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A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

I related my Condition unto her and what a Danger I had escaped that day she rejoyced greatly at it and said that she was heartily glad of my safe Arrivall there for she had heard much of me but was never before so happy as to see me and casting her eyes towards the Chimney which was then adorned with Summer-like Ornaments as green Boughs green Rushes and Flowers she meerily said Sir though you be a stranger yet I believe at this time you have more need of a good fire then of green Rushes and forthwith she commanded her Servants to disrobe the chimney of all those Ornaments and quickly to make a good fi●e which together with a bottle of Sack and other good cates she presented us with did much refresh us after our wet Journey and there we both reposed our selves together for that night and in the morning betimes my loving fellow Traveller departed and wen● and certified my Friends with whom I had formerly been how well I was got off and how far I was on ward on my Journey and soon after that he was gone I did arise my self and took some good refreshing and with much thankfulnesse to the house I went away and ben● my course towards the other side of Suffolk and it was well that I made so much has●e for within an hour after that I was gone from thence as I was not long after informed the bold Black-smith and his ragged Regiment were come to that Town with an Hue and Cry to search after me but they came a little too late God be thanked And yet further also if it please your Majestie about a year or two after I did hear to my great comfort that this Black-smith was become a convert for whether he was convinced in his conscience to see the gracious deliverance that God gave me out of his hands and thereby was occasioned to consider the better of me and the good Counsell I had given him or whether he was utterly ashamed of the base Treachery that he had practised against me true it is that he removed from Dalham to another Town some 7 or 8 Miles off and there fell quietly to his work deserted the Rebellion and never medled any more therein Now I was upon another foot March to find out new adventures and glad to accept of the meanest entertainment I could meet withall being enforced sometimes to lye in a Lowsie Al●-house but in short time I did happily arrive at a Mansion place of good Hospitality being the refidence of two most Worthy * The Lady Jermy and the Lady Waldegrave Ladies the Mother and the Daughter being both of them Widdows and there I met with some Gentlemen that were in mine own predicament where by these Ladies Noble favour and free entertainment together with our own Royal I discourse we did much revigerate our spirits And here we had Noble and Free Quarter for a good time and yet ever and anon we were Alarumd with those Trooping Spirits that continually haunted the Country both night and day for there and at other places where I had formerly been many times a Messenger would come to the house and inform the Servants that if any Gentlemen were there that loved the King it were best for them to look to themselves well for there were Troopers at hand and upon such warning given my custome was still to walk out into the Fields and ruminate and yet once at a place where I was being above in a Chamber a reading the house was filled with Troopers before I was aware of it and I fearing that if they should search the house and find me there shut up alone they might suspect me and take me for a prey did come down confidently amongst them and talked so boldly and yet warllie that the fellows not finding him they looked for went very fairly away and had not me in suspition for ought that I perceived But now the goodnesse of these Ladies was a main motive to make me fearfull of being the least Instrument to occasion them any trouble and this I feared more then any danger that could accrew to my self wherefore I though● i● not fit to ●arry there too long at that time least greater notice should be taken of me then my private Condition was then ambitious of And upon this confideration my self and a Divine of good note that was there with me did soon withdraw our selves to an honest Gentlewomans that lived very privately where allowing something for our Die● we lived like to Recluses allmost as Anchorites but in a few weeks I was weary of that and thought it better to live like a Prisoner in my Wifes Custody then any where else and therefore I drew towards home yet not without some ill favoured affronts and dangers too tedious here to relate Well in the night time I vvent home and there continued about 3. Months in a little Chamber never going dovvn unlesse it vvere in the night and then my Wife vvould not suffer me to go out neither untill she had sent some discovering Scout● abroad before me for indeed sometimes they had espied some good Instruments sculking about my Yards and Orchards to ●●y surely if they could hear any noise of me and therefore I vvas driven to speak vvith a more submisse voice then I had formerly used vvhen I pleaded at the Barr and yet alas I vvas not afraid of such Wretches at all but very loth to be a means to encrease their condemnation by their treacherous murdering of me for othervvise I feared not the face of the proudest Rebell in England had it been his Oxcellence himself But I vvas of a stirring Spirit if it please your Majesty could not abide to be alvvayes mued up and therefore out I vvent again to venture another voyage and presented my self to some