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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86287	Extraneus vapulans: or The observator rescued from the violent but vaine assaults of Hamon L'Estrange, Esq. and the back-blows of Dr. Bernard, an Irish-deane. By a well willer to the author of the Observations on the history of the reign of King Charles.	Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing H1708; Thomason E1641_1; ESTC R202420	142,490	359

I shall crave leave to say in the Poets words and I hope it may be said without any of the selfe-deceivings of love or flattery Haec mala sunt sed tu non meliora facis Lacies Court in Abingdon June 7 1656. Extraneus Vapulans OR THE OBSERVATOR RESCUED From the vain but violent Assaults of Hammond L' Estrange CHAPT I. The Laws of Historie verified by Josephus but neglected by our Historian His resolution to content himself with saving truths the contrary resolution of the Observator The Observator charged unjustly for writing against King Charles and enveighing against King James King Charles affirms not any where that he did well in excluding the Bishops from the Parliament The Observator justified in the second passage which concerns that King Our Authors intended bitterness against the generall government of King Charles The Observator is no inveigher against King James Our Authors smart un●ustifiable censure of King James The Queen abused by our Author for Bishop Lands indulgence towards the Catholick party His advocating for the Fame against the Countess of Buckingham his uningenuous censure of the Duke of Buckingham the Lord Deputy Wentworth the Earl of Portland Mr. Noye and the Courtiers generally not sparing Mr. Prynne and the Presbyterians then censureth Scandalously and uncharitably of the Clergy and Prelates in the generall and in particular the Court-Clergy and the late Arch-Bishop The Bishops Neile Juxton Williams Mountague Manwaring and Wren c. The faint Amends made by him unto two of that number his mischievous intent in an unnecessary Advocating for Bishop Potter THere were two Cautions given anciently to those who undertook the composing of Histories that is to say ne quid fals● audeant ne quid veri non audeant that they should neither dare to write any thing which was false nor fear to write any thing which was true To these Josephus addes a third touching the beautifying of the Style and from him take them all together in these following words Nam qui Historiam et rerum propter antiquitatem obscurarum expositionem c. for they saith hee that make profession to write Histories and to recite such things as are observed by antiquity ought not only studiously to conform their style but also to beautifie the same with ornaments of Eloquence to the intent the Reader may converse in their writings with the more delectation But above all things they must have an especiall care so exactly to set down the truth that they who know not how these things came to pass may be the more duly and fitly informed and all this to the end as before he telleth us that we neither omit any thing through ignorance nor bury ought in forgetfulnesse And certainly if History be the great Instructor of succeeding times the concealing of necessary truths will as much conduce to the misunderstanding or not knowing the true State of things as any unnecessary falshoods and I conceive no falshood can be counted necessary are presumed to do But our Author was not of this mind when he writ his History and therefore came resolved as his Preface telleth us to content himself with saving truths the first Historian I dare confidently say it which ever published a profession so contrary to the nature and rules of Historie For he that is resolved to write nothing but saving truths must of necessity conceal much Truth which he ought to write and consequently subduct from the eye of the Reader the greatest part of those instructions which the true representing of affairs would afford unto him And therfore it was well said by Mr. Fuller in his Church-History newly published that though it be dangerous to follow a Truth too neer the the heels yet better it is that the teeth of an Historian be struck out of his head for writhe Truth than that they remain still and rot in his jaws by feeding too much on the sweet-meats of Flattery Lib. 9. fol. 232. The Observator as it seemeth was resolved thus also professing that as he undertook that business with a mind free from love or hatred or any of those other affections which pre-engagements in a party do possess men with so he would carry it all along with such impartiality and considence as might witness for him that he preferred truth before interess without respect to fear self-ends or any particular relation of what sort soever But my Author though he will not be thought to love the world so well as the Observator is said by him to do yet knoweth he much better how to save his stake than twenty such Observators and Church-Historians and therefore is not only content to enjoy himself in writing nothing but Saving truths but falls upon the Observator for writing truths which are not saving How so marry saith he the Title of his Pamphlet might rather have been formed into the Observations against King Charles than Observations upon his History Fol. First What all or altogether against King Charles I presume no● so for Fol. the fourth he telleth us of the Observator that he falleth foul upon King James inveighing against and withall detracting from his King-craft and for that sends him to Squire Sanderson to learn wit and manners Squire Sanderson with scorn and contempt enough Squire Sanderson for ought I know may be as good a Gentleman as Squire L ' Estrange there being at this time one Lord and some Knights of that Family which is as much as the Historian or any of his Fathers House can pretend unto Now to the matter of the charge he telleth us that the Observations are not so much upon his Narrative as against King Charles and yet takes notice only of two passages which seem to him to be upon or against that King Had there been more my Auth or was the more to blame to keep the Observators counsell and conceal the crime rendring himself thereby an accessary to the fact and at least parcel-guilty of it if not as guilty altogether as the Observator The first of these two passages is that the Bishops had sate longer in the house of Peers in their Predecessors than any of the Lay Nobility in their noblest Ancestors having as much right of voting there as either the Prerogative Royall or the Laws could give them and therfore it was ill done of our Author to exclude them then and not well done by him that should have kept them in to exclude them afterwards For this the Observator is called Canis Palatinus a Court-cur at the least a Fellow unconcerned in the business and therefore not to snarl at the Kings heels now his back is turned And why all this Fol. 19. Marry because the King hath told us that he did it out of a firm perswasion of their contentedness to suffer a present diminution in their hights and honour for his sake Our Author herexsupon undertakes for the contentedness of almost all not for all the Bishops in

