That so much treasure and so many mens lives should be spent and lost to maintain the ambition luxury pride and tyranny of but two men in so many set-battels fought in the bowels of this kingdom Henry was stab'd with a dagger by the Duke of Glocester in the Tower Edward died at Westminster and left behind him two bastards and a miserable Whore Jane Shore Richard 3. A Monster of lust cruelty whose murders too many to be here repeated are at large set down in our Chronicles with his attempts of Rape and Incest So perfect he was in villany and hypocrisie that he would alwayes use most faire language and shew greatest signs of love and courtesie to that man in the morning whose throat he had taken order for to be cut that night and was the first I read of in our stories that ever used that oath God damn me He was slain at Bosworth-field his body stark naked mangled besmear'd with blood and dust was brought upon a horse to Leicester where for a spectacle of hate and scorn he lay two dayes unburied Henry 7. THis King my Lord of Virulam hath washt his face so cleane with good language that without a neer approach he is hardly discovered But surely I find no right he had to the Crown more then the consent of the people which was not then in fashion whom hee never durst trust neither his heart continually burning to destroy all sparks of the right blood and their Abettors How was the Lord Chamberlaines life jugled away for his thoughts and his estate which was so considerable with many more of our Nobility And for that story of Richard Duke of York son to Edward the 4. under the name of Perkin Warbeck I do as verily believe he was the said Duke of York as I believe Henry the 8. was the son of this Henry the 7. the circumstances being so pregnant from so many persons of honour but nothing more confirmes me in it then this kings indefatigable paines and most infinite cost to get him and ruine him and with him the harmless Earl of Warwick the one beheaded the other hang'd at Tyburn and surely though this king did far excell all his predecessors in craft yet was he as guilty of cruelty and blood as the worst of them Nor can all the water in the Sea wash from him those two monstrous sins of Avarice and Ingratitude Henry 8. TO say much of him were to make you surfeit Sir Walter Raleigh's testimony of him is sufficient If all the pictures and patternes of a merciless Prince were lost in the world they might all be painted again to the life out of the story of this King His vast expence of treasure and profuse blood-shed made this Kingdome look with a ghastly face and to express him fully this remaines of him to everlasting That he never spared man in his anger nor woman in his lust I do none of them wrong for thus I find them branded to my hand by publique Records and surely this puts me in mind of a story I have heard in Spain A Friar preacht before Don Pedro the king sirnamed the Cruel took his Text which invited him to extoll Regal Dignity to its highest pitch often saying Few kings went to hell but in the close of his Sermon said You may peradventure wonder that I so often tell you that few kings go to hell marry the reason is there are but few kings for if there were more they would go all to the Devil Of all these our kings I would know which was of blessed memory who ruled by blood oppression and injustice upon this nation in contempt of God and man Let no man now wonder if this Nation endeavour after so long and grievous bondage under tyranny to reduce themselves into a free State And as the face of things do now appeare in their glory for such surely they are I see no great hinderance to an honorable and secure setling of this Nation in a free State to the worlds end if we can agree amongst our selves which I pray God we may If an honest League be made and as honestly kept betwixt us and the Hollander not that I care much for Hans but because he is a man of business and surely 't is Trade must make this Nation rich and secure I know no power in Christendome can hurt us Shipping and Mariners must be cherished the value of our money so setled that the Mint may go plentifully our Gold must not be sold for profit as Merchandize by the fraudulent Goldsmith to Merchants to transport nor our Silver by them pickt and cull'd to sell to Refiners for silver thread to make superfluous Lace These digressions though true crave pardon As the wheels of our State are many whereon it goes so there are God be thanked sufficient to attend them and make them go right Let them go on and prosper and I doubt not but that shortly we shall see a clear light shine upon this Nation of honour respect and security Now in the close of this Preface if any man aske why I have curtail'd the lives and persons of these thus I answer the Common people of this kingdome cannot attend to read Chronicles and they are the major part whom it concerns and now by the providence of God that we are reduced to a Free State in this little Book I would have them hereafter know for whom and for what they fight and pay Next if any man ask why I make such mention of their Bastards I answer onely to let the world see what foundation these six and twenty Bastards have laid for honourable Noble and