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

and serviceable to his intentions and 't was their infusion so agreeable to his disposition that made him carry himself so majestically to the Parliament of England a power he might justly fear to offend but their Councels though they then served his and their ends are now come upon them like a storm the one voted down root and branch the other voted uselesse and dangerous The King brings with him a generall Peace with all Christendome not considering the particular interest of this Nation whether it were honourable or safe as the affaires of England then stood his Predecessour having taken upon her to be Head and Protectrix of the Protestant party wheresoever But he had his ends to himself First he had heard how many and how often attempts had been used to take away the life of Queen Elizabeth whom God notwithstanding preserved and protected by the diligence of her servants but he would rather trust to his King-craft then to Gods providence Then having taken away all thought of wars his design was to luxuriate the people that so hee might more insensibly lay that foundation of tyrany he intended And now comes tumbling in monstrous excesse of Riot which consumed many good Families and more good Hospitality formerly the glory both of our Nobility and Gentry with an incredible increase of Tavernes and Bawdy-houses for which two we are to this day beholding to the Scots And with this King and this Peace came the greatest Plague that ever this Kingdome felt before his time as if God had told us from heaven we had deserved it by betraying our selves and which was but a light fore-running punishment in respect of what in time should follow and yet peradventure that Plague was but a shadow of himselfe the greater The Kingdome could not afford more pomp and glory then was shewn when King James came first through London and 't was so much the more considerable as to him that from a nasty barren Country rather a Dunghil then a Kingdome came to be at that instant as great a Prince as any in Christendome And indeed it was the wonder of those States-men who had had experience of the gallantry of this Nation that a Scot should enjoy this Crown without resistance If the temper of these our dayes had then as now taken head we had saved much blood much mony and in all likelihood been long since setled to such a free State as we yet struggle for Rich and secure Long had he waited for the death of Queen Elizabeth but longer had they waited that waited upon him for had not their hopes as well as his expected their shares of spoils of this Kingdome we may with out doing any wrong to that Nation conclude him in the fate of his many Predecessors whom they murdered His Stock was odious to the more ancient Nobility of that Nation and the cloak of the Kirk would have served without scruple for such a covering as the Grand-Signior uses to send men doom'd to death His original Extract I find was this Banchoo a Nobleman of Scotland had a fair Lady to his daughter whom Mackbeth the King desires to have the use of Banchoo refuses and Mackbeth murders him and takes the Lady by force Fleance the son of Banchoo fearing the Tyrants cruelty flies into Wales to Griffin ap Lhewellin the Prince of Wales Lhewellin entertaines him with all hospitable civility Fleance to requite his courtesie gets Lhewellins daughter with child Lhewellin murders Fleance and Lhewellins daughter is afterward delivered of a son named Walter this son proves a gallant man and falling out with a Noble person in Wales that call'd him Bastard Walter slew him and for his safeguard fled into Scotland where in continuance of time he gained so much reputation and favour that he became Steward of the whole Revenue of that Kingdome of which Office he and his posterity retained the sirname and from whence all the Kings and Nobles in that Nation of that name had their originall here 's a goodly foundation For his Person a man might sufficiently and truly make a Volume onely to tell of his lazinesse and his uncleannesse but I cannot do it without fouling too much paper He was a great pretender to Learning and Religion and for the speculative part had as much as any of our Kings upon record but for the practical and best part of it if we may judge of the Tree by the Fruit we may without breach of charity conclude him not guilty He was the greatest Blasphemer in the world sweare faster then speak and curse the people by the clock And it appeares by the whole course of his life that he was a most malicious hater of this Nation That insolent act of Ramsey's switching my Lord of Montgomery at Bansted-Downs at a Horse-race was questionlesse a laid quarrel to have destroyed much of our English Nobility and had it been practised upon any but that thin-soul'd Lord who was importun'd but to draw his sword that had been a bloody day what reserve the Scots had was never known but such an affront is not to be construed without reservation The King was naturally fearful even as low as could be And what he would do and durst not own that he would do by his Favourites whom for the fitness of his designs he would raise from low degree to oblige them the more and to desert them with more ease and shift them often til he had them sitted to his purpose Dunbar was too solid Hayes too light Northampton too crafty Montgomery too silly here 's two English two Scots all deserted And now he hath found a young Scot that had been one of his Pages in Scotland and turn'd off with fifty pounds in mony and cloaths to seek his fortune having spent his time and his means in France comes over hither and for his fashion and language is entertained by his country man then Lord Hayes another Scot of the like extract for a Page where the King takes notice of him calls for him and at the first dash makes him one of the Bed-chamber and suddenly his Favourite and Knight Sir Robert then Viscount Rochester and after Earl of Somerset This man the King had wound up to his just pitch of whom we may justly say Trim tram Like master like man When this man had long wallowed in his Masters bounty and the treasures of this Kingdome he fell the foullest that ever man did upon the rocks of dishonor adultery and murder Of dishonour to a Noble Peer of this Land and in him to the whole Nobility Adultery not only to bewhore her but to get her divorced and marry her And murder upon the body of that unfortunate Gentleman Sir Thomas Overbury only for disswading him And here it is much to our purpose to insert how this Favorites carriage had highly offended Pr. Henry who understanding the loose kind of life this man lived especially relating to her distastes him disrespects

