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A95684	A thakns-giving [sic] for the recovery of Philip, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. Who being lately admitted into the supreame authority of the nation a Knight for Berkshire; was unfortunately jeared into a pestilent-feaver, which after turn'd to the fowl disease, but by the skill of a state-emperick and Mrs. May his nurse is happily recovered: and desires a thanksgiving for the same, from the supreame authority, and all other well-affected to the nation. Taken verbatim from his own mouth, by Michael Oldsworth.	Oldisworth, Michael, 1591-1654?	1649 (1649)	Wing T837A; Thomason E556_23; ESTC R204637	4,815	8

A THAKNS-GIVING For the Recovery of PHILIP EARL OF PEMBROKE and Montgomery Who being lately admitted into the Supreame Authority of the Nation a Knight for Berkshire was unfortunately jeared into a Pestilent-Feaver which after turn'd to the Foul Disease but by the skill of a State-Emperick and Mrs. May his Nurse is happily Recovered And desires a Thanksgiving for the same from the Supreame Authority and all other Well-affected to the Nation Taken verbatim from his own mouth BY MICHAEL OLDSWORTH May 29 Printed in the happy yeer of the Lords Liberty 1649. A THANKS-GIVING For the Recovery of PHILIP EARL OF PEMBROKE and Montgomery THey tax me with swearing Damme 't is a scurvy trick that I learnt in King Iameses time ' zbloud I cannot leave it if I should be hang'd If I have not striv'd as much to leave this sin as any Member in the House I am a Traytor Refuse me I have not only sworn but forsworn my self over and over again and yet they say I am a coustant swearer confound me if I love Oaths or to keep Oaths let them keep them that make Conscience of them A pox of Conscience for me I know not what it is large Conscience and little Conscience is all one to me ' zbloud my Lord Capel us'd Conscience and the late King suffer'd for His Conscience No no 't is just they should suffer that are so Malignant as to keep any scruple of it I 'le have a care of that I 'le warrant you though I am a Fool I am not a Conscientious fool if I am let me suffer ' bloud I think I have suffered as much as any man living for my time I have suffer'd switching Caining jearing and now sickness and yet am thought by the people to be never a whitt the better for my sufferings Damme I may be the better in time for worser I think I cannot be and therefore I desire all people to pray for me yet I thank God I am amended over I was these rogues are able to jear a horse to death and you know a horse hath a bigger head and is a bigger beast every way then I am and hath more brains and strength to bear it Damme if I suffer them any longer let them briddle me and saddle me and ride me for a fool I have had too much patience and I think that caused sickness for I was damnable impatient in my sickness and so I purpose to be unto my dying day can any man be patient to suffer himself to be so abused and cannot tell how to help himself If the State will suffer it let them the wrong is theirs as well as mine I am the ancientest Earl in the Parliament and should be their Head and if they will suffer every fool to make a Foot-ball of their Head 't is pitty but they should be a Body without a Head Damme 't is a monsterous thing to be without a head or a head-piece either a head-piece will keep off a blow I am sure I found the miss of it a pox take the Scot he bruised my head and my bones too and said moreover he would crown it with a Piss-pot but his head doth not ake for that now They say he that is called the Prince of WALES is providing head-pieces in Holland and if they suffer me to be still jeared and derided I know nothing to the contrary but they may be knock'd o' th' head themselves before next yeer yet I am an Old man and 't is time for me to give over fighting Dam me I never drew a sword in anger in my life and should be loath to begin now in my Old dayes but if they will fight let them I never knew any good come by fighting I am sure it hath done hurt on either side and yet we love it so well with a pox that we must fight agaist our own Party too ' z bloud are we mad to kill our selves 't is Murder by the Law and in my judgement he that kills himself deserves to be hang'd and not shot to death as they are Dam me I know Death is terrible but yet not so terrible as to fright us into WAR that brings Death and War one with another too like two Dogs to fight for a Bone till a third comes and runs away with it I am bound in Conscience to speak my mind and yet it had been better for me to have been born dumb then ever to have spoke at all for let me speak but two words presently it begets a SPEECH and then there is laughing work for the whole City for a month Nay my own Tenants get my Speeches by rote and report them on their Ale-benches and swear with as great a grace as my self My Lord Mulgrave you are a man that I dare open my self too Dam me would I could open as loud as Thunder My Lord the Parliament is become Common and that makes it Common and every thing they do is made Common and all their Speeches Acts Declarations and Protestations are but as so many Lasts for the Cavaliers to make Shooes on we must have Diurnals Scouts Occurrences and the Devil and all for them to make jears on ' zbloud I am not such a fool but I can tell from whence all this proceeds A Member cannot let a Fart in the House but presently he finds it wrapt up in two sheets of a Diurnal I pitty other men as well as my self My Lord here is the Worshipful Alderman Atkins is sensible my Lord and hath formerly made Complaint to me in the Lords House but Lord help us to little purpose for an unmannerly fellow cannot so much as let a Fart but presently he cryes Atkins My Lord Mulgrave it is a stinking shame that our Members should be thus abused I hope my Lord you will move the House for a speedy Redress in this Had I dy'd my Lord sink me I am Mortal flesh and bloud gra●s and hay as another man is and so subject to dye A pox take 'um they made my Will and Testament and my Epitaph too thinking I had been Mortus est as my Chaplain saith and then I had had a sweet Fame had I not for ever and ever to be sung up and down in Ballads to the tune of the Great Boobee My Lord 't is all your cases as well as mine But blessed be God I am alive and may live to see them all hanged that are the occasioners of this Dam me I never gave them occasion to be thus abused but I am such a fool as I can forget an injury presently nay and forgive too but I can neither forget nor forgive this My Lord we must look after the occasioners of this for take away the occasions and the effects will cease of themselves if the Diurnals had occasioned my death ' zbloud I have reason to kill them if I can and yet I was never much guilty of shedding Bloud in my life I had rather swear

