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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33421	The works of Mr. John Cleveland containing his poems, orations, epistles, collected into one volume, with the life of the author.	Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.	1687 (1687)	Wing C4654; ESTC R43102	252,362	558

Franciscan a Physician belonging to the Duke of Lancaster whom perhaps they hated because they had wronged his Master a Friar Carmelite the Kings Confesso●… were murdered there in this Fury Whose Heads with the Arch-bishops were born before them through London Streets and advanced over the Bridge This while the King was softning the Rebel●… of Essex at Mile-end with the Earls of Salisbury Warwick and Oxford and other Lords Thither by Proclamation he had summoned them as presu●…ing the Essexians to be more civilized and by much the fairer Enemies as indeed they were There he promises to grant them their Desires Liberty precious Liberty is the thing they ask this is given them by the King but on Condition o●… good Behaviour They are to cease their Burning and Destruction of Houses to return quietly to their Homes and offend no Man in their Way Two of every Village were to stay as Agents behind for the Kings Charters which could not be got ready in time Farther the King offer●… them his Banners Some of them were simple honest People of no ill Meaning who knew not why the Garboils were begun nor why they came thither These were won and win others without more Stir those of Essex return whence they came Tyler and Baal are of another Spirit they would not part so easily Tyler the future Monarch who had designed an Empire for himself and was now sceleribus fuit ferox atque praeclarus famous for his Villainies and haughty would not put up so he and his Kentish Rabble tarry The next day being Saturday the 17th of Iune was spent as the other Days of their Tyranny in Burning ruining Houses Murthers and Depopulations The Night of this Day the Idol and his Priest upon a new Resolution intended to have struck at the Neck of the Nation to have murthered the King the Achan of the Tribes probably by Beheading the Death these Parricides had used hitherto the Lords Gentlemen the wealthiest and honestest part of the Citizens then to have pillaged their Houses and fired the City in four parts they intended this haste to avoid odious Partnership in the Exploit and that those of Norfolk Suffolk and other parts might not share in the Spoil This Counsel of Destruction was against all Policy more Profit might have been made of this City by Excise Assessment and Taxes upon the Trade Tyler might sooner have enriched himself and have been as secure Estates make Men lofty Fear and Poverty if we may trust Machiavel bend and supple every Man had been in Danger and obnoxious to him one Clown had awed a Street Near the Abby-Church at Westminster was a Chappel with an Image of the Virgin Mary this Chappel was called the Chappel of our Lady in the ●…iew it stood near the Chappel of S. Stephen since turned from a Chappel to the Parliament House here our Lady then who would not believe it did great Miracles Richards Preservation at this time was no small one being in the Hands of the Multitude let loose and enraged There he makes his Vows of Safety after which he rides towards these Sons of Perdition under the Idol Tyler Tyler who meant to consume the Day in Cavils protests to those who were sent by the King to offer those of Kent the same Peace which the Essex Clowns had accepted that he would willingly embrace a good and honest Peace but the Propositions or Articles of it were only to be dictated by himself He is not satisfied with the Kings Charters Three Draughts are presented to him no Substance no Form would please he desires an Accommodation but he will have Peace and Truth together He exclaims that the Liberty there is deceitful but an empty Name that while the King talks of Liberty he is actually levying War setting up his Standard against his Commons that the good Commons are abused to their own Ruin and to the Miscarriage of the great Undertaking that they have with infinite Pains and Labour acquainted the King with their humble Desires who refuses to joyn with them misled and carried away by a few evil and rotten-hearted Lords and Delinquents contrary to his Coronation Oath by which he is obliged to pass all Laws offered him by the Commons whose the Legislative Power is which Denyal of his if it be not a Forfeiture of his Trust and Office both which are now useless it comes near it and he is fairly dealt with if he be not deposed which too might be done without any Want of Modesty or Duty and with the Good of the Common-wealth the Happiness of the Nation not depending on him or any of the Regal Branches I will deliver the Nation from the Norman Slavery and the World says he of an old silly Superstition That Kings are only the Tenants of Heaven obnoxious to God alone cannot be condemned and punished by any Power else I will make here he lyed not an wholesome President to the World formidable to all Tyrannies I declare That Richard Plantagenet or Richard of Bourdeaux at this time is not in a Condition to govern I will make no Addresses no Application to him nor receive any from him though I am but a dry Bone too unworthy for this great Calling yet I will finish the Work I will settle the Government without the King and against him and against all that take part with him which sufficiently justifies our Arms God with Us says he owns them Success manifests the Righteousness of our Cause this is says he the Voice of the People by us their Representative and our Counsel After the Vote of no more Addresses which with all their other Votes of Treason were to be styled the Resolution of the whole Realm and while he swells in this Ruffle Sir Iohn Newton a Knight of the Court is sent to intreat rather than to invite him to come to the King then in Smithfield where the Idols Regiments were drawn up and treat with him concerning the additional Provisions he desired to be inserted into the Charter No Observance was omitted which might be thought pleasing to his Pride which Pride was infinitely puffing Flattery was sweet to him and he had enough of it that made him bow a little when nothing else could do it We may judge at the Unreasonableness of his Demands and Supplys of new Articles out of his Instrument by one He required of the King a Commission to impower himself and a Committee Team of his own choosing to cut off the Heads of Lawyers and Escheators and of all those who by Reason of their Knowledge and Place were any way imployed in the Law He fancied if those who were learned in the Law were knocked i'th'Head all things would be ordered by the Common People either there would be no Law or that which was should be declared by him and his subject to their Will with which his Expression the day before did well agree Then attributing all things to God the God of War and his

