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A96861	Anglo-tyrannus, or the idea of a Norman monarch, represented in the paralell reignes of Henrie the Third and Charles kings of England, wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman kings is manifested, together with the real ground, and rise of all those former, and these latter contestations between the princes, and people of this nation, upon the score of prerogative and liberty. And the impious, abusive, and delusive practises are in short discovered, by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome, and the Norman tyrannie founded and continued over them. / By G.W. of Lincolnes Inne.	Walker, George, of Lincoln's Inn.	1650 (1650)	Wing W340; Thomason E619_1; ESTC R203987	46,665	64

Anglo-Tyrannus Or the Idea of a NORMAN MONARCH Represented in the paralell Reignes of HENRIE the Third and CHARLES Kings of ENGLAND Wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman Kings is manifested together with the real ground and rise of all those former and these latter contestations between the Princes and people of this Nation upon the score of Prerogative and Liberty And the impious abusive and delusive practises are in short discovered by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome and the Norman Tyrannie founded and continued over them By G. W. of Lincolnes Inne Nihil medium Libertas habet quae aut tota est quod debet aut amissa parte sui tota fuit et extinguitur Quam ideirco non ignavis neque Brutis ad serviendum natis sed erectis animabus Deus immortalis conservandam tradit Heinsius orat 4. Iustitia pietas fides Privata bona sunt qua juvat Reges eant London printed for George Thompson at the Signe of the white horse in Chancery Lane 1650. To the Right Honourable the Lord President BRADSHAW My Lord THough I may seem bold I am not so blind but that I perceive your Lordship taller by the head than most I can set by you and so come for patronage in hopes of a favourable smile being sure to have frownes enough from them who not able to look over the heads of others croud as it were hood-wink'd after those that goe before them It was the ancient practice of enslaved Rome after death to Deifie her Tyrants and this her badge of slavery we in England have long worn as a Livery of our bondage whose Kings when dead must be of Famous and Blessed Memory though they liv'd most infamous for Cowardize and detestable for Tyranny and though this was acted to flatter their Successors at first yet by custome it hath so prevailed that notwithstanding the cause is now taken away the effect remains among the multitude to whom Logick must give place in their irrationall actings and from a naturall necessity is become a divine institution so that immortall as earthly Crownes are givem them Iure Divino to dye Saints as they live Kings Indeed Rome may have somthing pleaded in her excuse for she had her infernall Gods whom by sacrifice she endeavoured to appease from doing mischief so little inferiour was her superstition to her slavery which was as great as tyranny could create I know our royall Idolaters will lay hold of the Horns of this De mortuis nil nisi bonum but it can afford them little safety and me lesse danger whom the Metaphysicks have taught that bonum verum convertuntur that J cannot write good unlesse J write truth thus what they have taken for their shield is the dart which pierceth their Liver and by what they would ward off they are smitten with the blow of high-treason themselves being the only and grand transgressors against the majesty of History whose Prerogative it is not onely to reward the good with honour and renown but also to punish the evill with ignominie and reproach The case standing thus I am assured of your Lordships protection against all storms such inchantments may raise against me whose rationall eye being able to pierce these foggs doth perceive what hath so long been invelop'd in the mist Thus my Lord having looked aside at selfe yet I constantly kept your Lordship in my eye and your honour stood fore-right my safety but on one side in my choice not out of presumption that my weak endeavours could adde any thing to you but in assurance that others seeing what profit they have received what misery they have escaped in the book will return to the Dedication and with honour read your name who have been so great an iustrumet under God of their deliverance God hath chosen you to judge between a King and a people and your sentence hath shewn you are sufficiently informed of what this Discourse treats yet as a Pharos may be usefull to delight a man with the prospect of those rocks shelves and sands he hath escaped to whom it was a sea mark to guide safe into the Port so may your Lordship with comfort cast your eye upon the ensuing Discourse viewing the dangers you and all good Patriots have past especially having had so great an hand in the steerage into the Harbour And now give me leave to mention your worthy acts that it may be known I am not unmindfull of a good turn it is the onely thanks I am able to repay in the behalf of my Conntrey and self I know some will be apt to condemne such an action as savouring of flatterie but the most free from that vice the most severe the most rigid in the School of vertue a Cato himself hath done the like and that not onely upon the Score of gratitude but to encourage and incite to further gallantry and the most censorious of them may perchance perceive their own