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A33434	The idol of the clovvnes, or, Insurrection of Wat the Tyler with his priests Baal and Straw together with his fellow kings of the commons against the English church, the king, the laws, nobility and royal family and gentry, in the fourth year of K. Richard the 2d, an. 1381.	Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.	1654 (1654)	Wing C4673; ESTC R5215	69,732	166

and quiet slavery let us live or die with Liberty in so generous so honest a contention it will be glorious to be overcome whatsoever our feares are worse we cannot be than now we are about to make our selves Successe too does not so often faile men as their owne industry and boldnesse Feare not for me nor trouble your selves at my dangers I shall thinke my selfe more happy than our Lords if they prosper or their King to die a Martyr of the Cause with the reputation of such a gallantry Let such courage as would have hurryed you forward to all brave and signall mischiefs had I lost my head at Hartford inflame your heavy sprights Methinks I see the Heroe Tylers Ghost chiding our sluggish cowardice and by the blazes of his fire-brands kindled in Hel and waved by Fiends about his head leade on to noble villanies Let dreaming Monks and Priests tremble at the aery sounds of God and Saints he who feares Thunder-bolts is a religions heartlesse Coxcombe and shall never climb a Molehill Thus our buskin'd Martyr swaggers after the raptures put upon him by Walsingham Greyndcobs stubbornnesse hardens on the Clownes they now accuse themselves of basenesse that they did not cut off the Knights Head and naile it on the Pillory to the terrour say they of all Judges and false Justices Greyndcob had raised spirits which he could not lay when he would Three dayes being expired he is againe sent to Hartford Gaol where hee heares news from his Brother who mediated for him in the Court not very pleasing which he communicates to his Townsmen His intelligence was to this effect That Rich of Beauchamp Earl of Warwick and Sir Thomas Percie with a thousand armed men were appointed to visit S. Albanes At this report the Rebels startle they fall to new Treaties offer the Charters and Book in which the old Pleas betwixt the Abby and the Town were recorded with 200 l. for amends The Booke is received the rest put off till the next day The Earl of Warwick sends onely excuses ●…he heard his own house was on fire that the Clowns of his own Lordships were up and hee leaves all thing●… else to quel them This raises the fallen courages of those of St. Albanes they now laugh at their late fear●… If the Commons say they must quit their right of Conquest and surrender their Charters yet will not we the renowned Mechanicks of St. Albanes be their president And as in all tumults which can never be observed too often lying is necessary and must not bee uselesse whatsoever else is They lay the blame of their obstinacy upon the Inhabitants of Barnet and Watford who threaten so they would have it believed to burn their Town if they deliver up their Liberties Which Inhabitants of Barnet and Watford had humbly surrendred their●… before and submitted to the Kings mercy Thus we find these Rebels of St. Albanes again swaggering in their old Rhodomontadoes An Esquire of the Abbots acquaints the King with these turnings who vows to sit personally in judgement upon these everlasting male-contents The Abbot full of pitty and charity who had saved some of these enemies of his House from the Axe by intercession at London continues his goodness still he sollicites Sir Hugh Segrave Steward of the Houshold and others of his friends to mitigate the Kings displeasure and hinder his journey thither which was not in their power Now again are the Townsmen dejected and seek by all means to keep off the tempest which threatned them They fee Sir William Croyser a Lawyer to make their defence and mediate with the Abbot where there was no danger an agreement is concluded the day of the King's entry by which they would bind the Abbot not to disclose them or inform against them He promises if they fail not in performance on their part not to make any complaints to the King of them that he would be a suiter for their peace if his prayers may be heard but that here he cannot assure them Pardons were Acts flowing meerly from the Kings Grace No man had any power or authoritie to pardon or r●…mit treasons c. but the King and whether he could prevail for them he knew not This doubtfulness troubles them it seems to call their innocency too much into question They tell him his good