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A51589	Mvltvm in parvo, aut vox veritatis wherein the principles, practices, and transactions of the English nation, but more especially and in particular by their representatives assembled in Parliament anno Domini 1640, 1641 : as also, 1681 are most faithfully and impartially examined, collected, and compared together for the present seasonable use, benefit and information of the publick : as also the wonderful and most solemn manner and form of ratifying, confirming and pronouncing of that most dreadful curse and execration against the violators and infringers of Magna Charta in the time of Henry the Third, King of England, &c. ... / by Theophilus Rationalis ...	Rationalis, Theophilus.	1681 (1681)	Wing M3061; ESTC R32098	64,306	68

MVLTVM in PARVO aut VOX VERITATIS WHEREIN THE PRINCIPLES PRACTICES AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE English Nation But more especially and in particular BY THEIR Representatives Assembled in PARLIAMENT Anno Domini 1640 1641 As also 1680 1681. ARE Most faithfully and impartially Examined Collected and Compared together for the present seasonable Use Benefit and Information of the Publick AS ALSO The Wonderful and most Solemn Manner and Form of Ratifying Confirming and Pronouncing of that most dreadful Curse and Execration against the Violaters and Infringers of MAGNA CHARTA in the Time of HENRY the Third King of England c. All which is earnestly recommended to the most serious and impartial Consideration and perusal of all His MAJESTIES most Loyal and most Obedient Subjects the true Tory Phanatick and Bloody Papist only excepted within His Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging By THEOPHILUS RATIONALIS a Person of Quality and a most true Lover of his King and Country LONDON Printed for Rich. Janeway in Queens-head-Alley in Pater-noster-Row 1681. THE Epistle Dedicatory To the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Protestant King Defender of the Faith c. Most Dread Soveraign I Have presumed to prostrate the ensuing Lines at Your Majesties feet in regard you are the only Person in all your Three Kingdoms that is most nearly and principally therein concerned And I dare be bold to affirm although they are very high proud and lofty words viz. That if Your Majesty shall be pleased without prejudice prepossession and partiality most solemnly and seriously to peruse the same and will be pleased to take your future measures accordingly I say then I am very confident and fully assured unless I have no reason nor understanding remaining in me but am delivered over into a reprobate sense That Your Majesty may yet be unless the Decree be already gone out against us for our total ruine and destruction one of the greatest and happiest Monarchs this day in the Christian World Verbum sapienti c. I have done my duty and have discharged my Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy unto your Sacred Majesty whom God long preserve and am GREAT SIR Your Majesties most Loyal most Obedient and most Faithful Subject and Servant to Love Honour and Serve You and my Countrey usque ad Mortem Theophilus Rationalis THE INTRODUCTION AUT LIBER ad LECTOREM STand off proud Rebels Royalists draw near To see your Prince i' th' front the Pope i' th' rear Let not the Pope affright you nor dispose Your thoughts to wander after Charles his foes The Center clears all doubts that shall arise From Hellish Plotters under a disguise Of State-reformers though at the self-same time Both Church and State their principal design Is for to ruine But still in Masquerades The Pope and Devil being chief Comrades Unto these Hellish Monsters who would bring Destruction to your Church confusion to your King Heavens bless your Head with such as will now please To guard him from such Sycophants as these Who doubtless will by their inveterate hate At length prove ruine both to Church and State If not prevented by Gods liberal hand Under Great Charles who hath the sole Command And Power to save you if he will but call His Council once again near to Whitehall And let them sit for to dispatch this Crew Of Wolves and Tygers Then will straight ensue A lasting Peace 'twixt Him and People both I must conclude to speak the rest I 'm loth This Book it self will speak enough to bring Peace to the People Honour to your King AMEN To all the truly Loyal-Hearted Nobility Gentry and Commonalty of this Land The most grave sober serious and truly Religious People and most faithful obedient Subjects unto his present Majesty though called by the Nick-names of Fanaticks Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Arminians Socinians Latitudinarians c. ROwze Loyal Fannees look well to your Guard The bold God-damme's are in your Rear-ward Pray do not budg keep close within your Station These men of late have poison'd half the Nation With bloody Tenets under a disguise To make you Traitors and a legal Prize The Soveraign Tree of Tyburn to advance Where Ketch their Foreman must lead up the dance Call'd Towzer's Mole-trap and the Tories Gin Now have at all to catch poor Fannees in God help you now They swear they will you kill Because of you they cannot have their will You have say they disturb'd both Church State For which they love you with a mortal hate And now they 'l hang you t'rid themselves from evil And send you packing to Old Nick the Devil By some Sham-Plots This is the only way To slay such Rebels as have gone astray