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A51589	Mvltvm in parvo, aut vox veritatis wherein the principles, practices, and transactions of the English nation, but more especially and in particular by their representatives assembled in Parliament anno Domini 1640, 1641 : as also, 1681 are most faithfully and impartially examined, collected, and compared together for the present seasonable use, benefit and information of the publick : as also the wonderful and most solemn manner and form of ratifying, confirming and pronouncing of that most dreadful curse and execration against the violators and infringers of Magna Charta in the time of Henry the Third, King of England, &c. ... / by Theophilus Rationalis ...	Rationalis, Theophilus.	1681 (1681)	Wing M3061; ESTC R32098	64,306	68

MVLTVM in PARVO aut VOX VERITATIS WHEREIN THE PRINCIPLES PRACTICES AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE English Nation But more especially and in particular BY THEIR Representatives Assembled in PARLIAMENT Anno Domini 1640 1641 As also 1680 1681. ARE Most faithfully and impartially Examined Collected and Compared together for the present seasonable Use Benefit and Information of the Publick AS ALSO The Wonderful and most Solemn Manner and Form of Ratifying Confirming and Pronouncing of that most dreadful Curse and Execration against the Violaters and Infringers of MAGNA CHARTA in the Time of HENRY the Third King of England c. All which is earnestly recommended to the most serious and impartial Consideration and perusal of all His MAJESTIES most Loyal and most Obedient Subjects the true Tory Phanatick and Bloody Papist only excepted within His Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging By THEOPHILUS RATIONALIS a Person of Quality and a most true Lover of his King and Country LONDON Printed for Rich. Janeway in Queens-head-Alley in Pater-noster-Row 1681. THE Epistle Dedicatory To the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Protestant King Defender of the Faith c. Most Dread Soveraign I Have presumed to prostrate the ensuing Lines at Your Majesties feet in regard you are the only Person in all your Three Kingdoms that is most nearly and principally therein concerned And I dare be bold to affirm although they are very high proud and lofty words viz. That if Your Majesty shall be pleased without prejudice prepossession and partiality most solemnly and seriously to peruse the same and will be pleased to take your future measures accordingly I say then I am very confident and fully assured unless I have no reason nor understanding remaining in me but am delivered over into a reprobate sense That Your Majesty may yet be unless the Decree be already gone out against us for our total ruine and destruction one of the greatest and happiest Monarchs this day in the Christian World Verbum sapienti c. I have done my duty and have discharged my Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy unto your Sacred Majesty whom God long preserve and am GREAT SIR Your Majesties most Loyal most Obedient and most Faithful Subject and Servant to Love Honour and Serve You and my Countrey usque ad Mortem Theophilus Rationalis THE INTRODUCTION AUT LIBER ad LECTOREM STand off proud Rebels Royalists draw near To see your Prince i' th' front the Pope i' th' rear Let not the Pope affright you nor dispose Your thoughts to wander after Charles his foes The Center clears all doubts that shall arise From Hellish Plotters under a disguise Of State-reformers though at the self-same time Both Church and State their principal design Is for to ruine But still in Masquerades The Pope and Devil being chief Comrades Unto these Hellish Monsters who would bring Destruction to your Church confusion to your King Heavens bless your Head with such as will now please To guard him from such Sycophants as these Who doubtless will by their inveterate hate At length prove ruine both to Church and State If not prevented by Gods liberal hand Under Great Charles who hath the sole Command And Power to save you if he will but call His Council once again near to Whitehall And let them sit for to dispatch this Crew Of Wolves and Tygers Then will straight ensue A lasting Peace 'twixt Him and People both I must conclude to speak the rest I 'm loth This Book it self will speak enough to bring Peace to the People Honour to your King AMEN To all the truly Loyal-Hearted Nobility Gentry and Commonalty of this Land The most grave sober serious and truly Religious People and most faithful obedient Subjects unto his present Majesty though called by the Nick-names of Fanaticks Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Arminians Socinians Latitudinarians c. ROwze Loyal Fannees look well to your Guard The bold God-damme's are in your Rear-ward Pray do not budg keep close within your Station These men of late have poison'd half the Nation With bloody Tenets under a disguise To make you Traitors and a legal Prize The Soveraign Tree of Tyburn to advance Where Ketch their Foreman must lead up the dance Call'd Towzer's Mole-trap and the Tories Gin Now have at all to catch poor Fannees in God help you now They swear they will you kill Because of you they cannot