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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96861	Anglo-tyrannus, or the idea of a Norman monarch, represented in the paralell reignes of Henrie the Third and Charles kings of England, wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman kings is manifested, together with the real ground, and rise of all those former, and these latter contestations between the princes, and people of this nation, upon the score of prerogative and liberty. And the impious, abusive, and delusive practises are in short discovered, by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome, and the Norman tyrannie founded and continued over them. / By G.W. of Lincolnes Inne.	Walker, George, of Lincoln's Inn.	1650 (1650)	Wing W340; Thomason E619_1; ESTC R203987	46,665	64

the provident example of his Brothe● who absolutely refused it in regard it lay so far off so many Nations between the cavils of the Popes the infidelity of the People and the power of the pretenders They also repeat the Kingdoms grievances The breach of his promises and most solemn Oathes the insolence of his Brethren and other strangers against whom by his Order no Writ was to pass out of the Chancery how they abounded all in riches and himself was so poor that he could not repress the Welsh who wasted his Countrey but going against them was forced to return with dishonor The King seeing his friend Necessity was at his Elbow humbles himself tels them how he had often by evil Counsell been seduced and promises by his Oath which he takes on the Tombe of Saint Edw. to reform all these Errors but the Lords not knowing how to hold this ever-changing Proteus for security adjourn the Parliament to meet at Oxford in which time they provided for their own and the Kingdoms safety The King in the mean while is put to his shifts and upon promise of high preferment gets the Abbot of Westminster to put his and his Covents Seal to a Deed obligatory as a surety for threehundred marks sending by Passeleave this Deed with his Letters unto other Monasteries to invite them to do the like but notwithstanding his threats telling them how all they had came from the benignitie of Kings ●nd how their Soveraigne was Lord of all they had They refused to yeeld to any such deed saying They acknowledged the King to be Lord of all they had but so as to defend not to destroy the same And now the Parliament meets at Oxford and in this it is Enacted that the Poictovins and strangers should avoid the Land with many other profitable Laws for that time The Charters are confirmed and the King and Prince sworn to restore the ancient Lawes and Institutions of the Realm and to observe inviolable the Ordinances of that Parliament Now the chief Iusticiar Chancellor and all other great and publike Officers are elected by the common and publike Counsell which power was as we may see before usurped by the Norman Tyrants and worn as an especiall flowr of their Crowns and fruit of our slavery for it is manifest to any unlesse such as will wink that our English Kings were but as Generals in War without any other great jurisdiction our wise Ancestors knowing such a trust enough for one and therefore kept the Election of other Great Officers in their own power untill it was wrested out of their hands by the Norman Tyrants and that not so much by the Sword as by craft thus though William sirnamed the Bastard had defeated Harold in the field yet upon his Coronation he swore to maintain the ancient Laws Liberties and Customes of the English Nation and again renewed his Oath and granted the same too by Charter but when he was throughly setled in his seat he perfidiously broke all imposed the Norman Lawes and those in the Norman tongue as a badge of our slavery and a means to entrap the English who not understanding them knew not how to avoid the incurring the penalties whereby his Normans mouths up were made with their Estates thus his Successors were forced to swear and forswear to maintain themselves in their Kingships The Poictovins and strangers being banished presently followes the death and sicknesse of divers Noblemen who had been poysoned by their practice and a Steward of the Earl of Glocesters was executed for it he having received a great sum of VVilliam de Valence the head of the Poictovins to work the feat And though the Kings Favourites cryed out that he was condemned only upon presumption yet the evidence will appear very strong if we consider that his Lord and his Lords brother were poysoned the latter dying the former lying sick a long while having his body swell'd his nails and hair fallen off and this Steward convinced to have received a great sum of the Poictovin their Enemy for whom he could make out no service to be ever done unlesse what was layed to his charge besides a Iew being converced a little after confessed the poyson was prepared in his house The Earl of Cornwall now King of the Romans returns into England and upon his arrivall takes an Oath to observe inviolably and obey the Statutes and Ordinances made by the late Parliament at Oxford A Parliament was summoned at Westminster wherein were read and confirmed all the Statutes of Oxford and