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 Issue No. 7. 
 
 WORKS 
 
 OP 
 
 JOHN TAYLOR 
 
 THE WATER POET 
 
 NOT INCLUDED IN THE FOLIO VOLUME 
 OF 1630 
 
 FIRST COLLECTION 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE SPENSER SOCIETY 
 
 1870 
 
PRELIMINARY NOTICE. 
 
 IN issuing this first collection of the Tracts of John 
 Taylor, not comprised in the folio of 1630, the 
 Council deem it necessary to offer a few remarks. 
 
 It will be seen that the 4to size has been adopted in 
 continuing the works of this author, being that in which 
 the Tracts were originally published, a very few instances 
 in which the 12 mo form was used being excepted. It 
 was for some time under consideration whether they 
 should not be reprinted in folio, following the plan of the 
 work of 1630, so as to make a second volume uniform 
 and to match with the first, but it was found, on testing 
 the practicability of this scheme, that it was liable in 
 detail to so many difficulties and that it would so mate- 
 rially interfere with the leading principle of the Society 
 of making their reprints, as nearly as possible, facsimiles 
 of the original works, that, after a very careful comparison 
 of the advantages of each plan, that now adopted was 
 determined upon as indisputably the one to be preferred. 
 
 The Tracts, it is scarcely necessary to observe, can 
 only be reprinted as obtained, and, being very numerous, 
 will have to be gradually derived from various sources. 
 
It follows that the first arrangement of them must ne- 
 cessarily be a provisional one. They have, however, 
 been so printed as to admit of a final chronological 
 arrangement at the close, and, when the last of the col- 
 lections is issued, fresh title pages will accompany it 
 with prefatory bibliographical matter, and the Tracts can 
 then be re-adjusted in regular series and in volumes of 
 convenient size. 
 
 Several of Taylor's pieces appeared without his name, 
 but there are generally sufficient marks and characteristics 
 about them to admit of their being ascribed to him with 
 a full degree of confidence. Care will be taken not to 
 include any in this continuation of his works, the pater- 
 nity of which can be considered as dubious. 
 
 One collection connected with this author will contain 
 the tracts, some of which are exceedingly curious and all 
 of which are very rare, published against him, and which 
 are of importance both to explain his own writings and 
 from the light they throw on his controversies and the 
 opinions entertained of him by his contemporaries. 
 
 Most valuable as the folio of 1630 must be considered 
 to be, as a collection of the works of John Taylor up to 
 that date, made with his sanction, yet in some instances it 
 would appear that the republication has been taken from 
 imperfect copies ; or that, from want of due supervision, 
 omissions have occurred of introductory and other matter 
 which ought unquestionably to have been retained. It 
 is therefore proposed to collate, as far as opportunities 
 
will allow, the folio with the original editions of the 
 tracts contained in it and to supply any Important omis- 
 sions and variations which can be detected on such 
 collation in an appendix. 
 
 Many of the tracts of Taylor are of such rarity as only 
 to exist in an unique, or nearly unique shape in the pri- 
 vate libraries of some eminent collectors, and it is obvi' 
 ous that, without their liberal co-operation and assistance, 
 such an attempt as the present must to a certain extent 
 fail in the great object of bringing together the entire 
 works of this voluminous author. The Council therefore, 
 while they most gratefully acknowledge on the part of 
 the members the obligations they are under to the rev. 
 Thomas Corser, M.A., F.S.A., and to W. W. Robinson, 
 esq., of Oxford, for the unreserved and very liberal man- 
 ner in which they have placed their Taylor treasures at 
 the disposal of the Society with a view to the present col- 
 lections, venture to solicit further assistance from others 
 who may have the power to aid them in the undertaking 
 which, judging from the many expressions of favour and 
 praise which the reprint of the folio has already called 
 forth, is felt to be one of the most valuable as well as 
 most attractive of the many republications which are now 
 in progress of the authors who reflect as in a mirror the 
 old times of England. 
 
 J AS. Crossley, President. 
 
WORKS ,;,v,;,,^, 
 
 ^ n if I Y 
 
 OF 
 
 JOHN TAYLOR 
 
 THE WATER POET 
 
 NOT INCLUDED IN THE FOLIO VOLUME 
 OF 1630 
 
 FIRST COLLECTION 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE SPENSER SOCIETY 
 
 M.DCCC.LXX. 
 S 
 
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 I'OT, Iff' iiv f'MAKij". H, ;i/,Mr,r 
 Mai.' III". I I'l' 
 
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST 
 COLLECTION. 
 
 The references are to Haslitt's Bibliographical Hand Book and Bohn's 
 Lowndes^ s Bibliographical Manual. 
 
 1. Taylor on Thame Ifis: or the Defcription of the two famous Riuers 
 
 of Thame and Ifts, who bemg conioyned or combined together, are 
 called Thamifts, or Thames. London, Printed by John Haviland. 
 1632. (14 leaves.) \JI. No. 49.] 
 
 2. The Old, Old, Very Old Man: or. The Age and long Life of Thomas 
 
 Par, the Son of John Parr of Winnington in the Parifli of 
 Alberbiiry; in the County oi Salopp, (or Shropjhire) who was Borne 
 in the Raigne of King Edward the 4th, and is now living in the 
 Strand, being aged 152. yeares and odd Monethes. London, 
 Printed for Henry Goffon. 1635. (16 leaves.) \H. No. 5^2.] 
 
 3. Part of this Summers Travels. Or News from Hell, Hull, and Hallifax, 
 
 from York, Linne, Leicejkr, Chejler, Coventry, Lichfield, Notting- 
 ham, and the Divells Ars a Peake. Imprinted-tjy J. O. [1639.] 
 (26 leaves.) [Not in Hazltit nor Lowndes^ 
 
 4. The Praife of the Needle. Printed for lames Baler. 1640. (4 
 
 leaves, with 2 fpecimens of the Engravings.) [H. No. 62.] 
 
 5. Differing Worfhips, or. The Oddes, betweene fome Knights Service 
 
 and God's. Printed for William Ley. 1640. (17 leaves.) 
 
 [H. No. 64,] 
 
iv Contents of the First Collection. 
 
 6. A Swarme of Sedtaries, and Schifmatiques ; Wherein is difcovered the 
 
 (Irange preaching (or prating) of fuch as are by their trades Cob- 
 lers, Tinkers, Pedlers, Weavers, Sowgelders, and Chymney- 
 Sweepers. Printed luckily, and may be read unhappily &c. 1641. 
 (.^ leaves.) [H.N0.66.] 
 
 7. Religions Enemies. With a brief and ingenious Relation, as by 
 
 Anabaptists, Brownijls, Papists, Familists, Atheijls, and Foolijts, 
 fawcily prefuming to toffe Religion in a Blanquet. Printed at 
 London for Thomas Bates. 1641. (4 leaves.) \H. No. 68.] 
 
 8. The Liar. Or, A contradiaion to thofe who in the titles of their 
 
 Bookes affirmed them to be true, when they were falfe : although 
 mine are all true, yet I terme them lyes. Printed in the yeare 
 1641. (4 leaves.) \H. No. 70.] 
 
 9. A Pedlar and a Romifh Priefl, in a very hot Difcourfe, full of Mirth, 
 
 Truth, wit. Folly, and Plain-dealing. Printed in the yeare 1641. 
 (12 leaves) \H. No. 71.] 
 
 10. A Tale in a Tub, or, A Tub Ledlure, as' it was delivered by 
 
 My-heele Mendfoale, an Infpired Brownifl., and a mofl upright 
 Tranflator. London, Printed 1641. (4 leaves.) [ZT. No. 78.] 
 
 1 1. A full and compleat Anfwer againft. the Writer of a late Volume fet 
 
 forth, entituled A Tale in a Tub, or A Tub Le^lure: with a Vin- 
 dication of that ridiculous name called Round-Heads. London, 
 Printed for F. Cowles, T. Bates, and T. Banks. 1642. (4 leaves) 
 
 \H. No. 79.] 
 
 12. A Plea for Prerogative: or, Give Ccefar his due. Being the Wheele 
 
 of Fortune turn'd round: Or, The World turned topfie-turvie. 
 London, printed for T. Bankes. 1642. (4 leaves.) 
 
 \H. No. 72.] 
 
 13. The Whole Life and Progreffe of Henry Walker the Ironmonger. 
 
 Printed at London 1642. (4 leaves.) [If, No. 71;.] 
 
Contents of the First Collection. v 
 
 14. Mad Fafhions, Od Fafhions, All out of Fafliions, or, The Emblems 
 
 of thefe DillracSled times. London, Printed by lohn Hammond, 
 for Thomas Banks, 1642. (4 leaves.) \H. No. 86.] 
 
 15. An Apology for- Private Preaching. In which thofe Formes are 
 
 warranted, or rather juilified, which the malignant Sedl contemne, 
 and daily by prophane Pamphlets make ridiculous. By T. J. 
 Jun. 28. Printed for R. Wood, T. Wilfon, and E. Chrijbpher. 
 [1642.] {i^ leaves.) \H. No.^-i.\ 
 
 16. A duller of Coxcombes, or, A Cinquepace of five forts of Knaves 
 
 and Fooles: Namely, The Donatijls, Publicans, Difdplinarians, 
 Anabaptifts, and Brownifts; Their Originals, Opinions, Confuta- 
 tions, and (in a word) their Heads Roundly jolted together. luly 
 13. Printed for Richard Webb, 1642. (4 leaves.) 
 
 [In Lowndes, but not in HazlittP^ 
 
 17. Aqua-Musm: or, Cacafogo, Cacadsemon, Captain George Wither 
 
 Wrung in the Withers. Being a fliort lafliing Satyre, wherein the 
 Juggling Rebell is Compendioufly finely Firked and Jerked, for 
 his late railing Pamphlet againll the King and State, called 
 Campo-Musse. Printed in the fourth Yeare of the Grand Rebel- 
 lion. [1644.] (8 leaves.) \H. No. 87.J 
 
 18. The Complaint of Chriflmas, written after Twelfetide, and Printed 
 
 before Candlemas. Printed at the charges of the Author. [Mays, 
 1646.] (4 leaves, no title-page.) \H. No. 99.] 
 
 19. The Kings mofl excellent Majefties Wellcome to his owne Houfe, 
 
 Truly called the Honour of Hampton Court. Printed in the Yeare 
 1647. (4 leaves.) \H. No. loi.] 
 
 20. 'inn-'ANeponoS: or. An Ironicall Expoftulation with Death 
 
 and Fate, For the Loffe of The late Lord Mayor of London. 
 Printed, Atino exulantis Monarchic 8. Anno Domini 1648. 
 (4 leaves.) \H- No. 104^.] 
 
vi Contents of the First Collection. 
 
 21. John Taylors Wandering, to fee the Wonders of the Weft. 
 
 How he travelled neere 600. Miles, from London to the Mount 
 in Cornwall, and beyond the Mount, to the Lands end, and home 
 againe. Dedicated to all his loving Friends, and free minded 
 Benefailors. Printed in the Yeere 16 ^g. {12 leaves.) 
 
 \H. No. 106.] 
 
 22. The Number and Names of all the Kings of England and Scotland, 
 
 From the beginning of their Governments to this Prefent. Lon- 
 don, Printed in the Yeare 1649. (16 leaves.) {IT. No. 107.] 
 
 23. Chriftmas In & Ovt: or, Our Lord & Saviour Chrifts Birth-Day. 
 
 London, Printed at the Charge of the Authour, 1652. (8 leaves.) 
 
 \H. No. 118.] 
 
 24. A Short Relation of a Long loumey made Round or Ovall by 
 
 encompaffing the Principalitie of Wales, from London, through 
 and by the Counties of Middlefex and Buckingham, Berks, Oxonia, 
 Warwick, Stafford, Chejler, Flint, Denbigh, Anglefey, Carnarvan, 
 Merioneth, Cardigan, Pembrooke, Caermarden, Glamorgan, Mon- 
 mouth, Glocejler, d^c. Performed by the Riding, Going, Crawling, 
 Running, and Writing oi John Taylor, dwelling at the Sign of 
 the Poets Head, in Phenix Alley, near the midle of Long Aker 
 or Covent Garden. \To which is appended] Cambria Brittania: 
 or, A (hort Abreviation of the Hiflory, and Chronicles of Wales. 
 [1653.] {24 leaves.) [If. No. 122.] 
 
1632. 
 Taylor on Thame Ifis. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 49.J 
 
Taylor on Thame IJis : 
 OR THE 
 
 DESCRIPTION 
 
 OF THE TWO FA- 
 
 mous Riuers of Thame and yjis, 
 
 who being conioyned or combined 
 
 together, are called Thamijis, 
 
 or Thames. 
 
 With all the Flats, Shoares, Shelues, Sands, 
 
 Weares, Stops, Riuers, Brooks, Bournes, Streames, 
 
 Rills, Riuolets, Streamelets, Creeks, and whatfoeuer 
 
 helps the faid Riuers haue, from their fprings 
 
 or heads, to their falls into the Ocean. 
 
 As alfo a difcouery of the hinderances which doe 
 
 impeach the paffage of Boats and Barges, betwixt 
 
 the fam.ous Vniuerfity of Oxford, and 
 
 the City of London. 
 
 London, 
 Printed by John Haviland. 1632. 
 
W^!iitK<^iiiiD>ai«a>j;iin^)iiiic— •)iiii.^M«»)i't<» ?ni c<»a»wn^i"!toJJii 
 
 TO 
 The Right Honourable Lords, 
 
 Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surrey, 
 
 Earle Marfhall of England: Edward Lord 
 
 Vifcount Wimbleton: Henry Lord Vifcount Fawlkland: 
 
 and Sir Thomas Edmonds, Knight, Treafurer of the Kings 
 
 Houfhold : Lords of his Maiefties mofb Honourable 
 
 Priuy Councell, and Commiffioners for the 
 
 Nauigation and fifhing of the famous 
 
 Riuers of Thames and 
 
 Medway. 
 
 Ight Noble Lords, withforrow I beheld. 
 That which to write my duty hath compel' d, 
 And (from my pen) the Thames flowed to thepreffe, 
 From thence it ebbes to you to finde redrejfe. 
 
 My Honourable Lord of Dorchefter, 
 
 He truly noted in particular, 
 
 Dame Ifis wrongs, and Thames great injuries. 
 
 For they were fad perfpeiliues to his eyes, 
 
 And had his Lord/hip liu'd his meaning was 
 
 To make the Riuer pajfable, to paffe. 
 
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The Epiftle Dedicatory. 
 
 For then with noble care and diligence 
 He view'd the helps, and iJte impediments, 
 Which aid, or hinder pajfage vp and downe, 
 Twixt Oxford City, and braue Windfor towne ; 
 Yet as I fometimes ro-dfd and fometimes Jieer'd, 
 I vievJd where well, where ill the way appeard ; 
 And here I haue de/crib'd the way we went. 
 Commixing truth with honejl merriment, 
 My threed-bare wit a mad wooll gathering goes, 
 To Jhew the things in verfe I faw in prof e ; 
 And (Honourable Peeres) I humbly craue. 
 My artlejjfe lines may your acceptance haue, 
 Wijhing each fault remou'd (which fiands vnfit) 
 Asfoone as you can reade what I haue writ, 
 Defiring God to giueyou high content 
 Here, and hereafter gbry permanent. 
 
 Humbly deuoted with his beft endeuours, 
 
 to all your Honourable perfonagcs, 
 
 lOHN Taylor. 
 
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TO 
 
 The memory of the truly Noble deceafed, 
 
 DVDLEY CaRLETON, 
 
 Lord Vifcount Dorchejier, principall 
 
 Secretary of State to his Maieflie of 
 
 Grkat Britaine. 
 
 IF He be bleft that is of Noble bloud, 
 And being made great, is both great and good, 
 Who is a Chriftian euery way compleat. 
 Who holds it better to be good than great, 
 Whofe life was guided with good Confcience, 
 Whofe end was fauing faith and penitence, 
 Thefe bleffings Noble Dorchejler were thine. 
 And thefe haue made thee 'Immortall and diuine. 
 
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 To any Body. 
 
 That ne're tajied the Caftalian fount, 
 Or came in ken of the Theffalian Mount ; 
 I that could 7ieWe attaine to zvet my lips, 
 With Tempes liquour, or fweet Aganipps, 
 Who neuer yet hauefo muchfauour won, 
 To ptirchafe one carrowfe from Helicon, 
 Who with good Poets dare compare no way 
 But one, which is in being poore as they ; 
 And hauing neuer feene the Mufes hill, 
 Am plentifully Jior' d with ivant of skill, 
 Then Fount, or Mount, nor f acred treble trine, 
 A re no ajjiflants in this worke of mine : 
 But ancient Ifis current chryflall fpring 
 Infpires my braine, and I her praifes fing. 
 And Tame with Ifis joynes his pear ely flreames, 
 Whofe combination are my ample theames ; 
 Tliough (for the moflpart) in tlte traSls I tread. 
 Of learned Camden, Speed, and Hollinfhead, 
 And 'Drdiytons painfiill Polyolbyon, 
 Whofe fame fhall Hue, defpight obliuion, 
 Thefe are the guides I follow, with pretence 
 T'abbreuiate and extra6l their Quint-effence ; 
 
 Nor 
 
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 To any body. 
 
 Nor can it be to them difparagement, 
 That I come after in the wayes they zvent, 
 For they of former writers followers be, 
 I follow them, andfome may folloiv me ; 
 And man to man a Prefident is made 
 In Art or Science, myflerie or Trade, 
 As they before thefe Riuers bounds didfhow. 
 Here I come after with my Pen and row. 
 
■^1 ■" 
 
 TAYLOR 
 
 ON 
 
 THAME J S I S. 
 
 Vr patron Phcebus, whofe fweet influence, 
 ) Doth quicken all our reafon, life and fenfe, 
 
 Tis he makes graffe to grow, & Riuers fpring, 
 
 He makes both my fongs, fubieft, and me fing ; 
 
 His beames the waters doe extenuate 
 To vapours, and thofe vapours eleuate 
 Into the middle Region, where they tumble. 
 And melt, and then defcend and are made humble, 
 Moyftning the face of many a fpacious hill, 
 Where foaking deepe the hollow vaults they fill. 
 Where into Riuers they againe breake out. 
 So nature in a circle runnes about. 
 Large Downes doe treafure vp great ftore of raine, 
 Whofe bowels vent it in the vales againe : 
 No place in England could a treafure keepe, 
 Thames to maintaine, but Cote/would (queene of fheepe.) 
 
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Taylor on Thame IJis. 
 
 In Glojlerjhire (my deareft mother earth) 
 
 From whofe faire City I deriue my birth, 
 
 Are Cote/would hills, and in the fartheft cliffe 
 
 Of all thofe hils of IJis head is chiefe : 
 
 Schollers from Glojler that to Oxford ride 
 
 The truth of my affertion oft haue tride ; 
 
 On their right hand neare Cubberley they paffe, 
 
 Two Wells as fweet as milke, as cleare as glaffe. 
 
 Whence IJis firft doth pedegree deriue, 
 
 Thofe two are able there two mills to driue. „ ,, 
 
 Corruptly 
 
 At Burton on the water, fouth from Stow called 
 
 Vpon the Would, great vaines of waters flow stow the 
 
 To Burford, and to Witney, and along °^'^' 
 
 Till they make meadowes large, and IJis ftrong. 
 
 The famous Riuer IJis hath her fpring 
 
 Neare Tethury, and downe along doth bring 
 
 (As hand-maids) to attend her progreffe, Churne, 
 
 Colne, Windrujh, Yenload, Leech, whofe windings turne, 
 
 And Meads, and Paftures trims, bedecks, and dreffes. 
 
 Like an vnvaluable chaine of ESSES. 
 
 After releefe of many a Ducke and Goofe, 
 
 At Saint lohns bridge they make their rendeuous, 
 
 And there like robbers crofling London way. 
 
 Bid many a bare-foot Welfhman wade or ftay. 
 
 Clofe vnder Oxford one of Englands eyes, 
 
 Chiefe of the chiefeft Vniuerfities, 
 
 From 
 
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Taylor on Thame IJis. 
 
 From Banbury defirous to adde knowledge 
 
 To zeale, and to be taught in Magdalen College, 
 
 The Riuer Charwell doth to IJis runne, 
 
 And beares her company to Abington, 
 
 Whil'ft very neare that towne on Bark/hire fide, 
 
 The Riuer Ock doth into IJis glide ; 
 
 Thefe fountaines and fifh-breeding Riuolets, 
 
 (The Countries nurfes, nourifhers, and teats,) 
 
 Attend Dame IJis downe to Dorchejier, 
 
 Neare which her louely Tame doth meet with her, 
 
 There Tame his IJis doth embrace and kiffe, 
 
 Both joyn'd in one, cal'd Tame or Tame IJis, 
 
 IJis like Salmacis becomes with Tame 
 
 Hermaphrodite in nature and in name. 
 
 Tame doth deriue his Spring or Pedegree 
 
 Neare Me/worth in the vale of Aylsbury, 
 
 From whence he many miles with ftrange meanders. 
 
 To finde his lovely IJis flowly wanders, 
 
 Through fertile lands a quiet courfe he keepes, 
 
 Till Southward vnder Whately bridge he creepes, 
 
 And (like a Pilgrim) trauels all alone, 
 
 No Brooke or Riuer waiting him vpon, 
 
 Onely three nameleffe Riuolets and two fprings, 
 
 Which very priuately their tribute brings, 
 
 Bewailing IJis abfence, and his fate, 
 
 Poore Tame all heauie and difconfolate, 
 
 Vnnauigable, 
 
Taylor on Thame IJis. 
 
 Vnnauigable, fcorn'd, defpis'd, difgrac'd, 
 
 Hauing in vaine fo many paces pac'd ; 
 
 Defpairing and quite defperate with thefe harmes, 
 
 He hurles himfelfe vn wares in Ifis armes ; 
 
 Nor clofer can the barke be to the tree, 
 
 Than their infoldings and embracings be ; 
 
 They rife and fall together, and they are 
 
 In want and plenty to haue equall Ihare ; 
 
 And Tame with Ifis will be both one riuer, 
 
 Till in the Ocean they their names deliuer. 
 
 At Wallingford and Pangboiirne, two fmall rils, 
 
 Their homages to Thamijis inftils. 
 
 The more the riuer runnes, the more tis fpreading, 
 
 Till in it's courfe it falls as low as Reading, 
 
 Where Kennet kindly comes with force and fource, 
 
 To aid and helpe Thamijis in their courfe. 
 
 The head of Kennet is neare Ramsbury, 
 
 Faffing to Hungerford by Newbury. 
 
 The riuer Anborne out oi H amp/hire flies, 
 
 To Kennet with fome nameleffe fmall fupplies 
 
 Of pettie rills, which paffing here and there, 
 
 Who to repeat, teadious and needleffe were. 
 
 To Sunning and by Bijham Thames defcends 
 
 To Marlow (called great) from whence it wends ; 
 
 Whereas a little rill from Wickham towne, 
 
 To wait vpon the Thames comes gliding downe ; 
 
 Then 
 
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Taylor on Thame Ifis. 
 
 Then pleafantly the riuer takes free way 
 
 To Topley hills, by Maidenhead and Bray, 
 
 Till it to Wind/or and to Stanes doth win, 
 
 And there the riuer Colne comes gliding in : 
 
 Colne hath its head or fpring in Hartfordjhire, 
 
 At Abbots Langley, or elfe very neere. 
 
 With fome fmall petty rils and riuolets. 
 
 By Colbrooke vnto Stanes and Thames it gets, 
 
 The riuer Wey, with diuers nameleffe fprings 
 
 Neare Chertfey, vnto Thames their feruice brings. 
 
 Wey (beyond Guilford) help'd with creeks and crooks, 
 
 At laft at Oatlands towards Sunbury lookes, 
 
 And there a little rill, (fcarce worth a line) 
 
 In Middle/ex doth with the Thames combine. 
 
 Neare Reygate towne the riuer Mole is found, 
 
 Bearing its courfe, runs (Mole-like) vnder ground ; 
 
 But rifing vp by Notbury againe. 
 
 At Molfey it the Thames doth entertaine. 
 
 From Ewell towne the riuer Brent makes hafte. 
 
 Who by the Thames is louingly embrac'd : 
 
 Next which is Chifwicke towne, and Hammerfmith, 
 
 It entertaines a rill, or little frith. 
 
 And after that below, neare Wand/worth mill. 
 
 Comes in another brooke or nameleffe rill ; 
 
 Thus I the i-iuer bring, and it brings me 
 
 From their firfl fprings to London bridge you fee. 
 
 Now 
 
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 13 
 
Taylor on Thame IJis. 
 
 Now from the bridge below defcend I muft, 
 
 Till Thames it felfe doth in the Ocean thruft, 
 
 And if my paines to good men proue a pleafure, 
 
 My gaine's beyond my merit, beyond meafure, 
 
 Of Watermen, men fcarce can finde a Slower, 
 
 Yet hey, to Gram/end hoe and fomewhat lower. 
 
 Braue London Bridge claimes right preheminence 
 
 For flrength, and Architefts magnificence, 
 
 To be true None-fuch, for no eye beheld 
 
 A bridge which it each way hath paralleld. 
 
 The arches (Tame and IJis) fhadie bowres. 
 
 Through which both Eaft and Weft in twice twelue houres 
 
 Twice Neptune greets it flowing from the Maine, 
 
 And twice the riuer fends it backe againe, 
 
 And as the flouds or ebbes encreafe or falls, 
 
 They through the arches murmure Madrigals, 
 
 Whil'ft th' Eddies divers wayes doth turne and trace, 
 
 Tame doth with IJis dance the wilde goofe chace. 
 
 From this rare matchleffe piece of workmanfhip, 
 
 I with the tide of Ebbe muft quickly flip. 
 
 And downe into the Riuer Lea I hie, 
 
 That parts Midjaxon from Eaji Saxony. 
 
 Which riuer fals from Ware to Walthamjlow, 
 
 And downe by Layton vnto Stratford Bow, 
 
 Some call it Lea, but Camden calls it Stowre, 
 
 And neare Blackmail it in the Thames doth powre. 
 
 Next 
 
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Taylor on Thame IJis. 
 
 Next Rodeing is (a Brooke or riuer fmall) 
 
 Which Foord from Berking into Thames doth fall. 
 
 From Hauering, Burntwood and from Ockingdon, 
 
 Three little Rils into the Thames do run, 
 
 Th'are nameleffe, or fcarce worth the nomination. 
 
 And fo on EJfex fide I end my ftation. 
 
 And now I'le croffe into the County Kent 
 
 To note what riuers from her bound are fent, 
 
 To wait vpon the mighty bigfwolne Thames, 
 
 Who now is grown the Prince of Brittains ftreams. 
 
 By Bromley glides the riuer Rauensburne 
 
 To Deptford downe with many a wandring turne, 
 
 The riuer Darrent is the next and laft, 
 
 Which downe by Dartford into Thames is caft. 
 
 And thus from Glocejier fhire neare Tetbury 
 
 And Buckingham fhire clofe by Aylsbury, 
 
 I haue brought IJis and her partner Tame 
 
 With twenty feven helpes lofmg each their name, 
 
 Who fpend themfelues to make the Thames grow great, 
 
 Till (below Lee) it lofe both name and feat. 
 
 Through many Countries as thefe waters paffe, 
 
 They make the Paftures fruflifie in graffe : 
 
 Cattell grow fat, and cheefe and butter Cheape, 
 
 Hey in abundance, Corne by ftricke and heape, 
 
 Beafts breed, and Fifh increafe, fowles multiply, 
 
 It brings wood, Cole, and Timber plenteoufly : 
 
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Taylor on Thame IJis. 
 
 It beares the lame and weake, makes fat the leane, 
 
 And keepes whole townes and countries fweet and cleane ; 
 
 Wer't not for Thames (as heauens high hand doth bleffe it) 
 
 We neither could haue fifh, or fire to dreffe it, 
 
 The very Brewers would be at a fault, 
 
 And buy their water dearer than their mault. 
 
 And had they malt and water at defire, 
 
 What fhift (a Gods name) would they make for fire ? 
 
 There's many a Seaman, many a Nauigator, 
 
 Watermen, fifhers, bargemen on this water, 
 
 Themfelues and families beyond compare, 
 
 In number more than hundred thoufands are. 
 
 Who doe their Prince and Country often ferue. 
 
 And wer't not for this riuer might goe fterue ; 
 
 And for the good to England it hath done. 
 
 Shall it to fpoyle and ruine be let runne ? 
 
 Shall priuate perfons for their gainfuU ufe, 
 
 Ingroffe the water and the land abufe. 
 
 Shall that which God and nature giues us free. 
 
 For vfe and profit in community. 
 
 Be barr'd from men, and damb'd vp as in Thames, 
 
 (A fhameleffe auarice furpaffing fhames ;) 
 
 I fpeake not of the riuers bounds below. 
 
 Whereas the tides perpetuall ebbe and flow, 
 
 Nor is the riuer wanting much repaire. 
 
 Within the bounds of Londons honour'd Maior, 
 
 Which 
 
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Taylor on Thame Ifts. 
 
 Which limits all are cleare from flakes and piles, 
 
 Beyond Stanes bridge (thats more than forty miles) 
 
 But I (from Oxford) downe to Stanes will Aide, 
 
 And tell the riuers wrongs which I efpide, 
 
 Not doubting but good mindes their powers will lend, 
 
 T' endeuour thefe abufes to amend : 
 
 Therefore I pray the Readers to difpence, 
 
 And pardon my abrupt intelligence. 
 
 From Oxford tv/o miles Ifley diftant is, 
 
 And there a new turne pike doth ftand amiffe. 
 
 Another ftands at Stanford, below that. 
 
 Weeds, fhelues, and fhoales all waterleffe and flat ; 
 
 At N,ewnham locke there's plac'd a fifhing weare, 
 
 A grauell hill too high, fcarce water there ; 
 
 At Abington the fhoales are worfe and worfe. 
 
 That Swift ditch feemes to be the better courfe. 
 
 Below which towne neare Sutton there are left 
 
 Piles that almoft our Barges bottome cleft ; 
 
 Then Sutton locks are great impediments, 
 
 The waters fall with fuch great violence, 
 
 Thence downe to Cullom, ftreame runs quicke and quicker. 
 
 Yet we rub'd twice a ground for want of liquor. 
 
 The Weare of Carpenter's fans fault I thinke. 
 
 But yet neare Witnum towne a tree did fmke. 
 
 Whereas by fortune we our Barge did hit. 
 
 And by misfortune there a board was fplit ; 
 
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Taylor on Thame Ifts. 
 
 At Clifton there are rocks, and fands, and flats, 
 
 Which made vs wade, and wet like drowned rats, 
 
 The paffage bare, the water often gone, 
 
 And rocks fmooth worne, doe paue it like free ftone. 
 
 From Clifton downe to Wallingford we fleet, 
 
 Where (for annoyance) piles are plac'd vnmeet ; 
 
 From thence our Oares did downe the riuer draw, 
 
 Vntill we came vntb a mungrill Spaw, 
 
 A Bath, a Spring, a Fountaine, or a Rill, 
 
 That iffues from the bowels of a hill, 
 
 A hill it may be tearm'd, or demie mountaine, 
 
 From out whofe entrails fprings this new-found fountaine, 
 
 Whofe water (cleare as Chryftall, fweet as hony,) 
 
 Cures all difeafes (except want of mony,) 
 
 It helpes the Palfey, Cramp, or Apoplexie, 
 
 Scab, fcurfe, or fcald, or dropfie if it vex yee, 
 
 The Plurifie, the Lethargic, Strangury, 
 
 It cures the Cataracke, and the Stone affure yee ; 
 
 The head-ach, Megrim, Canker, or the Mumps, 
 
 Mange, Murrians, Meazles, Melancholy dumps. 
 
 It is of vertue, vigor, and of force 
 
 To driue all malladies from man or horfe ; 
 
 Help'd of a Tertian ague I faw one, 
 
 ( Weake, and not worth the ground he went vpon) 
 
 Who drank the water mingled with the clay. 
 
 And prefently the Ague ran away ; 
 
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Taylor on Thame Ifis. 
 
 It cures an old fore, or a bruifed blow, 
 
 It made the deafe to heare, the lame to goe ; 
 
 One dumbe came thither, and ftraightway difputed, 
 
 And on the trees are crutches executed ; 
 
 To heale greene wounds it hath fuch Soueraigne power. 
 
 It cur'd a broken pate in halfe an houre, 
 
 Which fconce was crack'd on purpofe to th'intent, 
 
 To try the vertue of the Element. 
 
 If any man imagine I doe lie. 
 
 Let him goe thither, breake his pate and trie. 
 
 Some fay crack'd maidenheads are there new fodered, 
 
 I'm fure the hill with beggers is embroidered. 
 
 And all thofe beggers are with little coft, 
 
 With lice and fcabs embroidered and emboft ; 
 
 And as it were the Well of Arijiotle, 
 
 The water is farre fetch'd in many a bottle. 
 
 The clay mixt with the liquour kils the Comes, 
 
 Ah could it cure fome Cuckolds of their homes, 
 
 It would haue patients out of euery climat, 
 
 More than my patience could endure to rime at, 
 
 And had it but the vertue to furceafe 
 
 Some clamorous tongues, and make them hold their peace, 
 
 Thoufands of husbands would their wiues fend thither ; 
 
 That they might be recouered all together. 
 
 Apothecaries I lament your lots. 
 
 Your medcines now will mould in Gallipots, 
 
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Taylor on Thame JJis. 
 
 Your drugges with barbarous names vnbought will lie, 
 
 And wafte and languifh in obfcurity, 
 
 Twill begger all the Quackfaluers outright, 
 
 And all our Mountebanks are vndone quite, 
 
 But whats become of me ? can any tell ? 
 
 Good Reader helpe me out of this ftrange well ; 
 
 I with my pen its praife did meane to touch. 
 
 And it (I feare) hath made me write too much. 
 
 Which if I haue, let your conftruftions be. 
 
 Blame the ftrange working waters and not me : 
 
 But he that fayes that I doe ouer-doe. 
 
 Let him goe thither and hee'le doe fo to ; 
 
 So farewell. Well, well fare thou, ftill excell, 
 
 Increafe in operation, Well farewell. 
 
 Beneath the fountaine, next is Cleaue locks fall. 
 
 And neare to that a locke men Goring call, 
 
 But hauing paft the locke at Gorings there, 
 
 At Mafter Coltons houfe we had good cheare. 
 
 With hearty welcome, but 'twas for his fake 
 
 That did this hopefull bufmeffe vndertake, 
 
 Yet with our hearty thanks we thanke them all. 
 
 That din'd vs like a folemne feftiuall. 
 
 From thence to Harts locke downward we defcended. 
 
 And next to Whitchurch locke which muft be mended, 
 
 Becaufe the waters turne fo fwift and various. 
 
 And gainft our wils to dangerous courfes carry vs : 
 
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Taylor on Thame IJis. 
 
 Next there's a Weare, that if it had its right, 
 
 Should be well lib'd, or elfe remoued quite ; 
 
 Below that Maple Ducham locke appeares, 
 
 Where ftands three faulty and vntoward Weares ; 
 
 Then neare the bridge of Cauerjham there is 
 
 One Welbecks Weare, fit to be mou'd I wis ; 
 
 As paft the locke at Cauerjham we row, 
 
 We found the riuer very foule below. 
 
 With weeds and hills of mud and grauell choak'd, 
 
 That with our Oares and ftaues we thrufh and poak'd. 
 
 Next Breaches Weare near Sunning naught doth lie. 
 
 And Sunning locke the groundfiU is too high, 
 
 Befides two Gin-holes that are very bad 
 
 And Sunning bridge much need of mending had ; 
 
 Haules Weare doth almofl crofle the riuer all, 
 
 Making the paffage ftraight and very fmall, 
 
 How can that man be counted a good liuer 
 
 That for his priuate vfe will ftop a riuer ? 
 
 Shiplocke, or Cottrels locke ftand very neare, 
 
 Not from that farre is Elmes his fifhing weare, 
 
 Whereas the riuers cafe is altered well. 
 
 For Mafter Ployden neare that place doth dwell ; 
 
 Marjh locke is plac'd a little aboue Henly, 
 
 And there the Thames is kept indifferent cleanly, 
 
 And here at Henley once in fifteene yeares, 
 
 A Riuer ftranger in the ftreet appeares, 
 
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Taylor on Thame IJis. 
 
 Whofe cefterne in the Woods his wealth doth gather, 
 
 In that long fpace, and cannot get it rather, 
 
 But gotten out of high-way-flouds, and leaues, 
 
 As Dutchmen keepe the drops of their houfe-eues. 
 
 The cefterne fils and then the wals breake downe, 
 
 And fend their ftowage vnto Henley towne, 
 
 Another fifteene yeares the wals repaire, 
 
 And fill the place with raine or thawed ayre. 
 
 And being fo replenifht in that fpace. 
 
 It runnes (rub rub) clofe by the bowling place. 
 
 Neare Henley (fome three quarters of a mile) 
 
 A little He digreffe and change my ftile. 
 
 Should I forget the good ludge Whitlocks loue, 
 
 Vnmanner'd and vngratefuU I should proue, 
 
 It was about the time (as I remember) 
 
 In Auguji, fome fiue dayes before September) 
 
 We landed neare the noble ludges harbour, 
 
 (With ftomacks Iharpe as razour of a Barber) 
 
 The time was fhort, we neither toyd nor trifled, 
 
 The Kitchin, Pantry, Paftry ftrait we rifled ; 
 
 The Celler and the Buttery both we forrag'd, 
 
 By which braue booty we were much encourag'd, 
 
 Sacke and good Claret drawne from Tierce and Punchion, 
 
 That feru'd one whole day, and two euenings Nunchion ; 
 
 Our bread as good as euer baker fifted. 
 
 Our wine (rare wine) as ere to mouth was lifted. 
 
 And 
 
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Taylor on Thame I/is. 
 
 And in our bufineffe (though we all were hafty) 
 
 We did furprize an excellent Venfon pafty, 
 
 We there did faue the labour of inuiters ; 
 
 Whole ioynts of mutton prou'd vs good fheepe-biters, 
 
 Our beere was brauely boyl'd and ftrongly malted, 
 
 Our Pidgeon Pie was pepper'd well and falted, 
 
 Moft tender Chickins, Pullet, and a Capon, 
 
 We (in our fury) did commit a rape on ; 
 
 A mighty fcarlet Lobfter laft we feafed. 
 
 And fo with thefe Acchats our minds were eafed, 
 
 But that which made our viands tafte the better, 
 
 Was welcome, which made each of vs a debter ; 
 
 And long may he and his furuiue and flourifh. 
 
 That did poore trauellers fo kindly nourifh, 
 
 Thefe lines are writ in duty to expreffe 
 
 Our loue, our duty, and our thankfulneffe. 
 
 From thence we hi'd vs with the ftreame and wind, 
 
 And in the Barge at noone we brauely din'd. 
 
 And as our meat our gratefull minds did moue, 
 
 We dranke ludge Whiilocks health to fhew our loue. 
 
 Then came we to a locke call'd Hambleton, 
 
 Whereas the ftreame a handfome courfe doth runne ; 
 
 Next Mednam Weare doth fpeedy mending lacke, 
 
 It puts the Thames, and Thames puts it to wracke. 
 
 And neare Frogge-mill two paltry flops there are. 
 
 That in the Riuer take too great a (hare ; 
 
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Taylor on Thame IJis. 
 
 Newlocke at Hurley, and a Weare below, 
 
 Almoft a flop, (fit to be clear'd I know ;) 
 
 Then Temple locke, 'boue Bijham Church there is, 
 
 Beneath which is a Weare fomewhat amiffe, 
 
 Then Marlow locke is worft I muft confeffe, 
 
 The water is fo pinch'd with fhallowneffe. 
 
 Beneath which is a Weare fhould be defac'd, 
 
 And Cottrels Weare of Cookham be difplac'd. 
 
 A Weare doth to one Holdenieffe belong, 
 
 Which doth the riuer moft iniurious wrong, 
 
 Neare which a Spring runs from the chalkie hills, 
 
 The which (not long agoe) did driue two mills, 
 
 A ftop 'gainft Toplow Warren much doth fpread 
 
 Next Bolters lock, (a mile from Maydenkead) 
 
 Thus haue I paft the locks, now weares and flops. 
 
 From thence as farre as Stanes mine Inkhorne drops. 
 
 'Boue Maidenhead bridge a ftop and one beneath, 
 
 Which both to be amended I bequeath ; 
 
 Againft Bray church, and Bray mill, ftand three more. 
 
 Indifferent bad as any were before ; 
 
 A ftop at Water Oakley naught doth lie, 
 
 At Rudles poole the grauell hills too high. 
 
 The water turnes fo fhort, and runnes fo quicke. 
 
 That oft the Barges there a ground doe ftricke ; 
 
 Neare Boiieney Church a dangerous ftop is found, 
 
 On which fine paffengers were lately drown'd ; 
 
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 Taylor on Thame Ifis. 
 
 Below the bridge at Wind/or (paffing thus) 
 
 Some needleffe piles ftand very perillous : 
 
 Neare Eaton College is a ftop and weare, 
 
 Whofe abfence well the riuer may forbeare ; 
 
 A ftop, a weare, a dangerous funke tree, 
 
 Not farre from Datchet Ferry are all three ; 
 
 A grauell bed, two flops and flakes befide, 
 
 Againfl and neare old Wind/or Church we fpide. 
 
 With two flops more we faw neare Ankerwike, 
 
 And neare my Lord Maiors ftone we faw the like, 
 
 Befides an Aight or Ifland there we found, 
 
 Hedg'd farre into the flreame to gaine more ground ; 
 
 From Stanes we paft to Lallum guls, moft ftiallow, 
 
 Whereas fiue Barges faft aground did wallow ; 
 
 And fuch a trowling current there did fet. 
 
 That we were vildly puzzled by to get ; 
 
 Tumbling 'twixt Middle/ex and Surrey land, 
 
 We came where Chert/eyes crooked bridge doth ftand, 
 
 Which fure was made all by left-handed men. 
 
 The like of it was neuer in my ken ; 
 
 Wiw waw to Oakam ward, kim kam, kiwwaw, 
 
 That through it men can hardly fet or row. 
 
 That's the laft fault I found that merits note. 
 
 And downe from thence we merrily did flote. 
 
 Thus haue I ftiew'd Thames wrongs in generall, 
 
 And wifti they may be mou'd, or mended all ; 
 
 And 
 
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Taylor on Thame Ifis. 
 
 And who can but with pity here behold 
 
 Thefe multitudes of mifchiefes manifold ? 
 
 Shall Thames be barr'd its courfe with flops and locks, 
 
 With Mils, and hils, with gravell beds, and rocks : 
 
 With weares, and weeds, and forced Hands made, 
 
 To fpoile a publike for a priuate Trade ? 
 
 Shame fall the doers, and Almighties bleffmg 
 
 Be heap'd vpon their heads that feeke redreffing. 
 
 Were fuch a bufmeffe to be done in Flanders 
 
 Or Holland mongft the induftrious Netherlanders ; 
 
 They to deepe paffages would turne our hils, 
 
 To Windmils they would change our watermils. 
 
 All helpes vnto this riuer they would ayd, 
 
 And all impediments fhould be deftroyed ; 
 
 Our vagabonds (the wandering brood of Caine) 
 
 They would enforce thofe runnagates take paine, 
 
 Whereby much profit quickly would accrue, 
 
 (For labour robs the hangman of his due.) 
 
 In common reafon, all men muft agree 
 
 That if the riuer were made cleane and free, 
 
 One Barge, with eight poore mens induftrious paines, 
 
 Would carry more than forty carts or waines. 
 
 And eueiy waine to draw them horfes fine. 
 
 And each two men or boyes to guide or driue, 
 
 Charge of an hundred horfe and 80. men 
 
 With eight mens labour would be ferued then. 
 
 Thus 
 
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 Taylor on Thafne IJis. 
 
 Thus men would be employed, and horfe preferu'd, 
 And all the Countrey at cheape rates be feru'd. 
 T'is faid the Dutchmen taught vs drinke and fwill, 
 I'm fure we goe beyond them in that skill, 
 I wifh (as we exceed them in what's bad,) 
 That we fome portion of their goodneffe had : 
 Then fhould this worthy worke be foone begun. 
 And with fucceffefuU expedition done : 
 Which I defpaire not of, but humbly plead, 
 That God his bleffings will increafe and fpread 
 On them that loue this work, and on their heires. 
 Their goods and chattels, and on all that's theirs : 
 I wifh them bleft externall, and internall, 
 And in the end with happineffe eternall. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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 IHaue almoji finijhed another /mall booke which I 
 will name, ALL WATERS, wherein I 
 haue treated of the Jlrange diuerjities of Waters, 
 and alfo I haue defcribed and explained the various di- 
 fpofitions of Watermen, their lawfull vfes, and their 
 vnlawfull abufes, neither flattering, fparing, or wrong- 
 ing any good or ill, which I know either by them or my 
 felfe, not omitting any thing that may tend to the 
 praife of their honeft trade and conditions, nor inferting 
 any thing to couer their caufleffe iniuries, which many 
 of them haue done to m.e and others ; for they haue late- 
 ly cafi out fcandalous libels, and defaming fpeeches a- 
 gainfl me, and I m,ufl inake them know, that I am not 
 of that tame patience to forbeare them, who are knowne 
 to be nothing but rumour and rabble ; therefore vpon 
 fuch I m.ufl right m.yfelfe in print. 
 
 i)ta»^ig^^lgj^ca g>^ ^^j.^<a3^^ 
 
The Old, Old, very Old Man. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 52.] 
 
The Old, Old, very Old Man, or Thomas Parr, the 
 SonofyohnParrofWinnington,inthePariJhofAl- 
 berbury, in theCountyofShropJliiere;'who'wasborne 
 in they ear e 1 48 3 , in the Raigne of King Edward the 
 4"^, being Aged , 152 Yeares and odd Monthes, 
 in this ye are, 1635. 
 
The Old, Old, 
 
 Very Old Man: 
 
 OR, 
 
 The Age and long Life of Thomas Par, 
 the Son of John Parr of Winnington in the 
 Parifh of Alberbury ; in the County of 
 Salopp, (or Shropjhire) who was Borne in 
 the Raigne of ¥Jm^ Edward \}a.^ 4*. be- 
 ing aged 152. yeares and odd 
 Monethes. 
 
 His Manner of Life and Converfation 
 
 in fo long a Pilgrimage ; his Marriages, 
 
 and his bringing up to London about 
 
 the end of September laft. 1635. 
 
 Whereunto is Added a Poftfcript , fhewing 
 
 the many remarkable Accidents that 
 
 hapned in the Life of this Old Man. 
 
 Written 5j)/Iohn Taylor. 
 
 LON DON, 
 
 Printed for Henry Goffon , at his Shop on 
 
 London Bridge , neere to the Gate. 
 
 1635. 
 
THE HIGH AND 
 
 MIGHTIE PRINCE, 
 
 Charles, By the Grace of God, 
 
 King of great Britaine , France and 
 Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. 
 
 1^^ FSubjeBs {my dread Liege) 'tis manifeji, 
 1^^ You have theold'Jldhe greatejl, dftheleajl: 
 That for an Old, a Great, and Little man, 
 No kingdom {/ure) compare with Britain can; 
 One, for his extraordinary flature, 
 Guar dswelly our gates, &by infiinSlofNatitre 
 {As heeisfrong) is Loyall, True, andfufl, 
 Fit, and mofi able, for his Charge and Tru/i. 
 The other s fmall and well compofed feature 
 Deferves the Title of a Pretty Creature : 
 And doth {or may) retaine as good a 7nind 
 As Greater men, and be as wellinclifid : 
 
 A 3 Llee 
 
The Epiftle. 
 
 Heemay begreatinfpirt, thoughfmallinfight, 
 Whilst all his bejl offervice, is Delight 
 The Old'Ji,your SubjeB is ; but for my ufe, 
 I make him here, the SubjeB of my Mufe : 
 And as his Aged P,erfo?i gaiitd the grace, 
 That where his Soveraign was, to be in place, 
 A ndkifjTeyour Roy all Hand; y humbly crave. 
 His Lives Difcription may Acceptance have. 
 And as your Majesty hath oft before 
 Look' don my Poems; Pray reade this one more. 
 
 Your Majefties 
 
 moft 
 Humble Subjedt 
 and 
 Servant, 
 
 loHN Taylo 
 
 R. 
 

 i%mH 
 
 
 THE OCCASION OF 
 
 this Old Man's being brought out 
 o/ Shropjhiere /t^- L o n d o n . 
 
 S it is impofsible for the Sunne to be 
 without light , or fire to have no 
 heate ; fo is it undeniable that true 
 Honour is as infeparably addidted to 
 Vertue, as the Steele to the Load-ftone; and with- 
 out great violence neither the one or the other can 
 be fundred. Which manifeftly appeares , in the 
 conveying out of the Countrey, of this poore an- 
 cient Man ; Monument I may fay, and almoft 
 Miracle of Nature. 
 
 For the Right Honorable, Thomas Earle of ^- 
 rundellsxid Surrey, Earle Marfhall oi England, &LZ. 
 being lately in Shropjhiere to vifit fome Lands and 
 Maners which his Lordfhip holds in that Coun- 
 ty, or, for fome other occafions of Importance, 
 which caufed his Lordfhip to be there. The Re- 
 port of this Aged Man was certified to his Ho- 
 nour ; who hearing of fo remarkable a Piece of 
 Antiquity, his Lordfhip was pleafed to fee him, 
 
 and 
 
The very Old Man : or 
 
 and in his Innated Noble and Chriftian Piety, he 
 tooke him into his charitable tuition and prote- 
 dlion ; Commanding that a Litter and two Hor- 
 fes (for the more eafie carriage of a man fo enfee- 
 bled and worne with Age) to bee provided for 
 him ; Alfo, that a Daughter-in-Law of his (named 
 Liicye) fliould likewife attend him, and have a 
 Horfe for her owne riding with him ; And ( to 
 cheere up the Old Man , and make him merry) 
 there was an Antique-fac'd-fellow, called yacke^ 
 oxyohn the Poole, with, a high and mighty no Beard, 
 that had alfo a Horfe for his cariage. Thefe all 
 were to be brought out of the Countrey to Lon- 
 don, by eafie lourneyes; the Charges being allowed 
 by his Lordfhip, and likewife one of his Honours 
 owne Servants, named Brian Kelley, to ride on 
 horfeback with them, and to attend and defray all 
 manner of Reckonings and Expences ; all which 
 was done accordingly, as followeth. 
 
 Winnington is a Hamlet in the Parifh of Alber- 
 bury, nere a place called the JVelJhPoole, eight miles 
 from Shrew/bury, from whence hee was carried to 
 JVim, a Town of the Earles aforefaid ; and the next 
 day to Shefnall, (a Manour Houfe of his Lordfhips) 
 where they likewife flaied one night ; from Shefnal 
 they came to Woolverhampton , and the next day to 
 
 Brimicham, 
 
The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 Brimicham, from thence to Coventry; and although 
 Mafter Kelley had much to do to keepe the people 
 off that preffed upon him in all places where hee 
 came, yet at Coventry he was moft oppreft: for they 
 came in fuch multitudes to fee the Old Man , that 
 thofe that defended him, were almoft quite tyred 
 and fpent, and the aged man in danger to have bin 
 ftifled ; and in a word, the rabble were fo unruly, 
 that Bryan was in doubt hee fhould bring his 
 Charge no further ; ( fo greedy are the Vulgar to 
 hearken to, or gaze after novelties.) The trouble 
 being over, the next day they paft to Daventry, to 
 iiony Stratford, ioRedburn, and fo io London, where 
 he is well entertain'd and accomodated with all 
 things, having all the aforefaid Attendants , at the 
 fole Charge and Cofl of his Lordfhip. 
 
 One Remarkable Pajfage of the Old Mans Pollicie 
 mufi not be omitted or forgotten, which is thus. 
 
 His three Leafes of 63. yeares being expired, he 
 tooke his laft Leafe of his Landlord (one Mafter 
 yohn Porter) for his Life, with which Leafe, he hath 
 lived more then 50. yeares (as is further hereafter 
 declared;) but this Old Man would (for his wives 
 fake) renew his Leafe for yeares, which his. Land- 
 lord would not confent unto ; wherfore old Parr, 
 (having been long blind) fitting in his chaire by 
 
 B the 
 
The very Old Man : or 
 
 the fire . his wife look'd out of the window , and 
 percei v'd M sSitr Edward Porter, theSonofhis land- 
 lord, to come towards their houfe, which (he told 
 her husband, faying. Husband, our young Land- 
 lord is comming hither : Is he fo, faid old Parr; I 
 prethee wife lay a Pin on the ground neere my 
 foot, or at my right toe; which, fhe did; and when 
 yong M after Porter (yet forty yeares old) was come 
 into the houfe, after falutations between them, the 
 Old Man faid. Wife, is not that a Pin which lyes at 
 my foot ? Truly husband, quoth fhe, it is a Pin in- 
 deed, fo fhe took up the Pin, and Mafter Porter W2& 
 halfe in a maze that the Old Man had recovered 
 his fight againe ; but it was quickly found to be a- 
 witty conceit, therby to have them to fuppofe him 
 to be more lively than he was , becaufe hee hop'd 
 to have his Leafe renew'd for his wives fake , as 
 aforefaid. 
 
 Hee hath had two Children by his firft wife, a 
 Son and a Daughter, the Boyes name was /c/^%, and 
 lived but ten weekes ; the Girle was named Joan, 
 and fhee lived but three weeks. So that it appeares 
 hee hath out-lived the moft part of the people that 
 are living neere there, three times over. 
 
 The 
 
The Very Old Man : 
 
 OF, 
 
 The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 ^N Old man's twice a child (the proverb faies) 
 ^^^^ And many old men nere faw halfe his daies 
 
 Of whom I write ; for hee at firft had life, 
 When Yorke and Lancajlers Domeftique (trife 
 In her owne blood had fadtious England dvQnch'd, 
 Vntill fweet Peace thofe civil flames had quench'd. 
 When as fourth Edwards raigne to end drew nigh, 
 John Parr (a man that liv'd by Husbandry) 
 Begot this Thomas Parr, and borne was Hee 
 The yeare of fourteen hundred eighty three. 
 And as his Fathers Living and his Trade, 
 Was Plough, and Cart, Sithe, Sickle, Bill, and Spade; 
 The Harrow, Mattock, Flayle, Rake, Fork,&Goad, 
 And Whip, and how to Load, and to Vnload ; 
 Old Tom hath fhew'd himfelfe the Son oi John, 
 And from his Fathers fundtion hath not gone. 
 
 Yet I have read of as meane Pedigrees, 
 That have attain'd to Noble dignities : 
 Agathocles, a Potters Son, and yet 
 The Kingdome of Sicilia hee did get. 
 
 B 2 Great 
 
The very Old Man : or 
 
 Great Tamberlaine, a Scythian Shepherd was, 
 Yet (in his time) all Princes did furpaffe. 
 Firft Ptolomey (the King of JEgypts Land) 
 A poore mans Son of Alexanders Band. 
 Dioclefian, Emperour, was a Scriveners Son, 
 And Proba from a Gard'ner th'Empire won. 
 Pertinax was a Bondmans Son, and wan 
 The Empire ; So did Valentinian, 
 Who was the off-fpring of a Rope-maker, 
 And Maximinus of a Mule-driver. 
 And if I on the truth doe rightly glance, 
 Hugh Capet was a Butcher, King of France. 
 By this I have digrefl, I have expreft 
 Promotion comes not from the Eaft or Weft. 
 
 So much for that, now to my Theame againe : 
 This Thomas Parr hath liv'd th'expired Raigne 
 Of ten great Kings and Queenes, th'eleventh now 
 The Scepter, (bleft by th'ancient of all days) (fways 
 Hee hath furviv'd the Edwards, fourth and fift ; 
 And the third Richard, who made many a Ihift 
 To place the Crowne on his Ambitious head ; 
 The feventh & eighth brave Henries both are dead, 
 Sixt Edward, Mary, Phillip, Elfabeth, 
 And bleft remembred lames, all thefe by death 
 Have changed life, and almoft 'leven yeares fmce 
 The happy raigne of Charles our gracious Prince, 
 
 Tom 
 
The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 Tom Parr hath liv'd, as by Record appeares 
 Nine Monthes, one hundred fifty, and two yeares. 
 Amongft the Learn'd, 'tis held in general! 
 That every feventh yeare's Climadtericall, 
 And dang'rous to mans life, and that they be 
 Moft perillous at th'Age of fixty three. 
 Which is, nine Climadtericals ; but this Man 
 Of whom I write, (fince firfl his life began) 
 Hath liv'd of Climadlericals fuch plenty, 
 That he hath almoft out-liv'd two and twenty. 
 For by Records, and true Certificate, 
 From Shropfhiere late. Relations doth relate. 
 That Hee liv'd 17 yeares with lohn his Father, 
 And 18 with a Mafter, which I gather 
 To be full thirty five ; his Sires deceafe 
 Left him foure yeares Pofsion of a Leafe ; 
 Which paft, Lewis Porter Gentleman, did then 
 For twenty one yeares grant his Leafe agen : 
 That Leafe expir'd, ehe Son of Lxw's cald John, 
 Let him the like Leafe, and that time being gone. 
 Then Hugh, the Son oi Lohn (laft nam'd before) 
 For one and twenty yeares fold one Leafe more. 
 And laflly, he hath held from Lohn, Hugh's Son, 
 A Leafe for's life thefe fifty yeares, out-run : 
 And till old Thomas Parr, to Earth againe 
 Returne, the laft Leafe. muft his owne remaine. 
 
 B 3 Thus 
 
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The very Old Man : or 
 
 Thus having fhew'd th'extention of his Age, 
 rie fhew fome Adtions of his Pilgrimage. 
 
 A'tedious time a Batchelour hee tarried, 
 Full eightie yeares of age before he married : 
 His Continence, to queftion I'le not call. 
 Mans frailtie's weake, and oft doth flip and fall. 
 No doubt but hee in fourfcore yeares might find 
 In Salop's Countie, females faire and kind : 
 But what have I to doe with that ; let paffe. 
 At th'age aforefaid hee firft married was 
 To lane, lohn Taylors Daughter ; and 'tis faid, 
 That fhe (before he had her) was a Mayd. 
 With her he liv'd yeares three times ten and two. 
 And then fhe dy'd, (as all good wives will doe.) 
 She dead, he ten yeares did a Widdower flay ; 
 Then once more ventred in the Wedlock way : 
 And in affedlion to his firft wife lane, 
 Hee tooke another of that name againe ; 
 (With whom he now doth live) (he was a widow 
 To one nam'd Anthony (and furnam'd Adda) 
 She was (as by report it doth appeare) 
 Of Gill/els Parifh, in Mountgom'ry-Jhiere, 
 The Daughter of John Lloyde (corruptly Flood) 
 Of ancient houfe, and gentle Cambrian Blood. 
 
 But hold, I had forgot, in's firft wives Time, 
 Hee frayly, fouly, fell into a Crime, 
 
 Which 
 
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The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 Which richer, poorer, older men, and younger, 
 
 More bafe, more noble, weaker men, and ftronger 
 
 Have falne into. 
 
 The Cytherean, or the Paphcean game. 
 
 That thundring lupiter did oft inflame ; 
 
 Mofl cruell cut-throat J/<3!r5 layd by his Armes, 
 
 And was a flave to Loves Inchanting charmes, 
 
 And many a Pagan god, and femi-god, 
 
 The common road of luftfull love hath trod : 
 
 For from the Emp'rour to the ruffet Clowne, 
 
 All flates, each fex, from Cottage to the Crowne, 
 
 Have in all Ages lince the firft Creation, 
 
 Bin foyld, & overthrown with Loves temptation : 
 
 So was old Thomas, for he chanc'd to fpy 
 
 A Beauty, and Love entred at his eye, 
 
 Whofe pow'rfull motion drew on fweet confent, 
 
 Confent drew Adion, Adtion drew Content, 
 
 But when the period of thofe joyes were paft, 
 
 Thofe fweet delights were fourely fauc'd at laft. 
 
 The flefh retaines, what in the Bone is bred. 
 
 And one Colts tooth was then in old Toms head, 
 
 It may be he was guld as fome have bin. 
 
 And fuffred punifhment for others fmne ; 
 
 For pleafures like a Trap, a grin, or fnare, 
 
 Or (like a painted harlot) feemes moft faire ; 
 
 But when fhe goes away, and takes her leave. 
 
 No ugly Beafl fo foul a (hape can have. Fair 
 
 IS 
 
The very Old Man : or 
 
 Faire Katherin Milton, was this Beauty bright, 
 (Faire like an Angell, but in weight too light) 
 Whofe fervent feature did inflame fo far 
 The Ardent fervour of old Thomas Parr, 
 That for Lawes fatisfadtion, 'twas thought meet. 
 He fhould be purg'd, by (landing in a Sheet, 
 Which aged (He) one hundred and five yeare, 
 In Alberbury's Parifli Church did weare. 
 Should All that fo offend, fuch Pennance doe. 
 Oh, what a price would Linnen rife unto, 
 All would be turn'd to fheets, our fhirts & fmocks 
 Our Table linnen, very Porters Frocks 
 Would hardly fcape tranf-forming, but all's one. 
 He fuffred, and his Puniftiment is done. 
 
 But to proceed, more ferious in Relation, 
 He is a Wonder, worthy Admiration, 
 Hee's (in thefe times fill'd with Iniquity) 
 No Antiquary, but Antiquity ; 
 For his Longeuity's of fuch extent. 
 That hee's a living mortall Monument. 
 And as high Towres, (that feeme the sky to fhoul- 
 By eating Time, confume away, and molder, (der) 
 Vntill at laft in piece meale they doe fall ; 
 Till they are buried in their Ruines All : 
 So this Old Man, his limbs their (Irength have left, 
 His teeth all gone, (but one) his fight bereft. 
 
 His 
 
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The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 His finewes fhrunk, his blood mofl chill and cold, 
 Small folace, Imperfedtions manifold : 
 Yet ftill his fp'rits poffeffe his mortall Trunk ; 
 Nor are his fenfes in his ruines fhrunk, 
 But that his Hearing's quicke, his flomacke good, 
 Hee'l feed well, fleep well, well difgeft his food. 
 Hee will fpeake heartily, laugh, and be merry ; 
 Drinke Ale, and now and then a cup of Sherry ; 
 Loves Company, and Vnderftanding talke. 
 And (on both fides held up) will fometirnes walk. 
 And though old Age his face with wrinckles fill, 
 He hath been handfome, and is comely ftill, 
 Well fac'd ; and though his Beard not oft corrected, 
 Yet neate it growes, not like a Beard negledted ; 
 From head to heele, his body hath all over, 
 A Quick-fet, Thick-fet nat'rall hairy cover. 
 And thus (as my dull weake Invention can) 
 I have Annatomiz'd this poore Old Man. 
 
 Though Age be incident to moft tranfgrefsing. 
 Yet Time well fpent, makes Age to be a blefsing. 
 And if our ftudies would but daign to look. 
 And ferioufly to ponder Natures Booke, 
 We there may read, that Man, the nobleft Creature, 
 By ryot and exceffe doth murder Nature. 
 This man nere fed on deare compounded difties. 
 Of Metamorphos'd beafts, fruits, fowls, and fifties, 
 
 C The 
 
 17 
 
The very Old Man : or 
 
 The earth, and ayre, the boundleffe Ocean 
 
 Were never rak'd nor forrag'd for this Man ; 
 
 Nor ever did Phyfician to (his coft) 
 
 Send purging Phyfick through his guts in pofl : 
 
 In all his life time he was never knowne, 
 
 That drinking others healths, he loft his owne ; 
 
 T\vtDMtch,\h.tFrench,\SxtGreek,2xASpaniJhGx2i-^t, 
 
 Vpon his reafon never made a Rape ; 
 
 For Ryot, is for Troy an Annagram ; 
 
 And Ryot wafted Troy, with fword and flame : 
 
 And furely that which will a Kingdome fpill, 
 
 Hath much more power one filly man to kill, 
 
 Whilft fenfuality the Pallat pleafes, 
 
 The body's fill'd with furfets, and difeafes ; 
 
 By Ryot (more than War) men flaughtred be, 
 
 From which confufion this Old Man is free. 
 
 He once was catch'd in the Venerall Sin, 
 
 And (being punifti'd) did experience win. 
 
