man but to judge the wrong done by any in authority to a private man or woman 12. If by chance there come into the house a close hypocrite that is contentious the Parliament speedily shall cast him out and by their Order the Countrey shall suddenly chuse another or send him up which he out-voted at the time of Election neither may he at any time be chosen again to sit in Parliament Countrey and City as one man upon every occasion shall stand up for King and Parliament to beat down their opposers for in them is the safety of the Nation and whatsoever in our Law is contrary to this Rule shall be made void and of none effect Direction to chuse a King IT is fit that London being the chief City of these Nations England Scotland and Ireland who are now one body should have the preheminence as the Royall City of all and that the King should be chosen in London then let the Lord Major when a King is to be chosen take the names of all the Parishes under his command and divide them and cast lots untill the number be under eight Then shall he send unto those parishes which the Lord hath taken that every parish at such a day shall send a man to such a place whereupon every parish of them shall call a Vestry to chuse a man that is above fifty years of age that hath been a seeker of God and that fears God that is full of the Scripture and holy Ghost not full of the Scripture yet deny it to be Gods word as some do that is diligent in his calling yet his getting being so small that he is forced to take some alms to preserve himself and family a poor man that is not worth five pounds nor is five pound in debt one that can write and read and hath good understanding and reason and one that is a native born in Britain or Ireland Such men shall be chosen and sent to the Lord Major at the time appointed and he and the Aldermen shall question them one by one and take out of them eight in number two of the fittest persons among them and after prayer the Lord Major shall cast the lot and he on whom the lot is fallen always shall be proclaimed by the name of King Charles and there shall be allowed him that is King two hundred pound a year one hundred for himself to maintain him during his life the other hundred to be divided among fifty poor old men for gowns and the rest for them in money yearly and to be paid out of the kingdomes treasury and in regard of it the old men are to pray for the King while he liveth and when he dieth to accompany him to his grave and his buriall shall be decent according to his means and not costly as the former Kings burialls were 2. I thought of another way of Election Namely that he which is the oldest Charterhouse-man shall be alwayes King I mean not the oldest in years but he that was longest in the house it would save the trouble of electing the King for there is a continuall succession or supply of poor old men coming in there continually but that it is necessary to chuse a King of the purest sort and at last to let God chuse him or decide it by lot which is his own Ordinance that he alwayes answereth by in such matters that cannot be known or decided otherwayes as you see in the Old Testament and New Joshua 7. 14. Judges 1. 1. 2 3. 1 Samuel 14. 38 39 40 41 42. Jonah 1. 7 8. Acts 1. 23 24 25 26. Besides there might happen some treachery among these old men for it is not convenient for any to know aforehand who shall be the next King and the King being alwayes of one name Charles there is no interregnum notwithstanding the time of chusing a King should be somewhat long for the King is alwayes living though not declared untill elected Therefore the first is the best way for election And now I shall shew you how this is our Saviour Christs Institution for his Kingdome FIrst take notice of Matthew 20. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Mark 10. 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42. 43 44 45. Luke 22. 24 25 26 27. All which sheweth that when the Apostles strove for greatnesse in his Kingdome he tells them that they must not be as the Gentiles were who did alwayes exalt their great and rich ones to reign over them but they contrariwise are commanded to exalt the low and poore to reign over them And indeed there is weighty reasons why it should be so that the great ones should be kept down for the great ones alwayes striving to be greater and to have more wealth and honour they being never satisfied was the destruction of themselves and followers and were the disquieting and ruine of good meek innocent peaceable men and is it not so to this day among us and all them who would be accounted Christians 2. The holy Apostle Saint Paul further expounding the abovesaid words of our Saviour Jesus Christ saith 1 Cor. 1. 27 28 29. God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God hath chosen the Weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty And base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen Yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence And further he sheweth who are those chosen ones and that they are not them whom the world onely count base but also such as the Church do despise and undervalue even such men as is above mentioned in the Election poor yet wise men as you see 1 Cor. 6. 