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A96861	Anglo-tyrannus, or the idea of a Norman monarch, represented in the paralell reignes of Henrie the Third and Charles kings of England, wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman kings is manifested, together with the real ground, and rise of all those former, and these latter contestations between the princes, and people of this nation, upon the score of prerogative and liberty. And the impious, abusive, and delusive practises are in short discovered, by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome, and the Norman tyrannie founded and continued over them. / By G.W. of Lincolnes Inne.	Walker, George, of Lincoln's Inn.	1650 (1650)	Wing W340; Thomason E619_1; ESTC R203987	46,665	64

Walker To the Reader HE must rise betimes saith the proverb who will please all which may cease our wonder that the Common-wealth is so displeasant to some which hath gotten up so late yet better late than never But though some dotarts square all by antiquity supposing none so wise which are not so old and guesse at the understanding by the gray hairs which in truth are rather a badge of imperfection and the declension of nature and which came into the world at the back doore being a part of that fatall offspring begot between the Serpents craft and our first Parents disobedience I speak not this in scorn of age which I honour when found in the way of righteousnesse and truth nor in deniall of its advantage over youth by experience but to oppose that errour spred amongst many that all wisdome deceased with their Grandsires and they are onely to travell in their tracks an opinion more agreeable to a pack horse than a man endued with a rationall soul which is not to lie idle and which indeed the word of God and universall experience which even make fools wise contradicts the one infallibly declaring that in the latter dayes the Spirit of Truth shall more abundantly be poured forth into earthen vessels the other visibly informing us of the daily advantages we have above our ancestors to attain Knowledge for admit they were such G●y ants in understanding yet we poore dwarfes being upon their shoulders may see further than they but I say though some doe thus yet the sons of reason measure by another standard as knowing that if worth should be prised by antiquity the rotten would becom of more value than the ripe to such therefore do I present this Discourse who judge by reason not passion which so often makes the Crow seem white the Bells to tink as the fools do think and in confidence Reader that thy ingenuity is such that no byas of interest will wheel thee narrow and thy capacity able to draw thee from running wide of reason the only mark men in civil games should bowl at I have taken the pains to present thee with a map of Englands condition under her Monarchs wherein thou mayst view how justly Magna Charta is cast in our Governours teeths to beget a belief of their being more tyrannous than our Kings were admit it be not observed in every tittle now what are we the worse when some fresher and more apposite remedy is applyed to heal us let us consider that it was constituted under another Government and so cannot square to the present and that the makers of it were but men nay and such as had not that roome to act in as we have and so could not foresee or at best provide for all that now providence hath wrought amongst us but I shall not detain thee with a long Preface from the Book wherein an ingenuous and rationall spirit will discern that if our present Governours had been bound up to former rules we could never have attained that estate which now by Gods mercy and their prudence we enjoy and may so still if our own perversnesse hinder us not Truly that Fahle in Pliny of certain monstrous people in Africk which had one foot and that so big that they covered and shaded with it their whole body may be a perfect embleme of our Kingly Government which being at first instituted for a firm basis and prop to the body politick what by the fatall sloath and stupidity of the people and the industrious craft and activity of Monarchs was turned topsie turvie and had got so between heaven and us that it wholly deprived us of that free light and happinesse which God and nature held forth unto us and thus in stead of a support was become a burden under the weight of which the whole groaned nay was almost pressed to death but thou being a member and sound canst not but be as sensible of this as I and for dead slesh and rotten limbs corrosives and cuttings are onely proper it will be weaknesse in me therefore to doubt of the plaudit to the Common wealth so farewell till we meet in the book Anglo-Tyrannus Or the Idea of a Norman MONARCH c. FAtall and Bloody have Crowns and Scepters been in generall to all Nations in particular to this in England and that not only in regard of the strife between competitours who in pnrple gore deeply dyed their regall roabs and by the slaughtered carcasses of their Rivals and partakers ascended the Imperiall throne but in respect of the iterated contests between Prerogative and Liberty the Kings aiming at uncontrolable absolutenes the people claming their Native Freedome The verity of this assertion we may see deeply imprinted in bloody Characters throughout the whole series of English history yea so deeply that it may even create an envy in us of the Turkish happinesse and beget a wish after their bondage who though they go for absolute slaves yet