come along with the Grandees in hope to purchase a fortune by squeezing the publick Let the whole Nation also consider that if young Tarquin come in by Conquest he will be as absolute as was William the Conquerour and we all must be in the same slavish condition as our forefathers were under this Norman Bastard by having our Birthrights trampled under foot our Parliaments Laws Liberties and Priviledges resolved all into the the will of an arbitrary Tyrant and his Scottish Privy Council 'T is reported their King meaning our most gracious Lord and Soveraign blames Major Astnerst for bringing him to Lancashire since he finds no more accesse of forces I do not hear that any considerable person doth openly own him since his march into England wherefore we doubt not but God hath ordered his coming hither for the more speedy ruine of him and his Adherents What a happinesse it is to live to see this day wherein we have experience of the noble temper of our Nation that though many of them be divided in matter of particular Interest and Opinion yet they so well understand the General Interest of England that they scorn to embarque themselves in such courses as must of necessity either debase us under the miserable yoak of a Scottish Tyranny or vassalize us under the will of an everlasting Tyrant for had God given over the people to run a madding after the Royal Puppet we could have expected no other consequents but endlesse Taxes and inevitable slavery But the world is grown wiser now then to throw away their Lives and Estates for a Trifle call'd a King an Officer that we have little cause to be in love with if we take a view of them all since the Conquest As it was said of old concerning Israel that God gave them a King in his wrath So we may say of our own Nation if we view all the practises of our Kings that they seem to have been given by God as the Scourges and Rods of his anger rather then Tokens of favour unto the people and this in our last meaning his 64 Number was in part made evident by giving you a Character of each King since the Conquest to the end of Edward the second therefore now in the next place give me leave to trace them downward to the present Age drawing them in their Pourtraictures after the Copy of our English Chronicles and then let every different man judge how little reason we have to be in love with Kings and how much the whole Nation are obliged unto the Parliament for blotting out so pernicious and tyrannical a Session Then after the enumeration of the rest till Queen Elizabeth and so to King Iames the Scot brought in as he saith with and for a plague to the Nation the whole design of whose Reign was to undermine the Liberties of England who layd the main Plot of Tyranny and then being sent as his son Henry down into another world he left his son Charles to execute it Charles being in the Saddle took a course to ride the Nation quite off its Legs all his Reign was to enslave and embroile the People and to enhance the Prerogative for which he died a Martyr being executed a Tyrant Traytor Murtherer and a publick Enemy to the Nation As for the Title of the present young Pretender meaning his most gracious Majesty remember from whence he had it and how it is now tainted had it been just yet the Treason of the Father hath cut off the Son who hath lived already to embroile Scotland and now takes the same course in England His Interest is revenge against the very Nation for the effecting whereof he hath harassed the Land with a desperate crew of Barbarians Consider what misery we have had by Kings in times past and how they may be multiplied in time to come Tyranny hath been the practise and design you see of the whole race but admit this young Boutefeu and he will soon bring it to perfection then farewell to Parliaments Laws Liberties and Estates which will be little enough for the haughty Scot whose hopes and aims are all levelled at these and his quarrel at the very name and Nation of the English If after so many eminent discoveries of the will and purpose of God touching the establishment of this Commonwealth any man shall be such a Sot as to continue a Malignant let him remember how God useth to dispose of his incorrigible and implacable enemies But I perceive one main impediment that keeps men from quitting their old corrupt principles is the fear of being counted a Turn-coat yet know that if God once declare as it were from heaven against thy wayes thy Principles or thy Party then it is no dishonour but ingenuity and thy duty to turn for he hath said in this case If a man do not turn he will whet his sword he hath bent his bow and made it ready he hath prepared for him the instruments of death and destruction Let the old Malignants and Cavaliers consider that in what shape they have appeared with what pretences soever they have clothed their Conferences yet God hath found them out and confounded them Let the new Malignants of the Presbyterian opinion consider how often and notoriously God hath check't them and cursed their unrighteous combination with the old Malignants Let both old and new consider what an inseparable course is annexed as I have often told you to the Family and Interest of the Tarquins that it proves ruine and destruction to all that own it Let England her self and all the Nations about consider what God hath done for England and how in this auspicious time of Triall he gave in the hearts of the people to live and dye for the present Government Lastly let all Parties consider it is high time to lay aside animosities and unite again upon the common interest of our Nation and there is no doubt but the Parliament will consider that as God hath his design of glory in all these things so it should be their design to improve them all to that end and for the ease and benefit of so willing and obedient a people If ever there were a season of observation or rather admiration certainly it is the present wherein we have been eye-witnesses of so many outgoings of God's presence among us and the many miraculous turns of providence within a short Revolution Some memorable hints of those things you had in our last meaning his Relation of the fight at Worcester But now observe farther and in the first place from whence came the rise of all our distractions of which we may truly say according to the old Proverb used by our Fathers In nomine Domini incipit omne malum all our evills have been derived from the corruption of the Clergy and such of the Laity as have been wedded to their Faction The first