that I had good confidence in and that were sufficiently able to have afforded me good comfort but alas I did find their looks to be downward and their courage cold pretending much fear to entertain such as were in my condition and this was most irksome to my Genius to see people of quality more cautious of giving offence to the Devil and his instruments then they were of shewing any fear towards God or any love to their King and his Friends and so this journey of mine producing but little effect besides mine own grief travell and trouble within a fortnight or thereabouts I returned home again to mine old Cabine and was then again in danger to have been discovered for being near my house it being late in the evening I met in the High-way with a Cart and 2 or 3. men therein and one of them bad me Goodnight and when they were a little past I heard one of them say sure this same was Mr. Wenlock and another answered him perhaps in good will to me pish no it is not he for he is quick enough of his tongue but this man hath been at

it pleased God to form your Subject of such a temperature as he could see to suffer from the beginning and is like to continue still in a suffering Condition to his latter end if your Majestie prove not a very good Lord and Master to me and my Posterity but my Loyalty did never live without hope either for this present life or my future interest in the World to come and I have thought sometimes that my constellation and Genius did argue something more then ordinary because from my very Childhood ever since that I could well read I have taken an especiall regard and notice of this Proverb My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are seditious or given to change and it had taken so deep an Impression upon my heart as all the Rebells in England were never able to wipe out unlesse they had pulled out heart and all Quo semel est imbuta recen● serva●i●●dorem testa diu and I blesse my God that it was so with me Nam quod ●●venture non discitur in matura ae●ate saepiùs nescitur and this hath been lately too much verified by sad Experience And when I first began to bend my mind to the studie of the Laws of this Kingdom I did soon perceive in my self a greater proclicity and delight in the apprehension and learning of such passages therein as had referrence to the true and right maintaining of the Royall Majestie of the head thereof rather then to those that meerly concerned the body and inferiour members of the same Many have much marvelled that in the late so terrible times I durst so freely utter my mind upon every occasion and have often advised me to be more wary but my answer was ever to this effect That I did no more then my duty required and I ought not to suffer sin upon my Neighbour but to reprove him for it and if it were not the will of God to protect me in mine innocency and integrity I was sure tha● he would quite cast me off if I turned an Hypocrite for there is an woe to the sinner that goeth two wayes and the triumphing of the Wicked is short and the joy of the Hypocrite but for a momen● they are exalted for a little while but are gone and brought low the light of the Wicked shall be put out and the spark of his Fire shall not shine but who shall abide in Gods Tabernacle He that speaketh the Truth in his heart and in whose spirit and lips there is no guile and to them that rebuke the Wicked shall be delight and a good blessing shall come upon them and since that propter tim●rem mortis tacere veritatem impietas est how solicitous every soul of us ought to be in the declaring and justifying of the truth and in the performance of our best duties and endeavours towards the fostering and furtherance of the same Et b●●arum rerum etsi successus non fuerit conatus tamen ipse honestus est and a wise man sayth refrain not to speak when there is occasion to do good and hide not thy Wisedom in her beauty for by Speech Wisedom shall be known and Learning by the word of the Tongue in no wise speak against the Truth but he abashed of the error of thine own ignorance Strive for the Truth unto death and the Lord shall fight for thee Et non solum proditor est veritatis qui mendacium pro veritate l●quitur sed qui non libere pronuntiat veritatem quam pronunciare oportet aut non libere defendit veritatem quam defendere oportet Nam qui veritatem occultat qui prodit mend●cium uterque rous est ille quia prodesse non vult i●●e quia nocere de●iderat May it please your Sacred Majesty I have almost learned Divinity and Philosophy enough to contemn the World and am but very little ambitious of Preferment and yet I confesse that I would willingly imply my poor Talent and the small remainder of my dayes to Gods glory your Majesties honour and service and the good of my native Country and most gladly would I find out a way how to refresh my poor Family that for so many years together by the malice of the Times and in the very despite of my Loyaltie have been exposed to so much hardship and danger of utter ruine and destruction yet I am ashamed to beg so mean a Place as my weak deserts do seem to require It is not for Kings to give Trifles said a Noble Prince but to give royally like themselves In which respect I think it is the best policy for such Suitors to submit wholly to their Soveraigns goodnesse Your Grace in my conceit may well challenge a double Title to be called the most Christian King and in that regard also your Majesty may very fitly be esteemed to be the prime Deputy of God Almighty upon the face of the earth and we know that in the pure eyes of his heavenly