such pronounced acursed by the Prelats which should attempt in word or deed to infringe any of the same Whereupon Escuage is granted to the King forty shillings of every Knights Fee a very considerable sum in those dayes for there were above forty thousand Knights Fees in England at that time But the King having an intent to break more Oaths and knowing that now it would not so easily be done makes a Voyage over Sea to conclude a peace with France that he might not be interrupted in the game he ment to play at home having dispatched Messengers secretly to Rome for absolution of his Oath and to Scotland for aydes to be ready upon occasion When he had concluded with the King of France having made an absolute resignation of the Dutchy of Normandy the Earldoms of Anjou Poictou Tourenne and Main upon the receipt of 300000 Crowns and a Grant to enjoy what he had in Guien Xantongue c. doing homage and fealty to the Crown of France He returns and comes to London where he presently fortifies the Tower caused the Gates of the City to be Warded and then to pick a quarrel commands the Lords to come to a Parliament to be holden in the Tower which they refusing as he knew they would he takes an Oath of all above 12 years of age in London to be true to Him and His Heirs and sets armed men to defend the City Gates For fear sure the Parliament should have come in and so spoyled the design For neither Henry or any of our former Kings were ever so daring as to contest with a Parliament in the field or set up their standards against it but were alwayes forced to grant its demands or quietly sit down without having their own turne served when the Parliament was willing to dissolve And now Henry being provided for the work causes the Popes Bull purchased for absolving himself and all others sworn to maintain the Statutes of Oxford to be read publickly at Pauls-Crosse and makes Proclamation that all should be proceeded against as Enemies to his Crown and Royal dignity who should disobey the absolution and such was the blindnesse and slavery of many in those times that one Bull begot thousands of Calves in an instant and yet it seems veal was never the cheaper for his Son the Prince was forced to rob the Treasury at the New Temple to buy him

their riots and oppressions insomuch that it was the generall exclamation Our Inheritance is given to Aliens and our houses to strangers but we shall perceive the oppressions then on foot if we consider but what was told the King by divers to his face The Countesse of Arundell being harshly denyed by the King about a Ward detained from her in regard of a smal parcell of Land held in capite which drew away all the rest thus spake My Lord why turn you away your face from Iustice that we can obtein no right in your Court you are constituted in the midst betwixt God andus but neither govern your selfe nor us discreetly as you ought you shamefully vex both the Church and Nobles of the Kingdom by all means you can To which the King floutingly answered saying Lady Countesse have the Lords made you a Charter and sent you to be their Prolocutrix She replyes No Sir They have not made any Charter to me but the Charter which your Father and you made and swore so often to observe and so often extorted from your Subjects their money for the same you unworthily transgresse as a manifest breaker of your faith where are the Liberties of England so often written so often granted so often bought I though a Woman and with me all your naturall and faithfull people appeal against you to the Tribunall of that high Iudge above and Heaven and Earth shall be our witnesse that you have most unjustly dealt with us and Lord God of revenge avenge us Behold a generous and knowing Lady it was the sufferings of her Country not her self of which we find no mention extorted this true and resolute complaint from her Vpon the ruines of Henries fame hath Isabell raised an eternall trophie of her Vertue which shall stand conspicuous in English History so long as any memory of England remains Thus the Master of the Hospitallers tels the King saying he would revoke those Charters and Liberties inconsiderately granted by him and his Predecessors and for it alleging the Popes practice who many times chashiered his Grants So long as you observe Iustice you may be a King as soon as you violate the same you shall leave to be a King A Truth more Sacred than his Majesty could be and not to be violated for the sake of millions of Tyrants But above all for wonder is that of the Fryars Minors who returned a load of Freeze he sent them with this Message that he ought not to give alms of what he had Rent from the poor Indeed obedience is better than sacrifice but had this conscience been used by all the Romish Clergy their bellies had been leaner though their souls might have got by it their temporalities lesse though their spirituality more and this act deserves an Euge to these though it create an Apage to others rises in judgment condemning those great Clergy men who have been lesse than these Minors in Conscience and Honesty At last the King having a mind to have another bout beyond Sea summons a Parliament at London and now there is no doubt but he would be so