Gibeonites when they deceived Joshua as for allowing or not allowing the King 's meniall Servants 'T is no doubt but the King should be well served if such a Coxcombe as Prinne had Authority to chuse his Servants Page 15. Parliaments have power above Magna Charta I believe Parliaments have power if there be cause to repeale Statutes either in Magna Charta or any other Lawes but though Parliaments have this power yet I would have Master Prinne to understand that Conventicles and factions Assemblies have no such Authority except they steale and usurpe it Page 24. he falls to his old vomit and taxeth his Majesty with English Irish Scottish French and Germane Papists and that they are whole Armies of them maintained by his Majesty against his good Subjects of which you are none therefore you need not feare Page 32. The Parliament hath unwillingly taxed and plundered men your Votes Imprisonments Banishments and Robberies committed dayly on the persons and goods of such as were his Majesties loyallest Subiects they being all firme Protestants and your Mandates and large rewards to the Thieves and Plunderers with your Receits and sale of the stolne goods to strangers Amster-damnable Iewes other forraigners and unnaturall Natives who have either bought the said goods for money with which mony you have maintained this Rebellion or truckd and barterd it for other Commodities as you have done lately with the Hollanders for Butter Cheese Fish c. by these Practices of Robbery and Tyranny it is apparent how unwillingly this Thing called a Parliament hath and dayly doth Tax and plunder In his 33. Pag. he speakes truth That by the same power the Parliament had to raise an Army without the King by the same power they may raise mony to maintaine it which is as much as to say by the same power they had to be Rebells by the same power they might Murder Rob Plunder Ransack and ruinate His Majesties true Leige people and by the same power you have made bold to doe the like with all his Majesties Honours Mannours Royalties and Revenues all which you have done by the same power and liberall grants of that bountifull Potentate who offered to give all the Kingdomes of the world to our Saviour Pag. 34. He taxeth His Majesty with placing of Popish Governours in his Garrisons and such Commanders in his Armies indeed you are not to be blamed much for your being greived at those Governours and Commanders because through God's assistance by them and their good directions you have been often times greivously beaten and questionlesse they are not quite out of your debts except you mend your manners they are such just paymasters that they will pay you all also every body will not beleive that all are Papists whom you please to call so Now I come to the survey of his ample Appendix wherein at the first he rakes up Romes Foundation and to small purpose he hales Romulus Remus Numa Pompilius and all the Heathen Kings and Emperours out of their Vrnes and Tombes then he hath a bout with the East and Westerne Empires and all their wicked Emperours with their Tragicall ends In his 11. Pag. he blaspheamously outfaceth S. Paul and his Doctrine both Rom. 13. 1. to 6. That Kings are Subjects to the highest powers which highest powers Prinne interpretes to be the people take heed though you have the pestilent art to make Law to be no Law and stealing to be no theft yet it is dangerous to pervert or juggle with holy writ But why doe I cast away admonition upon an Atheisticall railing Rabshekah who hath perverted wrung wrested construed and mis-applied the Patriarks Prophets Apostles yea Christ himselfe Pag. 12. he presents the miseries of the unfortunate and perfidious King Zedechias how his children were murdered before his face his eyes put out and after how he was carried Prisoner in Chaines to Babylon Also he mentions many other deplorable deaths and disasters that fell upon divers Kings and Princes All which Testimonies and presidents are so applyed as nothing else but Treason and Villany can be found in the applications In the 14. pag. he is saild into Sparta amongst the Kings of the Lacedemonians and there he makes enquirie how many of them have been brought to untimely ends In pag. 15. he tells us how the Sabeans confined their Kings to their Pallaces and used to stone them if they went out of their bounds without leave But your Scholars the Tumultuous Rabble did in Routes and Roguish Assemblies with cudgells march with their Tatterdmallians against White-Hall when his Majesty was there last Pag. 18. 19. and so to pag. 51. He runs through all the History of France to finde proditorious presidents to prove Treason to be Lawfull in England pag. 51. he makes a skip into Spaine and doth as much there pag. 60. he hath found out a Kingdome of Oreida and that there many of the Kings were deposed or Murdered pag. 62 and 63. he travells Aragon and Navarre and from thence into Castile Portugall Cordova Vallencia Granado Gallicia pag. 80. he is got into Hungaria pag. 82. he is in Bohemia pag. 85. you may have him in Poland pag. 89. he is making a privy search in Denmark pag. 98. he forrageth through Sweden pag. 99. he makes a step into Assyria Cyprus Lombardia Naples and Venice and in the 100. pag. he is come backe into Scotland and there he tarries raking up all the Treasons in that Kingdome from the raigne of Fergusius their first King till these mad bad times which theam he followes to the 112. pag. Then he postes into Asia amongst the Kings of the Gentiles Israel and Iudah He is now in Persia feasting with Ahasuerus and presently you have him in Babylon eating Grasse like an Asse with Nebuchadnezzer from whence he makes a spirt to see King Darius and kindely he visites Daniel in the Lyons Den. Thus you may perceive how nimble and active this Gentleman hath been to play the Kennell-raker in grubling in all the nasty common Sewers and contagious Dung-hills of damnable Treasons and perfidious Treacheries in all the Kingdomes of the World malitiously and purposely to defend maintaine and countenance this odious Rebellion now on foot in England And it is to be conceived that he could never have Travelled from Region to Region and from Realme to Realme with such Celerity and Subitorie quicknesse but that he had the helpe of some Mephostophilus or Familiar or else he bought begged or stole some Windes from a Lapland Witch without which aydes from the Instruments of his Grand Maister Don Diabolo he could never have flowne to and fro to so many Territories to fetch mischiefe hither Pag. 125. He saith David was made King by Gods Appointment and the Peoples Election I tell thee thou Owleiglasse if thou didst understand what thou sayest thou wouldest say somewhat more understandingly to be understood for if thou note what God himselfe saith to David by the
at large with my pen made this short following abstract Roome for an old empty Pageant drawne by the Trojan or Graecian Horse or rather by Sinon the inventer of that wodden Palfrey But this Beast claimes his pedigree from Bucephalus and hath had his eares twice Crop'd to bring him into the Capitall Roundnesse of the Fashion and known to be so full of mettle was mark't least he should be stolne with two brands in the cheeks he braggs further to be descended from Baalams Asse and overdoes his Predecessor in Imitation for that Asse did reprove but one Prophet for which he had a large Commission but this animall Sawcily reproves all the Prophets without Wit Reason Sense Order or lawfull Commission This worthily mark't Iennet like the Egyptian Asse that carried the Goddesse Isis so all the usurping Major Penningtons Magazin are inclosed in Prinnes four bookes or parts of the Soveraigne power of Parliaments Ordered to be printed by the Fornicating Brownist M. Iohn White and confirm'd by the New broad Scale lately opened by himselfe And although three of those partes of his foure being eighty six sheets printed close in large Quarto hath been soberly solidly and fully answered in lesse then one leafe in Quarto by too worthy a writer for him to Reply upon yet he still Brayes alowd like Apulcius his Asse cries out no man dares or can answer him because it is done by Weight and not by Number like a Scold at Billinsgate is ready to cry for anger because no body will scold with him wherefore to salve or plaister the poore scorned wranglers credit as also to save his longing for this once who desires to see his own picture by Reflection in a looking Glasse Sirrah Boy bring me hither my pensill for I have all the foure feet of the Beast sure enough in the Trammels that he can doe no hurt with Kicking and his mouth is muzzled with his new Great or Broad Scale that he is sure enough for Biting and therefore let him frisk and wince and bray as long and loud as he list I will rub the Gall'd jade till he be sensible