Majesty then a true and faithfull heart there can nothing in the world be more acceptable and therefore your poor Subject having no other gratitude at the present doth most humbly presume to present and offer to your Sacred Majesty the true sacrifice of a loyal and loving Heart not fearing to find the fruitfull successe thereof knowing that your royal and religious Majesty will adhere unto and stickle to be of the same mercifull minde with your Almighty Creator Et ille apud Deum plus ha●et loci qui plus attulit non argenti sed fidei and if your Majesty will vouchsafe and please to look upon me I dare promise that by Gods grace my works and actions in the time of prosperity shall be as full of Faithfullness and Loyaltie as ever my works were in the time of my adversitie Tune enim veraciter fideles sumus si quod verbis promittimus operibus complemus and let the World think or say what it please I do protest that I propound these things not so much for mine own interest and advantage as for your Majesties sake and for the deep imprinting and high advancement of Truth and Loyaltie and the memorie thereof in the hearts of the People for although I do freely acknowledge mine own defection comming far short of my duty towards his late Majesty and your Royal Self yet my Conscience doth urge me to tell your Majestie plainly that my Loyaltie and Sufferings are so remarkable as if I should chance unhappily to be neglected and quite forgotten the consequence thereof would be so bad that Truth and Loyaltie would be esteemed but at a very low rate in our Country be made a meer Ludibrium amongst many in that factious seditious schismatical corner where it hath pleased God to lay out my residence I most humbly beg your Majesties gracious pardon for these my bold expressions and I hope I shall have it for I desired never to rest

to the Devil Before their faults they perfectly do know Or what contrition in their hearts they show It argues but a Judgement raw To judge sans censure of the Law For he that grosly hath offended Must not be hang'd before condemned And for my part I know no reason why Men should be hang'd in lines of Poesie And yet some things have been amisse And by experience I have learned this That when the flesh begins to blister 'T is time the Body had a glister And would to God our State were purg'd of such As fancy pomp and self-conceit too much Though some have been advanced high And little good hath come thereby But to themselves a shamefull fall Yet let 's not rashly censure all Or hold a sacred office in contempt Though some therein have been of Grace exemp● A godly Bishop I ado●e I wish of these we had good store But he that smelleth in opinion Of Romish Caiphas or Arminian In Tyber floud I wish his Barge a swimming Or el●e o● Tower-●ill his Head a trimming A loyal Peer that leads the Land Religious laws to understand That ventures Honour Life and Bloud In Truth'● behoof and Countrie 's good If honours wait not on him night and day Injustice wrongs Desert the World may say But he that 's trusted by his Prince And makes no Conscience by offence At home or else in foreign places To breed distractions and disgraces On Irish earth I wish the Serpent lay Till's bowels burst and poyson ran away An upright Judge I dearly love And Truth will ever such approve Because they help the poor oppressed And succour lend to the distressed In Common wealth they are a peerlesse Gem True Subjects therefore still will honor them But if that any of that Tribe Corruptly loves to take a bribe Or doth for favour fond out-face An honest man or honest Case I wish their hides in hands of Leather-dressors That they might Cushions line for their Successors Were Favourites false exil'd the World Projectors to the Devil hurl'd Or had a taste of Tyb●rns check With Monopol packets on their neck Industrious spirits then would look to thrive And thus the State their safety might contrive But things so out of order are And coyne and favour stretch so far Ingenuous men of worthy parts Must needs have discontented hearts And nought more dangerous to the State we find Then discontentment in the Subjects mind But what makes troubles to begin What brings afflictions only sin 'T is not the Mitre Hood or Gown That doth alone pull Judgements down Some nicer Heads that wish them little health Are as ill Members in the Common-wealth A Garment white the Conscience pricks The Service-book in Stomack sticks Yet he that doth the same deprave I never knew him but a Knave The Crosse command in Baptism stifleth some And these they think awak'd the Sco●●sh Drum No crying sins of young and old Make Judgements hot and Mercie cold In Schisme and self-conceit men wallow They fly a gnat and Cammels swallow At Ceremonie now more Stomacks rise Then ' gainst all sins the Devil can devise In Church we have so many Sects They will produce some strange effects The Anabaptists 'gins to brave And so will each fantastick Slave If some in power do not rowse themselves And send to hell in time such peevish Elves To rise and stand in this our gap We need no Pope nor Cardinal's cap Our Soveraign's heart the Lord up raise Josiah-like to mend our dayes And when we see that blessed Reformation Glory and peace shall crown our English Nation Certain News when these Wars shall have an end Written in 1643. WHen God will vouchsafe to open mens eyes That Gospel and Law they leave to despise When all the degrees of age and of youth Will learn to obey and honour the Truck When Gods holy Word is right understood And that which is naught no longer thought good