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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

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

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

sorely that the King what to pacifie the people and what for fear nothing would be left him should this cormorant fish on humblie beseeches the Pope that Fleece Skin Flesh and all might not be torn away and nothing but the Bones left him for his fees but he might have had as much kindnes of a Wolfe for a good word and as soon have kept that hungrie Beast from the folde by a Petition as his Holinesse who though he appeare in sheeps cloathing hath the wolfes conditions and is onely to be hunted or cudgeled from worrying the flocke No doubt this tender hearted Vicar had such a care of their soules that regarding neither his owne nor their bodies he endeavoured to begger them if possible in hopes that being poore they would receive the Gospell and in truth next unto Gods goodnes the Popes wickednes was the meanes of this nations receiving the truth who by his pride and covetousnesse caused Henry the 8th a King as proud as he for his heart and in more want for his purse to kick him out which was the first step to Reformation of Religion Yet though the King could obtain no redress of the Pope he prevails with him to lay on more loads getting Letters to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall to help him to money in the Parliament now assembled at Westminster which notwithstanding the Kings personall and Popes literall entreaties will grant none untill he give assurance of Reformation and the due execution of Lawes they require also that 4 Peers should be chosen as conservators of the Kingdom which should be sworn of the Kings Counsell see justice observed and the treasure issued out That the cheife Iusticiar and Chancellor should be of the four or chosen by the Parliament together with two Iustices of the Benches two Barons of the Exchequer and one Iustice for the Iewes that as their function was publike so might also their Election be but as the Devill would have it sayes one the Popes Nuncio spoyls all by demanding money of them towards the Popes Wars against the Emperour a Son in Law to England having married one of her Daughters thus was not the Pope ashamed to demand money for the King but to sing the second part to the same tune in the same Parliament on his own behalf an impudency so monstrous that we might well question it came it not from that strumpet of Rome and seting aside doctrine by practice we may easily perceive who is meant in the Revelation by the Whore of Babylon but the peremptory demand received an absolute repulse the Pope could get nothing but they granted Escuage towards marriage of his eldest daughter to the King twenty shillings of every Knights fee The King also upon a light occasion makes a great and expensive preparation against Scotland and the Earl of Flanders thirsting after his money comes over with a ragged Regiment to help whose unnecessary presence was nothing acceptable to the Barons as if the strength of England could not be sufficient without him for that action which was as suddainly ended as undertaken by a faire conclusion of peace The King assembles another Parliament which would grant Him no more money though he told them his debts were so great that he could not appear out of his Chamber for the clamour of those to whom he owed money for his Wine Wax and other necessaries of his House hereupon he falls to other violent courses and first he picks a quarrell with the Londoners and makes them pay 15000 marks for receiving a banished man into their City notwithstanding they produced his pardon under the great Seal which they were told was purchased when the King was under age Thus because the Lyon would have it so the Asses ears must be horns well fare the Fox therefore which had the wit not to come to Court Observe here the happy estate of our Ancestors under Monarchy who if they gained but this advantage though attended with many inconveniences and mischiefs incident to all Nations in their Kings minority of receiving a few good Grants and enjoying a pittance of Freedom once in 4 or 5 ages when their King was too young to play Rex and there hapned a wise and honest Protector yet were sure to pay through the nose for it afterwards with double and treble interest for forbearance Then employes one Passeleave in a peremptory Commission to enquire of all Lands which had been dis-forested and either to fine the occupiers at pleasure or take them from them and sell the same to others if they would give more for them and in this such rigour was shewn that multitudes were undone yet Passeleave should have been preferred to the Bishoprick of Chichester for his good service had not the Bishops opposed the King therein Thus have we not seen with our own eyes whole Counties almost to be challenged for Forest and our selves like to have been forced to purchase our own estates from Charles to save our habitations from becomming the places of Wilde Beasts The Lords also making bold to open the Popes packet to Martin found therein such vilany that the Nuncio was forthwith commanded out of the Land who so basely had behaved himself that he both needed and yet could hardly obtain a safe Conduct to preserve him from the violence of