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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

years he had worn over the greatest part of the Land for Iohn by his tyranny so galled the Peoples neckes that for ease they were forced to get a new yoke and elect Lewis the French Kings sonne to defend them against his cruelty such effects wrought the violence of an unruly King and the desperation of an oppressed people The agreement on Henrys part was to restore to the Barons and people all rights and heritages with the Liberties for which the discord arose between John and them to pardon al that had aided Lewis and set free all Prisoners of Warre and to doe this he takes his Oath or for him the Popes Legat and Protectour The Protectour dyes a man of great wisdom and valor and who had managed affairs to the great settlement of the State and the King is again Crowned and Escuage of 2. markes a Knights Fee granted him in Parliament he promising to confirm their Liberties when he came of age Henry having gotten some of his Fathers old Counsellors about him begins to play Rex and obtains a Bull from the Pope whereby he was adjudged of age sufficient to receive the Government into his own hands the power of making altering times and seasons it seems being then in the Romish Prelats Power and now sith He would be of age in the Parliament at Westminster the archbish. of Canterbury and the Lords desire him to confirm according to Covenant their promised Liberties This was impiously oppugned by some as Princes shall ever find mouths to expresse their pleasures of his Ministers who urged it to have been an act of Constraint yet at last it was promised to be ratified by the King and so by that usual shift of prolongation was put off for that time to the greater vexation of that following for this all his Raigne caused the imbroylments rendred Him odious to the people and made him a far lesse King by striving to be more than he was a just reward of violations But this pause turned the bloud and shewed how sensible the State was in the least stoppage of that tender veine For the Lords began to assemble at Leicester but the Archbish of Canterbury whom the King by fair words sooth'd into a fools paradice by menacing excommunication brought them in the King also to be even with them demands a restauration of all those things they had received from his Ancestors and to terrifie them for the future falls upon the chief sticklers taking divers Lordships from them thus were they forced to sit down with losse of both Lands and Liberties and such of them whose spirits could not brook the sight of the Coutt abusive proceedings secretly to jogge away into the Countrey The Royall gamster having dealt so well for himself yet on the sudden is put to his trumps yea forced to shuffle and cut too Money is wanting to maintain his Wars in France and this his ranting Counsellours cannot help him too they who were so high in the last Parliament are fain now to lower their sails the Lions hide must be patched up with the Foxes skin he must promise and do any thing for present cash A Parliament therefore is summoned to Westminster and of them a relief demanded but no pennie without a Pater noster no money unless their Liberties be confirmed and now necessity which makes the Old Wife trot perswades Henry to be so gracious to himselfe as to comply with them Thus Magna Charta and Charta de Firesta were confirmed which though purchased before and then entred upon and possest by the people yet have been paid for to some purpose if we consider the sums given since and to little or none if we sum but up the profit our Landlords let us reap by them Thus the Petition of Right and other later acts were obtained by us which being acts of grace were to cease when our King pleased to turn gracelesse which he never did nor intended to doe untill the first oppertunity wherein a small rub called impossibility might be removed out of his way These Lawes thus obtained downe go the forests and men repossess their habitations which the Norman Lords had outed them of and bestowed upon Wild Beasts yet more inoffensive than themselves for if Cato have any credit we must believe Kings to be de genere Bestiarum rapacium no better nor worse than ravenous beasts and indeed that undeniable Author Doctor Experience hath by arguments not to be disputed against confirmed that wise Romans assertion indeed the last of Romans who abhorred to outlive the freedom and honour of his Country And now if we will believe one Writer the very Doggs rejoyced being freed from the customary danger of losing their clawes but though the Gentleman is so sanguine now yet he afterwards becomes as cholerick and from playing with turns to play the very Curre barking and snarling at all those Lords which stood for these Lawes O the ridiculous power of slavish flattery working more than a brutish change in low Souls making a man out of his own mouth judg himfelf lesse deserving of Liberty because less sensible of it than a Dogge that will fawne and wag his taile at him who unchains him whilst he crouches and licks his fingers who enslaves and fetters him But take one observation along That as the Norman Conqueror first appropriated all old Forests and dispeopled places to make new ones and still when any parcell of Liberty was regained those Forest Tyrannies were diminished so now when that Norman yoak is thrown off our necks Forests and Parks are broken open with it a certain signe that tyranny is expired now that its pulse is ceased in the main Arterie Thus the Historian reports the Grove of Bayes dyed which was planted by Augustus when Nero was executed in whom ceased that proud and bloody Family Another Parliament is called wherein nothing was done by reason of the Kings sicknesse but only the Legats unreasonable demands denyed the Pope being become more than quarter-master in England by the Kings good Fathers means in this year also the Londoners were fined 5000 marks and the Burgesses of Northampton 1200 pounds for their former aiding Lewis contrary to the Oath and Pardon passed at the agreement as the Prelates were before who were made to pay such large sums that the Legat got 12000 marks for his share A Parliament is summoned at Oxford where the King declaring himself to be of lawfull age assumes the power of Government to himself this he had done before by the Popes Bull but it was requisite for his design to grow child again and the Pope was contented to have his Bull turn Calf to help his Son whom he knew might make him amends and now to shew what metall he was made on he cancels and disanuls the Charters as granted in his nonage and so of no validitie Here we may behold the wretchless impudence of these Royall Creatures he