could not be well tempered with vulgar Blood a Servant of the Arch-Bishops who had trusted himself to these Guards and Walls is forced to betray his Lord. He brings them into the Chappel where the Holy Prelate was at his Prayers where he had celebrated Mass that Morning before the King and taken the Sacred Communion where he had spent the whole Night in watching and Devotion as presaging what followed He was a Valiant Man and Pious and expected these Blood-hounds with great Security and Calmness of Mind when their bellowing first struck his Ears he tells his Servants that Death came now as a more particular Blessing where the Comforts of Life were taken away that Life was irksome to him perhaps his pious Fears for the Church and Monarchy both alike indangered and fatally tied to the same Chain might make him weary of the World and that he could now dye with more quiet of Conscience than ever a Quiet which these Parricides will not find when they shall pay the Score of this and their other Crimes However the Flattery of Success may abuse our Death-bed represents things in their own Shape and as they are After this the Rout of Wolves enter prophanely roaring where is the Traitor where is the Robber of the Common People He answers not troubled at what he saw or heard Ye are welcome my Sons I am the Arch-Bishop whom you seek neither Traitor nor Robber Presently these Limbs of the Devil griping him with their wicked Clutches tear him out of the Chappel neither reverencing the Altar nor Crucifix figured on the top of his Crosier nor the Host these are the Monks Observations for which he condemns them in the highest Impiety and makes them worse than Devils and as Religion went then well he might condemn them so They drag him by the Arms and Hood to Tower Hill without the Gates there they howl hideously which was the Sign of a Mischief to follow He asks them what it is they purpose what is his Offence tells them he is their Arch-Bishop this makes him guilty all his Eloquence his Wisdom are now of no Use he adds the Murder of their Soveraign Pastor will be severely punished some notorious Vengeance will suddenly follow it These Destroyers will not trouble themselves with the idle Formality of a Mock-trial or Court of their own erecting an abominable Ceremony which had made their Impiety more ugly they proceed down-right and plainly which must be instead of all things He is commanded to lay his Neck upon the Block as a false Traitor to the Commonalty and Realm To deal roundly his Life was forfeited and any particular Charge or Defence would not be necessary his Enemies were his Accusers and Judges his Enemies who had combined and sworn to abolish his Order the Church and spoil the Sacred Patrimony and what Innocency what Defence could save Without any Reply farther he forgives the Headsman and bows his Body to the Axe After the first hit he touches the Wound with his Hand and speaks thus It is the Hand of the Lord. The next Stroke falls upon his Hand e'er he could remove it cuts off the tops of his Fingers after which he fell but dyed not till the eighth Blow his Body lay all that day unburied and no Wonder all Men were throughly Scared under the Tyranny of these Monsters all Humanity all Piety were most unsafe The Arch-bishop dyed a Martyr of Loyalty to his King and has his Miracles recorded an Honour often bestowed by Monks Friends of Regicide and Regicides on Traitors seldom given to honest Men. In his Epitaph his riming Epitaph where is shewn the pittiful ignorant Rudeness of those times he goes for no less he speaks thus Sudburiae natus Simon jacet hic tumulatus Martyrizatus nece pro republica stratus Sudburies Simon here intombed lies Who for the Common-wealth a Martyr dies It is fit says Plato that he who would appear a just Man become Naked that his Vertue be dispoiled of all Ornament that be he taken for a wicked Man by others wicked indeed that he be mocked and hanged The wisest of Men tell us There is a Just Man that perisheth in his Righteousness and there is a wicked Man that prolongeth his Life in his Wickedness The Seas are often calm to Pirates and the Scourges of God the Executioners of his Fury the Goths Hunns and Vandals heretofore Tartars and Turks now how happy are their Robberies how do all things succeed with them beyond their Wishes Our Saviours Passion the great Mystery of his Incarnation lost him to the Iews his Murtherers Whereupon Grotius notes it is often permitted by God that pious Men be not only vexed by wicked Men but murdered too He gives Examples in Abel Isaiah and others the MESSIAH dyed for the Sins of the World Ethelbert and Saint Edmund the East-Angles Saint Oswald the Northumbrian Edward the Monarch c. Saxon Kings are Examples at Home Thucidides in his Narration of the Defeat and Death of Nician the Athenian in Sicily speaks thus Being the Man of all the Grecians of my Time had least deserved to be brought to so great a Degree of Misery It is too frequent to proclaim Gods Judgments in the Misfortunes of others as if we were of the Celestial Council had seen all the Wheels or Orbs upon which Providence turns and knew all the Reasons and Ends which direct and govern its Motions Men love by a strange Abstraction to seperate Facts from their Crimes where the Fact is Beneficial the Advantage must canonize it it must be of Heavenly Off-spring a Way to justifie Cain Abimelech Phocas our Third Richard Ravilliac every lucky Parricide whatsoever Alexander Severus that most excellent Emperor assassinated by the Militia or Souldiery by an ill Fate of the Common-wealth for Maximinus a Thracian or Goth Lieutenant General of the Army a cruel Savage Tyrant by Force usurped the Empire after him replyed to one who pretended to foretell his End That it troubled aim not the most Renowned Persons in all Ages dye violently This Gallant Prince condemned no Death but a dishonest fearful one Heaven it self declared on the Arch-bishops side and cleared his Inocency Starling of Essex who challenged to himself the Glory of being Headsman fell mad suddenly after ran through the Villages with his Sword hanging naked upon his Breast and his Dagger naked behind him came up to London confest freely the Fact and lost his Head there As most of those did who had laid their Hands upon this Arch-bishop coming up severally out of their Countrys to that City and constantly accusing themselves for the Parricide of their spiritual Father Nothing was now unlawful there could be no Wickedness after this they make more Examples of barbarous Cruelty under the Name of Justice Robert Lord Prior of St. Iohn and Lord Treasurer of England Iohn Leg or Laige one of the Kings Sergeants at Arms a