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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44747	The pre-eminance and pedigree of Parlement whereunto is added a vindication of some passages reflecting upon the author in a book call'd The popish royall favorite, pen'd and published by Mr. Prynne wherein he stiles him no frend [sic] to Parlements and a malignant, pag. 42 : with a clearing of som occurences in Spain at His Majesties being there, cited by the said Master Prynne out of the vocal forest / by J.H., Esq., one of the clerks of His Maiesties most honourable Privy-Councel.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669. Popish royall favourite.	1649 (1649)	Wing H3107; ESTC R28696	11,947	24

would grant none unlesse some Capitulations were stipulated in favour of the Romish Catholics in England the same in substance were agreed on with France Well when the dispensation came which was negotiated solely by the King of Spains Ministers because His Majesty would have as little to do as might be with Rome Pope Gregory the fifteenth who died a little after sent His Majesty a Letter which was delivered by the Nuncio wherof an answer was sent a while after Which Letters were imprinted and exposed to the view of the world because His Majesty would not have people whisper that the busines was carried in a clandestine manner And truly besides this I do not know of any Letter or Message or Complement that ever pass'd 'twixt His Majesty and the Pope afore or after som addresses peradventure might be made to the Cardinals to whom the drawing of those matrimonial dispatches was referred to quicken the work but this was only by way of civil negotiation Now touching that Responsory Letter from His Majesty it was not other than a Complement in the severest interpretation and such formalities pass 'twixt the Crown of England and the great Turk and divers Heathen Princes The Pope writ first and no man can deny but by all moral rules and in common humane civility His Majesty was bound to answer it specially considering how punctual they are in those Countries to correspond in this kind how exact they are in repaying visits and the performance of such Ceremonies And had this compliance bin omitted it might have made very ill impressions as the posture of things stood then for it had prejudiced the great work in hand I mean the Match which was then in the heat and hight of agitation His Majesties person was ther engag'd and so it was no time to give the least offence They that are never so little vers'd in business abroad do know that ther must be addresses compliances and formalities of this nature according to the Italian Proverb That one must somtimes light a candle to the Devil us'd in the carriage of matters of State as this great business was wheron the eyes of all Christendom were so greedily fix'd A business which was like to bring with it such an universall good as the restitution of the Palatinate the quenching of those hideous fiers in Germany and the establishing of a peace through all the Christian World I hope none will take offence that in this particular which comes within the compas of my knowledg being upon the Stage when this Scene was acted I do this right to the King my Master in displaying the Truth and putting her forth in her own colours a rare thing in these dayes TOuching the Vocal Forest an allegorical Discourse that goes abroad under my name a good while before the beginning of this Parlement which this Gentleman cites and that very faithfully I understand ther be som that mutter at certain passages therin by putting ill glosses upon the Text and taking with the left hand what I offer with the right Nor is it a wonder for Trees which lye open and stand exposed to all weathers to be nipt But I desire this favour which in common justice I am sure in the Court of Chancery cannot be denied me it being the priviledg of evry Author and a received maxim through the World Cujus est condere ejus est interpretari I say I crave this favour to have leave to expound my own Text and I doubt not then but to rectifie any one in his opinion of me and that in lieu of the Plums which I give him from those Trees he will not throw the stones at me Moreover I desire those that are over critical Censurers of that Peece to know that as in Divinity it is a rule Scriptura parabolica non est argumentativa so it is in all other kind of knowledg Parables wherof that Discourse is composed though pressed never so hard prove nothi●g Ther is another Rule also That Parables must be gently used like a Nurses Brest which if you press too hard you shall have bloud in stead of milk But as the Author of the Vocal Forest thinks he hath done neither his Countrey nor the Common-wealth of Learning any prejudice therby That maiden fancy having received so good entertainment and respect abroad as to bee translated into divers Languages and to gain the public approbation of som famous Universities So hee makes this humble protest unto all the World that though the design of that discourse was partly Satyrical which peradventure induc'd the Author to shrowd it of purpose under the shadows of Trees and wher should Satyres be but amongst Trees yet it never entred into his imagination to let fall from him the least thing that might give any offence to the High and Honorable Court of Parlement wherof he had the honor to be once a Member and hopes he may be thought worthy again And were he guilty of such an offence or piacle rather he thinks he should never forgive himself though he were appointed his own Judge If ther occur any passage therin that may admit a hard construction let the Reader observe That the Author doth not positively assert or passe a judgement on any thing in that Discourse which consists principally of concise cursory narrations of the choisest Occurrences and Criticisms of State according as the pulse of time did beat then And matters of State as al● other sublunary things are subject to alterations contingencies and change which makes the opinions an● minds of men vary accordingly not one among● twenty is the same man to day as he was four yeer● ago in point of judgement which turns and alter● according to the circumstance and successe of things And it is a true saying whereof we find common experience Posterior dies est prioris Magister The da● following is the former dayes Schoolmaster Then another Aphorism The wisdome of one day is foolis●nes to another and 't will be so as long as ther is man left in the World I will conclude with this modest request to that Gentleman of the long Robe That having unpassionately perus'd what I have written in this small Discourse in penning wherof my conscience guided my quill all along as well as my hand he would please to be so charitable and just as to reverse that harsh sentence upon me To be no Frend to Parlements and a Malignant FINIS