is translating Clamor Regii Sanguinis ad coelum c. But it is the muzzle of the Canon and not such Squibs must resolve our case Sir Richard Brown that calls himself the Scotch King's Resident is at length released by order from the Queen out of the Serjeants hands but was fain to pay the Goaler his Fees at his departure The Lord Digby with his Brother Sir Lewis Dives by him made Deputy Governour of Lile Adam intends to brave it out this Winter having hired a great house and given order to have it stately furnished to shew how he hath thrived to his great dishonour by squeezing the Countrey The English Cavaliers and Princely Party are half out of heart they have long cryed up the taking in of the Stewarts Interest to be the onely remedy for the distempers and misfortunes of these Lands but perceiving nothing but delayes and that their pretended King is rejected they are highly discontented and seed their starved hopes as well as their bodies with air and expectations from France It is said Charles Stewart would for Holland were he supplied with moneys for the journey and a rumour goes as if he had a design for Ireland or Scotland but his Party have often made the like reckonings to no purpose Charles Stuart hath sent order to my Lord Wilmot to go to the Diet at Ratisbone having got wherewith to go himself to bear his charges to excite the Princes of Germany to joyn with the States of Holland against the Commonwealth of England From Paris Sir Richard Brown who stiles himself Agent for Charles Stewart being released out of Prison not being able to subsist here is gone into Britain to exact a share of those Thefts and Piracies that the Royalists have taken and brought thither which Charles Stewart had given him for his subsistance many yeares since Charles Stewart hath been fairly offered by the French Court who to be rid of him have promised him 5000 Pistols The Lord Digby Ranâ—s it with his stately House but the world being very short with the Lord of Ormond the fair Isabella is fain to pawn her Plate and retire into the Countrey The States of Holland have not given their Master Charles his pretended Title of King of England or of great Britain but stile him the high mighty King Charles There is no newes yet of Rupert but they heartily wish him in the Seas and have sent Sir Marmaduke Langdale and Sir Richard Page to Sea to try if they can find him out and bring him back with all speed supposing he might be able to serve them and their broken Interest in this nick of time Wilmot is not gon on his German Ambassy though it 's supposed he will be going every day He is for his better accommodation set forth with a new airy Title being created and called Earl of Rochester The pretended Duke of York is still in the Army Charles Stewart hath kept but a cold melancholly Christmas without any sports save a game at Cards and a dinner that he had on Thursday at the Lord Iermins On Munday he kept up the old Popish Custome of offering Fankincence Myrrh and Gold a small pittance for an oblation where Ormond and Inchequin assisted The Lady Denbigh having been turn'd Roman Catholick hath hoped long for a pension but mist it No sign as yet of any hopes for these poor Courtiers The Earl of Bristol was buried in a mean Church-yard with little solemnity not one Lord appearing at his Funerall nor any other person of quality except his second Son Mr. Iohn Digby and a certain Knight His eldest the Lord Digby absented himself though he were in Town and not onely so but it s said that he forbore inviting any to save Funerall Expences which being talked abroad hath much crack'd his Reputation because he is observed lavish enough upon other occasions The High Court of Justice sits now in Dublin and another is erected at Galoway to try the Lord Mayo who pleased to own the Court in bringing out evidences very strangely against some persons that were condemned I cannot but admire and adore providence to see the work of Justice which began in England in a High Court against that Tyrant should next take its place in another High Court in Ireland to give those wretches blood to drink who first opened the sluce of blood which afterwards overflowed the three Nations On Wednesday an Irish Factour delivered a Letter to the High and Mighties at the Hague This gives just occasion to suspect that the Scottish King endeavours to hook in his own Interest in the engagement of the Hogen State upon an Irish account so that if the Dutch should clap between these two Interests of Achan and Babel they would be daintily engaged and a fine blessing must follow the businesse But at present the Stewarts Interest is kept off by the wiser sort and that upon very rationall grounds in despight of all the projects of the Orange Party for they apprehend their taking part with him were to hazard their whole in going halves with a desperate Gamester that hath nothing to stake but a broken Reputation The Irish broken Faction have not wanted a Letter recommendatory from Charles Stewart to several Lords here at the Hague and if ever Prince Rupert return into these parts they will not want a Head like themselves to restore the lost hopes of that wicked Rebellion but if stories hold true Ruperts Highness is layd low enough for here are strong reports that he or the best part of his ships are cast away Sir Philim Oneale is under examination and will shortly receive the reward of his labour he is a pittifull low spirited man Col. Luke Tool and seaven more were hanged on Saturday last and many more are upon their Tryal the Goals are full in every Province we have at least 200 men in hold of considerable account The High Court of Justice will have work enough for one twelve moneth There is newes that he that is called Duke of Glocester is arrived at Dunkirk where he was entertained by the Governour Rnpert that Pirate-Prince is in the French road at St. Christophers Sir Phelim Oneale was lately condemned of high Treason at our High Court of Justice in Dublin and within a few hours a period shall be put to all his high Titles being called the Earl of Tyrone by the Vltaghs Prince of Vlster by the Popes Commission or Bull General of the Lemster and Vlster Forces by Commission from the Lords of the Pale and prime and chief Actor in all the massacres of Rebellion by Commission from the late Charles Stewart This Monster of men when he came first to the Bar was not able to stand for trembling or to speak for teares That grand Piratical Prince Rupert having fitted his
warrant he will teach his Brother more Wit then to venture his neck in two such cold Climates as England and Scotland Young Tarquin slunk away in a Fly-boat and Imbarqued like Poore-Iohn ships being sent to scour the Road of King-Fishers if the young Trout had been worth taking When the Kirk stroak's up the Boy's forehead and gives him her blessing which passeth all understanding He wept at Montross's death by the Water side like a young Crocodile upon the baâ—ks of Nilus as all Kings use to do when they have worn out their Favourites Baby Charles of Scotland The Kirk longs much and is like to miscarry for a tri'd bit of young Tarquin They say young Tarquin is Landed among his gude people and must once more be Proclaimed King by the sound of Bagpipes that he may be sent after his beloved Cousin Montrosse There is not a Cavalier in England but sweares this it will come to and therefore they are mad if they stir from the Pipe and the Piss-Pot in hope of a Knighthood nor have they a mind to be led by the Nose or tied by the Tayles with those Foxes and Firebrands which frighted the Pope and the Prelates quite out of the Parish into the King's own Belly so that now she languisheth for a Cordial of new Insurrections in hope of a safe deliverance if the old Cavalry and Bumkins will be made Midwives or Monkies in the behalf of her Holinesse Cranford and Ienkins two principal Rabbies of the Leviticat Order brought a company of starcht'd faces along with them The Kirk is a Monster of a Scotch stomach whose keen appetite will know no difference between Presbyterian and Independant morsells The Thing of Scotland Landed among his beloved Beasts the Redshanks and the Highlanders Upon the Landing of Tarquin c. The young Gentleman came a shore