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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81226	A Venice looking-glasse: or, A letter vvritten very lately from London to Rome, by a Venetian Clarissimo to Cardinal Barberino, protector of the English nation, touching these present distempers. Wherein, as in a true mirrour, England may behold her owne spots, wherein she may see, and fore-see, her follies pass'd, her present danger, and furture destruction. Faithfully rendred out of the Italian into English.	J. B. C.	1648 (1648)	Wing C79A; Thomason E525_19; ESTC R205654	17,303	25

but a kind of petty insensible Tax a thing of nothing to what hath happened since there were some foolish people in this Land which murmured at it and cryed out nothing else but a Parliament a Parliament and they have had one since with a vengeance But before this occasion it was observed that the seedes of disobedience and a spirit of insurrection was a long time engendring in the hearts of some of this peace-pampred People which is conceived to proceed from their conversation and comerce with three sorts of men viz. the Scot the Hollander and the French Huguenot Now an advantage happened that much conduced to necessitate the convoking of a Parliament which was an ill-favoured traverse that fell out in Scotland For the King intending an Uniformity of Divine worship in all His three Kingdomes sent thither the Lyturgie of this Church but it found cold and coorse entertainment there for the whole Nation men women and children rise up against them Hereupon the King absolutely revoked it by Proclamation wherein He declared 't was never His purpose to presse the practice thereof upon the Consciences of any therefore commanded that all things should be in statu quo prius but this would not serve the turn the Scot took advantage hereby to destroy Hierarchy and pull down Bishops to get their demeanes To which purpose they came with an Army in open Field against their own Native King who not disgesting this indignity Mustred another English Army which being upon the confines of both Kingdomes a kind of Pacification was plaistred over for the present The King returning to London and consulting His second thoughts resented that insolency of the Scots more then formerly Hereupon He summons a Parliament and desires aid to Vindicat that Affront of the Scot. The Scot had strong Intelligence with the Puritan Faction in the English Parliament who seemed to abet his quarell rather then to be sensible of any nationall dishonour received from him which caused that short-lived Parliament to dissolve in discontent and the King was forced to finde other meanes to raise and support an Army by private Loanes of His Nobler sort of Subjects and Servants The Scot having punctuall Advertisments of every thing that passed yea in the Kings Cabinet Councell was not idle all this while but rallies what was left of the former Army which by the articles of Pacification should have been absolutely dismissed and boldly invades England which he durst never have done if he had not well known that this Puritan Party which was now grown very powerfull here and indeed had invited him to this expedition would stand to him This forrein Army being by the pernicious close machinations of some mongrell Englishmen aforementioned entred into the Bowels of the Country the King was forced to call this present Parliament with whom he complied in every thing so far as to sacrifice unto them both Judge Bishop Councellor and Courtier yea He yeilded to the tumbling down of many tribunalls of Justice which were an advantage to his Prerogative He assented that the Prelates who were the most Ancient and Prime Members of the upper House and had priority of all others since the first constitution of Parliament in the enrollment of all Acts He assented I say that these who were the greatest prop of His Crown should be quite outed from among the Peers He granted them also a Trienniall Parliament and after that this Perpetuall which words to the apprehension of any rationall man carry with them a grosse absurdity in the very sense of the thing And touching this last Grant I had it from a good hand that the Queen was a friend to this Parliament and your Eminence knowes how they have requited Her since but the maine open Councellor to this fatall Act was a Scot. Now the reason which they alledged for this everlasting Parliament was one of the baldest that ever I heard of it was that they might have time enough to pay the Scots Army whereas in one morning they might have dispatched that by passing so many Subsidies for that use and upon the credit of those they might have raised what money they would The Parliament finding the King so pliable and His pulse to beat so gently like ill-natur'd men they fall from inches to ells in seeking their advantages They grew so peremptory as to demand all the military strength of the Kingdom the Tower of London with the whole Royall Navy which they found in an excellent equipage gramercy shipmony so that the benefit of Ship-mony which they so clamoured at turned most to their advantage of any thing afterwards The Scot being Fidler-like returned to his Country with meat drink and mony the King went a while after to keep a Parliament there wherein he filled every blank they did but ask and have for He granted them what possibly they could propound both for their Kirk and State many received Honour and they divided Bishops Lands amongst them for all which unparallel'd Concessions of Princely grace they caused an Act already in force to be published viZ. that it should be damnable Treason in the highest degree that could be for any of the Scots Nation conjunctly or singly to levy armes or any military Forces upon any pretext whatsoever without His Majesties royall Commission and this they caus'd to be don by way of gratitude but how they perform'd it afterwards the world knowes too well The King returning to London in lieu of a wellcom to his two Houses of Parliament to whom also before his departure he had passed more Acts of Grace then all his Progenitors take them all in a lump they had patch'd up a kind of Remonstrance which was voted in the dead of night wherein they expos'd to the world the least moat in former government and aggravated to the very height every grievance all which the King had redressed before and this Remonstrance which breath'd nothing but a base kind of malice they presented as a nosegay to their Soverain Prince to congratulate his safe return from a forren Countrey which they caus'd to be printed publish'd before he could give any answer thereunto The King finding such a virulent spirit still raign in the House and knowing who were chiefly possess'd with it whom he had impeach'd before but saw he could get no justice against them in such an extremity he did an act like a generous Prince for taking the Palsgrave with him he took the first coach he met withall at his Court gate and went to his House of Commons in person to demand five Members which he wold prove to be Traitors in the highest degree and to be the Authors of all these distempers protesting upon the word of a King that they shold have as fair legall a tryall as ever men had in the interim he only desir'd that their persons might be secur'd The walls of both Houses and the very stones in London street did seem to

