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Englands hazzard.
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Throne the Triumph of Monarchy His Royall Blood hath no contagion of vulgar errours but is the true Soveraigne of Innocency When was the scepter borne with such an undefiled hand or the Crown worne with so many bright gemmes shining in it No he hath honoured the Throne with more conspicuous graces and eminent Vertues then any Prince hath done for these may yeares he being the pride of Humility the sober palate of Temperance the pure loynes of Chastity the soft bowells of Mercy and Clemency the warded knee of Devotion a sworne Protestant a vowed Protectour of the Liberties of his Subjects ambitious of Peace and one that would strike the weapons out of his enemies hands with an Act of Oblivion Oh that such a Prince should be affronted much more assaulted No methinks the Soldier should rather disarme himself crampe a March suffer violent death then maligne such a Soveraigne for if any King upon earth can be resisted yet can such a King If this continue what will be the issue ye may judge by the present condition The Tenant is not onely ready to surrender up his Lease nor the Merchant to turne Bankrupt nor the Churches to stand empty without an Incumbent the Country is not only consumed with monthly Contributions Excises free Loans free Benevolences free Quarters the Gentry are not onely abased by having underlings take the command of the Country out of their hands by taking their Horses Armor every thing that delights the eye from them or by taking away their Persons and muring them up in Prisons the Poor are not onely ready to murmur and rage and starve but the whole Nation is ready to draw upon it selfe and to give it self the bloody stab The opposing of Princes hath in former times been fatall to this Nation yea the Kingdome hath scarce suffered so much by all the miseries that hath lighted upon it as it hath done by civil Wars In the Reign of William the Conqueror when the English men that had submitted to his Government Rebelled against him Rog. Wendov Poli. Chron. Hen Huntingd. Ypod. Neystr Mat. West 2. Mat. Paris Will. Maâ—msb Polydor. Virg. it did not only change his courteouâ— usage of them into extreame severity in escheating their Lands abhorring their persons so that he would not suffer any English Scholler to come to promotion driving some into exile forcing others to live in woods like Outlaws cutting off the hands of some and the heads of others but the Kingdome was brought to that miserable desolation that the Highwayes lay un-occupyed through frequent robberies coÌ„mitted and all was wasted from Wales to the mouth of Wye and the Land from Durham to York lay nine years untilled so that for the want of ordinary sustenance the Northern people were enforced to eat the flesh of men Hâ—venden Ypod. Neystr Huntington l. 8. Malmsb Nov. l. 2. p. 105. Gervas Dâ—robornensis In the R igne of King Stephen when the great Ones fell to their accusations as no Rebellion was ever without pretence of Reason and iustice they charging him with the violating of his Oath touching Forrests and other Immunities of the Church and yet indeed as the History saith the pleading of Church and Common-wealth were but publique colours for private grudges their onely quarrell being a secret spight that because they had set him up hee would deny them any thing as the command of certaine Lordshipâ— and Castâ—es which they expected what outrages were committed in the Nation Every year heaped on new calamities to the ruine of the Nation thousand Families were decayed whole Counties depopulated and so many mens Estates confiscated to the Crown that they generally went by the name of the Disinherited yea as the height of misery by the calling in of the Scots the wombs of women were ripped up infants tossed upon the pikes of Speares the Priests slain at the Altar and the slain in a most inhumane manner dismembred In the Reign of K. Iohn we find the estate of the Land most deplorable Lib. S. Alb. in vit Guliel Abbat not only by assaylings surprisings burnings spoylings disinheritings which were exercised by Fathers setting against their Sons Brothers against Brothers kinsmen and allies against their neerest friends but especially by câ—lling in the French Dolphin Lewis who after he had gotten a little command in the Land despised the Englishmen bestowing all their Townes and places of Command upon his own Cavallery Rog de W. S. for when Fitz-Walter demanded but Hertford Castle as his ancient right an Answer was given him by Lewis according to the advice of all his French Nobility that Englishmen were not worthy to have such places intrusted to their charges who were the betrayers of their naturall Lord yea Milun upon his death-bed confessed that if ever Prince Lewis had the Crown of England set on his head Ypod. Neyâ—tr he would condemne into perpetuall Exile all them that then as Traitors against their Soveraign adhered to him against King Iohn Mat. Paris hist. maj and that he would extirpate all their Kindred By one and another the distresses of the times were so grievous that the Kingdom as one saith was like a generall shambles or place of infernall torture In the Reigne of Henry 3. To soon as the Kingdome grew discontented every man dared whatsoever his own audaciousnesse did suggest Mat. Westminst or others connivency permitted insomuch that Foulke de Brent and other Nobles plucked from the K. most of his Crown-Land without any other right than that which the equity of Tumults gave them yea though the Land had been sufficiently plagued with forraign Power yet an ordinary Citizen Fabian even Constantine Fitz. Arnulph whose Sedition infected all to whom War was beneficiall Paris and Peace banefull would have set up a Lewis againe in London crying in the open streets Mountjoy Mountjoy God for us and our Lord Lewis Yea such was the thraldom of those times through the spight of the Barons against Hubert de Burgo that afterwards Iudgements were committed to the unjust Paris Wendover Lawes to Out-laws Peace to Wranglers and Iustice to Wrong-doers And in conclusion through the bloody Battels that were fought all was made a booty and put to fire and sword from the Marches of Wales to Shrewsbury insomuch that such a greevous Famine happened Wendover Parisiens that persons were enforced to pluck the eares of Corne whilst they were greene in the field In the Reigne of Edward 2. when the Earles of Arundell Warwick Lancaster and Warren made a wofull rent with the King and would not assist him in his Warres against the Scots not only they which were left to keep the Marches instead of valliant Champions proved petty Chapmen but such grievous depopulations were committed for foure yeares together that there was scarce bread enough to bee found for the Kings table and the common people in generall eat horses and dogs yea men and children