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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83973	Englands miserie, if not prevented by the speedie remedie of a happie union between His Maiestie and this Parliament. By His Majesties concurrance with them, to discard all false flattering Achitophel-cavaliers, proud ambitious prelates, and blood-suck thirsting church papists, as well as profest, about His Majesties sacred person and councels. Written by a well-wisher to His King and countrey. Together with the copie of a letter sent from a friend in Lancashire, to a gentleman in Grays-Inne-Lane. As also an order from both Houses of Parliament to the sheriffs of York and Lincolnshire for suppressing of forces that disturbe the peace of the kingdom. Jo. Brown, Cler. Parl.	Well-wisher to his King and countrey.; Tyrer, George.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1642 (1642)	Wing E2996; Thomason E112_30; ESTC R20120	2,954	10

ENGLANDS MISERIE IF NOT PREVENTED by the speedie remedie of a happie union between His MAIESTIE and this PARLIAMENT By His Majesties concurrance with them to discard all false flattering Achitophel-Cavaliers proud ambitious Prelates and bloodsuck thirsting Church Papists as well as profest about His Majesties sacred Person and Councels Written by a Well-wisher to His King and Countrey Together with the Copie of a Letter sent from a friend in Lancashire to a Gentleman in Grays-Inne-Lane As also an Order from both Houses of Parliament to the Sheriffs of York and Lincolnshire for suppressing of Forces that disturbe the Peace of the Kingdom Jo. Brown Cler. Parl. LONDON Printed by T. P. and M. S. in Goldsmiths Alley August 18. 1642. ENGLANDS MISERIE ENgland never lay panting as at this present by reason of His Majesties long absence from his great Counsel of this Kingdom which is truly conceived to be the cause of all the disturbance of this Common-wealth And these Machivillians or rather matchlesse-villains that professe themselves to be friends when indeed they are fiends pretending love intending mischief to his Maiestie and this Kingdom having words as soft as butter or oyl when their greatest Amitie is but dissembled Enmitie with two faces under one hood like Janus and two hearts in a brest like Magus Adulatores amici in obsequies hostes in animis compti in verbis turpes in factis laeti ad prospera f●agil●s ad adversa inflati ad obsequia anxii ad opprobria immoderati ad Gaudia fa●iles ad humana diffi●il●s ad honesta Their Avès are vaes to this troubled Nation and though they speak favourably we ought not to beleeve them Who murthered Cesar that worthy Emperour in the Senate house at Rome Brutus and Cassius those flatterers whom he loved most Who poisoned that mightie Conquerour Alexander in the midst of his triumphs at Babylon Those that flattered him most his own cup-bearer and kinsman Antipater Who betrayed Christ God and Man unto the Scribes and Pharisees his own purse-bearer that flattering Judas imbracing and kissing him as Flatterers use to do They find it an easie way to deceive by friendship when indeed they make themselves odious to the whole world being in the end by all their plots and contrivances found ayming at our lives shooting at our goods and wounding our good names I have read that King Xerxes marching towards the Greeks with a huge Armie of Souldiers called some of this kind of Parasites to him and demanded what was to be most feared in his Iourney One saith I do fear that when the Greeks do hear of your power they will flie and not abide your band Another said he doubted all Greece was not able to lodge them or receive them into their Cities A third That he feared most that the Ocean was not enough for them to passe over A fourth feared the Aire had not roome enough for the Arrows which they should shoot off The King by this being extremly puffed up with Pride demanded at last of a certain Philosopher named Damascerus what he doubted most in that war The thing that I most fear saith he is this that these Flatterers will deceive you So if his Maiestie will be pleased to advise with she great Counsell of this Kingdom we shall not need to fear a Civill war in England nor the Power of any forraigne Foe But otherwise if the King will still hearken to these flattering Achitophels proud Prelates and Papists I feare they will doe this Kingdome more harme by their whisperings of Prerogative and honour in Princes eares than any enemie forraigne or domestique can doe by their weapons The Citie Troy which Agamemnon in ten whole yeares could not subdue yet Sinon with his flatterie allured the mind of King Priamus deceived the Nobles