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A95533	Crop-eare curried, or, Tom Nash his ghost, declaring the pruining of Prinnes two last parricidicall pamphlets, being 92 sheets in quarto, wherein the one of them he stretch'd the soveraigne power of Parliaments; in the other, his new-found way of opening the counterfeit Great Seale. Wherein by a short survey and ani-mad-versions of some of his falsities, fooleries, non-sense, blasphemies, forreigne and domesticke, uncivill, civill treasons, seditions, incitations, and precontrivements, in mustering, rallying, training and leading forth into publique so many ensignes of examples of old reviv'd rebells, or new devised chimeraes. With a strange prophecy, reported to be Merlins, or Nimshag's the Gymnosophist, and (by some authours) it is said to be the famous witch of Endor's. Runton, pollimunton plumpizminoi papperphandico. / By John Taylor.; Tom Nash his ghost.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T446; ESTC R212364	32,386	51

him his just Title of Saint it is unknown how kindly he would take it but diminitive mighty Isaak with your Task-masters the Members that set you on worke would utterly dislike your utter Barrestership for daring to Saint any Apostle or Saint whom they by their Votes have unsainted Pag. 79. He urges the deposing of King Edward the Second and in pag. 80. he makes another traiterous president of the deposing of King Richard the Second but he never mentions the mischiefes that this Kingdome endured by those wicked paracidicall Villanes I will reckon a few of them First Parson John Ball with Wat Titler Jack Straw and Jack Shepheard arose in rebellion c. Anno 1379. murdered Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury for which insurrection and murder 1500. Rebells were hanged in severall places look to it Prinne one place will serve your turne Anno 1450. One Blewbeard was a Captain of Rebells but they were quickly foil'd some hanged and some taken and for a token of remembrance James Fiennes Lord Say then Lord Treasurer of England was found guilty of many Treasons and handsomely hanged in the 29. yeare of King Henry the Sixth After that Jack Cade a Bricklayer and withall a counterfeit Mortimer did then as some of his Tribe do now tax the King with evill Counsellours thus Cade raised an Army of Rebells which were not supprest without the losse of 5000 men besides other outrages committed Anno 1454. As the Battaile of S. Albans betwixt the Yorkifts and Lancastrians King Henry the Sixth lost 8000 men and the Duke of York 6000. At Blore-heath field in Shrop-shire 1459. between the King and the Earle of Warwick 4000 men slain the 38 yeare of Henry the Sixth At the Battaile of Northampton 3000 men were slain between Queen Margaret and the Barons and there King Henry the Sixth was taken prisoner At the Battaile of Wakefield Queen Margaret told Richard Duke of Yorke and beheaded him 4000 men slain Anno 1460. At the Battaile of Towton Queen Margaret brought into the field 60000 men and King Edward the Fourth had 49000 in which fatall Battaile 36000 men were slain Anno 1462. At the Battaile of Exham in the North between Queen Margaret and the Lord Marques Mountacue 16000 men were slain Anno 1467. At the Battaile of Banbury the 7. of King Edward the Fourth between William Herbert Earle of Pembroke and Queen Margarets Forces 7000 slain In the 9. of Edward the Fourth at the Battaile of Lose-coatesfield in Lincoln-shire betwixt the King and the Barons 10000 slain At the Battaile at Teuxbury Prince Edward eldest son to King Henry the Sixth was stabb'd and murdered and 3000 slain And lastly at the Battaile at Barnet betwixt King Edward and the Earles of Warwick and Oxford who were both killed and 10000 slain the King being Victor This I have inserted by way of digression to shew how the Divine vengeance was the reward for the deposing of a lawfull King for so all the world knowes Richard the Second was above eighty yeares was this wofull Land an unnaturall bloody Theatre wherein English-men against English-men did act all manner of unchristian cruelties in which Dissention more than 60 of the Blood Royall were slaine besides others in abundance of Nobility and Gentry as also more than 125000 common Souldiers as our Histories relate and to such a passe as this hath Master Prinne and his Faction done their best to bring it to againe as within these three yeares they have prettily begun and prosecuted Page 87. He quotes the falling away of the ten Tribes from Rehoboam for a president for Rebellion page 88. all along he mentions the deposing of wicked Popes page 9. he repeates the words of Caiphas That it was expedient that one should die for the people though a King yea Christ the King of Kings that the whole Nation perish not rather then the whole Nation perish for him O thou blasphemous beast Doest thou so farre hate the Lord 's Anointed as to justifie the crucifying of our Saviour in expression of thy malice to thy Soveraigne Good Sir there is no such necessity that either the King or Subject should die one for another or that they should so much as distaste each other nor had this lamentable Distraction been between them but that your delicate Master the Devill hath by your meanes set them at Division In his 91. page he speakes some Truth That the King hath not power to tyrannize over his Subiects or to oppresse them with perpetuall irremediable slavery Good Master Gandergoose 't is confest that the King hath no such power nor ever did he exercise any such Tyranny as you talke of but you and your Accomplices have usurped a Traiterous power to your selves whereby yee have tyrannized over his Majesties Subjects in more savage and barbarous manner than Turkes or Tartars would have done page 92. Prinne speakes a parcell of non-sense in capital Letters It is lawfull for the people submitting themselves to subscribe the King and his Successours what Law they please O! what might this fellowes Head be worth at a hard Siege when one of his Brothers Heads was sold at Samaria for 80 pieces of Silver 2. King 6. 