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war_n	henry_n	king_n	richard_n	2,873	5	9.1432	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90635	The divine catastrophe of the kingly family of the house of Stuarts or, a short history of the rise, reign, and ruine thereof. Wherein the most secret and chamber-abominations of the two last kings are discovered, divine justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated, and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified, by Sir Edward Peyton, knight and baronet, a diligent observer of those times.	Peyton, Edward, Sir, 1588?-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing P1952; Thomason E1291_1; ESTC R208989	41,016	159

be no need of a William the Conquerour to interrupt the proceedings of the State and dissettle it by establishing of new Laws there will be no William Rufus in a hunting voyage to be slaine no king Iohn to be poysoned at Swinsted Abbey by a Monke nor there will be no beautiful Rosamonds to hinder a pious government no Mortimers to entice to his bed and lust the wives of princes there will be no unnatural mothers like that French Lady who killed her own son Edward the second in Pomfret Castle by the power of a French pride there will be no Pearce Gaviston nor Spencers to draw a mighty State into their own hands by ruine of the people there will be no Alice Pearce who sat at the pillow of King Edward the third and kept a privy Councel out that should advise a king for the good of his people there will be no wanton Courtezan to pass by the Court-chambers and loose her garter to be a means to settle an Order there will be no Iohn of Gant to deny the inheritance of his first children and settle it upon his second wives there will be no Richard the second to send a number of the Nobility to be murdered at Calice to satisfie the unsatiable desires of Princes nor striving to ruine Parliaments though it be to his own deposing nor no Judges to counsel the Soveraigne to ruine his people there will be no factions betwixt the houses of Yorke and Lancaster to imbroyle the people in War nor no Barons wars to make a distraction in the Nations there will be no working to have Burgesses in Stannaries by Dukes of Cornwall nor no imprisonment of a Speaker Thorpe out of Parliaments nor factions for their private interests to ruine the publike there will be no killing of Henry the sixth in a Chamber as Richard the third did no alluring of Iane Shores to Princes lustful beds no murthering of Princes and smothering them as was in the Tower no Empsons and Dudleys to raise an Estate for kings by the ruine of the people no pretences to make a war to gather wealth to peal and pole the subject and after to compose the war and keep the money in his own purse as Henry the seventh did nor pride to put down the right title of a wife and set up his own first that was after it no Perkin Warbeck to be an Impostor to put by a right title no Henry the eighth to make void a Katherines bed to make way for another wife no chopping off the heads of wives to make way for other beauties for lust nor no terrifying of Parliament if they do not give way to pass an Act to enrich his Coffers as Henry the eight did in the case of Abbeyes no Cardinal Woolseys to set up their Armes afore their Masters to make way for a Popedom and too too late repentance that he had not served God so faithfully as his Master by which he came to a Tragical end to poyson himself no poysoning of Edward the sixt by great Northumberlands to make way for the Diadem no Leicesters to grow so potent as to set up a school to vitiate Ladies nor no drawing of Parliament men from their fidelity to their country as hath been used in king Iames and king Charles his time nor none so ambitious as to make themselves Darlings of the multitude to make way for their own interests above the publick nor for kings to take favorites to overthrow their principals none unworthy without merit shall be imployed none shall grow lawless by vertue of Princes humors Surely all kingdomes have a period as the Babylonian Medes and Persians Grecian and Reman look in the history of all these and you shall understand that Ambition oppression Tyranny and Injustice have been the changers of Government to some other way or persons It is probable that the determination of God is to destroy all Monarchy in Christendome for if we begin with France we shall finde they have always adhered to the Romish Government except a little handful of those they call Reformed Protestants How much have they wronged us in our title which belongs truly to us and though they seeme to be Governed by a Salique Law yet notwithstanding they have not kept the order thereof which they ought to have done but have foisted in some males which ought to have been last afore others which ought to have been first and the Maiors of the Palace at Paris have set up kings at their pleasure and not respected the right of those that ought to have had it The persecuting of the holy men of Towers and the Albigenses the true Apostolick descendants who ever hated the Roman Heresies that horrible and unheard of massacre at Paris in Henry the thirds time of France by the device of the house of Guise and Queen Katherine who was a Witch and made Julips of young children snatched up in the night to maintain her lust as Comines doth testifie and Hen. 4. turning his Religion from the Protestant side after God Almighty had blessed him with one and twenty Victories over the Popish League Lewis the thirteenths making a war against the Protestants to murder a number of them though it was with the loss of five thousand of the Nobility of Erance The Duke of Bouillon the Duke Tremelly and divers others changing their Religion and Cardinal Richeliu giving Authority and command in Armes on purpose to destroy the Hugonots though God blessed them to be the best Commanders in France All these I say and many more I could repeat will be a means to showre down Gods vengeance to destroy that Monarchy Let us therefore cease from wondering at Gods works for if a Sparrow fals not to the ground without his special providence then much less is it wanting in turning topsy-turvy principalities and kingdomes Certainly if this vicissitude were not sin would have more abounded piety or at least morality would be banished and men would forget the end of their Creation and think there were no God to punish sin nor reward the righteous but do as the great fishes devoure one another This makes me affirme that it is not probable that God can bless Charles the now supposed King of Scots from his predecessors if we examine the mothers side the Grandmother was proved by the Parliament of Paris to have made abortive her sons bed eleven times by help of a Spanish Emperick as by Will. Murreys Ambassie appeared who returned this answer to King Charles and therefore it was not convenient to yeild that she should return into France and also his Grand-father turned his Religion and was killed like a Calf by Ravilliac his mother for too much familiarity with Buckingham Holland and Jermine for the Duke for fear the French Ladies should tell tales of George often mounted on his steed sent them into France contrary to the Articles of marriage so that the Queen was shut up in the Chamber