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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90635	The divine catastrophe of the kingly family of the house of Stuarts or, a short history of the rise, reign, and ruine thereof. Wherein the most secret and chamber-abominations of the two last kings are discovered, divine justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated, and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified, by Sir Edward Peyton, knight and baronet, a diligent observer of those times.	Peyton, Edward, Sir, 1588?-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing P1952; Thomason E1291_1; ESTC R208989	41,016	159

opinion disavowed by all Orthodox Divines And many other false opinions were maintained in that age as that Solomon was damned an Amanuenses of the Scripture The second example is the Lord Riches Lady named Penelope who was divorced to make way for the Lo. Montjoy's lust Earl of Devonshire What shall I say more Did not king Iames his minions and favorites rule the kingdom in the person of the king who were five in number since his approach upon English ground to wit Sir George Humes Earl of Dunbar Sir Philip Herbert after Earl of Montgomery and Pembrook Sir Iames Hayes Earl of Carlile and Sir Robert Car Earl of Sommerset who defiled his hands in Overbury's death that wicked divorce ushering the murther This Sommerset being elected of the Council furnished his Library onely with twenty Play-books and wanton Romances and had no other in his Study A Lord very like to give wise counsel This Lord with his Lady were questioned for the murther and the Lieutenant of the Tower Sir George Elloways was hanged but for concealing of it king Iames being willing with this accusation to make passage for another favorite which was Sir George Villiers after Duke of Buckingham who by his greatness vitiated many gentile and noble virgins in birth though vitious for yeelding to his lust whose greatness opened the door to allure them more To please this favorite King Iames gave way for the Duke to entice others to his will Two examples I will recite first the King entertained Sir Iohn Crafts and his Daughter a beautiful lass at Newmarket to sit at the Table with the King This he did then to procure Buckingham the easier to vitiate her Secondly Mrs Dorothy Gamay being a rare creature King Iames carried Buckingham to Gulford to have his will on that Beauty but Sir Nicholas Bacon's Sons conveyed her out of a window into a private chamber over the leads and so disappointed the Duke of his wicked purpose In which cleanly conveyance the Author had a hand with the Knights Sons Truly that day a sober man was hard to be seen in King Prince and Nobles Moreover it was an art King Iames used for these favourites to be skreens to decline the hatred of his People when complained of in Parliament and when questioned they were spunges to be squeezed to to fill his Coffers One story I wil relate more remarkable then the rest the king very timerous of death from the contrivings of Pope and Spaine wrote a Letter to the Pope that he would tolerate Popery when he brought affaires to his bent in Great Britaine The Letter discovered by a lucky chance to the seven yeers Parliament and complained of in the Remonstrance to the king he made the Scotish Secretary own this act and affirm it was his and not the kings promising him to take him off at last with advancement but contrary it occasioned the Secretaries ruine Here by the way I must play the Cook to lard three several occurrences not impertinent to the matter in hand The first was that Secretary Winnode took a bribe of 20000 pound to redeliver the four Cautionary Townes in Holland to the Dutch which we now may see might have curbed the States from prejudicing England Another was king Iames his weakness to give way to Gundamore to take away Sir Walter Rawliegh's life who might have vexed Philip the second of Spaine A third was to sell Iron Ordnance discover the art of their Carriages which all the world was ignorant of This last favourite George Duke of Buckingham advanced to such power with his Mother rewarded the king with poyson by a poysoning water and a plaister made of the Oyle of Toads This Duke from a private Gentleman with an annuity of thirty pound a yeer for life was raised to such a mount of glory and power to be Master of Horse Master of the Wards Liveries Admiral of England and Lord Warden of the Cinq-ports A Lord tall of stature amiable countenance who like a ravenous kyte ingrossed all into his hands to inrich and advance his kindred and to place and displace whom he listed so that this Lord was grown so potent his Master stood in awe of him in such sort that when the king was sick of the Gout he would remove him from place to place at pleasure against the kings will who to work his ends wrought into favour with the rifing Phebus king Charles The king prying into this way of his Successor set a bold Courtier Doctor Turner a float to bring the Earl of Bristol then out to launch into favou but the Duke complying with Turner perceived the plot against him wrought by a countermine by Charles the chief Engineer but the Dukes drift was after king Iames his death to make himself king of Ireland and therefore he was stiled Prince of Typeraria an appendix to that Throne This made the Duke swell like a Toad to such a monstrous proportion of greatness in vast thoughts as muitiplying to an ocean from the rivers of pride power and ambition he sate as a Gyant on the shoulders of king Iames and drowned his power limiting no bounds to his overflowing will whose vertue and good nature being corrupted by so wicked a life turned love into hatred obedience into rule for after he had dispatched the Duke of Richmond Marquess Hamilton the Earl of Southampton and his son by poyson as by Doctor Eglestons relation plainly appeared to the Parliament whom he caused to be killed in forr●ine parts for discovering the villany Thus filled with venome of greatness he made no bones to send his Master packing to another world as appeared plainly in Parliament by the witness of divers Physitians especially Doctor Ramsey in full hearing at a Committee Wherefore for this other crimes he was impeached in the beginning of King Charles his Government and though King Charles was bound to prosecute King Iames and the other Lords death committed contrary to all the laws of God and Nations yet King Charles to save the Duke dissolved the Parliament and never after had the truth tryed to clear himself from confederacy or the Duke from so hainous a scandal Now let all the world judge of Charles his carriage whether he were not guilty of conniving at so foul a sin though not of the death so that covering his Lyon-like disposition with appearance of a Lamb he proved like Nero the Tyrant that in the Parliament of the Petition of right shewing himself in his lively colours for displaying the Banner of Tyranny he put an end to the meeting imprisoned divers members so that Sir Iohn Elliot dyed and the rest remained in durance because they had been faithful to their Countrey and to add to cruelty he sent Sergeant Glanvile Sir Peter Hayman and Colonel Purify into forraine parts to consume their fortunes and hazard their lives calling not a Parliament long after By this time Sycophants so inlarged the Monarchy without bounds