Every night before I go to bed I have the grace I thank God for it to forgive all the world and not to harbour or let roost in my bosom the least malignant thought yet none can deny but the aspersions which this my Accuser casts upon me were enough to make me a malignant towards him yet it could never have the power to do it For I have prevail'd with my self to forgive him this his wrong censure of me issuing rather from his not-knowledg of me than from malice for we never mingled speech or saw one another in our lives to my remembrance which makes me wonder the more that a Professor of the Law as he is should pronounce such a positive sentence against me so slightly But me thinks I over-hear him say That the precedent discourse of Parlement is involv'd in generals and the Topique Axiom tels us that Dolus versatur in universalibus ther is double dealing in universals His meaning is that I am no friend to this present Parlement though he speaks in the plural number Parlements and consequently he concludes me a Malignant Therin I must tell him also that I am traduc'd and I am confident it will be never prov'd against me from any Actions words or letters though divers of mine have bin intercepted or any other misdemeanor though som things are father'd upon me which never drop'd from my Quill Alas how unworthy and uncapable am I to censure the proceedings of that great Senate that high Synedrion wherin the wisdom of the whole State is epitomized It were a presumption in me of the highest nature that could be It is enough for me to pray for the prosperous success of their consultations And as I hold it my duty so I have good reason so to do in regard I am to have my share in the happines And could the utmost of my poor endeavours by any ministerial humble office and somtimes the meanest Boatswain may help to preserve the Ship from sinking be so happy as to contribute any thing to advance that great work which I am in despair to do while I am thus under hatches in this Fleet I would esteem it the greatest honour that possibly could befall me as I hold it now to be my greatest disaster to have faln so heavily under an affliction of this nature and to be made a sacrifice to publike fame than which ther is no other proof nor that yet urg'd against me or any thing else produc'd after so long so long captivity which hath brought me to such a low ebbe and put me so far behind in the course of my poor fortunes and indeed more than half undon me For although my whole life since I was left to my self to swim as they say without bladders has bin nothing else but a continued succession of crosses and that ther are but few red letters found God wot in the Almanack of my Age for which I account not my self a whit the lesse happy yet this cross has carried with it a greater weight it hath bin of a larger extent longer continuance and lighted heavier upon me than any other and as I have present patience to bear it so I hope for subsequent grace to make use of it accordingly that my old Motto may be still confirmed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} HE produceth my attestation for som passages in Spain at His Majesties being ther and he quotes me aright which obligeth me to him And I hope all his quotations wherin he is so extraordinarily copious and elaborate in all his works are so yet I must tell him that those interchangeable Letters which passed between His Majesty and the Pope which were originally couch'd in Latine the language wherin all Nations treat with Rome and the Empire with all the Princes thereof those Letters I say are adulterated in many places which I impute not to him but to the French Chroniclen from whom he took them in trust The truth of that busines is this The world knows ther was a tedious treaty of an Alliance 'twixt the Infanta Dona Maria who now is Empresse and His Majesty which in regard of the slow affected pace of the Spaniard lasted about ten yeers as that in Henry the sevenths time 'twixt Prince Arthur and afterwards Queen Katherine was spun out above seven To quicken or rather to consummate the work His Majesty made that adventurous journey through the whole Continent of France into Spain which voyage though ther was a great deal of gallantry in it whereof all posterity will ring untill it turn at last to a Romance yet it prov'd the bane of the busines which 't is not the arrand of so poor a Pamphlet as this to unfold His Majesty being ther arriv'd the ignorant common people cryed out the Prince of Wales came thither to make himself a Christian The Pope writ to the Inquisitor General and others to use all industry they could to reduce him to the Roman Religion And one of Olivares first complements to him was That he doubted not but that His Highnes came thither to change His Religion Wherunto he made a short answer That he came not thither for a Religion but for a Wife Ther were extraordinay processions made and other artifices us'd by protraction of things to make him stay ther of purpose till the Spring folllowing to work upon him the better And the Infanta her self desir'd him which was esteem'd the greatest favour he received from her all the while to visit the Nun of Carion hoping that the said Nun who was so much cryed up for miracles might have wrought one upon him but her art failed her nor was His Highnesse so weak a subject to worke upon according to His late Majesties speech to Doctor Mawe and Wren who when they came to kisse his hands before they went to Spain to attend the Prince their Master He wished them to have a care of Buckingham as touching his Son Charls he apprehended no fear at all of him for he knew him to be so well grounded a Protestant that nothing could shake him in his Religion The Arabian Proverb is That the Sun never soiles in his passage though his Beams reverberate never so strongly and dwell never so long upon the Myry lake of Maeotis the black Turf'd Moors of Holland the Aguish Woose of Kent and Essex or any other place be it never so dirty Though Spain be a hot Country yet one may passe and repasse through the very Center of it and never be Sun-burnt if he carry with him a Bongrace and such a one His Majesty had Well after His Majesties arrival to Madrid the treaty of Marriage went on still though hee told them at his first coming that he came not thither like an Ambassadour to treat of Marriage but as a Prince to fetch home a Wife and in regard they were of different Religions it could not be done without a dispensation from the Pope and the Pope