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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44762	Two discourses lately revievv'd and enrich'd by the author one, The pre-eminence and pedegree [sic] of Parlement, whereunto is added a vindication of some passages reflecting upon the author in a book call'd The popish royall favorit, penn'd and published by Master Prynne ..., with a clearing of some occurrences in Spayne at His Majesties being there, cited by the said Master Prynne out of the Vocall forrest ... : the second, Englands teares / by James Howell ...; Pre-eminence and pedigree of Parlement	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666. Englands teares for the present wars.	1644 (1644)	Wing H3124; ESTC R16765	26,500	31

will make it briefly appear by comparing it with all the Warres that ever embroil'd me which I finde to be of three sorts either by the invasion of Forreners the Insurrection of my Commons or by the confederacy of my Peers and Princes of the Bloud I will not ●ake the ashes of Antiquity so far as to speak of that deluge of bloud I spilt before I would take the Roman Legions for my Garrison I am loth to set down how the Saxons us'd me and how the Danes us'd Them nor how I had one whol brave race of people the Picts I mean quite extinguished in me I will begin with the Norman expedition and indeed to make recearches of matters before is but to grop● in the dark but I have authentick Annales and Records for things since The Norman came in with the slaughter of neer upon sixty eight thousand Combatants upon the place a Battaile so memorable that the very ground which sucked in the bloud retaines the name of it to this day The Dane not long after strook in to recover his pretended right with the sacking of my second great City of Yorke and the ●iring of her with the slaughter of 3000 of my children in one afternoon yet he was sent away without his arrand In the raigne of Rufus I was made of his colour red with bloud both by the Welsh and the Scot who lost his King Malcolme in the Battaile of Alnwick All my eight Henries were infested with some civill broyles except my fift Henry the greatest of them who had work enough cut him out in France and hee plied his work so well that he put that Crown upon his Sons head All my Edwards also had some home-bred insurrection or other indeed two of my three Richards had alwayes quietnesse at home though the first did go the furthest off from me and was longest absent of any And the third though he came in by bloud yet the short time of his three yeares Vsurpership he was without any and prov'd one of my best Law-givers yet his life ended in bloud for having come in like a fox he dyed like a calfe Touching my second Richard and second Edward there were never any of my Kings came to a more Tragique end and the greatest stains that black my story are the violent deaths they suffered by the hands of their own Regicide Subjects The two Sister Queens that swayed my Scepter had also some domestique commotions and now my CHARLES hath them to the height insomuch that of those five and twenty Monarques who have worne my d●adems since the Norman entred there was only foure viz. the forementioned Henry and Richards with King IAMES scaped free from all intestin broyles Oh how it torments my Soule to remember how my Barons did teare my bowells what an Ocean of bloud the two Roses cost me before they were conjoyned for during the time that I came to be a Monster with two heads made so by their division I mean during the time that I had two Kings at once Edward the fourih and Henry the sixt within me in five years space I had twelve Battails fought within my entrails wherin I lost neer upō fourscore Princes of the royal stem and parted with more of my spirits than there were spent in winning of France The World knowes how free and prodigall I have bin of my bloud abroad in divers places I watered the Holy Land with much of it Against my Co-Islander the Scot I had above twenty pitch'd Battails tooke many and kil'd some of his Kings in the Field the Flower de lyces cost me dear defore I brought them over upon my Sword and the reduction of Ireland from time to time to civility and to an exact rule of alleageance wasted my children in great numbers I never grudg'd to venture my bloud this way for I ever had glorious returns for it and my Sons dyed in the bed of honour but for them to glut themselves with one anothers bloud for them to lacerat and rip up viper-like the wombe that brought them forth to teare the Paps that gave them suck can there be a greater piacle against nature her selfe can there be a more execrable and horrid thing If a stranger had us'd mee thus it would not have griev'd me half so much It is better to be stung with a nettle than prick'd by a Rose I had rather suffe● by an Enemy than by my own naturall born off-spring Those former home-wag● Wars whereof there hapned above fourscore smal great since the Norman cam● in were but as fires of Flax in comparison of this horrid combustion which mak● both my Church State to suffer so much One may finde those Wars Epitomiz● in small volumes but a whole library cannot contain this They were but Scratches being compar'd to the deep wounds which Prince Peere and people have receiv'd by this such wounds that it seems no gentle C●t●plasmes can cure them they must be ●anc'd aed canteriz'd and the huge scars they will leave behinde them will I feare make me appear so deformed and ugly to all posterity that I am halfe in despaire to recover my former beauty ever again The deep stains these Wars will leave upon me all the water of the Severn Trent or Thames will hardly wash away The Sun yet hath not run twice his course through the Zodia● since the two-edged ●word of War hath rag'd done many horrid executions within me since that Hellish invention of powder hath thundred in every corner since it hath darkned torn infected my well-tempered aire since I have weltered in my own bloud and bin made ● kind of Cockpit a Theater of death to my own children And in so short a circumvolution of time I may confidently affirm take battailes re-encounters skir●ishes with sieges both winter and summer there never hapned so many in any Countrey not do I see any appeara●ce the more is my misery of any period to be ●ut to these Distractions every day is spectator of some new Tragedy and there●ations that are hourely blaz'd abroad sound sometimes well on the one side some●●mes on the other like a peale of bels in windy weather though oftentimes in a ●hole volley of News you shall hardly finde one true R port which makes me feare 〈◊〉 the all disposing Deity of Heaven continueth the successes of both parties in a ●inde of equality to prolong my miseries Ita serior ut diu me sentiam mori I am ●ounded with that dexterity th●t the sence and agonies of my sufferings are like to ●e extended to the uttermost lengt● of time and possibility of n●ture But O Passenger if thou art desirous to know the cause of these fatall discompo●●res of this inextricable War truly I must deal plainly I cannot resolve thee herein 〈◊〉 any full satisfaction Grievances there were I must confesse and some incongrui●es in my Civill government wherein some say the Crosier some say the