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A90241	A new bull-bayting: or, A match play'd at the tovvn-bull of Ely. By twelve mungrills. Viz. 4 English 4 Irish 4 Scotch doggs. Iohn Lilburn, Richard Overton, Thomas Prince, and William Walwyn, to stave and nose. With his last will and testament, and several legacies bequeathed to the Iuncto, the Councel of State, and army. Too him my dogge; ha-loe there; now hee's down: bayted to death, and forfeit to the Crown.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1649 (1649)	Wing O630B; Thomason E568_6; ESTC R34538	10,522	17

his Sonne to be more honest no sooner was he in the House of Commons but he was ●ike Belzebubb amongst the inferior Devils and sent out his Agents and spies to work mischief he first got the Earl of Essex to be poysoned and wone Fairfax to be Head of his Faction till he had brought his Plots to perfection he hath taken the Oath of his Allegiance Supremacy the Solemn League and Covenant look'd up to Heaven call'd God to behold his Hypocrisie and the Angels to witness his perjury he hath broken all Oaths himself and caused others to do the like he caused the King to be seized on at Holmby where he made Protestations That what he did was for the good of the King and Country and that he would bring him to Westminster and Establish him in his Throne in Peace At Hampton-Court by his Jesuitical policy he juggled his Majesty into the Isle of Wight where he hired Rolf to Murder him which being discovered and finding his Plot like to faile and a Treaty to take effect with his Majesty at London and so his Majesty like to come into other mens power made him set all his Enginers of mischief a working took Counsel of lack Bradshaw as arrant a Villain as himself one that when he was a boy run from his Father and followed a Pedlar to sell Laces and Points where he learnt to Can't creep in at windows and rob Hen-roosts returning home full fraught with Villany his father kept him at School and with a little Scholar-ship and roguery together thought him a fit instrument to make a knavish Lawyer and sent him up to Grayes-Inne where he frequented on Sundayes Hollands Leaguer and in the week dayes Bloomsbury would Drum with his fists till he Carrowsed healths on his knees to him he afterwards murdered biting in too every Class and flinging it to the Wals would familiarly let out his Blood to write Love Letters to his Whores his great Grand-Father lay with his own Daughter committed Incest got her with Child and then with advice of his Wi●e poysoned her and was himself hang'd in Chains on a Heath in Cheshire and his Wise executed for consenting to the murder this precious Counsellor was hired and bribed by the Bull of Ely and brought in to assist them in the Confederacy Dorrislaw Aske and Cook who were all sworn to secrecy A Letter is directed from Cromwel to the General and another to the Iuncto for Iustice on some Capital Offenders whereof the King must be one a party sent to seize on him frustrate the Treaty and commit his Majesty close Prisoner to Hurst Castle the Army must advance to London seized on thirty Members of Parliament at one time and Secluded a hundred more set a Guard upon the Juncto put in and thrust out whom he list forced them to sit vote make Laws and give Judgement on whom he list called a Court of mock-Mock-justice by his own Authority against the peoples will or advice and hired knaves to cry Iustice justice directly against the Law of God and his own former Oathes and Protestations took off the Kings head abolished Monarchy erected a Popular Government of himself his hired Servants and combined Creatures besides the infringment of the Fundamental Law of the Kingdom the just Rights of the Crown and Liberty and Propriety of the Subjects broken several Orders Ordinances Protestations Covenants and Oathes which he fi●st thrust upon the prople and forced them to take yet afterwards as his Designes ripened not only brook them himself but compell'd hired and corrupted other knaves and Traytors to do the like and this he hath done in dispight of Gospel or Law first commanding or causing that to be done directly forbidden and not to do that was injoyned and commanded therein and so having usurped Gods Authority as well as the Kings hath establisht a Monstrous Government without head or tayle rule or President law or Reason and commanded all People under pain of high treason to acknowledge just and be subject unto it abolish the Kingly Office and proclaimed the undoubted Heir to the Crown with the Duke of York his Brother Traytors Prince This you have said Mr. Overton is true but your self at first held with his Wayes and stiled him Faithful Cromwel Overton I profess I did but he has by swerving from his first principles deceived me and thousands more and therefore I le have one course more at him hit or miss A Dogge a Dogge a Dogge a Kingdom for a good Dogge Hy day Whose Crop-ear'd Curr is this O he was bred up at Lincolns-Inne I know him of old they say his teeth be poyson by reason of an Asp that lies under