without his Cousin Hamilton or Lauderdail and not so much as a frippery of the old Priesthood and Leiturgy Rather then Tarquin should be no King 't is but rubbing up an old Kettle or Warming-Pan and either may serve for a Scotch Coronation How Sweet the Air of a Commonwealth is beyond that of Monarchy Young Tarquin is a coming with a world of Majesty and Vermin and ther 's not a Royalist in England but dreams of an Office Sir Reverence to be at least Groom of the Stool Rabbi Ienkins what a Platter face full of impudence he presented before the Committee attended with his old gang of Luggs and Ruffs Young Tarquin creeps on still Farewell William Pryn too and farewell all ye wild Wittals of the nasty Faction An ill fate attends all that take part with the Baby of Scotland The young Lad. Young Tarquin One Rout make's Tarquin not worth a Pamphlet The Pride and Covetousnesse of a Pulpit Incendiary the Spleen and Melancholy of a Secluded Member the Purse of a City Elder and the Wit and Valour of a Presbyterian Lordling Iockie Charles His Baby Majesty The young man is full of hope and at Dundee he and the bonny Iockies are fellows at Football His pretty Majesty of Scotland the Lad behaves himself like an obedient Son of the Kirk he never moves but like a Puppet upon the Wire of the Covenant and ambles altogether after their interpretation they feed him just as the Priests did Bell and the Dragon they set meat before him but give him a Sermon of Temperance and eat up all themselves and then Catechise him with a Scotch Primmer for digestion His very Authority is all Apocrypha and the Kirk onely Canonical so that he dares not question a Tittle for fear of a whipping Iure Divine A fine Baby King for a Company of Scots to play withall The old projects that were left in Legacy by his Father There is no thriving for any whatsoever upon the same account of the Tarquins The poor Pill of Orange if things do not mend he will never be able to set an Excise upon the Provinces to buy Petticoats for his Wenches Upon the young Lad 's arrival at Dundee Ringing of Bells Shooting of Pottles and Quarts Those Canon and Demicanon of Royalty were freely discharged upon their Knees to the health of his Medlcy Majesty yet all will not avail to the health of the Baby If Iockie please to search his Pockets 't is ten to one but he will find Madam Kirk to be a Bull by an Vrchin with the Pope's Broad Seal and a dispensation for the Covenant Young Tarquin is grown sick upon his new Soveraignty This old Doctor Bishop Hall in my opinion next to William Prynne and the Mercurial Pamphleteer is one of the greatest Paper-wormes that ever crept into a Closet or Library His Clipt Majesty of Scotland The Thing called his Majesty Young Tarquin may have the luck to wipe the Nose of the Kirk's Holinesse The Idoll of Majesty The Thing called King That Puppet of their own making I dare promise will in the end if they do not look to him be their utter confusion Their great God Tarquin The young Lad begins to grow confident and hath thrown away the Kirk's Horn-Book The Kingly Kickshaw The great Lords and their Idol have a design of their own Sr. Iohn Culpepper Ambassadour Extraordinary from the Thing of Scotland that calleth it self King of great Britain The Earl of Derby intends to convert his Leaden Crown into Bullets as Queen Mall did her Jewels The young Lad of Scotland That Trifle called Charles the second and avowed the Roy Charles to be King of England and Scotland The Scotch Baby King of England Alass poor Thing he hath plaid his part long enough in this Tragedy so that now it is high time to quit the Stage since it is resolved above and below too that none of the Tarquins shall have any inheritance in England The two Birds here of the same nest shall be sent away beyond Sea The Broad Seal of young Tarquin The Diet Dwelling and Designs of young Tarquin the Plots of his great Lords c. His Baby Majesty Strip Tarquin out of all his Titles and pretty Trinkets of Majesty Iames Tarquin is not yet come from Iersey to Paris The Thing of Scotland Incheqnin the dapper Giant of the Iockies Interest The Drummes have been long beaten up in the Pulpit for young Tarquin Young Tarquins Majesty They promised the Baby a Bell a Bib and a Rattle What would you have a Royal Puppet to play withall Mother Mall made a Muster of the forlorn Fobs and Pockets of her Family The Plague Landed out of Ireland in the Western parts much about the same time with young Tarquin in England Alass poor Tarquin what a
wings of Popery and Prelacy one who hath been bedabbled in all the bloud of England Scotland and Ireland We have cause to cut off this accursed Line of Tyranny bloud and usurpation in this young Pretender That Tyrannical Line Charles the Father is gon to his own place and so is Charles the Son likewise he being in his own proper Nation Scotland The execution of Iustice is then most proper when an Offender appears incorrigible and by a setled obstinacy puts himself out of the capacity of mercy surely then now or never is the time that men may expect an administration of Iustice without respect of persons this being an Age that is able to take a full Prospect of such Delinquents through all the sacred Colours of Title and Function The time was when this Nation was wedded to the vanity of admiring Kings placing them in a lofty seat of impunity like Gods that were not bound to give men an Account of their Actions but had a Liberty to thunder at Pleasure and put the world into combustion so that there was no Love but Lust no Rule but the Princes will which so vassalized the Spirits of this great and mighty people that they were content to establish the highest piece of Injustice by such Maxims of Law as said The King can do no wrong as if whatsoever he did could not make him a Delinquent or Traytor nor was it Law onely but those antiquated Cheats of the Clergy too made it pass for Divinity so that the Common-wealth of England for almost 600. yeares hath been pinion'd like a Captive with that twofold Cord of the Law and the Gospel which the corrupt Professors have made use of after their own Inventions Yet notwithstanding that this glorious Idol of Royalty was elevated to such a Height over the Liberties of the Parliament and set upon the very Pinnacle of the Temple we have lived to see a noble generation of English hearts that have fetcht it down with a vengeance and cured the Land of that Idolatry by one of the most Heroick and exemplary Acts of Iustice that ever was done under the Sun Nothing farther speaking of transactions in Parliament and news a little before save that the Lord Chancellour Lowdon hath been found in bed with a Scotch Officers wife getting Privy-Counsellours so that without the mercy of the Kirk he must once more to the Stool of Repentance So great was the stupidity of Elder Times being ridden by the Clergy that in all our Chronicles we can hardly meet with a piece of Iustice done upon any of that Tribe till the time of Harry the VIII when Bishop Fisher was brought to the block as a Martyr for the Popes Supremacy and yet from Sodomy and private murder to publick Treason and Rebellion there is not any crime whereof they were not guilty and from the penalty whereof they were not guarded by impunity and exemption from secular power This having been so in time past may prompt us upon the consideration of the present Actions of