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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90516	Nuntius a mortuis: or, a messenger from the dead. That is, a stupendous and dreadfull colloquie, distinctly and alternately heard by divers, betwixt the ghosts of Henry the Eight, and Charles the First, both Kings of England, who lye entombed in the church of Windsor. Wherein, (as with a pencill from heaven) is liquidly (from head to foot) set forth, the whole series of the judgements of God, upon the sinnes of these unfortunate jslands. Translated out of the Latine copie, by G.T.; Nuntius a mortuis. English	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1657 (1657)	Wing P1599A; ESTC R229647	18,209	36

TO THE READER COurteous Reader Thou wilt wonder perhaps that this Terrible Narration of a Colloquie so full of dread and astonishment long since had betwixt two Kings of England both Deceased should not sooner have come forth when in the intervall of so Great a tract of Time it ought rather to have been put to the Presse But thou must know it was then strangled in its Birth all ready fitted by me to have come into the Light when the late Kings Blood yet smoaking the Severity of the times suppressed it Divers also were shut up close Prisoners least the Truth of such strange Prodigies should walke abroad with them And the Souldiers largely brib'd who watch'd his Herse not to let any thing of that Quality fall from them But now it is by Gods infinite goodness nor unhappie as J may say Midwifrie of mine that againe it Resaluteth the Day with recommendation to bee Communicatively used by the However to my selfe the Author who was present at the late Kings Buriall and both Eye and Eare-witness of these wonders not as vaine and only forg'd things speaking like to Poets give thou Credit and Beliefe But as tracing through those Dead Kings Colloquies in this Kingdome fill'd with hellish darkness the true and hidden Pathes of Gods just vengeance Farewell and as thy Brother in CHRIST Pray for Thy c. NUNTIUS a MORTUIS OR A Messenger from the Dead THrough the unlimited wickedness of the London Calvinists the first of that Name in England King CHARLES being taken away His headless Body by order of Parliament not to the Royall Abbey of St. Peter in Westminster the solemne Buriall-place of all the Kings and Queenes of England but to Windsor twenty miles distant from London in HENRY the Eight's Monument was Translated to bee interred There was no Pompe at all to grace his Funerall only a few Souldiers sent to Guard his Body which some few Nobles with the Duke of Richmond waited on where his Corpes being put into the Sepulcher from out the Penetrall thereof there broke a horrid Sound which the standers by at first amaz'd with much wonder But by and by a voyce attending that Noise forc'd them All into a fearefull astonishment And it is Credible that ev'n the Souldiers would have taken their Heeles but that casting away all feares and Apprehension which they had long since layd aside of either Heaven or Hell They resolv'd to heare the sequell of that Prodigie J also who growne Pale with feare had begun to flie Recollected my Spirits and comforting my selfe with the presence of the Souldiers not uncovetous of Hearing what would follow stood my ground And with the rest at last discovered that it was the Voice of Henry the Eight thus complaining with a Loud and horridly frightfull Vocifiration Henricus HO Who is this with Sacraligious impietie that dares vex the so long quiet ashes of a King so many years since deceased This said another voice straight rose somewhat softer but extreamly Dolefull which seem'd to be Kings Charles his thus Answering Carolus I Am that unhappie King of England your Successor the undoubted Heire of Sixty two Monarchs whose Scepters sometimes sway'd these Nations and who my Selfe have now these twenty yeares and upwards worne the Kingly Diadem Henricus As though thou indeed hadst worne the kingly Diadem Why thou hast no Head at all whereon to put it Man Carolus But I had one oh my Griefe and very lately though my Subjects have rebelliously taken it from me Henric. Have thy Subjects then thus cruelly handled thee oh the hatred of both God and Men How I pray you came these things to passe And what wickedness hadst thou done so execrable which hath transported thy Subjects to that Madness Garol That Sir I am totally ignorant of but this I dare with confidence affirme That I have violated no mans Bed have not offerd force unto any on 's Daughter driven no man from his house or Lands of all which yet Henry the Eight my Predecessor is held guilty through the totall universe Let these say who have brought me hither whether in any thing I have bely'd the Truth then paus'd a while as though to heare what they would say whilest the Soldiers with their looks cast downe consented by their Silence to these verities And most true it is indeed what hath been said for never King since the worlds Creation was more wicked then that Henry I speake of as who councell'd by one CROMVVELL of those Times either violated all Divine and humane Lawes or gave the example to his successors of doing so But as for Charles who is so lately deceased only abstracting from the Blot of Herisie no King ever not only of his time nor Private man was either naturally more equitable more holy or endow'd with greater Vertues who not finding what he said opposed in this maner follow'd on his Narration I was criminated for defending with Armes what peaceably but in vaine J had endeavoured those very Lawes the which my Ancestors had left to me and which Sixteen and upwards of yeares I had uncontroledly Rul'd by and Reign'd Hereupon were there Iudges appointed by an usurped authority of Parliament who should sit and determine of my Head witnesses against me sworne and examined who had conspired to take away my Life The day set downe and forces brought the which should carry me to be arraigned before their Dire Tribunall and though I call'd both God and men to witness their violation in this proceeding of the Lawes and that no Power on earth was capable of judging me as also that I tooke not up Armes before that Armes had first been actually taken against me yet Iudgement or rather the shadow thereof was given by which J suffered the decollation of my Head Henric. Oh wickedness even sear'd to impudence and of which as ages past are wholly ignorant so those to come will hardly ever give credit to Wee have heard perhaps of Kings and Potentates who have suddenly been oppressed by the Fury of a Raging and incensed multitude But that any one a Prince of such High majesty should be brought to death by the cruelty of his Subjects all of one and the selfe-same Religion under the colour ev'n it selfe of justice and be obtruncated by the publique Hangman but especially not found guilty of any crime unlesse propugning his Paternall Rights Since Kings had being was yet never heard of For that Mary Queen of Scots that Neice of mine was most cruelly and inhumanely Beheaded that Elizabeth my unhappie daughter Queene of England and in hatred of Religion not the unnaturalness of her Subjects brought to passe and therefore all men have that Izabell or rather Jezabell in veneration as though indeed a Martyr Carol. Least I should seeme too much to stand upon my innocence I confesse I was to blame although not charg'd therewith when I assented unto Straffords dying not least guilty on my knowledge of his Charge