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A cat may look upon a king
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Weldon, Anthony, Sir, d. 1649?
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although God Almighty be the Judge of all men yet Gods judgments that are so remarkable are for our instructions and God is to be glorified by us for these judgments of his upon this Kings family I cannot in the best stories I have read find who was clearly King James his Father Mary Queen of Scotland a lusty young Widow marries the Lord Darly son to the D. of Lenox in the year 1565. or thereabouts and at the same time had for a reserve in great favor with her an Italian Fidler and Bothwel a Scotch Lord After marriage the Queen proves with childe The King her husband that was Lord Darly enraged by some informations comes into the roome where the Queen his wife was at supper and very big drags the Italian Fidler into another roome and murders him The Queen was shortly delivered of a Son which was our King James The solemnity of the Christening ended she and Bothwel murdred the King her husband Then the Queen marries Bothwel and all this in a moment of time but they are both fain to flie The Queen came into England and was here beheaded Bothwel fled into Denmark and there lay in prison all the dayes of his life And now Reader observe the fortune of this prodigious Family His supposed Father was strangled in his bed by the consent of his mother and flung out into a garden His Mother is beheaded His eldest Son Pr. Henry by the jealousie and consent of his Father in the flower of his youth and strength of his age is poysoned His Daughter married to the Palsgrave where shortly her Husband in ambition to becom a king is slain and she with her many children are driven out of their estates and flie for shelter into Holland where she hath lived ever since upon the courtesie of this State Her eldest Son having lived long upon a particular charity of this Nation is now at length restored to a feather of his goose Two other of her sons after six yeares following arms and plunder for King Charles turn'd Pyrates at sea and so are at present King James himself after two twenty years reign by the act of his Favourite Buckingham and the consent of his son Charles that succeeded him is poysoned King Charles after eight years was with the Parliament is taken arraigned and condemn'd and is beheaded at his own dores his Wife fled home to her friends and his Children scattered abroad in the world to live upon the charity of others Are all these circumstances to be slighted or unconsidered And shall we take the Priests word King James was of blessed memory I challenge the proudest of them let them publish one cleare act of Honesty from him all the time of his reign or any honestman that ever he loved I 'le yield His hypocrisie perjury cowardise blasphemy malice are known to all and base ingratitude which comprehends more then all the rest whereof one example of him is well worth our remembring to Sir Henry Woâ—â—on which briefly was thus Sir Henry a man for person parts highly esteemed and honoured of all that knew him being in Florence when Queen Elizabeths death drew nigh which King Iames gaped for the Duke of Florence had intercepted some Letters which discovered a designe to take away the life of King James The Duke abhorring the fact resolves to endeavour the prevention calls for his Secretary to advise by what meanes a caution might be best given to the King and it was resolved to be done by Sir Henry Wotton who being well instructed is presently dispatched into Scotland with Letters to the King and most rare Antidotes against all manner of poysons whereby that mischief was prevented and Sir Henry Wotton returns into Italy where shortly after came the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth and James King of Scots proclaimed King of England and away comes Sir Henry Wotton to joy the King This had been a fit Subject for to have shewn his Noble minde upon for a Favourite but what doth the King takes him into two and twenty years travaile like a pack horse to make him an Agent in forreign parts and leaves him in his old age in Eaton-Colledge unable to pay his debts as many appear by his lamentable complaint upon his death-bed his words are these in his Last-Will and Testament I humbly beseech my Lords Grace of Canterbury and the Lord Bishop of London to intercede with our most gracious Soveraign in the bowels of Iesus Christ that out of compassionate memory of my long services some order may be taken for my Arrears for satisfaction of my Debts This president alone is so transcendently foul as all his other actions and passions are vertues to it Fellowes of no merit at home must wallow in his bounty and their own luxury to do his foul pleasure and to execute his tyranical actions whilest such a Noble Soul as this must suffer want and die in it And now lay all these things together the lives of all our former Kings and the lamentable condition of this Nation under these two last and tell me if it were not high time to consider of the honour welfare and security of this Nation by reducing it to a Free-State But before I take my leave of these Kings I would willingly as a Preparative to the cordial agreement of our Free-State present some few Considerations and herein I shall onely shew my hand and my heart wishing that some abler Pen-man may more substantially publish something to this purpose in better language and more at large First How often wee have been made slaves to Forreign powers by not agreeing among our selvs Our Kings having other Dominions beyond seas have consum'd our