have enough to bestow on there owne edifices but nothing to bestow on the repairing the Temples of God but rather pulling downe the churches as they doe dayly amongst you reedifiing there owne buildings as it is in Agge the 1. and the 4. verse It is time for your selves to dwell in your houses and this house to lye waste O such wretched cormorants who doe not onely let the houses of God liewaste but utterly pul them downe and purchase lands with the spoyles thereof yet these sacrilegious persons are accounted by you good Christians yet you sticke and adhere to them who make there buildings as it is spoken in the 6. chap. of Ioshua and the 26. verse Not laying the foundations thereof in the blood of there bodyes but in the spoyle of there soules which God in the conclusion wil make them as swallowes nests which in the winter fall downe of themselves and wil you yet thinke upon such people wil you stil deny your obedience to your King who would there on doe as Noah did after the stood who built an alter to the Lord Gen. the 8. and the 20. verse I wil here conclude deare countrymen with this my last advise to thee Which is That thou forsake this pretended Parliament who have brought thee to this miserable condition that they have left no authority in England able to settle peace your lives fortunes being liable to there lustful wils by illegal accusations blanke impeachments threatning declarations who have put out the eyes of the Kingdome the two universities of Oxford Cambridge knowing that learning is a steppe to Religion both to your lawes liberties and al enemies to there barbarons irrational and illegal way of Government al which when you tooke part first with these members wee that have Christianity doe beleive that you were seduced by these faire pretences of defending Religion King lawes and liberties which they first held to you and you thereby being unwilling to have a Parliament conquered by the sword and consequently your selves and you not thinking that they could so farre prevaricate as to conspire against King Parliament and your selves to the utter subversion of al lawes liberties and the fundamental Government of the Land betraying religion unto Heretickes and Schismatikes sharing the spoyles of 3. Kingdomes betweene them now resolving to enrich themselves more in forraigne Lands I say that as my selfe was once at the first blinded you my countreymen had no intention they should be so farre intrusted as you have found to your greife they have engaged you before you were aware but thinke it not yet too late to draw backe your feet and yet stippe the bridle out of your mouthes with which bit they thinke they have you at there checke having girt the saddle so fast to your galled backes and they as ranke riders mounted who have not only spurred you out of your estates lawes and liberties but wil spurre you into hel by new oathes Treasons Covenants c. If you take not the more heed and be not the more resolute for now they have Squeezed what they can out of the Kings party they cal them home beginning to make up there bottomelesse vessels ful out of your estates who have beene there freinds Now I have shewed you the Lyon whome they hunted after the Lord of the forrest not only to be sicke and weake and so become a prey to them he is not only goared by the oxe bitten by madd doggs and kicked by Asses and as our saviour was spittedon by pharises but even as our saviour was become a prey and crusified for our sinnes so was your King for your lawes liberties and the sinnes of the whole three Kingdomes Now to al Christian Princes I speake to you especially of blood or the same religion which this martired King Charles the first was Looke I say you neibouring Kings and Princes upon this sad example unheard of President and unparelled violence and the Lord graunt you may apply it to your owne soules and lay your councels and forces in conjunction to make examples of such murtherous subjects thereby you shal not only feare your owne people from the like attempt but reestablish him who no doubt may be able to helpe any of your greatnesses in such or any other distresse and I am confident wil be willing to his utter most power And you wil have O Princes the hearts and praiers of al our gracious Kings leidge people in his three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland for your redemption of them likewise from slavery and bondage to which I cry Amen FINIS THE EPILOGUE And declaration of the penman Most Gracious Souveraigne TO shew your gracious Majesty that I love my country so much that I could devote my selfe to death for it as the Decij in Rome have done and that I resolve to be such Quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent I in the presence of God and in the name of al the freeborne commoners of England doe declare that there is no legal Parliament in England nor lawful Government in Scotland and Ireland that there is not 495. Commoners by names of Knights and Burgesses neither is there a house of Lords nor is there a King with out any of which by the knowne lawes of England petition of right by which Kings formerly knew what was theres and the subjects theres nor by there ordinances remonstrances and declarations made in the yeares 1642. 