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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

wonder if to the astonishment of Kings and Kingdomes thou hast suffered at the doores of thy Pallace an ignominious and opprobrious Death But knowest thou not over and above that this very Pallace the House of thy abode was the dwelling place of the Bishops of Yorke which I extorted from Cardinall Wolsey A man sometimes highly advanc'd by me whilest serving my unbridled Lust but whom afterwards I utterly Confounded when I judg'd it for the availe of my Avarice Nor prophan'd I only the Episcopall houses to ungodly and Nefarious uses but Compelled ev'm themselves the Bishops from their Obedience to the Roman Sea into an acknowledgement of my Iurisdiction in Church affaires unlesse only who presided over Rochester whom when neither with faire words nor menaces I could draw into the defection of the rest I beheaded to compleat my Sacraledge Behold therefore if or not it were fatall and most agreeable to the Heavenly justice that this Head of the Church so Admentitious should have been cut off before the doores of the Bishop To give Promotion to the affaires of my Primacy I made me a Vicar of one CROMVVELL of those Times a man of very meane extraction unto whom and hee of Lay condition both the Bishops and Archbishops were as underlings Now another of that name and like discent Rules as absolute over all thy Nobles and Guides the minutes of thy Life and Death The very same I made my Principall instrument of keeping from their meanes the Church its children and of bringing on the Baine of that Religion so long practiz'd in the Times of my Ancestors which I would call The Reformation of the Church I enter'd to this Kingdom from my Father when it was Blemishless entire and truly Regall nor in any thing unto any one obnoxious only as fitting in things that were Spirituall paying submission to the Vicar of CHRIST Thou received'st it when strengthless and wounded rent and torne from the yoke of St. Peter so just so sweet and so amiable wholy slav'd unto the Vicars of the People chose to governe by the votes of the multitude Carol. Too too true by the losse of my Head have I found those very things which thou hast said to me and now lately unless by others allowance that I had nothing either of Life or Kingdomes which was not wholy in the hands of the Parliament since puff'd up with fond pride and contumacy by thy Example I have swarved from the Church yet fear'd I not the qublique Hatchet would have struck me by the hands of Rebels with such pompe and seared impudence at my death but much more dreaded Secret councels and impoisonings Henric. But of that thou shouldst the least have been afraid for the punishment would not have answered the offence Publique sinnes must have publique Expiations nor sought I corners in which to perpetrate my wickednesses but sinn'd boldly after once I had begun only I drew indeed the masque of justice upon the Face of my iniquities the Supremacy as though my due of the Church unto my Self I arrogated calling a Parliament by a Decree whereout I quite abolished the Roman Seas authority I repudiated by pretence of Right the woman that was my lawfull Wife the Possessions likewise wholy of the Clergie under the same colour I occasioned to be confiscated whosoever was averse to my Supremacie as though guilty of High Treason I put to Death Wheresote when our sinnes for which wee worthily are punished are couered over with the veile of justice no wonder if the selfe same vizard likewise veile us when our selves at last we come to suffer Carol. But these Audacities from their Subjects unto Kings are the effects of most unheard of wickednesse Henr. I confesse it but with how much greater wickedness are those insolencies by our selves deserved Such sin only against a mortall Prince but we Princes against an aeternall Deitie But you Sir unless a mark'd out Sacrafice God so willing for your sinnes enormities could you not have mocqu'd that arrest of Popular judgement by your Prerogative in dissolving of the Parliament Carol. I did what I could to dissolve it but I pray heare what follow'd after my so doing The Scottish men my naturall Subjects in hostile sort invaded England with their Armies whom opposing in their march at Yorke an humble Booke came to my hands by Kymbolton under written by certaine Noble men of my Kingdome Henric. King Henry hearing Kymbolton nam'd after fetching first a very deepe sigh Oh Katherine sayes he 〈…〉 Kymbolton that Woman of all other most deare to me as excelling all her Sex in vertue whom I Banish'd Heav'n forgive me from my Bed to make place therein for that Strumpet Anne of Bollen afterwards publiquely beheaded for Adultery hath exchanged this so hated Life This Divorce against both heav'ns and humane Lawes to the end that I might make it firme made me usurpe unto me the authority of the Church when unless with so horrid a Sacraledge I could not uphold the impiety of that villany Hence broke upon our selves and both our Kingdomes the inundation of all these pressing miseries Carol. When holding forth Kymboltons Booke from this sayes he as by one wave of a Deluge hath also flow'd the totall Sea of my disasters for unadvisedly O my griefe I condiscended they so craving to a Treaty with the Scots in which J bound my selfe firmly to make Good what in my name should by my Delegates be agreed upon These Deputed O imprudent Drones or rather indeed perfidious Traytors gave concessions to the insidiating Scots to take strong Holds into their hands within my Kingdom till such time as by my Kingly authority the Parliament then dissolved should be revoked Writs therefore I accordingly issued forth The Scots are most Liberally gratifi'd nor doe they suffer them sooner to leave England then that first J had engaged my Princely Faith by a writing under my Hand and Seale this Hamilton also unhappily Councell'd me that unfortunate kinsman of mine not to anull the said new Sessions of Parliament till such time as they should all thereto assent Henric. Oh stupiditie or rather extreamest Madness Didst thou not see when to thy stiffe-neck'd People thou Granted this that thou putt'st a finall Period to the sway of thy Kingly Authority This was one and the self-same thing as if thou hadst given into the hands of the Parliament thy Scepter and thy Princely Diadem on condition not to have them again untill such time as they should please to restore them Thee But much otherwise should I have handled mine Though now it is as cleere as noone day that the measure of my Sins hath been made-up in Thee by Thy unhappie Participation of my Schismes and that by blinding the eyes of thy mind in Propitiation of the offended Dietie Gods just vengeance hath brought on Thee destruction Whom God will destroy hee taketh away their Right understanding But when once it was come to that passe Thou shouldst have