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A85800	Englands present distractions. Paralleld with those of Spaine, and other forraigne countries, with some other modest conjectures, at the causes of the said distempers, and their likeliest cure. / Written by a loyall subject to His Majestie, and a true servant of the Parliament, in vindication of that aspersion cast upon them, for declining His Majesties royall prerogative, or seeking to confine it to limits. By H. G. B. L. C.	H. G., B.L.C.	1642 (1642)	Wing G24; Thomason E126_19; ESTC R19139	4,699	11

superintendent power over their actions which are but the children of mens propensions so that those insolencies of Mascarena circumstantly are derivatived from the Spanish Clergy they being if not by their consent and directions committed yet by their patronage and conivence And is not this comparatively our condition while the Clergy were revera not nomine onely the Ministers of the Almighty when they were boni pastores oves solum tondentes non deglubientes what an excellent harmony was heard through this Kingdome joy and gladnesse being only in dwellings but when the Miter grew in competition with the Crowne here when the proud and insolently presumptuous Prelates began to ranke themselves with the chiefe Nobility contemne the Gentry and tyrannize over the Communalty introducing strange and impertinent nay superstitious Cannons Ceremonies of our ancient faith backed too by authority of such or the secular Magistracy as durst not or at least would not contradict their proceedings then the wisest of this Nation jam proximus ardens Vtalegon their neighbours houses being on fire began to looke to the safety of their owne dwellings endevouring to represse that torrent which else threatned the whole Iland with a deluge And certainly that wise and sacred Senate the Illustrious high Court of Parliament seeke not to diminish the Kings royall Prerogative descendent to him as his Crowne is from his Ancestors by seeking to regulate the power of the Clergy by extirpation of Bishops though it is their constant tenent where the Church is reduced to an Anarchy there is likewise the temporall power alter'd But I durst not dispute it with any of them that not neither is Episcopacy so correlative or consubsistent with Majestie that one cannot stand without the other nor that the Parliament ever intended to confine the royall prerogative to limits but secure the right prosperity of the subject from being swallowed up in that extensive power of royalty which being contiguated if not one continuum with the subjects safety ought not to be imployed to his ruine To prevent a danger certainly is the greatest point of wisedome and though none will imagine our good and gracious King ever meant to put any power against his people in practise and in his owne Princely intention yet certainly it was an honorable and conscionable justice in the Parliament being intrusted as Feoffees with the kingdomes safety to seeke to provide for futurity lest some such King there might be heereafter that might invert the Charter of his Royalty seald to him by the peoples obedient suffrage upon the people themselves And yet this hath separated the King from his people and given birth to these unhappy distractions In Spaine especially in Catalonia where the King now is hee seekes to reduce them to his obedience by affording them his presence All wee sue for here is His Majesties royall presence which would suddenly give a sure and happy period to these distempers If His Highnesse desserting those few Incendiaries who by their malignant Councels and affections have instigated and fomented these dissentions would vouchsafe to comply with the universall Body of His Kingdome contracted in this present Parliament And certainly in this Climetricall yeere of the world when it labours with the Empidemical contagious sickness of combustions we alone are bound to thank heaven that our disease here is not so violent but it may be cured by time and good Councell Nothing but blood being able to extinguish the burning rayes of those flaming combustions that like prodigious Meteors predominant in other Nations Catalonia nor Portugall being never to be reduc'd to the Spanish obedience but by extirpation of all those Families and their adherents who were the prime Botefeus in the revolt of those Provinces And certainly if the Spaniard doe goe out victorious no misery will equall that of those vanquished wretches upon whom and their unbappy posterity will be afflicted cruelty without pitty by the insolent and implacable Victors Tyrants shed blood for pleasure Kings for necessity In what a happy condition then is England even in its misfortune being compar'd with other Nations Spain being oppressed both with French French Dutch and Turkish forraigne enemies