blood and treasure to defend maintain or increase them at their pleasures And their frequent matching into strangers blood hath increased new titles and pretences of quarrels that have afforded matter for bitter warres both abroad and at home All which are now laid asleep Next is worth our serious consideration How God Almighty in his providence hath divided us from all the World by a wall of Water and hath brought us into a condition this day by Shipping Trade and able Sea-men and Merchants that no Prince in Christendome can shew the like for number and abilitie So that now we have no Complements for Matches nor busines with Foraign Princes but for Trade And here let me use the words of Sir Walter Raleigh in his Discourse of Shipping Whosoever commands the Sea commands the Trade Whosoever commands the Trade of the World commands the Riches of the World and consequently the World it self A faire invitation to cherish Shipping Sea-men and Merchants And if hereafter we fall into difference with any Forreign Prince we fight for our selves not for ill-grounded Titles nor to satisfie the ambition of particular nor to maintain the luxury of any spurious Issue There are but two things which I mentioned in the Introduction can obstruct us as I hope IRELAND and Envious Presbytery The Royalist I presume will heare reason And SCOTLAND I suppose will shortly be reduced to an English Province and kept so by force for Jocky is not to be trusted He is naturally so false and hath been so high-fed since their Scotch king came to this Crowne that his owne Country fare will not down till they be humbled which God be thanked is in a faire way Yet if there be any of that Nation sensible of their owne security and welfare under our wing which I much feare that shall comply in this union I shall pray to God to make them good Christians And if any Forreigne Prince whatsoever shall hereafter through ambition or envy to our State or pretence of donation from the Pope assist or maintain a Faction either in Scotland or Ireland as heretofore to hinder prejudice or molest our right or interest in these or either of these places I see no reason why we should treat with them as friends But I am now beside my Cushion my end is only to prepare and perswade a hearty Agreement amongst our selves to the secure setling of our Free-State So farewell Scot and farewell King And GOD blesse the Common-wealth of ENGLAND FINIS Published by Authority Courteous Reader These Books following are printed and sold by William Roybould at his Shop at the Unicorn in S. Pauls Church-yard neer the Little North-door THe Holy-Arbor containing a Body of Divinity or the Summe and Substance of Christian Religion First methodically and plainly treated of then Analysed and applied wherein also are fully resolved the Questions of whatsoever points of moment have been or are now controverted in Divinity together with a large Alphabetical Table of such matters as are therein contained or occasionally handled either by way of Exposition Controversie or Reconciliation In folio by John Godolphin J. C. D. 1651. CHRIST alone exalted In seventeen Sermons preached by Dr. Tobias Crisp In 8o 1650. The History of the Bohemian Persecution from the beginning of their Conversion to Christianity to these Times In which the unheard of secrets of Councels Policie Arts and dreadful Judgments are exhibited In 8o 1650. The Assertion of Grace or a Treatise of Justification by R. Town The Ladies Vindication or The praise of worthy Women In 12o 1651. A further Discovery of the Mysterie of the Last times Set forth for the Good of such as in these dissenting times know not to what Society of Christians to joyn themselves In 4o 1651. A Sermon preached by Dr. Homes Octob. 8. 1650. at Christ-church before the Lord Major and Aldermen The Mischiefe of Mixt-Communions by Dr. Homes 4o The Life and Reigne of King Charles or the Pseudo-Martyr discovered together with some Animadversions on the strange contrariety between his publike Declarations protestations Imprecations and his Pourtraicture compared with his private Letters and other of his Expresses not hitherto taken into common observation In 8o 1651. The Antiquity of Commonwealths instanced by that of Holland wherein is declared the rise continuance of that Government as also their Lawes and Customes both in their Civil Military power In 8o 1652. A Sermon preached at Mary-Aldermanbury Novemb. 5. 1651. by M. William Jenkins being the first he preached after his Releasement Church-Cases cleared wherein are held forth some things to reclaim Professors is that are slack-principled Antichurchians Nonchurch-Seekers Church-Levellers with a Pacificatory preface c. By D. N. Homes
and serviceable to his intentions and 't was their infusion so agreeable to his disposition that made him carry himself so majestically to the Parliament of England a power he might justly fear to offend but their Councels though they then served his and their ends are now come upon them like a storm the one voted down root and branch the other voted uselesse and dangerous The King brings with him a generall Peace with all Christendome not considering the particular interest of this Nation whether it were honourable or safe as the affaires of England then stood his Predecessour having taken upon her to be Head and Protectrix of the Protestant party wheresoever But he had his ends to himself First he had heard how many and how often attempts had been used to take away the life of Queen Elizabeth whom God notwithstanding preserved and protected by the diligence of her servants but he would rather trust to his King-craft then to Gods providence Then having taken