those who conspired against his Majesty and Authority likes not the Advice the King ought not says he venture his Person among such hoseless Ribaulds but rather dispose things so as to curb their Insolence Sir says he Your Sacred Majesty in this Storm ought to shew how much of a King you can play what you will go for hereafter by your present Carriage you will either be feared for the Future or contemned if you seriously consider the Nature of these rough hewn Savages you will find the gentle Ways pernicious your Tameness will undoe you Mercy will ever be in your Power but it is not to be named without the Sword drawn God and your Right hath placed you in your Throne but your Courage and Resolution must keep you there your Indignation will be Iustice good Men will think it so and if they love you you have enough you cannot capitulate not treat with your Rebels without hazarding your Honour and perhaps your Royal Faith if you yield to the Force of one Sedition your whole Life and Reign will be nothing but a Continuation of Broils and Tumults if you assert your Soveraign Authority betimes not only these Doults these Sots but all Men else will reverence you Remember Sir God by whom Lawful Princes Reign whose Vicegerent you are would not forgive Rebellion in Angels you must not trust the Face Petitions delivered you upon Swords Points are fatal if you allow this Custom you are ruined as yet Sir you may be obeyed as much as you please Of this Opinion was Sir Robert Hales Lord Prior of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem newly Lord Treasurer of England a Magnanimous and stout Knight but not liked by the Commons When this Resolution was known to the Clowns they grow stark mad they bluster they swear to seek out the Kings Traitors for such they must now go for no Man was either good or honest but he who pleased them the Arch-bishop and Lord Prior and to chop off their Heads here they might be trusted they were likely to keep their Words Hereupon without more Consideration they advance towards London not forgetting to burn and raze the Lawyers and Courtiers Houses in the Way to the Kings Honour no doubt which they will be thought to arm for Sir Iohn Froissart and others report this part thus which probably might follow after this Refusal The Rebels say they sent their Knight so they called him yet was he the Kings Knight for Tyler came not up to Dubbing we find no Sir Iohn nor Sir Thomas of his making Sir Iohn Moton to the King who was then in the Tower with his Mother his half Brothers Thomas Holland Earl of Kent after Duke of Surrey and the Lord Holland the Earls of Salisbury Warwick and Oxford the Arch-bishop Lord Prior and others The Knight casts himself down at the Kings Feet beseeches him not to look upon him the worse as in this Quality and Imployment to consider he is forced to do what he does He goes on Sir the Commons of this Realm those few in Arms comparatively to the rest would be taken for the whole desire you by me to speak with them Your Person will be safe they repute you still their King this deserved Thanks but how long the Kindness will hold we shall soon find they profess that all they had done or would do was for your Honour For your Glory your Honour and Security are their great Care they will make you a Glorious King fearful to your Enemies and beloved of your Subjects they promise you a plentiful and unparalell'd Revenue They will maintain your Power and Authority in Relation to the Laws with your Royal Person according to the Duty of their Allegiance their Protestation their Vow their solemn League and Covenant without diminishing your just Power and Greatness and that they will all the Days of their Lives continue in this Covenant against all Opposition They assure you Sir That they intend faithfully the Good of your Majesty and of the Kingdom and that they will not be diverted from this end by any private or Self-respects whatsoever But the Kingdom has been a long time ill governed by your Uncles and the Clergy especially by the Arch-bishop of Canterbury of whom they would have an Account They have found out necessary Counsels for you they would warn you of many things which hitherto you have wanted good Advice in The Conclusion was sad on the Knights part His Children were Pledges for his Return and if he fail in that their Lives were to answer it Which moved with the King he allows the Excuse sends him back with this Answer that he will speak with the Commons the next Morning which it should seem the report of the Outrages done by the Clowns upon his Refusal and this Message made him consent to At the time appointed he takes his Barge and is rowed down to Redriffe the place nearest the Rebels Ten thousand of them descend from the Hill to see and treat with him with a Resolution to yield to nothing to overcome by the Treaty as they must have done had not the Kings Fear preserved him When the Barge drew nigh the new Council of State says our Knight howled and shouted as though all the Devils of Hell had been amongst them Sir Iohn Moton was brought toward the River guarded they being determined to have cut him in peices if the King had broke his Promise All the Desires of these good and faithful Counsellors contracted suddenly into a narrow Room they had now but one Demand The King asks them What is the matter which made them so earnestly sollicite his Presence They have no more to say but to intreat him to land which was to betray himself to them to give his Life and Soveraignty up to those fickle Beasts to be held of them during their good Pleasures which the Lords will not agree to The Earl of Salisbury of the ancient Nobility and Illustrious House of Montacute tells them their Equipage and Order were not comely and that the King ought not to adventure amongst their Troops They are now more unsatisfied and London how true soever to the Cause and faithless to the Prince shall feel the Effects of their Fury Southwark a friendly Borough is taken up for their first Quarters Here again they throw down the Malignants Houses and as a Grace of their Entrance break up the Kings Prisons and let out all those they find under Restraint in them not forgetting to ransack the Arch-bishops House at Lambeth and spoil all things there plucking down the Stews standing upon the Thames Bank and allowed in the former Ages It cannot be thought but that the Idol loved Adultery well enough but perhaps these publick Bawdy-houses were too unclean and might stink in his Nostrils we cannot find him any where quarrelling with the Bears those were no Malignants They knocked not long at the City-Gates which some say were never
