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

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

be no need of a William the Conquerour to interrupt the proceedings of the State and dissettle it by establishing of new Laws there will be no William Rufus in a hunting voyage to be slaine no king Iohn to be poysoned at Swinsted Abbey by a Monke nor there will be no beautiful Rosamonds to hinder a pious government no Mortimers to entice to his bed and lust the wives of princes there will be no unnatural mothers like that French Lady who killed her own son Edward the second in Pomfret Castle by the power of a French pride there will be no Pearce Gaviston nor Spencers to draw a mighty State into their own hands by ruine of the people there will be no Alice Pearce who sat at the pillow of King Edward the third and kept a privy Councel out that should advise a king for the good of his people there will be no wanton Courtezan to pass by the Court-chambers and loose her garter to be a means to settle an Order there will be no Iohn of Gant to deny the inheritance of his first children and settle it upon his second wives there will be no Richard the second to send a number of the Nobility to be murdered at Calice to satisfie the unsatiable desires of Princes nor striving to ruine Parliaments though it be to his own deposing nor no Judges to counsel the Soveraigne to ruine his people there will be no factions betwixt the houses of Yorke and Lancaster to imbroyle the people in War nor no Barons wars to make a distraction in the Nations there will be no working to have Burgesses in Stannaries by Dukes of Cornwall nor no imprisonment of a Speaker Thorpe out of Parliaments nor factions for their private interests to ruine the publike there will be no killing of Henry the sixth in a Chamber as Richard the third did no alluring of Iane Shores to Princes lustful beds no murthering of Princes and smothering them as was in the Tower no Empsons and Dudleys to raise an Estate for kings by the ruine of the people no pretences to make a war to gather wealth to peal and pole the subject and after to compose the war and keep the money in his own purse as Henry the seventh did nor pride to put down the right title of a wife and set up his own first that was after it no Perkin Warbeck to be an Impostor to put by a right title no Henry the eighth to make void a Katherines bed to make way for another wife no chopping off the heads of wives to make way for other beauties for lust nor no terrifying of Parliament if they do not give way to pass an Act to enrich his Coffers as Henry the eight did in the case of Abbeyes no Cardinal Woolseys to set up their Armes afore their Masters to make way for a Popedom and too too late repentance that he had not served God so faithfully as his Master by which he came to a Tragical end to poyson himself no poysoning of Edward the sixt by great Northumberlands to make way for the Diadem no Leicesters to grow so potent as to set up a school to vitiate Ladies nor no drawing of Parliament men from their fidelity to their country as hath been used in king Iames and king Charles his time nor none so ambitious as to make themselves Darlings of the multitude to make way for their own interests above the publick nor for kings to take favorites to overthrow their principals none unworthy without merit shall be imployed none shall grow lawless by vertue of Princes humors Surely all kingdomes have a period as the Babylonian Medes and Persians Grecian and Reman look in the history of all these and you shall understand that Ambition oppression Tyranny and Injustice have been the changers of Government to some other way or persons It is probable that the determination of God is to destroy all Monarchy in Christendome for if we begin with France we shall finde they have always adhered to the Romish Government except a little handful of those they call Reformed Protestants How much have they wronged us in our title which belongs truly to us and though they seeme to be Governed by a Salique Law yet notwithstanding they have not kept the order thereof which they ought to have done but have foisted in some males which ought to have been last afore others which ought to have been first and the Maiors of the Palace at Paris have set up kings at their pleasure and not respected the right of those that ought to have had it The persecuting of the holy men of Towers and the Albigenses the true Apostolick descendants who ever hated the Roman Heresies that horrible and unheard of massacre at Paris in Henry the thirds time of France by the device of the house of Guise and Queen Katherine who was a Witch and made Julips of young children snatched up in the night to maintain her lust as Comines doth testifie and Hen. 4. turning his Religion from the Protestant side after God Almighty had blessed him with one and twenty Victories over the Popish League Lewis the thirteenths making a war against the Protestants to murder a number of them though it was with the loss of five thousand of the Nobility of Erance The Duke of Bouillon the Duke Tremelly and divers others changing their Religion and Cardinal Richeliu giving Authority and command in Armes on purpose to destroy the Hugonots though God blessed them to be the best Commanders in France All these I say and many more I could repeat will be a means to showre down Gods vengeance to destroy that Monarchy Let us therefore cease from wondering at Gods works for if a Sparrow fals not to the ground without his special providence then much less is it wanting in turning topsy-turvy principalities and kingdomes Certainly if this vicissitude were not sin would have more abounded piety or at least morality would be banished and men would forget the end of their Creation and think there were no God to punish sin nor reward the righteous but do as the great fishes devoure one another This makes me affirme that it is not probable that God can bless Charles the now supposed King of Scots from his predecessors if we examine the mothers side the Grandmother was proved by the Parliament of Paris to have made abortive her sons bed eleven times by help of a Spanish Emperick as by Will. Murreys Ambassie appeared who returned this answer to King Charles and therefore it was not convenient to yeild that she should return into France and also his Grand-father turned his Religion and was killed like a Calf by Ravilliac his mother for too much familiarity with Buckingham Holland and Jermine for the Duke for fear the French Ladies should tell tales of George often mounted on his steed sent them into France contrary to the Articles of marriage so that the Queen was shut up in the Chamber