have their will You have say they disturb'd both Church State For which they love you with a mortal hate And now they 'l hang you t'rid themselves from evil And send you packing to Old Nick the Devil By some Sham-Plots This is the only way To slay such Rebels as have gone astray So long a time from their most holy Church And now Old Nick shall leave them in the lurch Damm them and Sink them all they shall not live There 's not a man whom our Great Charles shall give To him his Life If we may have our will This is the time to use our utmost skill We 'll tell Great Charles that if he now should spare But one of these all his three Kingdoms are In danger to be lost and with this hellish hook We 'll catch the Fish and then how will they look Like Sons of Whores when Ketch shall them befool And mount them up upon his three legg'd Stool Courage brave Towzers Here 's a noble Plot Effect but this the first will be forgot Make King and Council both to understand That damn'd Rogue Godfrey with his proper hand Did slay himself Our work will then be done And we shall shine like to the glorious Sun At his Meridian height and ever after We 'll break our Fasts with merriment and laughter To see what Fools we made the Tory Crew Who to the Plot did straightway bid adieu And swore to boot that we were innocent Of all the Impeachments which the Parliament Did fasten on us whom we have outdone Although as guilty as our rising Sun Will shew himself when as he shall appear Before his Equals to bring up the Rear Of all the Plots and Sham-Plots that have been Contriv'd by us er'e since his Coming in Here stop you Helhounds in your full career These Loyal Fanns will make you quake for fear Their God above will surely them defend And bring your Rogueships to your fatal end Who then shall smile and have you in derision For all your Libels and your late Misprision Of Treason on them from your bitter Gall To make them Rebels to their Kings Whitehall But hark You shall be Summon'd 'fore the Council-Board Of the next Parliament where a wise word We shall not hear from you only Evasions Lyes Shifts and Stories Mental reservations For to evade your guilt which shall appear As clear as Crystal in our Hemisphere When as bright Sol shall mount his

unanimously and with loud Acclamations throw up your Caps and Beavers into the Air and cry Vive le Roy or Currat Lex vivat Rex And if so for my own part I should yet hope to see if it shall please my Gracious God to lend me a little longer time of health and strength many Halcyon and most happy days in the Land and Nation of my Nativity before I go away hence and shall be seen no more And that an happy union and good correspondence between his present Majesty and his future Parliaments without the least suspition or jealousie one of another may yet come to pass in our days I do most humbly beseech thy Divine Majesty who are the Lord God Almighty to grant for thy great names sake and for thy Vicegerents sake and for his Peoples sake who are truly Loyal and obedient Subjects in and through thy most dear and well beloved Son the Lord Jesus Christ in whom thou art well pleased and whom by thy free grace goodness and most stupendious mercy and compassion to thy poor creatures is the Lord and giver of everlasting Life to all those who shall most faithfully and most sincerely though but imperfectly obey him And now to him with thy eternal Majesty who art King Immortal Invisible and only wise God by the assistance of thy holy and for ever blessed Spirit of Grace I do most humbly desire to render give and ascribe all honour glory laud and praise might Majesty reverential fear and all humble adoration from this time forth and for evermore Amen And now in the close of all Whereas in my Title-Page I have there intimated how Magna Charta was most solemnly and most wonderfully even to the astonishment of the Spectators ratified pronounced and proclaimed and therefore must not now leave you in the dark as to that particular but refer you to the Packet of Advice from Rome Number 50. the which in my slender apprehension deserves to be written in Letters of Gold upon the Walls of both Houses of Parliament And for your present and I hope pleasant satisfaction I have here inferted and presented you with the same at large HAving presented the Reader with the most remarkable Transactions of Papal Tyranny in Foreign Parts down to the year 1254 't is time to look homewards and observe Ecclesiastic Occurrences in England our last Discourse of that kind terminating with the death of King John to whom succeeded his Son Henry the third of that name for though by reason of the Fewds between John and his Barons they had invited over Lewis the French King's Son and many had to him sworn Allegiance yet the Father being dead and his faults buried with him they did not think fit to yield up themselves to the French Man's Yoak who already began to exercise an insufferable Tyranny wherever he had Power And although the Pope had at first encourag'd the Barons in their Rebellion yet when once he had hector'd King John into a Resignation of his Crown he became his Patron and forbad Lewis from intermedling with the Kingdom as being then forsooth