to fire unless Iohn Lakinhethe Guardian of the Temporalities of the Barony in the Vacancy then were delivered to them which the Towns-men mingled in the Throng put them upon The Guardian stood amidst the Crowd unknown This Man out of Piety to preserve the Monastery it was Piety then though it may be thought Impiety now discovers himself he tells them he is the Man they seek and asks what it is the Commons would have with him They call him Traitor it was Capital to be called so not to be so drag him to the Market-place and cut off his Head which is set upon the Pillory to keep Company with the Priors and Chief Justices Walter of Todington a Monk was sought for they wanted his Head but he hid himself and escaped Our Hacksters Errant of the Round Table Knights of Industry would be thought General Redeemers to take Care of all men in Distress for the Burgesses Sake they command the Monks threatning them and their Walls if they obey not to deliver up the Obligations of the Townsmen for their good Behaviour all the ancient Charters from the time of King Knute the Founder any way concerning the Liberties of the Town besides they must grant and confirm by Charter the Liberties of the Town which could not be done in the Vacancy for so it was Edmund of Brumfield Abbot in Name by Provision of the Pope was a Prisoner at Nottingham nor had any Election been since the Death of Abbot Iohn Brivole and therefore the Jewels of the House are pawned to the Townsmen as a Gage that Edmund of Brumfield whom they would suppose Abbot and whom they intended to set free should seal which Jewels were a Cross and Chalice of Gold with other things exceeding in value One thousand Pounds these were restored again in time of Peace but with much Unwillingness Upon the Bruit of the Idols Mishap and the Suppression of his Legions at London these Caterpillers dissolve of themselves Wraw the Priest Westbrome and the rest of the Capital Villains in the General Audit or Doomesday for these Hurliburlies shall be called to a Reckoning for their Outrages Cambridge suffered not a little in these Uproars the Towns-men with the Country Peasants about confederated together break up the Treasury of the University tear and burns its Charters they compel the Chancellor and Scholars under their common Seals to release to the Mayor and Townsmen all Rights and Liberties all Actions and to be bound in 3000l not to molest the Burgesses by Suits of Law concerning these things for the time to come The Mayor and Bayliffs were fetched up by Writ to the next Parliament where the Deeds were delivered up and cancelled the Liberties of the Town seized into the Kings Hand as forfeited new ones granted by him to the University all which they owe yet to the Piety of this King and his Parliament a Court which the Idol never names Had he set up one of his own begetting it must have had nothing else but the Name it would have been as destroying as the Field Norfolk the Mother of the Kets would not loyter this while nor sit lazily and sluggishly looking on Iohn Litster a Dyer of Norwich King of the Commons there infuses Zeal and Daring into his Country-men he had composed out of his own Empire and the Borders an Army of fifty thousand Men. This Upstart Kingling would not wholly move by Example he makes Presidents of his own and tramples not like a dull Beast the Road beaten by others He had heard what was done by the London Congregations he had a Stock of Traditions from the Elders there which he was able to improve and although I know not how he could exceed the Idol with his Council yet so the Monk exceed them he did he presumed greater things Tyler lost his Life before things were ripe was watched and undermined by the King and Nobility he could not spread his full Sails else for his Presumption he far out-goes Litster Litster the Norfolk Devil begins with Plunder and Rapine the only Way to flesh a young Rebellion The Malignants of the Kings Party the rich and peaceable go under that Notion are made a Prey no place was safe or priviledged Plots were laid to get the Lord William of Ufford Earl of Suffolk at his Mannor of Ufford near Debenham in Suffolk into the Company out of Policy that if the Cause succeeded not then the Rebels might cover themselves under the Shadow of that Peer The Earl warned of their Intention rises from Supper and disguised as a Groom of Sir Roger of Bois with a Portmantue behind him riding By-ways and about ever avoiding the Routs comes to St. Albanes and from thence to the King The Commons failing here possess themselves of the places and Houses of the Knights near and compell the Owners to swear what they list and for greater Wariness to ride the Country over with them which they durst not deny Among those enthralled by this Compulsion were the Lords Scales and Morley Sir Iohn Brews Sir Stephen of Hales and Sir Robert of Salle which last was no Gentleman born but as full of Honour and Loyalty as any Man Knighted by the Kings Grand-father for his Valour he was says Froissart one of the biggest Knights in England a Man not supple enough who could not bend before the new Lords he had not