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A dialogue between Hampton-Court and the Isle of Wight Vxbridge being moderator : impartially discoursing of the effects and defects of the treaty : and the likelihoods and unlikelihoods we have of the composure of a well grounded and lasting peace : with the preparations and treachery of the army for preventing the same / by Tom Tell Troath, clarke for His Majesty in the treaty.
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Tell Troath, Tom.
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Wing D1312; ESTC R467
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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HAMPTON-COVRT AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT VXBRIDGE being Moderator Impartially discoursing of the effects and defects of the TREATY And the likelihoods and unlikelihoods we have of the composure of a well grounded and lasting Peace With the preparations and treachery of the Army for preventing the same By Tom Tell troath Clarke for his Majesty in the TREATY Printed in the Yeare of expectation of the peace or ruine of the Nation 1648. A Dialogue c. Isle Wight COme come Mrs. Hampton though you are a great Courtier in the eye and I but a small spot in the face of the Sea yet I am verily perswaded that I am thought worthy before your selfe to teeme and bring forth the sweete and long expected Babe of Peace T is not the statelynesse of a Court or the greatnesse of a City that the Authour and finisher of Peace lookes upon the meaner place is more acceptable Bethlem where the King of peace himselfe was born was thought worthier thē Jerusalem that City to bring forth him that by his suffrings made peace for the whole world and why not the Isle of Wight before thee or Mrs. Vxbridge either yea or London the Parliaments Midwife I have in my Cabinet an ancient Prophesie no lesse then 500. yeares old which I believe will now be fulfilled to the joy of all true English hearts that love Peace truth unity and concord the Father and Mother of all other blessings whatsoever and this Prophesie runs thus The time shall come a King cloath'd all in white Shall Crown England with Peace from the Isle of Wight Hampton O Mrs. Wight be not too confident this child may yet prove abortive Alas I feare thou must suffer many bitter pangs before thou art yet delivered of Peace I know my Royall Master has suffred many base affronts bitter griefs and dire laments in thee was he not betrayd and decoyd into thee when he took his flight from me by that Apostate Cromwell was he not in thee kept close Prisoner debarred of the society of all his friends and servants taunted and uncivilly used by wicked Hamond his cursed Jaylor and he according to his bounden duty warranted by the Law of God the Law of nature and the Law of the Land namely noble Burley making but signe of resistance to rescue His Majesty from all his misery was suddenly by these wild Canibals devoured hangd drawn and quartred for his Alegeance to his King did not Rolfe think you that waited 4 lōg houres with a Pistoll to take away his life deserve a small gratuity of 200. l. for his so doing did not Dowcet and Osburne deserve to be imprisoned for revealing the same and the other revarded for acting the same O Hammon remember Mordecai fear and tremble for the like preferment will one day fall to thee as it did to thy Namesake when it shall be read in the Chronicles of the Kings of England that thou setst on that villain Rolfe to murder his Master and didst solicite thy Masters so often for him to be so well rewarded for so foule and wicked an intention and that wicked villaine Serjant Wilde that condemned and murdred Noble Burley for doing his duty according to Law must release Rolfe for doing so abhorred an act against law religiō reason or conscience Mrs. Wight you know all this to be true do you not Wight I but Mrs. Hampton truth is not to be spoke at all times these are bugs words against the Parliament have a care they stop not your mouth with a little Independent mercy for that will spoile your blabbing for ever after you know how they use to deale with Malignants and being an old Courtier and of so ancient a house as you are you must needs be voted a Malignant and so an enemy to the Kingdome and Parliament and then c. Hamp Were the Parliament as mad as the swine possessed with the Divell that they were running headlong to their owne confusion might not a man adventure to stop them or perswade them though to no purpose plaine Troath feares no colours had they as many and as changeable at the Rainbow and their garments were dyed with scarlet goar of innocents till they had made this Island a generall Sepulchre it should not fright me I 'de tell them on 't and that home too I say they are Tyrants and inhumane Rebels that have wronged the most vertuous King that ever Raigned in Christendome have divided him from his owne Wife driven him from his Princely Children imprisoned defamed reproached scandalized renounced writ and spoke all manner of evill against him murdred his Nobility killed his Gentry robbed the Commonalty and enriched themselves by the ruines of other men that now they are fatted in mischiefe and tumble and lye blowing and gloaring in the wealth of the Kingdome whilest Trading is decayed the People are impoverished beggery increased many a Member of Christ stawed others lie groaning some in goales others in Hospitals some Parents amidst their families keeping time in weeping with their children who want one morsell of bread to sustaine their lives the Mother sitting to suckle her tender Infant with an empty breast and a more sorowfull heart listning for the dying groanes of her starved childe and yet this will not move these Miscreants to the the least pitty or compassion Wight Indeed Mrs. Hampton I believe most of your sad story to be true but if the King and Parliament agree there will no doubt be a way thought on to encrease Trade that the poore may be set on work and all things may be well Hampton Alas Mrs. Wight you are deceived for admit that the King and Parliament should agree what will the Army doe Wight Agree to or be hanged were they agreed wee should doe with the Army well enough Hampton But in the meane time they will deale with him and us to to what end thinke you tooke they his Majesty away from Holdenby without the authority of Parliament was it to bring him to his Parliament or send him to them to be murdered by Rolfe to what end did they make so many professions and ingagements for his Majesties just Rights in generall both at Newmarket and Sr. Albanes as may appeare by their voted and revoted Proposalls was it for his good Yes because the Parliament had protested to make him great and glorious therefore they would send him to heaven quickly to be great and glorious there for I am perswaded and so are more beside I that they would never have sent him to thee Mrs. Wight but to have him murdered what thinke you meanes the 4000. horse that are now upon their march under Ingolsby to thee Mrs. Wight is it to bring him to his Parliament yes I warrant you the cleane contrary way what meant the Independents Petition but to be seconded by the Army What meanes their placing Committees of Independents in all Counties Castles and places of strength but to subdue