to the Records of Parliament sometime there was added to and sometime diminished from what was in the Roll of Parliament and somewhat put in that might be advantageous to the kings and put out was for the benefit of the Subject as I have observed by my comparing the printed book with the Record And truly if there were a Committee to examine the Records it should be necessary to see the right of the Subject And in decimo octavo Iacobi king James sent and took what was done that Parliament from Master Wright Clerke of the Parliament So likewise the king by his power and the great Lords of Court made Courtiers Burgesses and sometime knight of the Shire by letters who hindred much the proceedings in Parliament by their vote it being the policy of the Dukes of Cornwall in the Stannaries to have multitude of Burgesses to make themselves potent in Parliament which now the Parliament will prevent by providing that the Representative may be equally chosen from all parts Likewise it was usual for king James and King Charles if any did speak in the behalf of the Commonalty in Parliament against the prerogative to make them Sheriffs or impose other burthensome Offices on them as my self and Sir Guy Palmes were served after that Parliament of 18 Iacobi or to be revenged on them some other way for doing their duty in Parliament as then was invented by projectors as I could recite divers examples in my time The Courtiers also laboured to make good patriots Courtiers as Sir Dudley Digs was made a Courtier and Master of the Rolls who was faithful to the Parliament and dyed before a Parliament came this was to draw their affection from the multitude to the Soveraignty so that by those means Tyranny was increased and the right of the people waved which now will be redressed and reformed by Gods blessing and prudence of the State Now I will draw a short Lantskip by way of Epitome to examine what good king Iames and King Charles have done since Anno Domini 1603. The seven yeers Parliament was a sage and wise Parliament and laboured to do much good for the then-kingdome and as a new broom sweepeth clean at first king Iames granted some good Laws but the Court of Wards they endeavoured to pull down which had ruined infinite families upon offer to give the king two hundred thousand pound in deposito and annually two hundred thousand pound but it was opposed by Robert Earl of Salisbury otherwise a very good Commonwealths-man as too great a thing for the king to part with And truly that Parliament took great pains to reform abuses in Church and State but not much was done for the good of the Subject but great sums granted and a good Government hoped for rather then in fruition For king Iames spent much time in his pleasures and much money in Embassies to make himself great so that there was some good for the Merchants but Tonnage and poundage given by Parliament was for Guarding the Seas which was imployed to the Royal purse onely so that although complained of the Merchants were at a double charge in wafting their goods After king Iames wronged the fisher-men and us much by granting to his brother Henry the fourth king of France for his moneth to fish on our coast who under that colour took away the very earth and spawn of the fish of Rotchet Gurnet Cunger and Hadduck to Deep where they have abundance and we want King Iames granted the Hollanders to fish on our coasts and for a smal petty rate the Island of Lewis in Scotland and other Isles of Ireland to dry their fish by which they have inriched themselves above fourty millions Sterling In that Parliament of seven yeers they laboured to reform abuses in Church and Commonwealth and that the pious Ministers might not be tyed to subscribe to the unlawful Ceremonies of the Bishops which was not granted but in nono Iacobi at Hampton Court were divers pious men as Reynolds Kniwstabs Clerk and other reverend Divines to dispute about ceremonies but that the Divines had not freedome of speech for all went on the Bishops sides a cause England in all parts after were deprived of pious men which were silenced imprisoned and put out of their Lectures and livings so that want of teaching caused profaneness to get the preheminence The Parliament of duodecimo Iacobi was onely for undertakers to raise money for king Iames some Bishops were questioned as Bilson and others but the Parliament dissolved without doing any thing Then was the Parliament of 18 Iacobi where Heath was for the Commons Sir Thomas Wentworth and Christopher Wansford and others were for the kings side where also Sir Iohn Bennet Sir Giles Mumpesson and Sir Iohn Mitchel were condemned and the Parliament so dissolved in which Parliament Serjeant Grimston called me out of the house to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Westmorland and Sir Francis Vane dead to the little Room in the Lobby where they offered me ten thousand pound or 500. a yeer which I would choose not to oppose the bill of the Fens in the house I answered no money nor estate would make me betray the country This Parliament was made voide and 32 patents called in by king Iames and so he pleased the people with a toy Many and divers were convented by the Councel-table to pay certain sums or to be imprisoned whereof I was one being brought before the Councel when Sir Albert Morton waited Then came the Parliament of 21 Iacobi a little afore king Iames his end where were some good Laws enacted the Lord Keeper Bacon and the Earl of Middlesex condemned for bribery A little afore this I being Custos Rotulorum of the County of Cambridge by Buckingham was put out and Sir Iohn Cuts put in when I had that Office under the broad seal which could not legally be taken away from me unless I had committed some fault thereby to have forfeited the same Now there remaineth no more for the Parliament to do but faithfully to keep what they have justly gotten by Gods Divine providence and his will in a valourous Conquest to the end that when they have setled the building of the State upon a right and firme Basis they may further inlarge the kingdome of the Lord Jesus by their indeavours through Europe which I am fully assured God hath appointed and will certainly bring to pass that all the world may see Gods determination in every climate of this part of the world After this new State is put into the cradle of ease and tranquillity to make it have a full gtowth there will be nothing to hinder the establishment thereof no titles upon marriage as in Monarchy because the power is in the people and they chuse a Representative that shall govern every two or three yeers making an election of Members of Parliament that every one may Govern by vicissitude and therefore there would