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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29147	Bradshaw's ghost being a dialogue between the said ghost, and an apparition of the late King Charles : wherein are laid down severall transactions that did occur in the many passages of his life, never known before.	Bradshaw, William, 1571-1618.	1659 (1659)	Wing B4164; ESTC R18791	5,858	14

BRADSHAW'S GHOST BEING A DIALOGUE Between the said GHOST AND AN APPARITION OF THE LATE KING CHARLES Wherein are laid down severall Transactions that did occur in the many Passages of his life never known before Patent atri Janua Ditis Printed in the Year 1659. Bradshaw's Ghost AFter the fleeting current of many trancient years Truth the daughter of Time began to shew her selfe and by making new discoveries of old passages so pull'd off that visor of Hypocrisie which had too long been worn that one might discover the true Phisiognomy and as it were digito monstrare point out with the finger the Asse ennobled with the Lions skin for the Republican State-holders had no sooner got into the Saddle but they began to ride in a full cariere the old Proverb in them was truly verified Set a Beggar on Horseback and he will ride to the Divel and so might they if they had not been stopp'd for that State-monster Bradshaw for the better modelling of what was yet but in Embrio into a form was mounted on the wings of ambitious malice and put into an office of the greatest trust and profit in the Nation But if according to the vulgar opinion Agues be spirits then was Bradshaw possessed and the Divel being entred he was now fit for what might in any manner be put upon him and here for a while he lords it till his Mungrel Masters now tottering in t●e Saddle were by the Soldiery those Sons of Valour quite dismounted and consequently returned to their first original which was to be Terrae filii This purgation wrought so strongly that White-Hall began to smell for the Members defil'd themselves so that in every corner you would have sworn had been Atkins But Bradshaw being exceeding costive the Divel owing him a shame and now intending to pay it him home the Phisick wrought not but lay grumbling in the gizzard till what with that and the strength of conceit he turn'd up his heels and like a Jade yielded the Crow a pudding Long had not these two companions the Soul and Body been parted ere his Ghost began to appear and pacing up and downe the dismal shades of the more frightfull night so terrifying the guilty consciences of his late Associates was at last encountred to its owne terror by the Apparition of the late K. Charles which upon the sudden meeting thus accosted him Ch. And what art thou bold fiend that thus darest trouble these forbidden lodgings forbidden I say to the steps of such too curious and more bold than welcome Guests speak speak I say whence art thou Br. I am quoth it the Ghost of Bradshaw now condemn'd with unwearied walking to trace this loathed place to get a part wherein was once my ambition though now too dearly too late repented Ch. But tell me fiend what was the cause in life of your inveterate hate against me Br. To speak the truth I hated not your person but your state and that your lofty eye did never cast a glance upon my shrub-like growth I setting a value on my selfe and supposing you ought with Alexander to have given honour such as befitted a Princes gift though by me wholly undeserved Ch. Was that the cause indeed know you not that Providence guides the hand of blinde Fortune and though we would we cannot give beyond our alotment but surely there were other motives that induced you to after actings when you and your Complices first drew the Sword you threw away the scaherd such crimes as yours as great in this attempt so still must be carried on by acting greater for but to slack the hand is as it were to lose the day but pray reveale the progresse of those furious acts which in a maze have put the world and by their various changes almost reduced all into a Chaos Br. When first the sound of War was noysed abroad it was considered by what means to steal the hearts of the People no cloak was thought so fitting as that of Religion nor any bait so apt to be caught at as that of liberty whereupon an alteration in the one and a breach upon the other was proclaimed we did trace Jeroboam in the like case the meanest of the People we extolled and applauded whose ignorance of what they would have encreased their fury 't was therefore closely insinuated that some great ones must be removed else the Work would meet with many dangerous oppositions I need not relate the course was taken for perfecting the design who were engaged who discarded who checked who countenanced Reformation was pretended by all intended by few for it is more than probable that the Sword is an ill instrument for such a work but the work was begun and it must be done yet I verily suppose much of the evils that have hapned might have been prevented if you had notbeen so pitifull Ch. Truly I repent me not however of it although long before my death I was told by a great man in my Kingdome when I had with pity dismissed some active persons against me which I was advised to trye by a Councel of War well said he you may gain the Kingdome of Heaven by these doings but if ever you get the Kingdome of England I never saw the like how true I have found these words I am sure you and all the world know Br. That was it I was comming to for had you kept the rein of government in your hands with some strictnesse no one had dar'd to supervise you or if after the War begun you had driven Jehu-like you might like him even but drawing a bow at a venture have smitten your enemies in the joynts of their harnesse and your selfe still have sate regnant in the Chariot Ch. But upon what account did you enter the stage and how at last did you arrive at that height of impudence that you of a whole reduced people durst undertake to sit as my judge upon what principles did thy seared conscience lay her foundation or with what peace did it ever think to enjoy any thing so injuriously and without all right gotten Br. When now the Cause began to thrive and things did succeed even beyond expectation Felix prosperum nefas virtus vocatur all Opposers becoming now Delinquents and their sequestred Estates without controll filling the new-made Treasuries I struck in for something and by application to some of the Grandees of the then leading faction insinuated my selfe as a Pleader at the bars of their licentious Committees wherein I soon became a great Proficient for I argued down learning and endeavoured to subvert even the very foundation thereof the Vniversities whereby and such other the like practises I was now thought a fitting ground for any impression hereupon I became acquainted with many Leaders and in particular with that sink of sin and forge of Satan Nich Machiavels elder brother in their heathenish Policies old Noll him we looked upon as Soloriens and all his actions as