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A90635	The divine catastrophe of the kingly family of the house of Stuarts or, a short history of the rise, reign, and ruine thereof. Wherein the most secret and chamber-abominations of the two last kings are discovered, divine justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated, and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified, by Sir Edward Peyton, knight and baronet, a diligent observer of those times.	Peyton, Edward, Sir, 1588?-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing P1952; Thomason E1291_1; ESTC R208989	41,016	159

the Queen with his voice made her think there was no happiness but in his approach into her Cabinet a place wherein she continually resided but from thence the Lord Darnel was banished above nine months divorced from her in joy although he sought divers means in vaine At last for a medicine to remedy his discontent one Dowglas administred Physick for his cure to amove Ritsoe from the Queen and put the Lord her husband into her armes So violent was the Ingredience that Ritsoe was taken from this Princess by twelve arrived Lords and their retinue who put her into the Lords armes killing Ritsoe laid his dead body on the same trunk was his bed the first night he arrived to the Queens service But there was much adoe afore this Tragedy was acted To understand this better this Dowglas an Agent for the twelve banished Lords out of Scotland to return could not effect it unless the Lord Darnel undertook the accomplishment upon the former condition to dispatch Ritsoe from Court But they being jealous of Darnels promise not fixt in other Puntilio's would not believe him till pricking his fingers he wrote an assurance under his hand with blood in a paper really to effect it which was acted when the Queen leaned on Ritsoes shoulder at the game of Primero with the Earl of Morton Chancellor of Scotland who cherished this unlawfull familiarity a verity justified on Oath by Darnel and one of the twelve Lords the Lord Ruthin at his execution on the Scaffold a place where dying men speak true This Lady very sorrowful retiring to Sterlin Castle shortly after was brought abed of King James but took no delight in her husbands company for the Lord Bothwel became a new Corrival in her affection who both consented as Germanicus wife with Sejanus after she had been lascivious with him to blow up her husbands body with Gun-powder who was cast dead on a tree next morning a spectacle made Scotland amazed at so fearful a murder By this most wicked designe she grew so contemptible to her Realm that she was fain to flee to Queen Elizabeth for succour but lo some yeers afore severall Treasons were here discovered that this Mary set the Traytors awork to take away our late Queens life who were afore condemned for Traytors and suffered death for this Mary was the next pretender to the Crown from Henry the seventh but God prevented it by her Privy Council counted the wisest of all Europe who counselled Elizabeth to condemn her to free England from Treasons against her Person But the sage Princess conjectured if the death should be by her Edict it might raise the hatred of forraine Princes against her and therefore caused the sentence onely to be ratified by Act of Parliament the Vote of the whole Realm insomuch that a mock-Secretary called Davison was chosen to go to Fotheringham where she was rewarded with a Hatchet a just Judgement of God on her After this King James being about sixteen yeers old was crowned and had for Tutor one Bohannon called amongst us Buchanan a learned Divine and wise to train up young Princes whose Books are famous through this part of the world This prudent Schoolmaster observing the young Prince's facility to signe any Grant for his Servants without reading by which means he had pardoned many murthers and passed other Instruments of damnable consequence to the Commonwealth in which this Tutor imitated Theodosius's godly fraud to discerne the hearts of his Courtiers soundness in Religion who having taken great pains with the King from his childhood desired a boon which King Iame was willing to grant therefore one morning the king going out early a hunting Buchanan brought an absolute resignation of his kingdom with all Immunities to it which was signed without aspect At night returning from field-sports retiring usually afore supper to read some profitable Author which his Schoolmaster chose all shut out of the Cmhaber Buchanan sate down in the kings Chair and told him that he was king giving him the writing to peruse which reading he shed tears for his folly yet Buchanan after comforted him and charged his Scholar not to signe any Grant but what was just and so threw the Grant of all Scotland into the fire About this time Queen Anne was brought out of Denmark for a match a Lady of a goodly presence beautiful eyes and strong to be joyned with a Prince young and weak in constitution an union unsutable for a Virago to couple with a Spiny and thin Creature a course made her fancy work as a Fat for to further a female content and placed in her delight one Master Stuart of the house the Earle of Murry His haunting her Chamber too sedulously bred such a jealousie in King Iames for to impart his thoughts to Marquess Huntly and get dispatched this Stuart out of the way burning his house and himself in it After whose death the Queen found others to satisfie her unruly appetite as namely the Earle of Gowry a Lord of a comly visage good stature and of an attracting allurement who upon