1643. where in they declared they intended not neither could they make law without his them Majestyes consent I doe farther protest against those arbitrary exacting and usurping few members remaining at Westminster that what ever they have done or shal doe as thay now are is void and null by law ab initio and of none of effect by there owne doctrines and judgements declared in there ordinance made by them the 20. of August 1647. where in they made void ab initio al votes ordinances and orders passed by the then Lords and Commons from the 26. of Iuly 1647. to the 6. of August following when there speaker with some other renegadoes of them huried away to the army then at Windsor and this faith I resolve to live and die in as Your Majestyes loyal subject Wendy Oxford
A prospective for King and subjects OR A schort discovery of some treacheries acted against Charles the I. and Charles the II. Kings of England Scotland and Ireland With Some few advertisements to the people in the 3. Nations concerning the cruel exorbitant and most Tyrannical slavery they are now under which they have wrought themselves into and stil desiring to be by upholding of a pretended court of Parliament altogether ruling contrary to the Lawes of the Lands or any branch there of and according to there owne Lustful and arbitrary wills Romanes the 11. chap verse the 4. But I haue reserved 7000. man who have not bowed there Knees to Baal Written by Wendy Oxford once an honourer of them and there pretences but now as great an abhorrer of there Macheeslian practises Let St. Pauls Epistle to the Romanes be now judge against such Antichristian Romancing Rulers as are assembled together at Westminster Romanes 1. Chapt. and the 24. and 25. verses Wherefore God gave them up to uncleassenesse and to the change the truth into alie worshipping the creature more then the creatour Printed to Leyden by Iohn Pricton in the Ieare 1652. To the Most High and Mighty sufferer of this age Charles the II. by the grace of God Right and true Borne King of England Scotland and Ireland Most Gracious Souveraigne BEfore I begge your sacred Majestyes patronizing this mite which shal be conneighed into your natur all soyles for as wel correction to your enemies as also the cherishing of the starvinge and dying people therein who have layd long greived and languishing under an arbitrary power I beseech you to remember the advice given to your royal Father of blessed memory by a wise man Make not knowne the cheifest of your determinations to an open councell al thoughstyled a privy councel least you faile in the disigne vera amicitia tantum modo est inter bonos mali nec interse amici sunt nec cum bonis Neither doe any thing of great concernmēt in councel of a civil freind in vvhich your Majesty cannot be safe in the execution thereof unlesse it be concealed Civilem amicum sic habeas ut putes posse in imicúm fieri Admire not Gracious Sr. that in a corner of the earth I vvhisper this councel unto you for had your sacred Father beleived the same he had never beene so unhappy as to be murthered by his ovvne people nay by som of those he made his bosome freinds and consequently your royal selfe had not beene exposed to such termes as your ovvne soule better knovves then any But vincit qui patitur No I vvrit this smal ensueing treatise unto your Majesty that you may have an insight of vvhat you haue done and the better you vval discerne vvhat is to be done by remooving al sychophauts vvho lay parsonally in the breast of your Fathers and your Majestyes but there harts in the treasury of both your knovvne enemies Latet anguis in herba and stil the seeds of those adamites are ingendring in your councels which gracious Prince I hold my selfe bound induty to make knowne to your Majesty thereby give a caveat to you for the future seing the glory of God the good of my Soveraigne and 3 commonwalths at stake If your Majesty should discountenance the worke my comfort remaines that the frowe of my Prince may turne to the favour of my God nec mendacii utilitas est diuturna nec veritatis damnum diu nocet neither shal flattery stil hold in credit nor truth alway continue in disgrace No no Great Sr. none but such as joyne with your Enemies knowing you to be Heire apparent of so great a monarch who was not only defender of the faith but martyre thereof dares be tacite especially when the christian fayth lyes wallowing in the blood of its owne saints over the whole earth in your Majesteys being so unlawfully kept from that Scepter which usvally did protect the innocent and detect the nocent which that it may once more be put in the hand of your righteous selfe the vicegerent of the Lords I here on my bended knees offer unto the most high my humblest praiers for your Majestyes safety and in throning not doubting but your gracious goodnesse will grant protection to these my desires and that as dayes multiplies on your haires and yeares on your people that the weisdome of God and savour of your owne subjects may be joyned with the helpe of al christian princes making it there owne cases to the restablishing