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A90635	The divine catastrophe of the kingly family of the house of Stuarts or, a short history of the rise, reign, and ruine thereof. Wherein the most secret and chamber-abominations of the two last kings are discovered, divine justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated, and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified, by Sir Edward Peyton, knight and baronet, a diligent observer of those times.	Peyton, Edward, Sir, 1588?-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing P1952; Thomason E1291_1; ESTC R208989	41,016	159

never have had Parliaments after then they would have been like Deer put in a toyle and would have proved in the second degree after us slaves of which slavery they were principal authors Open your eyes yee Cavaliers and see what nooze you had prepared for your own necks when it had been too late to get your heads out after the conquest and Parliament ruined Look into France when the Parliament Estates were destroyed they were no better then slaves How many of the Nobility suffered as Montmorancy Count of Soysons Bouillon and others and the people generally so miserable as they can hardly live For Bills of Grace I see no authority for it a Prerogative intended only by the power of kings for people when they chuse one to rule over them would justly be dealt with and not harshly when obedient for then the Soveraigne ought to be loving to them and a father to them But when the king takes his sword to fight with his subjects they ought to defend themselves especially the Parliament which is the highest appeal for any wrong offered by the king Therefore it was that our common Law allowed every one a plea upon a Writ justifying any against the Crown for taking away of real and personal estate Also if Magna Charta forbids any free man to he imprisoned and allows him an Habeas Corpus much more life may be preserved and defended by the sword for upon an Indictment of man slaughter in se defendendo it is a good plea to save his life in his defence although he kill the other If any one defend his estate against the king much more life may be defended by a Parliamentary power which is of a higher nature if every subject then the Parliament which represents the whole body may raise an army if the people be willing to undergo it on purpose to defend their lives All Warrants of peace and good behaviour were made in the kings name so then if the king raise an army to murther his subjects he hath lost to be a defender of them and hath suspended or rather lost his Perogative of Soveraignty for every subject may kill one another when there is no power to restraine them and the king cannot defend when he raiseth a power to kill them The King had two capacities one as a King another as proprietor of Lands Honors and Seigniories when he lost his first capacity the Parliament which is the representative in right of the people might justly assume the supream authority to themselves to defend those the king would murther for the people first granted or suffered kings to have authority over them for their good but when the King abuseth it he ceases to be any longer their King but becomes a cruel Tyrant and then he may be justly tryed in his second capacity as a Subject and lose his life forfeit lands and goods by the Parliament the supreme Judges And therefore it was that Richard the third before Henry the seventh conquered him was held a lawful king and Henry the seventh attaint as a Rebel by Parliament but after the Conquest Henry the seventh his Attainder was reversed and Richard the third affirmed to be a Tyrant This declares positively that Parliaments have onely power to ratifie and annul kings and no other For else by power any one may be a Soveraigne without the Parliaments approbation but never any ascended the Throne that was not confirmed by Parliament not only in way of Ceremony but essentially and really performed by an Act to allow and ratifie the present King or else he could not lawfully govern Besides the King takes an oath at his Coronation to maintaine all the priviledges of the people but when he brings them to oppression and Tyranny he is perjured and loseth the title of a father and protector of his people and is in the capacity of an enemy to the Commonwealth Many examples are in the world that Kings when they became Tyrants have been deposed and killed as in Muscovy among the Turkes Babylonians Persians Greeks and Romanr and he who is an enemy to the Commonwealth deserveth to die by all Laws Humane and Divine Kings have augmented their prerogatives and so by intrusion have tyrannized over the Subject for they have in the interim of Parliaments had prerogatives to pardon Manslaughter and such as are expressed in the Acts of Parliament and by their greatness they incroached their power for Kings could not take away the life of any Subject but by Indictment and Arraignment and that by a Jury of twelve men who must finde the Delinquent guilty or not guilty not in Parliaments but in the interim of them wherefore King Charles his coming with an armed power to take out the five members was a high breach of priviledge and for declaring he would break the neck of Parliaments he deserved to be dethroned this was to destroy the right of his Subjects so that they should have no property in estate real or personal nor life for while the Parliament sate he ought not to question any and afterwards he could not take away the life and estate of any without a Jury but it