many of our Ministers to believe that we may be still at the same passe that our forefathers were and that our new Clergy are still the same Idol onely a little disguised with a new dresse of Mummery they have taken a new Form but labour to hold up the old Grandeur and Punctilio's of Veneration onely here is the difference heretofore they got an outward power to controul the temporal Jurisdiction from which Plea being now non-suited in all civil Courts they now renew their sanctimonious pretences by tampering every where in the Court of Conscience but a Conscience well inform'd knows that with God there is no respect of persons and methinks in those dayes it ought to be so too among men yea it must be so since he that sate in the Royal Throne in the midst of his iniquity could not rest secure but being disrobed of all his sacred Titles laid him down upon the Block to shew all inferior Orders of men how vain it is to hope for impunity and that they must all expect to submit and bow before the Throne ofe Justice It is the old Cavaliers Interest speaking of his Majesties leaving Scotland and now coming into England that comes in new clad with a new Cloak of the Covenant after the Scottish fashion and it comes attended by the Scot the apostatizing Scot that will cide any way for a thriving voyage into England Let the Presbytery remember that though they laid not the old Tyrant down upon the Block yet the young one knows they were the men that brought him to the Scaffold and they are the old enemies of his Family in which respect he ever bore a mortal hatred to their whole faction and a little after and we will allow both Cavalier and Presbyter so much sense were their spleen never so high as not to embarque their heads and Estates in the bottom of a beaten rabble for the sake of a Toy call'd King who as he first sail'd into Scotland so now he is driven out again by pure necessity yet for fashion sake he pretends great matters and playing the second part of Perkin Warbeck who once invaded the North after the same manner with a crew of Scots at his heels and had every jot as good a Title as himself or as his Predecessour Henry the 7th and play'd the King with as good a Grace issuing out Proclamations and Declarations calling folks Rebels with as brazen à considence and tossing pardons about to no purpose till at length poor Perkin and his Scots were pack't out again with a vengeance as that Lowsy Nation ever hath been upon every offer of Invasion as may be seen in the Chronicles of both Countreys Let not the Presbyters flatter themselves upon a change that they shall scape any better than others because they never opposed this man's Person viz. his Majesty it would be ground sufficient for his hatred and the spleen of his Prelatick Clergy that they first bandied against his Father the Prerogative and Prelacy And let them consider before they feel it that revenge is reckoned inter Arcana Imperii a prime mystery in the Cabinet counsel of Royalty even the best of Kings could not refrain it as may be seen in the practise of David and Solomon Let them consider too how he hath rook't all their Party in Scotland Let the Cavalier and Compounders consider they will get nothing by this change they can be but Masters of what they have already the high Ranters and Fugitives are they that will be lookt on at Court those Belweathers of Tyranny will bear away the Bell of preferment while the poor Countrey Royalists both Gentry and Yeomen shall be glad to drudge and plow to pay those yet unknown Taxations which must needs be collected to satisfie the forlorn Brethren of the sword the Plunderers and hungry Scots that
Parliament that they used all the wayes under heaven by Petitioning Declaring Remonstrating to God and man in hope to reduce him and though all would not doe yet notwithstanding that desperate remedy of the Sword was forborn till after he had first taken it up and that invincible necessity did put it into their hands for the preservation of themselves with the Rights and Liberties of the People After this it was wicked reason of State that continued Monarchy and brought in a Scotchman upon us This was Iames who was so great an admirer of Reason of State that he adopted it for his own Darling by the name of King-craft and his Motto no Bishop no King shewed that he preferred reason of State before Interest of Religion as in other things before Honesty witnesse among many other his quitting the Cause of God and the Palatinate to keep fair with the House of Austria for which and for the same Reason of State put in practise by his Son Charles for the ruine of Religion and Liberty by a bloody War the whole Family hath been brought to a sad destruction Yet Reason of State is still the grand Idol of the present Youngster villainously endeavouring to scandalize our most gracious Soveraign It made him first resolve to joyn with the Irish but things not falling out to his mind there it made him wheel about into Scotland and turn Covenanter Afterwards it made him cast off the Covenant and Covenanters both together and therefore no doubt but the next wheeling will be towards Rome or any way if Reason of State require it that he may finish the transgressions of the Family It must not be forgotten what hazard our Nation hath ran of late through the malice of falshood and faction of the late Presbyterian drivers He that will remember what they did in the year 1647 48 49 50 and 51 must needs confesse that great hath been the deliverance of this Commonwealth and the manner of it almost incredible considering the wayes and means whereby we have been rescued out of the claws of the old Tyranny From the Hague Here are dayly productions of Pamphlets so simple as not worth naming There is a Kite abroad entituled England possessed with the Devil wherein all are converted to Devils Dogs Serpent tayles King-murtherers Villains and I know not what but after all he flings you into the bottomlesse pit there to be kept close prisoners that Charles the second may be restored to his Fathers Throne and become a friend to the Netherlands and receive bribes as his Father Grandfather and their Courtiers did to betray the Trade and Interest of England that these men may catch Herrings in the Sea in peace and tickle the Trouts in a corrupt Monarchy and bait them now and then with a Golden Gudgeon whil'st they draw the wealth of the World hither into this Bog through English Channels but if ever they truck with young Stewart as some would have them I 'le send you word immediately for if once they be so mad as to become your irreconcileable enemies I suppose I cannot send you more welcome newes into England than of an uniting with that Bloody House which hitherto hath drawn a swift and inevitable ruine and curse upon all its partakers Another Pamphleteer entitles himself the Batavian Admonisher he is full of Rapture too though in Prose and brings in the Belgick Bear I mean you and Van Trump together and the first work he doth is to rouse the Lyon and make him seize upon poor Britain with his paws that it may become Holland's portion Rise up saith he O Lyon magnanimous Lyon yes then lie down again that Charles Stuart and his young Nephew may get up and ride thee and pick thy teeth with thine own bundle of Arrows O brave Lyon strut and be stately for the Princesse Royal is in Love with thee and means to make a trim shock