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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36156	The Distractions of our times vvherein is discovered the generall discontent of all estates throughout the whole land : whereunto is added The Round-heads race.		1643 (1643)	Wing D1698A; ESTC R34989	5,682	10

hardly venture their ships at Sea they have so many false friends and open enemies nay among themselves they know not like Ioshuah who are with them or who against them doubtlesse the Citie nourisheth many Vipers within her owne bosome beside other Serpents that are nested in her Suburbs ready upon any uprore or rebellious tumult to devoure her therefore shee is not to be blamed if she strengthneth her Carrison fortifieth her gates in the best manner she may shee hath now little returne of trade her excellent Artisans cannot get imployment or finde where to shew their skill her Mechannicks walke work-lesse up and down or going into the Countrey to visite their friends some of them can hardly ever finde the way back againe What a distraction was amongst that Rabble in the uproare at Westminster when the Bishop of Yorkes servants attending about the Abby Church to defend the same and the Deanes House belonging to his Lordship at which time they were forced to come forth with weapons and divers of them were hurt amongst all the rest Sir Richard Wiseman whether by chance or of set purpose is unknowne but being there present and saying to the rude Rabble openly Gentlemen I will be your Leader was with a brick or stone from over the Abbey doore and not in Westminster-hall neither was he a member of a House of Commons as in an Elegie dedicated to his memory is most lyingly reported of which wound he dyed and afterwards his Corps was carried to St. Stephens Church in Coleman-steet and buried according to a new Church Government lately enacted in a Conventicle of Scismaticks being accompanied with at least five hundred Antick Bishops consisting of all sorts with their Swords mourning Cloakes and black Ribands The strong Towne of Kingston upon Hull hath bin distracted a long time as fearing in pleasing one she offends another And was not Kingston upon Thames distracted not knowing what to doe when Co●anell Lunsford arose there with so many men And I beleeve my Lord Major and the Bishop of Chichester were much amazed when the round party came about them reviling my Lord Major most vilely and telling him the Bishop was his Pope For the Bishop Preaching at the Old Jewry at my Lord Majors Parish Church when the Rounds saw him in his Rochet they fell on humming and hissing then being put out of the Church-doore they gat up to the windowes and brake downe the glasse still continuing their rayling and revising to the disturbance of the whole Church And were not these Round-heads themselves distracted when one of their companions a Cooper after hee had broken off a legg of the Statue of Christ upon Cheape-side Crosse fell upon the Iron Pikes standing about the Crosse where receiving his deadly wound he dyed shortly after under the hands of a Chyrurgeon dwelling in Roode Lane Physitians are mightily distracted and out of patience because their whole Colledge knowes not how to cure this Epidemicall disease that like the sweating Sicknesse in times past raigneth over the whole Land that is want of money And I beleeve Abel and Kilvert are not yet cured of this common Disease since they played their projecting prankes Also our Clergy in generall are distracted till the Synod be past Proctors Apparitors and all other Officers of the spirituall Court are likewise distracted as now wanting worke and except Hay-time and Harvest releeves them they are like to be utterly undone In the City the Usurer is distracted not knowing where or to whom to let out his money where he may be sure of it againe or being already out of his hands how to come by it againe a witty Gallant comes to one of them in Moorefields and desires he might borrow 100. pounds of him quoth Mr. Foxcraft the Usurer to the Gentleman Sir you are a meere stranger unto me I never knew or saw you before that is the only reason quoth the other that I come to borrow it for if you knew me you would never lend me a penny The Courtier is discontented finding his journey's long so little money in the Exchequer and the absence of his Mr. from White-hall and the Parliament The followers of Nobles and Gentlemen who hold their Tenures only at the will of their Lords and Masters are now a dayes distracted and know not what they shall trust to if giving the least distaste or by committing the least offence they shall incur their displeasures and so be cast off for these times are not like the forepassed when for their honest Service they had extraordinary favours or Annuall Pensions given them during their lives yea though they in time of their Service had committed some grosse errours and highly displeased their Masters A worthy auncient Gentleman in the time of Q. Eliz. dwelling in Barkshire whose name was Mr. Young a great house-keeper living a Batchelor all his life against a Christmas sent up a man he had with forty pounds to London to bestow in frute spice and other commodities for at that time he ever kept open house his man at London lighting among cheaters lost all his Masters money at cards and not knowing what to doe by the advice of a chamberlaine of an Inne in Holborne was perswaded to joyne himselfe with two or three good fellowes who were resolved to take a purse upon the high way beyond Higate he consented and they meeting with fourscore and od pounds the other theeves went cleare away with die money and left him to be taken not getting a penny or it howsoever he was carried to Newgate where arraigned and condemned was a little before Christmas to be executed which his Mr. hearing of upon the very morning when the carts were come to Tiburn came thither with his mans pardon which the Queene with whom he was very gracious had granted comming to the Sheriffe said Mr. Sheriffe have I not a man among your company here to be executed I know not quoth the Sheriffe oh yes I see him there quoth Mr. Young for he was piniond making his confession with a psalme booke in his hand Sirrah quoth he you rascall doe I send you about my businesse and you stand preaching there come down or I le fetch you downe with a mischiefe and get you home about your businesse his Mr not only entertained him againe but at his death gave him an annuitie to maintaine him while he lived HIs Majesties ship Carpenters are in a distraction and know not of whom nor where to get timber for the building of ships to furnish and encrease his Navy Royall since the forrest of Deane was cut down and other of the best timber woods in England without especiall order taken by the Honourable Parliament are like to run the same fortune The Inhabitants neer and about the Fennes in Lincolnshire as about Boston Marcham Sibsey Stickney and other places are distracted and know not what to doe or how to recover their Commons and Fennes again out of the projectors hands beside their Cattell this Summer it is thought will run mad for want of water If I should describe the severall distractions of the world I should exceed to a volume but I content me with these the most eminent of our times Wishing heartily I might not at any time hereafter have occasion to write more or this or the same substance The Round-heads Race KNow then my Brethren Heaven is cleare the Eclipsed Clouds are gone The righteous now shall flourish and good dayes are comming on Come then my Brethren and be glad and eke rejoyce with me Lawne sleeves and Rotchets shall goe downe and Hey then up goe wee Wee 'l I breake the windowes which the whore of Babylon hath painted And when the Popish Saints goe downe then Burton shall be sainted Then neither Crosse nor Crucifix shall stand for now I see Romes Trash and trumpery shall goe downe and Hey then up goe we What ere the Popish hands have built Our Hammers shall undoe Wee 'l breake the Pipes and burne the Coapes and pull downe Churches too Wee 'l exercise within a Grove and teach beneath a Tree And make a Pulpit of a Cart and Hey then up goe we Wee 'l downe with Vniversities where Learning is profest Because they prattle and maintaine the Language of the Beast Wee 'l drive the Doct●●s out of doores and all what ere they be Wee 'l cry all Arts and Learning downe and Hey then up goe we Wee 'l downe with Deanes and Prebends too and I rejoyce to tell yee How that wee 'l eate fat Piggs our fill and Capons by the belly Wee 'l I burne the fathers with their Toomes and make the Schoole-men flee Wee 'l downe with all that smells of wit and Hey then up goe we Since then the Anti Christian crew be prest and over-throwne Wee 'l teach the Nobles how to crouch and keepe the Gentry downe Good manners hath an ill report and turnes to pr●de we see Wee 'l therefore cry all manners downe and Hey then up goe we The name of Lord shall be abhord for each man is a brother No reason why in Church or State one man should rule another But when the change of Government shall set our fingers free Wee 'l lay the wanton Sisters downe and Hey then up goe we FINIS