of your Majestyes 3. Crownes This suit wil I never give ouer in al others I wil remaine Your Majestyes faythful and obedient subject during lyfe Wendy Oxford The Epistle to every free borne subject of England Scotland and Ireland Dear Countryman I Desire not to hold thee long in the porche but intreat thee to enter into the house where if thou findest any thing which thou canst cal thine I pray take it and of the rest if there be any thing which may doe thee good in the time of peace or warre tribulation or prosperity accept thereof but as thou readest it I begge of thee to observe wel and be an impaitiall judge of the truth thereof which if thou beest there in resolved doe not only of what is true lay up where theeves may breake through and steale it away but lay the good so up that thou Majest upon a good opportunity make good use thereof to the freeing thy selfe from the thraldome thou art under and the darknesse of thy Salvation thou art kept in by those who made the glory of God and thy freedome from Tyranny there pretences stalking horses but they rule notouer you as christians or as the beloved of the Lord but as Servants forcing you to make bricke without straw Which that you may be freed from by a most Faythfull Moses shal be the harty praiers and wel wishis of Thy loving countryman and Brother in Christ Wendy Oxford A Prospective for KING AND SVBIECTS I Have read of William Rufus a King of England was slaine with an arrow Shotte at a hart by a knight and in an other History I find that Basilius Macedo A Romaine Emperour was killed with the stroake of a hart in hunting Cajus and Fulvius Valerius Anastasius wee read also the Emperours perished by lightning as also young Drusus Pompey the Sonne of the Emperour Claudius was choaked with a peare which he cast up and caught it in his mouth in a sportiue way so likewise of Charles King of Navarre wee read he came to a strange and untimely death for he being sewed up in a sheet by night that he might be bathed in it he that seued it went to burne of the thread with the candle and set fire on the sheet so that the King being so much scorched with the heat died threon in three dayes You may likewise read of Euripiudes of very great fame who was unawares torne to peeces by doggs
and as plyny writeth An acreon was choaked with the stone of a Raysin and Marius with a haire in a messe of milke yea I read of Plinie himselfs perished by a stronge fire of mount Vevesus Whilst he was seeking to know the reason thereof some ends there lives in laughing as Valerius Maximus others by sneezing and as I began with a King of England I wil end with a King of England whom weread was buggered with a hot spitt through a horne into his fundament up into his body but this was a cruel act of privacy but never did you read or heare of any Prince or King murthered after such a manner as Charles the I. was on the 30. day of Ianu. 1648. about 2. of the clocke in the afternoone niether did I ever heare or read of any Kings or princes so much laid snares for so much betrayd as there have beene together vide King Iames King Charles the I. and King Charles the II. And if you wil force me to beleive there hath I must confesse there hath beene tracheries which haue beene acted against Kings and Princes but stil have beene discovered before execution as Caesar whose life was taken from him as he was goeing to the senate house yet it was discovered to him in a letter before if he had read it to have beleeved it so many plotts there was against the late Queene Elisabeth some dangerous ons against King Iames but put them altogether they reach not at the throngs of treacheries in this our age For the cheifest of your Royal Fathers Nobility Dread Soveraigne and gentry nay whom he made Noble and whom he preserved from perishing nay let mee goe higher some whom he by his gracious goodnesse redeemed from death which they were condemned unto by Iustice for treason against him selfe and others formurther These very people being chosen councellours to him not only betrayed him from there very beginning of there trusts reposed in them as to the loosing his peoples harts but also in the renting his Kingdomes and al the territories thereunto belonging from him and his posterity nay not resting there but in the conclusion casting of the name of treachery they presumed to take away his life under the colour of Iustice by a Pylate and pharisaical judges openly to condemne him in the same Hal whre they should justly haue died formerly and then executed there cruel murther on him at the gates of his owne court and onascaffold openly in the face of his owne people as if he had beene a traitor to himselfe nay they cutt his sacred life of in the most ignominous way that could be inmagined even as the greatest traitor that ever was since England received christrianty even by the hand of the common Hangman belonging to Tyburne O prodigious Monsters whose persons and actions shal be some what laid forth in this booke when I come to my advise to the poore blinded people but they are more at large painted out to the life in my booke intituled The banis hed mans complaint comming forth Should I begin