black Shadows by your light and from your example take out a new lesson of duty to their countrey whom they ought to serve before themselves You have undauntedly stood the shock of what ever slavish malice could bring against you and have been eminent in vindicating the right God and nature invested the nation with from the power of usurping tyranny no counterfeit rayes no glittering impostures gilded with pretences of sacred and Majestick have dazzeled your eyes but with a steddy and impartiall hand you have guided the Scale of justice wherein that bubble of worldly honour hath been found too light to counterpoise those sinnes of murder and oppression which brought such heavy judgements on the land whose yo●e hath been broken whose guilt hath been removed in a great measure by having justice executed without respect of persons {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith the Philosopher to do good to one is honourable to a nation is heroicall to perform the first is the private mans duty to be able to do the latter is the publick magistrates divinity God hath not onely given you power but a mind also to employ it well you have been good as wel as Great and God hath preserved you honored you in your integrity of which we have received such sure signs that it must argue us more severe than just more suspicious than Charitable but to doubt that the Honour of God the good and freedome of your Countrie shall not still possesse the first part of your affections and be the ultimate end in all your actions that so the goodwill of him that dwelt in the Bush being with you and your fellow Builders may enable you to perfect the great work of Reformation to his glory your own honours and the happinesse and freedome of this nation all which are uufeignedly desired by him who craving pardon for this bold approach as by duty obliged subscribes My Lord Your Lordships most humble servant George

years he had worn over the greatest part of the Land for Iohn by his tyranny so galled the Peoples neckes that for ease they were forced to get a new yoke and elect Lewis the French Kings sonne to defend them against his cruelty such effects wrought the violence of an unruly King and the desperation of an oppressed people The agreement on Henrys part was to restore to the Barons and people all rights and heritages with the Liberties for which the discord arose between John and them to pardon al that had aided Lewis and set free all Prisoners of Warre and to doe this he takes his Oath or for him the Popes Legat and Protectour The Protectour dyes a man of great wisdom and valor and who had managed affairs to the great settlement of the State and the King is again Crowned and Escuage of 2. markes a Knights Fee granted him in Parliament he promising to confirm their Liberties when he came of age Henry having gotten some of his Fathers old Counsellors about him begins to play Rex and obtains a Bull from the Pope whereby he was adjudged of age sufficient to receive the Government into his own hands the power of making altering times and seasons it seems being then in the Romish Prelats Power and now sith He would be of age in the Parliament at Westminster the archbish. of Canterbury and the Lords desire him to confirm according to Covenant their promised Liberties This was impiously oppugned by some as Princes shall ever find mouths to expresse their pleasures of his Ministers who urged it to have been an act of Constraint yet at last it was promised to be ratified by the King and so by that usual shift of prolongation was put off for that time to the greater vexation of that following for this all his Raigne caused the imbroylments rendred Him odious to the people and made him a far lesse King by striving to be more than he was a just reward of violations But this pause turned the bloud and shewed how sensible the State was in the least stoppage of that tender veine For the Lords began to assemble at Leicester but the Archbish of Canterbury whom the King by fair words sooth'd into a fools paradice by menacing excommunication brought them in the King also to be even with them demands a restauration of all those things they had received from his Ancestors and to terrifie them for the future falls upon the chief sticklers taking divers Lordships from them thus were they forced to sit down with losse of both Lands and Liberties and such of them whose spirits could not brook the sight of the Coutt abusive proceedings secretly to jogge away into the Countrey The Royall gamster having dealt so well for himself yet on the sudden is put to his trumps yea forced to shuffle and cut too Money is wanting to maintain his Wars in France and this his ranting Counsellours cannot help him too they who were so high in the last Parliament are fain now to lower their sails the Lions hide must be patched up with the Foxes skin he must promise and do any thing for present cash A Parliament therefore is summoned to Westminster and of them a relief demanded but no pennie without a Pater noster no money unless their Liberties be confirmed and now necessity which makes the Old Wife trot perswades Henry to be so gracious to himselfe as to comply with them Thus Magna Charta and Charta de Firesta were confirmed which though purchased before and then entred upon and possest by the people yet have been paid for to some purpose if we consider the sums given since and to little or none if we sum but up the profit our Landlords let us reap by them Thus the