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A81226	A Venice looking-glasse: or, A letter vvritten very lately from London to Rome, by a Venetian Clarissimo to Cardinal Barberino, protector of the English nation, touching these present distempers. Wherein, as in a true mirrour, England may behold her owne spots, wherein she may see, and fore-see, her follies pass'd, her present danger, and furture destruction. Faithfully rendred out of the Italian into English.	J. B. C.	1648 (1648)	Wing C79A; Thomason E525_19; ESTC R205654	17,303	25

ring of this high cariage of the Kings and the sound went thence to the Countrey whence the silly Plebeians came presently in whole heards to this City and strowting up and down the streets had nothing in their mouths but that the priviledg of Parlement the priviledg of Parlement was broken though it be the known cleer Law of the Land that the Parlement cannot supersede or shelter any treason The King finding how violently the pulse of the gr●sly seduced people did beat and there having been formerly divers riotous crues of base Mechaniques and Mariners who had affronted both his own Court and the two Houses besides which the Commons to their eternall reproach conniv'd at notwithstanding that divers motions were made by the Lords to suppresse them the King also having private intelligence that there was a mischievous plot to surprize his person remov'd his Court to the Countrey The King departing or rather being driven away thus from his two Houses by this mutinous City he might well at his going away have obraided her in the same words as Henry the 3. did upbraid Paris who being by such another tumultuous rabble driven out of her in the time of the Ligue as he was losing sight of her he turn'd his face back and sayed Farewell ingratefull Cittie I will never see thee again till I make my way into thee through thy Walls Yet though the King absented himself in person thus from the two Houses he sent them frequent messages that they wold draw into Acts what he had already assented unto and if any thing was left yet undon by him he wold do it therfore he will'd them to leave off those groundles feares and jealousies wherwith they had amus'd both Cittie and Countrey and he was ready to return at all times to his Palace in Westminster provided that his Person might be secur'd from the former barbarisms outrages But in lieu of a dutifull compliance with their Prince the thoughts of the two Houses ran upon nothing but war The King then retiring into the North thinking with a few of his servants only to go visit a Town of his he was denied entrance by a fatall unlucky wretch who afterwards was shamefully executed with his eldest son by command of his new Masters of the Parlement The King being thus shut out of his own town which open'd the first dore to a bloudy war put forth a Declaration wherein he warn'd all his people that they should look to their proprieties for if Hee was thus barr'd of his owne how could any private Subject be sure to be Master of any thing he had and herein he was as much Prophet as Prince For the Parlement-men afterwards made themselfs Land-Lords of the whole Kingdome it hath been usuall for them to thrust any out of his freehold to take his bed from under him and his shirt from off his very back The King being kept thus out of one of his townes might well suspect that he might be driven out of another therefore 't was time for him to look to the preservation of his Person and the Countrey came in voluntarily unto him by thousands to that purpose but hee made choice of a few only to be his gard as the Parlementteers had don a good while before for themselfs But now they went otherwise to worke for they fell a levying listing and arming men by whole Regiments and Brigades till they had a verie considerable Army a foot before the King had one Musqueteer or Trooper on his side yet these men are so notoriously impudent as to make the King the first Aggressor of the war and to lay upon Him all the blood that was spilt to this day wherein the Devill himself cannot be more shameles The Parliamenteers having an army of foot and horse thus in perfect Equipage 't was high time for the King to look to himselfe therefore he was forced to display his royall Standard and draw his sword quite out Thus a cruell and most cruentous civill war began which lasted neer upon foure yeers without intermission wherin there happen'd more battailes sieges and skirmishes then passed in the Netherlands in fourescore yeers and herein the Englishmen may be said to get som credit abroad in the world that they have the same blood running in their veines though not the same braines in their sculls which their Ancestors had who were observed to be the activest peeple in the field impatient of delay and most desirous of battaile then any Nation But it was one of the greatest miracles that ever happen'd in this Land how the King was able to subsist so long against the Parlamenteers considering the multiplicity of infinite advantatages they had of him by water and land for they had the Scot the Sea and the City on their side touching the first he rushed in as