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religion_n	king_n	law_n	liberty_n	6,707	5	6.5575	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76881	The bloody game at cards, as it was played betwixt the King of Hearts. And the rest of his suite, against the residue of the packe of cards. Wherein is discovered where faire play; was plaid and where was fowle.		1643 (1643)	Wing B3253; Thomason E246_11; ESTC R3016	6,272	8

The bloody Game at Cards As it was played betwixt the KING OF HEARTS And the rest of His Suite against the residue of the packe of cards WHEREIN Is discovered where faire play was plaid and where was fowle Shuffled at London Cut at Westminster Dealt at Yorke and Plaid in the open field by the Citty-clubs the country Spade-men Rich-Diamond men and Loyall Hearted men The bloody Game at Cards THe Common-wealth may in many respects be compared to a packe of Cards wherein there is much shuffling and by ●he hand of Fortune the foure Suites are mingled together that is the Clubs the Countrie Spade men the rich Diamond men and the Loyall hearted Subjects that stand for the King of Hearts who challengeth a Pretogative above them all This King of Hearts desires that there might be fair play above board and hath made many Declarations and Protestations that He intends all faire dealing and desires onely to be King in His owne Common-wealth and not to be oppos'd by the Common Cards But they little regarding what the King of Hearts power is in the game of the Common-wealth presently beganne to ranke themselves into severall Suites and to oppose the King of hearts and call all the Adherents unto Him malignants after the Game of the times had thus far proceeded a quarrell arose betweene the chiefe Cards who had pack'd themselves together against the King the King of hearts Himself the controversie was about the Militia and the Commission of Aray which the King of Hearts sets on foot and would maintaine it to be good faire play the Common Cards dissented from it and alleadged that the Militia ought to be in their hands and that there could be no faire dealing in the Common-wealth if the Kings Commission of Aray went forward hereupon and upon some ot●e● dissentions the City Clubs made a great tumult and with staves clubs ●nnd swords ran to the King of Hearts Hall and put the King of Hearts into such an aff●●ght ●●a● as Himselfe doth expresse in many of His Declarations The City-Clubs comming thus in a mutinous manner made Him cast about how to get away from such a packe of knaves and so forsaking the City Clubs he purposed chiefly to repose His confidence in that Suite whereof He and His Father were King and that was the Loyall Hearts of His other Subjects and so away the King of Hearts went and by His faire dealing in the Countrey His suite of Hearts was so much encreased that he had soone collected a great Army and under the Ace which is the t●ue Protestant Religion one in substance and essence He intended to defend the Liberty of the Common cards the just Priviledges of the Common-wealth the Laws of the Land and the just government and good dealing therein and thus the game of the Common-wealth should be well and fairely playd on all sides He stakt His Royall word and called God often to witnesse How free He was from deceiving His people and that He would alwayes governe the Common Cards according to the Lawes of this Land de●●ring them all to comply with Him and with hearty affection to follow Suite in maintaining the Libertie of the Subject and the Protestant Religion which He promised as He was ●ing of hearts ever to maintaine and defend But the Common Cards namely the City c●ub●● the Countrey Spade-men and the rich Di●mond-men would beleeve nothing of the King of hearts good intentions but would ●ee●es bring all former quartels to the stake and in a Batta●le all the Common cards resolved to play about with the King of Hearts in the open field Hereupon the city-clubs ●h●se themselves a King who was indeede a brave noble Earle whose Title is exprest by two of the last Letters under him there were many other petty Kings of clubs some in gownes like the Maior of a City besides a number of others who would needes play Rex in the Kings absence so the game of war went on and then there was one company of City ●●ub-Aces or Asles in blew coates the Duces were the City Captains the Tray of clubs was a third Companie and they would have laid three to one that they should have done somewhat the foure of clubs was the Tro●ers and horsemen who chose to be horsemen that they might have foure legges to run away fast enough the ●●th was a company of fine yong men with ribbonds in their hats which they wore in re●embrance of their sweete-hearts the fixt company of clubs were Red-coats and Butchers most of them and these would have laid six to one that they would have be●te the Cavalleirs the seventh eight and ninth companies were a mixture of C●●kolds Pimps punie boyes broken citizens and unruly prentises All these went under the King of Clubs The knave of clubs seeing this greate preparation being a kinde of broken merchant having a Roundhead full of ●itty sermons and loving to talke treason in Taverns being a fellow that scorned all learning and Gentilitie and thought himself a king in the parish where he lived he gave en●ouragement to the citie-clubs and told them that the King was led away by malignants and evill Counsellours and that He was more then halfe a P●pist and he told them they might kill the King and bear armes against the King and yet fight for the King and Parliament and he would never call Him the King of Hearts And moreover the knave of clubs assured them that he would trump the King and win the field from Him This was no sooner agreed upon by all the City-Clubs but the Queene of Clubs being the wives of the inferiour sort of Mechanicks began to talke in a free manner of the King and His proceedings and at feasts and gossippings the King of Hearts was still made their subject Nay some thought they could not be got with childe enlesse their husbands stood for the Parliament and did oppose the King of Hearts And thus the Queenes of Clubs were the precise women of the Cittie the Cittie Clubs were the Cittie souldiers who under the command of the Generall of Clubs would needs march out The Spade-men shussled themselves into their number and being countrey fellowes of all suites red and blew and tawnie because they would have all some Colou●e for their knavery they have left their Sweet hearts with childe in the Countrey would needs advance forward Some calves came from Essex some Beefe and Bacon eaters from Hartfordsheire and others from other Counties to defend the Publique Faith of the Parish wherein they lived And were instructed by sermons how to be Rebells against the King of Hearts The knave of Spades was a kinde of an ignorant turbulent fellow that sate in all companies with a bolde face and a white staffe in his hand and he went abroad into ●ll Townes and Villages and sought to sowe Treason and Rebellion every where having ●ead the Kings weekly Protestations Declarations he would picke out