the Solidity of Judgment as some more subtle than honest call it to accomodate himself to the times Like Messala he would be of the justest side let the Fortune be what it would he would not forsake Justice under Colour of following Prudence he thought it not in vain to prop up the falling Government perhaps his Judgment may be blamed he stayed not for a sit time had he not failed here he had not fought against Heaven against Providence whose Councils and Decrees are hid from us are in the Clouds not to be pierced our Understanding is as weak as foolish as Providence is certain and wise Our Hopes and Fears deceive us alike we cannot resolve our selves upon any Assurance to forsake our Duty for the time to come Gods Designs are known only to himself it is Despair not Piety Despair too far from that to leave our Country in her dangerous Diseases in her publick Calamities the Insolency of injust Men is a Prodigy of their Ruin and the Incertainty of things Humane may teach us That those we esteem most established most assured are not seldom soonest overthrown Plato would not have them refer all things to Fate there is somewhat in our selves says he not a little in Fortune Ours are but Cockfights the least Remainder of Force and Life may strike a necking Blow and by an unlooked for Victory raise what is fallen if Death cannot be kept off if our Country cannot he saved by our Attempts there is a Comliness in dying handsomly nor can any Man be unhappy but he who out-lives it We have heard of
heavy as very Asses as himself He is said to be a crafty Fellow and of an Excellent Wit but wanting Grace yet crafty enough he was not for the great and dangerous Enterprize A Marius however Impious for such he must be pace pessimus fitter to remove things to overturn overturns than for Peace but as Plutarch of him subtil faithless one who could over do all Men in Dissembling in Hypocrisie practised in all the Arts of Lying and some of these good Sleights Tyler wanted not one who had Sense and Iudgment to carry things on as well as desperate Confidence to undertake had become this part incomparably had gone through with it how easily under such a Captain if we look upon the Weakness of the Opposition and the Villainous Baseness of the Gentry had the Frame of the ancient Building been rased the Model must have held Richard whose Endeavours of Defence or Loyalty alone should have been killing had not fallen by the Sword of Lancaster he had found his Grave on Tower-hill or Smithfield where the faithful Lieges of his Crown were torn in peices by these Cannibals The Reverence due to the Anointed Heads of Kings began to fall away and Naked Majesty could not guard where Innocency could not But Tyler blinded by his own fatal Pride throws himself foolishly upon the Kings Sword and by his over-much Hast preserves him whom he had vowed to destroy The Heathens make it a Mark of the Divinity of their Gods that they bestowed Benefits upon Mortal Men and took nothing from them The Clowns of the Idol upon this Rule were not very Heavenly they were the meek Ones of those times the only Inheritors of Right the Kingdom was made a Prey by them it was cantoned out to erect new Principalities for the Mock-Kings of the Commons so their Chiefs or Captains would be called Here though the Title of Rebellion spoke fair was shewn somewhat of Ambition and no little of unjust private Interest no little of Self-seeking which the Good of the People in Pretence only was to give Way to and no Wonder for the good of the People properly was meerly to be intended of themselves and no where but amongst those was the Commonwealth Had these Thistles these Brambles flourished the whole Wood of Noble Trees had perished If the violent casting other Men out of their Possessions firing their Houses cutting off their Heads violating of all Rights be thought Gods Blessing any Evidence of his owning the Cause these Thieves and Murderers were well blessed and sufficiently owned Such was then the Face of things Estates were dangerous Every rich Man was an Enemy Mens Lives were taken away without either Offence or Tryal their Reign was but a Continuation of horrible Injuries the Laws were not only silent but dead The Idol's Fury was a Law and Faith and Loyalty and Obedience to Lawful Power were damnable Servants had the Rule over Princes England was near a Slavery the most unworthy of free and ingenious Spirits of any What I relate here to speak something of the Story I collect out of Sir John Froissart a French-Man living in the Times of King EDWARD the Third and his Grandchild King RICHARD who had seen England in both the Reigns was known and esteemed in the Court and came last over after these Tumults were appeased And out of Thomas of Walsingham a Monk of St. Albans in Henry the Sixth's Days who says Bale in his Centuries of him writes many the most choice Passages of Affairs and Actions such as no other hath met with In the Main and to the Substance of things I have made no Additions no Alterations I have faithfully followed my Authors who are not so historically exact as I could wish nor could I much better what did not please me in their Order No Man says Walsingham can recite fully the Mischeifs Murders Sacriledge and Cruelty of these Actors he excuses his digesting them upon the Confusion of the combustious Flaming in such Variety of Places and in the same time Tyler Litstar and those of Hartfordshire take up most part of the Discourse Westbrome is brought in by the Halves the lesser Snakes are only named in the Chronicle what had been more had not been to any purpose Those were but Types of Tyler the Idol and acted nothing but according to the Original according to his great Example they were Wolves alike and he that reads one knows all Thomas of Becket Simon of Montfort the English Cataline Thomas of Lancaster Rebels and Traitors of the former