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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96861	Anglo-tyrannus, or the idea of a Norman monarch, represented in the paralell reignes of Henrie the Third and Charles kings of England, wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman kings is manifested, together with the real ground, and rise of all those former, and these latter contestations between the princes, and people of this nation, upon the score of prerogative and liberty. And the impious, abusive, and delusive practises are in short discovered, by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome, and the Norman tyrannie founded and continued over them. / By G.W. of Lincolnes Inne.	Walker, George, of Lincoln's Inn.	1650 (1650)	Wing W340; Thomason E619_1; ESTC R203987	46,665	64

for money so cursed a thirst after Gold was in both It is no wonder therefore some of Henry's late successors were hying so fast to Rome who being troubled with the same disease stood in need of the same Mountebanke and no doubt but Venus hath obtained Armour of proof of Vulcan for her wandring AEneas so that the King of Scots is well provided against the Covenants pearcing him to the heart by the care of his Mother and art of his holy Father But to returne to Henry whom we see the greatest security that could be given and that under the greatest penalty an Oath could not hold who would therefore suppose that he or any Kings of such metall should ever be believed againe by any who write themselves men Creatures in whose composition are many ounces of reason when the only Chaine upon earth besides Love to tye the Conciences of men and humane society together which should it not hold all the frame of Government must fall asunder and men like Beasts be left to force that whosoever is the stronger may destroy the other hath been so often and suddainly broken by the Norman tyrants in whom this perjury ran in a bloud almost to a miracle or who could think Master Prynne who in print takes notice of their frequent violations would ever be drawn by corrupt interest to have his Countries Liberties sent to Sea to seek their fortunes in so rotten a Bottome These Deeds being done succeeds one so monstrous that we must almost run half way to Credulity to be able to meet it for this perjured Prince was not ashamed to send his Brother over to summon the Estates and demand of them the Wounds yet fresh and bleeding made by his impieties another Subsidy but the Parlament denied him to the great exasperation of the Tyrant yet the Earl of Cornwall forced the Iews to pay a great Summ that he might not return empty handed to his Brother who staid untill he had consumed all that ever he could get in this Iourney which with the other two made before cost him seven and twenty hundred thousand pounds more than all his Lands there were They to be sold were worth besides thirty thousand Marks with Lands Rents Wards Horses and Iewels to an inestimable price thrown away upon his half-brothers After all this he returns and the first that felt their good Lord was come again were the Londoners and the Iews who paid soundly for his Welcome The Londoners presenting him with an hundred pounds were returned without Thanks or Money for he was not altogether so unmannerly as to deny to receive it then being perswaded Plate would be better welcome they send him a fair Vessell worth two hundred pounds this had some Thanks but yet would not serve the turn For the Pope having bestowed the Kingdom of Sicil on the Kings younger Son which the Earl of Cornwall wisely refused knowing the Pope was never so liberall of any thing which was his own the King to gain this makes all the mony he can get out of his Coffers and Exchequer or borrow of his Brother or scrape from the Iews or extort by the rapine of his Iustices itinerants which he gives to the Pope to maintain his Wars against Conrade King of Sicil you see there was a right Owner of what the Pope was so liberal and yet all this would not do for the Pope writes for more who was loath to be a Niggard of anothers Purse upon this Henry sends him Letters Obligatory signed with his Seal with Blanks left to put in what Summs he would or could get of the Merchants of Italy desiring him to stick upon no interest all which was so effectually performed that he was put in Debt no lesser Summ than three hundred thousand Marks and yet no Sicil was got Vpon this a Parlament is summoned and of them money required which though they promised to grant upon condition he would swear without all cavillation to observe the Charters and let the Chief Iusticiar Chancellour and Treasurer be elected by the common Councel of the Realm would not be hearkned to for though he cared not a fig for his Oath yet it seems those Officers might have restrained him from disposing of his Cash at list and not suffer his Holinesse to have a Penny whereby he might have wanted his Dispensation or else the humor of Tyranny was so high that all his penury was not able to check it for one moment The King thus being left unprovided the Bishop of Hereford Agent for the Prelates at Rome like a trusty Steward findes a shift to help him for getting certain Authentick