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A44760	The trve informer who in the following discovrse or colloqvie discovereth unto the vvorld the chiefe causes of the sa[]d distempers in Great Britanny and Ireland / deduced from their originals ; and also a letter writ by Serjeant-Major Kirle to a friend at VVinsor.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Kirle, Robert.	1643 (1643)	Wing H3122A; ESTC R30343	38,453	46

a saying When your neighbours house is on fire by its light you may see in what danger your owne stands And was England so blinde as not to take warning by so many fearful combustions abroad When I took my leave last of her I left her in such a compleat condition of happinesse both in Court Countrey Citie and Sea that she was the envie of all Europe in so much that that Golden Verse might be fitly applied to her then Golden times Mollia securae peragebant otia Gentes The Court was never so glorious being hansell'd every yeer almost with a new Royall Off-spring the Gentrie no where more gallant and sportfull the Citizen never more gorgeous and rich and so abounding with treasure bullion and buildings that no age can parallel Commerce inward and outward was never at that height the Customes increasing every yeer to admiration the narrow Seas were never guarded with braver Ships nor the Navie Royall for number of Vessels and Magazines of all sorts of materials was ever so well replenished the Universities had never such golden dayes and lastly the Church did so flourish that amongst the rest of the Reformed Churches of Christendom I have heard her call'd the Church Triumphant Besides Ireland was arriv'd almost to the same degree of prosperitie for all the Arrerages of the Crown were paid and not a peny sent hence for many yeers to maintain the standing Armie there or for any other publique charge as formerly Traffique came to that monstrous height that in few yeeres the Crown-customes came to be five times higher In fine Ireland was brought not onely to subsist of her selfe but inabled to contribute towards the filling of the English Exchequer and to make some retribution of those vast expences the Crown of England hath been at any time these 400 yeers to reduce her to civilitie her bogs were almost all dri'd up and made good land her mudwals turn'd apace to Bricke in divers places so that one Sommer that I fortun'd to be there above 50. new Bricke-houses were built in one Town But it hath been the fate of that Island to be oftentimes neer a condition of a setled happinesse and yet to have some odde accident still intervene to crosse it In conclusion there wanted nothing to make England and her united Crownes so exactly blessed that she might have assumed the Title of one of the Fortunate Islands Good Lord how comes it to passe that she is now fallen into such horrid distempers and like a distracted bodie laying hands upon her selfe would thrust the sword of civill war into her own bowels I beseech you Sir impart unto me the true cause of this change for I know none so capable to do it as your selfe Patr. Infandum Peregrine jubes renovare dolorem First Sir in the generall you know that it is with the Regions upon Earth as it is with those of the Ayre● sometimes we have a clear azur'd skie with soft gentle ventilations and a sweet serenitie throughout the whole Hemisphete at other times we know the face of the Heavens is overcast with frownes with Frog vapours and thicke cloudes of various shapes which look like Monsters hovering up and down and break at last into thunder and fulgurations and so disquiet and raise a kinde of war in the Aereal Common wealth Just so in the Regions that are dispers'd up and down this earthly Globe peopled with men which are but a composition of the Elements you have sometimes a gentle calme of peace and quietude with a generall tranquillitie all the Countrey over at other times you have ugly mishapen cloudes of jealousies feares and discontentments do rise up which break out at last into acts of disobedience rebellion and furie And as those Aereall Meteors and Monsters above are ingendered of those watery fogges and mists which are drawn up out of fenny and rotten low grounds here upon earth so in the Region of the minde the ill vapours which ascend to the brain from rotten and impostumated hearts from desperate and male-contented humorists are the causes of all civill commotions and distempers in State But they have much to answer for in the world to come though they escape it in this who for any private interest or respect whatsoever either of Promotion Vain glorie Revenge Malice or Envie will embroyle and plunge their own native Countrey in any publike ingagement or civill war by putting a partition-wall betwixt their soveraigne Prince and their fellow Subjects Truly in mine opinion these may be called the worst kinde of Betrayers of their Countries but I am too farre transported from satisfying your request in relating the true causes of these calamities I will now fall to worke and bring you to the very source of them There is a packe of perverse People composed for the most part of the scummy and simplest sort multiplied in England who by a kinde of naturall inclination are opposite so point blanke to Monarchie in State and Hierarchie in Church that if they were in Heaven whither 't is to be feared they run a great hazard ever to enter it being a Rule that he who is rotten hearted to his King can never be right hearted to his Creatour I say if these men were in Heaven they would go near to repine at the Monarchicall Power of God Almighty himselfe and at the degrees of Angels and the postures of holinesse in the Church Triumphant They call every Crotchet of the brain tendernesse of conscience which being well examined is nothing else but a meer spirit of contradiction and disobedience to all higher Powers which posseseth them There are no Constitutions either Ecclesiasticall or Civill can please them but they could cast both into such a mould which their crack'd braines would fain devise yet are never able to bring to any perfection they are ever labouring to bring Religion to the dock to be new trimm'd but they would take down her fore-caste and scarce allow her the Kings Armes to adorn her they are great listners after any Court newes and pricke up their eares when any thing is spoken of King Queen or Privie Counsellour and are alwayes ready though upon loose trust to take up any report whereby they may whisper in Conventicles and corners and so traduce the Government These great Zealots use to look upon themselves most cōmonly through multiplying glasses which make them appear to be such huge Santons that it renders them not onely uncharitable in their opinions of others but Lucifcrian-like proud in their own conceit insomuch that they seem to scorne all the world besides believing that they are the onely Elect whose soules worke according to the motion of the Spirit that they are the Children of promise whose faces alone look towards Heaven they are more pleased with some new reach or fancie that may puzzle the pericranium than a Frenchman is with some new fashion in cloathing they are nearest to the nature of the Jew of