bloud a thousand times then shed bloud once my Lord innocent bloud would trouble a Parliament mans Conscience if he had any but this is no time for a Parliament man to have Conscience ' zbloud I swore away mine above 40 yeers ago and I hope there is not a Member in the House but hath sworn away his too or else he is forsworn Besides we being the Supream Authority in th● Nation and invested with Power and Authority from the peoeple to be questioned upon Cas●s of Consci●nce or rules of Reason for what we doe My Lord the State needs not to render a reason to any one either to Li●burne or any body else and if they will not be rul'd without reason the State must rule them by force D●mme my Lord force is above reason for doth not our power lie in our force● had it not been for our forces would reason have sav'd us from hanging thinke ye This Nation must be rul'd by force and not reason Damme reason has brought the Land to that passe that it is for can a mischief happen without there be some reason for it Damme I know no difference between reason and treason if the State please to make any thing treason then Sinke me 't is treason and let him dispute against it that dares No reason is one of the Levellers Principles and not to be allow'd of in a free State if the rest were of my minde we would Vote any man a Traytor that could but render half a reason for I take it to be a contempt of a high nature against out Authority and so a crime unpardonable Damme I bannish'd it out of the University of Oxford and my Lord Generall hath since taken Degrees there with the Lieftenant Generall and divers other Gentlemen that understand as little reason as my self Damme it reviveth my drooping sick soul to heare that they are become Members of All-soules and be God for ought I know it may prove a means of saving their soules Damme I am their Chancellor and would have Visited them there but that a Pox on 't I was Visited my self Judge me they have honored me and i● I had been well I would have honored them again with my presence but I hope Mr. Button did it for me he is the better Orator of the two or else he is not worth a Button Had I not been ill all the men in the world could not have kept me from a Banquet I lov'd sweet-meats from a childe and now I am almost become a Child again for old men be twice children and Chi●dren are loving and love sweet things and be God I thinke it is a sweet thing for Brethren to agree and Banquet together in unity The University I hope gave them good content and Mr. Mandit and Mr. Wil●ison made them two good Sermons to save their souls they were souldiers and souldiers have souls to save as well as others and if they will loose their souls they may and yet 't is their owne fault if they doe because they are members of All-souls can fight for souls and preach to save souls too and now being University-men they may doe it lawfully too without the mocks and flouts of the Reprobate Cavees who profanely terme them Tub-men Anabaptists Iesuites c. Damme I was never much Book-learn'd because I took Hunting to be a more Noble exercize then learning is it not better musick to hear a Pack of Doggs mouth it then a company of Schollars gabling the language of the Beast in an unknown tongue No I am no Schollar but a Statesman and good Statesmen cannot make good Schollars you my see by Canterbery and Strafford both good Schollars but ill Statesemen and you may see what their learning brought them too Refuse me 't is a dangerous thing to be a Schollar Philip had rather be a Scullar and get his living backwards as he gets his Honor then take out such lessons my head would look scurvily on London-bridge without a Perriwigge and therefore God send me Ignorance A Pox a learning for me 't is the worst enemy the State has for there is no mischief committed but it is first learnt therefore is not learning the cause of it Do's not Lilburne learn the Levellers and the Levellers learne the People and the Devill learn them all to disobey their Superiours and set us together by the ears ' Zblood could I get but a lusty hunts-man or a Falconer that could man my wife the Roague Ouldisworth should not stay a day in my House for I am sure I have learnt no goodnesse on him his learning is the cause of my sicknesse for had not he learnt me to make Speeches to speak witty Sentences and the like I had not been so jeered that I am asham'd to take my Coach the very children pointing and making horns at me saying There goes my l●a●ned Lord of Pembroke and my wise Lord of Pembroke but I thank God I have so much wisedom● as to bid my Coachman drive away Damme I hate revenge 't is base in a Nob●eman to seek revenge No I had rather fall sick againe then seek r●venge because 't is dangerous But J am now recovered of my si●knesse and therefore I hope all men will rejoyce and give thanks and J shall desire the Supreame Authority to set apart a day of Thanksgiving and Order the same Damme they shall loose nothing by 't for J will bestow a Thanksgiving Dinner on them for 't is a signe of health that J begin to be hungry and hunger had need of a good dinner No man hath given more Thankes for the Parliaments Victories then my selfe Mistris May can witnesse it Judgeme in my judgement one thanksgiving deserves another the Levellers are now levell'd and destroy'd and as God shall judge me J had like to have been levell'd into my grave and then J had been destroy'd too and therefore one Thanksgiving may serve both And so J take my leave of you for the present not noubting but you will remember me in your Prayers Yours till death Philip Herbert Knight for Berkshire AND Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery FINIS Die Martis 29 May 1649. ORdered that the next Innocents Day shall be a generall Thanksgiving throughout England and Wales for the happy recovery of the Earl of Pembroke Hen. Scobell Cler. Parl.