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A26573	No post from heaven, nor yet from hell but a true relation and animadversions, written and sent as an antidote to all unbelieving Brownists, prophane Anabaptists, schismaticall monsters, and such like incendiaries of the state : proving by histories, records, and examples that His Majestes taxations have not been unusuall, nor his government tyrannicall, though falsely so imputed, invented, divulged and scattered abroad / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ; and now put to presse and dedicated to His Sacred Maiestie, by G.A., Gent.	Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; G. A., Gent.	1643 (1643)	Wing A8; ESTC R11162	23,326	35

exported Le solid de cinequantes with many other which for brevity I passe over that are laid and leavyed upon the Subjects by the absolute power and prerogative of the King Spaine The next is Spain where there is a generall Imposition by the name of Alcavala imposed aswell upon the Nobility as the Commons which was at first raysed by Alphonsus the twelfth to expell the Moors but afterwards it was made perpetuall and is now a principall part of the Royall patrimony Guttieres de Gabellis this imposition was at first but the twentieth part but afterwards it was raysed to the tenth part of every mans estate which doth farre surmount the highest imposition that ever was layd in England by the Kings prerogative without consent of Parliament This Alcavella is an imposition within the Land but the imposition upon Merchandizes exported and imported are farre more higher for upon the In-gate of Indian spices into Portugall the King of Spaine laid the greatest rates that ever were set in Christendome although upon the out-gate they were more moderate Italy In Italy the Impositions and Gabell set upon every kind of thing by the States and Princes there are intollerable and in especiall upon the Towns and Territories that are subject to the great Duke of Tuscany where there is not a root nor an herbe nor the least thing that is necessary for the life of man bought or sold in any Town but there is a Gabell or Imposition payd for it where no Inne-holder Baker Brewer or Artificer can exercise his trade but the great Duke wil share with him in his gain where no man can travaile by Land or by Water but at every Barge at every Ferry at every Wharf or Key and at every gate of a Town the Gabeller arrests him and is ready to set upon him naked to search what goods he hath about him for which he ought to pay a Gabell The Popes Territories In the Popes Territories the impositions which his Holinesse doth lay upon his Subjects as a temporall Prince are as many and as heavy as those that are leavyed by the Duke of Tuscany I will therefore omit to speak of the Exactions of the Court of Rome which are infinite and in another kind which long lay heavy upon all the Western Countries of Christendome untill of late yeares some nations did free themselves thereof by rejecting the yoke of the Bishop of Rome The Seigniorie of Venice In the Seigniory of Venice the Gabells upon the Land are more moderate than in other parts of Italy wherein they observe a profitable and politique course for upon the commodities of other nations which are of goods in their Common-wealth they lay the easier impositions sometimes five sometimes seven sometimes ten in the hundred and upon all Manufactures imported out of other Countries they do lay fifteen shillings of the hundred which doth exceed the highest imposition in England five in the hundred at the least The grand Seignior of Turkey The grand Seignior of Turkey doth impose sometimes ten sometimes twentie of the hundred upon Merchant strangers who trade into the Levant And I could speak of his other Exactions and impositions upon his vassalls But that I think it not meet to compare that Regions Tyrant with the States and Princes of Christendome Denmarke I could speak of the great Toll which the King of Denmarke