So long a time from their most holy Church And now Old Nick shall leave them in the lurch Damm them and Sink them all they shall not live There 's not a man whom our Great Charles shall give To him his Life If we may have our will This is the time to use our utmost skill We 'll tell Great Charles that if he now should spare But one of these all his three Kingdoms are In danger to be lost and with this hellish hook We 'll catch the Fish and then how will they look Like Sons of Whores when Ketch shall them befool And mount them up upon his three legg'd Stool Courage brave Towzers Here 's a noble Plot Effect but this the first will be forgot Make King and Council both to understand That damn'd Rogue Godfrey with his proper hand Did slay himself Our work will then be done And we shall shine like to the glorious Sun At his Meridian height and ever after We 'll break our Fasts with merriment and laughter To see what Fools we made the Tory Crew Who to the Plot did straightway bid adieu And swore to boot that we were innocent Of all the Impeachments which the Parliament Did fasten on us whom we have outdone Although as guilty as our rising Sun Will shew himself when as he shall appear Before his Equals to bring up the Rear Of all the Plots and Sham-Plots that have been Contriv'd by us er'e since his Coming in Here stop you Helhounds in your full career These Loyal Fanns will make you quake for fear Their God above will surely them defend And bring your Rogueships to your fatal end Who then shall smile and have you in derision For all your Libels and your late Misprision Of Treason on them from your bitter Gall To make them Rebels to their Kings Whitehall But hark You shall be Summon'd 'fore the Council-Board Of the next Parliament where a wise word We shall not hear from you only Evasions Lyes Shifts and Stories Mental reservations For to evade your guilt which shall appear As clear as Crystal in our Hemisphere When as bright Sol shall mount his

The King's Answer BEfore the receipt of your Petition His Majesty well foresaw the danger that threatens himself and Crown and therefore resolved the 24th of this Instant to Summon all the Peers and with them to Consult what in this Case is fittest to be done for his own honour and fafety of the Kingdom where they with the rest may offer any thing that may conduce to those ends According to this Resolution the Lord-Keeper had Directions from the King to issue out Writs of Summons for their appearing at York on the day prefixt which he punctually pursued Soon after the presenting of this Petition from the Lords came another from the Scots the substance whereof was a Desire That His Majesty would call a Parliament for setling a firm peace between the two Nations To this Petition the King replyed with signification of what he had ordered before in reference to himself and to the welfare of both Kingdoms And the Truth of it is it was high time for an Accommodation to be effected for Lesley now began to rant it in New-Castle and the parts adjacent as Brennus did at Rome with a Vae Victis He imposed a Tax of 350 pounds per diem upon the Bishoprick of Durham and 300 pounds upon Northumberland upon pain of Plundering and yet permitted Souldiers to rifle Houses break open Shops and act what insolencies they pleased seized upon four great English Ships laden with Corn as lawful prize they not knowing in whose possession the Town was till they enter'd the Haven The first day of the Lords Assembling at York it was resolved that a Parliament should be Summoned to convene at Westminster November the Third Then a Message was sent to the Scots desiring a speedy Treaty at York The Scots replied They held that no place of security for their Commissioners considering that the Lieutenant of Ireland who commanded His Majesties Army was one who had proclaimed them Traytors in Ireland before the King had done the same in England and who had threatned to destroy their Nation both Root and Branch and against whom as a chief Incendiary of the late Troubles they intended to complain whereupon it was concluded that the Treaty should be held at Rippon which accordingly took place The Parliament now approaching whose Convening was attended by this Kingdom with so much longing such impatience of desires as every moment which retarded it was interpreted as a kind of Grievance to the Subject for we began now to think that nothing could make us a happy People but a Parliament and that no Parliament could make us miserable This was the Sence of the greater part of this Nation and if this Parliament succeeded not adequate to some Mens Vote perhaps the miscarriage of their hopes may be somewhat imputed to this Sence Over-ruling Providence delights oft to order the Operations of free and natural Agents counter to Mans Expectations to teach us the vanity of that Faith which is founded upon Causes subaltern And oh that I could here but express to the life the high Expectations of the People from this Parliament which came with such a terrible swing after so long an Interval and so many Dissolutions that put the whole Nation into such a Consternation as I presume the like President cannot be produced out of the Records of Antiquity since William the Conqueror did first invade our English Territories But however Courteous Readers for your present Divertisement I will here make a small Attempt to express the present Thoughts and Expectations of that Parliament which in process of time brake forth into a