King Iames suspition of often society with the Queen converted to the Poyson of hatred the friendship and love of the Earl causing Ramsey after Earl of Holderness with others to murther Gowry in his own house giving it out for a stale that the Earl with others would have killed him And to make his falshood appear odious in shape of truth appointed the fifth of August a solemne day of Thanksgiving for his supposed delivery and in this mocked the God of Heaven After this the Queen entertained into her service one Mr. Beely a Dane to whom she bore an affection this Gentleman came with her into England and grew more entire in her thoughts with whom I had a familiarity to be a Commissioner for him in a Grant his Mistress procured for him of King Iames of felons goods in divers Counties who in great secrecie discovered to me he was naturall Father of King Charls but waxing old the Queen took two proper Gentlemen of the House of Bohannon to her service these being partners in her affection fell out in a Duell and killed one another for priority in her love Not long after Gowries death Prince Henry was born at Edinburgh whereupon Queen Elizabeth sent the Earl of Sussex Ambassadour to congratulate this birth and be Godfather with a gallant retinue but Scotland being poor and the king wanting money to discharge the glory of such a Royal entertainment the Earl of Orkney a Bastard of the former king's pawned his Estate in the Islands of Scotland to raise a great sum to discharge the Christening Behold how King James did not onely not disengage this Morgage but suffered this Earle to die in Prison at Blackness neer Edinburgh-Castle an ingratitude indelible for after-ages to detest I omit the Murders Inchantments Witcheries committed by his Predecessors of weight enough without more to pull down that House But Henry the

The Divine Catastrophe OF The KINGLY Family Of the House of STVARTS OR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE Rise Reign and Ruine Thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings are discovered Divine Justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified By Sir Edward Peyton Knight and Baronet a diligent observer of Those Times London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle at the west-end of Pauls 1652. TO THE Supreme Authoritie of this Nation Assembled in this present PARLIAMENT Right honorable Senators WAndering in the Circumference of my contemplations to finde out what was most sutable to present to the Supremacy of Parliament under such a Divine revolution as God hath brought to pass instrumentally by your wisdom and direction and his heavenly Providence in this wide field the Omnipotent guided my thoughts to dedicate a Discourse to your honourable hands concerning the fatal Catastrophe of the last House had Superintendencie over us to the time the Almighty put the Stern of this Commonwealth into a Parliamentary Power which I most humbly wish our celestial Creator to continue till a Snail be able to creep over the whole Globe of the earth In the mean while I crave your pardon that I have not so distinctly in order laid down many remarkable passages worthy recite my Papers being remote a great distance from me yet by Gods grace I have composed a little Enchiridion of divers remarkable events have happened out to prove Gods just revenging hand on the Family of the Kingly Stuarts of Scotland and justified your proceedings and proved that the heavie weight of sin hath given a downfal justly imposed by Providence from above my Observations reaching no higher then from the King of Scots being taken prisoner at Muscleborough-field in Edward the sixth his Reign Now therefore I thrice humbly desire your Patronage especially finding by experience the composition and stile of this present Narrative will incur the displeasure and hatred of most in this State yet I value it not being prompt by a higher power then that of Man which points out by a Divine finger the overthrow of all men exalted above all that is called God whose ruine will be the bridge to let into the Stage of the world the heavenly Government of Christ which shall continue for ever maugre the malice of the Universe Wherefore I most humbly implore the thrice honourable Parliament to accept of This as a testimony of my fidelity to the present Government which I pray God to bless and maintain to advance his glory and bring the whole Nation to a most happie condition which now the present symptomes thereof shew plainly a new approach of a great tranquillity not onely to this but to the three Nations in general Edw. Peyton THE Rise Reign and Ruine OF THE Kingly Family Of the STUARTS SInce Great Britain hath been elevated all along the stems of Plantagenet Theodor or Tedor and Stuart to so high a Tree of Tyranny as she was afore the late wars the Princes had designes proportionable to a way of making themselves absolute Governours which overture hath appeared more or less according to the humour of times and inclination of the Guiders of the Stern for some indued with ability and craftiness necessary to settle an usurped ambition whilst the people were willing to beare the load of that burden have made a progress so politickly to bring their aims to the mark shot at that they have so subtilly dissembled the enterprise as no notice or scandal arrived at their doors nor impatience to the three Countreys of England Ireland and since the access of the Family of the Stuarts to Scotland until King James for hatred of his Mothers death plotted the ruine of Parliaments which