and either cure him or make him see that there is no way but one for him and that ere long his skinne must come to Gregory the whit tayer and to that purpose like a Dutch Limmer I thus draw my first line in the just Simmetry and therefore have at the fore-leg of the beast on the neare side as it is delineated in his first part of his Soveraigne or Power of Parliaments First Sir to ommit your Imbost swolne Tiles to your four good parts which are like the Gates of Mindus large enough for the whole towne to run out at I come to the preface of your first part wherein you say That some Members of Parliament Induced you to enlarge that part of your Discours In this you are beleivd for by you it was produc'd by them you were Induc'd and by the Divell you were seduced both to begin prosecute and finish the whole frame and form of your formlesse falsities and fooleries besides it is not to be imagined that any true Christian Protestant or Loyall Subject would either have induced encouraged approved and rewarded your impious Studies and Voluminous paines taking but only some of the sweet Members thus farre I allow you In the thirty second line of the preface you Protest before the Great Iudge of Heaven Earth that you have wittingly maintaind nothing but what your judgement and Conscience both Byassed to no Sinister ends Rub Rub hold Biasse that which followeth will shew the Reader what your Bias'd IUDGEMENT CONSCIENCE is And in the sixty first line he protests againe That the effecting and restoring of a blessed Harmony of Peace and Quietnesse throughout our Kingdom was one principall end of this his Labour The end of your Labour will certifie us the care you have in observing the truth of your great protestations And so much for your preludium face or preface Now I proceed to the first of your 4. Good parts On his first part of his Soveraigne power of Parliaments In the second pag. 't is said that by A Declaration in Parliament that is by a Faction in Parliament Commissions are granted to Papists against Law to secure the King in these Warres And pag. 3. that it is unsafe for his Maiesty to put Armes into the hands of papists and make use of them to protect the Kings person or Crowne The Declaration we confesse was out but neither in nor out by or from any power or Authority of a Parliament for all the world knowes that a Parliament is the highest and most Supream Court of greatest power Veneration Dignity and Authority to which all other Courts must submit and from which Court there is no appeale on Earth Furthermore a Parliament doth Consist of a King all the Peeres Barons of the Land with the Knights Burgesses of every County Burrough and Towne in the Kingdome such a Parliament hath Soveraigne power whereof and wherein the King is the Heade the two Houses of Lords Commons are the Body which as long as the Head and Body are joyned is the only highest and Superlative Court and hath the whole Soveraigne power in it and such an honourable high yea highest Court and Senate was this till such time as some Factious Members by suffering Clamours Routes disloyal demeanours and Tumultuous Assemblies and meetings drave away the head to escape danger seek safety whereby partes of the honourable and Loyallest Members followed leaving behind them a few Factious Ambitious Rebellious Sectaries who having no Head or scarce a good limbe doe with headlesse and heedlesse impudence presume to call themselves a Parliament And you Sir with your Inck-squittering Treacherous Pamphlets are the maine proppe and piller to uphold the soveraign unsavoury power of their Factious Conventicles And thus have I breifly shewed thee what is and what is not a Parliament And therefore the Declaration aforesaid is from the power of no Parliament but that the King by their leave may make use of His Popish subjects as the pretended Parliament did without the Kings leave of Ireish Rebells slaine at Worcester and their popish Walloones maintain'd to have Masse at Fulham but according to your Rule M. P. one must aske his fellow if he be a theife let you and your abetters be your own Iudges hange ye all if you condemn your selves the case is altered when Ploydens Bull is in the pound I would have thee know that a papist is a thing that would live and hath the sense to flee from danger and some wit to avoyd it he hath also the skill meanes and courage to fight and defend himselfe and he holds it better to serve his King under whom he hath security and shelter as long as he is Loyall then to be inthral'd by you from whom he can expect nothing but Ruin and destruction Concerning your
this Parliament may do and defend the like Proceed with your Popish practices and positions and fulfill the iniquity of your forefathers yet you do not so politickely as you were wont to let the People see whence you derive your pretended Authority for abusing your present Prince Take heed least they take up the Proverbe We have put down one Pope and set up many Moreover in pag. 27. line 7. It was told King Richard the Second that if he absented from the Parliament forty dayes not being sicke they might by Law rise or breake up Though you have no more power to dissolve than call a Parliament I pray who forbids you to take the benefit of that Law who holds you but you may rise and break up It cannot be said but you have risen with a witnesse to such an height of impiety and Rebellion as no age or Nation can parallell and for your breaking up it hath been superlative for there is no Law of God or Nature or Nations but you have broken up and down too and if Treason Murder Burglary Felony were accounted any breaking of Lawes amongst you and that you should all have legall Trials for those Crimes The Lord have mercy upon you there are but few of you that could be saved by your Book therefore let your factious Conventicle rise and go home to their houses when they please the King hath been absent from them more than five times forty dayes for it is almost two yeares since they drove Him from them therefore they may rise and yet never break up any Parliament I remember in pag. 28. line 15. the Cheshire men are much beholding to Master Prinne for calling them Rude and beastly People I wish you would go in person thither and tell them so because they tendred themselves as a Guard for the person of King Richard the Second in a time of Rebellion for which they are honoured ever since with the Proverbe of Cheshire chiefe of men Pag. 33. to p. 42. His Arguments are concerning the power of Parliaments and that the whole Parliament is greater than the King alone They are such absurd equivocations as although he still followes the footsteps of his Fathers the Papists yet his Brethren the Jesuites would be ashamed of such kinde of arguing and therefore he doth wisely to conceale their Association for who knowes not that the Parliament that is to say the King the Head and the two Houses the Members assembled together have a Soveraigne and transcendent Power and excelling Dignity but it followes not therefore that the two Houses considered apart from their Soveraigne much lesse a few Members a small parcell of that part are of like eminency and authority no more than it followes Master Burton a Divine Doctor Bastwicke a Phisitian and Master Prinne an utter-Barrester stood all on the Pillory and lost their eares in one and the same houre for one and the same Crime of railing slandering and seditious libelling therefore Master Burton Doctor Bastwicke and Master Prinne have all three one and the same soule suffered all in one and the same Body Bastwicke and Burton lost their eares for Prinne by way of sympathy or co-ordination because Prinnes Eares were lost long before and so se invicem supplent and any two of them have all the capacities of all three the Divine and Phisitian make a Lawyer the Lawyer and Phisitian make a Divine and the Divine and Lawyer make a perfect Phisitian this is Prinnes Logicke by which he may prove his halfe Eares to be whole ones and the Five Members to have as much power as both Houses In pag. 42. for his Answer to the Objection concerning the Kings absence from Parliament affirming that He is absent as a man but present as a King it is as learned as that is loyall which justifies the shooting bullets at Him in his personall capacity yet obeying Him in his Regall capacity and I believe both had their originall from the same Master of Sentences The Spirit of the Aire which rules in the hearts of such children of disobedience In pag. 44. 