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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

to the Records of Parliament sometime there was added to and sometime diminished from what was in the Roll of Parliament and somewhat put in that might be advantageous to the kings and put out was for the benefit of the Subject as I have observed by my comparing the printed book with the Record And truly if there were a Committee to examine the Records it should be necessary to see the right of the Subject And in decimo octavo Iacobi king James sent and took what was done that Parliament from Master Wright Clerke of the Parliament So likewise the king by his power and the great Lords of Court made Courtiers Burgesses and sometime knight of the Shire by letters who hindred much the proceedings in Parliament by their vote it being the policy of the Dukes of Cornwall in the Stannaries to have multitude of Burgesses to make themselves potent in Parliament which now the Parliament will prevent by providing that the Representative may be equally chosen from all parts Likewise it was usual for king James and King Charles if any did speak in the behalf of the Commonalty in Parliament against the prerogative to make them Sheriffs or impose other burthensome Offices on them as my self and Sir Guy Palmes were served after that Parliament of 18 Iacobi or to be revenged on them some other way for doing their duty in Parliament as then was invented by projectors as I could recite divers examples in my time The Courtiers also laboured to make good patriots Courtiers as Sir Dudley Digs was made a Courtier and Master of the Rolls who was faithful to the Parliament and dyed before a Parliament came this was to draw their affection from the multitude to the Soveraignty so that by those means Tyranny was increased and the right of the people waved which now will be redressed and reformed by Gods blessing and prudence of the State Now I will draw a short Lantskip by way of Epitome to examine what good king Iames and King Charles have done since Anno Domini 1603. The seven yeers Parliament was a sage and wise Parliament and laboured to do much good for the then-kingdome and as a new broom sweepeth clean at first king Iames granted some good Laws but the Court of Wards they endeavoured to pull down which had ruined infinite families upon offer to give the king two hundred thousand pound in deposito and annually two hundred thousand pound but it was opposed by Robert Earl of Salisbury otherwise a very good Commonwealths-man as too great a thing for the king to part with And truly that Parliament took great pains to reform abuses in Church and State but not much was done for the good of the Subject but great sums granted and a good Government hoped for rather then in fruition For king Iames spent much time in his pleasures and much money in Embassies to make himself great so that there was some good for the Merchants but Tonnage and poundage given by Parliament was for Guarding the Seas which was imployed to the Royal purse onely so that although complained of the Merchants were at a double charge in wafting their goods After king Iames wronged the fisher-men and us much by granting to his brother Henry the fourth king of France for his moneth to fish on our coast who under that colour took away the very earth and spawn of the fish of Rotchet Gurnet Cunger and Hadduck to Deep where they have abundance and we want King Iames granted the Hollanders to fish on our coasts and for a smal petty rate the Island of Lewis in Scotland and other Isles of Ireland to dry their fish by which they have inriched themselves above fourty millions Sterling In that Parliament of seven yeers they laboured to reform abuses in Church and Commonwealth and that the pious Ministers might not be tyed to subscribe to the unlawful Ceremonies of the Bishops which was not granted but in nono Iacobi at Hampton Court were divers pious men as Reynolds Kniwstabs Clerk and other reverend Divines to dispute about ceremonies but that the Divines had not freedome of speech for all went on the Bishops sides a cause England in all parts after were deprived of pious men which were silenced imprisoned and put out of their Lectures and livings so that want of teaching caused profaneness to get the preheminence The Parliament of duodecimo Iacobi was onely for undertakers to raise money for king Iames some Bishops were questioned as Bilson and others but the Parliament dissolved without doing any thing Then was the Parliament of 18 Iacobi where Heath was for the Commons Sir Thomas Wentworth and Christopher Wansford and others were for the kings side where also Sir Iohn Bennet Sir Giles Mumpesson and Sir Iohn Mitchel were condemned and the Parliament so dissolved in which Parliament Serjeant Grimston called me out of the house to the Earl of Bedford the Earl of Westmorland and Sir Francis Vane dead to the little Room in the Lobby where they offered me ten thousand pound or 500. a yeer which I would choose not to oppose the bill of the Fens in the house I answered no money nor estate would make me betray the country This Parliament was made voide and 32 patents called in by king Iames and so he pleased the people with a toy Many and divers were convented by the Councel-table to pay certain sums or to be imprisoned whereof I was one being brought before the Councel when Sir Albert Morton waited Then came the