matter enough to make the King of Hearts no King in an Ale-house and then he would whis●er unto them that as they lookt to have any Property in their owne goods they should resist the King and His Commission of Aray for else by an Arbitrary government they should have a hundred trickes put upon them and the Countrey should be all but a company of loosing Cards and fit to be cast out of the Game of the Common-wealth and none should be respected but court cards that is Papists Malignants and Parasites and therefore said he Let all true countrey-men stand for the Libertie of the Subject the Priviledges of Parliament and the Protestant Religion of our Towne let us carry Pick-axes and Spades and digge up the two Vniversities being prophane and wicked Gardens and also with our Spades let us intrench upon all Authoritie and Power and even digge the King up by the Rootes and by the helpe of the Parliament so Hedge and Ditch in the Commons that neither I yon 's nor Asses that is the great men of the Common-wealth nor the Droanes of the Clergie may feede upon us but that Sp●des joyning with the other common Cards may undermine the Scepter of the King of Hearts for we Spade-men are all kings by our descent from Adam This being whispered into the eares of the Spade-men they all began to follow Suit in a mutinous manner to set forth many thousand Spade-men against the King of Hearts having onely learnt this Lesson from the Knave of Spades That they stood for the King and Parliament the greater Spades that is the Countrey Gentry were divided amongst themselves and men from an hundred to ten hundred a yeare were of severall sorts and opinions some followed the Knave of Spades and would oppose the King of Hearts and all his Proceedings others shuffled themselves into the Rings Armie of Hearts and ●●orned to thinke that the Spade-men should domineere over the Ring of Hearts The Diamond men were rich in Stones of all sorts and in wealth and treasure in Citie and Countrey and therefore they embrac'd Rebellion thinking that the Common Cards would defend them The Queenes of Diamons being Goldsmiths wives and others that like slow say●ing Pinnaces walkt along the streete by the steering of a prentise for a Pilot these were shrewd cards against the King of Hearts yet some were well affected to His Majestie in regard the Courtiers did often pleasure the Cit e wives with Court-stones which they exchanged for Diamon Rings The knave of Diamonds was sometimes a rich cittizen that had broken often married and wrong'd many widowes and run through all the wayes of Citie po●cie and he cryed out Silver and gold doth all the world command Therefore for it and not the King I stand This was a kinde of witles wealthie knave living and dwelling in all Parishes these perswaded the Common Cards to play the fooles in parting with p●ate and money to win the day of the King of Hearts So now suppose the three Suites have cut and shuffled and packt the Common Cards into a mut●nous mixture of Rebellion whom would they play against Not the B●●hops they were layd in prison already for fowle play in Religion the Earie of Strafford had stakt his head for the King of Hearts and lost it Sr. John Suckling Mr. Jermy● and other gamesters that had formermerly wonne much at Dice yet durst not stand to the par●ede game of the Common Cards Now those common cards before men●●oned would needs Vi Armis that is with handy stroakes against the K ng of Hearts His Majestie taking notice hereof and how the common cards had undue●y assumed unto themselves to direct and order all things like players act their own par●● 〈◊〉 ●●oun er●e●ted Crowns as if they were all Kings the King of Hearts spoke thus unto His Suite of valliant-hearted souldiers The Scepter is and must bee mine Vnite your selves to maintaine so Honourable so Just a Ca●se and what one hand cannot infringe Let many mainetaine You have God for your cause you have me for his second and since both are together who can oppose us This being said the Kings men were all Hearts not onely in colour but in courage So the Game of warre beganne in Kenton field where the Cannons played sorely and many of the Common Cards were lost the Kings Suite put tricks upon them but yet were some time shrewdly beaten themselves the chafing Drum and bragging Trumpet kept away other sounds of dying or flying Cards in the hea●e of this b●oody Game where all were players none were spectators or lookers on Prince Robert beganne to play foule play and to plunder the Common Cards and tooke away their waggons and kil'd their Waggoners and was not this foule play But some Gamesters or souldiers may say that Prince Roberts foule play in plundering the waggons was a great helpe to advance the fortune of that day for otherwise the Common cards had lost more lives if Prince Robert had not imployed some troopes to pillage the waggons Well the Game went forward very hotly kill kill was the word instead of play follow suite was trun'd to fall on upon the right wing thus they continued the Game of war but the left wing of the Common Cards shewed the basest trick that ever was for they took their wings and fled quite away like beaten gamesters or else ran to the Kings side the red Cards on both sides that day performed and played their parts very couragiously But some of the citie clubs ran away for knaves will be knaves and towards will be cowards upon occasions but to say truth there was brave faire Cards on both sides and such hot play as the like Game was never playd in any other Nation the French-mans Pell Mell is but to let out his sweating humours and make him have a stomacke to his meat and a wench but this game of pe● mel did let out their deerest blood and this letting of blood made them have more courage and stomacke to fight so that the Common Cards lay torne and cast upon the ground so did the Kings Hearts blowes being dealt equally in this bloody game at least they having spent their fury a long time on one another like strong Gamesters full of money and therefore scorning to yeelde they retreated and breathed a while intending to have another bout and from the top of Edge-Hill the king of Hearts viewed the common Cards killing them with murdering eyes full of fury when they could not reach them with their swords but at the last considering that they as well as the Common Cards had lost many of their Suites they had no stomackes to play out their loosing hands any longer but to save some of their Cards to make bloody sport at some other time So they drew stakes for that night the victory being not gotten on either side but blowes enough dealt about both by the foot play and the horse play