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england_n	die_v	king_n	scotland_n	3,606	5	8.4993	4	false

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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

for money so cursed a thirst after Gold was in both It is no wonder therefore some of Henry's late successors were hying so fast to Rome who being troubled with the same disease stood in need of the same Mountebanke and no doubt but Venus hath obtained Armour of proof of Vulcan for her wandring AEneas so that the King of Scots is well provided against the Covenants pearcing him to the heart by the care of his Mother and art of his holy Father But to returne to Henry whom we see the greatest security that could be given and that under the greatest penalty an Oath could not hold who would therefore suppose that he or any Kings of such metall should ever be believed againe by any who write themselves men Creatures in whose composition are many ounces of reason when the only Chaine upon earth besides Love to tye the Conciences of men and humane society together which should it not hold all the frame of Government must fall asunder and men like Beasts be left to force that whosoever is the stronger may destroy the other hath been so often and suddainly broken by the Norman tyrants in whom this perjury ran in a bloud almost to a miracle or who could think Master Prynne who in print takes notice of their frequent violations would ever be drawn by corrupt interest to have his Countries Liberties sent to Sea to seek their fortunes in so rotten a Bottome These Deeds being done succeeds one so monstrous that we must almost run half way to Credulity to be able to meet it for this perjured Prince was not ashamed to send his Brother over to summon the Estates and demand of them the Wounds yet fresh and bleeding made by his impieties another Subsidy but the Parlament denied him to the great exasperation of the Tyrant yet the Earl of Cornwall forced the Iews to pay a great Summ that he might not return empty handed to his Brother who staid untill he had consumed all that ever he could get in this Iourney which with the other two made before cost him seven and twenty hundred thousand pounds more than all his Lands there were They to be sold were worth besides thirty thousand Marks with Lands Rents Wards Horses and Iewels to an inestimable price thrown away upon his half-brothers After all this he returns and the first that felt their good Lord was come again were the Londoners and the Iews who paid soundly for his Welcome The Londoners presenting him with an hundred pounds were returned without Thanks or Money for he was not altogether so unmannerly as to deny to receive it then being perswaded Plate would be better welcome they send him a fair Vessell worth two hundred pounds this had some Thanks but yet would not serve the turn For the Pope having bestowed the Kingdom of Sicil on the Kings younger Son which the Earl of Cornwall wisely refused knowing the Pope was never so liberall of any thing which was his own the King to gain this makes all the mony he can get out of his Coffers and Exchequer or borrow of his Brother or scrape from the Iews or extort by the rapine of his Iustices itinerants which he gives to the Pope to maintain his Wars against Conrade King of Sicil you see there was a right Owner of what the Pope was so liberal and yet all this would not do for the Pope writes for more who was loath to be a Niggard of anothers Purse upon this Henry sends him Letters Obligatory signed with his Seal with Blanks left to put in what Summs he would or could get of the Merchants of Italy desiring him to stick upon no interest all which was so effectually performed that he was put in Debt no lesser Summ than three hundred thousand Marks and yet no Sicil was got Vpon this a Parlament is summoned and of them money required which though they promised to grant upon condition he would swear without all cavillation to observe the Charters and let the Chief Iusticiar Chancellour and Treasurer be elected by the common Councel of the Realm would not be hearkned to for though he cared not a fig for his Oath yet it seems those Officers might have restrained him from disposing of his Cash at list and not suffer his Holinesse to have a Penny whereby he might have wanted his Dispensation or else the humor of Tyranny was so high that all his penury was not able to check it for one moment The King thus being left unprovided the Bishop of Hereford Agent for the Prelates at Rome like a trusty Steward findes a shift to help him for getting certain Authentick Seals from them upon pretence of dispatching some businesse for them by Licence of the Pope and King he sets them to writings of such Summs of Money taken up of Italian Merchants for their Vse and so makes them pay the Kings scores He seizes also the Liberties of the City of London into his hands upon the pretence of their letting a Prisoner escape making them fine three thousand Marks to himself and six hundred to his Brother he requires of the Iews upon pain of hanging a Tallage of eight thousand Marks and thus having fleeced them he set them to farm to his Brother who upon Pawns lent him a huge masse of Money then the City Liberties are seized again but upon payment of four hundred Marks restored And to add to all one Ruscand a Legat from the Pope comes and demands the Tenth of England Scotland and Ireland to the use of the King and Pope preaching the Crosse against the King of Sicil but the Clergy protesing rather to lose their Lives and Livings than yield thus to the will of the Pope and King who they said were as the Shepherd and the Wolf combined to macerate the Flock were ordered to some tune for the Legat suspended excommunicated them and the King if they submitted not in forty days spoiled them of all their Goods as forfeited All men by Proclamation that could dispend fifteen pound per annum were commanded to come in and receive the Order of Knighthood or else pay their Fines as was before done in the 37. year and every sheriffe was fined 5 marks for not distreyning on all whom the Proclamation reached this trick was shown in our dayes lest any oppression should scape unexercised A Parliament was held wherein the Prelats and Clergy offered him upon condition the Charters might be observed 52000 marks but it satisfied him not for he demanded the Tenths for 3. years without deduction of expences and the first fruits for the same time Another was called to London wherein upon the Kings pressing Them for releife to pay his depts He is plainly told They will not yeeld to pay him any thing and if unadvisedly he without their consents and counsells bought the Kingdom of Sicill and had been deceived he should impute it to his own imbecility and have been instructed by