 That carefuU feare his Confcience fo did ftrike, 
 
 He never would againe attempt the like. 
 
 Which to our underftandings may expreffe 
 
 Mens dayes are fhortned through lafcivioufneffe, 
 
 And that a competent contenting Dyet 
 
 Makes men live long, and foundly fleepe in quiet. 
 
 Miftake me not, I fpeake not to debar 
 
 Good fare of all forts ; for all Creatures are 
 
 Made 
 
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The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 Made for mans ufe, and may by Man be us'd, 
 Not by voratious Gluttony abus'd. 
 For hee that dares to fcandall or deprave 
 Good houf-keeping ; Oh hang up fuch a Knave, 
 Rather commend (what is not to be found) 
 Then injure that w'^^ makes the world renownd. 
 Bounty hath got a fpice of Lethargie, 
 And liberall noble Hofpitallity 
 Lyes in confumption, almoft pin'd to death, 
 And Charity benum'd, neere out of Breath. 
 May Englands few good houf-keepers be bleft 
 With endleffe Glory, and eternall Reft ; 
 And may their Goods, Lands, and their happy Seed 
 With heav'ns beft Blefsings multiply and breed. 
 'Tis madneffe to build heigh with ftone and lime, 
 Great houfes, that may feeme the Clouds to clime. 
 With fpacious Halls, large Galleries, brave roomes 
 Fit to receive a King, Peeres, Squires andGroomes ; 
 Amongft which rooms, the devill hath put a Witch 
 And made a fmall Tobacco-box the Kitchin ; (in, 
 For Covetoufnejfe the Mint of Mifchiefe is. 
 And Chriftian Bounty the High-way to Bliffe. 
 To weare a Farm in fhoo-ftrings edg'd with gold, 
 And fpangled Garters worth a Coppy hold : 
 A hofe and dublet ; which a Lordfhip coft, 
 A gawdy cloake (three Manours price almoft) 
 
 C 2 A Beaver, 
 
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The very Old Man : or 
 
 A Beaver, Band, and Feather for the head, 
 (Priz'd at the Churches tythe, the poor mans bread) 
 For which the Wearers are fear'd, and abhorr'd 
 Like Jeroboams golden Calves ador'd. 
 
 This double, treble aged man, I wot, 
 Knowes and remembers when thefe things were 
 Good wholfome labour was his exercife, (not ; 
 Down w* the Lamb, & with the Lark would rife, 
 Li myre and toyling fweat hee fpent the day. 
 And (to his Teame) hee whiftled Time away : 
 The Cock his m^i-Clock, and till day was done. 
 His Watch, and chiefe Sun-Diall, was the Sun. 
 Hee was of old Pithagoras opinion, (onion) 
 
 That greene cheefe was moft wholfome (with an 
 Courfe Mefclin bread, and for his daily fwig, 
 Milk, Butter-milk, and Water, Whay, and Whig; 
 Sometimes Metheglin, and by fortune happy, 
 Hee fometimes lip't a Cup of Ale moft nappy, 
 Syder, or Perry, when hee did repaire 
 T'a Whitfon Ale, Wake, Wedding, or a Faire, 
 Or when in Chriftmas time hee was a Gueft 
 At his good Land-lords houfe amongft the reft : 
 Elfe hee had little leafure Time to wafte. 
 Or (at the Alehoufe) huffe-cap Ale to tafte. 
 Nor did hee ever hunt a Taverne Fox, 
 Nere knew a Coach, Tobacco, or the Pox ; 
 
 His 
 
The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 His Phyfick was good Butter, which the foyle 
 Of Salop yields, more fweet than Candy oyle, 
 And Garlick hee efteem'd above the rate 
 Of Venice-Tria,cle, or beft Mithridate. 
 Hee entertain'd no Gowt, no Ache hee felt, 
 The ayre was good, and temp'rat where he dwelt, 
 Whilft Mavijfes, and fweet tongu'd Nightingales 
 Did chant him Roundelayes, and Madrigals. 
 Thus living within bounds of Natures Lawes, 
 Of his long lafling life may be fome caufe. 
 For though th'almighty all mans dales do meafure, 
 And doth difpofe of life and death at pleafure. 
 Yet Nature being wrong'd, mans dayes and date 
 May be abridg'd, and God may tollerate. 
 
 But had the Father of this Thomas Parr, 
 His Grand-father, and his Great grand-father. 
 Had their lives threds fo long a length been fpun, 
 They (by fuccefsion) might from Sire to Son 
 Have been unwritten Chronicles, and by 
 Tradition fhew Times mutabillity. 
 Then Parr might fay he heard his Father well. 
 Say that his Grand-fire heard his Father tell 
 The death of famous Edward the Confeffor, 
 {Harrold) and William Conq'rour his fucceffor ; 
 How his Son Robert wan lerufalem, 
 Ore-came the Sarazens, and Conquer'd them : 
 
 C 3 How 
 
The very Old Man : or 
 
 How Rufus raign'd, and's Brother Henry next, 
 And how ufurping Stev'n this Kingdome vext : 
 Yioss[Ma'wd\}i\t Emprefs (the ^x^Henries daughter) 
 To gaine her Right, fill'd England {mW of Daughter : 
 Of fecond Henry s Rofamond the faire. 
 Of Richard Cuer-de-lyon, his brave heire, 
 King lohn, and of the foule fufpition 
 Of Arthurs death, jfohns elder Brothers Son. 
 Of the third Henries long raigne (fixty yeares) 
 The Barons wars, the loffe of wrangling Peeres, 
 Yio"<sr Long-Jhanks did the Scots & French convince, 
 Tam'd Wales, and made his haples fon their Prince. 
 How fecond Edward w2iS Carnarvon call'd. 
 Beaten by Scots, and by his Queen inthrall'd. 
 How the third Edward, fifty yeares did raigne, 
 And t'honor'd Garters Order did ordaine. 
 Next how the fecond Richard liv'd and dy'd. 
 And how fourth Henries faction did divide 
 The Realme with civill (mod uncivill) war 
 'Twixt long contending Yorke and Lancajier. 
 How the fift Henry fwayd, and how his fon 
 Sixt Henry, a fad Pilgrimage did run. 
 Then of fourth Edward, and faire Miftriffe Shore, 
 
 King Edwards Concubine Lord Hajiings ( ) 
 
 Then how fift Edward, murthered with a trick 
 Of the third Richard; and then how that Dick 
 
 Was 
 
The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 Was by feventh Henries flaine at B of worth field ; 
 How he and's fon th'eighth Henry, here did wield 
 The Scepter ; how fixt Edward fwayd, 
 How Mary rul'd, and how that royall Mayd 
 Elizabeth did Governe (beft of Dames) 
 And Phenix-\\k& expir'd, and how juft lames 
 (Another Phenix) from her Afhes claimes 
 The right of Britaines Scepter, as his owne, 
 But (changing for a better) left the Crowne 
 Where now 'tis, with King Charles, and may it be 
 With him, and his moft bleft Pofterity 
 Till time fhall end ; be they on Earth renown'd. 
 And after with Eternity be crown'd. (ding) 
 
 Thus had Parr had good breeding, (without rea- 
 Hee from his fire, and Grand fires fire proceeding. 
 By word of mouth might tell mofi; famous things 
 Done in the Raigns of all thofe Queens and Kings. 
 But hee in Husbandry hath bin brought up, 
 And nere did tafi;e the Helliconian cup, 
 He nere knew Hifi;ory, nor in mind did keepe 
 Ought, but the price of Corne, Hay, Kine, or Sheep. 
 Day found him work, and Night allowd him refl. 
 Nor did Affaires of State his braine molefi:. 
 His high'fi: Ambition was, A tree to lop. 
 Or at the furtheft to a May-poles top. 
 His Recreation, and his Mirths difcourfe 
 Hath been the Pyper, and the Hobby-horf And 
 
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The very Old Man : or 
 
 And in this fimple fort, hee hath with paine, 
 From Childhood liv'd to bee a Child againe. 
 'Tis flrange, a man that is in yeares fo growne 
 Should not be rich ; but to the world 'tis knowne, 
 That hee that's borne in any Land, or Nation, 
 Vnder a Twelve-pence Planet's Domination, 
 (By working of that Planets influence) 
 Shall never live to be worth thirteene pence. 
 Whereby (although his Learning cannot fhow it) 
 Hee's rich enough to be (like mee) a Poet. 
 
 But er'e I doe conclude, I will relate 
 Of reverend Age's Honourable flate ; 
 Where fnall a young man good Inftrudlions have. 
 But from the Ancient, from Experience grave ? 
 Roboam, (Sonne and Heire to Solomon) 
 Rejecting ancient Counfell, was undone 
 Almoft ; for ten of the twelve Tribes fell 
 To Jerobomn King of Ifrael. 
 And all wife Princes, and great Potentates 
 Seled; and chufe Old men, as Magiflrates, 
 Whofe Wifedome, and whofe reverend Afped;, 
 Knowes how and when to punifh or protect. 
 The Patriarkes long lives before the Flood, 
 Were given them (as 'tis rightly underftood) 
 To (tore and multiply by procreations, 
 That people fhould inhabit and breed Nations. 
 
 That 
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The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 That th'Ancients their Pofterities might fhow 
 The fecrets Deepe of Nature, how to know- 
 To fcale the fkie with learned Afironomy, 
 And found the Oceans deepe profundity ; 
 But chiefly how to ferve, and to obey 
 God, who did make them out of flime and clay ; 
 Should men live now, as long as they did then, 
 The Earth could not fuftaine the Breed of Men. 
 Each man had many wives, which Bigamie, 
 Was fuch increafe to their Pofterity, 
 That one old man might fee before he dy'd. 
 That his owne only ofif-fpring had fupply'd 
 And Peopled Kingdomes. 
 But now fo brittle's the eftate of man. 
 That (in Comparifon) his life's a fpan. 
 Yet fmce the Flood it may be proved plaine, 
 That many did a longer life retaine, 
 Than him I write of ; for Arpachfhad liv'd 
 Foure hundred thirty eight, Shelah furviv'd 
 Foure hundred thirty three yeares, Eber more, 
 For he liv'd twice two hundred fixty foure. 
 Two hundered yeares Terah was alive. 
 And Abrham liv'd one hundred feventy five. 
 Before loVs Troubles, holy writ relates, 
 His fons and daughters were at marriage ftates. 
 And after his refloring, 'tis moft cleare, 
 
 D That 
 
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The very Old Man : or 
 
 That he furviv'd one hundred forty yeare. 
 
 lohn Buttadeus (if report be true) 
 
 Is his name that is flil'd, The IVandring lew, 
 
 'Tis faid, he faw our Saviour dye ; and how 
 
 He was a man then, and is living now ; 
 
 Whereof Relations you (that will) may reade ; 
 
 But pardon me, 'tis no part of my Creed. 
 
 Vpon a Germanes Age, 'tis written thus, 
 
 That one Johannes de Temporibus 
 
 Was Armour-bearer to brave Charlemaigne, 
 
 And that unto the age he did attaine 
 
 Of yeares three hundred fixty one, and then 
 
 Old yohn of Times return'd to Earth agen. 
 
 And noble Nejlor, at the fiege of Troy, 
 
 Had liv'd three hundred yeares both Man and boy. 
 
 Sir Walter Rawleigh (a moft learned Knight) 
 
 Doth of an Irijh Counteffe, Defmond, write. 
 
 Of feven fcore yeares of Age, he with her fpake : 
 
 The Lord Sdlni A Ibanes doth more mention make 
 
 That fhe was Married in Fourth Edwards raigne, 
 
 Thrice fhed her Teeth, which three times came a- 
 
 T\it High-land Scots 2.vA ih.tJVildeTriJh are (gaine. 
 
 Long liv'd with Labour hard, and temperate fare. 
 
 Amongft the Barbarous Indians fome live ftrong 
 
 And lufty, neere two hundred winters long ? 
 
 So as I faid before, my Verfe now fayes 
 
 By wronging Nature, men cut off their dayes. 
 
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The Life of Thomas Parr. 
 
 Therefore (as Times are) He I now write on, 
 The age of all in Britane hath out gone ; 
 All thofe that were alive when he had Birth, 
 Are turn'd againe unto their mother earth. 
 If any of them live, and doe replye, 
 I will be forry, and confeffe I lye. 
 For had he bin a Marchant, then perhaps 
 Stormes, Thunderclaps, or feare of Afterclaps, 
 Sands, Rocks, or Roving Pyrats, Gufls and flormes 
 Had made him (long ere this) the food of worms. 
 Had he a Mercer, or a Silk-man bin. 
 And trufted much in hope great gaine to win. 
 And late and early flrived to get or fave. 
 His Gray head long ere now had been i'th Grave. 
 Or had he been a Judge or Magijirate, 
 Or of Great Counfell in Affaires of ftate 
 Then dayes important bufmeffe, and nights cares 
 Had long ere this, Interr'd his hoary haires : 
 But as I writ before, no cares oppreft him, 
 Nor ever did Affaires of State moleft him. 
 Some may objedl, that they will not believe 
 His Age to be fo much, for none can give 
 Account thereof, Tjme being paft fo far, 
 And at his Birth there was no Regifter. 
 The Regifter was ninty feven yeares fmce 
 Giv'n by th'eight Henry (that Illuflrious Prince) 
 
 D 2 Th'yeare 
 
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The very Old Man : or 
 
 Th'yeare fifteene hundred fourty wanting twaine) 
 And in the thirtieth yeare of that Kings raigne ; 
 So old Parr now, was almoft an old man, 
 Neere fixty ere the Regifter began. 
 I'have writ as much as Reafon can require, 
 How Times did paffe, how's Leafes did expire ; 
 And Gentlemen o'th County did Relate 
 T'our gracious King by their Certificate (him ; 
 His age, and how time w* gray haires hath crownd 
 And fo I leave him older than I found him. 
 
 A Pofcript. 
 
 THe changes of Manners, the variations of Cuftomes, the mu- 
 tability of Times, the fhiftings of Fafhions, the alterations of 
 Religions, the diverfities of Se£ts,and the intermixture of Accidents 
 which hath hapned fmce the Birth of this old Thomas Parr, in this 
 Kingdom ; although all of them are not to be held worthy of men- 
 tioning, yet many of them are worthy to be had in memory. 
 
 In the fixt yeare of his Age, and in the fecond yeare of the raigne 
 of King/iTiJwrj'thefeventh, one Lambert Simnell, (the Son of a Baker) 
 claimed the Crowne, and was crowned King of Jreland, and Procla- 
 med King of England in the Citie of Dublin : This Paltry fellow 
 did put the King to much coft and trouble, for hee landed with an 
 Army at Foivdrey in L ancajhiere, and at a place called Stoke, the King 
 met him, and after a fharpe and fhort Battell, overcame and tooke 
 him, and pardoning him his Life, gave him a Turn-broaches place in 
 the Kitchin, and afterwards made him one of his Faulconers. 
 Anno. 1487. 
 
 In the tenth yeare of his Age, and the eighth offfenrj/the feventh 
 another Yongfter, whofe name was Perken Warbeck (as fome write, 
 a Tinkers Son in Tournay) fome fay his Father was a lew ; notwith- 
 
 ftanding, 
 
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 ftanding,he likewife put theKing to muchchargeand trouble,forhe 
 was aflifted with Souldiers from Scotland 2LXiA France; befides, many 
 joyned with him in England, till at the laft, the King tooke him, and 
 (on his true Confeffion, pardon'd him) hee falling againe to his old 
 Praftice, was executed at Tyburne. 1499. 
 
 The fame yeare alfo, a Shoomakers Son, dwelling in Bijhopfgate- 
 Jlreet, likewife claimed the Crowne, under the name of Edward, 
 Earle of Warwick, the Son of George, Duke of Clarence, Brother 
 to King Edward the fourth ; but this young Shoomaker ended his 
 claime in 3,\i-aS.\.Q.rz.\. Saint Thomas a Wi:3;fer2«_^j; which was a warning 
 for him, not to furpaffe Ne Sutor Vltra Crepidam. 
 
 Another Counterfeit, the Son of a Miller claimed the Crowne, 
 (in the fecond yeare of Queene Maries raigne) faying that hee was 
 King Edward the fixt ; but the tenth of May, 1552, thofe Royall 
 Opinions were whip'd out of him for a while, till hee fell to his old 
 claime agen, and purchas'd a hanging the thirteenth of March fol- 
 lowing. So m.uch for Impoftures and Counterfeits. 
 
 For Religion, hee hath knowne the Times of divers Sefts and 
 Changes, as the Romifh Catholick Religion from his Birth, till the 
 24 yeare of King Henry the eight, the time of 50 yeares : And then 
 the 26 of his raigne (the Kings underftandingbeing Illuminated from 
 above) hee caft the Popes Authority out of this Kingdome, 1534, 
 and reftored the Ancient and Primitive Religion, which continued 
 under the Title oi Protestants, till the end of his Son, King Edward 
 the fixt his raign, which was neer about 20 yeares, then was a bloudy 
 alteration, or return to Papiftry for more than S yeares, all the raign 
 of Queen Mary ; fince whofe death, the Proteftant Religion again 
 washappily reftored, continued, and maintained by the Defenders of 
 theTrue, Ancient, Catholike,and Apoftolike Faith,thefe 66 years and 
 more, under the bleffed Governments of Queene Elizabeth, King 
 lames, and King Charles. All which time, Thomas Parr hath not 
 been troubled in mind for either the building or throwing downe of 
 Abbyes, and Religious Houfes ; nor did hee ever murmur at the 
 manner of Prayers, let them be Latin or Englifh, hee held it fafeft to 
 be of the Religion of the King or Queene that were in being; for he 
 knew that hee came raw into the world, and accounted it no point of 
 Wifedome to be broyled out of it : His name was never queftioned 
 foraffirmingordenying the Kings Supremacie : He hath known the 
 
 D 3 time 
 
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A Pofcript. 
 
 time when men were fo mad as to kneele downe and pray before 
 a Blocke, a Stock, a Stone, a Pifture, or a Relique of a Hee or Shee 
 Saint departed ; and he liVd in a timewhen mad men would not bow 
 their knee at the name ollefus ; that are more afraid to fee a white 
 Surpliffe, than to weare a white Sheet ; that defpife the Croffe (in 
 any thingbut mony) that hold Latin to be the language of the Beaft, 
 and hate it deadly becaufe the Pope fpeaks it ; thatwould patch up a 
 Religion with untemper'd Morter, out of their owne Braines, not 
 grounded upon the true Comer-ftone ; who are fumilh'd with a lazy 
 idle Faith ; that holds good workes a maine Point of Popery ; that 
 hold their Religion traeft, becaufe it is contrary to all Order and 
 Difciphne, both of Church and Common- wealth : Thefe are fprung 
 up fince old Tom Parr was borne. 
 
 But he hath out-liv'd many Sectaries and Heretikes ; Forin the 32 
 yeare of the raigne of King Henry the eighth, 1 540. the 3 of May, 
 three Annabaptiils were burnt in the High-way, between ^tfa/i^w/irj^ 
 and Newington. In the fourth yeare of King Edward the fixt, one 
 George of Paris, a Dutchman, was burned in Smithfield, for being an 
 Arian Heretike, 155 1. 1583, One lohn Lez^is denied the God- 
 head of Chrift, v.as burnt at Norwich, in the 26 yeare of Elizabeth. 
 Not long before that, there was one loite ButcJter (Alias) lone of 
 Kent, burnt for the like. 
 
 In the third yeare of Queene Elizabeths raigne, one William 
 Geffrey affirmed one lohn Moore to be Chrift, but they were both 
 whip'd out of that prefumptuous Opinion, 1561. 
 
 In the 17 of Queene Elizabeth, the Se6l of the Family of Love 
 began 15 75. hut it tooke no deep root. 
 
 In the 21 of Queene Elizabeth, one Mathew Hatnontwas bum'd 
 at Norwich for denying Chrift to be our Saviour. 
 
 In the 33 of Queene Elizabeth, one William Racket was hang'd 
 for profeffing himfelfe to be Chrift, 1591. 
 
 In the 9 yeare of king laTnes, the 1 1 oi Aprill, 161 1, one Edward 
 Wightman was bum'd at Litchfield iox Arianifme. 
 
 So much have I written concerning Se6ls and Herefies which 
 have beene in this Kingdome in his time, now I treate of fome 
 other Paflages. 
 
 Hee hath out-liv'd fix great Plagues. Hee was borne long before 
 we had much ufe of Printing : for it was brought into this King- 
 dome 
 
 30 
 
A Pofcript. 
 
 dome 1472. and it was long after ere it was in ufe. 
 
 Hee was above 80 yeares old before any Gunnes were made in 
 England, 1535. 
 
 TheVintonersfold no Sacks, Mufcadels, Malmfeys, Baftards, Alle- 
 gants, nor any other Wines but White and Claret, till the 33 yeare 
 of King Henry the eight 1 543, and then was Old Parr 60 yeares of 
 age : all thofe fweet Wines were fold till that time at the Apothe- 
 caries for no other ufe, but for Medicines. 
 
 There was no Starch ufed in England. A Flaunders v/oman, one 
 Miftris DingJicn Vanden PlaJJe brought in the ufe of Starch, 1564 : 
 and then was this man neere 80 yeares old. 
 
 There were no Bands worne till King Henry the eights time ; for 
 hee was the firft King that ever wore a Band in England, 1513. 
 
 Womens Mafques, Busks,Muffes,Fannes, Periwigs, and Bodkins, 
 were invented by/to/2a«Curtezans,and tranfported 'Carow.^ France 
 into England, in the ninth of Queene Elizabeth. 
 
 Tobacco was firfl brought into England by Sir lohn Hawkins, 
 1 565, but it was firft brought into ufe by Sir Walter Rawleigh many 
 yeares after. 
 
 He was 81 yeares old before there was any Coach m England; for 
 the firft that ever was feene here, was brought out of the Nether- 
 lands, by one William Boonen, a Dutch-man, who gave a Coach to 
 Queen Elizabeth, (iox ftie had been feven yeares a Queen before flie 
 had any Coach) fince when, they have increafed ('with a mifchiefej 
 and rui'nd all the beft Houfe-keeping, to the undoing of the Water- 
 men, by the multitudes of Hackney or hired Coaches : but they ne- 
 ver fwarmed fo thick to pefter the ftreets, as they doe now, till the 
 yeare 1605, and then was the Gun-powder Treafon hatch'd, and at 
 that time did the Coaches breed and multiply. 
 
 He hath out-liv'd the P"aftiion, at leaft 40 times over and over. 
 
 He hath Icnown many Changes of Scarcity (or Dearth) and Plen- 
 tic : but I will fpeake oncly of the Plentie. 
 
 In the yeare 1499, the ij of Henry 7, Wheat was fold for 4. s. 
 the quarter, or 6. d. the bufliell, and Bay fait at 4. d. and Wine at 40 
 fhillings the Tun, (which is about three farthings the quart.) 
 
 In the firft of Queen Mary, Beere was fold for fixpcnce the Bar- 
 rel!, (the Caskc and all) and three great loaves for one peny. 
 
 In the yeare 1557, the fifth of Queen Mary, the Penny Wheaten 
 
 loafe 
 
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A Pofcript. 
 
 Loafe was in weight, 56 ounces, and in many places people would 
 change a Bufhell of Corne for a Pound of Candles. 
 
 So much fhall fuffice for the declaring of fome Changes and Alte- 
 rations that have hapned in his time. 
 
 Now for a Memoriall of his Name, He give a little touch. 
 I will not fearch for the Antiquity of the name of Parr, but I find it 
 to be an Honorable name in the 1 2 yeare of King .Sofwi^rfi? the fourth, 
 the King fent Sir William ParrKnight, toceafeupontheArchbifhop 
 of Yorks Goods, at a place called the More, in Hartfordjhiere, 1472 : 
 this Sir William Parr was Knight of the Right Honourable Order 
 of the Garter. 
 
 In the 22 of Edward the fourth, the fame Sir William Parr went 
 with an Army towards Scotland, with Richard Duke of Glojler. 
 
 In the yeare 1543, the 35 yeare of King Henry the eight, luly 22, 
 the King was married to Lady Katherin Parr; and the 24 oi Decern. 
 following, the Queene's Brother, William Lord Parr, was created 
 JLavle of JSJfex, and Sir WilliamParrtheirVnclewasma6el.ordParr 
 oi Norton, and Chamberlaine to the Queene, and the firft of King 
 Edwardiki^{\K.t, William Parr, Earle of .£^;ir was created Marqueffe 
 of Northampton ; and in the 4 yeare of King Edwards raigne 1550, 
 the faid Marqueffe was made Lord Great Chamberlaine oi England, 
 and on the laft oiAprill, 1552, hee (amongft other Lords) Muftred 
 100 brave well appointed Horfmen of his owne charge before King 
 Edward in the Park at Greemvich (his Cognifance or Creft being the 
 Maydenkead) in the firft of Queene Mary hee tooke part with the 
 'L.adylane againft the Queen, for which he was taken and committed 
 to the Tower, luly 26, and (contrary to expeftation) releafed againe 
 fhortly after, March 24. 
 
 Alfo the firft of Queene Elizabeth, William Parr, Marqueffe of 
 Northampton fate in Wejlminjier Hall, Lord High Steward, upon a 
 Tryall of William Lord Wentworth, (who had been late Lord De- 
 puty of Ca/^j; which noble Lord PfV«/z£/or///,came off moft Honou- 
 rably acquited, Aprill 22. 
 
 After the death of King Henry the eight, Queene Katherin Parr 
 was married to Sir Thomas Seimer, 'Lord High Admirall,and fhe dy- 
 ed the 2 oi September, 1548. 
 
 And thus I lay downe the Pen, leaving it to whomfoever can, or 
 will make more of this Old Man, than I have 
 
 Done. 
 
 33 
 
[i639-] 
 Part of this Summers Travels, 
 
 [Not in Hazlitt nor Lowndes.] 
 
Part of this Sum^ 
 
 mers Travels. 
 
 Or News 
 
 From Hell, Hull, and Halli/ax, 
 
 from York, Linne, Leicefter, 
 
 Chejler, Coventry, Lichfield, 
 
 Nottingham, and the 
 Dive Us Ars a Peake. 
 
 With many pleafant paffages, 
 worthy your obfervation 
 
 and reading. 
 
 By yohn Taylor. 
 
 Imprinted by y. O. 
 
■■■■■■■■VVVVwVVVVwVVVv 
 
 A few words of direHion to 
 the Reader. 
 
 Have not written every 
 place in that order, as is 
 fet downe in the Title of 
 this Pamphlet , but of 
 fuch places as I travelled 
 unto, I have truly related 
 the paffages , and the time , both when, 
 where, why, and how I went, came and per- 
 form'd It. If any man aske wherefore this 
 Book is good, or how it may be any way 
 ufefull, I anfwer that it is foure ways com- 
 modious : Firfh, it is profitable, for it will 
 dire6l a man the high-wayes of croffmg di- 
 vers Countries from place to place, which 
 no other Book fhews, as from Leicejler to 
 Linne in Norfolke, from Linne to Kingfione, 
 A 2 upoii 
 
upon Hull in Yorke/hire, from Hull to 
 Yorke, thence to Hallifax, to Chejler, Darby, 
 Nottingham, Coventry, Lichfield, and the 
 Devils Ars a Peake : all thefe ways are here- 
 in defcribed ; fecondly, there are fome Mo- 
 numents of Antiquitie are mentioned, 
 which greater Authours have omitted ; 
 thirdly, there are fome paffages of delight- 
 full Mirth and Recreation. And laftly, all is 
 true, or elfe you have the Authours leave to 
 travell as hee hath done, and doe your beft 
 and worft to prove him a liar. 
 
(0 
 
 Paffages and Entertainments 
 from London to Leicejler , 
 
 with fome obfervations 
 
 of the faid Town 
 and Shire. 
 
 \Pon Saint Swithins day, I noted well, 
 I The wind was calme, nor any rain then fell. 
 Which f aire day (as old fawes faith) doth 
 portend. 
 That heaven to earth, will plenteous harveft fend, 
 The morrow being ] uUes fxteenth day, 
 In my progrefjion I began my way. 
 T need not to relate the towns that lie 
 Jufi in my way, (as T road through or by) 
 Onely at Mims, a Cockney boafling bragger 
 In mirth, did aske the women for Belfwagger, 
 Butflrait the females, like the Furies fell, 
 Did curfe, fcold, raile, cafl dirt, andflones pell mell, 
 
 A 3 But 
 
(2) 
 
 But we betook us nimbly to our /purs, 
 And left them calling us rogues, Knaves, and airs, 
 With other pretty names, which I difcern'd 
 They from their old fore-mothers well had learn' d. 
 The reafon why they are with rage inflam'd, 
 When as they heare Belfwagger nam'd. 
 Is (as report doth fay) there dwelt a Squire, 
 Who was fo full of love, (or lufls defire) 
 That with his fair e tongue, Hippocritick-hood, 
 ( By flanderous people 'twas mifunderflood) 
 The women were fo fruitfull, that they were 
 All got with childe, in com.paffe of one year e. 
 And that Squires name, they fay, Belfwagger was, 
 A nd from that tale, the lying jeere doth paffe. 
 Wherefore the ivomen there will chide and fwagger, 
 If any man do aske them for Belfwagger. 
 Thence pafl I on my jotirney unto Hockly, 
 Where as I faw a Drunkard like a block lye, 
 There I alighted at thefanguine Lion, 
 WJtere I had meat, drink, and a bed to lie on, 
 Tlie next day I road flately to Northampton, 
 And all the way m.y horfe inoft proudly flampt on. 
 On Thurfday, trotting, galloping and ambling. 
 To Leifter, I proceeded in my rambling : 
 There, at the blue Boare / was welcome than 
 Unto m,y brother Miles, a downright man. 
 Plain dealing, free from flattery, fraud orfeare, 
 Who hath liv'd long ivith reputation there. 
 
 He's 
 
(3) 
 
 He's old and honejl, valiant, courteous, free r 
 (I write not this for making much of me) 
 But they that doubts on't, let them go and try 
 And if he be a changling, fay I lie. 
 That houfe, King Richard lodg'd in, his lafl night f 
 Before he did the field of Bofworth fight. 
 And there's a Room, a King to entertain. 
 The like is not in Leifter Town again, 
 Th'Af/izes then were there, fome caufes tride, 
 And Law did there the corps and fouls divide. 
 Of two offenders, one had with a Knife 
 Stabd his contrasted love, and reaifd her life, 
 'Tother, a wench that had fiolne fome poor rayment. 
 And fir' d the houfe, deferifd the Hangmans fay- 
 King Leir a Temple did to Janus reare (ment. 
 And plac'd a Flamine in't, there doth appeare 
 The arched Ovens foure yards thick at leafl. 
 Wherein they Heathen Sacrifices drefi ; 
 Like as the Jews in their Idolatry, 
 Offered their fonnes and daughters impioufly, 
 To Moloch, Nifroch, Afhtaroth, and Ball : 
 And to thofe devillifh gods adore and fall. 
 So people here, when war re or peace they fought ; 
 They offrings unto Janus Temple brought ; 
 This was eight hundred forty and foure yeare 
 Before our Saviours birth, built by King Leire, 
 Long after Eltreldred (the Mercian King) 
 A happy and a Chrifiian change did bring, 
 
 A 4 The 
 
(4) 
 
 The Temple ra^d the Flamine he defac'd, 
 And there a Chri/iia?t Bijhops Sea he plac'd, 
 Which lafi but few yeares, for then this Land 
 Was f even-fold yoaked, beneath 7 Kings command. 
 And thofe Kings Jlill were in perpetuall wars 
 That England was quite fpoy I'd with endleffe jars, 
 And in thofe Garboyles Leifter had Iter fhare, 
 Spoy'ld, rifled, ranfack'd, rob'd, and left tnq/i bare, 
 Till Edelfred, with great magnificence. 
 Repair' d and wall'd itftronglyfor defence. 
 Then did itflourifh long in wealth andftate, 
 Tillfecond Henry it did ruinate : 
 He in out-ragious fury fir' d the Town, 
 Difwall'd it quite, and cafi the Caftle down. 
 So nothing butfome ruines doth appeare. 
 Whereby tnen may perceive that fuch things were. 
 Thus Leifter y^//, from ftate fuperlative. 
 Her fifty churches all confum'd to five. 
 Yet it is f aire andfpacious at this day. 
 And Eaft, Wefi, North and South 'tis every way 
 Above a mile in length, fo that no doubt. 
 The Town's in circuit fix large miles about. 
 'R&nry firfi Duke of Lancafter in war. 
 In peace, or bounty, a bright blazing Star 
 For buildings i7i this City is renown' d. 
 Which as time rais'd, time did again confound. 
 Yet one large fabrick there doth jlill abide. 
 Whereby tlie good Dukes name is dignifide. 
 
 And 
 
(5) 
 
 And that's an Hofpitall or Bead-houfe, where 
 One hundred and ten men are harbour' d there, 
 From perilling through want, Jiill to defend 
 Thofe aged men untill the world Jhall end. 
 Twice every day a Chaplain doth repair 
 To them ; and unto God fends prayfe and prayer. 
 And Nurfes are allow' d to dreffe their meat, 
 To make their beds, to wafli, and keep them neat: 
 For which they thankefull be to God alone 
 Who rais'd fuch means to eafe the poor mans mone. 
 Good Henry Earle of Huntingdon (renown' d) 
 A free fchoole did ereSl there, from the ground. 
 With means (though meane) for mayntenance en- 
 Two Vfhers, and one Schoolmafler allow' d, (dow'd 
 They teach young lads, fitch Rules as do belong. 
 To reade the Englifh and tlie Latine tongue, 
 And when their knowledge is with hope difcernd, 
 They in the Greek may learn, and be more learn'd. 
 
 But to relate fomthing in profe of this ancient 
 Towne of Leicefier, in the time of nine weekes, 
 which I abode there to and fro, I obferved fuch 
 a civill government and decency, which is not 
 in many places to be found or equallized. 
 
 Firft, I noted the peace, tranquillity, and unity 
 which the people live in, under the rule and 
 command of the Major and his brethren, to 
 
 whofe 
 
(6) 
 
 whofe authority and power (under the King) 
 the inhabitants do willingly obay. 
 
 Secondly, the Clergy (or Minillery) are lear- 
 ned, diligent, and painfull ; and both Clergie and 
 Layity, are conformable to the Orders and Dif- 
 cipline of the Church of England, and I did not 
 heare of any one, refiding there, that is, either 
 Schifmatically opinionated with Dogmaticall 
 Whimfeyes, or Amjter-damnable Fopperies. 
 
 Thirdly, they are fo charitable and carefull 
 in providing for the relief of the poore and nee- 
 dy, that a man muft go feek where to beftow his 
 almes, for there is not any one (that I could fee) 
 that begg'd in the whole Town. 
 
 Fourthly, the ftreets are fo well paved, and 
 kept fo clean from dunghils, filth, or foyle, that in 
 the wetteft or fowleft weather, a man may go all 
 over the Towne in a paire of flippers, and never 
 wet his feet. 
 
 Laftly, the people are generally fo loving one 
 to another, that the Lawyers want work, and fo 
 honeft that the Apparitors are idle, and thofe few 
 Drunkards which they have, are very civill and 
 faire condition'd. 
 
 Certain other obfervations. 
 
 There is a faire Library, and a well founded 
 
 Almes- 
 
(7) 
 
 Almes-houfe within the Town, alfo two Gaoles, 
 two houfes of Correftion, and for mad and fran- 
 tick people. Alfo it is reported, that when King 
 Richard the Third went from Leicejler, to fight 
 the battaile neer Bofworth, that then there was a 
 man of mean calling (fome fay he was a weaver, 
 and fome fay a Plough-wright by his trade) hee 
 had a fpirit of divination or Prophecie, of whom 
 the Tyrant' King Richard, demanded fome que- 
 ftions, what the event of that dayes fight might 
 be to him, to whom the other (moft bluntly an- 
 fwered, Marke my words King Richard, that as 
 thou dojl ride out of the Towne of Leicefter, this 
 morning thou fhalt hit thy right foot againfi a 
 ftone, and as thou returneft thou fhalt knocke thy 
 head againfi the fame ; which proved true, for as 
 he road, he did ftrike againft the corner of a wall 
 his foot, and after hee was flain in the field, hee 
 was ftript, and his body layd croffe behind a 
 man on Horf-back (like a calfe) and in that vile 
 and ignominious manner, as they brought his 
 corps back to Leicefler, his head did knocke a- 
 gainfl the aforefaid wall or ftone, which place I 
 faw there ; alfo I went eight miles to fee Red- 
 more field, where the King fell, which is a moo- 
 rifh kinde of ground, altogether unfruitfull, and 
 the water doth feem red, which fome foolifli 
 people do fuppofe to be the flaine of K. Richards 
 
 bloud ; 
 
(8) 
 
 bloud ; but it is onely the colour of the red earth 
 that makes the water feeme fo, and the ground 
 clofe adjoyning is very fertile for Corne and 
 Pafturage, but in the lower parts it is boggy and 
 moory : by nature, and not either barren or blou- 
 dy by any reafon of the King's death. 
 
 Another obfervation is concerning the altera- 
 tion of the meafures of Miles, and good fufficient 
 Pots or Jugs of drink, but the further I travelled 
 Northward, the more the miles were lengthe- 
 ned, and the Pots fhrunke and curtald ; but in- 
 deed, what the liquor wanted in meafure it had 
 in ftrength : the power of it being of fuch po- 
 tentie, that it would fox a dry Traveller, before 
 he had half quencht his thirft 
 
 In this County of Leicejler, I obferved a piece 
 of extream jufbice, executed upon three Geefe, 
 which was thus. 
 
 At a village called Dadlington, eight miles 
 from Leicejler, there dwels a Gentlewoman a 
 Kinfwoman of mine, who the lafi: Trinity Tearm 
 1639 was at London, about fome bufmeffe in 
 Law, which much concern'd her ; and in her ab- 
 fence, the Pinder of Dadlington, finding three 
 of her Geefe innocently grazing upon the Com- 
 mon, for to Ihew the full power, force, vertue, 
 and marrow of his office and authority, drave 
 the Geefe into the Pound or Pindfold, and be- 
 
 caufe 
 
(9) 
 
 caufe they could procure no Bayle for their re- 
 leafe, nor fureties for their true imprifonment, 
 hee put all their three necks into a Horflock, 
 which Engine or Neck-fetter was fo ftrait, clofe, 
 and pinching, that the Geefe were all ftrangled : 
 Now the queftion is whether Willy, Tilly, (the 
 Finder fo filly) were the caufe of their deaths, 
 or whether the Geefe did defperately caft away 
 themfelves : all which I humbly refer to the dif- 
 cretion of the Jury. 
 
 But fome readers n^ay mufe why I do write fo 
 much of Leicejler, in this little Book ; the reafon 
 is that I lay there from the 17 of July, to the 20 
 of Auguji, which was five weekes, but in the 
 mean fpace, I road to Coventry, and return'd in 
 a day to Leicejler again, of Coventry I have little 
 to fay, but that it is a faire, famous, fweet, and an- 
 _ cient City, fo walled about with fuch ftrength 
 and neatneffe, as no City in England may com- 
 pare with it ; in the wals (at feverall places) are 
 13 Gates and Pofterns whereby to enter, and if- 
 fue too and from the City : and on the wals are 1 8 
 ftrong defenfible Towers, which do alfo beauti- 
 fie it : in the City is a faire and delicate Croffe, 
 which is for ftrufture, beauty and workmanfhip, 
 by many men accounted unmatchable in this 
 Kingdome : although my felfe with fome others, 
 do fuppofe, that of Abington in Berkejhire will 
 
 match 
 
 13 
 
(lo) 
 match it, and I am fure the Croffe in Cheapfide 
 at London doth farre out-paffe it. I have bin at this 
 City foure times, and have written of it before, 
 and therefore at this time (my ftay being fo fhort 
 there) I have but little to fay, onely this that 
 fome are of opinion, that at the firft it was called 
 Coventry, from the French word Trey Covent, be- 
 caufe there were founded three Covents, for 
 three feverall Orders of Friers, namely, the 
 Francifcan Friers, the Augujiine Friers, and the 
 Dominicans. It matters not much who erefted 
 the faid foundations and Covents, but it is cer- 
 tain, that the renowned King Henry the Eighth 
 did fuppreffe and demolifli them, whofe memo- 
 ries now is almoft quite buried in their owne 
 ruines. Coventry is a County of it felfe, it hath 
 been grac'd and dignified much by the Grants 
 and Priviledges given to it by former Kings, as 
 King Edward the third, and King Henry the 
 fixt ; the Majors name (at my being there, was 
 Mafter Thomas Forreji a Vintener) and Mafter 
 Thomas Phineas Sword-bearer there dyed at the 
 beginning of the Sefllons (much about the time 
 of my being there) he was a man of that comely 
 bulke and corpulency, that his Coffin was a full 
 yard wide at the fhoulders, and it is faid, that in 
 his life time hee could have been (at one Meale) 
 the confumption of a large fhoulder of Mutton : 
 
 but 
 
 14 
 
(^0 
 
 but he and his good ftomack being both deceaft, 
 I left Coventry, becaufe it was Seffions time, 
 and returned to my Randevouze at Leijler. 
 
 The eleventh day of Augujl I road from Lei- 
 jler to Nottingham, where 1 lodged at the figne 
 of the Princes Armes ; but I was wel entertained 
 at the houfe of the Right Worfhipfull Sir Tho- 
 mas Hutchinfon Knight, himfelfe and his 
 good Lady made mee welcome, and did ex- 
 preffe their bounty to mee in good cheere and 
 money : for the which I am heartily thank- 
 full. 
 
 The Towne of Nottingham is feated on a Hill, 
 which Hill is almoft of one ftony Rocke, or a 
 foft kinde of penetrable fandy ftone ; it hath ve- 
 ry faire buildings, many large ftreetes, and a fpa- 
 cious Market place ; a great number of the inha- 
 bitants (efpecially the poorer fort) doe dwell in 
 vaults, holes, or caves, which are cut and digged 
 out of (or within) the Rocke : fo that if a man 
 be deftitute of a houfe, it is but to goe to Not- 
 tingham, and with a Mattock, a Shovell, a Crow 
 of Iron, a Chizell, and Mallet, and fuch inflru- 
 ments, he may play the Mole, the Cunny, or the 
 Pioner, and worke himfelfe a Hole, or a Burrow, 
 for him and his family : where, over their heads 
 the graffe and pafture growes, and beafts do feed ; 
 faire Orchards and gardens are their coverings, 
 and Cowes are milkt upon the tops of their hou- 
 
 fes. 
 
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 fes. I was much befriended by Mafter Palmer 
 the Jaylor there ; for he went with me, and (hew- 
 ed me the (fometimes) ftrong and defencible 
 Caftle, but now much ruined : yet ftill there are 
 many faire and fumptuous roomes in reafonable 
 reparation and eftate. On the lofty Battlements 
 of the faid Caftle, there is a moft fpacious pro- 
 fpe6t round about : for from thence I could fee 
 the mofl flately Caflle of Belvoyre or Bever 
 Caftle, which doth (as it felfe) belong to the 
 Right Honourable the Earle of Rutland ; and 
 nearer hand, within three miles, I faw the an- 
 cient Towne of Gotham, famous for the feven 
 Sages (or Wife men) who are fabuloufly re- 
 ported to live there in former ages. 
 
 In the aforefaid Caftle of Nottingham, I was 
 fhewed divers ftrange wonderfull Vaults, cut or 
 hewen out of the Rocke, whereof one is faid to 
 be the place where David King of Scots was 
 detained many years in captivity ; where the faid 
 King, with his owne hands (without any other 
 inftrument than the nayles of his fingers) did 
 with the faid tooles engrave and claw out the 
 forme of our Saviour's Life, death and paffion ; 
 which worke is there to bee feene upon the 
 Walls. 
 
 Alfo there is another Vault or paffage through 
 the Rocke, whereby men may defcend or afcend 
 out, or into the Caftle ; which Vault is called 
 
 Mortimers 
 
 16 
 
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 Mortimers Hole, through which hole (as report 
 goes) the great Roger Mortimer, Earle of Wig- 
 mor, and Lord of Wallitigford, had egreffe and re- 
 greffe to the Queene, wife to King Edward the 
 fecond, or the unfortunate Edward of Carnarvan. 
 Thus having feene as much of Nottingham 
 Towne and Caftle as is related ; on the twelfth 
 oi Augujl, I road to the ancient towne of Dar- 
 by: on the thirteenth of Auguji I left Darby, 
 with an intent to retire to Leijier ; but after I 
 had road halfe a mile, I met with an acquain- 
 tance of mine, who was travailing towards the 
 Peake in Darby fhire, to a Towne called Wirkf- 
 wortk, and from thence to Chiejlerfield, I retur- 
 ned with him. The Country is very Mountai- 
 nous, and many Lead Mines are found there- 
 abouts : the befl and moft richefl is called Dove 
 Gany, within a mile or little more of Wirkf- 
 worth (corruptly called Wort/worth) and two 
 miles from thence are moft dangerous wayes, 
 ftony, craggy with inacceflible Hils and Moun- 
 taines : the grounds there are lawfull (as they 
 told me) for any man to dig or mine in for Lead, 
 be they of what condition foever ; for the Laws 
 of mining is, that thofe that will adventure their 
 Labours fhall have all the profits, paying the 
 tenth part to the Lord or Landlord, of all the 
 Lead which they get. If it happen that they take 
 B. pains 
 
 17 
 
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 pains, a yeare or two in fundry places to finde a 
 Myne if their fortune be fo hard to finde none (as 
 it often falls out fo) they do work all that while 
 for nothing, and finde themfelves as they are a- 
 ble, and in the end their toyle and labour is all 
 loft : but if they doe hit upon a good Myne that 
 doth hold out, and yield plentifully, then they 
 may quickly enrich themfelves (if they be good 
 husbands.) I was told of a poore Thatcher that 
 left his Trade, and venturing his time and pains, 
 he found fo rich a Lead Myne, that he would turn 
 a Gentleman, and he kept men in Liveries, living 
 at the rate of the expence of lOO pound a week : 
 fo that he fuppofmg that Leaden, Golden World 
 would never be ended, took no care to fave any 
 thing, but after a while, the Myne failed, and hee 
 fpent that little which hee had left in digging 
 for more, could find none, fo that for a conclu- 
 fion, he forfook the Peake, and turnd Thatcher a- 
 gain. 
 
 That part of the Peak, which is called the De- 
 vils Ars, is at or neer a Towne named Cajlle- 
 ton, or Caftle Towne, fo ftiled from an ancient 
 ruined Cafi:le on a Hill, at the end of the Town, 
 it is 30 miles from Darby, the Cafiile ftands on 
 the top of a Hill, and under it is a Cliff or Rifife 
 in the faid Hill, which is as wide at the entrance 
 as three Barn doores, but being entred in it is 
 
 en- 
 
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 enclofed again fo narrow, that a man muft ftoop 
 to paffe further, but after that ftraight paffage is 
 paft, there is rooms of incredible and wonder- 
 full greatneffe, with ftrange and intricate tur- 
 nings, and windings, which no man can fee with- 
 out great ftore of lights, and by reafon that thofe 
 things are naturall, and formed without any art 
 or labour of man, and with all fo difmall hor- 
 rid, darke and hideous, that place is called the 
 Devills Ars a Peak, at or upon which I have (ac- 
 cording to my promife) given three jerks with 
 my pen, at the latter end of this Book. 
 
 From thence I returned towards Leicejier, 30 
 miles, on the 15 of Auguji, and lodged at a 
 Market Towne called Narbury, and the next day 
 I came all tyred and weary (both man and beaft 
 to Leicejier) and on the 20 day, I took my jour- 
 ney 64 miles into Norfolke, to the famous Town 
 of Linne, and three miles from thence, at a Vil- 
 lage called Wooton, I was there well welcomed 
 by Matter Richard Miles (to whom I am and 
 mufb be a thankfuU Brother in Law) whofe lo- 
 ving kindneffe to me was fhewed in fuch extra- 
 ordinary manner, which becaufe I cannot ex- 
 preffe, I will remayn gratefuU with filence. 
 
 Concerning Linne, it is an excellent Sea-town 
 and ftrong Port, it is gravely and peaceably go- 
 verned by a Major, 12 Aldermen, and a Recor- 
 
 B. 2 der 
 
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 der. It hath bin honored by divers, but chiefly by 
 King John 440 yeares fince, and by King Henry 
 the Third, the firft gave them a faire gilt Cup, 
 which is there to be feene, as a witneffe of his 
 Royall liberality: and who fo will know more 
 of Linne, let them goe thither and look the Re- 
 cords of the Town, or elfe let them read Mafter 
 Camdens Britania, or the painfull labours of 
 Mafter John Speed. The troth is, mine Hoaft No- 
 ble, was a noble Hoaft to me, at whofe houfe, my 
 brothers Kindred and friends, gave me a friend- 
 ly farewell. On Tuefday the 27 oi Augujl, from 
 Linne to Bojlon in Lincolnjhire 24 miles, where 
 I dined with the right Worfhipfull Sir Anthony 
 Thomas Knight, from Bojlon I road 14 miles to 
 Horn Cajlle, where I lodg'd the 28 of Augujl. 
 But I crave pardon of the Reader, for I had al- 
 moft forgotten a merry paffage or two which 
 hapned in Norfolke, not farre from Linne ; and 
 thus it was. 
 
 At a place called Priors Thorns, neere to two 
 Towns, namely, Northbery and Sapham, there 
 dwelt a man named Frier, who was rich in fub- 
 ftance, but very poore and miferable in his con- 
 ditions : belike hee had read or heard of a Play 
 that was written 40 years fmce by Mafter Ben- 
 Jamin John/on, the Play is extant, and is called 
 Every Man out of his Humour, in which Play 
 
 was 
 
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 was a6led and perfonated a mizerly Farmer, that 
 had much corne in his Barnes, and did expeft a 
 fcant or barren Harveft, that through want and 
 fcarcity hee might fell his corne at what deare 
 rates hee pleafed, but (contrary to his wicked 
 hopes) the Harveft proved abundantly plentifull, 
 wherefore hee being in an extraordinary merry 
 or mad veine, put himfelfe to the charge of the 
 buying of a two penny halter, and went into his 
 Barn as fecretly as he could, and putting the hal- 
 ter about his neck with a riding knot, he faftned 
 the other end to a beam, and moft neatly hang'd 
 himfelf : But (as ill luck would have it) his man 
 prefently came into the Barne, and efpyde his 
 Mafter fo bravely mounted, the unlucky knave 
 drew his Knife and cut the halter, crying out for 
 help as lowde as he could, rubbing and chafing 
 his Mafter with all care and diligence to recover 
 him to life again ; at the laft he awak'd out of his 
 traunce and fetch'd a deep groan, began to ftare 
 and look about him ; and taking the end of the 
 cut halter in his hand, his firft words to his man 
 was Sirrah, who did cut this, O Mafter (faid the 
 fellow) it was I that did it, and I thank God that 
 I came in good time to doe it, and I pray you to 
 take God in your minde, and never more to ha- 
 zard your foule and body in fuch a wicked man- 
 ner : to which good counfell of the poor fellow, 
 B. 3 the 
 
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 the Caitiffe replyde, Sirrah, If you would be 
 medling (like a fawcy bufie rogue) you might 
 have untyde it, that it might have ferv'd another, 
 time, fuch an unthrifty rafcall as thou will never 
 be worth fuch a halter, it coft me two pence, and 
 I will abate the price of it in thy quarters wa- 
 ges. And when the quarter day came, hee did a- 
 bate the faid two pence, for the whicL the fellow 
 would dwell no longer with him, but went and 
 got him another fervice : This was afted really 
 and lately at the place aforefaid, in imitation of 
 that part in the Play, of Every Man out of his 
 Humour. 
 
 After the faid Frier had fome Hogs which 
 were like to die with the Murrain, which Hogs 
 he killed and powdred, and his wife, children, 
 and Family, as many as did eat of the Porke, fell 
 fick and dyed all : for the which the flave deferv'd 
 a hanging, and a Hangman, but hee yet lives for 
 fome worfe purpofe. 
 
 Concerning a paire of Brewers, and a piece of 
 juftice. Another fhort Norfolk Tale is not imper- 
 tinent. There was one Mafler Feit a Brewer at 
 Fenfham, and one Mafter Francis Dix a Brewer 
 at Sapham, this Dix was riding in the Countrey 
 amongft his Cuftomers (the Inkeepers and Vi- 
 6luallers) and he call'd for a pot of Ale or Beere 
 as he road by ; (now that Ale-houfe was a Cufto- 
 
 mer 
 
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 mer to Fen, as foon as Dix had drank, hee asked 
 who brewed that drink, to whom the Hoafteffe 
 fay'd, that Mafter Fen of Fenjhani brewed it ; well 
 faid Dix, I dare lay a wager, that I will give my 
 Mare but a peck of Mault, and fhe fhall piffe bet- 
 ter drink than this ; at the laft thefe words came 
 to Fens hearing, for the which difparagement, he 
 fued Dix, and recovered from him twenty 
 pound damage, befides cofts, at the Affizes laft at 
 Norwich 1639. And now to returne to the nar- 
 ration of my Travels, from whence I have di- 
 greft, fmce I lodg'd at Home Cajlle in Lincolne- 
 Jhire. 
 
 From thence on the 18 of Augujl, I road 30 
 miles to Barton upon Huniber, and the next day 
 (being Friday) I tooke a Boat for myfelfe, my 
 Squire, and my two Palfreyes, down to Hull, or 
 Kingjlone upon Hull, the fbrength and fcituation 
 of which Towne I have formerly written of: 
 and I had no new thing there wherof to make 
 any new relation : let it fuffice, that it is abfo- 
 lutely accounted the ftrongeft and moft defenfi- 
 ble Town in the Kingdome of England, and for 
 good government inferiour to none : I might fpeak 
 fomewhat of their good fellowfhip ; but my 
 Book would fwell big with it, therefore I will 
 pay them with thinking and thanking of them, 
 both my old friends and new acquaintance all in 
 generall. The 
 
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 The 31 of Atigujl I left Hull, and road to 
 Holden, 16 miles, and on the morrow I road to 
 Cowood Caftle, to fee the moft Reverend Doftor 
 Neale, the Lord Archbifhop of Yorke his Grace, 
 whom in all humility I do acknowledge myfelf 
 much bound in duty daily to pray for, and re- 
 member him with unfained reverend thankful- 
 neffe, not only for the underferved favours and 
 bounty which his Grace extended towards mee 
 now, but for many other former approvements 
 of his Graces love and liberality, when his 
 Grace liv'd neere mee at Winchejler Houfe. At 
 Dinner with his Grace, I had the happineffe to 
 renew my Acquaintance with the Noble and 
 Worthy Knight Sir Francis Worthy, who moft 
 courteoufly invited and commanded me to vifit 
 him in my journey, of which more followeth. 
 
 My humble thanks rememberd to the right 
 worthy worfhipfull Knight Sir Paul Neale, with 
 his fair and vertuous Lady, as alfo my Grateful! 
 remembrance to all my Lords Gentlemen and 
 Servants, to whofe loves and for whofe friend- 
 fhips I fhall ever acknowledge myfelfe an in- 
 gaged Debter. 
 
 Thus having paft the Sunday with my Lords 
 Grace, and thofe other before named Gentle- 
 men. On Munday the fecond of September, I 
 took my Breakfafl and my leave both of Cowood, 
 
 and 
 
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 and road to Yorke, where I vifited the worthy 
 Knight (my old acquaintance) Sir Arthur ht- 
 gram, with whom I thank his worlhip, I dined, 
 and alfo had fome other token of his love and 
 bounty, for the which I remayn thankful!. 
 
 Of Yorke I have but little to fay, though it be 
 a great, a faire, and the fecond City in England, 
 built 989 years before our Saviours Birth, by E- 
 brank King of this Land, from whom the City is 
 called Eboracenfis, this Ebrank is faid to have 
 ,21 wives, by whom he had 20 fonnes, and 70 
 daughters : he raigned here when as King Solo- 
 mon raigned in Jerufalem, hee overran France, 
 he builded Alclaid, or Dumbritton in Scotland, 
 hee founded York, hee ere6led a Temple there, 
 and therein plac'd a Flamine to Diana; but 
 after (in King Lucius time) Elutherius 
 pull'd downe the faid Idolatrous wooden Tem- 
 ple, and difplac'd the Flamine, and caufed the 
 Minfter to be built in that magnificent manner 
 of free ftone, placing there an Archbifhop ; 6"^- 
 verus the Romait Emperour dyed there, and alfo 
 there dyed the Emperour Flavins Vallerius Con- 
 Jlantius (which fome call Chlorus) thofe that 
 will know more of York, let them reade Chro- 
 nicles and larger Volumes. 
 
 The Lord Major of Yorke was (at my being 
 there, one Sir Roger Jaques Knight, a Gentle- 
 man 
 
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 man of approved wifdome and government : my- 
 felf did not flay three houres, and myne Hoafl 
 Mafter Corney at the Talbot, told mee all the 
 news which I heard there, which was a fellow, 
 that (amongft other offenders) was the firft that 
 was hang'd, and the laft that was cut down, and 
 being put into the grave or pit, with his fellows, 
 when the earth was caft upon them, he began to 
 ftir and recover life, and was return'd to the 
 Goale is now there living, and able to report 
 truly what hanging is. Probatum ejl. 
 
 From Yorke I rode after Dinner to Tadcajler, 
 and fo to a place called Kidell, where at a poore 
 Ale-houfe I was glad of entertainment, and had 
 the Company of a Tinker who made pretty Mu- 
 fique with his Banbury Kettle-drum, there was 
 alfo with him two Drovers and 35 Hogs, which 
 were to be driven on the morrow feven miles 
 further to Leeds Market, this good lodging and 
 company, I paft the night with all, and on the 
 morrow I road to the Town of Leeds ; of which 
 Towne I muft fay fomewhat. This Town is (for 
 the bigneffe of it) one of the moft populous Towns 
 in England, it hath in it above 12000 people, 
 and having but one Church there, it was not halfe 
 capable to receive fo great a Congregation, they 
 were extremly thronged and dangeroufly crow- 
 ded (efpecially in the heat of Summer, or fultry 
 
 con- 
 
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 contagious weather) that the moft part of the 
 people were inforc'd eyther to go two or three 
 miles feverall ways to other Village Churches, 
 or elfe to ftay at home and want the hearing of 
 Gods Word, and the meanes of their falvation. 
 The care and confideration of thefe Grievances 
 entred into the pious minde of one Mafter John 
 Harrifon Gentleman there, (now living) fo that 
 God opened his heart, that of his owne proper 
 cofts he caufed a Church to be built (though it 
 have but the name of a Chappell) which is fo 
 large, that it will contain 4000 people, it is fo 
 neatly compacted and framed, with exquifite art 
 of carving and Mafonry, with painting, gilding, 
 polifhing, embellifhing, and adorning, with a 
 moft ftately roofe, a fair lofty Tower or Steeple, 
 a fweet ring of Bels ; befides the admirable and 
 coftly Joyners and Carvers Workmanfhip in 
 the Font, Pulpit Pewes, Chancell, Communion 
 Boord, and all other things and ornaments for 
 the decent adornment of fuch a Houfe confecra- 
 ted and dedicated to the Service of God. I do 
 abfolutely affirme, that neither the Church or 
 the Founder hath any fellows to be found. 
 
 This Chappell is called by the name of Saint 
 John Evangelijl, it hath a faire Churchyard for 
 Burials, well and ftrongly walled about, and at 
 the Weft end of the Churchyard, the faid Gen- 
 tleman 
 
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 tleman hath founded a faire Almfe-houfe, and 
 therein placed 2 1 poore aged people ; alfo liee 
 hath founded and finifhed a faire School-houfe, 
 for the inftru6lion of youth, and a fine fweet 
 ftreet hee hath built on both fides in a uniforme 
 and faire manner, with Houfes : the Rents 
 whereof are for the mayntenance of the Almes 
 houfes, the Schoole, and Reparations of the 
 Church to the end of the World. And I leave 
 this worthy Founder to God for a bleffing, and 
 to the World for imitation. 
 
 From Leeds I went to Wakefield, where if 
 the valiant Pinder had been living, I would have 
 play'd Don Quixoi's part, and challenged him ; 
 but being it was fo happy that he was dead, I paft 
 the Town in peace to Barnfley, and fo to Worthy, 
 to Sir Francis Wortleyes ancient Houfe. The en- 
 tertainment which himfelfe, his good Lady, and 
 his moft faire and hopeful! daughter gave mee 
 there, as I never did or can deferve, fo I never 
 fhall be able to requite, to talke of meate, drinke, 
 money, and free welcome for Horfe and Man, it 
 were but a meer foolery for me to begin, becaufe 
 then I fliould run myfelf into a Labyrinth, out of 
 which I fhould hardly finde the way : Therefore 
 to his Worfhip, my humble thanks remembred, 
 and everlafting happineffe wiflied, both to him 
 and all that is his. Yet I cannot forbeare to write 
 
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 a little of the further favour of this Noble 
 Knight. Upon the fourteenth of September after- 
 noon, he took horfe with mee, and his Lady and 
 daughter in their Coach, with fome other Ser- 
 vants on horfeback ; where three miles we rode 
 over rocks and Cloud-kifling Mountains, one of 
 them is fo high, that (in a cleere day) a man may 
 from the top thereof fee both the Minfters or Ca- 
 thedrall Churches, Yorke and Lincolne, neere 60 
 miles off us : and as it is to be fuppofed. That when 
 the Devill did looke over Lincolne, as the Pro- 
 verbe is (that hee ftood upon the Mountaine) 
 or neer it-: Sir Francis brought me to a Lodge, 
 the place is called Wharncliffe, where the Keeper 
 dwels, who is his man, and keeps all this 
 Woody, Rocky, Stony, vaft Wilderneffe under 
 him, for there are many Deere there, and the 
 Keeper were an Affe if he would want Venifon, 
 having fo good a Mafter. 
 
 Clofe to the faid Lodge, is a Stone in burthen 
 at the leaft 100 cart loads, the top of it is foure 
 fquare (by Nature) and about 12 yards compaffe, 
 it hath three feats in the forme of Chaires, made 
 by art (as it were in the front of the Rocke) 
 wherein three perfons may eafily fit, and have a 
 view and goodly profpeft over large Woods, 
 Towns, Corn-fields, fruitfull and pleafant Pa- 
 fi;ures, Valleyes, Rivers, Deere, Neat, Sheep, and 
 all things needful for the life of man : contayned 
 
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 in thoufands of Acres, and all (or the better part, 
 belonging to that Noble Knights Anceftors, and 
 himfelf. Behinde the Stone is a large infcripti- 
 on, ingraven, where in an old charafter is de- 
 fcribed the ancient memory of the Wortleys (the 
 Progenitors to Sir Francis now living) for fome 
 hundreds of yeares, who were Lords and Ow- 
 ners of the faid Lands and Demaynes which hee 
 now holds as their- right Heire. About a Bow 
 fhoot from thence (by the defcent of many rungs 
 of a ladder) his Worfliip brought mee to a Cave 
 or Vault in a rocke, wherein was a Table with 
 feats, and Turfe Cufhions round, and in a hole 
 in the fame Rock, was three Barrels of nappy 
 liquoui-, thither the Keeper brought a good Red 
 Deere Pye, cold roaft Mutton, and an excellent 
 fhooing-horn of hang'd Martimas Biefe ; which 
 cheer no man living would thinke fuch a place 
 could afford : fo after fome merry paffages and 
 repaft, we-returned home. 
 
 On the fifth of September, I hired a Guide, and 
 rode to Hallifax i6 miles, the ways were fo 
 rocky, ftony, boggy and mountaynous, that it 
 was a days journey to ride fo fhort a way. At 
 Hallifax I faw the fatall Engine, wherewith they 
 do behead pilfering Thieves, which Sir Francis 
 Worthy told me was fet upon this occafion fol- 
 lowing. 
 
