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A44762	Two discourses lately revievv'd and enrich'd by the author one, The pre-eminence and pedegree [sic] of Parlement, whereunto is added a vindication of some passages reflecting upon the author in a book call'd The popish royall favorit, penn'd and published by Master Prynne ..., with a clearing of some occurrences in Spayne at His Majesties being there, cited by the said Master Prynne out of the Vocall forrest ... : the second, Englands teares / by James Howell ...; Pre-eminence and pedigree of Parlement	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666. Englands teares for the present wars.	1644 (1644)	Wing H3124; ESTC R16765	26,500	31

our Microcosme HE that is never so little versed in the Annales of this Islle will find that it hath bin her fate to be four times conquered I exclude the Scot for the scituation of his Country and the quality of the Clime hath been such an advantage and security to him that neither the Roman Eagles would fly thither for fear of freezing their wings nor any other Nation attempt the work These so many Conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and toffings many disturbances and changes in Government yet I have observed that notwithstanding these tumblings it retained still the forme of a Monarchy and something there was always that had an Analogy with the great Assembly the Parlement The first Conquest I finde was made by Claudius Caes●r at which time as some well observe the Roman Ensignes and the Standard of Christ came in together It is well known what Laws the Roman had He had his Comitia which bore a resemblance with our Convention in Parlement the place of their meeting was called Praetorium and the Laws which they enacted Pleboscita The Saxon Conquest succeeded next which were the English there being no name in Welsh or Irish for an English man but Saxon to this day They governed by Parlement though it were under other names as Michel Sinoth Michel Gemote and Witenage Mote There are Records above a thousand years old of these Parlements in the Raigns of King Ina Offa Ethelbert and the rest of the seven Kings during the Heptarchy The British Kings also who retaind a great while some part of the Isle unconquered governed and made Laws by a kind of Parlementary way witnes the famous Laws of Prince Howell called Howell Dha the good Prince Howell whereof there are yet extant some Welsh Records Parlements were also used after the Heptarchy by King Kenulphus Alphred and others witnesse that renowned Parlement held at Grately by King Athelstan The third Conquest was by the Danes and they govern'd also by such generall Assemblies as they do to this day witnesse that great and so much celebrated Parlement held by that mighty Monarch Canutus who was King of England Denmark Norway and other Regions 150 years before the compiling of Magna Charta and this the learned in the Laws do hold to be one of the specialst and most authentick peeces of antiquity we have extant Edward the Confessor made all his Laws thus and he was a great Legis-lator which the Norman Conquerour who liking none of his sons made God Almighty his heir bequeathing unto him this Island for a legacy did ratifie and establish and digested them into one entire methodicall Systeme which being violated by Rufus who came to such a disastrous end as to be shot to death in lieu of a Buck for his sacriledges were restor'd by Henry the first and so they continued in force till King Iohn whose Raign is renowned for first confirming Magna Charta the foundation of our Liberties ever since which may be compar'd to divers outlandish graffs set upon one English stock or to a posie of sundry fragrant flowers for the choicest of the British the Roman Saxon Danish and Norman Laws being cull'd and pick'd out and gathered as it were into one bundle out of them the foresaid grand Charter was extracted And the establishment of this great Charter was the work of a Parlement Nor are the Lawes of this Island only and the freedome of the Subject conserved by Parlement but all the best policed Countries of Europe have the like The Germanes have their Diets the Danes and Swedes their Rijcks Dachs the Spaniard calls his Parlement las C●rtes and the French have or should have at least their Assembly of three States though it be growne now in a manner obsolete because the Authority thereof was by accident devolv'd to the King And very remarkable it is how this happened for when the English had taken such large footing in most parts of France having advanced as far as Orleans and driven their then King Charles the seventh to Bourges in Berry the Assembly of the three States in these pressures being not able to meet after the usuall manner in full Parlement because the Countrey was unpassable the Enemy having made such firme invasions up and down through the very bowels of the Kingdome that power which formerly was inhaerent in the Parlementary Assembly of making Lawes of assessing the Subject with Taxes subsidiary levies and other impositions was transmitted to the King during the war which continuing many years that