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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44726	A letter to the Earle of Pembrooke concerning the times, and the sad condition both of Prince and people.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing H3086; ESTC R39278	7,667	16

to wonder That your Lordship should be the first of your Race who decerted the Crowne which one of your Progenitors said he would still follow though it were thrown upon a hedge Had your Princely Brother been living he would have been sooner torne by wild horses than have binded against it or abandoned the King his Master and fallen to such grosse Idolatry as to worship the Beast with many heads The world also stands astonished that you should confederate to bring into the bowels of the land and make Elogiums of that hungry people which have been from all times so crosse and fatall to the English Nation and particularly to your own honour Many thousands doe wonder that your Lordship should be brought to persecute with so much animosity and hatred that reverend Order in Gods Church which is contemporary with Christianity it selfe and whereunto you had once designed and devoted one of your dearest Sonnes so solemnly My Lord if this Monster of Reformation which is like an infernall Spirit clad in white and hath a cloven head as well as feet prevailes you shall find the same destiny will attend poore England as did Bohemia which was one of the Flourishingst Kingdoms upon this part of the earth The Common People there repin'd at the Hierarchy and riches of the Church thereupon a Parliament was pack'd where Bishop were demolished What followed The Nobles and Gentry went down next and afterwards the Crown it selfe and so it became a popular confus'd Anarchicall State and a Stage of bloud a long time so that at last when this Magot had done working in the braines of the foolish people they were glad to have recourse to Monarchy againe after a world of calamities though it degenerated from a successive Kingdome to an Elective Me thinks my Lord under favour that those notorious visible judgements which have fallen upon these Refiners of reform'd Religion should unbeguile your Lordship and open your eyes For the hand of heaven never appeared so clearly in any humane actions Your Lordship may well remember what became of the Hothams and Sir Alexander Cary who were the two fatall wretches that began the War first one in the North the other in the South Your Lordship may be also pleased to remember what became of Brooks the Lord and Hambden the first whereof was dispatched by a deaf and dumb man out of an ancient Church which he was battering and that suddenly also for he fell stone dead in the twinkling of an eye Now one of the greatest cavils he had against our Lythirgie was a clause of a Prayer there against sudden Death besides the fagge end of his Grace in that journey was that if the design was not pleasing to God he might perish in the action For the other wiseaker he be sprinkled with his bloud and received his death upon the same clod of earth in Buckingham shire where he had first assembled the poore Country people like so many Geese to drive them gagling in a mutiny to London with the Protestation in their Caps which hath been since torn in Flitters and is now grown obsolet and quite out of use Touching Pym and Stroud those two worthy Champions of the Vtopian cause the first being opened his stomack and guts were found to be full of pellets of bloud the other had little or no brain at all left in his skul being dead lesse when he was living For Hollis who carried the first scandalous Remonstrance that work of night the verdict of a sterv'd jury to welcome the King from Scotland and was the first of the five Members who were impeached by his Majesty he hath been since your Lordship knowes the chiefe of the Eleven Members Impeached by themselves but with this difference That they had justice against him though the King could get none But now that St. Hollis with the rest are a kind of Runnagates beyond the Seas scorn'd by all mankind and baffled every where yea even by the Boors of Holland and not daring to peep in any populous Town but by owle-light Moreover I beleeve your Lordship hath good cause to remember that the same kind of riotous Rascals which rabled the King out of Town did drive away the Speaker in like manner with many of the● Membfps amongst whom your Lordship was fairly on his way to seek shelter of their Janizaries Your Lordship must needs find what deadly fewds fall dayly 'twixt the Presbyterian and Independent the two fiery brands that have put this poore Isle so long in combustion But 't is worthy your Lordships speciall notice how your dear Brethren the Scots whom your Lordship so highly magnified in some of your publike Speeches who were at first brought in for Hirelings against the King for them offer themselves now to come in against them for the King Your Lordship cannot be ignorant of the sundry clashes that have been 'twixt the City and their Memberships and 'twixt their Memberships and their men of war who have often wav'd and disobeyed their commands How this tatterdemallian Army hath reduc'd this cow'd City the cheated Country and their once all-commanding Masters to a perfect passe of slavery to a true asinin condition They crow over all the ancient Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdome though there be not found amongst them all but two Knights and 't is well knowne there be hundred of private Gentlemen in the Kingdome the poorest of whom is able to buy this whole Host with the Generall himselfe and all the Commanders But 't is not the first time that the Kings and Nobility of England have been baffled by petty comp●nions I have read of Iack Straw Wat Tyler and Ket the Tanner with divers others that did so but being suppressed it tended to the advantage of the King at last and what a world of examples are there in our story that those Noblemen who banded against the Crown the revenge of heaven ever found them out early or late at last These with a black cloud of reciprocall Judgements more which have come home to these Reformers very dores shew that the hand of Divine Justice is in 't and the holy Prophet tells us When Gods judgements are upon Earth then the Inhabitants should learn Iustice Touching your Lordship in particular you have not under favour escap'd without some already and I wish more may not follow your Lordship may remember you lost one Son at Bridgenorth your deer Daughter at Oxford your Son-in-Law at Newbury your Daughter-in-law at the Charter-house of an infamous disease how sickly your eldest Son hath been how part of your House was burnt in the country with others which I will not now mention I will conclude this point with an observation of the most monstrous number of Witches that have swarm'd since these Wars against the King more I dare say then have been in this Island since the Devill tempted Eve for in two Counties only there hath been neer upon three hundred