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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74788	The jovial tinker of England: willing to hammer the Covenant and Scots commissioners into English. And to mend the breaches, and stop the holes of the Crowne of England, (miserably torne and bruised, both within and without) with the best mettle he can get. And at a very reasonable rate. Provided, he be not compelled to take the Scots sense upon the Covenant. He will rather walk about the countries, & cry: Have you any work for a joviall tinker. / By Borialis guard.	Borialis, Guard.	1648 (1648)	Wing J1119; Thomason E424_3; ESTC R204544	10,341	16

THE JOVIALL TINKER OF ENGLAND Willing To Hammer the Covenant and Scots Commissioners into English AND To mend the breaches and stop the holes of the Crowne of England miserably torne and bruised both within and without with the best Mettle he can get And at a very reasonable Rate PROVIDED He be not compelled to take the Scots Sense upon the COVENANT He will rather walk about the Countries cry Have you any work for a Joviall Tinker By BORIALIS Guard LONDON Printed for John Hickman 1648. THE Covenant and Scotch Commissioners translated into English for better understanding ENGLAND is unhappily become the Tennis-ball of mis-fortune betwixt a Scottish King and the Kingdom of Scots Epitomiz'd in those State-Merchants their Commissioners The one striving for an absolute separate interest the other for a joynt A designe in practise ever since King James first set foot over Tweed wherewith he traveld all his life but wanting the Midwisery of a Covenant to bring it to passe but now we are shared out by the Meere-stones of mutuall agreement betwixt His Majesty and His Native Subjects who formerly promised them three Counties but that not contenting them he hath now undertaken for the whole kingdome to let them play the best of their Game and they to him for the Crown to make it Independent wheras the Identity and self-samenesse of interest ought to be 'twixt him and his People as betwixt the head and body naturall and certainly the cards play faire for them by the Cavaliers on the one side and the Londoners on the other the one sworn slaves to Prerogative and the other for the most part to the Scotch glosse upon the English Covenant who long to feast the Mayor of Edenborough at Guild-hall For the Scots finding the waters troubled and humors stirring they think now is the best fishing and the fittest time to work their ends and therefore Print their papers in spite of the Parliament in hope therby to set England on fire that they may come to warme their hands at it a practise never known in use by any Ministers of State but these nor by them in no place in the world but here because their warpe is weaving in our Looms They find the Round heads á stiffe people not easily bent but resolved to the death to maintaine entire both the freedom interest of England without mixture or thraldom therfore Acheronta movebunt they now renounce brotherhood and contrary to Covenant fawne upon the Principles of the Cavaliers face about to the common Enemy towards whom throughout all these wars they carried themselves very inoffensively doing them no more hurt than what necessarily conduced to their owne particular advantage in taking a few northern frontier Garrisons and knowing them to bee mostly prophane Esaus a people not much considerate of their owne concernments they hope to buy out their birth-rights with a messe of pottage and yet the Cavaliers hate a Round head he cannot lightly love a Blew-cap so that they may perchance find it prove the onely stay to part two fighting Mastiffes is to turn a Beare loose upon them both And as for the Londoners they are so confident of them as already they call London where their Papers of the disposall of the Kings person was printed Edenbrough upon the frontispiece therof nor is it improper for the Metropolis to change her name when the Kingdome changes her interest And which is the worst part of machiavell they make religion even The solemn League and Covenant to father all their bastards for my owne part I am one that have taken it and wish all did so that will make conscience to keep it but cursed be that English-man that takes it with the Scotch corrupt paraphrase of a joynt interest which ipso facto renders him perjured as to the Oaths of Allegiance Supremacy inhibiting all English-men to betray or communicate their publique interest especially legislative to forraigne States and better it were the Covenant were neither given nor taken then pressed in policy as it is by the Scots to hand-fast English men in a joynt interest and propriety or taken with perjury as it is by the Cavaliers who make no conscience in swearing nor for-swearing But we now plainly see what were our brethrens ends in their first propounding this Covenant not Religion and Conscience but Designe and Incroachment I dare not judge so undivinely of their Divines who I am confident had honester purposes but whatsoever was their divinity in it their equity is starke naught the Commander in cheife whereof in his transactions here in England hath carried himselfe extreame immorally to the scandal of Presbytery and meriting the stoole of repentance and yet it cannot bee denied but that what he hath done hath been equitable for the King raising him by I know not what mystery of State from his deep displeasure to that height of Honour can hee doe too much for such a Master that not onely forgave him but gave him Who is their main pillar of policy and strikes the greatest stroak in this master-piece of transmigration of interest and like Chancery Bills affirms any thing but proves nothing in his papers knowing that a bad cause is better maintained by a brazen face bold assertions than iron arguments Therfore they never offer to reply save with a deaf ear to the House of Commons Answer to their papers touching the disposall of the King in England wherby is made evident that neither as to that particular nor any thing else either in or relating to the Covenant they have any right or interest to order or dispose thereof by any joynt or united property The words of the Covenant being expresse and clear to the contrary in every Article of it engaging both each Nation and each person To endevour both one thing and other in our severall places and callings in our severall Vocations and according to our places and interests So that though the Covenant by these definit expressions purposely provide against confusion of Interests that England and Scotland being severall distinct kingdomes and each one onely to act in his severall place Vocation calling and interest yet without replying to these reasons brought against their indirect quoting the Covenant in abstract Positions thereby to compasse their end of joynt interest they still persist from this Covenant to entitle themselves to the right of exercising a joynt power not onely of disposing the King but the kingdome also though the Covenant be contrary to the exercise of any joynt power which was severall and distinct before the making thereof and although the joynt exercise of such power be a breach of Covenant both of us respectively being therby obliged in our severall Vocations mutually to preserve the rights priviledges and Liberties of each Parliament and kingdom and the exercise of such a joynt power which gives a negative voyce to either Nation towards other is a manifest breach of those Priviledges and Liberties

