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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

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

TO THE READER COurteous Reader Thou wilt wonder perhaps that this Terrible Narration of a Colloquie so full of dread and astonishment long since had betwixt two Kings of England both Deceased should not sooner have come forth when in the intervall of so Great a tract of Time it ought rather to have been put to the Presse But thou must know it was then strangled in its Birth all ready fitted by me to have come into the Light when the late Kings Blood yet smoaking the Severity of the times suppressed it Divers also were shut up close Prisoners least the Truth of such strange Prodigies should walke abroad with them And the Souldiers largely brib'd who watch'd his Herse not to let any thing of that Quality fall from them But now it is by Gods infinite goodness nor unhappie as J may say Midwifrie of mine that againe it Resaluteth the Day with recommendation to bee Communicatively used by the However to my selfe the Author who was present at the late Kings Buriall and both Eye and Eare-witness of these wonders not as vaine and only forg'd things speaking like to Poets give thou Credit and Beliefe But as tracing through those Dead Kings Colloquies in this Kingdome fill'd with hellish darkness the true and hidden Pathes of Gods just vengeance Farewell and as thy Brother in CHRIST Pray for Thy c. NUNTIUS a MORTUIS OR A Messenger from the Dead THrough the unlimited wickedness of the London Calvinists the first of that Name in England King CHARLES being taken away His headless Body by order of Parliament not to the Royall Abbey of St. Peter in Westminster the solemne Buriall-place of all the Kings and Queenes of England but to Windsor twenty miles distant from London in HENRY the Eight's Monument was Translated to bee interred There was no Pompe at all to grace his Funerall only a few Souldiers sent to Guard his Body which some few Nobles with the Duke of Richmond waited on where his Corpes being put into the Sepulcher from out the Penetrall thereof there broke a horrid Sound which the standers by at first amaz'd with much wonder But by and by a voyce attending that Noise forc'd them All into a fearefull astonishment And it is Credible that ev'n the Souldiers would have taken their Heeles but that casting away all feares and Apprehension which they had long since layd aside of either Heaven or Hell They resolv'd to heare the sequell of that Prodigie J also who growne Pale with feare had begun to flie Recollected my Spirits and comforting my selfe with the presence of the Souldiers not uncovetous of Hearing what would follow stood my ground And with the rest at last discovered that it was the Voice of Henry the Eight thus complaining with a Loud and horridly frightfull Vocifiration Henricus HO Who is this with Sacraligious impietie that dares vex the so long quiet ashes of a King so many years since deceased This said another voice straight rose somewhat softer but extreamly Dolefull which seem'd to be Kings Charles his thus Answering Carolus I Am that unhappie King of England your Successor the undoubted Heire of Sixty two Monarchs whose Scepters sometimes sway'd these Nations and who my Selfe have now these twenty yeares and upwards worne the Kingly Diadem Henricus As though thou indeed hadst worne the kingly Diadem Why thou hast no Head at all whereon to put it Man Carolus But I had one oh my Griefe and very lately though my Subjects have rebelliously taken it from me Henric. Have thy Subjects then thus cruelly handled thee oh the hatred of both God and Men How I pray you came these things to passe And what wickedness hadst thou done so execrable which hath transported thy Subjects to that Madness Garol That Sir I am totally ignorant of but this I dare with confidence affirme That I have violated no mans Bed have not offerd force unto any on 's Daughter driven no man from his house or Lands of all which yet Henry the Eight my Predecessor is held guilty through the totall universe Let these say who have brought me hither whether in any thing I have bely'd the Truth then paus'd a while as though to heare what they would say whilest the Soldiers with their looks cast downe consented by their Silence to these verities And most true it is indeed what hath been said for never King since the worlds Creation was more wicked then that Henry I speake of as who councell'd by one CROMVVELL of those Times either violated all Divine and humane Lawes or gave the example to his successors