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A95533	Crop-eare curried, or, Tom Nash his ghost, declaring the pruining of Prinnes two last parricidicall pamphlets, being 92 sheets in quarto, wherein the one of them he stretch'd the soveraigne power of Parliaments; in the other, his new-found way of opening the counterfeit Great Seale. Wherein by a short survey and ani-mad-versions of some of his falsities, fooleries, non-sense, blasphemies, forreigne and domesticke, uncivill, civill treasons, seditions, incitations, and precontrivements, in mustering, rallying, training and leading forth into publique so many ensignes of examples of old reviv'd rebells, or new devised chimeraes. With a strange prophecy, reported to be Merlins, or Nimshag's the Gymnosophist, and (by some authours) it is said to be the famous witch of Endor's. Runton, pollimunton plumpizminoi papperphandico. / By John Taylor.; Tom Nash his ghost.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T446; ESTC R212364	32,386	51

long Treatise which you call the Treachery and Disloyalty of papists against their Soveraignes Me thinks their old treacheries should be no presidents for you or any man or Members whatsoever to be Rebells and Traytors For as those Crimes in them do seem odious to you so your Villanies transcending theirs cannot be made Amiable by any of your Sophisticating Legerdemaine Meanders The powder Plot I confesse was Hells Maister piece but you have done your best amongst you to out-do it They that had a hand in it to the perpetuall brand and infamy of that Religion did all professe to be Roman Catholiques but let impartiall Truth be the Iudge and it will be found that the Contrivers and Actors in that horrid Plot were of no Religion at all and that they usurped the name and stile of Christians as you and your Crew do the Titles of Protestant and Parliament for the chiefe of them had run out of faire Estates by riotous feasting drinking drabbing gaming and all manner of profuse licenciousnesse which when all was gone and themselves involved and precipitated into bottomlesse Debts then they grew melancholy desperate and to raise their broken Fortunes upon the ruines of this mother Kingdome that nursed and bred them devised that abhorred and detestable Plot some there were of good estates and shallow capacities who were seduced to aid with mony and meanes by the perswasions of Garnet and others for such a Treason or scarce any other mischiefe cannot be plotted without the brain of a Jesuit which makes very understanding heads conjecture that Prinne and his Faction doth hold correspondency with them in these their abhominable unparalleld Treasons Never was it heard or read that any that professe to be Christians did contrive or attempt so cruell bloody barbarous and execrable a Designe therefore I conclude them neither Christians or Roman Catholiques but meere Atheists Libertines and incarnate Devils But by this I may be drawn into some suspition that I am popishly addicted or affected to which I answer that the true Church was once at Rome for Saint Paul Rom. 1. 8. gave God thankes through Jesus Christ for them all that their Faith was spoken of in some Translations famous or published throughout the whole world that faith Rome is fallen from and in the stead thereof she hath a Faith and Religion so intermingled with humane Traditions and inventions of men which is unsafe for a Christian to liue and die in But for all this a Protestant must not cast away all that is used at Rome for they have God's Word there they have the Scriptures there which though they abuse yet we have free liberty to use and it is not their Religion or ours that are Protestants or any other who hold the Fundamentall points grounds and Articles of the Christian Faith that can be compulsively thrust into the soules of men for an enforced Religion takes no root in the conscience a perswasive may which made the Patriarch Noah Gen. 9. 27. say God perswade thee Japhet to dwell in the Tents of Shem here is a Prayer for God's perswasion not for mans inforcing the conscience I have been the longer about this argument concerning the Papists because my nimble Antagonists doth Cuckoo-like play upon the same tone and tune So much in answer to Prinnes first argument The second is page 5. 7. The Papists have exercised a greater power over Kings than this Parliament doth therefore this Parliament may do what it doth Well confest shake hands with the Pope and be friends we see these Round-headed Boatmen row the same way with the Romish Rebells howsoever like Cut-purses they seem to quarrell one against another that they may make a fray in the midst of a crowd unspied The third and fourth Arguments are page 7. 9. Some Kings have been forced to call Parllaments and have been deposed by their Subjects therefore all Kings may be forced to the like and be deposed by Parliaments Well bold Brother now we begin to perceive how your judgement and conscience is biassed Why couldst thou not as well justifie the Devill Lucifer did rebell therefore all may rebell but I will helpe thee to a more concludent and significant Argument Penury was tried legally at the Assises and hanged in Queen Elizabeths time for lesse Treason than this therefore Prinne ought to be tried legally and hanged in King Charles his time for this Treason Also in the seventh Page and thirteenth line he mentions the deposing and death of Vortigerne a wicked King to bolster out Treasons and colour Rebellions against a good King also how Sigebert King of the West Saxons was deposed and murdered and Ofred King of Northumberland likewise deposed Ethelred his next Successour slain by his Subjects at Cobre and how the People expulsed Bernard and Ceolwulph Kings of Mercia and the like they did to Edwin King of Northumberland these seventh and eighth Pages are sufficiently stuffed with Treasons of great Antiquity some of them a thousand and some twelve hundred yeares old which were done by wicked Subjects against most wicked Kings some of them Pagans and not any of them a good Christian and some usurpers that came to the Regall Dignity by murdering the lawfull Heires so that these presidents are incerted by Prinne out of the damnable inveterate impertinent malice of his heart for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh And it is an inscrutable Quere what mischiefe Prinne would not do to do the King a mischiefe Page 5. line 39. He calls this our present Protestant Parliament It is approved by lamentable experience that the word present is too true but as for the Parliament it is past any good Subjects understanding to know where it is it is confest that it was at Westminster but Rebellion hath scattered and shattered it into so many places that upon the matter it is in no place but of this I have spoken of before It is also a transcendent ignorance and impudency in this fellow to call this seditious Conventicle a Protestant Parliament I pray thee which way Protestant Do they hold any Grounds Maximes or Tenets of the Protestant Religion 'T is most manifest that the six yeares Persecution of the Protestants in the bloody Reigne of Queen Mary never destroyed and ruinated halfe so many Protestants as those Brownisticall and Anabaptisticall bloody tyrannicall Sectaries have done within these two yeares for none but Protestants have and do suffer and no Religion but the Protestants is despised derided disgraced and trampled under foot therefore neither Protestant Parliament or Parliament or Protestant Now Sir to your fifth and sixth Arguments from p. 19. to 32. you affirme that Popish Parliaments Lords and Subjects have by force of Armes compelled their Kings to confirme their Liberties c. and have affirmed that when a Parliament was once met together by lawfull Summons it might not be dissolved or discontinued again at the Kings meere pleasure and therefore