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A90515	A messenger from the dead, or, Conference full of stupendious horrour, heard distinctly, and by alternate voyces, by many at that time present. Between the ghosts of Henry the 8. and Charls the First of England, in Windsore-Chappel, where they were both buried. In which the whole series of the divine judgments, in those infortunate ilands, is as it were by a pencil from heaven, most lively set forth from the first unto the last.; Nuntius a mortuis. English.	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.; Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547.; Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1597; Thomason E936_4; ESTC R203144	12,116	19

A MESSENGER From the DEAD OR CONFERENCE Full of stupendious horrour heard distinctly and by alternate voyces by many at that time present BETWEEN THE Ghosts of Henry the 8. and Charls the First of ENGLAND in Windsore-Chappel where they were both Buried In which the whole Series of the Divine Judgments in those infortunate Ilands is as it were by a Pencil from Heaven most lively set forth from the first unto the last London Printed for Tho. Vere and W. Gilbertson and are to be sold at their shops at the sign of the Angel and the sign of the Bible without Newgate 1658. The Messenger from the Dead OR The dreadfull Conference between the Ghosts of HENRY the Eighth and CHARLS the first King of England Henry SAy Who art thou that presumest by a Sacrilegious Impiety to disturbe the ashes of a King which so many years have been at rest When Henry had spoken these words there immediately was heard another voice in a softer but most doleful accent which seamed to be the voice of King Charls expressing himself after this manner Charls I am that unhappy King of England the undoubted heive of sixty and two Monarchs and who did wear my self the Royall Crown two and twenty years and longer Henry What you a King Did you ever wear a Crown on your head who have not a head on your Shoulders Charls I have not alwayes wanted a head my Subjects wo is me did lately bereave me of it Henry Your subjects How could that be What hainous crime have you committed that could inforce your subjects to so great a violence Charls I know not wel what but this I am most confident of that I never did Commit adultery with any woman nor ever defloured any Virgin I never axpelled any man from his House or Lands of all which Henry the Eighth my Predecessor is condemned to be guilty by all the World Here Charls made a little pause to see what answer that Henry would return to him But when he perceived him to be stil silent he thus did prosecute his Discourse My Father being dead strange Rumours were spread of it not long afterwards I marryed with the Daughter of France and in the beginning of my Raign made two unfortunate Wars the one with the Spaniard the other with the French a Parliament being called at Oxford I lost the love of my people for dissolving it at that instant when the Duke of Buckingham was questioned for having a hand in my Fathers Death At this I perceived that the people did repine but I was too constant alwayes to my own Counsailes and although many Parliaments were afterwards called I dissolved them all This inforced me to put unusuall taxes upon my people by which and by the enertainment of the Queen Mother of France a Lady most extreamly hated by the Generallity of the Nation I wonderfully increased their evil opinion of me At the last we did proceed to Armes the Parliament then bearing sway by me not suddainly to be dissolved and the War not thriving with me I was brought to London a Court was called not before heard of and I protesting against the unlawfullness of it and that there was no Power on Earth by which I was to be tryed they passed the sentence of Death on me according unto which I suffered Henry The greatest prejudice that can arrive unto a Prince is the loss of his peoples love And thus my Neece Mary Queen of Scotland having lost the affections of that Nation amongst other things suffered for that Indiscretion by the loss of her head in England but if you are discended from such Kings as you do boast you are had it not been better for you to have your bones to rest amongst them then here to interrupt my peace at Windsor Charls I dying did desire to be buryed at West-Minster but my starres which did shine but Clowdily and obscurely on me in my life were as inauspicious to me at my Death I suffered many things grievous to relate At West-Minster I received my fatal sentence where my Predecessors were accustomed to be crowned At Saint James I was kept in Custody a place much beloved of me by reason of my Child-hood spent there and the many innocent recreations of my youth At White-Hall I was Beheaded the Scaffold being erected before the Doors of the Court and I passed through that place in which I was accustomed to be present at Masks and Showes and at the entertainment of the Ambassadors of forrain Princes Henry Are you Charls the son of King James and do you not yet perceive wherefore you are oppressed with such a weight of affliction do you not plainly perceive the admirable course and tenour of the Divine Justice It was greivous to you to be in custody at S. James because in your tender years you did there delight your self with innocent pastimes Do you not cal to mind how heretofore I seized upon that place by violence As indeed what place was free from my cruelties and oppressions you are not ignorant how most unjustly I brought unto my Exchequer to satisfy my own avarice all the Estates of the Carthusian Bernardine and Cistercian Monks and of all the other Orders but especially of the Order of Saint Benedict whose Lands and revenues were the greatest and whose Covents and houses were the fairest How many innocent men have I imprisoned because they would not be subject to my will It was I that caused some Abbots to be hanged before their own doors to become a terrour to the other Monks Do you not know that even your own Palace was heretofore the House of the Archbishops of York which I extorted from Cardinall Wolsey whom I advanced to great honours and riches whiles I found him a profitable Minister to my lust and afterwards crushed him to peices when I found it to be expedient for my avarice It was I who although I never started from the obedience of the Church of Rome but onely in one particular to satisfy my lust did afterwards compell all the Bishops of the Land to subscribe to what I commanded the Bishop of Rochester onely excepted whom because I could not overcome neither by threatnings nor perswasions I made him shorter by the head Charls But I was never accused of such enormities Must I suffer for the offences of others the stedfastness and unaltered Resolution of my Spirit was never prejudicicall unto any Henry Yes unto your self and to all that had relation to you Besides Flatter not your self He who receiveth money of a Judge for the seat of Judicature perverteth Justice You need not to fear that any private designes or Combinations should dispossesse you of your life for so the punishment would not answer the offence it is expedient and necessary that publick sins should be publickly expiated I afterwards that I began to offend did not act fearfully nor did seek out Corners for the commiting of Iniquity but made pretences of