Seals from them upon pretence of dispatching some businesse for them by Licence of the Pope and King he sets them to writings of such Summs of Money taken up of Italian Merchants for their Vse and so makes them pay the Kings scores He seizes also the Liberties of the City of London into his hands upon the pretence of their letting a Prisoner escape making them fine three thousand Marks to himself and six hundred to his Brother he requires of the Iews upon pain of hanging a Tallage of eight thousand Marks and thus having fleeced them he set them to farm to his Brother who upon Pawns lent him a huge masse of Money then the City Liberties are seized again but upon payment of four hundred Marks restored And to add to all one Ruscand a Legat from the Pope comes and demands the Tenth of England Scotland and Ireland to the use of the King and Pope preaching the Crosse against the King of Sicil but the Clergy protesing rather to lose their Lives and Livings than yield thus to the will of the Pope and King who they said were as the Shepherd and the Wolf combined to macerate the Flock were ordered to some tune for the Legat suspended excommunicated them and the King if they submitted not in forty days spoiled them of all their Goods as forfeited All men by Proclamation that could dispend fifteen pound per annum were commanded to come in and receive the Order of Knighthood or else pay their Fines as was before done in the 37. year and every sheriffe was fined 5 marks for not distreyning on all whom the Proclamation reached this trick was shown in our dayes lest any oppression should scape unexercised A Parliament was held wherein the Prelats and Clergy offered him upon condition the Charters might be observed 52000 marks but it satisfied him not for he demanded the Tenths for 3. years without deduction of expences and the first fruits for the same time Another was called to London wherein upon the Kings pressing Them for releife to pay his depts He is plainly told They will not yeeld to pay him any thing and if unadvisedly he without their consents and counsells bought the Kingdom of Sicill and had been deceived he should impute it to his own imbecility and have been instructed by

sorely that the King what to pacifie the people and what for fear nothing would be left him should this cormorant fish on humblie beseeches the Pope that Fleece Skin Flesh and all might not be torn away and nothing but the Bones left him for his fees but he might have had as much kindnes of a Wolfe for a good word and as soon have kept that hungrie Beast from the folde by a Petition as his Holinesse who though he appeare in sheeps cloathing hath the wolfes conditions and is onely to be hunted or cudgeled from worrying the flocke No doubt this tender hearted Vicar had such a care of their soules that regarding neither his owne nor their bodies he endeavoured to begger them if possible in hopes that being poore they would receive the Gospell and in truth next unto Gods goodnes the Popes wickednes was the meanes of this nations receiving the truth who by his pride and covetousnesse caused Henry the 8th a King as proud as he for his heart and in more want for his purse to kick him out which was the first step to Reformation of Religion Yet though the King could obtain no redress of the Pope he prevails with him to lay on more loads getting Letters to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall to help him to money in the Parliament now assembled at Westminster which notwithstanding the Kings personall and Popes literall entreaties will grant none untill he give assurance of Reformation and the due execution of Lawes they require also that 4 Peers should be chosen as conservators of the Kingdom which should be sworn of the Kings Counsell see justice observed and the treasure issued out That the cheife Iusticiar and Chancellor should be of the four or chosen by the Parliament together with two Iustices of the Benches two Barons of the Exchequer and one Iustice for the Iewes that as their function was publike so might also their Election be but as the Devill would have it sayes one the Popes Nuncio spoyls all by demanding money of them towards the Popes Wars against the Emperour a Son in Law to England having married one of her Daughters thus was not the Pope ashamed to demand money for the King but to sing the second part to the same tune in the same Parliament on his own behalf an impudency so monstrous that we might well question it came it not from that strumpet of Rome and seting aside doctrine by practice we may easily perceive who is meant in the Revelation by the Whore of Babylon but the peremptory demand received an absolute repulse the Pope could get nothing but they granted Escuage towards marriage of his eldest daughter to the King twenty shillings of every Knights fee The King also upon a light occasion makes a great and expensive preparation against Scotland and the Earl of Flanders thirsting after his money comes over with a ragged Regiment to help whose unnecessary presence was nothing acceptable to the Barons as if the strength of England could not be sufficient without him for that action which was as suddainly ended as undertaken by a