of doing so But as for Charles who is so lately deceased only abstracting from the Blot of Herisie no King ever not only of his time nor Private man was either naturally more equitable more holy or endow'd with greater Vertues who not finding what he said opposed in this maner follow'd on his Narration I was criminated for defending with Armes what peaceably but in vaine J had endeavoured those very Lawes the which my Ancestors had left to me and which Sixteen and upwards of yeares I had uncontroledly Rul'd by and Reign'd Hereupon were there Iudges appointed by an usurped authority of Parliament who should sit and determine of my Head witnesses against me sworne and examined who had conspired to take away my Life The day set downe and forces brought the which should carry me to be arraigned before their Dire Tribunall and though I call'd both God and men to witness their violation in this proceeding of the Lawes and that no Power on earth was capable of judging me as also that I tooke not up Armes before that Armes had first been actually taken against me yet Iudgement or rather the shadow thereof was given by which J suffered the decollation of my Head Henric. Oh wickedness even sear'd to impudence and of which as ages past are wholly ignorant so those to come will hardly ever give credit to Wee have heard perhaps of Kings and Potentates who have suddenly been oppressed by the Fury of a Raging and incensed multitude But that any one a Prince of such High majesty should be brought to death by the cruelty of his Subjects all of one and the selfe-same Religion under the colour ev'n it selfe of justice and be obtruncated by the publique Hangman but especially not found guilty of any crime unlesse propugning his Paternall Rights Since Kings had being was yet never heard of For that Mary Queen of Scots that Neice of mine was most cruelly and inhumanely Beheaded that Elizabeth my unhappie daughter Queene of England and in hatred of Religion not the unnaturalness of her Subjects brought to passe and therefore all men have that Izabell or rather Jezabell in veneration as though indeed a Martyr Carol. Least I should seeme too much to stand upon my innocence I confesse I was to blame although not charg'd therewith when I assented unto Straffords dying not least guilty on my knowledge of his Charge

wonder if to the astonishment of Kings and Kingdomes thou hast suffered at the doores of thy Pallace an ignominious and opprobrious Death But knowest thou not over and above that this very Pallace the House of thy abode was the dwelling place of the Bishops of Yorke which I extorted from Cardinall Wolsey A man sometimes highly advanc'd by me whilest serving my unbridled Lust but whom afterwards I utterly Confounded when I judg'd it for the availe of my Avarice Nor prophan'd I only the Episcopall houses to ungodly and Nefarious uses but Compelled ev'm themselves the Bishops from their Obedience to the Roman Sea into an acknowledgement of my Iurisdiction in Church affaires unlesse only who presided over Rochester whom when neither with faire words nor menaces I could draw into the defection of the rest I beheaded to compleat my Sacraledge Behold therefore if or not it were fatall and most agreeable to the Heavenly justice that this Head of the Church so Admentitious should have been cut off before the doores of the Bishop To give Promotion to the affaires of my Primacy I made me a Vicar of one CROMVVELL of those Times a man of very meane extraction unto whom and hee of Lay condition both the Bishops and Archbishops were as underlings Now another of that name and like discent Rules as absolute over all thy Nobles and Guides the minutes of thy Life and Death The very same I made my Principall instrument of keeping from their meanes the Church its children and of bringing on the Baine of that Religion so long practiz'd in the Times of my Ancestors which I would call The Reformation of the Church I enter'd to this Kingdom from my Father when it was Blemishless entire and truly Regall nor in any thing unto any one obnoxious only as fitting in things that were Spirituall paying submission to the Vicar of CHRIST Thou received'st it when strengthless and wounded rent and torne from the yoke of St. Peter so just so sweet and so amiable wholy slav'd unto the Vicars of the People chose to governe by the votes of the multitude Carol. Too too true by the losse of my Head have I found those very things which thou hast said to me and now lately unless by others allowance that I had nothing either of Life or Kingdomes which was not wholy in the hands of the