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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

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

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

Errours For vexing with much cruelty the Catholiques and usurping or maintaining this Supremacy I certainly never innovated Religion of all others have bin mildest unto Catholiques nay even next of all acceded to their Tenents In fine I have exerciz'd this Supremacy with a moderation surpassing all the rest and by reason I did not judge it fitting or becomming any Lay-mans undertaking The whole charge thereof at least the greater part J recommended to the Arch-bishop of Canterburie Henric. But hast thou not observ'd that of the whole English Episcopacie only Canterbury in these troubles lost his head both Documents of the highest instruction Thou for Kings and that Patriarch for Prelates who if their Heads they would have stand upon their shoulders must not make themselves Heads of the Church by hereafter prejudicing the Roman Iurisdiction but what avail'd it thee to have approximated unto Popery unlesse throughly thou hadst embrac'd that Faith for it sufficeth not to stand in the Portch unless thou enter into the bosome of the Church Moreover many in these gulfes below the Earth are much more grievously Tormented and vex'd because they knew but have not exerciz'd the Truth that in some things King Agrippa was a Christian was not sufficient to worke his Salvation No for that throughly hee was not converted by Paul hee now burnes with me in aeternall flames did I not my Self sometimes professe that Faith in all particulars only abslracting from the Popes Supremacy but Sinning in that one sole defection I am guilty of all those other Abominations But hee that spar'd not Paul his incredulity doing things of which he then was ignorant will not spare this most execrated Head of mine who have wittingly nay and willingly perished But how frivolous is that which thou pretendest to extenuate the malice of thy crime when thou faist thou didst not exercize the Supremacy onely left it unto Canterbury to doe it As though indeed thou hadst not Exerciz'd that charge whereunto thou hadst deputed another Nay more I hold that Strafford lost his Head so Provided by the aeternall Iustice for that also He then carried thine as being thy Vicar in the Church of Ireland Carol. As I have not wholly been exempt from all fault so having proceeded much more moderately in the Supremacy and promoted more the Peace of the Church then all these others who have passed before me I would faine know why I am the most of all punished Henrie Thou hast not observ'd it seemes that jealous God who punisheth in the Child the Fathers faultiness how he scourgeth the impieties of the wieked to the third and also fourth Generation least if only hee should scourge us in our selves we might think that any enormions impiety would be easily and more suddenly expiated nor deferres he to punish till so long after that his memory who sinneth should die but least it should be forgotten that he was punished for sinning Thou art the third now from the cradle of Schisme who hath raigned King in which Generation thou sufferest For though my two Daughters first Mary then Elezabeth have Successively inherited the Crowne yet those two with their Brother King Edward who was my Son make up but one Generation if you number therfore either the Kings or Generations Edward me James him and thou James have successively and in order followed nor hath it happened but by the hand of God that the heavenly vengeance should have fallen upon thy head the most innocent and moderate of all the rest To shew that not so much thy private Sins have been chastized by his Rod of Iustice as the Hereditary evils of thy office with what impieties still attend thy Titles as it is said The fathers have eaten sower Grapes and the Teeth of their children have been set on edge Ezek. 18. Which take not as though Children intirely innocent should be overwhelmed by their Fathers faultiness For the Soule that sinnes it selfe shall Dye But that such who are lesse faulty nay ev'n innocent as it were in comparison of their Fathers crimes doe yet suffer often something of their merit For if that punishment had happen'd in the time of any wicked and luxurious Prince I should not have sought for its infliction any where else then from the crimes of such a Trus'd-up Potentate But that my Subjects who stile themselves Protestants should by taking off thy head thus punish thee whom thy very Enemies cannot asperce with any crime came not indeed by any other way to passe but through that Capitall transgression of our Pride in presuming to be Heads of the Church and as I was the last of my name both King and also Head of the Church so thou Oh too too unfortunate Charles art the first of thy name that ever Raigned and the last that shal be Head of the Church Carol. I feele indeed the judgements of God to have fallen very heavily upon me for as out of one false Principle in Faith many absurdities arise of Opinions so out of one