of thee for the little boy to play with thee O magnanimous Lyon Salmasius that dirty and most dissolute Parasite of Kings is to be set on work by Authority which is an ill sign that a Cause should want colour of his tempering to point it over and give it a Strumpets face that it may passe the more currant to delude the World This is that Salmasius who railed so admirably under pretence of defending that foul Cause of Stewarts who broached such wild principles as are not onely prejudicial to Princes themselves but even to humane society And thus much young Stewart was told to his face out of the Pulpit even upon the day of his Coronation at Scone by Mr. Robert Douglas where he condemned that Hireling Salmasius before the Face of the Tyrant Would be They are much exalted at St. German's to hear the Zealanders are so zealous for the house of Orange that they have in a manner given their Vote for making the young Brat Stadtholder by which newes Charles hopes to have a finger in the Pie Likewise the pretended Duke of York returned lately to the French Camp Charles Stuart lurks still at St. German's being tost and tumbled betwixt hopes and fears Lorain is a strange fellow for Plunder of Waggons Carriages or Houses he transcends even the Palatine Rupert The People are generally weary of War and the Court of Charles Stuart whom they would willingly supply with money to take a Journey out of France if he knew whether to bend his course Charles Stuart is gone back to the house of the Duke of Cheiureuse to spend some little time in pleasure there and then return to Paris Sure his affairs are defunct because the Ranters about him are very pensive and silent which is not usual when the World goes on their side Here are divers Commissions brought into this Countrey which run in the Name of a King of Scots but whether any such thing as a King of Scots Commissions as they call them be of any validity it will concern you in England to determine that question when you catch any of them that shall venter to rob at Sea under pretence of acting by his Commission Sir Richard Brown who would be called the Scottish Kings Resident is by the Heels still under the Sergeants hands that arrested him to the great reproach of his Master's Kingship The pretended Duke of York is still in the Army and hath got another Regiment but it is Irish Ormond also hath got such another The Lord Digby hath been here and shewed himself a great favourite he hath gotten fairly by his Government of Maute where he hath drained the Countrey by contributions and now means to brave it in Town here this Winter Buckingham is mending but not a word of comfort yet to any of them from the Low-Countreys If the Dutch miscarry in their design they are resolv'd to take up the rotten Interest of young Stewart Stermont
ships surprised two ships of London and having plundered what was in her left her The Scottish King as they call him and his Courtiers have gotten an ill name in France for 't is said their counterfeit King and they have of late turn'd Coiners and set a Mint of their own a going in the Palace-Royal but with counterfeit Coin upon which they have stamp't the French Image Superscription now being weary of that Countrey he is like to leave it and an ill report behind him Prince Rupert is the man of whom the great discourse is and the Hollanders have more mind to put him upon action then his Cousin one while they will have him make work for England in Ireland and another while in the Scotch Highlands any desperate attempt over a Bog or a break-neck they think him fit for Others would have him put upon a present action at Sea and supply him with two or three Frigats to wear the King of great Britains Colours as they call them thinking these fantasies would draw away Seamen but they are not yet agreed about the Manner Scene or Stage of Action for the performance of those wonders must be wrought by Rupert When the work of Justice shall be done in the Province of Vlster as we trust it will ere long to some purpose I suppose the Land will in some measure be purged from the guilt of innocent blood These wretches which we cut off with the Sword of Justice are but part of the tail of that Serpent whose head you first lopt off in England This know that rather then the Interests of the Stewarts should be any impediment to a friendly composure between England and Holland it is laid aside and that fatal Family left to sink or swim under the weight of their own destiny And here I cannot let passe this last provisō without this remark thereupon after the mentioning of an Ordinance passed by Oliver and his Council that the people of God in these Dominions have abundant cause to blesse the Lord who hath put it into the hearts of our Governours to make such provision against the Faction called Religion of Popery and those desperate Engineers the Popish Priests who seek the ruine of us our Countrey and of the Gospel of Christ which is above all other considerations and truly there was never more need then now of such a Law seeing Popery is become the great Interest of that Family which the Lord hath cast out before us meaning the Family of the Stewarts If ever they procure any force or power again it must be upon a Popish account And that their endeavours lye wholly upon that foot is evident by Charles Stewart's many applications to the Court of Rome which are commonly known and to the Emperour besides his Alliance and Combination to and and with other Popish Princes so that the good and security of the Reformed Religion is absolutely involved in this present form of Government and the utter exclusion of that Family of the Stewarts for ever This day Charles Stuart the Princess Royal his Sister and his Brother the Duke of Glocester c. are gone by water to Mentz I find not that their Conversation here hath made them commendable to any so much as to the English Stage-players who stile themselves to be his Concerning Charles Stewart and his fortune there is great variety of opinions and inclinations in the Empire some do bewail his unfortunate condition others do not pity him at all That he might gain to himself the affection of the severall States of the Empire and oblige them to furnish him with moneys he sometimes professes himself to be a Lutheran sometimes to be a Papist but never appears to be of the Reformed Religion and that gives a very strong suspition of him among the Orthodox professours who thereupon do openly pronounce that his bad fortuneis a just judgment of God upon him He is daily seen among the Pastimes of the Common people he misses of no Comedy or Stage-play and is a constant spectatour of all kinds of Puppet-plays he is seen every where and therefore is neglected of all and having lately received a very considerable summe of money he presently wasted it The said Charles Stewart was resolved to go to Heidelberg but the Prince Elector prevented him perhaps lest the number of Illustrious Beggars should be too great in the Palatinate therefore misery hath obliged the miserable to return to Colen Charles Stewart with all his Train having finished his rambling progresse is returned again to Colen It is a great satisfaction to the well affected that a course be taken to suppresse the Cavalier Clergy and School-masters by depriving them of the opportunity to seduce the Souls and pervert the youth of the Nation The Gentleman of