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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50889	A narrative of the causes and events of civil-war between princes and people together with the manner how the people of Rome and of the Netherlands rejected and abjured their king and kingly government, with the form of their oaths of abjuration : extracted out of the Roman and Netherlands history : as likewise some objections now in contest concerning the taking of the like oath in this Common-Wealth examined and answered, if not for satisfaction at least for information of such as are concerned / by F.M.	F. M.	1659 (1659)	Wing M21; ESTC R3469	13,630	21

mightily inflamed the multitude that he caused the King to be deposed and degraded of his Royal State and dignity yea and to decree and enact that King Tarquinus and his Wife and Children should be banished for ever which accordingly was effected and after all the Armies and people had forsaken him Brutus being then appointed Consul and for fear least the Magistrates and people might at any time after be won by entreaty or moved by gifts on the Kings part he caused them to swear that they would never suffer any to be King at Rome after which the Senate was fil'd with such as took the same Oath in lieu of those that were murthered by the Kings command to the full number of three hundred so jealous were the people afterwards of their Liberties that one of their Consuls name being Tarquinus without they could have any other thing to say against him but his Name who they said was dangerous to a Free-State thereupon was perswaded to retire from the City and Brutus by an act and decree of the Senate proposed to the people That all the Race and Linage of the Tarquin's should be exiled and banished which was accordingly effected No man doubted then but that the Tarquins were about to take Arms but seeing that no man feared the Romans had like by Fraud and Treason at home to have lost and foregon their freedoms again and that the Reader may know that the very same thing endeavoured at Rome to restore the Tarquins is that which hath several times been and at present is endeavoured in England The story is briefly thus There were certain Youths of the flower of Rome descended of no low Degree nor Parentage who in the Kings dayes had lived like young Princes more loosely and at pleasure as Companions and play-fellows with the young Tarquins the Kings sons who seeking to enjoy the same licentious life still in this Equality of state wherein all others then lived made moan and Complained one to another that the liberty of others turned to their servitude The King say they Is a man at whose hand one might obtain somewhat as need requireth were the cause right or were it wrong where a man might find favour and friendship as who could be displeased and angry and also forgive and remit a fault and knew well how to make difference between a friend and a foe As for Laws they are deaf and inexorable more wholesome and commodious to the poor then to the rich and mighty affording no release or pardon if one chance to trespasse and transgresse and a ticklish Point it is and perilous for a man amongst so many errors whereto our frailty is subject to bear himself onely upon his innocent life being thus of their own accord already discontent as it may boldly be averred the young Nobility and others of the loose people of England are at this time upon the like account suddenly unlookt for came Ambassadors to Rome from King Tarquinus who without mention at all of return demanded onely their goods again and while the businesse was in debate in the Senate these Ambassadors privately sounded the minds of these young Gentle-men whom they found ready to conspire with them for the return of the King The Ambassadors having obtained the restauration of the Kings goods and ready to depart had private meetings with those young Gentle-men who for assurance of their fidelity to the King signed a Letter which they delivered to the said Ambassadors all which was detected by a bond-slave who had overheard them when they delivered the Letter presently giving notice thereof to the Consul who apprehended the said Ambassadors and found the said letter and thereupon all the Conspirators were apprehended And to see how much Pagans made esteem of their Oaths and Protestations Brutus then Consul having two of his Sons to wit Titus and Tiberius who were in the Conspiracy himself saw them executed and being bound at a Stake the people pittied them not so much for being punished as for deserving by their fact to be punished that they could find in their hearts and once let enter into their thoughts to betray into the hands of Tarquinus a proud Prince and then a cruel enemy and banished Rebel their Native Countrey lately and in that very year set free from Captivity and their Natural Father who set it free Now for the Kings goods which were ordered to be restored were flatly afterwards denied by the Senate who would not confiscate and bring them to the Publick Treasury but were given away amongst the Commons to the end they having once touched or seized on the Kings goods as a booty might for ever after be past all hope of any peace or favour with them Not long afterwards Tarquin obliged King Perceua with a cruel Army to march against Rome to endeavour the restoring of him to the Kingdom and to shew how much it conduceth to the safety of a Commonwealth that the People thereof should engage against the banished Kings and absolutely to abjure and renounce them and their line for ever and how far such an Oath doth engage a People to keep them out take this short story of King Porcena being with his Army at the very walls of Rome and in great hope to take it and restore Tarquin one Cajus Mucius afterwards surnamed Scaevola together with others of the Romans to the number of 300. engaged one with another to venture their lives in going to the Camp of Porcena and to kill him rather then suffer their Country to be again enslaved It fell to the lot of this Scaevola to go first and coming into the Camp with a scain hid under his garment he presseth in the thickest throng to stand near the Kings Tribunal it happened that then and their the Souldiers were receiving their pay and the Chancellor or King Porcenas principal Secretary sate together with the King in like aray Scaevola fearing to enquire whether of them two were Porcena least he should discover himself in lieu of Porcena he killed the Chancellor and afterwards with his bloody weapon making his way through the fearful multitude was laid hold on and brought before King Porcena sitting then upon his Throne to whom he said I am a Citizen of Rome and Cajus Mucius is my name a professed Enemy I confesse and an Enemy would I have slain as ready and willing am I to die my self as I was to kill another for both to do and suffer valiantly is the part of a Noble Roman and it s not I alone that carry this resolution against thee O King there is a long train behind of them that seek to win the same praise and honour make thee ready therefore and arm thy self if thou think good against this danger and reckon every hour to be in hazard of thy life and to have alwayes at the very Court gates thy Enemies sword This kind of War we youths of Rome denounce