an Auxiliary with above 20000. Horse and Foot compleatly furnish'd both with small and great ammunition and arms well cloth'd and money'd For the second they had all the Kings Ships well appointed which are held to be the greatest security of the Island both for defence and offence for every one of them is accounted one of the moving Castles of the Kingdome besides they had all the other standing stone-Castles Forts and tenable places to boot Concerning the last viz. the City therein they had all the wealth bravery and prime ammunition of England this being the onely Magazin of men and money Now if the King had had but one of these on his side he had in all probability crush'd them to nothing yet did he bear up strangely against them a long time and might have don longer had he kept the campane and not spent the spirits of his men before Townes had he not made a disadvantagious election of som Commanders in chief and lastly had he not had close Traitors within dores as well as open Rebells without for his very Cabinet Councell and Bed-Chamber were not free of such vermin and herein the Parlementeers spent unknown sums and were very prodigall of the Kingdomes money The King after many traverses of war being reduced to a great streight by crosse successes and Counsells rather then to fall into the hands of the Parlementeers withdrew himselfe in a Servingmans disguise to the Scors army as his last randevous and this plott was manag'd by the French Agent then residing here A man wold think that that Nation wol'd have deem'd it an eternall honor unto them to have their own King and Countrey-man throw himself thus into their armes and to repose such a singular trust in them upon such an Extremity but they corresponded not so well with him as he expected for though at first when the Parlamenteers sollicited their deer Brethren for a delivery of the Kings person unto them their note was then if any forren petty Prince had so put himself upon them they could not with honor deliver him much lesse their own Native King yet

saddest and best weighdst men among them that the same presages foretell their ruine as did the Israelites of old which was a murmuring against their Governors It is a long time that both Judges Bishops and privy Counsellors have bin mutter'd at wherof the first shold be the oracles of the Law the other of the Gospell the last of State-affaires and that our judgments shold acquiesce upon theirs Here as I am inform'd 't was common for evry ignorant client to arraign his Judg for evry puny Clerk to censure the Bishop for evry shallow-brain home-bred fellow to descant upon the results of the Councell Table and this spirit of contradiction and contumacy hath bin a long time fomenting in the minds of this peeple infus'd into them principally by the Puritanicall Faction Touching the second of these I mean Bishops they are grown so odious principally for their large demeanes among this peeple as Monks were of old and one may say it is a just judgment fallen upon them for they were most busy in demolishing Convents and Monasteries as these are in destroying Cathedralls and Ministers But above all it hath bin observ'd that this peeple hath bin a long time rotten-hearted towards the splendor of the Court the very glory of their King and the old establish'd Government of the land 'T is true there were a few small leakes sprung in the great vessell of the State and what vessell was ever so tite but was subject to leakes but these wiseakers in stopping of one have made a hundred Yet if this Kings raign were parallell'd to that of Queen EliZabeth's who was the greatest Minion of a peeple that ever was one will find that she stretch'd the Prerogative as much In her time as I have read in the Latin Legend of her life som had their hands cut off for writing against her matching with the Duke of Aniou others were hang'd at Tyburn for traducing her government she pardon'd thrice as many Roman Priests as this King did she pass'd divers Monopolies she kept an Agent at Rome she sent her Sargeant at Armes to pluck out a Member then sitting in the House of Commons by the eares and clap'd him in prison she call'd them sawcy fellowes to meddle with her Prerogative or with the government of her houshold she mannag'd all forren affaires specially the warrs with Ireland soly by her privy Counsell yet there was no murmuring at her raign and the reason I conceave to be that there was neither Scot or Puritan had then any stroke in England Yet for all their disobedience and grumblings against their Liege Lord the King this peeple are exactly obedient to their new Masters of the House of Commons though they sit there but as their Servants and entitle themselfs so and also though in lieu of the small scratches which England might happily have receiv'd before all which the King had cur'd these new Masters have made such deep gashes in her and given her such deadly wounds that I believe are incurable My Lord I find by my researches that there are two great Idolls in this Kingdome the greatest that ever were they are the Parliament and the Pulpit 't is held a kind of blasphemy if not a sin against the Holy