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A90635	The divine catastrophe of the kingly family of the house of Stuarts or, a short history of the rise, reign, and ruine thereof. Wherein the most secret and chamber-abominations of the two last kings are discovered, divine justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated, and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified, by Sir Edward Peyton, knight and baronet, a diligent observer of those times.	Peyton, Edward, Sir, 1588?-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing P1952; Thomason E1291_1; ESTC R208989	41,016	159

should have questioned him for his life And to sound King Charles his heart it is probable King Charles was in his heart a Papist by the Queens perswasion and her mother for after going from the Parliament he sent Pardons for divers Priests condemned who ingeniously finding this would make a rupture 'twixt King and Parliament the Prisoners petitioned the Houses sending the Pardons to the House and desired rather then there should be a breach between them to suffer death for which prudence the Parliament would not let them die In both these kings times swearing was in such esteem principally from king Iames his example cursing the People with all the plagues of Egypt though king Charles granted twelve pence an Oath through the Kingdome to Robin Lashly which was observed more to get money then suppress swearing for such a negligence was in the Magistrates seeing the great Courtiers garnished their mouthes with God-dammees as if they desired Damnation rather then Salvation Bribery the nurse of Justice was so rife in those days that right was not distributed to the owner a vice augmented by Knights of the Post very frequent in City and Country And Lawyers would take sees and never plead for their Clients and sometimes on both sides insomuch as in a Suit depending 'twixt my self and my Son we gave fees to one and the fame person Wherefore on these times God hath brought on us a lamentable war Now let all the world behold how king Charles violated the rights of Parliaments coming into the House with great power to carry away the five members To prove how great a breach of priviledge of Parliament this was the Author hereof wrote a discourse against it affixing his hand it being taken in his Waggon at Banbury by the kings party for which he was condemned to die by Sir Robert Heath and his Estate given away I will not repeat how much he hath suffered for being faithful to Parliaments both afore since the access of this onely I will rehearse that being taken Prisoner by the Cavaliers he lost four hundred pounds in money apparel waggon and fourty horses and likewise in Wiltshire at Broad Choak in houshold-stuff four hundred pounds which was carried into Langford after a Garrison taken by Colonel Ludlow for the Parliament which he had never restored although he often petitioned Another wrong long since he had when Sir Robert Heath had inclosed two thousand acres of Common as Lord of Soham one named Anne Dobbs was kept with bread and wain Cambridge Castle by a Justice of Peace a Creature of Sir Roberts to confess the Author of this Discourse counselled her with others to pull down the Enclosure taken from the Common by that means to take away his life as a Rebel when it was well known he had no hand in it but then was sitting in Parliament as a member By this it appeares the king chose good Judges and Justices which were so corrupt The reason was that the Author being condemned he might forfeit a Mannor next adjacent This Justice of Peace was a mortal enemy of his Sir Robert Heath having bought four hundred pound a yeer of the Justice where the accused was Lord that Sir Robert might beg it of the king And if we examine the king of Denmark brother of Queen Anne the first time he was entertained into England what debauchedness was exercised in his welcome to king Iames to add punishment to the family who both were so drunk at Theobalds as our king was carried in the armes of the Courtiers when one cheated another of the Bed-chamber for getting a grant from king James for that he would give him the best Jewel in England for a Jewel of a hundred pound he promised him and so put king Iames in his arms and carryed him to his lodging and defrauded the Bed-chamber-man who had much ado to get the king into his Bed And Denmark was so disguised as he would have lain with the Countess of Nottingham making horns in derision at her husband the high Admiral of England which caused a deep discontent between them And generally the Courtiers were then so debauched in that beastly sin as at that time in the wayters chamber at supper a Courtier was found dead on the Table the wine foaming out of his mouth a horrid sight to behold And it is worthy of observation to consider the carriage of the king of Denmark and his Son usually in his own Country for at my being there I saw the old king as his custome was to call for the Master of his houshold when he made a voyage or progress wrote on a Pastboard what he should doe and so took the waggon to go to his Boares houses and eat Martlemas Beef powdred pork bacon or such