years are canonized by the Monks generally the Enemies of their Kings Miracles make their Tâ—…mbs Illustrious and their Memories Sacred The Idol and his Incendiaries are abhorred every where every History detests them while Faith Civility Honesty and Piety shall be left in the World the Enemies of all these must neither be beloved nor pittied THE Rustick Rampant OR RURAL ANARCHY THe Reign of King Richard the Second was but a Throw of State for so many Years a Feaver to whose Distempers all pieces of the home Dominions contributed by Fits the forraign part only continuing faithful In the fourth Year of his Reign and Fifteenth of his Age the Dregs and Off-scum of the Commons unite into Bodies in several parts of the Kingdom and form a Rebellion called the Rebellion of the Clowns which lead the rest and shewed the Way of Disobedience first Of which may truly be said though amongst other Causes we may attribute it to the Indisposition and Unseasonableness of the Age that the Fruits of it did not take it was strongly begun and had not Providence held back the Hand the Blow had fallen the Government had broke into Shivers then The young King at this time had few besides Thomas of Woodstock his Uncle Earl of Buckingham and after Duke of Glocester but the Servants of his House in Ordinary about him the Lord Edmund of Langley Earl of Cambridge after Duke of York with the Lords Beauchamp Botereaux Sir Matthew Gourney with others of the Nobility and Gentry had set sail for Portugal the Duke Iohn of Lancaster another of his Uncles was in Scotland treating a Peace when this Commotion brake out Though no Cause can be given for Seditions those who design publick Troubles can never want Pretences Polidore as much out in this Story as any gives this Reason for this the Poll-mony says he imposed by Parliament a Groat Sterling upon every Head was intolerable It was justly imposed and so by some to whom Law and Custom of England were intolerable not to be endured but we shall find in the Tyranny breaking in not only fifth and twentieth Parts and Loans forced out of Fear of Plunder and Death but Subsidies in Troop and Regiments by Fifties more than Sequestrations and Compositions not under Foot low Sales for what had these Rascals to give but down-right Robbery and Violent Usurpations of Estates Thus would Polidore have it in Defence
could not be well tempered with vulgar Blood a Servant of the Arch-Bishops who had trusted himself to these Guards and Walls is forced to betray his Lord. He brings them into the Chappel where the Holy Prelate was at his Prayers where he had celebrated Mass that Morning before the King and taken the Sacred Communion where he had spent the whole Night in watching and Devotion as presaging what followed He was a Valiant Man and Pious and expected these Blood-hounds with great Security and Calmness of Mind when their bellowing first struck his Ears he tells his Servants that Death came now as a more particular Blessing where the Comforts of Life were taken away that Life was irksome to him perhaps his pious Fears for the Church and Monarchy both alike indangered and fatally tied to the same Chain might make him weary of the World and that he could now dye with more quiet of Conscience than ever a Quiet which these Parricides will not find when they shall pay the Score of this and their other Crimes However the Flattery of Success may abuse our Death-bed represents things in their own Shape and as they are After this the Rout of Wolves enter prophanely roaring where is the Traitor where is the Robber of the Common People He answers not troubled at what he saw or heard Ye are welcome my Sons I am the Arch-Bishop whom you seek neither Traitor nor Robber Presently these Limbs of the Devil griping him with their wicked Clutches tear him out of the Chappel neither reverencing the Altar nor Crucifix figured on the top of his Crosier nor the Host these are the Monks Observations for which he condemns them in the highest Impiety and makes them worse than Devils and as Religion went then well he might condemn them so They drag him by the Arms and Hood to Tower Hill without the Gates there they howl hideously which was the Sign of a Mischief to follow He asks them what it is they purpose what is his Offence tells them he is their Arch-Bishop this makes him guilty all his Eloquence his Wisdom are now of no Use he adds the Murder of their Soveraign Pastor will be severely punished some notorious Vengeance will suddenly follow it These Destroyers will not trouble themselves with the idle Formality of a Mock-trial or Court of their own erecting an abominable Ceremony which had made their Impiety more ugly they proceed down-right and plainly which must be instead of all things He is commanded to lay his Neck upon the Block as a false Traitor to the Commonalty and Realm To deal roundly his Life was forfeited and any particular Charge or Defence would not be necessary his Enemies were his Accusers and Judges his Enemies who had combined and sworn to abolish his Order the Church and spoil the Sacred Patrimony and what Innocency what Defence could save Without any Reply farther he forgives the Headsman and bows his Body to the Axe After the first hit he touches the Wound with his Hand and speaks thus It is the Hand of the Lord. The next Stroke falls upon his Hand e'er he could remove it cuts off the tops of his Fingers after which he fell but dyed not till the eighth Blow his Body lay all that day unburied and no Wonder all Men were throughly Scared under the Tyranny of these Monsters all Humanity all Piety were most unsafe The Arch-bishop dyed a Martyr of Loyalty to his King and has his Miracles recorded an Honour often bestowed by Monks Friends of Regicide and Regicides on Traitors seldom given to honest Men. In his Epitaph his riming Epitaph where is shewn the pittiful ignorant Rudeness of those times