Petition of Right and other later acts were obtained by us which being acts of grace were to cease when our King pleased to turn gracelesse which he never did nor intended to doe untill the first oppertunity wherein a small rub called impossibility might be removed out of his way These Lawes thus obtained downe go the forests and men repossess their habitations which the Norman Lords had outed them of and bestowed upon Wild Beasts yet more inoffensive than themselves for if Cato have any credit we must believe Kings to be de genere Bestiarum rapacium no better nor worse than ravenous beasts and indeed that undeniable Author Doctor Experience hath by arguments not to be disputed against confirmed that wise Romans assertion indeed the last of Romans who abhorred to outlive the freedom and honour of his Country And now if we will believe one Writer the very Doggs rejoyced being freed from the customary danger of losing their clawes but though the Gentleman is so sanguine now yet he afterwards becomes as cholerick and from playing with turns to play the very Curre barking and snarling at all those Lords which stood for these Lawes O the ridiculous power of slavish flattery working more than a brutish change in low Souls making a man out of his own mouth judg himfelf lesse deserving of Liberty because less sensible of it than a Dogge that will fawne and wag his taile at him who unchains him whilst he crouches and licks his fingers who enslaves and fetters him But take one observation along That as the Norman Conqueror first appropriated all old Forests and dispeopled places to make new ones and still when any parcell of Liberty was regained those Forest Tyrannies were diminished so now when that Norman yoak is thrown off our necks Forests and Parks are broken open with it a certain signe that tyranny is expired now that its pulse is ceased in the main Arterie Thus the Historian reports the Grove of Bayes dyed which was planted by Augustus when Nero was executed in whom ceased that proud and bloody Family Another Parliament is called wherein nothing was done by reason of the Kings sicknesse but only the Legats unreasonable demands denyed the Pope being become more than quarter-master in England by the Kings good Fathers means in this year also the Londoners were fined 5000 marks and the Burgesses of Northampton 1200 pounds for their former aiding Lewis contrary to the Oath and Pardon passed at the agreement as the Prelates were before who were made to pay such large sums that the Legat got 12000 marks for his share A Parliament is summoned at Oxford where the King declaring himself to be of lawfull age assumes the power of Government to himself this he had done before by the Popes Bull but it was requisite for his design to grow child again and the Pope was contented to have his Bull turn Calf to help his Son whom he knew might make him amends and now to shew what metall he was made on he cancels and disanuls the Charters as granted in his nonage and so of no validitie Here we may behold the wretchless impudence of these Royall Creatures he

their riots and oppressions insomuch that it was the generall exclamation Our Inheritance is given to Aliens and our houses to strangers but we shall perceive the oppressions then on foot if we consider but what was told the King by divers to his face The Countesse of Arundell being harshly denyed by the King about a Ward detained from her in regard of a smal parcell of Land held in capite which drew away all the rest thus spake My Lord why turn you away your face from Iustice that we can obtein no right in your Court you are constituted in the midst betwixt God andus but neither govern your selfe nor us discreetly as you ought you shamefully vex both the Church and Nobles of the Kingdom by all means you can To which the King floutingly answered saying Lady Countesse have the Lords made you a Charter and sent you to be their Prolocutrix She replyes No Sir They have not made any Charter to me but the Charter which your Father and you made and swore so often to observe and so often extorted from your Subjects their money for the same you unworthily transgresse as a manifest breaker of your faith where are the Liberties of England so often written so often granted so often bought I though a Woman and with me all your naturall and faithfull people appeal against you to the Tribunall of that high Iudge above and Heaven and Earth shall be our witnesse that you have most unjustly dealt with us and Lord God of revenge avenge us Behold a generous and knowing Lady it was the sufferings of her Country not her self of which we find no mention extorted this true and resolute complaint from her Vpon the ruines of Henries fame hath Isabell raised an eternall trophie of her Vertue which shall stand conspicuous in English History so long as any memory of England remains Thus the Master of the Hospitallers tels the King saying he would revoke those Charters and Liberties inconsiderately granted by him and his Predecessors and for it alleging the Popes practice who many times chashiered his Grants So long as you observe Iustice you may be a King as soon as you violate the same you shall leave to be a King A Truth more Sacred than his Majesty could be and not to be violated for the sake of millions of Tyrants But above all for wonder is that of the Fryars Minors who returned a load of Freeze he sent them with this Message that he ought not to give alms of what he had Rent from the poor Indeed