 This 
 
 3° 
 
(27) 
 
 This Towne of Hallifax hath (for time out of 
 minde) Hv'd and fubfifted by the rich and lauda- 
 ble Trade of Cloathing, and often times their 
 Cloathes were flolne from the Tenterhooks, (or 
 Tenters) whereupon the King (then Raigning) 
 upon their humble fuite had priviledge granted 
 to the Town for ever : That if a Thiefe were ta- 
 ken either of thefe three ways, which is. Hand- 
 napping, Back-bearing, or Tongue-letting, that is 
 either about to Jleale, or carrying it away, or con- 
 fejfing, that then the party offending (after triall 
 by a Jury of Townfmen) if the goods, be it cloth, 
 cattell, or whatfoever is valuable, is judg'd to 
 have their heads ftruck off with the faid Engine, 
 without any Affize or Seffions. Now the Engine 
 is two high pieces of Timber, an ell or yard 
 afunder, fixed and clofed on the top, with a 
 Croffe piece like a Gallowfe ; in the inner fides 
 of the two {landing pieces are two gutters, and 
 on the top (or croffe piece) is a pully through 
 which they do put a fmall Line or Rope, and faft- 
 ning it to another heavyer piece of wood of loo 
 weight (in which they doe fix the fharp-edge 
 toole) then they doe pull or hoyft up the faid 
 weight, and the flolne goods is brought to the 
 place of execution with the malefaftor ; now 
 one end of the Rope is made faft to a pinne or 
 (lake, which being cut, the Engine fals fo pon- 
 
 deroufly 
 
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 deroufly and fpeedily, that it fevers the head from 
 the body in a moment, but there is no man will 
 or muft cut the line, but the Owner of the ftolne 
 goods, which if he do, hee hath all again : if he 
 will not cut it, then he mufl lofe all, and it is em- 
 ployed to fome charitable ufes ; by which means 
 the Thiefe efcapes ; and this is Hallifax law. 
 
 The fixt day I left Hallifax, and road over fuch 
 wayes as are paft comparifon or amending, for 
 when I went downe the lofty Mountaine called 
 Black/lone Edge, I thought my felf with my 
 Boy and Horfes had beene in the land of Break- 
 neck, it was fo fteep and tedious, yet I recove- 
 red 12 miles to Rockdale, and then I found 
 fmooth way to Manchejier, and to Sandy Lane 
 end 13 miles; and to Ckejler 14 miles, which 
 was the furtheft place of my tedious travell. 
 
 For my fhort flay at Chejler (which was but 
 one day and two nights, I had good and friendly 
 entertainment, of many Gentlemen, to whom I 
 muft reft thankfull, efpecially to the worfhip- 
 fuU Mafter Alderman Edwards, and to Mafter 
 Wright and his Wife. It was my fortune to fee 
 and rejoyce at the fight of the Noble, Right Ho- 
 norable Earle and Knight of the Renowned Or- 
 der of Saint George, William Earle of Darby : 
 And although I have no relation to his Lordfhip 
 or acquaintance with him, yet for the reverend 
 
 re 
 
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 reverend refpeft which I doe owe and beare to 
 Nobility, it did me good to fee fo grave and ho- 
 nourable a Peere. 
 
 The City of Chejler, is of ancient ereftion 
 and fame, it was the Royall Seat of Kings, and 
 there are yet fome ruines left of the memorable 
 Pallace of King Edgar, to which Manfion the 
 faid King was rowed in a Barge by eight Cap- 
 tives (or Tributary Kings from Saint Johns) on 
 the river of Dee, which river there is fpoyled 
 and impeached by a bank of ftones all over it, 
 onely for the employment of a Mil or two, which 
 River other ways would be both paffable and pro- 
 fitable to the whole Country, for many miles, for 
 the carriage of goods in Boats and Barks. Chejler 
 it felf is a fair City four fquare, well walled, with 
 an old ruin'd Caftle, which hath beene a ftrong 
 Fabrick, but now a Gaole, the flreets are fpaci- 
 ous, the buildings fumptuous, and fo contrived, 
 that four or five men may walk in the mod parts 
 of a breaft, dry from the injury of Raine, or any 
 falling Weather ; it is gravely and peaceably go- 
 verned by a Major and his 12 Brethren, it hath 
 foure Gates and three Poflerns, goodly Chur- 
 ches, and chiefly painfull and learned Preachers. 
 And fo much for Chejler. 
 
 Onely a merry Tale, of a late true bufineffe 
 
 which hapned there ; There dwelt a Bricklayer, a 
 
 C good 
 
 li 
 
(3o) 
 good Workman (but a good husband) whofe 
 name was John Tilly, who had the good hap to 
 fpend all that he got in his lifetime, except two 
 fonnes and one daughter : And being ficke and 
 in his death-bed, there came a poore neighbour 
 to vifit him, whom he defired to make or write 
 his laft Will and Teftament ; the poor man (ha- 
 ving Ink and Paper) asked him what hee fhould 
 write ? 
 
 Quoth honejl John Tittle, my ejlate is but little, 
 but I pray thee write thus. 
 
 IMprimis, I give and bequeath to my Wife (for 
 her folace and comfort) my little Dog, for it is 
 a pretty nimble a6live Curre, and wil make herfome 
 fport that may delight her, and put the grief of my 
 death out of her fad remembrance. 
 
 Item, I give and bequeath to my eldefi fonne 
 John, all my working Tools belonging to my trade 
 of Bricklaying, which as hee may ufe, may be as 
 available to him, as they have beene to me, and this 
 is thefumme of my Will. 
 
 His youngeft fonne ftanding by, fayd, Father, 
 have you nothing to give mee ? Yes fonne (quoth 
 hee) I had almofl forgotten thee, but I will leave 
 thee fomewhat. 
 
 Item 
 
 34 
 
(30 
 
 Item, I give and bequeath to my fonne George 
 /even foot of ground under the Gallowfe. 
 
 Good father take comfort (faid George) for my 
 hope is that you will recover, and live to enjoy 
 that Legacie your felfe. 
 
 Then the daughter pray'd him to give her 
 fomewhat whereby fhe might remember his fa- 
 therly Love, Yes, quoth he, I pray write. 
 
 Item, I give and bequeath to my onely daughter 
 a Whores conditions and qualities, which as fhee 
 may ufe them, fhe may live infuch eflate, and fame 
 that fhe may be m.ijlaken for a Gentlewoman. 
 
 Laflly, I doe make and ordaine my Neighbour 
 here, my full Executour : and for his paines for 
 writing my Will, I do give him and his heires male 
 for ever, an old fhooing-horn. 
 
 The ninth of September I turn'd my back upon 
 Chefler, (almoft without taking leave) and road 
 15 miles to Nantwich, the tenth I rode to Stone 
 and to Lichfield, 32 miles. 
 
 Of the Ancient Town of Lichfield I can fay 
 
 nothing (by reafon of my Ihort ftay) onely there 
 
 C 2 is 
 
 35 
 
(32) 
 is a faire and curious old Cathedrall Church or 
 Minfter. 
 
 And the Towne hath that priviledge (as mine 
 Hoaft told me) that they can draw and hang one 
 another, and never trouble any other Judge, Af- 
 fize or Seffions. 
 
 The eleventh I rode to Fafeley, Aberfom, 
 Hinckley and Dadlington, eighteen miles, where 
 all weary and almoft worne out with age and 
 travell, I refted untill Saturday the fourteenth 
 of September, and then rode eight miles to my 
 brother Miles, at my old welcome lodging at 
 Leicejler. 
 
 N 
 
 ewes 
 
 3fi 
 
(33) 
 
 Newes from Hell, with a fhort 
 
 defcription of the Hell 
 
 at Wejlminjier. 
 
 ^kVKiri ^^ fyom that Hell where fouls tormented 
 
 ^mm£ In endlejfe Death, and yet Jhall never die, 
 Where gnajhing cold, commixt with flames ftill 
 
 Where's entrance free, but never back returning : 
 Where notight but horrour, fiends, and torments 
 
 dwell. 
 I bring no news from that accurfed Hell ; 
 Yet mine own merits are offuch low price. 
 To bar re me from Celefliall Paradife, 
 Andfinke me in that horrid Lake inf email. 
 But that my hope and faith is fixt fupernall. 
 The Hell T write of is well known to be 
 A place of pleafure, and for all men free, 
 
 C 3 Where 
 
 37 
 
(34) 
 
 Where wretched Ghojls are not in torments Jlayd, 
 For all the pains upon the purfe is laid. 
 To finde this Hellj/ou need not travell farre, 
 ' Tis underjlood the high Exchequer Barre 
 At Weftminfter, and thofe who thither venter. 
 Do not give Cerberus a fop to enter, 
 For Charons /urj/, you need never feare it, 
 (Although ten thou/and do land fomew hat neer it) 
 Within this Hell is good content and quiet. 
 Good entertainment, various forts of diet, 
 Tables a f core at once, in fundry places, 
 Where hungry mouthesfall to, andfayjhort Graces, 
 And then (in fome fort) I may parallell 
 This earthly Hell, with the inf email Hell. 
 Hot fweltring vapours, Pots, and Cauldrons boy- 
 ling. 
 Great vehement fires, with roafiing, flewing, broy- 
 
 ling; 
 The Cooks & Scullions, all be fmear d and fmoak' d. 
 And in their M after s Greafe well flew' d & foak'd, 
 And had the Devill aflomack unto it, 
 The Cook himfelfe is not the rawefi bit. 
 Like as th' inf email Hell doth entertain 
 All commers, fo this Hell doth not refrain 
 To give free welcome unto every one 
 If money fay le not, there's excepted None. 
 This Hell is govern' d by a worthy Duke, 
 That Pluto like, his under fiends rebuke, 
 
 There 
 
 38 
 
(35) 
 
 There the tormenting Tapjler is control' d. 
 If courteoujly he Nick not (as hejhould) 
 He tnuji attend at every knock and rap. 
 His reverend Jugge deckt with a frothy cap, 
 Hefils and empts, and empts and fib again 
 Like Sifyphus, he toyles, but notfo vain, 
 Like Danaus daughters, taking up, andfpilling. 
 He's always emptying, and he's never filling. 
 Thither the Counfellour for comfort comes 
 To rince his toyling tongue, and wafh his gums. 
 The Client having Tityus empty maw 
 (His gtits tormented with the Vulture Law) 
 He comming to this Hell may finde relief e. 
 Of comfortable Plumbroath, and Roafl Biefe; 
 There, for your folace you may feed upon 
 Whole Seas of Pottage, hot as Phlegeton, 
 And midfi thofe Seas, by art, the Cooks hath laid 
 Small lies of Mutton, which you may invade 
 Withflomack, knife and fpoon, or tooth and naile. 
 With thefe, the viSlory you cannot faile. 
 Therefore this earthly Hell is eafier farre. 
 Then where the miferable damned are, 
 There's no redeinption from tltat black Abiffe, 
 And here regreffe, as well as egreffe is, 
 Therefore they falfly do miflake theftory, 
 To call this Hell, which is but Purgatory, 
 For her ^s no Thraldome, from this place you may 
 Get prefent freedome, if the fhot you pay. 
 
 C 4 Heere 
 
 2,9 
 
(36) 
 
 Here followeth three Satyri- 
 
 call Lajhes or yerks, given with 
 
 the Pe7t of the Authour, at 
 
 or upon the Devil's 
 
 Ars a Peak. 
 
 \ Ens, are mojl dangerous Tools, morejharp 
 by ods 
 Then Swords, and cut vtore keene then 
 Whips or Rods, 
 Therefore (mojl high and mighty Duke of Dis) 
 Commander where the Lake Avernus is. 
 Great Lord of Limbo, Styx, and Phlegeton, 
 (y Tartarus, Gehenna, Acheron, 
 Moft potent Monarch of black Erebus, 
 Prince of the Triple-headed Cerberus, 
 
 Sole 
 
 40 
 
(37) 
 
 Sole Emperour of Darkneffe, and dark works, 
 Majier of Hereticks, Infidels and Turks, 
 Arch-flammin of hot To^^ihetsfmouldring flames, 
 King of Cocytus, and th' inf email fir earns, 
 Earle of all Errors, and chief Dominator 
 Of all fins done, by Earth, Ay re. Land, or Water, 
 Vifcount, and Baron of large Barathrum, 
 Since I have lived to come fo neare your Bum, 
 As is your wicked worfhips Ars a Peake, 
 Though fame men think my Mufe is all too weake ; 
 I with my Pen doe meane to yerke and ferke ye, 
 And (as I promis'd) with three jerkes will jerke ye. 
 T know that many fooles willjeere and frumpe. 
 That I durfl comefo neare the Divells Rumpe, 
 And lafh with my poore penne Satyricall, 
 This great Don Diego Diabolicall : 
 But I would have him and his friends to know, 
 I jeere him not, for all his Bug-bare fhow : 
 ' Tis knowne that he, and all that him attend, 
 To any Poet never was a friend: 
 And therefore now I daring him oppofe. 
 And jerke his hellifh Majefty in Profe. 
 
 ALthough you (great Mafler of the perpetuall 
 Hot-houfe) Don fel de Lucifer, have on the 
 Earth in all places and Countries many multi- 
 tudes 
 
(38) 
 
 tudes of damnable fonnes, friends, and fervants, 
 to oppofe mee and take your part, yet I being 
 come fo neer your Podex, mufl jerk your breech 
 with my Satyre Pendragonly Goofe quill, you 
 know that reproofe is as ill taken as correflion 
 by the ungracious. Therefore although you are fo 
 bad that you are quite paft any mending, yet 
 your graceleffe Majefty may be lawfully touch'd 
 by reprehending ; you have been a Cheater ever 
 fince the Creation, and in that Art of Coozening, 
 you firft cheated your felfe of everlafting happi- 
 neffe, and gained thereby perpetuall perdition, 
 and ever fince you have play'd Hocus Focus, and 
 with your tricks, fleights, and jugling Legerde- 
 mayne, done your beft to draw all the whole 
 Race of Mankinde after you into your King- 
 dome of Cimerian Tenebrojitie ; you taught our 
 firft Parents Infidelity, Pride, Difobedience and 
 Lying, which qualities of theirs are fo natural- 
 ly defcended to us, that (by your induftrious in- 
 fligation) we do continually fhew (by our lives 
 and converfations) of what houfe wee came. By 
 their example of believing too much in you, we 
 are growne incredulous in things which moft 
 concerns our better and beft of being, and wee 
 are fo inur'd and praftifde in lying, (by your in- 
 fpiration being the father of lyes) that wee are 
 doubtfuU to believe one another. And yet (like 
 
 the 
 
 4^ 
 
(39) 
 
 the Cretans) with long ufe and cuftome, 
 wee doe many times believe our own lyes to be 
 true. 
 
 May it pleafe your infernall Hell-hood to take 
 into your execrable confideration, that you were 
 the firft inventer of the moft ignoble Science of 
 Offence, you taught Caine the Imbrocado, and 
 fliewed him how to murder his Brother, and 
 from that time to this, the Art of Murdering, 
 Killing and Cutting Throats hath beene univer- 
 fally and perfeftly learned and praflifed. You 
 have beene the inventer of all manner of de- 
 ftroying weapons, from the high degree of the 
 Welfh-hook, to the lower defcent of the Taylors 
 Bodkin ; and in thefe later times you (with the 
 helpe of a Frier) have devifde a burning, fmoul- 
 dring, moft Hellifh and undefencible mifchief 
 that murders men by heaps, and (with a pow- 
 der) can blow whole Kingdomes into the Fir- 
 mament ; and for the innumerable Engines that 
 are daily ufed and caft for fuch ufes, your moft 
 high and Imperiall malediction have declared 
 your felfe an excellent Artift, from the dou- 
 ble Cannon to the Elder Gun-mines, Counter- 
 mines, Petards, Granadoes, Fire-works, Wild- 
 fire, and the Devill and all doe continually feek 
 and worke the deftruftion of miferable man- 
 kinde. You are a great Traveller, and will take 
 
 the 
 
 43 
 
(4o) 
 the paines to compaffe the whole Earth to finde 
 juft man, on purpofe to doe him a mifchiefe, but 
 for a crew of common Drunkards, Rafcals, 
 Bawds and Whores, you know you need not wet 
 your foot to feek them, they are your own alrea- 
 dy, and by your good will, you would fill Hell 
 fo full, that Heaven fhould have but a few. 
 
 Andfo let that paffe for one and 
 the fir ft Jerke. 
 
 SEcondly, you know that there is but one nar- 
 row way to happineffe, and many wayes to 
 your Zona Torrida, Frigida, (for all thofe large 
 wayes doe meet in one at the laft, and bring 
 poore foules into your peftiferous Purfnet) fome 
 go by the way of Sodome, to finde out your moft 
 damnable Manfion, fome by the way of Inceft, 
 fome by Adultery, fome by Fornication (for they 
 fay you are the Mafter of the Honourable and 
 Worfhipfull Company, and Brother-hood of the 
 Fornicators) in which regard you are a great 
 friend to Parators & Panders. You fhew'd Cham 
 the way how to deride his father, by which ex- 
 ample a company of Chammifts, have ever fmce 
 praftifed not onely to mock, feoff, and abufe their 
 
 na- 
 
 44 
 
(40 
 
 naturall parents, but alfo to contemne, raile and 
 revile againft Kings and Princes, who are the 
 Royall Fathers of Terreftriall Government, and 
 further to defpife, flight, and libell againft the 
 moft Reverend Fathers, the Stewards and pain- 
 full Difpenfers of the fpirituall food of Eterni- 
 ty ; you direfted Corah and his Complices the 
 high rode-way to murmur ; Achitophel to give 
 wicked Counfell, and A bfolon to rebel and ufurpe ; 
 you fhewed Joab the way to Treachery, Achan 
 to fteale, Jobs wife to abufe her husband, from 
 whom the moft part of women (like apt fchol- 
 lers) are very expert in that kinde of miferable 
 myftery. You put Gehezi into the high-way of 
 taking a bribe, and it is too well known what a 
 wicked number of followers he hath had of all 
 degrees, from the Scepter to the Swain, from the 
 black Gown to the buckrum bag. You directed 
 Nabal (who Anagrammatized or lead backward 
 is Labad) to be as churlilh as a Hog, from whom 
 miferable Dives hath perfe6lly learn'd the way 
 to true mifery, you taught Nimrod the way to 
 tyrrannize, and enclofe and encroach upon 
 Land and Territories, which hath beene the 
 bounding, mounding, and curtailing of Com- 
 mons. The rayfmg of Ambition, Pride, Volup- 
 tuoufneffe, and fuch earthly vertues of accurfed 
 Greatneffe, and to the Almighty making of Beg- 
 
 gers. 
 
 45 
 
(42) 
 gers. You tye faft the Rich mans purfe, and let 
 loofe the poore mans curfe, you inftrufted Pha- 
 raoh, Senacherib, and Rabjheka in the way of blaf- 
 phemy, and from thofe Hellifh prefidents, their 
 Wickedneffe is daily impioufly imitated, Shi- 
 met was one of your Anathema profound 
 fchoUers, and from you hee learn'd to curfe the 
 Lord's Anointed extempore : once (as I have read) 
 you were fo addifted to peace and unity that you 
 made Herod and Pilate friends, who were hate- 
 full enemies, but afterwards your Hypocrifie 
 was found, that it was your plot to deftroy in- 
 nocence : you made Demos to forfake the Truth, 
 and embrace the World (your wicked filler:) 
 you have never been unprovided of a Kennell of 
 Whores, Queans, and Concubines, to tempt and 
 draw the wifeft men to folly, and for him 
 that is moft ftrong (in his owne opinion) you 
 have alwayes one darling finne or other to fit his 
 difpofition, conftitution, inclination, or humour, 
 that like a Dalilah fhall weaken him, or quite 
 overthrow him. 
 
 And this Jhall fuffice for the 
 fecond Jerke. 
 
 Third- 
 
 46 
 
(43) 
 
 THirdly and lafbly, you know that you end 
 draws nigh, and therefore now you rave, 
 rage, and are more mad then ever you were, you 
 know that after Doomfday, that you fhall have 
 no more power over Mortals, then you fhall be 
 for ever chain'd in your Denne like a Dogge in a 
 Kennell ; and therefore now you with all dou- 
 ble diligence, doe endevour to doe your beft to 
 doe your worft, and as much as in you lyeth, you 
 draw us from bad to worfe, and from worfe to 
 worft. The Hypocrite (by your intcitement) doth 
 vizard all his villany, with the maske or veile 
 of vertue ; hee follows the fteps of Ananias and 
 Saphira to a haire, hee with his fower looke 
 fhrowds a lofty minde. You have fcatter'd pride 
 into as many fhapes as Proteus, fo that a proud 
 fafhion hunter (if either money or credit will 
 furnifh him) will transforme himfelfe into as 
 many formes as you can do ; our roarers (who 
 by your peftiferous favour are ftiled the damn'd 
 crue) are fo given to moft unhallowed meditati- 
 ons, that they lie a bed almoft till dinner time, to 
 ftudy new oaths, to vent at this Ordinary, at 
 Bowls, Cock-fighting, Horfe-race, Whore-houfe, 
 or any other place of Gentleman like or noble 
 exercife, and as you have taught them to fweare 
 
 with 
 
 47 
 
(44) 
 
 without feare, fo they doe often forfweare with- 
 out fhame : although fometimes they hazzard 
 their eares, as they doe their fouls. You fet bad 
 Projeftors (and unprofitable) a work, as thick as 
 Crab-lice or Caterpillers, and it is no doubt but 
 you will deale fo juftly with them, that you will 
 pay them their wages, and after you have fet them 
 agog (with a vengeance) to doe injury with a 
 mifchiefe. You are fo fkilfull in Phyficke, that 
 you have made too many believe that the loffe of 
 a Mayden-head is an approved and fpeedy Medi- 
 cine for the Green fickneffe. Poets, Painters (and 
 fome few Courtiers) you have fo well taught 
 that they can flatter moft artificially with Pen, 
 Piflure, and by word of mouth. 
 
 It is long of you that what ever the Choplin 
 and the Chaplin hath, yet the thin-cheek'd Chip- 
 lin hath nothing at all. I know a poore Curate 
 that comes and goes a mile every Sunday, be it 
 Winter or Summer, all manner of weathers, 
 fometimes wet to the skin, and preaches once a 
 week (on Sundays) for bare five pound a yeare, 
 the Tythe being valued at fixty pound/^>' annum, 
 fo that the miferable Stipend or Hireling wages, 
 will hardly buy wood to make a fire for him 
 when hee comes home to dry him ; when hee is 
 through wet. This is your worke {Monjieur 
 
 Diabold) 
 
 48 
 
(45) 
 
 Diabold) for it is your infpiration to put fuch 
 wrangling fpirits into Impropriatours, that for 
 the not paying of a tenth Pudding or a tythe Egge 
 the Law muft take his courfe. You have brought 
 the Schifmaticall Separatift to be as unconfor- 
 mable as your felfe, for (like you) they cannot 
 bide the Croffe or the figne of it (if it be not upon 
 money) and you have made them as unmanner- 
 ly as your felfe, for they will not move a Hat, or 
 Bow a Knee at the name of our Saviour, and 
 they are wax'd as folvenly as you can make 
 them, for they hate clean Linnen, and all order, 
 neatneffe and decency in the Church ; And you 
 have long pradtiz'd a politick flight, which is, 
 that when a Reverend Paftor is painfully, and 
 carefully preaching to his Audience, inftrudling 
 them how to avoid your fnares and traps ; then 
 you are fo angry and impatient when you are 
 told of your faults, and heare your damnable 
 devices laid open, that you could afford to pull 
 the Preacher out of the Pulpit by the Eares, or 
 to teare himi in pieces, but that hee is fo happy 
 that you have no power over him : your invete- 
 rate malice being limited, curb'd, and fnaffled 
 by an unrefiftable High and omnipotent power, 
 and hee very well underftands and knowes in 
 whofe fervice he is, and whofe Embaffage he de- 
 D. livers. 
 
 g 49 
 
(46) 
 
 livers, and therefore is fo valiant that he neither 
 feares or cares a rufli for you ; which your im- 
 periall malevolence perceiving, you have ano- 
 ther trick for him, which is to lull the people 
 afleep, (of which number many times the beft 
 of the Parifh are fome) by which means you do 
 debarre them of what they fhould heare, and in 
 the mean time, the Preacher fpeaks to the bare 
 walls. And I am perfwaded that is againft your 
 will, that there is any good Preacher living, and 
 feeing they do live (in defpight of you) and that 
 by their care & induflry they doe now and then 
 violently plucke a foule from you, in revenge 
 thereof you chiefly feek their confufion, either 
 by war, flander, or ftarving them through want 
 of means. Yet this much may be fpoken as one 
 of your good parts, which is, that you were ne- 
 ver known to be drunke, and though' you never 
 walke uprightly, yet you never ftumbled, you 
 were never fo fox'd but you knew the way home 
 (and the troth is, you are fo bold, that you would 
 make every place your home) The Court, the 
 City, the Country, the Pallace, the Caftle, the 
 Cottage, and the Church and all, you are fo au- 
 dacious either to enter them by force, or elfe to 
 infmuate and fneak into them by craft and fubtil- 
 ty. And though you are no drunkard, yet you doe 
 
 love 
 
 5° 
 
(47) 
 
 love the whole Rabble of them fo well, that you 
 are unwilling to lofe one of them all, but my 
 hope is better. For if they leave it, and mend 
 their manners as they fhould do, the Devill the 
 one of them you are like to have. You have the 
 art to make great Scholler to learne Retrograde, 
 for if a man be never fo good a Grammarian, 
 and hath Greek and Latine as perfeft as Homer 
 or Virgil, yet (if he be married) you doe too of- 
 ten teach his wife the way to reade him back- 
 ward, like an Hebrician, and though he be never 
 fo well skil'd in learned Volumes, and the Seven 
 liberall Arts, yet fhee puts him againe into his 
 Horn-book. You have fo much Devotion in you, 
 that you doe affift thofe Brethren that doe pray 
 zealoufly, that they may be difobedient with a 
 fafe Confcience, and you make them fo ftout and 
 valiant that fome of them are more able to doe 
 more fervice in a white fheet then the honefleft 
 man in a whole Shire can doe. You know that 
 the Projeftor would be an honeft man if hee did 
 not keep company with himfelfe, therefore you 
 might do fomwhat to be talk'd off, if you would 
 feparate him. It is a fcurvy falhion of your de- 
 vifmg, that wifemen in Ruffet, muft reverence 
 and ftand bare to filken fools ; but to conclude, 
 you have gotten fuch a freedome that you have a 
 D. 2 finger 
 
 SI 
 
(48) 
 
 finger in all Trades, and an Oare in every mans 
 
 Boat, nor was there ever any bad thought, word 
 
 or deed, imagined, fpoken, or committed fmce 
 
 the Creation, but- you were at the middle and 
 
 both ends of it : and I do remember that I have 
 
 read how once you bragged, boafted and promi- 
 
 fed to give all the Kingdomes of the world to be 
 
 worfliipped, and afterwards you were in that 
 
 poor roguifh cafe, that you were faine to aske 
 
 leave to take poffeflion of a filly Hog. In which 
 
 manner of vain-glorious oftentation, bragging 
 
 and boafting, the moft part of men are expert, 
 
 and to promife much, and performe nothing is, 
 
 fo eafie a leffon of your teaching, that many great 
 
 men are more ready and perfit in it then in their 
 
 Pater nojler. And now you Grand Mafler of mif- 
 
 chief, you may truffe up your hofe, for at this time 
 
 my Pen is worn blunt, my Inkhorn dry and my 
 
 felfe weary with jerking, where corre6lion is 
 
 in pain, and no poffibility of no amendment. 
 
 Thus after the expence of much money, and 
 ten weeks time, having ridden 645 miles (of 
 fundry meafures and fizes) all weary and almoft 
 mony-leffe, I returned to London on Friday the 
 twentieth of September, 1639. 
 
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1640. 
 Differing Worfhips. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 64.] 
 
Differing Worfhips, 
 
 Or, 
 
 The Oddes, betweene fome 
 
 Knights Service and God's. 
 
 OR 
 
 Tom Nash his Ghoft, (the old Martin 
 
 queller) newly rous'd, and is come to chide 
 
 and take order with Nonconformifts, Schif- 
 
 matiques, Separatifls, and fcan- 
 
 dalous Libellers. 
 
 Wherein their Abufive opinions are ma- 
 
 nifefted, their Jeeres mildly retorted, 
 
 and their unmannerly manners 
 
 admonifhed. 
 
 By loHN Taylor. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for William Ley, and are to be fold at his fhop 
 
 neere Pauls chaine. 1640. 
 

 TO 
 
 THE FRIENDLY, 
 
 VNFRIENDLY, PRE- 
 
 judicata, or Indifferent Rea- 
 der, or Hearer, and fo con- 
 
 fequently to all, and 
 every body. 
 
 I(wi^^ applaufe) have wriii, neere feaven/core Books, 
 Yet never fear d bafe words, or f curvy looks : 
 Though fame detraBing fpirits fnarle and hijje, 
 I (with mine owne hand) doe acknowledge this : 
 Let Rake-hells raile, and Rebels kick andfpurne ; 
 The Bufh yhall be unburnt, when theyjhall burne : 
 Such as would Jink the Arke (which doth denote 
 That then Gods Church was in that/acred Boate) 
 
 A 3 More 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 More barbarous than the barbarous fouldiers were 
 That did refufe Chrifts feam-leffe Coate to teare ; 
 To/uch as the/e, and none butfuch as thefe, 
 My lines may have a rellijh to difpleafe ; 
 And I doe fay (as better men have /aid) 
 God is my record, I am not affraid 
 (9/" Force or Fraude ; for he that feareth fuch, 
 Will never dare t' abide the Teft or Tutch : 
 Nor is itflatiry that doth caufe me write, 
 (My Climaftericall doth fay. Good Night) 
 And 'tis a Court-like adulating finne, 
 Which I nere us'd, nor will I now beginne ; 
 He that's offended, let him tell wherefore, 
 And fhew fame reafon why he hath therefore ; 
 And where my error is, but fhew me it. 
 In all Humility I will fubmit. 
 Somefattin Momus, orfomefilken Zoylus, 
 Or Midas />uft in plufk, or musky Troylus ; 
 This was not writt to doe them any pleafure. 
 Nor can their Wifedomes take of it true meafure ; 
 If fuch as underftand not, are offended, 
 I bid tJum all come kiffe my Mufe, and mend it. 
 Butfure, as long as God is on my fide. 
 What need T care if raskals doe deride ; 
 
 My 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 My deere, deere Mother, Englands Church, 'tisjhe, 
 (In humble duty) drawes thefe lines from me ; 
 For though I am. no Clergie-man, I know, 
 That I obedience unto Her doe owe ; 
 In Her, I was bapti/ed, and in Her 
 / have been/hew' d Truth, and tojhtm to erre ; 
 In Her tK eternall food (mofl excellent) 
 I have received, in tK Word and Sacrament, 
 And for HY.'s.fake (to vindicate her caufe) 
 Expe£ling neither proffit nor applaufe, 
 Thefe following lines unto the world I fend. 
 Which (I am fure) fhall lajl, till timefhall end. 
 
 I. T. Poeta Aquaticus. 
 
(l) 
 
 Differing Worfhips^ 
 
 Or 
 
 The Oddes, betweene fome 
 
 Knights fervice and Gods. 
 
 Andfirjl to begin with the Knights or Ladies 
 High and Mighty WorJJtips. 
 
 Ote the Rare fabrick of his Worjhips Building, 
 Behold th' Illuftrious Splendor of the Gilding, 
 View well the Columns, and the Buttrejjfes, 
 
 Marke the faire Pompous Porches Glorious dreffe, 
 
 The Pillars, and the Pillajlers admire, 
 
 Looke how the pointed Pyramids afpire, 
 
 The Obeliskes, Corinthian carv'd work fine 
 
 Of pureft Marble, leat, or Serpentine, 
 
 Oi Alabajler, Tutch, ox Porphiry, 
 
 Or of th'admired (mock- J eat) Ebony ; 
 
 From the Foundation to the Battlement 
 
 Moft fumptuou.s, ftately and magnificent. 
 
 B His 
 
 
(2) 
 
 His Worjhips Radient Hall, wood-linings pure, 
 
 Miter d and Cipher d, and RevaVd Immure : 
 
 His Marble Pavement Chequer d black and white, 
 
 T' Amaze and Ravifh the beholders fight ; 
 
 His Worjhips faire Glaffe-windowes, with his name 
 
 And Armes, (which fhewes from what defcents he came) 
 
 His Worjhip eats and fleepes, in Roomes, are hung 
 
 With coftly Arras, and himfelfe among 
 
 (I meane his Picture, if right underftood) 
 
 Gentles Allyed, in Marriage, or in Blood ; 
 
 See more, and take note what you fee, at length 
 
 His WorJJtips Altar s Crown'd with Glorious ftrength 
 
 Of Mafsie Plate ; His Worjhips Tables hold 
 
 Lai-ge Purple Velvet Carpets, fring'd with Gold. 
 
 His Worjhips Spouje, and IJ/ue ; like a Rood 
 
 Of Glijiring Images ; his Worjhips food 
 
 Approaching, Be uncover'd, Stentor cries ; 
 
 His Worjhips Waiters bow before him thrice, 
 
 With fervile reverence, humbly {looping low. 
 
 They pay the duty they his Worjhip owe. 
 
 His Worjhips Chaplaine, twice, (with double grace) 
 
 In feare and trembling, takes and leaves his place. 
 
 And (having read his Chapter) ftill muft; fay. 
 
 Thus ends your Worjhips Leffon for the day. 
 
 His Worjhips Lady (likewife mighty fine) 
 
 Adored is, as 'twere a Thing Divine ; 
 
 Her Waiting-woman, and her Chamber-mayd 
 
 Is fude to, bow'd to, and implor'd and pray'd. 
 
 Knights Service thus, and Lady Worjhip, fee 
 
 How odly, madly Gods and this agree. 
 
 Here 
 
(3) 
 
 Herefolloweth the unfajhionablefajhion, or 
 the too too homely IVorJhipping of God. 
 
 GO D s Houfes, almofh like Troyes Ilion, 
 Are alfo built of courfe and bafer ftone, 
 With broken Pavement, Window, Wall and Dore ; 
 Well, if but White-lim'd, and then Oaker'd o're ; 
 Drillings of Raine, make greene and yellow ftreakes, 
 And (Where they give him place) the Painter fpeakes 
 In Creed, Commands, and Prayer, and 'gainfl his Will 
 To the Kings foes, puts Dizzie Painter flill, 
 Sayes Woodcock was Church-warden, then cries Woe 
 Over the Pulpit, and in mind to fhow 
 Beggers at dore, how dreadfull to their trade 
 Deatk is, he fets him working with a Spade. 
 Nine dufly Seats, twelve Treffels, two crack'd Bels, 
 Three broken Halters. And what ? Nothing elfe 
 Goes to a Church ? The Chancell hath a Boord 
 Worth nine pence (mofl unworthy of the Lord) 
 With pretty home-fpun Linfey-woolfey fpread 
 Under the Linnen, whither (fcarce white) Bread 
 And cheape fowre wine, two hob-nail'd Wardens dragge 
 In Gideons Bottles, and courfe Pudding-bagge. 
 All manners, and all decencie mufl be 
 Laid by ; as much as bowing of the Knee 
 Unlawfull is, though Paul commands it fo. 
 Yet many new pure fpirits doe fay no. 
 That Kneeling, comes fo neere Idolatry ; 
 T'avoid which, they will be fo mannerly 
 
 B 2 To 
 
(4) 
 
 To be Chrlfts fellow, and to fit at's Table, 
 And give his houfe like reverence as the ftable. 
 Thus fawcie Mortals (vile and tranfitory) 
 Doe rob themfelves of grace, and God of glory ; 
 Thefe rude behaviours every good man greeves, 
 When Temples are efteem'd like dens of Theeves. 
 Gods Worfhip this : The great Kings Service ! fee 
 How odly madly God's and mans agree. 
 
 The unequallor incomparable comparifon. 
 
 TIs ftrange that fome Religions doe allow, 
 That men to ftocks and ftones fhall bend and bow ; 
 And that the man that did the Image frame, 
 Muft kneele (in adoration) to the fame ; 
 Imploring aid, and hoping for a good 
 From ragges and reliques, ftones, and ftocks of wood. 
 Erefting Churches with great charge (profufe) 
 For mans idolatry, and Gods abufe ; 
 And think they merit their falvation 
 For impious works of fuperftition ; 
 With Ceremonies fuch fuperfluous ftore. 
 As Pagans, Jewes, and Gentiles ne're had more ; 
 With humble bending, bowing, crouching, creeping, 
 With kneeling, croffmg, penitentiall weeping. 
 With flavifh feare, and fearfull reverence, 
 Prepofterous zeale, and blind obedience ; 
 They think't too little, all they can or may 
 In ferving God, the quite contrary way. 
 On th'other fide, a peevifti crew doth lye 
 (Moft perverfe pure, in their impuritie) 
 
 And 
 
(5) 
 
 And they fo fparing of their manners bee, 
 They'le move no hat at Church, nor bend a knee ; 
 And whilft they dwell in houfes feel'd in State, 
 Gods Houfes mufl lye wafte and defolate ; 
 The confecrated Temples they'le come in, 
 Efteeming Reverence there to be a finne, 
 And that (for holineffe) there is no ods 
 In manners, 'twixt his horfes houfe and God's. 
 But leaving this Saint-feeming holy crew, 
 Who (in their braines) doe ftrange religions brew : 
 Whofe Grounds have neither Reafon, Root or Pith, 
 Which Patriarches were ne're acquainted with. 
 Which from the Prophets were unknowne and hid, 
 Which Chrijl and his Apojiles did forbid. 
 Which Councels, or old Fathers ne're decreed. 
 Nor from the firfh true Church did e're proceed. 
 If either Separatiji, or Schifmatique, 
 Or Anabaptijt, Hare-brain'd Heretique, 
 From Scripture, Church, or Father could but fhow 
 That reverently to God men should not bow. 
 In triumph then, they might difplay their Banners, 
 And fhew fome reafon for their want of manners. 
 To thee (that read'ft or hear'fl) thefe lines I fend. 
 That art fo ftiffe in th'hams, thou canft not bend ; 
 Thou ought'ft (in feare and love) bow downe thy knee 
 To him, whofe Grace and Love came downe to thee ; 
 Oh fall before him that hath rais'd thee up, 
 And (for thy foules life) drank Deaths bitter cup. 
 Thy Body proftrate, that it may expreffe 
 Thy Soules intentions humble thankfulneffe ; 
 As hee's thy Maker, duteous honour doe him ; 
 As hee's a Judge offended, kneele unto him ; 
 
 B3 
 
 They have 
 neither Scrip- 
 tures, exam- 
 ples of Patri- 
 arches, Pro- 
 phets, Apo- 
 ftles, Coun- 
 cels, Ancient 
 Fathers, nor 
 the Primitive 
 firfb true 
 Church, but 
 all are againft 
 them in this 
 point of duty. 
 
 The 
 
(6) 
 
 The Captive doom'd to hell for his offence, 
 
 Ought kneele to Him that did redeeme him thence ; 
 
 Fall downe, (and with thy foule) thy body bend, 
 
 And then (no doubt) thy prayers will afcend ; 
 
 For though Heaven be from Earth, a mighty fpace, 
 
 The moft High's neer'ft the lowly with his grace. 
 
 An injur'd man oft-times fuch mercy feeles 
 
 To pardon his offender, when he kneeles. 
 
 Judge and condemne thy felfe, and then the fruit 
 
 Will be, God will not Judgement execute. 
 
 For free remiffion of thy fmnes unholy. 
 
 Thou canft not (in thy gefture) be too lowly ; 
 
 He that's afham'd to worfhip God, is then 
 
 Like him that doth deny him before men. 
 
 Then, if thy foule be touch'd with penitence, 
 
 Expreffe it, with thy bodies reverence ; 
 
 For though God of our kneeling hath no need. 
 
 To bleffe Humility he hath decreed. 
 
 And not to kneele, when we Gods bleffmgs feeke. 
 
 Doth fhew we neither lowly are or meeke. 
 
 To bow thy heart, true faith doth thee perfwade ; 
 
 And he that made thy heart, thy knee hath made ; 
 
 And fmce he hath made all, and every part 
 
 Hee'le have thy knees obedience, with thy Heart : 
 
 Hee'le have no halfes, he made, and will have all, 
 
 And there's no halting fafe, 'twixt God and Baal. 
 
 Beware therefore, when God thou com'ft before. 
 
 Thy rude behaviour not incenfe him more ; 
 
 Thy mifery bewaile, upon thy knee 
 
 And he (from mifery) thy foule will free ; 
 
 For as thou often kneel'ft for daily Bread 
 
 Wherewith thy earth-decaying corps is fed ; 
 
 So 
 
(7) 
 
 So forth' Eternall Living Bread muft thou 
 
 Both heart and knee, both foule and body bow. 
 
 The Prodigall with kneeling and with mourning 
 
 Was grac'd, and feafled at his home-returning. 
 
 That Chrijl to man Coheirefhip doth impart, 
 
 'Tis Gods abundant Love, not mans defert ; 
 
 His humble fervants here, by him fhall be 
 
 Exalted to Eternall dignitie. 
 
 V/ilt thou, or dar'ft thou (thou fraile earthy clod) 
 
 Be fellow to th'Immortall Sonne of God, 
 
 Or dar'ft thou ftand or fit with fawcie pride 
 
 To entertaine thy Saviour glorifide ? 
 
 Doft thou not know the Great Kings Seale of Heaven 
 
 Is come from thence to thee, and to thee given, 
 
 Wherein the pardon of thy fmnes is fign'd. 
 
 Whereby thou may'ft true peace of confcience find ? 
 
 Whereas Chrifts Holy Spirit prefent is 
 
 Wherewith his Grace doth bleffe this work of his, 
 
 Where Bread of Life, the bread doth fan6lifie 
 
 To all that Eat it, in Humilitie : 
 
 Thou alfo (in the Cup) by faith may'ft fee 
 
 His precious Blood, that deign'd to die for thee ; 
 
 Which fignes and figures of Remembrance muft 
 
 Put us in minde that we muft firmely truft 
 
 His Body offred for us, and his Blood 
 
 Is All in All, the Summe of all our Good. 
 
 He that Receives this, and will not afford 
 
 To kneele and thank fo Great, a Gracious Lord ; 
 
 Is Atheift, Pagan, or befides his wits. 
 
 Unworthy of fuch bleffed Benefits. 
 
 There is the figure of th' Eternall Feaft, 
 
 And thither Grace invites thee as a Gueft, 
 
 The 
 
 13 
 
Gen. 17 
 
 ■ 17- 
 
 Deut. 9. 
 
 i8. 
 
 2 Sam. 
 
 12. 16. 
 
 1 Kings 
 
 2 Chron 
 
 8.54. 
 .6.15. 
 
 I Kings 
 
 18.42. 
 
 Math. 8 
 Mark. 1 
 Luke 5. 
 Math. 8 
 Luke 7. 
 
 . 2. 
 .4. 
 
 12. 
 .8. 
 
 6. 
 
 Mark. 7 
 
 .25. 
 
 Luk. 8. 
 
 28. 
 
 Luk. 8. 
 
 41. 
 
 Luk. 8. 
 
 47- 
 
 (8) 
 
 The Royall Robe, the wedding Garment there 
 
 Is fet before thee, for thy foule to weare ; 
 
 The King is prefent, Angels wait on thee. 
 
 And wilt thou not kneele downe, and thankfuU be ? 
 
 And now fome proofes I plainly will unfold 
 
 How good men worfhip'd God in times of old. 
 
 When God (who is for evermore I a m) 
 Did promife Ifauc unto Abraham : 
 The good old man his duty knew fo well, 
 That humbly bowing, on his face he fell. 
 Mofes did fall before the Lord, and pray 
 He would from 7/^V/turne his wrath away : 
 Bleft David all night on the earth did ly. 
 And faft and pray in great humility. 
 King Salomon did to this duty yeeld. 
 That (though his prayer was long) he praying kneeld : 
 Eliah humbly kneel'd, and prayd for raine, 
 And bleffed fruitful! fhowers he did obtaine : 
 The Leper worfhip'd Chrift, and faith procur'd 
 That (I Will, Be Thou Cleane) was faid, which curd : 
 When our Humility is of fuch proofe, 
 To know our felves unworthy that our roofe 
 Chrift fhould come under ; then fuch Grace we win. 
 That then the King of Glory doth come in. 
 The woman kneel'd and beg'd, and her requeft 
 Was granted, and the devill difpoffefl 
 The man poffefl, with many fiends fell downe. 
 And all the Legion to the fwine were throwne. 
 When lairus kneel'd, and did for favour plead. 
 His daughter was revived, that was dead. 
 The woman with the bloody Iffue fell. 
 And kneel'd, and trembled, and fhe was made well. 
 
 Among 
 14 
 
(9) 
 
 Among ten Lepers cur'd, Grace bore fuch fway, 
 That one return'd, and tythe of Thanks did pay. 
 Our Saviour (humbly) kneel'd and meekly prayd 
 God his heavenly Father for his ayd. 
 St. Peter kneel'd, and prayd unto the Lord, 
 And Dorcas was from death to life reftor'd. 
 And bleffed Paul with kneeling did implore. 
 That God would bleffe his Church for evermore ; 
 And when from Tyrus he did make repaire, 
 He (with the reft there) humbly kneel'd in prayer. 
 St. Steven kneel'd and prayd with veh'ment cryes, 
 For his ftone-hearted ftony enemies. 
 The flave did kneele, and from his Lord did get 
 Forgiveneffe for ten thoufand talents debt. 
 Th' Almighty (by himfelfe) hath fworne and vowd, 
 That every knee fhall unto him be bow'd, 
 In Heaven, in Earth, all things beneath the fame. 
 That every knee fhall bowe at lefus name. 
 The wicked and accurfed fiends of Hell 
 In feare and trembling downe before him fell. 
 In Heaven (where endleffe Glories Saints doe crown) 
 The foure and twenty Elders doe fall downe, 
 And worfhip him that fits upon the Throne, 
 That lives for ever, the bleft three in one : 
 There Angels, Heav'ns, and all the Powers therein. 
 The chaunting Cherubin and Seraphin 
 Continually three Holies lowd doe cry 
 Unto the Lord of Sabbothes majefty ; 
 The Glory of whofe majefty doth fill 
 Both Heav'n and Earth, whofe praife is fmging ftill 
 By bleft Apoftles, Prophets, Martyrs, and 
 The holy Church through every Realme and Land ; 
 
 C 
 
 Luk. 17. 16. 
 
 Luk. 22. 41. 
 Mat. 26. 39. 
 Mark. 14. 35. 
 
 Afls 9. 36. 40. 
 
 A(fts 20. 36. 
 A(5b 7. 60. 
 
 Mat. 18. 26. 
 
 Ifay45.23.G0d 
 did fwear here: 
 and it is not in 
 mans power to 
 make him call 
 it back. 
 Phil 2. 10. 
 Mark 3. II. 
 Revel. 4. 10. 
 
 The non-Con- 
 formift may 
 perceive by 
 thefe comands 
 and examples 
 that kneeling 
 and bowing 
 muft be ufed 
 but the Scrip- 
 ture doth not 
 command {lan- 
 ding or fitting 
 or difobedl- 
 ence in any 
 place. 
 
 All 
 
 15 
 
(lo) 
 
 All thefe doe knowledge him alone to be 
 The Father of infinite majefly ; 
 Whofe honorable, true, and onely fonne 
 By his obedience, hath our pardons wonne ; 
 The Holy Ghoft, the comforter of all 
 Such as with ftedfaft faith for comfort call ; 
 To this God, Good and Gracious, Glorious, Great, 
 To him all knees mufl bowe, all foules entreat ; 
 All thofe that will not bend, fuch power he hath 
 That he will break them in his furious wrath ; 
 Private men 'Tis Well t'avoyd will-worfhip, but 'tis ill 
 muft not frame To frame what kinde of worftiip each man will. 
 Aev wiiL '^ When in the Temple we doe God implore ; 
 
 'Tis God, and not the Temple we adore. 
 Exod. 37. 6. The Prieft did worfhip t' wards the mercy Seate, 
 I Kings 6. 23. ^^^ 't^\^i the Cherubim our God entreat ; 
 He worfhip'd neither Seat, nor Ckerubins, 
 But only God that takes away our Sinns. 
 And as on Sea and Land, in every place, 
 With humble reverence we muft fue for Grace : 
 So in his Church, and houfes confecrated, 
 And to his fervice only dedicated, 
 Wherein Chrift Crucified is preach'd, where he 
 In Word and Sacraments doth deigne to be. 
 Sure, in thofe places, where Gods love is fuch, 
 All mens beft manners cannot be too much. 
 For though we owe God reverence everywhere ; 
 Yet in the Church it beft becomes us there ; 
 When we participate moft of his Grace, 
 O, then, and there, fhew manners in that place. 
 The Saints in Heav'n doe kneele, and praife Gods name. 
 And Saints on earth muft likewife doe the fame. 
 
 O come 
 16 
 
(Il) 
 
 come let's Jing unto the Lord, rejoyce 
 
 In our falvations Jlrength, our hearts and voyce ; pfai. 95. 
 
 Let us (with thanks) before his face appeare, 
 
 Andfhew (in him) with Pfalmes our GladneJ/e there: 
 
 O, come, let's worfhip, fall, and kneele before 
 
 The Lord our maker, let us him, adore. 
 
 This do6lrine David to the Church did teach, 
 
 Which (from thofe times to thefe) all good men preach. 
 
 Only a new fantaflick upftart Troope 
 
 Of proud contentious fpirits, fcorne to floope. 
 
 1 have fhewd proofes, and more I will produce, 
 How men are bound unto this reverent ufe. 
 St. Paul repeats the places I have fhewd. 
 
 That every knee fliall to the Lord be bowd ; Rom. 14. n. 
 
 For there's no other name elfe under Heaven, 
 
 But lefus name, by whom Salvation's given. ^^^ ,2 
 
 Th' Apoftle kneel'd, and told th' Ephefans why, 
 
 To pray that Grace their faith might frudlifie. Eph. 3. 14. 
 
 In lefus bleffed name, our foules releife 
 
 And life eternall doth confift in chiefs. loh. 20. 31. 
 
 In all we fay or doe, we ftill muft frame 
 
 To fay and doe (with thanks) in lefus name ; Coioff. 3. 17. 
 
 Beleevers in this name, with faith mofl fleady 
 
 Are fav'd, and unbeleevers damn'd already. loh ^ ,g 
 
 This name alone was the Apoflle's ayde 
 
 To difpoffeffe the devill from the mayd ; Adts 16. 18. 
 
 That from this name no bonds fhould make him flye, 
 
 And for this name he willingly would dye. A<fts 21. 13. 
 
 Full of fuch proofes as thefe the Scriptures are, 
 
 Which to all people plainly doth declare 
 
 That 'tis th' Almighties Mandate and decree. 
 
 That all, at lefus name, Ihall bend the knee. 
 
 C 2 And 
 
 c 17 
 
Lib. 5. §. 30. 
 page 248. 
 
 (12) 
 
 And in all ages, till thefe times and dayes, 
 The Churches pra6lice it hath been alwayes ; 
 And that (amongft us) this duty is not new ; 
 
 iniuna ■;2 ^^^ Queene Elizabeths Injunftions view : 
 
 Or elfe King lames his eighteenth Canon read ; 
 
 There (by Authority) 'tis publifhed. 
 
 Archbifhop Whitguift if you pleafe to note 
 
 In's Book, which he 'gainft mafter Cartwright wrote, 
 
 Maintaines, that all men muft this duty doe ; 
 
 (Imprinted, page feaven hundred forty two.) 
 
 And learned Hooker doth the fame defend. 
 
 In that rare Tra6l and Treatife which he pend, 
 
 Ecclejiafiick Polity inftil'd ; 
 
 The true ufe there, of Kneeling is compil'd. 
 
 So abfolute, acute, and exquifit, 
 
 That all the Chriftian world approveth it. 
 
 tutions lib. i. Thofe unkneeling fancy Separatifts 
 
 cap. 13. §. 24. Are often falfly called Calvini/ls : 
 
 lib 2 c "4 §'3 -^^^ mafter Calvin's flat againft their fide ; 
 
 iib.2.c.i5.§.s. And they are all from his diredions wide : 
 
 Ihefepia^er" He (in his Injiittitions) doth allow 
 
 Calvin is plain At lefus name, that every Knee fhall bowe ; 
 
 for the reve- jj^^f^ ^j^^^ ^j,j ^.^^j r^^ ^^^ pkccs) findc 
 
 rend ufe and _ > J \ r 1 ^ 
 
 praaiceof How Calvifi clearely hath declar'd his minde. 
 
 this duty. Madde Innovaters, in their Confultations 
 
 Doe nothing but cry out 'gainfl; Innovations ; 
 Like he that rob'd himfelfe, and by and by 
 Cry'd theeves, theeves, and purfude with Hue and Cry. 
 So thefe men have new fafhion'd fangles found. 
 Which have from Scripture or the Church no o-round. 
 Whilfl; we in our Church Government doe hold 
 Not any thing but what's authentique old : 
 
 Yet 
 
 t8 
 
(13) 
 
 Yet vile Impuritans revile the State 
 
 And Church ; when they themfelves doe Innovate. 
 
 Sure they are Ignorants or Hypocrites 
 
 That are infpir'd with thefe unholy fits ; 
 
 And with a heav'd-up hand, and white of eye, 
 
 They'le doe a man a mifchiefe zealoufly. 
 
 And on religious points will Hand moft ftoutly, 
 
 But in conclufion cozzen men devoutly. 
 
 Thefe peoples braines are ftuft with froath and bubbles, 
 
 Their concord's difcord, and their peace is troubles. 
 
 He that can meafure fmoake, or weigh the wind, 
 
 Or to the Peace the reftleffe Ocean bind ; 
 
 Number the Starves, or Sands on Neptunes bounds ; 
 
 Or take great Whales at Sea, with hunting hounds ; 
 
 Make Mountaines fwim, flop Rivers in their fource, 
 
 Or ftay the Sunne in his Dhirnall courfe : 
 
 He that can doe all thefe, hath power and skill 
 
 To fix thefe fellowes fledfaft in their will. 
 
 Thefe are our Church and Ceremony haters, 
 
 That love to fifh in foule and troubled waters ; 
 
 Swift in defame, their reafon is their will. 
 
 And Will fhall be their reafon, they fay ftill. 
 
 To end this point, they are a fort of youths, 
 
 Whofe judgements ftill are fartheft off from truths. 
 
 But He that in the Heavens doth refide, 
 
 Doth fee their malice, and their plots deride ; 
 
 And though they rave and raile, our State fhall ftand 
 
 Supported only, by th' Almighties hand. 
 
 And through the venom'd vapours of their fpight. 
 
 Our Churches Government fhall fhine more bright. 
 
 Their errours have beene anfwer'd, quafh'd and quell'd. 
 
 And often (by grave learned men) repell'd 
 
 C 3 Their 
 
 19 
 
(■4) 
 
 Their caufes have beene canvas'd and difputed 
 
 By Scriptures, Councels, Fathers, all confuted, 
 
 Ecclejiajiick Canons, Statutes, Lawes, 
 
 Decrees, Senfe, Reafon, all againfl their Caufe ; 
 
 All Injlitutions, Orders, Decencie, 
 
 And Ancient Cuftome tells them all, they Lye. 
 
 But all thefe they efteeme at flender rate, 
 
 For they have vow'd ftill to be obftinate. 
 
 They'have beene refeld by wife-men, grave, and good, 
 
 And learn'd, and ftill all thefe they have withftood ; 
 
 Therefore they are unworthy of Reply 
 
 From wife men, but from fuch poore fooles as I, 
 
 To Anfwer their poore cavils, they are fuch, 
 
 A Scullers fitter than a Scholler much. 
 
 I know two Enemies Gods Church refifts 
 
 (The Papifts, and Schifmatique Separatifts) 
 
 And Shee (alas) like Chrijl betweene two Theeves, 
 
 Prays daily for their Pardons and Repreeves. 
 
 For why ? Betwixt the Romane Monarchie, 
 
 And the fevere Geneva Anarchie, 
 
 Our Church difperfeth her refplendent Beames, 
 
 As bleffed Vertue is 'twixt two extreames. 
 
 For whilft Shee hath a biding in this world. 
 
 From Wrong to Injury Shee's daily hurl'd, 
 
 From Scylla to Charibdis, flung and toft, 
 
 And (did not grace preferve her) fhee were loft. 
 
 And yet Both thofe, that thus doe her oppofe, 
 
 (One 'galnft the other) are inveterate foes, 
 
 Yet both agreed, malicioufly entic'ft, 
 
 Like Herod pyn'd with Pilate to kill Chriji. 
 
 'Twas our fmnes kill'd him (as my faith avowes) 
 
 And fliall we rend and teare his facred Spoufe ? 
 
 (The 
 
(i5) 
 
 (The Church I meane) O impious fhame of fhames ! 
 Unworthy are all fuch oi Chrijlian names. 
 The Ceremonies of our Church are three, 
 Which neat, and decent, and convenient bee : 
 Kneeling was one, which I have treated on ; 
 The other two I'le not be long upon. 
 
 The Croffe in Baptifme, (that moft Chriftian Signe) 
 'Gainft which thefe feeming Chrifhians doe repine. 
 About fome feven and thirty yeares agone. 
 
 When blefl King lames did grace Great Britains Throne, ^oXutlon 
 The firft yeare over England that he reign'd, Ecciefiafticaii 
 
 Canons and Conjlitutions were ordain'd, io,Annoprimo 
 
 • 1 • ^ 1 • lacobi 1603. 
 
 Wherem this Ceremony they derive 
 From the true Church that is call'd Primitive. 
 For then the Ethnicks, and the faithleffe lewes 
 Did both th'Apoftles, and the reft abufe, 
 Becaufe they did beleeve and preach Chrijl dy'd 
 And fuffring on a Croffe, was crucifi'd 
 'Mongft mif-beleevers ; all Chriftians were then 
 Derided and efteem'd the fcorne of men ; 
 The Chrijlians (deeming all the world as droffe) 
 T'expreffe their conftant faith, profeft the Croffe. 
 The lewes did mock the Chriftians ; and againe. 
 The Chriftians gloried in the J ewes difdaine ; 
 The fcornes of men, not daunted them awhit ; 
 The Croffe (their comfort) they rejoyc'd in it, 
 They lov'd the Croffe, and triumph'd in the fame, 
 And (for the Croffe) were never fear'd with fhame. 
 Since then the Greeke and Latine Church combinde 
 With great applaufe, and one confent of minde. 
 That (at Baptizings) every Church and Nation 
 Should Signe all Chriftned in each Congregation 
 
 With 
 
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 With that mofl Chriftian Badge, to fhew that we 
 From world, flefh, fiend, and finfull lufls muft flee, 
 And under our Redeemers Banner fight 
 'Gainft finne, the Devill, and the worlds delight. 
 Thefe reafons plainly doe demonftrate this ; 
 This Ceremony now, no new thing is, 
 Nor yet from Rome did firft admittance win, 
 For fi-om th'Apoflles times it did begin ; 
 Yet had it come from Rome, the Rommt faith 
 
 * Orfubiijhed. Was * Famous through the world, th' Apofcle faith ; 
 
 Rom. I. 8. And tliofe that will have nothing that was there, 
 
 Muft neither have Gods Chnrch, his Grace, nor feare. 
 
 The Romifh Church was Right, for many yeares, 
 
 Till ('mongfl their wheat) the Envious man fow'd tares : 
 
 Wherefore we firft began to leave her quite. 
 
 When fhee began to mingle wrong with right. 
 
 Shee parted not from us, but we from her. 
 
 And we left her in all that fhe did Erre : 
 
 As farre as fhee leaves Chriji, 'tis good that we 
 
 Should fo farre from her Errors fundred be. 
 
 The Romane Church was Right ; but fuperftition 
 
 Hath made her Wrong, and altred her condition : 
 
 Her Errors (not her Effence) we oppofe, 
 
 With prayers and teares we doe refift our foes ; 
 
 And they allow our Service and our Prayers 
 
 Are good, and that we leave much good of theirs ; 
 
 But let them keep what's good : Let us be glad 
 
 That we have left them (only) in what's bad. 
 
 And for the figne o'th CroJ/e, no man that lives 
 
 Doth think it vertue unto Baptifme gives ; 
 
 'Tis but a Ceremony (us'd of old) 
 
 Which fignes Chrijls flieepe and lambes into his fold ; 
 
 All 
 
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 All Emperours and Kings, who Chrlft profeffe, 
 
 All Potentates and Princes (great or leffe) 
 
 Their Hatchments, Armes, Efcoucheons, every one, 
 
 The figure of the Crojfe is formed on ; 
 
 Their Banners, Enjignes, Flaggs, and golden Crownes, 
 
 The Crojfe s figures fix'd for their Renownes : 
 
 And by the Ball and Crojfe, the world may fee, 
 
 That underneath the Crojfe the world muft be. 
 
 And by the Crojfe they fhew (by fignes externall) 
 
 The Chrijlian Faith (profeffed) is fupernall ; 
 
 All Chrijlian Coynes doe, likewife Crojfes beare, 
 
 (But thofe put not our Puritans in feare) 
 
 The fight of thofe, to them are much delicious, 
 
 They only unto fuch are fuperftitious. 
 
 They love them, with fuch zeale and verity, 
 
 They'l never part with them in charity. 
 
 The Crojfe' s ufe prov'd fince th'Apoflles time, 
 
 Through th' ancient praftice of the Church cald Prime, 
 
 And in the raigne of th' Emperour Conjlantine, 
 
 All Chriftians that were baptiz'd, had this Signe, 
 
 And that from thence unto thefe very dayes ; 
 
 This Ceremony hath been us'd alwayes. 
 
 By Chrijlians through all Chrijlendome fo grac'd. 
 
 So long a time with great regard embrac'd. 
 
 Shall any proud Scifmatique, impure crew, 
 
 Dare offer to fuppreffe't or call it new ? 
 
 It addes no vertue to the Sacrament, 
 
 Nor is it us'd for any fuch intent ; 
 
 For after Baptifme's done, our Church doth ufe 
 
 To figne with th' Crojfe (which wranglers doe abufe) 
 
 Thus 'tis a decent and indifferent thing, 
 
 And from it doth no fuperfbition fpring ; 
 
 D . Yet 
 
Rom. 13. I. 2. 
 
 2 Pet. 3. 16. 
 
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 Yet not fo' indifferent any fliould withftand it ; 
 
 It muft be ; for the King and Church command it ; 
 
 Th' Almighty doth the Higher Powers ordaine ; 
 
 And Kings beare not the /word for nought, in vaine : 
 
 And feeing this command is juft and good, 
 
 It neither ought, nor muft not be withftood ; 
 
 All power proceeds from God, therefore fubmit, 
 
 And fcape Gods judgement in obeying it. 
 
 We muft not dare to confter, mould, or fafhion 
 2 Pet. 1.20. The Scriptures to each mans interpretation ; 
 
 And furely, the unlearned and unjiable. 
 
 To underjland hard Scriptures are unable. 
 
 The Lords thoughts, and his wayes, are his, not ours, 
 ifay 55. 8. 9. ^nd high as Heaven from Earth, above our powers. 
 
 Where God commands, weake men muft not difpute, 
 We ought to And where they underftand not, there be mute. 
 obey the King Then, as the King is Gods Leivetenant here, 
 
 m love, for _^, . . . . _ .„ ^ 
 
 confcience Obey m couicience, not m Ilavilh feare, 
 fake, efpeciaiiy And as the Church and State, with paines and cares 
 commands as Ordain'd good Lawes obey'd for many yeares. 
 are not contra- What bold audacious fpirits then are they 
 word ° ^ That King, Church, State and Lawes thus difobey ? 
 Ten millions of their braines can ne're devife 
 A book fo good as that which they defpife ; 
 (The Common Prayer I meane) if they ftiould fit 
 Ten thoufand yeares, with all their Art and witt, 
 They would prove Coxcombs all, and in the end, 
 Leave it as 'tis, too good for them to mend. 
 Thefe are the Crew that under f aire pretences, 
 By flatt'ry caufe divijion and offences, 
 Rora.16.17.18. Thefe ferve not the Lord lefus Chrifi a jot. 
 They are their belly es fervants (well I wot) 
 
 With 
 
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 With adulating fpeech, and /aire deceit. 
 
 They doe the hearts of Jimple people cheat ; 
 
 Contentious men that doe contention crave ; 
 
 We, nor the Church of Godfuch cufiome have : 
 
 And thus to thefe croffe men I have declar'd 
 
 How much of old the Croffe was in regard, 
 
 And though the Paplfts ufe it with abufe, 
 
 That cannot take away the lawful! ufe ; 
 
 For though a golden Idoll be a curfe, 
 
 That makes not God (well us'd) to be the worfe. 
 