cannot shew such dire effects of tyranny as we and our ancestors have felt and groaned under That policy of State impious and inhumane enough of destroying the younger Brothers of the Ottoman line though decried by us and all who write Christians yet compared with our Monarches politick arts and actings may seem to have been founded on the advice of their own and mankinds better genius to prevent the efusion of blood and deliver millions from the shambles there a few males of his own Family fall a victime to their Tyrant when whole Hecatombs can scarse appease the thirsty ambition of an English pretender ther one house suffers here none escapes as but to instance in one contest between Henry the sixth and Edward the fourth wherein was fought ten bloody battles besides all lesser scirmishes thousands of Lords Gentlemen and Commons slaine and one halfe of the Nation destroyed to set up a King to trample upon the other for in that quarrell between the Houses of Lancaster and Yorke fell 80998. persons 2. Kings 1. Prince 10. Dukes 2. Marquesses 21. Earls 2. Viscounts 27. Lords 1. Prior 1. Iudge 1 39. Knights 441. Esquiers this hath been the happiness and peace which a successive and hereditary Monarchy hath afforded England For our liberty we can indeed shew many of our Kings large and good deeds but few or none of their actions their hands alwaies having been too hard for their Seals Parchments and Charters we purchased of them with the price of Millions both in Blood and Treasure but let us but pass by their promises and view their performances and we may set aside Turkie and term England the slave and this appears in our Chronicles where though in the Theorie and System the English Government hath been limited and bounded by good and distinguishing lawes yet in the exercise and practic part of every Kings raign we shall find it deserve as bad a name as others who are called most absolute The Poets fable of Tantalus

Provision every one refusing to lend him or the King a groat so great credit had their perfidie got them Many being clapt up in prison who would not be perjured the Lords and others whose consciences were more tender both of their Oath and Liberties than to believe the Pope or trust the King assemble together in arms for defence of themselves and their liberties and first they send to the King humbly beseeching him to remember his many Oathes and promises but when that would not availe them they advance towards London where the King lay in the Tower waiting the gathering of his forces and the comming over of strangers which he expected and now the Bishops who as they were seldom in any good so would be sure to be cheif in every bad action make such a stir to prevent bloudshed forsooth of which their tendernesse hath alwaies been well enough knowne that the controversy must be referred to the French King to decide much honour got England and much liberty was like to get by such an Arbitratour while she is forced to creep to forraigners to know whether they will please to let her enjoy liberty or no after 47 years oppression under Henry besides what his good Father and Grandsiers had loaded her with But the Lords being perswaded that their Liberties and Rights depended not upon the will of any one Man refused to stand to the partiall award of the French in the English Tyrants behalfe Thus concluded this business as all others commonly did which Bishops had a foot in●● with a mischief to the Common-wealth the King gaining by it not only time for raising but a seeming justice for his using of Forces to compell the Lords to stand to the sentence by which their liberties were adjudged from them No doubt those wise and generous Barons not only disliked but disdained such an Vmpire as being sensible of the advantages Henry of the dishonour their Countrey and of the discommodity their cause would reap by him but that those Fathers in evill under the angelical shape of peace-makers necessitated them to accept of him to avoid the obloquy of being Incendiaries the involvers of their Country in a miserable civill war Let the English High Priests then to their eternall infamy carry a frontlet engraven with Mischeif to England on their foreheads who were the fatall instruments of enforcing their Country to submit her liberty to a forraigne Tyrants decision whose corrupt interest lay in adding fewell to the flames which consumed the Noblest Fabricks the uprightest and firmest pillars in the English Nation Yet that Henry might make a little better market for himselfe he Summons a Parliament at Westminster where whilst openly nothing but redressing grievances composing differences exclaiming against jealousies raised to scandalise the King good man as if he intended to leavy War against his people by factious spirits proceeds from Henry he underhand prepares for War endeavouring to divide the Barons and strengthen himself by all the plots and clandestine tricks he could at last having by sprinkling Court holy-water and promising fifty pound Lands per annum to such as would desert the Lords party drawn divers to revolt unto him he secretly withdraws from Westminster to Windsor and from thence to Oxford so on traversing the Country to patch up and peece together an Army And here we may see it was no new thing which was acted by his late successor who in al his actions made it appeare that he was a right chip of the old block Now pretences of the Barons insolencies against the King and oppressions of the Subjects Declarations of his