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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52160	A new and true mercurius: or, Mercurius metricus A true relation in meeter (on the behalf of scepter and miter) comprising sundry of the most sad and bad transactions, occurrences and passages in England, Scotland and Ireland, for the space of twelve years last past. For the true information and reformation of the people. Or, sober sadness, and plain-dealing, in a few plain, sober, and sad country rhimes, concerning these sad and heavy times, conducing to a real, personal and national reformation in three sinful lands. To which is added the authours twelve years extream melancholy, with the vvoful effects thereof in him, and the best remedy which he used for the removal of them all. Also a joyful and thankful commemoration of His Majesties happy return to his three kingdoms. By William Mascal above forty years ago Fellow-Commoner of Clarehal in Cambridge, now a poor deacon according to the canonical ordination of the late most famous orthodoxal Church of England.	Mascall, William.	1661 (1661)	Wing M903C; ESTC R216688	16,008	31

A New and True Mercurius OR MERCVRIVS METRICVS A true Relation in Meeter on the behalf of Scepter and Miter comprising sundry of the most sad and bad Transactions Occurrences and Passages in England Scotland and Ireland for the space of twelve years last past Ita subvertere seria Regem Legem gregem For the true information and reformation of the People OR Sober Sadness and Plain dealing in a few plain sober and sad Country Rhimes concerning these sad and heavy times conducing to a real personal and National Reformation in three sinful Lands To which is added the Authours Twelve years extream Melancholy with the woful effects thereof in him and the best remedy which he used for the removal of them all Also a joyful and thankful Commemoration of His Majesties happy return to his Three Kingdoms By WILLIAM MASCAL above forty years ago Fellow-Commoner of Clarehal in Cambridge now a poor Deacon according to the Canonical Ordination of the late most famous Orthodoxal Church of England LONDON Printed for the Author 1661. TO the Right Honorable and truely Noble Lady and Ancient godly Matron above Fourscore years old whose ancient days the Ancient of days make more ancient yet Grand-Mother to the Right honorable Charles West Lord de Lawarr the Lady Cicilie Lawar Dowager VVilliam Mascall a true honorer of her honour and of all that have relation unto that Ancient Noble and Religious Family humbly Dedicateth this his sad Malancholy Sober Sadness Vpon the † Pro Christa vis tolerata beat violent death of our late most gracious Soveraingne now made the most glorious Proto-Monarch Martyr of England Scotland and Ireland Charls the first LAment Lament Lament that bloodie stroke Which God permitted when his anger shook Three Kingdoms all at once whereby their (a) who preferred the sufferings of innocence pefore the spoiles and triumphs of violence and is now amongst the noble Army of Martyr p●●ising God with his celestial TE DEVM King Deprived was of Life that pretious thing Hee now is free but free among the dead And three Realmes want their gracious Sovereign head His earthly body in the earth doth rest His soule with God which makes him truly blest To change earth for heaven is a glorious thing Lo thus King Charls is made a glorious King Renent repent O England full of blood And make thine eyes an everflowing flood Of Penitentiall tears for that horrid deed Is flown to heaven with more then winged speed And cryes for (b) Gens luet est seclus Parliament and nationa● si●●●● require Parliament and National punishments vengance to thy most just God Who suffered hath a Covenant breaking rod To scourge three nations thus when they greatire Good Lord is past then cast it in the fire For truth and peace pray all true Christian men Till God the faithfull AMEN say amen Lord say amen when thou shalt see it fit And take away our sins that hinder it That truth may flourish and our wars may cease Which thou O God command thou Prince of peace And make us all true Hallelujahs sing To thee our Lord and our celestiall King Feburary 14 1648. Taxes and Axes Upon His Majesties overthrow at Worcester Septemb. 3. 