right Worshipfull Familes of a long continuance which have been maintained by the blood and treasure of this oppressed Nation If why I mention not Edward the 5. and Edward the 6. I say they were children and so died affording no matter for this present If why I omit Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth I answer I have nothing to do with women and I wish I never had But I must not make the door bigger then the house I have onely one Vote to passe That Ireland may once be setled in obedience to this Common-wealth and Scotland reduced to an English Province that there may never more be heard the name of a Kirk or Covenant and so I address my self to King James King James TO write the life and reign of this King requires a better book-man and a better pen-man that which I have to observe is onely to render him as great a Tyrant as any of the rest for though his fearfulness kept him from wars and blood yet as much as was in his power he laid as many springs to enslave this Nation as ever any His will was the sole rule of his Government nor had the people any thing to act but submissive obedience His first work was to sound the Prelates and Nobility whose ambition and corruption he found suitable
and serviceable to his intentions and 't was their infusion so agreeable to his disposition that made him carry himself so majestically to the Parliament of England a power he might justly fear to offend but their Councels though they then served his and their ends are now come upon them like a storm the one voted down root and branch the other voted uselesse and dangerous The King brings with him a generall Peace with all Christendome not considering the particular interest of this Nation whether it were honourable or safe as the affaires of England then stood his Predecessour having taken upon her to be Head and Protectrix of the Protestant party wheresoever But he had his ends to himself First he had heard how many and how often attempts had been used to take away the life of Queen Elizabeth whom God notwithstanding preserved and protected by the diligence of her servants but he would rather trust to his King-craft then to Gods providence Then having taken away all thought of wars his design was to luxuriate the people that so hee might more insensibly lay that foundation of tyrany he intended And now comes tumbling in monstrous excesse of Riot which consumed many good Families and more good Hospitality formerly the glory both of our Nobility and Gentry with an incredible increase of Tavernes and Bawdy-houses for which two we are to this day beholding to the Scots And with this King and this Peace came the greatest Plague that ever this Kingdome felt before his time as if God had told us from heaven we had deserved it by betraying our selves and which was but a light fore-running punishment in respect of what in time should follow and yet peradventure that Plague was but a shadow of himselfe the greater The Kingdome could not afford more pomp and glory then was shewn when King James came first through London and 't was so much the more considerable as to him that from a nasty barren Country rather a Dunghil then a Kingdome came to be at that instant as great a Prince as any in Christendome And indeed it was the wonder of those States-men who had had experience of the gallantry of this Nation that a Scot should enjoy this Crown without resistance If the temper of these our dayes had then as now taken head we had saved much blood much mony and in all likelihood been long since setled to such a free State as we yet struggle for Rich and secure Long had he waited for the death of Queen Elizabeth but longer had they waited that waited upon him for had not their hopes as well as his expected their shares of spoils of this Kingdome we may with out doing any wrong to that Nation conclude him in the fate of his many Predecessors whom they murdered His Stock was odious to the more ancient Nobility of that Nation and the cloak of the Kirk would have served without scruple for such a covering as the Grand-Signior uses to send men doom'd to death His original Extract I find was this Banchoo a Nobleman of Scotland had a fair Lady to his daughter whom Mackbeth the King desires to have the use of Banchoo refuses and Mackbeth murders him and takes the Lady by force Fleance the son of Banchoo fearing the Tyrants cruelty flies into Wales to Griffin ap Lhewellin the Prince of Wales Lhewellin entertaines him with all hospitable civility Fleance to requite his courtesie gets Lhewellins daughter with child Lhewellin murders Fleance and Lhewellins daughter is afterward delivered of a son named Walter this son proves a gallant man and falling out with a Noble person in Wales that call'd him Bastard Walter slew him and for his safeguard fled into Scotland where in continuance of time he gained so much reputation and favour that he became Steward of the whole Revenue of that Kingdome of which Office he and his posterity retained the sirname and from whence all the Kings and Nobles in that Nation of that name had their originall here 's a goodly foundation For his Person a man might sufficiently and truly make a Volume onely to tell of his lazinesse and his