sorely that the King what to pacifie the people and what for fear nothing would be left him should this cormorant fish on humblie beseeches the Pope that Fleece Skin Flesh and all might not be torn away and nothing but the Bones left him for his fees but he might have had as much kindnes of a Wolfe for a good word and as soon have kept that hungrie Beast from the folde by a Petition as his Holinesse who though he appeare in sheeps cloathing hath the wolfes conditions and is onely to be hunted or cudgeled from worrying the flocke No doubt this tender hearted Vicar had such a care of their soules that regarding neither his owne nor their bodies he endeavoured to begger them if possible in hopes that being poore they would receive the Gospell and in truth next unto Gods goodnes the Popes wickednes was the meanes of this nations receiving the truth who by his pride and covetousnesse caused Henry the 8th a King as proud as he for his heart and in more want for his purse to kick him out which was the first step to Reformation of Religion Yet though the King could obtain no redress of the Pope he prevails with him to lay on more loads getting Letters to the Lords Spirituall and Temporall to help him to money in the Parliament now assembled at Westminster which notwithstanding the Kings personall and Popes literall entreaties will grant none untill he give assurance of Reformation and the due execution of Lawes they require also that 4 Peers should be chosen as conservators of the Kingdom which should be sworn of the Kings Counsell see justice observed and the treasure issued out That the cheife Iusticiar and Chancellor should be of the four or chosen by the Parliament together with two Iustices of the Benches two Barons of the Exchequer and one Iustice for the Iewes that as their function was publike so might also their Election be but as the Devill would have it sayes one the Popes Nuncio spoyls all by demanding money of them towards the Popes Wars against the Emperour a Son in Law to England having married one of her Daughters thus was not the Pope ashamed to demand money for the King but to sing the second part to the same tune in the same Parliament on his own behalf an impudency so monstrous that we might well question it came it not from that strumpet of Rome and seting aside doctrine by practice we may easily perceive who is meant in the Revelation by the Whore of Babylon but the peremptory demand received an absolute repulse the Pope could get nothing but they granted Escuage towards marriage of his eldest daughter to the King twenty shillings of every Knights fee The King also upon a light occasion makes a great and expensive preparation against Scotland and the Earl of Flanders thirsting after his money comes over with a ragged Regiment to help whose unnecessary presence was nothing acceptable to the Barons as if the strength of England could not be sufficient without him for that action which was as suddainly ended as undertaken by a faire conclusion of peace The King assembles another Parliament which would grant Him no more money though he told them his debts were so great that he could not appear out of his Chamber for the clamour of those to whom he owed money for his Wine Wax and other necessaries of his House hereupon he falls to other violent courses and first he picks a quarrell with the Londoners and makes them pay 15000 marks for receiving a banished man into their City notwithstanding they produced his pardon under the great Seal which they were told was purchased when the King was under age Thus because the Lyon would have it so the Asses ears must be horns well fare the Fox therefore which had the wit not to come to Court Observe here the happy estate of our Ancestors under Monarchy who if they gained but this advantage though attended with many inconveniences and mischiefs incident to all Nations in their Kings minority of receiving a few good Grants and enjoying a pittance of Freedom once in 4 or 5 ages when their King was too young to play Rex and there hapned a wise and honest Protector yet were sure to pay through the nose for it afterwards with double and treble interest for forbearance Then employes one Passeleave in a peremptory Commission to enquire of all Lands which had been dis-forested and either to fine the occupiers at pleasure or take them from them and sell the same to others if they would give more for them and in this such rigour was shewn that multitudes were undone yet Passeleave should have been preferred to the Bishoprick of Chichester for his good service had not the Bishops opposed the King therein Thus have we not seen with our own eyes whole Counties almost to be challenged for Forest and our selves like to have been forced to purchase our own estates from Charles to save our habitations from becomming the places of Wilde Beasts The Lords also making bold to open the Popes packet to Martin found therein such vilany that the Nuncio was forthwith commanded out of the Land who so basely had behaved himself that he both needed and yet could hardly obtain a safe Conduct to preserve him from the violence of the enraged people and now the King being incensed also at the Popes oppressions or at least seeming to be so sith his cheats were made publike the Parliament make use of the good mood he was in and lay before him how that Italians Revenues in England amounted to sixtie thousand marks yearly besides the Popes Exactions which so moved him that he caused all to be notified by Commissioners sent to the Generall Councell at Lions demanding redresse which together with Martins usage so vexed the Pope that he endeavoured to set the French King upon his back In the Parliament holden at Westminster upon the Popes rejecting the Consideration of these grievances and despising the Kings Messages saying that he began to Frederize it was Enacted and Ordained under great penalty That no Contribution of money should be given to the Pope by any Subject of England and the same confirmed in a Parliament at Winchester and another at London The King also bustles against the Popes Exactions in such sort that it gave hope of redress but this heat was soon chill'd by the Popes threats of so irresolute and wavering a nature was the King Woman-like giving over what he manfully undertook but this may seem to confirm what was hinted before that what he did was rather out of policy to delude the people whose rage was risen so high that he fear'd to meet it than a just sence of their misery who in all things else which stood with his humour or advantage was more than enough stubborn and stiffe And now the Pope having given or rather taken the foile continues his former rapine yet fearing