and embroyld'd with domestick troubles France is neither free from civill dissentions nor safe from the Spanish invasions which both out of Biskay and Handers and Artoys infest it with frequent inroads Germany has so long beene the Theatre of war and blood-shed that it has almost worne out the race of the old Swedish actors yet their still spring up new ones as if that Country were destin'd only for fertility of miseries we only as we are in scituation Et penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos so we are in condition being safe from forraine enemies we have our selves unmade our own safeties like Cadmus earth-borne brothers striving to boast in one anothers destructions Populumque potentem In sua victrici conversum viscera dextra Such is the uncertainty of all humane and worldly happinesse which resembles aptly a fair hopefull plant set with much care by the industrious owner to day it buds within a few weeks blossoms dressing as it were its bushy beauties at the Sun-beams when suddenly comes an unexpected April frost and nips at the root and then it withers that faire and hopefull foundation of peace and happins and for us by our ancestors being now ready by our own hands to be sacrificed as a victima tyrannidis yet is not our case altogether so desperate as our neighbours good councell having power to rectifie and reconcile our differences force only theirs And 't is to be hoped at least t is all good mens wishes that a speedy reconcilement may proceed betwixt his Majesty and Parliament that the rumor of their war may like thunder though loud having cleared our English ayre of it's pestilentiall vapors like it be sudden its noyse once past the memory of it forgotten that this land flowing with milk and hony may not be converted into a wildernesse nor sit desolate like widow who so lately appear'd a queene among the nations the very empresse of the Islands rich in her inhabitants and merchandise that so tears may be wiped away from all mens eyes and that we may see peace again in this our Israel that the example of unity amomg us may set a happy period to the dissention of our neighbours when they shall behold our destructions which begun last end first that our common mother Europe that sometime Empresse of the world now groaning under the burthen of her sons mutuall armes may resume her ancient glories by the expulsion of that common enemy to humane nature the Turke that so true Religion may extend its branches like a fruitfull vine through the face of the earth and we sit happy under the shadow of it which heaven in it's mercy send sp●edily to come to passe that all the ends of the world may praise the Lord FINIS

ENGLANDS PRESENT DISTRACTIONS Paralleld with those of Spaine and other forraigne Countries With some other modest Conjectures at the Causes of the said Distempers and their likeliest Cure Written by a loyall Subject to His Majestie and a true Servant of the Parliament in vindication of that Aspersion cast upon them for declining His Majesties Royall Prerogative or seeking to confine it to limits Tempora mutantur nos mutamur in illis By H. G. B. L. C. London Printed for Francis Wright 1642. DOCTRINA PARIT VIRTVTEM ENGLANDS PRESENT DISTRACTIONS DIstractions when Nationall are diffusive nothing escapes their violence like Sampsons Foxes they carry fire about them and consume all before them And for the most part they fall like Hailestones one no sooner drops but a whole storme doe follow These late yeares have been pregnant with distempers Germany leading this dance of death being the greatest of the European Provinces France the fairest of them and Spaine the powerfullest have since as it were celeri pede followed their leaders steps And now hinc illae lachrymae England the little Eye of nature the darling and delight of Europe has thrust it selfe into the same bloody Matachin wherein as you shall observe especially in those of Spaine imbroyld with the civill differences of Catalonia and Portugall they keepe one figure with ours in England and its rebellious Province Ireland being true parallels that run even still through severall wayes It shall be needlesse to relate the circumstances of the Catalonian revolt from the Spanish government it having been as Ireland to England an Appendix for some hundred of yeeres to that large booke of Arragon the world knowes it is revolted and that is sufficient for our purpose Not two twin Cherries carrie more resemblance then the horrid faces of the present rebellions in these two subordinate Provinces Catalonia for many yeeres past being under the Government of Don Iohn de Muscu●ena the Catalonian Prefe●t there under went with pavement shoulders unheard of insolencies custome in suffering as it doth in sinning taking away the sense of their sufferings the austere condition of the