his tongue Lilburn No matter so much the better let him slip Ha looe Crap A pox take him for a Curre he has him by the Genitals they 'l burn his mouth pull him off by the tayle and set him on fair Ha looe Crap for a second Course for thy Master Iack Presbyters credit Alas poor Crap he has him on his horns Save him for pitty Foh how he stinks Oh he has beshitt my fingers give me some of his Waste Paper to wipe them the Popish Royal Favourite will do the deed Hang him this is a Cur and looks like one of Envies whelps t is pitty to save him pull off his Coller and set him going Overton Let him gore his gutts out hang him for a Cur he is not worth the saving Prince O save him for Mercies sake Pray Col. Lilburn stave him off for old acquaintance sake he hath had punishment enough by loosing his Eares and being marked for a Cur. Lilburn For your sake I le take him off Walwyn Try another this Crap is a Dogge that will bite the hand that seeds him give him two or three kicks and send him going Overton Here 's another grizly Cur of the same breed Set him on This Dogge was ty'de up in the Pulpit in Pauls when the Army came in he looks as if he were got between a Dog-Fox and a Spannel Bitch a Laodicean whelp neither hote norcold he looks as if he were going rather to hanging then to a Match sure he hath lost his 400l per annum draw him forward Come along Good-Cole how he sawns as if he would suck Eggs this Tyke when he perceives you going will run at you as fierce as if he would eate you but stand but still and he Retires back run from him and he will follow you barking bawling and snarling and perchance give you a bite behinde Lilburn On with him let him be what he will he bawles as if he were wondrous eager Overton Hang him hee 'l snarle against the Moon yet keep his bone they say he will run at Sheep le ts preserve him from hanging because he will give warning he first bawld at the Bishops to set us on Prince I that was because they had him up in the bawdy-Court and put him to his Compurgators

his Will in manner and form following His last Will and Testament In the Name of Pluto Amen I Noll Cromwel alias the Town Bull of Ely Lord Chiefe Governor of Ireland Grand Plotter and Contriver of all Mischiefs in England Lord of Mis-rule Knight of the Order of Regicides Thief-tenant General of the Rebels at Westminster Duke of Devilishness Ensigne of Evil Scout-Master-General to his Infernal Majesty being wickedly disposed in Minde of abhorred Memory do make this My Last VVill and Testament in manner and form following INprimis I give my Soule to the Father of Rebels and my Body to be disposed of for the several uses of these persons following I give my Braines to the Order of Jesuites that with them they may Contrive the Ruine of Princes the over-throw of Kingdoms and Subversion of States I give my Skin to the Aldermen of the City to make them Night-●ownes provided that they wear them on Festival-Dayes on forfeiture of every Alderman that has them not on according to the true intent and meaning of this Will one hundred pounds I give my Horns to the Councel of State to preserve them from their Enemies which are likely to be many provided that they Goare with them to death Charles the Second and his Brother the Duke of York And likewise that they may be added to the Arms of the Common-wealth and quartered in the new Coyne or fairly placed on the top of their new Mace I give my Eares to all the Brethren of the Separation that they may hear of nothing but what is for the benefit of themselves and Faction Provided That they may be stop'd against all the just Complaints and Grievances of the People I give my Eyes to the New Keepers of the peoples Liberties that with them they may see to receive their Money as Taxes Excize c. and fore-see to prevent what their own perficiousness is bringing upon them and that they may see to suppress all Tumults Insurrections and Risings of the People that they may no more be like the blind leading the blind tell they all tumble in the ditch I give my NOSE that it may be a Light to the Councel of State and the Iuncto that they may hold it up in the Winde to smell out all Plots and Conspiracies that shall be hatch'd or contriv'd against the present Government I give my Breath to all Flatterers and Parasites in the House of Commons that with it they may breath out new Oathes Covenants Protestations and Vows and abrogate and break them at pleasure I give my Tongue to all Detractors and Parasites in the Supreame Authority to bewitch the poor people withal and perswade them to their Ruine but especially to Iohn Bradshaw Esquire Rogue President of the Councel of State that with it he may pronounce Sentence on any that shall be more honest more wise or richer then himself that so there may be store of new Delinquents and by that means more Lands and Monies fall to the use of the State provided that before his death he blaspheme God as he hath pronounced Death to his King and that it may answer in part for the same here by rotting out of his mouth and hereafter be dried in Dives