unhapple Apostacie from the Church many others have followed after at the heeles which the newer and more recent that they are the more dangerous and more to be took heed of Thou began'st others increas'd that Sacraledge which when afterwards some had fully perfected I at last bore the Heft of all Thou tearing from the Roman Obedience thy people and Bishops of England would'st be accompted J and wert independent and the Head of the reformed Church Now a Sect of Independants hath broke out God revenging so the Sin of thy Sacraledge who regarding neither King nor Bishops first tooke off my Spirituall head then my owne Cut and sever'd from my shoulders one Cromwell in thy time then liv'd of thy Cabinet and most secret Councels who perswaded thee a King to spoyle the Church now another of that name and not unlike him forc'd the People to destroy their King Oh how just are the judgements of God and his wayes inscrutable For if not sooner in our selves in our Posterities shall we at last be punish'd in that very kind in the which we have offended Oh God that whilest I lived in this world I had seriously pondered these things at the least when so much leafure sometimes serv'd me in the time of my most tedious imprisonment Happie man had I paus'd upon the series of Gods judgements from above so threatning me in the ama●itude and bitterness of my Soule I had leasure indeed to dally with my Pen and write a Booke of other things a whole one as my Armies how they came to be destroyed of the miseries and distresses of my Life and the insolencies those especially of the Souldiers but never once call'd to mind those very things which I should most of all have printed on my thoughts Oh Juxonius so I call'd the Bishop of London or else Lawd my faithful Counceller and friend why have neither of you admonish'd me of these things either by Letters or Friends that did commune with me for being three yeares a Prisoner before my Death I had time enough to think of all these things But they had Eyes and they could not see Oh how Blind were all these that saw mee and well may what followes be appli'd to us At Length we Phrigians but too late grew wise Henric. This also I would have men duly Ponder how the Parliament the very name whereof's so Idol'd especially by the effacinated English is devolv'd now into a Lower house both the Bishops and the Lords Ejected in whose Votes was once the totall Authority the House of Commons being not any thing regarded A just punishment indeed for their flattering me into a presumption of being Head of the Church who themselves are now all trodden under foot sometimes sitting as the Heads of Parliament And this by that third Order without order unto which they are so shamefully subjected For England as now plainly it appeareth from a Paradice is translated into a Hell in which no Order but perpetuall horror inhabiteth where A man strong in Armes keepes our Court and holds peaceably his usurp'd Possessions This third Order being growne to that height that Kingly Government which had its Period in thy Fate unless by Miracle can never hold up its Head Hence learne O yee Kings to bee wise and take instructions you that Iudge the Earth The Souldiers then at hand of CROMVVELL understanding this hard fate of Monarchy which should hardly ever rise from out its Ruines tooke good heart and with great noise and laughter ran in crouds from out the Church of Windsor each one glad that he had lent a hand by cutting off this head of the Church to the execution of the Heavenly justice But not knowing or lesse happily Ruminating that the Father oft-times burnes the Rod with the which hee doth chastise his Child IN MALEVOLOS HUJUS Narratiunculae obtrectatores ZOILE ne laceres morsu mea scripta canino Néve meris dicas omnia suta dolis Extimus historiae cortex volo fictus habetor Vera sed huic intùs ligna subisse scies Istaque corporeis licèt auribus invia nostris Mentis at internis sensibus hausta putes Eia age mendacem me carptor inepte Poëetam Occine narranti res dabit ipsa fidem R. P. ZOILVS desist with Currish Teeth to teare This worke of mine Nor it as meerly jeare Made up of Frands The outmost Barke indeed Is Fiction But Truth dwels in the in-side And what th' Eare strucke not outwardly That know Our Minds most inward sence both Heard and Saw Cease Criticke then nor sing my Booke hath Ly'd That story will find Faith which Truth doth write G. T. An Extract out of the 8. Centurie of Michael Nostrodamus his Prophesies Stroph. 71. Printed the yeare 1603. in the beginning of King James his Raigne Father of King Charles late deceased touching the Government now at present in England A Warrier not a King shall England awe One Low-Borne shall by Force that Empire Sway Loose Faithlesse Lawlesse shall the earth begore Whose Time 's so neare at hand I sigh therefore Glory be to GOD. FIN 1660. CaroLVs Del GratIa AngLIae ReX SVCCefsIVe seCVnDVs RegnabIt seCVrVs et tVtVs Crouogramma Restaurationis CAROLI Secundi hoc ipso Anno 1660. E Numericis Alphabetae Literis ex eodem Diductis CCCCC D.D.LL.X.VVVVVVVVV.IIIII 1660. Auspiciis Adsit Numen vivatque Reversus