gracious as to grant them what they could desire O what a blessed thing is want of money and how bountifull are Kings when they are quite beggared they will pull down Star-chambers High-Commission courts Monopolies suffer Favourites to be called to account for Treasons and vilanies they set them a work to do when they can do no other can neither will nor chose and will grant trienniall Parliaments and passe Acts that a Parliament shall sit so long as it will and which it might have done without their leave when all the devices and power they can make are not able to hinder it well though that proverb says Necessity hath no law yet with reverence to it's antiquity I must contrarily affirm that had it not been for necessity England had never had good law made nor kept neither ever should so long as the Norman yoake was in fashion This Gaffer Necessity at the first word obtains what all the Lords Prelats Parliaments so long demanded in vain Henry so the Parliament will but relieve him will ratifie and confirm their Liberties they do it granting him a tenth of the Clergy for three years and Escuage three marks of every Knights Fee of the Laity for one year towards his journey into the Holy Land indeed Gascoigne which how holy soever Henry accounted it he could never yet bring any reliques out of it though he had carried many a Crosse into it and he accordingly ratifies those often-confirmed Charters in the most solemn and ceremoniall manner that the Religion of that time and the wisdom of the State could then devise to do For the Parliament having so often found by experience that no civill promise or verball profession would hold in these Norman Lords raptur'd by Prerogative and devoted to perjury to maintain tyranny take now a more Ecclesiasticall and divine way of Obligation swearing to Excommunicate all who should be found infringers of the Charters And the King with all the great Nobility all the Prelats in their Vestments with burning Candles in their hands assemble in the great Hall at Westminster to receive that dreadfull sentence The King having received a Candle gives it to a Prelat saying it becoms not me being no Preist to hold this my heart shall be a greater testimony and withall lays his hand spred upon his Brest the whole time the sentence was pronounced which was Authoritate Dei Omnipotentis c. which done he causes the Charter of King Iohn his Father to be read likewise openly in the end having thrown away their Candles which lay smoaking on the ground they cryed out So let them which incurre this sentence be extinct and stinke in Hell and the King with a loud voice said As God me help I will as I am a Man a Christian a Knight a King Crowned and Annointed inviolably observe all these things Never were Lawes saith that witty Historian amongst men except those holy Commandements on the Mount established with more Majesty of Ceremony to make them reverend and respected than these were they wanted but Thunder and Lightning from Heaven which likewise if prayers could have effected they would have had to make the sentence gastly and hideous to the infringers thereof Yet no sooner was this Parliament dissolved by a sacred and most solemne conclusion but the King presently studies to infringe all and with a part of the money he then got purchasing an absolution of the Pope returnes to his former oppressive courses with more violence and hardnesse and for ought we know our late King had the like to help him over all those styles for Master Prynne tells us there was an English Lieger in Rome and our own eyes that there were Nuntio's here at home to continue a correspondence between the Pope and his Royall Favorite Thus what the King does the Pope undoes

height of his jollity he was defeated at Lews such was the wages of Pride and Rage And thus the Sunne setting at Leicester went down at Naseby upon Charls whose successe kept time with his presumption and cruelty And now Henry is pitched down at Lewes where the Barons petitioning for their liberties and desiring Peace are answered by his proclaming them Rebells and Traitors and sending his own his Brothers and Sons Letters of defiance unto them But this was too hot to hold for the Lords perceiving what they must trust to notwithstanding the great numbers of the Enemy the Banished Poictovins being returned with great forces for his aide bravely resolve to give him battel and as gallantly perform their resolutions for fighting like men for their Liberties they gain the day and take Him his Brother and his Sonne with many English and Scotch Lords prisoners This victory was received with such universall joy that when news came of the Queens having a great Army of strangers ready to set sale for England such multitudes appeared on Barham Down to resist them that it could hardly have been thought that so many men were in the Land and at this appearance of the English the forreiners vanish and are disperst being terrified to hear the English were so unanimous in the defence of their Country and its freedome Oh were we but thus united now within our selves we need never fear the combination of forreiners But these noble souls being more valiant than wary more pitifull than just upon a