Saint-like opinion of these Monsters this foolish Citie gards them daily with Horse and Foot whereby she may be sayd to kisse the very stones that are thrown at her and the hand whence they came which a dogg wold not do But she falls to recollect her felf now that she begins to be pinch'd in Trade that that her Mint is starv'd and that the Prince commands both Sea and River yet the leading'st men in her Common-Councell care not much for it in regard most of them have left traffiqueing abroad finding it a more easie and gainefull way of trading at home by purchasing Church-lands plunder'd goods and debts upon the Public Faith thus the Saints of this Iland turn godlinesse into gaine Truly my Lord I give the English for a lost Nation never was there a more palpable oblaesion of the brain and a more visible decay of reason in any race of men it is a strange judgement from heaven that a peeple shold not be more sensible how they are becom slaves to Rebells and those most of them the scumm of the Nation which is the basest of miseries how they suffer them to tyrannize by a meer arbitrary extrajudiciall power o're their very soules and bodies o're their very lifes and livelihoods how their former freedom is turn'd to fetters Molehills into Mountaines of grievances Ship-money into Accize Justice into Tyranny For nothing hath bin and is daily so common amongst them as imprisonment without charge and a charge without an accuser condemnation without apparance and forfaitures without conviction To speak a little more of the King if all the infernall fiends had ligu'd against him they could not have designd disgorg'd more malice they wold have laid to his charge his fathers death as arrand a lie as ever was hatch'd in hell they wold make him fore-know the insurrection in Ireland whereas the Spanish Ambassador here his Confessor who is a very reverend Irish man told me that he knew no more of it then the grand Mogor did they charge him with all the bloud of this civill warre wheras they and their instruments were the first kindlers of it and that first prohibited trade they intercepted and printed his privat letters to his Queen and hers to him Oh barbarous basenesse but therin they did him a pleasure though the intent was malitious their aym in all things being to imbitter and envenom the hearts of his peeple towards him and this was to render him a glorious and well-belov'd Prince and for making him rich all which they had vow'd to do upon passing the Act of Continuance they have made him poorer then the meanest of all his vassalls they have made him to have no propriety in house goods or Lands or as one may say in his wife and children 'T was usuall for the father to hunt in his Park while the son hunted for his life in the field for the wife to lye in his bedds while the husband layed wait to murther him abroad they have seiz'd upon and sold his privat Hangings and Plate yea his very Cabinets Jewells and Pictures Nor are they the honorablest sort of peeple and men nobly extracted as in Scotland that do all this for then it were not so much to be wondred at but they are the meanest sort of Subjects many of them Mechaniques whereof the lower House is full specially the subordinate Committees who domineer more ore Nobles and Gentry then the Parliament-Members themselfs their Masters Touching those few Peers that sit now voting in the upper House they may be sayed to be but mee● Cyphers they are grown so degenerate as to suffer the Commons to give them the Law to ride upon their backs and do most things without them There be many thousand Petitions that have been recommended by these Lords to the lower House which are scornfully thrown into corners and never read their Messengers have us'd to dance attendance divers houres and dayes afore they were vouchsafed to be let in or heard to the eternall dishonor of those Peers and yet poor spirited things they resent it not The Commons now command all and though as I am inform'd they are summon'd thither by the Kings Originall Writt but to consent to what the King and his great Counsell of Peers which is the true Court of Parlement shall resolve upon They are now from Consenters becom the chiefest Counsellors yea Controwlers of all nay som of this lower House fly so high as to term themselfs Conquerors and though in all conferences with the Lords ●hey stand bare before them yet by a new way of mix'd Committees they cary themselfs as Collegues These are the men that now have the vogue and they have made their Priviledges so big swoln that they seem to have quite swallowed up both the Kings Prerogatives and that of the Lords These are the Grandees and Sages of the times though most of them have but crack'd braines and crazy fortunes Nay som of them are such arrand Knaves and coxcombs that 't is questionable whither they more want common honesty or common sense nor know no more what belongs to true policy then the left legg of a joint-stoole They are grown so high a tiptoes that they seem to scorn an Act of Amnestia● or any grace from their King wheras som of them deserve to be hang'd as oft as they have haires upon their heads nor have they any more care of the common good of England then they have of Lapland so they may secure their persons and continue their Power and Authority is sweet though it be in Hell Thus my Lord is England now govern'd so that 't is an easy thing to take a prospect of her ruine The Scot is now the rising man who is the third time struck into her bowells with a numerous Army They say he hath vow'd never to return till he hath put the Crown on the Kings head the Scepter in his hand and the sword by his side if he do so it will be the best thing that ever he did though som think that he will never be able to do England as much good as he hath don her hurt He hath extremely outwitted the English of late yeers And they who were the causers of his first and last coming in I hold to be the most pernicious Enemies that ever this Nation had for 't is probable that Germany will be sooner free of the Swed then England of the Scot who will stick close unto him like a burr that he cannot shake him off He is becom allready Master of the Englishmans soul by imposing a religion upon him and he may hereafter be master of his body Your Eminence knowes there is a periodicall fate hangs over all Kingdoms after such a revolution of time and rotation of fortunes wheele the cours of the world hath bin for one Nation like so many nailes to thrust out another But for this Nation I observe by conference with divers of the