Parliament of 21 Iacobi a little afore king Iames his end where were some good Laws enacted the Lord Keeper Bacon and the Earl of Middlesex condemned for bribery A little afore this I being Custos Rotulorum of the County of Cambridge by Buckingham was put out and Sir Iohn Cuts put in when I had that Office under the broad seal which could not legally be taken away from me unless I had committed some fault thereby to have forfeited the same Now there remaineth no more for the Parliament to do but faithfully to keep what they have justly gotten by Gods Divine providence and his will in a valourous Conquest to the end that when they have setled the building of the State upon a right and firme Basis they may further inlarge the kingdome of the Lord Jesus by their indeavours through Europe which I am fully assured God hath appointed and will certainly bring to pass that all the world may see Gods determination in every climate of this part of the world After this new State is put into the cradle of ease and tranquillity to make it have a full gtowth there will be nothing to hinder the establishment thereof no titles upon marriage as in Monarchy because the power is in the people and they chuse a Representative that shall govern every two or three yeers making an election of Members of Parliament that every one may Govern by vicissitude and therefore there would

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

way they certainly fulfilled Gods determination upon the seventh Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter being Sabbattical since the beginning of the world to bring down the Mountain of Monarchy which had continued more then five hundred yeers to depress the extortion practised in Europe from Charlemain's Age a Symptome and Harbinger for France Spaine Germany Turky and Papacy to change from an unbridled power to an Aristocratical or Plebeian way of rule which will better advance the Kingdom of Jesus Christ thorow the Universe whereby it appeares that England by Gods assistance may be the elder brother to bring to pass so mighty an alteration on the the stage of Christendom By divers ungodly Sophisms of State for the space of ten yeers King Charles raised up innumerable Projectors and ungodly burdens to enthral the Nations by an Arbitrary way imposing Monopolies many unlawful Taxes under which they remained without remedy of relief the eyes and eares of all in high authority being blinde and deaf not to hear nor see Petitions of just complaints insomuch that the people generally cried out Where are our Laws and demanded if all Justice were banished out of their quarters and with eyes lift up to Heaven desired that those caterpillers might not swell too big like a Spleen to bring a Consumption to the whole body praying also that their empty purses might not be filled with blood although their eyes with tears Now this miserable condition perceived by the wrinkles sorrow made on the brow of our disordered affaires all wise counsels banished and the reputation of a pious State withered was augmented by King Charles his imposing the Common-Book of Prayer on the Scots wherein God seemed to be deaf a time for the sins of this Nation multiplied against the Divine Majesty yet at last he heard the prayers of the Saints that the Scotish men could not endure this imposition so Diametrically opposite to the Kirk and disposition of the Nation This Stratagem was by the artifice of Laud Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to bring into the Country Episcopal Government to unite both Kingdoms in one forme of Church in something agreeable with Rome as a bridge over which he might bring both people to Popery to ingratiate himself with the Pope for a Cardinals Cap. Lo how Charles and Scotland differed in this wide field of behaviour the interest of the King made Will a Law and the other avoided such a Slavery the issue was growing by this Edict obstinate they could not endure it But King Charles persisted in his wilful determination to finde out this subject to work the effects of his indignation upon so that this occasion was fitly presented to his wishes to raise an Armed Power to subdue them to his unbridled Pleasure But when this War exenterated his Coffers for lack of Money he was constrained nolens volens to call a Parliament by the advice of the fomer wicked Counseller who perswaded him to it making the King believe that at his pleasure he might on all accasions break the neck of such Assemblies In the mean while the enterprise was hatched on the basis of a contrariety of inclination by which he might set a bone to divide and governe both because that Nation by the immense bounty of King James was grown exceeding rich which sowed seeds of envy in England to oppose the Scot. But by this Parliament God who hath sole power in sublunaries turned this cross blow to the good of both to enlarge the Gospel of Jesus Christ and for the Liberty of England and Scotland But because the errand of my Discourse is not solely to shew the abuses of State but rather by reckoning up a brief Catalogue of some to demonstrate and delineate the just Judgement of God on the Family of these Stuarts for Cruelties and Murthers one of another that we may raise up our praises to God who out of the ashes of intended ruine hath made the Source of so glorious a State as now is planted on our English Stage wherein God findes this Common-wealth very consistent