the King of Scots who kept correspondency as it is said with some in England was carried in a Waggon to Drynwald where he hath been shot to death with three Bullets The place where this execution was done is in the Country of the Duke of Newburgh an Apostate from the Protestant Religion and now the most Jesuited Papist in these parts and therefore so great a favourer of Charles Stewart that he admits him it seems by this action to be partly Soveraign with him by allowing him the power of life and death within his Principality Edinburgh continues in very good quiet nor is it observed that many so much as hearken after Charles Stewart It seems those few he hath raked together are most of them Irish and with such Company you may imagine how welcome he would be to Scots or English and as little welcome would he be with any other Foreigners his assistants But I suppose ther 's little regard to be had to him or his designs which usually have so fatall a successe that hitherto they have sunk all those who took his part We here cannot but observe how the Lord deals in a most remarkable way of vengeance with the King of Spain presently after his owning and taking the Stewarts into his protection hitherto none have prospered that have had to do with them and therefore they are the fittest friends that may be for the Spaniard The Titular King of Scots continueth at Brussells haveing made but little progresse in his affairs though he hath hopes given him by the House of Austria the fittest House that may be to receive him for therein he doth follow the generation of his Fathers whose jugling complyance with that House to the betraying of the Protestant Interest throughout Europe hath provoked Divine Justice to send him and his Brothers to beg Alms of the Austrian Family it being the last and if all be considered the most miserable refuge The Remnants of Charles Stuarts patched up Regiments in Flanders which for want of money began to moulder were
for him to venture himself there In the mean time I hope we shall not be ill thought on by you for having him here among us since we cannot prevent it he coming in a disguise otherwise he would soon be made to retreat hence I am wholly in the dark how it goes with you whilst from all parts it 's generally reported and written that Charles Stuart is gone to imbarque himself in some Port in or about Holland for England Hull or Lynne being his designed Landing place both which places they say are certainly made for him and that he hath such assurance from his party in England as that he doubts not to adventure in thither and carry on his design notwithstanding the large discovery you made of it and all this as they also say comes from the encouragement he hath presumed from some in England But I trust as you have been long fore-warned so you are well fore-armed to perceive them to their cost and that you have secured those and all other important Ports and places in more faithfull hands then to betray them Your enemies glory much in their expectations at this time however former attempts have failed but I trust they will be taken in their own snare God can and I hope will do it Here is a fresh report of the King of Scots being in England whereof we expect a confirmation by the next Three dayes past hath produced some matters of newes in these parts there is a considerable party of old Cavaliers risen and in Armes in Montgomery shire in North-Wales they act very publickly and are confident It 's conceived upon good grounds their purpose was and perhaps is to possesse themselves of some holds as Shrewsbury and Chirk Castle They cannot leave their old tricks and honest men cannot forget their old malice We know a little what Liberty cost and would not lose it to them though it cost us another knock We have Prisoners here most of the considerable Cavaliers in this County some evidently guilty others only suspected Also that there was an endeavour in Yorkshire to form a Party with an intent to seize York for Charles Stuart They had two Cart-fulls of Arms and Ammunition with them and divers of the Gentry among whom was Sir Henry Slingsby and Sir Richard Maleverer but they dispersed perceiving no such appearance as they expected and Sir Henry Slingsby is taken by Col. Lilburn Sir Richard Maleverer escaped home took leave of his Lady and told her his condition despaired of his estate and is fled Sir William Ingraham is also in hold The Lord Darcy had sent in six Horses with his Groom who will also be secured The Lord doth confound and scatter this phrenetick Generation in their conspiracies The like we are to expect to hear from other parts knowing they imbarque in a cause that will sink all it's owners and defenders How much then doth it concern all sober men to be active in resolution for the maintenance of the publick peace The expectation here is that Charles Stuart should be entred England and it 's said that before his entry he took a solemn Oath to allow a Liberty of Conscience The Titular Duke of York gives out to all his acquaintance that he is ready to take Horse upon the first order that shall be sent him from his Brother At the Hague things are represented as if there were great inclinations to a change in England and that for this cause Charles Stuart went from Colen Feb. 24. in design to make some advantage by the present occasion but since that we hear the wind hath been so contrary that he can find no place convenient to Land in It 's meet you should hear from me sometimes though I have been long silent The reason why I trouble you now is the report of a Comet which appeared lately here I mean young Charles the fourth King of Colen for the Papists have long enthroned and enshrined three Kings at Colen and Charles is come thither for a fourth of the same Litter The Princesse withdraws from the Hague because the States of Holland have straitned her Lodging Rooms in the Hoss for their own use which she saith belong unto her and therefore will not come thither again untill they be restored her which will be done at the Greek Kalends or at the Feast of St. Charles the second for there is talke here he shall be Canoniz'd for a Saint and a Martyr if Walter Montague or Sir Toby Matthews be chose Pope in this vacancy Here has been of late no small conflux not onely of the Royal stock the Lady Elizabeth whom the Princesse calls one of mine Aunts and the Duke of Glocester who has as much profit of his Dukedom as the Aunt and Brother have of their Kingdomes but also a great Tayl of English Fugitives and Hucksters and Chaplains and Fidlers and Gamesters of both Sexes This Tayl made me call young Charles a Comet They have been marvellous merry at Teyling with Balls and Ballets crying Victoria in England And indeed as the blaze so the gaze here was very great and that in the judgement of many Potent ones so that we long to here the issue among you which we believe to be bad to the Carolists for it was told him at Teyling that by Letters from England to the States it was clear his Highnesse the Protector knew of young Charles his coming from Colen long before he came thence which as they tell us here hath made him turn back to his Kingdome of Colen and there to enshrine himself again with his three Brethren Melchior Belthazar and Caspar because the design was known although they gave out here that all England was up in Arms for him and by their healthing and dancing drabbing and damning you would judge all their own but in very sooth it appears that you in England are notable Astrologers who could foretell a Comet before he rose and that some Mercury was and is in conjunction with him that has revealed his designs and motions and that our States are faithfull to the Protector who upon a bare rumour onely sent to the Princesse Royal that if young Charles were there he should depart the Countrey My self with the assistance of a friend have discovered and since secured an arch youth that was a Lieutenant for Charles Stuart who three or four dayes before the appearance went as a messenger from Papist to Papist and the the old crew as to a Rise telling one that was formerly a Cavie that some would raise Horse others Foot for the Scots King c. Charles Stuart for certain was at the meeting at Hessammoor All care is taken for discovery of him and all others From Dantzick they write the Holland Merchants there were so confident of C. S. his designs that they offered to sell Goods to pay for them when he should Reign
