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lord_n	earl_n	robert_n	viscount_n	16,276	5	11.7158	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96173	A cat may look upon a king	Weldon, Anthony, Sir, d. 1649?	1652 (1652)	Wing W1271; Thomason E1408_2; ESTC R209518	15,841	118

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

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 Cou●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