would be questioned the next Parliament as many Presidents in the Rolls of Parliament sheweth A Parliament is a free place where every one ought to speak their mind freely for the good of their Country Now it was the fashion of King James and King Charles when anyspoke for the good of the people to corrupt them with preferment and make them Royalists who were afore for the Commonwealth preferment drawing them opposite to the Commonwealth as Sir Henry Yelverton Sir John Savill Sergeant Glanvile Sir Robert Heath my Lord of Strafford and Master Noye but Master Noye shewed afore his death a great remorse for it to some of his intimate friends It was greatness so bewitched them and increased the kings power to wit by preferment and honors insomuch as Sir Edward Hoby a factious Gentleman at a Committee in the Parliament chosen to punish some boyes that abused old Master Jordans Gloves certaine boyes being proved to be the authors of that Roguery the Committee debated what School-masters should correct them whether Westminster or Pauls Sir Edward Hoby I say told the Comittee he had found out one would lash on both sides meaning Master Yelverton Sir Henry being newly chosen Sollicitor-General for the king to signe Bils of Grace which was only in Parliament to be done when Lotds and Commons had signed them afore but out of Parliaments the kings had no such right It s true kings might in interim of Parliament upon an invasion raise an Army and impose monys upon many of the Subjects but this was authorized by Parliament and if he did amiss it was questioned the next Parliament This shewes plainly that the Parliament had the power not the Royalty It is true kings had a power to call Parliaments so have the Beadles in the Universities power of

alone not to behold their departure and cut her fingers with the Glass windows as Duplex the French Historiographer writes And Charles the first afore his marriage had for a Mistress a great married Lady it is probable the Prince would follow the same course after marriage by whom she had a boy and when he was Prince of Wales bestowed on the Christening eight thousand pound it is to be supposed he being so good an husband and wise would not lay out so much cost for nothing When he kept a book like Henry the seventh what bribes that he shared he set down punctually So much received for such an Office Place or Honour and would be displeased if he had not his part agreed for with his servants And likewise the French Queen Grandmother of Charles the supposed second King of Scots was so familiar with Marquess d'Ancre whom she advanced to so high a command that by his actions and the government after in her Regency France was almost overthrown and the prime Nobility and by her counsel to her daughter here there was procured matters of dangerous consequence to England since her arriving who perswaded her daughter to draw King Charles to the Romish part as by many affaires appeared and got a Patent to transport leather into France most prejudiciall which was condemned by this Parliament Wherefore on all sides Charles the second from them may justly expect not to prosper especially by his rebellious invading of England for if he had any right yet his invasion and the Conquest hath justly extinguished his title especially king Charles and his mother playing fast and loose so often that no issue from thence can either be legitimate or pious from so ungodly a derivative So that if the quantity of battels fought so great a revolution of the State the several qualities and persons interested or the long continuance of broyles could render a war memorable this the Parliament hath undergone and the new General finished is in the highest degree of Gods miraculous deliverances after more then twenty battels in three Nations and above 300000 slaine and the State changed of face and Masters multitudes of Forts taken and surrendred so that the Victorious are but losers till the State be brought to be as the French proverb is en bon point in perfect health after a war that hath continued almost nine yeers The Subject came from king Charles leaving his Parliament in the suds and violently raising a destructive war to ruine three Nations It had rather been wisdome in the king to apply to the people lenitives not corrosives great wounds are to be fewed not rent which is the part of a good Chirurgeon Restoratives are to be given not Purges to the patient so Kings ought to amend what was amiss and not oppose them with violence appease their fury not exasperate them by a war for this thunder-bolt by wicked Councel was contrived to break forth in fiery flashes at an instant in the three Nations about the 23 of October 1642. Wherefore the Parliament now assembled aimes at this end that as in Grammar there can be no good construction nor coherence to make true Orthography without the Substantive and Adjective conjoyned which is resembled to the Parliament the supreme authority now settled by Gods assistance appointing the Councel of State who will bring mighty things to pass cause the annual Officers to nourish all the members in their several callings that there may be a semblable endeavour of the well being of every good Citizen inhabitant as well as those in authority that piety may be exalted and increased by the Lamps of the Sanctuary indued with the Spirit of God that the whole body may be governed Apostolically whereof Christ is the Head without whom nothing can be effected for if Christ be not chiefest in our thoughts no State can be durable but like a