When men are ashamed of Folly and Treason And bow to the rules of Religion and Reason When Scripture is made the ground of mens actions In spite of peevish schismatical Factions When Rebels and Traytors are laid in the lurch And there 's not a lye more told in the Church When Pulpits to good men are void of offence And are no more Theaters of railing Non-sence When proud prick-ear'd Rascals sent from the City To cant to the Roundheads a devilish ditty Are whipped for Rogues and mark'd in the Faces And honest Divines restor'd to their places When Cade and Jack Straw proud Parry and Kett With Powder and Bullets have gotten the freet Or when they be hanged on Gibbets like Slaves Then Peace will appear in spite of the Knaves When men will no longer dissemble with God But stand to the Truth for all the black rod And boldly declare it in every place Not fearing the looks of a treacherous face When Conscience awakes men out of a Trance And Justice and Truth her Head doth advance When true Subjects get of Valour a smack And fear not the Threatnings of every Jack But ●ouse up their courage and boldly disdain In bondage to Skums any more to remain When Traytors are made a scoff and a scorn And never a Rebel dares put out his Horn But keep within compasse of duty and then When Fools are no longer esteemed Wise men When Constables learn to understand Law And leave to serve Warrants not worth a straw And when they sup no more dangerous Broath But mark and beware and remember their Oath When they be no more deluded by I yes But Treason appears as clear as the skies When People no longer lick poysoned Honey To surfeit their Hearts and forfeit their Money But learn to abstain from damned Abuses And spend their Estates on lawfull good uses When every man seeks peace to his power And will not continue a Tray●or an hour But hate and detest these damnable Jarrs The Devil 's the Author of tray terous Warrs When People no more run out of their Wits But blush at their foolish Ph●natical fits When rich men are wise and take modest course● And give not a peny to Parliament forces But let the good Spirit that set them on fire Both cherish their zeal and pay them their hire When he that ● cause their malice so rage● Hath license from Heaven to pay them their wages Then shall we deride their practises vain And Peace and the Gospel shall flourish again When royal King Charles dispense with pity To curb in good earnest the treacherous City Of peace and of quiet there were a good token So soon as that nest of Harpies be broken Or if the old birds were fled and departed The young ones perhaps might prove better hearted When God of his goodness vouchsafeth to send them His spirit of Truth and Grace to amend them When Faith and Obedience in England do dwell And Faction and Treason are damned to Hell Then shall we have Peace that blessed good thing If men would be subject to GOD and their KING Upon our Royal Queens Majesties most Happy Arrival the most Illustrious Donna Cathar●na sole Sister to the High and Mighty King of Portugall T●e Princely ●●ses do my Fancy move To consecrate a Verse to that blest Love That Royal Queen of Grace and great command Espous'd to Charles Le Bon and Charles Le Grand Prophetickly by him so well design'd Who was with Heavenly knowledge so refin'd Heaven guard them Both together and reflect That influence of Favour to protect That S●cred Nymph whose Passage did so please The ●ternal God of Heaven of Earth and Seas To welcome Her with Complemental Ditties Ecchoes of Joy rebound in Court and Cities And lest the lowest place true love should want Or we be deemed of Devotion scant Lo I presume alone from Country Caves To come and honour those Neptunian waves Have brought us home with such propitious gales A Princely Mother to a Prince of Wales Who may my Genius thinks in time outvye The richest Gems of Glorious Chivalry And equalize in worth if not exceed The bravest Heroes of our British breed And with Pegasean Frigats lowdly roar At the proud banks of that Iberian shore And with triumphant Valour once again Set up his Standard in the Realms of Spain And with a Crown of Fortune there resume A Trophee like the brave Bohemian plume And by victorious Virtue still advance That Princely House of Portugal Bragance To Englands High renown and in despight Of all such Foes as dare against them fight May our Imperial Lion rampant stand With the bless'd Vnicorn at his command Who by his secret Virtues may confound All Poysons in the Springs of English ground That being Crown'd at home with perfect Peace His glories through the world may still increase Great Princes shall adore his Royal word And Nations tremble at his conquering sword Then Forreign parts will fear our force and then Our Soveraign shall be stil'd The King of Men And may his Dearest Consort blessed be With all rare fortunes of Felicity The grace of Heaven the prime delights of Earth Make Her the Mirrour of Content and Mirth C●l●stial Angels guard her free from harms Sweetly embraced in our Soveraignes armes Heaven guide her grace and make her truly seen Of Beauty Wit and Majesty the Queen A sit Consort to please the good desires Of such a Prince whom all the World admires And may this Princely payre rest in Love More firm and constant than the Turtle Dove Gods grace their Lives both prosper and protect And in the end Their souls to Heaven direct And grant them here that Quintessence of glory Was never read in any CAESARS Story That After-ages may of them rehearse A glorious Wonder to the Vniverse By John Wenlock of Lincolns Inne Esquire FINIS