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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89431	Musgrave muzl'd: or the mouth of iniquitie stoped. Being a true and cleer vindication of Sir Arthur Hazelrige from a false and scandalous accusation of John Musgrave, in his late pamphlet intituled, A true and exact relation of the great and heavie pressurs and grievances the well-affected of the Northern bordering counties lye under by Sir A.H. misgovernment. With a true but not exact character of the said Musgrave in some discoveries of him.	Price, John, Citizen of London, Attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing M3157; Thomason E625_11; ESTC R206469	26,199	39

Musgrave Muzl'd OR The mouth of Iniquitie stoped BEING A true and Cleer Vindication OF Sir Arthur Hazelrige FROM A false and Scandalous Accusation of John Musgrave In his late Pamphlet Intituled A True and exact Relation of the great and heavie pressurs and grievances the well-affected of the Northern bordering Counties lye under by Sir A. H. misgovernment With a True but not Exact Character of the said Musgraue in some discoveries of him LONDON Printed by John Macock for L. Lloyd and H. Cripps and are to be sold at their shop in Popes head Alley 1651. To the Reader READER A GOOD Name well got is the best of Riches and he that unjustly taketh away the same is the worst of Robbers to conceal the worth of a man is dis-ingenuity to detract from true deserts is not equity to charge guilt upon innocencie is inhumanity but to call worthiness by the name of wickedness is right down Devilism I am no more Master Musgraves adversary then thine and that 's not at all for I know thee not and yet I am both thine and his adversary in all Malignity against this Common wealth and its chiefest champions Sir Arthur Hazilrige is no otherwise my Friend then thine if thou art a wel-wisher to this Republique and I have as little dependence upon him and obliegment from him upon any personal interest as thy self whoever thou art I have alwayes observed him according to the best advantage of my standing in all the turns of our turning times a plain hearted man an English Oake and not an Osier that wil warp and winde with every wind a Protector of all good men of whatsoever judgement in a good cause an Assertor of just liberty an opposer of Tyrannie and that not in prate but in practise in Councels and Combates For my part let the terror of a Tyrant be his reward that wil plead his cause but they are the subtil'st Sollicitors for dethron'd Tyrants that decry their dethroners without a cause it is too true honours do alter manners and high places without great watchfulness do make high spirits but every bird is not taken in the snare of the Fowler and it is as true that preferment in some begets envie in others whose constant course is to strive and endeavour to stain their integrity with notorious forgerie I take no pleasure in padling in other mens puddle nor dabling my self with other mens dirt yet I judge it a service worthy my betters to wash off that filth and foam which the malicious stomachs of envious men do dayly eject upon the Names and Honours of our English Heroes beleeve it if I may speak it without vanity flattery is the very antipathy of my genius and I blesse my God my foot is not taken in the snare of necessitie to dissemble the same by the instigation whereof upon the first view of this * paltrie Pamphlet written by Master Musgrave I had a strong resolution to make a strict inquisition touching matters of Fact therein asserted and though I had not faith to beleeve the tenths of those tales mentioned therein mine own personal knowledge rising up against some of them yet considering that the best of men are but men at best and well knowing that a plain man would not be offended at plain dealing I applyed my self to Sir Arthur himself for satisfaction herein who hath given me that which I give unto thee which if thou judgest by the Law of impartiality thou shalt finde such a complexion of impudence and ignorance scandal and slander malice and mischief pride and passion forgeries and falsities concentred in Mnsgrave as if they were all cloth'd in flesh and dwelt amongst us but that the power of him whose design it was in coming into the world to destroy the works of the Devil would crush the crowd spoil the spawn and confound the conventicle of those unclean spirits in that unclean man is my hearty desire I expect a Respons but cleerly perceiving a ranting raving and railing spirit stearing his pen and praecipitating him to wright at randum I judge him not worthy the honour of a Reply and therefore Farewell A True and Cleer Vindication of Sir Arthur Hazelrige from a false and scandalous Accusation of John Musgrave c. TO Justifie the wicked and Condemn the Righteous it is hardly determinable which is more abhominable and a pretended zeal for God and their Country do hurry Hypocrites to the one and the other whose vociferations of tongues and pens do beat the eares of City and Country with nothing more then lowd lyes in hypocrisie who being closely beleagured with pride and penury impudence and ignorance and miserably infected with the itch of popularity do palliate their projects for their lusts and lucre from the credulous croud of the Common People with Come see our zeal for God and our Country acting their parts in the publick view Theatrico more that they might procure a plebean plaudite for the most passionate Patriots of their indeared Country when by a very slight scrutinie of their particular practises their pretended zeal appears nothing more then intended malice against such men who for true worth in the just account of God and good men are no more to be compared with such proud boasters then the dogs of Jobs flocks with those that did abuse him It is very observeable that the most noxious enemies of our present Authority and new Common-wealth are the pretended lowdest assertors thereof who Herod-like under the colour of advancing the same seek to sacrifice it in its very infancie and to introduce a most tyrannicall Anarchy under the colour of the peoples liberty hence sprung the malicious ebullitions ranchorous invectives and scurrilous slanders from those swelling swagerors and licentious levellers in their lawless libels against the present Parliament the Councill of State the High Court of Justice the Government of the Army by Martiall Laws blown up and down the Nation like empty clowds and the greatest distempers that proceeded there-from at Ware Burford and else-where from this spirit of mischief and malignity hath the world been infected with so many scandalous fals and unworthy aspertions cast upon the chiefest Champions of our English Nation as Cromwel Bradshaw Ireton Harrison Vane junior with several others whom God hath made their Adversaries envie and the Commonwealths safety the savor of whose conversation humane frailties excepted doth please the Nostrils of God and good men whose peace and prosperitie are the subject matter of the dayly prayers and praises of the truely Religious whether it be not the same spirit from beneath which maketh wicked men like the troubled sea that hath possessed Mr John Musgrave when he did cast up that mire and dirt upon Sir Arthur Haslerige as formerly in Print though since washed off to his own glory and his accusers shame so again in his late Pamphlet wherein it is hard to say whether are more sentences or calumnies sayings or