taketh of every ship that passeth into the Sound whereas the King of England being the undoubted Lord of the narrow seas might take the like Toll and by the same right of prerogative if it pleased him The Low-Countries And last of all for the Low-Countries those Impositions which they call Excises payd by the Retailor of Wines and other Commodities and not by the Merchant are the highest and heaviest in all Christendome yet grow they rich and therefore to draw trade and to invite all nations to commerce with them and so to make their Countrey a staple store-house or Magazine for all Europe They doe set but easie rates upon Merchandizes imported but when they have once gotten the commodity into their Countrey if any Merchant or other will export the same againe he shall pay a greater custome Thus may it evidently be seen by these forraigne examples and comparisons that his Majesties taxations have been far short of these designes although I must confesse that his Majestie of England is as absolute a Monarch as any Emperour or King in the world and hath as many prerogatives incendent and adherent unto his Crown than any whatsoever yet doth he not hold his Subjects fit to be beaten with Rehoboams rod and esteemeth them too good to be whipt with Scorpions And therefore God be blessed we have not in England a Gabellor standing at every Towns-end we have not a Publican in every Market neither do we pay for every bunch of Radish or branch of Rosemary sold in Cheap-side Neither have we any of those devouring Harpies amongst us which doe swarm in other Countries Nam sordidum putandum est Aurum quod est lachrimis Oritur And thus having now at length both by forraign and domestique examples as well out of Historie as Record plainly proved and made clear that his Majesties Taxations neither were unusall his proceedings illegall nor as hitherto his government tyrannicall Let us I pray you search a little further and see if we can find that wedge of gold or that Babylonish garment that throws him into this contempt and renders him thus odious in the eyes of his too too zealous people for true Subjects I dare not call them Mee thinkes I heare some lost wretch say Religion and Liberty Rebellion I must confesse had never but two Engines to put in practice their wicked and facinorous designes and these are they which Machiavillian-like under the shadow of feares and jealousies draws the giddy-headed multitude unto them to their owne confusion for it hath alwayes been a rule in reason a tryall in experience and an authority confirmed by the best that Rebellion produceth horrible effects for men that are weak in wisdome violent in will weary of quiet and desirous of change are easily made serviceable to every aspiring mind But let us see in which of them or of the breach of which of them his Majesty may be found guilty of 1. Liberty And first for Liberty whose sheep or Oxen hath he injuriously taken away whole Vineyard or possessions hath hee wrongfully detayned whose wise or daughter hath he ravished or defloured or whom hath he wittingly or willingly put to death Nay hath not in a manner the very sword of lustice been snatched from him and he enforced perforce to yeeld to that which upon my very soule his owne heart now lamenteth for Hath he any wayes infringed your Magna Charta Hath hee trampled upon your Fundamentall Lawes or customes Hath he removed your Land-marks or demolished your buildings Is not your Meum Tuum in your goods your Lands and your

