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A90516	Nuntius a mortuis: or, a messenger from the dead. That is, a stupendous and dreadfull colloquie, distinctly and alternately heard by divers, betwixt the ghosts of Henry the Eight, and Charles the First, both Kings of England, who lye entombed in the church of Windsor. Wherein, (as with a pencill from heaven) is liquidly (from head to foot) set forth, the whole series of the judgements of God, upon the sinnes of these unfortunate jslands. Translated out of the Latine copie, by G.T.; Nuntius a mortuis. English	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1657 (1657)	Wing P1599A; ESTC R229647	18,209	36

saying So to wit it hath pleased the Almighty to laugh at the Councels of men And this Reason the same Prophet superaddeth For they contrived Councels which they could not make good Ps 29. For there is no Councell which will stand against God Prov. 21. as too too late and to my cost I have found true wouldst thou yet be more confirm'd of these sad verities Unto Edward when I dy'd my Son I left twelve Turors all reputed Catholiques and abstracting from the Supremacy only which I desired he should keepe in his hands commanded he should be otherwaies bred up Catholique All Herisies this only excepted by my Will I wholy excluded and abolish'd But as violating the Wils of my Ancestors and subverting what they built and Consecrated so many Temples and monuments of Religion I deserv'd not that my owne should be observed Amongst the rest the Duke of Somerset was one Uncle to Edward the sixth by the Mother who at my Death I did as Guardian preferre to him He infected and my Son by him with Herifie brought in that which most I Hated of the Sacrament which Queene Elizabeth after both Confirmed A Monument I appointed for my Ashes much more sumptuous then ever any of my Ancestors and yet hitherto I have failed of the same though alone of all the Kings of Great Britaine Three children have in order succeeded me Nor need I feare now those are dead to be forgotten who for my wickedness shall aeternally be remembred I am the marke of all mens hate of all conditions To the Catholiques by good reason odious cutting England from the Communion of their Church abominated no lesse worthily by the Religious as whose Families I have destroyed and sold their Goods Equally execrable to the Church and Laytie as first raising o're the whole Body of the Catholiques that Persecution which to this houre afflicteth them The Heriticks ev'n to death detested me still pursuing them with fire and sword Luther call'd me a stall-fed Oxe and very often a most inhumane Tirant Calvin drew out the sword of his Pen against my Tytle of the Head of the Church which so monster-like to my Self J had arrogated and mark'd me out by the Dint of his writings as one destitute of both feare and shame in relation to both God and men All the Literate will perpetually hate my memory that I should root out and totally destroy so many monuments of Antiquity and Learning such as scarcely in the world are to be Paralell'd To conclude whilest I liv'd the most did hate me every one fear'd me and scarce any one lov'd me In my Later dayes by the Furies of my Conscience agitated like to Orestes I would faine have incorporated with the Church all those Kingdomes which I had torne from its Obedience and in whatsoever I was able I endeavoured a reparation of those wrongs I had done my wife This at last in some sort I provided for giving caution by my last will and Testament that if Edward my Son should dye issuelesse my Daughter Mary whom I had before dis-inherited borne of Katherine should succeed me in these Kingdomes Oh how often have I talk'd with my Familiers about this first to wit of bowing to his Holinesse and being receiv'd againe into his Grace and Favour But having formerly cozen'd divers by those Arts none would trust me as being by all suspected whom they eluded as though seeking to entrap them Thus abandon'd and forsaken by every body I departed out of the Communion of the Church these last words before my Death ingeminating All is marr'd All is marr'd Monks Monks Fryers Fryers my Buriall was just like that of Achab in the ruines of a Religious house for when my Body was conveyed hither ev'n a Dunghill through over-eating and Oppletion the Lead in which it was wrap'd unhappily unsawdering as it was set downe within the Ruines of this house where while a Plumber in all hast to helpe it ran this way and that way for materials his Dog lick'd up my Blood most greedily A revenge for that of Priests and Religious which I shed Oh God how just and deserv'd a one Dost thou not see Charles how in my Person thus suffering God hath warn'd thee that I departed not unpunished Carol. These are things very grievous indeed and which deserve to be well ponder'd to all aeternity Henric. But though these things may seeme to mortals very grievous yet in comparison of what I suffer in Hell they are meere trifles and not worthy to be commemorated For besides what I have merited by my own whatsoever I have sinn'd against another what innovations I have forc'd upon Religion superadd unto the increase of my torments inasmuch as by my