4 5. saying If then ye have judgement of things pertaining to this life set them to judge which are least esteemed in the Church So that it is clear the holy Apostle would have the Christians according to Christs words to make them Judges or Kings of poor weak old men which never had any state in the world nor look for any thing of the world but food and raiment And 1 Cor. 12. 22 23 24. he there tells you that there is a necessity of such men for this purpose and that upon such ye should put the greatest honour they being godly and wise in a just way 3. The holy Apostle Saint James clears it further shewing you that such poor men are the Royall seed of Christs kingdome James 2. 5. Hearken my beloved saith he regard what I say hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heirs to the kingdome which he hath promised to them that love him Christians this is the kingdome that ye dayly pray for when ye say to God Thy kingdome come Thy will be done on earth c. And yet you will not have it come on earth for speaking to the
them all concludes Britain to be the most amiable and being in love with her beauty according to Solomon song 4. is resolved to take her to wife that he might beget a son of her body to inherit his glory therefore Jesus the King after the manner of Kings sends the most honourable of all his Disciples Joseph of Arimathea by Name an Embassadour to Britain and he coming to Arviragus then King of Britain was so courteously received that the King gave him some Land to inhabit and liberty to declare his message to the British Lady so called for method sake but the said Lady notwithstanding the Kings consent for modesty sake as prudent Ladies use to do in such a case doth not seem to grant her love to her beloved at the first motion because she might have been judged to be of an unconstant minde for altering her estate suddenly and without mature deliberation for these causes the suit continueth so that the agreement is not fully made between Jesus Christ and the British Lady until King Lucius time and then they were married with great joy and not long after the British Lady brings forth a son to Jesus Christ namely Constantine the great who gave such a wound to the enemies of Jesus Christ that they could never recover it we then being assured that the British Lady should bring forth another son to destroy all the enemies of Jesus Christ and receive of his glory for this cause Britain had many enemies that envied her because of this honour that God was pleased to give her which is worth your consideration Britain being thus exalted and her son made Emperour Satans Friends fell into a tottering condition therefore he stirreth all his instruments against the British Nation as the Saxons Danes Normans and all the Nations round about sought to destroy them till they drove the Britains into Wales and at last after much Wars for a long time through a guile used in their agreement with Edward the first who privately sent his Queen to Carnarvon where the first Prince of the English Race was born and the Britains submitting to him brought themselves into such misery that from Edward the first to Henry the sevenths time the Britains were in great slavery the English using them cruelly destroying their ancient Records prohibiting them to bring their Children up in Learning intending to extinguish their ancient Language and bring the prophesies and promises written in the same Language to none effect but for all that the Britains through Gods Providence preserved their Language and so much of their Writings as is needful to hold forth the truth for them And of all the enemies that we had since our coming to Britain the Romans were the most honest and noblest Enemy for they indeed esteemed the Britains according to their worth and quality making a difference between us and the Barbarous people round about us because the Romans found the Britains to be as good men as themselves were for all the Countries hereabout submitted to Julius Caesar without any great resistance but when he sent to Cassibelan King of the Britains to have him submit Cassibelan sent him word That he and the Britains had not learned as yet to live in servitude and that Caesar should find it a hard matter to bring them to it whereupon Caesar being in wrath came to Britain with all his Power but he found Britain so hot that he was forced to go back into France from whence he came and after many returns to little purpose being half ashamed Caesar sought to gaine the Britains by love and at last came to an agreement with them that the Romans and the Britains should become one people Thus they concluded So that you may see in the Chronicles as many more were Constantine the Great was a Britain by the one side and a Roman by the other for which cause Pompey who was sent from Rome to conquer the other side of the world sent a jeere to Caesar for that he could not otherways overcome such a small handful of people as he judged the Britains to be therefore Caesar bore him a grudge for it to his dying day so that before Pompey came to Rome Caesar having many of