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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85800	Englands present distractions. Paralleld with those of Spaine, and other forraigne countries, with some other modest conjectures, at the causes of the said distempers, and their likeliest cure. / Written by a loyall subject to His Majestie, and a true servant of the Parliament, in vindication of that aspersion cast upon them, for declining His Majesties royall prerogative, or seeking to confine it to limits. By H. G. B. L. C.	H. G., B.L.C.	1642 (1642)	Wing G24; Thomason E126_19; ESTC R19139	4,699	11

ENGLANDS PRESENT DISTRACTIONS Paralleld with those of Spaine and other forraigne Countries With some other modest Conjectures at the Causes of the said Distempers and their likeliest Cure Written by a loyall Subject to His Majestie and a true Servant of the Parliament in vindication of that Aspersion cast upon them for declining His Majesties Royall Prerogative or seeking to confine it to limits Tempora mutantur nos mutamur in illis By H. G. B. L. C. London Printed for Francis Wright 1642. DOCTRINA PARIT VIRTVTEM ENGLANDS PRESENT DISTRACTIONS DIstractions when Nationall are diffusive nothing escapes their violence like Sampsons Foxes they carry fire about them and consume all before them And for the most part they fall like Hailestones one no sooner drops but a whole storme doe follow These late yeares have been pregnant with distempers Germany leading this dance of death being the greatest of the European Provinces France the fairest of them and Spaine the powerfullest have since as it were celeri pede followed their leaders steps And now hinc illae lachrymae England the little Eye of nature the darling and delight of Europe has thrust it selfe into the same bloody Matachin wherein as you shall observe especially in those of Spaine imbroyld with the civill differences of Catalonia and Portugall they keepe one figure with ours in England and its rebellious Province Ireland being true parallels that run even still through severall wayes It shall be needlesse to relate the circumstances of the Catalonian revolt from the Spanish government it having been as Ireland to England an Appendix for some hundred of yeeres to that large booke of Arragon the world knowes it is revolted and that is sufficient for our purpose Not two twin Cherries carrie more resemblance then the horrid faces of the present rebellions in these two subordinate Provinces Catalonia for many yeeres past being under the Government of Don Iohn de Muscu●ena the Catalonian Prefe●t there under went with pavement shoulders unheard of insolencies custome in suffering as it doth in sinning taking away the sense of their sufferings the austere condition of the man at which they durst not repine making them like good dull Mules ma●ch silently without braying under their burdens the state of Ireland just under the late Lord Lievtenant Thomas Earle of Strafford a man of as much severity in his Vice royship there his government I would be loth to brand his memory with a false imputation because he fell under the Axe of Justice almost devolving to tyranny And if tha● Maxim in Philosophy hold true that Causae judicantur ab effect●bus é contra Certainly we may well affirme both the Catalonian and Irish defections derivative from the oppressive injustice of their too tyrannous Governours Catalonia immediately upon the revocation of Muscurena bleeding with the wounds of his former cruelties which yet for the present if they were clos'd up had left large skarres upon their bodies resolves to provide for their future safeties or sell them at a deare rate to open a conspicuous ruine breake forth into an acknowledg'd and maintain'd rebellion So did Ireland on the Earle of Strafford though perhaps the levity and malice of that Nation only sought by the specious presence of his tyranny to palliate their wicked intentions which had destin'd them for this fatall and impious purpose long before Straffords arrivall thither but that rebellion were not considerable to us as Catalonia's is to the Spaniard nor could the Irish though their quarrell for their Religion makes them resolutely desperate being assured by those that guide their soules their mutinously superstitious Priests that they atchieve the glorious condition of Martyrs and Confessors in their death and sufferings resist the English powers if England were once blest with an unity betweene it's King and people the distractions there being so well knowne to the world that in our very enemies if we had any such besides our selves they would have invited pity England that thus many yeares hath stood the envie of all it 's neighbours like a fruitfull Olive teeming with blessings of a constant and continued peace while they teem'd with fire famine and a thousand inexplicable ruines having now two armies of it's owne sons violating with their hostile steps their Mothers pleasant and plenteous bosome their active spirits like Milstones wanting other matter to imploy their Motion upon being ready to set fire upon themselves And yet few distinctly know the reason of these so sudden and Hydra●-headed confusions In Spaine tyranny in the King at least in his Officers caused the Catalonian revolt the same with hope of liberty that of Portugall here none can accuse the King of that blemish I would we could as easily acquit His Cabinet Councellors nor yet condemne the people that they have falne or doe yet defect their obedience and yet so paradoxicall is this difference all is distraction the King bent against His people and they as naturall justice gives them priviledge resolute to defend themselves not against the King he offers them no violence but to preserve their lives lawes and liberties from the rapine of His evill Ministers who ofttimes render the rule of good and gracious Kings odious to their subjects And if we may beleeve that great Legislator that second Numa of the Romans Cicere that these ought to be accounted good men qui consulta patrum qui leges reipublicae instituta servant Sure ours here are no ill Patriots of their Countrey my Logicke knowing no such nicety of distinction betwixt servare and preservare but that they may be by as direct a title admitted to march under the Ensignes of goodnesse who strive to preserve the Lawes and Constitution of the Common-wealth as they who onely keep them And now without offence if we may positively set downe or at least-wise probably conjecture at the causes of these so lamented distractions wee shall find ours here and those of Spaine if not uno eodem yet valde simili fonte manare to wit the unlimited and infinitely ambitious power of the Clergy The Spanish Nobility and most of the ancient Gentry though nationally and naturally that people is most superstitiously affected to their Clergy then we ever were to ours repining and disdaining to see these men who but yesterday were their Meniall servants to morrow being by their helpe andsuffrage advanced to that supreame Ecclesiasticall dignity demeane themselves as their equals if not superiours nay sitting as it were to use our course old English proverb even cheeke by jowle with Majesty and swaying if not a wing that Most of the King of Spaines Cabinet Counsellors bating his favourite Olivares the Constable and Adelantado of Castile who enjoy that honour by the priviledge of their offices being Church-men the Kings and those Noblemens ghostly Fathers And undoubtedly where they have so great a tye over mens minds as the knowledge of their consciences they must needs have a