will was sufficient and that as to what belonged to the Royal Dignity they should satisfie the King After Vespers the King made his entry into the Town being met by the Abbot and Covent the Bels rang aloud and the Monke sang merrily his welcome He was followed by some thousands of Bowmen and Cavaliers In this train was Sir Robert Tresilian Chief Justice of the Kings Bench who the next day being Saturday the 13. of Iuly and first of the Dog-dayes sate in judgement at the Moot-hall saies Walsingham at the Town-house Greyndcob Cadindon and Iohn the Barber are fetched from Hartford and said fast till Munday against which time new Jury-men are chosen and charged to be ready with their Verdicts Prophet Baal the Sergius of the new Alcaran the Priest of the Idol and his Calves the Martin of the yoak of pure discipline of the Eldership was taken by the Townsmen of Coventry brought to St. Albanes the day before and this Saturday condemned by the Chief Justice to be Drawn Hanged Beheaded Imbowelled and Quartered which was done on the Munday following He confessed to the Bishop of London to whose Christian Piety he ought the two last dayes of his life which were begged for his repentance that certaine hot and powerfull Pastours of the Separation Brethren of simple hearts called by the Spirit he named six or seven had covenanted and engaged to compass England and Wales round as Itinerant Apostles to propagate the Gospel beat down all abomination of the outward Man Antichristian Hierarehy and Tyranny of the Nimrods of the Earth to cry up the great and holy Cause and to spread the Law Principles and Heresies of B●…l which Disciples saies this Rabbi unlesse they be prevented and taken off wil destroy the Realm in two years Hee might have said two moneths and been believed as to the Civility Humanity Order and Honour never intermitted but in the confusion of a barbarous impious age which made England glorious they had been destroyed and torn up in a less time A few licentious ill Acts easily beget a custom and an hundred ill customes quicklier grow and prevaile than one single good one there is a proneness in unruly man to run into deboshments and no wonder that the arrogant misled silly multitude capable of any ill impressions should deprave and disorder things where all ties of restraint are loosened hay where disorders are not onely defended by the corrupt wits of hirelings but bidden strengthened by a Law and Villainies made legal Acts Had the Idol King Tyler with his Councll not gone on too far in the way of examination but

THE IDOL OF THE CLOVVNES OR INSURRECTION OF WAT the TYLER With his PRIESTS BAAL and STRAW Together with His fellow Kings of the Commons against the English Church the King the Laws Nobility and Royal Family and Gentry in the fourth year of K. Richard the 2d An. 1381. In rebus humanis saecula ac personae inter●●unt causae eventa eadem recurr●●●● Nulla tyrannis vel quieta est vel di●●●●● London Printed in the Year ●●●● Iohn of Lydgate lib. 4. ANd semblably to put it at a prefe And execute it by clere experience One the most contrarious mischiefe Found in this earth by notable evidence Is onely this by Fortunate violence When that wretches thurlish of nature The estate of Princes unwarey doth recure A Crown of Gold is nothing according For to be set upon a knaves heed A Foltish clerk for to weare a King Accordeth nat who that can take hede And in this werld there is no greater drede Then power give if it be well sought Unto such one that first rose up of nought There is no manner just convenience A royal Carbuncle Ruby or Garnet Nor a chast Emeraud of virtues exelence Nor Inde Saphirs in Copper to be set Their Kind'ly power in foule metal is let And so the State of politike puysance I●… ever lost where knaves have Governance For a time they may well up ascend Like windy smokes their fumes sprede A crowned asse plainly to comprehend Uoyde of discretion is more for to drede Then is a Lyon for that one indede Of his nature is mighty and royall Uoyde of discretion that other beastiall The gentle nature of a strong Lyon To prostrate people of kynde is merciable For unto all that fall afore him doun His royall puisaunce cannot be vengeable But churlish Wolves by rigour untreatable And follyshe asses eke of bestialty Fayling reason brayde ever on cruelty None is so proude as he that can no good The lender heed the more presumption Most cruelte and bengeance in lowe blode UUith malapertnesse and indiscretion Of Churle and Gentle make this division Of outhor of them I dare right well report Fro thens thei came thereto the wyl resorte