1651. TAxes and axes still do make us grone Yet we rejoyce when we should rather mone To see three Kingdoms thus laid in the dust God giving way to mans outragious lust Remove this cup of blood Lord send us peace And truth and make true Charity increase In Christendom Chiefly those Kingdoms three Which to one Christian King belonging be Least that they (c) Ieremiah 25.27 spue and fall and rise no more From those three Realms keep thou that judgement sore And grant them truthand peace once more at last Before they be quite desolate and wast For this let all true harted Christians pray Till God the AMEN please Amen to say Thanksgiving is the best thanksgiving St Math. 3.8 Bring forth fruits meet for repentance TO turn from sin to God is true thanksgiving And not our (d) Isaiah 1.15 Manus nostra caedibus plenae bloody and ungratefull living Then turn us Lord and let us sin no more And us deliver from our bondage sore For thine own glory and the Churches good Stop thou the current of all Christian blood And us vouchsafe once more a King on earth And with him truth and peace (e) Ba pacem domine usque quo domine usque q●o and Godly mirth So shall we sing and praise the evermore Who for thy Church all blessings hast in store October 24. 1651. A prayer made in the name and behalf of the (f) Marte et atae Satana By martial rights and by the Devil slights wofully torne divided distressed and distracted nations England Scotland and Ireland MAke us O God make us to seek thy face By true repentance and renewing grace And shew to us thy smiling face again As formerly thou did'st in Kingly reigne For many calme and quiet years together Which now alas are turned to stormy weather Whereby thy Church sustained hath great loss Quakers cheat many with their (g) Tim. 1.4.1 Doctrines of Devils whom many shall believe in the last time Demoinbus credent supremo tempore multi devilish dross For schisms errors yea blasphemies increase Through want of our late discipline and peace That government again then Lord us send Which peacefull was and did thy faith defend In thy good time give us this (h) Benefit multis à principe benefit And grant us all grace thereto submit That truth and peace may flourish in our lands Again by thy best all-disposing hands And make us all give the true thanks and praise By holy living all our future daies King Mary Mary and Army make an Anagram for in both words the letters are the same OR Old Englands new German like Munster Monster A Monster strange in three Lands never seen An * Manent lites dum regannt milite● 〈◊〉 remain while Souldiers reign Army reigns without a King or Queen Vpon the thirtieth day of January 1648. OLd Englands bloody January day When Church State to spoil some took the way The thirtieth day of January last Into a Model new three Realms were cast By a mad mode of modellizing things A King beheaded to make Subjects Kings Charls the Defender of the true Faith slain King Mary ruleth with its martial traine Queen Mary liv'd a Quinquennie of years Yet never slew so many Lords and Peers As have been slain within these fifty days By Armed State-Grandees thereby to raise A Reformation from that (a) They build up Sion with blood Mich. 3.10 bloody (b) A most base basis and most unchristian foundation of a Christian reformation never to be for gotten no not after all the bloody actors in that Tragedy be dead and rotten base A woful sad and miserable case If three Kingdoms must be reformed thus From such Reformers Lord

we at length be freed from stormy weather Which hath continued above twenty years To the great loss of Peasant and of Peers Good God in thy good time have mercy on us And throw away thy rod now long upon us Give true repentance and amend us all Free us from ghostly and corporeal thrall June 21. 1659. Vpon the dissolution of the long and (a) Too strong for Moses nd Aaron the Seepter and the Miter both broken by it St ange Scepter Scepter and Miter broken sad things to be spoken strong Parliament Fit via vi vi armis OR Patience perforce IN April last a stormy Martial shower Stormed (b) Corvintus dissolutus a●ssolutus est ●er dissoluti●rem con●ertum assembled men of their great power They then had calling it a Parliament Of enacting laws with Saint like intent To reforme all things amiss in each Nation Yet still we see a dayly Pejoration Then mend us Lord and send us better days Grant truth and peace and thine be all the praise June 24. 1653. Upon the rising in Cheshire against this present self-Parliament called by themselves and is stiled by some the restitution restauration Of Taxes Excises and her insupportable payments and resurrection of the long long since dead in its head black and bloody one which God forbid that so much innocent and precious blood of Kingly Priestly Royal and Loyal should a fresh be shed no more of that for the Lords sake SOme countrey men can now no longer bear Their heavy (b) ●im vi repo●lere bellum bello debellare burthens therefore do adhere To some who (c) Dum bellum geritur pax queritur by force will do what they can Out of their duty unto God and man To ease them and to restore truth and (d) Pax quaeritur bello said ●ur late Protector Oliver