25. Pag. 97. he saith that King Edward the sixth and Queen Elizabeth did hold their Crownes by Parliamentary title rather then by the course of common Law Baw waw indeed their Legitimacie was objected against by some opulent Papists because their Father the King had married the Lady Katherin who was first his Brother Arthurs wife and after 21 yeares marriage the King caused her to be divorc'd from him and he marrying other wives in her life time the Childrens Right by birth was by some Malignants questionable to cleare which doubts the King caused their Legitimacie to be confirmed by Act of Parliament and so much in Answer to that absurd Treason Pag. 101. he saies Charles the third Emperour was deposed by the Princes Dukes and Governours of Germany because he was mad Surely thou art not well in thy wits to meddle with that mad Emperour whose madnesse or deposing concernes neither thee nor thy mad Cause thou pratest and liest so in then he talkes of Wenceslaus the Emperour and Childerick King of France how they were both depos'd And yet in the 104 pag. he confesses the King hath no Peere He is not to have a Superiour and that the King ought not to be under man but God If Justice be demanded of him by way of Petition because no Writs runnes against him if he doe not Iustice this punishment may be sufficient to him that God will revenge it and yet presently again he saies the Parliament is above the King Thus you see how sometimes the Devill gives him leave to speake truth against his will though presently he fall from it againe as being not toothsome was ever such a Crop-eard Asse that would thus contradict himselfe In the 106 pag. he saies the Emperours had not highest power in

Master Prinne with Papall Authority would dispence withall yet his Majesty hath good and faithfull Subjects enough who scorne and deride your foolish traiterous dispensations and doubt not by God's assistance to mould you and your seduced Rabble of Rebells into better fashion Page 13. If the King himselfe shall introduce Forreigne Forces and Enemies into his Realme to levy Warre against it or shall himselfe become an Enemy to it This doubtfull supposition is so idle and triviall that the best Answer to it is to laugh at it page 14. he talkes how King Henry the second of France was casually slain at a Tournament by the Lord Montgomery and then he tells us of Sir Walter Tirrell's Arrow glancing against a Tree slew King William the second of England presently he makes a step into France again and brings us word that King Charles the first being mad there was deprived and kept clsoe and that the deaths and deprivations of these Kings was then proved to be no Treasons because they were done out of no malitious intents This is Bombast to stuffe out his big-wombe Book and as neare the matter as Braseol and Banbury Page 17. He playes the Huntsman and compares the Keeper of a Parke and the Deere in it to a King and his People Suppose this Comparison were granted then you must also grant that you have rebelliously broken down the Parke pale or wall so that the Deere are scattered and divided the best of them I am sure the truest Harts do keep within their bounds and live under the protection of their Keeper whilest you have got all the whole Heard of Rascals amongst you and much good may do it you with them In Page 22. he makes a leape from hence into Asia and relates strange Newes how Tamberlane conquered Bajazet and put him in an ironcage then you are sure it was not a Pillory but if a time of Peace were were it not for depriving the Hangman of his due I would begge thee and shew thee in Fates and Marts for a Motion whereby thee and I could not chuse in short time but be without abundance of money From page 23. to page 60. he tautologically talkes Naturall Non-sense and Artificall Impertinencies which in page 60. he saith he gathered from one Albericus Gentilis page 61. he stumbles upon Truth again and sayes That it is out of controversie that no man ought to resist against the King Page 63 64. he cites 32 Arguments of Scripture to maintain the Cause the chiefe of them is Daniel in the Lions Den he might as well have brought in Jacob's Well and the Woman of Samaria In pag. 66. be brings in the story of Ioram 2 Kings 6. how he sent a messenger to the Prophet Elishaes house to take away his head and that the Prophet did cause the doore to be shut to keep out the King's messenger from whence the learned logicall Prinne inferres that because the Prophet did not obey the King but shut his doore against the Messenger therefore King Charles his