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A64195
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A preter-plvperfect spick and span new nocturnall, or Mercuries weekly night-newes wherein the publique faith is published and the banquet of Oxford mice described.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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1643
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Wing T498; ESTC R690
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forgotten there were two of Tailors Bookes in the bundle which the Mice touched not the one was intituled New Preachers New and the other was a sweet well favoured Sermon upon Tobias and his Dog Sunday Night THis Night was very zealously consumed by the Brethren and holy Sisters till between twelve and one of the clocke amongst the Flocke there was a devout Gentlewoman one Mistris Fumpkins a Porters Wife in Pudding Lane who made a short Repetition of almost foure houres upon Master Woodcockes Lecture the New-English Teacher at Laurence Church at Laurence Lane end near Guild-hall quasi All guile where true Lye very Lye she did exceeding Lye lay open Lye how zealous Lye fervent Lye ardent Lye and perswasive Lye he had encouraged his Auditours vehement Lye to continue constant Lye obstinate Lye rebellious Lye she said the Gentleman did sweat out most delicate Doctrine and that he laboured like a Thrasher and belaboured the Pulpit and Cushion extreme Lye telling them that if they had not given Money or Plate towards the Cause or laboured with the Shovell Spade or Barrow for the raising of the Defensive most Offensive Workes and Fortifications to keep out the Armie of Protestants Malignants and Cavaliers if they had done neither of these good Actions they were not in the state of Grace or if they had not or would not hazard their Estates and Lives to oppose cast down destroy extirpe and depose all kingly Government all Church Order and decencie all Lawes and Authoritie all obedience and loyaltie all Christianitie humanitie and civill societie that if they had not put any or all of these vertues in practise there was small hope of any goodnesse in them or any happinesse to befall them When this good woman had finished her godly Repetition there was wine in bottles cheare in bowles brought in which the whole Assemblie fell upon religiously consuming all in the way of Edification The rest of the Night was spent with great diligence and studie in devising who and where to break open and rifle the Houses of such as are doomed or condemned as Malignants the purchase so gotten whether it be Money or Goods to be sold the High and Mightie Magnificent Quartermain the great Plunder-master Generall His Fee is three pence in the pound for all the pillage so lawfully taken and it was affirmed that at that rate his Vailes amounted to fifteen pounds in one day Thus hath he raised his Trades from one degree to another from a Brewers Clerke to a Preacher in a Mault-floore and from a preacher to a most valiant Brownisticano Plunderissimo Generalissimo Munday Night ON Monday Night about six of the clocke in the morning the Sun being two houres high there were Letters with some words in 'em directed from a trusty hand in Oxford to one Cut-beard a Barber in scalding Alley one of which Letters contained briefly that the Cavaliers are in mightie distresse and the Colledges in much want but you must understand withall that they want neither meat manners Ammunition or courage and yet their case is lamentable for since the taking of the sawcy Town of Teuxbury by the Parliament Forces Mustard hath been at a greater price than Biefe at Oxford also their miserie is to be pittied if they were not Malignants Delinquents and true Subjects to the King for if there chance to come into the Market three hundred or more of Salmonds in a day besides other fish and flesh in abundance yet their poor wretched estate is such that it would grieve any tender heart to see what shiftes they are fain to make to get vineger so that it is manifest that our happinesse doth exceed the Malignant partie in all places for we have a great deale more sawce than meat and more meat by halfe than manners This Night it was Ordered that no Butter-women should come to the Citie with any Butter marked printed or molded with any formes of Crosses upon pain that all the said Crosses should be demolished and melted for the use of Cookes and Schul-boyes such like contemptible destructions for it was wisely taken into consideration that such Crosses were as dangerous and papisticall as the Crosse in Cheapside or the Crosses upon the ends of Saint Paul his Church or any other Crosses whatsoever they being by the judgements