in England and I hear not of an English man that durst take the bargain From Colen a friend writes to night that Chancellour Hide was going from Breda most of C. S. Servants depart also onely Secretary Nichols is to abide there with his goods It is absolutely believed the Lord Wilmot is gone for England and it 's now said that since C. S. design is dash't he will return for Colen and so wait upon a future Dyet in Germany which it 's conceived will be at Franckfort All C. S. followers makes Holland their Rendezvouz which agrees well with the late peace The Duke of York and his Servants gave out that his Brother hath assuredly entred England and was at the head of 4000 Gentlemen This fills all men here with expectation of great matters to be done for him and his party the issue whereof is the subject of all the present discourse The little Queen his mother is upon her knees for successe at her Lenten devotion in the Nunnery of Chaliot There is yet no certainty what is become of the Scots King he is still under the Bushel Since he whom they call King of Great Britain departed hence his family have been putting themselves also in a condition to depart as soon as they shall receive command from their Master of whom we have no farther newes Charles Stewart himself doth not appear yet it is supposed he will return to his old Quarters at Colen where he may live both pleasantly and at a cheaper rate then at any other place Letters from several parts relate that things are in a quiet condition in all Counties but no newes of Charles Stuart who doubtlesse was in England for some forreign Letters do say he had obliged himself to appear here at a certain day among his Party It is said in these parts and generally believed that Charles Stuart was in England if so it is probable you may have met with him It is talked by divers who understand the transactions of men in these Northerly parts that C. S. should have had assistance considerable from some who speak you fair had his project proved prosperous The little Queen is retired to the Nunnery of Chaliot which her Servants say is done partly for devotions sake and partly to avoid the visits of persons that would flock to her to rejoice with her for the happy successe of her Sons affairs in England Such as favoured the King of Scots are very much dejected at the disastrous newes of his undertaking and the more because it is reported that many of his good friends in England are like to suffer both in their Lives Estates himself having the wit to keep out of harmes way loving to sleep in a whole skin whilst his friends adventure and lose their lives for his sake The King of Scots is said here to be gone for Colen but no certainty He is little regarded and no wayes beloved in these parts The newes of the Protectors successes in England makes all men at a gaze and when it came first he was thought mad or vain that would believe it so that now the Stuarts are given for lost their party appearing so inconsiderable in their actings that they have lost their reputation It was certified also that Charles Stuart perceiving how his designs were broken here was gotten again to his quarters at Colen The King of Scotland is now at Colen where he keeps himself very private Many of his followers are trooping after him from all parts with heavie hearts and light purses The king of Scots who was said to be at Teyling his design having failed he was fain to retreat to his old Quarters from his Royal pâ—â—resse which was so privately managed by him that few have certainly known the place of his abode since he went from Colen The Colours are remarkable having no Motto but onely three great Letters H. D. G. which I cannot tell what to make of unlesse it signifie Henry Duke of Glocester and perhaps their intent was to have gotten the youth over Sea to have been in the head of their party Charles Stuart was the 14 instant with onely five men with him at Osterwick in the Majoralty or Lordship of the Buss from thence he went the 15 and about the 18 arrived at Colen and has betaken himself to his old lodging Having information that the Duke of Glocester as they call him doth reside with his Sister the Princesse Royal contrary to the Treaty made with England they have ordered him to be gone within three dayes The pretended Duke of York is to go to Rome in case the peace be concluded between France and England to reside there from his Brother Charles to solicite the Pope who calls himself the common Father of all Christians to oblige the Kings and Princes to a general peace that so with joynt forces they might help him in the Conquest of his Kingdomes and States We hear not yet in what Countrey Middleton is landed but it s generally believed he is gone to Colen to his young Master The Lord Wilmot is returned out of England to this City and remains here with him whom they call King of Great Britain Charles Stuart remains still at Colen being a man much esteemed among the Iesuites The Queen of Sweden continues still in these parts and the Scottish King at Colen where his company increaseth more then his purse The King of Great Britain as they call him brought back money ordered a general Rendezvouse of his men and gave them some pay for encouragement it being the first pittance they have received It seems Charles Stuart thinks his debauched ranting remnants will hardly effect any thing upon England so long as his Highnesse is alive Charles Stuart is still at Bruges where the stragled sheep his Brother is also returned from his Progresse The Scottish King and his two Brothers rant as high as ever and talk as if they had the world at will which makes them ridiculous Of all the armies in Europe there is none wherein so much debauchery is to be seen as in their few forces which the said King hath gathered together being so exceeding profane from the highest to the lowest Colonel Grace a man famous for his cruelty and many bloudy villains in the Irish Rebellion The Scottish King was at Dunkirk with his Brother the Titular Duke of York FINIS Pol. Numb. 1. Page 1. Page 2. Ibid. Ibid. P. 3. Ibid. P. 4. P. 6. P. 8. P. 9. P. 11. Ibid. P. 14. Ibid. Ibid. Num. 2. Pag. 17. P. 18. P. 20. Ibid. Ibid. P. 21. P. 22. Ibid. Ibid. P. 24. Ibid. P. 25. P. 26. Ibid. P. 27. P. 29. P. 31. P. 32. N. 3. P. 38 P. 39. P. 40. P. 42.
