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A75102	Merlinus Anglicus, or, Englands Merlin: prophetically foretelling, severall remarkable occurrences that shall happen in England, Scotland, France, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and severall other parts of Europe; this present year 1650. More particularly, concerning the Scots preparation, to advance against England, and the event and success thereof. The proceedings of the English Presbyterians, and the great blessings that will ensue, for the crowning of their endeavours. The conjunction and proceedings of the Danes, and Swedes, in relation to the affairs in England, ... A great blow in Ireland; ... The proceedings of the English commonalty, against divers lately in authority, ... Great fights at sea, between the English and the French, ... The proceedings of the yeomandray; and the taking off all heavy assesments, that doth retard, or hinder, the peoples liberty. With divers other remarkable observations, worthy the readers view and perusall concerning the English nobility, and gentry.	A. M.	1650 (1650)	Wing A17B; Thomason E600_13; ESTC R206395	7,036	16

people within our own Territories seems to swell with inveterate conceptions acting and contriving desolation and ruine to the supream Authority of the Nation and many poysoned darts will also flye from the quiver of invective spirits wounding and piercing the honour of some worthy Patriots who formerly seemed as Oracles to the people free from corruption either in Office or bribery Oh a lusty purge for these diabolicall creatures who under the spetious pretences of restauration of liberty do endeavour the involving of us into endlesse misery But if the Commonalty begin now to be angry their blowes will fall exceeding heavie and wo be unto those who shall move them to wrath by dis-franchising them of their late purchased liberty and endeavour their involving once again in new commotions and troubles great ruine attends the Dane and all other who are interessed in his designe against the Inhabitants of this Common-wealth Distractions grow great in severall parts of the Nation through want of the Engine and smew of Warre but by the great vigilancy of our prudent Rulers their wants are supplied and their discontents most happily allayed and pacified Rich men look to your purses a purge is now preparing but indeed it will be a very favourable and pleasant one The close of this Moneth produceth great happinesse to the laborious husbandman his heavy taxes being much abated and their weighty burthens in a great measure removed Ireland cries out this Moneth for moneys and provision and many there are who endeavour the retarding thereof and withdraw their helping hand from the propagating of so great a work but let them all be anathematized who shall appear instrumentall therein to future generations and posterities Great commotions and distractions throughout all parts of the world attends the close of this Moneth But a wofull rising seems to threaten the Turk even from Constantinople the allarm shall be given which will eccho through most of his confines and territories insomuch that the industrious Venetian appears full of action and will free themselves from slavery in the Island of Candy firing and taking most of the Turkish Gallies which lye as Pirates and Robbers to massacre and enslave the Christians July 's Astrologicall Predictions THis Moneth produceth great action both by Sea and Land especially upon the Coast of Britain Scotland Sweden and Holland the English Mariners seems both stout and resolute triumphantly sailing with their slags of defiance and scorning to strike sail to the proudest enemy that flotes upon the Ocean Some desperate engagements happen between them and the French rovers little quarter given but revenge repaid for their former abuses to the poor English Merchants Sir George Askue the Summers darling and the undanted Generals Blake Dean and Popham in few days will cleer the English Channell and not so much as a French Rover or Irish Pyrate will dare appear on our Coast so that free trade and commerce will not in the least be hindered or retarded which makes the Merchant and the rest of the Manufacture-Adventurers to smile returning thanks and presenting gratuities for this great priviledge Some action in the Northern Climate both by Sea and Land for assuredly the Scot hath a great desire to be troublesom and once again to bee stript and whipt and sent to forraign plantations The seasonable temperature of the weather this Moneth invites the English Army in Ireland to great action a great blow threatens their enemy but not without some losse for by reason of some perfideous spirits he takes great advantage and seems very resolute and sturdy many conspirators hold jugling consultations and greatly 't is to be feared there will be some conspiracies in England yea among some whom the people have entrusted and prefer'd to great Office and dignity but like faithfull Patriots others of the Trustees and Keepers of our Liberties carry on the work designed by the omnipotent Jehovah for perpetuity his glory and our comforts Augusts Astrologicall Predictions MAny various reports are eccho'd up and down in severall parts of our Nation this Moneth as if the entrance of an Army amongst us were to be feared and that an in-road will be made by Jockey together with the Danes French and other forraigners Do not attempt our harm you of the Scottish Faith for sharp effects from the conjunction of Mars doth presage and