the Britains with him met him and shewed him the Britains Valour in a Battel where Pompey was slain and Caesar made Conqueror of the World And know this also that the Romans should never have had footing in Britain had Britain then been united within it self for King Lud died and left behind him under age four sons Cassibellan his Brother was made Protector and usurping the Throne Androgeus son and heir to Lud being deprived of his right agreed and sided with Caesar and went to Rome therefore many towns not submitting to Cassibellan because he was not their lawful King made much for Caesar and brought in the Romans as abovesaid so that Caesars report is true saying That Britain was divided when he invaded it but had he come in King Luds time he had found no entrance into Britain Yet as the truth is our Confedracie with the Romans did us much evil for our men going out of the Land to maintain the Romish interest made our number decrease and emboldened our pilfring Enemies to set upon us specially after they saw that huge host go out of Britain for the service of Christ under Constantine the Great Thus much touching the Romans as being worthy of note I thought good to shew you And now to return where I left The Britains as before you see were in great distress from the time of Edward the first to the time of Henry the seventh that is to say above two hundred years and for all their enemies could do to them the Britains kept their Language Records and Prophesies so that Henry the seventh being a Britain-promised Prince had them Prophesies as his guide and he observing them came accordingly to the Throne to the comfort of all people for he united York and Lancaster redeemed Wales and was the means to bring England and Scotland under one head and from that time to this day the Welch British blood according to the Welch Prophesies hath continued on the Throne of great Britain Thus far God hath done for us in fulfilling our prophesies blessed be his Name for ever and more is yet to be fulfilled of the said Prophesies which will infallibly come to pass as the rest did for God is come in his promises therefore now it is time for you English-men to consider it and not henceforth to despise deride and scorn the Welch that ye may as Britains be made partakers of the blessing with us denying your English or Saxon interest for surely the Saxons shall vanish as God hath determined it by our Prophesies The mystery of our Prophesies and Knowledge was delivered to us of old by Samothea or as Moses calls him Gen. 10. 2. Meshech that is a Messenger or Angel of God others call him
Diese that is God they attributing the Godhead to him in regard of the light come from him to the world but we call him Samothea that is a man endued with wisdome or sapience above others who indeed at first laid the platform of true Knowledge among us by which Evangelical Divine Rules our Bards were guided to prophesie and specially having the mystery opened by the coming of Jesus Christ they were the more informed by his Spirit so that they became undoubtful and certain in what they said and delivered to the Britains And there is a Book of one Mr. Thomas Pugh called British and Outlandish Prophesies printed 1658 for Lodowick Lloyd at the Castle in Gornhil in London In which Book you shall finde much of our Welch Prophesies though mis-applyed by the Author to which Book I refer you for in that Book you are to look upon a thing done according to the pattern Heb. 8. 5. that is a thing in form like the old Testament and beginning the 540 year of Christ page 1. First of all you shall finde there a second Moses or an Angelical Child taken out of the water called Taliesin whom many our Nation much honour for the said Taliesin tells you many things that were in the beginning as Moses doth pronounceth woes against all sorts of sinners sheweth you his belief in Jesus Christ warns you of the Romish Faction and tells you a forehand of the Britain Captivity being overcome by the Saxons and of their Restoration in due time by the seed of the woman whom he calls by name Angharad many hundred years before she was born pag. 13. and pag. 20. and that out of the said woman should come a valiant Conquerour called Kar that is Karolus or Charles pag. 24. This Taliesin and the Prophets or wise men that followed do foretel you the death of King Charles the place of it the manner of it and shew you by whom it is done pag. 43. and who for a time shall enjoy his Territories pag. 37. Secondly you shall finde that Charles the King and Oliver that enjoys his Kingdoms are both the seed of the same Angharad as Jacob and Esau were Gen. 25. See for this pag. 151 and 252 and 168. Thirdly you shall find that these Prophets do agree and testifie that the said Charles called by them Koronog vaban in English the crowned son of Anne shall rise again and not onely conquer Britain or recover his own but also shall conquer the whole world that is the Line and Race of the said Charles shall do it for you must understand it in a reasonable way See for this pag. 37 38. and also pag. 47 48 49 50 51. Fourthly for a miraculous witness that that Race and Line of Koronog vaban shall