slanders fars'd and stuft indeed with nothing more then fables and falsities Intituled A true and exact Relation of the great and heavie pressures and grievances the well-affected of the Northern bordering Countries lye under by Sir A. H. Misgovernment c. is offered to the consideration of judicious men from their due observation of the notorious falsities therein specified and the base miscarriages in several instances of the said Mr Musgrave rendering himself in truth according to his Charge against another in falshood That little acquaintance that I have with him hath quit my desires of increasing the same whose distempered temper chollerique countenance troublesom tongue and slanderous Pen do render him Solomons froward man with whom we must not converse for fear of the infection of frowardness and the companion of fools shall be destroyed The truth is he hath little in him worthy emulation and sufficient want of all things lovely for the exercise of mens comiseration did he not quench the Spirit thereof in all his acquaintance by a violent voluntary precipitancy thereinto he is not the object of my hatred for though he be intolerable yet I hope recoverable nor yet of my envy for he neither is or hath any thing worthy thereof I could love him and pity him had he but the least of either towards himself Sir Arthur Hasterig is more known unto me and to thousands then I or they to him and although there is not the least obligement upon me by any dependance upon him the least particular courtesie or favour received from him engaging me unto this service yet considering his courage and resolution his constant and faithful adhesion in all viciscitudes and turns of affairs to the honest party engaging himself at all times unto the highest degree against the contrary party though never so great and likely to prosper and knowing also in mine own present knowledg and experience the notorious falsities and untruths of some things asserted in the said scandulous Pamphlet I could not withstand those impressions of spirit that were upon me to vindicate his integrity unto the best of my ability How injuriously and irreparably Mr Musgrave hath abused the said Sir A. H. contrary indeed to the very A. B. C. and first Principles of Righteousness Justice and common Honesty by publishing him abroad in print for a Deceiver an Oppressor a Friend to the worst of Malignants an Enemy to the Well-affected a Promoter of the Scottish Interest against the English a proud covetous Oppressor a Tyrant a Traytor to God and his Country and that after the said Musgrave had applyed himself unto the Councel of State for audience and reception of his Charge against the said Sir A. H. and had all due encouragements that he should have a fair and regular hearing how dishonestly and wickedly he hath thus accused arraigned condemned and executed the said Sir A. H. in his name honor and repute before the determination of those to whom he complained is most obvious to all his Readers but it is no marvel for it is most common that such men who have out-lived the credit and repute of their own names care not what wreck they make of the honor of others with whom they are not worthy to be nam'd the same day But it is a constant character of such ranting Railers and flourishing Need-nots to make loud boasts in propatulo of their great zeal of Justice and Righteousness Countries Liberty and common Honesty and yet to act in such ways as the dullest eye may well perceive to stand in a perfect inconsistancy with their profest Principles Is not the plain English of these foul Fables thus printed and published by this bold Boaster and busie Scribe to dictate unto the people according to the daring Dialect of that scribling Faction such clamorous calumnies and aspersions of Tyranny Pride Covetousness and Oppression in our present Governors the very repetition whereof is an offence to all but Malignant ears and all this managed under the vail of publique Liberty and common good But O that we were Judges in the Land lies at the heart of these pathetick Zelots whereunto were they once advanced the ignoble dispositions virulent tongues furious spirits and mean capacities of these men would quickly reduce us to as much Peace and Happiness Justice and Liberty as Saints may expect where Satan hath his Throne and his Vice-Roys bear Rule For if the green tree will burn what will the dry And they that will tyrannize over the names honour and repute of their Superiors what would they do over their inferiors and wo be to that people whose Princes are peasants a spice of such spirits you may perceive in Mr Musgraves proceedings against Sir Arthur Haslerig at the Councel of State which though the just Judgment and Order of the said Councel may be a sufficient Vindication of the said Sir A. H. yet for better satisfaction take the particulars thus Upon the 23 Ian. 1650. the said Mr Musgrave did appear at the Councel of State according to appointment and being examined touching a Book with his name unto it importing many and very great Charges against Sir A. H. being at first demanded whether he would acknowledg that Book there presented to him to be his Book he did acknowledg the whole Book to be his excepting the Errata's which he did proffer to amend with his pen and that he would justifie it after a full hearing of both parties and this Musgrave not being able to make good his Charge was commanded to withdraw and being cal'd in again was desired to take the Book and to mend the said Errata's with his pen but then he denyed to own the Book but said he would stand to his Charge and make that good and being withdrawn and Sir A. H. also he did after that publiquely deny to own the Book whereupon the Councel of State made this ensuing Order Saturday 25 January 1650. At the Councel of State at White-Hall Ordered c. Vpon information given to this Councel by Sir Arthur Haslerig that one Mr John Musgrave had caused a Book to be printed and published and that in the Epistle and Charge the said John Musgrave did accuse him the said Sir Arthur Haslerig of breach of promise and engagement to the Councel and for acting contrary to the same and contrary to the Councel of States Declaration the said Mr John Musgrave being called before the Councel did acknowledg the whole Book excepting only some Errata's of the Printer which he offered to amend with his pen and said he would justifie it and offered to put in security to make it good Thereupon the said Mr Musgrave being fully heard as to the particulars of the Epistle and Charge in his Book against Sir Arthur Haslerig for a supposed breach of trust and engagement by him to the Councel and also for acting contrary to the Councel Declarations concerning the examining the Charge of Mr Howard late High Sheriff