faire conclusion of peace The King assembles another Parliament which would grant Him no more money though he told them his debts were so great that he could not appear out of his Chamber for the clamour of those to whom he owed money for his Wine Wax and other necessaries of his House hereupon he falls to other violent courses and first he picks a quarrell with the Londoners and makes them pay 15000 marks for receiving a banished man into their City notwithstanding they produced his pardon under the great Seal which they were told was purchased when the King was under age Thus because the Lyon would have it so the Asses ears must be horns well fare the Fox therefore which had the wit not to come to Court Observe here the happy estate of our Ancestors under Monarchy who if they gained but this advantage though attended with many inconveniences and mischiefs incident to all Nations in their Kings minority of receiving a few good Grants and enjoying a pittance of Freedom once in 4 or 5 ages when their King was too young to play Rex and there hapned a wise and honest Protector yet were sure to pay through the nose for it afterwards with double and treble interest for forbearance Then employes one Passeleave in a peremptory Commission to enquire of all Lands which had been dis-forested and either to fine the occupiers at pleasure or take them from them and sell the same to others if they would give more for them and in this such rigour was shewn that multitudes were undone yet Passeleave should have been preferred to the Bishoprick of Chichester for his good service had not the Bishops opposed the King therein Thus have we not seen with our own eyes whole Counties almost to be challenged for Forest and our selves like to have been forced to purchase our own estates from Charles to save our habitations from becomming the places of Wilde Beasts The Lords also making bold to open the Popes packet to Martin found therein such vilany that the Nuncio was forthwith commanded out of the Land who so basely had behaved himself that he both needed and yet could hardly obtain a safe Conduct to preserve him from the violence of the enraged people and now the King being incensed also at the Popes oppressions or at least seeming to be so sith his cheats were made publike the Parliament make use of the good mood he was in and lay before him how that Italians Revenues in England amounted to sixtie thousand marks yearly besides the Popes Exactions which so moved him that he caused all to be notified by Commissioners sent to the Generall Councell at Lions demanding redresse which together with Martins usage so vexed the Pope that he endeavoured to set the French King upon his back In the Parliament holden at Westminster upon the Popes rejecting the Consideration of these grievances and despising the Kings Messages saying that he began to Frederize it was Enacted and Ordained under great penalty That no Contribution of money should be given to the Pope by any Subject of England and the same confirmed in a Parliament at Winchester and another at London The King also bustles against the Popes Exactions in such sort that it gave hope of redress but this heat was soon chill'd by the Popes threats of so irresolute and wavering a nature was the King Woman-like giving over what he manfully undertook but this may seem to confirm what was hinted before that what he did was rather out of policy to delude the people whose rage was risen so high that he fear'd to meet it than a just sence of their misery who in all things else which stood with his humour or advantage was more than enough stubborn and stiffe And now the Pope having given or rather taken the foile continues his former rapine yet fearing

if he kicked too hard he might be thrown out of the Saddle he seems openly to surcease and promises never to send any more Legats into England and underhand effects his will by other Ministers termed Clerks who had the same power though a different title the former being too eminent for his clandestine transactions which the King furthers him in all he can so cordiall was the reconcilement which shewes it was not effected by fear And to give them their due both play'd their parts very dexterously if the term may be proper for a sinister practice The Pope ranting as high in the Counsel as the King vapoured in the Parlament saying It is fit that we make an end with the Emperour that we may crush these petty Kings for the Dragon once appeased or destroyed these lesser Snakes will soon be trodden down But had he thought Henry one in earnest he would not so soon have received him into his bosome Peter of Savoy before made Earl of Richmond comes over again it may seem the King by his pretended forwardnes against the Pope had got some money bringing with him young wenches out of Provence which were married to Noblemen who were the Kings wards as to the Earls of Lincoln Kent c. and to be sure Peter lost nothing by such bargains though the Nobility were abused in a barbarous and tyrannicall manner Comes again the Countesse of Provence who lost nothing by the voyage though she had delivered Provence and sixteen Castles as a dowry with her Daughter married to Charls the French