Subiects may oppose resist and rebell a very trim Argument From thence to page 73. he repeates old fusty businesse over and over and there he runnes for more luggage headlong into the Red-Sea and dragges the memory of crowned Pharaoh 〈◊〉 example of God's iudgements on that obdurate and impenitent King this was somewhat to the purpose but I cannot perceive where or how Page 81. The King with the Lords and Commons in Parliament have the whole Realme entrusted with them of which great trust the King is onely Chiefe and Soveraigne now I agree with you Sir if your writings had been all such as this and your Members and Committees Votes and Orders correspondent then we had had no Rebellion and your high prized Bookes would have been iustly valued to be worth nothing A little after he sayes The King is the supreme Member of the Parliament thou ill bred Fellow thou mightest have said HEAD and that contrary to the trust and duty reposed in Him through the advice of evill Counsellours wilfully betrayes this trust and spoiles and makes havocke of his People and Kingdomes these are but the old lyes feares jealousies doubts ifs and ands newly revived and furbushed as in page 86. he hath another which is If the King should command us to say Masse in his Chappell to which I answer If the Skie fall c. and the one of those ifs is as possible as the other Page 108. He musters up 51 of the ancient Fathers to lend him their hands to defend his falsities wherein he hath wrested and abused their integrity sufficiently but I observe that he meddles with neither of the Gregories either the Great or Nazianzen his policy is not to mention them because then young Gregory herhaps may be put in minde of him for Prinne is crafty and observes the Proverbe He must have a long Devill that eates with a spoone Page 92. He hath wrested the sword out of the hands and cut off the heads of all his opposite Goliahs 'T is well bragg'd but if it be true that you have cut off all the heads of your opposites you have been bloudily revenged for the losse of your eares I prithee when thou diest bequeath one of thy law-bones to be kept amongst the dreadfull Weapons and Ammunition of the Members Magazine it may do strange things amongst a Crew of Philist●ms Pag. 134. He contradicts himselfe with Statutes of King Henry 8. Ed. 6. and Qu. Eliz. That words against the King even in preaching are high Treason as well as raising Armes very right and those Statutes being yet in force what would become of all your reverend railing Pulpit-men I will not slander them to call 'em Preachers upon my conscience thy destiny and theirs would be all one if the said Statutes were duely executed and you would all leave your old Trades and deale in the two rich commodities of Hempe and Timber till your last gaspes Pag. 142. he railes at the King again as if he were hired to it or that he had nothing else to do also he be labours the Cavaliers ex tempore by the Titles of Cut-throates bloudy inhumane and barbarous with other such pretty names as the Gentleman pleases to bestow upon them for which I hope they will not all die till some of them be out of his debt Page 143. Christians did not resist persecution under Pagans ergo Christians must not resist Christians and because Subjects are Christians as well as Kings therefore Christian Kings must not resist Rebells In his last Leafe he hath waded through this weighty Controversie and proved that both by Law and Conscience this Rebellion is justifiable and thus the Reader may perceive how Prinnes Judgement and Conscience is biassed Vpon Prinnes fourth Quarter or part of his Soveraigne Power of Parliaments IN page 13. he brings in a messe of musty Presidents like the mouldy Bread ragged Cloathes and clouted Shooes of the

or her friends to which I answer that the Iudges were either bribed Knaves or timorous Fooles in suffering such a Coapesmate to sit with them upon any termes of right or wrong But to what purpose this Gentlewoman who was dead and rotten 250 yeares before King Charles was borne should be raked up as a Testimony against Him now this is a meere Riddle to me and is a taske for an Oedipus onely to unfold Page 75. The King cannot by his Prerogative lay the least Tax upon any of his Subjects but I pray what authority or Prerogative have you and your potent Members to rob spoile and plunder the King and all his good Subjects who is so just mercifull and chaste that neither the Devill nor any of the Members have dared to say the contrary there 's a bone for thee to picke Page 78. Prinne like an unmannerly Fellow calls the famous Generall Jack Cade Rebell and Traitour I pray Sir moderate your passion for me thinkes fellowes should agree and when Thieves fallout c. You know the Proverbe In page 79. That the affirming the Petition of Right the Bills for Trienniall Parliaments the continuance of this the Acts against Ship-money Forest bounds illegall new-invented grievances and oppressions the Statutes for suppression of Star-chamber High Commission Knighthood Bishops Votes although the King hath done all these and more yet this Scarrab Cadworme sayes that The King's Grace is not eclipsed to say They are no Acts of Grace but Acts of Oath Duty Law and Conscience Thus doth this filthy Varlet most traiterously beslubber the goodnesse and gracious favours of a matchlesse