him and forbears his company and flatly fals out with him Somerset complaines to the King shortly the Prince falls sick and dies That he was poysoned hath been a common fame ever since But to snuffe the candle and make it burn cleare take the testimony of these famous Physitians that dissected his body and have left it upon record under their hands The Dissection of the Body of Prince HENRY FIrst we found his Liver paler then ordinary in certain places somwhat wan his Gall without any Choller in it and distended with winde Secondly his Spleen was in divers places more then ordinarily black Thirdly his Stomack was in no part offended Fourthly his Midriffe was in divers places black Fifthly his Lungs were very black and in divers places spotted and full of a thin watery blood Lastly the Veines in the hinder part of his head were fuller then ordinary but the Ventricles and hollownesse of the brain were full of cleare water In witnesse whereof with our own hands we have subscribed this present Relation Novemb. 7. 1612. MAYERN ATKINS HAMMOND PALMER GIFFORD BUTLER This Prince was an active man and full of high thoughts A Lover of this Nation and lookt upon by them with much affection and expectation What feares jealousies Somerset might maliciously infuse into the Kings too fearful and timorous soul we cannot tell but that language from Somerset to the Lieutenant of the Tower when he told him he must provide himself to go the next morning to Westminster to his Trial said He would not That the King had assured him he should not come to any trial neither durst the King bring him to any trial This language I say stinks abominably And when he did come to his Trial fearing being enraged that he might flie out into some strange discovery there were two men placed on each side of him with cloaks on their arms with peremptory cōmand that if Sommerset did any way flie out against the King they should instantly hoodwink him wth their cloaks take him violently from the Bar and carry him away and this could be no mans act but the Kings He would often boast of his King-craft but if his feares and Somersets malice took this Princes life away 't was a sweet peece of King-craft indeed but the fruit of it hath been bitter I cannot enough admire that language hee used when he gave in charge to his Judges the Examination of Sir Thomas Overburi●● murder My Lords I charge you as you will answer it at that great and terrible day of Judgment that you examine it strictly without favour affection or partiality And if you shall spare any guilty of this crime Gods curse light upon you and your posterity and if I shall spare any that are found guilty Gods curse light on me and my posterity for ever This expression hath a most honest out-side but if the King had a designe of feare rather to be so rid of Somerset then an inward desire of Justice 't was monstrous foule which we shall better judge of by the sequel Seven persons were by the Judges condemned to die for this foule murder four of them of the least account and accessaries are executed the three great ones and principals the King pardons and to Somerset himself to his dying day was most profusely liberal and suffered to live with that fire-brand of hel his wife under the Kings nose all the dayes of their lives Here 's fine jugling these must be saved for fear of telling Scotch tales of the King Would the spirits of those noble souls of these our dayes put up such a piece of injustice in the master and such an affront and contempt of this Nation both from the Master and the man two Scots without vengeance I believe not And this Favourite of his when his estate was seised upon for this foul murder was found to have two hundred thousand pounds in mony plate and jewels in his house and nineteen thousand pounds a year in Lands comming in a fine advance from a Scots Page fifty pounds and a Suit of Cloaths and can any man tel for what I never heard that all Scotland was worth so much But enough of him This King had no Wars but spent more mony prodigally profusely and riotously then any of his Predecessors What swarms of Scots came with him and after him into this kingdome who perpetually suckt him of most vast sums of moneys which stand yet upon record which put him upon all dishonourable wayes of raising monies to the most cruell oppression of this Nation to serve their riot and luxury but there are many yet living can justifie this truth Though they lived a while at such a height yet they died like themselves contemptible miserable Beggers and at this day scarce one of them can shew the fruits of those vast donatives either in themselves or their posterity that 's worth looking upon And so let them all perish whomsoever Scots or English whose foundation is such Though I see no reason but any estate may be now questioned which is known to have been raised upon the oppression of this Nation nor that any title of Honour so bought should descend to posterity A Lord is to be a Lord by merit of imployment in some noble Office for the publique good not by projecting tricks and cozening devices to fill a Tyrant's Coffers to the enslaving of a gallant free Nation But c. to return to King James In those dayes 't is true the Bishops Nobility and the Lawyers had a great influence upon the people for their abilities and supposed honesties yet amongst these such are found and others are made such that whatsoever the King would have they are fit and willing instruments to bring it about and make it passe for currant Divinity and Law Witnesse The burning of a whole Cart-load of Parliament Presidents that spake the Subjects Liberty that were burnt at the Kings first comming Witnesse the Nullity Witnesse the life of Sir Walter Rawleigh that was taken away in point of State whose least part was of more worth then the whole race of the best of the Scots Nation Witnes the inhancing of Customes Witnes Privy Seals Monopolies and Loans Benevolences Sales of Lands Woods Fines New-buildings Witnes the lamentable losse of the Palatinate Witnes the Treaty of the Spanish-Match In which two last this Nation received more dishonour then in any action any former age can paralel and all under the colour of an honourable Treaty His Daughter was undone and his Son bob'd of a Wife after the hazard of his Person and vast expence of infinite treasure to this day undischarged I could never understand what piece of King-craft it was to let the Prince his onely Son with Buckingham his favourite make that Voyage into Spain unlesse it were to be rid of them both and had he not had to do with a noble Enemy surely they had never returned Hee would sometimes call a