Kings Brother unto the French contrary to equity the Queen of England being the eldest Daughter and Covenant too having promised it to the King and received for five years 4000 marks annuall pension in consideration of the pact so fatally infatuated was this King that he cared not how he lavished out upon such cheats what he scrued and wrung from his Subjects And besides Thomas of Savoy titular Earl of Flanders who came over with her three of the Kings half-Brothers are sent for over to be provided of Estates in England which it seems he intended to divide between his own and his Wives beggarly kindred truly by this Kings actions a man would guesse he thought he had been set up onely to impoverish his Subjects and enrich Aliens and as he so almost every King plaid their prizes the only difference being that strangers were not alwayes the objects of their profusenesse yet King James imitated him in every circumstance who gave away so fast unto Scots the English Lands and they to relieve their penury fell'd the woods so lustily that for ought could be guessed Trees would have been as thin here as in Scotland had not the Lords by money hyred his jester Green to give a stop to his Carriere they themselvs not daring to give check to the Magisteriall Scot in his vanity by making a Coat with Trees and Birds on them and telling him questioning and wondering at the humor That if the Woods were fell'd so fast by his Countrey men a little longer Birds must perch upon Fools Coats for no Trees would be left them to sit upon Thus also was the Lord Cobham and Sir Walter Rawleys estates conferr'd on favourites and they made Traytors that Court Hang-bies might be made Lords and Gentlemen and to say the truth in this point all or most of our Monarchs have so behaved themselves as if with the Countrey fellow at Doctors Commons they thought England was dead detestable had made them her executioners and they were come to the Crown to diminish her goods But to return where we left Henry was so lavish and his Guests so unwilling to seem unmannerly and refuse his kindnesse that his baggs were now become as empty as his barrels were before A Parliament therefore is summoned at London and money demanded but they put him in minde of his Guests and besides sharply reprehended Him For his breach of promise in requiring another aid having vowed and declared upon his last supplie never more to injure the state in that kinde for his violent taking up of provisions for diet wax silkes robes but especially wine contrary to the will of the owners whereby Merchants will withdraw their Commodities and all Trade and Commerce utterly ceases to the detriment and infamy of this Kingdome That his Judges were sent in Circuit under pretence of justice to fleece the people That Passeleave had wrung from the Borderers on Forests vast sums of money they wonder therefore he should now demand relief from the impoverished Commons They advise him to pull from his favourits inriched with the Treasure of the Kingdom to support his prodigality sith his needlesse expences amounted to above 800000 l. since he began his destructive Raign postquam Regni caepit esse dilapidator thus plainly durst our generous Ancestors tell a Tyrant his own to his teeth Then they reprove Him For keeping vacant in his hands Bishopricks and Abbeys contrary to the Liberties of the Church and his Oath taken at his Coronation Which it seems was judged more than a Ceremony in those dayes though in ours the contrary hath so falsly and impudently been asserted Lastly they generally complain for that the chief Iusticia Chancellor Treasurer c. were not made by the Common-Councell of the Kingdom according as they were in the time of his magnificent predecessors as as it was fit and expedient but such advanced as followed his will in whatsoever tended to his gaine and sought promotion not for the good of the Kingdom but their own profit Here we may obsetve that it was no new doctrin which our Parliament in the beginning taught us but that it was practised as well as thought fit so to be by our Ancestors though the Royall Pen-men in their Declarations boldly and publickly avowed the contrary With this reprehension the King was netled as his speech the next Session makes out for though he promised amendment they would not beleeve him and therefore prorogued the Parliament till Midsummer that they might see whether he would be as good as his word We must know Kings were not grown so impudent and daring then as to dissolve Parliaamens at their own pleasures But he mended like sour Ale in Summer his heat it seems increasing with the Seasons and in the next Session with an Imperious and Magisteriall brow thus expostulates with them Would you curb the King your Lord at your uncivill pleasure and impose a servile condition on him will you deny unto him what everyone of you as you list may doe it is lawfull for every one of you to use what Counsell and every Master of a Family to prefer to any office in his house whom he pleases and displace again when he list and will you rashly deny your Lord the King to do the like Whereas servants ought not to judge their Master and Subjects their Prince or hold them to their cond●tions