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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03580	The ghost of K. Charls and Serieant [sic] Bradshaw. Being a discourse betwixt Charles late king of England, the arch-bishop of Canterburie and Serjeant John Bradshaw. Wherein the unjust proceedings at the triall of the late king in the High-court of justice are justly discovered: the full manner of it debated and the whole course of affaires from the beginning of the wars to these present times, fully and most lively represented. Together, with the means to preserve both church and state from the great and gaping ruines which do threaten to devour them.	Starbuck, William, attributed author.	1649 (1649)	Wing G636; ESTC R177395	4,819	11

The ghost of K. Charls and Serieant Bradsha BEING A DISCOURSE Betwixt Charles late King OF ENGLAND The Arch-Bishop of Canterburie and Serjeant John Bradshaw Wherein the unjust Proceedings at the triall of the late King in the High-Court of justice are justly discovered the full manner of it d●bated and the whole course of affaires from the beginning of the wars to these present times fully and most lively Represented Together with the means to preserve both Church and State from the great and gaping ruines which do threaten to Devour t●em London Printed in the Year 1649. The Discourse between the Ghost of King Chahles the Arch Bishop of Canterbury and President John Bradshaw Charles IS there such a Confusion then in England Arch-Bishope Yes and it please your Majesty King But are you sure of it Arch-bish As sure as God is the God of Order King God indeed is the God of order he made the world in order number and measure and if people could be but so kind unto themselves as to apprehend it so he will be worshipped he will be worshipped according unto order for God is the God of order and not of Confusion How happily was England governed in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth and of King James my father How gently did she fee the Reines of my command untill at last being full of high feeding she got the Bit into her teeth and madly running away with Governour Government and all she desprately plunged her selfe into a Sea of all manner of Calamities Arch. And where now she may sooner find the leisure to repent then the meanes to return to that happy condition which she first enjoyed King How were her hands then filled with the blessings of peace and her heart with gladnesse How were her chests filled with treasures which feared not so much to be then broken open by the hands of the spoylers as by a neerer violence from their own abundance Arch. And yet how little could she contribute to your Majesties growing necessities out of them the very demands of tunage and poundage and ship-mony were evry where cryed down every where as a burden insupportable King My Subjects longed after those Parliaments of which my father and I had reason to be jealous and which the people afterwards who before idolized them did find so tedious unto them But that was not all there was another thing which estranged their aff●ctions from me and for that in tr●th my lord in●o a great measure may complain of you Arch. Complain of me King I of you my Lord for when Arch-bishop A●bot lived he kept the Church in such an order according to the true Protestant Principles that having my countenance in al things I did pe●rake in the same praise with him Indeed he managed the affairs of the Church with Circumspection and judgement and did all thing in Rule and as I may say was a man in print Arch. But of the Geneva Print King Now my Lord after that by Buckinghams perswasions I first countenanced you you were looked upon by all men to be Abbots successor and to be inclined unto those who professed the Religion of the Church of Rome and many strange presages were made what would become of the English Church under such a prelate and under such a King who was condemned by many to have as well espous●d the Religion as the daughter of the King of France Arch. But in that I can vindicate your Majesty who have received from yo many Orders for putting the Laws in practice that were made to take hold of the Rescusants and for the banishing of all Iesuits out of the Land such only accepted that were precisely to wait on the Quéen and to exercise their Religion in her own Chappell King My life and death can sufficiently witnesse my Religion to all the World for though I affected the Queen most intirely and made good in effect the fi●st vvords that ever J spake unto her which were that I would no longer be Master of my selfe then I wa● servant unto her though J might be an example of conjugall affection unto all the Land yet J should be loath to be found so uxorious as to offend my God to please a Woman and turn Religion into Jdolatry for whatsoever a man loveth moe then God be it Honour or Wealth or Wife he makes it his Mahomet and his Jdoll But to deale plainly with you my Lord you were too indulgent to the superstition of the church of Rome for although J am confident you were no Papist yet you gave too great a toleration countenance to many things which by degrees did threaten to Usher in all the rest Do you remember the book which Pembroke brought me and said it was licensed by your Chaplaine Arch. The Introduction to a devout life King Yes that methinks I hear him still swearing against it the book was indeed too blame you transferred the faults thereof to your Chaplain your Chaplain to the Author who inserted those errours into it after that it was licensed but certain it is the book gave a just occasion of offence to m●n of more sound and setled Judgments then ever Pembrokes was Arch. It was therefore by your Majesties Command ca●●ed in King And if it had been burned it had been no matter but that is not all not lon● afterwards you brought in some alterations into the English Church the rayling in of the Alter the bowing to it or to the Cushion on it with some other Novelties were the powerful arguments wh●ch did set the peoples tongues against you and their tongues and hearts against me beleeving that I did not onely privately allow of it but under hand did prompt and incourage you unto it Arch. I did no more then what was practised in the times of the fathers of the Church as I am able to justify by their own writings both in Gréek and Latine before ever that the Name of Pope was heard of a Name which I never stood affected to King But to the Name of Patr●arch you have The ●imes indeed we lived in were so toasty and touchy that they would not indure to hear of any thing which savoured of the least introduction of Novelty but he alterations in the English Church did not so much afflict me as the innovations which you would have brought into the Church of Scotland who being a people intracttable in their Judgements had their recourse presently unto armes and how dismall the event hath been there are none can give a greater testimony of it then Stafford and you and I. Arch. Without all Contradiction the English Church as i● was governed by Bishops was the purest Church in Europe many separatists from beyond the Seas comming over to carps at their Pompe and greatness departed from them admiring at their order The Keyes were then kept in safe hands which were no sooner taken from them but Sacriledge and prophanness unlocked the doors and an Army of