like as they had ready and after repast took for a collation the handsomest daughter kinswoman or servant in the house al her kindred adorning her with all sorts of wearing ornaments whom the King carried to one of his Guest-houses where he had not above three or four Lodgings and a Kitchen and solaced himself with this jewel so long as he pleased and after brought her home A fruition made her in much esteem with her friends after so adulterous a fact Likewise it was the custome of his Son to ride on a Sled drawn with horses bells fastned to them which tingled as he passed through the Townes the noise caused the women to run out of doors the Prince beholding one more amiable then the rest beckning to her with his finger presently she came to the Sled and accompanied him to some Hostery till he had satisfied fully his lust Also their usual course is to prophane the Sabbath in such sort as all the Carpenters in the Kingdom that day work gratis to make the Kings ships and the people go to Church in their worst cloaths making no difference 'twixt the Lords day and other daies who in stead of Godly exercises use much prophaness Give me leave to repeat that this King ordinarily would be drunk and namely one time Sir Iohn Peoly being his Servant after an Inhabiter at Wroungay in Norfolk he commanded Pooly to ask any gift to the value of half his Kingdome and he should have it But he finding his Master so beastly out of tune demanded a great pair of Stags hornes for which after so moderate a request the king bestowed on him three thousand Dollars Is it not known to all Germany that his drinking out of reason with his Commanders lost many battels to the Emperous General Wallestine which proved a disaster to the united Protestant Princes so that he was faine to submit to the Emperour with much loss and disgrace to the prejudice of the cause of God In which war his brother king Iames proved a Coward to back a religious cause for he would not raise men nor money yet the Parliament incited and urged him thereto to whom he made this answer He would

The Divine Catastrophe OF The KINGLY Family Of the House of STVARTS OR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE Rise Reign and Ruine Thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings are discovered Divine Justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified By Sir Edward Peyton Knight and Baronet a diligent observer of Those Times London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle at the west-end of Pauls 1652. TO THE Supreme Authoritie of this Nation Assembled in this present PARLIAMENT Right honorable Senators WAndering in the Circumference of my contemplations to finde out what was most sutable to present to the Supremacy of Parliament under such a Divine revolution as God hath brought to pass instrumentally by your wisdom and direction and his heavenly Providence in this wide field the Omnipotent guided my thoughts to dedicate a Discourse to your honourable hands concerning the fatal Catastrophe of the last House had Superintendencie over us to the time the Almighty put the Stern of this Commonwealth into a Parliamentary Power which I most humbly wish our celestial Creator to continue till a Snail be able to creep over the whole Globe of the earth In the mean while I crave your pardon that I have not so distinctly in order laid down many remarkable passages worthy recite my Papers being remote a great distance from me yet by Gods grace I have composed a little Enchiridion of divers remarkable events have happened out to prove Gods just revenging hand on the Family of the Kingly Stuarts of Scotland and justified your proceedings and proved that the heavie weight of sin hath given a downfal justly imposed by Providence from above my Observations reaching no higher then from the King of Scots being taken prisoner at Muscleborough-field in Edward the sixth his Reign Now therefore I thrice humbly desire your Patronage especially finding by experience the composition and stile of this present Narrative will incur the displeasure and hatred of most in this State yet I value it not being prompt by a higher power then that of Man which points out by a Divine finger the overthrow of all men exalted above all that is called God whose ruine will be the bridge to let into the Stage of the world the heavenly Government of Christ which shall continue for ever maugre the malice of the Universe Wherefore I most humbly implore the thrice honourable Parliament to accept of This as a testimony of my fidelity to the present Government which I pray God to bless and maintain to advance his glory and bring the whole Nation to a most happie condition which now the present symptomes thereof shew plainly a new approach of a great tranquillity not onely to this but to the three Nations in general Edw. Peyton THE Rise Reign and Ruine OF THE Kingly Family Of the STUARTS SInce Great Britain hath been elevated all along the stems of Plantagenet Theodor or Tedor and Stuart to so high a Tree of Tyranny as she was afore the late wars the Princes had designes proportionable to a way of making themselves absolute Governours which overture hath appeared