To the Reader THe beginnings of the Second Richard's reign are turmoiled with a Rebellion which shoke his Throne and Empire A Rebellion not more against Religion and Order than Nature and Humanity too A Rebellion never to be believed but in the Age it was acted in and our owne in which we finde how terrible the overflowes of the common people ever delighted in the calamities of others untyed and hurryed on by their own wills and beastly fury must prove though Masanello is short of Tyler yet if we compare that Fisherman with our Hinde the Neapolitan Mechanicks and our Clownes we shall not finde them much unlike not in their sudden flourish and prosperity not in the mischiefs they did and the barbarous savage rudenesse in the doing them Masanello made a shew of foolish unseasonable Piety to the Prince and Archbishop which 〈◊〉 not his part which made him the 〈◊〉 imperfect Rebell the worse Polititian however he might seem the better man but these too might be but counterfeit reverences this might be his disguise and h●… might have come up to more according to the new lights which we may imagine were breaking in The continuance and mis-rule of these Worthies were much of a length in a few dayes the brands themselves had fired broke upon their own heads they were pluck'd up before their full growth like airy flitting clouds they were blown over ere they could pour down the storm they were big with The colours of thes●… tumults were fair and taking such as their Architects B●…l and Straw the Priests had layd such as the Masters of these School●…s have delivered in all ages The Weal publick the liberty of the free-born people pilled and fleyed by the Kings taxes and the cruell oppression of the Gentry Iustice Reformation or Regulation of Fundamentall Laws long subverted considerable nam●…s if we may believe them set them on The King his Glory his Honour his Safety The King and the Commons are cryed up But the King was compassed with Traitours and Malignants they will have it so and it is their care to re●…ove the●… r●…t and branch they will fire the house to cleanse it much other businesse they had much was amisse much to be reformed but in the first sall●…y all is not noysed what was not handsome what might give a fuller fright was lapped up in folds to be discovered as they had thriven to be swallowed but gilded with a Victory We know crimes carried in a happy streams of luck lose their names in it are beautifull and must be thought so The Ordale of the Sword justified Caesar and condemned Pompey not his cause Adversae res etiam bonos detractant sayes Salust Good men if they miscarry doe not onely lose themselves but their integrity their justnesse their honesty they are what the Conquerour pleases and the silly multitude which ever admires the glitter of prosperity will hate them Providence preserved the English Nation from this blow The Lawrel of success crowned not the Rebels they crumble to their first dust again are ruined by their own weight and confusion They had ris●…n lik●… those Sons of the Dragons teeth in tempests without policy or advice Their leaders were meerly fantastical but goblins and shadows men willing to embr●…yl and daring whose courage was better then their cause and who to advance the design would not boggle at a peece of Honesty an Oath a Protestation on Covenant a Verse of St. Paul or St. Peter a Case of Conscience in the way of brave bold manly spirits yet without heads or wits to manage the great work which in so vast a body suddainly composed like the spawns of Nile of slime and dirt of so different parts so unequall members was fatall to the whole Tyler had no brains he could not plot not contrive and those about him were as heavy as very Asses as himself He is said to be a crafty fellow and of an excellent wit but wanting grace yet crafty enough he was not for the great and dangerous enterprise a Marius however impious for such he must be p●…ce pessimus fitter to remove things to overturn overturns than for peace but as Plutarch of him subtill faithless●… one who could overdo all men in dissembling in hypocrisie practised in all the arts ●…f lying and some of these good slights Tyler wanted not one who had sense and judgement to carry things on as well as desperate confidence to undertake had become this part incomparably had gone through with it how easily under such a Captain if we look upon the weaknesse of the opposition and the villainous baseness of the Gentry had the frame of the ancient building been rased the Mod●… must have held Richard whose endeavours of defence or loyalty alone should have been