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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84394	The shepherds letters: 1 To his soveraigne lord King Charles his sacred Majesty. 2 To the renowned noble princes, grand-sonnes to great James of famous memory, late west-emperour of the world, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice. 3 To all the late bishops, doctors, and ministers reputed malignants in the kingdomes of England and Scotland give these.	Ellyson, Thomas.	1646 (1646)	Wing E632; Thomason E319_3; ESTC R200553	5,825	8

THE SHEPHERDS Letters 1 To his Soveraigne Lord King Charles his Sacred Majesty 2 To the Renowned Noble Princes Grand-sonnes to Great James of famous memory late West-Emperour of the World Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice 3 To all the late Bishops Doctors and Ministers reputed Malignants in the Kingdomes of England and Scotland give these London printed 1646. The Shepheard of Easeingtons Letters Gracious Glorious I Beseech thy Majesty suffer thine abject Subject to speake unto thy Majesty without offence God made thy Father the glory of Christendome and gave him one to suceeed according to reason a man hopefull to command Nations as heart could desire yet it pleased the Almighty to take him home to himselfe and left thy Majesty to supply his place and hast established thee in thy fathers Throne given thee his Crown State and Dignity with all his Authority and placed thee in this pleasant Canaan whose borders is from the North Isles of Scotland and Jreland to the South Isles of Barbadoes and Barmoodus and so made thee a great West Emperour of the world yet for all these Dominions I beseech thy Majesty remember thou art still but a mortall man mutable and transitory subject to alteration and change and shall one day be called to a straight account for all thy Talents received which is more then yet is mentioned for he hath given thee Wife and Children which is most neare and deare to man and blessed thee above that great Monarch that Daniel calleth a head of Gold in respect of our Iron Age for when he called his great Assembly out of all People Nation and Languages they wanted understanding to discerne and judge aright save the three Children but God hath blessed thy Majesty with men of many Languages in thy Nations to discerne and judge with sanctified wills to chuse the good and refuse the bad Now seeing God hath blessed thy Majesty so abundantly in thy Subjects and these distractions in thy Kingdoms and blood-shed in divers quarters of thy Countries I beseech thy Majesty under corection How wilt thou answer it before the eternall Tribunall For David was driven from Jerusalem by Absolom but thy Majesty left thine owne House voluntarily without any inforcement or colour of cause that thy Subjects can tell of save that they tooke two Royall Prerogatives which fact may be answered by the old saying A man seeing his Neighbours house on fire hath faire warning for his owne c. for Hypocrites creeping into credit with thy Majesty and put in place of high Authority have greatly disturbed the State Then seeing these perrilous effects proceed it is the proper appointed Office of the Parliament to take away such dangerous causes that the effects may surcease Moreover if thy Majesty shall say with thy Grand-father Adam Yon woman which thou gavest me deceived me c. as that excused not him much lesse can it profit thee which hath all former things written for our instruction upon whom the ends of the world is come and that Noble Princely Lady thy loving Wife being borne and brought up in the Egyptian darknesse of Idolatry may be tollerarated but thy Majesty which was borne in Sion and brought up in Jerusalem is doubly bound to convert her and not to be deceived by her c. I see no more can well be said save this The Priests that sate in Peters Chaire being falne from the purity of Pauls Doctrine hath deceived thy Majesty this I confesse foure hundred false Prophets is forceable to perswade the King contrary to Micah his counsell but most Noble Prince if they were possest with that dumbe and deafe spirit the Apostle speaketh of that would neither suffer to heare nor speake the words of their Office and duty I beseech thy Majesty to drive it farre off from thee by hearty Prayer unto God to give thee the spirit of Wisedome and true understanding to Guide and Governe this his mighty people of Israel Wherefore I most intirely beseech thy Majesty with those Noble Plants of Paradice that is with thee to take it into your good considerations and for binding up the bleeding wounds in the bosome of Christendome Command a cessation of Armes amongst you and signifie it to the Parliament that the Noblemen of Jerusalem may strive who shall come first to guard thee our King David home to thine owne House that the joy of thy happy returne may extinguish the griefe of all our sustained sorrowes which Grace I beseech God of his great mercy in his good time grant us to the good of his Church and the praise of his glorious Name to whom be all glory and praise for ever Thy Majesties abject Subject whose prayers passeth to God for the preservation and continuation of thy Crown State and Dignity to thee and thine for ever That he which hath given thee the glory of a Crown may give thee also a Crown of glory The Shepheard of Enseington Thomas Ellyson Decemb. 25. Most Noble Princes THe remembrance of that happy Government of these Kingdoms under your Grand-father forbideth my very Conscience to keepe backe my counsell when it may doe good to his Posterity wherefore I humbly Petition your Princely Persons patiently to heare me speake without offence though for the present it be not pleasant to you yet afterward it may be profitable for you and yours I need not be tedious to dispute the Cause the case is so plaine that Shepherds Swineherds Coblers and off-scourings of the Kingdomes doth and m●y discerne that this great Conflict consists in transferring the Land from Protestanisme to Papisme which if it please your Princely minds well to remember what perelous Pro●ects they have plotted against your Predecessors and others yee would loath to love or be though in the least fellowship with them as the Powder Treason in which their onely aime was to have blowne the glory of the World with all his Noble Parliament into the Skies like Chaffe which venemous invention was so very monsterous that Historians write the very Heathens hisse to heare it King John denying their request being farre unfitting for a Prince to grant them was forced to Farme his owne Inheritance for it And Henry the fourth Emperour of that name for not reserving the Temple of Jerusalem for the Popes purpose was set to fit bare-foot at his Gates without admittance to his presence till he bought it with a summe of money farre more then sight of him was worth and after shew of Absolution he sent a Bull of Excommunication to gore the Emperour through commanding Rodolfe his German Deputy to rise in Armes and rende away his Crowne which precept being put in present practice and Justice justly tooke his life away the Emperour set his eldest Sonne to rule the States of Germany in his stead But marke I beseech you to make their matchlesse malice more appeare Pope Hildebrand sent his second Bull of Excommunication againe to gore the Emperour commanding the Sonne in Armes