he goes for no less he speaks thus Sudburiae natus Simon jacet hic tumulatus Martyrizatus nece pro republica stratus Sudburies Simon here intombed lies Who for the Common-wealth a Martyr dies It is fit says Plato that he who would appear a just Man become Naked that his Vertue be dispoiled of all Ornament that be he taken for a wicked Man by others wicked indeed that he be mocked and hanged The wisest of Men tell us There is a Just Man that perisheth in his Righteousness and there is a wicked Man that prolongeth his Life in his Wickedness The Seas are often calm to Pirates and the Scourges of God the Executioners of his Fury the Goths Hunns and Vandals heretofore Tartars and Turks now how happy are their Robberies how do all things succeed with them beyond their Wishes Our Saviours Passion the great Mystery of his Incarnation lost him to the Iews his Murtherers Whereupon Grotius notes it is often permitted by God that pious Men be not only vexed by wicked Men but murdered too He gives Examples in Abel Isaiah and others the MESSIAH dyed for the Sins of the World Ethelbert and Saint Edmund the East-Angles Saint Oswald the Northumbrian Edward the Monarch c. Saxon Kings are Examples at Home Thucidides in his Narration of the Defeat and Death of Nician the Athenian in Sicily speaks thus Being the Man of all the Grecians of my Time had least deserved to be brought to so great a Degree of Misery It is too frequent to proclaim Gods Judgments in the Misfortunes of others as if we were of the Celestial Council had seen all the Wheels or Orbs upon which Providence turns and knew all the Reasons and Ends which direct and govern its Motions Men love by a strange Abstraction to seperate Facts from their Crimes where the Fact is Beneficial the Advantage must canonize it it must be of Heavenly Off-spring a Way to justifie Cain Abimelech Phocas our Third Richard Ravilliac every lucky Parricide whatsoever Alexander Severus that most excellent Emperor assassinated by the Militia or Souldiery by an ill Fate of the Common-wealth for Maximinus a Thracian or Goth Lieutenant General of the Army a cruel Savage Tyrant by Force usurped the Empire after him replyed to one who pretended to foretell his End That it troubled aim not the most Renowned Persons in all Ages dye violently This Gallant Prince condemned no Death but a dishonest fearful one Heaven it self declared on the Arch-bishops side and cleared his Inocency Starling of Essex who challenged to himself the Glory of being Headsman fell mad suddenly after ran through the Villages with his Sword hanging naked upon his Breast and his Dagger naked behind him came up to London confest freely the Fact and lost his Head there As most of those did who had laid their Hands upon this Arch-bishop coming up severally out of their Countrys to that City and constantly accusing themselves for the Parricide of their spiritual Father Nothing was now unlawful there could be no Wickedness after this they make more Examples of barbarous Cruelty under the Name of Justice Robert Lord Prior of St. Iohn and Lord Treasurer of England Iohn Leg or Laige one of the Kings Sergeants at Arms a
Apostles did not delude the World 2. Nor were themselves deluded 3. Scripture matters of Faith have the best Evidence 4. The Divinity of Scripture is as demonstrable as the being of a Deity By Iohn Smith Rector of St. Mary in Colchester in Folio The True Christians Character and Crown in a Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Deputy Cade on Rev. 2. 10. By Iohn Lake Rector of St. Bottolphs Bishopsgate with a large Preface of Mr. Cade's to it in 40. Weighty Reasons for tender and conscientious Protestants to be in Union and Communion with the Church of England and not to forsake the publick Assemblys in several Sermons on 1 Cor. 1. 10. That ye all speak the same things and that there be no Divisions among you but that you be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same Iudgment on Heb. 10. 25. not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is in 80 large The Psalms of King David paraphrased and turn'd into English Verse according to the common Meetre as they are usuallysung in Parish Churches by Miles Smith in 80 large A Fountain of Tears emptying it self into three Rivulets viz. Of Compunction Compassion Devotions or Sobs of Nature sanctified by Grace Languaged in several Solyloquies and Prayers upon various Subjects for the benefit of all that are in Affliction and particularly for these present times by Iohn Featly Chaplain to his Majesty Select Thoughts or choice Helps for a pious Spirit a century of Divine Breathings for a ravished Soul beholding the Excellency of her Lord Jesus To which is added the Breathings of the Devout Soul by Ios. Hall Bishop of Norwich in 120. A General Treatise of Artillery or great Ordnance Written in Italian by Tomaso Moreti of Brescia Ingenier first to the Emperor and now to the most serene Republick of Venice translated into English with Notes thereupon and some Addition out of French for Sea-Gunners By Sir Ionas More Knight With an Appendix of artificial Fire-works of War and Delight by Sir Abraham Dager Knight Ingenier Illustrated with divers Cuts Blagrave's Introduction to Astrology in three parts containing the use of an Ephemerides and how to erect a Figure of Heaven to any time proposed also the Signification of the Houses Planets Signs and Aspects the Explanation of all useful terms of Art With plain and familiar Instructions for the Resolution of all manner of Questions and exemplified in every particular thereof by Figures set and judged The second treateth of Elections shewing their Use and Application as they are constituted on the twelve Celestial Houses whereby you are enabled to chuse such times as are proper and conducible to the Perfection of any matter or Business whatsoever The third comprehendeth an absolute Remedy