sandy foundation will moulder away That the Electors may love the Elected and esteeme and obey them who spend their spirits to advance the common good keep and defend the weale publick in health and prosperity that it be not hecticall meager nor leane nor too Saturnicall nor too Jovial but in a golden temper These are wise Physitians who cure the maladies fevers and destempers that blood may run in every viene of the State to nourish the whole body in justice equity and right through the cava vena cava porta and smaller veines the great Cities and Townes as well as the small that the Officers and Magistrates have not a dogs appetite to turne Judicature to a bad chylos but to an equall distribution of right that the heart the courage of the People may be fostred in good actions without respect of persons but with regrad to the right of the cause that vice and sin may be punished with a parenthesis of mercy that the Republick may have foraine and native commodities that the Land lie not freshforth as the Lord termes it but that there may be importation and exportation that Manufacture may be maintained to keep from the bane of idleness and debauchedness that trade may dish out all things necessary for use seemly ornament and lawful Pleasure that the Merchant the Purveyors of the Nation export and import all commodities for the good of the State that just Impositions Impost Subsidie and Excise may be paid without corruption and defrauding the State that Artificers may be able to maintaine their families that laws may be kept within the chanel of Gods rule and direction that potency surround not the peoples property nor wink at the spoile of inferiours that those in Authority regard more the publick then their private interest that the Orphant widdows and fatherless be relieved the innocent freed and the nocent escape not punishment and that the Navy the walls and bulworks may be maintained in good equippage for the honour and defence of the Nation By this meanes the wise and sage Councel of State will undermine the enemies plots so that their malice hurt us not by intelligencers in Forraine parts imployed to prevent mischief to the Commonwealth wherein the Earl of Salisbury dead was vigilant at the annual expence of 2000 pounds And therefore I am confident the Parliament frames the State to this fashion if time and repose the midwives of all affairs would give them leave to bring forth to action their contrived principles in which hitherto they have been impeded by the plots of male-contents and by procuring provisions for subjugating Ireland and Scotland the enemies of God and of this State Consider therefore O England that they do as wise Physitians are accustomed afore the perfect remedy of patients consumption advise not to action imployment and troubles in affaires till restored to strength and vigor Wherefore now I come to observe how miraculous it is that my Lord General descended by his Mother by the male-stock of the Stuarts should be a revenger under God and the

The Divine Catastrophe OF The KINGLY Family Of the House of STVARTS OR A SHORT HISTORY OF THE Rise Reign and Ruine Thereof Wherein the most secret and Chamber-abominations of the two last Kings are discovered Divine Justice in King Charles his overthrow vindicated and the Parliaments proceedings against him clearly justified By Sir Edward Peyton Knight and Baronet a diligent observer of Those Times London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle at the west-end of Pauls 1652. TO THE Supreme Authoritie of this Nation Assembled in this present PARLIAMENT Right honorable Senators WAndering in the Circumference of my contemplations to finde out what was most sutable to present to the Supremacy of Parliament under such a Divine revolution as God hath brought to pass instrumentally by your wisdom and direction and his heavenly Providence in this wide field the Omnipotent guided my thoughts to dedicate a Discourse to your honourable hands concerning the fatal Catastrophe of the last House had Superintendencie over us to the time the Almighty put the Stern of this Commonwealth into a Parliamentary Power which I most humbly wish our celestial Creator to continue till a Snail be able to creep over the whole Globe of the earth In the mean while I crave your pardon that I have not so distinctly in order laid down many remarkable passages worthy recite my Papers being remote a great distance from me yet by Gods grace I have composed a little Enchiridion of divers remarkable events have happened out to prove Gods just revenging hand on the Family of the Kingly Stuarts of Scotland and justified your proceedings and proved that the heavie weight of sin hath given a downfal justly imposed by Providence from above my Observations reaching no higher then from the King of Scots being taken prisoner at Muscleborough-field in Edward the sixth his Reign Now therefore I thrice humbly desire your Patronage especially finding by experience the composition and stile of this present Narrative will incur the displeasure and hatred of most in this State yet I value it not being prompt by a higher power then that of Man which points out by a Divine finger the overthrow of all men exalted above all that is called God whose ruine will be the bridge to let into the Stage of the world the heavenly Government of Christ which shall continue for ever maugre the malice of the Universe Wherefore I most humbly implore the thrice honourable Parliament to accept of This as a testimony of my fidelity to the present Government