intrusted power by length of time grew as it were habituall in him and could never after be re-assumed and taken from him so that ever since his Ediots countervaile Acts of Parlement And that which made the businesse more feasable for the King was that the burthen fell most upon the Communalty the Clergy and Nobility not feeling the weight of it who were willing to see the Peasan pull'd downe a little because not many years before in that notable Rebellion call'd la laquerie de Beauvoisin which was suppressed by Charles the wise the Common people put themselves boldly in Arms against the Nobility and Gentry to lessen their power Adde hereunto as an advantage to the worke that the next succeeding King Lewis the eleventh was a close cunning Prince and could well tell how to play his game and draw water to his own mill For amongst all the rest he was said to be the first that put the Kings of France Hors de page out of their minority or from being Pages any more though thereby he brought the poore peasans to be worse than Lacquays With the fall or at least the discontinuance of that usuall Parlementary Assembly of the three States the liberty of the French Nation utterly fell the poore ●oturier and Vineyard-man with the rest of the Yeomanary being reduced ever since to such an abject asinin condition that they serve but as sponges for the King to squeeze when he list Neverthelesse as that King hath an advantage hereby one way to monarchize more absolutely and never to want money but to ballast his purse when he will so there is another mighty inconvenience ariseth to him and his whole Kingdome another way for this illegall peeling of the poore Peasan hath so dejected him and cowed his native courage so much by the sense of poverty which brings along with it a narrownesse of soule that he is little usefull for the warre which put 's the French King to make other Nations mercenary to him to fill up his Infantery Insomuch that the kingdome of France may be not unfitly compared to a body that hath all it's bloud drawn up in to the arms breast and back and scarce any lest from the girdle downwards to cherish and bear up the lower parts and keep them from starving All this seriously considered there cannot be a more proper and pregnant example than this of our next Neighbours to prove how infinitely

will make it briefly appear by comparing it with all the Warres that ever embroil'd me which I finde to be of three sorts either by the invasion of Forreners the Insurrection of my Commons or by the confederacy of my Peers and Princes of the Bloud I will not ●ake the ashes of Antiquity so far as to speak of that deluge of bloud I spilt before I would take the Roman Legions for my Garrison I am loth to set down how the Saxons us'd me and how the Danes us'd Them nor how I had one whol brave race of people the Picts I mean quite extinguished in me I will begin with the Norman expedition and indeed to make recearches of matters before is but to grop● in the dark but I have authentick Annales and Records for things since The Norman came in with the slaughter of neer upon sixty eight thousand Combatants upon the place a Battaile so memorable that the very ground which sucked in the bloud retaines the name of it to this day The Dane not long after strook in to recover his pretended right with the sacking of my second great City of Yorke and the ●iring of her with the slaughter of 3000 of my children in one afternoon yet he was sent away without his arrand In the raigne of Rufus I was made of his colour red with bloud both by the Welsh and the Scot who lost his King Malcolme in the Battaile of Alnwick All my eight Henries were infested with some civill broyles except my fift Henry the greatest of them who had work enough cut him out in France and hee plied his work so well that he put that Crown upon his Sons head All my Edwards also had some home-bred insurrection or other indeed two of my three Richards had alwayes quietnesse at home though the first did go the furthest off from me and was longest absent of any And the third though he came in by bloud yet the short time of his three yeares Vsurpership he was without any and prov'd one of my best Law-givers yet his life ended in bloud for having come in like a fox he dyed like a calfe Touching my second Richard and second Edward there were never any of my Kings came to a more Tragique end and the greatest stains that black my story are the violent deaths they suffered by the hands of their own Regicide Subjects The two Sister Queens that swayed my Scepter had also some domestique commotions and now my CHARLES hath them to the height insomuch that of those five and twenty Monarques who have worne my d●adems since the Norman entred there was only foure viz. the forementioned Henry and Richards with King IAMES scaped free from all intestin broyles Oh how it torments my Soule to remember how my Barons did teare my bowells what an Ocean of bloud the two Roses cost me before they were conjoyned for during the time that I came to be a Monster with two heads made so by their division I mean during the time that I had two Kings at once Edward