ratified Queen Maries execution and left it as his Testament for his successor to follow dictating not long afore his death to Williams Arch-Bishop of York the course he should steer to bring his counsel to conclusion This devillish advice thrust on this wilful Prince with an inconsiderate fury and inflamed with that fire to settle to himself and his successors an unbridled power of dominion which hurried him on with the whirlwinde of passion to discover the mystery which ought to have been concealed till the designe should be accomplished Wherefore of this number in our days was Charles the first who from the beginning of his Government blaming the moderation of his predecessors resolved to go a way contrary to the stream of a pious Rule and the command of God and act during his time that which God would not suffer to be done in many ages past And because the pretention is always encumbed when the object cannot be attained by wicked advice perceiving he had not so well marched to accomplish his drifts with the just power of Parliaments which might found a Trumpet in the behalf of a Commonwealth by advice of his Antecedent and his wicked adherents laboured to raze out the memory breaking up two Parliaments and not satified therewith to practise Tyranny kept the Nation neer fourteen yeers without such most lawful Assemblies where the Rights of the Nation might be discovered and true Liberty appear This he did that the power of Law and property of the Subjects estates might be inclosed in his sole Arbitrary brest To that purpose he made his Sycophants of the Council-Table Judges of the Right of his people the Star-Chamber the Executioners of his unbridled will and the High-Commission the destroyers of Piery and Religion which three though he revoked by Acts yet being angry with himself for so doing he raised a War to make abortive all he had done by an armed power although he seemed willing to affect it afore therefore pursuing the former series of his will for a Law Charles quarrels first with the Gentry and People about Coat Conduct and Ship-money and plotted with his wicked Council that a thousand Germane Horse in the nature of Trayle Battoun should take every one denied to give him money or that would not subscribe to his endless will and easeless power to be hurried to Prison there to end their days some of them being so barbarously used This unjust resolution he took upon him unless they yeelded to his unsatiable desires by which means the eyes of many of the triple Nations were sealed as pigeons are used for traines to devouring Hawks to plume and prey on This struck such a Pannick fear that they imagined all power consisted in the Diadem to be at his mercy because they were ignorant of their Rights which were usually discovered in Parliaments by some practised in the Records But behold God raised up some Heroes within the doors of the Representative and without to awaken the people from a dead sleep or rather to cure them of a disease of lethargy who rouzing like Lions let loose out of a Den opposed this most wicked Oppression by which

fourth of France being informed of this congratulation and conceiving it to be a step to unite England and Scotland in one Government Elizabeth waxing old sent a Letter of incouragement to King James to joyn with him in revenge of his Mothers death who replied as the true Copy expressed that he would not fall at difference with Elizabeth since he was now more secure in his Throne then in his Mothers time intimating he was not sorry for her amovall for her life might have procured his ruine Elizabeth after fourty yeers Reign was moved by her privy Council to settle King Iames for successor who said she would not erect a Monument in her life for a follower to expect her end She was a Lady adorned with Majesty Learning Languages Wisdom and Piety yet fearful of death for she hated any word tended to it as shall be manifest by Roger Lord North when carving one Day at Dinner the Queen asked what that covered dish was he lifting up the cover replied Madam it is a Coffin a word moved the Queen to anger And are you such a fool said she to give a Pie such a name This gave warning to the Courtiers not to use any word mentioned her death But this prudent Prince died after fourty four yeers compleat and king James was proclaimed about the last of March 1602. king of England by his privy Council assisted by the Lord Mayor of London Sir Robert Lee. In May after he entered met with many Nobles and Gentlemen the Sheriffs attending him in every County from Berwick so that there was a general applause and Royal entertainment at his entrance into the Charter-house in London yet ominously attended with a great Plague of three thousand dying in a week in the City This Union gave a grand expectation of tranquillity to both kingdoms To effect this better he called a Parliament lasted seven yeers and raised many Subsidies with great sums left by his Predecessor which vast treasure was all bestowed on the needy Scots who like Horse-leeches sucked the Exchequer dry so that Honour and Offices were set to sale to fill the Scots purses and empty the kingdoms treasure This caused a by-word That the Exchequer reached from London to Edinburgh This was not sufficient to gorge their insatiable requests but many Monopolies likewise were erected my self after reporting thirty two Patents to the Parliament in decimo octavo Iacobi The Queen deprived of the nightly Company of a husband turned her delight to the Prince whom she respected above her other children finding him