45. Concerning his Arguments from Scripture I will say no more but when the Fox preaches beware your Geese for I am sure the Devill had his Scriptum est it is written as well as he wrests mangles and misapplies it as ill as ever did the Devill If any Diraan please to search he shall finde that the Devill hath but his due in this triall betwixt Master Prinne and himselfe Pag. 46. to 112. As for his Law and Law-bookes let him look them over again if he took them not upon trust as he doth the rest of his Learning from Indexes Glossaries Covels Interpreter Lexicon Juris c. And he shall finde that they never attributed the most absolute and supremest Power of Head and Bodie to use his own phrase to the Parliament but when it is a perfect true Parliament consisting of the Head the King as well as of the Bodie the Houses nor would any man that is not as headlesse as Prinne is earlesse have been so heedlesse in his own Authours let all men that mean to be coozened become Prinnes Clients he shall vouch Book-law enough but not one law-case to the purpose witnesse his instances of the Parliament lawfully deposing the King and of the Parliaments power to dispose the Kingdome to what Family they please and the like he that wants a Kingdome let him come to Prinnes market he will affoord large penniworths now he sets Kingdomes to sale any man may buy one or if he misse he shall be sure to have Bulls enough at a cheape rate Pag. 51. lin 33. He saith King Edward the Confessour took his Oath at his Coronation upon the Euangelists and blessed Reliques of S. S. what is all that to King Charles indeed Prinne and his Members are worthy to have a King that will sweare by Reliques for with a most treacherous diffidence they will not believe a most gracious Christian King that hath often sworne and protested by the true Almighty God to defend and maintain the true Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land the Subjects Libertie and Right with all the Priviledges of Parliaments all which Oathes and Protestations his Majesty hath never broke though a crew of perfidious Villaines do slander Him most traiterously with the aspish venome of their viperous Tongues the pestiferous poyson bawl'd belch'd and vomited from hireling Schismaticall Preachers and the Presses being opprest with printing of infamous Lyes and Libells for which no doubt but your great Master the Burgesse of Barathrum as sure as George Peard is Burgesse of Barstaple who set you on worke will not faile to pay you your wages In pag. 52. that William Conquerour took his Oath before the Altar of the Apostle S. Peter this is as suitable stuffe as the rest but me thinkes Prinne should not name an Altar without an H. and if the Apostle knew you gave
Rome and yet he cannot deny that Saint Paul appeal'd to Caesar from whom there was no appeale In the 112 and last page he calls the Rebells that the Kings Forces took at Ciceter good People he complaines much of their hard usage I think he meanes because they were not hanged it was winter he saies and that they were forced to goe barefooted in Triumph to Oxford truly we are beholding to your Faction for the kind entertainment you have given to the Kings good Subjects when you have taken them you have either lovingly cut their Throats in cold blood or courteously hang'd thē or hospitably famish'd them freely imprisoned them bountifully rob'd and plunder'd them and favourably banish'd ruin'd and undone them and all this and more you have done for the Liberty of the Subject by the command of the Publique Faith Moreover he saies that the good People from Cirencester were Chain'd together with Ropes that 's a Bull Sir I doubt not but there will come a time when young Grigge shall teach thee in a trice with a trick that he hath what the difference is betweene a Chaine and a Rope and so I leave Repeating and Paraprasing any more on Prinnes most matchlesse first of his foure Proditorious parts The Reader may wonder why I spend no more Paper about the first part and I doubt all his whole Book is not worthy of so much But I assure you when I had surveyed every limbe of the Monster and pared of the excrescences I had much adoe to finde thus much considerable matter in it yet I am resolved to doe him the honour and afford him the patience to view his second part if it be but for love to his new Hebrew word the Militia for if his Brethren understood that it were Latine the language of the Beast they would never endure the use of it An Answer to Prinnes second Part of his Soveraigne Power of Parliament IN his Preface he complaines of Ignorance ah ungratious Boy dost thou raile against thy Mother in such as understand not a Parliament and that his Books he hopes will be get a firme Peace Indeed he that made light out of darknesse is able to produce good out of evill but how Prinnes Bookes stuffed as full of lies as lines wherein every word breathes Treason every syllable incites to Rebellion and the whole Chaos and confused masse of it is an unshap'd lump of all the Villanies Assassinations Murders Treasons Rebellions Deposings Imprisonments and all the calamities that hath befalne to infortunate Kings and Princes in all Nations either Christians or others since the worlds creation at least as much as his treacherous studious search could finde out he hath pack'd and hudled together purposely to root out and ruinate His sacred Majesty and Royall Posterity to raise a never ending Contention and to make His Majesties Dominions perpetuall fields of blood these are the marrow pith and intention of M. Prinnes sweet Peace-making Bookes At the latter end of his Preface he uses a piece of the Letanie saying Good Lord deliver us But I wish him to take heed that it come not to the hearing of the Members or the Close Committee that he spake such words for then he will be mistaken for a Protestant and so excluded from all grace favour and community with the godly Pag. 3. In this second part you may finde out of Prinnes owne Confession First conveniency second necessity and thirdly custome all concurring for the Kings ordering of the Militia Take heed M. Prinne what you say for if M. Saint-Johns and your Masters of the highest lower House heare you they may perhaps occasion a conference betwixt you and Tom Nash his Ghost to be cryed up and downe the streets as they dealt with your betters before you and if your good Mistresses in London understand it farewell all further Contribution your late Triumphant Bayes will be turn'd to Funerall Ewghe and if you can mend the matter no better then you doe by begging the Question and arguing so barrenly to wit that it must be granted that the whole power of his Majesty and his Predecessors in the Militia was derived from the Parliament This stuffe he treates on from the third pag. to the twelfth wherein he crosses all that he saies in the third pag. formerly repeated but if you can confirme your fine flourishes no better then by Equivocations Amphibologies and mysticall Sophisticall Fallacies by one while taking the Parliament for King and People as in the usuall sense it ought to be taken and the Lawes made by them all And another while making use of the word Parliament in your owne sense onely for the two Houses in contradiction to the King your Grant must be onely to have and to hold sixe foot in Knaves Acre under an overthwart beame for you hate the name of the Crosse on the highest Promontorie in the Province of Foolciana or if it light in the line of Communication as a speciall part of that Province is scituated neare to them then your Grant may be to have as much roome for your Quarters as you had for your Eares and that your Head may be mounted on London Bridge and made one of the overseers of the City which by your writings seemes to be a speciall part of your Ambition I am sure a just Reward of your most unmatchable undertakings Pag. 12. As for the consequence of denying His Majesty the Militia and of the Parliaments seizing upon Hull with other Ports Forts the Royall Navy Armes Ammunition Revenues and detaining them still from His Majesty which you say His Majesty and all Royalists must necessarily yeild nay you should have entreated to have them yeilded out of curtesie for else you can never inforce them are not his but the Kingdomes in point of Right and Interest they being first transferd to and placed in his Predecessors and himselfe by Parliament Here is an excellent proofe Weaker then that of Tenterton Steeple being the cause of Goodwine Sands for say those Logitians there were no such dangerous Sands before that Steeple was built or sunke so that Steeple was the cause of those Sands but I can conclude more directly and contrariò as thus The Kings of England had alwayes power over the Militia ever since England had a King there But there was a King of England before there was any Parliament and so soon as there is story of any people in England Therefore the Parliament gave not the King of England power over the Militia If the story of Brute be true my Maior cannot be false if any Chronicle of England be true my Minor will not faile how then the conclusion can be denyed I perceive not except in the disputation betwixt the Collier and the Divell which I leave to Prinnes Logick to resolve and reduce the Contradictory by Impossibility which if he doe not in Celarent he cannot escape doing it in Bocardo where I leave him to read