man at which they durst not repine making them like good dull Mules ma●ch silently without braying under their burdens the state of Ireland just under the late Lord Lievtenant Thomas Earle of Strafford a man of as much severity in his Vice royship there his government I would be loth to brand his memory with a false imputation because he fell under the Axe of Justice almost devolving to tyranny And if tha● Maxim in Philosophy hold true that Causae judicantur ab effect●bus é contra Certainly we may well affirme both the Catalonian and Irish defections derivative from the oppressive injustice of their too tyrannous Governours Catalonia immediately upon the revocation of Muscurena bleeding with the wounds of his former cruelties which yet for the present if they were clos'd up had left large skarres upon their bodies resolves to provide for their future safeties or sell them at a deare rate to open a conspicuous ruine breake forth into an acknowledg'd and maintain'd rebellion So did Ireland on the Earle of Strafford though perhaps the levity and malice of that Nation only sought by the specious presence of his tyranny to palliate their wicked intentions which had destin'd them for this fatall and impious purpose long before Straffords arrivall thither but that rebellion were not considerable to us as Catalonia's is to the Spaniard nor could the Irish though their quarrell for their Religion makes them resolutely desperate being assured by those that guide their soules their mutinously superstitious Priests that they atchieve the glorious condition of Martyrs and Confessors in their death and sufferings resist the English powers if England were once blest with an unity betweene it's King and people the distractions there being so well knowne to the world that in our very enemies if we had any such besides our selves they would have invited pity England that thus many yeares hath stood the envie of all it 's neighbours like a fruitfull Olive teeming with blessings of a constant and continued peace while they teem'd with fire famine and a thousand inexplicable ruines having now two armies of it's owne sons violating with their hostile steps their Mothers pleasant and plenteous bosome their active spirits like Milstones wanting other matter to imploy their Motion upon being ready to set fire upon themselves And yet few distinctly know the reason of these so sudden and Hydra●-headed confusions In Spaine tyranny in the King at least in his Officers caused the Catalonian revolt the same with hope of liberty that of Portugall here none can accuse the King of that blemish I would we could as easily acquit His Cabinet Councellors nor yet condemne the people that they have falne or doe yet defect their obedience and yet so paradoxicall is this difference all is distraction the King bent against His people and they as naturall justice gives them priviledge resolute to defend themselves not against the King he offers them no violence but to preserve their lives lawes and liberties from the rapine of His evill Ministers who ofttimes render the rule of good and gracious Kings odious to their subjects And if we may beleeve that great Legislator that second Numa of the Romans Cicere that these ought to be accounted good men qui consulta patrum qui leges reipublicae instituta servant Sure ours here are no ill Patriots of their Countrey my Logicke knowing no such nicety of distinction betwixt servare and preservare but that they may be by as direct a title admitted to march under the Ensignes of goodnesse who strive to preserve the Lawes and Constitution of the Common-wealth as they who onely keep them And now without offence if we may positively set downe or at least-wise probably conjecture at the causes of these so lamented distractions wee shall find ours here and those of Spaine if not uno eodem yet valde simili fonte manare to wit the unlimited and infinitely ambitious power of the Clergy The Spanish Nobility and most of the ancient Gentry though nationally and naturally that people is most superstitiously affected to their Clergy then we ever were to ours repining and disdaining to see these men who but yesterday were their Meniall servants to morrow being by their helpe andsuffrage advanced to that supreame Ecclesiasticall dignity demeane themselves as their equals if not superiours nay sitting as it were to use our course old English proverb even cheeke by jowle with Majesty and swaying if not a wing that Most of the King of Spaines Cabinet Counsellors bating his favourite Olivares the Constable and Adelantado of Castile who enjoy that honour by the priviledge of their offices being Church-men the Kings and those Noblemens ghostly Fathers And undoubtedly where they have so great a tye over mens minds as the knowledge of their consciences they must needs have a