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A81226	A Venice looking-glasse: or, A letter vvritten very lately from London to Rome, by a Venetian Clarissimo to Cardinal Barberino, protector of the English nation, touching these present distempers. Wherein, as in a true mirrour, England may behold her owne spots, wherein she may see, and fore-see, her follies pass'd, her present danger, and furture destruction. Faithfully rendred out of the Italian into English.	J. B. C.	1648 (1648)	Wing C79A; Thomason E525_19; ESTC R205654	17,303	25

they made a sacrifice of him at last for 800000. Crownes whereupon Bellieure the French Ambassador being convoyed by a Troop of horse from the King towards London to such a stand in lieu of larges to the souldiers he drew out an halfe crown peece and asked them how many pence that was they answered 30. He replied for so much did Judas betray his Master and so he departed And now that in the cours of this Historicall Narration I have touch'd upon France your Eminence may please to understand that nothing allmost could tend more to the advantage of that King then these commotions in England considering that he was embark'd in an actuall war with the House of Austria and that this Iland did do Spain som good offices among other by transport of his treasure to Dunkerk in English bottomes wherunto this King gave way and somtimes in his own Galeons which sav'd the Spainard neer upon 20. in the hundred then if he had sent it by way of Genoa so that som think though France made semblance to resent the sad condition of her Neighbour and thereupon sent the Prince of Harcour and the foresaid Monsieur Bellieure to compose matters yet she never really intended it as being against her present interest and engagements yet the world thinks it much that she shold publiquely receive an Agent from these Parlamenteers and that the French Nobility who were us'd to be the gallantest men in the world to vindicate the quarrels of distressed Ladies are not more sensible of the outrages that have bin offer'd a daughter of France specially of Henry the great 's But to resume the threed of my Narration the King and with him one may say England also being thus bought and sold the Parlamenteers insteed of bringing him to Westminster which had put a Period to all distempers toss'd him up and downe to private houses and kept the former Army still a foot And truly I think there was never Prince so abus'd or poor peeple so baffled and no peeple but a purblind besotted peeple wold have suffred themselfs to be so baffled for notwithstanding that no Enemy appeer'd in any corner of the Kingdom yet above 20000. Tagaroons have bin kept together ever since to grind the faces of the poore and exhaust the very vitall spirits of town and Countrey and keep them all in a perfect slavery Had the Parlement-men when the Scots were gone brought their King in a generous and frank way as had well becom'd Englishmen to sitt among them and trusted to him which of necessity they must do at last as they had gain'd more honor far in the world abroad so they had gain'd more upon his affections then I beleeve they will ever do hereafter But to proceed the King having bin a good while prisoner to the Parlement the Army snatch'd him away from them and som of the chiefest Commanders having pawn'd their soules unto him to restore him speedily in lieu thereof they tumbled him up and down to sundry places till they juggled him at last to that small Ile where now he is surrounded with a gard of strange faces and if happly he beginns to take delight in any of those faces he is quickly taken out of his sight These harsh usages hath made him becom all gray and oregrown with hair so that he lookes rather like som Silvan Satyr then a Soverain Prince And truly my Lord the meanest slave in St. Marks gallies or the abiect's Captif in Algier bannier is not so miserable as he in divers kinds for they have the comfort of their wifes children and frends they can convey and receive Letters send Messenggers upon their errands and have privat discours with any all which is denied to the King of great Britain nay the young Princes his children are not permitted as much as to ask him blessing in a letter In so much that if he were not a great King of his passions and had a heart cast in an extraordinary Mould these pressures those base aspersions that have bin publiquely cast upon him by the Parlement it self had bin enough to have sent him out of the world e're this and indeed 't is the main thing they drive at to torture his brain and tear his very heartstrings if they could so that wheras this foolish ignorant peeple speak such horrid things of our Inquisition truly my Lord 't is a most gentle way of proceeding being compar'd to this Kings persecutions As the King himselfe is thus in quality of a captif so are all his Subjects becom perfect slaves they have fool'd themselfs into a worse slavery then Jew or Greek under the Ottomans for they know the bottom of their servitude by paying so many Sultanesses for every head but here peeple are put to endles unknowne tyrannicall Taxes besides plundring and AcciZe which two words and the practise of them with storming of Townes they have learnt of their pure brethren of Holland and for plundrings these Parlementeer Saints think they may robb any that adheres not to them as lawfully as the Iewes did the Egiptians 'T is an unsommable masse of money these Reformers have squandred in few yeers whereof they have often promis'd and solemnly voted a publike account to satisfie the Kingdome but as in a hundred things more so in this precious particular they have dispens'd with their Votes they have consumed more treasure with pretence to purge one Kingdome then might have served to have purchas'd two more as I am credibly told then all the Kings of England spent of the public stock since the Saxon Conquest Thus have they not only begger'd the whole Iland but they have hurld it into the most fearfull'st Chaos of confusion that ever poore Countrey was in they have torne in pieces the reines of all Government trampled upon all Lawes of heaven and earth and violated the very Dictamens of nature by making mothers to betray their sonnes and the sonnes their fathers but specially that great Charter which is the Pandect of all the Lawes and Liberties of the free-born Subject which at their admission to the House they are solemnly sworn to maintaine is torn in flitters besides those severall Oaths they forg'd themselfs as the Protestation and Covenant where they voluntarily sweare to maintain the Kings Honor and Rights together with the established Lawes of the Land c. Now I am told that all Acts of Parlement here are Lawes and they carry that Majestie with them that no power can suspend or repeale them but the same power that made them which is the King sitting in full Parlement these mongrell Polititians have bin so notoriously impudent as to make an inferior Ordinance of theirs to do it which is point-blank against the very fundamentalls of this Government and their owne Oaths which makes me think that there was never such a perjur'd pack of wretches upon earth never such Monsters of mankind Yet this simple infatuated peeple have a