with his adequate glory in consummating the fulness of the Gentiles and calling home of the Jews foretold in the Scriptures to be performed in the latter Ages of the World to the intent Promises and Prophecies should be accomplished for the Dominion of Christ to extend to the ends of the earth that those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death may be brought into a more perspicuous light to follow the steps Christ hath traced out for all to walk in which the over-grown pride of Kings and Emperours would not submit to Therefore to demonstrate and observe how the Almighty hand of God hath determined the extirpation of the Royal Stock of the Stuarts for murthering one of another for their prophane Government and wanton Lasciviousness of those Imps ingrafted in that Stock I am forced to raise the fabrick of this Relation higher by the fourth Story and last staire of the great Grand-father of Charles the first who was slaine at Muscle-borough-field by the English Army under the command of the Earl of Arundel and Surrey This King I say left a sole Daughter Mary Suart Inheritrix of that Realm who when she attained of Viripotency was sought for a consort to the Dolphin of France which title of right belongs to the first Son of the King of that Crown This Prince after the Marriage ended his days by a shiver of a Launce at the sport of Tourney in Paris A Match contrived by the French for the Scots to be Goads in our sides to hinder our invading of France to which we had a just Title But this Mary deprived of her mate by this sad accident living some few yeers in the French Court where she was educated in the School of Venus proved an apt Scholar in that wanton Academy and affecting in her inclination to be more absolute in her passion of Love to chuse without controul a Paramour sutable when how long and who she pleased grew weary of the delights of Paris desiring variety returned into Scotland where she had more power she being constant in nothing but in Inconstancy A place where the amorous way was much in esteeme though the Church-Government somewhat hindered it which was then not of such force as since This Princess cast her glances everywhere about to finde a beauty fit for her imbrace and at last fixt her liking on the Lord Darnel of the House and Family of the Stuarts of Boote in Scotland whose Ancestors were there famous contesting long ago for the King with one Wallis in their home-bred broiles who sided with the people To say truth this Lord was a goodly and amiable person fit for any Compeership how great soever but after some time this Princess soon satiated grew weary of the conjunction by reason of a servant she entertained called David Ritsoe an Italian Musician who exceled in the Airs of Italy above others in that Faculty who inchanting

fourth of France being informed of this congratulation and conceiving it to be a step to unite England and Scotland in one Government Elizabeth waxing old sent a Letter of incouragement to King James to joyn with him in revenge of his Mothers death who replied as the true Copy expressed that he would not fall at difference with Elizabeth since he was now more secure in his Throne then in his Mothers time intimating he was not sorry for her amovall for her life might have procured his ruine Elizabeth after fourty yeers Reign was moved by her privy Council to settle King Iames for successor who said she would not erect a Monument in her life for a follower to expect her end She was a Lady adorned with Majesty Learning Languages Wisdom and Piety yet fearful of death for she hated any word tended to it as shall be manifest by Roger Lord North when carving one Day at Dinner the Queen asked what that covered dish was he lifting up the cover replied Madam it is a Coffin a word moved the Queen to anger And are you such a fool said she to give a Pie such a name This gave warning to the Courtiers not to use any word mentioned her death But this prudent Prince died after fourty four yeers compleat and king James was proclaimed about the last of March 1602. king of England by his privy Council assisted by the Lord Mayor of London Sir Robert Lee. In May after he entered met with many Nobles and Gentlemen the Sheriffs attending him in every County from Berwick so that there was a general applause and Royal entertainment at his entrance into the Charter-house in London yet ominously attended with a great Plague of three thousand dying in a week in the City This Union gave a grand expectation of tranquillity to both kingdoms To effect this better he called a Parliament lasted seven yeers and raised many Subsidies with great sums left by his Predecessor which vast treasure was all bestowed on the needy Scots who like Horse-leeches sucked the Exchequer dry so that Honour and Offices were set to sale to fill the Scots purses and empty the kingdoms treasure This caused a by-word That the Exchequer reached from London to Edinburgh This was not sufficient to gorge their insatiable requests but many Monopolies likewise were erected my self after reporting thirty two Patents to the Parliament in decimo octavo Iacobi The Queen deprived of the nightly Company of a husband turned her delight to the Prince whom she respected above her other children finding him too serious diverted him from so much intensiveness to an amorous gesture in which the English Court took great pride To that purpose she initiated him in the