 Materiall Croffes made of wood or ftone, 
 
 (Through zeale) moft of them are caft downe and gone, 
 
 From age to age, the Sires to their fucceffion ; 
 
 Thofe Croffes flood t' expreffe our faiths profeffion ; 
 
 But when th' abufe of them began to grow, 
 
 That to thofe Croffes Sotts would creepe or bow, 
 
 For this caufe (chiefly) they were overthrowne, 
 
 Abus'd from their firft ufe, were beaten downe ; 
 
 But our Croffe us'd in Baptifme, ftill hath beene 
 
 A figne invifible, yet never feene : 
 
 Nor doth it on the Infants face appeare 
 
 That ever any Croffe was figur'd there. 
 
 Then what madde men are thofe, that beare fuch fpleene 
 
 Againft a thing, not to be felt, or feene, 
 
 Yet heard (though hardly to be underflood) 
 
 By many of the perverfe brotherhood ? 
 
 For of their conftant faith we may defpaire 
 
 Who are affraid of fliaddowes in the ayre. 
 
 And thus much for the Croffe may well fuflice 
 
 To give content to all, except precife. 
 
 Now, for the Surplice, which is third and laft 
 
 Of Ceremonies, which make fooles agaft : 
 
 D 2 Such 
 
 I Cor. II. i6. 
 
 Some 12 years 
 fmce at Tewx- 
 bury in Gloce- 
 fterfliire, a pre- 
 cife Church- 
 warden pulled 
 downe a croffe 
 of ftone and 
 caufed a hogs- 
 trough to bee 
 made of the 
 top of it; but 
 his hogs all ran 
 mad and dyed, 
 and he with 
 his whole fa- 
 mily came fud- 
 denly ta mif- 
 chances or un- 
 timely ends. 
 
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 Such as doe prize it as a ragge of Rome, 
 
 An iffue of the Whore of Babels wombe ; 
 
 Such as doe hold it (for their Se6l) more meete 
 
 To fuffer penance in a milk-white fheete, 
 
 And think it better doth affe6l their fight, 
 
 Than in the Church to fee a Surplice white. 
 
 Thefe Amjlerdamnable opinions runne, 
 
 As fierce as pellets from an Elder-gunne ; 
 
 Their witt's leffe than their reverend beards by halfe, 
 
 And each of them as wife as Walthams calfe, 
 
 And wifedome is as thick amongfl the rout 
 
 As Water-grewell when the Oate-meale's out. 
 
 Yet they are wife enough, with tooth and nayle, 
 
 To libell, and talke nonfenfe, rave, and rayle, 
 
 And with a fcandalous and vile intent. 
 
 To caft contempt upon all government ; 
 
 Now, for an anfwer to their cavilling, 
 
 (Who are indeed not worth the anfwering) 
 
 Note, what high names the Holy Ghoji hath pend, 
 
 To honour fuch as on his Church attend ; 
 
 Revel. I. 2. For their great dignity he doth afford 
 
 To call them Angels, in his facred word ; 
 
 To th'^«^^/of the Church oi Ephefus, 
 
 Of Smyrna, Sardis, and of Pergamus, 
 
 Of Thyatira, Philadelphia, 
 
 And of the (luke-warme) Laodicea ; 
 
 To thefe feaven Minifters St. lohn did write, 
 
 And gave them each an Angels Epithite ; 
 
 And heavenly Angels often did appeare, 
 
 Mat. 28. 3. ^" veftures white as fnow, bright, pure and cleare : 
 
 Mar. 16. 15. Which doth denote that Church-men ought to be 
 
 Luk. 24. Yxi Do6lrine found, and in integrrity, 
 
 loll. 20. 12. a J ' 
 
 Angelical 
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 Angelical, white, cleane and cleare, unfpotted. 
 Wherefore the Surplice was to them allotted 
 To be an Emblem of pure Sanflitie, 
 And for difllnftion of their qualitie ; 
 Whereby, the minifteriall fundlion may 
 Be knowne, and well diftinguifht from the Lay. 
 And as on White a fpot is fooneft feene, 
 So with Gods Minifters it fliU hath beene ; 
 A Lay-mans crimes like little Glo-wormes glow, 
 A Church-man's like prodigious Comets fliow ; 
 Therefore the Surplice was, on good pretence, 
 Giv'n as a Robe of fpotleffe Innocence, 
 To fhew (that though all men are fmfull, fraile) 
 Pajiors fhould be mofl cautious how they faile ; 
 Becaufe fo many looke on them and prie. 
 And to their converfations have an eye. 
 The Surplice came from Rome, I dare confeffe, 
 (What tho, 'tis not to be efteem'd the leffe) 
 Nay more, it was Romes Bifhop did ordaine it. 
 And yet that not a jot at all doth ftaine it. 
 Pope Stephen liv'd, as by Record appeares, 
 Since Chrift, two hundred, fiftie and two yeares ; 
 And as his Name was Steven, fo his fate 
 Was, that he did Saint Stephen imitate. 
 When Decius was the Romane Emperour, 
 That Pope dy'd by that Pagan Tyrants power ; 
 He (for his Saviour) fuffred Martyrdome, 
 And he ordain'd the Surplice firft in Rome. 
 Thus, when the Church was in her prime perfedlion, 
 This veflment was ordain'd by good dire6lion, 
 
 D3 
 
 This Pope Ste- 
 phen was a glo- 
 rious Martyr, 
 beheaded by 
 Decius the 29 
 Emperor from 
 luliusCcefarfil 
 which 29 only 
 16 did reigne 
 but 45 yeares 
 of 252 yeares 
 time after 
 Chrift. And in 
 thofe times 
 many Popes 
 were put to 
 death by thofe 
 Tyrants, be- 
 caufe they 
 would not de- 
 ny their Chri- 
 ftian faith. 
 
 For 
 
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 For order, ornament, and decencie, 
 And not for perverfe Non-conformitie. 
 There were no Brethren then fo out of frame 
 To think cleane linnen was the Churches Ihame ; 
 
 Revel. 6. ,i.& No^ t^gy beleev'd That long white Robes in Heaven 
 To tK everlajiing blejfed Jhould be given ; 
 
 Revel. IS. 8. And in that place fev'n Angels did appeare. 
 
 And they all pure white linnen Robes did weare ; 
 Pure, fine, white fhining linnen doth expreffe 
 The Saints moft ever happie bleffedneffe : 
 And at the Marriage of the Lambe 'tis faid 
 
 Revel. 19. 8. The Church (Chrifls Spoufe) in white fhall be array'd. 
 And when our Saviour (gracioufly) did fhew 
 
 Matth.17. 2,3. His Glory, to lohn, lames, and Peters view; 
 
 His face fhin'd as the Sunne, his cloaths as white 
 
 As was the radient lufter of the light : 
 
 Yea, very white as Snow, and that no Fuller 
 
 Mar. 9. 3, 4. Upon the earth can make fo white a colour ; 
 And therefore with our glorious Bleft Mefsias, 
 '■ "■ Appear'd two good men, Mo/es and Elias. 
 Thus fpotleffe Innocence, Immaculate, 
 In moft pure white was feene in glorious State. 
 Thus Angels, Saints, and bleft immortall Spirits 
 (Who are where all true happineffe inherits) 
 And Chrifl, when he his three Difciples led 
 To Tabors Mount, and was Transfigured, 
 They all wore Linnen white, (or like the fame) 
 They did themfelves in their appearance frame • 
 The Saints wore white, as figures myfticall, 
 Chrift as a glorious Robe Majefticall. 
 
 Which 
 
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 Which fliewes Gods Minifters (in Imitation) 
 
 May weare a Surplice in the Congregation ; 
 
 For men (on Earth) are in the befl eftate, 
 
 Who doe the Saints in Heaven moft imitate : 
 
 Thefe Ceremonies (Three) are prov'd to be 
 
 Pafl fifteene hundred yeares Antiquitie : 
 
 And they that murmure, prate, and call them New, 
 
 Are Corahs, Dathans, and Abirams crew. 
 
 'Tis falfely call'd Religion that doth caufe 
 
 Men to refill God's, King's, and Churches Lawes, 
 
 They being all from Gods decree deriv'd 
 
 So long us'd, with fuch charge and care contriv'd, 
 
 So Tolerable to be undergone, 
 
 So necelfary, eafie to be done, 
 
 So reverend (in their ufe) difcreet, and neat, 
 
 Mofl decent (as I did before repeat) 
 
 That they who 'gainfl them doe revile and brawle, 
 
 Are (in their fiery zeale) TopJuticall ; 
 
 'Tis not Religion, 'Tis Divillitie 
 
 T'oppofe the King, 'Tis bad Divinitie. 
 
 And what a fine Church were we like to have 
 
 If thefe companions had what they would crave ? 
 
 Yet not to wrong their learning in a letter, 
 
 'Tis knowne, no men can raile or libell better. 
 
 As if th'had learn'd of Oyfter-wives to prate 
 
 At th'Univerfitie oi Bellinfgate. 
 
 Cain facrific'd, and lefabel did faft, 
 
 Prince Ab/olom fome filly fooles embrac'd, 
 
 So ludas kis'd when as to kill he meant, 
 
 So Pilate wafh'd, yet was corruptly bent, 
 
 So 
 
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 So Ananias brought his feigned gift, 
 So Satan alleag'd Scripture for a fhift : 
 Thefe were all Hypocrites, and fo are you, 
 Pretending Truths, intending nothing true : 
 Whofe glazen Arguments will bide no hammer, 
 For they are but bad Logick, and worfe Grammar, 
 Their fuppofitions, falfe miflrufls and doubts 
 They prove with nothing elfe but lyes and flouts. 
 A Good caufe may be fpoil'd, and quite difgrac'd 
 By indifcretion, and by words mifplac'd : 
 But thefe mens caufes being bad, their courfe 
 And filthy language makes it much the worfe. 
 And thefe fweet Rules and Grounds they doe profeffe 
 As mighty Maxims of their holineffe. 
 Such men, who in authoritie are great. 
 With Envie flill are round about be-fet : 
 They are not only blam'd for doing ill, 
 But for not doing all that all men will. 
 Their honours are fo mixt with toyles and cares 
 Which oft (before old Age) doth bring gray haires ; 
 Their broken fleepes make us more foundly fleepe, 
 Their unreft doth in reft and peace us keepe. 
 And whilft the Peafant takes his fweet repofe. 
 The Peere is round behem'd with cares and woes. 
 No labour's like the labour of the minde. 
 And Kings rich Crownes with pricking Thorns are linde. 
 Shall we be difobedient then to fuch. 
 Who for our peace diflurbed are fo much .? 
 Shall Hell-hounds dare afperfions bafe to fling 
 'Gainfl thofe that thus ferve God, the Church and Kino- ? 
 
 ''No 
 
 3° 
 
(25) 
 
 No ; let's implore \S\Eternall Majejlie, 
 To guide and guard their true integritie. 
 To draw to end, kind brethren, take advice, 
 In things indifferent be not over-nice, 
 Prefume not to binde Princes Wills to yours ; 
 Love, and feeke Peace, obey fuperiour powers ; 
 Stand to the Faith, doe more good Workes I pray, 
 And ferve not God the cleane contrary way. 
 And now my pen in Quiet Ihall Remaine, 
 Except fome mad-men Roufe it up againe. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 31 
 

 Lenvoy, or Poftfcrlpt. 
 
 "T^Rom wronging of 7ny King, from State reviling, 
 -*- From Libels writing or in Print compiling: 
 From, troubling of my coxcombe, braines, or mazzard. 
 From, putting m,y eflate or eares in hazzard : 
 From feeding things that are beyond my reach ; 
 Front dreaming I could all the Clergie teach ; 
 From. Pride, Vain-glory, and Hypocrifie, 
 Fromjiriving to obtaine a Pillory, 
 And from, deferving of the triple Tree, 
 Good Lord of Heaven and Earth deliver mee. 
 
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I64I. 
 A Swarme of Sectaries. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 66.] 
 
SVVARME 
 
 O F 
 
 SECTARIES, AND 
 
 SCHISMATIQVES: 
 
 Wherein is difcovered the ftrange prea- 
 ching (or prating) of fuch as are by their trades 
 Coblers, Tinkers, Pedlers, Weavers, Sow- 
 gelders, and Chymney - Sweepers. 
 
 By J OHN Taylor. 
 
 The Cobler preaches, and his Audience are 
 A s wife as M offe was, when he caught his Mare. 
 
 Printed luckily, and may be read unhappily, betwixt 
 hawke and buzzard, 1641. 
 
The ods or difference betwixt the 
 
 Knaves Puritan, and the Knave 
 
 Puritan. 
 
 Andfirjl of the Knaves Puritan. 
 
 T T E E that refifls the world, the flefti, and Fiend, 
 ■■■ -*■ And makes a confcience how his daies he fpend 
 Who hates exceffive drinking. Drabs and Dice, 
 And (in his heart) hath God in higheft price ; 
 That lives conformable to Law, and State, 
 Nor from the Truth will flie or feparate : 
 That will not fweare, or couzen, cogge, or lie, 
 But ftrives (in Gods feare) how to live and die : 
 He that feekes thus to do the beft he can. 
 He is the Knaves abufed Puritan. 
 
 The Knave Puritan. 
 
 T T E whofe beft good, is only good to feeme, 
 -*- -*- And feeming holy, gets fome falfe efleeme : 
 Who makes Religion hide Hipocrifie, 
 And zeale to cover cheating villany ; 
 Whofe purity (much like the devils Ape) 
 Can fhift himfelf into an Angels fhape. 
 And play the Rafcall moft devoutly trim, 
 Not caring who fmkes, fo himfelf may fwim : 
 Hee's the Knave Puritan, and only He, 
 Makes the Knaves Puritan abus'd to be. 
 
 For (in this life) each man his lot muft take, 
 Good men muft fuffer wrong for bad mens fake. 
 
 A 2 To 
 
(O 
 
 To he that will. 
 
 THou that this little Book in hand doft take, 
 Of what thou read'ft no falfe conftruftion 
 Be not prejudicate, to carp, or grudge, (make 
 And look thou underfland before thou judge : 
 My Mufe is Muficall, and runs divifion. 
 And holds all Critick Cockfcombs in derifion. 
 The wretch, that true Religion doth defpife, 
 Is like the Atheift, that his God denies, 
 And thofe that do contemne Religious Rites, 
 Muft look for portions with the hypocrites : 
 And therefore with all Reverend due refpedls 
 To Truth, I have difplaid fome peevifh Sefts, 
 Full of foule errors, poore, and bare of fence. 
 Yet tending to fome dangerous confequence. 
 'Tis paft a Butchers, or a Brewers reach, 
 To pearch into a Pulpit, or to preach ; 
 A pot, a platter, dripping pan, or fpit. 
 Are for a Ladies Bed-chamber unfit : 
 Rich Hangings, Curtaines, Carpets, garments gay 
 Doe not become a Kitchin any way. 
 A Preachers work is not to gelde a Sowe, 
 Vnfeemly 'tis a ludge fhould milke a Cowe : 
 A Cobler to a Pulpit fhould not mount, 
 Nor can an Affe caft up a true account. 
 
 A 
 
(3)_ 
 A Clowne to fway a Scepter is too bafe, 
 And Princes to turne Pedlers were difgrace : 
 Yet all thefe, if they not mifplaced be, 
 Are neceffary, each in their degree, 
 If each within their limits be contain'd, 
 Peace flourifheth, and concord is maintain'd. 
 The good man lob defcrlbes it plain and right, 
 Where order is not, darkneffe, and the light 
 Are both alike, for blindefold Ignorance 
 Of perfeft wifdome hath no glimpfe or glance. 
 But fuch as 'gainft all order doe rebell, 
 Let them not doe as did Achitophell, 2 Sam. 17 
 
 To fet his houfe in order home went he, ^^■ 
 
 But what became of him, pray reade and fee. 
 Kinde Brethren, I doe wifh you better fortune. 
 And with tongue, pen, and heart, I you importune 
 To have the patience but to heare, or reade 
 What kinde of fellowes doe you thus mifleade ; 
 I doe inveigh here with impartiall pen 
 Againft no filenc'd, learned Clergy men, 
 Nor any man that underftands me right. 
 But will approve thefe lines which here I write : 
 For let bafe fpight fay what it dare or can, 
 I know, what's writ, offends no honefl man. 
 I write of fome, that with tongue, pen and print 
 Have writ and rail'd, as if the devill were in't. 
 I could name many of that precious crew, 
 And for a tafte I will recite a few. 
 
 A 3 Firft 
 
(4) 
 
 Firft, of one that was a Merchant 
 of Pitchards, Black pots, Double lugges, 
 and Pipkins, and was forward to preach, 
 not being called or fent. 
 
 "VJ Eare to the lower end of Cheapfide late, 
 
 ■*• ^ There dwelt one Knight that fold much brittle 
 
 As glaffes, earthen dilhes, pans and platters, (plate, 
 
 Pots, pipkins, gallipots, and fuch like matters. 
 
 This Knight the Brethren (by appointment fent 
 
 To Loving-land, (an I lie) in Suffolk went, 
 
 And at a Village (Summerlayten hight) 
 
 A Sermon there was preached by that Knight. 
 
 His prayer extemp're done, he op'de the book, 
 
 And Vnto us a Childe is borne, he took 
 
 To be his Text, and handled it fo gravely. 
 
 That for it did in Yarmouth Gaole, the Knave lie. 
 
 Knight had to aide him to negotiate, 
 
 One Gault (a Shoomaker) Afs-fociate, 
 
 Both which were quickly to promotion rifen, 
 
 Preferr'd from Yarmouth, unto Norwich prifen. 
 
 From thence Knight was unto the Gatehoufe broght 
 
 Whence upon Baile, his liberty he fought. 
 
 And was bail'd, but his baile and he both fled 
 
 To Amfterdam, and there he publiflied 
 
 Strange 
 
(5)_ 
 Strange Libels, full of mifchiefe and debate, (State. 
 Which here were fcatterd 'gainft the Church and 
 Whereby he to the world did plaine reveale 
 His mallapert, mofl faucie, purblinde zeale. 
 
 Another fweet youth in a Basket. 
 
 ONe Sidrach Cave made Baskets late in Elie, 
 A conftant brother, rais'd up his maids belly 
 But 'twas in Gandermonth, his wife lay in. 
 His flefh rebell'd, and tempted him to fin ; 
 And Caves wife tooke the wrong moft patiently. 
 For which the Brethren prais'd her fandlity. 
 
 A third Bird of the fame Nefl. 
 
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 AN other (one lohn Howgrave) dwelt at Yar- 
 (Not hot, or cold, but with a meere lukewarm- 
 From country, wife & houfhold late he fled (mouth) 
 To Rotterdam, for's Confcience as he fed ; 
 At lohn Burgaries houfe, he took his Inne, 
 And woo'd his Hofteffe to the Paphean fin. 
 Burgaries wife by him with childe was got, 
 That Howgrave fearing Rotterdam too hot, 
 Fled back to Yarmouth, whence at firfl he came ,- 
 His fault was knowne, and he chid for the fame ; 
 He faid it was not he did that vile deed. 
 But fin that dwelt in him that fault did breed ; 
 And that the devill fhould more damnation win, 
 For tempting Gods deare childe to fuch a fin. 
 
 Another 
 
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 Another like that. 
 
 OF young, and old, both fexes late, a crew 
 were bound from England old, to Engl: new : 
 And flaying long at Yarmouth there together, 
 Expecting Ships for paffage, winde and weather, 
 A Brother came to Howgraves wife, and kift her. 
 And told her fad newes of a new falne fifler, 
 Falne (quoth fhe) from the Word ? I hope not that. 
 And let her fall then, to no matter what : 
 Ah no, fhee's fowly got with childe (quoth he) 
 Now out upon her, pray by whom (quoth fhe) 
 'Twas by a faithfull Brother he replide, 
 Well, well, quoth flie, we all have gone afide ; 
 If 'twere a Brothers, deed fhe could not fhun it. 
 But 'thad been naught, had one of th'wicked done it. 
 
 A precious youth. 
 
 A Lfo one Spilsbery rofe up of late, 
 
 (Who doth, or did dwell over Alderfgate) 
 His office was to weigh Hay by the Truffe, 
 (Fit for the pallat of Bucephalus) 
 He in fhort time left his Hay-weighing trade. 
 And afterwards he Irifh Stockings made : 
 He rebaptiz'd in Anabaptifl fafliion 
 One Eaton (of the new found feparation) 
 A zealous Button maker, grave and wife. 
 And gave him orders, others to baptize ; 
 
 Who 
 
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 Who was fo apt to learne that in one day, 
 Hee'd do't as well as Spilsbery weigh'd Hay. 
 This pure Hay-lay man to the Bankfide came, 
 And likewife there baptiz'd an impure dame, 
 A Basket-makers wife, known wondrous well, 
 In Moffe his Alley he and fhe doth dwell. 
 
 As good as the reji. 
 
 AT Brentford dwels the widdow Conftable, 
 (As wife as was the Dean of Dunftable) 
 Her husband dy'd, and fhe great haft did make. 
 Our Church, and Churches dodlrine to forfake ; 
 Profeffmg purity, chafte, undefil'd. 
 Yet in a Gravell pit was got with childe. 
 And now fhe bids Religion quite adiew, 
 Turn'd from a Nonconformifl, to a Jew. 
 
 THefe kind of Vermin fwarm like Caterpillars 
 And hold Conventicles in Barnes and Sellars, 
 Some preach (or prate) in woods, in fields, in flables, 
 In hollow trees, in tubs, on tops of tables. 
 To the expence of many a tallow Tapor, 
 They toffe the holy Scripture into Vapor : 
 Thefe are the Rabfhekaes that raile fo bitter, 
 (Like mungrill Whelpes of Hells infernall litter) 
 Againft that Church that hath baptiz'd and bred 
 And like a loving mother, nurft & fed them, (them. 
 With milk, with flrong meats, with the bread of 
 Like a true mother, and our Saviours wife. (life, 
 
 B Here 
 
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 Here followeth the Relation of the 
 moft famous preaching Cobler Samuel 
 Howe. 
 
 (~\P late a wondrous accident befell, 
 ^^A zealous Cobler did neare Morefields dwell : 
 A holy Brother of the Separation, 
 A fan6lified member by Vocation. 
 One that did place his principall delight, 
 To fet fuch as doe walke afide, upright, 
 To mend bad Scales, and fuch as go aftray, 
 Difcreetly to fupport, and underlay. 
 This Reverend tranflating Brother (H o w) 
 Puts both his hands unto the fpirituall Plow ; 
 And at the Nags head, neare to Coleman-ftreete, 
 A moft pure crew of Brethren there did meete. 
 Where their devotion was fo ftrong and ample, 
 To turne a finfull Taverne to a Temple, 
 They banifh'd Bacchus thence, and fome fmal fpace 
 The drawers and the Bar-boy had fome grace. 
 There were above a hundred people there, 
 With whom few underftanders mingled were. 
 Who came to heare the learned Cobler How, 
 And how he preach'd, pray mark, He tell you now : 
 
 He 
 
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 He did addreffe himfelfe in fuch a fafhion 
 As well befitted fuch a Congregation. 
 He made fome faces, with his hands ere6led, 
 His eyes (moft whiteft white) to heaven dire6led : 
 His hum, his fhroking of his beard, his fpitting, 
 His poftures, and impoftures done moft fitting. 
 A long three quarters prayer being faid, 
 (The good man knowing fcarce for what he prai'd) 
 For where his fpeech lack'd either fence or weight, 
 He made it up in meafure and conceit. 
 A worthy Brother gave the Text, and than 
 The Cobler (How) his preachment ftrait began 
 Extemp'ry without any meditation. 
 But only by the Spirits revelation, 
 He went through-ftitch, now hither, & now thither, 
 And tooke great paines to draw both ends together : 
 For (like a man infpir'd from Amfterdam) 
 He fcorn'd Nefutor ultra crepidam ; 
 His Text he clouted, and his Sermon welted. 
 His audience (with devotion) almoft melted. 
 His fpeech was neither ftudied, chew'd or champ'd. 
 Or ruminated, but moft neatly vamp'd. 
 He ran beyond his latchet I affure ye. 
 As nimble as a Fairie, or a Furie : 
 He fell couragioufly upon the Beaft, 
 And very daintily the Text did wreft ; (him. 
 
 His audience wondred what ftrange power did guide 
 'Tis thought no man can do the like befide him. 
 Yet fome there were, whofe cenfures were more quicker. 
 Said Calveskin do6lrin would hold out no liquor. 
 'Gainft Schooles, and learning he exclaim'd amain. 
 Tongues, Science, Logick, Rhetorick, all are vain, 
 
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 And wifdome much unfitting for a Preacher, 
 Becaufe the Spirit is the only teacher. 
 For Chrifl chofe not the Rabines of the J ewes, 
 No Doftors, Scribes, or Pharifees did chufe : 
 The poore unlearned fimple Fifherman, 
 The poling, ftri6l tole-gathering Publican, 
 Tent-makers, and poore men of meane defart. 
 Such as knew no degrees, or grounds of Art ; 
 And God ftill being God (as he was then) 
 Still gives his Spirit to unlearned men. 
 Such as are Barbers, Mealmen, Brewers, Bakers, 
 Religious Sowgelders, and Button-makers, 
 Coopers, and Coblers, Tinkers, Pedlers, Weavers, 
 And Chimney fweepers, by whofe good endeavours 
 The flock may fru6lifie, encreafe, and breed 
 In fandlity, that from them may proceed 
 Whole multitudes of fuch a generation, 
 As may hold learning in fmall eftimation. 
 The Latine is the language of the Beaft, 
 Of Romes great Beaft, that doth the world moleft ; 
 Befides the Bifliops fpeake it when they will, 
 And all the Preachers babble Latine ftill ; 
 Then fmce it is the Romifh tongue, therefore 
 Let us that doe not Antichrift adore, 
 Leave it to Lawyers, Gentlemen, and fuch 
 Whofe ftudies in the Scriptures are not much. 
 
 This 
 
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 THis was the very fumme, the root, and pith, 
 The Coblers Lefture was full furnifh'd with : 
 And having faid his All (his prayer pafl) 
 He bleft his Brethren, and came to his Lafte. 
 And in fome points, the Coblers cafe is cleare, 
 Chrift chofe not learned men when he was here. 
 Not Mafters, or expounders of the Law, 
 (For he knew all things, and all things forefaw) 
 For had he chofe great men of wealth & arts, (harts) 
 The Jewes (with flanderous tongues and hardened 
 Would then have faid that what he did, or faid 
 Was done by their affiflance, and their aide. 
 He therefore chofe poore men in meanes & tongue. 
 That by weak means he might confound the ftrong. 
 Yet this is certain, that at Pentecoft, 
 (When on th'Apoftles fell the holy Ghoft) 
 Each of them fpake, each feverall language then. 
 And were, and ne're fhall be fuch learned men. 
 Not all the Univerfities that are. 
 Or were, or will be, with them may compare. 
 For never Bifhops, or Divines inferiours, 
 But did acknowledge them for their fuperiours 
 For fan6lity, and working Miracles, 
 For preaching facred heavenly Oracles, 
 For perfect knowledge, and integrity. 
 For life and do6lrines pure fincerity 
 Th'Apoftles had more than the whole world had. 
 Therefore the Cobler and his crew are mad. 
 
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 ObjeElion. 
 
 13 Ut fome (perhaps) may anfwer me, that then 
 
 -^No humane learning did infpire thofe men. 
 
 And that the Spirits mighty operation 
 
 Gave them the language of each feverall Nation : 
 
 Indeed true Chriftian Churches have confeft, 
 
 That long; ag-one all miracles are ceafl, 
 
 We muft not look for fignes and wonders now, 
 
 God plentifully doth his Word allow. 
 
 And Tongues are not fo eafily difcern'd, 
 
 But men muft ftudy for them, to be learn'd. 
 
 For when the Apoftles all were gone and dead, 
 
 By learned men the Gofpell was or'efpread : 
 
 And publifh'd, and tranflated every where, 
 
 Elfe we had never had a Bible here. 
 
 'Twas Schollers, and grave learned men that did 
 
 Tranflate the Scriptures, which had ftill been hid 
 
 From all Sefts, that would Order undermine. 
 
 Maintaining learning fits not a Divine. 
 
 Therefore if they (as they doe boaft) inherite 
 
 So large a meafure of th'unmeafur'd Spirit, 
 
 Let them fpeak tongues, as then the Apoftles fpake, 
 
 To work great wonders let them undertake ; 
 
 Let them convert unto the Faith of Chrift 
 
 Whole nations (whom the devil hath long entic'd.) 
 
 Let them the Moores, and barbarous Indians teach. 
 
 And to Man-eating Canniballs goe preach : 
 
 Let all thofe Brethren leave great Britaines Coaft, 
 
 And travaile where the devill is honour'd moft. 
 
 All 
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 All you that are this Kingdomes peftilence, 
 I wifh you goe, and drive the devils thence ; 
 And then my Mufe and I, In Verfe will tell, 
 You and your Spirit have done wondrous well. 
 
 J^ 0|^ dF> «^ ^■?>^i^^<^4&<$i<$><«!> <^ d(^ w <$• ^!> 
 
 A Short relation of fome of the 
 mighty Miracles done by the Apoflles in 
 the name and power of I e s u s. 
 
 THree thoufand Soules, S. Peifer in one day, Ail. 2. 41. 
 By preaching, turn'd into the heavenly way ; 
 He cur'd the Cripple, reade but A^s the third, 
 Strooke dead two deep diffemblers with his word : Ads 5. i. 
 Cur'de old yEneas, palfied, weak, and lame, acIs 9. 34. 
 
 Thefe things Saint Peter did in le/us name. 
 Cur'd people with his fhadow, and reviv'd 
 Tabitha (whom Death had of life depriv'd. Ads 9. 40, 
 
 And after (fetter' d) in clofe prifon fhut. 
 An Angell him at liberty did put. 
 Let me fee one of you fuch rare things doe. 
 And then He fay you have the Spirit too. 
 Saint Paul gave Sergius Paulus heavenly light, Adis 12. 7. 
 
 Inchanting Elimas he reav'd of fight ; 
 
 Did Lidia and the Jaylour both convert, aAs 13. & 
 
 And did the holy Ghoil to twelve impart, '^■ 
 
 And they ftraitwaies fpake feverall tongues moft 16. 
 And I believe ne're went to fchoole again. (plain. 
 
 If 
 
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 If Napkins or handkerchiefes did but touch 
 The corpes of Paul, the force of faith was fuch, 
 That fiends did flie, and vexed foules had reft ; 
 And from poffeft men devils were difpoffeft, 
 And were but fome of you well hang'd or whip'd, 
 And that your fhirts v/ere from your corpfes ftrip'd 
 Or elfe your whip, or halter well would try, 
 If (by their touch) they'd make the devils flie. 
 And leave poffeffion, I dare lay my life 
 There's many a man would ufe them on his wife. 
 But no fuch vertue doth from you enfue, 
 For if there did, the devill would flie from you. 
 Sweet Brethren of the Se6l of Ignoramus, 
 You that defpife Te Deum and Laudamus, 
 You that doe for our humane learning blame us, 
 I wonder what Religion you would frame us ; 
 You, without any learning, barbarous, rude, 
 How dare you facrilegioufly intrude 
 In Church-affaires, not being call'd or fent, 
 And with your brazen faces impudent. 
 To pick Gods fecret Cloffet ope, and pry 
 (Moft faucy) In th' Almighties fecrecy : 
 Is't not enough, you have his Will reveal'd, 
 But you'le needs know his fecret will conceal'd, 
 Break up the cloffet doore, and boldly get 
 Into th'eternall, heavenly Cabinet. 
 This is a theft contemptible moft high, 
 (Tranfcendent Felony and Burglary) (looke 
 
 And thofe proud thieves, at doomes day muft not 
 To be repriev'd, or faved by their booke. 
 Some there have been, fo malapertly mad, 
 To gueffe what talk Chrift with the DocSlors had : 
 
 To 
 
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 To know where Mofes body buried lies, 
 Where Edens garden was, or paradlfe, 
 What God did doe before the world he fram'd. 
 And where hell ftands (appointed for the damn'd) 
 Thefe curious Conflables would fearch and peepe 
 Through heaven, earth, fea, aire, and th'infernal deep, 
 And for their needleffe ftudies, paines, and care. 
 They do conclude (like Cox-combs) as they are. 
 In boafting knowledge they themfelves advance, 
 When all their skill is blinded ignorance. 
 All you of this pure felf-conceited Seft, 
 That brag your felves to be the Lords Ele6l, 
 Me tjiinkes it is too much for you or yours, 
 To be Gods Courtiers, not his Counfellours ; 
 Where have you that rare revelation found. 
 The Scriptures clofeft myfteries to expound : 
 Is it becaufe you wit and learning want, 
 Or will the truth dwell with the ignorant : 
 Muft the beft preachers be unlearned fooles ? 
 Then downe with Univerfities and Schooles, 
 Your Libraries, your Halls, and Colledges, 
 If ignorance furpaffe your knowledges. 
 The word of God was faithfully tranflated 
 By learned men, o're-fpread and propagated : 
 'Twas done by Schollers, had it not been done 
 Till you had don't, we all had been undone. 
 Ye'r bid to fearch the Scriptures 'tis confeft, 
 You are not bid the Scriptures fence to wreft. 
 To metamorphofe, alter, wring, and wrie 
 Gods Word according to your fantafie, 
 Ye'have leave to heare, or reade it, 'tis not fit 
 You, or your Kennell fhould interpret it ; 
 
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 For fhould we trull to your interpretation, 
 We fhould have an unhandfome Congregation. 
 When God declar'd his Law in dreadful! thunder 
 Upon Mount Sinai, full of feare and wonder, 
 Exod. 19. 'Twas prefent death to any that was there, 
 '^- That dar'd to touch the hill, or come too neere. 
 When as the Ark was back return'd again. 
 That feven monthes with the Philiftines had lain, 
 Then fifteen hundred Bethfhemites were ftrooke 
 
 1 Sam. 6. Stark dead, for daring in the Ark to looke. 
 
 >9- When Vszak, fearing that the Ark would fall, 
 
 2 Sam. 6. Put to his hand, was ftraight flrook dead withall, 
 7- His office only was to drive the Cart, 
 
 To touch the Arke was no part of his part. 
 
 Since Vszak for his good will to hold up 
 
 The falling Ark, did tafte deathes bitter cup ; 
 
 Since thofe that once to looke into it dar'd. 
 
 Or thofe that toucht Mount Sinai were not fpar'd. 
 
 What can a Cobler look for, or a Knave, 
 
 Who in the Church (or Arke) no funftion have ? 
 
 Yet dares mofl faucily to preach and prate 
 
 Againfl all orders, learning. Church, and State. 
 
 It is mofl lamentable that fo far. 
 
 Men fo befotted, or be-devill'd are. 
 
 That witleffe Rafcals are held more divine 
 
 Then lerome, Ambrofe, Gregorie, Augtiftine, 
 
 Or all the ancient Fathers (in a word) 
 
 Their learnings and their labours held abfurd 
 
 By fcabs, and varlets, of no worth or merit, 
 
 But impious boafling of th'infpiring Spirit ; 
 
 And had each one of you his right and due, 
 
 Your fpirit fhould be fharply whip'd from you. 
 
 And 
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 And when you felt the acuteneffe of the lafh, 
 You would efteem your dodlrine Balderdafh. 
 For in Saint Aujlins time, he made complaint, 
 That eighty two Sefts did the Church attaint ; 
 Since when, could I all Herefies recount, 
 The number (trouble) treble will amount ; 
 Yet in that Fathers dales, that reverend man 
 Did ne're heare of the Sedl call'd Puritan, 
 And fure the name of Puritan doth yeeld, 
 A good mans nickname, and a bad mans fhield. 
 It is a cover for a cheating Knave, 
 And 'tis a jeare, a good man to deprave ; 
 But both the good and bad, what e're they be, 
 They get no name of Puritan from me. 
 I write of Separatifts, and Schifmatiques, 
 Of fhallow-pated, harebrain'd Heretiques, 
 Such as doe make the Text a Lesbian rule, 
 Whofe faith or reafon (like the Horfe or Mule) 
 Whom neither Law, or fence can curb or bridle. 
 Who ne're are well imploy'd, nor never idle. 
 A man may well compare thofe Separatifts 
 Unto the hot Gun-powder Romanifts : 
 For though they doe each other deadly hate. 
 And one the other faine would ruinate. 
 Yet both in their conclufions doe agree, 
 The ruine of our Church and State to be. 
 Their head's (like Sampfons Foxes) fundred wide, 
 But yet their tailes are faft together ty'd ; 
 For both doe joyntly joyn, and both defire. 
 With fire-brand zeale to fet our Corn on fire. 
 To fpoile our Government eflablifhed, 
 And (through the world) moft famous publifhed, 
 
 C 2 They 
 
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 They joyne together to confume and burne, 
 And with confufion wafte and overturne . 
 All ancient order, rule, and decency. 
 And doflrine, from the prime antiquity. 
 Thus both the grounds, & aimes of both thofe Se6ls: 
 Agree both (in their tailes) for their effedls, (fever, 
 How er'e their heads, Eaft, Weft, South, North, may 
 Their ends are one, to feek our downfal ever. 
 And of thefe two oppofers (I'le bar fwearing) 
 'Tis hard to know which barrell's better Herring : 
 But (of the twaine) a man fhall alwaies finde 
 The Schifmatique moft obftinate inclin'd, 
 And the more ignorant he is, the worfe, 
 Moft ftubborne, fenceleffe, ftiallow in difcourfe ; 
 The Papift makes fome fhew of wit and fence, 
 And feeming reafon for his falfe pretence, 
 And from him I may fomething gain, whereby 
 My faith (more firmly) I may fortifie ; 
 For though I doe not'credit his difpute, 
 Yet (by difputing) I may gaine fome fruit. 
 But from the other fide I dare prefume, 
 I fhall have nothing elfe but froth and fume. 
 With hafty anfwers, peevifh, tefty, fnappifh. 
 Untoward, wayward, nonfence, fruitleffe, apifh. 
 Thefe, none but thefe hold learning in difdain, 
 And all for ufe divine, accurft, and vaine. 
 All humane knowledge therefore they deteft, 
 Th'unlearn'd (they fay) do know the Scriptures beft : 
 That humane learning breeds confufion, 
 Moft fit for ^gypt, Rome, and Babylon, 
 And that the learned ones were, are, and fhall 
 Be ignorant of humane learning all. 
 
 Thefe 
 
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 Thefe with fome other idle fancies mix'd, 
 In their unfix'd opinions are all fix'd. 
 But flay (my Mufe) hold, whither wilt thou gad ? 
 The learned Reader fure will thinke thee mad, 
 Becaufe thou art fo tiring, tedious, long 
 About thefe Screetchowles with thy Cuckoes fong : 
 And though I feeme thofe Caitiffes to condemne, 
 Yet idle babling makes me feeme like them, 
 'Tis befl therefore, no longer time to fpend, 
 But fome few lines, and briefly make an end. 
 
 A Zealous brother did a fifter meete. 
 And greeted fweetly in the open ftreete ; 
 Thou holy woman, where haft been faid he, 
 I came from a baptizing Sir (quoth fhe) 
 Pray whofe childe was it (he again requires) 
 She anfwerd, fuch a Taylors in Black-fryers, 
 Hee's one of us, the man reply'd again, 
 Hee's one (quoth fhe) that doth the truth maintain ; 
 Quoth he, what might the childe baptized be ? 
 Was it a Male She, or a Female He? 
 I know not which, but 'tis a Son fhe faid, 
 Nay then (quoth he) a wager may be laid ; 
 It had fome Scripture name, yes, fo it had 
 Said fhe, but my weak memorie's fo bad 
 I have forgot it, 'twas a godly name, 
 Though out of my remembrance be the fame : 
 'Twas one of the fmall Prophets verily, 
 It was not Efay, nor yet leremie, 
 Ezekiel, Daniel, nor good Obadias, 
 And now I doe remember, 'twas Golias. 
 
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 AN Other filler (as the Spirit rap't her) 
 Said to her Boy, come firrha, reade a Chapter ; 
 The Boy por'd on the Book, and fumbling fate, 
 And had more minde to be at Ball or Cat ; 
 His mother faid, why dofl not reade thou knave. 
 The Boy ask'd her what Chapter fhe would have : 
 Thou paltry Imp (quoth fhe) canft thou finde none 
 'Twixt Genelis, and Revelation ; 
 To learne thy duty, reade no more but this, 
 Pauls nineteenth Chapter unto Genefis. 
 
 ON London Bridge I lately did confer 
 About fome bufmeffe with a Stationer : 
 A young man came into the Shop, and fought 
 Some holy Ballads, which he view'd and bought. 
 And there he pray'd the Shop-keeper to looke 
 The Epiftles of Saint Ovid (a fine Book) 
 Upon Saint Peter, Paul, lohn, lude, or lames, 
 They will not put the Saint unto their names, 
 But yet their ignorance impure, precife, 
 A heathen Poets name can Canonize. 
 
 /^Ne Mapleton, at Reding late did dwell : 
 ^-^Becaufe his flefh did 'gainft his minde rebell, 
 He cut it off fo clofe unto the ftumpe, 
 That he fcarce left himfelfe a piffmg pump ; 
 And hee's one of thofe wife men, and 'twere good 
 That all the Tribe of his fweet Brotherhood 
 
 Would 
 
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 Would follow his example on themfelves, 
 Then they would not beget more froward Elves : 
 Then peace and reft our Church and State fhould 
 All windmills, and vagaries of the brain (gain ; 
 
 Would from unquiet England banifh'd be, 
 And from difturbance we fhould foon be free. 
 Thefe, with the reft (unknowne) may be compar'd, 
 Whofe love to learning I have plain declar'd. 
 To wofull paffe our Church were quickly brought : 
 If thefe companions had but what they fought, 
 From Rome, from them, from all that wrong us thus 
 Good Lord of Heaven and Earth deliver U S. 
 
 AMEN. 
 
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Poftfcript. 
 
 IF Prelates have by fraud, or frailty Jlip' d, 
 My Penfhall not in Gall of Afpes be dip'd; 
 rie pray we may have better in their places. 
 Whom Grace may guide, tofJttm tJu like difgraces ; 
 Let tradefmen ufe their trades, let all men be 
 Imployd in what is fitting their degree, 
 A fid let the Pafiors Urym, and his Thummim 
 Be upright, andfincere (as doth become him) 
 Let each man doe his befl, himfelfe t'am.end, 
 And all our troubles foone will have an END. 
 
 'Tis madneffe, that a crew of brainleffe blocks 
 Dares teach the learned what is Orthodoxe. 
 
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 Religions Enemies. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 68.] 
 
RELIGIONS 
 
 ENEMIES. 
 
 WITH A BRIEF AND INGENIOUS 
 
 Relation, as by Anabaptists, Brownijis, Papists, 
 
 Fami lists, Atheijis, and Foolijls, fawcily 
 
 prefuming to toffe Religion in 
 
 a Blanquet. 
 
 The Anabaptift. The Brownift. 
 
 The Familift. The Papift. 
 
 Printed at London for Thoi7ms Bates in the Old-baily. 1641. 
 
RELIGIONS 
 
 ENEMIES. 
 
 WHEREIN IS DESCRIBED ALL 
 
 their diverfe and erroneous opinions 
 
 againjl the truth of the Go/pel. 
 
 ^ \^ O begin to fome purpofe in profe , becaufe nothing 
 I to any purpofe either in Verfe, poetry, Rime, or 
 -^ reafon is for their flomacks, nor are they much affe- 
 6led with good profe (for as the Tree is knowne by the fruit 
 it beares, fo they may be perceived of what fpirit they are by 
 their fpeech and writings, and daily HbelHng. And to the 
 end that I may rather prove my felfe a juft reprehender of 
 their folHes, then an impudent rayler at their fooling and 
 fawcie ignorance, (which in plaine tearmes is no better then 
 malice and madneffe) I am induced to mix that which is ma- 
 teriall, true, and ferious, with fome things that may feeme 
 harfh, tart, and diflaftfull to the pallats of thefe curious fu- 
 rious lavifh Libellers, and peftiferous platform ers : Indeed 
 they doe pretend faire colours for their foule intentions, 
 ftrong proofes for their weake Affertions and fcandalous Af- 
 pertions, their talke being reformation, rediifying, mundify- 
 ing, clarifying of the Church, and nothing is in their mouthes 
 or pens but rayling and reviling againft our Church of Eng- 
 land, the Booke of Common prayer, preaching. Sacraments, 
 Ceremonies, Rites, Orders, Government and Governours ; 
 for Governours and Government was inftituted by the Pa- 
 triarkes before the Law, by Mofes, the prophets and priefts 
 under the Law, by our Saviour Chrifl Jefus and his Apoftles 
 
 A 2 and 
 
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 and fucceffours, fmce tlie time of the Gofpel, eftablifhed, 
 confirmed, and ratified by Scriptures, Generall Councells, 
 Ancient Fathers, Ecclefiafticall Canons, Martyrs and Con- 
 feffours, by Acts of Parliament ordained and decreed, and 
 by all the aforefaid Authorities continually ufed and daily 
 practifed within the Church of Chrlft Catholike, Apofto- 
 like and Militant over the face of the Earth, and received in- 
 to this Kingdome when Lucius was King heere, and Fleuthe- 
 rius was then BiQiop of Rome, who was the thirteenth Bi- 
 fhop of that See, Anno 179. fo that the Inftitution and pra- 
 ctife of our Church and religion hath continued amongft us 
 neere 1500. yeeres, except when It was eclipfed by popery, 
 even from the neere time of the death of fome of the Apoftles 
 or their next fucceffours : For Saint lerome faith that Saint 
 lokn the Apoftle and Evangelift did live 68. yeeres after our 
 Saviours paffion, and that hee dyed in the yeere of Chrift 
 10 1, and that he out-lived Saint Paul, and Saint Peter, whom 
 fome improbable Authors fay was the firft Bifhop or Pope 
 oi Rome; alfo that he furvived hmus, Amacletus, and to the 
 ninth yeere of Clement, the firft bifhop of 'R.ome of that name, 
 fo that by computation of time. Saint lohn could be no leffe 
 then 1 20. yeeres of age when he dyed ; fo that our Church 
 and Church-Government is no Innovation or noveltie, as 
 thefe late licentious Libellers have malicioufly belyed her. 
 
 But indeed it is no Innovation or Novelty, for the Church 
 of God and the onely Spoufe of his only beloved Son Chrijl 
 lefus to be defpifed, difperfed, perfecuted, hated, fcorned, 
 jeer'd, contemned, derided, and traduced, for it hath been, is, 
 and will be ever the markes & tokens of the true Church to be 
 known from Heathens, Infidels, pagans, Atheifts, Mahometans 
 Hereticks, Hypocrites, Schifmaticks and Se6laries, with the 
 whofe rabble of the Kingdomes of Satan and Antichrift, for 
 fince the beginning the Devill hath been bufie to intrap and 
 deftroy her. 
 
 By 
 
(3) 
 
 By the word Church I do mean all the faithfuU people of 
 God that have ever been created, or that are to be to the end 
 of the world, of what Nation, condition, or fex foever they 
 be, if they make a confcience, to be obedient to Gods Lawes, 
 and with gladnes embrace the Gofpel of lefus Chrifl, in whofe 
 faith if they live here, they are {^n Grace) his Church militant 
 here, and dying in Gods favour they are, that are fo departed, 
 & fhalbe in glory his Church Triumphant hereafter eternall. 
 
 This Church hath many times bin fo over-whelm'd with af- 
 flictions, tribulations and perfecutions, that fhe feemed to be 
 quite funke, or finking as S. Peter was when he walked on the 
 Sea, Mat. 14. 31. then God in mercy hath ftill held forth his 
 gracious hand of power, providence, protection and preferva- 
 tion, hath flill fupported, held her up, ftrenthned, comforted 
 and delivered her, fo that in difpight of the raging of Tyrants, 
 the rigour of torments, the ftormes and tempefts of perfecu- 
 tion, fhe hath ftill refplendently broken thorow and difperft 
 all the obfcure clouds of the Devils malice, fo that the gates 
 of Hell hath never prevail'd againft her. 
 
 This Church was, by the fubtilty of the Devill, affaulted in 
 paradice in the perfons of our firft Parents ; This Church was 
 perfecuted by Cain when he murdered his righteous brother 
 Abel; this Church was oppofed and rebellioufiy murmured 
 againft by Corah, Dathan, Abiram, and their complices ; this 
 Church that was prefigured by the Arke of Noah that fwom 
 and floated when all the world elfe was drowned, & none were 
 faved that were not in it, which Arke, maugre all ftormes and 
 tempefts, was preferved and refted on the mountaine Ararat, 
 which was a Type that the true Church doth reft upon the moft 
 High : this Church was alfo fore-fliewed by the Bufh that bur- 
 ned with fire, & was not confumed, which prefigured her pre- 
 fervation : & this Church was & is as the feamles coat of Chrifl 
 not to be divided, this is that Church which thefe factius men 
 would fink, burn, and rend in pieces, they being more merciles 
 
 A 3 then 
 
 5 
 
^4) , , 
 
 then the raging waters, their blinde zeale more hot then the 
 
 violent flaming fire, and their manners and civility farre lefle 
 
 then the barbarous fouldiers. 
 
 The Arrians, Anabaptiflis, Brownifl;s, Donatifls; Erti- 
 cheans, Familifts, Marcianifts , Montanifl;s, Nicholaitans, 
 Pelagians, Papifts, Puritans, Nonatians, and all other forts 
 of Herefies and Sefts doe ftiffely hold and maintaine to their 
 uttermoft power that every one (in his owne opinion) in each 
 of their Sefts are the true Church, and under the colours of a 
 feigned piety they are all in violent oppofition againft each 
 other, in a difunion and diverfity among themfelves, and all 
 in a generall malignant inveterate hatred againfl the Govern- 
 ment, the Governours, and of the true Church indeed. 
 
 God hath ordained certaine Orders, Degrees or Functions 
 of men in this Kingdome for the defence, guard, guide, pre- 
 fervation and falvation of mankind ; the firft is Kings, Prin- 
 ces, Potentates and Peeres ( or Nobility ) whofe wifdome 
 and power may and have made Lawes and Statutes agreeable 
 to Gods Word, the fpring and Fountaine of which Lawes are 
 derived from the Law of God ; fecondly, (under Kings and 
 Rulers) there are the moft right Reverend Fathers the Cler- 
 gie for the Churches Government, and for the diredling and 
 guiding of the wandring and ftraying Flocke of Chrift, whofe 
 Learning, wifdome, gravity, painfull life and example may 
 draw foules unto God. And whofe Office and Authority 
 which they have from and under the King (as from Gods 
 Lieutenant) is fuch that they by impofition of hands alwayes 
 have done and doe (as occafion requires) ordaine Minifters 
 for the Church, for the preaching of the Word to the people, 
 for prayer for them, and for the true and due adminiftration 
 of the ^"acraments to them ; and alfo by their power to main- 
 taine Order and Decencie in the Congregation, and in their 
 Jurifdiftions and charge to admonifh, reprehend, and excom- 
 municate all obflinate and erroneous offenders, and (in fine) 
 
 to 
 
 6 
 
(5) 
 advance the Word of God, and make it propagate, and to 
 trample on, tread downe, and fuppreffe all Herefies, feds, 
 fchifmes, and needleffe and impertinent innovations, that 
 might any way difturb the peace of the Church. 
 
 Thirdly, the Phyfitian is to be honoured, becaufe hee is 
 Gods Inflrument for the health and prefervation of the body, 
 but as much as the foule (which is immortall) is in value a- 
 bove the body, which is fraile, tranfitory, and mortall, fo far 
 is the holy Funflion of a fmcere and painfull Divine, (who is 
 a phyfitian for the foule) to be preferd before any Phyfitian 
 for the Body. 
 
 And fourthly, the Lawyer is to be reverenced and efteem'd 
 for he is (or Ihould be) the rule, fquare, guide, and redifier of 
 all our temporall Actions, a righter of wrong, a true and im- 
 partiall Decider and Judger of all matters of debate and con- 
 troverfies amongft men, concerning our houfes, lands, debts, 
 touching eftate or loffe of limbe or life, and all thefe are com- 
 prifed under the title of the goods of Fortune ; in which, were 
 not the Lawyer expert, the Law it felfe is but a dead letter, 
 and of no Force or Vertue : Now, as much as goods and all 
 outward meanes, which are called the goods of Fortune, be- 
 caufe they are uncertaine, here to day and gone to morrow, 
 are fhort of the eflimation of bodily life and health, fo much 
 is the Lawyer below the Phyfitian in ufe or eflimation. 
 
 But men being conftant in nothing but in wavering incon- 
 ftancie, doe in a perverfe and prepofterous manner begin at 
 the wrong end, and as they doe make more account of body, 
 goods and Fame, then they doe either of their foules or ever- 
 lafting happineffe, fo much they efleeme the Phyfitian and 
 the Lawyer above the Divine ; I confeffe them all to be as 
 worthy of Honour as they are endued with Honefty, and each 
 of them to be held in as much regard and Reverence as their 
 paines and ftudies fhall merit for their true fervice to God 
 and man ; yet, with Mary, I humbly defire to make choyce of 
 
 the 
 
(6) 
 the better part which Jhall not be taken from niee, Luk. lo. and 
 41. 42. 
 
 In the meane fpace, (amongft mutable and contentious 
 fpirits) Religion is made a Hotch potch, and as it were toft 
 in a Blanquet, and too many places of England too much Am- 
 Jterdamnified by feverall opinions ; Religion is now become 
 the common difcourfe and Table-talke in every Taverne and 
 Ale-houfe, where a man fliall hardly find five together in one 
 minde, and yet every one prefiimes hee is in the right. The 
 Booke of Common-prayer which was eftablifhed by Aft of 
 Parliament by that good and godly King Edward the fixth, 
 and after re-eftabli(hed by another Parliament, by that un- 
 paraleld and peerleffe princeffe Queen Elizabeth, and conti- 
 nued fince in the happy Raignes of two gracious Kings in 
 the Church of England for the fervice of God thefe ninetie 
 yeeres ; yet one would have it to be cafh out now, holding it 
 a falfe worfhip ; another is angry at the veftments and habits 
 of the Miniftery ; one will not kneele, another will not ftand, 
 one will fit downe, one will not bowe, another will not be un- 
 covered, one holds all good manners to be popery, another 
 that all decencie is fuperftitious, another that railes are Ro- 
 mifli ( which is falfe, for the papifts have no railes in their 
 Churches, nor any thing fo convenient : One foolifhly af- 
 fumes and prefumes to fave himfelfe, and fome of his Neigh- 
 bours too, by his good workes ; another will be faved by a 
 bare and lazie Faith that will doe no worke at all, and thus 
 religion is puft and blowne to and fro with every wind of do- 
 dlrine, and as it were toft in a Blanquet; but of this more 
 largely hereafter in another part which will fuddenly be prin- 
 ted, till when and ever it fhall be my hearty prayers, that as 
 there is but one Shepheard, that God in his gracious good- 
 neffe and mercie would make us all one fheep-fold. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
I64I. 
 The Liar. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 70.] 
 
THE 
 
 L^ 1 J\ rv» 
 
 OR, 
 
 A contradi6lion to thofe who in the titles of their 
 
 Bookes afifirmed them to be true, when they were 
 
 falfe : although mine are all true, yet I terme 
 
 them lyes. 
 
 Veritas veritatis. 
 
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 Printed in the yeare 1641 
 
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 A Booke of Lyes. 
 
 THere was an Englifhman which 
 travelled to the Swedifh army, and 
 began to relate very ftrange paf- 
 fages which he had feene here in 
 England, thinking that travellers 
 might lye by authority ; for faid he, in the Coun- 
 ty of Berke, at a place called Abingdon, when 
 the Earle of Strafford lofl his head, was fuch 
 thundring and lightning, and earthquakes, that 
 it is almofl incredible. Surely I thinke it is in- 
 credible indeed, for I know 'tis no fuch matter. 
 He told too that the very fame day that my L. 
 Archbifhop of Canterbury was committed to 
 the Tower, there was a child born in the Coun- 
 ty of Somerfet with a Miter on its head, a marke 
 on his breaft like a Crucifix, and many other 
 ftrange things which were there feene. 
 
 Another time, faid he, I faw a Lady goe over 
 Thames at London ftarke naked, without fwim- 
 ming, for fhe cannot be drowned, ergo fhee is a 
 witch. 
 
 A 2 Item, 
 
Item, he related unto them that the Bifliop of 
 Canterbury was little better then a Papift, and 
 that he was committed for that occafion to the 
 Tower, and that he was not like to be freed from 
 thence till he came with his heeles forward. 
 
 Item, he reported that Q. M. was to leave the 
 fragrant foile of England, and go into Italy. 
 
 Item, he related that Sucklin, Davenant, and 
 Pearcy were accufed as traytors, and fearing to 
 be hanged, fled for it beyond the Seas, becaufe 
 they would not be chid. 
 
 Item., he told them that Wrens neft was defiled, 
 ■ and that the Jefuits and Friers had almoft wept 
 their eyes out for his fall. 
 
 Item, all the Brownifts and Anabaptifts, and 
 the like, of what age foever, that fhall come to 
 be baptized, may have a twenty fhilling piece 
 laid on his forehead, as foone as the Minifler 
 fhall have figned him with the figne of the 
 Croffe. 
 
 Item,, There is a booke come out of the Kings 
 entertainment in Scotland fome certaine dayes 
 before he came there. 
 
 Item, he fwore that he never did tell a lye in 
 all his life. 
 
 Item., hee vowed moft deeply that the Scots 
 were as many in number as the flars in the sky. 
 
 Item, he told that the Turk and the Jew were 
 as good friends as ever was friend to friend. 
 
 Item, he moft falfly protefted that he fuffered 
 
 as 
 
as much in Hungary of famine as ever did Ger- 
 many in all its warres. 
 
 Item, he vowed that our Bifhops did bend like 
 greene flicks, and therefore he thought that they 
 would never break, and that they were all bow- 
 ers to the Altar, and Papifts,for they loved Ima- 
 ges extraordinarily. 
 
 Item, he told a moft notable lye, that Law- 
 yers in England did fcorne to take any fees for 
 pleading any caufe : then faid one, How doe 
 they live ? he anfwered, like Camelions, they 
 feed upon the ayre, and cloath themfelves with 
 honefty, which is the warmeft weed they can 
 weare in thefe times. 
 
 Item, he fwore that any man might fteale any 
 thing now in England, and never be fhent for it, 
 for all the ludges are hanged becaufe they have 
 taken bribes. 
 
 Item, he protefled that Greg-ory theliangman 
 is growne very rich, becaufe none are hanged. 
 
 Item, he vowed he faw St. Pauls fteeple ftand 
 in its owne place where it was built, and Cha- 
 ring croffe quite ruinated. 
 
 Item, hee told that there were a great many 
 Puritans in England, and that they did now fo 
 difturbe the quietneffe of the Commonwealth, 
 that it was now almoft turned topfie turvy. 
 
 Item, hee protefled that all the women in 
 England were growne precife, and turned Prea- 
 chers. 
 
 A 3 Item, 
 
Item, hee told them that it was as common a 
 thing for Sow-gelders, Tinkers, Felt-makers, 
 Buttonmakers, Weavers, and Coblers, to preach 
 in a tub, a joyn'd floole, or fuch like thing, as for 
 a man to drinke when he is thirfty. 
 
 They heard him with patience till hee 
 had made an end of his lying, and then they 
 asked him whether yea or nay hee faw thefe 
 things he fpake of, he prefently fwore all the 
 oathts of God that he faw thefe things with his 
 owne naturall eies, which he had reported, 
 and he would maintaine it, though he fpent his 
 deareft blood in the doeing of it ; well they 
 heard his protefttations, and made a full account 
 that they would prove his conflancie whether 
 he would be a Martyr yea or nay, in the meane 
 time they horfed him, and this was the manner 
 of it. 
 
 There was a great high thing raifed to the 
 hight of twelue of fourteene yards, made of 
 Iron, whereon he was feated, with two great 
 weights on his toes, and the like on his hands 
 where he fate in great paine, if he fhould chance 
 to eafe himfelfe upwards, there were fharpe 
 nailes over his head which would prick him, 
 thus he fate, and thus he fufifered, till they had 
 fufficiently made a laughing flock of him ; well 
 when hee had fuffered enough they let him 
 downe.and incontinently he came backe againe 
 into this country, where he related as follow- 
 eth, The 
 
The Emperour (faith he) hath given fuch an 
 overthow to the Sweeds that I thought not one 
 would have returned againe; the Canons roared, 
 the skies were dimmed with fmoke, and the 
 earth fhooke with an earthquake ; another time, 
 the Swedes gave the Emperour fuch an over- 
 throw, that I dare fay he will never rife againe, 
 which made the Pope proclaime a faft for fix 
 and thenty weeks, but a pox choak them they 
 eate fifh a little too much. 
 
 A little after there was a commet feene in the 
 ayre, forth the fpace of two moneths, with 
 great thundering and lightnings and fuch like, 
 which made all the whole Country amazed. 
 
 Thefe and fuch like things he related till hee 
 made the wearie eares of honefl men glow, and 
 if they had ferved him as he was ferved before 
 he had had his defert, and hang him that would 
 pittie him for me, but in conceit either in the 
 flocks, cage, counter, or Bridewell I leave him. 
 
 Gentle reader, I have heere related under the 
 name of lies nothing but true tales, for if a man 
 doth now fpeake truth he Ihall be fure to fmart 
 for it now a dales, either heere or in other places; 
 read gentlie, and buy willingly. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
I64I. 
 A Pedlar and a Romifh Prieft, 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 71.] 
 
A 
 
 PEDLAR 
 
 AND A 
 
 ROMISH 
 
 PRIEST 
 
 In a very hot Difcourfe, full of Mirth, Truth, 
 wit, Folly, and Plain-dealing. 
 
 By lohn Taylor. 
 
 
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 Printed in the yeare 1641. 
 
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 (»F.5mi (»JC3Ks (5^3KS) e45aM> c!>^3Mi aJs^M) <»>€aNS) 
 
 A Pedlar and a Romlfti priefl in a very hot Dif- 
 
 courfe, full of Mirth, truth, Wit, 
 
 Folly, and plain-dealing. 
 
 A 
 
 Poland Pedlar went upon a day, 
 Vnto a Romifh Priefl to learne to pray ; 
 The Priefl faid Pedlar get thee to the cloifter 
 And learne the Ave and the Pater Nojler. 
 
 Pedl. Now good fir lohn (quoth he) what talk is that 
 I heare you fpeak, but God in Heauen knowes what. 
 
 Prieji. It is that worthy holy Lattin letter 
 Doth pleafe the Lord wel and our lady better. 
 
 Pedl. Now good Sir lohn, I know not what they be 
 The Lattin tongue is heathen Greeke to me. 
 
 PrieJl. Pedlar if thou to me wilt but repaire 
 Within one Month, I'le teach thee Lattin Prayer. 
 And though thou underfland not what thou fayft, 
 Thou fhalt fpeake pretty Lattin when thou prayefl 
 
 Pedlar To pray fo fir, is onely but in faying. 
 In words, not fence, a prating, not a praying ; 
 Shall I that am a man of perfe6l age, 
 Talke like a witleffe parret in a Cage. 
 
 PrieJl. A parret can but prattle for her part, 
 But towards God hath neither mind or heart. 
 
 A 2 Then 
 
(2) 
 
 Then feeing I have head and heart to pray, 
 
 Shall not my heart know what my tongue doth fay ? 
 
 For when my tongue talkes, if my heart mif-carry, 
 
 How quickly I may marre your Ave Mary ? 
 
 And I fir having many things to feeke, 
 
 How fhould I fpeed not knowing what I fpeake. 
 
 Prie/l. God underflands all tongues, & knows, & he 
 The thoughts and fecrets of the heart doth fee. 
 
 Pedl. Then if I think one thing and fpeak another, 
 I wrong my felfe, and Chrifl, and his blefl Mother ; 
 For when I pray they would my pack repaire, 
 Your Ave nmry is a fruitleffe prayer. 
 
 Prieji. The Latin prayers are but generall heads. 
 For our Reliefes in all our wants and needs : 
 The Latin ferves us as a Liturgie, 
 As curious Arts directs Chirurgery, 
 And in that language Maffe is faid and fung, 
 For private things pray in thy Mother tongue. 
 