and in another place Thou shalt destroy their fruit from the Earth and their seed from the sons of men Psalm 12. By wofull experience I do say I have proved the truth of his prophecy for it pleased God to laugh at the vain counsails of men And the same Prophet giveth this reason of it For they imagined Counsailes which they could not bring to pass Psalm 21. For their is no Counsaile against the Lord Pro. 21. As now too late I have learned Will you have me yet further to confirme the truth of this unto you When I was dying I did leave unto my Son EDWARD twelve Tutors all of them Catholicks as I conceived and commanded them to bring him up in the Catholick Religion the Supremacy of the Church onely excepted which I would have him to continue and to reserve unto himself but I who violated the testaments of others and overthrew so many Monuments of Piety did not deserve that my own should be kept Of so many Tutors the Duke of Somerset Unkle to Edward by his mothers side after my Death was Tutor alone unto him and brought him up in that Religion which I forbad him and hated I commanded also that a more sumptuous Monument should be provided for me then was ever raised for any of my Predecessors and as yet I have no Monument at all although of all the Kings of England not one of them had three children that successively swayed the Scepter but my self But alas I need not fear that I shall be ever lost in the memory of men I have purchased to my self an everlasting Name by my enormous offences All sorts of men do strive as it were in emulation who shall hate me most I am become justly odious to the Catholicks because I divided England from the Communion of the Church of Rome I am abhomination to the orders of the Religious because I have extinguished their Charters and themselves and have sold their Lands and houses I am detestable both to the Clergy and the Laity because I have raised a persecution against even the whole Name of Catholicks which continueth to this day The Protestants hate me because through all the course of my life I did pursue them with fire and Sword Luther named me a big-bellied Beast and a Tyrant Calvin hath written bitterly against me and brandeth me in his books as destitute of all fear of God and the shame of men All Lettered men will evermore curse my memory beause I have utterly destroyed such excellent Monuments of Learning and Antiquity that the Christian World can hardly parralell Finally whiles I was alive most men hated me all men feared me no man loved me In my last dayes like Orestes I was tormented with the Consciousness of my sins and desired to reconcile my self to the Church and to make some amends for the injury offered to my wife the latter I did in some part performe for I provided in my will that my Daughter Mary born of Queen Katharine whom before I had disinherited should succeed in the Kingdome if my Son Edward should dye without children Oh how often have I discoursed with my friends of the first but as I deceived many of them heretofore by the same artifice so now I my self became suspected to them all and they grew to be jealous of me and to shun me as diving into their secrets And thus being abandomed by all I dyed without the Communion of the Church repeating oftentimes in my last houre these words We have lost all Being dead I had the same end as Ahab and it is the more remarkable because it was in the Ruines of a Religious house for as my Corps nasty with excessive fatness and too great a Belly was on the way tobe convaied hither the Coffin of Lead in which it was put did crack by chance and opened To soder which a Plummer being sent for my Corps was set down in the said ruines of the house there whiles the Plummer was running from place to place being very busie at his work his dog most greadily did lick the blood that issued from me A Revenge from God for the effusion of so much blood which in my life time I had soilled Charls Do you not now see sufficiently how God hath scourged me in my own person Never think that I have eseaped unpunished Charls This is a sad story indeed and most worthy to be remembered and seriously to be considered of by all posterity Henry But these things which I have rehearsed although they seem greivous to the eares of the living yet they are but meer Delights if they be compared to the Torments which I indure amongst those who inhabite the Regions of Darkness for besides those punishments which I have pulled upon me by my own sins whatsoever evills that my posterity hath committed by my Example it doth increase my sufferings by a new addition Charls I would to God that Flattery had never been heard of in the Courts of Princes would to God that I had never heard that we are above the Law and are to give an account to God onely for what we have committed upon Earth neverthelesse it doth administer some comfort to me that I have made no innovation in Religion I have been above my other Predecessors most gentle to the Catholicks and came neerest to their Religion and used my Supremacy with the greatest moderation And because in my apprehension it was not fit for a Lay-man I committed almost the whole Exercise of the Ecclefiasticall affaires to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury Henry And have not you observed in these late troubles that none of all the Bishops of England but the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury alone did lose his head Charls Was I guilty of it By his Instigations indeed I shewed more countenance to some practises of the Church of Rome then either my Father did or the Queen your Daughter that raigned before him I confess my self not to be altogether without fault nevertheless I would fain understand being more moderate then any of my Predecessors and more forward then they in the promoting the peace of the Church wherefore I am visited with far more grevous punishments then any of them all Henry Are you still to understand that the jealous God who visiteth the sins of the fathers on the children doth most usually exact the punishments of the most enormous offences on the third of fourth Generation for if the should inflict present punishment upon all sins men would be apt to beleive that they were quickly and easily expiated neither doth the defer the punishment unto so many Generations that the memory of the offender may perish from the Earth and that we could not know for what enormity the pushment was inflicted You are the third King from me and do suffer punishment in the third Generation For although my two Daughters Mary and Elizabeth did raigne successively yet they do make but one Generation with Edward