threaten a dismall wo not only within the English territories or your confines but also all over Europe where ye shall reside Some great ones amongst us endeavour to foment new differences and to corrupt the souldiery but notwithstanding their severall temptations little will be effected and as to the government of the English affairs now on foot it seems not at a losse but in a good posture or condition though infinite and manifold treacherous plots are consulted of to destroy the frame of Government now extant its authority and Majesty and the Rulers of us thereby yea the whole Nation it self if possible the influence whereof produceth sad effects to the conspirators and if mercy be not shewed in the midst of Justice it s feared the bright Axe will be died of a skarlet hue The Presbyterian seems angry and much displeased with the present authority and many invective speeches will proceed from those who formerly shined like glorious Lights amongst us having performed wonderfull actions for the service of this Common-wealth but notwithstanding this their change and perverting of their purer judgements I heartily wish that the State of England may look upon their former merits and say as Solomon upon the failings of Abiathar Because you from the very beginnings of our troubles have suffered with us fought for us and now onely unfortunately have erred and receded from your former obedience be you forgiven of God we remit this your casuall trespasse Septembers Astrologicall Predictions SOme pestilent broyls or unparalell'd results give cause of fear to our Governours but a few dayes patience promises a comfortable composure Lift up your heads you English Cedars and faithfull Commoners be not sad the unchangeable decrees of Eternall providence have well provided for your ease although some discord and contention may for a time seem to discontent us by reason of some astonishment arising from the Citizens of London and great disputes happening between party and party but the sufferings of this Nation are almost quite over and I could wish the like in Ireland but it seems there is much to be done some money and mens lives to be spent but I hope all those who are lovers of Religion liberty and freedome will most willingly lend their helping hand for their relief and assistance Alas poor England cannot expect safety without a full conquest of Ireland which I positively affirm we shall subdue this year the severall positions of heaven promising us no lesse then victory and the Irish downfall But the sooner wee send men monies clothes and necessaries the more will be our glory and our brethrens comfort I

MERLINVS ANGLICVS OR Englands Merlin Prophetically foretelling Severall remarkable Occurrences that shall happen in England Scotland France Denmark Sweden Germany and severall other parts of Europe this present Year 1650. More particularly Concerning The Scots preparation to advance against England and the event and success thereof The proceedings of the English Presbyterians and the great blessings that will ensue for the crowning of their endeavours The conjunction and proceedings of the Danes and Swedes in relation to the affairs in England and what shall befall them in all their enterprises and attempts A great blow in Ireland and an Astrological Prediction concerning the New Government in England The proceedings of the English Commonalty against divers lately in Authority who have enriched themselves with the Publique Treasury and the great danger that is like to ensue Great Fights at Sea between the English and the French and what shall happen in the said Engagements The proceedings of the Yeomandry and the taking off all heavy Assesments that doth retard or hinder the Peoples Liberty WITH Divers other Remarkable Observations worthy the Readers view and perusall concerning the English Nobility and Gentry LONDON Printed by Robert Wood. 1650. To the FAVOURABLE READER TO write of modern men is a troublesome businesse all men commit errours few having committed them will hear thereof one must or flatter them or say nothing to Comment upon their actions is to endeavour to teach more by a mans own example than by that of others more to him that writes then to him that reades more to be silent then to be active Flatterers have yet moreover so exalted their good deeds that the naked truth redounds to the blame of the Relator for the truth of that which is heard comes short of that which is believed and some there are who arrive at that height as they leave no place for flattery fancying themselves greater then flattery can make them In the beginning of Government every small authority seems great in the continuance thereof however great it be it seems little whence it proceeds that in time that Magistrate is not endured which was too greedily at first created or desired Liberty and Principality are incompatible they meet not together or if they do they last not every own seeks his own perfection which depending upon the destruction of another they seek it there to live quietly it behoves either to be totally free or totally tyed to servitude To conquer Princes and not know how to make the victory beneficiall to win the people and not know how to keep them in subjection is a losse of men and time Providence is necessary and 't is laborious To captivate mens mindes with rewards is impossible servitude cannot be rewarded with any other recompence then being set at liberty To tye them by an Oath is no way safe they are not subjects whose power is onely subject to