Ghost to speak against the one and the whole body of Religion is nailed unto the other for there is no devotion here at all but preaching which God wot is little better then prating The abuse of these two hath bin the source of all the distempers which now raign touching the latter it hath serv'd as a subservient Engin to prop up the power and popularity of the first these malicious Pulpit-men breath out nothing thence but either sedition schisme or blasphemy poor shallow brain'd Sciolists they wold question many things in the old Testament and find Apocrypha in the New And such is the violence wherewith the minds of men and women are transported towards these Preachmen and no other part of devotion besides that in all probability they will in time take a surfet of them so that give this giddy peeple line enough there will be no need of Ca●holique Arms to reduce them to the Apostolic Church they will in time pave the way to it themselves and be glad to return to Rome to find out a Religion again There was here before as I am informed a kind of a face of a Church there were some solemnities venerations and decencies us'd that a man might discover some piety in this peeple there was a publick Liturgie that in pithy Patheticall prayers reach'd all occasions the Sacraments were administred with some reverence their Churches were kept neat and comly but this ●●sty race of miscreants have nothing at all of sweetnesse of piety and devotion in them 't is all turn'd to a fatuous kind of more zeal after learning as if Christianity had no sobriety consistence or end of knowledg at all These silly things to imitate the Apostles time wold have the same form of discipline to govern whole Nations as it did a chamberfull of men in the infancy of the Church they wold make the same coat serve our Saviour at 30. yeers which fitted him at three T is incredible how many ugly sorts of heresies they daily hatch but they are most of them old ones newly furbish'd they all relate to Aerius a perfect hater of Bishops because he could not be one himself The two Sectaries which sway most are the Presbyterians and Independents the Presbyterian is a spawn of a Puritan and the Independent a spawn of the Presbyterian there 's but one hop 'twixt the first and a Iew and but half a hop 'twixt the other and an Infidell they are both opposite to Monarchy and Hierarchy and the latter would have no Government at all but a parity and promiscuous confusion a race of creatures fit only to inhabit Hell and one of the fruits of this blessed Parlement and of these two Sectaries is that they have made more Jewes and Athiests then I think there is in all Europe besides but truly my Lord I think the judgments of Heaven were never so visible in any part of the Earth as they are now here for there is Rebell against Rebell House against House Cittie against Army Parlement against Scot but these two Sectaries I mean the Presbyterian and Independent who were the fire-brands that put this poor Iland first in a flame are now in most deadly feud one against the other though they both concur in this to destroy government And if the King had time enough to look only upon them they would quickly hang draw and destroy one another But indeed all Christian Princes shold observe the motions successes of these two unlucky Incendiaries for if they shold ligue together againe as they have often plaid fast and loose one with another and prevail here this Iland wold not terminate their designes they wold puzzle all the world besides Their Preachmen ordinarily

but a kind of petty insensible Tax a thing of nothing to what hath happened since there were some foolish people in this Land which murmured at it and cryed out nothing else but a Parliament a Parliament and they have had one since with a vengeance But before this occasion it was observed that the seedes of disobedience and a spirit of insurrection was a long time engendring in the hearts of some of this peace-pampred People which is conceived to proceed from their conversation and comerce with three sorts of men viz. the Scot the Hollander and the French Huguenot Now an advantage happened that much conduced to necessitate the convoking of a Parliament which was an ill-favoured traverse that fell out in Scotland For the King intending an Uniformity of Divine worship in all His three Kingdomes sent thither the Lyturgie of this Church but it found cold and coorse entertainment there for the whole Nation men women and children rise up against them Hereupon the King absolutely revoked it by Proclamation wherein He declared 't was never His purpose to presse the practice thereof upon the Consciences of any therefore commanded that all things should be in statu quo prius but this would not serve the turn the Scot took advantage hereby to destroy Hierarchy and pull down Bishops to get their demeanes To which purpose they came with an Army in open Field against their own Native King who not disgesting this indignity Mustred another English Army which being upon the confines of both Kingdomes a kind of Pacification was plaistred over for the present The King returning to London and consulting His second