uncleannesse but I cannot do it without fouling too much paper He was a great pretender to Learning and Religion and for the speculative part had as much as any of our Kings upon record but for the practical and best part of it if we may judge of the Tree by the Fruit we may without breach of charity conclude him not guilty He was the greatest Blasphemer in the world sweare faster then speak and curse the people by the clock And it appeares by the whole course of his life that he was a most malicious hater of this Nation That insolent act of Ramsey's switching my Lord of Montgomery at Bansted-Downs at a Horse-race was questionlesse a laid quarrel to have destroyed much of our English Nobility and had it been practised upon any but that thin-soul'd Lord who was importun'd but to draw his sword that had been a bloody day what reserve the Scots had was never known but such an affront is not to be construed without reservation The King was naturally fearful even as low as could be And what he would do and durst not own that he would do by his Favourites whom for the fitness of his designs he would raise from low degree to oblige them the more and to desert them with more ease and shift them often til he had them sitted to his purpose Dunbar was too solid Hayes too light Northampton too crafty Montgomery too silly here 's two English two Scots all deserted And now he hath found a young Scot that had been one of his Pages in Scotland and turn'd off with fifty pounds in mony and cloaths to seek his fortune having spent his time and his means in France comes over hither and for his fashion and language is entertained by his country man then Lord Hayes another Scot of the like extract for a Page where the King takes notice of him calls for him and at the first dash makes him one of the Bed-chamber and suddenly his Favourite and Knight Sir Robert then Viscount Rochester and after Earl of Somerset This man the King had wound up to his just pitch of whom we may justly say Trim tram Like master like man When this man had long wallowed in his Masters bounty and the treasures of this Kingdome he fell the foullest that ever man did upon the rocks of dishonor adultery and murder Of dishonour to a Noble Peer of this Land and in him to the whole Nobility Adultery not only to bewhore her but to get her divorced and marry her And murder upon the body of that unfortunate Gentleman Sir Thomas Overbury only for disswading him And here it is much to our purpose to insert how this Favorites carriage had highly offended Pr. Henry who understanding the loose kind of life this man lived especially relating to her distastes him disrespects
him and forbears his company and flatly fals out with him Somerset complaines to the King shortly the Prince falls sick and dies That he was poysoned hath been a common fame ever since But to snuffe the candle and make it burn cleare take the testimony of these famous Physitians that dissected his body and have left it upon record under their hands The Dissection of the Body of Prince HENRY FIrst we found his Liver paler then ordinary in certain places somwhat wan his Gall without any Choller in it and distended with winde Secondly his Spleen was in divers places more then ordinarily black Thirdly his Stomack was in no part offended Fourthly his Midriffe was in divers places black Fifthly his Lungs were very black and in divers places spotted and full of a thin watery blood Lastly the Veines in the hinder part of his head were fuller then ordinary but the Ventricles and hollownesse of the brain were full of cleare water In witnesse whereof with our own hands we have subscribed this present Relation Novemb. 7. 1612. MAYERN ATKINS HAMMOND PALMER GIFFORD BUTLER This Prince was an active man and full of high thoughts A Lover of this Nation and lookt upon by them with much affection and expectation What feares jealousies Somerset might maliciously infuse into the Kings too fearful and timorous soul we cannot tell but that language from Somerset to the Lieutenant of the Tower when he told him he must provide himself to go the next morning to Westminster to his Trial said He would not That the King had assured him he should not come to any trial neither durst the King bring him to any trial This language I say stinks abominably And when he did come to his Trial fearing being enraged that he might flie out into some strange discovery there were two men placed on each side of him with cloaks on their arms with peremptory coÌ„mand that if Sommerset did any way flie out against the King they should instantly hoodwink him wth their cloaks take him violently from the Bar and carry him away and this could be no mans act but the Kings He would often boast of his King-craft but if his feares and Somersets malice took this Princes life away 't was a sweet peece of King-craft indeed but the fruit of it hath been bitter I cannot enough admire that language hee used when he gave in charge to his Judges the Examination of Sir Thomas Overburiâ—â— murder My Lords I charge you as you will answer it at that great and terrible day of Judgment that you examine it strictly without favour affection or partiality And if you shall spare any guilty of this crime