 Ped. Then I muft have a tongue, fir lohn, for either, 
 I for the Mother and i for the Father, (fmall things, 
 
 Prie. Thinkft thou the Mother doth not know fuch 
 Chrift is her Son man, and he tells her all things. 
 But where did that bleft Virgin learne her Latin, 
 For in her dales was neither Maffe nor Mattin, 
 Nor yet one Prieft that Latin then could fpeake. 
 For holy words were Yiebrew then or Greeke, 
 She never was at ^ome, nor kill Popes feet. 
 How came fhe by the Maffe faine would I weet. 
 
 PrieJl. Pedlar, if thou beleeve the Legendary, 
 The Mafse is older farre then Chrift or yiary, 
 For all the Patriarkes both more or leffe. 
 And great Melchifedeck himfelfe faid Maffe. 
 
 Pedl. 
 
(3) 
 Pedl. But good fir prieft, fpake al thefe Fathers Latin 
 And faid they Mafse in golden Coapes or Satin ; 
 Could they fpeake Latin long e're Latin grew, 
 (For without Latin no Mafse can be true) 
 And you that would inforce us to this taske, 
 Me thinkes 'tis like a may-game or a mafque. 
 
 Priejl. Well Pedlar thou art too too curious, 
 Thy pur-blinde Zeal's fervent, but furious, 
 I rather would a hundred monkes dire6l, 
 Then fuch an ignorant of thy mad fedl ; 
 This thou muft know, this cannot be deni'd, 
 ^me govern'd all when Chrift was crucifi'd. 
 'Rome, Heathen then, but afterwards converted. 
 And grew fo honeft, and fo holy-hearted, 
 That now our Emperour is turn'd to a pope, 
 Whofe Holines (as you have heard I hope. 
 Hath made a Law that all the world muft pray 
 In Latin language to the Lord each day ; 
 He's Chrift's full Vicar, and He boldly fay. 
 That what he doth command we muft obey. 
 He bids us pray in Latin, even fo 
 We muft doe, where we underftand or no, 
 He hath full power to confound or fave. 
 And who dares then but doe as he will have. 
 
 Pedl. This purpofe to fome purpofe puts me back, 
 And hath more points, then pinnes are in my pack. 
 What ever power you give unto your pope. 
 He cannot make a man an Ape, I hope, 
 And if he be full Vicar to our Lord, 
 Should not his words and Chrifts keepe one accord. 
 
 Priejl. Doubtles they doe, and never are contrary. 
 In Pater nojler, Creed, or Avemary. 
 
 Ped 
 
(4) 
 
 Ped. But Chrifts Difciples when they made their 
 Vnto their Mafter, how to make devotion, (motion, 
 As I have done to you (fir lohri) to day ; 
 I pray you in what tongue bade he them pray, 
 Chrifl did not one word Latin to them fpeake, 
 Their talke was then all Siriack, Webrew, Greeke, 
 He bade all Nations pray after one manner, 
 But bade not all take Latin for their Banner : 
 Your Latin is but one of the Tranflations, 
 Why fhould it then exclude all other Nations ; 
 And on my foule, fir lohn, if I doe fay, 
 In mine owne mother tongue when I doe pray 
 Lord helpe me. Lord forgive me all my finnes. 
 Yea (why not) Lord fupply my packe and pinnes. 
 And every thing whereof I fland in need, 
 (For this depends upon our daily bread) 
 I hope in God that I fhall fpeed as well. 
 As if in Latin I my wants did tell : 
 And fmce fome tongues have more antiquitie 
 Then Latin, were it not iniquitie 
 To force all people to pray like the Pope, 
 No good (fir lohri) you'l not fay fo I hope. 
 
 Prieji. Wei pedlar, one thing I would faine make 
 Return we to our Lady back again, (plain. 
 
 And if thou hadft as much capacitie 
 As roving wit, with great audacitie. 
 The cafe is cleare, that Virgin Mary meeke. 
 Could all and every tongue and language fpeake. 
 Haft thou not heard man how the Holy Ghoft, 
 Came downe like cloven tongues, at pentecojl. 
 And fill'd the houfe where all the 12. were ready. 
 And one tongue truly lighted on our Lady, 
 
 And 
 
[5) 
 And thinke not that I talke of toyes and dreames, 
 Aske but the Reverend Jefuites of RAemes, 
 And what they write of this but wifely note. 
 
 Ped. In faith fir loAn it is not worth a groat ; 
 Will I beleeve't thinke you becaufe they fay it ; 
 
 Priejl. Nay but they prov't as no man can denay It ; 
 Saith not the Text, that when the Lord afcended, 
 Vnto the 12. he earneftly commanded, 
 That from lerufalem they fhould not goe, 
 Vntill the Comforter did come, and fo A61. \, 
 
 They all conjoyned with one joynt confent, 
 And to an upper roome together went, 
 Where Mary was and others whole fix fcore. 
 That with the 1 2. did daily God adore. 
 Then (fayes the text) when Pentecoji was come. 
 They were together then both all and fome. 
 And all were filled with the Holy Ghoft. (Hoft, 
 
 Ped. Now good fir Prieft you count without your 
 I fee well that your Rhemifh Jefuites tongues. 
 Hath cloven the text even to the very lungs. 
 That (ALL) for which you reckon up fix fcore, 
 Is here meant onely of the 12. no more; 
 Nor Mary is not named there as than, 
 What need we then beleeve it, holy man. 
 On with your fpeftacles fir lohn and read. 
 And credit this as one point of your Creed, 
 The Holy Ghofl did fall upon no more, 
 Then he was promifed unto before : 
 Now he was onely promifed to the twelve, 
 Looke on the text, I pray, and iudge your felve ;. 
 Speake man, and be not filent, I am forry, 
 To fee you ignorant of fuch a ftory ; 
 
 For 
 
(6) 
 For ftiame, let not a pedlar with his packe, 
 Put you with all your Sophiftrie to wracke. 
 For as the Stories in themfelves are divers, 
 Flowing and falling into fundry Rivers, 
 In divers Chapttrs fo they ftand divided, the\.&2. 
 So that the cafe may clearely be decided ; _ chap. 
 For when thofe 6. fcore were at firft convened. 
 There was another myfterie then meaned ; 
 To wit, Mathias free Eleftion, 
 And fo Saint Peter gave direftion, 
 That all thofe fix fcore then fhould beare record 
 Of their proceedings then before the Lord : 
 The choofing of a paflour was in hand, 
 Which without Churches knowledge cannot ftand. 
 And fo Mathias, (by the power of Heaven) 
 By lot was tooke as one with the Eleven. 
 Then (faies the the Text) all thefe together were. 
 What all thefe were doth very plaine appeare, 
 To be the 12. in the lafl verfe before, 
 And not make Leape Yeare of eleven verfe more. 
 To draw all backe to that hundred and twentie, 
 Indeed this way fhould have tongues in plentie. 
 They differ in 1 2. verfes, the Text faies, 
 Befides the time is different full 10. dayes. 
 The firft upon the day the Lord afcended. 
 The other when the holy Ghoft defcended. 
 Such glaZen arguments will bide no hammer, 
 For they are but bad Logick and worfe Grammer ; 
 As for the Holy Ghoft 'tis verifide. 
 His comming downe, unto no Law is tide ; 
 Sometimes invifible, and fometimes feene, 
 As diverlly at divers times hath beene. 
 
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 Few needes to fee his comming with their eyes, 
 His workes are witnefses which may fuffice ; 
 And fo Saint Paul this gift found privately, 
 By Annanias hand affuredly. A£l. g. 
 
 And fo, fir loAn, to fhew you all my packe, 
 And let you fee my breaft as well as backe ; 
 I .wonder yee confider not the end, 
 Why God the Holy Ghofl: in Tongues did fend : 
 Know ye not women are forbidden preaching. 
 Know ye not tongues were onely given for teaching ; 
 Women (at home) have hardly leave to fpeake. 
 But they take leave, and often filence breake ; 
 Their husbands mufl permit their tongues to walke. 
 And therefore, in Gods Houfe, they may not talke : 
 And then, fir loAn, what worfhip doe you win 
 Vnto our Lady, when you bring her in 
 As a Companion with the whole fix fcore. 
 Who gat the Holy Ghoft and fhe no more. 
 And where the Pope hath made her Queen of heaven. 
 You make her here like one of the Eleven, 
 In this, her dignitie doth feeme to fall, 
 Ydu thrufl her to the Kitchin from the Hall. 
 And this is alfo one of your rare Themes, 
 Held by your reverend Jefuites of Rhemes, 
 That Latin came not with the Holy Ghofl, 
 When as the tongues came downe at Pentecq/i. 
 Now if it came not then I pray, exprefse 
 How came it by that perfe6l holines. 
 That in it onely, and no other tongue. 
 Both Mafse and matins muft be faid and fung. 
 Your lafl refuge will be unto the Pope, 
 So knit up all together in a Rope. 
 
 B Prieji. 
 
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 Pri. Wert thou at Rome, & half thefe words didft 
 Pedlar it were enough thy neck to break ; (fpeak, 
 But here you live, and talk and prate fecure, 
 And undervalue that blefl Virgin pure, 
 Yeelding no honour, or no adoration 
 To her, or to her dayes of celebration. 
 (Goe but to Spaine, and fhew thy vild condition. 
 Thou fhalt be tortur'd in the Inquifition.) 
 Her Miracles, of fmall worth you efleeme, 
 Her merits at low value you mifdeeme. 
 Her facred Reliques you condemne, difpife. 
 And all her attributes you much mifprife : 
 Thou faift with fix fcore I doe make her fhare. 
 Your felves will her with your courfe wives compare. 
 Shame and confulion doth to all belong, 
 Who dare the beft, moft bleft of creatures wrong. 
 
 Pedl. Indeed (fir lohn) you come upon me now. 
 With fome things which my faith doth difallow, 
 I pray you to confider but a little. 
 You give her many a title and a tittle, 
 For which you have no warrant in the word. 
 And yet purfue us both with fire and Sword, 
 As Heretiques, for doing not as yee doe. 
 Yet, what the word bids and no more that we doe ; 
 Thinke you that anie man can be fo mad. 
 As to hold Chrifl his Saviour, and fo bad. 
 As to hold Mary for his Saviours Mother, 
 And not to love her farre above all other. 
 Above all Creatures, fhe was full of grace. 
 And fure in Glory fhe hath fupreme place 
 And eminence, all other Soules tranfcendingf 
 In joy and bliffe, that never fhall have ending. 
 
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 The Holy Ghoft infpir'd her beyond meafure, 
 She was poffeft with Heaven & earths whole treafure, 
 And grant fhe could fpeake Latin, and all Tongues, 
 Yet Maffe or Mattins to her not belongs. 
 Of all that mortall were fhe was the beft. 
 And her immortall foule is now mofl blefl. 
 Her memorable Honour to preferve. 
 Her dayes of celebration we obferve. 
 The Feaft of her Annuntiation, 
 Her cleare and pure Purification, 
 The Church (in reverence) hath ordain'd thefe dayes. 
 On which we fhould fend up our prayers and praife. 
 To our good God, whofe mercie was fo great, 
 To leave his glorious and immortall Seate, 
 And to the bleffed Virgins wombe he came. 
 And tooke on him our filthy finne and fhame ; 
 And on thefe dayes we pray that we may be, 
 The Virgins followers In Humilitie, 
 That our true meekneffe, and our lowlines, 
 May raife us to eternall blefsednes ; 
 We hold it the fure way to our falvation. 
 To follow her in holy imitation ; 
 Through heavenly influence her excellence^ 
 Muft be admir'd with love and reverence. 
 And thpfe that dare compare moft fawcily, 
 Their wives or jmothers with her fan6litie, 
 Are fawcie knaves in pride and ignorance, 
 Or Aiheijis, fit to lead the hang-mans dance ,- 
 We love her then, though we beleeve not in her. 
 Nor (by will-worfliip) doe we thinke to win her ; 
 We hold her blefsed for Chrifts flefli conceiving, 
 But farre more blefsed for Chrifts faith receiving : 
 
 B 2 She 
 
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 She was his mother, fo 's the Church his wife, 
 Which was to him much dearer then his life, 
 Now if that one could fall at oddes with th' other, 
 He would refpeft his wife before his mother ; 
 For who fo to him once a wife doth take, 
 Muft father, mother, friends and kin forfake. 
 And this is every Spoufes carriage, 
 But moft in this fpirituale marriage, 
 As Manes mother of Chrifts humane life, 
 She's but the Daughter of his heavenly wife. 
 By which meanes onely, faith doth me perfwade. 
 Of Chrift blefl body fhe's a member made ; 
 Whereby thefe glorious Titles fhe hath won. 
 Maid, mother, wife, and fifter to her Sonne. 
 All this fir lohn I doe but briefly fay. 
 To let you fee you play us much foule play. 
 
 Pri. Well Pedlar, tho that pack about thou beare, 
 Th'art fome apostate Monke or Frier I feare. 
 Of Luthers love, or Calvins curfed crew, 
 And fent abroad fuch bufmeffe to brew, 
 Difguifed like the perfon of fome Pedlar. 
 
 Ped. No faith (fir lohti) I am not fuch a medler. 
 Nor have I mind or meanes, fo high to mount, 
 A little I can read and caft account. 
 My wits are weake to utter Rime or Reafon, 
 I know not what you call your Kerrieleifon. 
 So help me God (fir lohn) I know no better. 
 Nor in your Latin can I read a letter. 
 For Latin is a Language admirable, 
 And my poore friends and parents were unable, 
 To purchafe one fcrap of it, for my fhare, 
 And fure without it I can fell my ware, 
 
 And 
 
And though I have no Latin, yet I can 
 
 Afke what I want of either God or man, 
 
 In mine owne mother tongue, I know and fee, 
 
 How fimple foules by you abufed bee. 
 
 And how your do6lrine half our praiers would carry, 
 
 From Chrift our Saviour to the Virgin Mary, 
 
 I alfo doe perceive how you doe frame, 
 
 Strange innovations to that heavenly Dame, 
 
 Afcribing her that honour, which to none 
 
 Is due, but onely unto God alone : 
 
 Of which Ihe takes fmall notice, nor will fhe 
 
 For it, at any time your helper be. 
 
 Prieji. Read but the Legend, Pedlar, and ther view 
 Her miracles, approve her honour due. 
 For which the Pope in Latin doth preferre. 
 That Maffe and matins muft be faid to her. 
 Read, and confider, and believe it well. 
 Or elfe thou art at leafl: half wayes in hell. 
 
 Ped. Sure Hell is not within the Popes commiffion, 
 Though purgatorie, and the Inquilition, 
 Are things which he himfelfe of late created. 
 Yet of fmall worth, by wife men they are rated ; 
 I anfwer as I oft before have faid 
 I love, and reverence that bleft mother maid. 
 But I beleeve in God, and when I pray, 
 Chrift help me (when my foule or corps doe ftray) 
 And fo what e're I either have or want, 
 I neither pray to he or to fhe Saint ; 
 And as for Tongues, I have but one, no more, 
 And wot ye well, although I had fix fcore, 
 I would conforme my felfe to Pauls commanding. 
 Pray with my tongue, pray with my underftanding. 
 
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 Think you the twelve, when they receiv'd the tongues, 
 
 Talkt, and knew not whereto their talk belongs, 
 
 Yeelding a found not knowing what they faid, 
 
 Idle in preaching, ideler when they pray'd, 
 
 No, each of them knew well what he did fay, 
 
 And why not we (fir lohn) as well as they ; 
 
 For fince each man hath one tongue at command. 
 
 Shall men fpeake tongues they do not underftand ? 
 
 Alas good fir, had I been train'd at Schoole, 
 
 As I am but a fillie fimple Foole, 
 
 A hundred Queftions more I might have moved. 
 
 But here I ceafe for feare to be reproved. 
 
 For thefe few doubts I learn'd in fundry places. 
 
 Me thinkes fuch men as you fhould cleare all cafes. 
 
 Priejl. Now Pedlar, I confefse thou putfl me to it, 
 But one thing I will tell thee if thou'lt doe it ; 
 If to our Prior thou wilt with me goe backe, 
 Perhaps he will buy all that's in thy packe, 
 And teach thee better how to pray then any. 
 For fuch a holy man there are not many, 
 Be here to morrow Betweene fix and feven, 
 And thou wilt find thy felfe halfe waies in Heaven. 
 
 Ped. Content fir lohn, but there is one thing more, 
 I muft have your opinion in before, 
 Suppofe the holy Priour have no leifure, 
 To talke of every purpofe at our pleafure, 
 Your Booke which is the golden Legend nam'd, 
 (Wherein as many lies as lines are fram'd) 
 And, on my confcience, I doe thinke that you, 
 Doe know the mofl on't to be moft untrue ; 
 And therefore tell me fir before you goe, 
 Whether your felves beleeve it, yea or no. 
 
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 Priejl. Yes verily we doe beleeve it all, 
 And hold it holy and authenticall. 
 
 Ped. Then He repeat a tale or two In profe, 
 Which few wife men beleeve as I fuppofe. 
 
 IN the 45. and 46. leafe of the aforefaid Booke, I 
 have read, that in the Raigne of King William the 
 Conqueror, the Danes had a purpofe to warre againft 
 England; to prevent which, the King William fent 
 Hellifeus the Abbot of Ram/ey Embafsadour into 
 Denmarke, who having ended his Embaffie, as hee re- 
 turned homeward, he was on the Sea dangeroufly di- 
 ftreft with an impetuous and terrible Tempeft, fo 
 that the Mafter of the Ship, and all the Marriners did 
 yeeld themfelves as loft men : In which extreamitie 
 they all prayed devoutly to our Lady for helpe, and 
 fuddenly there appeared walking on the water a Re- 
 verend perfonage in the form or likenes of a Bifhop, 
 who called the Abbot Hellizeus to him, and told 
 him that our Lady had heard their prayers, and that 
 fhee had fent him to deliver them from the ftorme, 
 and that it was her pleafure to have the day of her 
 Conception kept holy yearely for ever on the eight 
 day of December, which the Abbot promifed to do, 
 and prefently the Angel vaniihed away, the Tempeft 
 ceafed, the Abbot arrived fafely in England, and re- 
 ported what he had heard, feene, and fuffered ; and 
 laftly the feaft was commanded to be kept on the 8. 
 day of December accordingly. 
 
 Alfo 
 
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ALfo in the fame Booke and leafe is related, that 
 a Coufin german of a King of Hungary, who 
 raigned I know not when, whofe names were I know 
 not what, did marry with a Lady (I know not who) 
 at a place I know not where, did I know not why, for- 
 fake his wife I know not wherefore, to ferve our La- 
 die I know not how ; for the ftory lies thus, that hee 
 was a devout and daily invocator to the blefsed Vir- 
 gin, and (being newly married) the fame day of the 
 marriage the Bridegroom flaid alone in the Church, 
 remembring that hee had not that day done his ac- 
 cuflomed Orifons, wherefore he fent his new Bride 
 home, and himfelfe ftaid in the Church to performe 
 his devotion, where prefently our Lady appeared to 
 him, and taxed him with unkindnefse, in that hee 
 would leave her and betake himfelfe to another, but 
 if hee would forfake his wife, and follow her in a de- 
 vout life and converfation, then fhee promifed to 
 give him the Kingdome of Heaven, whereupon it is 
 faid, hee prefently forfooke his wife and ever after 
 was a true fervant to our Lady. 
 
 What think you now (fir lohn) is this good fluffe. 
 
 It edifies me, much like blind man buffe ; 
 
 Is't not a fhame, that you thefe things dare doe, 
 
 To wrong poore people, and our Ladie to ; 
 
 You have no ftarting hole, nor no excufe 
 
 To cover or to colour your abufe ; 
 
 But by your leave, I'le tell a tale or twaine 
 
 In profe, and fall into our Verfe againe. 
 
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 IN the 88. leafe I did reade of another nameles La- 
 dy, that dreamed fhe was before the fhrine of our 
 Lady on a Candlemas day, fhe then (as fhe dreamed) 
 had a burning Candle in her hand, which Candle fhe 
 three times commanded to offer to the Image of the 
 Virgin, which fhee not doing, the Angel ftrove with 
 her for it, and brake it in the midfi:, at which the La- 
 dy awaked, and found halfe a Candle in her hand, 
 which fhe ever after kept as a holy Relique, and with 
 the touch of it did many Miracles, and cured a great 
 number of difeafes onely with the very touch of the 
 faid Candle. 
 
 THere was a Thiefe whom they call a Knight, that 
 had long time ufed to rob on the High way, 
 by which accurfed Gentle-man-like Trade, hee was 
 grown very rich, and kept tall fellowes to attend him, 
 who were as arrant Thieves as himfelf, amongft whom 
 one that performed or ferved the office of his Cham- 
 berlaine was a Devill in the fhape of a man. It fell 
 out fo, that they rob'd a holy man, who defired hee 
 might fpeake with the chiefe or Mafler Thiefe, which 
 being granted, the Holy man requefts that hee might 
 fee all the fervants together, whereupon they were 
 called, then faid the Holy man. Here are not all, and 
 then they miffed the Chamberlaine, and called him, 
 who was no fooner come into the faid bleffed mans 
 prefence, Hee cryed out, faying, I am a Devill in this 
 humane forme, who have followed this Knight a long 
 time to deftroy him for his bad Life, but I could ne- 
 ver have any power over him to hurt gim, becaufe he 
 
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 did daily, with great devotion, oftentimes falute the 
 bleffed Virgin Mary, with Ave Maria, leaf. 105. 
 
 IN the 1 1 7. leafe there is a tale of a Monke, that 
 was a great Lecher, who by accident was drunke 
 and drownd in a River which he fell into, and the 
 Devils came bufily about his Carkas to carry it to 
 Hell, but becaufe the faid Monke had ufed conflant- 
 ly to pray to our Ladie, fhee then appeared her felfe 
 and commanded the Devils to depart, and then fhee 
 gave the foule of the Monke into his dead bodie a- 
 gaine, and ever after he had a care to live honeflly. 
 
 IN the fame 217. leafe there is a Relation of a 
 Knight that had fpent all his fubflance waftfully in 
 riot, and being defperate in his wants, he would have 
 fold his wife to the Devill for a great fumme of mo- 
 nie ; but the bargaine being made, and the good Gen- 
 tlewoman to be delivered to the fiend, our Ladie ap- 
 peared to her, and laid her in a fleepe, taking upon 
 her felfe the Ihape of the fleeping Gentlewoman, 
 which when the Knight would have delivered, the 
 Devill began to roare and howle, and trembling faid, 
 that the Knight had deceived him, in bringing the 
 Mother of God to him inftead of his wife ; and with 
 that the Devill fled away, and the Knight with repen- 
 tance tooke his wife againe, and in conclufion our 
 Ladie gave them wealth, fo that ever after they lived 
 together lovingly. 
 
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 T N the 220. leafe it is faid, that as the body of the 
 -*- blefsed Virgin was carried towards her grave or bu- 
 riall, that a Jew in defpightfuU manner laid both his 
 hands on the Beire, and violently would have over- 
 throwne it, when prefently his hands fundred from 
 his armes, and clave faft to the Biere, at which the 
 Jew roard, cryed out and repented, and Saint Peter 
 commanded him to kifse the Beire, whereby hee was 
 prefently recovered, and had his hands reflored to his 
 armes againe. 
 
 Alfo it is faid, that the houfe that the blefsed Vir- 
 gin dwelt in at Bethelem was removed by heavenly 
 Angels, and carried through the aire many thoufand 
 miles over Sea and Land, to the Countrie of Dal- 
 matia, where it did remaine for a certaine time, and 
 then it was againe removed to 'Loretto in Italy, where 
 it remaines to this day, being a Holy place, much vi- 
 fited by Pilgrims, and (by vertue of it) many mira- 
 cles are wrought daily. 
 
 And thus the Booke you brag of, far excels 
 The lyes of Jewes, Turkes, Moores, and Infidels ; 
 And fure the Heathen,, hearing of thefe lyes. 
 The Chriftian Religion difpife ; 
 He that will one day guerdon good and bad, 
 T'whofe word we muft not dare abate or adde, 
 Againft thofe he will draw his vengefuU fword. 
 That mingle fables with his facred Word. 
 
 C 2 Prieji. 
 
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 Pri. Thy blinded Zeale my very heart doth grieve, 
 Thou underflandft not what thou fhould believe, 
 Thinkft thou fo many Grave and learned men, 
 Have liv'd and dy'd in bleare-ey'd errours den, 
 Doft thinke all Popes, all Cardinalls, all lyers. 
 Abbots, moft zealous Monkes, moft holy Fryers. 
 Doft thinke all thefe for many a hundred yeare, 
 Did not profeffe and know the Truth fmcere ? 
 Thefe men maintain'd the Church in glorious ftate, 
 Till Luther and curft Calvin 'gan to prate. 
 
 Ped. Like as a Squirrill skips from tree to tree, 
 Euen fo (fir lohri) you from the matter flee : 
 Our talke was Latin, and our Lady firft, 
 And you to other arguments out burft. 
 I tell you I that Virgin love and honour, 
 Although my prayers doe not wait upon her, 
 Nor doe I hold her Reliques of fuch price, 
 To raife foules to the heavenly Paradife. 
 You her fuppos'd apparell doe adore, 
 Haire-lace and Slippers (which fhe never wore) 
 Her Combe, her Girdle and her Gowne of filke. 
 Her apron and the pot that held her milke. 
 Her cloake, her Hankerchiefe, her Hood, her Haire, 
 To thefe you mumble many a Latin prayer. 
 And therefore I defie you, and in fadnes, 
 I hold fuch holines a kind of madnes ; 
 And fo, fir lohn, we two will make an end. 
 And each of us about his Bufines wend. 
 Yet e're we part I would fall to againe. 
 And of the Latin fpeake a word or twaine. 
 There was but one tongue at the Birth oi Abel, 
 And many at the building up oi Babel, 
 
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 A wicked work, which God would have confounded, 
 But when Chrift came, all tongues again refounded, 
 To build his Church, by his Apoftles teaching ; 
 Which was in praying fure as well as preaching ; 
 For prayer is the full and true perfection 
 Of holy fervice (faving your correftion) 
 Then if our Lord to mine owne tongue be readie, 
 What need I then with Latin move our Ladie, 
 Or if to both my prayers muft be in, 
 I pray fir tell wth which fhould I begin, 
 And to pray jointly to them both as one. 
 Your Latin prayers then are quickly gone^ 
 For Pater nojier never will accord 
 With her, nor Ave Mary with our Lord. 
 If I have him, what need I feek another, 
 Or will he nothing doe without his Mother, 
 And this (fir Priefl) was much in Queftion, 
 Difputed long, with deep difgeftion. 
 Whether the Ave Mary fliould be faid 
 To God, or to" our Lady when they pray'd, 
 With which Saint Andrewes Univerfity, 
 Was puzled with a flrange diverfity, 
 And fate fo long they cooled all their Kale, 
 At laft the Mafter Cooke heard of the tale. 
 And like a mad man ran among the Clergy, 
 Crying with many a Domine me a/perge, 
 To give the Pater noJler to the Father, 
 And A vies to our Lady altogether, 
 And every man may thinke (that wife or grave is) 
 She's more then fatisfied with Creeds and Aves. 
 At which the Clergie (fearing more confufion) 
 Were all contented with the Cookes conclufion. 
 
 C 3 Prieji 
 
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 Priejl. Pedlar, this tale, is of thee coyned new ; 
 
 Ped. Sir lohn lie leefe my packe if't be not true : 
 Againe, all learned Menkes and Fryers have read. 
 How Chrift himfelfe taught us of his owne head, 
 That every foule that is with finne oppreft, 
 Should come to him, and he would give them reft : 
 Come all to me (faid he) not to another, 
 Come all to me (faid he) not to my Mother. 
 And If I doe as our good Lord commanded, 
 I know our Lady will no wayes withftand it. 
 And fo if I fhould fay my prayers in Lattin, 
 Unto the Lord at Even-fong or at Matin, 
 And never underftand what I were faying, 
 Thinke you the Lord would take it for true praying. 
 No fure, he will not, for I truly know. 
 My tongue and heart muft both together goe, 
 And hereupon I'le tell you what befell, 
 To learned Clearkes, that Latin well could fpell. 
 With whom by chance I lodged at an Inne, 
 Whereas an old wife on her wheele did fpin. 
 And towards evening fhe fell to and pray'd, 
 But neither they or I knew what fhe faid, 
 One faid fhe canted, others faid fhe mumbled, 
 And ftill ftrange language from her lips fhe fumbled. 
 Round run her wheele, and round her tongue did run. 
 She mumbled and fhe flaver'd, and fhe fpun ; 
 What think you now fir lohn of this old Huffie, 
 Where was her heart when as flie was fo bufie. 
 At laft (faid one) Dame wot you what you fay. 
 No, not (quoth fhe) but well I wot I pray ; 
 You pray (quoth he) and know not what I grant, 
 Alas how can you be fo ignorant. 
 
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 The woman, tnufing little at the motion, 
 
 Said, ignorance is Mother of Devotion. 
 
 If Ignorance be mother then (faid he) 
 
 Sure darkneffe muft her onely daughter be ; 
 
 Pray'd you, (quoth I) when al the time you fpan. 
 
 What matters that, quoth she God's a good man. 
 
 And knowes what I fpeak in the Latin tongue, 
 
 Either at Matins or at Even-fong. 
 
 Alas, good fir, was not this wife abus'd, 
 
 Whofe foule and fences all were fo confus'd. 
 
 You know thefe unknown tongues can profit no man. 
 
 And one tongue is enough for any woman ; 
 
 But when we pray in true finceritie, 
 
 As God commands in fpirit and veritie. 
 
 The heart fends up the tongue as Meffenger 
 
 Unto the Lord, a pleafant paffenger. 
 
 Priejl. But Pedlar, here's a prettie little Booke, 
 Wherein if thou wilt fpare the time to looke. 
 Set forth by a good Catholicke Divine, 
 Which out of doubt will fettle thy ingine 
 With it, thy confcience will be better fram'd. 
 The Gag of the new Gofpel it is nam'd : 
 He clearely proves by Zacharies example. 
 When he did facrifice within the Temple, 
 And all the people prayd and flood without, 
 They knew not then what tongue he fpake no doubt ; 
 Ergo the Mafse may be both faid and fung, 
 In other language then our mother Tongue. 
 
 Ped. Sir lohn I fee your holy Catholicke, 
 Upon the Text hath put a pretty tricke, 
 Did Zachary fpeake in a Latin flile, 
 When all the people ftaid without the while. 
 
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 He was a Jew fure, and knew Hebrew well, 
 
 And fpake no Latin for ought you can tell ; 
 
 For if the people heard not what he faid, 
 
 Could they or you know in what tongue he pray'd 
 
 Since underftanding commeth by the eare, 
 
 He cannot underftand that doth not heare. 
 
 Prove it that Zachary fpake Latin, then 
 
 rie fay all Monkes and Fryers are honeft men. 
 
 Becaufe a learned Prieft may pray in Latin, 
 
 And mumble o're his Even-fong, Maffe, and Matin, 
 
 Ergo a Pedlar to the Lord may pray. 
 
 And know no fiUable that he doth fay. 
 
 So when you put me to your Pater nojler, 
 
 I aske an Egge when I would have an Oiftef. 
 
 And feeing thus our Faiths doe difagree. 
 
 That neither I with you, nor you with mee 
 
 Can be united, with one minde and heart, 
 
 I thinke it bed we take our leaves and part. 
 
 rie pray that God, in Grace and mercy, would 
 
 Bring all his ftraying Flock into his Fold. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
I64I. 
 A Tale in a Tub. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 78.] 
 

 'p^S^m 
 
 A T AL E 
 
 /n a 
 
 TUB 
 
 OR, 
 
 A TUB 
 
 LECTURE 
 
 As it was delivered by My-heele Mend/oak , 
 an Infpired Brownift , and a mod upright | 
 Tranflator. 
 
 ; /n a meeting houfe neere Bedlam, the one and 
 twentieth of Decembler, Laft, 1641. 
 
 Written by J.T. 
 
 London, Printed 1641. 
 
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 A TVB Ledture, 
 
 Beloved Sifters, and my well infe6led Brethren, at- 
 tend this Text, as you fhall find it written in the 
 firft Chapter of Bell and the Dragon, the third 
 Verfe, as it foUoweth. 
 
 Now the Baby lonianshadanldollthey called Bell, and there 
 were /pent upon him every day, 1 2 great mea/ures of fine flow- 
 er, and /f^oflieepe, and fix ve/sels o/wine. 
 
 I will firft of all make a Divifion in the former part 
 of my Text, I will leave the latter to the Laft, and ex- 
 pound that as I fhall Wax to an End. 
 
 Now the Babilonians had an I doll they called Bell. 
 
 This fentence I fhall divide into 4 parts, becaufe your 
 underftandings my Beloved Brethren, confifteth chiefly 
 in the Knowledge of Divifions, the particles are thefe. 
 
 I. The Time. 2. The Nation. 3. The Crime. 4. 
 The Denomination. 
 
 The Time, Now. The Nation, The Babylonians. The 
 Crime, had an Idoll. The Denomination, called Bell, 
 
 Now the Babylonians had an Idoll called Bell. 
 
 Firft I will begin with the time, you muft not con- 
 ceive that it was i. 10. 100. 1000 yeares agoe, but Now, 
 at this prefent, Now the Babylonians, &c. Beloved there is 
 much evill and abomination to be picked out of thefe 
 three letters Now, according to the explication of a 
 deare deceafed Brother of ours which you cald Anthony 
 Now, Now, and cald he was from us too foone, yet the 
 worft the wicked can fay of him is, that hee dyed a 
 dutifull death, and hee did but Come when he was called, 
 
 A 2 but 
 
(2) 
 
 but leaving our Brother as he hath left us, I will proceed 
 with this word Now , Now the Babybnicens. Now doth 
 plainely and fignificantly expound it felf in thefe words, 
 at this time, this prefent, this inftant, and never were peo- 
 ple more ftrangely mifled by falf teaching and preaching 
 then Now : you fhall heare how many fentences or quefti- 
 ons this word Now will anfwer me : When were golden 
 Croffes, Images & pidlures fuffered to ftand in defiance 
 of the Brethren, nay even in the open flreetes ? my Text 
 doth anfwer Now : When were lying , fcurrilous pam- 
 phlets, which abufe the Brethren in profe and Verfe , by 
 the Name of Rownd-heads , more in Fafhion then Now. 
 There was one who writ a Booke, intituled , A Medicine 
 for the times, where affuredly he doth vindicate that pillar 
 of Golden fuperflition , Cheap fide Croffe , calling us 
 thieves , who bare away the lead, becaufe thofe limbes 
 fhould not be agen fet up by Idolatrous people, & when 
 was this booke generally fold to draw the hearts of 
 the people from us , but according as it is in my text, 
 Now : but were he in our Conventicle that writ it, and he 
 that printed it, I thinke it were convenient that all of us 
 with one a-cord fhold endeavour to hang them to death , 
 and were they here, no fitter time then Now : but fi- 
 thence they are not prefent, we will defer their execution 
 till wee can confidently fay we have them Now : but be- 
 caufe I will not trefpaffe upon your patience much long- 
 er then my limited time , 6 houres, I will Now conclude 
 this part of my Text, and proceed to the next, which is 
 the Nation. 
 
 This Nation were Babylonians, for fo my Text telleth 
 me, 
 
 Now the Babylonians. 
 
 Beloved, thefe Babylonians are a Nation that inhabi- 
 ted 
 
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 ted Babylon, and derive their names from Nimrods Tow- 
 er, Babel, a. Tower, which according to my Authors de- 
 fcription, was 4 hundred thoufand times higher then the 
 Tower of London, bearing twice as many hundred thou- 
 fand piece of Ordnance, for it was the intention of that 
 proud Nimrod, to fhoot downe heaven : amongfl this 
 Nation lived that grand enemy to our fe6l , The Whore of 
 Babylon, a moft fathomleffe Harlot, and corrupted every 
 man that had any Part in Babel { the more fooles they ) 
 this Nimrod was the firft that ever taught Idolatry, for (as 
 I have bin told) you know I cannot read my felfe, before 
 ever the Art of carving or painting was, hee taught the 
 people to adore the fire, which expreffed his hot zeale in 
 Idolatry, it was onely their ignorance in arts , that kept 
 them from fetting up fuch a Croffe, as is in Cheap-fide : not 
 long after Nimrod fucceeded King AJliages : after his 
 deceafe, Cyrus of Perfia received his Kingdome , as you 
 fhall read in the firft Verfe of this Chapter , and accor- 
 ding to my Text is living at this prefent, for. 
 
 Now the Babylonians had an Idoll, called Bell, 
 
 And thus much fhall fuffice to have bin fpoken for the 
 fecond part of my Text, which is the Nation, Babilonians, 
 now the Babilonians, I will now proceed unto the third , 
 which is their crime, their Idolatry, their Image worfhip 
 the Divell by this time had inftru6led them in the Art of 
 making Idols, for fo my Text faith, 
 
 Now the Babylonians had an Idoll. 
 
 This Idol was made of Braffe without and clay with- 
 in, a brazen face, and an earthen heart, fil'd with corrup- 
 
 A 3 tion 
 
 5 
 
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 tion and fraught with abhomination. This word I doll 
 properly derives it felfe from Idle, which in fignificati- 
 on, my attentive Brethren, is floth, lazineffe, they wold 
 imploy their times in nothing but making Images. He 
 warrant you in thofe dayes a Journeyman Image-Maker 
 might get his halfe crowne a day , doe you but cenfure 
 then, my deare Affembly, how they flourifhed In their 
 wickedneffe, but, fmce they had nothing elfe to doe but 
 to fet up Idols, it fhall become us to make it the bufmes 
 of our whole lives to pull them downe : but take this 
 caution with you , when you next attempt the holy 
 deftruftion of that nefi: of Idols, Cheap-fide CroJ/e, be not 
 too violent, leaft you fuffer as our Brother did, yet had 
 hee pafl the Pikes, he had bin living to this day. This 
 I doll in my Text, was Braffe without, and earth within, 
 a cheape I doll to thofe in Cheap-fide, for they are Gold 
 without, and lead within. Beloved, Lead was not made 
 to forme Idols with , but for the good of mankind , 
 which is to make Bullets, and Tyle Houfes ; your onely 
 way to confound this aforefaid Cheap-fide Croffe, is to 
 pull downe to the ground, that old IdoU Charin , and 
 beat downe this with the flones, that wee may have no 
 more caufe to fay, 
 
 JVow the 'Babylonians had an Idoll called Bell. 
 
 I am now come to the Denomination of this Idoll , 
 they cald him Bell, for fo faith the Text, 
 
 Ntfzy ihe Babilonians had an Idol 
 This notorious Babe of Idolatry, who hath to name, 
 Bell, hath his name derived from that generall enemy 
 to mankind Belze-bub, one whom we all know to bee the 
 
 DeviU, 
 
 6 
 
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 Devill ; this Be// was made of braffe, & that is the only 
 reafon (my beloved^ that our Be/s be hel'd fo much 
 in contempt amongfh the Brethren. This Be// according 
 to the text had fpent upon him every day 1 2 great Mea- 
 fures of fine Flower, 40 Sheepe, and 6 Veffels of Wine : 
 now who devoured this Flower f Bell, who confumed 
 the 40 Sheepe, but Bell f who dranke the wine, fo that 
 there was a generall exadlion laid upon each Pint and 
 Quart, but Bell, or A-bell. 
 
 I have obferved that there was never any good in that 
 word where Be// had a fhare in't what was Adam Be//, but 
 a hunter , fo was Nimrod, who built that ambitious 
 Tower Babe/; I have heard with mine owne eares, thofe 
 blads which call themfelvs Cava/eroes call a Croffe Bard 
 fword Troy Be/, what is a ^^/-man but a night walker (as I 
 apprehend him) nay doe not your fuperftitious papifts 
 curfe the Bretheren with Be// Booke and Cande//; was not 
 that Cardina// an arch Heretick who had to name Be// 
 Armine; doe not thofe perfecuting papifts in Ire/and Re- 
 Be/, yes double and Tre-Be/; and I hope there will be 
 fuch an Equall uniformity amongft us who are the fe- 
 left Brethren that no particular man may be fayd to bare 
 the Be/: nor ftiall any man hereafter be counted a man 
 the founder for being Be/-Me//e, for Be/ was Brajfe with- 
 out and Clay within. 
 
 ^ow the Babi\onians had an I do/ ca//ed Be//, 
 and there was fpent upon him every day 1 2 meafures of 
 fine flower, and 40 fheepe and 6 Veffels of wine, beloved 
 had I been to ferve Be// with this banquet I would have 
 made Be/s eares ring Jtoone ere he fhould have had it ; now 
 who doe you conceive fliould worfhip this Be//f noe 
 v/orfe man then Cyrus the King, as you fhall find it in the 
 
 fourth verfe ; 
 
 Attd 
 
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 ^«flf Syrus worjhippedit and went daily to adore it. 
 
 And it is thought (by fome Authors) that this Syrus 
 firft made this Bel, if hee did, hee was but a ^^/-founder ; 
 or at leafl the firft that ever was a ^^/-founder. I ftiall 
 love a ^^/-founder the worfe for it all dayes of my life ; 
 I could proceed further and would but for feare of the 
 law , who if I ftiould be too zealous, would cenfure this 
 Lefture to be a Libell, therefore , this fhall fuffice at this 
 time, next meeting fhall perfedl the worke begun : repaire 
 to your houfes and confider of thefe fayings. Farewell. 
 
 FINIS 
 
1642. 
 A full and compleat Anfwer. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 79.J 
 
A full and compleat Anfwer 
 
 againft the Writer of a late Volume 
 
 fet forth, entituled A Tale in a Tub, 
 
 or A Tub Le^ure : with a Vindication 
 
 of that ridiculous name called 
 
 ROUND-H E ADS. 
 
 Together with fome excellent verfes 
 on the defacing of Cheap-fide Crojjfe. 
 
 Alfo proving that it is far better to preach 
 in a Boat than in a Tub. 
 
 By T H o R N Y A I L o, Annagram. 
 
 London, 
 Printed {or F. Cowles, T. Bates, and T. Banks. 1642. 
 
(2) 
 
 Firft, The Complaint of the 
 
 abufed moft ridiculous 
 Round-heads. 
 
 I Ome, brethren, let's deplore our wofull ftate, 
 Since all we have done is almoft undone : 
 Our paines and charges both betimes and late 
 Is like the battry of an Elder Gun ; 
 
 We back againe unto our trade muft fall, 
 
 Nor fhall we be allow'd to preach at all. 
 
 And we from Sylla to Charybdis caft. 
 And from CImrybdis back to Sylla hurld, 
 From wrong to injurie, from griefe that's part 
 To woe that's prefent, we rub through the world, 
 'Twixt Hawke and Buzzard, we feeme Planet-ftruck, 
 'Midft Chance and Fate, bad Fortune and ill Luck. 
 
 'Tis manifeft that we have done our beft. 
 
 To bring all wit and learning in difgrace ; 
 
 The Church and Church-men we do ftill moleft, 
 
 In hope we each might have a Preachers place : 
 Our zeale hath ftill the Houfe of Prayer deni'd, 
 And many a Barne and Stable fanftifi'd. 
 
 What have we not done .' we have rav'd and rail'd, 
 Vnrail'd, revil'd, exclaim'd, and made a noyfe, 
 Brake windowes downe, left nothing unaffail'd, 
 And wanting men (to clamour j borrowed boyes ; 
 We have moft ftoutly play'd the beafts like men. 
 In hope to be all benefic'd, (But. when .? ) 
 
 'Tis 
 
(3) 
 'Tis faid, that they which China dilhes make, 
 Doe burie them in the earth an hundred yeares : 
 Their Makers being dead, their Heires doe take 
 Thofe difties from the earth, and all our feares 
 
 Is, that doe what we can with works and wifhes. 
 
 Our labours will be like to China difhes. 
 
 For now againe the wicked 'gin to rife. 
 And call us Round-heads , and fuch fcurvie names. 
 And do our pure profeffion fcandalize 
 With Libels, Pamphlets, and moft true exclaimes : 
 So that we gape like pining Tantalus, 
 For all we have done is worth fcant a Lowfe. 
 
 But why do I thus tell our griefes in Meetre, Profe is mee- 
 ter for our capacities by halfe, hang Poets and Poetry, wee 
 could never endure them, no verfe is more fweet than a mans 
 neck-verfe (if it be faid in feafon) and as for Rhime, it is as 
 much diftaftefull to us as Reafon. Yet I would needs know 
 by what Reafon wee have the name oi Round-heads put upon 
 us ; me thinks our heads are no rounder than our fore-fathers : 
 Some fay they call us fo, becaufe our tongues do trowle more 
 roundly than our Anceftours did, and that they did ufe ho- 
 neft Square dealing, and we only profeffe and praftife Round 
 Talking or fpeaking. Others fay, that we are fo termed, be- 
 caufe wee doe cut our haire fhorter than our eares ; and the 
 reafon is, becaufe long haire hinders the found of the Word 
 from entring into the heart : and (truly) it is no fhame for 
 a man to weare his owne eares. Yet in the 19 Chapter of 
 Leviticus, and the 27 verfe, wee are forbid to cut round the 
 corners of our heads, or to mar the tufts of our beards ; but thofe 
 words were fpoken to the lewes by Mofes, and all the world 
 knowes that we are Gentiles , we have nothing to doe with 
 lewes or ceremonies , I can eat Pork and Pig ( which was for- 
 bidden to the lewes ) and I love a good Sow or a Bore next 
 my wife and my felfe. 
 
 Others there be that fay we are called Round-heads, in re- 
 gard that by our heads wee are more like Globes than thofe 
 
 A 2 that 
 
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 that weare their haire long, and man being a little world, is 
 by the roundneffe of the head a figure or embleme of the 
 greater. 
 
 Morgan Llewellin (that grave Greek Author j faith in the 
 ninth Chapter of his Litigious Aphorifmes, That Bias the 
 Philofopher was borne in an Haven Towne of lotiia, called 
 Priene: This Bias had a Round Running head, and hee devi- 
 fed ( from the mold of his head ) the firft Round Bowles, in 
 memorie whereof they are called Bias Bowles to this day ; 
 but the world is too full of rubs now, and moft heads run like 
 Bowles, contrary to the Bias, that an honeft man can hardly 
 win a good game all his life time. 
 
 There are fome that report, that wee are called Round- 
 heads, and Ovall-heads, by reafon of the fimilitude of an &^g, 
 I mufed why that comparifon was, but at laft I perceived, that 
 the allufion was not to the Ovall forme of the Egg, but to the 
 addleneffe of the braines in the head, which I hold to be very 
 fignificant. 
 
 There was a fellow lately did fet forth a Pamphlet, enti- 
 tuled A Tale in a Tub, or A Tub Ledlure ; The fpeaker of it 
 hee faith was one My heele mend fole, an infpired Brownift, 
 and a moft upright Tranflator : The houfe { where it is faid 
 to be fpoken) was neere Bedlam ; the time when, the 21 of 
 December laft, and the writers name of it, is only under the 
 two thred-bare letters of /. T. 
 
 I could almoft perfwade my felfe, that thofe letters of I. T. 
 fhould ftand for lohn Taylor the Aquaticall Poet, and yet mee 
 thinks he fhould have preferred a Boate before a tub to make 
 a pulpit of , for a Boate is more primitive to preach out of, 
 then a Tub or a Kinderkin. A fifhers boate once ferved the 
 beft Preacher that ever was, for a Canonicall Pulpit ; but 
 let that bufineffe alone, and returne to the Tub. It is not im- 
 posfible, but a Cobler may draw or vent a Firkin of fmal wit 
 out of a Hogs-head, and fverily) me thinks it was a rare bufi- 
 neffe, that the Hogs-head did not leake when the man ran o- 
 ver amaine ; But it is the property and policy of a Learned 
 man to barrell up more then he can broach. There was fuch 
 Vertue once in a Tub, that a grave and wife Philofopher made 
 
 choife 
 
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 choife of one for his ftudy , which Tub hee valued fo highly, 
 that he would not change it for the Palace of Alexander the 
 Great, {ox Alexander of St. Magnus) and that may bee the 
 reafon that our brother (the Cobler j made choyfe of a Tub, 
 (he that is offended at it, I wifh him in Cornelius his Tub, and 
 that is a pocky Tub, as a French Gentleman told me the o- 
 ther day) but to returne to our purpofe , I have read of a peo- 
 ple inhabiting fomewhere beyond the unknowne Southerne 
 World (or Terra Aujlralis Incognita) thefe people do once 
 a year offer their old fhooes and boots to their Heathen Gods, 
 O what a mighty trade might a preaching Cobler drive there 
 being able alone of himfelfe, to prepare and offer the Sacri- 
 fice, and fo preach the oblation Sermon too, I know a wor- 
 thy member fit to be an Asfiftant to him, one that is original- 
 ly a Heele-maker, but now he is an infpired expounder, there 
 are fo many of us now a dayes in England, that fome may bee 
 well fpared into other Countryes. 
 
 In the hiftory of Spayne in the City of Salamanca , there 
 dwelt a moft Heroicall and Magnificent Cobler named Sig- 
 nior Lazarillo Bobadilla de Tonnes, this brave Sparke (at his 
 death) and on his deathbed called his eldeft fonne to him, and 
 after he had given his laft bleffmg, he gave him this counfell. 
 My fon (quoth hej I muft leave thee , thou knoweft that my 
 father (and thy Grandfather) was a famous Cordwainer in Ci- 
 vill, thy mother a Millers daughter of ToUedo, they and I 
 here live in fame and reputation, and I dye a man renowned 
 for my Art. And therefore I charge thee (on my blesfing) 
 that thou do thy beft endeavour to retaine the dignity of the 
 Majefly of fo great a family. Truly, a man of fuch mighty fpi- 
 rit was too good to be a Spanyard, a Papift or a Cobler , had 
 he been infpired as fome of our Brethren are, he would have 
 proved that Simon called Simon Magus was at Rome once, 
 (welfare all good tokens he brake his neck therej but as con- 
 cerning Simon Peter, many wife men will never beleeve that 
 he was there, though the Papifts fay to the contrary and with 
 Tooth and Nayle defend their furious affeverations. Alfo he 
 would have proved Pope lone to have been both literally and 
 mvftically the Arrant whore of Babylon. 
 
 ■^ It 
 
(6) 
 
 It is devoutly acknowledged that we have had many wor- 
 thy and zealous Brethren that have ftifly flood for the caufe, 
 (as the Sifters can teftifie if they pleafe) as namely the reve- 
 rend Mr. How the Cobler , The moft induftrious Mr. Walker 
 the Ironmonger, the zealous Mr. Greene the Felt-maker, the 
 painefuU Mr. ^^^^t^r the Stablegroome, the pavior oi Mon- 
 mouth, the Sowgelder of Wallingford , the Barber and Baker 
 of Abingdon, and many hundreds more of true religious Mil- 
 lers, Weavers, I had almoft forgot Taylors, but that one Mr. 
 Squire, a Gentleman of that function at Roderhith being a 
 double yarded man, becaufe he hath two, but neither of them 
 London meafure, he is a mighty paines taker for us all in the 
 true way of rayling downe Learning, wit, order and decency, 
 what though he faile now and then in ftretching filver lace 
 on a petticoate, that he can frugally fave out of 4. yards com- 
 paffe one yard ; I fay a Taylor may ftretch lace and confci- 
 ence, and his bill too, but all is one for that, he is a true zelot 
 & fo forth, but though thefe have the honour to be named in 
 our catalogue of remembrance, yet one of our chiefe props and 
 pillers , is ingratefully forgotten, he being a man of fuch a 
 vaft merit, that it is a fhame hee fhould be buried alive ( in 
 his fame I meane^ the firft letter of his name is a Brewers 
 Clarke, he is a man that hath more in him then all the world 
 is worthy to fee or know, he hath fome pith or weight in him 
 & had he but couragioufly attempted the downfall of the Ba- 
 bell Croffe in Cheapefide, if he had been but valiantly fe- 
 conded hee would have laid it levell with the pavement, 
 for he feares not the Hangman, and is able to keepe a Quar- 
 ter as big as halfe a yeare with any man. 
 
 But I am afraid that our cake is but dough bak'd, (though 
 our zeale was warme enough to heate the Oven as hot as a 
 furnacej for we are croft, and the Croffe ftands to baffle and 
 brave us, and further an unhappy pated fellow did lately 
 write thefe following Verfes, in the behalfe of the Croffe, & 
 difgrace of us. 
 
 Verfes 
 
(7) 
 
 Verfes upon the defacing of Cheape- 
 
 fide Croffe, with the Pidtures of Chrift 
 
 and Saint Peter. 
 
 HOw ? fteale the leade from Cheapefide-croffe ( O bafe ) 
 rie take my oath on't 'tis a heavy cafe : 
 Some fay the Devill did it, and I graunt 
 The Devill is a mighty Puritant. 
 He never could endure the Croffe, becaufe, 
 Man (on the Croffe) was ranfomd from his claws ; 
 But whofoe're 'twas, Brownift, Punk or Pimp : 
 If not the Devill, 'twas the Devils Impe, 
 What e're he may pretend, he is a Groffe 
 Dam'd lew, that tortures Chrift upon the Croffe. 
 I wonder why the watchmen did not fcare Vm, 
 Sure 'twas fome fleeping watch that lackt a larum 
 And fo St. Peter ( whom our Saviour chofe ) 
 One of his twelve Apoftles, had his Nofe, 
 And both his Armes knockt of, where was the 
 That did not wake S. Peter at that knock .' (Cock 
 Chrift made him an Apoftle, now who can 
 Without his Arms make him a Gentleman } 
 Some Crop-eare did it in revenge I feare, 
 Becaufe St. Peter cut off Malchus eare. 
 What did the babe, what did our Lady do } 
 Poore Innocents alas, they fuffered too. 
 This fhews the Devils brood, like th'Irifh wild. 
 Will fpare no man or woman, maid or child .• 
 Now my opinion of the croffe is this, 
 It is amiffe to fuch as make't amiffe. 
 To fuch as reverence it, or adore it. 
 Or fay their prayers to it, or before it. 
 Such do pervert it from its proper ufe. 
 And turn an Ornament to an abufe. 
 Turks, Infidels, Moores, Pagans, Heathen, lewes, 
 They know not Chrift, therefore no Croffes ufe. 
 
 And 
 
(8) 
 
 And no true Chriftian juftly can repine, 
 To let a Croffe ftand as a Chriftian figne. 
 Knaves may deface it, fooles may worfhip it. 
 All which may be for want of grace or wit, 
 To thofe that wrongd the Croffe this is my curfe. 
 They never may have croffes in their purfe. 
 
 And thus Brethren you may perceive and fee , how thefe 
 ligmaking jeering Poets, doe with their peftiferous Rimes 
 (or Verfes ) fupport and prop up that Golden-Leaden nefl of 
 Idols and Images, but for a conclufion, if I cannot have it o- 
 verthrowne, demolifhed , caft downe, raced , confounded , 
 overturned, defaced, delapidated, diftroyed, laid wafle, rui- 
 nated, fubverted, or call it what you will, (fo it bee taken a- 
 way) and the lead melted into bullets to kill Irifh Rebels ; I 
 fay if I cannot have it fo , I will wifh it fo , and there is an 
 end before Finis. 
 
 FIN rs. 
 
 mwwm§mwmmmmmBm§m 
 
1642. 
 A Plea for Prerogative. 
 
 [Hazutt, No. 72.] 
 
A Plea for 
 
 PREROGATIVE 
 
 O R, 
 Give Ccefar his due. 
 
 Being the Wheele of Fortune turn'd round : Or, 
 
 The World turned topfie-turvie. 
 
 Wherein is defcribed the true Subjedls loyalty to maintain his Majefties 
 
 Prerogative and priviledges of Parliament. 
 
 By Thorny Aylo : alias, ^okn Tayler. 
 
 Malice, Difloyalty, War and Sefts afpire, 
 Religion, Peace, Obedience are ith mire. 
 
 Religion, Peace, Obedience, Love, no doubt. 
 Though they be loe, the Wheele will turne about. 
 
 London, printed for T. Bankes. 1642. 
 
(I) 
 
 A Plea for Prerogative: 
 
 T 
 
 OR, 
 Give Ccefar his due. 
 
 ■^ H E Divel's horne-mad, Religion here fhould florifh, 
 Or England conftantly the Truth fhould nourifh .- 
 And He (contriving with the Romijh Se6l) 
 
 They foon a hellifh ftratagem projedl, 
 
 That with a ftrange blaft of a Powder-blow, 
 
 Into the Ayre the Parliament to throw, 
 
 And with a whirle-winde terrour to appall 
 
 Gods Word profeft, the Court, the State and all 
 
 Records, Lawes, Statutes, Grants, Decrees and Charters, 
 
 Men, women, children (piece-meale torne in quarters ; ) 
 
 Magnifique Buildings, pompous Monuments ; 
 
 Illuftrious guildings, fumptuous ornaments ; 
 
 King, Prince, Peeres, Commons, with one puffe fhould caper, 
 
 And (in a moment) turn'd to ayre and vapour. 
 
 The Divell and Rome are all ftarke mad at this. 
 
 That they, their great defired aime fhould miffe, 
 
 Devis'd more mifchiefes from th'infernall pit, 
 
 To make us this deliverance to forget, 
 
 And be ingratefuU to that power above. 
 
 Who this great danger from us did remove ; 
 
 For Sathan knowes, that bafe ingratitude 
 
 Doth all, and every damned vice include ; 
 
 And therefore 'tis the totall of tranfgreffions 
 
 To be unthankfull for Gods gracious bleffmgs : 
 
 A 2 Ther's 
 
There's nothing elfe drawes down th' Almighties hate, 
 
 It hath difmembred wretched Englands ftate ; 
 
 Pride, avarice, luft, hath broke our happy peace, 
 
 And daily do our fins, and fhames increafe. 
 
 He's a wife man (that without danger) can 
 
 Serve God his King, and be an honeft man ; 
 
 For (in thefe dayes) to fpeak truth and do right, 
 
 Is paid with fcandall, danger and defpight. 
 
 Thus vice is entred, vertue is thrufl out. 
 
 And Fortunes Wheele is madly turn'd about ; 
 
 Peace, Love, Religion and Obedience 
 
 Are vertues of exceeding excellence ; 
 
 Yet as the Pi£lure in the Wheele doth fhow. 
 
 They are turn'd downwards in the fpokes below, 
 
 Whilft Malice, War, Se5ls and Dijloyalty 
 
 Are in the w^'^&r fpokes, exalted high. 
 
 And true Obedience neuer did refufe. 
 
 To give to God and Ccefar both their dues ; 
 
 Though fhe be humble, free from arrogance, 
 
 Yet her humility doth her advance : 
 
 And though fhe be trod downe, I make no doubt 
 
 But Fortunes Wheel will fhortly turn about : 
 
 Dijloyalty doth proudly over-top her. 
 
 And makes a gliftring guilded fhew of copper. 
 
 Full of corruption, bafeneffe and deceit. 
 
 Deluding and mofl feigned counterfeit. 
 
 Some do complain of Fortune and blinde chance, 
 
 And do their hands and eyes t' wards heaven advance ; 
 
 And cry, O God (which madft the glorious Sun, ) 
 
 What hath poore England 'gainfl Religion done. 
 
 That all her goodneffe topfie turvie lyes 
 
 Derided, jeer'd at, wrong'd by contraries ? 
 
 Religion 
 
(3) 
 
 Religion was the facred bond and tye, 
 
 The rule and fquare how men fhould live and dye ; 
 
 The ground and fole foundation of the Law ; 
 
 The good mans fword and fhield, the bad mans awe ; 
 
 Twas one entire in Majefly high Hated, 
 
 Now broken, fra6lur'd, rent and diflocated ; 
 
 Divided into Se6ls, in pieces fhatter'd ; 
 
 And (like a Beggers cloake) all patch'd and totterd. 
 
 And what hath England done to worke all this ? 
 
 Nothing at all, but doing all amiffe ; 
 
 Efteeming earths corrupted fading droffe, 
 
 And flighting heaven, and true Religions loffe. 
 
 Thefe are the caufes, thefe for vengeance cals ; 
 
 This makes high climers to have loeft fals. 
 
 When men feeke Honour with ambicious guile, 
 
 My little wit doth at their follies fmile ; 
 
 That though they feeme moft glorious, great and ftout. 
 
 Yet Fortunes Wheele will quickly turne about. 
 
 The potent Pope and Conclave of that Seft, 
 
 Did (and do) daily ftratagems proje6l. 
 
 The mungrill Papift, the Arminian, 
 
 The confubflanciall mifled Lutheran ; 
 
 The Anabaptijis, Brownijls, Arians, 
 
 Sci/maticall Difciplinarians. 
 
 Thefe, and more Sedls of Seperatifts befide. 
 
 Do from Religion to opinion Aide ; 
 
 And as they from each other difagree. 
 
 In various fafliions God is ferv'd we fee. 
 
 Th'eternall Word's high Majefly is fuch 
 
 (That man can never honour it too much,) 
 
 Is turnd unto the loweft fpoke o'th Wheele, 
 
 And too too few the overthrow doth feele. 
 
 A 3 The 
 
(4) 
 
 The Kinff, who is the Lords anointed knowne, 
 
 Whofe Crownes and Kingdomes (under God's) his owne ; 
 
 I will not fay't t'oppreffe, but true and jufl 
 
 To guide all under his great charge and truft ; 
 
 Though he (next Chriji) imediate power hath ; 
 
 And his refifters merit heav'ns hot wrath : 
 
 Yet this is not remembred, very few 
 
 Will render Ccefar what is Ccs/ars due ; 
 
 Which is obedience, loyalty and love 
 
 (Becaufe his power is from the power above ; ) 
 
 But Church and State, are by the rabble rout 
 
 Abus'd ; thus Fortunes wheele is turn'd about. 
 
 Religion {true) that ought to be the tye 
 
 From God to man, that man fhould rule thereby, 
 
 Is made 2.Jlable, a very ftaulking-horfe, 
 
 Wherein each beaft doth run a beaftly courfe. 
 
 Religion now each ignoramus whirles 
 
 Into the fancies of fooles, boyes and girles. 
 
 Who dare talke of Miflerious Canticicles 
 
 (Better then Bijhops can) in their Conventickles. 
 
 They can finde out Daniels prophetique meaning, 
 
 And from the Bible they have fo much gleaning. 
 
 That they dare venture with their quirks and quips 
 
 To expound Saint ^ohn and his Apocalips. 
 
 Thus they thinke we, and we thinke they are out. 
 
 But Fortunes wheele I hope will turne about. 
 
 Sedls up are mounted, and their impudence 
 
 And ignorance hath drove Religion hence ; 
 
 As once the Papifts, in Queene Maries raigne, 
 
 The Proteflant profeffion did difdaine ; 
 
 When fwords and halters, and tormenting flames, 
 
 Exiles, imprifonments, and all th'extreames 
 
 That 
 
(5) 
 
 That hell or Roman mifchiefe could devife, 
 
 The Gofpell to fuppreffe by tyrannize ; 
 
 And now the Almighty hath this Kingdome grac'd, 
 
 That Popifh fuperftition is defac'd : 
 
 A crew of new Se6ls are fprung up of late, 
 
 As bad as Papifts were to Church and State ; 
 
 Whofe barren knowledge feemes all things to know, 
 
 Who would all rule, and learning overthrow ; 
 
 Whofe wifdomes ftill are in the wane, moft dull ; 
 
 Whofe ignorance is alwayes at the full ; 
 
 Whofe good workes are invifible, fo good 
 
 Not to be feene, felt, heard, or underftood : 
 
 Of thefe mad Sedls, ther's too too many a wigeon, 
 
 That doth defpife the Proteftant Religion ; 
 
 And worfe then Papifts they deride and flout, 
 
 But Fortunes wkeele, I gueffe, will turne about. 
 
 Peace (the fame day that Chrift rofe from the grave) 
 
 Was the firft gift He his Difciples gave ; ^ 
 
 And that his Peace fhould ftill with them remain > loh. 20. 19 
 
 He (eight dayes after, gave them Peace again ; ) 26. 
 
 That Peace which pajjeth under/landing all, Phil. 4. 7. 
 
 Is racketed and bandied like a ball : 
 
 Warre,Jirife, contention, mifchiefe and debate 
 
 Oppofeth Peace, and feekes to ruinate 
 
 Faire England, by the meanes of men accurft. 
 
 Who wrong her moft whom ftie hath bred and nurft. 
 