for ore worn and disconsolate sinners They say in France a Monck is every jot as good as a Gentleman Vsher and she hath many of them As for Newcastle he is to Act a Comedy in hope of supplies from his Majesty of Denmark his Lordship is a good Poet and a few begging Rythms may doe much when the Dane is in his Cups of which he may chance to send a dozen or two to his Cousin Stewart The King of Scotland was alive at Hounslaer-Dike where after he had given his Chaplain a few pence and a Passe for their Episcopacy they were discharged for ever coming within the Borders of the more Holy Presbytery I am confident not one Elder of an hundred but had rather dye the death of a Wittol then of a Traytor The Presbytery cry out that Politicus is an Atheist because he tosses the Kirk like a Foot-ball and jerks their Hypocrisy O ye Publican Sectaries and Harlots come ye not neer them for these are the Congregation of Dathan and Abiram who stood upon Holy ground and are more holy then you if you list to believe them these are the little Levites that cannot abide you because your sacrilegious Troopers have carried away all the Provender of Reformation and tyed them up to the Manger Wo and alass for the glory of the Priesthood who since they have lost their Command must not look hereafter to go so merrily a wiving because they cannot promise their pretty Mistrisses to make them Queens of the Parish no more must they march like George-a-horseback upon their steeds to Westminster with their Hearts full of Pluralities and Tythes Their Souls swoln with pride their Heads with Faction beyond the Pomp of a Diocess and other appurtinances of their Iure Divino no longer shall they sit Cheek by Joule with the supreme Authority in the state of an Assembly to Catechise the Parliament and con over their most elaborate Confession with the more wondrous Directory which being once past the Press were worn out in Chappels of Ease though they cost us many thousands with their four shillings a day wages and more then three years patience ere the works were brought to perfection His Kingship of Scotland took his Journey from Breda to the Hague his Brother Orange providing him ships for a Convoy Because he durst not trust himself with the Schippers for fear he might have been put off with other small fish and sent in pickle to England therefore in regard these ships were but borrowed the young man went aboard and bad them strike sail for three Kingdomes when he can catch them Thrice they put to Sea and as oft were driven back so that the wind had like to have blown away the Shuttle cock of Monarchy Certainly the Chicken of this family are none of the Halcyon brood because never without a storm old Mary Queen of Scots never crossed the sea but in a storm her son King Iames scap't it because he never was so valiant as to venture or else he had raised a storm in his Breeches His son Charles went a wooing to Spain in a storm and so Returned c. and since the storm ever follows by land as well as by water I suppose it was wisely done of the Parliament to throw them all over board to save themselves and the Vessel But I hear he is blown back again by that pretended blast of Honour and Conscience that blasted his Father The Kirk are very Righteous even as Righteous as their elder Brethren the Pharisees ten of whose Righteousnesses would have hardly saved a Louse out of Gommorrha Judge you then whether the Kirk be not bravely inthroned in Scotland where she destines whom she pleaseth to death and causeth them to kiss the Scaffold and those whom she pleases to let live she makes to kiss her Breech or serve without Ceremony for a Foot-stool The bold Whore bolder then her sister Babylon would faine come hither a madding and set up her trade here in England The King is at a pause because he perceives without the help of Astrology that his head may be made the price of their peace and security he remembers who they were that hunted his great Grandmother like a Polcat and were suspected for hanging her Husband who they were likewise that Baited his Grandsire Jemmy and whipt him out of his Royalty also how they handled his Father and therefore he will look before he leaps having Cause to fear that the same Rods are laid in piss now by the Kirk and her Assembly When they send young Tarquin for a Token to his Friends in England This is like to be the last King that ever they shall be Masters of And if they be wise they will have their pennyworths out of him for all his Projects He hath play'd fast and loose with Them and Montrosse at the same time I mean the same Montrosse that was the Gallant Royalist whom they buried under the Gallows in pure love to his Majesty if he please to believe them This is Dad's own Son two faces under one hood being an Hereditary Posture Montrosse acted nothing but by his instigation and commission for which they hanged him in a most Presbyterian manner and yet at the same time the Kirk opens her bosome most lovingly to receive His Master as her son into her protection The Crime is the same in both but the guilt greater in him being the Author than in Montrosse the Actor wherefore I must here proclaim to all the world the partiality and hypocrisie of the Presbyterians that they should anathematize one Delinquent even to Hell and the Death and Burial of a Dog yet spare another more guilty then he and not only so but give him sugar-sops c. Ormond according to the common fate of all Lords is a thing that lives but by Courtesie As for the rest of the Runnagates the Curse of Cain pursues them beyond hopes of a Pardon All that begins with the name of Charles is unlucky and must down I cannot blame them more then their Brother Curres here in England The Duke of York is a good Boy to be doing abroad I say and not a Rambling after Charles now upon his Voyage to Whitehall for if he be catcht here he will be soundly whipt for running away from St. Iames's The young Lad of Scotland hath left Holland No Letters come yet upon what Coast young Tarquin is a Fishing Madam Kirk and a Baby King A Dainty Covenant with other rare knacks The Ministers or Scotch Trumpeters It is not known yet in what part of the World young Tarquin is landed The late Duke of York is turned Serving-man to his Cousin the King of France who hath bestowed a Cast office upon him being made Commander of his Scottish Ianizaries a warm place believe me and if it will hold I