Civil War and I pray God I may never live to see the like again the which I shall represent under the Emblem of a new tight and well-built Ship which upon the Launching was named The Bon Resolution although some would have it called The House of Commons others The Three Estates and others The Swiftsure and was immediately employ'd in His Majesties Service but being for some time wind-bound within the Harbor viz. about 12 days the Captain of the said Ship coming early out of his Cabin one morning and finding the Wind tackt about and blowing fair for his intended Voyage being upon the Quarter-Deck he knocks up his Seamen and salutes them after this manner viz. ARise you Mortals from your Dens of Sleep Neptune now calls to launch into the Deep The Wind blows fair it 's lately turn'd South-west And we must Sail directly to the East For Pearls and Diamonds Jewels of great Rate Which in the Acquest sometimes a broken Pate Hath been our Lot yet still we venture must You know our Shipwrights wherein so great a Trust Is now repos'd in us comes from Whitehall Our late Commission whence we may learn All Which way to steer our course and will direct Whom we must crush and whom we must protect In this our Voyage 'T is the Common-weal Of these Three Kingdoms That a Roaring Peal Of Small and Great Shot now aloud must Ring From this our Vessel To preserve the King In all His Legal Rights But to advance Against all those who have lead up a Dance As will in time if Heavens do not prevent Destroy both King and all the Parliament And in their stead set up a Scarlet Whore Of whose sweet Nature we have long before Known by Experience and now for to be cheated By their Sham-Plots again and to be defeated Huzza Brave Lads This thing shall never be We 'll rather chuse upon a Triple Tree To take our chance and now Heavens crown the Event And bless our Vessel and our good Intent Heavens bless us from the Sally Men of War Heavens bless us likewise that we do not jar Among our selves If such a thing should be And that our Seamen now should disagree And fight for Thimbles Bodkins and Gu-gaws Instead of fighting for the Good Old Cause Of Liberty and Property Oh! this Evil Would make us Zealots for the Pope and Devil More than for Christs true Church which now doth stand In danger much if these should have Command Within our British Isle which to prevent God bless our King and His next Parliament Which now approacheth whom we must defend And so our Ship the Lord Almighty send Into safe Harbor when that we shall bring Peace to the Church and Honor to the King And when our Pearls and Diamonds shall arrive We 'll fix them fast upon King CHARLES his Hive His Crown shall glister like the Rising Sun Courage Brave Boys Our Wars shall then be done When we shall see those Fellows sent from hence With all their Tories to that place from whence They first did rise which was from that Grand Syre Who claims the Patent to be the great Lyar And Forger of all Mischiefs both in Church and State But will at length get such a Broken Pate As will confound him and his Holy Church When as Old Nick shall leave him in the Lurch To him I 'll

concerning our Venerable Brother the Bishop of Durham being moved with such repeated Complaints we cannot suffer the said Bishop to continue in his Enormities to the Destruction of many for we are inform'd That since he was advanced to the Office of a Bishop he has been guilty of Blood and Simony and Adultery and Sacriledge and Rapine and Perjury A pretty parcel of Vertues for a Bishop and somewhat different from those 1 Tim. 3. That he hath oppress'd Clerks and Orphans obstructed the Testaments of the deceased that he observes not the Statutes of the General Council nor ever preaches the Word of God to the People 'T is a wonder that small fault was mentioned hath often sworn before many that the Church of Durham shall never have Peace as long as he lives That a Monk complaining to him that his Servants had drawn him out of a Church and beat him till the Blood came He answered It had been well if they had beat out his Brains c. We therefore that we may not be guilty of the faults of others if we should wink at such Offences since the Clamour thereof has ascended so that we can dissemble it no longer think it agreeable to our Office to go down and see whether these things be so or no Therefore by these our Apostolical Writings we Command you our Brethren to examine and enquire into the premises and report the same to us under Seal that we may Decree therein as God shall order Dated at Viterb c. You see the Pope can Cant and pretend great Zeal to correct the Criminal but pray observe the end on 't These Bishops being met to examine the Business the Bishop of Durham presently Appeals to the Pope in Person and then they could proceed no farther but away both he and the Monks his Adversaries must trudge to Rome whither he privately sent beforehand two of his Clerks with a good Sum of Money which so sweeten'd the Pope that he receiv'd him very kindly Et post multas coram Papa Altercationes Immoderatis profusis Expensis c. And after many Wranglings before the Pope and vast Expences both Bishop and Monks were sent back as wise and honest as they were to agree together as well as they could But that which was most memorable in this Kings Reign was an Act which tho' respecting the temporal Good of the Kingdom yet it being Transacted chiefly by the Clergy and with Ecclesiastical Ceremonies it may not be improper to insert it