thoughts resented that insolency of the Scots more then formerly Hereupon He summons a Parliament and desires aid to Vindicat that Affront of the Scot. The Scot had strong Intelligence with the Puritan Faction in the English Parliament who seemed to abet his quarell rather then to be sensible of any nationall dishonour received from him which caused that short-lived Parliament to dissolve in discontent and the King was forced to finde other meanes to raise and support an Army by private Loanes of His Nobler sort of Subjects and Servants The Scot having punctuall Advertisments of every thing that passed yea in the Kings Cabinet Councell was not idle all this while but rallies what was left of the former Army which by the articles of Pacification should have been absolutely dismissed and boldly invades England which he durst never have done if he had not well known that this Puritan Party which was now grown very powerfull here and indeed had invited him to this expedition would stand to him This forrein Army being by the pernicious close machinations of some mongrell Englishmen aforementioned entred into the Bowels of the Country the King was forced to call this present Parliament with whom he complied in every thing so far as to sacrifice unto them both Judge Bishop Councellor and Courtier yea He yeilded to the tumbling down of many tribunalls of Justice which were an advantage to his Prerogative He assented that the Prelates who were the most Ancient and Prime Members of the upper House and had priority of all others since the first constitution of Parliament in the enrollment of all Acts He assented I say that these who were the greatest prop of His Crown should be quite outed from among the Peers He granted them also a Trienniall Parliament and after that this Perpetuall which words to the apprehension of any rationall man carry with them a grosse absurdity in the very sense of the thing And touching this last Grant I had it from a good hand that the Queen was a friend to this Parliament and your Eminence knowes how they have requited Her since but the maine open Councellor to this fatall Act was a Scot. Now the reason which they alledged for this everlasting Parliament was one of the baldest that ever I heard of it was that they might have time enough to pay the Scots Army whereas in one morning they might have dispatched that by passing so many Subsidies for that use and upon the credit of those they might have raised what money they would The Parliament finding the King so pliable and His pulse to beat so gently like ill-natur'd men they fall from inches to ells in seeking their advantages They grew so peremptory as to demand all the military strength of the Kingdom the Tower of London with the whole Royall Navy which they found in an excellent equipage gramercy shipmony so that the benefit of Ship-mony which they so clamoured at turned most to their advantage of any thing afterwards The Scot being Fidler-like returned to his Country with meat drink and mony the King went a while after to keep a Parliament there wherein he filled every blank they did but ask and have for He granted them what possibly they could propound both for their Kirk and State many received Honour and they divided Bishops Lands amongst them for all which unparallel'd Concessions of Princely grace they caused an Act already in force to be published viZ. that it should be damnable Treason in the highest degree that could be for any of the Scots Nation conjunctly or singly to levy armes or any military Forces upon any pretext whatsoever without His Majesties royall Commission and this they caus'd to be don by way of gratitude but how they perform'd it afterwards the world knowes too well The King returning to London in lieu of a wellcom to his two Houses of Parliament to whom also before his departure he had passed more Acts of Grace then all his Progenitors take them all in a lump they had patch'd up a kind of Remonstrance which was voted in the dead of night wherein they expos'd to the world the least moat in former government and aggravated to the very height every grievance all which the King had redressed before and this Remonstrance which breath'd nothing but a base kind of malice they presented as a nosegay to their Soverain Prince to congratulate his safe return from a forren Countrey which they caus'd to be printed publish'd before he could give any answer thereunto The King finding such a virulent spirit still raign in the House and knowing who were chiefly possess'd with it whom he had impeach'd before but saw he could get no justice against them in such an extremity he did an act like a generous Prince for taking the Palsgrave with him he took the first coach he met withall at his Court gate and went to his House of Commons in person to demand five Members which he wold prove to be Traitors in the highest degree and to be the Authors of all these distempers protesting upon the word of a King that they shold have as fair legall a tryall as ever men had in the interim he only desir'd that their persons might be secur'd The walls of both Houses and the very stones in London street did seem to