of cursed memory for his cursed toleration and for his wicked Sequestrations and deprivations of many Orthodox learned and godly Ministers of Gods most sacred word peace That love and Piety may yet increase God say Amen to this ev'n so be it By what means and when he himself thinks fit The Israels of England Scotland and Ireland being indeed all three now the Lands of Gods justire for their most bloody National Parliamental unnatural and unchristian sins are yet in Martial Booths Tents and Tabernacles till it please God himself who only is the Lord of Hosts to restore and settle in them truth and firm peace which time he hasten if it be his blessed will through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Amen June 24. 1659. Vpon the reviving of the long dead black Parliament BLack will be still black for this Parliament Sent for by Letters not legally sent Is not white nor right without the right summons Of choice Countrey-men for an house of Commons Not in each country (a) Whereby three Nations may be guld call'd one two or three Btu all in (b) Without General or Major General general as they ought to be All that were long ago lawfully called in the long Parliament as well the unjustly secluded Members as those who were and are of the Anti-Episcopal and Anti-Regal faction which made a fraction first of the Miter and then of the Scepter A right good Parliament for the right good old cause which is really and not verbally Gods cause is that whose members are right and upright right in their opinions or opinations and upright in their conversations June 24. 1659. A Deaths head OR A short Memento mori for all sorts of people Death comes unawares hasting like a Post And will be seen before foreseen of most Sumus fumus sumus cinis Et cinis erit noster finis HIgh and low old and new Potentates Remember death knocks daly at your gates We all are dust end shall to dust return Then let 's (a) Vita repente fugit● Therefore let us repent sme mora in lac gratiae hora. repent lest that in hell we burn Lord make us make our ways good just and ev'n That after death we may inherit heaven WILLIAM MASCAL (b) Ordained by Episcopal authority to be a publique Reader of Gods most sacred word of our godly Liturgy and holy Homilies of our Mother the Church of England Who is a (c) Such ill Lecturers following Hugh Peters not St. Peters divining together with Souldiers ●oblers Tinkers and several other mechanick hetrodox publick and private Speakers had almost cast down all the orthodox godly learned Preachers and right dividers of the word of truth Lector at S. Marth'as-Hill No Lecterer who oft hath lectur'd (d) By their much abusing in the late ●●●estine wa● two text of hole Scripture Curse ye Meroz c. Iudges 5.23 Cursed be he that keepth back his sword from blood I● 8.10 ill Thus endeth a metricall though no poeticall true narration of things done in three late famous Kinghoms whereby they are for the present undone and that chiefly by the superfluous wealth of London whose money and treasure was the sinews of an intestine War which caused many to commit many new sins The good Lord our God forgive us all and in his due time send us all true Grace Truth and firm peace through the merits and mercies of Jesus Christ Amen Amen Amen A Prayer for true piety the best remedy of extreame melancholy DEliver me O God from Satans ginns And give me true repentance for my sins With power to forsake them all and grace Of new obedience and to seek thy face By doing always what thou wouldst have done And by beleiving in thine only son By doing good and by eschewing evil By renouncing the world the flesh and devil As I did long agoe in baptisme (a) Votum baptismale Ecclesiae Angl canae vow O make me O my God O make me now That Covenant to keep and not allow My self in any bosome sin but bow Unto thy will revealing in thy word Which shall great joy and gladness me afford Lord bless the means against my melancholy Which I shall use and make me truely holy The woful effects of extreame melancholly With a Prayer for the removal of them TOo much melancholly produceth folly And dead 's mens heart to duties chiefly holy It makes his spirits all so dull and dead That he can neither speak pray write or read To any thing he hath such small desire That he can neither make his bed or blow his fire It makes a man to fear where is no fear And angry oft for nought unfit to bear Whatever God doth send with patience It moves him often times his soul from hence To send and rid himself of vital breath Before the time God calls for it by death Yea it incites a man to desper ation And hope which is the helmet of Salvation It strives to take from off a sinners head And him to leave amongst the (b) Omne peceatum