usurping the Supremacy I opened a Gap to all the mischiefes of Heresies Wherefore as superadditionally I am here tormented by the arrivall of any new come Ghosts so is it just since the afflicted comfort the afflicted that those very same should have a share in my punishments who have maintain'd and keep'd on foot my Errours as thou hast done who though the scourge of heavens just Ire hath these ten yeares through three Kingdoms closely follow'd thee and that too chiefly for thy hatred to Religion yet hast thou breath'd with thy last Breath a disobedience to the authority of the Sea of Rome thy Bishop so of London perswading thee nay moreover not the Primacy only which I left thee but new Errors introduced by Queene Elizabeth and thy Father didst thou strive to uphold of Prince Edward I here wittingly am silent and if other things be true which J have heard thou stampd'st thy Coyne also with the inscription of Protestancy Carol. Oh Heav'ns that That fatall Protestancy had never been hatch'd at least not come unto my Eares It began about thy time in Germany when the followers of Luther were called Protestants whence it afterwards pass'd into England And as Queen Elizabeth oh Henry and my Father were the first of all those that went before them who protested thy Religion in these Kingdomes whereupon hath come this name of Protestant So soon after rose the Puritane faction or the Calvanist who impugned both the other and our Rituall or Booke of Common Prayer set in force with the 39. Articles Which subverting all Episcopall jurisdiction doth yet glory in being called Protestant Afterwards springs a Sect of Independents which protests against the three that went before these are devided into hundreds of other ●●●e●te●malion and new-broach'd Opinions which yet all will needs be tearmed Protestants and perhaps as many more there will yet rise from out the Hydra of this unhappie Reformation which will alwaies be impugning one the other Heaven grant that with the milke of my mother I had also suck'd in the Religion of my Ancestors for my Grandmother not only dyed Catholique but shed her Blood in the defence of that Religion But as others may condig'nly have been punished for introducing or promoting of

through the lenitie of my Nature though unwillingly wherefore respecting that strict Father of justice whose dominion is juster over Kings then that of Kings over other mortals I cannot waile my Blood so spilt unworthily who Pilate like subscrib'd anothers death having declar'd him first wholy innocent in my judgement Henric. Had this been the cause of thy Calamity those other rather much should have been punished with the losse by Heavens just vengeance of their heads who Thee being innocent made thus guilty by their prejudice and however against thy will and Relucting as by the shoulders forc'd thee headlong forwards into that most horrid iniquity of their judgement Therefore some thing there must necessarily be more which have caused this so execrable fate to thee nor know I why thou shouldest here be more obtruded on me thou thy selfe canst tell me any just cause why thou wert stripp'd out of this miserable Life by so shamefull and opprobrious a death if thou camest as such thou boasts thy self of Kings had it not been meeter thou hadst layd thy Bones amongst thy ancestors then trouble here my rest and quiet Carol. I earnestly indeed dying desired to have been buried in the Tomb of my Father but who spoyled me of my life deny'd that boone to me Fearing I beleeve least lying so neer them that the voyce of my Blood would cry more loud to them But in this they have not only been inhumane to me Many other and most grievous indignities have I suffered in my shamefull way of Dying At Westminster where my Self and my Ancestors the Kings of this Nation were Inaugurated was I forc'd to heare the Sentence of my Life from the mouth of a silly Petty-fogger when according to the municipall Lawes no Noble man can be judg'd but by his Peers At St. Iames his was I keep'd close Prisoner whilest my Enemies did determine of my Head wholly cast upon their Arbitrary judging me a Place above all others lov'd by me through the memory of my past there Childhood where my youth also had been harmlesly entertain'd with many innocuous and most innocent oblectations The Scaffold for my death appointed rais'd directly before the Court of my house unto which that I might come with more regret and also shame ev'n through those roomes they dragg'd me where to honour Forraign States Embassadors with Royall pompe I used and Masques to recreate them I beheld also but with what sence of indignation his head cover'd Eyes sternly fixed on me Oliver Cromwell one of ordinary extraction and abstracting from what Fortune hath rear'd him to much more despicable then the meanest of my Nobles how much short then of the majesty of a King sitting umpire of my life and death But though these things were very grievous and deplorable yet that one was even then death it selfe lesse tollerable to me when my eares the Blood yet spinning out my veynes swallowed in that fatall mandate from the Cryer that it should be death to call my Son or Prince of Wales or destine him to bee