part of S. Peter's Patrimony and therefore excommunicated Lewis for the Invasion which engag'd most of the Clergy to oppose him And so Henry on the 28th of October 1216. was Crown'd being then in the 10th year of his Age and Lewis being routed at Lincoln was glad to come to a Treaty quit his Pretensions and most dishonourably retreat into France Yet 't is observable that the Clergy were then such fast Friends to their Head the Pope and so little regardful of the Descent in the Right Line that they would not accept Henry for their King without making him first do Homage to the Holy Chureh of Rome and Pope Innocent for his Kingdoms of England and Ireland and swearing to pay the 1000 Marks per Annum which his Father had promised to that See Matth. Paris fol. 278. And besides to bring Grists to the Roman Mill the Pope's Legate at that time in England immediately on the Departure of Prince Lewis sent his Inquisitors all over the Realm and whomsoever they would discover to have sided with him Consensuetiam Levissimo Though in the least degree must atone the Crime with a large Sum insomuch as the Bishop of Lincoln before he could be restored to his Bishoprick was forc'd to pay 1000 Marks to the Pope's use and 1000 to the Legate for the little Rogue would have suips in the prey with the great One and many other Bishops and Religious Men were glad to empty their Pockets to him at the same rate Matth. Paris fol. 218. In the year 1220. the Pope was pleased to make Hugh formerly Bishop of Lineoln a Saint and since the manner of his Vn-Holiness's declaring the same may be Divertive to the common English Reader I shall give you the very words of his Letter Translated as I find it in Matth. Paris fol. 298. Honorius Servant of the Servants of God to all out well-beloved Sons the Faithful of Christ that shall inspect these Presents Greeting and Apostolick Benediction The worthiness of Divine Piety does make famous his Holy Ones and Elect placed in the Bliss of the Celestial Kingdom by the shining forth of their Miracles still upon Earth that the Devotion of the Faithful being thereby stirred up may with due Veneration implore their Aid and Suffrages since therefore we are fully satisfied that the Bounty of Heaven hath illustrated Hugh Bishop of Lincoln as well in his Life as after his Death with a multitude of Famous Miracles We have thought fit to Enroll him in the Catalogue of Saints and admonish and exhort you all in the Lord That you devoutly implore his Patronage and Intercession for you with Almighty God farther Commanding That the day of his Decease be henceforwards every year devoutly Celebrated as a Holyday Dated at Viterbium the 13th Calend of March in the fourth year of our Popedom But how much a Saint soever he was we meet with another Bishop as very a Devil for about this time a Quarrel happening between Richard Bishop of Durham and the Monks of the same Church they complain'd of him to the Pope who seem'd much concern'd at his many horrid Crimes and presently sent over a Letter in these Terms Honorius Bishop c. to the Bishops of Salisbury Ely c. Greeting and Apostolick Benediction It is fit for us to be so be so delighted in the sweet Savour of a good opinion of our Brethren and Fellow-Labourers as not to connive at Vices in those that are Pestilent since it becomes not us for the Reverence of the Order to bear with Sinners whose Guilt renders them as worthy of as many Deaths as they transmit Examples of Perdition to those that are under them who are too apt to imitate only the Depravaties of their Superiours Hence it is that since things too far dissonant from Episcopal Honesty have very often been suggested unto us

Prerogative And though those dismal calamities which after befel his Son were ampliated doubtless by a superfetation of causes yet was their first and main existency derivative from those recited grounds Let Court-Pens extol the calmness of his Halcion Reign with all the artifice of Rhetorick Let them conclude the Parable and tell us God gave King James also as he did Solomon rest from all his enemies round about yet can they never truly deny but that admired severity had its set in a cloud and that he left to his Successor a Crown of Thorns as being engaged to contend with two puissant Enemies First the mighty Monarch of the West the King of Spain Secondly the more invincible of the two an empty purse For that King who hath this Enemy to encounter shall never archieve any thing of glorious production The death of this Famous Monarch caused no other interregnum than of joy his Son Charles being immediately by Sir Edward Zouch then Knight Marshal proclaimed at the Court-gate King of Great Britain France and Ireland His first Act of Regality was to dispatch Aviso's of his Fathers decease to Foreign Princes and States his Correspondents with whom he was in Amity Next he took into care the becoming Obsequies of the Royal Corps which removed from Theobalds to Denmark-house in London April the 23d was thence the 7th of May conveyed to Westminster and there inhum'd with the greatest Solemnities and most stately Ritualities could be devised Though grief had taken up the principal Lodgings of King Charles his heart yet