over his Fleta it may teach him more Law and Conscience then to excuse the Rebellion in England by a Rebellion in Ireland of their owne making as that is the best colour which yet this Brazen face can cast upon it Pag. 25. and 26. he comes upon us with a drove of Bulls of his owne usuall Breeding That the Parliament meaning the two Houses onely cannot be guilty of Treason secondly that the Statutes against Treason extends not to them thirdly that they are greater then the King fourthly that the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy bind onely in Relation to the Pope and Forreigne States but not with reference to the Houses or onely out of Parliament time not whilest the Parliament is sitting These are such Mockado Fustian Non sense and such silly Childish shufflings as that the sense in plaine English is to say That the King hath Authority against other Princes but no power over his owne Subjects or that those in his owne Realmes are his Soveraignes and other Soveraignes are his Subjects or when he consults the most carefullest for the good of his Kingdomes he desires to be required by being unking'd by them such strange Paradoxes absurd Solesismes and monsters of Policy Morality Reason Nature and Religion are the off-spring of this new State Emperick who perhaps expects other applause or at the least Approbation as he is assured of his owne Narcissian admiration onely because he sees but the shadow understands not the substance of what he superficially delineates by a Pen that drops Poyson instead of Inke to support the pretended Feares and Iealousies by an enumeration and malitious interpretation of all the acts of Iustice since the third yeare of his now Majesties Raigne upon those who were restrained from bringing this Rebellion sooner to the Birth give Prinne but such another Fee as he had at his Triumphall Returne to London and he will be an Advocate for those in the third of Iacobi and for those in the 13 of Queene Elizabeth yea for Ravilliac Iudas and Lucifer for all were but Rebells and Traitors onely one was a little elder then the other Thus from the 25 pag. to the 40. he reckons up a pack of grievances wherewith the Subject was charged which were all redressed long agoe assoone as His Majesty was rightly certified of them but no Acts of Grace can procure an expiation from inexorable Master Prinne But why trouble I my selfe to satisfie one whom Reason cannot satisfie one whom no Protestations or Oathes of Princes no Acts of Grace or Statutes past in Parliament can satisfie and therefore let him rest unsatisfied till he be hanged He is ill to trust who will trust no body the Proverbe tells us yet for this once let him goe on give him Rope enough and he will hang himselfe In his 40 pag. he saith the King hath no power to chuse his Privy Councellors but Prinne and his Magnificent Members would have the chusing and authorizing of new Privy Counsellors and Officers of State for those he tells us his Vtopian Parliament hath power to appoint yet the King may not chuse or appoint any of them their servants he should have added in time of Rebellion In pag. 41 to 64. and so from thence to 65 and 79 he prates to little or no purpose that the King hath no Negative Voyce but what the undeceived Majesty of the vulgar Captaine Highshoes and Colonell Mawworme and their companions please to propose must be granted who till those can agree whether the Lord Say or the right horrible Kimbolton shall be Protector his Excellency or the Lady Waller high Constable of England Pym or Prinne for I hope he will not plead all this while for other folkes and forget himselfe Lord Keeper of the new great Seale Sergeant Wilde or Speaker Lenthall Master of the Rolls Burton or Marshall Archbishop for that calling would be as lawfull in one of their hands as the Court of Wards was when the Lord Say was Master of it Peard Glinne or Prideaux chiefe Iustices Feilding or Stamford for they are both vertuous and thrifty men Lord Treasurer I would entreat Warwicke to provide for his owne and their security in the Admirall Ship of Fooles and wish a faire Gale for them as farre as New-England till they shall learne more sincerity in Religion more loyalty to their Soveraigne more charity to their Christian Brethren and Prinne cease falsifying and perverting Records Presidents and Allegations and then a Property maker hath promised to restore his Eares againe in the meane time let him confesse himselfe worthily Branded for Falsifying Lying and Slandering even Scandala Magnatum Forgerie False witnesse bearing Perjury and all manner of Villany with which his Bookes swarme as thick as the lower House doore did with Brownists Anabaptists at the beginning of this Parliament or as Westminster-Hall and the Pallace yard did with Tumults before the death of the Earle of Strafford or the putting the Bishops out of the House or as the high wayes and streets did with Puritan Punks when Prinne and his fellowes St Rebells return'd from Limbo to be Canoniz'd at London which City they have ever since transform'd to be a Hell upon Earth Further to roote the seduced people in dislike of his Sacred Majesty and to make them Irrevocable Rebels as also to blast the Integrity of his Majesties Royall Person his Honourable Councellours and Servants he names Ganestone and the Spencers Empson and Dudley and others that were displaced by Parliaments for Delinquencie 't is right William but those Parliaments had proofes for what they did and the King was with them and confirm'd their censures but you are not so much as the bares Skelliton of a Parliament which if it were a full Body yet it wants a head therefore all your Votes and censures are Headlesse Page 48. his running head talkes of a Parliament in Running Mead near Windsor wherein King John Assented to such Acts of setling and securing Magna-Charta and all other good Lawes and Liberties formerly granted I tell thee Prinne that King Iohn did well in so Assenting to his Peeres and Commons for then and there their requests were just and Lawfull neither did King Charles a more Christian and surer Titled King then King Iohn ever deny his Royall Assent to any just request for the Redresse of greivances releife of His Subjects and Tranquillity of his Kingdomes Page 55. He hath a fling at Alice Pierce King Edward the Third's Concubine 't is marvell that Rosamond and Jane Shore scap'd him and it had been as congruent for him to have brought in Lais Thais Faustine Messalina and all the rabble of royall and base Whores that have been since the Creation for what though Alice Pierce being her selfe proud of the favour of so puissant a King did sometimes with impudent and uncivill behaviour intrude her selfe to sit with the Iudges on the Bench to countenance and preferre some private Causes for her own ends
or her friends to which I answer that the Iudges were either bribed Knaves or timorous Fooles in suffering such a Coapesmate to sit with them upon any termes of right or wrong But to what purpose this Gentlewoman who was dead and rotten 250 yeares before King Charles was borne should be raked up as a Testimony against Him now this is a meere Riddle to me and is a taske for an Oedipus onely to unfold Page 75. The King cannot by his Prerogative lay the least Tax upon any of his Subjects but I pray what authority or Prerogative have you and your potent Members to rob spoile and plunder the King and all his good Subjects who is so just mercifull and chaste that neither the Devill nor any of the Members have dared to say the contrary there 's a bone for thee to picke Page 78. Prinne like an unmannerly Fellow calls the famous Generall Jack Cade Rebell and Traitour I pray Sir moderate your passion for me thinkes fellowes should agree and when Thieves fallout c. You know the Proverbe In page 79. That the affirming the Petition of Right the Bills for Trienniall Parliaments the continuance of this the Acts against Ship-money Forest bounds illegall new-invented grievances and oppressions the Statutes for suppression of Star-chamber High Commission Knighthood Bishops Votes although the King hath done all these and more yet this Scarrab Cadworme sayes that The King's Grace is not eclipsed to say They are no Acts of Grace but Acts of Oath Duty Law and Conscience Thus doth this filthy Varlet most traiterously beslubber the goodnesse and gracious favours of a matchlesse and unparalleld Christian King And thus you have the summe and substance of his second part of the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments Vpon his third part of