for rectifying and judging Nativities the Signification and Portance of Directions with new and experienced Rules touching Revolutions and Transâ—…ts by Io. Blagrave of Reading Gent. Student in Astrology and Physick in 80 large The Sea-mans Tutor explaining Geometry Cosmography and Trigonometry with requisite Tables of Longituâ—… and Latitude of Sea ports Travers Tables Tables of Easting and Westing meridian Miles Declinations Amplitudes Refractions Use of the Compass Kalender Measure of the Earth Globe use of Instruments Charts differences of Sailing estimation of a Ship-way by the Log and Log-line Currents Composed for the use of the Mathematical School in Christs Hospital London his Majesty Charles II his Royal Foundation By Peter Perkins Master of that School Mr. Nich. Culpepers last Legacy left and bequeathed to his dearest Wife for the publick good being the choicest and most profitable of those Secrets which while he lived were locked up in his Breast and resolved never to publish them till after his Death containing sundry admirable Experiments in Physick and Chirurgery The fifth Edition with the Addition of a new Tract of the Anatomy of the Reins and Bladder in 80 large Pharamond that famed Romance being the History of France in twelve parts by the Author of Cleopatra and Cassandra in Folio Meronides or Virgil Travesty being a new Paraphrase upon the fifth and sixth Book of Virgil Aeneas in Burlesque verse by the Author of the Satyr against Hypocrites The Woman is as good as the Man or the Equality of both Sexes Written Originally in French and translated into English Newly reprinted the exquisite Letters of Mr. Robert Loveday the late admired Translator of the three first Volumes of Cleopatra published by his Brother Mr. Anthony Loveday in 80 large Wallographia or Brittain described being a Relation of a pleasant Journey into Wales wherein are set down several remarkable Passages that occurred in the Way thither in 80. Wit and Drollery Jovial Poems corrected and amended with new Additions in 80 large A new Survey of the Turkish Government compleated with divers Cuts being an exact and absolute Discovery of what is worthy of knowledge or any way satisfactory to Curiosity in that mighty Nation in 80 large Ethicae Christianae or the School of Wisdom It was dedicated to the Duke of Monmouth in his younger years in 120. The Life and Actions of the late Renowned Prelate and Souldier Christopher Bernard Van Gale Bishop of Munster in 80. The Conveyancers Light or the Compleat Clerk and Scriveners Guide being an exact Draught of all Precedents and Assurances now in use Likewise the Forms of all Bills Answers and Pleadings in Chancery as they were penned by divers learned Judges Eminent Lawyers and great Conveyancers both Antient and Modern in 40 large The new World of Worlds or a general English Dictionary containing the proper Signification and Etymologies of hard English Words derived from other Languages in Folio Cocker's new Copy-Book or Englands Pen-man being all the curious Hands engraved on 28 Brass Plates in Folio Sir Robert Stapleton's Translation of Juvenal's Satyr with â—…nnotations thereon in Folio Indiculis Universalis or the whole Universe in Epitome wherein the Names of almost all the Works of Nature of all Arts and Sciences and their most necessary Terms are in English Latine and French methodically digested in 80 large Farnaby's Notes on Iuvenal and Persius in 120. Sir Ionas More 's Arithmetick reprinted with large Additions of the Author together with his Translation of Madorgius Conical Sections and other Mathematical Tracts Iohn Cleveland's Works re-printed with all such Poems and Tracts as have been formerly printed collected into one Volume together with his Life The Brittish Physician describing the Nature of all Herbs and Plants with their Vertues that are used in England by Physicians or others The perfect Cook exactly describing all the several ways of dressing Dyet whether by Pastry or other ways with some rare Secrets worth Observation Aphoâ—…ismes and Discourses of the Bodies Celestial their Nature and Influences discovered from the Variety of the Alterations of the Air temperate or intemperate as to Heat or Cold Frost Snow Hail Fog Rain Wind Storm Lightning Thunder Blasting c. with other
stir unless we tugg at Oar. Our Scene 's translated Fate will have it so We live in Venice now or Mexico Or Amsterdam our Parlors so in pickle Enough to make those in 't a Conventicle Petty wrackt Strangers tost we know not whither Holm Holm in England Oh Sirs shew us thither Yet sure 't is England still no other Nation Can shew so much Land under Sequestration All 's swallow'd up and drown'd our Fifths and all Something sweeps worse than Habber dashers-Hall A guilty Tap-house feels the Floods Assault Murder will out and it had drown'd much Mault Must now it self be duckt by this just Tide Because it stood so nigh the Water-side See the tenth Wave into the House is tost And dubs a Captain Otter of mine Host Who with a File of bowzing Comrades there Resolve still not to leave their Dover Peer Thus fixt they drink until their Noses shine A Constellation in this Watry Sign Which they Aquarius call for by Degrees Each Man perceives himself took up to th'Knees Yet still they and the Flood do Brimmers vye At last it sobs and thus they drink him dry But these the spongy-Leeches of the Town Amphibious were good Drinkers cannot drown We puny Dablers are as ill beset We whose unliquor'd Hides will turn no wet The Floods a Tenant too until't retreats Great Rooms are Oceans and the lesser Streights Tongues are confounded in a various Stile Our Computation runs by th'League not Mile How soon the Earth dissolv'd so soon that some That journeyed out will make a Voyage Home They go aboard their Dwellings and embark Houses are Ships and Newark's a Noah's Ark. The Cook mistakes his floating