estates your owne to dispose of to whom you will to sell to whom you will or consume how you will hath he altered or done any of these things or is he about to alter or doe any of them if not what makes these mutinies what these aspersions and what these inhumane dissentions Oh but we feare invasion and a sorraign enemy Be ashamed ô yee of little wit and fear not such umbragious shadows which have hit herto cast you into a Lethargy of dulnesse and stupidity Open your eyes and doe but consider if such a thing should be who should sustain the greatest losse his Majesty or you His Majesty a free borne Prince and Monarchy to which nothing can be added more Yourselves subjects and if invaded and conquered could be but subjects still His Majesty a King hereditarily possessing three Kingdoms should for I know not what and I know not to whom subjugate himselfe ruine his posterity and lose his Kingdomes which if once lost were never to be regained nor he nor his posteritie ever to be established but utterly destroyed and consounded You as Subjects if such a thing should be for I hold it worthy of an if because I hold it ridiculous what lose you a poore private estate which otherwise may soon be lost and as soon recovered He is our King and borne to command we are his Subjects and bound to obey would we not then think it meere folly and madnesse in him to disinvest and utterly throw away from him and his posterity this Royall Soveraignty and willingly yeeld to base servility I think we should as if the greatest Princes in the world should envy the estate of some poore deformed Pilgrim Oh but here lyes the Riddle here lyeth Anguis in herba and this is the Ivy knot for which I want a Mawle to penetrate and break in sunder But sure it is a bone the Devill hath cast in among you to gnaw upon which I hope God in his good time will break in sunder or else break his jawes that first threw it in For take away Soveraigne authority and government and then shall ambition strike free home Pride shall disdain obedience malice proceed to murther theft deprive true possessors idlenesse neglect labour impiety scorn Religion raging Tumult violate peace and turne a happy state into miserable confusion whereupon ensueth that open Rebellion is often raysed Virgins deflowred holy places polluted houses burned Cities defaced Lawes despised the whole earth confounded and the power of God and Majesty of Kings either little regarded or utterly forgotten And thus much for your liberty Religion I come now to Religion hath he not commanded that all the Lawes and Statutes made against Recusants should severely bee put in execution runnes not the current of the Law free hath he not willed and doth he not will that the true Protestant Religion established and practised in Queen Elizabeths time of famous memory should be maintained and professed Nay hath he not sworn as he is a King and as he hopes for mercy or favour to be shewn either to him or his from God a greater asseveration and from a greater person I think cannot be never to receive any if he doth not really maintain and seriously professe the true Protestant Religion formerly established and shall we then doubt no God forbid for seeing in Conscience we are bound to believe an oath taken by a meane and ordinary subject how much more are we bound to believe it comming from so great and good a King I cannot dive into the secret thoughts of man his heart being open unto none Bat to the all-seeing eye of God yet for me to believe otherwise I should altogether condemne my selfe of Barbarisme and in some manner of Atheisme howsoever I know you have read both his many and often Protestations made in this matter To the which I refer you seriously to consider and Christian-like to construe for your further and better satisfaction and leave the event to him who farre better knoweth when and where to give than we know how or what to aske And be not like to those greedy Fowles that would have eaten up the Sacrifice of Abraham before it could be offered with due solemnity unto God Nor to that cruel murtherer in Egypt that went about to stifle infants in their birth Nor like to that envious Sanballat which suggested slanderous suspitions against the builders of the Temple before the Scaffolds were set up But stay your time firmly believe and God will give a remedy if there be a fault and do not nuzzell up your selves in that horrid and hellish Doctrine That it is lawfull for a Subject either in poynt of Liberty