obedience is better than sacrifice but had this conscience been used by all the Romish Clergy their bellies had been leaner though their souls might have got by it their temporalities lesse though their spirituality more and this act deserves an Euge to these though it create an Apage to others rises in judgment condemning those great Clergy men who have been lesse than these Minors in Conscience and Honesty At last the King having a mind to have another bout beyond Sea summons a Parliament at London and now there is no doubt but he would be so gracious as to grant them what they could desire O what a blessed thing is want of money and how bountifull are Kings when they are quite beggared they will pull down Star-chambers High-Commission courts Monopolies suffer Favourites to be called to account for Treasons and vilanies they set them a work to do when they can do no other can neither will nor chose and will grant trienniall Parliaments and passe Acts that a Parliament shall sit so long as it will and which it might have done without their leave when all the devices and power they can make are not able to hinder it well though that proverb says Necessity hath no law yet with reverence to it's antiquity I must contrarily affirm that had it not been for necessity England had never had good law made nor kept neither ever should so long as the Norman yoake was in fashion This Gaffer Necessity at the first word obtains what all the Lords Prelats Parliaments so long demanded in vain Henry so the Parliament will but relieve him will ratifie and confirm their Liberties they do it granting him a tenth of the Clergy for three years and Escuage three marks of every Knights Fee of the Laity for one year towards his journey into the Holy Land indeed Gascoigne which how holy soever Henry accounted it he could never yet bring any reliques out of it though he had carried many a Crosse into it and he accordingly ratifies those often-confirmed Charters in the most solemn and ceremoniall manner that the Religion of that time and the wisdom of the State could then devise to do For the Parliament having so often found by experience that no civill promise or verball profession would hold in these Norman Lords raptur'd by Prerogative and devoted to perjury to maintain tyranny take now a more Ecclesiasticall and divine way of Obligation swearing to Excommunicate all who should be found infringers of the Charters And the King with all the great Nobility all the Prelats in their Vestments with burning Candles in their hands assemble in the great Hall at Westminster to receive that dreadfull sentence The King having received a Candle gives it to a Prelat saying it becoms not me being no Preist to hold this my heart shall be a greater testimony and withall lays his hand spred upon his Brest the whole time the sentence was pronounced which was Authoritate Dei Omnipotentis c. which done he causes the Charter of King Iohn his Father to be read likewise openly in the end having thrown away their Candles which lay smoaking on the ground they cryed out So let them which incurre this sentence be extinct and stinke in Hell and the King with a loud voice said As God me help I will as I am a Man a Christian a Knight a King Crowned and Annointed inviolably observe all these things Never were Lawes saith that witty Historian amongst men except those holy Commandements on the Mount established with more Majesty of Ceremony to make them reverend and respected than these were they wanted but Thunder and Lightning from Heaven which likewise if prayers could have effected they would have had to make the sentence gastly and hideous to the infringers thereof Yet no sooner was this Parliament dissolved by a sacred and most solemne conclusion but the King presently studies to infringe all and with a part of the money he then got purchasing an absolution of the Pope returnes to his former oppressive courses with more violence and hardnesse and for ought we know our late King had the like to help him over all those styles for Master Prynne tells us there was an English Lieger in Rome and our own eyes that there were Nuntio's here at home to continue a correspondence between the Pope and his Royall Favorite Thus what the King does the Pope undoes

Tyranny whose rationall and undaunted souls disdaininga Brutish slavery freely offered up their bodies on the High places of the field a rich oblation for Englands freedome which together expired and lay butchered by them The losse of this battell was imputed to the cowardice of the Welsh who in great numbers ranne away in the beginning of the fight not to the injustice of the cause of which the people had a sacred opinion but the truth is there was an accursed thing an Achan in Leicesters host old Henry attended with whole troops of perjuries matters and oppressions against whom incensed heaven was injustice engaged And now that the world might take notice Tyranny was again in the saddle cruelty in the height of revenge pranceth through the field for the dead body of noble Leicester was most barbarously abused and cut in pieces the head with the privy members fastened on either side the nose being sent as a Trophy to the Lord Roger Mortimers wife a present indeed as fitting for a Lady to receive as it was becoming a Prince who was Leicesters nephew to send but the people made a Saint of him whom his enemies by making reliques of rendred themselves little better than Devils and the dismembred body gave a fragrant