more or less according to the humour of times and inclination of the Guiders of the Stern for some indued with ability and craftiness necessary to settle an usurped ambition whilst the people were willing to beare the load of that burden have made a progress so politickly to bring their aims to the mark shot at that they have so subtilly dissembled the enterprise as no notice or scandal arrived at their doors nor impatience to the three Countreys of England Ireland and since the access of the Family of the Stuarts to Scotland until King James for hatred of his Mothers death plotted the ruine of Parliaments which ratified Queen Maries execution and left it as his Testament for his successor to follow dictating not long afore his death to Williams Arch-Bishop of York the course he should steer to bring his counsel to conclusion This devillish advice thrust on this wilful Prince with an inconsiderate fury and inflamed with that fire to settle to himself and his successors an unbridled power of dominion which hurried him on with the whirlwinde of passion to discover the mystery which ought to have been concealed till the designe should be accomplished Wherefore of this number in our days was Charles the first who from the beginning of his Government blaming the moderation of his predecessors resolved to go a way contrary to the stream of a pious Rule and the command of God and act during his time that which God would not suffer to be done in many ages past And because the pretention is always encumbed when the object cannot be attained by wicked advice perceiving he had not so well marched to accomplish his drifts with the just power of Parliaments which might found a Trumpet in the behalf of a Commonwealth by advice of his Antecedent and his wicked adherents laboured to raze out the memory breaking up two Parliaments and not satified therewith to practise Tyranny kept the Nation neer fourteen yeers without such most lawful Assemblies where the Rights of the Nation might be discovered and true Liberty appear This he did that the power of Law and property of the Subjects estates might be inclosed in his sole Arbitrary brest To that purpose he made his Sycophants of the Council-Table Judges of the Right of his people the Star-Chamber the Executioners of his unbridled will and the High-Commission the destroyers of Piery and Religion which three though he revoked by Acts yet being angry with himself for so doing he raised a War to make abortive all he had done by an armed power although he seemed willing to affect it afore therefore pursuing the former series of his will for a Law Charles quarrels first with the Gentry and People about Coat Conduct and Ship-money and plotted with his wicked Council that a thousand Germane Horse in the nature of Trayle Battoun should take every one denied to give him money or that would not subscribe to his endless will and easeless power to be hurried to Prison there to end their days some of them being so barbarously used This unjust resolution he took upon him unless they yeelded to his unsatiable desires by which means the eyes of many of the triple Nations were sealed as pigeons are used for traines to devouring Hawks to plume and prey on This struck such a Pannick fear that they imagined all power consisted in the Diadem to be at his mercy because they were ignorant of their Rights which were usually discovered in Parliaments by some practised in the Records But behold God raised up some Heroes within the doors of the Representative and without to awaken the people from a dead sleep or rather to cure them of a disease of lethargy who rouzing like Lions let loose out of a Den opposed this most wicked Oppression by which

not give so bad an example to support his Son-in-law against the Emperour Whereas the Laws of the Empire were If the Emperour did unjustly the seven Electors might depose him for certainly the joyning of Bohemia with the Count Palatine of Rhine might have been a chief prop to support the Protestant party which by Denmarks fault and King Iames his wilfulness the Emperour got the Mastery of though after God raised Gustavus Adolchus King of Sweden to turn the scales to the united Princes side yet in conclusion the Swedes have sought more their owne interest then Gods Behold if we examine Queen Mary she cannot cleare her reputation with Harry Jermine for if king Charles had not been so blinded it had been discovered long ago and she punished or divorced but the king being guilty of the same crime winked at it which made him purblind and count it a venial sin as the Papists terms them but swallowed the mortal yet urged by an Earl much with him if he would not believe the unsutable behaviour between the Queen and Jermine if he would go into her Chamber he might be satisfied and behold Jermine sitting upon the bed with the Queen so the King and the Lord went in and found her and Jermine in that posture The King presently more ashamed of the act then blaming her departed without speaking a word yet for all this the queen was very jealous of the King insomuch as he loving a very great Lady now alive whom he had for a mistress to the intent he might have