will Liberty is naturall servitude violent what is violent needs somewhat which from without may withstand it if its beginning be not occasioned from some internall cause This alteration of Government is performed with very great labour and difficulty to the undertakers thereof and with the either great patience or murmurings of the people who are passive therein But I dare divine and can assure poor England that the glorious omnipotency of Heaven seems very favourable unto her and gives great hopes after some few distractions abroad composed that all her taxes shall be withdrawn and for the future be no further burthened with oppressions or payments during which continuation we are not masters of our own fortunes and so live not at home And therefore seeing that the purchasers of our Liberty have many difficulties to attend their motion I heartily implore all true Englishment as one man to unite their hearts their prayers their forces and purses unanimously for defence of this Commonwealth and Authority now established and by conforming thereunto we shall quell hoth the insulting French the proud Spaniard and all other Enemies to Englands peace and tranquility throughout the world and by degrees we shall attain to a most excellent and accomplished Government But before we shall absolutely enjoy this happinesse we must undergo some troubles meet with many stumbling-blocks and endure many a cruell storm yet let this be our comfort God will deliver his people out of the hands of their enemies and settle peace in the habitations of those that put their trust in him Reader I am doubtfull I have detain'd thee too long in Epistolizing from what I promised thee in my Title page for which I desire thy pardon intreating thee to accept of the weak and imperfect labours of Thy friend M. A. MERLINVS ANGLICVS OR AN ENGLISH MERLIN Prophetically fore-telling The most eminent things that shall happen in England Scotland France and Ireland this present Year 1650. May's Astrologicall Predictions THis Moneth produces matters of great concernment the actions will be eminent in the Kingdom of Ireland and unto the perpetuall honour of the English Nation Great fortune at tends the English Heroes notwithstanding the treacherous designes of their Enemies and others and some desperate assaults are attempted wherein God makes it appear by some sequell victory or action that he loves the faithfull Patriots of England by giving conquest and triumph to their Armies in Ireland A totall subduing of the barbarous Irish appears visible towards the close of this Moneth but great sicknesse and unnaturall diseases seems too brief within our Camp occasioned by some treacherous neglect from England Self ends appear visible within our English territories intemperate disputes and civill broyls are much feared and the spirits of divers Monarchicall creatures are exceedingly enraged and enflamed throughout the West and Northern Counties but a Southern cordiall will speedily be administred to abate the heat and fury thereof Great rumours this Moneth of a Forraign invasion but providence and vigilancy retards the landing of the States enemy Here arrives news as if the wavering Scot were entering league or friendship but whether with us to deceive us or with our enemies to annoy us time will manifest it 's believed to the contrary For if an agreement be not concluded between their King and the Grandees with good provision and security for the Commonalty the whole land is divided and their distractions will exceedingly encrease a Thistle belonging to the Royall branch as they say aspires high in the North of that Kingdom but the English Rose once appearing strikes a suddain blast to her piercing and prickling blossomes Junes Astrologicall Predictions GReat are the consultations and disputes of the Commonalty of England this Moneth who fixing their eyes Northward discern the Scot to be highly elevated by reason of his great confidence or uncertain assurance of aid and assistance from Denmark France and other places to annoy us yea and the state of all Europe is guided likewise with most strange and improvident advisers and a sullen murmuring

wish a generation of our own at home fail not herein Octobers Astrologicall Predictions I Reland is sensible of the actions of this Moneth in one kinde or other but probably in the worser sense the souldiery seems very weary by reason of some unseasonable weather and the searcity of bread and provisions but it s in vain O Ireland to resist that over-ruling providence which by the mercy of God attends the English consultations Divers of the Irish Nobility begin to desert any further engagement with England and many of them flye into other Countries for relief and succour The sick Scot is still lurking to take advantage but him we need not fear though assisted with the Dane who is preparing for our annnoyance this Summer The Swede we shall not finde our friend nor doth the German Emperour and the Princes of Germany favour this Government The French have already do still and will hereafter abuse us for a while but the edge of their fury will within few Moneths bee taken off and great will bee their commotions the commonalty endeavouring to cast off Monarchy and an invitation is upon a near arrivall to England for the purchasing of liberty The close of this Moneth produceth good effects from the Clergy and those Divines who for many precedent Moneths walked very averse in judgment begin now to hold a mutuall correspondency in Doctrine and a good understanding and