Seigniories For Sound and so takes Impost in his Fees Some truck for Rumps and Kidneys he and 's Spouse Call them the Farmers of the Custom-house Now Bedfellows do one another greet I' th' Saylors Phrase Vere vere more Sheet Women are Syrens for the wise Man wears When they strike up their Ela's wax in 's Ears Whose Fate is yet peculiar in this Flood To scape the Water and retain the Mud. The inseparable Scum is so increast Another Flood will not make all clean Beast Yet still their Scene and their Complexion 's right Place them but where they paint the Devil white Our Townsmen since of Floods they must turn Skippers Will change their Religion too and so turn Dippers Now they dispute and no small Doubts propound Some say the Meadows swim some say theyâ—… drown'd And 't is disputed whether yea or no They are Ground Chambers still that overflow Their Hay is gone and some the Question start How't could be fetcht away without a Cart But these submit to the rest of Learned Team Who strong'st conclude it went away with Stream At last it is observ'd by all the Sages Who e'er set it on Work they pay the Wages One Hotspur storms and swears that he and 's Faction Will sue the Flood Trespass will â—…ear aâ—… Action Then thought on 's Lanlord whom he fears hath sent His Water-Bayliâ—… thus to drive for Rent Haycocks to Sea are driven where they 'l muster And make of Scylla Isles another Cluster Prize Till vampt with more such Wracks they grow a For some Columbus new Discoveries The Stakes stand firm though batter'd all the while These Pyramids are Proof against this Nile And might like Egypts Piles enjoy a Prime Wer 't but for fiercer Teeth than those of Time What neither Floods nor Age can Beasts will tear Our Beasts now starved lean like Pharoahs are Strange Skeletons for all the time of Flood They nothing had to chew but their own Cud And since alas no work for Syâ—…he or Sickle Poor Cattle all their Commons are in Pickle This sure must needs produce a Chap-faln Pallat When without Meat they only feed on Sâ—…llat But these we prize for most are sail'd away Who knows but to stock Hispaniola One Herd and 's Flock in one kind Hill found Mercy Like Liâ—…burn and his Wool in the Isle of Iersey A Barber 's close yet all would counter-bail Steept till the Corn grew Mault and Water Ale Had we the Gotham Policy and Luck to Hedge in the Water as they did the Cuckow But oh it soon retreats and the Ebb is more Disastrous to us than the Flood before The Fifth day lands us Shews each Man his Ground But so much Slime we can't see Ground for Ground The Flood 's a single Tyrant Bogs allow No scape Water and Earth both vex us now Till the Sun our Low-Countries purge and then Out-drink a Dutch-man draining of a Fen Till then our Trent is Acharon we dwell I' th' Stygian Lake the Netherlands are Hell Rivers are Nymphs they say something 's the matter Then sure with ours she cannot hold her Water Unless the Gossip th'Room's so on a Float Went drunk to Bed and spilt her Chamber-pot Howe'er since we 're deliver'd let there be From this Flood too another Epoche For Sleep REturn Grief's Antidote soft Sleep return Why do'st thy blithe Embrace adjourn Once more this Garrison of Sense surround It 's wild Exorbitances Pound Lock the Cinque-Ports the Centinels arraign Make Fractions in the Royal-Train 2. Sleep The Souls Charter Bodies Writ of Ease Reasons Reprieve Fancies Release The Senses Non-term Life's serenest Shore A smooth-fac't Death thick candied o'er Catastrophe of Care Time's balmy Close The Muses Eden and Repose 3. Sleep The Days Centre Nights Meridian Bright Meteor in the Sphere of Man A Grand Dictator in the Womb of Death Whilst the still returning Breath Sails through Fears Tears and Joysat once With quick Reciprocations 4. Sleep The firm cement of unravel'd Hours Night usher'd with Ambrosial Show'rs Days Phylactery with her Spangles crown'd Fancy snatch'd up at first Rebound Fancies Exchequer Natures younger Son Times other Iubilee begun 5. Sleep The Worlds Evensong Natures Anthem borâ—… Between the Lips of Night and Morn Heaven in a Mask Sunday's Parhelion Preface to th' Resurrection Nepent he kissing out the wheeling Light Darkness emparadiz'd Good Night Against Sleep BE gone Joy's Lethargy pale Fiend be gone Why this dull Fascination No more Life's Cittadel invade no more Ravish its Sallies o'er and o'er Gag the Broad Gates the Court of Guard Essoâ—… At these disjoynted thoughts rejoyn 2. Sleep The Souls Wardship but the Bodies Goal Reason's Assassine Fancies Bail The Senses Curfew Life and Loyal Breath Minâ—…'t small and blended into Death Joys Explicite unfathom'd Guâ—…f of time The Muses Fence and frozen Clime 3. Sleep The Night's Winter Shadow of a Dream A dark Fog rampant Horror's Theme Free Denizon of Darkness Blisses Wane An untrim'd Chaos Beauties Bane Youth 's Sepulchre a Parallel to Age A Negro fills Life's second Page 4. Sleep The Days Colon many Hours of Bliss Lost in a wide â—…arenthesis Life in an Extasie bound Hand and Foot Spirits entomb'd and Time to boot The Trump of Solitude a sprightly Flame Smother'd in Sables and made lame 5. Sleep The
