression in the mindn doth bear The tax me not that Poet-like I faign This Story to its Speaker truth will gaine

and in another place Thou shalt destroy their fruit from the Earth and their seed from the sons of men Psalm 12. By wofull experience I do say I have proved the truth of his prophecy for it pleased God to laugh at the vain counsails of men And the same Prophet giveth this reason of it For they imagined Counsailes which they could not bring to pass Psalm 21. For their is no Counsaile against the Lord Pro. 21. As now too late I have learned Will you have me yet further to confirme the truth of this unto you When I was dying I did leave unto my Son EDWARD twelve Tutors all of them Catholicks as I conceived and commanded them to bring him up in the Catholick Religion the Supremacy of the Church onely excepted which I would have him to continue and to reserve unto himself but I who violated the testaments of others and overthrew so many Monuments of Piety did not deserve that my own should be kept Of so many Tutors the Duke of Somerset Unkle to Edward by his mothers side after my Death was Tutor alone unto him and brought him up in that Religion which I forbad him and hated I commanded also that a more sumptuous Monument should be provided for me then was ever raised for any of my Predecessors and as yet I have no Monument at all although of all the Kings of England not one of them had three children that successively swayed the Scepter but my self But alas I need not fear that I shall be ever lost in the memory of men I have purchased to my self an everlasting Name by my enormous offences All sorts of men do strive as it were in emulation who shall hate me most I am become justly odious to the Catholicks because I divided England from the Communion of the Church of Rome I am abhomination to the orders of the Religious because I have extinguished their Charters and themselves and have sold their Lands and houses I am detestable both to the Clergy and the Laity because I have raised a persecution against even the whole Name of Catholicks which continueth to this day The Protestants hate me because through all the course of my life I did pursue them with fire and Sword Luther named me a big-bellied Beast and a Tyrant Calvin hath written bitterly against me and brandeth me in his books as destitute of all fear of God and the shame of men All Lettered men will evermore curse my memory beause I have utterly destroyed such excellent Monuments of Learning and Antiquity that the Christian World can hardly parralell Finally whiles I was alive most men hated me all men feared me no man loved me In my last dayes like Orestes I was tormented with the Consciousness of my sins and desired to reconcile my self to the Church and to make some amends for the injury offered to my wife the latter I did in some part performe for I provided in my will that my Daughter Mary born of Queen Katharine whom before I had disinherited should succeed in the Kingdome if my Son Edward should dye without children Oh how often have I discoursed with my friends of the first but as I deceived many of them heretofore by the same artifice so now I my self became suspected to them all and they grew to be jealous of me and to shun me as diving into their secrets And thus being abandomed by all I dyed without the Communion of the Church repeating oftentimes in my last houre these words We have lost all Being dead I had the same end as Ahab and it is the more remarkable because it was in the Ruines of a Religious house for as my Corps nasty with excessive fatness and too great a Belly was on the way tobe convaied hither the Coffin of Lead in which it was put did crack by chance and opened To soder which a Plummer being sent for my Corps was set down in the said ruines of the house there whiles the Plummer was running from place to place being very busie at his work his dog most greadily did lick the blood that issued from me A Revenge from God for the effusion of so much blood which in my life time I had soilled Charls Do you not now see sufficiently how God hath scourged me in my own person Never think that I have eseaped unpunished Charls This is a sad story indeed and most worthy to be remembered and seriously to be considered of by all posterity Henry But these things which I have rehearsed although they seem greivous to the eares of the living yet they are but meer Delights if they be compared to the Torments which I indure amongst those who inhabite the Regions of Darkness for besides those punishments which I have pulled upon me by my own sins whatsoever evills that my posterity hath committed by my Example it doth increase my sufferings by a new addition Charls I would to God that Flattery had never been heard of in the Courts of Princes would to God that I had never heard that we are above the Law and are to give an account to God onely for what we have committed upon Earth neverthelesse it doth administer some comfort to me that I have made no innovation in Religion I have been above my other Predecessors most gentle to the Catholicks and came neerest to their Religion and used my Supremacy with the greatest moderation And because in my apprehension it was not fit for a Lay-man I committed almost the whole Exercise of the Ecclefiasticall affaires to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Henry And have not you observed in these late troubles that none of all the Bishops of England but the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury alone did lose his head Charls Was I guilty of it By his Instigations indeed I shewed more countenance to some practises of the Church of Rome then either my Father did or the Queen your Daughter that raigned before him I confess my self not to be altogether without fault nevertheless I would fain understand being more moderate then any of my Predecessors and more forward then they in the promoting the peace of the Church wherefore I am visited with far more grevous punishments then any of them all Henry Are you still to understand that the jealous God who visiteth the sins of the fathers on the children doth most usually exact the punishments of the most enormous offences on the third of fourth Generation for if the should inflict present punishment upon all sins men would be apt to beleive that they were quickly and easily expiated neither doth the defer the punishment unto so many Generations that the memory of the offender may perish from the Earth and that we could not know for what enormity the pushment was inflicted You are the third King from me and do suffer punishment in the third Generation For although my two Daughters Mary and Elizabeth did raigne successively yet they do make but one Generation with Edward