be raised again to conquer as abovesaid you shall find pag. 104. Taliesin's Prophesie of great stones raised from a bottom and set on a hill which stones are so big that no creature can move them when the head of Koronog Faban was to be raised and that came to pass at the Coronation of King James in England who had been crowned many years afore in Scotland while he was in his Cradle which being in that regard a crowned baby is also upon that account Coronog Faban for Koronog Vaban in English is either the crowned baby or the crowned son of Anne both are included in the word And the Author confesseth it to be a word of a double signification 47. neither durst he put out such prophesies had he not seemed to be exceedingly for Oliver therefore he wresteth the prophesies to speak for him and it was GOD's Providence that brought them forth for Oliver was rather more angry then pleased with the Author for such a discovery Fifthly you shall find that after Taliesin had set forth Olivers deeds p. 22. he termineth and limiteth his time and then pag. 23. he saluteth Charles the second by name though mystically and there the Author is at a stand not daring to interpret it nor knowing what to say but pag. 149. he seemeth to shew the time of the beginning of the departing of Oliver and coming of Charles and of his deeds as followeth pag. 50. This is the whole substance of Pughs Book and it is agreeable to the Scripture it is agreeable to the Jews Expectation and agreeable to our Christian Religion And these prophesies did never fail hitherto as our Countrey-men know but at one time our Country-men and Bards were amazed and thought they had failed for in 1623. the golden number being 9. the Moon also changing on Lower Sunday-Eve there was a prophesie that pronounced a wo to Britain in that year and moreover bidding us beware of a fire upon the Land that year the second Thursday after Midsummer day and therefore they looked for that day to be the day of Judgement but finding nothing come to pass then they thought all their prophesies were lies and that no more credit was to be given to them But as I was informed upon that very Thursday in that very year Oliver Cromwel presented a Petition to King James touching the Fens in Lincolnshire and about Eli he being backt with abundance of Country-men on stilts and as soon as King James took the Petition his Nose fell a bleeding that he swore it was an ill Omen saying If he could tell how he would hang that fellow that had given him that paper But Oliver had a strong party with him so that the King was pacified and thought it best to be quiet Thus the King and Countrey began to jar about the Fens which the King had sold from the Countrey to some Dutchmen Oliver at the first began to gain the love of the people by this means for none durst head them then but he Now you see how the fire began between the King and Country on that very day so that the prophesie was fulfilled though our Country were ignorant of it which fire burned the King and his party to nothing so that as S. Clement saith They shall be renewed and rise as the Phoenix doth out of its own ashes and for this Nation I believe that the generality of the people of this Land are Britains or Welch as now we call them by descent for though they lost their Language by reason of their mixture with Romans Saxons Danes Normans and other Nations which came to this Land from time to time yet they did not lose their Consanguinity and you must conceive thus much that though this Land was many times conquered by forrainers yet none of the poor people and Husband-men nor any that did submit to the conquering party were removed and that it was always the chief Nobility being overcome fled to Wales or to any place where they could finde a Refuge Therefore we whose noble descent you see ought not to be divided truly Wales had never been brought under England but for its division and now what danger are we in being
divided and do no righteous things we cannot stand long if we have not a King But you will say Who shall be King If you go in a righteous way I will shew you that Charles Stuart is the man who by right should enjoy it according to our ancient custome for he is the true heir of all for in him runs that stream of Royal Blood that shall make glad the City of God for all the Blood-Royal of the Britains Scots Saxons Normans is primary in him I could make this out and shew you his lineal descent if I thought you would question it I could also make it appear abundantly by their prophesies in Mr. Pughs Book that God long before this time hath determined and declared his Fall and his Restoration and that word Koronog vaban which is the Key of all our prophesies belongs to him and that it cannot be brought to speak for Oliver Cromwel as Mr. Pugh would have it But what should I trouble you with these things which you cannot relish I shall shew you a more excellent way for God did not cast down Charles to the end that he should be set up again upon the same slipery foundation for he had better he a step lower then he was that he might stand surer Therefore take this as followeth Men and Brethren I Having read Histories