Gods curse light upon you and your posterity and if I shall spare any that are found guilty Gods curse light on me and my posterity for ever This expression hath a most honest out-side but if the King had a designe of feare rather to be so rid of Somerset then an inward desire of Justice 't was monstrous foule which we shall better judge of by the sequel Seven persons were by the Judges condemned to die for this foule murder four of them of the least account and accessaries are executed the three great ones and principals the King pardons and to Somerset himself to his dying day was most profusely liberal and suffered to live with that fire-brand of hel his wife under the Kings nose all the dayes of their lives Here 's fine jugling these must be saved for fear of telling Scotch tales of the King Would the spirits of those noble souls of these our dayes put up such a piece of injustice in the master and such an affront and contempt of this Nation both from the Master and the man two Scots without vengeance I believe not And this Favourite of his when his estate was seised upon for this foul murder was found to have two hundred thousand pounds in mony plate and jewels in his house and nineteen thousand pounds a year in Lands comming in a fine advance from a Scots Page fifty pounds and a Suit of Cloaths and can any man tel for what I never heard that all Scotland was worth so much But enough of him This King had no Wars but spent more mony prodigally profusely and riotously then any of his Predecessors What swarms of Scots came with him and after him into this kingdome who perpetually suckt him of most vast sums of moneys which stand yet upon record which put him upon all dishonourable wayes of raising monies to the most cruell oppression of this Nation to serve their riot and luxury but there are many yet living can justifie this truth Though they lived a while at such a height yet they died like themselves contemptible miserable Beggers and at this day scarce one of them can shew the fruits of those vast donatives either in themselves or their posterity that 's worth looking upon And so let them all perish whomsoever Scots or English whose foundation is such Though I see no reason but any estate may be now questioned which is known to have been raised upon the oppression of this Nation nor that any title of Honour so bought should descend to posterity A Lord is to be a Lord by merit of imployment in some noble Office for the publique good not by projecting tricks and cozening devices to fill a Tyrant's Coffers to the enslaving of a gallant free Nation But c. to return to King James In those dayes 't is true the Bishops Nobility and the Lawyers had a great influence upon the people for their abilities and supposed honesties yet amongst these such are found and others are made such that whatsoever the King would have they are fit and willing instruments to bring it about and make it passe for currant Divinity and Law Witnesse The burning of a whole Cart-load of Parliament Presidents that spake the Subjects Liberty that were burnt at the Kings first comming Witnesse the Nullity Witnesse the life of Sir Walter Rawleigh that was taken away in point of State whose least part was of more worth then the whole race of the best of the Scots Nation Witnes the inhancing of Customes Witnes Privy Seals Monopolies and Loans Benevolences Sales of Lands Woods Fines New-buildings Witnes the lamentable losse of the Palatinate Witnes the Treaty of the Spanish-Match In which two last this Nation received more dishonour then in any action any former age can paralel and all under the colour of an honourable Treaty His Daughter was undone and his Son bob'd of a Wife after the hazard of his Person and vast expence of infinite treasure to this day undischarged I could never understand what piece of King-craft it was to let the Prince his onely Son with Buckingham his favourite make that Voyage into Spain unlesse it were to be rid of them both and had he not had to do with a noble Enemy surely they had never returned Hee would sometimes call a
Parliament for mony not for busines But if the Kingdome presented any grievances he would quarrel by his prerogative and dissolve it One Letter of his to the Parliament I cannot read but with amazement which being but briefe take here from his own hand A Copy of His Majesties Letter To the Lower-House of Parliament Mr. Speaker WE have heard by divers reports to our great grief That the far distance of our person at this time from our High Couâ—t of Parliament caused by our want of health hath imboldened some fiery and popular Spirits in our House of Commons to debate and argue publiquely in matters far beyond your reach and capacity and so tending to our high dishonour and trenching upon our Prerogative royal You shall therefore acquaint that House with our pleasure That none therein shall from henceforth presume to meddle with any thing concerning our Government or Mysteries of State namely not to speak of our dearest Sonnes match with the Daughter of Spain nor to touch the honour of that King nor any our friends or confederates and also not to medle with any mans particulars which have their due motions in our ordinary