at the sust of King Iames and so descend to this very day of al the treacheries which have beene acted at home in councels and a broad against the States of the 3. Kingdomes I should be in a laborinth and weary the readers patience wherefore I wil but cull out some remarkable on s and indeed but poynt at some of them enough for for your gracious Majesty to perseive what is meant in the whole Did not your royal Father of Blessed memory al though so crusified by his owne subjects put his whole trust of the managing the whole affaires of his Kingdomes in to the hands of his councel and was he not betrayed before ever a Parliament was called by some of them sworne privy councellers was it not plainely seene that there was a Spanish purse alwaies open a mongst them was not the Spanish faction moulded so high with the riches of the Indies that never since Queene Elizabeth died revenge could be endeavoured against the insolent but subtile Spaniard And was not there a French pox in other some of his councellours causing a rottennesse in there harts to the Keeping his then Maiesty from maiking warres regaining the lost claime of that Crowne and when at last some more honest then the rest did perswade an army to besent over did not then golden french Pistols by treacheary overcome the English Steele whose edge formerly was a terrour to al nations And with leave Great Prince was not your royal Father betrayed in al his privy councels councels of warre and in his very bedchamber at Yorke Shrewsbury and Oxford was there ever any thing of consiquence acted there in nay but spoke on or was ever designe but intended on his Enemies in the field or upon any Garrison but it was presently sent away to the General or Scontmaster General of his Enimies or to the Commander in cheife of the next Garison of Enemies or if time would premit to the committy of safety then sitting at Darby House was it not that your Fathers Enimies there treasury was greater then his they having the revenues of al his the Royal Queenes your then Princely selfe with your Brothers the Duke of Yorke and most of al the nobility and greatest gentery in the whole Kingdome besides there dayly assesments and loanes and subsidies with many other extraordinary taxes as excises of al things together with the infinite and vast summes of monyes raised on Bishops Deanes and chapters lauds enough to purhase whole Armyes Townes and Cities as in conclusion they did for were not thereby whole Armyes Cities Garisons of Townes and Forts sold to his then Maiestyes and now continuing yours are not the proverbes too too much veryfied in these latterdayes Monyes makes the mare to goe and an asse laden with gold shal enter in to the strongest city or towne what ever and the golden Key unlocke the strongest gates that are yes your Maisty sees and feeles the truth hereof For no sooner was the sacred life of your deare Father and our soveraigne taken away but immediatly messages weere sent to some about your sacred selfe for the holding of correspondency with them at Westminster which the very businesse of Bredah speakes something thereof for no sooner was anything done altough never so privatly thought but with in 3. dayes the whole result was at Whitehal that once a royal seat for our Kings and Queenes but now a denne of thieves which would have beene made good to your Maiesty by some what wished happinesse to you at the hague but truth was crusshed in the shel and those blasted for there good intentions But pardon mee Gracious Sr. that I am so plaine I most humbly beseech your gracious Majesty I must now goe a long with your Maiestyes councellours from Bredah into Schotland from whence I must tel your gracious goodnesse there was dayly postings betweene some of your
his Sacred person remember when you did this murther you wonded your God through the sides and so long as you fight against to keepe your native Soveraigne from his rights and possessions you deteyne God out of his right the King being the vice gerent of the Lords so that in plaine termes you tobbe God of his dues and the King of his contrary quite to our Savious rule give unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God those things which are Gods 3. Next most renowned Prince promise to the people that you wil doe justice to al which is termed Regia mensura even to the meanest as wel as to the greatest without partiality neither inclining to the right hand of affection nor to the left hand of hatred I be seech you toread Sir Francis Bacons Essaies of Iudicature wherein he speaks to Prince as wel as to Iudges if thou per ceivest sayth he on the on side high hils of advantage powerful combination and violent prosecution and on the other side the low vallyes of poverty and dejected nesse prepose thy way as God did to judgement Isaiath the 40. Chap and the 3. verse by raising vallies and taking downe mountaines so shalt thou lay the foundation of thy sentence on a sure ground Then O King as Iehosaphat said Be of good courage and doe justice and the Lord wil be with thee and al nations shal feare thee Now let me speake againe to your people as to this 3. advise And if so that such promises be