of the wise and opinions of the Godly held to be markes of the Beast Roman badges superstitious Antichristian idolatrous and abominable onely such Crosses are allowed and beloved as are upon any manner of money whether it be Papist or Protestant Princes Coine the matter is indifferent It is to be conjectured that all the Crosse wayes in England must be made round that no Tailer shall dare to sit Crosse-legged upon pain of being plundered for sitting superstitiously and his Hell raked and ransacked of all his true and lawfully begotten Reliques and Remnants Tuesday Night THis Night three hundred Dragooners brought two old seditious and wicked Ministers out of Gloucestershire It is said they durst not onely presume to pray for the King openly but also with all vehemencie exhorted the people to obey love and honour Him according to the rules and commands of Gods Word and the Lawes of the Land they were likewise taxed and accused for most wicked seducers of their Auditours to sue and seek for peace and to be constant in the protestant Religion and further they denied to give any money to raise or maintain War against His Majestie and the Orthodox Doctrine established also it was proved against them that they perswade many others to the like loyaltie and obedience one of them was so bold as to preach against Rebellion and cited some Authours for what he said he quoted Casaubon and Casaubon quoted Suetonius that it was recorded that Brutus Cassius Cymba Casâ—a and the rest of the Conspiratours against Caesar did all kill themselves with their own weapons which they wounded Caesar withall upon this he made application to these Times and perswaded the people to take heed and never to dare to lift up their hands against their Soveraigne for fear of the like or worse judgement to fall upon them For which rebellious and distastfull kinde of Teaching they were committed to severall prisons there to lodge amongst their Fellowes whilest their Cattle must be seised their Benefices suspended it is much hoped that Master Green the Feltmaker near Bridewell or Gunne the preaching Cooper hard by the Bear-garden or Carbrain the Anabaptist Dier on the backe side shall have their places their Families turned out of doores their Houses rifled and ransacked and their Goods carried to Plunderers Hall there to be sold for the supportation and furthering of the good Cause and themselves for examples and terrour of others to remain in Gaole till such times as they have learned better manners It was also Voted this Night that no man or woman should be capable to receive have hold or keep either goods lands
desired to be satisfied â—â—wneâ— his kinde of Publique Faith is and how farre 〈◊〉 powe◠〈◊〉 it may extend To which most sawcy and treacherous 〈…〉 leaâ—ed and worthy Welwisher to the Lowest Uppermost House replied as followeth My small Friend quoth he I will tell thee briefly what this new Publique Faith is it is called Publique because it is common to all and hath communitie in all and to take away waste and consume all it is Generall Catholique and Universall not peculiar to any man particular not private to any person there is no man hath any proprietie in it more than he hath in his goods and lands as at this time the case is so that it is neither Thine nor Mine but every mans it hath absolute power to borrow money and to force unbelieving people to be exceeding desperate Creditours and whosoever is so wickedly minded as to presume to deny or delay what the Publique Faith demands such refractory persons must be robb'd of all they have sometimes some have been so bold as to call it plundering but instead of the word stealing there is a pretty nickname given to it called Seasing for this strange Faith hath that invisibilitie in it not onely to tolerate Thiefts and Rapines but to allow Burglaries Fellonies Murders Rebellions and some parcels of Treasons to be no breach of Lawes and to lay all unruly persons in prison as will not be contented quietly without grumbling to be rifled and undone It hath likewise power with the fame extorted or stolne goods or monies taken to raise War to transforme Colliers into Captaines Broken Merchants to Colonells trade fallen Tapsters into Tyrannicall Rodomontadoes and these brave Man-divells shall be the Leaders of such Troops of unresistable unconquerable Mirmidones that shall inforce all men to the obedience of the Publike faith This Faith is neither Protestant Lutheran Calvinist Papist or any kinde of Christian Faith The Turke hath no faith to follow it or the Moores to follow it it is a faith that is full of workes whereby it is notoriously meritorius and commonly it doth no harme to bad men for it leaves them to the judgement of another world