and unparalleld Christian King And thus you have the summe and substance of his second part of the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments Vpon his third part of the Soveraigne Power of Parliaments ALthough his third and fourth parts are already answered by the learned Sir John Spelman Knight Doctour Fearne and Master Digges too reverend and able Pennes to take notice of the name of such a prinnified prurigenous Puppy from whom he stole his rationall and Theologicall Passages nothing being his own but the out-facing with a multitude of pretended Testimonies haled in as he teacheth his Clients to hire Knights of the Poste to witnesse that which they know nothing of saving I say that there is nothing that concernes England but the same again quoth Mark a Belgrave to the Tune of Anthony now now the old Song still like the last houre and halfe of a Puritan Sermon or one of his long-winded Traverses of Burton's Apology or Bastwickes Letany in stead of a plea or answer withouten that the aforesaid Henry Burton at Friday-street aforesaid in the manner and forme aforesaid did beate his wife aforesaid by reason of the independent sister aforesaid to beat out the evill spirit aforesaid and withouten that it was for the lust aforesaid or withouten that the said John Bastwicke Doctour of Phisicke aforesaid was so over-run with the Morbus Gallicus aforesaid that when he was a Captain in the Rebellion aforesaid at the Newarke in Leicester aforesaid he was not able to get up to his horse aforesaid without a stoole aforesaid and withouten that William Prinne aforesaid in the Church-lane there aforesaid in the Assembly of Adamites aforesaid exercised his gifts aforesaid to the edification of the Sisters aforesaid who gave him the Gold aforesaid and in the feare of God joyned in the Rebellion aforesaid as they will be ready to averre and maintain but never to prove any thing if those his Bookes have not sufficiently proved it yet for all this I will afford him the honour to shame him in answering of his third part and thus I begin This third part he begins to magnifie Treason in his delicate Dedication most loyally to three Arch-Rebells namely the Lord Fairfax and the two Knights Williams Waller and Breerton wherein he stiles them Deservedly Renowned Worthies calles their valour zeale activity and industry incomparable you should have said their Rebellion too 't is confest that their invisible Victories have been many and miraculous and their being often beaten hath been apparently perspicuous and manifest for which they have been jeared with Publique Thankesgivings as Master Prinne makes himselfe merry with mocking them in his foisting Epistle and it is not possible that these three Worthies should be so threed-bare in their understandings or that their wits should be so stupified as not to perceive this fellowes flouting flattery as for their Victories we do rather pitty than envy and concerning the Worthies I have seen nine of their Figures or Pictures in Haberdashers Shops and Tavernes hanged up to garnish the roomes but Master Prinnes three Worthies shall not be hanged up in a private roome or shop a large field is fittest for such mighty Martialists And for the valour of those three Worthies it was never known that the Lord Fairfax struck a blow except it were to his Tailer or his Footman and for Sir William Waller he hath been so happy that he was never wounded but onely in his reputation But O O Sir William Breerton noble valiant singular supereminent couragious Sir William Breerton I could laugh heartily were I once so happy as to see him within halfe a mile of a Battaile O sweet face most amiable Sir William Breerton In his Preface to the Reader he saith he hath been alwayes a cordiall endeavourer of Peace as right as my legge John Jarret you might as well have said Rope-ye-all Halter-ye-all as cordiall In his third Page he seemes to invite his Majesty to visit the Parliament and tells Him and all loyall Subjects by an old President what kinde entertainment He might expect for he saith that Julius Caesar was in the Capitol stabbed and murdered by the Senate with no lesse than twenty three wounds Sir your kinde invitation shall not be forgotten I assure you it is one of most the significant passages and explanations of your Loyaltie in all your whole Books Page 5. That the King hath denuded himselfe of all Regall Authority this shall passe for one of your small Treasons wherein you shew the denuded nakednesse of your Byass'd Judgement and conscience page 3. This liberall Gentleman proclaimes liberty and plenarily leave to rebell He releaseth all his Majesties Subjects from their Allegiance surely thou hast made a League with Sin Death and Hell and they have blinded thee so that thou canst neither see what thou sayest or understand what thou writest Thou givest the King's Subjects leave to cast off their Allegiance and they give thee leave to be hanged to requite thy curtesie but thou and thy Members of Maintenance must and shall know that all the King 's loyall Subjects do understand that the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy made to their Soveraigne is such a tye and security as it is the onely chain upon earth except love to binde the consciences of men and to hold humane society together from which Oathes though