few feigned shews of amendment and fawning promises of not entrenching upon their liberties receive the Snake into their bosomes which will reward their kindnesse with their ruine assoon as he is able For in the Parliament assembled at London the cry of blood and oppression being stopt and smothered up Henry again is seated on the Throne upon that poore and Thread-bare satisfaction of himself and his sonne taking their Oaths to confirm the Charters and Statutes before at Oxford and those now newly made sure Mercury was ascendent at Henries nativity so potent were his starres in deluding those who had been so oft mock'd and beguil'd before when in reason we might suppose his former frequent violations and reiterated perjuries should have taught them what trust was to be given to a Kings oath in whose eye Tyrranny was so beautifull that he never dallied to make market both of soul and body so he might but purchase his desired Paramour These oaths being past in order to the performance after the royall mode the Earl of Glocester is tampred with to leave the Barons and by the artifice of those masters in the art of Division who in all times knew how to work upon the covetous ambitious and envious humours of great men drawn to desert the cause of liberty and of this we our selves have had a sad and fatall experience how many great ones were cajold by Charles at Newcastle Hol●bie and the Islle of Wight even to the great danger of our Cause nay the very House was not free as those Tuesday nights votes may and the Fridayes had informed us with a witnesse had not Providence wrought miraculously for us for it can be made out by good witnesse that there was a resolution to have dissolved the Parliament and proclamed the Army Traitors had they all met But Gold was too drossie to make Glocesters towring soul stoop and his free spirit could not be shackled with silver fetters some other Lure must be used to bring him down and now Leicester was mounted to so high a pitch in the peoples favour that Glocesters weaker wings could not reach him which whilest with an aspiring eye he gazes after his sight was so dazzled with the others motion us gave check to his pursute of the game The crafty Prince marking his advantage so works upon the weaknesse of this young Lord that by it he effects what he could not do by his own force thus Diamonds are cut by their own dust and the Champion of Englands liberty must be the man can ruine it accursed be that sorceresse envy so fatall then to Englands freedome so mischievous lately to the same whose menacing power had it not been stopp'd by the new modell had totally routed the Parliaments whole force so many Divisions of them being charged through and through and needs must that Army become a Chaos wherein Commanders consist of jarring Principles Glocester now being come to his fist away flies Edward to the Lord Mortimer notwithstanding his assurance given not to depart the Court that fable of the wise men of Gotams hedging in the cuckow hits many of our ancestors home who with oaths and promises went about to keep in their Kings when one of the Norman brood could flie over such a fence with the very shell upon his head and as the first part of that storie may be applyed to us so the second is not altogether insignificant for our Kings whom we shal alwayes find together with such as sing after them in one tune crying out disloyall dissoyall as if they could say as well as do nothing else yet a Christian may conceive such a found should make them tremble by bringing the sinnes of their fathers and their own iniquities into their remembrance did they but believe there were a God who will measure the same measure out unto them which they have meted to others and will visit the sinnes of the fathers upon the children Glocester and Edward having done the Prologue the Tragedy begins wherein the Scenes were so well laid that every actor was ready to enter and each had his part so well by heart that it is plain they had been long conning their lessons for no sooner were these two gone but the Earles Warren Pembroke with a whole shoale of Poictovins and other strangers come to land in Wales which with the scattered reliques of the battell at Lewes gathered from all parts embody in great numbers before the Lords who stood faithfull were aware of them yet they prepare for them as fast as they can but their fortune was now in the wane their pity and credulity had brought them into the snare and their lives must go for suffering him to escape whom God had delivered into their hands for to condemne the innocent and absolve the guilty are equally abominable in the sight of heaven and our ancestors to their cost have made experience of the truth of the Proverb Save a thief from the Gallows and he shall be the first will cut your throat First the Armies meet at Killingworth where the Lord Simon Montford sonne to the Earl of Leicester is defeated this bad newes meeting Leicester in Wales hastens him to repair the breach made in their fortunes and he meets the enemy near Evesham where in a bloody field fighting most valiantly he loses life and victory both and with him many more of the most noble English fall a victime to perjured