too serious diverted him from so much intensiveness to an amorous gesture in which the English Court took great pride To that purpose she initiated him in the Court of Cupid as one night she shut him under lock and key in a chamber with a beautiful young Lady now dead which shewed her love to the sport indeed morelikea Bawd than a discreet Mother who is bound to season her children in vertue while young that they may hold the taste in age whose example in vertue or vice might draw a world to follow the pattern But after Prince Henry fell mortally sick of a supposed Fever but not without suspition of poyson A Prince whom all Europe expected to be the promoter of some great and famous action because his inclination was bent to the Martial art above his yeers and also excelled in matters of State both in discourse and choice of ablest company which he much delighted in for advice and counsel This ripeness in judgement and dexterity in Souldiery to form Models of any sort of Battels stirred up king Iames to suspect the Prince might depose him especially knowing he was not begot of his body This caused the Lord Saintcleare then Ambassadour in Denmark not to be ashamed to challenge Prince Henry to be his own son to English and Scots there arrived so that by some Pill or other the Prince came to his end This was plainly shewed when he was cut up to be imbalmed his brain was Liver-hued and putrefied an argument of poison as was affirmed by a most learned Physician Butler of Cambridge Now king Iames more addicted to love males then females though for complement he visited Queen Anne yet never lodged with her a night for many yeers Whereupon Gundamore observing how king Iames was addicted told him that the Lady Hatton would not suffer the Lord Cook her husband to come into her fore-door nor he himself to come into her back-door Hatton and Ely houses joyning together where they dwelt she denying him a passage backward to take air Now that the fruit of Mortality might declare humane frailty Queen Anne who had trod so many stately footings in masks of Court Beauty fading strength faling and youth metamorphosed to yeers health to sickness being haunted with a lingering sickness which contracted her end For Doctor Upton at his death not long afore the Queen's declared a Skeleton being in her womb proves she was with childe and that Physick had destroyed it and so the Skeleton remained which was laboured to be purged away but all in vain rotted in her Of this Docter there was a jealousie of revealing it for which his passage was made to another world as his tongue to me at his death uttered who married my neer kinswoman The Queen departed the King sold his affections to Sir George Villiers whom he would tumble and kiss as a Mistress This favourite had erected many Monopolies who finding Parliaments hindered his profit caused his Master to dissolve those Patents and break up the Parliament of decimo octavo raising a number of Privy Seals which were borrowed and never paid And to adde to the iniquity of the times divers Incests were then pardoned insomuch as two Gentlemen who married two sisters one after another got License at Newmarket not to be molested in the High-Commission But above all a godly Minister in Lincolnshire was barbarously murthered by one Cartwright whom King Iames pardoned The reason of this murther was for rebuking him of swearing drunkenness and whoring At this time were many pious Divines silenced by the Bishops who inhibited preaching in the afternoon divers Exercises in several Towns commanded downe an occasion bred much prophaness in England king lames allowing dancing about May-poles and so winked at breaking the Sabbath a vice God curseth everywhere in Scripture What shall I say more All impiety was incouraged in such a sort that lawful Mariages were divorced or nullified as namely the Countess of Essex from the Earl of Essex late General for the Parliament alledging the Lord had a defect and was not able to perform the act of generation although the contrary was after proved to make a gap for Somerset's adultery by a Nullity which Bishop Bilson devised a nick-name being given for this to his son who was rewarded with Knighthood and therefore stiled by the people Sir Nullity Bilson This Bishop maintained Christs personal descention into hell an

way they certainly fulfilled Gods determination upon the seventh Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter being Sabbattical since the beginning of the world to bring down the Mountain of Monarchy which had continued more then five hundred yeers to depress the extortion practised in Europe from Charlemain's Age a Symptome and Harbinger for France Spaine Germany Turky and Papacy to change from an unbridled power to an Aristocratical or Plebeian way of rule which will better advance the Kingdom of Jesus Christ thorow the Universe whereby it appeares that England by Gods assistance may be the elder brother to bring to pass so mighty an alteration on the the stage of Christendom By divers ungodly Sophisms of State for the space of ten yeers King Charles raised up innumerable Projectors and ungodly burdens to enthral the Nations by an Arbitrary way imposing Monopolies many unlawful Taxes under which they remained without remedy of relief the eyes and eares of all in high authority being blinde and deaf not to hear nor see Petitions of just complaints insomuch that the people generally cried out Where are our Laws and demanded if all Justice were banished out of their quarters and with eyes lift up to Heaven desired