the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments ALthough his third and fourth parts are already answered by the learned Sir John Spelman Knight Doctour Fearne and Master Digges too reverend and able Pennes to take notice of the name of such a prinnified prurigenous Puppy from whom he stole his rationall and Theologicall Passages nothing being his own but the out-facing with a multitude of pretended Testimonies haled in as he teacheth his Clients to hire Knights of the Poste to witnesse that which they know nothing of saving I say that there is nothing that concernes England but the same again quoth Mark a Belgrave to the Tune of Anthony now now the old Song still like the last houre and halfe of a Puritan Sermon or one of his long-winded Traverses of Burton's Apology or Bastwickes Letany in stead of a plea or answer withouten that the aforesaid Henry Burton at Friday-street aforesaid in the manner and forme aforesaid did beate his wife aforesaid by reason of the independent sister aforesaid to beat out the evill spirit aforesaid and withouten that it was for the lust aforesaid or withouten that the said John Bastwicke Doctour of Phisicke aforesaid was so over-run with the Morbus Gallicus aforesaid that when he was a Captain in the Rebellion aforesaid at the Newarke in Leicester aforesaid he was not able to get up to his horse aforesaid without a stoole aforesaid and withouten that William Prinne aforesaid in the Church-lane there aforesaid in the Assembly of Adamites aforesaid exercised his gifts aforesaid to the edification of the Sisters aforesaid who gave him the Gold aforesaid and in the feare of God joyned in the Rebellion aforesaid as they will be ready to averre and maintain but never to prove any thing if those his Bookes have not sufficiently proved it yet for all this I will afford him the honour to shame him in answering of his third part and thus I begin This third part he begins to magnifie Treason in his delicate Dedication most loyally to three Arch-Rebells namely the Lord Fairfax and the two Knights Williams Waller and Breerton wherein he stiles them Deservedly Renowned Worthies calles their valour zeale activity and industry incomparable you should have said their Rebellion too 't is confest that their invisible Victories have been many and miraculous and their being often beaten hath been apparently perspicuous and manifest for which they have been jeared with Publique Thankesgivings as Master Prinne makes himselfe merry with mocking them in his foisting Epistle and it is not possible that these three Worthies should be so threed-bare in their understandings or that their wits should be so stupified as not to perceive this fellowes flouting flattery as for their Victories we do rather pitty than envy and concerning the Worthies I have seen nine of their Figures or Pictures in Haberdashers Shops and Tavernes hanged up to garnish the roomes but Master Prinnes three Worthies shall not be hanged up in a private roome or shop a large field is fittest for such mighty Martialists And for the valour of those three Worthies it was never known that the Lord Fairfax struck a blow except it were to his Tailer or his Footman and for Sir William Waller he hath been so happy that he was never wounded but onely in his reputation But O O Sir William Breerton noble valiant singular supereminent couragious Sir William Breerton I could laugh heartily were I once so happy as to see him within halfe a mile of a Battaile O sweet face most amiable Sir William Breerton In his Preface to the Reader he saith he hath been alwayes a cordiall endeavourer of Peace as right as my legge John Jarret you might as well have said Rope-ye-all Halter-ye-all as cordiall In his third Page he seemes to invite his Majesty to visit the Parliament and tells Him and all loyall Subjects by an old President what kinde entertainment He might expect for he saith that Julius Caesar was in the Capitol stabbed and murdered by the Senate with no lesse than twenty three wounds Sir your kinde invitation shall not be forgotten I assure you it is one of most the significant passages and explanations of your Loyaltie in all your whole Books Page 5. That the King hath denuded himselfe of all Regall Authority this shall passe for one of your small Treasons wherein you shew the denuded nakednesse of your Byass'd Judgement and conscience page 3. This liberall Gentleman proclaimes liberty and plenarily leave to rebell He releaseth all his Majesties Subjects from their Allegiance surely thou hast made a League with Sin Death and Hell and they have blinded thee so that thou canst neither see what thou sayest or understand what thou writest Thou givest the King's Subjects leave to cast off their Allegiance and they give thee leave to be hanged to requite thy curtesie but thou and thy Members of Maintenance must and shall know that all the King 's loyall Subjects do understand that the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy made to their Soveraigne is such a tye and security as it is the onely chain upon earth except love to binde the consciences of men and to hold humane society together from which Oathes though
Prophet Nathan 2. Sam. 12. 7. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel I anointed thee King over Israel and I delivered thee out of the hands of Saul where is the peoples Election here God saith he chose him from the sheepfold to be a King Psal 78. 71. and seeing God did chuse and anoint David King I must crave M. Prinnes leave to beleeve the people did it not but it is certaine that David was made King by Gods onely Assignation and that he that made the Peoples hearts did also give them grace with unanimous consent to be obedient to his Ordinance so that with loud shoutes and acclamations of Ioye the people exprest their Loyalties and loves at Davids Coronation in which they had no Election at all as this pretender pretends Pag. 127. That God and Davids designation of Solomon to the Crowne did not take away the Peoples Liberty Right and Power to elect and nominate their Kings my sweet Stercucian prudent Prinne neither God or David did ever take that Liberty Right and Power from the People for the people never had any such priviledge or prerogative to elect and nominate and therefore such Right and Power which they never had was never taken from them Pag. 146. he names Zimri Omri and other Parricides and Homicides Vsurpers Rebells and Castawayes these he brings in to fill up the measure Pag. 149. is cram'd as full of Treasons and Revileings as he was able to put in till he comes to the 153 pag. and there he tells me old newes How Darius set Princes over his Kingdomes and Provinces And that Nebuchadnezzer set Daniel over the Province of Babylon let the Reader judge if Prinne doth not give himselfe the Lie How dares this Varlet alleadge that King Charles hath not Power to set Deputies and Lievtenants over His Dominions and Provinces or to chuse His Privy Councellors Officers of State Trust and Meniall Servants and yet he confesseth that two Heathen Kings Darius and Nebuchadnezzar had power to doe it and did it and for any thing that I can perceive those Kings had power so to doe and did use that power without asking their Subjects leave or consent From pag. 154. to 160. he brings in Chimeraes Whimseyes and meere Connundrums in such store as they would furnish sixe French and Italian Mountebanks to vent their sophisticated Oyles Vnguents Drugges Album Greaka or black white Dogges daâ—es Pag. 177. he saies that a Prince or Lord of a Country are not Princes without Subjects very right if a King hath no Subjects then he is no bodies King but you and your Comrades would have no King and therefore by that rule you are no Subjects or I am sure no good ones From pag. 177. to 186. he makes a long Relation of the causes why the Netherlandish Provinces fell from the King of Spaine as suitable to his purpose as Mustard and Mince-pye together and then he brings in Julian the Apostate slaine by a Christian Souldier Pag. 188. That the Pope and Prelates alone without the consents of Parliament Peeres or People have deposed and judged Hereticall and Tyrannicall Kings to death and devote them to Assassination This is but crowding upon the old fidle because the Pope hath done so to wicked Kings therefore you will take a devillish power somewhat worse then a Popish to supplant and ruinate a Just King and His Posterity Pag. 189. he presents Tarquin Nero Vitelius their banishments and deathes Pag. 204. That Queen Elizabeth did ayde and succour Protestants that lived in other Countries and that the King of Spaine did the like for Romane Catholiques This is Prinnes Foble Boble as plaine as a Pack-staffe I wish that he and his Tribe would imitate that good Queen and succour the Protestants and not destroy and begger them dayly as they