the enraged people and now the King being incensed also at the Popes oppressions or at least seeming to be so sith his cheats were made publike the Parliament make use of the good mood he was in and lay before him how that Italians Revenues in England amounted to sixtie thousand marks yearly besides the Popes Exactions which so moved him that he caused all to be notified by Commissioners sent to the Generall Councell at Lions demanding redresse which together with Martins usage so vexed the Pope that he endeavoured to set the French King upon his back In the Parliament holden at Westminster upon the Popes rejecting the Consideration of these grievances and despising the Kings Messages saying that he began to Frederize it was Enacted and Ordained under great penalty That no Contribution of money should be given to the Pope by any Subject of England and the same confirmed in a Parliament at Winchester and another at London The King also bustles against the Popes Exactions in such sort that it gave hope of redress but this heat was soon chill'd by the Popes threats of so irresolute and wavering a nature was the King Woman-like giving over what he manfully undertook but this may seem to confirm what was hinted before that what he did was rather out of policy to delude the people whose rage was risen so high that he fear'd to meet it than a just sence of their misery who in all things else which stood with his humour or advantage was more than enough stubborn and stiffe And now the Pope having given or rather taken the foile continues his former rapine yet fearing

for money so cursed a thirst after Gold was in both It is no wonder therefore some of Henry's late successors were hying so fast to Rome who being troubled with the same disease stood in need of the same Mountebanke and no doubt but Venus hath obtained Armour of proof of Vulcan for her wandring AEneas so that the King of Scots is well provided against the Covenants pearcing him to the heart by the care of his Mother and art of his holy Father But to returne to Henry whom we see the greatest security that could be given and that under the greatest penalty an Oath could not hold who would therefore suppose that he or any Kings of such metall should ever be believed againe by any who write themselves men Creatures in whose composition are many ounces of reason when the only Chaine upon earth besides Love to tye the Conciences of men and humane society together which should it not hold all the frame of Government must fall asunder and men like Beasts be left to force that whosoever is the stronger may destroy the other hath been so often and suddainly broken by the Norman tyrants in whom this perjury ran in a bloud almost to a miracle or who could think Master Prynne who in print takes notice of their frequent violations would ever be drawn by corrupt interest to have his Countries Liberties sent to Sea to seek their fortunes in so rotten a Bottome These Deeds being done succeeds one so monstrous that we must almost run half way to Credulity to be able to meet it for this perjured Prince was not ashamed to send his Brother over to summon the Estates and demand of them the Wounds yet fresh and bleeding made by his impieties another Subsidy but the Parlament denied him to the great exasperation of the Tyrant yet the Earl of Cornwall forced the Iews to pay a great Summ that he might not return empty handed to his Brother who staid untill he had consumed all that ever he could get in this Iourney which with the other two made before cost him seven and twenty hundred thousand pounds more than all his Lands there were They to be sold were worth besides thirty thousand Marks with Lands Rents Wards Horses and Iewels to an inestimable price thrown away upon his half-brothers After all this he returns and the first that felt their good Lord was come again were the Londoners and the Iews who paid soundly for his Welcome The Londoners presenting him with an hundred pounds were returned without Thanks or Money for he was not altogether so unmannerly as to deny to receive it then being perswaded Plate would be better welcome they send him a fair Vessell worth two hundred pounds this had some Thanks but yet would not serve the turn For the Pope having bestowed the Kingdom of Sicil on the Kings younger Son which the Earl of Cornwall wisely refused knowing the Pope was never so liberall of any thing which was his own the King to gain this makes all the mony he can get out of his Coffers and Exchequer or borrow of his Brother or scrape from the Iews or extort by the rapine of his Iustices itinerants which he gives to the Pope to maintain his Wars against Conrade King of Sicil you see there was a right Owner of what the Pope was so liberal and yet all this would not do for the Pope writes for more who was loath to be a Niggard of anothers Purse upon this Henry sends him Letters Obligatory signed with his Seal with Blanks left to put in what Summs he would or could get of the Merchants of Italy desiring him to stick upon no interest all which was so effectually performed that he was put in Debt no lesser Summ than three hundred thousand Marks and yet no Sicil was got Vpon this a Parlament is summoned and of them money required which though they promised to grant upon condition he would swear without all cavillation to observe the Charters and let