know first that the committing of the Great Seal to Sir Thomas Coventry is placed by the Continuator of Stowes Chronicle after the 25. of September which makes it very near October if it were not in it Secondly it is affirmed by those who have cause to know it that the Seal was committed to that Gent. precisely on the first or second Sunday of October neither sooner nor later And Thirdly I am very certain that whensoeuer it was given to Sir Thomas Coventry it was taken from the Bishop of Lincoln but a day or two before the newes of taking it from the one and giving it to the other being brought to Oxford in the same Letters But then admitting fourthly that the Bishop parted with the Seal in August yet what makes this to our Authors justification makes it not to his further condemnation rather Who placeth it after Candlemas and makes it one of those things in which the King thought fit to prepare himself the Coronation being ended for the following Parliament Never had writer such ill luck or so little modesty such ill luck in calling after any thing which comes in his way but finding nothing that will keep him up from sinking in his own mistakes so little modesty in yeelding to no evidence which is brought against him our Author being like the bold Wrastler I have somewhere read of who though he had many fals and was often foiled would still perswade the company that he had the better But yet he makes us some amends in the next that followes Confessing that he was mistaken in making Dr. Laud Bishop of Bathe and Wells when he officiated at the Coronation But then withall he slights the error calling it scornfully Grande nefas an horrid crime no doubt Ibid. Not noted by the Observator as a crime or a horrid crime but as an error or mistake in his Temporalities concerning which he saith and will be bold to say it in the end of his Preface that no one thing or action is so mislaid as to superannuate and not many to vary from the very day of their prime existence Not from the very day of their prime existence that were brave indeed but braver if it were good in the course of the History Some variations from the very day of their prime existence being seen already We have here a super-semi-annuating a fine word of our Authors new fashion in making Doctor Laud Bishop of Bathe and Wells seven moneths at least before his time a superannuating in the great rout given to Tilly by the King of Sweden placed by our Author in the year 1630. whereas that battle was not fought till the year next following a super-triennuating in placing the Synod of Dort before the convocation of Ireland held in the year 1615. that Synod not being holden untill three years after and if I do not finde a super-supe-annuating that is to say a lapse of six years either in the Pamphlet or the History I am content our Author shall enjoy the honour of a publick triumph he must take greater pains then this to relieve his Preface from the purgatory of the Observator of which he telleth us Fol. 9. or otherwise it is like to lie there till the next general Gaol-delivery by a Bull from Rome Now for the superannuating in the businesse of the Councel of Dort a subterannuating call'd in the true sense of the thing our Author hath very much to say though little to the purpose in his own defence for he resolves to act the Wrastler above mentioned and will not yeeld himself foyled fall he never so often And first he flyeth as formerly to his private intentions telling us that he intended his not superannuating of such things and actions as have reference to the sixteen years of King Charles whereof he treateth in that History not of such things as antecedently occurred and were taken in by the By Fol. 8. And this is like an help at Maw kept in his hands to turn the fortune of the game when it seemeth most desperate But besides this subtersuge of his private intentions he not only telleth us that in things taken in by the By he never will nor did ever mean to warrant the truth to every particular year but that this errour being extravagant and out of the bounds of his principal Narrative may come within the confidence of his not superannuating A rule and resolution no lesse saving then the truths he writes and such as ill-becomes the mouth of a good Historian who if he please to walk abroad into forein Countreys or look back into former times must have as great care in the circumstances of time and place his Temporability and localities in our Authors language as in relating the ●ansitions and affairs at home though these h●s principal concernment But lest this should not serve the turn he hath a trick to make all sure above all dispute which is by fathering this mistake on the Committee for Religion whose report he there did or at least intended he will be sure that his intentions shall not fail him to compleat But dares he stand to this dar●s he stand to any thing no we finde the contrary For though he telleth us that the Observator would be wondrous blank at his Ridiculus mus and after such a ranting triumph if the error should be found to be none of his but the infallible Committees yet in the end it will appear that it was infallibly his own himself confessing that thinking fit to contract the Report of that Committee to a narrow scantling not minding the words so he secured the substance he failed in the transcript of his copy which did erroneously he grants present the Articles sent to Dort before those of Ireland which makes it on the whole matter the greater wonder that the man having made this ingenuous accompt as himself entituleth it should reckon as a defence of his not superannuating in this particular which is ind●●d a plain confession of the Fact a taking to himself or his own copy of the Report the mistake committed and clearing of the Committee for Religion upon which he had laid it Or granting that the copy was not of his own transcribing but the copy rather of some others the broken fragments and loose notes of that Report wherewith some mercenary pen-man had abu●ed his credulity yet how can this be justified before that Committee that such a bold affront should be offered to their infallibility by laying this mistake on them or that Gent. Mr. Pym should be conjured from the Royal Sepulchres like Samuel by the Witch of E●dor to bear witness to it But our Author will not leave it so The Observator must be charged for fetching a running leap to pag. 96. rather then not finde another mistake sor so I think he meaneth in the History which is now before us I thought the Observator had in this deserved a more fair acknowledgement in laying