and seen the course of the world from time to time I finde that from the Creation to this day there is troubles in the world about superiority and that much innocent blood hath been spilt by Governors to maintain their worldly Interests yet for all that could they never make themselves and posterity sure to hold long nor finde a way to govern that was not defective in the Issue their Foundation being bloody could not stay them from falling they would not come to judgement nor be called to an account for what they did and their shedding of innocent blood but they could not shun it when Gods time came I might prove this not onely from Histories but also from the holy Scripture that it is so now and hath been so at all times in all the habitable world among all nations from the beginning but my business is not to make great Volumes to shew all that might be said in this Case onely I say that all sorts of Government yet known and established among men whether by Kings Hereditary counted best or by Elective Kings or by States or whatsoever else is or hath been it is nought and destructive to men therefore I through Gods help briefly shall shew you a Form of Government that hath not been yet made known to the world though figured forth in the Gospel by Jesus Christ and his Apostles this sixteen hundred yeers And now our necessity requireth me to hold it forth we have had much talk of the Kingdom of Jesus-Christ but we are ignorant of it all this while none sheweth it though it be time for if the Protector Army and Parliament striving about the Militia as they did with the late King fall to War again as it is like they will then wo to England that ever the Gospel shined so bright in it and that by it it could not finde the way of peace therefore take this as followeth for your direction 1. Let not the chief of Great Britain and Ireland enter into his Power and Government until he be above fifty yeers of age 2. Let him be a poor honest godly man even so poor though industrious in his calling that he hath been forced to take Almes and let him be chosen by lot 3. When he is king for that Title the Scripture gives him 1 Pet. 2. 13. and that Title is best known to England by our Law let him have the sole power in Church and State namely the Militia or whatsoever else is appointed for the good and defence of the Nation shall be his and let him be accountable to no man 4. Let all Writs go and whatsoever is done let it be done as heretofore in the Kings name and let him have but a hundred pound a year to maintian him 5. Let the Kings personall work be so little so plain and easie that notwithstanding his great power yet so that he cannot erre in what he doth which shall be onely to call a Parliament and sit with them and let there be but one house of Parliament 6. Let the Protector Steward Deputy King or whatsoever you please to call him be hereditary in a male line of ability and stature to rule and let him go on ruling as the Protector doth now only he must give account before the King and Parliament every third year for all that is done amisse in ruling by him or his Officers under him though done by a Constable or Corporal shall be laid to his charge because that upon knowledge thereof he did not punish the Offendours 7. The King every third year upon the third week of December shall send forth Writs to call a Parliament and command them to meet him at the Parliament-house the first week in March and they are to sit untill the first of September and no longer 8. That no man be chosen to serve in Parliament but such as are above fifty year old and that are judicious able men in knowledge of Law and Judgement 9. That none be put in nomination to be chosen but such as fear God hate covetousnesse love the poor and is peaceable Chuse none that hath not been just and honest in his dealing with all men good and charitable to the poor and is full of the holy Ghost 10. That none be chosen which be in places of profit or preferment under the Deputy or Protector as now ye call him nor any Commander of the Army who all are subjects to be judged by the Parliament and not to sit as Judges in their own Cause For though the Protector be liable to suffer for every fault his officers do he not avenging the oppressed that made his complaint to him or he not sitting in the seat of Judgement to hear complaints thrice a week where the poorest sort as well as the rich without hinderance may come be heard and relieved yet shall his Officers suffer every one for his own fault according to his desert and the King and Parliament shall judge it but whosoever he be that sought not to the Protector first and is not relieved in a weeks time after his complaint made though the wrong be done him in Parliament time yet shall he not be heard by the King and Parliament 11. The Deputy or Protector every week thrice shall sit on a throne in an open place where every one may come and make his complaint to him clearing it by evidence and after that he must give just judgement speedily in a weeks time or else the King and Parliament shall call him to account for it neither is it intended that the Protector must judge all causes between man and