it onely by afflictions tries the vertuous strength of their patience as do desire peace and to be obedient to their Sovereigne and would willingly live quietly in such manner as God and the Lawes of this Kingdome grounded and derived on and from Gods Word hath established for the government and tranquilitie both of Church and State such men as these and none else but such as these are opprest rifled ransacked imprisoned masacred and beggered by the mightie meanes of the Publique Faith for it all the Goales in England were searched I mean such Goales as are under the high and mightie command of the Publique Faith all those that lie in those Gaoles are laid there by that Faiths command for no other faults but for being true Protestants and loyall Subjects to their Soveraigne on the contrary there is not any Anabaptist Brownist Schismaticke Seperatist or Rebell in any trouble or prison under the command of the Publique Faith And whereas of it selfe it hath not power except by direction of legal Statutes Ordinances joyned and protected by regal power and Authorietie yet it assumes or presumes to take to it selfe and make of it selfe what Power it list either regal or legal what shal most advance the selfe will of it selfe it is so potent as it can maintain it selfe in magnificent pompe by forcible borrowing and withall it is so just as to pay double with emptie promises it can turne Orthodox prayer and preaching into pedlary prating also Libels Lyurnals and scandalous railing Pamphlets are not onely tolerated by the Publique Faith but all and worse than all this hath been countenanced and encouraged by exalting the insulting swarme of mechanicke or trencher Pulpiteers that what betwixt the medley of their seditious gallimaufrey hotch-potch doctrine and the meer froathie inventions compiled and dispersed in great Volumes for pence a piece it is most certain that God hath not escaped blasphemie or the King calumnie the people unspeakable miserie the estate obloquie and the whole Kingdome infamie to the most contemptible scorne of all Nations The Publique Faith can frame and devise Navies of shippes Armies of men and amunition and Letters and Messages from the Kings of Denmarke France and Spain of which Letters those Kings never knew and those Shippes Armies and Armes are invisible or like Castles in the ayre this Faith can also invent supposed Battailes Fights and triumphant Victories where never stroke was strook or blow given and it can command Bels to be rung Bonefires to be inflamed and publique Thankesgiving in Churches and proclaim it selfe victorious when it is most miserably and bravely beaten and that it killed seven hundred with the losse of two men and one boy and halfe a Horse whereby the credulous seduced people have their giddy braines tost to and fro from Jealousies to Feares from Feares to Hopes and from Hopes to lend and give Money as if they were mad and in so laying out their Money they deservedly purchase their miserie Moreover this Faith cannot be perswaded by any meanes to endure or abide a King especially if he be a good one or will not be such an one as this Faith would make him but if he do but claime his right or stand upon lawfull termes for his Royall and just Priviledge and Prerogative if he be so unruly that he will not be ruled by this Publique Faith he must then be robb'd and plundered of all that ever he hath or at least of as much as this Faith can lay hold on for it hath power with the Kings Amunition Armes Shippes Money Revenue Townes Houses Castles or any thing that is the Kings in the Kings name to shoot bullets against the King and fight against the King for the preservation and service of the King Thus the Publique Faith hath surpassed Pharaoh's Magicians in Legerdemain it hath trasform'd our Land into the Isle of Guls temporally and old England into New England spiritually It hath made mens wealths and alleageance crimes and causes of their losse of estates and lives it hath put down all Spirituall Courts so that there is no punishment for the sweet sin of Lecherie whereby Fornication Adulterie Bigamie Poligamie and Incest with brasen uncontrolled fronts make whores knaves cuckolds bawdes bastards thieves and beggars by the hundreds so that if this world lasts and this geer go forward we shall have Plato's Common-wealth here and concerning our wives we shall all turne to be Nicholaitans by which brave unbridled Libertie Hey down derry Downing Roome for an Hackney Presbyterean that whilest his wife lay sicke got the Nurse and the Maidservant both with childe but some satisfaction was made for the Wife died he married the Nurse concerning the other plumpe Girle some course was taken but all 's one for that the Parish is big