being forced to take up arms for defence of the just Lawes and Liberties of the people and his own safety with protestations of his good intentions and divers other such knacks are every where on the wing as we have had flying up and down at the tayss of the Royall paper Kites of our times The Lords being thus left in the lurch are not wanting in preparing for defence being unanimously backt by the citizens of London who have hitherto had the honour of bravely standing for Liberty yet first they send to the King putting him in mind of his oathes and promises and desiring him to observe the great Charter and Oxford Statutes but the Drums and Trumpets make such musick in his ears that Henry will heare no talk of any Law but what his will and Sword shall give and for their good Counsell returnes them as tokens of his love the title of Rebels and Traytors which he as frankly bestows on their persons as he doth their Lands on his followers By these course Complements the Lords perceiving which way the game was like to go leave off putting their confidence in the King and trust their cause to God and their good Swords then choosing the Earls of Leicester and Glocester for their Generalls whose hands no manacle of alliance could lock from defending their Countries Liberties though the first had married the Sister the second the Neece of the King they take the Feild may Towns are taken by each party and many skirmishes passe wherein sometimes the one party sometimes the other get the better at length divers Scotch Lords and others with great forces being joyned to the King he marches against Northampton where he heard Peter Montford was assembling forces for the Barons the Town was very resolutely defended untill by the Treachery of some Monks within say some by the subtilty of the Kings Forces say others who advancing close under the Wall undermined it whilst the Captains within parlying with the King on the other side a breach was made so large that forty Horse might enter a brest by which Henry gained it by assault This Town being taken ran the same fortune Leicester lately did for Henry drunk with successe and rage like a violent Torrent swept all before him killing burning and spoiling where ever his Army came but here so unmanly was the cruelty of the Tyrant that he would have hanged all the Oxford Schollers a band of which were in the Town for their valour shewed in the brave resistance of his forces had not some of his Counsellers perswaded him from so doing for feare the only curb to an ignoble soule of exasperating their freinds against him by his cruelty many of the Schollers being young Gentlemen of good quality Here by the way we may observe the miserable effects of bad Governours in the Vniversities by whom such degeneratenesse was wrought in our youth that none in our times were found more desperate engagers against the cause of Liberty than young Schollers who heretofore were the most resolute Champions for it Let us therefore make no sinister constructions when we see our Governours diligent in purging the fountaines if we desire to have the streams run cleere But Northampton put a period to Henries fortune for although he caused the Barous to raise their siedge from Rochester yet in the

Anglo-Tyrannus Or the Idea of a NORMAN MONARCH Represented in the paralell Reignes of HENRIE the Third and CHARLES Kings of ENGLAND Wherein the whole management of affairs under the Norman Kings is manifested together with the real ground and rise of all those former and these latter contestations between the Princes and people of this Nation upon the score of Prerogative and Liberty And the impious abusive and delusive practises are in short discovered by which the English have been bobbed of their freedome and the Norman Tyrannie founded and continued over them By G. W. of Lincolnes Inne Nihil medium Libertas habet quae aut tota est quod debet aut amissa parte sui tota fuit et extinguitur Quam ideirco non ignavis neque Brutis ad serviendum natis sed erectis animabus Deus immortalis conservandam tradit Heinsius orat 4. Iustitia pietas fides Privata bona sunt qua juvat Reges eant London printed for George Thompson at the Signe of the white horse in Chancery Lane 1650. To the Right Honourable the Lord President BRADSHAW My Lord THough I may seem bold I am not so blind but that I perceive your Lordship taller by the head than most I can set by you and so come for patronage in hopes of a favourable smile being sure to have frownes enough from them who not able to look over the heads of others croud as it were hood-wink'd after those that goe before them It was the ancient practice of enslaved Rome after death to Deifie her Tyrants and this her badge of slavery we in England have long worn as a Livery of our bondage whose Kings when dead must be of Famous and Blessed Memory though they liv'd most infamous for Cowardize and detestable for Tyranny and though this was acted to flatter their Successors at first yet by custome it hath so prevailed that notwithstanding the cause is now taken away the effect remains among the multitude to whom Logick must give place in their irrationall actings and from a naturall necessity is become a divine institution so that immortall as earthly Crownes are givem them Iure Divino to dye Saints as they live Kings Indeed Rome may have somthing pleaded in her excuse for she had her infernall Gods whom by sacrifice she endeavoured to appease from doing mischief so little inferiour was her superstition to her