into this Work The Reader must note That when K. Hen. III. was become 16 years old the Pope took upon himself for a small Spill privately sent him by some corrupt Courtiers to declare him of Age to Govern himself and therefore all Castles were to be render'd up into the Kings hands This prov'd the Rock of Offence whilst some obey'd the Pope and oppos'd those as Rebels that put more confidence in their Castles than in the Kings good nature or rather in that of his upstart Counsellors Hence first sprang a Civil Broyl thence want of Money then a Parliament wherein the Grand Charter of England's Liberties once more was exchanged for a Sum of Money For only upon condition of renewing the same would the Estates allow Supplies many Promises the King makes and after that Oaths yet no performance but pretends Wars in France in Scotland and against Infidels But still his people finding them all but pretences and ill success to attend all his Enterprizes refuse to supply him for the Holy War Then he seems penitent and pours out new promises to observe Magna Charta and Seals it with the most solemn Execration that is to be found in the Womb of Story and so punctually Recorded as if God would have all Generations to remember it as the Seal of the Covenant between the King of England and his people It was done in Parliament where the Lords Temporal and Spiritual Clergy men Knights c. all standing with Tapers in their hands burning the King himself also standing with a chearful Countenance holding his open hand upon his Breast the Archbishop of Canterbury pronounc'd this Curse as it is verbatim Recorded by Matth. Paris fol. 839. By the Authority of God Omnipotent of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and of the Glorious Mother of God the Virgin Mary and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and of all other Apostles and of the Holy Martyr and Archbishop Thomas and of all the Martyrs and of the Blessed Edward King of England and of all Confessors and Virgins and of all the Saints of God We Excommunicate and Anathematize and Sequester from our our Holy Mother the Church all those which henceforth knowingly and Maliciously shall deprive or spoil the Church of her Right and all those that shall by any Art or Wit rashly violate diminish or change secretly or openly in Deed Word or Council by crossing in part or in whole those Ecclesiastical Liberties or ancient approved Customs of the Kingdom especially the Liberties and free Customs which are contained in the Charters of the Common Liberties of England and the Forrests granted by our Lord the King to the Archbishops Bishops Prelates Earls Barons Knights and Freeholders And all those who have published or being published have observed any Statutes Ordinances or thing against them or any thing therein contained or which have brought in any Customs to the contrary or observed them being brought in and all Writers of such Ordinances or Councils or Executioners and all such as shall presume to judge according to such Ordinances All and every such persons as are or at any time shall be knowingly guilty of any such matters shall ipso facto incur this Sentence and such as are ignorantly guilty shall incur the same if being admonish'd they within 15 days after amend not For everlasting Memory whereof we hereunto put our Seals Thus far the words of the Curse nor was the manner of pronouncing it less dreadful for immediately as soon as the Charters and this Sentence was read and sign'd they then all throwing down their Tapers extinguish'd and smoaking said So let all that go against this Curse be extinct and stink in Hell And the King having all the while continued in the posture before mentioned said So God me help I will observe all those things sincerely and faithfully as I am a man as I am a Christian as I am a Knight and as I am a King Crowned and Anointed Pare but away some few Superstitions and search the History of all Ages you will not find a parallel hereunto so seriously compos'd so solemnly pronounc'd with an Amen from the Representative Body of the whole Kingdom put in Writing under Seal preserv'd to Posterity and give me leave to add vindicated by God himself in the Ruine of so many Opposers for never has any Prince Favourite Councellor or corrupt Judge from that time to this endeavour'd to act contrary to the

unanimously and with loud Acclamations throw up your Caps and Beavers into the Air and cry Vive le Roy or Currat Lex vivat Rex And if so for my own part I should yet hope to see if it shall please my Gracious God to lend me a little longer time of health and strength many Halcyon and most happy days in the Land and Nation of my Nativity before I go away hence and shall be seen no more And that an happy union and good correspondence between his present Majesty and his future Parliaments without the least suspition or jealousie one of another may yet come to pass in our days I do most humbly beseech thy Divine Majesty who are the Lord God Almighty to grant for thy great names sake and for thy Vicegerents sake and for his Peoples sake who are truly Loyal and obedient Subjects in and through thy most dear and well beloved Son the Lord Jesus Christ in whom thou art well pleased and whom by thy free grace goodness and most stupendious mercy and compassion to thy poor creatures is the Lord and giver of everlasting Life to all those who shall most faithfully and most sincerely though but imperfectly obey him And now to him with thy