the fourih and Henry the sixt within me in five years space I had twelve Battails fought within my entrails wherin I lost neer upō fourscore Princes of the royal stem and parted with more of my spirits than there were spent in winning of France The World knowes how free and prodigall I have bin of my bloud abroad in divers places I watered the Holy Land with much of it Against my Co-Islander the Scot I had above twenty pitch'd Battails tooke many and kil'd some of his Kings in the Field the Flower de lyces cost me dear defore I brought them over upon my Sword and the reduction of Ireland from time to time to civility and to an exact rule of alleageance wasted my children in great numbers I never grudg'd to venture my bloud this way for I ever had glorious returns for it and my Sons dyed in the bed of honour but for them to glut themselves with one anothers bloud for them to lacerat and rip up viper-like the wombe that brought them forth to teare the Paps that gave them suck can there be a greater piacle against nature her selfe can there be a more execrable and horrid thing If a stranger had us'd mee thus it would not have griev'd me half so much It is better to be stung with a nettle than prick'd by a Rose I had rather suffe● by an Enemy than by my own naturall born off-spring Those former home-wag● Wars whereof there hapned above fourscore smal great since the Norman cam● in were but as fires of Flax in comparison of this horrid combustion which mak● both my Church State to suffer so much One may finde those Wars Epitomiz● in small volumes but a whole library cannot contain this They were but Scratches being compar'd to the deep wounds which Prince Peere and people have receiv'd by this such wounds that it seems no gentle C●t●plasmes can cure them they must be ●anc'd aed canteriz'd and the huge scars they will leave behinde them will I feare make me appear so deformed and ugly to all posterity that I am halfe in despaire to recover my former beauty ever again The deep stains these Wars will leave upon me all the water of the Severn Trent or Thames will hardly wash away The Sun yet hath not run twice his course through the Zodia● since the two-edged ●word of War hath rag'd done many horrid executions within me since that Hellish invention of powder hath thundred in every corner since it hath darkned torn infected my well-tempered aire since I have weltered in my own bloud and bin made ● kind of Cockpit a Theater of death to my own children And in so short a circumvolution of time I may confidently affirm take battailes re-encounters skir●ishes with sieges both winter and summer there never hapned so many in any Countrey not do I see any appeara●ce the more is my misery of any period to be ●ut to these Distractions every day is spectator of some new Tragedy and there●ations that are hourely blaz'd abroad sound sometimes well on the one side some●●mes on the other like a peale of bels in windy weather though oftentimes in a ●hole volley of News you shall hardly finde one true R port which makes me feare 〈◊〉 the all disposing Deity of Heaven continueth the successes of both parties in a ●inde of equality to prolong my miseries Ita serior ut diu me sentiam mori I am ●ounded with that dexterity th●t the sence and agonies of my sufferings are like to ●e extended to the uttermost lengt● of time and possibility of n●ture But O Passenger if thou art desirous to know the cause of these fatall discompo●●res of this inextricable War truly I must deal plainly I cannot resolve thee herein 〈◊〉 any full satisfaction Grievances there were I must confesse and some incongrui●es in my Civill government wherein some say the Crosier some say the

have written in this small Discourse in penning whereof my conscience guided my quill all along as well as my hand he would please to be so charitable and just as to reverse that harsh sentence upon me To be no Friend to Parlements and a Malignant FINIS ENGLANDS TEARES FOR THE PRESENT VVARS WHICH FOR THE NATVRE of the Quarell the quality of Strength the diversity of Battailes Skirmiges Encounters and Sieges happened in so short a compasse of time cannot be paralleld by any precedent Age. Hei mihi quàm miserè rugit Leo Lilia languent Heu Lyra quàm maestos pulsat Hiberna sonos Printed at London according to Order by Richard Heron 1644. To my Imperiall Chamber The City of London Renowned City IF any showers of adversity fall on me some of the drops thereof must needs dash on thy Streets It is not a shower but a furious Storme that powr's upon me now accompanied with fearfull cracks of thunder and unusuall fulgurations The fatall Cloud wherein this storm lay long engendring though when it began to condense first it appeared but as big as a hand yet by degrees it hath spread to such a vast expansion that it hath diffus'd it selfe through all my Regions and obscur'd that fair face of Heaven which was used to shine upon me If it last long 't is impossible but we both should perish Peace may but War must destroy I see poverty posting apace and ready to knock at thy gates That gastly herbenger of Death the Pestilence appears already within and