the Chief Iusticiar Chancellour and Treasurer be elected by the common Councel of the Realm would not be hearkned to for though he cared not a fig for his Oath yet it seems those Officers might have restrained him from disposing of his Cash at list and not suffer his Holinesse to have a Penny whereby he might have wanted his Dispensation or else the humor of Tyranny was so high that all his penury was not able to check it for one moment The King thus being left unprovided the Bishop of Hereford Agent for the Prelates at Rome like a trusty Steward findes a shift to help him for getting certain Authentick Seals from them upon pretence of dispatching some businesse for them by Licence of the Pope and King he sets them to writings of such Summs of Money taken up of Italian Merchants for their Vse and so makes them pay the Kings scores He seizes also the Liberties of the City of London into his hands upon the pretence of their letting a Prisoner escape making them fine three thousand Marks to himself and six hundred to his Brother he requires of the Iews upon pain of hanging a Tallage of eight thousand Marks and thus having fleeced them he set them to farm to his Brother who upon Pawns lent him a huge masse of Money then the City Liberties are seized again but upon payment of four hundred Marks restored And to add to all one Ruscand a Legat from the Pope comes and demands the Tenth of England Scotland and Ireland to the use of the King and Pope preaching the Crosse against the King of Sicil but the Clergy protesing rather to lose their Lives and Livings than yield thus to the will of the Pope and King who they said were as the Shepherd and the Wolf combined to macerate the Flock were ordered to some tune for the Legat suspended excommunicated them and the King if they submitted not in forty days spoiled them of all their Goods as forfeited All men by Proclamation that could dispend fifteen pound per annum were commanded to come in and receive the Order of Knighthood or else pay their Fines as was before done in the 37. year and every sheriffe was fined 5 marks for not distreyning on all whom the Proclamation reached this trick was shown in our dayes lest any oppression should scape unexercised A Parliament was held wherein the Prelats and Clergy offered him upon condition the Charters might be observed 52000 marks but it satisfied him not for he demanded the Tenths for 3. years without deduction of expences and the first fruits for the same time Another was called to London wherein upon the Kings pressing Them for releife to pay his depts He is plainly told They will not yeeld to pay him any thing and if unadvisedly he without their consents and counsells bought the Kingdom of Sicill and had been deceived he should impute it to his own imbecility and have been instructed by

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

that had before in the eighth year of his Raign made himself of age for his own ends yet now is not ashamed upon the same score to pretend nonage in the ninth year wherein he confirmed both the Charters Thus if the King say 8. is more than 9. the people must believe it for it is treason no doubt to question their Soveraignes words or actions and Rebellion to chop Logick with him And now this cancelling having annulled all hopes of a subsidie He hath a new shift to drain the peoples purses by making a new Seal and forcing all which held any thing by the old to renew their Patents fining at the pleasure of the Chief Iusticiarie not according to their ability It seemes the Old Seal was under age too and for this he had a Bul but whether from the Pope or somebody else is the question These perfidious and oppressive courses so incense the people that the Lords appoint a Randezvouz at Stamford intending it seems to bait these Buls by force to keep them from goring The King is startled at this news hearing his Brother the Earl of Cornewall was also joyned to them and by feare brought to promise a redresse and so pacifies them at Northampton and buyes his brother to side with him with his mothers Dower and all the Lands in England belonging to the Earl of Britain and late Earl of Bullogne These are the uneven paths which necessity forces Tyrants to stagger through scraching up here and leaving a piece there using the Rake with this hand and the Fork with that Peter must be rob'd to pay Paul these pilled and polled to bribe the other but these shifts will be quickly thredbare by which what is got in the Hundred is lost in the Shire The King having bound himself by his Procurators at Rome to the payment of Tenths it seems the Pope would not do a job of journeywork for nothing cals a Parliament that the Legat might demand them but though the Legat was impudent enough to ask the question yet the Laity were so modest as to deny him the Clergy being over-reachd by Segrave one of the Kings Counsell consented and found a very hard bargain of it for the ravenons Legat exacted them at a set day and those that miss'd it were sure to be hit home with an Excommunication Thus between the Lyon and the Wolf the Flock went to wrack for no doubt but the King had a feeling in the cause or his Counsell would never have beene so diligent in the businesse but all this would not do he therefore exacts great summes of the Clergy whom the Pope could rule and would it being his turn now and the