 And now againft her Peace th'have madly fought. 
 
 But Fortunes wheele I know will turn about. 
 
 Love is the Livery, cognizance, and Creft 
 
 Chrift gives his fervants, who are ever bleft ; J oh. 13. 35 
 
 Th'immortall God, left glorious heaven above, 
 
 And was made mortall (O tranfcendent Love ! ) 
 
 Nay 
 
Nay more, he for his enemies did dye, 
 And rife, that they might live eternally. 
 
 He cald them brethren (fo their loves to win) Heb. 2. 12. 
 
 And made himfelfe like them, in all but fin. 
 He cals each true beleeving foule his brother ; 
 And lov'd us fo, caufe we fhould love each other ; 
 But all this love which he beftow'd fo free, 
 Is back repaid with Malice, as we fee : 
 The Wheele doth fhew us how the cafe doth ftand. 
 Malice and hatred hath the upper hand ; 
 Our words and works do fhew we love him not ; 
 Our love to one another is forgot ; 
 We fay and do the moft part to this end 
 (He that fo lov'd us) how we may offend ; 
 And ftead of loving one another, as 
 Our bleffed Saviours lafl Commandment was. 
 With malice we would cut each others throats ; 
 Which fhewes we do not wear Chrifts livery coats : 
 And as Himfelfe hath long agoe foretold, 
 TK increafe of Jin makes many mens love cold. 
 Thus man his malice againfl man doth fpout, 
 God grant the Wheele may quickly turne about. 
 Nor fhall my Mufe in this taske further run ; 
 I wifh the King and Parliament had done ; 
 That as his Majefty is knowne to be 
 Gods chiefe vicegerent in his foveraignty ; 
 So He with them may All as one combine 
 To fettle things, both Humaine and Divine ; 
 That we may be held free from all offence, 
 And gaine him hither, and not drive him hence 
 With Libels, tumults, and a wretched rout. 
 For which Tie hope the Wheele will turn about. 
 
 FJNJS. 
 
1642. 
 Life of Henry Walker. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 75.] 
 
THE 
 
 Whole Life and Progreffe of 
 
 Henry Walker the Ironmonger. 
 
 Firjl, The manner of his Converfation. 
 
 Secondly, The feverall Ojfences, and fcandalous Pamphelets the /aid 
 Walker hath writ, and for which he is now a Fr if oner in New-Gate. 
 
 Thirdly, The forme of the Inditement which is laid againfi him, by the 
 Kings Sergeants at Law, and his learned Counfell. 
 
 Fourthly, His ConviSlion by the Jury. 
 
 Fiftly, His Recantation, and forrow for the publicke wrong he hath done 
 his Majefly and the whole Kingdome. 
 
 Here are alfo many remarkable paffages concer- 
 ning the offence, and apprehending the faid Henry Wal- 
 ker, with a true Relation of his feverall efcapes and refcues 
 from the hands of Juflice; &c. 
 
 ColkSled and Written by John Taylor. 
 
 Printed at London 1642. 
 
Walkers Recantation, together with his 
 Life and Converfation. 
 
 T is too much apparant to this whole Land or King- 
 dome (which our Gracious Soveraigne is the Lords, 
 Annoynted over ) what, and how many, and num- 
 berleffe Pamphlets , feditious and fcandalous Libells, 
 impudent over-bold , impertinent and fawcy Petiti- 
 ons, to the great difcontent of his Majesty, the abufe of the High 
 Court of Parliament, and diforder or caufe of the ( too much confu- 
 fion throughout all his Majeflies Dominions have bin difperfl. 
 
 The chiefe or maine flickler in this caufe hath bin this Henry 
 Walker, of whom I entend to treate in thefe enfuing lines ; and firft. to 
 begin with his beginning ( as far as I know ) The truth is, he was an 
 Apprentice to one Mr. Holland, an Ironmonger in Newgate Market; 
 his time being expired ( I know not how or when ) he did fet up that 
 Trade in divers places of this City of London ; but his Trade and hee 
 fell at odds one with the other, fo that there was a breach betwixt 
 them, & being there was no reconciliation they parted, & never mean 
 to come together againe : Then he having left felling Grydirons and 
 Gads, with a gadding braine walk'd and found out a fofter occupa- 
 tion, and fetting up a Booke-fellers Shop, fell to Booke-felling ; Hee 
 not having any word of God in his faid Shop above the bulke or fize 
 of a Horne-booke. In thefe troublefome times Mr. Walker fet his 
 wits a worke to compofe fuch things as he fuppofed would vent or 
 be faleable, amongft. fuch people as underftood them not, loved con- 
 tention, or were wilHng to beleeve any thing that tended to rend or 
 fliake the piece of either Church or State, and fuch ( and no other but 
 fuch) were all the Pamphlets, which he (the faid Walker compofed, 
 caufed to be printed and fold, of which kinds of fluffe it is fuppofed 
 that he hath written neere 300. feverall ones, of which number ma- 
 ny of them have bin printed 1500. or a 200. at an Impresfion. and 
 100. ( at the leaft^ of any one of them, befides fome of them have 
 bin printed twice or thrice over, fo that there hath not bin fewer 
 then between 4. or 500000. of fuch Pamphlets of his difperfed, by 
 
 which 
 
which means or doings, fome hundred of thred-bare fcriblers fell to 
 Trade of fcandalous Writing, and Newes making, and would bee 
 called Poets, fome halfe a yeare { or there abouts ) Mr. Walker did fet 
 his name to his worthleffe workes, till at lafl, his name grew odious 
 and contemptible, fo that his phlimflams would not fell, if people did 
 perceive that they were of his doing. Then hee fet out his Rarities, 
 nameleffe and fhameleffe, in greater numbers than formerly he had 
 done, fo that all this Kingdome or ifland of Great Brittaine, with the 
 Principallity of Wales and Realme of Ireland, were embrodered o- 
 ver with Lyes, Libells and Lice ; nay thefe fcandalous fooleries (ox 
 knaveries) were of fuch Attracftive force and power, that they drew 
 at leafl. 500. Vagrants and Vagabonds from all the Shires round a- 
 bout London, and they were all fuddainely Metamorphif 'd and Tranf- 
 form'd into wandring Booke fellers ; every one of them ( like apt 
 Schollers ) had quickly learn'd the Art to Cry, Will you buy a new 
 Booke, new lye come forth. This hath pafl without controlement to 
 the abufe of Church and State, the fcandall of the whole Kingdome, 
 the injury to this Honourable City; the rayfmg of flrifes, divifions, 
 and bad opinions in many people of weake capacities and judge- 
 ments; and to the mighty impeachment and detriment of the Wor- 
 fliipfuU Brother-hood of the Stationers, who are at great charges in 
 paying all duties and Taxes, and that now ( almofl two yeares ) the 
 Bread hath bin eaten out of their mouthes by thofe Vagrants, com- 
 monly called Mercuries and Hawkers. 
 
 Walker continuing Hill in this courfe, curfed courfe, his ragged 
 Regiment of Tatterdemallions daily vending and difperfmg his pe- 
 ftiflferous Pamphlets, at laft, one night late he was by a Watch in 
 London taken for a Rat and carried to the Counter; the next day he 
 was brought before the Right Honourable Sir Edmond Wright, (then 
 Lord Major) where fupon fome occafions) was one Nathaniel Brown 
 a Stationer, whom Walker defured to fpeake a good word for him to 
 the L. Major, to whom Browne anfwered that he would fpeake. 
 
 And fpeake he did to the purpofe, for when my L. came to examine 
 Walker what he was, and how he lived, he being not able to give a 
 good account for himfelfe, then Browm began to certifie my Lord of 
 Walkers good behaviour in manner and forme foUov/ing. 
 
 My Lord ( quoth he) I doe know this Walker to be an arrant Rafcall, 
 an Jronmonger by his Trade, which though it be a WorJhiJ>full Company, 
 yet it cannot containe him, nor he it ; but he is a bafe intruder , and a 
 Jhifting Jhufler into the Trade of the Stationers or Booke-felkrs, wherein 
 
 A 2 he 
 
he unlawfully doth invent, turitc, print, and fcatter all the ahufive lyes 
 and babies ( or the mojl part of them ) that doe beflrow the City and court- 
 try , and I doe humbly befeech your Lordjhip to take fome courfe with 
 him, in reflraining him from doing any more. Upon thefe words the Lord 
 Major would have bound Walker to anfwer at the Sesfions, but he pro- 
 mifing to defifl and returne to his old Trade againe, was difmifl, andfo 
 for that time got off. Yet for all the promifes Mr. Walker walked on 
 in his callumnious Art and mystery of Libelling, untill at lafl his old Ma- 
 ster owing him ajhame, paid him in his owne Coyne thus : 
 
 He having gotten fome notice from fome of his Slavonian Hungarian 
 fcowtes, that his Majefly intended to come to London, to the Guild-Hall 
 the next day, which his Majefly did, and dined at Sir George Garrets 
 Knight, and one of the Sheriffes and Alderman of the City, {near Alder- 
 mary Church) Walkers invention being mounted upon the Altitude of 
 mifckiefe, he plotted and contrived with a Printer, the faid night before to 
 write and print a perrillous Petition to his Majefly, and borrowed tlie 
 Printers wives Bible, out of which he tooke his Theatne out of the firfl of 
 Kings, Chap. 12, ver. 16 part of the verfe; To your Tents O Ifrael. 
 T/iere was ivriting and printing all night, atid all tlie luxt day thofe Li- 
 bels were fcattered, and when his "Majefly had dined, and had taken 
 Coach to returne to White -Hall, Walker flood watching the Kings 
 camming by amongfl the Drapers in Pauls Church-yard, and having one 
 of his Pamphlets in his hand meaning to have delivered it to his Ma- 
 jefly, but could not come at him by reafon of the preffe of People, info- 
 much as Walker ( mofl impudently fawcy ) threw it over the folkes heads 
 into his Majeflies Coach. The Earle of Effex being alfo in the Coach 
 tooke it up, and kept it till his Majefly came to his Pallace, where hee 
 caufed it to be read, and finding it a mofi feditious thing, the next mor- 
 ning after caufed the L. Chiefe lufUce of the Kings Bench to be fent for, 
 who obediently came to his Majefly, to whom the faid Pamphlet was de- 
 livered, with charge with all diligent fpeed to fend forth Warrants, for 
 the taking of Walker and the Printer, in which buftneffe there was ufed 
 fuch vi^lant care, that they were both taken that very day and brought 
 before the faid L. Chiefe luflice, and being examined apart. Walker faid 
 he wrote it not, but that he bought it of a young Schollar all in blacke in 
 Westminfler Hall, and that it cofl him two fhillings fixe pence, this was 
 Walkers Confeffion, which hefubfcribed unto. 
 
 But afterwards the Printer was examined, and he affirmed that Wal- 
 ker writ it all with his owne hand, and for the doing of it made ufe of 
 his Wives Bible, in his houfe, to which confeffion the Printer hath alfo 
 fet his hand. My 
 
 4 
 
My Lord Chiefe luflice caufed both their Mittimuffes to be made, 
 whereby they were fent to the Kings Bench in South-warke by two 
 Officers of good place and trull ; in which Prifon they remained a 
 weeke or neere, untill it was thought meet to remove them from the 
 Kings Bench to Newgate , whereby they might be tryed at the next 
 approaching Seffions, for which purpofe they were removed as afore- 
 faid two daies before the Seffions ; but they taking Boat on the Bank- 
 fide were landed at the black Friers, whereby a Rout or rabble of 
 ( little better then ) Rebells, they were violently taken from their 
 Keepers, refcued, and fo got away that there was no finding of them 
 in many weekes fearch and enquiry. 
 
 But all thefe faire warnings could not make M. V/alker give over 
 writing, lying and Libelling, ( felUng fcurvy bafe words for good 
 mony) lodging in by places, holes and Cellars, till one time he was 
 feene to goe into the houfe of another ufurping pamphleteere, one 
 Fijher a Barber an Affociate of his, but as forne would have appre- 
 hended him, he made ufe of his heeles, for at that time there was no 
 Officer to be found to take liim. 
 
 From this fecond efcape he fled into St. Martins, whither he was 
 purfued, and where he had a Printers Preffe at worke, but being not 
 able to recover that houfe, he got into an Ale-houfe called the figne of 
 the Caflle, the owner of it f^as I have bin certified ) is one lohn White, but 
 from thence he was fet free by the diforderly flir and force of fome 
 unruly lournimen Shoemakers ( who furely knew not what they 
 did ) and this was his third efcape. 
 
 The newes of this caufed more and more Warrants to be iffued out 
 for his apprehenfion ; and there was fuch narrow fearch made for him 
 that he was deprived of all his flarting holes, and could fculke no 
 where fecure, fo that he was faine to veile himfelfe in the difguife of 
 a Minifler in a black Cloak pendant to his Ankclees, a fpirituall Caf- 
 fock, girt to him with a filke girdle and a Canonicall knot. 
 
 With this Artificiall borrowed habit (and fome naturall impudence 
 of his owne) he prefumed to mount into the Pulpit, at Saint Mary 
 Magdalens, at JBermondfey in Southwark, where hee fo handled a 
 Text, and made fuch a preachment, that what with liking and difli- 
 king the people were ready to goe together by the earesj at which 
 time an Aldermans man (being curious to heare what lluffe Walker 
 would vent) was abufed much, and beaten a little. 
 
 All this while his Majefly is juftly and highly offended, that no or- 
 
 A 3 der 
 
der is taken for the fuppreffing of feditious and fcandalous Pam- 
 phlets, and in two Meflages at feverall times from his Majefty to 
 both the Houfes of Parliament, he nominates Walkers Pamphlet of 
 To your Tents Ifrael : and indeed whofoever fhall read that Text 
 and confider the mifchiefe it did in the daies of Rehoboam, the Son 
 of Salomon, in making lo. of the 12. Tribes to fall from the King to 
 leroboam the Son of Nebat, (they being both wicked Kings ^ may 
 thinke it a llrange piece of Scripture to be fpoken, written, or printed 
 in thofe times under fo mild and gracious a King, to AlUenate or e- 
 flrange the hearts of wavering Subje6ts from their allegiance. 
 
 Well, great enquiry is made night and day, and Walker having a 
 houfe about Moore-fields, he forfakes it, and efcapes when it was be- 
 fet for him, from thence he got into the Tower liberty into an Up- 
 holflers fliop in the Bulwarke ; and being heard of, new Warrants 
 being out for him, he was efpyed in the faid Ihop by one that knew 
 him, and that he knew came to take him, wherefore by the helpe of 
 two women there, he violently burfl away, running towards the 
 Tower Stayers, crying an Arrell, an Arreft, and fo got into a Boate, 
 offering any gold or filver to be carried away. 
 
 Thus flood he in the Boate almofl a quarter of an houre, hundreds 
 or multitudes of people flanding on the fliore on the Tower-wharfe 
 the Officers not daring to fetch him of the water leafl, they Ihould 
 entrench upon the liberty of the water Bayliffe, fo that fome would 
 refcue him ( amongfL whom two feemed to be Lightermen ) and doe 
 deferve to have a reward over the fhoulders ; others would have 
 him come on Land and yeeld himfelfe : at laft the Officers that were 
 appointed to take him went to Sir lohn Conniers Knight, Lieutenant 
 of the Tower, to crave his Command for taking him. Mailer Lieu- 
 tenant prefently fent his Clarke to the water fide, upon whofe com- 
 ming the Boate began to Rowe away with Walker ; then ftraite foure 
 paire of Oares made after them, who beleagured him on both fides, 
 and with much adoe brought him to Land, and into the Tower, 
 "where he now remaines, expediing his time of Tryall, and let him 
 efcape how he can or may, it is mofl certaine that hee hath done 
 more mifchiefe by his Pamphlettizing feditions , fcandalous ri- 
 diculous Lyes, and rayling Libells, then one thoufand of his 
 heads are worth. 
 
 But now to come a litde nearer, Henry Walker, who is now to 
 be removed by a Warrant direded to the Lieutenant of the Tower, 
 
 which 
 
which was on Tuefday lafl being the fifth of this moneth of luly, to 
 have the body of this aforefaid Walker to be removed to Newgate, 
 and there at the Seffions houfe in the Old-Baily to have an Indite- 
 ment framed and drawne up againfl the faid Henry Walker, for the 
 feverall adts which he hath committed in and about London : the 
 true Inditement being made by the advice of the Kings Serjeants 
 and Counfell at Law, was preferred againfl the faid Walker on Thurf- 
 day after being the eighth of the aforefaid moneth, which being read 
 openly in the Court, and Walker there prefent at the Bar; pleadedto 
 the faid Inditement not guilty; and being asked how he would bee 
 tryed, anfwered, by God and his Country, and withall further defi- 
 red of the honourable Bench ; that he might firil have a Coppy of his 
 Inditement. Secondly, that the ludges who were then prefent with 
 the reft of the honourable Bench, that they would be pleafed to grant 
 him the liberty, in regard he knew not the Law, that he might have 
 feme Counfellor of the Law to plead his Caufe for him ; both which 
 requefts were granted to him which was a great favour. Then the 
 Bench asked Walker what time he would require to make his An- 
 fwer; then Walker defired but till the next day in the morning to 
 make his defence, which was Friday; Friday being come about ten 
 of the clock the Queenes Attumey and two Serjeants at Law, caufed 
 the Inditement to be read ; which being done, they began to fhew 
 and did make it plain how odious the matter was, and how it was a 
 fa<Sl of a high nature ; firft againft his Majefty, to make him as it were 
 odious to his people : To your Tents Ifrael; as if the King were a 
 Tyrant, bidding as it were every man to take his Sword and Armor; 
 and oppofe all Authority whatfoever, obeying no Law but that of 
 their owne humour and will ; what can there be more faid, but that 
 it was very plaine, but that this Walker did by thofe words labour to 
 inftigate and ftir up the Kings Subjedls to a mutiny, and to caufe tu- 
 mults to arife in this Kingdome, nay in the heart of this Kingdome, 
 in the City of London too; not onely to teach thefe words, but to 
 caufe them at his owne charge to be printed, and to divulge the fame 
 through his Majefties Kingdomes : Nor did this Walker reft himfelfe 
 therewith fatisfied, .but in an audacious way, and in a bold manner, 
 as the Kings Majefty paffed through the City of London riding in his 
 Coach, threw one of them into the very Coach it felfe, and in the 
 very face of the King; what an affront was this? can any age para- 
 lell it, or any Chronicle make mention of the like, and in a Civill 
 Common-wealth ; and in a well governed City ; I thinke not : nor is this 
 all, for this Walker hath invented and writ divers Pamphlets, and other 
 
 7 
 
fcandalous Bookes , to the great diflurbance of his Majefly, and of his 
 Liege people, a meere fower of divifion, an upholder of a new Govern- 
 ment ; an inventer of a new Doftrine, nay, he is become a Preacher 
 and a deliverer of this his humour even in the Church, and openly in the 
 Pulpit too, and on the Sunday : drawing after him, and feducing poore 
 ignorant people to the very ruine of their foules, if it were poffible. This 
 adt of his, it was done with much venome, malice, bitternes, and rankor ; 
 confidering the time becaufe the King and his Parliament were then at 
 fome difference, who did as much as in him lay to fet his Majefly and his 
 Subjefts together at difcord ; it was drawne with cunning, and at fuch a 
 time publiflied, that if envy itfelf had plotted it, it could not have come forth 
 in a more dangerous feafon. He confeffed it was his owne worke, & done 
 by night ; and the next day by him expofed to fale .• it was a foule mifde- 
 meanour, and it was publifhed with an ill intent. Nay what is this Wal- 
 ker not, what wrong hee hath done let his owne confcience , his feverall 
 Bookes and Pamphlets, which hee hath both v/ritten, made, and printed 
 them himfelfe witneffe. Well, the Jury heares the information, the feverall 
 pleadings, the feverall Witneffes thut this Walker was the onely framer, in- 
 venter, publilher, and difperfer of that Booke To your Tents O Ifrael ; up- 
 on which feverall Evidences the Jury withdrawes themfelves, {being 12. 
 honefl. men and of a good rank and quality^ to confider of the matter ; w'='^ 
 being truely weighed, and a long time debated and fcanned, agreed all in 
 one mind, calleth for Henry Walker to the Bar ; who being come to deliver 
 their Verdidl, they all declared him by the voyce of their Fore-man to be 
 guilty both of the Trefpaffe and of the mifdemenour. He was convidted, 
 I. For writing of it. 2. For the compofmg of it. 3. For the publifhing of 
 it himfelfe at the Printers houfe, and receiving money for them. Which 
 done he had nothing to fay for himfelfe, nor his Counfell neither, but onely 
 he did it not with an ill intent to doe any harme. And now he is heartily 
 forrowfull for it, and begs the Kings mercy, and the charitable cenfure of 
 all men for his rafhneffe & over-hot zeale; efpecially of his facred Majefly, 
 whom he hath mofl. offended ; and for his Majeflies clemency to him, hewill 
 ever be bound to pray for him ; becaufe his Majefly did give Command 
 that his Inditement fhould not be put againft him for Treafon, but onely 
 for a mifdemenor ; w* if it had bin preferred for Treafon, it might have bin 
 as well found and have coft. him his life, as for this fadt of mifdemenour ; 
 and ialH. Walker am heartily forry, and defire God, his Majefly, and all 
 his Majeflies Subjedls to forgive me, and by my example to forfake thefe 
 private and fecret meetings, or rather conventicles ; and fo with teares I 
 fubmit my felfe to the Law ; and the punifhments whenfoever it fhall bee 
 denounced and inflidted upon me. Dated the 12. of luly, 1642. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
1642. 
 Mad Fafhions. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 86.] 
 
MADFASHIONs, 
 
 OD FASHIONS, 
 
 All out of Fafhions, 
 
 OR, 
 The Emblems of thefe Diftra6led times. 
 
 By lohn Taylor. 
 
 LONDON, 
 Printed by lohtt Hammond, for Thomas Banks, 1642. 
 
Mad fajhions, od fajhions, all out of fajhions, 
 
 OR, 
 
 The Emblems of thefe diJlraHed times. 
 
 THe Pidlure that is Printed in the front 
 Is like this Kingdome, if you look upon 't : 
 For if you well doe note it as it is, 
 It is a Transform'd Metamorphafis. 
 This Monftrous Pi6lure plainely doth declare 
 This land ( quite out of order ) out of fquare. 
 His Breeches on his fhoulders doe appeare, 
 His doublet on his lower parts doth weare ; 
 His Boots and Spurs upon his Armes and Hands, 
 His Gloves upon his feet ( whereon he ftands ) 
 The Church or'eturnd ( a lamentable fhow ) 
 The Candleftick above, the light below. 
 The Cony hunts the Dogge, the Rat the Cat, 
 The Horfe doth whip the Cart ( I pray marke that ) 
 The Wheelbarrow doth drive the man ( oh Bafe ) 
 And Eeles and Gudgeons flie a mighty pace. 
 And fure this is a Monfter of ftrange fafhion. 
 That doth furpaffe all Ovids Transformation. 
 And this is Englands cafe this very day. 
 All things are turn'd the Cleane contrary way ; 
 For Now, when as a Royall Parliament, 
 ( With King, and Peers, and Commons whole confent ) 
 Have almofl fate two yeeres, with paines and Cares, 
 And Charge, to free us from our Griefes and feares, 
 For when many a worthy Lord and Knight, 
 And good Efquire ( for King and Countreys Right ) 
 Have fpent fo much time with Great Toyle, and Heede, 
 All Englands Vicious garden how to weed, 
 
 A 2 So 
 
So like a Wilderneffe 'twas overrun, 
 
 That though much hath been done; All is not done. 
 
 The Devill doth perfwade, entice and lurke, 
 
 And force bad men to fet good men aworke. 
 
 That whilfl the Worthies ftrive to right our wrongs, 
 
 And give to each man, what to him belongs ; 
 
 Whil'ft they take paines to fettle all things heere, 
 
 An Irijh Devill, doth madly domineere. 
 
 From Hells black Pit, begirt with Romifh Armes, 
 
 Thoufands of Locujis are in Troopes and Swarmes, 
 
 More Barbarous then the Heathen, worfe then I ewes. 
 
 No Turkes or Tartars would fuch Tortures ufe. 
 
 Sure that Religion can no wayes be good, 
 
 That fo inhumanly delights in Blood : 
 
 Nor doth that doftrine from the Scriptures fpring. 
 
 That Subiedls fhould Rebell againft their King. 
 
 Nay ( further ) murder, ravifh, fpoile, deflowre, 
 
 Burne and lay wafle, depopulate, devoure. 
 
 Not fparing Infants at the Breaft or wombe, 
 
 (To die where firft they liu'd, their Birth, their Tombe ) 
 
 'Tis faid no Serpent, Adder, Snake, or Toade, 
 
 Can live in Ireland, or hath there aboade : 
 
 'Tis flrange that fhee thofe Vipers doth not Kill, 
 
 That Gnawes her Bowells, and her blood doth fpill. 
 
 Can Irifh Earth Kill all things vennemous, 
 
 And can fhee nurfe fuch Vermin Mifchievous : 
 
 Her owne fonnes Native, worfe then Strangers Borne, 
 
 They have their Mothers Entrailes rent and torne. 
 
 Yet ftill her Indulgencie, harbours thofe, 
 
 And feeeds thofe Rebells that doe breed her woes : 
 
 God ( in thy Mercy ) give her ftrength and Ayde, 
 
 And courage, make her foes and ours difmay'd, 
 
 Thou Lord of Hofts, thine owne caufe take in hand , 
 
 Thy foes ( Thine Antichriftian foes ) withftand ; 
 
 De- 
 
Defend thy truth, and all our Armies guide, 
 
 Our enemies to fcatter and devide. 
 
 Thus leaving Ireland (with my hearty prayers ) 
 
 To Brittaine back againe my Mufe repaires : 
 
 Where I perceive a Metamorphofis, 
 
 Is moft prepofterous, as the Picture is. 
 
 The world's turn'd upfide downe, from bad to worfe, 
 
 Quite out of frame, The cart before the Horfe. 
 
 The Felt-maker, and fawcie flable Groome 
 
 Will dare to Pearch into the Preachers Roome, 
 
 Each Ignorant, doe of the Spirit Boaft, 
 
 And prating fooles brag of the holy-GhoJi, 
 
 When Ignoramus will his Teacher Teach, 
 
 And Sow-gelders, and Coblers dare to preach. 
 
 This fhewes, mens witts are monftroufly difguif'd, 
 
 Or that our Countrey is Antipodis'd. 
 
 When holy Common Prayer, is by the Rable 
 
 Accounted Porridge, and unfruitfuU Babble, 
 
 When our Beliefe is not fo much as fed, 
 
 When as the Ten Commandments are not read. 
 
 When as the Lords Prayer is almoft negledled. 
 
 When as all decencie is quite reie6led, 
 
 When to avoid a Romijk Papijis name, 
 
 A man muft be unmannerly, pafl fhame. 
 
 When he that doth fhew Reverence, doth offend. 
 
 And he feems beft that will not bow or bend. 
 
 When he that into Gods Houfe doth not come, 
 
 As to a Stable, or a Tipling Roome, 
 
 Is counted for a Popifh favorite, 
 
 And branded fo, defpis'd, and fcorn'd with fpite. 
 
 When He that (of his wayes) doth confcience make. 
 
 And in his heart doth world, flefh, feind forfake, 
 
 Loves God with all his foule; adores no pelfe. 
 
 And loves his Neighbour, as hee loves himfelfe, 
 
 A 3 This 
 
 5 
 
This man is Rare to finde, yet this Rare man 
 
 Shall have the Hatefull name of Puritan ; 
 
 When execrations pierce the firmament, 
 
 And oathes doe batter 'gainft Heavens Battlement : 
 
 When Imprecations, and damb'd Blafphemies, 
 
 In fundry curfed volleys fcale the Skies, 
 
 When men more Bruitifh then the Horfe or Mule, 
 
 Who know not to obey, prefume to Rule, 
 
 Thus Church and Common-wealth, and men, all are 
 
 ( Much like the Pi6lure ) out of frame or fquare. 
 
 And if 'twere poffible our fathers old 
 
 Should live againe, and tread upon this mould, 
 
 And fee all things confufed, overthrowne. 
 
 They would not know this Countrey for their owne. 
 
 For England hath no likelyhood, or fhow 
 
 Of what it was but feventy yeeres agoe ; 
 
 Religion, manners, life and fhapes of men, 
 
 Are much unlike the people that were then, 
 
 Nay Englands face and language is eftrang'd. 
 
 That all is Metamorphis'd, chop'd and chang'd. 
 
 For like as on the Poles, the World is whorl'd 
 
 So is this Land the Bedlam of the World ; 
 
 That I amazed, and amated am, 
 
 To fee Great Brittaine turn'd to Amjierdam, 
 
 Mens braines and witts (two fimples beat together) 
 
 From thence (mix'd and compounded) are fent hither. 
 
 For Amjierjiam is landed (as I heare ) 
 
 At Rye, or Hajiings, or at Dover Peere, 
 
 At Harwich, Ipfwich, Sandwich, or at Weymouth, 
 
 AtPort/mouth, Dartmouth, Exmouth, Plimouth, Farmouth, 
 
 At Yarmouth, and at all the Ports to Tinmouth, 
 
 And weflward unto Brijiow and to Monmouth ; 
 
 From all thefe Mouthes and more, mad fe6ls are fent 
 
 Who have Religion all in pieces Rent, 
 
 One 
 
 6 
 
One would have this, Another would have that, 
 
 And moft of them would have they know not what. 
 
 God give us peace, and eafe us of our paine, 
 
 And fend thofe fe6ls, from whence they came againe, 
 
 The Papift, and the Schifmatique ; both grieves 
 
 The Church, for fhee's like Chrijl (Between two Thieves.) 
 
 I took the Proteftation twice of Late, 
 
 Where I protefted not to Innovate. 
 
 'Tavoide all Popifh Rites, and to expreffe 
 
 Obedience to what Englands Church profeffe, 
 
 My Loyalty unto my King is bent 
 
 With duty to the Peers and Parliament. 
 
 With Prayers, and my befl fervice for them all, 
 
 That on them may Heavens chiefeft bleffings fall. 
 
 That with one heart, as one man, with one minde, 
 
 (For Gods great glory) they may be combinde. 
 
 And never vary, but goe boldly on, 
 
 To end the good worke, which they have begun. 
 
 This is the Sum ( which ne'er fhall be forfooke ) 
 
 Of what I in the Proteftation tooke. 
 
 But, for all this, I may be mannerly 
 
 In Gods Houfe, and be free from Papiftrie ; 
 
 I hope I may put off my hat, and be 
 
 Allow'd to Kneel, and Pray, and Bow my Knee, 
 
 When as divine Command bids, onely then 
 
 rie Bow to God, and not to Saints, or Men. 
 
 And from thofe dueties I will never vary 
 
 Till death, or Order doe command contrary. 
 
 Th' Almighties Name be ever prays'd and bleft. 
 
 That Romifh fuperftition is fuppreft, 
 
 Wee have no Abbyes, Abbots, Friars, or Monks, 
 
 Nor have we Nuns, or Stewes allow'd for Punks, 
 
 Wee have no Maffes, or no Maff-Priefts heere. 
 
 But fome are hang'd, and fome are fled for feare. 
 
 All 
 
All thofe that are fo bold to flay behind, 
 
 I wifh they may like entertainment finde ; 
 
 Beades, Babies, Relliques, Tapers, Lamps or Lights, 
 
 Wee have no fuperftitious Romifh Rites, 
 
 Wee feek our Pardons from our Heavenly Hope, 
 
 And not by works, or favour from the Pope ; 
 
 To Saints we make no prayer, or Interceffion, 
 
 And unto God alone wee make Confeffion ; 
 
 Wee hold no Reall Prefence in the Bread, 
 
 And wee doe know King Charles our fupreame head 
 
 (Beneath God, who hath plac'd him in his Throne j 
 
 For other Supreame, wee acknowledge none. 
 
 No Purgatory, Image, Wood or Stone, 
 
 No Stock, or carved Block, wee truft upon, 
 
 Nor is our Church difcretion heere fo little, 
 
 .^s to Baptize with Cream, with fait and Spittle. 
 
 Wee have as many Sacraments, as Heaven 
 
 Ordain'd ; which are but two, and Rome hath feven. 
 
 Wee doe not Chriften Bells, and give them Names 
 
 Of Simon, Peter, Andrew, lohn and lames ; 
 
 Wee ufe no Pilgrimage, or Holy-water, 
 
 Nor in an unknowne tongue our Prayers fcatter ; 
 
 -(411 thefe, and many more, in Rome are us'd 
 
 Which are by us reiedled and refuf 'd. 
 
 Awdi yet too many faults, alas remaines, 
 
 VVhich are the Churches, and the Kingdomes ftaines. 
 
 The Church Triumphant is not cleere from fpots, 
 
 The Poore Church Millitant hath ftill fome blots, 
 
 Heer's all unperfeft, fomthing's ftill amiffe, 
 
 u4nd nothing's blefl, but in Eternall Bliffe. 
 
 Meane time, till wee amend, and leave our crimes. 
 The Pidlure is the Emblem of the Times. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
[1642.] 
 An Apology for Private 
 
 Preaching. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 81.] 
 
APOLOGY 
 
 FOR PRIVATE 
 
 PREACHING. 
 
 IN WHICH THOSE FORMES 
 
 are warranted , or rather juftified , which 
 
 the malignant Se6l contemne, and daily by 
 prophane Pamphlets make ridiculous. 
 
 "Preaching in a Tub. 
 
 Teaching againjl the backe of a Chair e. 
 / -y. V . Injiru6ling at a Tables end. 
 
 Revealing in a Basket. 
 
 Exhorting over a Buttery Hatch. 
 -Reforming on a Bed fide. 
 
 OR 
 
 (Indeed) any place, according to Infpiration f' fince it is 
 
 knowne ) the Spirit moves in fundry places.) 
 
 WHEREUNTO 
 
 IS ANNEXED, OR RATHER 
 Conjoyned, or furthermore united, or 
 moreover knit, the Spirituall poftures, allu- 
 ding to that of Musket and Pike. 
 
 By T. J. 
 
 Jun. 28. Printed for R. Wood, T. Wilfon, and E. Chriftopher. 
 
To you the Sanftified, Eledled, Purified, 
 Mundified, Juftified, and Separated Bre- 
 thren, I make this worthy and acceptable 
 (although not Learned) Apology. It is not unkown 
 to you how often we have beene vilified by the name 
 of Puritans, Brownijfs, Separatijis, Familijls, and 
 (at laft) cenfur'd with the deteftable name of Round- 
 heads and Prickeares ; that wee are fo 'tis confeft, 
 but why fhould we be tearmed fo in the way of dif- 
 grace, or villification, the manner of fpeaking makes 
 the difference , I have knowne one man call another 
 Sir in anger, likewife a woman beat her Maid by 
 the name of Gentlewoman, termes in themfelves gra- 
 cious and acceptable, but according to finifter con- 
 ftrudlion, the parties fo termed appeare fcandalized 
 and rediculous ; next they abufe our Doftrine of 
 Infpiration , and tell us it proceeds from the fpirit 
 of contradidlion, but little do they imagine our con- 
 tradiftion is begot by infpiration : for unleffe our 
 bodies be haunted with fandlified fpirits, how is it 
 poffible we fhould reveale the word , fince moft of 
 us fcarce know a word of the Booke, and that is the 
 reafon that we can preach as well without a Booke 
 as with it, but if we can continue and confide as wee 
 have begun ( which I fhrewdly doubt ) it fhall bee 
 
 A 2 law- 
 
full for every Elder and every Seledl Brother to ufe 
 a Horn-booke (provided he be married) for I have 
 heard a little reading will do a man no hurt, let him 
 be learned paft the Graces and the Sacraments , and 
 (for ought I knowy) hee may bee as fit to teach as the 
 beft on's, and go roundly on with his bufineffe, accor- 
 ding to his own head , and in conclufion gain the 
 prick and praife, agreeing with his Auditors Eares, 
 which are long enough to make Affes of thofe that 
 write our Names backwards, and fix them before li- 
 bellous Sermons, faying they do NOT RVB, when 
 they do Rub, and rub the skin of to, wofuU experience 
 has made it manifeft, but thogh we defire to have our 
 heads rounded, we not care to have them rounded fo 
 clofe ; there ought to be a mean in all things, but 
 now He proceed to my Apologie which mufl prove 
 how neceffary it is for a Tradefman of any degree, to 
 preach in a Tub, teach againfl the back of a Chaire, 
 inftru6l at a Tables end , exhorting over a Buttery 
 hatch, Revealing in a Basket, Reforming on a Bed- 
 fide : 
 
 I fhall begin with the firft, and produce you the 
 facred Antiquity of Tubs , in the Days of Dido and 
 Ricliard the third. There lived an honeft. Religious, 
 and fair fpoken man called Diogenes, a Round-dealing 
 Man, and was fo infpired with the fpirit of opofition, 
 that he boldly durfl affront the King , and bid him 
 fland from betwixt him and the Sun ; and beleeve it 
 there was fome miflery in thofe words : This man (to 
 make fhort of my Tale> lived in a Tub, and he being 
 a devout man, we muft of neceffity have this Argu- 
 ment allowed, that if he lived in a Tub, he preached 
 
 alfo 
 
alfo in a Tub, fo that at laft hee Reformed the King, 
 who would daily leave his Palace to hear his worthy 
 and Religious Tub Ledlures, I wifh our Times 
 would not be more proud then the former, hee was a 
 man of good life and converfation, and the Squares 
 went Round with him, and when hee was fmitten in 
 Age, the King gave him the Title of Elder every day 
 with which he continued till the houre of his Death, 
 and fo much for this piece of Antiquity. 
 
 In the dayes of King Arthur of Bradley, and his 
 four hundred forty fixe Elders of the Round Table, 
 the firfl men that ever wore Round-Robins, there li- 
 ved a Paftor whofe Fame ( you all have had a fpice 
 of) called Cornelius, a fickly man, and did all in a Tub 
 with very good Ordure, and one that was infpired 
 with the fpirit of Repentance, and a man whofe Zeal 
 to the Sifter-hood hath caufed him in one Ledlure to 
 fweat fix hours by the clock, where it was his Fate 
 by the heat of overmuch Devotion, to conclude .his 
 dayes, and preach his own Funerall Sermon. 
 
 And fo much Teftification I think may fland to 
 juftifie the lawfulneffe of the aforefaid Tub, whofe 
 fpirituall Hoopes I hope will never fayle. 
 
 The Back of a Chaire is fo far from having prio- 
 rity of the T V B , that it is much inferiour to it, 
 and is never provided , but when the good Wife 
 hath employed the T V B about fome other bufi- 
 neffe , the body muft as well be eafed as the mind, 
 but moft commonly it is a wicker Chair , which 
 though it bee not altogether Round , is halfe 
 
 round 
 
round, and doth almoft agree as well with the fpiri- 
 tuall groane as the Tub, and in cafe of neceffity may 
 ferve as well ( take top and bottome) as the Tubbe ; 
 ^but we doe not boldly (as that Arch Square-head 
 of prophaneneffe the Pope doth) tearme our Chaire 
 St. Peters Chaire, though wee have much more rea- 
 fon, and fo it being needleffe to juftifie with ftronger 
 Arguments the benefit of the Chaire, it being to- 
 ward noon, I will draw neere the Tables end, where 
 I doubt not but I fhall picke out many wholefome 
 Arguments , and enough to fatisfie any reafonable 
 man without that prophane porridge the Service- 
 Book, and in this piece of Doftrine (by your favour) 
 will be my owne Carver : this Table being finifhed 
 with fubftance to worke upon will allow a fweete 
 favour, and not ftrengthen but advance the fpirit, and 
 maintaine it when it is up, then if this place be not 
 fit that alloweth both forme and matter. He fland 
 to the cenfure of the veriefl Epicure, who I beleeve 
 would fooner fwallow this Do6lrine than a great 
 many that feeme to make a more religious profefsi- 
 on : And now I have fatisfied at the Tables end, I 
 will make no more Apologie for it, fince apparant 
 truths are rather hindered then helped with tedious 
 Arguments. 
 
 I will now fet forward to my Revelation in a 
 Basket, which hath beene held facred becaufe it was 
 given at the coft and charges of our infpired Basket 
 maker, a man infpired with much Charity, and got 
 all his reliefe by the Basket, it was by himfelfe dedi- 
 cated to the Sheriffes, and by them well furnifhed for 
 the full edification of the poore, needy, and imprifo- 
 ned brethren, who have fuffered for the conforming 
 
 and 
 
and tearing off of Surplices ; and why may not a man 
 pioufly and zealoufly confirm the aged, and enflrudi 
 the youth in a Basket, as well as in a pulpit : the Ta- 
 bles end Lefture being ended for the Rich, the Baf- 
 ket Ledlure for the poor and needy, let us proceed to 
 the Buttery Hatch, which is the fitteft place in my o- 
 pinion to adminifter the liquor of Life and fpiritual 
 drops of comfort, where fome zealous men of our 
 Brother-hood have fo overtyred themfelves with 
 earneftneffe in this Do6lrine, that they have growne 
 uncenfible, not able to ftand on their legs, or give a 
 ready word, that even with Maudlin forrow percei- 
 ving their weakneffe to proceed no further , they 
 have wept with very griefe, being fupported home 
 with expectation of next mornings Remedy. 
 
 But he whofe flrength of brain and power of Spi- 
 rit will preferve to hold out this Buttery Hatch Le- 
 6ture, may with much eafe adminifter Reformation on 
 a Bed-fide, where infpired with the Spirit of Vnity, 
 we conftantly conclude, and joyn in a copulative love 
 without the unneceffary affiftancc of any light, but 
 the flame of our own Zeal, with which I doubt not, 
 but that we are equally furnifhed , proceeding from 
 the pretious Coals of Devotion ; and inflamed by 
 the provoking Adminiftry of the laft Doftrine. I 
 hope thefe Arguments will fuffice fufficiently to 
 enform you of the neceffary and profitable caufes we 
 have to vindicate and appologize for the Dignity of 
 private preaching in fo many Forms and according 
 to this Method. I flial now march on to the fpiritual 
 Poftures, which have allufion to thofe for Pike and 
 Musket, in which I will not prove tedious. 
 
 It 
 
It is not unknown to you my beloved Round-heads that 
 there may be a fpirituall warfare, in which you are not par- 
 ticularly exercifed in the poftures of your Doflrine you will 
 goe neere to fuffer, and all the felefl of us ; the firft I will 
 inftru6l you in fhall be that alluding to Pike. 
 
 Rotmd heads Jiand to your Armes. 
 When Authority is abfent,-- — D if order your DoElrine. 
 
 When prefent, Order your DoSlrine. 
 
 If abfent againe, As you were. 
 
 If you conceive you fhall have the better on't, 
 
 Shoulder your DoSlrine and march. 
 If Authority bee too ftrong, then 
 
 ( Round-Jieads ) as you were. 
 If Authourity appeare weake, 
 
 Advance yon r Do£lrine. 
 
 If flrong, As yon were. 
 
 If you get ftronger in Faftion, — Charge to tJie Front. 
 But if Authority come in full power, — Faces about. 
 
 P rick-ear es, Jiand to your Armes. 
 
 Now Authority is gone, Make ready your zeale. 
 
 If Authority appeare not ye.^,— Charge your zeale. 
 If you expefl the Victory — loyn your zeale and reft together. 
 
 Blow your zeale. 
 Prime your zeale. 
 Blow off yonr loofe zeale. 
 If Authority come not yet, for our Sifters fake 
 
 Cock your zeale, 
 Gtiard your zeale. 
 Blow the coale of your zeale 
 Now if you thinke to overcome Authoritie, 
 
 Prefent your zeale to the Left, and give fire to the Right. 
 But if you be vanquifhd betwixt this and Paddington, 
 
 Faces about. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
1642. 
 A Clufter of Coxcombes. 
 
 [In Lowndes, but not in Hazlitt.] 
 
A Clufter of 
 
 COXCOMBES, 
 
 OR, 
 
 A Cinquepace of five forts of Knaves and Fooles .- Namely , 
 
 The Donatijls, Publicans, Difciplinarians, Anabaptijls, and Brownijis; 
 
 Their Originals, Opinions, Confutations, and fin a word j their 
 
 Heads Roundly jolted together. 
 
 Alfo fhewing how in the Raignes of fundry Kings, and in 
 
 the late Q. Elizabeths Raign the Anabaptifts have bin burnt 
 
 as Hereticks, and otherwayes puniflied. 
 
 And that the Se6t of the Brownifts is fo new, that many are alive 
 
 v/ho knew the beginning of it. 
 
 With other SeSls difplayed. By John Taylor. 
 
 luly 13. Printed for Richard Webb, 1642. 
 
Donatijls. 
 
 THe Author of this Herefie was one Donatus born in 
 Numidia a Province of Affrica, their opinion was that 
 they and none but they were the only pure Chriftian Congrega- 
 tion, and that they (efpeciallyj were the true Church, fuch as em- 
 braced their Difcipline and come to them, they baptized again of 
 what age or feft foever, they affirmed that the Church confifted 
 all of good people, and that no bad Chriftian was a member of it, 
 this Herefie was in An. 353. look Bijhop Coopers Di£lionarie. 
 
 Publican. 
 /n the g. year of the Reign of K. H. 2. Anno 1 163, there came 
 into this Kingdom one Gerrard, a German, with 30 more with 
 him, and they called themfelvs Publicans, they denyed Matrimo- 
 ny and both the Sacraments, Gerrard himfelf had fome Learning, 
 the reft were ignorant perfons whom he mifled ; they were exa- 
 mined and found guilty, and obftinate Heretiques, for which they 
 wete marked in the fore-heads with a hot Iron, their leader was 
 marked in the chin and fore-head ; after that they were allfharp- 
 ly whip'd, which punifhments they feemed to receive joyfully. 
 Laftly, by command of the iTing and State, they were turned out 
 of prifon, and all people were forbidden either to harbour or re- 
 lieve them, fo that with the extremity of the cold winter, and 
 want of food and harbour they all dyed, miferably ftarved with 
 cold, and familhed with hunger. Stow page 151. 
 
 Difciplinarians. 
 There came 100 and 20 perfons from Holland, Zealand, and 
 thofe parts, through Flanders to London, where it was their daily 
 exercife to pray and whip themfelves twice a day in Pauls, and in 
 the ftreets, their body being naked from the wafte upwards, the 
 whip being 3 whipcords with knots, fo that the blood ran down 
 their fhoulders, arms and fides, and as they marched in this bloo- 
 dy proceffiou, every one of them had a red croffe in his hat, and 4 
 of their companions went finging before them, this fe6l was in 
 the Reign of King E. 3. Anno 1349. Stow Chronicle. 
 
 A 2 Ana- 
 
Anabaptifts of thefe latter times. 
 
 On the 29. of April, in the 32. yeare of the Raigne of Henry 
 the 8. Anno 1541. one Mandevill and one Collins (both Ana- 
 baptifts j were examined at Saint Margarets Church at the Hill 
 in Southwarke, and there they were condemned and judged to be 
 burned as //ereticks, which was executed on them accordingly, 
 in the High way betwixt Southwarke and Newington. 
 
 In the 17. yeare of Queene Elizabetlu raigne, Anno 1574. 
 there was one man and 10. women judged to be burned for be- 
 ing Anabaptifts, but after much fuit made, one woman recanted 
 and all the reft were baniflied. And in the fame yeare, the 12. 
 oi June 5. Engliflimen of the fweet Se6t called, The Family of 
 Love, did pennance at Pauls-Croffe, and there confeffed and de- 
 tefted their wicked and damnable Herefies. And on the 22. of 
 luly followingtwo, Dutchmen Anabaptifts were burnt in Smith- 
 field. Alfo the fame yeare fin May 15. j 27. Anabaptifts were 
 taken and imprifoned, and 4. of them bare faggots for penance 
 at Pauls-Croffe, and recanted. Stow,pag. 679, 680. 
 
 And in thefe our dayes the faid Anabaptifticall Se6l is excee- 
 ding rife, for they doe fwarme here and there without feare of 
 either God or man, Law or Order. 
 
 In the 33. yeare of Queen Elizabeths taigne, An7io 1591, one 
 Edmund Copinger Gent, and Henry Arthington Gent, thefe two 
 on the 16. of luly in the morning in the yeare aforefaid went to 
 one lohti Walkers houfe at Broken-wharfe, London, where they 
 found a Yeoman of Northamptonfltire in the parifh of Oundle, 
 named Williatn Hacket, to whom the faid Copinger and Arthing- 
 ton faid, that they were come to anoint him King, but Hacket 
 replyed againe, that they needed not fo to doe, for he was alrea- 
 dy anointed in Heaven by the Holy Ghoft ; the faid 'Jacket 
 caufed Copinger and Arthington to beleeve that he was lefiis 
 Chrifl, and to proclaime him fo in London, and at laft for thefe 
 horrible blafphemies and fome wicked Treafons againft the 
 Queene, Hacket was hangd and quartered in Cheap-fide, 1595. 
 his two prophets, one of them ftarvd himfelf to death wilfully, 
 iu Bridewell, the other lay a long time languiftiing and repen- 
 ting in the Counter in Woodflreet : he that lift to reade more of 
 
 this 
 
this at large, fhall find it truly related in Mr. Stoives Chronicle, 
 page ^61, 762. 
 
 Alfo one Francis Ket was burnt at Norwich, in the 3 1. yeare 
 of Queene Elizabeth, 1589. he was a Mailer of Art, and juftly 
 dyed for holding moft wicked opinions of our Saviour lefus 
 Chrijl. 
 
 In the 16. yeare of the rsigne of King lames. Anno 16 18. one 
 lohn Traske denyed and defpifed our Church Government, re- 
 fufed our Chriflian Sabbath, and affirmed that Brav/ne, Porke, 
 Bacon, Pigge, and all fwines flefh was abhominable, for which 
 Errours the faid Traske was on the 19, of June in the yeare a- 
 forefaid, mounted to the pillory at Wejlininjler, and from thence 
 whipt to the Fleet, where ( repenting and recanting ) hee was 
 beneficed, and became an honeft, diligent, and painefull Prea- 
 cher, Stow i02g.pag. 
 
 Brotvnijis. 
 
 This Sedl fprung from one named Brown, who is of that An- 
 tiquity, that many fyet alive) did know him when hee was a 
 Schoole-mafter to the Free 5choole in 5aint Olaves in South- 
 warke: This man {Browne) in his browne ftudy, did plod to 
 preach, and did pra6life and exercife in Woods, thickets, fields 
 and under hedges, to a great many of poore people, whom hee 
 feduced to be as wife as himfelfe : hee faid that the Church of 
 England was not a Church (perhaps his meaning was it was not a 
 true Church) but when he was preferred to the Benefice of a par- 
 fonage in NorthamptonJJiire, the parifh being called A Church, 
 tlien the Church of England was a Church with him, and his pa- 
 rifh Church of A Church, was a conformable and a true Cano- 
 nical! Church, and he lived till within thefe 7. yeares there, and 
 dyed a conformable church-man, but he hath left a mofh perni- 
 tious and feditious traine of his fe6l behind him , of all trades, 
 ages, fexes, and conditions, and when all trades faile they can 
 make a fhift to be all preachers. 
 
 Amongft all thefe hereticks and herefies, fe£ls and feftaries, and 
 fchifmatickes , I have not medled or mentioned the Puritan, 
 the reafon is, that I doe not know any that either deferves 
 or dares to take the name or title of Puritan upon them- 
 
It is an Epithite of reproach, which rafh or malitious men do 
 cafb upon many perfons who do ftrive to live in Gods fear, & de- 
 fire to dye in his favour, and it is likewife a name which covers 
 a great deal of craft and villany, under the veil and vizard of Hy- 
 pocriticall fincerity, and my opniion is, that if there be any that 
 are to be fo called, they muft be fuch Romane Catholicks that doe 
 prefume to be faved by their own good works, which pure, moft 
 impure, Doftrine is one of the grounds and Tenent of the popifh 
 Religion, and of no Church elfe in the world, fo that my conclu- 
 fion is that none deferves the name of a Puritan, but fuch as dare 
 prefume by their purity to fave themfelves and others : Thus have 
 I briefly fhewed that the Church of Chrift hath in all ages been 
 oppofed and oppreffed by Heretiques and Schifmaticks, I could 
 name many more opinions of men, who were all great and glo- 
 rious lights in the Church, and mofl illuftrious inftruments for 
 the advancement of Chriftian Religion ; and yet they have in 
 fome points differed one from the other, as Wickliffe, Luther, 
 Beza, Calvin, Bucer, Melan£lon, Oeclampaditis ; yet for all other 
 great diverfities, they have alwayes agreed in the main Funda- 
 mentall points of Chriftian DoSlrine, fo that the outfides of Ce- 
 remonies of Religion did not fhake the peace of the Church. 
 
 But in thefe times the Church and Church-Government is 
 not only fhaken, but fhattered in pieces, almoli for nothing elfe 
 but outward indifferent Ceremonies, fuch as in themfelves fee- 
 med offenceleffe Hand-maids for their order and decency, to 
 wait and attend the Church as Ornaments, and not for fuperfti- 
 ous Adoration Thefe fhaddows have not only bin with violence 
 pul'd down, but the fubftance which is Gods Ordinance hath bin 
 facrilegioufly intruded and ufurped upon by an imdudent rabble 
 of ignorant Mechanicks, who have dared to prefume to preach, 
 not being cal'd or fent, nor knowing how, or when, eyther to 
 fpeak or hold their peace. 
 
 I have read that the Grand Senior, or great Turk at Conjlan- 
 tinople, did demand due of an Englijh Ambajfadour, this queftion. 
 Quoth he, if I would be a Chriftian, there are fo many forts and 
 fefls of them, which Chriftian fhould I be, to whom the Ambaf- 
 fadour replyed, that it was the only fafe way to be a Proteftant ; 
 but a French Nobleman ftanding by, being a Roman Catholicke, 
 
 and 
 
and he demanded of the Englifhman that if he would be a Pro- 
 teflant, that hee would tell him which- Proteftant he fhould be, 
 by this may be perceived, that the Turke takes notice of the di- 
 vifions of Chriftian Religion, and the Papifts do take advantages 
 at our difunion and contentions ; yet the Proteftant Religion in 
 it felfe is in a moft fweet harmonious Uniformity, but the crew 
 of Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, have done, daily do, and will do, 
 their uttermoft malice and mifchiefe to rend all in pieces, whilft 
 he is accounted the beft member in a Common-wealth, that can 
 either Libell moft fcandaloufly, revile moft defpightfully , or 
 teare and fpoile moft couragioufly, and villanoufly. 
 
 And it is to be wondered at the many unlicenced licentious 
 Pamphlets that have been fcattered about the Kingdome within 
 thefe 23. months, wherein neither Religion, Church, King, 
 Peeres, Prieft, or people have efcaped Railing, Libelling, and 
 tranfcendent traducing, fo that it may be fuppofed, that the pa- 
 per that hath beene wafted by thofe peftiferous pamphleteeres, 
 would goe neere { if it were laid fheet by fheet ) to cover the 
 whole Kingdome ; and this is certaine, that they have drawne 
 many thoufands of poore idle people from all parts of England to 
 London, where without ferving any Apprentifhip, they take a 
 freedom to fell Bookes, fo that the Book-fellers are encreafed 
 ten fold in number within thefe two yeares : And what ftuffe 
 doe they fell ( forfooth ) things New Lye come forth and things 
 either of no worth, or elfe Speeches fathered upon men that ne- 
 ver knew of them, or Newes out of Scotland or Ireland, made o- 
 ver night in au Ale-houfe, and printed in the morning Cum pri- 
 vilegio, 1642. then are the ftreetes embroidered with lyes, lice, 
 and Beggers, to the great abufe of true Writers, the fcandall of 
 this Honourable Citie of London, and the univerfall injury to 
 the whole Kingdome, for that fuch numberleffe numbers of lyes 
 and Fables are fcattered and difperft ( not ouely here in our owu 
 Couutrey, but in all parts elfe they are tranfported over the 
 Chriftian World. 
 
 To conclude this Booke of Errours and Herefies, feeing there 
 have beene, are, and will be fuch to the end of the world, and 
 that amongft all thefe wayes there is but one Right way. It is a 
 griefe to any Chriftian heart to confider how many thoufands 
 
are out of the way, that doe dare to prefume to call themfelves 
 Chriftians ; fome are fo farre blinded , that they hold all man- 
 ners, Decencie, Order, comely Gefture, or Ceremony, as {lan- 
 ding at the Beliefe, kneeling at the Lords Prayer, or at the re- 
 ceiving of the Sacrament, Bowing at the Name of lefus, or Re- 
 verence in being uncovered at the entring into the houfe of God, 
 all thefe are accounted Superftition, Idolatry, and Popery ; but 
 to come to the Church boldly or rudely as into a Taverne , an 
 Ale-houfe or flable ; I am fure there is no Popery in that, and 
 for Chriftianity a man may finde as much amongft the barbarous 
 Canniballs. 
 
 So that fome men are jeered out of true and fmcere Religion, 
 for feare of being called Puritans, and too many have laid by all 
 Order, Manners, and Decencie in the Church, becaufe they will 
 not be accounted Papijis. 
 
 Befides all thefe wayes of Herefie ('which are all out of Gods 
 way) let us confider the infinite numbers of Atheifts, /feathens. 
 Pagans, Jewes, Turkes, Infidels, and divellifli /dolators, that 
 are upon the Face of the Earth ; If thefe things be but ponders 
 in a mans heart that feares God, it will ftrike terrour and a- 
 mazement into him, to confider how little fervice the Almighty 
 hath from Ingratefull mankinde, for that he by his power, Pro- 
 vidence and Mercie, made all, conferves all, and Redeemed all 
 true Beleevers, yet for all thefe Alls, that good God hath not 
 the tithe of halfe, either in meere thankfulneffe or acknow- 
 ledgement. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
[i644-] 
 Aqua-Mufae, 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 87.] 
 
A Q U A - M U S yE: 
 
 O R, 
 
 Cacafogo , Cacadaemon , 
 
 CAPTAIN GEORGE WITHER 
 
 Wrung in the Withers. 
 
 Being a fhort lafhing Satyre, wherein the 
 
 Juggling Rebell is Compendioufly finely 
 
 Firked and Jerked, for his late railing Pamphlet 
 
 againfl: the King and State, called 
 
 CAMPO-MUS^. 
 
 Deus dabit his quoque Funem. 
 By JOHN TAYLOR. 
 
 iti^^^S^S 
 
 iSi^^ii 
 
 {& i®3 4U2jl £^A ;%i tfllj Jtrfe ?J?iJ 
 
 Printed in the fourth Yeare of 
 the Grand Rebellion. 
 
To the Difhonourable , Difworfhip- 
 full, Dilloyall, and deteftable the Rebells, 
 of what Nation, Sex, Se6l) Degree, Quality, Ranke, 
 Age, Funflion, or Condition whatfoever. 
 
 Rave, Bold, Adventerors , and unmatchable 
 Patrons, It ivas my chance {Jong Jince) to read 
 a zvitty Pamphlet, Intituled, Peirce Penniles 
 his Supplication, It was Dedicated to the De- 
 vill, there werein it many Satyricalltniej^rks, 
 Jybes, lefts, and leeres, which rejle£led and 
 trencht much upon the Graund Signior Sultan Sathans Reputa- 
 tion , wliich were much dijlajlfull to his hif email Hell-hood, 
 with all the reft of his Members of that Lower Houfe. In I- 
 mitation of that Supplication , dedicated to the Devill, I am 
 bold to Dedicate this my Satyricall Poem to you his deare Adop- 
 ted Sons [the Rebells) not doubting, but you will Patronize it, 
 and Reward the Writer, asyour Father zuould have doneTova. 
 Nafh, for his Penniles Volumne ; I know that you have more 
 Power then your Syre, and for State Policy, you have fo farre 
 gone beyond him , that he blufties for fhame, to heare how the 
 World laughes him to f come, for being out ftrip'd and over- 
 reach' d in his owne A rt, by his owne Sons, Schollers, and Ser- 
 vants. He did once {fawcily and foolifhly) offer to give all the 
 Kingdomes of the World, but you are better Httsbands then to 
 
 A 2 give 
 
give Kingdomes, for you have done your bejt and worjl to take 
 Kingdomes and Principalities, you have fold Ireland , and the 
 Lives and Eflates of lOOOOQ People there, and with the Mo- 
 neys which you received from your Mungrell Merchant Ad- 
 venturers for Irifh Land, you have bought, or hired, Scottifh 
 Rebells onpurpofe to make an Englifli Invafion. To effe£l which 
 mofi unparalell'd defignes , your Pulpits, and Pamphlets have 
 been mofi diligent and ufefull Aggravators and Propagators, 
 amongfl whom, and of which tmmnnber d Numberleffe, dam- 
 nable Number, Captaine George Wyther, is not to be accoun- 
 ted a f mall Foole ; His Campo-Mufae, doth declare the Gentle- 
 mans Loyalty with his Book, called, Brittaines Remembrancer, 
 (in the 8* and(^ Cantoes) doe f hew his Art in Adulation, and 
 whofoever either hath read, or will or can read, underjiand and 
 confider thofe his tivo Books, may palpably perceive the conflancy 
 of this Capricious Carpet Captaifie , and alfo difcerne wliat 
 Spirit of Contradi£lion inspir'd his Mufe. I have briefly Writ 
 this my Satyre as a gentle Reproof e of his Perfidious unmannerly 
 Mutability , wherein you may defcry not onely his Rebellious 
 Legerdemaine , but all his Mainiainers , Patrons, Adorers, 
 Admirers, and Rewarders, may fee and be forry for their Er- 
 rors ; He was a man that I have thefe 35 yeares loved and re- 
 fpe£led, becaufe I thought himfivtply Jioncfl; But now his con- 
 ceal' d Hypocrife is by himfelfe difcovcred, I am bold to take leave 
 of him in thefe following lines. 
 
 Aqua 
 
(O 
 A Q U A -M V S ^. 
 
 An Anfwer to Wither his 
 CAMPO-MUS^. 
 
 A, let me fee, is that that Traiterous Thing, 
 Whofe Campo-Mufce hath Revil'd the King; 
 .Sure 'tis not he ; yet like him much he looks 
 That late compos'd fuch finne Confounding Books, 
 In fharp Ramnujiacs Piffe, his Pen he dip'd 
 And Brittalncs Great Abufes Whipt and Strip' d. 
 And in his Motto did with BraggS declare 
 That in himfelfe all Vertues perfefl were. 
 Art thou that wonder of the Vniverfe 
 
 Whofe lines Heav'n, Hell, and Through the World did Pierce, 
 In Sixteen hundred twenty fix, that yeare 
 Thou V/rot'ft a Book ( Brittains Remembrancer ) 
 And in that Book with Boafting Boldneffe, then 
 Thou Vaunt'ft thy felfe a Miracle of Men, 
 For never Hippocrite did fhew more skill 
 And Pend fo Well, and yet intend fo ill. 
 In thy third Page, thou in that Preface fay'ft, 
 That thou his Majejlies High favour Weighft 
 And that thou holdjl His Grace more deere to thee 
 And Precious, then thy very foule could be. 
 Thy fourth Page Sales, thy Mufe Spewes not Bafe Rimes 
 'Gainffc Publique Perfons ('but to Lafh the Times j 
 Thou applie'ft King Davids Nine and Thirtieth Pfalme 
 His S tonnes of Grief es, his hidden fire, his Calme, 
 All which Blafphemoufly thy felfe Applieft 
 Vnto thy felfe ; And in Applying Lyeft. 
 Thy ninth Page faies, bad Tongues willfet their Jlings 
 Unjufily, on the Sacred names of Kings. 
 
 A 3 Thy 
 
 5 
 
(2) 
 
 Thy tenth Page truely doth the Truth Repeat, 
 
 That the King fits in God Almighties Seat. 
 
 And thus ('with Pharifaicall Oftentation) 
 
 Thou faift Commijfion, ( Calling, Revelation, ) 
 
 Were given thee from above, Reader, pray Note, 
 
 How this Impofture late hath turn'd his Coate ; 
 
 View but his Campo Miifcs, and Confer 
 
 The words and Senfe, with his Remembrancer, 
 
 And wavering Lies and Lines {Black upon White) 
 
 Shewes rayhng Hypocrite, Hermophrodite, 
 
 Nor Male or Female, neither both or neither 
 
 Much more Incongruent then flint and feather. 
 