which I pray God to bless and maintain to advance his glory and bring the whole Nation to a most happie condition which now the present symptomes thereof shew plainly a new approach of a great tranquillity not onely to this but to the three Nations in general Edw. Peyton THE Rise Reign and Ruine OF THE Kingly Family Of the STUARTS SInce Great Britain hath been elevated all along the stems of Plantagenet Theodor or Tedor and Stuart to so high a Tree of Tyranny as she was afore the late wars the Princes had designes proportionable to a way of making themselves absolute Governours which overture hath appeared more or less according to the humour of times and inclination of the Guiders of the Stern for some indued with ability and craftiness necessary to settle an usurped ambition whilst the people were willing to beare the load of that burden have made a progress so politickly to bring their aims to the mark shot at that they have so subtilly dissembled the enterprise as no notice or scandal arrived at their doors nor impatience to the three Countreys of England Ireland and since the access of the Family of the Stuarts to Scotland until King James for hatred of his Mothers death plotted the ruine of Parliaments which ratified Queen Maries execution and left it as his Testament for his successor to follow dictating not long afore his death to Williams Arch-Bishop of York the course he should steer to bring his counsel to conclusion This devillish advice thrust on this wilful Prince with an inconsiderate fury and inflamed with that fire to settle to himself and his successors an unbridled power of dominion which hurried him on with the whirlwinde of passion to discover the mystery which ought to have been concealed till the designe should be accomplished Wherefore of this number in our days was Charles the first who from the beginning of his Government blaming the moderation of his predecessors resolved to go a way contrary to the stream of a pious Rule and the command of God and act during his time that which God would not suffer to be done in many ages past And because the pretention is always encumbed when the object cannot be attained by wicked advice perceiving he had not so well marched to accomplish his drifts with the just power of Parliaments which might found a Trumpet in the behalf of a Commonwealth by advice of his Antecedent and his wicked adherents laboured to raze out the memory breaking up two Parliaments and not satified therewith to practise Tyranny kept the Nation neer fourteen yeers without such most lawful Assemblies where the Rights of the Nation might be discovered and true Liberty appear This he did that the power of Law and property of the Subjects estates might be inclosed in his sole Arbitrary brest To that purpose he made his Sycophants of the Council-Table Judges of the Right of his people the Star-Chamber the Executioners of his unbridled will and the High-Commission the destroyers of Piery and Religion which three though he revoked by Acts yet being angry with himself for so doing he raised a War to make abortive all he had done by an armed power although he seemed willing to affect it afore therefore pursuing the former series of his will for a Law Charles quarrels first with the Gentry and People about Coat Conduct and Ship-money and plotted with his wicked Council that a thousand Germane Horse in the nature of Trayle Battoun should take every one denied to give him money or that would not subscribe to his endless will and easeless power to be hurried to Prison there to end their days some of them being so barbarously used This unjust resolution he took upon him unless they yeelded to his unsatiable desires by which means the eyes of many of the triple Nations were sealed as pigeons are used for traines to devouring Hawks to plume and prey on This struck such a Pannick fear that they imagined all power consisted in the Diadem to be at his mercy because they were ignorant of their Rights which were usually discovered in Parliaments by some practised in the Records But behold God raised up some Heroes within the doors of the Representative and without to awaken the people from a dead sleep or rather to cure them of a disease of lethargy who rouzing like Lions let loose out of a Den opposed this most wicked Oppression by which

the Queen with his voice made her think there was no happiness but in his approach into her Cabinet a place wherein she continually resided but from thence the Lord Darnel was banished above nine months divorced from her in joy although he sought divers means in vaine At last for a medicine to remedy his discontent one Dowglas administred Physick for his cure to amove Ritsoe from the Queen and put the Lord her husband into her armes So violent was the Ingredience that Ritsoe was taken from this Princess by twelve arrived Lords and their retinue who put her into the Lords armes killing Ritsoe laid his dead body on the same trunk was his bed the first night he arrived to the Queens service But there was much adoe afore this Tragedy was acted To understand this better this Dowglas an Agent for the twelve banished Lords out of Scotland to return could not effect it unless the Lord Darnel undertook the accomplishment upon the former condition to dispatch Ritsoe from Court But they being jealous of Darnels promise not fixt in other Puntilio's would not believe him till pricking his fingers he wrote an assurance under his hand with blood in a paper really to effect it which was acted when the Queen leaned on Ritsoes