that those caterpillers might not swell too big like a Spleen to bring a Consumption to the whole body praying also that their empty purses might not be filled with blood although their eyes with tears Now this miserable condition perceived by the wrinkles sorrow made on the brow of our disordered affaires all wise counsels banished and the reputation of a pious State withered was augmented by King Charles his imposing the Common-Book of Prayer on the Scots wherein God seemed to be deaf a time for the sins of this Nation multiplied against the Divine Majesty yet at last he heard the prayers of the Saints that the Scotish men could not endure this imposition so Diametrically opposite to the Kirk and disposition of the Nation This Stratagem was by the artifice of Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to bring into the Country Episcopal Government to unite both Kingdoms in one forme of Church in something agreeable with Rome as a bridge over which he might bring both people to Popery to ingratiate himself with the Pope for a Cardinals Cap. Lo how Charles and Scotland differed in this wide field of behaviour the interest of the King made Will a Law and the other avoided such a Slavery the issue was growing by this Edict obstinate they could not endure it But King Charles persisted in his wilful determination to finde out this subject to work the effects of his indignation upon so that this occasion was fitly presented to his wishes to raise an Armed Power to subdue them to his unbridled Pleasure But when this War exenterated his Coffers for lack of Money he was constrained nolens volens to call a Parliament by the advice of the fomer wicked Counseller who perswaded him to it making the King believe that at his pleasure he might on all accasions break the neck of such Assemblies In the mean while the enterprise was hatched on the basis of a contrariety of inclination by which he might set a bone to divide and governe both because that Nation by the immense bounty of King James was grown exceeding rich which sowed seeds of envy in England to oppose the Scot. But by this Parliament God who hath sole power in sublunaries turned this cross blow to the good of both to enlarge the Gospel of Jesus Christ and for the Liberty of England and Scotland But because the errand of my Discourse is not solely to shew the abuses of State but rather by reckoning up a brief Catalogue of some to demonstrate and delineate the just Judgement of God on the Family of these Stuarts for Cruelties and Murthers one of another that we may raise up our praises to God who out of the ashes of intended ruine hath made the Source of so glorious a State as now is planted on our English Stage wherein God findes this Common-wealth very consistent with his adequate glory in consummating the fulness of the Gentiles and calling home of the Jews foretold in the Scriptures to be performed in the latter Ages of the World to the intent Promises and Prophecies should be accomplished for the Dominion of Christ to extend to the ends of the earth that those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death may be brought into a more perspicuous light to follow the steps Christ hath traced out for all to walk in which the over-grown pride of Kings and Emperours would not submit to Therefore to demonstrate and observe how the Almighty hand of God hath determined the extirpation of the Royal Stock of the Stuarts for murthering one of another for their prophane Government and wanton Lasciviousness of those Imps ingrafted in that Stock I am forced to raise the fabrick of this Relation higher by the fourth Story and last staire of the great Grand-father of Charles the first who was slaine at Muscle-borough-field by the English Army under the command of the Earl of Arundel and Surrey This King I say left a sole Daughter Mary Suart Inheritrix of that Realm who when she attained of Viripotency was sought for a consort to the Dolphin of France which title of right belongs to the first Son of the King of that Crown This Prince after the Marriage ended his days by a shiver of a Launce at the sport of Tourney in Paris A Match contrived by the French for the Scots to be Goads in our sides to hinder our invading of France to which we had a just Title But this Mary deprived of her mate by this sad accident living some few yeers in the French Court where she was educated in the School of Venus proved an apt Scholar in that wanton Academy and affecting in her inclination to be more absolute in her passion of Love to chuse without controul a Paramour sutable when how long and who she pleased grew weary of the delights of Paris desiring variety returned into Scotland where she had more power she being constant in nothing but in Inconstancy A place where the amorous way was much in esteeme though the Church-Government somewhat hindered it which was then not of such force as since This Princess cast her glances everywhere about to finde a beauty fit for her imbrace and at last fixt her liking on the Lord Darnel of the House and Family of the Stuarts of Boote in Scotland whose Ancestors were there famous contesting long ago for the King with one Wallis in their home-bred broiles who sided with the people To say truth this Lord was a goodly and amiable person fit for any Compeership how great soever but after some time this Princess soon satiated grew weary of the conjunction by reason of a servant she entertained called David Ritsoe an Italian Musician who exceled in the Airs of Italy above others in that Faculty who inchanting