Franciscan a Physician belonging to the Duke of Lancaster whom perhaps they hated because they had wronged his Master a Friar Carmelite the Kings Confessoâ—… were murdered there in this Fury Whose Heads with the Arch-bishops were born before them through London Streets and advanced over the Bridge This while the King was softning the Rebelâ—… of Essex at Mile-end with the Earls of Salisbury Warwick and Oxford and other Lords Thither by Proclamation he had summoned them as presuâ—…ing the Essexians to be more civilized and by much the fairer Enemies as indeed they were There he promises to grant them their Desires Liberty precious Liberty is the thing they ask this is given them by the King but on Condition oâ—… good Behaviour They are to cease their Burning and Destruction of Houses to return quietly to their Homes and offend no Man in their Way Two of every Village were to stay as Agents behind for the Kings Charters which could not be got ready in time Farther the King offerâ—… them his Banners Some of them were simple honest People of no ill Meaning who knew not why the Garboils were begun nor why they came thither These were won and win others without more Stir those of Essex return whence they came Tyler and Baal are of another Spirit they would not part so easily Tyler the future Monarch who had designed an Empire for himself and was now sceleribus fuit ferox atque praeclarus famous for his Villainies and haughty would not put up so he and his Kentish Rabble tarry The next day being Saturday the 17th of Iune was spent as the other Days of their Tyranny in Burning ruining Houses Murthers and Depopulations The Night of this Day the Idol and his Priest upon a new Resolution intended to have struck at the Neck of the Nation to have murthered the King the Achan of the Tribes probably by Beheading the Death these Parricides had used hitherto the Lords Gentlemen the wealthiest and honestest part of the Citizens then to have pillaged their Houses and fired the City in four parts they intended this haste to avoid odious Partnership in the Exploit and that those of Norfolk Suffolk and other parts might not share in the Spoil This Counsel of Destruction was against all Policy more Profit might have been made of this City by Excise Assessment and Taxes upon the Trade Tyler might sooner have enriched himself and have been as secure Estates make Men lofty Fear and Poverty if we may trust Machiavel bend and supple every Man had been in Danger and obnoxious to him one Clown had awed a Street Near the Abby-Church at Westminster was a Chappel with an Image of the Virgin Mary this Chappel was called the Chappel of our Lady in the â—…iew it stood near the Chappel of S. Stephen since turned from a Chappel to the Parliament House here our Lady then who would not believe it did great Miracles Richards Preservation at this time was no small one being in the Hands of the Multitude let loose and enraged There he makes his Vows of Safety after which he rides towards these Sons of Perdition under the Idol Tyler Tyler who meant to consume the Day in Cavils protests to those who were sent by the King to offer those of Kent the same Peace which the Essex Clowns had accepted that he would willingly embrace a good and honest Peace but the Propositions or Articles of it were only to be dictated by himself He is not satisfied with the Kings Charters Three Draughts are presented to him no Substance no Form would please he desires an Accommodation but he will have Peace and Truth together He exclaims that the Liberty there is deceitful but an empty Name that while the King talks of Liberty he is actually levying War setting up his Standard against his Commons that the good Commons are abused to their own Ruin and to the Miscarriage of the great Undertaking that they have with infinite Pains and Labour acquainted the King with their humble Desires who refuses to joyn with them misled and carried away by a few evil and rotten-hearted Lords and Delinquents contrary to his Coronation Oath by which he is obliged to pass all Laws offered him by the Commons whose the Legislative Power is which Denyal of his if it be not a Forfeiture of his Trust and Office both which are now useless it comes near it and he is fairly dealt with if he be not deposed which too might be done without any Want of Modesty or Duty and with the Good of the Common-wealth the Happiness of the Nation not depending on him or any of the Regal Branches I will deliver the Nation from the Norman Slavery and the World says he of an old silly Superstition That Kings are only the Tenants of Heaven obnoxious to God alone cannot be condemned and punished by any Power else I will make here he lyed not an wholesome President to the World formidable to all Tyrannies I declare That Richard Plantagenet or Richard of Bourdeaux at this time is not in a Condition to govern I will make no Addresses no Application to him nor receive any from him though I am but a dry Bone too unworthy for this great Calling yet I will finish the Work I will settle the Government without the King and against him and against all that take part with him which sufficiently justifies our Arms God with Us says he owns them Success manifests the Righteousness of our Cause this is says he the Voice of the People by us their Representative and our Counsel After the Vote of no more Addresses which with all their other Votes of Treason were to be styled the Resolution of the whole Realm and while he swells in this Ruffle Sir Iohn Newton a Knight of the Court is sent to intreat rather than to invite him to come to the King then in Smithfield where the Idols Regiments were drawn up and treat with him concerning the additional Provisions he desired to be inserted into the Charter No Observance was omitted which might be thought pleasing to his Pride which Pride was infinitely puffing Flattery was sweet to him and he had enough of it that made him bow a little when nothing else could do it We may judge at the Unreasonableness of his Demands and Supplys of new Articles out of his Instrument by one He required of the King a Commission to impower himself and a Committee Team of his own choosing to cut off the Heads of Lawyers and Escheators and of all those who by Reason of their Knowledge and Place were any way imployed in the Law He fancied if those who were learned in the Law were knocked i'th'Head all things would be ordered by the Common People either there would be no Law or that which was should be declared by him and his subject to their Will with which his Expression the day before did well agree Then attributing all things to God the God of War and his