his Fathers successor And then indeed it truely appeared as conjectured by the wiser in the beginning that not the King so much as Rule displeas'd the Rebels who conspired so unanimously my death to the end that That aswell as I should be extirpated Yet this one thing very much consolates my Griefes that at least I have been destin'd to this Place where I cannot doubt of your more courteous reception of me as being Nephew of your Sister the Princess Margaret her I meane who marrying Iames the fourth of Scotland bore that Mary of whom so lately you made mention and she Iames my late Father since deceased unto whose Scepter she gave both England and Scotland unto which James I Charles the first as Heire unto my Father have succeeded Henric. Hom what 's that J heare and art thou that Charles then the Son of James to whom from me by Elizabeth that Kingdome is divolved by Succession art thou I pre-thee that self same Charles and canst not see how all these evils have oppressed thee But it seems thy eyes yet very well see not newly come into into this region of Darkness No! hadst thou remembred how a long while agoe I drew from out that yoake my necke which in the Church I had full 20. yeares drawne in after first I was annointed King I and defended with both Sword Pen too thou wouldest lesse wonder that after 20. yeares Reigne thy Subjects should have so departed from thee Thou canst not be ignorant that amongst all the Christian Kings J was the first that ever arrogated the Supremacy and would be cal'ed The Head of the Church which Titles that I might knit them to my Crowne with a knot that should never be unty'd Oh! what Blood have I not shed of Martyrs This sinne of mine so long since committed being to be expiated by the blood of a King both this Scepter and monstrous Head together were at once to perish this was long agoe decreed by the Fates as we may judge now 't is come to passe But more then all this J will tell you There was a Person of great note during my Reigne of whom many things thou canst not choose but have heard whose Name was called Thomas Moore This man adorned with vertues so transcendent many ages could not match his worth from a Pleader at the Barre of the Law and having regard unto his merit and Learning I call'd to be Lord Chancellor of England But I seemed only thither to have rais'd him that I might depress him from the greater Hight For when following the dictamen of his Conscience he would not owne me the Head of the Church I commanded forthwith His to be cut off So that whilest Playing Calisthenes hee fell into the hands of Alexander Goe thou then now Head of the Church and complain that by the Sentence of a pittifull Lawyer Thine is also cut off from thy Shoulders Or rather seest thou not plainly in these Prodigies the Tenor of Gods admirable Iudgements It was grievous to thee to be a Prisoner at St. James his where thou hast so innocently in thy youth disported thy Selfe but thou minds not that I formerly by violence and Sacraledge snatcht those Houses from the Church as not long after all the Goods of the Monks the Carthusians Bernardins Cestersians Canon Regulers and so of all the rest But more especially of those of St. Benedict whose houses and Estates I confiscated being the most Splended and Opulent of all the Kingdome by an injustice till that Time not ever heard of wherfore as I for that they own'd me not their Head cast in Prison many innocent Religious and from their Houses made them hve unto the Gallowes so then hadst for thy Prison where thou sufferedst a house that had been heretofore Religious I hang'd up severall Abbots at their doores to give a terrour by their sufferings to the Monks And what

This incursion so rebellious of those Traitors like a River when its Bankes are broken downe overflow'd my totall Realmes with Sedition Henric. Is it not as cleare then tell me Charles as Noone day that our 〈◊〉 affecting Church Supremacy hath confounded us 〈…〉 which now thou seest Carol. Very true it is nor voyd of reason for so being yet doe I not reach how all those evils rather ceiz'd not thee the first invader of the English Primacie who conventing all the States of thy Kingdome caus'd this Title of chiefe Head of the Church to be confirmed upon thy Selfe and thy Successors Then poore mee who have but keep'd and that too peaceably what my Ancestors by their wills had left to me Henric. Oh Charles how art thou grosly deceived if thou thinkest J doe not share in thy misfortunes No Sin yet ever escap'd unpunish'd nor was impunity ever allow'd to wicked persons And to passe by what now at present I suffer what tortures did not then distort me when my Executioners were those three Manspillers Avarice Cruelty and Lust And as for avarice so unsatiably it raigned in me that having subverted 376. Religious houses and snatcht away their Lands and Goods by an Edict to that purpose which I made scarcely one yeare had yet been fully gone about before I vex'd with such high Taxes all my Subjects as had never been before from them exacted by which morsell now made keene and flesh'd as it were not long after oh how rich and Opulent I confiscated what remain'd o' th Church revenues in the interim