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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37397	A Declaration of the several treasons, blasphemies and misdemeanors acted, spoken and published against God, the late King, his present Majesty, the nobility, clergy, city, commonalty, &c. by that grand wizard and impostor William Lilly of St. Clements Danes, other wise called Merlinus Anglicus presented to the right honourable the members of the House of Parliament : in order to secure him from acting any further villanies against His Majesty.	Gadbury, John, 1627-1704.; Lilly, William, 1602-1681.	1660 (1660)	Wing D767; ESTC R8151	4,206	12

Actions they must acknowledge our Genius guided by the Providence of God Oh highest blasphemy to have been his Highness Trumpet And then speaking of the durability of his Highness Government as he calls it and of his Reign saith He is a new Progeny or the first of his Race who hath enjoyed so vast a Power and whoever of the English or any other Nation shall set themselves against him will consume themselves like Chaff against the wind And along in that Epistle Chaunts out nothing but high Parasitical Elogiums to his new Prince Cromwel saying He is naturally and supernaturally fitted to this great Work And setting his figure from the Protectors accepting his Sword and Seal saith That the Government or Quality thereof at that time taking its first rise or growth will not in many Ages be determined And much after this traiterous manner doth he set out Richard the glorious Sun and hopes as Lilly saith of the Nation 6. The said William Lilly on purpose trayterously to vilifie and asperse our now gracious Soveraign and to keep his Subjects from all hopes of his Restoration hath wilfully and maliciously and by the spirit instigation of his wicked Demons divulged as followeth viz. Whereas one Grebnerus had formerly writ a Prophesie which many loyal persons in both Nations though not trusting much to such old sayings did suppose his now Majesties Person wherein was contained that Carolus filius Caroli erit Carolo magno major this Wizard Lilly in all his writings and discourses wrests it to another sense as in his Almanack 1652. Ep. p. 1. Or shall we have any more Kings to rule over us I saith Lilly cleared that Point in my Monarchy or no Monarchy 1651. together with Grebnerus his Prophesie as also the true State of England for 700 years to come I have therein fully answered some Prophesies produced by Presbyterians very simply and untruly according to their old manner which they say intend the present King of Scotland shall be greater than Charles the Great These Priests accursed me with Bell Book and Candle c. whenas they knew the Scottish King with a Million of Vermyn and some men in Arms were in Lancashire c. And in his Almanack 1651. how trayterously and maliciously doth he utter these words Then viz. after the white King is dead shall the Chicken of the Eagle build on the top of the highest Rocks of all the land of Brittain rule over nothing but men as rude as Mountains and that upon undeniable grounds the Chicken of the Eagle is the present Scottish King he being the first-born Son of Charles who was without dispute the true white King c. and after scornfully calling him Titular King and in a worse case than a Constable c. And in his Almanack 1652. he saith that his Majesties coming into England was an act of madness and a creeping in and not of reason c. And p. 12. That he should not be established in that year nor in any year hereafter and though he did escape and praised be God evermore for that escape he may live a wandring life Let the Orchades suffice or satisfie his hungry Appetite and those other Mountains and cold Islands give him a sufficient Patrimony and he might think himself happy if he could enjoy those barren Islands for his Patrimony without disturbance c. And of such like stuff as this is are his many Books made of abusing the Nobility That they were not to be trusted The Clergy calling them Baals Priests Blind guides and Pseudo-Priests and on the contrary extolling the Phanaticks and Red-coats calling the one the Saints of the earth and vaunting that the other had fought against two Kings traversed the Heathen high-lands of Scotland c. Nay his boldness did arise to that height that in many places he hath predicted dangers of death by stab or otherwise to his now Majesty and hath set a Period in many places to his life But as the good God hath preserved him from the one so he will of his great mercy continue his life to us to his honour and our comfort maugre all the malice of this mercenary fellow that for money will say any thing in the world All which being truly taken out of his Books and by him often acknowledged to be his and will be proved by sufficient witnesses if need require and he having seduced many thousands of people to their ruine by his false and lying Predictions in making them believe that the day of our deliverance should never come and generally all good people being much afraid that by his malice he may raise some wicked storms or do other hurt which may be prevented if he were in hold for that the devill leaves his servants when they are secured And lastly for that he is looked upon as the only man now in England guilty of all our sufferings It is therefore referred humbly to the consideration of this Right Honorable Parliament whether it be not very just that he should be excepted as to his estate which is considerable being the wages of his arch-Villanies and he himself kept in such security as the good people of England may be secured from his infernal Actings And God Almighty bless your Consultations FINIS