Chimney till it alwayes plead and be denied the least drop to cool it I give my Winde-pipe and Lungs to all zealous Levites of the Presbytery that have wasted their owne by crying out for the Cause I give my Liver to Towzer the Man of the Moons Dogge that he may become hear●y to bayte all the Regicides and Knaves in the Iuncto as he hath done me I give my Heart to the Fraternity in Iniquity the Common-Traytors Convened at Westminster that it may be preserved as a holy Relique to swear by and lay their hands on when they Conspire mischeif against Gods Anointed or any of his faithful Subjects or Servants I give my P●…le to the Lord General Fairfax to beat his Wife into more honesty I give my Stones to Harry Martin to tabor the pouches of all his Worships sinners in the Suburbs provided that first they be imployed for the service of my Wife or the Wife of any Member of Parliament I give my Bladder to the City to see if they can keep the Remainder of their Gold in it and in case it be too little that they make use of Colon or that Gutt commonly called Tom of towns-end or the Ars●-gutt Provided If there be to spare that their Wives have the Remainder to make them Pudding-Baggs I give my Joule with the hair on it to make the City a new Cap of MAINTENANCE against the next Lord-Mayors Day I give my Leggs and Hooffs to Thomas Lord Fairfax that when the Gowt and the Morbus have devoured his own he may make use of these at pleasure I give the lowermost Tip of my Tayle to my beloved Wife to make her a Fanne to keep the Flies from her painted face The upper-part I Ordain shall go to the Beast called the Juncto at Westminster that though it has no head yet it may be said to have the more tayle and have this property to draw the third part of this City after it to their own destruction I give my Midri●…e to make my Lord Mayor of London a Ru●…e to wear to the Spittle I give my Cheeks to Feast all those at Christmasse that I have made poor undone and caused to go a begging for want of sustinance I give my Teeth to the devouring Catterpillors of the Common-Wealth viz. Committees Sequestrators and Excize-men that as they have begun they may make a quick dispatch ti●l they have devoured us because the expectation of evil is in many more then the evil it self I give my Neck to all Citizens Merchants to seed their Servants withal I give my Mary-bones to the Regenerate Sisters that they may thereby be made the stronger to bear encrease and multiply and the lustier to exeacise their bodily Gifts and so bring forth the fruits of the Spirit I give my Chines to the Commanders of the Army to make them hearty to fight against Ormond and Inchiquin and to imploy the remainder of their strength on strange women For all my good Qualities which I professe are but a few I desire they may be Registered in the Chronicle of the Free-States of England to be had in perpetual remembrance ti●l King Charles the Second shall come to the Crown I give my Faith to the Common-Councel that they may look up and beleeve when the Iuncto and Councel of State wants more Money I give my Religion to the Fraternity of Ignatius Loyalla from whence it was at first deriv'd provided that the Brethren of the Separation act those Tenants on bishops and Kings which the Jesuites do instruct them in for the propagation of Heresie and Rebellion I give my Bellowing to Hugh Peters to pronounce Damnation with and my Inwards to the Butchers wife that robb'd her good man to relieve him I leave all my Children to the Tuition of William Loe to see them brought up to read their Neck-verse and to Commence at Doctor Stories Cap receiving first the Ceremony of their Order in their hands I give the Roape that I am bayted with to hang up all Traytors and Regicides provided that Iohn Bradshaw have the first use of it and after him Cook Aske Steele and all and every Member of the High Court of mock-mock-Justice by what means or Titles soever distinguished and afterwards to come to Teuch Tue and the rest of the Rogues that were hired to cry Justice against the King Lastly I will and Ordain my Off all to be buried in the Abby of Westminster and to have a Tombe raised over them with my statue and underneath these Verses following And this my last VVill and Testament to stand in full Force and Vertue Renouncing all former Wills Bills Bonds Promises Grants or the like in any wise not withstanding Oliver Crum-Well Witnesses Tho. L. Fairfax Joh. Bradshaw Phil. Pembroke Hen. Mildmay His EPITAPH HEre lies the Devil take his Soul One for whom no Bell would towl He liv'd a Murderer dy'd a Knave Deserv'd a Halter not a Grave Some call'd him Noll some the Town bull Or Iron-sides that the Land fill'd full Of Athiests Shismaitcks and Hereticks That Ruin'd Kingdoms undid Bishopricks Despis'd his God kill'd his King broke th' Laws Eate up our labours with devouring jawes Cozen'd the People spoyl'd all the Land Had Lives and Goods at his Command You that Make water pray now stay Piss on his Grave and go away That they that purge may for his grace Un-truss and S upon his face FINIS