alone not to behold their departure and cut her fingers with the Glass windows as Duplex the French Historiographer writes And Charles the first afore his marriage had for a Mistress a great married Lady it is probable the Prince would follow the same course after marriage by whom she had a boy and when he was Prince of Wales bestowed on the Christening eight thousand pound it is to be supposed he being so good an husband and wise would not lay out so much cost for nothing When he kept a book like Henry the seventh what bribes that he shared he set down punctually So much received for such an Office Place or Honour and would be displeased if he had not his part agreed for with his servants And likewise the French Queen Grandmother of Charles the supposed second King of Scots was so familiar with Marquess d'Ancre whom she advanced to so high a command that by his actions and the government after in her Regency France was almost overthrown and the prime Nobility and by her counsel to her daughter here there was procured matters of dangerous consequence to England since her arriving who perswaded her daughter to draw King Charles to the Romish part as by many affaires appeared and got a Patent to transport leather into France most prejudiciall which was condemned by this Parliament Wherefore on all sides Charles the second from them may justly expect not to prosper especially by his rebellious invading of England for if he had any right yet his invasion and the Conquest hath justly extinguished his title especially king Charles and his mother playing fast and loose so often that no issue from thence can either be legitimate or pious from so ungodly a derivative So that if the quantity of battels fought so great a revolution of the State the several qualities and persons interested or the long continuance of broyles could render a war memorable this the Parliament hath undergone and the new General finished is in the highest degree of Gods miraculous deliverances after more then twenty battels in three Nations and above 300000 slaine and the State changed of face and Masters multitudes of Forts taken and surrendred so that the Victorious are but losers till the State be brought to be as the French proverb is en bon point in perfect health after a war that hath continued almost nine yeers The Subject came from king Charles leaving his Parliament in the suds and violently raising a destructive war to ruine three Nations It had rather been wisdome in the king to apply to the people lenitives not corrosives great wounds are to be fewed not rent which is the part of a good Chirurgeon Restoratives are to be given not Purges to the patient so Kings ought to amend what was amiss and not oppose them with violence appease their fury not exasperate them by a war for this thunder-bolt by wicked Councel was contrived to break forth in fiery flashes at an instant in the three Nations about the 23 of October 1642. Wherefore the Parliament now assembled aimes at this end that as in Grammar there can be no good construction nor coherence to make true Orthography without the Substantive and Adjective conjoyned which is resembled to the Parliament the supreme authority now settled by Gods assistance appointing the Councel of State who will bring mighty things to pass cause the annual Officers to nourish all the members in their several callings that there may be a semblable endeavour of the well being of every good Citizen inhabitant as well as those in authority that piety may be exalted and increased by the Lamps of the Sanctuary indued with the Spirit of God that the whole body may be governed Apostolically whereof Christ is the Head without whom nothing can be effected for if Christ be not chiefest in our thoughts no State can be durable but like a sandy foundation will moulder away That the Electors may love the Elected and esteeme and obey them who spend their spirits to advance the common good keep and defend the weale publick in health and prosperity that it be not hecticall meager nor leane nor too Saturnicall nor too Jovial but in a golden temper These are wise Physitians who cure the maladies fevers and destempers that blood may run in every viene of the State to nourish the whole body in justice equity and right through the cava vena cava porta and smaller veines the great Cities and Townes as well as the small that the Officers and Magistrates have not a dogs appetite to turne Judicature to a bad chylos but to an equall distribution of right that the heart the courage of the People may be fostred in good actions without respect of persons but with regrad to the right of the cause that vice and sin may be punished with a parenthesis of mercy that the Republick may have foraine and native commodities that the Land lie not freshforth as the Lord termes it but that there may be importation and exportation that Manufacture may be maintained to keep from the bane of idleness and debauchedness that trade may dish out all things necessary for use seemly ornament and lawful Pleasure that the Merchant the Purveyors of the Nation export and import all commodities for the good of the State that just Impositions Impost Subsidie and Excise may be paid without corruption and defrauding the State that Artificers may be able to maintaine their families that laws may be kept within the chanel of Gods rule and direction that potency surround not the peoples property nor wink at the spoile of inferiours that those in Authority regard more the publick then their private interest that the Orphant widdows and fatherless be relieved the innocent freed and the nocent escape not punishment and that the Navy the walls and bulworks may be maintained in good equippage for the honour and defence of the Nation By this meanes the wise and sage Councel of State will undermine the enemies plots so that their malice hurt us not by intelligencers in Forraine parts imployed to prevent mischief to the Commonwealth wherein the Earl of Salisbury dead was vigilant at the annual expence of 2000 pounds And therefore I am confident the Parliament frames the State to this fashion if time and repose the midwives of all affairs would give them leave to bring forth to action their contrived principles in which hitherto they have been impeded by the plots of male-contents and by procuring provisions for subjugating Ireland and Scotland the enemies of God and of this State Consider therefore O England that they do as wise Physitians are accustomed afore the perfect remedy of patients consumption advise not to action imployment and troubles in affaires till restored to strength and vigor Wherefore now I come to observe how miraculous it is that my Lord General descended by his Mother by the male-stock of the Stuarts should be a revenger under God and the