slavery which was as great as tyranny could create I know our royall Idolaters will lay hold of the Horns of this De mortuis nil nisi bonum but it can afford them little safety and me lesse danger whom the Metaphysicks have taught that bonum verum convertuntur that J cannot write good unlesse J write truth thus what they have taken for their shield is the dart which pierceth their Liver and by what they would ward off they are smitten with the blow of high-treason themselves being the only and grand transgressors against the majesty of History whose Prerogative it is not onely to reward the good with honour and renown but also to punish the evill with ignominie and reproach The case standing thus I am assured of your Lordships protection against all storms such inchantments may raise against me whose rationall eye being able to pierce these foggs doth perceive what hath so long been invelop'd in the mist Thus my Lord having looked aside at selfe yet I constantly kept your Lordship in my eye and your honour stood fore-right my safety but on one side in my choice not out of presumption that my weak endeavours could adde any thing to you but in assurance that others seeing what profit they have received what misery they have escaped in the book will return to the Dedication and with honour read your name who have been so great an iustrumet under God of their deliverance God hath chosen you to judge between a King and a people and your sentence hath shewn you are sufficiently informed of what this Discourse treats yet as a Pharos may be usefull to delight a man with the prospect of those rocks shelves and sands he hath escaped to whom it was a sea mark to guide safe into the Port so may your Lordship with comfort cast your eye upon the ensuing Discourse viewing the dangers you and all good Patriots have past especially having had so great an hand in the steerage into the Harbour And now give me leave to mention your worthy acts that it may be known I am not unmindfull of a good turn it is the onely thanks I am able to repay in the behalf of my Conntrey and self I know some will be apt to condemne such an action as savouring of flatterie but the most free from that vice the most severe the most rigid in the School of vertue a Cato himself hath done the like and that not onely upon the Score of gratitude but to encourage and incite to further gallantry and the most censorious of them may perchance perceive their own black Shadows by your light and from your example take out a new lesson of duty to their countrey whom they ought to serve before themselves You have undauntedly stood the shock of what ever slavish malice could bring against you and have been eminent in vindicating the right God and nature invested the nation with from the power of usurping tyranny no counterfeit rayes no glittering impostures gilded with pretences of sacred and Majestick have dazzeled your eyes but with a steddy and impartiall hand you have guided the Scale of justice wherein that bubble of worldly honour hath been found too light to counterpoise those sinnes of murder and oppression which brought such heavy judgements on the land whose yo●e hath been broken whose guilt hath been removed in a great measure by having justice executed without respect of persons {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} saith the Philosopher to do good to one is honourable to a nation is heroicall to perform the first is the private mans duty to be able to do the latter is the publick magistrates divinity God hath not onely given you power but a mind also to employ it well you have been good as wel as Great and God hath preserved you honored you in your integrity of which we have received such sure signs that it must argue us more severe than just more suspicious than Charitable but to doubt that the Honour of God the good and freedome of your Countrie shall not still possesse the first part of your affections and be the ultimate end in all your actions that so the goodwill of him that dwelt in the Bush being with you and your fellow Builders may enable you to perfect the great work of Reformation to his glory your own honours and the happinesse and freedome of this nation all which are uufeignedly desired by him who craving pardon for this bold approach as by duty obliged subscribes My Lord Your Lordships most humble servant George

years he had worn over the greatest part of the Land for Iohn by his tyranny so galled the Peoples neckes that for ease they were forced to get a new yoke and elect Lewis the French Kings sonne to defend them against his cruelty such effects wrought the violence of an unruly King and the desperation of an oppressed people The agreement on Henrys part was to restore to the Barons and people all rights and heritages with the Liberties for which the discord arose between John and them to pardon al that had aided Lewis and set free all Prisoners of Warre and to doe this he takes his Oath or for him the Popes Legat and Protectour The Protectour dyes a man of great wisdom and valor and who had managed affairs to the great settlement of the State and the King is again Crowned and Escuage of 2. markes a Knights Fee granted him in Parliament he promising to confirm their Liberties when he came of age Henry having gotten some of his Fathers old Counsellors about him begins to play Rex and obtains a Bull from the Pope whereby he was adjudged of age sufficient to receive the Government into his own hands the power of making altering times