sent whilest the dismemberers rotted and stank alive thus after death Leicester leads a triumph over Tyranny which may instruct us how far a free and generous soul is above its reach And here notwithstanding the calumnies and reproaches wherewith the Royall party backed with successe and parasiticall Chronologers then and since have loaded Leicester yet we may take a guesse of the worth of that noble Lord by the love of the people and malice of the Tyrant the former cannonizing him for a Saint do what the latter could for his heart and sure the common people had more than ordinary cause which could make them practice after an unusuall manner which was to judge contrary to event had his pride and his sonnes insolency been such as some would make them who endeavour with their shame to make a cloak for their adversaries knaverie Henry need never to have been so timerous as he was who not onely confessed he feared the father more than any storm but could never be quiet untill he ezpell'd both mother and sonnes the Land though she was his sister a Lady of eminent note both daughter and sister to a King and they upon delivering up their strengths were seemingly received into favour thus dreadfull and hatefull to a tyrant are free and generous spirits which must expect such usuage when they are within the verge of his power and such effects of an act of oblivion must our noble Patriots have felt from Charles had not providence in men been pleased to have put bounds to the paralell by erecting us a pillar with a ne plus ultra upon it Let each following line then teach here thankfulnesse to Heaven wherein we shall read from what a labyrinth and maze of misery divine mercy hath freed our unworthy selves in which our forefathers were miserably imprisoned and devoured and let us prize the clue which hath led us out among our choicest jewels that giving glory to the hand and honour to the instrument we may in some measure walk worthy of the mercies we have received Henry now again where he would be breaths nothing but bloud and revenge against all who had stood for liberty following and pursuing them with such unheard of fury that had not some potent favorites interposed he had burnt the whole City of London Thus the Metropolis of England had been laid in ashes which so generously and often hath ventured for Liberty had not God had a work to doe wherein London was to be gloriously instrumentall and so delivered it out of the paw of the Lyon A Parliament now is summoned to Winchester which considering the season was likely to do the people much good and in this all who took part with the Lords are disherited all the Statutes of Oxford are repealed the wealthiest Citizens of London cast into prison the City deprived of it 's Liberties and all the posts and chains taken away These things being put in execution for such Acts must be kept another Parliament meets at Westminster wherein the Acts of VVinchester are confirmed Thus topsie turvie is the world changed that Assembly the onely refuge and Assilum for the people to fly to so lately the assertor of their Freedoms is becom the Mint wherein the Tyrant stamps for current what he lists and makes the basest metall passe for Gold backing his lust with pretence of Law O now I warrant you Henrye's conscience is tender in keeping Acts of Parliament and it is no lesse than a piaculum to go about to infringe them Henry in this latter comming to Westminster to shew his goodnesse and bounty freely bestows on his Hang-bies sixty Citizens houses together with their furniture and all the lands goods and chattels belonging to their owners Yet at length he was pleased to pardon the City upon the payment of twenty thousand marks and giving Hostages of the best mens Sonnes to be kept in the Tower at their Parents charges Businesse thus dispatched at London away hies Henry to Northampton where the Popes Legat holding a Synod curses all those who stood for Liberty and Henry had been undutifull had he not helped his Holy-Father who all along had bin so kind to him he good man was agreed with before it was all the reason then in the World that the Pope should make his market thus the poor slaves were to purchase their fetters double so costly was slavery unto England justly then may such be termed niggards and base who will grumble now though with a round sum to purchase their Liberty And now it seems Henry made not his journey for nothing for the gratefull Pope by his Legat this Synod grants the tenths of the Church for a year unto him so bountiful in rewarding one another were these Foxes with what they lurched from the Geese Henry passing his time in such pranks as these at last Glocester finding his turning not to serve his tongue as he expected takes his time changes his footing and assembling an Army seizes on London this puts the King and Legat so to their trumps as brought both unto their last stake making the one pawn the shrines jewels and reliques the other spend the curses and excommunications of the Church most liberally but the Legat might have been sent packing with his Sonne at his back in Pontificalibus had not Henries Golden Gods wrought the miracle which having thousands of Angels at command quickly brought in great Armies of Forraigners by whose aid Glocester was forced to submit he and all his partakers fining for their offence to Henry who no doubt made them pay for putting him into such a fear as well as unto such a charge which could be no small sum were he like