so Covenanted to be intirely preserved and consequently of the Covenant it selfe And whereas both in their Printed papers to the people and their dissent to the Propositions sent lately to the King at the Isle of Wyght this joynt propriety is so much stood upon yet neither is the word joyntly nor any other expression which will bear that interpretation so much as mentioned in the Covenant but the direct contrary in those words Bach one in his severall Vocation Calling Place and Interest which runs through the whole Covenant and which would have cleared the meaning of it but therefore they cunningly leave it out and break off in the midst of a sentence to dective the people who they find too apt to take upon trust and to suspect strangers lesse than there is cause For per fas nefas the designe if it will not goe it must be driven and so it is from one stage to another for whereas formerly the dispose of the Kings person was only pretended to now they are mounted to a higher staire and steppe of encroachment the empowring of the Crowne and whereas the Covenant runs thus The preservation and defence of the Kings person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdome They notwithstanding make a stop at Authority and thus our English sentences are read with Scotch comma's and periods and the Covenant made to speake what it never meant and Covenanters to undertake absolutely what they promise but conditionally by these Scotch Artificers who make it a nose of wax and here in England takes upon them to tell you That the King and Crowne shall have the negative voyce the regall Militia yea and Court of Wards too or as good whether it stand with the preservation and defence of true Religion and the Kingdomes liberties or not further then which the Covenant binds not nay though they see apparently all 's lost if it be so the King being as firme to his principles both Ecclesiasticall and Civill as ever yea and for our better security they 'l have the Army disbanded in hope the Parliament cannot easily raise another and so they may command in chiefe in the North the Londoners in the South and the Cavalliers East and West and then their owne flesh and blood the eleven Members may returne in freedome honour and safety and put Mr. Pellam in the chaire againe Thus they doe by us as the Philistims did by Sampson been use they cannot binde us they put out our eyes and make us 〈◊〉 round in a Mil leave us as they found us worse besides the expence of so much blood and mony since with our hands in our pockets that so their new brother-hood the Cavalliers may rise and cut our throats with whom they are confident of a joynt interest both in King and Kingdome When they were pleased to say It was prejudiciall to both Kingdomes for there lies the Emphasis for the King because they had no minde to him to goe into Scotland 〈◊〉 were content they should leave him in England where also they 'le dispose of him and have him come to London in ●●●●…dome honour and safety which are comprehensive tearmes before any peace be concluded or propositions granted and that too as the safest for the Kingdome I should say both Kingdomes under penalty of breach of Covenant which they use now as the Pope in old time was wont to doe his excommunications to compasse Kingdomes And for his comming to London they bring a weighty reason of sutable sophistry to the rest of their transactions viz. Because the Parliament invited him to come thither before the warres break out as being then the onely meanes to prevent them and now to renew them that therefore after so much blood and treasure spilt and spent upon that reason he must come without condition or satisfaction at his owne election and be restored before His Kingdome be repaired this is brotherly love and kind dealing indeed What will posterity think of such Covenanters brethren and Auxiliaries who doubtlesse are out of our pay and have forfeited their arreares that thus in their late Papers alarum the whole Kingdom and set their Pay-masters at defiance and would now sel their party to their Prince as they did their Prince to their Party Besides that to pay them were to arme them till they retract their book Nor do men use to give wages to those they hire for going up and downe the house from roome to roome and rid no worke when worke is to bee done as the Scots did here in perambulation from Country to Country and during the warres neither fought battaile nor stormed Towne but Newcastle but now they make an amends for their idlenes by turning busie-bodies they kept their skins whole and their Army entire to begin it seems when we had made an end but beginne when they will they 'le find work for Tinkers all England is not of one mind their Papers are too long for all to read them and too false to be beleeved by all that doe read them and more there are that side with them for faction then that will side with them in fighting against their Countries interest But they give you reasons or at least would see me to doe so why the Militia must bee inherent in the Crowne and the negative voice in the King The reason of the Militia is because of the protection the Crowne must afford to the people so sayes the King when he means nothing lesse and further tell us That for the Crowne to be divested of all power and right of the Militia is different from their judgements a strong reason and imparatively spoken enough to have been uttered by the Kings negative voice and for the regall protection they speake of against enemies we have found and they have seen it turned to destruction as still its like to be and an oath broken on one part sets the other at liberty our government being pactionall and our Allegiance according to the nature of but Government not of slaves and vassalls but of Freemen As the King is made for the people and not the people for the King so is he first bound to the people and then they to him But we have now more need of protection against false brethren then open enemies which we cannot expect from the King their Country-man and therefore it s better to have the Militia in the power of the Parliament Englands abstract And as they tell you what their judgement is not so also what it is viz. That they thinke the King in his message from Caresbrooke Castle hath offered that which should be very satisfactory in the point of the Militia I wonder not that it contents them being I am confident a childe of their own brame instilled into him at Hampton-Court when they went to see how he did for its perfectly like them a consent like the Covenant as they make