more freedome with her sent her Lord into the Low-countries in the mean while daily courts her at Oxford in her husbands and the queens absence but the Lord returning the King diverted his affectionate thoughts to another marryed Lady of whom the queen was jealous at her return from France so that on a time this Lady being in queen Maries presence and dressed a la mode the queen viewing her round told the Lady she would be a better Mistris for a king then a wife for a knight The Lady replyed Madam I had rather be Mistris to a King then any mans wife in the world For which answer she was constrained to absent her self from Court a long time Now as all men and their affaires are subject to mutation by a heavenly providence punishing sinners for sin the wheel turns greatness from top to bottome of which I have given you a notable Lantskip in the fraile condition of the Imperiall family of the Stuarts who raised to a glittering glory by the succession of many kings are now tumbled from the mount of ambition and highest authority over three kingdomes at last reduced not to be Lord of a visible molehill whose heat of fiery pride hath consumed into ashes of ruine their felicity Let us mark the shipwrack of those who will not vaile the sailes of Tyranny and oppression they shall not avoid a tempest of Gods anger for precipitation In this revolution God had a special hand who when he determined to bring this family to destruction accomplisheth it not only by poor and weak means but by his mightiest thunderbolts of vengeance This truth manifesteth it self perspicuously in this Tragical History who have made the flourishing condition of three kingdoms stumble by advancing and giving ear to corrupt instruments of State placed at the helm who wept not for our common calamity but in the tears of inferiours and therefore I demonstrate that never shall justice be so well done as by Parliamentary proceedings to settle this Commonwealth upon a pious basis where they proceed in justice to banish oppression that property may fall into the right channel and holy men advanced and rewarded and wicked punished to the end that the people may be lulled asleep in the cradle of ease and tranquillity so shall love of Governors be in such estimation as body and purse may be at command for fear poysons a Nation with distrust and hatred the first makes firme and stable the foundation of any State the last brings it by insensible steps to fal and moulder away like a crazie building Provided alwayes until the State have a perfect cure there may be armed Chirurgeons to cut off the gangren'd part which might putrifie the head resembled to wise Counsellors who will preserve the whole body so they endeavour that taxes be moderated as the temper of the pulse and health shall appear And therefore I beseech you give me leave to turn my pen out of the Road with a counsel from my heart not impertinent to my dear countrymen to profit by the storm past reduced by Gods providence to a calme to make a pious use of his great miraculous deliverance I being a man can speak by experience who hath been most justly worryed by the hand of the Almighty for sins therefore let them consider that The chidings of a friend are better than the kiss of an enemy a proverb of Solomon which if we shall confide in we may be stiled children converted to good if not may be accounted despisers of the rod which maxime I illustrate the truth of by the Grecian Alcibiades by how much his banishment was more cruel by the Athenian Ostracisme by so much more his qualities and worth were esteemed The skill of the Mariner is not at all observed in a calme but in a Tempest the wise Ulysses had perished if he had not been in danger of ruine pleasures blunt and strangle piety when adversity moulds the will and humors to a by as of fearing God inclines us to know our selves and understand the end of Creation and birth to the glory of God and good of our Country we are not born for our selves Our eyes are closed with delights open in chastisements in the one sin draws more punishment in the other we see clearly our aberrations as spots in a glass We are here on a Theatre for every one to play his part the tragical seems more difficult by hatred envy and jealousie the slaves of Reason yet in truth are banished in troubles when God loves the afflicted better who as a Soveraigne resembleth the Ocean which receives that it gives to the end the revenging justice of heaven turn not wrath against them but the Divel enemy of repose inchants us in Luxury when affliction imitates nature by degrees from a little to more and from more proceeds to a humane perfection in piety I heartily desire you take this advice above a humane the command of God Be subject to the higher powers for they are of God Wherefore I beseech you respect those set at the Helme whom God hath made instruments of our happiness for naturally we are hooded and cannot see that God hath done miraculous works look not upon them as men but as Gods instruments to execute his will brought out of the shop of his Almighty work-house to accomplish his determination and are not to be laid aside till by Gods appointment they