concurrence is with great joy alacrity and amity assented to November's Astrologicall Predictions SOme of our English Trustees begin now to soar high having by their great Offices enriched their estates and filled their purses which causeth the Communalty to swell with anger and their spirits to boil with indignation and seriously to commune one with another and questioning each others judgments why they made no better a choise but they are pacified for a while having fair hopes of bettering their condition in the future Let us hope well after all our sufferings there is some probability either of curing or lopping off such diseased branches of the Common-wealth as have glutted themselves with the peoples ruine and impoverishment About this time there ariseth great changes in France and without doubt either a new molding of men or just examination of some Parliamentary matters We shall have rumours of Wars and hear of preparations of Armies in severall parts of Europe but the English Statists shall prepare the greatest Fleet for Sea and the best Army for Land that ever was seen in these parts for the English will bee reputed so despicable a people in most parts of Europe that the State will be forced to stand upon their guard both by Sea and land and they will so discreetly manage their affairs that the greatest and wisest Polititians with all their might and power shall not be able to annoy us or set footing within our Territories December's Astrologicall Predictions THe year is now ending but the great murmurings of the people not yet brought to a period but time by degrees may better inform their judgements A sad government which people neither fear nor approve of but as necessitated Great are the complaints of the people to the Parliament against publike Officers who have sought their own interests and served their own turns with the publike treasure Were a full liberty granted which perhaps may be the Commonwealth knows who to question and where to finde monies Something near or about this time a capitall punishment is threatned No admonition or judgment will serve some of those who have quickned and excited our differences it 's possible the just hand of God may finde out some of them miraculously and suffer the execution of justice to be inflicted on them at which time the Communalty will smile and not cease from petitioning that justice may flow in its proper current and not be perverted either with bribery or partiality January's Astrologicall Predictions 1651. GAllant things are in agitation this Moneth the beginning of which produceth large disputes Our Representatives proceed with great alacrity for the easing of the Communalty of their Assessements and heavie burthens and tenderly now consider how they may be taken off and much lessened or abated Little action this Moneth words being more predominant then blowes yet a few discontented spirits seem to begin the year with mutinous paradoxes and would attempt against our State and Government which will continue if they derogate not from their true and lawfull principles February's Astrologicall Predictions A Melodious harmony sounds pleasantly in the ears of Englands Libertines this Moneth whose painfull endeavours are now studious how to present their gratifications of love unto such as have supported them and the Kingdomes cause with hazarding their lives fortunes and estates The Londoners and divers others do now unfeignedly make a recantation of their former disobedience who having tasted of the sweet fruits which our Representatives have with so great hazard and pains reaped begin now to rellish the vertue of their proceedings and and resolve to walk obediently in all just and lawfull ways which they are required or commanded to And although there is a portent of division amongst some few great ones yet the God of peace can convert some absurd mistakes into a better temper then open hostility or publike defiance March's Astrologicall Predictions BY the Conjunction of severall Planets this Moneth produceth good effects and our long desired Peace seems now firmly established Severall Agents and Embassadours from forraign Potentates arrive here near these times desiring unity between their Masters and our Representatives The Governours of forraign Plantations desire to live under the protection of our English State The French seems a little troublesom notwithstanding his ill successe the last year and the Danes would be with us but dare not Some new commotions in Scotland by discontented spirits for advance of Monarchy but all in vain The Presbyters in England receive a generall change and endeavour nothing more then the preservation of their peace and liberty and frustrating the malign designes of the adverse party April's Astrologicall Predictions OUr English spirits soar high the souldiery are resolute and undanted and in so good a posture that no enemy can annoy us The Hollander is very active making great preparations for Sea what their designe is time will suddainly discover they are a subtle self-ended people and it behoves England being so near a neighbour diligently to attend their motion The Scots begin to desist from playing fast and loose any longer and in some measure to conceive aright of our present Government and Authority who in its purity is like to continue many Generations And I am confident all true Englishmen and lovers of their Countries freedom will generally unite and endeavour for the future the preservation and safety of this Commonwealth wherein they live FINIS