made to you good countrymen by a King I and by your owne King not a forreigner by a protestant Prince of your owne religion and not of astrangeon that you shal have your religion resetled your lawes now torne to peeces reestablished so that in causes of justice and judgment you shal have true sentence Secundum allegata probata and that you shal have Iudges like Elohem upon life and death and like Solomon when meum tuum is in dispute and not like these Kingly usurpers who to your greifes I speake it had rather Ius dare to make lawes of there owne upon there authorityes of sic volumus sic Iubermus not fearing at al that feareful malediction in Abekuke chapter the 5. and the 1. verse Cursed is he that remooveth his neighbours land marke I say they had rather Ius dare them Ius dicere then to pronounce the old lawes already made If such things be promised by our dread Soveraigne what shal let you but an extraordinary judgement of God for your sinne of in gratitude from in throning him in his native rights and yours which wil prove in conclusion your freedomes and greatest gaines But some of these mens Baal preists may say what wil you extirpate those you have chosen to make and preserve your lawes I answer they deserve it having beene chosen by you to doe so nay they having sworne so to doe but they have prooved false for sworne and grosse covenant breakers who have wrested the lawes of God and the gospel of Iesus Christ to there owne ends the Iustice of God requires it and man also melius ut pereat unus quam pereat unitas better for on to perish then unity to be destroyed they terme themselves a Parliament and as but on body therefore let that on as a rotten corrupt and putrified body be cut of to save a whole stocke from perishing Fiat Iustitia Ense reseindendum ne pars sincera trahatur Looke upon the Apostles rule Nos scimus bonam esse legam modò index à legitima utatur We know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully To the end of what hath beene hitherto spoken by mee I humbly begge of your Majesty that I may returne unto you and your goodnesse heare mee That your Majesty would not be advised by any favourites when you shal by Gods blessing attaine to your crownes to deale with your people as physitians sometimes deale with there patients that they must be recovered by corosives and sharpe remedies no Deare Sr. that you please to cure them with a diat and asswage with fomentations And if against the light of nature and lawes of nations and rights thereof your people shal persist in there obstinacy and contemne your many times offred grace and goodnesse then you are excused in the binding cutting and pruning such stife stakes that wil rather burst then bend and al to be really looked on as to the restoring your selfe to your owne and them to your selfe yet you may not extirpate all But for the a voyding of this latter I wish great Sr that your Kingdomes may be setled without more blood as firme as mountaines not to be remooved your cities returne in obedience and your strongholds with continuance of the same al your subjects obsequious and not to hate monarchy under thoughts of freedome and so conspire stil to with hold there obedience O that is a greivous sinne and absolutely unlawfull by the lawes of God and man to resolve a redemption by a wicked temptation of liberty Such subjects must expect to labour under general convulsions and be wasted with unheard of Lacerations No farre be it from your people to entertaine such precipitation of thoughts and farre be also contempt and rigour from your Majesty least the divine power of God bring to passe that which few feares none dare attempt and Prince and people ab horre wherefore O Prince resolve of comeing to your owne if possibly by love and peace and rather suffer a little longer then ruine al. Si vis vincere disce pati Now you that cal your selves the supreame power of England Scotland and Ireland I can compare you to no other then to the 30. Tyrants of Athens or to the Tribunes amongst the Romans either lyke the 30. Tyrants who were chosen by the people to be there conservators of there lawes and liberties even so were you who held the people with goodwords and faire glozzed declarations as you have done until they had the opportunity and strength to persist in there designe of Tyranny then they turned the weapons of the people against there owne breacts and became absolute Tyrants whole names and deeds had never beene blotted out had not this age bred such monsters as you are to outvy them in the highhest manner that may be or els you may be compared to the Tribunes amongst the Romaines to be appealed unto from inferiour courts of Iudicature and chosen Parliament men to be advisers about affaires and assistants to the King which in a short time you by your machevilian perjuries and so phisticated conjurations to the people namely your declarations promises remonstrances c. In your usurped authority have not only overtopped the Kings power like the Tribunes but have cut of King and power to al posterity Wherefore al people may justly say either you are without Christ or Christ without peace A hard saying I must confesse but yet