and inticed the Citizens by his adulation to their utter ruine and confusion Who could move Caesar so much to any thing as Curio the Parasite Not Pompeius his Sonne in Law nor his Daughter Julia nor all the Senators of Rome might make Caesar friend or foe so much as Curio And who have for these 16 yeares and still doe seeke the utter ruine and subversion of this Nation But Finches Windebanks Lands c. who speaking against their Consciences to maintaine Poperie and superstition perswade his Majestie to remove from his Great Councell into remote places of this Kingdome for the safetie of his Person when as his Maiestie would be more safe nere his Parliament with one man than at Beverley with all his Cavaliers and yet such as these are sooner beleeved than they Alexanders followers bare their heads aside as he did and such as flattered Dionysius in his owne presence did run and iustle one another and either stumble at or overthrow what ever stood afore their feete to inferre that they were as short-sighted and pur-blinde as he And therefore Princes had need of other Councellours besides those that are daily with them that would admonish them frankly gravely and sincerely and that would counsell them faithfully for as much as there is scarce any one in their Courts that do not run after the splendour of their prosperitie and regard his owne particular profit And what Councell can be more fit for Princes to harken too than the great Councell of the Kingdome What Councell so free from flattery bribery ayming at their owne ends as they Who durst have told his Majestie of the illegalitie of Ship-money of the severall grievances of Courts of Starre-chamber High Commission Court of Honour Who durst have questioned the Delinquents that were corrupt Iudges in these severall Courts Who durst have spoke for the iust Libertie of the Subiect but he should have beene called in question for speaking against his Maiesties Prerogative in Star-Chamber any time these sixteene yeares And who stand or ever stood more for his Maiesties iust Prerogative honour and safetie than they have done Certainly no age can parallell their care paines and dangers they have and doe undergoe for the safetie of King and Kingdome It then behoves the Gentry and Commons of this Kingdome to maintaine this Parliament against all opposers and couragiously if they for the good of King and Kingdome command hazard their dearest lives to arrest these flattering Councellours and bring them from the presence of the King that his Throne may be established in Righteousnesse SIR VVE are very much perplexed in our Countrey with divers fears and jealousies fain would many of the Gentrie and most of the Commons obey the Parliaments Ordinance of the Militia but the Lord Strange doth so thunder amongst us with his Commissions of Array and out Papists grow so cunning that most of them come to Church and take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacie That we are all at a stand we are very fearfull of Irish Commanders to be landed at Farmby this next week to ioyn with these Church Papists I am sure for no good But to promote the faction about his Majestie whereof if his Majestie were truly informed I beleeve that he would admit no such persons about him There was a strange Monster taken neer Toxteth-Parke by Miles Mather and his man about the bignesse of a child of foure yeers old and like a child in shape from the head to the navell of the belly but very hairie his thighes legs and feer were like brasse as far as he could conceive which the said Mather taking into his armes thinking it had been alive and left upon the Sea-shore by some poore Traveller out of Ireland covered it with his cloak thinking to have carried it to Liverpoole and as soon as it received the least heat it wept and vanished away to his great amazement and wonder Since which time the said Mather hath been frantique and is now in cure at Orms kirke under Doctor Shaw This is all the news and wonders we have for the present with us God turn all to the best Sir I am Leverpool 14. August 1642. Your loving friend to serve you George Tyrer ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament that the Sheriffes of the County of York and Lincolne and likewise the Lords Lieutenants of the said Counties and in their absence their Deputies allowed by Parliament and the Justices of Peace and all other his Majesties Officers shall suppresse all forces that shall be raised or gathered together in those Counties either to force the Town of Hall to stop the passages to and from the same or in any other way to disturbe the peace of the Kingdom Jo. Brown Cler. Parl. FINIS