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A trance, or, Newes from Hell brought fresh to towne by Mercurius Acheronticus.
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Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
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designs of bloud But the main and most materiall thing we have made use of was spirituall pride your Majesties old acquaintance which we have infused into the mind of every Mecanique and Countrey Swaine who will boldly now undertake to expound any Text of Scripture New or Ol dupon the warrant of their owne braines and by the light of their own fires Insomuch that we have made that Book which they call the Bible that was ordained first for their Salvation to be the chiefest Instrument of their Damnation VVe have brought these Exotic words Plundering and Storming which were never known among them before and that once abominable word Excise to be now familiar among them they are made all three free Denizons and legitimated among them VVe have rais'd an Army of the dreggs of the people though of precious stuffe to your Majesty and so puffed them with the pride of their good successes and so flesh'd them in Bloud that they are no more tender of a mans or womans life then they are of a dog or a cats We have made those that came Petitioners for Peace to be murthered and those that came for VVar to be thanked and hugged VVe have reduced them to such slavery as to make the very countenances of men to be commented upon and their very thoughts to be plundred We have made the mother to betray her child the child the father the husband his wife the servant his master VVe have brought a perfect tyranny ore their very soules and bodies upon the one by tedious and endlesse imprisonment with the forfeiture of all their livelihoods before conviction or charge upon the other by forcing them to swallow contradictory Oaths On that foolish superstitious day call'd Christmas with other Festivalls we have brought them to shut up their Churches and open their shops so that in time they will forget the very memory of their Saviours Incarnation We have brought them to have as little reverence of their Temples as of their Tap-houses and to hold the Church to be but a Charnell-house of rotten bones and though they cringe and knee and stand bare before any wrangling Bench of Common Pleas yet we have so stiffned their joints and made their heads so tender in that which they call Gods House that they can neither bow the one there nor scarce uncover the other We have fil'd lately the Tribunals in Westminster Hall with Favourers of your Cause which makes some of them look rather like Iuglers than Iudges We have made the Fundamentals of Law to be term'd but Formalities We have caus'd Magna Charta to be torne to a thousand flitters and stretched the privilege of the Commons so wide that it hath swallowed up all other We have grub'd up and cast away those hopefull Plants that grew in their two Seminaries of Learning and set in their room grafts of our own choice And Sir your precious children and our deare brethren the Angels of the Army have comported themselves notably for the improvement of your Majesties service in all these things into whom we have infus'd such principles that Machiavill himself were he alive there would be accounted a Baby in comparison of them Among divers other wholsome maximes we have instill'd this into their braines that Villanies must be supported by Villaines and mischief cannot be safe but by attempting greater We have made the wealth of Town and Countrey of poore and rich to glitter in Plunder upon their backs We make them to command Free-quarter of those who who were fitter to aske them Almes We have made them to rifle the Monuments of the Dead to rob the Lazaretto to strip the Orphane and Widow to violate and pillage all things that were dedicated to God We have made them wreek their revenge upon the very vegetables to make socks of Surplices to water their beasts at the Font to feed them on the Communion Table and to terme the thing they call a Sacrament a Two penny Banquet Sir we have turn'd supposed Superstition to absolute Prophanesse Government to Confusion and Freedome to pure Slavery We have brought their King to live in a manner upon Charity and His Queen to beg of the French Friers and His Children to be a kind of Runnagates up and downe the world We have so intoxicated that deare Daughter of yours the City of London that she knowes not which way to turn her self And whereas her Apprentices did rise up like Tigers against their King they are now become as so many silly Sheepe against our Army We have puzzled them with such vertiginous fancies and feares among themselves that one neighbour dare not trust the other To conclude Sir we have eclips'd the glory of the English Nation we have made them by all people far and near that ever had knowledge of them to be pittied by some to be derided by others to be scorn'd of all and to become the very taile of all Nations In fine Sir we have brought that Kingdom to such a passe of confusion that it is a fit place only for your Imperial Phlegetontic Majesty to inhabit And Sir there 's never a Crosse now there fright you unlesse it be upon their Coines of Gold and Silver wheron they leave Crosses to be still in honour of your Plutonian Highnesse as you are Dis and God of riches Megaera having thus given up her account in behalf of her self and her two Sisters they all bowed their snaky heads down to their feet which were toed with Scorpions before the black Throne of Pluto who giving a humme that made all Hell to tremble answered thus MY pretious and most trusty Tartarean Daughters we highly approve of the supererogatory service you have done us for the propagation of the Stygian Empire upon earth and specially in great Brittany we have sued a long time to have a Lease of that Iland touching Scotland we have no mind to go thither our self and we hope to obtaine it therefore when you have visited those of that Nation whom you have sent hither already to people this Pâ—t I would have you returne thither and prepare that place for one of my principall habitations The proper'st instrument you are to employ is the Army and you must continue to infuse such principles into their heads that they never desist till they have quite thrust out Religionem ex solo Regem ex solio and Dominium ex salo Nec sic recedant odia vivaces agat Violentus iras animus saevus furor Eterna bella pace sublata gerat Make Rebell to fight against Rebell Independant against Presbyterian London against the Army and all against the Cavalier till that Nation be wholly extinguish'd that one may not be left to pisse against a wall Let them never rest till they have made an end of the King who is our greatest enemy Let those Idolatrous Bishops which in that idle legend their Gospell are call'd Angells be utterly extirpated and the very