Parliament since puff'd up with fond pride and contumacy by thy Example I have swarved from the Church yet fear'd I not the qublique Hatchet would have struck me by the hands of Rebels with such pompe and seared impudence at my death but much more dreaded Secret councels and impoisonings Henric. But of that thou shouldst the least have been afraid for the punishment would not have answered the offence Publique sinnes must have publique Expiations nor sought I corners in which to perpetrate my wickednesses but sinn'd boldly after once I had begun only I drew indeed the masque of justice upon the Face of my iniquities the Supremacy as though my due of the Church unto my Self I arrogated calling a Parliament by a Decree whereout I quite abolished the Roman Seas authority I repudiated by pretence of Right the woman that was my lawfull Wife the Possessions likewise wholy of the Clergie under the same colour I occasioned to be confiscated whosoever was averse to my Supremacie as though guilty of High Treason I put to Death Wheresote when our sinnes for which wee worthily are punished are couered over with the veile of justice no wonder if the selfe same vizard likewise veile us when our selves at last we come to suffer Carol. But these Audacities from their Subjects unto Kings are the effects of most unheard of wickednesse Henr. I confesse it but with how much greater wickedness are those insolencies by our selves deserved Such sin only against a mortall Prince but we Princes against an aeternall Deitie But you Sir unless a mark'd out Sacrafice God so willing for your sinnes enormities could you not have mocqu'd that arrest of Popular judgement by your Prerogative in dissolving of the Parliament Carol. I did what I could to dissolve it but I pray heare what follow'd after my so doing The Scottish men my naturall Subjects in hostile sort invaded England with their Armies whom opposing in their march at Yorke an humble Booke came to my hands by Kymbolton under written by certaine Noble men of my Kingdome Henric. King Henry hearing Kymbolton nam'd after fetching first a very deepe sigh Oh Katherine sayes he 〈…〉 Kymbolton that Woman of all other most deare to me as excelling all her Sex in vertue whom I Banish'd Heav'n forgive me from my Bed to make place therein for that Strumpet Anne of Bollen afterwards publiquely beheaded for Adultery hath exchanged this so hated Life This Divorce against both heav'ns and humane Lawes to the end that I might make it firme made me usurpe unto me the authority of the Church when unless with so horrid a Sacraledge I could not uphold the impiety of that villany Hence broke upon our selves and both our Kingdomes the inundation of all these pressing miseries Carol. When holding forth Kymboltons Booke from this sayes he as by one wave of a Deluge hath also flow'd the totall Sea of my disasters for unadvisedly O my griefe I condiscended they so craving to a Treaty with the Scots in which J bound my selfe firmly to make Good what in my name should by my Delegates be agreed upon These Deputed O imprudent Drones or rather indeed perfidious Traytors gave concessions to the insidiating Scots to take strong Holds into their hands within my Kingdom till such time as by my Kingly authority the Parliament then dissolved should be revoked Writs therefore I accordingly issued forth The Scots are most Liberally gratifi'd nor doe they suffer them sooner to leave England then that first J had engaged my Princely Faith by a writing under my Hand and Seale this Hamilton also unhappily Councell'd me that unfortunate kinsman of mine not to anull the said new Sessions of Parliament till such time as they should all thereto assent Henric. Oh stupiditie or rather extreamest Madness Didst thou not see when to thy stiffe-neck'd People thou Granted this that thou putt'st a finall Period to the sway of thy Kingly Authority This was one and the self-same thing as if thou hadst given into the hands of the Parliament thy Scepter and thy Princely Diadem on condition not to have them again untill such time as they should please to restore them Thee But much otherwise should I have handled mine Though now it is as cleere as noone day that the measure of my Sins hath been made-up in Thee by Thy unhappie Participation of my Schismes and that by blinding the eyes of thy mind in Propitiation of the offended Dietie Gods just vengeance hath brought on Thee destruction Whom God will destroy hee taketh away their Right understanding But when once it was come to that passe Thou shouldst have

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