doe Pag. 208. he swells and blisters out his Volum with the sentence of degradation and deprivation of Wenceslaus the Emperour as much pertinent as the fift wheele in a Coach Pag. 216. he is vehement in perswading men to be Loyall Rebells to be Valiant true Traitors to persist in their execrable disobedience for which he promises everlasting felicity and lastly he peremptorily concludes all Temporall and Eternall losse dishonour and perpetuall torments to be the Portions of all true Subjects and then he closes with zealous Prayer and Invocation for the continuance maintenance and prosperity of Treason and Rebellion And thus have I delineated or rather Anotomiz'd and disected the foure Quarters of this Monster Now I proceed to his Head and the workes of his Head-peece his Opening of the New Great Seale William Prinnes Opening of his New Great Seale of ENGLAND ADulterate Presidents are very seldome Parents to Legitimate Consequences This New Great Seale is Begotten and Borne into the World lick'd into fashion by Committees Members Votes and Ordinances and Nurst Cherish'd Drest Trick'd and Trim'd by M. Prinne who hath painfully searched through the very Bowells of Antiquity to finde out the originall of Seales and whence his New Seale may lineally derive its first being and pedigree To begin which goodly piece of service he loades his Margine with Notes and Testimonies of Scripture The first marke whereby you may know from whence this Babye is descended he quotes the Signet which Judah left with his daughter in Law Tamar as a Pledge when he had committed Incest or Adultery with her as it is in Gen. 38. A very faire beginning to prove this Seale lawfully borne and bred from Judah's Signet which was left in pawne as a token for Bawderie The second descent of it he proves to be from Theft Covetousnesse and Murder as 1. Kings 21. 8. How Jezabel stole Ahabs Seale and with it sealed counterfeit Letters in the Kings name whereby Naboth was perjuriously accused and Murthered and Ahab had the Vineyard And from that Seale and the notable effects which it produced M. Prinne derives his New Seale and presageth what worthy acts it may produce I will name but one more of his Marginall Testificandums Estber 3. and 12. there he mentions King Ahsuerus his Ring which he delivered to Haman wherewith he sealed an Edict that all the whole Nation of the Iewes young and old that liv'd in the Kings large Dominions 127. Provinces should all be slaughtered in one day But I desire the Reader to take notice that though Haman was a proud ambitious man yet he did use no counterfeit Seale nor usurped any power but what he had from the King but M. Prinne and his Maisters have neither the Kings Seale leave or power to destroy His Subjects and Ruinate His Kingdome but I would not have them to forget and make application too that Haman was hanged although his fault was not Treason But this is another strong Argument what shall become of the Protestants and His Majesties Loyallest Subjects if M. Prinnes new founded Seale were in force and vigour And thus out of his owne Annotations he hath proved
21. 1. Thus have I with lesse than Herculean labour in six dayes cleansed this Augean Stable of all the noysome filth that Prinne had raked in many weeks from all the dung-hils in the world all which Merdurâ—nous Mucke I have laid at the doores of the right Owners viz. Master Prinne and his Members I have been fain to encounter with him in the darke for his Margins hath been so thatched with abused and wrested Authours that as the Grand Signior had so many thousands of Arrowes to shower at once upon the Christians that they obscured the Sunne and darkened the Firmament yet there was roome enough under the shadow of those Arrowes to fight in a good Cause and foile the Turkes so I in the Cymerian umbrage of this Cloud of Testimones have cop'd with him and in the Combate so bruised him that three of his small guts are dislocated the Vertigo taking possession of his pulsive Brain-pan and as I was certified he takes a Diet next his heart every morning five spoonfull of warme Cow-dung mixed with Earwigs compounded Caterpillers and the Marrow of a Salt Bitch so that there is some hope that he will recover but never be his own man again yet he may live longer than a Cat or a Dogge or a better thing If I had had any correspondency with him I could have furnished him with Authours Testimonies Witnesses and Proofes more suitable for his foure Parts and his Great Seale too as Lazâ—â—illâ— de Tormes Don Quixot Gusman de Alfarech Bevis of Hampâ—on The mirrour of Knighthood John Dorry the ancient Bards Druides Peripatetickes Stoickes Epicureans and Gymnosophists these learned Thebanes would have been so suitable to his writings that their authentique Assertions had like a Torrent over-whelmed me so that I had been quite drowned before I could have answered halfe his Soveraigne Powers and for his Great Seale 〈◊〉 been as farre from my knowledge as he and it are from Truth and Realities I 〈…〉 how to mannage and husband this New Great Seale the cheapest and thriftiest way for as yet it is of small force and lesse virtue People do begin to perceive 〈◊〉 they have been coozened with Publique Faith and large promises for great summes which have been and must be paid invisibly and now that by beggerly experience they see how the Game and Geare goes they are unwilling to be sealed for fooles and pay for the sealing too Therefore because it is like to proue a dead market with the New Great Seale and that wax is deare I advise to save that charge and seale with Butter I have heard of Obligations sealed so in the Welch marches or if that thrifty device faile your Seale will make an excellent mould to make Wafer Cakes or cast well kneaded Ginger-â—read in There are divers other necessary uses which it may be put to which I leave to thy grave and ingenious studious consideration How now my running-witted tolling-headed taling tongu'd rattle-brain'd Round-head How likest thou this veâ—â—ie Wilt thou have another bows If thou darest but take up the cudgels once more as good as thou thinkest thy selfe at Defensive Armes I le fetch thee about like a Iack-an-apes over and under his Chaine so that all the Gentlemen Spectatours who shall be Iudges shall not onely passe their sentence on my side that I have sufficiently dry-bastâ—d thee but I will let thy humours bloud for the Simples in the head-vein and break thy Mazzâ—rd so soudly that all the world shall see that thou hast but a craz'd Pericranium and so somewhat commiserating thy distracted condition I in a small degree of true charity leave thy excessive imaginary zeale to farewell and behang'd What should any man say more to his Friend William Prinne A Prophecy A Prophecy concerning the precedent Answer found in a Whirle-poole three Leagues below the bottome of the Ocean by a diver who was sent thither in these times of necessity for Pym's purse which because he found guarded by Hampden's Ghost he could not bring for that had been enough to have redeemed all this Isle except himselfe but he brought this from a pennon whereon it was hanging whilest the Neiades and Nereides were busied about an Ephemerides for perpetuating Bookers Almanacke till Naworths honest just-dealing Prognostication shall make a Comment upon Haly by the last yeares successe and till the Puritan manner of canting Ass-trologers like that of Scriptures shall appeare out of Guido Benatus wherein having told a tale of their troublesome Army he leaves out BUT THE KING SHALL PREVAILE IN THE END And railes upon the Licencer because he put the rest out upon discovery of that his jugling and also they sate in Consultation about proroguing the Confutation if it could be of Prinnes legislative Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and opening the New Broad Seale and divers other speciall pieces of that Minnion and Favourite of Aeolus Neptune Proserpine yea and the Grand Signior Pluto himselfe all which have speciall influence into the occurrents of these Times In the third yeare of the Grand Session of the infernall Plebeians spirits and in the second yeare of the Pigmies Giant-like warring against Heaven when the Furies shall be in Conjunction Beelzebub and Jezabel in a Quartile Aspect Asmodeus ascendant Judas in the second House Lucifer culminant and Balaam Lord of the Assembly the North Pole shall be translated to Troynovant the Constellation called Corona shall be assaulted by Mars and great endeavour shall be to draw it beneath the Moon and one Prinne son of the Centaures mounted to the Spheare of Mercury shall perswade the middle world made giddy with lately running round that all is reduced to the Naturall Motion and the great Platonique yeare returned but Charles Waine driving a contrary way shall force Ixions Wheele to become retrograde