or Religion to take up Armes against their lawfull and anoynted Soveraigne for let me tell you and that truely that it is but a very deceitfull and meer Iesuiticall position it being neither justifiable by the Law of God tolerable by the Law of Nations nor yet commendable by the Law of Nature for Nature should abhorre it all nations excepting Rebells doe detest it and the very word of God it self doth utterly forbid it and condemne it And thus much for our Religion And now having finished what my intentions were and finding that neither Taxations Proceedings Government Liberty of Religion can be or are the true grounds although sinisterly imagined of these growing evills these distraction 〈…〉 ares and jealousses what shall I say nay what may be sayd Nam quo me vertam nescio Be amazed therefore yee ô heavens and startle ô yee earth to think that Cassius yea and Brutus should stab Caesar too Wherefore as the Prophet Jeremiah saith so I conclude O that my head were a fountaine of water and mine eyes a river of teares that I might weep day and night for the sins of this people and to send a period to these evills FINIS Ex antiquilegibus Anglia Hist. Gualt. Gisbourne Hist. Matth Par. Hen. Huntingdon B 〈…〉 Ex lib. Rub. in sc. Cerv. Dorob Rub. lib. in Sc Hist. Roffens Matth. Par. Rub. lib. in Sc Hist Matt. Paris Ex Iohan. de Eversden Walt. Coventry Mat. Paris ex Charta orig. exhist Mat. Paris pag. 29 Rud. Coggeshall lib. Rub. in Sc. Rog. Horeden Matth. Paris Lib. Rub. in Sc. Matth. Paris Rud. Coggeshall Rud. Coggeshall Mat. Paris Rud. Coggeshall Lib. Rub. in Sc. Math. Paris hist Minor Claus. anno 19 H 3. Math. West minst Ex Stat. an. 4 ca. 17. dors Claus. anno 16 H. 3 Eversden Ex li Cant. Epi. Ex Eversd Paris Ex Eversd Dorsis Clan anno 16. H. 3 ex Walt. Gisborne Eversden Paris ex li Chart. Cant. Epi. 8 H 6 Parl anno 3 Ed 1 Rot Claus anno 26H 3 Mat. Paris pa. 517 Dorsis Claus anno 14 H 3 M 8 Claus 12 H 3 M 2 Claus an 14 H 3 au 7 Claus. anno 16 H 3 M 11 Rot. Finium 26 H. 3 M. 4. Rot. Parl. anno 25 Ed. 1 Mem. 3 Sched Rot. Vasco anno 22 Ed. 1 M. 8 Rot. Vasco anno 22 Ed. 1 M. 17 Rot. Vasco an. 22 Ed. 1 Rot. Parli an. 31 Ed. 1 Exhist Ioh. Eversden Claus. anno 8 Ed 2 M. 9 Claus. anno 16 Ed. 2 Claus. anno 12 Ed 2 Rot. Vase An 22. Ed M. 13. in Sched Rot. Scot. An. 11. M. 1 An. 12. M. 8 Rot. Parl. An. 4. Ed. 2. Dors. Claus an. 17. Ed. 2. M. 11. Claus anno 18. M. 34. Rot. Wast. M. 29. Claus. an. 2. M 11. Claus an. 6. Ed. 2. Rot. Scot. an. 1 2 3. M. 10. an. 4. M. 5. an. 9. Rot. Parl. an 10. M. 12. Rot. Parl. an. 16 M. 3. Rot. Scot. Dors. An. 7. M 8. Dors. Claus. an. 16 M. 3. Rot. Scot. an. 2 3. M. 8. Rot. Scot. an. 8. Ed. 2. Dors. Claus an. 9. Claus. 16. Ed. 2 M 7. Claus. an 16 M 20 Claus an 16 M. 11. Rot. Parl. An. 15. M. 19. Claus. an. 18. M. 13. Rot. Parl. an. 16. M. 27. Rot. Parl. an no 9. M. 21. Rot. Claus. an. 10. M. 13. an. 16. M. 27. Rot. Scot. an. 13. M. 12. Dorf Claus. an. 6. M. 28 Rot. Scot an. 7. M 20. Claus an 8. M. 30. Rot. Scot. an. 2. M 6. Claus. anno 16 M. 12. Claus An. 15. Ed. 3. M. 14. Rot. Fin. an. 15 M 16 Rot. Claus. an. 9 M. 1 Rot. Parl. An. 16 M 12 Rot. Claus. an. 15 M. 19 Rot Scot an. 13. M. 1. Claus. an 13. Memb. 10. Rot. Parl. an no 48 Ed 3 M 10. Rot. Al. man An 12. M. 7. Claus. An. 20. Ed. 3. M. 22 in dors Claus. all 1. Ed. 3. M. 22. indors Claus. an. 2 Ed. 3. Claus. an 10 Ed. Rot. Scot an. 10. Memb. 9. Rot Al. anno 12. Rot. Scot. an. 10. M. 15 Rot. Alm. anno 1. Ed. 3. Mem. 2. Rot. Scot. anno 10. M. 17. Rot. Scot. an 1. M. 2. Parl. anno 14. Ed. 3. Rot. Franc. anno 46. Anno 21. Ed. 3. Parl. anno 2 14 R. 2 ●ui● Tacit. lib. 2 Rot. Parlia. anno 1 H. 4 nu 2 Hist. Thora Walsingh Anno 3i H 5 Anno 18 H 6 Anno 27 H 6 Anno 13 H 6 The first Monopolies 〈◊〉 Patereu● 〈◊〉 Chron. Fabian Rot. Parl. anno 12. Ed. 4. nu 8. Ex litera missa Abatistae Barking manu regis H. 7 Ex lib. Aquiet inter regem Dudley Ex instruct orig. an. 14. H. 8. Rot. Parl. anno 26 H 3 M 1 Rot. Parl. Claus. anno 2 Ed. 1 M 7 Parl. anno 3 H 4 Parl. anno 10 H 6 M 13.