without thy Walls And me thinks I spie meager-fac'd Famine a farre off making towards thee nor can all thy elaborat circumvallations and trenches or any art of Enginry keepe him out of thy Line of Communication if this hold Therefore my dear Daughter think Oh think upon some timely prevention 't is the Counsell and request of Thy most afflicted Mother ENGLAND Englands Teares OH that my head did flow with waters Oh that my Eyes were limbecks through which might distill drops and essences of bloud Oh that I could melt away and dissolve all in to teares more brackish than those Seas that surround me Oh that I could weepe my selfe blind to prevent the seeing of those Mountains of mischiefs that are like to fall down upon me Oh that I could rend the Rocks that gird me about and with my ejaculations tear and dissipate those black dismall cloud● which hang over me Oh that I could cleave the Ayre with my cries that they might find passage up to Heaven and fetch down the Moon that ●atry planet to weep and wayle with me or make old Saturne descend from his Spheare to partake with me in my melancholy and bring along with him the mournfull Pleiades to make a full consort and sing lachrymae with me for that wofull taking that desperat● case that most deplorable condition I have plung'd my selfe into unawares by thi● unnaturall selfe-destroying Warre by this intricate odd kind of Enigmaticall War wherein both Parties are so entangled like a skeine of ravell'd silk that they know not how to unwind and untwist themselves but by violent and destructive wayes by tearing my entrailes by exhausting my vitall spirits by breaking my very hear●●strings to cure the Malady Oh I am deadly sick and as that famous Chancelor o● France spoke of the civill Warrs of his Countrey That France was sick of an unknow● disease so if Hippocrates himselfe were living he could not be able to tell the tr●● symptomes of mine though he felt my pulse and made inspection into my wate● never so exactly onely in the generall he may discover a strange kinde of infecti●● that hath seised upon the affections of my people But for the disease it selfe it wi●● gravell him to judge of it nor can there be any prediction made of it it is so sharp which make some tell me that I cannot grow better but by growing yet worse Th●● there is no way to stanch this Flux of Bloud but by opening some more of the m●●ster Veines that it is not enough for me to have drunke so deep of this cup of affl●●ction but I must swallow up the dregs and all Oh Passenger stop thy pace and if there be any sparkles of humane compa●●sion glowing in thy bosome stay a while and hear my plaints and I know they w● not only strike a resentment but a horror into thee for they are of such a natur● that they are able to penetrate a breast of brasse to mollifie a heart hoop'd with Adamant to wring tears out of a statue of Marble I that have bin alway accounted the Queen of Isles the Darling of nature and Neptune Minion I that have bin stil'd by the Character of the first Daughter of the Church that have converted eight severall Nations I that made the morning beams of Christianity shine upon Scotland upon Ireland and a good part of France I that did irradiat Denmarque Swethland and Norway with the light thereof I that brought the Saxons with other Germanes high and low from Paganisme to the knowledge of the Gospell I that had the first Christian King that ever was E●●ius and the first reformed King the eight Henry to raigne over me I out of whos● bowells sprung the first Christian Emperour that ever was Constantine I that had five severall Kings viz. Iohn King of France David King of Scotland Peter King of Boheme and two I●rish Kings my Captifs in lesse than one year I under whose banner that great Emperour Maximilian tooke it an honor to serve in person and receive pay from mee and quarter his Arms with mine I that had the Lyon rampant of Scotland lately added to fill up my Scutchen and had reduc'd Ireland after so many costly intermissive wars to such a perfect passe of obedience and settlement of customs Crown Revenues I that to the astonishment and envy of the World preserved my own Dominions free and flourishing when all my neighbour Countries were a fire before my face I that did so wonderfully flourish and improve in commerce domestique and forren both by Land and Sea I that did so abound with Bullion with buildings with all sort of bravery that heart could wish in summe I that did live in that height of happines in that affluence of all earthly felicity that some thought I had yet remaining some ●ngots of that old gold whereof the first age of the world was made Behold behold I am now become the object of pitty to some of scorne to others of laughter to all people my children abroad are driven to disadvow me for fear of being jeerd they dare not own me for their Mother neither upon the Rialto of Venice the Berle of Ausburg the new Bridge of Paris the Cambios of Spaine or upon the Quoys of Holand for feare of being baffled and hooted at Me thinkes I see my next neighbour France through whose bowells my gray-Goose wing flew so oft making mowes at ●ne