and cause a motion of Trepidation in all the Circulatours and Roundheads of Thule and the greatest Antick Island and when this son of the Centaure hath lead the World through foure times foure Signes by an Ignis fatuus more dangerous than that of Phaeton and maintained worse Paradoxes than Copernicus reaching at loves Scepter with the hands of Briareus and scorning Iuno more than Niobe did and seemes to rest secure onely laughed at by Logicians hissed at by the Searchers of Clioes Records and despised by the Priests of love by reason of his false quotations disunderstandings mis-applications blasphemy against God Treasons against the King Arguments drawn from absurdities generall Conclusions drawn from particular examples and from most notable Non-sense that in the Times and Acts of Rebellion parallelld for the most part from and in the Nadir or Altitude of his Pride shall write with the Rayes of a Comet that he hath copiously confuted all Royallists Malignants Papists clamorous Objections and Primitive Exceptions against the Proceedings of this present Parliament in foure severall Treatises lately published concerning the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes which hath given good satisfaction to many and silenced the Tongues and Pennes of most Anti-Parliamenteers who have been so ingenious as seriously to peruse them then shall a holy water Clerke of Thetis contract his Iliades into a rotten nut-shell and inspired with ability rightly to interpret that old Saw of Rabbi Selimon Answer not a foole according to his folly or according to his manner lest thou also be like him Aptly apply the inverted opposite Maxime Answer a foole according to his folly or according to his deserving least he be wise in his own conceit and although Lilbourne the Libeller or a Mushrom hatched by this blazing star in the blacke Night of Sedition and that sincere upright verst man Withers with the rest of the Rabble of railing Poets be retained in fee by the Rebells to write weekly Lyes for them yet Tom Nash his Ghost returning to this Charon with some distilled wilde-fire-water in an inke-horne shall provide such a whip for this proud Horse such a Bridle for this senselesse Asse and such a rod for this mad fooles backe as shall tame Cerberus whose Triple head sounded nothing but the three-syllabled and the three-letterd Lords and barked against the radiant beames of Majesty and shall cause the many heads of Hydra to be mortified and expire in confusion like the Heteroclitall monstrous Body of Five Members shrunke into three and one of them halfe withered too all which shall happen before the end of the first Olympiad of the Lesbian expedition and the Glasconian refining of Reformation this is decreed by the three fatall Sisters confirmed by the three infernall Iudges and entred into the Bookes of the foure times three Sybills in the Publique Hall of Contingency 7000 yeares before the imagination of Eternity POSTSCRIPT I Would not have Prinne or his dismembred divided Masters Memorable Memberhoods to imagine me so sterill as to be all this while pumping to answer his Traiterous lying Pamphlets but let him and them know that this my Booke was written in October last 1643. when their Saviour Pym was alive which had he then been dead I had not mentioned many alterations have happened since my writing and the printing part of it before the end of December last but I being extremely stroken lame and the Presse and Printers full of worke of greater consequence than to curry Crop-ear'd Iades till now and as I have formerly handled Booker the Proditorious Prediction-monger and Mr Prinne the unutterable utter Barrester or rather the Kingdomes Common Embarrater so have I also written Answers to the nimble villanious quicke pretty little witted Mercurius Britanicus the Scottish Dove Pigeon or Widgeon the Scout and all the Rabble of lying railing Rascals and Rebells all these things are laid like rods in pisse till I can get them printed and could I but have meanes and the Presse leasure I dare undertake with my poore Goose quill to stop the mouthes or cut the throates of all the seditious Pulpitteers and roguish Pamphletteers in England or else I would lose my labour FINIS
him his just Title of Saint it is unknown how kindly he would take it but diminitive mighty Isaak with your Task-masters the Members that set you on worke would utterly dislike your utter Barrestership for daring to Saint any Apostle or Saint whom they by their Votes have unsainted Pag. 79. He urges the deposing of King Edward the Second and in pag. 80. he makes another traiterous president of the deposing of King Richard the Second but he never mentions the mischiefes that this Kingdome endured by those wicked paracidicall Villanes I will reckon a few of them First Parson John Ball with Wat Titler Jack Straw and Jack Shepheard arose in rebellion c. Anno 1379. murdered Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury for which insurrection and murder 1500. Rebells were hanged in severall places look to it Prinne one place will serve your turne Anno 1450. One Blewbeard was a Captain of Rebells but they were quickly foil'd some hanged and some taken and for a token of remembrance James Fiennes Lord Say then Lord Treasurer of England was found guilty of many Treasons and handsomely hanged in the 29. yeare of King Henry the Sixth After that Jack Cade a Bricklayer and withall a counterfeit Mortimer did then as some of his Tribe do now tax the King with evill Counsellours thus Cade raised an Army of Rebells which were not supprest without the losse of 5000 men besides other outrages committed Anno 1454. As the Battaile of S. Albans betwixt the Yorkifts and Lancastrians King Henry the Sixth lost 8000 men and the Duke of York 6000. At Blore-heath field in Shrop-shire 1459. between the King and the Earle of Warwick 4000 men slain the 38 yeare of Henry the Sixth At the Battaile of Northampton 3000 men were slain between Queen Margaret and the Barons and there King Henry the Sixth was taken prisoner At the Battaile of Wakefield Queen Margaret told Richard Duke of Yorke and beheaded him 4000 men slain Anno 1460. At the Battaile of Towton Queen Margaret brought into the field 60000 men and King Edward the Fourth had 49000 in which fatall Battaile 36000 men were slain Anno 1462. At the Battaile of Exham in the North between Queen Margaret and the Lord Marques Mountacue 16000 men were slain Anno 1467. At the Battaile of Banbury the 7. of King Edward the Fourth between William Herbert Earle of Pembroke and Queen Margarets Forces 7000 slain In the 9. of Edward the Fourth at the Battaile of Lose-coatesfield in Lincoln-shire betwixt the King and the Barons 10000 slain At the Battaile at Teuxbury Prince Edward eldest son to King Henry the Sixth was stabb'd and murdered and 3000 slain And lastly at the Battaile at Barnet betwixt King Edward and the Earles of Warwick and Oxford who were both killed and 10000 slain the King being Victor This I have inserted by way of digression to shew how the Divine vengeance was the reward for the deposing of a lawfull King for so all the world knowes Richard the Second was above eighty yeares was this wofull Land an unnaturall bloody Theatre wherein English-men against English-men did act all manner of unchristian cruelties in which Dissention more than 60 of the Blood Royall were slaine besides others in abundance of Nobility and Gentry as also more than 125000 common Souldiers as our Histories relate and to such a passe as this hath Master Prinne and his Faction done their best to bring it to againe as within these three yeares they have prettily begun and prosecuted Page 87. He quotes the falling away of the ten Tribes from Rehoboam for a president for Rebellion page 88. all along he mentions the deposing of wicked Popes page 9. he repeates the words of Caiphas That it was expedient that one should die for the people though a King yea Christ the King of Kings that the whole Nation perish not rather then the whole Nation perish for him O thou blasphemous beast Doest thou so farre hate the Lord 's Anointed as to justifie the crucifying of our Saviour in expression of thy malice to thy Soveraigne Good Sir there is no such necessity that either the King or Subject should die one for another or that they should so much as distaste each other nor had this lamentable Distraction been between them but that your delicate Master the Devill hath by your meanes set them at Division In his 91. page he speakes some Truth That the King hath not power to tyrannize over his Subiects or to oppresse them with perpetuall irremediable slavery Good Master Gandergoose 't is confest that the King hath no such power nor ever did he exercise any such Tyranny as you talke of but you and your Accomplices have usurped a Traiterous power to your selves whereby yee have tyrannized over his Majesties Subjects in more savage and barbarous manner than Turkes or Tartars would have done page 92. Prinne speakes a parcell of non-sense in capital Letters It is lawfull for the people submitting themselves to subscribe the King and his Successours what Law they please O! what might this fellowes Head be worth at a hard Siege when one of his Brothers Heads was sold at Samaria for 80 pieces of Silver 2. King 6. 