Courts of Justice And whereas we heare they have sent a Messenger to Sr. Edwyn Sands to know the reason of his late restraint you shall in our name resolve them that it was not for any misdemeanour of his in Parliament but to put them out of doubt of any question of that nature that may arise among them hereafter you shall resolve them in our name That wee think our selves very free and able to punish any mans misdemeanours in Parliament as well during their sitting as afterwards which we mean not to spare hereafter upon any occasion of any mans insolent behaviour there that shall be ministred unto us And if they have already touched any of these points which we have forbidden in any Petition of theirs which is to be sent to us It is our pleasure that you shall tell them that except they reform it before it come to our hands we will not dain the hearing or answering of it I leave every Reader to comment upon it according to his own patience and passion But that a Scot from so beggerly a condition to be so peaceably and honorably received to so royal a government over so brave a Nation should use such ungratefull presumptuous and proud language to the Parliament of England is to my understanding monstrous horrible and not good But 't was his humor all his reign with impatience over-ruling with jealousies threatning and at pleasure to dissolve all Parliaments thereby to lay that foundation of tyrannical and arbitrary government which he intended to bring upon us His Favourite Somerset being condemn'd and quietly laid aside he was ready provided of another George Villiers by name a handsom young man lately return'd out of France from an allowance of Threescore pounds a year who comes to Court is admitted to a bearers place presently Knighted and made Gentleman of the Bedchamber and the same day a Thousand pounds a yeare out of the Court of Wards given him and in a breath made Master of the Horse then Knight of the Garter then Baron of Whadon Viscount Villiers Earl of Somerset and a Privy-Councellor Marquesse of Buckingham Lord Admiral of England Chief Justice in Eyre of all the Parks and Forrests on the South-side of Trent Master of the Kings-Bench Office Head Steward of Westminster and Constable of Windsor-Castle and lastly Duke and then he could go no higher in title but by his Masters pleasure and courtesie all the affairs of the Kingdome are steered by his compasse as is at large made known in many mens writings published Yet when he knew his Master notwithstanding his slabbering expressions of affection and extravagant Honours and riches to be weary of him he found a Plaister and a Powder that made him amends for all his favours And here the King-craft met with his match How far King Charles might be privy to this busines I determine not but the private familiarity between them continued so long after and protecting him from being questioned for this very particular in Parliament is no small presumption But what the King denied Justice God sent by the hand of John Felton who stabb'd this Duke at Portsmouth with a ten peny knife that hee instantly gave up the ghost with these words Gods wounds I am slain To write all those actions this Duke did by these two Kings favours in prejudice of this oppressed Nation would make a cholerick man mad and a flegmatick stupid but let him go the King is the thing I intend who made use of him the flattering Prelates the poor-spirited Nobility and corrupt Lawyers to frame such a Government as all the wealth in this kingdome should be at the Kings disposing Which course with such instructions he left to his Son and how his Son managed them hath been so clearly published by Supreme Authority fairely written by sowhite a hand that I intend not here to say much of that Prince Only this I can say He was a man so wilfull obstinate and uxorious that he quite forsook his own interest as a King and the honour and interest of this Nation thorough malice and her counsel and did so farre incline to the interest of France against Spaine and no thankes for his labour that by his meanes alone Rochel and Dunkirk were both lost But that and his Fathers instructions lost him with the losse of more blood and treasure to this Nation then all our wars had spent since the William the Norman It hath been to me the greatest wonder of the world how this King could be so blind as not to prevent that storm that came upon him till it was too late Were all his Counsellors false O unhappy King Or would he be ruled by none but himselfe and his wife O more unhappy man Surely in this was the hand of God most visible Mischief was in his heart against this Nation but it came upon himself all his as the world hath seen There was about the time of his death a Book published which was presented to the world as He the Author which was so gross an imposture that I have much marvail'd the fraud being so plain and easily detected that no course hath been taken to find him out and punish'd that made it For that it was not his is as plainly to be discerned as the Sun at noon But that false perfume lasted but a while the scent was only pleasing to them that could not smell So that I may say that in our dayes we have seen two the most remarkable and most eminent passages of humane affaires that this Nation hath afforded since the Creation The Entrance of King James into this Kingdome with as much pomp and glory as the World could afford And the Exit of his Son with as much shame and misery as could befall a King And
