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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95533	Crop-eare curried, or, Tom Nash his ghost, declaring the pruining of Prinnes two last parricidicall pamphlets, being 92 sheets in quarto, wherein the one of them he stretch'd the soveraigne power of Parliaments; in the other, his new-found way of opening the counterfeit Great Seale. Wherein by a short survey and ani-mad-versions of some of his falsities, fooleries, non-sense, blasphemies, forreigne and domesticke, uncivill, civill treasons, seditions, incitations, and precontrivements, in mustering, rallying, training and leading forth into publique so many ensignes of examples of old reviv'd rebells, or new devised chimeraes. With a strange prophecy, reported to be Merlins, or Nimshag's the Gymnosophist, and (by some authours) it is said to be the famous witch of Endor's. Runton, pollimunton plumpizminoi papperphandico. / By John Taylor.; Tom Nash his ghost.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T446; ESTC R212364	32,386	51

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