any people upon earth and will converse with him sooner than with some sort of Christians and as in the Pharisaicall Disposition they symbolise with the Jew so in some of their Positions they jumpe pat with the Iesuit for though they are both in the extremes and as contrary one to the other as the scales of a Diameter yet their opinions and practices are concentrique to depresse Regall power both of them would binde their Kings in chaines and the Nobles in linkes of iron they both deny all passive obedience and as the one would have the morter of the Temple tempered with bloud so the other would beat Religion into the brain with the Pole-axe Their greatest master-piece of policie is to forge counterfeit newes and to divulge and disperse it as farre as they can to amuse the world for the advancement of their Designes and strengthening of their partie but the Iesuit doth it more cunningly and modestly for he fetcheth his newes from farre so that before the falshood of it can be controll'd his worke is commonly done and the newes forgotten but these later Polititians use to raise lyes hard by home so that the grosnesse and palpablenesse of them is presently discovered Besides to avoid the extremes of the other these later seem fall into flat prophanenesse for they may be called a kinde of enemies to the very Name Crosse and Church of Christ Touching the first they repine at any reverence to be done unto it though spontaneous not coercive For the second which was held from the beginning to be the badge and banner of a Christian they crie it up to be the marke of the beast and for the last they would have it to be neither beautifull holy nor amiable which are the three main properties which God requires in his House To conclude when any comes to be season'd with this sower leaven he seemes to degenerate presently from the nature and garbe of a Gentleman and fals to be of a sordid and low disposition narrow hearted and close handed to be timorous cunning and jealous and farre from the common freedom and sweetnesse of morall societie and from all generous and loyall thoughts towards his King and Countrey These these have been the chiefest machinators and engineers of these unhappy Divisions who Viper like have torne the entrailes of their own mother their dear Countrey but there were other externe concurrent causes and to finde them out I must look Northward for there the Cloud began to condense first You know Sir the Scotish Nation were ever used to have their King personally resident amongst them and though his late Majestie by reason of his age bountie and long breeding there with other advantages drew such extraordinary respect from them that they continued in good conformitie yet since his death they have been overheard to mutter at the remotenesse and absence of their King and that they should become now a kinde of Province by reason of such a distance some of their Nobles and Gentrie found not at the English Court nor at his Majesties Coronation in Edenburgh that countenance familiaritie benefit and honours which haply they expected and 't is well known who he was that having been denied to be lorded took a pet and went discontented to his Countrey hoping that some Title added to the wealth he had got abroad should have purchased him more respect These discontented parties tamper'd with the mercenary Preachers up and down Scotland to obtrude to the People what Doctrines they put into their mouthes so that the Pulpits every where rung of nothing but of invectives against certain obliquities and soloecismes and I cannot tell what in Government and many glances they had upon the English Church yet all this while there was not matter enough for an insurrection nor to dispose the Peoples hearts to a mutinie untill by the policie as some affirmed of the said discontented partie the English Lyturgie was sent thither this by the incitement of those fiery Pulpiteers was cried up to be the greatest Idoll that possibly could be brought into their Kirk insomuch that when it was first offer'd to be read the women and baser sort of mechanickes threw stooles and stones at the Bishops heads and were ready to tear them in pieces and here began the storme His Majestie having notice hereof sent a most gracious Proclamation signifying that whereas he had recommended that Book to be practic'd amongst them wherein he himselfe served God Almightie twice a day he did it out of a pious endeavour to breed an uniformitie of publike Divine Service in all his Dominions specially in that his native Kingdom But since it had produced such dangerous effects he was contented to revoke it absolutely for it was never his purpose to presse the practise of the said Book upon the consciences of any he did onely commend not absolutely command the use of it therefore he exhorted and required that every one unto whom it had given any scandall should returne to his pristine obedience and serve God as formerly offering here with a gracious pardon and to passe an Act of Amnestia for an abolition of all faults passed Peregr And would not this suffice In naturall motions we finde that the cause being taken away the effect ceaseth and will not this hold in civill Actions Patr. No this would not serve the turne but there was a further reach in it and for an inch to take an ell you know the Scots since their single Lion came to quarter with our three are much elevated in their spirits more respected employed and trusted abroad and heightened in their resolutions and aimes and will questionlesse be dayly more and more You have heard of a mine that reach'd from our Exchecquer to Edenburgh And I beleive you have not forgot Boccolinies balance that was shewed us in Italie wherein Lorenzo de Medici weighed all the States of Christendom and throwing in England amongst the rest you know how much he made her to weigh lesse by this addition The former Proclamation I say and Pardon would not suffice but they took opportunitie to fish in those troubled waters and vent their spleen further by an utter extirpation of Episcopacie and by trampling the Mitre under their feet hoping to have some of the birds plumes being pluckt to feather their own nests and they brought their worke about Good Lord what a deal of dirt was presently thrown into the Bishops faces by every rurall petty Clerke what infamous Ballads were sung what a thicke cloud of Epidemicall hatred hung suddenly over them so farre that a Dog with blacke and white spots was called a Bishop amongst them up and down the streets The chiefest Contrivers of this uproar finding their Designe to go on so well and perceiving the whole Countrey so eagerly bent against Bishops and what artifices and suggestions were us'd to render them so odious is incredible but finding withall his Majestic unwilling to alter the Government