I gave hopes unto the Laytie that those goods of the Church would goe so farre with me as to free them for ever from exactions a Hearing so gratefull to the People that they impensly for it favoured my abreptions But so fool'd they were in these their expectations that I alone a little after more oppress'd them then in fifty yeares before my Predecessors after I had spoyl'd and raz'd a thousand Churches taken all unto my use that belong unto them all their Coine and Sacred vessels robb'd them of Brasse Lead Shards Seelings nay even the very Rubbish set to sale with all else vendible besides two Chests from out the Church of Canterbury so massie scarce foure men could carry one of them so well cramb'd they were with Gold and pretious Stones after all I say these things had been thus rob'd by me J was reduc'd unto such very great indigence that whereas I mix'd at first but two of Brass only with ten ounces by my Edict of good Silver I afterwards with two of current Silver mix'd ten ounces of adulterate Brass thus tortur'd as you see with endless Avarice nor less roughly by my cruelties handled For full 20. yeares at least together whilest I liv'd in the Communion of the Church no one ever of the Kings shed less Blood in all which time two only suffer'd of my Nobility But afterwards when I fell from the Church not more thirsty of Gold then of Blood of all conditions all Ages and all Sexes I exhibited a most fearfull Massacre And that upon no other Demerit but that onely they withstood my voluptuousnesse Foure Queens with either Steele or Imprisonments I tooke away which were the Consorts of my Bed two young Princesses and also two Cardinals proscribing in his absence the Third who was very neare in Blood to me ally'd Dukes Marquesses Counts or Sons of Counts at least a dozen I put publiquely to death Barons Knights Bannerets or Knights to the number of 20. wanting two Abbots and Priors 13. Priests and Religious 77. of lesser ranke and of the vulgar infinit And whilest belching thus on all sides my cruelties the faithfullest of my Subjects most feared me as witness that most horrid Catastrophe of Cardinall Wolsey of Cromwell and the Bullens of the Howards of Norrice and lastly Compton But as for Lust so very insatiably was I lost in it that divorcing my best and lawfull Wife I saw not any thing of that Sex the which I burnt not for nor scacely did I lust that woman whom I one way or other did not violate Was it not also for the punishment of my Sins that your Father and your Self have raign'd in England Who left nothing on my part unattempted which I could thinke of to hinder your succession that I might fix it by a masculine Birth unto the house of which my Self was discended Two wives I forc'd unjustly from my Bed and as many made to quit this Life The fifth who fell in troublesome Labour I commanded to be ripp'd up alive to the end to save the Infant which she went with thus barbarously and inhumanely adding That it was easier to get more wives then children The 6.th I also afterwards married whom when thinking to have spilt my selfe J perish'd Yet for all this my caring for Posterity during fifty yeares time of my Life no one ever lived long of my Survivors A Boy indeed of Nine yeares old succeeded me in the usurped Supremacie little knowing how to Governe himself but much lesse the helme of Church jurisdiction who had also first departed this Life before attaining to his youthfull age Mary also my legitimate Daughter who cast out Herisie enter'd afterwards to the Crowne of whose Child I could have very well hoped five yeares married to the Catholiqe King But that God the just revenger of Homicides Rapes Incests and likewise of Sacraledge barr'd my seed from inheriting the Earth nor in vaine are his words or to be laugh'd at thus importing that the dayes of the Sons shall be cut shorter for the Fathers offences She dying soone after without issue this Empire was translated into thy Line But Elizabeth that illegimate Daughter of mine begot in incest and judg'd incapable of Governing by the Parliament and my Selfe thereto assenting step'd however into the Kingly throne and would be called forsooth the head of the Church by my example under whose womanish Popeship at least a thousand suffered death for being Priests But ridiculous is that Head which hath no Tongue and a Woman as the Apostle averreth is not allowed to speake in the Church yet is it admirable to see with what audacity she tooke upon her to usurpe the Church of God who Missioning with a womanish solicitude her Ministers for the Planting of the Gospell sow'd the seeds as yet we see here in England of a multiplicity of sowre-levened Herisies And after 17. yeares keeping her Prisoner shee had cut off the head of thy Grandmother doing acts of most unparalell'd cruelty by the example of my former Tyrannies she discended without into Thus in the first Generation ended my Progenie so true it is what the Kingly Prophet said That the seed of the wicked shall perish Psal 37. and accordingly in another place Their fruits shall be extirpated from the Earth and their seed from the Sons of men I have been admonished by very wofull experience of the truth of this Prophets