 Is this the Vulgar Vaffalls, Valiant George 
 
 Whofe Whileom Mufe did oracles difgorge, 
 
 Who was admir'd of every Man and Woeman 
 
 Of all forts, from the Tinker to the Broomeman, 
 
 Sure this cannot be he. And yet 'tis he. 
 
 Then how fthe Devill) can he thus changed be, 
 
 Can he, that fo much honefty profeft 
 
 (As if all honefty had been in's Breft) 
 
 Can he be Metamorphos'd to a Knave, 
 
 And write and fight, his Soveraigne to out-brave. 
 
 Can his Lines Lye ('that fweet Peace did defire) 
 
 Yet flirs up Warres, to fet the Realme on fire. 
 
 All this is poffible, all this is done, 
 
 This is George Wyther, his owne Mothers Son. 
 
 Now he's great George a Horfe-back, (mounted high) 
 
 Dares to affront, and Raile 'gainft Majefty, 
 
 This is the George thus alterd, thus all-turd 
 
 Whofe Satyres Goofe-quill is transform'd t' a fword, 
 
 For whofe fake, I proteft it with my Pen, 
 
 I never will trujl Wall-eyd Jade ageti. 
 
 Brave George, no George of Cappodocia, 
 
 But famous George of Braggodocia, 
 
 Ride on fierce George, untill thy high defert 
 
 By Tranfmutation, make thy Horfe a Cart. 
 
 What contraries doth thy mad Braines poffefle 
 
 That with a Traiterous Warre doth Peace profeffe, 
 
 That 
 
(3) 
 
 That playes at faft, and loofe, with handy dandy 
 
 Mak'ft Subjefls 'gainft their Soveraigne Bullets bandy, 
 
 Much mifchiefe in that double mind did lurke, 
 
 And Hell it felfe, fet that dam'd Mtife a worke. 
 
 Was ever fuch vile fragment Riming Raggs 
 
 Patch'd up together with abufive Braggs ; 
 
 That who fo doth his Campo-Mufce Read, 
 
 Will judge the Devill did his Invention Lead ; 
 
 Like to a lefuited fubtill Fox, 
 
 His Honefl Writings but a Paradox; 
 
 His Verities are falfe , his Errors true, 
 
 Such Riffe Raffe hotch Potch, his fweet Mtcfe doth Brew. 
 
 How villany doth cunningly deceive, 
 
 And good and bad together interweave ; 
 
 He Praies, Inveighs, Commends, Contemns, Extols, 
 
 Approves, Reproves, Loves, Scornes, Obeys, Controls, 
 
 Admits, Commits, Omits, Permits, fubmits, 
 
 Remits, and Limmits, as his humor fits, 
 
 Toffing his Soveraignes Honour to and fro. 
 
 Even as his fawcy Idle Braines do Crow, 
 
 And with his Rimes doth Knaves and Fooles infpire 
 
 To blow the Bellowes of Rebellious fire. 
 
 Hell never Spewd worfe villaines then are thofe 
 
 That weekly ( weakly ) Raile in Rime and Profe, 
 
 'Mongft which accurfed Crew, a part thou Bearft, 
 
 And in the Divells great name Rebellion Rearft. 
 
 For had not that black Breed of Cerberus, 
 
 Scout, Dove, Diurnall, and Britannicus, 
 
 Wife Wither, Booker, and the damned fwarmes 
 
 Of Rake-hells, Animated Englands harmes. 
 
 All our Contentions had been reconcil'd 
 
 Long fince, and bleffed Peace had gently fmil'd. 
 
 Wer't not for theirs and thine ill working Braine, 
 
 The King had luftly had His own againe.- 
 
 Th' affrighting front of bloody Warre had not 
 
 Diflurb'd no honefl: Englijh man or Scot. 
 
 Thoufands of Soules are from their Bodies parted, 
 
 ('By Lyes and Curfed Libellers perverted ) 
 
 Which 
 
(4) 
 
 Which may be fear'd did to perdition fall 
 
 Before their Bodies could have Buriall. 
 
 You Mungrell Whelps of Hells Infernall Litter, 
 
 What is the caufe that makes your hate fo bitter, 
 
 Is it becaufe you thinke your felves more Righteous, 
 
 Or Yin the Devills name ) wherefore thus defpight ye us ? 
 
 Is it becaufe the King's a Proteftant, 
 
 That 'gainft him you are joyn'd in Covenant ? 
 
 Is it becaufe he meanes to be fo ftill 
 
 And never meanes to change, you vvifh him ill ? 
 
 Is it becaufe hee's Merciful! and luft 
 
 You thofe Indignities upon him thruft. 
 
 Is it becaufe he ne're intended wrong 
 
 That you doe hold his Life and Raigne too long ? 
 
 Are thefe the Caufes wherefore you diflike him 
 
 Are thefe th' occafions why your Malice ftrike him ? 
 
 Goe hang your felves bafe Villaines, he fliall Live 
 
 And flourifh, and his God will Guerdon give 
 
 To you with Judas, and Achitophell 
 
 Where unrepenting Curfed Rebells dwell. 
 
 What Armes into the Field can Traitors bring 
 
 But Arm'd Impiety againft the King ; 
 
 Is not the Perfon of the King fo high 
 
 As God Almighties facred Deputie ? 
 
 Then what are thofe blafphemous Rabjhakaes 
 
 Anathema's, and Maranathema'es ? 
 
 Pfai. 14. V. 4, God lookes and fees how they doe plot and plod 
 
 S. 6. 7. They imderjland not, nor feeke after God, 
 
 Abhominable out ot'h ivay thefr gone 
 Ther's none doth good amongst tJiem, no not one. 
 Their Throats are open Sepulchers, their Tongues 
 Have lyde deceitfully with flandring Wrongs, 
 And underneath their Lips Afy&s poyfon is. 
 Their Mouthes are full of Curfing bitter nes. 
 Their Feet are very fwift mens blood tofJted 
 Naples deflru£lion in the ivayes tliey tread. 
 The zvay of Peace they have not knowne, and there 
 Before their eyes of God there is no feare. 
 
 Thus 
 
(5) 
 
 Thus is the foureteenth Pfalme in Davids ftile 
 
 Apply'd to fuch as dare the King Revile. 
 
 And what art thou then, but a falfe pretender 
 
 That feekes to Ruinate the Faiths Defender; 
 
 To blow Warres Trumpet, without warrant for it, 
 
 Is foule Rebellion, all good men abhorre it.. 
 
 And what hath Roguifh Riming, Tricks and leeres 
 
 But fet us all together by the Eares, 
 
 To Murder, Pilfer, Plunder, and oppreffe, 
 
 To make Wives Widdowes, Children fatherleffe, 
 
 The Father 'gainfh the Son, Son 'gainft the Father, 
 
 And Brother againft Brother force together, 
 
 Whil'ft Chrijlian Faith, you Hipocrites or'ewhelme, 
 
 And Publique Faith hath Cheated all the Realme. 
 
 This (Mafter George) is your great Trades * Encreafe * A great (hip 
 
 To Write, Raile, and difturbe your Countryes Peace, *^'"heEaft 
 
 In Rime to render our Dread Soveraigne odious, indies called 
 
 For your great profit hath been much commodious, the Trades 
 
 Had'ft thou not Writ, and Raild as thou haft done Encrmfe. 
 
 Th'adft been no Captaine, Th'adft bin hangd as foone ; 
 
 The onely way to flourifh, and goe brave. 
 
 Is to turne Retell, Hipocrite and Knave, 
 
 If I my felfe, would but a Villaine be 
 
 I fhould be Mounted and prefer'd like thee. 
 
 Yet 'tis not feare of Heavens Eternall wrath 
 
 Or Hells dam'd Tortures, me reftrained hath. 
 
 But filiall feare of God, in me beares fway. 
 
 That I in love his Ordinance obay. 
 
 And thofe that doe not ( I doe feare ) their fate 
 
 Will be the portion of the Reprobate. 
 
 But whither Wither , doth my fancy flee 1 
 
 I ought not write in ferious phrafe to thee, 
 
 Thou precious moft pernicious Prelate hater 
 
 To Durhams Reverend Bijhop thou waft Cater, 
 
 Or Steward, where to make thy 'Compts feem cleare, 
 
 Thou made' ft two Monthes of July in one yeare, 
 
 And in the totall Reck'ning it was found D' Hmufen. 
 
 Thou Cheat'ft the Bijhop of five hundred pound. 
 
 B But 
 
 9 
 
(6) 
 
 But thou didft hold it for no finne at all, 
 To Rob the Perfon that's Epifcopall. 
 This is no Crime in thee or thy Compeeres, 
 Tub-Preaching Tinkers, Pedlars, Pulpitteeres, 
 Whofe beft Religion, is moft irreligious. 
 Who think Church Spoylers are not facrilegious. 
 Who hold the Clergy as fuperfluous People, 
 And make the Chancell bafer then the Steeple. 
 Thefe are as arrant Rogues as ever twangd 
 And I doe wifh them in the Bell-ropes hangd. 
 But leaving unto God, the wronged Clergie 
 Now, with a frefli Charge, Wither I muft charge ye, 
 And in a true way, I will make Relation, 
 That thy beft Writings are Equivocation. 
 And that thy mind and Mufe, were never friends 
 In any goodneffe, but for private ends. 
 But leaving that a while, I will difcourfe 
 And once i'le put the Cart before the Horfe ; 
 His Piaure Thy Pi£lure to thy Bookes was Printed, put 
 graven before ^Vith curious Workmanfhip engrav'd and cut : 
 Books the "^"'^ Verfes under it , were wifely pend 
 Commenda- Which fooles fuppos'd were written by fome friend, 
 tory Verfes to Which God knowes, thou, I, and a Thoufand know, 
 
 the Piaure, ^j^^^^ jj^^^ .^^ ^^jf^ ^^jj-^x ^^^^ ^. f^jf-g jjj ^ 
 were written , , ^ r i • -r-^rr- • 
 
 by himfelfe. Thou dotedft fo upon thme owne Effigies, 
 It look'd fo fmugge, Religious, Irreligious, 
 So Amiable Lovely, Sweet and Fine, 
 A Phifnomie Poetique and Divine; 
 'Till ('like Narcijfus) gazing in that Brook, 
 Pride drown'd thee, in thy felfe admiring Book. 
 Yet for your Valour, you deferv'd much fame 
 You Conquer'd Farnham Caftle, and did tame 
 And vanquifht all the Cavaliers fo Bravely, 
 ( Look in a Glaffe, and you fhall fee the Knave Lye ) 
 A Dogge, two Cats, and an old Woeman were 
 Your oppofites , when as you entred there. 
 For which great fervice, had your Mafters might. 
 And power withall ; you had bin dubd a Knight. 
 
 But 
 
(7) 
 
 But 'tis no matter, they might doe as well, 
 
 They may Create you halfe a Colonell. 
 
 In Farnham Cajlle, thou waft great Commander, 
 
 And Thoughtft thy felfe more great then Alexander, 
 
 Yet in thy Carriage, Valour, Faihion, Forme, 
 
 Thou waft a Strong, Infirme, Stout, Feeble Worme. 
 
 For when thy Mafter Rebels call'd thee out. 
 
 With all thy fellowes of that damned Rout, 
 
 Thy Cowardife, thou finely did'ft difguife. 
 
 Thy fight was dim, the blame was in thine Eyes. 
 
 For want of fight, thou durft not fee to Fight, 
 
 But like a Rebell Divell couldft fee to Write. 
 
 'Tis well thou waft not Valiant, as thy Pen 
 
 Emblazons thee, th' hadft then bin Man of Men, 
 
 Great Agamemnon to thee were a Toy, 
 
 And Brave Achilles but a prating Boy, 
 
 UlyJJes a poor Silly Stoick Affe, 
 
 And He6lor for a Foole in Armes fliould paffe. 
 
 Oh had'ft thou had the profit of thine Eyne, 
 
 Th' adft beaten purblind all the Worthies 9. 
 
 Thus blind with Ignorance, and Impudence, 
 
 And Wall-ey'de in thy feared Confcience, 
 
 Thy Goofe-quill, hath Revil'd the King and Law, 
 
 When as thy Sword thou never dar'ft to draw. 
 
 For which from both fides thou deferv'ft a Fee, 
 
 A Triple Twift at the Triangle Tree. 
 
 And now I'le leave to fifh in troubled Waters, 
 Let's talke a little of fome other Matters ; 
 'Tis knowne that once within thefe thirty yeares. 
 Thou waft in Jayle for fcandalling fome Peeres, 
 And 'tis not lawfull for a Satyres Pen, 
 To wrong the Honours of particular Men, 
 Which you did, not for any hate you bore 
 To Vice or Villany, but that therefore 
 You would be famous, and to Prizen Committed, 
 Whereby you feem'd moft wonderfully Witted. 
 There, in the Marflialfeas, whole flights of Gulls, 
 Of Schifmatiques, of Cuckolds, Knaves and Trulls, 
 
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 In Droves and Heardes, in Pilgrimage they came 
 
 fAs Er'ft Fooles did t' our Lady of Walfingham) 
 
 You were their Idoll Saint, and at your Shrine 
 
 They offred Hecatombes of Coyne and Wine, 
 
 Sweet meates and lunkets, (more then you could dreame) 
 
 Came flowing to you dayly like a ftreame. 
 
 Thus to your Mill came tagge, ragge, great and fmall, 
 
 You Ground, and f with the Cogges) took toll of all. 
 
 At lafh to give fome Eafe unto your Mill 
 
 You were Releaft from Priz'n againft your will. 
 
 Then was your Pockets Treafure full to'th top. 
 
 Which (by degrees) might t' a Confumption drop, 
 
 Then after that (by chance) met you and I 
 
 Where we us'de Complementall courtefy, 
 
 And talkd of Poetry, and then I fayd 
 
 You (by the Mufes favour) was well pay d, 
 
 Whilfi I (for my part) whatfoe're I writ 
 
 Though men approved and applauded it. 
 
 Yet fortune unto me, iv as f till unkind 
 Bounty ivas faft afleep, or hard to find, 
 
 Verbofitie and Vapour was my Gaines 
 A nd Poverty the Portion of my Paines, 
 Though you found many an Igjtorant Mecenas, 
 
 Which made you fat, fiill remain' d a Leane Affe, 
 Words like to thofe, or much to this effeft 
 I fpake, and you this Anfwer did direft. 
 John, you must boldly doe, as I have don 
 Againfl great Perfons let your Verfes run, 
 Snarle at the State, and let your Satyre' s pen 
 
 Write againfl Government, and Noblemeti. 
 
 You mufi run wilfully into offence. 
 
 What though they call itfawcy Impudence, 
 And fo Commit you for' t, as they did me 
 
 Then ftiall you Thrive, and be as you vuould be ; 
 
 Your Books zvould fell your felfe get Coyn and Fame, 
 And then (like mine) Renoivti d fJiall be your Name. 
 I doe not fay our talke was punftuall fuch, 
 But what we fpake imported full as much. 
 
 By 
 
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 By which may be perceiv'd thou Wrot'fl fo odly 
 
 Not out of Hatred unto A6ls ungodly, 
 
 By infinuation to intrude 
 
 Into th' affeftions of the Multitude. 
 
 Thus from poor witleffe Lumps of Ignorance 
 
 Thou gatt'ft Applaufe, Coyne, Cloaths, and Countenance. 
 
 As to their Coft, the moft of them can prove 
 
 Thou Cheat'ft 'em of their Money and their love, 
 
 And now your Campo-MufcB hath found Grace 
 
 To grace you in a graceleffe Captains Place. 
 
 Now dreadfull Warres, and Politique defignes 
 
 Are the Effefts of thy Prophetique Lines : 
 
 Armes, mighty Armes, and ftrange Redoubted deeds 
 
 Are th' Iffues now that ftom thy Mufe proceeds, 
 
 Th' afV turnd thy Anagt^ams to Anibufcadoes 
 
 Thy Diagrams to terrible Bravadoes, 
 
 Thy Chronograms to horrible Stockadoes, 
 
 Thy Epigrams to defp'rate hnbrocadoes, 
 
 Thy Dijlicks to Redoubts and Barricadoes, 
 
 Thy DaSlills and thy Spondees to Scalladoes, 
 
 Thy meafur'd verfe to Marches and Soldadoes, 
 
 Thy Cantoes, and Acrojlicks to Granadoes, 
 
 Thy Canzoes to Brigades, and Canvafadoes, 
 
 Thy Dialogues to Bruifing Bajlinadoes, 
 
 Thy Prologues to moft Barbarous Stab-adoes, 
 
 Thy Catalogues to Vagrant Renegadoes, 
 
 Thy Epilogues to Warlike Pallizadoes, 
 
 And Warwick playes th' ufurping Adelantado, 
 
 For Englands ruine rules the Kings Armado, 
 
 But 'tis my hope your ends will prove Mockado, 
 
 Not worth a ragge of rotten welch Freezado, 
 
 And thou efteemed leffe then a Lantzprezado. 
 
 For if thou durfl lay by thy curfed Spleen, 
 
 And fpeak but Loyally of King and Queen, 
 
 Ceafe to bely the Lords, and but deny 
 
 Thou never flandred'ft them with Papiftry ; 
 
 Ceafe to Abufe the Bifhops, and the Tribe 
 
 Of facred Levi, ceafe thou curfed Scribe, 
 
 B 3 T' applaud 
 
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 T' applaud foule Treafon, and approve all thofe, 
 
 That to Gods Church the King, and Peace are foes; 
 
 Seek but thy Countreys Peace in word and deed. 
 
 Thy Maifters then will hang thee for thy Meede, 
 
 Be but an Honest man two dales together. 
 
 No more a Captain then, but Poor George Wither. 
 
 Should I but anfwer every Lye and Line, 
 
 In that Bafe Balderdafh poor Thing of thine, 
 
 I might b'accounted fo, fo. Thus and Thus, 
 
 An Affe impertinent, Voluminus, 
 
 A Murderer of Paper, a time Wafter, 
 
 A Folio Foole, a Zany Poetajler, 
 
 Thy Apifh Coxcombe ( in thy imitation. 
 
 Like theej the Squirt-Rime of our Troubled Nation, 
 
 One of the Sages of Old Gothams Clarkes 
 
 That makes reply to every dog that Barkes. 
 
 E're rie fo be thy means for Maintenance, 
 
 Let thy Applauders dye in Ignorance, 
 
 For 'tis moft probable thy jeeres and Lying, 
 
 Thou wrot'ft in hope of Gaine by my Replying. 
 
 And if men truly would thy Book examine. 
 
 There may they find both Senfe and Reafons famine. 
 
 All broken Numbers, fraflions, fa6lion, fiftions, 
 
 Meer Mutabilities, felfe Contradi6lions, 
 
 In Dock, out Nettle, here, there, every where. 
 
 And in conclufion, no where, here nor there. 
 
 The Phrafe wherewith thy Verfe are Beawtifide, 
 
 Is onely where the King is Vileifide, 
 
 And that for which thou moft art Gratifide, 
 
 Hath made a Thoufand fooles mif-edifide ; 
 
 With impudence thou art fo fortifide. 
 
 And with Hipocrifie fo Quallifide, 
 
 And (to the World; thy felfe haft juftifide. 
 
 That from the World thou art cleane Mortifide, 
 
 All which thy Boafting Rimes have certifide, 
 
 For under thine own hand 'tis Teftifide, 
 
 And by a crew of Rebels Notifide, 
 
 (Such as with Ignorance are Stupifide) 
 
 That 
 
That thofe bad times fo fowle and Putrifide, 
 
 By thy rare Writings are much purifide ; 
 
 And as we finde by warre fo mundifide, 
 
 Vnparallel'd and unexemplifide, 
 
 ( Or at the leaft fo neatly reftifide ) 
 
 That thou deferveft to be ftellifide, 
 
 Or Idoliz'd and almoft Deifide, 
 
 In the mean time thy fame is Magnifide, 
 
 Thy perfon wondred at, and dignifide, 
 
 And ( if they could ) thou fhouM'ft be fatisfide, 
 
 ('Although themfelves were double Damnifide ) 
 
 Thy Female faire, adorn'd and turpifide, 
 
 Should, for thy fervices be Ladifide : 
 
 All this by Fooles and Rebels Ratifide, 
 
 Is by all wife men fcorn'd and Nullifide. 
 
 Our Miferies thou haft not moUifide, 
 
 Thou our calamities haft amplifide, 
 
 And this my Satyr's Lafh hath verifide. 
 
 This thou maifl fee, and this thou muft allow, 
 
 I can Rand words, and Rime as well as thou / 
 
 Speak and write Nonfence, even by thy example, 
 
 (Though not like thine Admir'd abroad fo ample) 
 
 Like to the inundation of a flame, 
 
 Or like a Mad Lord, never out of frame. 
 
 Or like the Entrailes of a purple Snaile, 
 
 Or like the wagging of the Dog-ftarres Taile, 
 
 Or like the Froft and Snow that falls in June, 
 
 Or like fweet Mufique, that was ne're in Tune : 
 
 Or like a Ship that wants fides, Stem and Keele, 
 
 Or like the Marrow-bones of Fortunes Wheele, 
 
 Even fuch is Wither, like all thefe or nothing. 
 
 Yet like himfelfe, in every good mans Loathing. 
 
 And is not this rare Nonfence, prethee tell, 
 
 Much like thy writing, if men marke it well; 
 
 For Nonfence is Rebellion, and thy writing. 
 
 Is nothing but Rebellious Warres inciting. 
 
 Bafe Scandall, Lyes, and Difobedience, 
 
 Is mofl Ridiculous, and poor Nonfence, 
 
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 Ther's nothing is true fenfe, but what is true, 
 And Hanging is good fenfe for fuch as you. 
 Apollo made not thee his onely Heire 
 In Poetry, I gat fome part for my fhare. 
 And though with Art thou partly art endo'wd. 
 Yet God and Nature, me fome Guifts allow'd; 
 Which I fas my poor Tallent will extend) 
 To Vindicate my wronged King Fie fpend. 
 Nor am I bound fwhate're thou may'ft fuggeft) 
 To think 'mongft Englands Poets thou art beft. 
 Thy Verfes many wayes applauded are 
 Yet many that Boafl leffe may reach as farre. 
 Doth all invention in thy Braine Confift, 
 Art thou the Bounds, the Limits and the Lift, 
 The Longitude of Wit and Honefty, 
 The Latitude of true Integrity ; 
 Art thou th' Hyperbole wonder, whofe Rare Partes 
 Is Non Plus Ultra, of all Armes and Artes, 
 Art thou all this, the Devill thou art. Bragge on. 
 My felfe once gat a Sippe of Hellicon, 
 Which with Enthufiafmes did infufe 
 Into my Braines fome Rap'ts of every Mufe, 
 And therefore, I am fure, thou haft not all, 
 I have my Portion too ^although but fmall.) 
 Which i'ft t'were leffe by halfe, I dare affay. 
 To Cope with thee, in any Loyall way. 
 But to write Verfe, that may Rebellion breed 
 * Thefe Therein thou art too hard for me indeed, 
 pu^ofely clo- I" ^^^^ meane fpace, thou Pigmey Impe of Warr, 
 ven or fplit, Rodomontado , Champion for the Par- * 
 (landing"of ^' Lament, we grieve for grieved Englands woe, 
 the Learned, Whilft every true Man's driven from his Po- * 
 Grave Ridi- SeJJtons may try thofe Knaves that look fo big ; 
 culous Rea- And then 'tis ten to one, but Honeft Grig- * 
 Or I, in Lofty Verfe thy praife fhall Sing, 
 And Thou high Mounted to thy Merits, Swing. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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 der. 
 
[1646.] 
 
 The Complaint of Chriftmas. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 99.J 
 
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 THE COMPLAINT OF 
 
 CHRISTMAS, WRITTEN 
 after Twelfetide, and Printed be- 
 fore Candlemas. 
 
 By lohn Taylor. 
 
 A N any Chriftian or Colechefter man tell Chriflmas day 
 
 poore old Chriftmas day where he is f ^v^^^^ by 
 
 , . g word of mouth 
 
 Is this England or Turkey that 1 am m / -^^ ^^^ ^^^^ 
 
 or is this London or Conjlantinople that perfon. 
 gives me no better Entertainment? I was 
 on the 15 day of December in France, 
 Spaine, Italy, Germany, and in moft of 
 the Kingdomes of the Chriftian World, and in all places I 
 was joyfully received with mirth and merry cheere ; The 
 Rich did feafl me; The Poore rejoiced, and all forts of people 
 in every houfe made me heartily welcome, and my company 
 made them as heartily merry ; and all their mirth and jocun- 
 dity was in Venerable Thankful! Remembrance kept and fo- 
 lemnized amongft all Chriftians thefe 1645 yeares paft, in a 
 Pious gratitude of our Bleffed Saviour, and Redeemer's Nati- 
 vity. But in all this trail of Time and yeares, there was never 
 any Kingdome or People did afford me better welcome then 
 England, where I landed (as I was accuftomed every yeare) 
 on the 25 o{ December, expefting the like entertainment that 
 I was wont to have. But ('alas) the cafe was alter'd, and the 
 whole frame of the Kingdome turn'd quite Topfy Turvy, up- 
 fide downe, or (as I may fay) with the Bottome upwards. 
 I wifh this were a Lye. I gazed about me, and with aftonifh- 
 ment I faw Churches, and Steeples, and Houfes, and Chim- 
 neys, But I could heare no found of any Bell, or fo much 
 
 A fmoake 
 
fmoake as might put me in Comfort that there was any fire 
 in the Kingdome ; Thefe unexpefted fymptomes put me into a 
 Browne ftudy, which made me wilh my felfe a favourite to 
 Tke Governour of Abington. Thus I being old, cold, weather- 
 beaten, froft-bitten , and hungry, began to view certaine 
 Townes and Cities, fuch as Londoii, Gloucejler, Yarmouth, 
 Newbury, with all the reft of Schifmaticall, and Rebellious 
 Receptacles, where affoone as I was entred , I was more and 
 more amazed, for I could perceive no figne or token of any 
 Holy day ; The Shops were open. The Markets were full, 
 The Watermen rowing, The Carmen were a loading and un- 
 loading, The Porters were bearing, and all Trades were for- 
 bearing to keepe any refpeftive memory of me, or of Chrift, 
 in whofe memory I was firft inftituted by the Church fo many 
 ages and yeares foregone. After I had walk'd through every 
 Streete, Lane, and Alley (with other by places) the weather 
 being cold, and my entertainment colder, I went to a Cob- 
 lers ftall, and demanded of him what harme old Chrijlmas 
 had done them, and wherefore he was banifhed fo fuddainly ? 
 the Cobler replied, that it was pitty that ever Chriftmas was 
 borne, and that I was a Papift, and an Idolatrous Brat of the 
 Beaft ; an old Reveller fent from Rome into England, and that 
 the latter end (or lafl fyllable of my name) was Popifh, as o- 
 ther fuperftitious dales were, fuch as are Chrijlmas, Candle- 
 mas, Lammas, Michaelmas, Hallowmas, Martinmas, &c. But 
 that now, he praifed the Lord, and the godly Parliament, that 
 their eyes were opened to perceive and fee their Antichriftian 
 errours, and that now the cleare funfhine of the Word hath 
 (by the operation of the Spirit^ illuminated their underftan- 
 dings, and enlightened them out of Egyptian darke- 
 neffe. 
 
 Thus ftood I quaking with cold, whil'fl the Cobler was 
 pipeing hot with zeale ; So that if I had not tooke him off 
 with a fhort Anfwer, I might have beene fterv'd with a foure 
 or five houres Leflure ; I asked him if he knew what the 
 word Maffe meant f he faid the very word Maffe was abho- 
 minable, deteftable, Babylonian, Idolatrous, Romifh, Super- 
 ftitious, Blafpheamous, Anti-chriftian, &c. with other imper- 
 tinent 
 
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 tinent words and Epithites. I told him againe that the word 
 Mq^e was no other but a difmiffion, or a giving the People 
 to underftand , that fuch and fuch fervice of prayers and 
 thankfgivings were ended as were appointed by the Church 
 for that day ; And that the Congregation might all depart and 
 be gone about their other lawfull Affaires ; And that the Pray- 
 ers and Service ordained on Chrijlmas day by the Primitive 
 Church, were to give thankes to God the Father , our Crea- 
 tour, for fending his Sonne our Redeemer , who fent us the 
 Holy Ghoft to fanftify us, and that upon all other dayes 
 (wherein the memory of Saints were celebrated) there was 
 never ufed any prayers or Invocation to any Saint or Angel 
 whatfoever, but laud and praife was given onely to God, for 
 that he had beene pleafed to make fuch godly men and wo- 
 men Inftruments for his Glory, and our Imitation ; That we 
 by following their examples, might (through faith j finde fa- 
 vour of God (by and through the merits of our Redeemer) 
 to have part with them of perpetuall happineffe. And this is 
 the whole effeft wherefore Chrijlmas day, and all other dayes 
 of the names of Saints, were ordained and fet apart from o- 
 ther dayes ; But for all that I could fay, the Cobler was im- 
 moveable Round, and Roundly he bade me leave prating, for 
 I hindred him from mending Alderman Pennington's fhooes, 
 fwho had gone much afide) and that his efpeciall care and 
 charge was, to fet him upright if it were poffible. 
 
 Thus was poore old Chrijlmas entertain'd at London, Wejl- 
 minjler , and all other places within their Heathen Line of 
 Communication, and Covenanted Bounds or Commands of 
 their execrable Affociation , whofe beleife was onely in the 
 Publique faith of the new Religious Dire£lory (ox Alcaron) 
 which made me to examine my felfe and all the twelve dayes 
 (my followers) what injury any of us had done them, or 
 wherein we had deferved to be thus unexpeftedly and Un- 
 chriftianly excluded and contemn'd . At laft I perceived that 
 all thofe places were inhabited by none but Gadarens , who e- 
 fteemed their Swine more then their Saviour, and dejired him 
 to depart out of tJteir coajls. 
 
 So thefe Hogrubbers banifli'd me, becaufe that (once a 
 
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 yeare) I came to put them in minde that God Almighties Son 
 Chrijl, and our Jefus, was borne, and that I ( being the day of 
 his Birth) was to be obferved with joy and thankfgiving. 
 The old ufe was, that the Rich releived the Poore, the Poore 
 had caufe to pray for the profperity of the Rich , one Neigh- 
 bour Feafted another, every one in his degree made good 
 cheere, for Chriflmas came but once a yeare. 
 
 And indeed I bethought my felfe that I {Chriflmas dsy) was 
 inftituted by the Primitive Chriftian Church ; by the Fathers ; 
 by General! Councells ; by Parliaments, Abraham did fee that 
 day and rejoiced ; Saint Paul calls it the day of Salvation ; 
 The Angels and Heavenly quires did fing at it ; and old Sime- 
 on was Rapp'd with joy at the grafping of his Saviour ; The 
 Gentiles were enlightened, and none but Infidels and lewes 
 are blinde, and will not fee and rejoice in it. 
 
 As I was thus pondering and wondring, I met with an old 
 acquaintance of mine, one that had worthily held a good Par- 
 fonage in the Country, a frequent Preacher , a good Hofpita- 
 ble Houfe-keeper, a charitable Almef-giver, and every way 
 comformable to the eftablifhed Government of the Church of 
 England ; The Poore man and I were glad to fee each other. 
 But yet I was amazed to fee him fo meanely clad, and fo leane 
 and lanke more like a Skelliton (or Anatomy') then the man 
 that I knew him to have beene formerly, I demanded the caufe 
 of this his ftrange Alteration, to which (with fighes and 
 teares ) he made this Reply. 
 
 Ah (Mafter Chrijimas) I could wifh that I were the one, 
 andonelydiftreffed wretched man in this miferableKingdome, 
 and that all the Affli6lions that do oppreffe the Church, the 
 King and his Loyall Subjefts might end with theprefent facri- 
 fice of my Life. But fo it is, that too many mad feduced peo- 
 ple, have madly rifen againft God and the King. They have 
 defaced, deftroyed, and prophan'd Churches and Temples, they 
 have hewen downe the carved workes with Axes and Ham- 
 mers of thofe Houfes which were confecrated for Gods fer- 
 vice. They have caftGods commandements out of the Church, 
 the have fuppreft the beleife, and they have forbid the faying 
 of the Lords prayer ; They have plunder'd, ftarv'd, famifhed, 
 
 imprifoned, 
 
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 imprifoned, murdered, baniflied, fequeftred, beggered, and 
 ruin'd all the Orthodox Clergy from the greateft to the leaft 
 that would not worfhip the Bead of the Brownifts, Anabap- 
 tifts, Familifts, Presbyterians, Independents, with a fhamefuU 
 and damnable crew of other Se6ls ; They have kept me foure 
 yeares in prifon, for no other caufe but that I would not beper- 
 jur'd and damn'd with taking their acurfed Covenants, and 
 fweare to live and dye a Rebell. They have not onely caft 
 out,oromitted,the Lords prayer. But they have alfo puU'd and 
 throwne downe all manner of monuments of the memory of 
 Chrift, as Croffes and figning with Croffes ; And (in breife 
 Mafter Chrijlmas) your day with the dayes of all the bleffed 
 Saints and Martyrs, are all put downe by the ufurped power 
 of a thing called a Parliament, on purpofe (as it is feared) to 
 m.ake the people forget that ever they had a Saviour or Re- 
 deemer borne. 
 
 Concerning of the Croffe my faith is this 
 It is amiffe, to fuch as mak't amiffe. 
 To fuch as reverence it or doe adore it. 
 Or fay their prayers to it or before it. 
 Such do pervert it from its proper ufe. 
 And turne an ornament, to an abufe. 
 We ufe no croffe in Baptifme, with intent 
 To adde fome vertue to the Sacrament : 
 Nor is it ufd at all, by any one 
 Untill the Child be baptif'd, and alls done. 
 Turkes, Pagans, Heathens, Infidels, and Jewes, 
 They know not Chrift, therefore no Croffe they ufe, 
 But no true Chriftian, juftly can repine 
 To let a Croffe ftand, as a Chriflian figne. 
 Knaves may deface it, Fooles may worfhip it. 
 And both are done for want of Grace, or Wit, 
 Flagges, Enfignes, Armes for Sea, or Court, or Campe 
 And all our monies beare the Croffes ftampe. 
 And thofe that wrong'd the Croffes here's my curfe, 
 May they want Croffes allwayes in their purfe. 
 
 But my cufe in the laft line doth more frequently fall upon 
 the Poet, who is terribly crofl for want of Croffes ; And thus 
 
 A 3 ('Mafter 
 
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 (Mafter Chrijimas) I have made bold to give you a few verfes 
 inftead of a Caroll ; But Sir I remember that it is written that 
 Pharaoh King oijEgypt, kept his birth-day with mirth and 
 feafling, Gen: 40. fo did Herod Mat. 14. Mark. 7. thefe were 
 wicked Kings, the later of which was fo prodigall to give the 
 head of a glorious Saint, to pleafe the humour of a vaineglori- 
 ous Strumpet. We have a yearely day of Joy and thankfgiv- 
 ing (on the 5 of November) for our great deliverance from the 
 Gun-powder Treafon, for the which we can never fufficiently 
 magnifieGods mercies in preventing our miferies ; Befides ma- 
 ny other dayes have beene fet a part for faftings, or feaftings, 
 fas time and occafion required) But you (Mafter Chrijimas) 
 and all memory of you, are banifhed for yourMafters fake, and 
 your Mailer is like to be baniflied for his Fathers fake, and 
 his Father is like to be abufed for his mercyandgoodneffefake; 
 whilft the King is tranfcendently injured for his juftice and 
 clemencies fake, and all his loyall Subje6ls and fervants, are 
 wronged for their Loyalties fake, whilfl our Enemies doe take 
 great paines for the Devils fake, to purchafe damnation for 
 their Workes fake. 
 
 Thus the old parfon made a pittifull complaint to me, and 
 would have proceeded further, but that fuddainely a tumultu- 
 ous multitude of fundry forts of People came crowding upon 
 me, with more clamours for redreffe of reall greivances then 
 15 pretended Parliaments can re6lifie. The Grocers, they faid 
 that every yeare (againft my comming) they were wont to 
 take more then 1 00000' forfruite and fpice to make Plumb-pot- 
 tage, Mince pies, and other Cookery kickfhawes ; The Mer- 
 cers, Drapers, Silkemen, Taylors, Shoemakers, Cookes, (and 
 allmoft all Trades) cryed out they were undone, becaufe of my 
 abfence ; The Apprentices of many occupations , with the 
 Kitchin maides. Butlers, and porters of great mens gates, 
 Brewers Draymen, Bakers with numbers ('pad numbering) 
 came to me, fome curfmg, fome crying, fome ftamping, and 
 ftareing, all complaining and exclaiming that their Chriftmas 
 Boxes were banifhed with me ; Aud that whereas by the be- 
 nefits of them they had good meanes, (for my fake) now they 
 were paft hope of any helpe, except I were reftored to my an- 
 cient 
 
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 cient right and dignity. The Renowned and famous inftru- 
 ments for Warre, Triumph, or Pleafure, Drums, Trumpets, 
 Phifes, who were fupported where I came, with guifts, offer- 
 ings, and other worthy gratuities and encouragements, are all 
 caft off. Thefe with thoufands more of memorable, and com- 
 mendable of your goodneffe (Mafler Chrijlmas) are defunft 
 and vanifhed, and all the liberty, and harmeleffe fports, with 
 the merry GamboUs, dances and frifcolls, which the toyling 
 Plowfwaine, and Labourer, once a yeare were wont to be re- 
 created, and their fpirits and hopes reviv'd for a whole twelve 
 month, are now extinft and put out of ufe,in fuch a fafhion as if 
 they never had bin. Thus are the merryLords of mifrule,fupprefl; 
 by the mad Lords of bad rule atWeftminfter. Nay more, their 
 madneffe hath extended it felfe, to the very vegetables, the 
 fenceleffe Trees, Hearbes, and Weedes are in a prophane efti- 
 mation amongfl them, Holly, Ivy, Mijletoe, Rojemary, Bayes, 
 are accounted ungodly Branches of Superftition for your en- 
 tertainement. And to roafl a Surloyne of Beefe, to touch a 
 Collar of Brawne, to bake a Pye, to put a plumb in the pot- 
 tadge pot, to burne a great Candle, or to lay one blocke the 
 more in the fire for your fake (Mafter Chrijlmas) is enough to 
 make a man to be fufpefted and taken for a Chriftian, for 
 whichhefhall be apprehended forcommiting high Parliament- 
 Treafon, and mighty malignancy, againft thegenerall Councell 
 oftheZ>2>^^i?r2««, private /'rig/'^^/^maw Conventicle. And for Mafter Lilly 
 a conclufion it is fayed that either MaHerBookerjOrMaiievLye (°^ ^y^ ^V') 
 Lye (ox both of them) have framed a new Almanack, their ac- , \ ^1 V' , '^ 
 count of yeares begins from the fall oi Lucifer 5639 where in- tion, for he in 
 flead of Chriftmas day, and all other Saints dayes, they have (his laft An- 
 put in other Saints as followeth;firftMafterO^?/?;^«i-yourday ^■^^'^"■f) wnt the 
 hath 3 round Ciphers 000, with the word Fafl, after that, is -^^^^^ ° (hi! 
 Saint Cain, Saint Chorah, Saint Dathan, Saint A biram, Saint yeare , to be 
 Achitophel, Saint Sheba the fonne of Bichrie, Saint Shimei, '^e 18 of this 
 Saint Rabfliekah, Saint Ifcariot, Saint Simon Magus, Saint 1";"""^ ^"^^t 
 Elimas the forcerer, Samt Alexander the Copper fimth, Samt t^e 21. 
 Nero, Saint Caligula, Saint Domitian, Saint Heliogabalus, 
 Saint y?</2OT the Apoftate, SB.mtHilclebrand, SaXntMackiavel, 
 SdJmt Richard tYic third, Saint BaltazerGerrard, Saint Ravili- 
 
 ac, 
 
(8) 
 ar, ^^SxAFaux, Saiat Garnet, Saint Brookes, Saint Hampdm, 
 Saint lechoniak A bercromey. Saint Pym, Saint Burton, Saint 
 Pryn, Saint Bajlwick, Saint Kimbolton, with the Renowned 
 memory of the thirty Tyrants oi Athens, with Saint Rebell, 
 Saint Mercurius Britannicus, Saint Waller, with his Sainteffe, 
 Saint Wither ( I had almoft forgotten Saint 5aj/ the Confeffor,) 
 with them a great number more of old Saintes and new Saints, 
 Martyrs, and Confeffors,the Predeceffors and Coadjutors in and 
 of this famous RebeUion, this Almanack and Prognoftication 
 is calculated for the Meridian of London, and Wejlminjler, 
 with all other places of this Parliamentall Hemifpheare, thefe 
 unwelcomed exclamations and alterations put me into fuch a 
 perplexity, that poore old Chrijlmas made all the hafb out of 
 England that he could before Candlemajfe, not defpairing but 
 that he may come againe the next yeare and finde better en- 
 tertainement. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 Printed at the charges of the Author, who 
 
 is of that humble condition- that he will 
 
 refufe no gratuities of words or deeds 
 
 from any body. 
 
1647. 
 
 The Kings Wellcome to 
 
 Hampton Court. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. ioi.J 
 
THE 
 
 KINGS 
 
 MOST EXCELLENT 
 
 MAJESTIES 
 
 Wellcome to his owne Houfe, 
 Truly called the Honour of Hampton 
 
 COVRT 
 
 Who came thither on the 24. of 
 Augujl, and fo confequently hoped and hum- 
 bly defired to White-Hall. 
 
 Written by his Majefties moil humble fervant 
 
 John Tailor , one of the Yeoman of 
 
 His Maiesties Guard. 
 
 Alius Poeta Aquatticus. 
 
 From my Houfe at the.Crowne in Globe Lane (Alias Phcenix Al- 
 ly, nere the Globe Taverne in Long Aker. 
 
 Printed in the Yeare. 1647. 
 
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 THE KINGS 
 
 Moft Excellent M a i e s t i e s, 
 
 Wellcome to his owne 
 Houfe, Truly called the Ho- 
 nour of Hampton-CoMYi. 
 
 MOft Gracious (fufFring) Soveraigne Lord & King 
 Had I a quill pluckd from the Phoenix wing, 
 Or Homers Mufe, or Virgills towring ftile, 
 (Thy ten times long wilh'd wellcom to compile ) 
 Had I all thefe great aides, all were to few, 
 Thy Subjefls long expefted joyes to Ihew 
 Thy prefence hath infpir'd this Mufe of mine, 
 More then Apollo and his triple Trine, 
 Hee's dull braind, and a Poet cannot bee. 
 That wants a Mufe (great King,) and writes of thee. 
 A jufter Mafler fervants never had 
 And fervants falfe to man, to to bad 
 But as the Eagle never call his eyes. 
 On abje<5l, objeds, vermin, gnatts or flies, 
 
 A 2 So 
 
(2) 
 
 So thou not minding injuries, haft ftill, 
 
 With thine owne goodnes overcome their ill. 
 
 Ingratefull men tooke cloathing, wages, food. 
 
 From thee, and have repaid thee ill for good : 
 
 Which thy Heroicke mind ftill flighted hath. 
 
 As moft unworthy of thy Royall wrath. 
 
 Ther's not a grace, a vertue or an Art, 
 
 But are in throned in thy Princely Heart : 
 
 Faith and Fame unfliaken with the wrongs, 
 
 Of perjur'd writers and perfidious tongues. 
 
 Thy certaine Hope in thy Majeftique Breaft 
 
 That fix'd beliefe, fliall be made manifeft 
 
 By Charitie, which thou haft fliew'd to thofe 
 
 Who are thy curfed caufeles mortall foes. 
 
 Whereby thy virtues patient conftancy, 
 
 Hath won thee a more glorious vi6lory, 
 
 Then if (by conqueft) thy fharpe fword fhould peirce 
 
 Through all the Kingdomes of the Univerfe. 
 
 Thy Mercy and thy lujiice are the Jems, 
 
 And richeft Jewells in thy Diadems. 
 
 To fumme up all ; 'tis truly underftood 
 
 Ther's nothing may be named /^ ox good 
 
 But is in thee ingraff'd, and nothing ill 
 
 Thou fayft or do'ft, but 'tis againft thy will. 
 
 Thy Mafter Chrijl (the light made thee difcerne, 
 
 And this bleft Leffon thou from him didft learne. 
 
 That he that Loveth, Father, Mother, Wife, 
 
 Children, earths goods or glory, or his life 
 
 More then his Saviour (fuch a fordid Spirit) 
 
 Is moft unworthy of his Mafters Merrit : 
 
 This precept thou haft pradlis'd this thy troath 
 
 Kept in thy Chriftian Coronation Oath, 
 
 wife 
 
(3) 
 
 Wife, Children, Crowne, and Kingdomes, friends. Life, all 
 
 Thou hazzard'fl either to rife, ftand or fall. 
 
 Thy Love ( Great King ) to thy great King of Kings, 
 
 By thee hath been prefer'd above all things. 
 
 For which he'le crowne his Gifts in thee, and hee 
 
 Will crowne thee glorious with Eternitie : 
 
 Thy Conftancie hath trip'd up Fortunes heele, 
 
 Thy mind ne're minded her Inconftant Wheele ; 
 
 What good, or bad Occurrances effedled ; 
 
 Thy Spirits were ne're erredled or dejefted ; 
 
 Not with a ftuped Humor floicall, 
 
 But with a Chriftian Mind Majefticall ; 
 
 And with Impregnable ftrong coniidence, 
 
 Still trufting in the Almighties Providence. 
 
 Now may wee fee that Patience, Clemencie, 
 
 Religion, and true Magnanimitie, 
 
 Are Talents lent, whofe value doth excell : 
 
 And all the Proffits their's that ufe them well. 
 
 And ( Royall Sir ) Thou haft done well (no doubt^ 
 
 Thou haft not wrap'd thy Talent in a Clowte, 
 
 But fo improv'd thy truft, in thy Truftee, 
 
 That tenfold ten times more thy truft ftiall bee. 
 
 And now poore England, hath fo many years 
 
 Bin Plagu'd with caufles Jelbjies and Feares, 
 
 Which (like Blacke clouds) difperft with wavering wind : 
 
 Made Wit fquint-ey'd, and Vnderjlanding blind, 
 
 Whearby each howre was frighted hence fweet Peace 
 
 And every moment miferies encreafe : 
 
 But as bright Phebus (interpof'd by Clowds, 
 
 Which with a mourning face the earth e'n ftirowds ) 
 
 At laft difpells them with his Radient Ray, 
 
 And makes the dolfome darke, a gladfome day. 
 
 So 
 
 A3 
 s 
 
(4) 
 
 So wee ( miftaken Subjefts ) hood-winck over 
 
 With Ignorance, our fights againe recover, 
 
 King Charles fhines cleare, as Sols Corufcant Beames 
 
 Hath prov'd our Jeallous Feares wer leffe then dreames, 
 
 Milde Dove-like King brings Peace with th' Ollive Braunch, 
 
 Whofe Love (Hke Balfome, Bleeding wounds will ftaunch 
 
 Our chearefuU faces, fhewes our minds ( like Mirrors ) 
 
 Free from fufpitious thoughts, or needleffe Terrors : 
 
 Hearts over flow'd with Joyes, Thankes up eredled 
 
 To God, who for us hath this good effefted : 
 
 Our joyfull eyes fhewes Aprill drops of pleafure, 
 
 And fhowrs of Joy fill th' Horizons meafure, 
 
 Th' Almightie hath thy troubles feene and heard, 
 
 And hath thy upright heart in fuch regard 
 
 That (mauger mifchiefe) His outflretched Arme 
 
 Hath, doth, and will defend thee ftill from Harme, 
 
 Bafe Shiemei Railes not as he erft hath done, 
 
 Nor rake-hell Sheba [Bieri's curfed fonne) 
 
 Doth rore and raile with lowd Infernall yell. 
 
 Or cry out, to your Tents o Ifraell 
 
 That Sedaries no more contention Breed 
 
 But humbly learne to know their Chriftian Creed, 
 
 That luda/ses no more Hayle Majler fay 
 
 When as they meane their Mafter to betray. 
 
 That Reverend Levites of a new hatcht Brood, 
 
 Make England drunk no more with Englifh Blood. 
 
 That we may have our Qveene and Prince once more, 
 
 And ufe them Kinder then we did of yore. 
 
 Triumphing trumpetts fownd fhall mount toth' ftarres 
 
 Hnd not the dreadfull charge of civill warres. 
 
 Sweet Peace (we hope fhall MS. the Churlifh Drumb, 
 
 And Murd'ring, Thundring, Guns. Commanded Dumb, 
 
 Juflice 
 
lujlice and Mercy both Kiffe (when they meete) 
 
 No heavy fad complaining in our ftreete, 
 
 No more fhall England bath in her owne Gore, 
 
 Or leading to captivity no more. 
 
 Sword (drunk with blood) fhall in their Scabberds reft, 
 
 No plundering or free quartering ftiall moleft. 
 
 The painefuW /armer, ploughman, or the fwaine, 
 
 And weapons fhall give place to gownes againe. 
 
 The Church refume her rights (he had before, 
 
 The Cleargie to be fcandaliz'd no more. 
 
 Thus each man hopes he fhall his right enjoy 
 
 And all ceafe one another to deftroy. 
 
 The King fhall have his owne againe, and fee. 
 
 His enemies afham'd and odious bee. 
 
 Upon thy Head ftill flourifh may thy Crowne, 
 
 And ten times troubled be thy high Renoune 
 
 That thee and thine in glory here may Raigne, 
 
 Untill the King of glory come againe : 
 
 For fuch as fpeake peace, and doe warre intend. 
 
 For any Sinifter or private end. 
 
 That of tranquillity doe prate and prattle. 
 
 But wifh for war, yet dare not fee a Battle, 
 
 Let all fuch never claime a Chriftian Name 
 
 Whofe trade or pleafure in Blood and Flame, 
 
 Of their deere Country ; to Rippe, Rend and teare, 
 
 Their Mothers Woombe, which did fuch Baftards beare 
 
 Belike fome feare that Peace would drive 'em hence 
 
 To England New, or th' I fie of Providence: 
 
 Virginia, Barmoodies, or St. Kitts. 
 
 Barbadoes, Mevis, or befides their witts : 
 
 But thofe that offering to the Altars bring, 
 
 To raife new warres 'gainft Kingdome Lawes and King, 
 
 Let 
 
(6) 
 
 Let them goe Weft-ward to the Triple tree, 
 
 And like falfe Traitours, hang both he and fhee. 
 
 Thofe Sonnes oi Hittits and oi Amorites, 
 
 God doe to them, as to the Midianites, 
 
 As Heathen Si/era, and as Fabin dyd 
 
 At Endors Field, (where Kijhowes Brooke doth flyd) 
 
 As they became as dunge, fo let them be, 
 
 That to a bleffed Peace will not a gree, 
 
 The peace of God, grant us thou God of Peace, 
 
 Let us ceafe finne, thou wil't our forrowes ceafe. 
 
 Let's frame our lives according to thy word 
 
 And let no Sword be drawne, but Juftice Sword, 
 
 To which ends, thou good God of Confolation, 
 
 Send happy peace to this affli6led Nation. 
 
 So Wellcome good King Charles to Hampton Court, 
 
 And God be ftill thy fhield, defence and Fourt. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 ^^^^ ^3i^>^^^ ^;^,2l^^^d^3^3^^^^2^^3^ ^^^^^ 
 
1648. 
 
 An Ironicall Expoftulation. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 104^.] 
 
'I n n-'A N p n n S: 
 
 O R, A N 
 
 Ironicall Expoftulation 
 
 WITH 
 DBA T H and FA T E, 
 
 For the Loffe of 
 
 The late Lord Mayor of London; 
 
 Who on Friday Odtober 27. 1648. expired to- 
 gether with his Office ; and both He and his 
 Bay-Horfe di'd o'th' Sullens. 
 
 VVhereunto is annexed an Epitaph both 
 on Mayor and Horfe. 
 
 Alfo a Dialogicall brief Difcourfe held Odob. 29 
 
 between Col. Rainsborough and Charon, at 
 
 their Meeting. 
 
 — _ . — — — — — ^ 
 
 Compofed hy Philanarzx^A Mifojiratus, two London -Apprentices 
 once in-Counter'd laft yeer for their Loyalty. 
 
 Si Cato reddatur, Cmfarianus erit. M artial . 
 
 Printed, Amio exulantis Monarchies 8. 
 Anno Domini 1648. 
 
[I] 
 
 mnjWm #^i^ fTv^vR fwrvHik n 
 
 I n n-^ Nepiinos: 
 
 OR, 
 
 An Ironicall Expoftulation with 
 
 Death and 7^«/^, for the lofife of the late 
 Lord Mayor of London. 
 
 FOrtmte, thou art a Whore ; and Death, thou art 
 ("Tis ro be fear'd) a Cavaleer in Heart: 
 You, that fo formall ftand with Scythe and Glaffe, 
 Think not in private with our Lord to paffe. 
 Was there but one choice peice ? one dainty bit, 
 And your leane ugly Jaws muft fall on it ? 
 Were there not Dray-men, Butchers, plump and fat, 
 But you muft pick a Weajle out, a Rat ? 
 Was it you took a liking to the Elfe, 
 For his Complexion, 'twas fo like your felfe ? 
 Or for your Eafe, left a more weighty pack 
 Should in the tranfportation break your back ? 
 Was it you found him grating of a fcuU 
 Which you might call your owne, you did him cull ? 
 Or that his foveraign * Drugs reftor'd a Brother, * }Je was a 
 
 That through an Hurdle fuckt (^you'l fay) his Mother ? Druggijl in 
 
 Was it you came before his Plots were ripe. 
 And he refus'd to ask you, fmoake a Pipe ? 
 If none of thefe, why then fo hajly, Death ? 
 What, not afford a Lord Mayor two dales breath ? 
 When the Potato-Pies, and Capons were 
 Bought, and in readineffe to end the year ? 
 If 'twas his lot to die, well ; elfe 'twas bafe, 
 To cull a Magiftrate for's Chain, or Mace. 
 This was plain Tyranny, we cannot blame 
 Him for an Independent, when you came. 
 
 A 2 Reftore 
 
 Bucklers 
 Berry. 
 
Mr. War- 
 ner. 
 
 [2j 
 Reftore him to us ; fure 'twas a miftake. 
 King Noll and's Kindred elfe will make you quake. 
 
 Was it for this he did fo long oppofe 
 Monarchy, and Princes, to be led by th' Nofe, 
 And fhown in Pluto's Court, with O yes ! here 
 Comes my Lord Mqyre and' s Hor/e; provide um cheere? 
 Was it for this he became Pimp, to th' State, 
 And to admit their Army op'd the Gate? 
 While in Triumphant manner they beftrid 
 London, like George on Horfeback, as they rid ? 
 Was it for prefervation of \ihs: flock, 
 So many o'th' wicked he condemn'd to th' Block ? 
 And with his fwoi'd of Power cut in two 
 What neither Law nor Jujlice e're could do ? 
 
 O Death ! thou art ungratefull ; he has fent 
 More to thee in one yeare then th' Plague or Lent. 
 By Proclamations, by Colle£lions too 
 'Gainft th' Common Enemy what e're would do. 
 I fay again, reftore, or wee'l appeale 
 And have you put down Traytor under feale. 
 
 Say Mr. Speaker, is't not Treafon fcan'd. 
 For Death t' arreft a Member under hattd 
 
 And without th' Houfes leave f I know 'tis fo, 
 
 Youl find it Caroli Vicefimo. 
 
 Is't not againft an Order lately made. 
 All Members to be free, their debts uupaid } 
 Did they not pitch upon a day, to wit. 
 Doomsday ith' Afternoon to think on it .' 
 
 But all this will not do : hee's gon to tell 
 Hampden and Brooks , and Pym the Newes in Hell. 
 
 How there is Peace ( God bleffe us ) coming on 
 ( That Antichriftian brat of Babylon ) 
 When 'tis againft his Confcience to fubmit 
 Or have 2. finger in reftoring it. 
 Would not the world cry fhame, fliould he accord 
 Who in his Name has War, and's Armes the fword .' 
 Hee's gon to tell them of a certain thing 
 Coming to London, whom men call the King : 
 
 VVhofe 
 
[3] 
 Whofe Scepter will out-fway, and bring in thrall 
 Th'eftablifli'd Government Anarchicall. 
 And with his Radiant luftre quite difpell 
 What for thefe /even years has been hatch'd in Hell. 
 
 Yet let none fay he's broke or run away, 
 But fas the wifer call't) he did convey 
 Himfelfe into a Church, in policie, 
 Where he was fure none would fufpefl him lie. 
 No clamorous Bell pronounce his fall, no Gun, 
 He was no Warriar, nor no Whittington. 
 f Only the joviall Butchers (in the Stocks) 
 Gave him a difmall peale with cleaver-knocks.) 
 Let him fans Common-Prayer in filence paffe. 
 Be buried with the buriall of an Afse. 
 
 So farewell horfe and man, dead and forgot. 
 
 Both infamous let both together rot. 
 
 Rejoyce Apprentices, your day is come 
 No more to fland in fear of Martyrdome : 
 No more Ihall yee to Bridewell go, and pay 
 For your extravagance the lajl Lords day. 
 Now ye may circumambulate, and fee 
 Morefields and IJlington without a fee. 
 No more henceforth fhall th' Surry Cavaliers 
 Go home and fhake their heads without their eares. 
 All troubled waters now fhall to their fprings 
 Returne, and one raigne, not five hundred Kings. 
 
 Yet all this while we erre, and accufe Fate, 
 When he his own end did accelerate ; 
 For having drunk di/cruple over-night 
 Oijealoufies dind fears, he took his flight. 
 Thus Hanniball, and thofe heroick blades. 
 Minding an eafie way to get to th' Shades, 
 Made ufe o'th' Druggijls Art, and to provide 
 'Gainfl future vengeance, drunk their doffe, and di'd. 
 
 A 3 An 
 
 5 
 
[4] 
 An Epitaph on the Mayor, &c. 
 
 VNder this Tomb-ftone lies a thing, 
 Enemy both to Church and King. 
 No Protejiant, and yet no Papijl, 
 A Puritan, and yet an Atheiji. 
 For Magijlracy a grand ftickler, 
 Yet a moft zealous Conventickler : 
 One that for Chrijl would live and die, 
 (Yet kept no Chrijl-tide verily.) 
 One that the Prophets flew, and took 
 Th' Apojiles badge from out the Booke. 
 One that the Kubrick took away, 
 And gave th' Apprentices Tuefday. 
 One that did every thing amifse, 
 Then riddle me, riddle me, who was thisf 
 
 An Epitaph on my Lord Mayors Horfe. 
 
 HEre in this Oyle-Tub ^Reader ftand aloofe^ 
 Lies Great Bucephalus, beware his hoofe ; 
 
 Who out of a good nature needs would die, 
 
 Meerly to keep his Mafher company. 
 
 Bay was his name, fome call'd him, Rofemary, 
 
 For his viftorious feats, and Chivalry : 
 
 But if he had no name, the Bulks and Shambles 
 
 Would fpeak him famous for his Chrijimafse Gambolls : 
 
 When from an Amble to a Trot anon 
 
 Bravely he trod down Superftition. 
 
 For which rare fervice 'tis decreed he lie 
 
 Pickled and Powder' d for Pofterity. 
 
 And live by this Infcription (fomewhat courfe) 
 Down went the Popijli Rites, Grammercy Horfe. 
 
 A 
 
[5] 
 
 A Dialogicall brief Difcourfe be- 
 tween Rainsborough and Charon, at their 
 meeting, 06lob. 29. 1648. 
 
 Cha-'\ T 7'Elcome to th' fhades ; hail Brother Rain/bo- 
 ron. V V / am a Boat-man, fo were you. {rough : 
 Moft opportunely / See th' triumphant Mayor, 
 
 (No leffe a man) is our firft fare. 
 Had you not come, his Honour had (by Styx) 
 
 Fairl' in a Sculler gone t' Old Nicf^s. 
 Rainjb. Now he may ride in Oares — forbeare ; alas, 
 
 He that you fpeak of may not paffe. 
 What will ludge RJtadamanth and Minos fay. 
 
 If we th' * arrefted Corps convey ? * Arrrejied 
 
 I that on Earth was above Law, yet know by ct Knight 
 
 How to conforme my felf below. zvkofe fonne 
 
 Charon. Hum / I have lofl my Naula ; let it go ; wasjlain in 
 
 Now to your bufmeffe Rain/borough. the late bic- 
 
 Rainfb. Know then, that I from th' Englifh Coaft am fent kering in 
 
 By th! States, to know your Government. London. 
 
 And e're the Vote paffe, hence muft have command. 
 
 That the new Anarchy may ftand : 
 Speak Charon, fpeak ; if Pluto think it good, 
 I have already feal'd it with my blood. 
 
 Charon. Dull Man, or Ghojl; or whatfoe're thou art. 
 
 Thou think'fl to alienate my heart : 
 Know'll not we have a Prince ; and though the Devill, 
 
 One that abjures all you that LevelP. 
 You that incroach, my Office to enjoy ; 
 
 Were you not once a Skippers Boy t 
 By all th' infernall gods, lay by thy Spade, 
 Or be fufpefted guilty Hell t' invade. 
 
 Rainfb. No more ; I yeeld : the Government ftand, 
 I was but fent here under-hand) 
 
 Yet 
 
[6] 
 Yet if our Agents with you here might try, 
 
 They would put hard for Anarchy. 
 Charon. Anarchy ? Hell and Furies ! fuch a word 
 
 Once more, and thou go'ft over-board. 
 Belzebub, if he knew thee at this height, 
 
 Would have thee carbonado' d ftreight. 
 Leave us — and yet I'le write thy Epitaph, 
 
 Meerly to make the Devill laugh. 
 For, by the Rabbles leave, without controule, 
 'Twas not a * Fire removed his pure Soule. 
 
 * So Walker 
 upon Tho. 
 Rainsbo- 
 rough, he 
 that from an 
 Ironmon- 
 ger became 
 a Newes- 
 monger, & 
 now makes 
 Hebrew 
 Pot-hooks 
 and And- 
 irons cum 
 privilegio. 
 
 Epitaph. 
 
 WEltring in blood fee here an Horfe-leech fprawll, 
 Glutted 3XiA overcharg'd, yet loath to fall; 
 Bred up 'ith Ocean ; lately crept to th'fhore, 
 ( Though he had all, yet covetous of more.) 
 Which when the wife Phifitian faw, his thirfl 
 That 'twas unfatiable, let him burft : 
 So having empti'd and difgorg'd his Maw, 
 Hence through the Rubick fea he fwam away. 
 Feare not Colchefirian Dames, left Lucas 'rife ; 
 Veng'ance is fully paid ; Here RainsVrongh lies. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
1649- 
 Wanderings to fee the Wonders 
 
 of the Weft. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 106.] 
 
JOHN TAYLORS 
 
 Wandering, to fee the Wonders 
 of the WEST. 
 
 How he travelled neere 600. Miles, from London to the 
 
 Mount in Cornwall, and beyond the Mount, to the 
 
 Lands end, and home againe. 
 
 Dedicated to all his loving Friends, and free minded 
 BenefaSlors. 
 
 In thele dangerous dayes for Rich men, and miferable times 
 for the Poore Servants of the late King, ( whereof I was 
 one, 45.yeers to his Royall Father and Himfelf ) I thought 
 it needful to take fome courfe to make ufe of fome friends, 
 and devife a painfull way for my fubfiftence ; which was 
 the Journey I have part, and this Booke heere prefent ; for 
 which purpofe I gave out many of thefe following Bills, 
 to which neere 3000. Gentlemen and others, have kindly 
 fubfcribed, to give me a reafonable reward. 
 
 Printed in the Yeere 1649. 
 
The Bil of John Taylor, or a Tay- 
 lors Bill, without either Imprimis, 
 or Items. 
 
 r\ Ld, lame and poor, by mad contentions beggerd, 
 
 And round about with miferies beleaguerd : 
 Too many Mafters made me MafterlefTe, 
 Too many wrongs have made me monylefTe, 
 Helples, and hopeles, and remedileffe. 
 And every way encompaft with diftreffe. 
 To eafe my griefes I have one trick of wit, 
 (If you that read will fet your hands to it : ) 
 Which is, when I do give you good account 
 From London unto Cornevvals Michaels Mount, 
 Of all my iourney, and what News I found 
 In ayre, or fea, above, or under ground ; 
 When I do give you truths of this in Print, 
 How I did travell, gravell, duft, durt, flint, 
 My entertainment, where tvvas good, where ill. 
 Then (in good mony) give me what you will, 
 Your, nams & dwellings, write that I may find you, 
 And I shal (with my book) feek, find, and minde you, 
 with humble thankes. 
 