eternal Majesty who art King Immortal Invisible and only wise God by the assistance of thy holy and for ever blessed Spirit of Grace I do most humbly desire to render give and ascribe all honour glory laud and praise might Majesty reverential fear and all humble adoration from this time forth and for evermore Amen And now in the close of all Whereas in my Title-Page I have there intimated how Magna Charta was most solemnly and most wonderfully even to the astonishment of the Spectators ratified pronounced and proclaimed and therefore must not now leave you in the dark as to that particular but refer you to the Packet of Advice from Rome Number 50. the which in my slender apprehension deserves to be written in Letters of Gold upon the Walls of both Houses of Parliament And for your present and I hope pleasant satisfaction I have here inferted and presented you with the same at large HAving presented the Reader with the most remarkable Transactions of Papal Tyranny in Foreign Parts down to the year 1254 't is time to look homewards and observe Ecclesiastic Occurrences in England our last Discourse of that kind terminating with the death of King John to whom succeeded his Son Henry the third of that name for though by reason of the Fewds between John and his Barons they had invited over Lewis the French King's Son and many had to him sworn Allegiance yet the Father being dead and his faults buried with him they did not think fit to yield up themselves to the French Man's Yoak who already began to exercise an insufferable Tyranny wherever he had Power And although the Pope had at first encourag'd the Barons in their Rebellion yet when once he had hector'd King John into a Resignation of his Crown he became his Patron and forbad Lewis from intermedling with the Kingdom as being then forsooth part of S. Peter's Patrimony and therefore excommunicated Lewis for the Invasion which engag'd most of the Clergy to oppose him And so Henry on the 28th of October 1216. was Crown'd being then in the 10th year of his Age and Lewis being routed at Lincoln was glad to come to a Treaty quit his Pretensions and most dishonourably retreat into France Yet 't is observable that the Clergy were then such fast Friends to their Head the Pope and so little regardful of the Descent in the Right Line that they would not accept Henry for their King without making him first do Homage to the Holy Chureh of Rome and Pope Innocent for his Kingdoms of England and Ireland and swearing to pay the 1000 Marks per Annum which his Father had promised to that See Matth. Paris fol. 278. And besides to bring Grists to the Roman Mill the Pope's Legate at that time in England immediately on the Departure of Prince Lewis sent his Inquisitors all over the Realm and whomsoever they would discover to have sided with him Consensuetiam Levissimo Though in the least degree must atone the Crime with a large Sum insomuch as the Bishop of Lincoln before he could be restored to his Bishoprick was forc'd to pay 1000 Marks to the Pope's use and 1000 to the Legate for the little Rogue would have suips in the prey with the great One and many other Bishops and Religious Men were glad to empty their Pockets to him at the same rate Matth. Paris fol. 218. In the year 1220. the Pope was pleased to make Hugh formerly Bishop of Lineoln a Saint and since the manner of his Vn-Holiness's declaring the same may be Divertive to the common English Reader I shall give you the very words of his Letter Translated as I find it in Matth. Paris fol. 298. Honorius Servant of the Servants of God to all out well-beloved Sons the Faithful of Christ that shall inspect these Presents Greeting and Apostolick Benediction The worthiness of Divine Piety does make famous his Holy Ones and Elect placed in the Bliss of the Celestial Kingdom by the shining forth of their Miracles still upon Earth that the Devotion of the Faithful being thereby stirred up may with due Veneration implore their Aid and Suffrages since therefore we are fully satisfied that the Bounty of Heaven hath illustrated Hugh Bishop of Lincoln as well in his Life as after his Death with a multitude of Famous Miracles We have thought fit to Enroll him in the Catalogue of Saints and admonish and exhort you all in the Lord That you devoutly implore his Patronage and Intercession for you with Almighty God farther Commanding That the day of his Decease be henceforwards every year devoutly Celebrated as a Holyday Dated at Viterbium the 13th Calend of March in the fourth year of our Popedom But how much a Saint soever he was we meet with another Bishop as very a Devil for about this time a Quarrel happening between Richard Bishop of Durham and the Monks of the same Church they complain'd of him to the Pope who seem'd much concern'd at his many horrid Crimes and presently sent over a Letter in these Terms Honorius Bishop c. to the Bishops of Salisbury Ely c. Greeting and Apostolick Benediction It is fit for us to be so be so delighted in the sweet Savour of a good opinion of our Brethren and Fellow-Labourers as not to connive at Vices in those that are Pestilent since it becomes not us for the Reverence of the Order to bear with Sinners whose Guilt renders them as worthy of as many Deaths as they transmit Examples of Perdition to those that are under them who are too apt to imitate only the Depravaties of their Superiours Hence it is that since things too far dissonant from Episcopal Honesty have very often been suggested unto us