25. Pag. 97. he saith that King Edward the sixth and Queen Elizabeth did hold their Crownes by Parliamentary title rather then by the course of common Law Baw waw indeed their Legitimacie was objected against by some opulent Papists because their Father the King had married the Lady Katherin who was first his Brother Arthurs wife and after 21 yeares marriage the King caused her to be divorc'd from him and he marrying other wives in her life time the Childrens Right by birth was by some Malignants questionable to cleare which doubts the King caused their Legitimacie to be confirmed by Act of Parliament and so much in Answer to that absurd Treason Pag. 101. he saies Charles the third Emperour was deposed by the Princes Dukes and Governours of Germany because he was mad Surely thou art not well in thy wits to meddle with that mad Emperour whose madnesse or deposing concernes neither thee nor thy mad Cause thou pratest and liest so in then he talkes of Wenceslaus the Emperour and Childerick King of France how they were both depos'd And yet in the 104 pag. he confesses the King hath no Peere He is not to have a Superiour and that the King ought not to be under man but God If Justice be demanded of him by way of Petition because no Writs runnes against him if he doe not Iustice this punishment may be sufficient to him that God will revenge it and yet presently again he saies the Parliament is above the King Thus you see how sometimes the Devill gives him leave to speake truth against his will though presently he fall from it againe as being not toothsome was ever such a Crop-eard Asse that would thus contradict himselfe In the 106 pag. he saies the Emperours had not highest power in
Master Prinne with Papall Authority would dispence withall yet his Majesty hath good and faithfull Subjects enough who scorne and deride your foolish traiterous dispensations and doubt not by God's assistance to mould you and your seduced Rabble of Rebells into better fashion Page 13. If the King himselfe shall introduce Forreigne Forces and Enemies into his Realme to levy Warre against it or shall himselfe become an Enemy to it This doubtfull supposition is so idle and triviall that the best Answer to it is to laugh at it page 14. he talkes how King Henry the second of France was casually slain at a Tournament by the Lord Montgomery and then he tells us of Sir Walter Tirrell's Arrow glancing against a Tree slew King William the second of England presently he makes a step into France again and brings us word that King Charles the first being mad there was deprived and kept clsoe and that the deaths and deprivations of these Kings was then proved to be no Treasons because they were done out of no malitious intents This is Bombast to stuffe out his big-wombe Book and as neare the matter as Braseol and Banbury Page 17. He playes the Huntsman and compares the Keeper of a Parke and the Deere in it to a King and his People Suppose this Comparison were granted then you must also grant that you have rebelliously broken down the Parke pale or wall so that the Deere are scattered and divided the best of them I am sure the truest Harts do keep within their bounds and live under the protection of their Keeper whilest you have got all the whole Heard of Rascals amongst you and much good may do it you with them In Page 22. he makes a leape from hence into Asia and relates strange Newes how Tamberlane conquered Bajazet and put him in an ironcage then you are sure it was not a Pillory but if a time of Peace were were it not for depriving the Hangman of his due I would begge thee and shew thee in Fates and Marts for a Motion whereby thee and I could not chuse in short time but be without abundance of money From page 23. to page 60. he tautologically talkes Naturall Non-sense and Artificall Impertinencies which in page 60. he saith he gathered from one Albericus Gentilis page 61. he stumbles upon Truth again and sayes That it is out of controversie that no man ought to resist against the King Page 63 64. he cites 32 Arguments of Scripture to maintain the Cause the chiefe of them is Daniel in the Lions Den he might as well have brought in Jacob's Well and the Woman of Samaria In pag. 66. be brings in the story of Ioram 2 Kings 6. how he sent a messenger to the Prophet Elishaes house to take away his head and that the Prophet did cause the doore to be shut to keep out the King's messenger from whence the learned logicall Prinne inferres that because the Prophet did not obey the King but shut his doore against the Messenger therefore King Charles his Subiects may oppose resist and rebell a very trim Argument From thence to page 73. he repeates old fusty businesse over and over and there he runnes for more luggage headlong into the Red-Sea and dragges the memory of crowned Pharaoh 〈◊〉 example of God's iudgements on that obdurate and impenitent King this was somewhat to the purpose but I cannot perceive where or how Page 81. The King with the Lords and Commons in Parliament have the whole Realme entrusted with them of which great trust the King is onely Chiefe and Soveraigne now I agree with you Sir if your writings had been all such as this and your Members and Committees Votes and Orders correspondent then we had had no Rebellion and your high prized Bookes would have been iustly valued to be worth nothing A little after he sayes The King is the supreme Member of the Parliament thou ill bred Fellow thou mightest have said HEAD and that contrary to the trust and duty reposed in Him through the advice of evill Counsellours wilfully betrayes this trust and spoiles and makes havocke of his People and Kingdomes these are but the old lyes feares jealousies doubts ifs and ands newly revived and furbushed as in page 86. he hath another which is If the King should command us to say Masse in his Chappell to which I answer If the Skie fall c. and the one of those ifs is as possible as the other Page 108. He musters up 51 of the ancient Fathers to lend him their hands to defend his falsities wherein he hath wrested and abused their integrity sufficiently but I observe that he meddles with neither of the Gregories either the Great or Nazianzen his policy is not to mention them because then young Gregory herhaps may be put in minde of him for Prinne is crafty and observes the Proverbe He must have a long Devill that eates with a spoone Page 92. He hath wrested the sword out of the hands and cut off the heads of all his opposite Goliahs 'T is well bragg'd but if it be true that you have cut off all the heads of your opposites you have been bloudily revenged for the losse of your eares I prithee when thou diest bequeath one of thy law-bones to be kept amongst the dreadfull Weapons and Ammunition of the Members Magazine it may do strange things amongst a Crew of Philistâ—ms Pag. 134. He contradicts himselfe with Statutes of King Henry 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Eliz. That words against the King even in preaching are high Treason as well as raising Armes very right and those Statutes being yet in force what would become of all your reverend railing Pulpit-men I will not slander them to call 'em Preachers upon my conscience thy destiny and theirs would be all one if the said Statutes were duely executed and you would all leave your old Trades and deale in the two rich commodities of Hempe and Timber till your last gaspes Pag. 142. he railes at the King again as if he were hired to it or that he had nothing else to do also he be labours the Cavaliers ex tempore by the Titles of Cut-throates bloudy inhumane and barbarous with other such pretty names as the Gentleman pleases to bestow upon them for which I hope they will not all die till some of them be out of his debt Page 143. Christians did not resist persecution under Pagans ergo Christians must not resist Christians and because Subjects are Christians as well as Kings therefore Christian Kings must not resist Rebells In his last Leafe he hath waded through this weighty Controversie and proved that both by Law and Conscience this Rebellion is justifiable and thus the Reader may perceive how Prinnes Judgement and Conscience is biassed Vpon Prinnes fourth Quarter or part of his Soveraigne Power of Parliaments IN page 13. he brings in a messe of musty Presidents like the mouldy Bread ragged Cloathes and clouted Shooes of the