Court of Cupid as one night she shut him under lock and key in a chamber with a beautiful young Lady now dead which shewed her love to the sport indeed morelikea Bawd than a discreet Mother who is bound to season her children in vertue while young that they may hold the taste in age whose example in vertue or vice might draw a world to follow the pattern But after Prince Henry fell mortally sick of a supposed Fever but not without suspition of poyson A Prince whom all Europe expected to be the promoter of some great and famous action because his inclination was bent to the Martial art above his yeers and also excelled in matters of State both in discourse and choice of ablest company which he much delighted in for advice and counsel This ripeness in judgement and dexterity in Souldiery to form Models of any sort of Battels stirred up king Iames to suspect the Prince might depose him especially knowing he was not begot of his body This caused the Lord Saintcleare then Ambassadour in Denmark not to be ashamed to challenge Prince Henry to be his own son to English and Scots there arrived so that by some Pill or other the Prince came to his end This was plainly shewed when he was cut up to be imbalmed his brain was Liver-hued and putrefied an argument of poison as was affirmed by a most learned Physician Butler of Cambridge Now king Iames more addicted to love males then females though for complement he visited Queen Anne yet never lodged with her a night for many yeers Whereupon Gundamore observing how king Iames was addicted told him that the Lady Hatton would not suffer the Lord Cook her husband to come into her fore-door nor he himself to come into her back-door Hatton and Ely houses joyning together where they dwelt she denying him a passage backward to take air Now that the fruit of Mortality might declare humane frailty Queen Anne who had trod so many stately footings in masks of Court Beauty fading strength faling and youth metamorphosed to yeers health to sickness being haunted with a lingering sickness which contracted her end For Doctor Upton at his death not long afore the Queen's declared a Skeleton being in her womb proves she was with childe and that Physick had destroyed it and so the Skeleton remained which was laboured to be purged away but all in vain rotted in her Of this Docter there was a jealousie of revealing it for which his passage was made to another world as his tongue to me at his death uttered who married my neer kinswoman The Queen departed the King sold his affections to Sir George Villiers whom he would tumble and kiss as a Mistress This favourite had erected many Monopolies who finding Parliaments hindered his profit caused his Master to dissolve those Patents and break up the Parliament of decimo octavo raising a number of Privy Seals which were borrowed and never paid And to adde to the iniquity of the times divers Incests were then pardoned insomuch as two Gentlemen who married two sisters one after another got License at Newmarket not to be molested in the High-Commission But above all a godly Minister in Lincolnshire was barbarously murthered by one Cartwright whom King Iames pardoned The reason of this murther was for rebuking him of swearing drunkenness and whoring At this time were many pious Divines silenced by the Bishops who inhibited preaching in the afternoon divers Exercises in several Towns commanded downe an occasion bred much prophaness in England king lames allowing dancing about May-poles and so winked at breaking the Sabbath a vice God curseth everywhere in Scripture What shall I say more All impiety was incouraged in such a sort that lawful Mariages were divorced or nullified as namely the Countess of Essex from the Earl of Essex late General for the Parliament alledging the Lord had a defect and was not able to perform the act of generation although the contrary was after proved to make a gap for Somerset's adultery by a Nullity which Bishop Bilson devised a nick-name being given for this to his son who was rewarded with Knighthood and therefore stiled by the people Sir Nullity Bilson This Bishop maintained Christs personal descention into hell an

opinion disavowed by all Orthodox Divines And many other false opinions were maintained in that age as that Solomon was damned an Amanuenses of the Scripture The second example is the Lord Riches Lady named Penelope who was divorced to make way for the Lo. Montjoy's lust Earl of Devonshire What shall I say more Did not king Iames his minions and favorites rule the kingdom in the person of the king who were five in number since his approach upon English ground to wit Sir George Humes Earl of Dunbar Sir Philip Herbert after Earl of Montgomery and Pembrook Sir Iames Hayes Earl of Carlile and Sir Robert Car Earl of Sommerset who defiled his hands in Overbury's death that wicked divorce ushering the murther This Sommerset being elected of the Council furnished his Library onely with twenty Play-books and wanton Romances and had no other in his Study A Lord very like to give wise counsel This Lord with his Lady were questioned for the murther and the Lieutenant of the Tower Sir George Elloways was hanged but for concealing of it king Iames being willing with this accusation to make passage for another favorite which was Sir George Villiers after Duke of Buckingham who by his greatness vitiated many gentile and noble virgins in birth though vitious for