shoulder at the game of Primero with the Earl of Morton Chancellor of Scotland who cherished this unlawfull familiarity a verity justified on Oath by Darnel and one of the twelve Lords the Lord Ruthin at his execution on the Scaffold a place where dying men speak true This Lady very sorrowful retiring to Sterlin Castle shortly after was brought abed of King James but took no delight in her husbands company for the Lord Bothwel became a new Corrival in her affection who both consented as Germanicus wife with Sejanus after she had been lascivious with him to blow up her husbands body with Gun-powder who was cast dead on a tree next morning a spectacle made Scotland amazed at so fearful a murder By this most wicked designe she grew so contemptible to her Realm that she was fain to flee to Queen Elizabeth for succour but lo some yeers afore severall Treasons were here discovered that this Mary set the Traytors awork to take away our late Queens life who were afore condemned for Traytors and suffered death for this Mary was the next pretender to the Crown from Henry the seventh but God prevented it by her Privy Council counted the wisest of all Europe who counselled Elizabeth to condemn her to free England from Treasons against her Person But the sage Princess conjectured if the death should be by her Edict it might raise the hatred of forraine Princes against her and therefore caused the sentence onely to be ratified by Act of Parliament the Vote of the whole Realm insomuch that a mock-Secretary called Davison was chosen to go to Fotheringham where she was rewarded with a Hatchet a just Judgement of God on her After this King James being about sixteen yeers old was crowned and had for Tutor one Bohannon called amongst us Buchanan a learned Divine and wise to train up young Princes whose Books are famous through this part of the world This prudent Schoolmaster observing the young Prince's facility to signe any Grant for his Servants without reading by which means he had pardoned many murthers and passed other Instruments of damnable consequence to the Commonwealth in which this Tutor imitated Theodosius's godly fraud to discerne the hearts of his Courtiers soundness in Religion who having taken great pains with the King from his childhood desired a boon which King Iame was willing to grant therefore one morning the king going out early a hunting Buchanan brought an absolute resignation of his kingdom with all Immunities to it which was signed without aspect At night returning from field-sports retiring usually afore supper to read some profitable Author which his Schoolmaster chose all shut out of the Cmhaber Buchanan sate down in the kings Chair and told him that he was king giving him the writing to peruse which reading he shed tears for his folly yet Buchanan after comforted him and charged his Scholar not to signe any Grant but what was just and so threw the Grant of all Scotland into the fire About this time Queen Anne was brought out of Denmark for a match a Lady of a goodly presence beautiful eyes and strong to be joyned with a Prince young and weak in constitution an union unsutable for a Virago to couple with a Spiny and thin Creature a course made her fancy work as a Fat for to further a female content and placed in her delight one Master Stuart of the house the Earle of Murry His haunting her Chamber too sedulously bred such a jealousie in King Iames for to impart his thoughts to Marquess Huntly and get dispatched this Stuart out of the way burning his house and himself in it After whose death the Queen found others to satisfie her unruly appetite as namely the Earle of Gowry a Lord of a comly visage good stature and of an attracting allurement who upon King Iames suspition of often society with the Queen converted to the Poyson of hatred the friendship and love of the Earl causing Ramsey after Earl of Holderness with others to murther Gowry in his own house giving it out for a stale that the Earl with others would have killed him And to make his falshood appear odious in shape of truth appointed the fifth of August a solemne day of Thanksgiving for his supposed delivery and in this mocked the God of Heaven After this the Queen entertained into her service one Mr. Beely a Dane to whom she bore an affection this Gentleman came with her into England and grew more entire in her thoughts with whom I had a familiarity to be a Commissioner for him in a Grant his Mistress procured for him of King Iames of felons goods in divers Counties who in great secrecie discovered to me he was naturall Father of King Charls but waxing old the Queen took two proper Gentlemen of the House of Bohannon to her service these being partners in her affection fell out in a Duell and killed one another for priority in her love Not long after Gowries death Prince Henry was born at Edinburgh whereupon Queen Elizabeth sent the Earl of Sussex Ambassadour to congratulate this birth and be Godfather with a gallant retinue but Scotland being poor and the king wanting money to discharge the glory of such a Royal entertainment the Earl of Orkney a Bastard of the former king's pawned his Estate in the Islands of Scotland to raise a great sum to discharge the Christening Behold how King James did not onely not disengage this Morgage but suffered this Earle to die in Prison at Blackness neer Edinburgh-Castle an ingratitude indelible for after-ages to detest I omit the Murders Inchantments Witcheries committed by his Predecessors of weight enough without more to pull down that House But Henry the