all to themselves To tell you true Mrs. Wight they meane to governe by the power of the sword and care not a pin for King or Parliament either alas they are against both and will fight against both before this Treaty goe forward or any peace should be concluded Doe you thinke that they meane to give over their trade viz. cutting of throats and murdering their brethren No no blood is the sweetest liquor they can taste and stole goods that are plundred and robbed from their fellow Subjects is the only staffe of their life if they disband they lose all Fairfax and Cromwell intend to share the Kingdome between them if not both the Kingdomes Tom must be King of England and Noll King of Scotland thinke you we shall not be well governed then They will be mercifull King Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lifle felt their mercy and so I feare shall we ere long for the seaven deadly sins are now the Armies best companions lust luxury and excesse vanity pride and prodigality envy contention unnaturall divisions oppression fraud and violence are to be of their privy counsell oathes blasphemies and prophanations must be their Chaplaines envy hatred and malice and all uncharitablenesse shall be their counsellours of estate English blood shall be their wine the caske your bodies which they will pierce with their swords your goods shall be their prey your wives shall be their lawndresses and cookes chambermates and the like your sons and daughters their slaves your cattle at their command besides you shall pay for rods by subsidies to whip and afflict your selves and in this manner shall you labour and worke for them so long as you live is not heere a thorow Reformation indeed Is not heere a Kingdome well governed when you must be slaves to the veriest slaves in a Kingdome Then when it is too late and the rod is upon you you will cry cut with anguish of heart O that we had knowne the day of our visitation but now 't is hid from our eyes O that we had but knowne obedience to so good a King as King Charles we had not now been slaves to these Rogues and scums of mankinde O that wee had been wise in time but now tyranny wrath anguish and destruction hath seized upon us we murmured at shipmoney before but now wee are ship wracked of all wee have we thought our happinesse misery then but now our misery is our happinesse indeed and who may we thanke but our owne obstinancy and disobedience for which sin we are now forced to obey those that sometime were our inferiours What a case are we now in when our lives liberties and estates lye all under the command of the sword of a treacherous and revolting Army Wight Mrs. Hampton I believe thou speakest all out of envy because my Governour is an Independent and I my selfe am commanded by the Army I professe I thinke the Army meanes well to the King for all this and will for their advantage close againe with him and ruine the Parliament Hampton No no never thinke that they will have no King but Christ forsooth and he must raigne in their rotten consciences and their rotten consciences must raigne over you for the Parliament they intend to breake up that and chuse Representatives by their owne power without the Kings Writ that shall be all Independent which shall be the upholders preservers maintainers setlers and establishers of the Kingdome they meane to have a Parliament that that they can rule this is too unruly for them then for the liberty of the Subject when Sir Thomas and his copartner Crumwell shall be the Kingdomes Stewards and dispose of all as they shall thinke fit the honour and priviledge of Parliament must needs be well backed and maintained then when they shall act or doe nothing but by the order of the Army Uxbridge But stay a while Mrs. Hampton what will you say if London and the whole Kingdome rise in armes to quell this tyrannicall Army what will you say then Hampton Then they will prevent all this but they are so besotted and bewitched to their owne ruine that they had rather live slaves then resist the Army there is danger in that and danger they love not and Religion and they are upon shaking hands and parting Uxbridge But if the King signes to what he swore to maintaine at his Coronation how doth he preserve his honour or a good Conscience or what will he be the better Hamp If he breakes his Oath in signing to the Presbyterian Religion farewell Conscience for the Militia t is in the hands of the Army and they willl scourge him with his own Rod but if he looseth his Honour and a good Conscience as God forbid and granteth all things they ask which to prevent more effusion of innocent blood he will do he must remaine but the outside the picture and signe of a King to the Parliament themselves and signe or signe not be ruined by the Army too Had ever King two such Masters if he pleaseth the Parliament then he dispâ—easeth the Army and if he sides with the Army then he displeaseth the Parliament and betweene two Thieves he is crucified either of them traetyrously inforcing or craftily perswading His Majesty for avoiding the devouring Gulph Charibdis to dash himselfe against the sharpe Rock of death-threatning Seylla according to that old verse never more truly verified then now Incidit in Seyllam cupiens vitare Charibdim Hee 's dasht against Scylla's Rock and quite destroy'd Hoping Charibdis Whirle-poole to avoid Postscript AND certainely this is too evident when we consider the sad condition of His Majesty since he hath been in their hands being tost and tumbled up and downe by these most trayterous and rebellious Sectaries and Schismaticks to keep him in the griping pawes and captivity of Cromwell and his Confederate Hammond Rolfe and others to make up their own mouths and worke out their owne weale though with the inevitable Ruine and destruction of so gracious and good a King and the utter confusion of a poor tottering torn and miserable distracted Church and State But if London still wants eyes to see the misery that is comming upon her I would she might be blind for ever the wealth is most in her and where the Carcas is Eagles will gather thither Me thinks I heare her last dying knell sound in mine eares and her very heart-strings crack an alarme is given to her already And if hereafter she will not be shent let pollicy teach her to prevent her certaine ruine that comes posting on with her inevitable destruction Tho. Tel treath FINIS