City of London for redemption of their liberties an excellent way to make them free for they seldom are so of themselves yet have they given down largely in this Cause to their Honour be it spoken and may they be so moderate as not to kick over the palle in the upshot and forces the Iews to pay the third of all their moveables to maintain his Warres he then began in France whither he goes leaving them to pray that he might deal more Christianly with them for the future But his evill gotten goods thrived not and the King besides an infinite expence of treasure having lost divers Nobles and valiant men without any glory returns home bringing with him the Earle of Britaigne and many Poictovins to suck up what could further be wrung from the poor people of England and in order to this calls a Parliament wherein upon pretence and promise of sending supplyes into Spain against the Saracens he obtains a fifteenth of the Laity and Clergy but the Popes turn it seems was come who falls a cursing all that had any hand in with-holding Tithes from those multitudes of strangers which he had preferr'd to benefices and the King makes a strict inquisition after them forces them all to runne to Rome for absolution of this horrible sin of resisting his Pastors in the main work of their Ministery few of them having more English than would serve to demand their tithes but it was enough with the Pope they had that whose special care was to see the Flock might be fleec'd for teaching that might have spoyl'd devotion to Rome which ignorance is the sirurest Nurse too a strange way to Heaven that the blindest hit best Christs servants are the Children of Light Sure then his Holinesse must be Vicar to the Prince of Darknesse whose best Subjects see least A Parliament also is called at Westminster which expecting deeds from him before they would do any thing and he not being poor enough nor so shiftlesse as to fall to mending so soon breaks up with a flat denyall of any money Hereupon by the advice of the Bishop of Winchester sith the Parliament was so drie he fals to squeeze his own Spunges and amongst the rest his darling Hubert de Burgh Earl of Kent and his Chief Iusticiarie feels the weight of Kingly kindnesse which loves a man so long as he is usefull but if any advantage shall accrue it is very Rebellion should affection be so saucy as to plead privilege against Royall profit and naw kenning of Kingcraft for Kings to be more nice than wise O the wretched estate of that man who to curry favour with a Tyrant cares not how he acts nor what he does aside he is thrown so soon as his great Master hath served his turn on him and being down is sure to be trampled on to some purpose by the enraged people who in the servants misery seek a recompence for the Masters tyranny and this hath been told us by a King and Prophet long ago Put not your trust in Princes men of high degree area lye And now the Bishop of Winchester is the Court Minion but as he tript up the Earl of Kents heels so will he be laid on his back shortly and the same noose he made for others will catch the Woodcock himselfe ere long who was returned from the Holy Wars abroad to begin it seems wicked discord at Home for he shewing the king that Foraigners were the only journey-men to drive on his trade of Tyranny and fittest instruments to keep the English in slavery causes him who for his own ends cared neither whom nor what he made use of to displace all the chief Counsellors and Barons of the kingdom and to bestow all places of concernment either Military or Civill on strangers These strains of so strange and insufferable violences so exasperate the Nobility that many combine for defence of the publique and the Earl of Pembroke in all their names tels the King how pernicious and dangerous these courses would prove whom the Bishop of Winchester insolently answers That it was lawfull for the K. to call what strangers he would to defend his Crown and compell his proud rebellious Subjects to their due obedience that is tame slavery

had a Negative voice and might chuse whither he would hearken unto them and be no King or no the Parliament concluded and with it ended all his goodly Promises For he presently hastens to Dover receiving a Legat without acquainting the Lords with the cause of his comming exacts the Subsidie contrary to order is wholly swayed by the Counsell of his Queens Vncle an Alien sends for his father in Law to help away with his monie marries Simon Mountford to his sister the Widdow of William Earl of Pembroke a professed Nunne and of a banished Frenchman makes him Earl of Leicester But the Legat and Earl of Leicester proved better than was expected no thanks to the King who doubtlesse was no Prophet the one endeavouring to pacifie not foment divisions which before was held a property inseparable from his office The other becomming a most earnest assertor of the English Liberties as the Sequele will manifest The Lords incensed with these perfidious and tyrannous dealings Remonstrate against him and tell him of the profusion of his Treasure gotten by Exaction from the Subject and cast away upon strangers who onely guide him of the infinite sums he had raised in his time how there was no Archbishoprick or Bishoprick except York Lincoln and Bath but he had made benefit by their vacancies besides what fell by Abbyes Earldoms Baronies