away all thought of wars his design was to luxuriate the people that so hee might more insensibly lay that foundation of tyrany he intended And now comes tumbling in monstrous excesse of Riot which consumed many good Families and more good Hospitality formerly the glory both of our Nobility and Gentry with an incredible increase of Tavernes and Bawdy-houses for which two we are to this day beholding to the Scots And with this King and this Peace came the greatest Plague that ever this Kingdome felt before his time as if God had told us from heaven we had deserved it by betraying our selves and which was but a light fore-running punishment in respect of what in time should follow and yet peradventure that Plague was but a shadow of himselfe the greater The Kingdome could not afford more pomp and glory then was shewn when King James came first through London and 't was so much the more considerable as to him that from a nasty barren Country rather a Dunghil then a Kingdome came to be at that instant as great a Prince as any in Christendome And indeed it was the wonder of those States-men who had had experience of the gallantry of this Nation that a Scot should enjoy this Crown without resistance If the temper of these our dayes had then as now taken head we had saved much blood much mony and in all likelihood been long since setled to such a free State as we yet struggle for Rich and secure Long had he waited for the death of Queen Elizabeth but longer had they waited that waited upon him for had not their hopes as well as his expected their shares of spoils of this Kingdome we may with out doing any wrong to that Nation conclude him in the fate of his many Predecessors whom they murdered His Stock was odious to the more ancient Nobility of that Nation and the cloak of the Kirk would have served without scruple for such a covering as the Grand-Signior uses to send men doom'd to death His original Extract I find was this Banchoo a Nobleman of Scotland had a fair Lady to his daughter whom Mackbeth the King desires to have the use of Banchoo refuses and Mackbeth murders him and takes the Lady by force Fleance the son of Banchoo fearing the Tyrants cruelty flies into Wales to Griffin ap Lhewellin the Prince of Wales Lhewellin entertaines him with all hospitable civility Fleance to requite his courtesie gets Lhewellins daughter with child Lhewellin murders Fleance and Lhewellins daughter is afterward delivered of a son named Walter this son proves a gallant man and falling out with a Noble person in Wales that call'd him Bastard Walter slew him and for his safeguard fled into Scotland where in continuance of time he gained so much reputation and favour that he became Steward of the whole Revenue of that Kingdome of which Office he and his posterity retained the sirname and from whence all the Kings and Nobles in that Nation of that name had their originall here 's a goodly foundation For his Person a man might sufficiently and truly make a Volume onely to tell of his lazinesse and his uncleannesse but I cannot do it without fouling too much paper He was a great pretender to Learning and Religion and for the speculative part had as much as any of our Kings upon record but for the practical and best part of it if we may judge of the Tree by the Fruit we may without breach of charity conclude him not guilty He was the greatest Blasphemer in the world sweare faster then speak and curse the people by the clock And it appeares by the whole course of his life that he was a most malicious hater of this Nation That insolent act of Ramsey's switching my Lord of Montgomery at Bansted-Downs at a Horse-race was questionlesse a laid quarrel to have destroyed much of our English Nobility and had it been practised upon any but that thin-soul'd Lord who was importun'd but to draw his sword that had been a bloody day what reserve the Scots had was never known but such an affront is not to be construed without reservation The King was naturally fearful even as low as could be And what he would do and durst not own that he would do by his Favourites whom for the fitness of his designs he would raise from low degree to oblige them the more and to desert them with more ease and shift them often til he had them sitted to his purpose Dunbar was too solid Hayes too light Northampton too crafty Montgomery too silly here 's two English two Scots all deserted And now he hath found a young Scot that had been one of his Pages in Scotland and turn'd off with fifty pounds in mony and cloaths to seek his fortune having spent his time and his means in France comes over hither and for his fashion and language is entertained by his country man then Lord Hayes another Scot of the like extract for a Page where the King takes notice of him calls for him and at the first dash makes him one of the Bed-chamber and suddenly his Favourite and Knight Sir Robert then Viscount Rochester and after Earl of Somerset This man the King had wound up to his just pitch of whom we may justly say Trim tram Like master like man When this man had long wallowed in his Masters bounty and the treasures of this Kingdome he fell the foullest that ever man did upon the rocks of dishonor adultery and murder Of dishonour to a Noble Peer of this Land and in him to the whole Nobility Adultery not only to bewhore her but to get her divorced and marry her And murder upon the body of that unfortunate Gentleman Sir Thomas Overbury only for disswading him And here it is much to our purpose to insert how this Favorites carriage had highly offended Pr. Henry who understanding the loose kind of life this man lived especially relating to her distastes him disrespects