although God Almighty be the Judge of all men yet Gods judgments that are so remarkable are for our instructions and God is to be glorified by us for these judgments of his upon this Kings family I cannot in the best stories I have read find who was clearly King James his Father Mary Queen of Scotland a lusty young Widow marries the Lord Darly son to the D. of Lenox in the year 1565. or thereabouts and at the same time had for a reserve in great favor with her an Italian Fidler and Bothwel a Scotch Lord After marriage the Queen proves with childe The King her husband that was Lord Darly enraged by some informations comes into the roome where the Queen his wife was at supper and very big drags the Italian Fidler into another roome and murders him The Queen was shortly delivered of a Son which was our King James The solemnity of the Christening ended she and Bothwel murdred the King her husband Then the Queen marries Bothwel and all this in a moment of time but they are both fain to flie The Queen came into England and was here beheaded Bothwel fled into Denmark and there lay in prison all the dayes of his life And now Reader observe the fortune of this prodigious Family His supposed Father was strangled in his bed by the consent of his mother and flung out into a garden His Mother is beheaded His eldest Son Pr. Henry by the jealousie and consent of his Father in the flower of his youth and strength of his age is poysoned His Daughter married to the Palsgrave where shortly her Husband in ambition to becom a king is slain and she with her many children are driven out of their estates and flie for shelter into Holland where she hath lived ever since upon the courtesie of this State Her eldest Son having lived long upon a particular charity of this Nation is now at length restored to a feather of his goose Two other of her sons after six yeares following arms and plunder for King Charles turn'd Pyrates at sea and so are at present King James himself after two twenty years reign by the act of his Favourite Buckingham and the consent of his son Charles that succeeded him is poysoned King Charles after eight years was with the Parliament is taken arraigned and condemn'd and is beheaded at his own dores his Wife fled home to her friends and his Children scattered abroad in the world to live upon the charity of others Are all these circumstances to be slighted or unconsidered And shall we take the Priests word King James was of blessed memory I challenge the proudest of them let them publish one cleare act of Honesty from him all the time of his reign or any honestman that ever he loved I 'le yield His hypocrisie perjury cowardise blasphemy malice are known to all and base ingratitude which comprehends more then all the rest whereof one example of him is well worth our remembring to Sir Henry Woâ—â—on which briefly was thus Sir Henry a man for person parts highly esteemed and honoured of all that knew him being in Florence when Queen Elizabeths death drew nigh which King Iames gaped for the Duke of Florence had intercepted some Letters which discovered a designe to take away the life of King James The Duke abhorring the fact resolves to endeavour the prevention calls for his Secretary to advise by what meanes a caution might be best given to the King and it was resolved to be done by Sir Henry Wotton who being well instructed is presently dispatched into Scotland with Letters to the King and most rare Antidotes against all manner of poysons whereby that mischief was prevented and Sir Henry Wotton returns into Italy where shortly after came the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth and James King of Scots proclaimed King of England and away comes Sir Henry Wotton to joy the King This had been a fit Subject for to have shewn his Noble minde upon for a Favourite but what doth the King takes him into two and twenty years travaile like a pack horse to make him an Agent in forreign parts and leaves him in his old age in Eaton-Colledge unable to pay his debts as many appear by his lamentable complaint upon his death-bed his words are these in his Last-Will and Testament I humbly beseech my Lords Grace of Canterbury and the Lord Bishop of London to intercede with our most gracious Soveraign in the bowels of Iesus Christ that out of compassionate memory of my long services some order may be taken for my Arrears for satisfaction of my Debts This president alone is so transcendently foul as all his other actions and passions are vertues to it Fellowes of no merit at home must wallow in his bounty and their own luxury to do his foul pleasure and to execute his tyranical actions whilest such a Noble Soul as this must suffer want and die in it And now lay all these things together the lives of all our former Kings and the lamentable condition of this Nation under these two last and tell me if it were not high time to consider of the honour welfare and security of this Nation