and other Escheats and yet his Treasure which should be the strength of the State was nothing encreased Lastly That despising his Subjects Counsels he was so obsequious to the will of the Romans that he seemed the Popes feudary the King hearing this harsh note and perceiving the Londoners and whole people ready to rise against him first by the Legat attempts to win his Brother now the head of the Lords party to side with Him but failing in this he cals a Parliament whether the Lords come armed Whereupon to gain time the businesse is referred to the order of certain grave personages Articles drawn sealed and publikely set up with the eals of the Legat and divers great men the King taking his Oath to stand to their determinations but whilst the businesse was debating he corrupts his Brother and the Earl of Lincoln whereby the Lords are weakned the businesse is dash'd and the miseries of the Kingdom continued Simon Montford is thrown out of favour and the Seal taken from him and his brother Geoffrey a Knight Templer put out of the Counsel Men much maligned as evil Counsellors so inconstant are Tyrants in their favours they lost their places for refusing to passe a grant of 4 pence upon every sack of wool made by the King to the Earl of Flanders the Queens Vncle to whom the next year he gave a pension of 300 marks per annum out of the Exchequer and here by their dejection we may observe that Officers under bad Princes are not alwayes so bad as men account them and that when the Master playes the wreaks the servant bears the burden But it seems one Gulph sufficed not to swallow up the substance of the Kingdom and therefore the Pope adds extortion to the Kings exaction and sends to have 300 Romans preferred to the next vacant benefices in England which mandate so amazed the Archbishop of Canterbury that seeing no end of these Concussions of the State and liberties of the Church he gives over his Sea and payes 800 marks to the Pope for his Fine We need never doubt sure but that they paid well for it who were to have it when so much was given by him that left it He demands a tenth also of the Clergy who flying to the King for protection against the Popes rapine were referred to the Legat yea and the chief of them offered to be delivered up unto him by the King who joyned with the Pope we may see to aw and punish the Kingdom and though they in the Councell then called stood out for a while against the Legat yet at length by the Treason of division the body of the Councel is entred into and the Pope prevails in this businesse Neither was Pope and King enough the Queenes kindred must have a share one of whose Vncles comes into England is feasted sumptuosly Knighted and the Earldom of Richmond with other gifts bestowed on him and the Arch-Bishoprick of Canterbury conferred on his Son but the poor Jews fasted for this who were forced to pay 20000 marks at two Terms that year The King being set agogg to be doing in France by his Father in Law and others the authors of his first Expedition summons a Parliament and moves the matter therein but it was generally opposed as a design not feasible and expensive besides the unlawfulnesse of breaking Truce Money also was denyed though the King came in person most submissively craving their aid with a letter from the Pope to boot in his hand Neverthelesse what by gifts and loans from particular men by begging and borrowing he scraped so much together that he carryed over with him 30 barrels of Stirling Coin and yet before the end of the year he got Escuage toward his charges which he lay spending at Bourdeaux to little or no purpose He sent for Grain Bacon had 10000 quarters of Wheat 5000 of Oates and as many Bacons shipt away most of which perished by Ship-wrack the very Elements seeming discontented as well as the English Lords at his unworthy carriage in undervaluing their Counsels and preferring strangers upon whom he consumed his treasure in such sort as caused his Brother and most of the English Lords to desert him and come over the wiser they for the Earl of Leicester and others which staid behind ranne behind hand too as wel as the King by borrowing large sums to defray their expences at last He was driven to make a dishonorable Truce with the French King and return having not gained so much as 30 emptie barrels were worth The Stangers having made up their mouths of him abroad follow him hither also so greedy were these Harpies after prey and so easy and ready was he to be made one to them and now the Countesse of Provence the Queens Mother bringing another doughter with her arrives at Dover is sumptuously entertained and sent away richly rewarded her daughter being immediately bestowed on the Earle of Cornewall who it seemes had as good a stomack to forraigne flesh as the King his brother that he could fall too so soone without sauce but the Earle was well beforehand in the world and so might the better dispence with the want of a portion Next slips in Martin the Popes collectour furnished with such ample power of cursing suspending excommunicating pardoning having whole droves of blanke Bulls which might be filled up according to occasion and all other accoutrements belonging to and necessary for St. Peters successors trade which was fishing for money not men that the former Legats were but fleas if compared with this horseleech who sucketh so