Saint-like opinion of these Monsters this foolish Citie gards them daily with Horse and Foot whereby she may be sayd to kisse the very stones that are thrown at her and the hand whence they came which a dogg wold not do But she falls to recollect her felf now that she begins to be pinch'd in Trade that that her Mint is starv'd and that the Prince commands both Sea and River yet the leading'st men in her Common-Councell care not much for it in regard most of them have left traffiqueing abroad finding it a more easie and gainefull way of trading at home by purchasing Church-lands plunder'd goods and debts upon the Public Faith thus the Saints of this Iland turn godlinesse into gaine Truly my Lord I give the English for a lost Nation never was there a more palpable oblaesion of the brain and a more visible decay of reason in any race of men it is a strange judgement from heaven that a peeple shold not be more sensible how they are becom slaves to Rebells and those most of them the scumm of the Nation which is the basest of miseries how they suffer them to tyrannize by a meer arbitrary extrajudiciall power o're their very soules and bodies o're their very lifes and livelihoods how their former freedom is turn'd to fetters Molehills into Mountaines of grievances Ship-money into Accize Justice into Tyranny For nothing hath bin and is daily so common amongst them as imprisonment without charge and a charge without an accuser condemnation without apparance and forfaitures without conviction To speak a little more of the King if all the infernall fiends had ligu'd against him they could not have designd disgorg'd more malice they wold have laid to his charge his fathers death as arrand a lie as ever was hatch'd in hell they wold make him fore-know the insurrection in Ireland whereas the Spanish Ambassador here his Confessor who is a very reverend Irish man told me that he knew no more of it then the grand Mogor did they charge him with all the bloud of this civill warre wheras they and their instruments were the first kindlers of it and that first prohibited trade they intercepted and printed his privat letters to his Queen and hers to him Oh barbarous basenesse but therin they did him a pleasure though the intent was malitious their aym in all things being to imbitter and envenom the hearts of his peeple towards him and this was to render him a glorious and well-belov'd Prince and for making him rich all which they had vow'd to do upon passing the Act of Continuance they have made him poorer then the meanest of all his vassalls they have made him to have no propriety in house goods or Lands or as one may say in his wife and children 'T was usuall for the father to hunt in his Park while the son hunted for his life in the field for the wife to lye in his bedds while the husband layed wait to murther him abroad they have seiz'd upon and sold his privat Hangings and Plate yea his very Cabinets Jewells and Pictures Nor are they the honorablest sort of peeple and men nobly extracted as in Scotland that do all this for then it were not so much to be wondred at but they are the meanest sort of Subjects many of them Mechaniques whereof the lower House is full specially the subordinate Committees who domineer more ore Nobles and Gentry then the Parliament-Members themselfs their Masters Touching those few Peers that sit now voting in the upper House they may be sayed to be but mee● Cyphers they are grown so degenerate as to suffer the Commons to give them the Law to ride upon their backs and do most things without them There be many thousand Petitions that have been recommended by these Lords to the lower House which are scornfully thrown into corners and never read their Messengers have us'd to dance attendance divers houres and dayes afore they were vouchsafed to be let in or heard to the eternall dishonor of those Peers and yet poor spirited things they resent it not The Commons now command all and though as I am inform'd they are summon'd thither by the Kings Originall Writt but to consent to what the King and his great Counsell of Peers which is the true Court of Parlement shall resolve upon They are now from Consenters becom the chiefest Counsellors yea Controwlers of all nay som of this lower House fly so high as to term themselfs Conquerors and though in all conferences with the Lords ●hey stand bare before them yet by a new way of mix'd Committees they cary themselfs as Collegues These are the men that now have the vogue and they have made their Priviledges so big swoln that they seem to have quite swallowed up both the Kings Prerogatives and that of the Lords These are the Grandees and Sages of the times though most of them have but crack'd braines and crazy fortunes Nay som of them are such arrand Knaves and coxcombs that 't is questionable whither they more want common honesty or common sense nor know no more what belongs to true policy then the left legg of a joint-stoole They are grown so high a tiptoes that they seem to scorn an Act of Amnestia● or any grace from their King wheras som of them deserve to be hang'd as oft as they have haires upon their heads nor have they any more care of the common good of England then they have of Lapland so they may secure their persons and continue their Power and Authority is sweet though it be in Hell Thus my Lord is England now govern'd so that 't is an easy thing to take a prospect of her ruine The Scot is now the rising man who is the third time struck into her bowells with a numerous Army They say he hath vow'd never to return till he hath put the Crown on the Kings head the Scepter in his hand and the sword by his side if he do so it will be the best thing that ever he did though som think that he will never be able to do England as much good as he hath don her hurt He hath extremely outwitted the English of late yeers And they who were the causers of his first and last coming in I hold to be the most pernicious Enemies that ever this Nation had for 't is probable that Germany will be sooner free of the Swed then England of the Scot who will stick close unto him like a burr that he cannot shake him off He is becom allready Master of the Englishmans soul by imposing a religion upon him and he may hereafter be master of his body Your Eminence knowes there is a periodicall fate hangs over all Kingdoms after such a revolution of time and rotation of fortunes wheele the cours of the world hath bin for one Nation like so many nailes to thrust out another But for this Nation I observe by conference with divers of the