by reducing it to a Free-State But before I take my leave of these Kings I would willingly as a Preparative to the cordial agreement of our Free-State present some few Considerations and herein I shall onely shew my hand and my heart wishing that some abler Pen-man may more substantially publish something to this purpose in better language and more at large First How often wee have been made slaves to Forreign powers by not agreeing among our selvs Our Kings having other Dominions beyond seas have consum'd our blood and treasure to defend maintain or increase them at their pleasures And their frequent matching into strangers blood hath increased new titles and pretences of quarrels that have afforded matter for bitter warres both abroad and at home All which are now laid asleep Next is worth our serious consideration How God Almighty in his providence hath divided us from all the World by a wall of Water and hath brought us into a condition this day by Shipping Trade and able Sea-men and Merchants that no Prince in Christendome can shew the like for number and abilitie So that now we have no Complements for Matches nor busines with Foraign Princes but for Trade And here let me use the words of Sir Walter Raleigh in his Discourse of Shipping Whosoever commands the Sea commands the Trade Whosoever commands the Trade of the World commands the Riches of the World and consequently the World it self A faire invitation to cherish Shipping Sea-men and Merchants And if hereafter we fall into difference with any Forreign Prince we fight for our selves not for ill-grounded Titles nor to satisfie the ambition of particular nor to maintain the luxury of any spurious Issue There are but two things which I mentioned in the Introduction can obstruct us as I hope IRELAND and Envious Presbytery The Royalist I presume will heare reason And SCOTLAND I suppose will shortly be reduced to an English Province and kept so by force for Jocky is not to be trusted He is naturally so false and hath been so high-fed since their Scotch king came to this Crowne that his owne Country fare will not down till they be humbled which God be thanked is in a faire way Yet if there be any of that Nation sensible of their owne security and welfare under our wing which I much feare that shall comply in this union I shall pray to God to make them good Christians And if any Forreigne Prince whatsoever shall hereafter through ambition or envy to our State or pretence of donation from the Pope assist or maintain a Faction either in Scotland or Ireland as heretofore to hinder prejudice or molest our right or interest in these or either of these places I see no reason why we should treat with them as friends But I am now beside my Cushion my end is only to prepare and perswade a hearty Agreement amongst our selves to the secure setling of our Free-State So farewell Scot and farewell King And GOD blesse the Common-wealth of ENGLAND FINIS Published by Authority Courteous Reader These Books following are printed and sold by William Roybould at his Shop at the Unicorn in S. Pauls Church-yard neer the Little North-door THe Holy-Arbor containing a Body of Divinity or the Summe and Substance of Christian Religion First methodically and plainly treated of then Analysed and applied wherein also are fully resolved the Questions of whatsoever points of moment have been or are now controverted in Divinity together with a large Alphabetical Table of such matters as are therein contained or occasionally handled either by way of Exposition Controversie or Reconciliation In folio by John Godolphin J. C. D. 1651. CHRIST alone exalted In seventeen Sermons preached by Dr. Tobias Crisp In 8o 1650. The History of the Bohemian Persecution from the beginning of their Conversion to Christianity to these Times In which the unheard of secrets of Councels Policie Arts and dreadful Judgments are exhibited In 8o 1650. The Assertion of Grace or a Treatise of Justification by R. Town The Ladies Vindication or The praise of worthy Women In 12o 1651. A further Discovery of the Mysterie of the Last times Set forth for the Good of such as in these dissenting times know not to what Society of Christians to joyn themselves In 4o 1651. A Sermon preached by Dr. Homes Octob. 8. 1650. at Christ-church before the Lord Major and Aldermen The Mischiefe of Mixt-Communions by Dr. Homes 4o The Life and Reigne of King Charles or the Pseudo-Martyr discovered together with some Animadversions on the strange contrariety between his publike Declarations protestations Imprecations and his Pourtraicture compared with his private Letters and other of his Expresses not hitherto taken into common observation In 8o 1651. The Antiquity of Commonwealths instanced by that of Holland wherein is declared the rise continuance of that Government as also their Lawes and Customes both in their Civil Military power In 8o 1652. A Sermon preached at Mary-Aldermanbury Novemb. 5. 1651. by M. William Jenkins being the first he preached after his Releasement Church-Cases cleared wherein are held forth some things to reclaim Professors is that are slack-principled Antichurchians Nonchurch-Seekers Church-Levellers with a Pacificatory preface c. By D. N. Homes