and seasons it seems being then in the Romish Prelats Power and now sith He would be of age in the Parliament at Westminster the archbish. of Canterbury and the Lords desire him to confirm according to Covenant their promised Liberties This was impiously oppugned by some as Princes shall ever find mouths to expresse their pleasures of his Ministers who urged it to have been an act of Constraint yet at last it was promised to be ratified by the King and so by that usual shift of prolongation was put off for that time to the greater vexation of that following for this all his Raigne caused the imbroylments rendred Him odious to the people and made him a far lesse King by striving to be more than he was a just reward of violations But this pause turned the bloud and shewed how sensible the State was in the least stoppage of that tender veine For the Lords began to assemble at Leicester but the Archbish of Canterbury whom the King by fair words sooth'd into a fools paradice by menacing excommunication brought them in the King also to be even with them demands a restauration of all those things they had received from his Ancestors and to terrifie them for the future falls upon the chief sticklers taking divers Lordships from them thus were they forced to sit down with losse of both Lands and Liberties and such of them whose spirits could not brook the sight of the Coutt abusive proceedings secretly to jogge away into the Countrey The Royall gamster having dealt so well for himself yet on the sudden is put to his trumps yea forced to shuffle and cut too Money is wanting to maintain his Wars in France and this his ranting Counsellours cannot help him too they who were so high in the last Parliament are fain now to lower their sails the Lions hide must be patched up with the Foxes skin he must promise and do any thing for present cash A Parliament therefore is summoned to Westminster and of them a relief demanded but no pennie without a Pater noster no money unless their Liberties be confirmed and now necessity which makes the Old Wife trot perswades Henry to be so gracious to himselfe as to comply with them Thus Magna Charta and Charta de Firesta were confirmed which though purchased before and then entred upon and possest by the people yet have been paid for to some purpose if we consider the sums given since and to little or none if we sum but up the profit our Landlords let us reap by them Thus the Petition of Right and other later acts were obtained by us which being acts of grace were to cease when our King pleased to turn gracelesse which he never did nor intended to doe untill the first oppertunity wherein a small rub called impossibility might be removed out of his way These Lawes thus obtained downe go the forests and men repossess their habitations which the Norman Lords had outed them of and bestowed upon Wild Beasts yet more inoffensive than themselves for if Cato have any credit we must believe Kings to be de genere Bestiarum rapacium no better nor worse than ravenous beasts and indeed that undeniable Author Doctor Experience hath by arguments not to be disputed against confirmed that wise Romans assertion indeed the last of Romans who abhorred to outlive the freedom and honour of his Country And now if we will believe one Writer the very Doggs rejoyced being freed from the customary danger of losing their clawes but though the Gentleman is so sanguine now yet he afterwards becomes as cholerick and from playing with turns to play the very Curre barking and snarling at all those Lords which stood for these Lawes O the ridiculous power of slavish flattery working more than a brutish change in low Souls making a man out of his own mouth judg himfelf lesse deserving of Liberty because less sensible of it than a Dogge that will fawne and wag his taile at him who unchains him whilst he crouches and licks his fingers who enslaves and fetters him But take one observation along That as the Norman Conqueror first appropriated all old Forests and dispeopled places to make new ones and still when any parcell of Liberty was regained those Forest Tyrannies were diminished so now when that Norman yoak is thrown off our necks Forests and Parks are broken open with it a certain signe that tyranny is expired now that its pulse is ceased in the main Arterie Thus the Historian reports the Grove of Bayes dyed which was planted by Augustus when Nero was executed in whom ceased that proud and bloody Family Another Parliament is called wherein nothing was done by reason of the Kings sicknesse but only the Legats unreasonable demands denyed the Pope being become more than quarter-master in England by the Kings good Fathers means in this year also the Londoners were fined 5000 marks and the Burgesses of Northampton 1200 pounds for their former aiding Lewis contrary to the Oath and Pardon passed at the agreement as the Prelates were before who were made to pay such large sums that the Legat got 12000 marks for his share A Parliament is summoned at Oxford where the King declaring himself to be of lawfull age assumes the power of Government to himself this he had done before by the Popes Bull but it was requisite for his design to grow child again and the Pope was contented to have his Bull turn Calf to help his Son whom he knew might make him amends and now to shew what metall he was made on he cancels and disanuls the Charters as granted in his nonage and so of no validitie Here we may behold the wretchless impudence of these Royall Creatures he