did it not quite turn love out of doors but he had still an eye to France and held himself concern'd to let his Agents know he was mindful of the stock he had going there and to rear a firm assurance of his serious intentions He sent over Letters of Procuration for the Duke of Chevereux to espouse the Lady Henrietta Maria only he added this especial precaution That those Letters should not be resigned up until May the 8th when the Celebrities of his Fathers Funeral would be over for he would not that grief and joy things incompatible should justle But these instructions for what cause I know not were not in all points precisely observed for on May the 11th as others and the first as we compute six days before King James his Obsequies the Espousals were solemnized in the Church of Nostredame in Paris the Queen being given by her two Brothers the King and Monsieur the Nuptials past the Royal Bride prepared for England and to wait upon her with the greater splendor his Majesty dispatcheth over the Duke of Buckingham with the Earl of Montgomery and other Persons of Quality May the 24th they arrived at Paris and June the 2d the Queen after the iteration of most affectionate adieux reciprocated and interchanged between the King and her self set forward for Amiens where being attended with a most Princely retinue she was under the restraint of a Magnificent Entertainment till the 16 of that Month thence she dis-lodged for Bulloigne where she was to Embarque for England the Contagion then being much at Calais there she found ready to receive her 21 tall Ships sent from her dearest with a gallant Convoy of the Dutchess of Buckingham and other Ladies of Honour and Eminence to serve her June the 22d she set Sail for England and Landed safe at Dover after a turbulent and tempestuous passage His Majesty lay that night at Canterbury and next morning with joy incredible greeted his Royal Consort and conducted her to Canterbury where the Marriage was finally compleated the Duke of Chevereux his Majesties former Representative consigning up his precious charge to the King c. I have heard some who undertake to mate all events with their proper causes passionately ascribe Englands Calamities to those Internuptials and fetch that ireful stroke of Divine vengeance upon his late Majesty from his Marrying a Lady of mis-belief Grant I do that both England's and his Majesties Sufferings may in some sort be reductive to the casualty of that Match but that there was any intrinsick noxiousness in it either as French or Popish I am not yet convinced The same time while His Majesty was thus busied in his Amorous Negotiation abroad he plyed as well his Interest at home and while he Wooed his Royal Mistriss there he made Love to his People here by Summoning a Parliament that League being not more important to him as Man than this as King for as Man is without a female Consort so is a King without his Supreme Council an half-form'd steril thing the natural Extracts of the one procreated without a Wife are not more spurious than the Laws the politick Descendents of the other without was commenced at VVestminster June the 18th At first interview it appeared under the scheme and fashion of a Money-Wedding and in truth the publick affairs did then implore no less Upon the opening the Parliament the King imparted his mind to the Lords and Commons to this effect My Lords and Gentlemen YOU are not ignorant that at your earnest intreaty March 23. 1623 my Father of happy Memory first took up Arms for the recovery of the Palatinate for which purpose by your assistance he began to form a considerable Army and to prepare a goodly Armado and Navy-Royal But death intervening between him and the atchievement the War with the Crown is devolved upon me To the prosecution whereof as I am obliged both in Nature and Honour so I question not but the same necessity continuing you will cherish the action with the like affection and farther it with a ready contribution True it is you furnished my Father with affectionate supplies but they held no symmetry or proportion with the charge of so great an enterprize for those your Donatives are all disburs'd to a penny and I am enforced to summon you hither to tell you That neither can the Army advance nor the Fleet set forth without your aid Consider I pray you the Eyes of all Europe are defixt upon me to whom I shall appear ridiculous as though I were unable to out-go Muster and Ostentation if you now desert me it is my first attempt wherein if I sustain a foil it will blemish all my future Honour If mine cannot let your Reputations move deliver and expedite me fairly out of this War wherewith you have becumbred let it never be said whereininto you have betrayed me I desire therefore your speedy supply speedy I call it for else it will prove no supply The Sun you know is entring into his declining point so it will be soon too late to set forth when it will be rather not too soon to return Again I must mind you of the Mortality now Regnant in this City which should it and so it may and no breach of priviledge neither arrest any one Member of either House it soon would put a period both to Consultation and Session so that your own