yeelding to his lust whose greatness opened the door to allure them more To please this favorite King Iames gave way for the Duke to entice others to his will Two examples I will recite first the King entertained Sir Iohn Crafts and his Daughter a beautiful lass at Newmarket to sit at the Table with the King This he did then to procure Buckingham the easier to vitiate her Secondly Mrs Dorothy Gamay being a rare creature King Iames carried Buckingham to Gulford to have his will on that Beauty but Sir Nicholas Bacon's Sons conveyed her out of a window into a private chamber over the leads and so disappointed the Duke of his wicked purpose In which cleanly conveyance the Author had a hand with the Knights Sons Truly that day a sober man was hard to be seen in King Prince and Nobles Moreover it was an art King Iames used for these favourites to be skreens to decline the hatred of his People when complained of in Parliament and when questioned they were spunges to be squeezed to to fill his Coffers One story I wil relate more remarkable then the rest the king very timerous of death from the contrivings of Pope and Spaine wrote a Letter to the Pope that he would tolerate Popery when he brought affaires to his bent in Great Britaine The Letter discovered by a lucky chance to the seven yeers Parliament and complained of in the Remonstrance to the king he made the Scotish Secretary own this act and affirm it was his and not the kings promising him to take him off at last with advancement but contrary it occasioned the Secretaries ruine Here by the way I must play the Cook to lard three several occurrences not impertinent to the matter in hand The first was that Secretary Winnode took a bribe of 20000 pound to redeliver the four Cautionary Townes in Holland to the Dutch which we now may see might have curbed the States from prejudicing England Another was king Iames his weakness to give way to Gundamore to take away Sir Walter Rawliegh's life who might have vexed Philip the second of Spaine A third was to sell Iron Ordnance discover the art of their Carriages which all the world was ignorant of This last favourite George Duke of Buckingham advanced to such power with his Mother rewarded the king with poyson by a poysoning water and a plaister made of the Oyle of Toads This Duke from a private Gentleman with an annuity of thirty pound a yeer for life was raised to such a mount of glory and power to be Master of Horse Master of the Wards Liveries Admiral of England and Lord Warden of the Cinq-ports A Lord tall of stature amiable countenance who like a ravenous kyte ingrossed all into his hands to inrich and advance his kindred and to place and displace whom he listed so that this Lord was grown so potent his Master stood in awe of him in such sort that when the king was sick of the Gout he would remove him from place to place at pleasure against the kings will who to work his ends wrought into favour with the rifing Phebus king Charles The king prying into this way of his Successor set a bold Courtier Doctor Turner a float to bring the Earl of Bristol then out to launch into favou but the Duke complying with Turner perceived the plot against him wrought by a countermine by Charles the chief Engineer but the Dukes drift was after king Iames his death to make himself king of Ireland and therefore he was stiled Prince of Typeraria an appendix to that Throne This made the Duke swell like a Toad to such a monstrous proportion of greatness in vast thoughts as muitiplying to an ocean from the rivers of pride power and ambition he sate as a Gyant on the shoulders of king Iames and drowned his power limiting no bounds to his overflowing will whose vertue and good nature being corrupted by so wicked a life turned love into hatred obedience into rule for after he had dispatched the Duke of Richmond Marquess Hamilton the Earl of Southampton and his son by poyson as by Doctor Eglestons relation plainly appeared to the Parliament whom he caused to be killed in forr●ine parts for discovering the villany Thus filled with venome of greatness he made no bones to send his Master packing to another world as appeared plainly in Parliament by the witness of divers Physitians especially Doctor Ramsey in full hearing at a Committee Wherefore for this other crimes he was impeached in the beginning of King Charles his Government and though King Charles was bound to prosecute King Iames and the other Lords death committed contrary to all the laws of God and Nations yet King Charles to save the Duke dissolved the Parliament and never after had the truth tryed to clear himself from confederacy or the Duke from so hainous a scandal Now let all the world judge of Charles his carriage whether he were not guilty of conniving at so foul a sin though not of the death so that covering his Lyon-like disposition with appearance of a Lamb he proved like Nero the Tyrant that in the Parliament of the Petition of right shewing himself in his lively colours for displaying the Banner of Tyranny he put an end to the meeting imprisoned divers members so that Sir Iohn Elliot dyed and the rest remained in durance because they had been faithful to their Countrey and to add to cruelty he sent Sergeant Glanvile Sir Peter Hayman and Colonel Purify into forraine parts to consume their fortunes and hazard their lives calling not a Parliament long after By this time Sycophants so inlarged the Monarchy without bounds