 CEven times at Sea I fervd Eliza Queen, 
 
 Since when, I thrice in Germany have been. 
 Once in Bohemia tvvixt Earth, Sea, and Sky, 
 And once to Scotland, and the Mountains high : 
 Then unto Quinbrough, in a Paper Boat, 
 Then next (from London) I to Yorke did float 
 With a fmall paire of Oares (or little Wherry) 
 And in like fort from London to Salsberry. 
 Next that my man and I did ride our Steedes 
 To Leicefter, Lin, Hull, Hallifax and Leedes, 
 Ore loftj' mountains, vvher the winds blew bleak. 
 To Chefter, Darby, and Devils arfe a peak. 
 Then with a Scullers boat to Cicefter, 
 From thence (up Seaverns flood) to Glocefter, 
 To Worfter, and the Town of Shrewsbery, 
 From thence to BriftoU, and to Bath I fly; 
 Thefe are no fictions, or falfe Idle Tales, 
 I palTe from Bathe to the River Wye in Wales ? 
 Then Hereford did me well entertain. 
 From whence I home came ui my Boat again. 
 Laft (to the King) at the Ifle of Wight I went, 
 Since when my beft content, is difcontent : 
 Thus having traveld North, and South, andJEaft, 
 I meane to end my travels with the Weft. 
 
(I) 
 
 mmm^mmm^ 
 
 TAYLORS Wefterne Voy- 
 age to the Mount. 
 
 /s a mad world {my m,ajlers) and infadnes 
 I travail' d madly in thefe dayes ofmadnes : 
 Eight yeares a frenzy did this Land moleji. 
 The ninth yearfeenid to be much like the rejl, 
 My felfe {with age, griefe, wrongs, and wants opprejl. 
 With troubles m.ore then patience could difgejl') 
 Amongjt thofe IJles, I chofe the leajl and bejl, 
 Which was to take this journey to the Wejl : 
 And Jure it is an Argument m,ofifit. 
 That he who hath a portion of /mall wit 
 As I have, and good Jlore of friends, ' twere floth 
 And foolery, not to make ufe of both. 
 My wit was worne thread bare, halfe naked, poore, 
 And I, with it, went woo l-gath' ring for more. 
 This long walke {firfl and lajl) I tmdertooke 
 On purpofe to get m^ney by m,y Booke : 
 My friends {I kfiow) will pay me for m,y paine, 
 And I will never trouble them, againe. 
 Six hundred miles, I {very neere) have footed. 
 And all that time was neither fhdd or booted ; 
 
 B But 
 
(2) 
 
 But in light buskins I perform d this travell 
 
 Ore hill and dale, through dujl, dirt, flint, andgravell. 
 
 And now no more words T in vaine willfcatter, 
 
 But come unto the marrow of the matter. 
 
 My Reader mtifl not her fippofe that I 
 
 Will write a treatife of Geography : 
 
 Or that I meane to make exa£l Relations 
 
 Of Cities, Townes, or Countries fcituations ; 
 
 Such men as thofe, I turne them- ore to reade 
 
 The learned Cambden, or the painefnll Speed. 
 
 And now {good Reader) I my mufe do tune, 
 
 I London left, the twenty one ^June : 
 
 To Brainford, Colebrooke, Maidenhead and Henly, 
 
 I pafl {the weather faire, the high wayes cleanely) 
 
 To Abington, where fotire dayes I remain d. 
 
 By friends and kins fo Ikes kindely entertain d : 
 
 Thankes to my Nephew John, with all the refl. 
 
 To whom that time I was a coflly Guefl. 
 
 AND now me thinkes a little Profe may be reli- 
 -^*-fhed amongft friends ; I left Abington on Wed- 
 nefday the 27. of June, and (for the eafe of my purfe) 
 I gave 2S. 6d. for the hire of the Skelliton or Anato- 
 my of a Beafi; to carry me ten miles to Farington ; the 
 thing I was mounted on was neither Horfe, Mare, or 
 Gelding, it was all fpirit, with very little (or no flefh.) 
 It was none of your purfy foggy Jades, and amongft 
 Horfemen it might have paft for a Light Horfe , too 
 much worke, and too little meate, made him as gaunt 
 as a Greyhound : Thus (mounted like Don Quixot) 
 I entred Farington, but worfe Guefts then I had been 
 
 there 
 
(3) 
 there fince thefe troubles ; for the Kings Party burnt 
 
 one part of the Towne, and the Parliaments fired the 
 
 reft, fo that between them there was a good hanfome 
 
 Market Towne turned into Afhes and Rubbidge : It 
 
 begins to bud and fpring out againe , for heere and 
 
 there a pritty houfe peepes up : fo that it will in fhort 
 
 time be rebuilt , and Phaenix like (out of it's owne 
 
 cinders ) be revived and reneued to a more pleafmg 
 
 and beautifull profpeft. 
 
 From Farington I footed it foure miles to Hizvorth, 
 (a Market Towne) and from thence to Purton feaven 
 miles more , where I lodged, there was nothing re- 
 markable in all that dayes travels ; but that in the mor- 
 ning a Church at a Village called Kingjlon, (five 
 miles from Abingion) having no fteeple ; but the 
 Church at Purton (where I lay all night) had two ftee- 
 ples ; but I was certified that the Minifter that had 
 two fteeples, had but one Benefice, and he that had 
 none, had two, by which meanes the reckoning was 
 even betwixt them, for what the one had, the other 
 had not. 
 
 The 28. o{ June, I betook me to my feete an houre 
 and halfe before the Sunne could fhew his face in So- 
 merfetfhire , and for one fhilling I hired an old drun- 
 kard to guide me eight long miles to the Towne of 
 Malmsbury, where all worthy remembrance was, that 
 I found an Ancient Towne, an old Caftle, and new 
 Ale ; from thence I hired a Horfe for 2s. feaven miles, 
 and footed it feaven miles more that day to the fa- 
 mous, renowned, ancient, little pritty City of Bathe ; 
 I lodged in the Mayors houfe : But his Worfhip was 
 as ignorant as my felfe, for he being a Baker, had let 
 
 B 2 halfe 
 
(4) 
 halfe his houfe to a Viftualler ; fo he fold bread 
 without, and I bought drinke within : The next day 
 I had notice where I was , wherefore I went to his 
 flail or fhop window , and told him what I was, and 
 that I was he who came nine yeares agoe from Lon- 
 don, to that City with a fmall Scullers Boate ; Mr. 
 Mayor was pleafed to entertaine me moft kindely 
 (with both his hands in his pocket) and like a man of 
 few words, forbore to fay wellcome to Towne ; fo 
 wee parting dryly I left him in his fhop , Lord Baron 
 of the Browne Loaves , and Mafler of the Rolls (in 
 that place:) but there is no doubt but the man may 
 live a faire age, and dye in his bed , if he efcape the 
 unfortunate defliny oi Pharoahs Baker. 
 
 Friday 29. of lune , I had the luck twice to have 
 not one dry thread about me, ( being wet to the very 
 skin) and yet my cloathes were as dry as a bone : the 
 reafon is, that I was in the Bathe, and my cloathes out. 
 
 lune 30. I travelled fifteene miles to the Towne of 
 Wells, where I flayd but little, and found as little mat- 
 ter of obfervation, but that thefe holy, prophane days, 
 and bleffed execrable Times of troublefome tranqui- 
 lity, have fpoyled and defaced one of the goodliefl 
 and magnificent Cathedrall Churches in the Chrifti- 
 an world : But fuch pious workes as polution and a- 
 bufing of Churches , wee neede not goe amongft 
 Turkes for proofes ; for though Peters at Wejimin- 
 Jier hath fcaped reafonable cleanely, yet Pauls in Lon- 
 don hath layen out of order, in ordure a battenning. 
 
 The fame day I went foure miles further to the an- 
 cient Towne of Glajlonbury, there I faw the Ruines 
 of an Abby , which was one of the ftatelyefl and 
 
 moft 
 
(5) 
 moft fumptuous iXru6iures'm £n£ land or Europe: there 
 remaines yet the ruined walls of a Chappell built in 
 memory of Jofeph of Arimathea (who as it is recor- 
 ded by Authentique Hiftorians) did firfl convert this 
 Land from Paganifme to Chriflianity : And wee have 
 great neede of another good lofeph to come amongjl us, 
 to doe as much for us now. But there is no memorial! 
 of any place where that good old man was buried: 
 the Abby was walled more then a mile about, with a 
 .wall of free-ftone, as faire as London wall ; it is very 
 probable that King Arthur ( our Englifh Worthy ) 
 was there fepulchred ; for there I faw fome ftones 
 of Marble, of which I placed the broken pieces toge- 
 ther ; I read thefe words in Latin, 
 
 Hie jacet Guineverus Regina, Vxores, &c. 
 
 Queene Guinever was Wife to the great Arthur, 
 and fhe being buried there, it is to be conjedlured that 
 his bones were not layd far from her. 
 
 Mr. Camden , doth quote the Ancient Hiftorian, 
 William of Malmsbury , to write thefe words folio - 
 wing concerning Glajlenbury. 
 
 That it was the firfl Land of God in England , the 
 
 firji Land of Saints in England, the beginning and f oun- 
 
 taine of all Religion in England , the Tombe of Saints, 
 
 the Mother of Saints , the Church founded and built by 
 
 the Lords Difciples. 
 
 rfaw a branth or flip of the Hawthorne Tree that 
 did beare Bloffomes every yeare ( when all other 
 Trees were froft-bitten, and feemed dead:) this Tree 
 onely, on Chriftmas day , the day of our bleffed Sa- 
 viours Birth; this Tree did (in its kinde) fhew its joy 
 in comemoration of the Nativity of the Redeemer 
 
 B 3 of 
 
(6) 
 
 of unkinde mankinde : There are all the Inhabitants 
 
 in the Towne will verifie it, and thoufands in England 
 
 and other Countries will affirme that it is no Fable : 
 
 The Souldiers being over zealous did cut it downe in 
 
 pure devotion ; but a Vintner dwelling in the Towne 
 
 did fave a great flip or branch of it , and placed or fet 
 
 it in his Garden , and he with others did tell me that 
 
 the fame doth likewife Bloome on the 25. day of 
 
 December, yearely ; I faw the fayd branch , and it 
 
 was ten foote high, greene, and flourifhing; I did take 
 
 a dead Sprigge from it , wherewith I made two or 
 
 three Tobacco ftoppers, which I brought to London ; 
 
 my humble thankes to Mr. Brooke , with (his good 
 
 Sifter ) for they entertained me freely ; fo that the 
 
 Towne of Glajlonbury was not one penny the richer 
 
 for any expences of mine. 
 
 Monday the fecond of July, I went to Bridgewater 
 ten miles , where all that was worthy of note was, 
 that neare the Towne, at a ftile I had a great difafter ; 
 for a fhagge or fplinter of the ftile tooke hold of my 
 one and onely breeches, and tore them in that extreme 
 unmerciful!, unmannerly manner, that for fliame and 
 modefties fake I was faine to put them off , and goe 
 breechleffe into the Towne , where I found a botch- 
 ing threepenny Taylor , who did patch me up with 
 fuch reparations as made me not afliamed to put my 
 breeches on againe , and trot five miles further to a 
 ragged Market Towne called Neather-Stoy, where ex- 
 treame weary, I tooke up my lodging, at a figne and 
 no figne, which formerly was the Rofe and Crowne ; 
 but Rofes are withered , and Crownes are obfcured! 
 as the fipne was. 
 
 Surely 
 
(7) 
 
 Surely that day was a mad, fad, glad , aufpicious, 
 unlucky day to me, worfe then an Ominous , Chil- 
 dermas , or a dogged by ting dog-day ; for the Ho- 
 fleffe was out of Towne, mine Hoft was very fuffici- 
 ently drunke, the houfe moft delicately deckt with 
 exquifite artificiall, and naturall fluttery, the roome 
 befprinckled and ftrewed with the excrements of 
 Pigs and Children ; the wall and fielings were ador- 
 ned and hanged with rare Spiders Tapiflry , or cob- 
 web Lawne ; the fmoake was fo palpable and per- 
 fpicuous, that I could fcarce fee any thing elfe , and 
 yet I could fcarce fee that , it fo blinded me with 
 Rheum a figne of weeping; befides all this, the odorif- 
 ferous and contagious perfume of that houfe was able 
 to outvie all the Millainers in Chriftendome or So- 
 merfetfliire. 
 
 I being thus embellifhed, or encompaffed with thefe 
 moft unmatchable varieties ; but to comfort me com- 
 pleatly, mine Hoft fwing'd off halfe a pot to me, bad 
 me be merry, and asked me if I would have any pow- 
 dred Beefe and Carrets to fupper ; I told him yes, 
 with all my heart ; but I being weary of the houfe, I 
 went and fate three houres in the ftreet, where mine 
 Hoft often did vifit me with moft delightfull and hy- 
 dropicall non-fenfe ; at laft, 7 of the clock was ftruck, 
 and I went into the houfe to fee if fupper were ready ; 
 but I found fmall comfort there, for the fire was out, 
 no Beefe to be boyled , mine Hoft faft afleep , the 
 Maid attending the hogs , and my hungry felfe halfe 
 ftarv'd with expeftation ; I awaked mine Hoft, and 
 asked him where the Beefe was , he told me that he 
 had none, and defired me to be contented with egges 
 
 fryed 
 
(8) 
 fryed with parfly; I prayed him to fhew me my cham- 
 ber , which he did ; the chamber was futable to the 
 reft of the houfe ; there I ftayd till neere 9 a clock, 
 expefling fry'd egges , when mine Hoft came to me 
 with an empty anfwer, there were no egges to be had, 
 fo at the laft I purchafed a piece of bread and butter, 
 and to bed, and then began my further torments ; for 
 thinking to take a little reft , I was furioufly affualted 
 by an Ethiopian Army of Fleas, and do verily believe 
 that I layd fo manfully about me that I made more 
 then 500 mortuus ejl: they were fo wel grown that as I 
 took 'em I gave 'em no quarter, but rub'd 'em between 
 my finger and my thumbe, and they were fo plumpe 
 & m.ellow, that they would fquafh to pieces like yong 
 boyled peafe : But all thefe troubles I patiently paft 
 by , making no more account of them, then of fo ma- 
 ny Flea-bytings. For my further delight, my cham- 
 ber-pot feemed to be lined within with crimfon plufh, 
 or fhag'd fcarlet bayes, it had fcaped a fcowring time 
 out of minde, it was fur'd with antiquity, and with- 
 all it had a monumentall favour ; and this piffe-pot 
 was another of my beft contentments. 
 
 At laft, wearineffe and watching, began to inforce 
 fleep upon me, fo that (in fpight of the fleas teeth) I 
 began to winke, when fuddenly, three children began 
 to cry, and for an hours fpace I was kept waking, 
 which made mee fall to the flaughter againe. The 
 children being hufh'd afleep, the game began afrefti 
 amongft the dogs ; for the cry was up, and the baw- 
 ling Currs took the word one from the other, all the 
 Towne over ; and the dogs had no fooner done , but 
 the day break appeared , and the hogs began to cry 
 
 out 
 
(9) 
 cut for their breakfafh : fo I arofe, and travelled (al- 
 mofl: fleeping) lo. miles that day ; which was to a 
 Towne called Dunjlar, where upon a lofty hill ftands 
 a ftrong Caflle , it had then a Garrifon in it ; I muft 
 confeffe I was free there, 
 
 From najly Roomes, that never felt broomes, 
 From excrements, and all bad/ents, 
 From childrens bawling, and caterwawling, 
 From grunting of hogs, and barking of dogs, 
 Andfro7n by ting of Fleas, there I found eafe. 
 
 The fourth of luly , I travelled to Exfourd (fo na- 
 med) becaufe it ftands near the head, or fpring of the 
 River Ex, which runs downe from North to South 
 neere 40 miles to the City of Exeter, and to Exmouth, 
 where it delivers it felfe into the Ocean, and from 
 thence to Brayfourd, (another Fourd which runs into 
 the River of Ex, as the people told rhe ; but I finde 
 it not fo in the Map,) that dayes journey v/as fixteene 
 miles, a teadious weary way for a crazy, old, lame, 
 bad, foundered footman, I am fure I found it fo ; for 
 when I came to my lodging I had more minde to eate 
 then to fight, and a better ftomack to a bed then a 
 fupper. 
 
 The fifth of hdy, I walked but feven miles to 
 Barnflable , a. very fine fweete Towne, fo cleane and 
 neate, that in the worfe of weather, a man may walke 
 the ftreets, and never foule ftiooe or boote ; there I 
 ftayd till the next day noone, being well and well- 
 comely entertained by one Mr. /ohn Downes , who 
 gave me F idlers fare, meate, drinke and money, for 
 
 C which 
 
(lo) 
 which I heartily thanked him : From thence I pall 
 by water five miles to Aplear. 
 
 hily the fixt (being Friday) I paced it ten miles to 
 a place named Ferry Crojfe, in the Parifh oiAllington, 
 and the feven day I turned my back upon Devon/hire, 
 having gone that day fifteene miles to the firfl Mar- 
 ket Towne in Cornewall (on the North-fide of the 
 County) named Straiten. 
 
 Cornewall is the Cornucopia, the compleate and re- 
 pleate Home of Abundance for high churlifh Hills, 
 and affable courteous people ; they are loving to re- 
 quite a kindeneffe , placable to remit a wrong , and 
 hardy to retort injuries ; the Countrey hath its fhare 
 of huge flones, mighty Rocks, noble, free. Gentle- 
 men, bountifull houfekeepers, ftrong, and flout men, 
 handfome , beautifull women , and (for any that I 
 know) there is not one Co?-ni/Jt Cuckold to be found 
 in the whole County : In briefe they are in moll 
 plentifull manner happy in the abundance of right and 
 left hand bleffmgs. 
 
 It is a wonder that fuch rugged Mountains do pro- 
 duce fuch fertility of Corn, and Cattle ; for if the hap- 
 py dayes and times of peace were once fettled , Corne- 
 wall might compare with any County in England, for 
 quantity of all neceffaries needfull , and quallity of 
 perfons. 
 
 The ninth of luly I left Straiten, and ambled twen- 
 ty miles to the Towne of Camelfourd, and to a Village 
 called Blijiland , and there I was taken for the man I 
 was not ; for they fufpe6led me to be a bringer of 
 Writs and Proceffe to ferve upon fome Gentlemen, 
 and to bring men into trouble ; But with much adoe 
 
 I 
 
(II) 
 
 I fcaped a beating, by beating into their beliefes that I 
 was was no fuch creature. 
 
 luly the tenth, I came to Bodman, (a Market Town) 
 and from thence the fame day to a Village called St. 
 Enedor, a part of which Parifh is called Penhall, there 
 at a Smiths houfe was good lodging , better cheare, 
 and beft drinke ; the Smith was lame, his Wife was 
 faire and handfome , where if I could haue adled the 
 part of Mars , there might have been played the Co- 
 medy of Vulcan and Venus : that dayes travell was 
 eighteen miles. 
 
 luly eleaventh, I progreffed to Truro, another Mar- 
 ket Towne, which is the Lord Roberts his Land ; there 
 I bought a fifh called a Breame for three pence , it 
 would have ferved foure men ; after dinner I went 
 eight miles further to a Towne called Eedruith, in all 
 that dayes travells eighteen miles , I faw nothing 
 ftrange to me but a few Cornijh Dawes (or Choughs) 
 with red bills, and legs : They faluted me upon the 
 wing, jufl in the language of our Jack Dawes about 
 London, Ka, Ka. 
 
 The twelfth of luly, I came within two miles of 
 Saint Michaels Mount , to an ancient houfe called by 
 the name of Trimineague: it hath been, and is the birth 
 place of Worthy Families, of the Noble name of the 
 Gocblphins : The right owner and poffeffour of it 
 now is Francis Godolphin, Efquire, a Gentleman en- 
 dowed with Piety, Humanity, Affability and Abili- 
 ty ; he hath a heart charitable, a minde bountifull, and 
 a hand liberall ; he hath (defervedly) the cordiall 
 love of all the County , and would have the enjoy- 
 ments of earthly contentments, if once thefe difcon- 
 
 C 2 tented 
 
 13 
 
(12) 
 
 tented times were quieted : Seaven dayes I flayed 
 with him , in which time he was pleafed to fend a 
 Kinfman of his (Mr. Knthony Godolphin) with me to 
 fee the Mount , which I thus defcribe. It is about a 
 mile in compaffe at the foote , and it rifes 700 paces 
 very fleepe to the top , it is in forme like a great hay- 
 cock or Reeke , or much like a Mounteere ; on the 
 top or Piramis of it, is a fine Church called Saint Mi- 
 chaels , the fayd Church is now for no other ufe but a 
 well ftored Magazine with Ammunition . from 
 whence (for a relique of remembrance) I brought 
 halfe a yard of Saint Michaels Mounts Monumentall- 
 Match : I went to the top of the Church Tower 
 feventy fteps higher , and in my comming downe I 
 viewed the Bells (which were five in number) being 
 faire and handfome, they cannot be rung, becaufe the 
 crack rope Souldiers have broke all the Bell-ropes, 
 infomuch as for any more ringing there, the Bells be- 
 ing ropeleffe, the people are hopeleffe. 
 
 To fpeake the truth of this fo much talked of 
 Famous Mount ; it is lofty, rocky, innacceffible, im- 
 pregnable not to be taken, or kept, nor worth the ta- 
 king or keeping : It is a barren ftony little v/en or 
 wart, that with men, Amunition, and Vidualls is able 
 to defend it felfe ; but if it hath not the Sea and Land 
 to friend, there is an Enemy called hunger (or famine) 
 that will conquer Mounts and Mountaines : It can do 
 no fervice to the feaward, for the water is fo fliallow, 
 that no Ihip can faile within fhot of it, and for Land 
 fervice the Towne of Market lezu , ftands better for 
 defence : The Mount is an I (land , and no Ifland, 
 twice in every 24 houres : for when the Sea is up, 
 
 Boates 
 
 14 
 
(13) 
 Boates mufl be ufed to go to it , but upon the ebbe, 
 
 Troopers may ride to it forty in Ranck : Market lew 
 is about two flight fhoote of it , the Mayor whereof 
 (one Mr. William Mabb) caufed me to dine witli him, 
 for which I returne him a few printed thanks. 
 
 In the Mount I faw a craggy rugged feat, of Rocky 
 Upholftery, which the old fabulous rumour calls St. 
 Michaels C hay re: and a Well I faw there, which twice 
 in 24. howres is frefli water , and fait water : This 
 Mount had a Garrifon within it , which made the 
 Country people to grumble without it ; yet the foldi- 
 ers are pretty civill : and one Captaine Geary did cour- 
 teoufly regard and drink with me at the Maiors houfe 
 at Market lew. From thence I returned to Mr. Godol- 
 phins, and he did perfwade mee to fee the Lands end, 
 fourteen miles further; for which journey on the 16. 
 day of July, he did lend me 2. horfes, with his kinf- 
 man to ride with me, where (for his fake) I was wel- 
 come by the way, with a good dinner, at one Mr. Le- 
 vales houfe, from whence I rode, and went as far as I 
 could ride, goe, or creepe, for rockes and fea : and 
 there I faw the Ifland of Silly, with other fmaller I- 
 flands, which are fayd to be 16. or 1 7. in number. The 
 mayne Ifland is held for the Prince, by one Captaine 
 (or as fome fay, a Knight) called Sir John Greenvill ; it 
 is very ftrong, with a good fafe harbour, and as it is 
 reported there, hath a good fleet of fliips in it : fome 
 doe call it a fecond Argiere, for there cannot a fhip or 
 veffell paffe by it, but they doe make out upon them, 
 whereby they have great riches, with all neceffaries : 
 it was 8. leagues at leafh from me, infomuch that I 
 could but onely fee it dimly, and 2. fhips I perceyved 
 
 C 3 that 
 
 15 
 
that lay at road (perdue) to give notice (as I conjectu- 
 red) of the appearance of any ihipping that fayled 
 within their ken : I did cut my name 4. inches deep in 
 a fmall patch of earth amongft the Rockes, at the 
 Lands end, and I am fure no man can go thither and 
 fet his name or foot, halfe a foot before me. 
 
 The fame day I returned to one Mr. lones his houfe 
 a mile thence , in the farthefl Weftern Parifh of the 
 County of Cornwall, called Sevin ; there I had good 
 entertainment all night, by the Gentlemans and his 
 Wives free welcome , which was out of their owne 
 curteous difpofition ; but chiefly for Mr. Godolphins 
 fake, to whom at Trimiweagow I returned, on the 17. 
 of July, where I refl;ed one day : and on the 18. day I 
 tooke my leave , having received 7. dayes hofpitality 
 in plenty, with many other curtefies in money and o- 
 ther neceffaries which I wanted ; befides hee fent his 
 kinfman with mee to dire6l mee the way to another 
 Francis Godolphin of Godolphin houfe. That Gentle- 
 man is the chiefe of that noble name; his houfe a flate- 
 ly ancient Pallace, and my chear and welcome at din- 
 ner, moft freely bountifull. After dinner hee walked 
 with me, where (in my way) I faw his Mines of Tin, 
 and a houfe where his workemen were refining and 
 melting of Tin, which is a rich commodity. So at my 
 taking leave of him, hee put ten fhillings in my hand, 
 which came to me in an acceptable time. 
 
 From thence I jog'd 3. miles further, to a houfe cal- 
 led Clowance in the Parifli of Crowen, where dwells 
 one Mr. lohn Sentabin, he is fonne in Law to the firft 
 Godolphin I came to , whofe daughter he marryed (a 
 vertuous and beautifull Gentlewoman) where I tooke 
 
 16 
 
a welcome, a fupper and a bed, till the next morning, 
 being luly 19. he fent a man with me eight Miles to a 
 fifter of his , named Mrs. Gertrude , to her I was fo 
 welcome , that after I thought fhe had been weary of 
 me , fhe would faine have had me to ftay two dayes 
 more, which I (with thankes refufmg) (he lent me a 
 Mare (and a man to bring her home againe) which 
 Mare I roade to a Towne called Penny com quick, 
 within a mile of Pendennis Caftle , which Caflle I 
 looked on a far off, but I durft not attempt to offer to 
 go into it, for feares and jealoufies might have mifta- 
 ken me for a fpy ; for at all places of Garifon, there is 
 very flridl examinations of perfons , and at every 
 Townes end , in all the fea Townes of part of Corne- 
 wall, Devon/hire, Dorfetjhire, and every Shire, no tra- 
 veller could paffe without catechizing words : A^ 
 wJmt is your name, whence came you, where dwell you, 
 whither go you, what isyourbujineffe, andwhereforecame 
 you hither? Now he that cannot anfwer thefe parti- 
 cular demands pundlually, is to be had before Go- 
 vernours, Captaines, Commanders, Mayors, or Con- 
 flables, where if a man doe chance to be fuffered to 
 paffe freely from them, yet it is a hazard of the loffe 
 of a Travellers liberty by either their unbeliefe or 
 mifprifion, and at the befl it is a hinderance to a mans 
 journey and loffe of time. 
 
 Thefe confiderations made me doubtfuU to pre- 
 fume to looke into Pendennis Caftle , or any other 
 Garrifon or place of defence : This Caftle is feated 
 very high, and it ftands very defenfive for the famous 
 Haven of Faymouth, (one of the beft Harbours for 
 fhipping in the world :) it was built by King Henry the 
 
 eight, 
 
 c 17 
 
eight, it is impregnable, and as long as it is well man- 
 ned, amunitioned, and viftualled, it is thought to be 
 invincible, and theres an end of that poynt. 
 
 That day I pad a Ferry called King Harries Paf- 
 lage, (but why it is fo named few men knowe) there 
 I lodged at the Ferry mans houfe, and the next mor- 
 ning being 2 1 of luly , I travelled twelve miles to a 
 fifher Towne called Mevageajie ; that Towne hath 
 in it two Tavernes, and fix Ale-houfes, to every one 
 of which I went for lodging, and not any one would 
 harbour me , then I fought for a Conftable to helpe 
 me, but no Conftable was to be found ; the people 
 all wondring at me , as if I had been fome ftrange 
 Beaft, or Monfter brought out of Affrica ; at which 
 moft incivill and barbarous ufeage, I began to be an- 
 gry, and I perceiving that no body cared for my an- 
 ger, I difcreetely went into the houfe where I firft de- 
 manded lodging ; where the Hoftes being very wil- 
 ling to give me the courteous entertainement of lack 
 Drum, commanded me very kindely to get me out of 
 dores, for there was no roome for me to lodge in. I 
 told her that I would honeftly pay for what I tooke, 
 and that if I could not have a bed , yet I was fure of 
 a houfe over my head , and that I would not out till 
 the morning : with that a yong fancy knave told me 
 that if I would not go out , he would throw me out, 
 at which words my choller grew high, my indignati- 
 on hot, and my fury fiery, fo that I arofe from a bench, 
 went to my youth, and dared to the combate ; where- 
 at the Hofteffe (with feare and trembling) defired me 
 to be quiet, and I fliould have a bed, at which words 
 my wrath was appeafed, and my ire affwaged. 
 
 But 
 
 iS 
 
(17) 
 
 But flraite wayes another florme feemed to ap- 
 peare ; for an ancient Gentleman came fuddenly out 
 of another Roome (who had heard all the former 
 friendly paffages,) and hee told mee that I fhould not 
 lodge there, for though I had fought and not found a 
 Conflable , yet I fhould know that I had found a Ju- 
 ftice of Peace before I fought him ; and that he would 
 fee me fafely lodged : I was fomewhat amazed at his 
 words, and anfwered him , Let him doe his pleafure, 
 for I fubmitted my felfe to his difpofall. 
 
 To which he replyde. That I fhould go but halfe 
 a mile with him to his houfe, which I did, and there 
 his good Wife and he did entertayne me courteoufly, 
 with fuch fare and lodging, as might have accommo- 
 dated any Gentleman of more worth and better qua- 
 lity then one that had been ten times in degree before 
 me : there I flayd the Saturday, and all the Sunday, 
 where I found more Proteftant Religion in 2. dayes, 
 then I had in 5. yeers before. The Gentlemans name 
 is Mr. \ohn Carew, a Gentleman of noble and ancient 
 defcent , and a worthy luflice of the Peace in thofe 
 parts. 
 
 I was certified, that in that little Town of Mevage- 
 fey, there are 44. Fifher Boats, which doe fifh for Pil- 
 chards, that every Boat hath 6. men, and that every 2. 
 Boats have one net between them : they doe call the 
 2. Boats a Seine; fo there are 22. Seines, and 22. Nets : 
 every Cornifh Bufhell is in meafure 2. Bufhels and a 
 halfe of our meafure at London : every 2. Boates (or 
 Seine) doe fpend 250. Bufhels of Salt (Cornifh mea- 
 fure) to fait Pilchards only ; every Seine do ufe 100. 
 Hogfheads to pickle the fayd Pilchards in yearly. So 
 
 D that 
 
 19 
 
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 that this one little Towne, doth fpend by Gods blef- 
 fing, and the meanes of thofe fmall fifhes , every year, 
 
 Of Salt, 2 2 times 350 Cornifh Bufhells , which is 
 in the number of our Bufhells, 14000,350. 
 
 Of Hogfheads, or Caske, 2200. 
 
 Of men for 44 Boats, 6 men for each, 264. 
 
 Thefe men with their Families (being many in 
 Number) are all maintained by Pilchard catching; 
 but this is not all, for there are other greater I ownes 
 in that County, which doe every one of them ufe the 
 fame trade of fifhing, with more and greater numbers 
 of men, boats, nets, caske, and much more quantity 
 of fait ; fome of the other Townes are St. Keverne, 
 Foye, Loo, with others which I cannot recite. 
 
 This infinite number of Pilchards, being falted and 
 put up in Caske, are bought a maine by the Spanifh, 
 French, Dutch, Italian, and other Merchants, and by 
 them they are either eaten or fold, and tranfported to 
 many other people and Nations : And now I hope I 
 have filled my Readers bellies with Pilchards, with- 
 out cloying or offending their ftomacks ; if any one 
 be queafie , or doe feele a wambling in the Gizzard ; 
 let them call for a cup of Sack, drinke it, and pay for it. 
 
 The 23 oi July, I came to Foye, and to Loo or Low) 
 twenty miles ; this Towne of Loo, is divided in two 
 parts, or two Townes together, two Mayors, two 
 Churches, two Governours, and more then two Reli- 
 gions ; all that I can fay of either of the Looes, is, that 
 there was Souldiers and fwordmen, ftrong Beere and 
 dagger Ale, Land flefh and Sea fifh in plenty. 
 
 On the 24. of July, I turned my back upon Corne- 
 wall, and went from Loo to Plimouth in Devonjhire, 
 
 twelve 
 
(19) 
 twelve miles : At Phmouth I ftayd not two houres, 
 the Towne was too full of fufpitions to hold me : 
 There I faw Colonel William Leg , a prifoner in the 
 Towerhoufe, or Guild hall, I fpake to him (being on 
 the one fide of the way in a window, and he on the o- 
 ther) in a low whifpering voice that every one might 
 heare what we fayd ; I wifhed him health and liberty, 
 and fo left him in thraldome ; There was two Statio- 
 ners did make me very welcome for two or three 
 houres ; their names were Thomas Ratcliffe and Willi- 
 am- Weekes, they gave me fmoake and drinke in Pli- 
 mouth, for which I requite them in Paper and Inck at 
 London. 
 
 That afternoone I left Plimouth , and went foure 
 miles further, to Plimpton, and on the morrow (being 
 Saint lames his day) I hired a horfe forty miles to 
 Exeter , where I was two dayes entertained at mine 
 owne cofl , with fome charges that Burgomajiers and 
 Bookefellers underwent : I can fay little of Exeter, but 
 that it is a faire fweete City , a goodly Cathedrall 
 Church (not yet quite fpoyled or ftabled) and it had 
 large Suburbs, with long ftreets, and many fine dwel- 
 lings till this mad fire of contention turned all to ru- 
 ines, rubbidge, cinders, Afhes, and fume. 
 
 Two houres before Phabus appeared in our Hemif- 
 phere, I was on footback from Exeter to Honiton, the 
 2 7. of July, there I had a nights lodging, and dyet of 
 fuch a homely fafliion, as I have no occafion to boaft 
 of; there I hired a Horfe (which proved to be a blinde 
 Mare) fhe had two wens as big as cluflers of Grapes 
 hung over both her eyes , and five or fix wens on her 
 fhoulders and flanks, all which beautifull ornaments I 
 
 D 2 could 
 
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 could not perceive or fee till I had road the bead 
 foure mile , (for I was mounted before the breake of 
 day;) but when I faw the comely neffe of the beaft, 
 betweene fhame and anger I was almoft mad at the 
 Rogue that owned her ; and being neere to a Market 
 Towne called Axmijler,, I difmounted, and footed 
 eight miles to Broad Win/or in Dorfetfhire , where I 
 was better horft eight miles further to Ever/hot, and 
 then I paced on foote eight miles further to the 
 Towne of Sherbourne, that dayes travell was 31 mile. 
 
 The 3 1 of July, I went from Sherbourne to Shaftf- 
 bury, and fo to Wilton^ and Salisbury, 31 mile : At 
 Wilton I faw the Earle oiPembrokes Magnificent and 
 Sumptuous Building and repairing of fuch a ftately 
 Fabrick, that for flrength, beauty, forme, ftate, gla- 
 zing, painting, gilding, carving, pollifhing, embelli- 
 fhing and adorning : It may be a Pallace for the grea- 
 teft King in Chriftendome : the Springs, and Fifh- 
 ponds, the Garden, the Walkes, the rare Artificiall 
 Rocks and Fountaines , the Ponds with fifh on the 
 houfe top, the flrange figures and fafhions of the wa- 
 ter workes, the numerous, innumerable varieties of 
 fruits and flowers ; yea all, and every thing that may 
 make an earthly Paradice, is there to be feene, felt, 
 heard, or underflood , (which becaufe I underfland 
 not) I fhut up all with this , there is ineftimable cofi:, 
 exquifite Art and Artifts, moft exceeding good work 
 and workemen, onely one thing (that is quite out of 
 fafhion almoft every where) is ufed there , which is 
 good and juft payment. 
 
 From Wilton, to Salisbury two miles, there I flee- 
 ped out the later end of the whole Moneth of luly. 
 
 I 
 
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 I had a defire to go into the Church there (one of the 
 faireft in England) but now the playes be downe, 
 there was no fights to be feen without money, which 
 though I could have payd , yet for two Reafons I 
 would not ; the one was becaufe I had oftentimes 
 feene that Church in former times, when Gods Ser- 
 vice was fayd there , and the fecond caufe why I 
 would not be guilty of Simony, and with corrupting 
 Mammon enter or intrude into the Houfe of God. 
 
 The firft of Kugujl, I footed to hndover, fifteene 
 old miles , and eighteene new ones, (of the Pofts 
 late meafuring :) The next day to Morrell Greene, 24 
 miles, the third day to Stanes , eighteene miles, and 
 the fourth of Augufl fifteene miles to London : My 
 journey being in all 546 miles , which I went and 
 came in fix Weekes , and lay ftill and refted twelve 
 dayes in feverall places on Weeke dayes, befides fix 
 Sundayes : But all this was nothing to me, being a 
 youth of threefcore and ten , with a lame leg and a 
 halfe, and there is an end of the fbory. 
 
 Like to thejione ^Sifiphus, / roule 
 From place to place, through weather f aire andfoule, 
 A nd yet I every day niujl tvander Jlill 
 To vent my Bookes, and gat/ter friends good will ; 
 I mujl confeffe this worke is frivalowfe. 
 And he that (for it) daignes to give a lowfe, 
 Doth give as much for' t as 'tis worth, I know ; 
 Yet meerly merily I this jaunt did goe 
 In imitation of a m,ighty King, 
 Whofe warlike ails, good fellowes often fing, 
 The King of France and twenty thoufand men, 
 Went up the Hill, and fo came downe agen. 
 So I this travell pafl, with cofl and paine. 
 And (as I wifely went) came home againe. 
 FINIS. 
 
 2,3 
 
1649- 
 
 The Number and Names of 
 
 the Kings of England and Scotland. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 107.] 
 
The Number and Names of all 
 the Kings of 
 
 ENGLAND 
 
 AND 
 
 SCOTLAND, 
 
 From the beginning of their Go- 
 vernments to this Prefent. 
 
 As alfo how long each of them Reigned , how 
 many of them came to untimely Ends, either 
 by Imprifonments, Banifhments, Famine, Kil- 
 ling of themfelves , Poyfon, Drowning, Be- 
 heading, falling from Horfes, Slaine in Bat- 
 tells, Murthered, or otherwife. 
 
 Written by John Taylor, at the Signe of the Poets 
 
 Head, in Phcenix Alley, neer the middle of 
 
 Long Aker, or Covent Garden. 
 
 L ON DON, Printed in the Yeare 1649. 
 
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 e^ k^£c ^^ 0> 
 
 </3 a\» 'v W a^ T^ 'B'w* t/» 
 
 N O V E R I N T 
 VNIVERSI. 
 
 BE it known unto all men &c. Hijiory hath fuck 
 force and vertue that it wilmake a man a Tra- 
 veller that never went lo. miles from home; it 
 will defcribe unto him. Cities , Countries , Manners, 
 Lawes, Cuflomes, Fafhions, Wars and Peace both atSea 
 and Land, it will give him, admittance tofpeake with 
 his hat on to the greatefl Emper ours, Princes, and Po- 
 tentates, and all forts of people and Nations that have 
 inhabited the whole world: all this, true and well writ- 
 ten Hi/lories will furnifh a man withall in his owne 
 chamber. And becaufe great bookes are of great pri- 
 ces, and our large Chronicles are offuch high rates, 
 that all men cannot reach to, I have at, mine owne cofi, 
 written and caufed this Brief e to be Printed. Many 
 Writers do make doubts whether this Land had ever 
 any King called Brute ; but the m,ofl Authours do 
 affirme , that when Troy was fpoyled by the 
 Greekes , that Prince yEneas fled into Italy, 
 
 A 2 and 
 
and there he was inarried to a daughter of Latinus, 
 King of Tufcany, now the Dukedome of Florence, 
 by which Lady he had a fan named Aicanms, who was 
 the Father of Silvius Pofthumus , and that Silvius 
 was the Father of Brute ; Brute being but 1 5 years 
 old, unfortunately as he in a Forrefl was hunting, flew 
 his Father Silvius with an arrow as hefhot into a thic- 
 ket, thinking he hadfhot at a Deere, for which he was 
 banifhedfrom thatCountrey, and fhippinghimf elf with 
 a good, or great, number of his followers, he landed 
 here, and was thefirfl King of this Land. This is the 
 opinion of many grave Writers, but divers learned men 
 do oppofe thofe A uthors. For my part, I am-fure that 
 one King or other didreigne here when this Land was 
 firfl a Kingdome , and becaufe it beares the ancient 
 name of Brittain or Brutaine , / do hold with fuch 
 Authours, as for Brute do hold with me. 
 
 A 
 
 nno 
 
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 Anno Mundi 2858. Yeares before Chriji 1 1 08 . 
 
 1 1 "\ Rute raigned 24. yeeres : to his 3. fonnes 
 jr'^Locrinus, Camber, and Albana6l, hee gave 
 
 -*— >/to the firft England, to the fecond Wales, 
 to the third Scotland. 
 
 2 Locrine raigned 20. yeers ; he beat the Hunns 
 (or Hungarians) hence, who would have inva- 
 ded this land , and their King was drowned in 
 H umber. 
 
 3 Queene Guendoline (wife of Locrine) raigned 
 
 15 yeers, beloved and honored for her jufl 
 and vertuous government. 
 
 4 Madan raigned 40. yeeres , was eaten by 
 
 Wolves, as he was hunting : he was fierce 
 and tyrannous : he built Doncafter. 
 
 5 Mempricius, the fon of Madan , raigned 20. 
 
 yeers, and at laft (like his father) was de- 
 voured by Wolves. 
 
 6 Ebrank, built Yorke, and reigned 2 1 yeeres : 
 
 he had by 21. wives, and other females, 20. 
 fonnes, and 30. daughters : he lived in the 
 times of K. David and K. Solomon. 
 
 7 Brute 2. raigned 12. yeers, buried at York. 
 
 A 2) 9 Leile 
 
8 Leile raigned 25. yeers, built Carlile , and 
 
 fome fay Chefter. 
 
 9 Rudhudibras raigned 29. yeers, built Canter- 
 
 bury, Winchefter, and Shaftsbury. 
 
 10 Bladud raigned 20. yeers, built Bathe, brake 
 
 his neck in pra6lifing to flie. 
 
 1 1 Leire raigned 40. yeers : he built Leicefter, 
 
 before Chrifls birth 830 yeers. 
 
 12 Cordelia, the Daughter of Leire, raigned 5. 
 
 yeers : kild her felfe in prifon. 
 
 1 3 Morgan and Cunedague were brothers , and 
 
 grandchildren to Leire : they ruled toge- 
 ther , but Cunedague flew Morgan at Gla- 
 morgan in Wales, and raigned 33. yeers. 
 
 14 Rivallo raigned 46. yeers : it rained bloud 3. 
 
 dayes in his time : Rome was built out of 
 the putrefa6lion of the bloud that fell : it 
 bred fwarms of hornets and horfeflies, that 
 ftung many folks to death ; infomuch that 
 with famine, and other calamities, there 
 died fo many that they which lived were 
 not enough to bury the dead. 
 
 15 Gurgtijltis raigned 38. yeers : a moft vicious 
 
 Drunkard, and his Brother, 
 
 16 Sicilius raigned 49. of both which our Hifto- 
 
 ries make no good mention. 
 
 17 lago raigned 25. yeers : a wicked Prince : he 
 
 died of a fleepy Lethargy. 
 
 18 Kim- 
 
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 1 8 Kimmartts raigned 54. yeers. 
 
 19 Gorbodug raigned 63. yeers, as fome write' 
 
 and fome write but 42. let the Reader be- 
 leeve as he pleafeth. 
 
 20 Ferex and For ex were brethren : they were 
 
 the laft Princes of the Race of Brute ; Fo- 
 rex killed Ferex; to revenge which their 
 mother kild Porex, by which meanes this 
 Land was without a King, and at divifion 
 many yeares, and fhared into 5. petty king- 
 domes. Some fay Ferex and Forex raigned 
 50. yeers, and others write but 5. 
 
 21 Malmutius Donwallo raigned 40. yeers : hee 
 
 was the fonne of a Cornifh Duke , named 
 Clotton : he brought this Land againe into 
 one Monarchy, and was the firft King that 
 wore a Crowne of Gold. 
 
 22 Belinus and Brennus were brethren, and fha- 
 
 red this Land betweene them ; but (difa- 
 greeing) Brennus was forced from hence 
 into France, from whence hee went and 
 wan Italy, ranfackt Rome, and at a fiege of 
 Delphos in Greece, he flew himfelfe ; Belinus 
 raigned 26. yeers : he builded the Port cal- 
 led Belingfgate. 
 
 23 Gurguintus raigned 19. yeeres, hee overcame 
 
 the Danes, hee fent many fcattered and di- 
 ftreffed Spaniards to inhabite Ireland. 
 
 A 4. 24 Guin- 
 
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 24 Guinthelinus raigned 26. yeeres : hee built 
 
 Warwicke. 
 
 25 Cecilius raigned 7. yeers, and was buried at 
 
 Caerleon in Wales. 
 
 26 Kimarus raigned 3. yeers : a wicked King, 
 
 kild by a wild Beaft in hunting. 
 
 27 Elanius raigned 9. yeers : hiflories make lit- 
 
 tle mention of him. 
 
 28 Morindus raigned 8. yeers : he fought with 
 
 a ravenous Sea-monfler , which had de- 
 voured many people , who alfo devoured 
 the King, but hee killed the Monfter after- 
 ward, for he was found dead with his dag- 
 ger in his hand, in the belly of his devourer. 
 
 29 GorSomanus raigned 11. yeers : a good King, 
 
 built Cambridge and Grantham. 
 
 30 Archigalo, Elidurus, Vigenius, and Peredurus, 
 
 31 were crowned and depofed again, and with 
 
 32 fhuffling fortunes thefe 4. Kings raigned 28. 
 
 yeers. 
 
 From the time of Elidurus to King Lud , there 
 reigned in this Land 33. Kings, of whom Hiflorians 
 doe make very various, or little mention, I will there- 
 fore but only name them. 
 
 Gorbonian raigned 10. yeers, Morgan 14. Eme- 
 rianus 7, depofed. 
 
 Ival 20. Rimo 16. Geruncius 20. Catillus 10. hee 
 
 caufed 
 
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 caufed all oppreffors of the poore to be hanged. 
 But fince that time they have increafed much. 
 
 Coylus raigned 20. yeers, Ferex 5. Chirimus r. he 
 kild himfelfe with exceffive drinking. 
 
 Fulgontd^vgcv^d 2. yeers, Eldred i. Androgius i. 
 Eliud^. Dodamius ^. Gurginius'^. Merianusi. Blo- 
 dunus 2. Capenus 3. Quinus 2. Sillius 2. Bledgabre- 
 dus I o. Rodianus 2 . A rchemalus 2 . Eldalus 2 . Redar- 
 gius 3. Samullius2.Pem/ellus 3. Pirhus 2. Caporus2. 
 Dinellus \. Melius [or Elius ) i. From this King 
 the He of Ely had its name. 
 
 Of thefe Kings , 24. of them had very fhort 
 times of either lives or raigns ; 4 of them raignd 
 but 4 yeers, (that is to fay, each of them raignd 
 but one yeere ) and in that courfe 1 1 of them 
 reigned 2 2 yeares ( to years each, as many years 
 as Eares) 4 reigned each three yeares, and one 
 reigned 4 years ; 3 had the happy, or unhap- 
 pineffe to beare the royall toile, hazard and fla- 
 very each 4 years. But although Records and 
 Hiflories are burnt, loft, and falfified , by the 
 injury of warres, alteration of times, and parti- 
 ality or flattery of Writers , that there is no 
 mention made by what meanes all thefe Kings 
 did come to their long homes in fo fhort a time. 
 It is more then conje6lurable, that they died not 
 all in their beds. 
 
 64 King Lud reigned 1 1. yeers : he named Troy- 
 
 novant 
 
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 novant, (^or this City of new Troy) Kair-Lud, 
 or Ludjlowne : hee enlarged the building of 
 London, from Ludgate (which he founded 
 for Freemen to lie in bondage ) to London 
 ftone, which ftone was fet up in memory of 
 Lud, 60. yeeres before the Incarnation of 
 our Saviour. 
 
 65 CaJJibelane raignd 1 7. yeers : the 2. fonnes of 
 
 Lud and Caffibelane fild this Land with blo- 
 dy contention, that whilft they ftrived for 
 the maftry, Julius Ccefar came in and ma- 
 ftred them. 
 
 66 Theomancius the fon of Lud raigned 2 3. yeers : 
 
 all that I can write of him is, that in me- 
 mory of his Father and himfelfe, his ftatue 
 is on Ludgate. 
 
 67 Ciinbelinus raigned 21. yeers : in his Raigne 
 
 the Heavens did raine the fhowres, flouds, 
 innundations of gratious love and favour 
 to moft miferable Mankinde ; for in this 
 Kings time our blefl Redeemer J ejus Ckriji 
 was borne. 
 
 68 Guiderius raigned 21. yeers ; in his time our 
 
 Saviour fuffered ; then Tiberius Ccefar was 
 Emperour of Rome, and commanded the 
 knowne world. 
 
 69 Arviragus 28 yeares, a valiant man; he 
 
 founded and built Gloucejler. 
 
 70 Maritis 
 
70 Martus reigned 53 years, he did much for 
 
 the repairing of the Citie of Chejler ; in 
 his time, it is written, that good Jofeph of 
 Aramathea came hither, and taught the peo- 
 ple Chriftianitie at Glajlonhury in Somer/et- 
 Jhire ; fome Writers fay that he was bu- 
 ried there, in a Chappell of his owne ere- 
 cting, of which I faw the ruines and rub- 
 bifh remaining in the yeare of grace, 1649. 
 
 71 Coylus the fecond reigned 55 years; he built 
 
 Coylchejier, and was interred at York. 
 
 72 Lucius was the firfl King, of any Land a 
 
 Chriftian, by the meanes and perfwafion 
 of godly men whom Elutherius Bifhop of 
 Rome fent hither , the King and People 
 were broughr from Paganifme to Chrifli- 
 anity : Luchis cafl downe 28 Heathen 
 Temples, and erefted Churches for Gods 
 fervice. He reign'd 12 years, buried at 
 Gbcejler, Anno Chrijli, 194. 
 
 73 Severus was an Emperour of Rome, he reign'd 
 
 18 years, he made a flrong wall between 
 England axid. Scotland, to fecure us from the 
 Invafion of the Scois , the wall was 112 
 miles in length , from the River Tyne to 
 the Scottifh Seas. Hee was flaine 78 
 years of age. 
 
 74 Baffianus reigned 6 years, he was Emperour 
 
 of 
 
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 of Rome, and fon to Severus. 
 
 75 Caurajius reign'd 7 years, flaine by Ale5lus; 
 
 our firft Englifh Martyr (Saint Alban) 
 fuffred martyrdome in his time. 
 
 76 AleSlus was a bloudy Tyrant, reign'd 3 years, 
 
 killed by Afclepiodates. 
 
 77 Afclepiodates reign'd 2 yeares, as fome doe 
 
 write, others relate 30 years ; he was alfo 
 flain by Coyle Duke of Colchejier. 
 
 78 Coyle Duke of Colchejier reign'd 14 years , he 
 
 married Hellen who was the mother of 
 the Emperour Conjlantine, fhe beautified 
 Jerufalem, with many faire buildings and 
 Churches, and fhe alfo walled London and 
 Colchejier, where Coyle was buried. An. 315. 
 
 79 Conjlantius reigned 4 years, a good King, bu- 
 
 ried at York. 
 
 80 Con/lantine the great was an Englifh man 
 
 borne, he was Emperour of the Chriftian 
 world ; he was the Founder of Conjlanti- 
 nople, which was an old ruin'd Towne cal- 
 led Bizantium , he was zealous for Gods 
 glory, for which he was honoured on 
 earth , and doubtleffe eternally glorified. 
 He raigned 22. yeers. 
 
 81 Conjlantinus raigned 5. yeers, and his brother 
 
 82 Conjlantius 3. yeers : thefe were the fonnes of 
 
 the great Conjlantine : they raigned toge- 
 ther 
 
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 ther, and together by the eares they fell, 
 and never agreed till death made an end 
 of the quarrell. 
 
 83 OSlavius (as fome do relate) raigned 54. yeers: 
 
 he was Duke of Windfor ; hee was flaine 
 by Traherus who fucceeded him. 
 
 84 Traherus raigned 6. yeers, An. Dom. 353. 
 
 85 Conjiantius 2. raigned i. yeer, flain by Gratian. 
 
 86 Maximinianus raignd i. yeer, flain by Gratian. 
 
 87 Gratian reigned not one full yeer, was flain : 
 
 This Land at this time fhook off the Ro- 
 man oppreffion , having beene vaffalls and 
 payd tribute to Rome 483. yeers, An. Do. 446 
 
 88 Vortiger raigned 6. yeers : hee was an Ufur- 
 
 per , and by his murthering of his lawfuU 
 Prince Conjians , (the fon of Conjiantius 2.) 
 he gat the Crowne, and the peoples inve- 
 terate hatred ; infomuch that he was for- 
 ced to fend for Saxons out of Germany to 
 ayd him againft his owne fubjefts ; which 
 Saxons not onely ayded , but invaded the 
 whole Land, and Vortiger was depofed, and 
 afterwards hee and his Queene burnt to 
 death, by firing of the houfe where they 
 lodged. 
 
 89 Vor timer the fon of Vortiger, raignd 1 1. yeers ; 
 
 he was vi6lorious againft the Saxons, but 
 was poyfoned by his wife. 
 
 A tire- 
 
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 90 Aurelius Ambrofe raigned 32. yeers ; a good 
 
 King, yet was poyfoned. 
 
 91 Uter Pendragon , (which in Welfh is a Dra- 
 
 gons head) he cornuted a Diike of Corne- 
 wall , by corrupting the Dutcheffe Igrene, 
 on whom he begot Englands & the Chri- 
 ftian Worlds Worthy [Arthur;) Uter was 
 poifoned by the Saxons, after he had raign- 
 ed 18. yeers. 
 
 92 Arthur raigned 16. yeers : hee was King of 
 
 England, Denmark and Norway. He beat 
 the Infidels and misbeleeving Saracens in 
 12. great Battels : he inftituted the Order 
 of Knights of the Round Table at Win- 
 ch efter. He had a kinfman named Mordred, 
 who ( in Arthurs abfence ) ufurped the 
 Crowne ; but Arthur fought with the Re- 
 bels, flew Mordred their Leader , and in 
 the fight loft his owne life , and won the 
 name and fame to bee one of the 9. Wor- 
 thies ; he was buried at Glaftenbury. An. 
 Dom. 541. 
 
 93 Conjiantine, (fome have written him the 4. of 
 
 of that name) raigned 3. yeers, was kild by 
 his fucceffor. 
 
 94 Aurelius Conanus raigned 33. yeers : Writers 
 
 differ much in writing of this King, and the 
 variation of times that were then : for this 
 
 Land 
 
Land was divided by the Saxons into 7. 
 Kingdomes, and in the time of 500. and od 
 yeers following, they had to each King- 
 dome thefe Kings under named ; and thofe 
 Lands, Shires, and Counties heerunto an- 
 nexed. 
 
 1 . Kent, the firfl Kingdome of the 7. Divifi- 
 ons, had to its firft King Hengiji, 2. Esk, 3. OSia, 
 4. Ymerick, ^. Ethelbert, a good Chriftian King, he 
 built St. Pauls London, and St. Peters at Weftmin- 
 fter, 6. Eabald, 7. Ercombert, 8. Egbert, 9. Lother, 
 lO.Edrick, 1 1. Withed, 1 2.Edbert, 1 2,-Edelbert, 14..A- 
 lick, 15. Ethilbert, 16. Cuthred, I'j. Baldred: Thefe 
 17. Kings raigned in Kent 372. yeers. 
 
 2. The South-Saxons Kingdome was onely 
 Suffex and Surry : it continued under 5. Kings 
 113. yeers : and though Hiftories doe not men- 
 tion their deaths, it feemes they died naturally, 
 becaufe fo few Kings raigned fo long in fuch 
 cut-throat times as thofe were. 
 
 3. The third Kingdome was the Weft-Sax- 
 ons, it endured 561. yeers : it had 17. Kings, and 
 contained the Counties of Cornewall, Devon- 
 fliire, Somerfetfhire, Wiltfhire, Hampftiire, and 
 Berkfhire. 
 
 4. The Eaft-Saxons, they raigned only over 
 Effex and Middlefex ; they continued under 14. 
 Kings 281. yeeres. 
 
 5. Nor- 
 
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 5. Northumberland had 23. Kings : it confi- 
 fted of 6. Shires and Counties ; namely, Yorke- 
 fhire, Durham, Lancafhire, Weftmerland, Cum- 
 berland, and Northumberland. It was divided 
 into 2. Kingdomes ; it lafted 379. yeers. 
 
 6. The Eaft Angles bounds, were Suffolke, 
 Northfolke, Cambridgefhire, and the Ifle of 
 Ely : under 15. Kings it continued 353. yeers. 
 
 7. The feventh, laft, and greatefl , was the 
 Kingdome of the Mercians, it had 20. Kings : it 
 continued 497. yeeres : it contayned 17. Coun- 
 ties ; Northampton, Leicefter, Darby, Lincoln, 
 Huntingdon, Nottingham, Rutland, Chefhire, 
 Staffordfhire , Oxfordfhire , Worceflerfhire, 
 Gloceflerfhire, Shropfhire, Bedfordfhire, War- 
 wickfhire, Hartfordfhire, & Buckinghamfhire : 
 All this while I finde that the Welchmen held 
 their owne ; for there is no mention that any of 
 thofe wrangling petty Kings had poffeffion of fo 
 much as one Village in Wales. 
 
 95 Vortiporus raigned 4. yeeres , an inceftuous 
 
 Prince, with his WiveJ Daughter. 
 
 96 Malgo raigned 5. yeers ; hee murthered his 
 
 Wife, and lived incefluoufly with his bro- 
 thers Daughter. 4. Learned men were fent 
 from Rome hither , to convert the Idola- 
 trous Heathen Saxons, from Paganifme to 
 Chriftianity : their names were Augujtine, 
 Mellitus, John and yujius. 97. Ca- 
 
97 Carehcsis raigned 3. yeers, and being oppref- 
 
 fed with the Saxons, he fled for fafety in- 
 to Wales, where he died. 
 
 98 Cadwane raigned 22. yeers, he tamed the Sa- 
 
 xons of Northumberland. 
 
 99 Cadwallin raigned 48. yeers , a brave vi6lori- 
 
 ous Prince : hee was buried in London at 
 St. Martins Ludgate. 
 
 100 Cadwallader raigned 3. yeers, a valiant and 
 vertuous King : he was the laft King of this 
 Land called Britaine till his time, for then 
 it was, and not till then, named Anglia, and 
 the men Englifh men. Cadwallader went to 
 Rome, and died there. 
 
 1 01 Atheljiane was a valiant noble Prince : hee 
 raigned 15. yeers, he brought this Land to 
 be but one Kingdome againe, after it had 
 beene divided into 7. neere 600. yeeres : he 
 was Crowned at Kingftone , and buried 
 at Malmsbury, Anno Dom. 940. 
 
 102 Edmund raigned 5. yeers : he was fon to A- 
 theljlane, flaine, and buried at Glaftenbury. 
 
 103 Eldred raigned 9 yeers : the Danes were en- 
 tred heer and opprefl the people, and bani- 
 fhed him : he was buried at Winchefter. 
 
 104 Edwin raigned 5. yeeres, was crowned at 
 Kingftone ; he was depofed for being an in- 
 ceftuous ravifher of his own kinfwoman, & 
 murdring hir husband. B Ed- 
 
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 105 Edgar raigned i6. yeers, he was brother to 
 Edwin, (by birth, but not by nature) Edgar 
 was crowned at Bathe : he was a vigilant, 
 a valiant, and a pious Prince, he had a na- 
 vie of 3000. fhips (as fome have written^ 
 to fcowre the Seas from Enemies and Pi- 
 rats, hee built, and repayred of Churches 
 and Religious Houfes, the number of 47. 
 He took 8. petty Kings of Wales prifoners, 
 and they Rowed him in his Barge on the 
 River Dee, to his Parliament at Chefter : 
 buried at Glaftenbury. 
 
 106 Edward raigned 3. yeeres, crownd at King- 
 ftone, murdered by his mother in law, and 
 his unnaturall brother Etheldred, buried at 
 Shaftsbury. 
 
 107 Etheldred raigned 38. yeers, he caufed all the 
 Danes to be flaine, or expeld out of Eng- 
 land, he was buried in St. Pauls London. 
 
 108 Edmond ({xmdsci&di Ironjide) raigned 2. yeers, 
 Canutus King of Denmarke came with a 
 mighty power of Danes, to revenge their 
 Nations being banifhed & kild in the time 
 of K. Etheldred, but Edmond a.n6. Canutus co- 
 bated fingly, with condition that the Sur- 
 ving Vicftor fhould have all the Kingdom : 
 The Royall Combatants fought gallantly, 
 till through many wounds, & much bloud 
 
 loft. 
 
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 loft , they fell both downe in each others 
 armes, and embraced : Then they agreed, 
 that the Kingdome fhould be divided into 
 halfes between them, and the longeft liver 
 take all ; which agreement they lovingly 
 kept till a Traytor named Edricus, murde- 
 red K. Edmond; for the which the Danifh 
 K. Canutus, put Edricus to death with moft 
 grievous exquifite torments. 
 
 109 Canutus raigned 20. years, buried at Win- 
 chefter, An. Dom. 1038. 
 
 no Harold Xh.^ firft raigned 3- yeers. 
 
 1 1 1 Hardicanutus raigned 3. yeers : This King 
 was given fo much to exceffive drinking, 
 that hee dranke himfelfe to death at Lam- 
 beth : in joy full memory wherof the merry 
 Hock Mondaies were kept yeerly, with dan- 
 cing, and friendly meeting of neighbours, 
 which fome ( that have beene miftakingly 
 thought wife) have judged to be Popery. 
 
 112 Edward, called the Confeffor, raigned 23. 
 yeers ; he freed this Land from Danifh fla- 
 very, having no heire , gave his Kingdome 
 by Will, to his Kinfman William Duke of 
 
 1 1 3 Normandy , but Harold crownd himfelfe 
 King, and in the ninth month of his raign, 
 Duke William came, kild, and unkingd King 
 Harold. 
 
 B 2 Thus 
 
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 Thus ended the Raignes of the Britaines, Romanes, 
 Saxons and Danes in this Land, from theyeer of the 
 Worlds Creation 2858. before the birth ofChrifl 1 1 08. 
 yeers, which was 1 1 i^o.yeeres : then (by Deed of Gift, 
 fome write by Conqueft) William thefirfl came hither, 
 after a bloudy battell, neere Hafiings in Suffex, with 
 the flaughter of 10000. m.en on both fides, the Norman 
 Duke was crowned an Englifh King on Chriflmaffe 
 day following : he had a troublous raigne 2 1 . yeers. 
 
 115 William 2 (firnamed Rufus) raigned 1 3. yeers, 
 hee was flaine in Newforreft in Head of a 
 Deere, as he was hunting, buried at Win- 
 chefter. 
 
 116 Henry the firft raigned 35. yeeres, in much 
 vexation, he was buried at Redding. 
 
 1 1 7 Stephen raigned 1 9. yeeres , in continuall 
 trouble ; buried at Feverfham. 
 
 118 Henry 2. raigned 34. yeers, in much unqui- 
 etneffe. One of his fonnes named Jeffrey 
 was troden to death in a throng at Paris : 
 alfo his fon Henry he caufed to be crownd 
 King in his own life time, which afterward 
 vext him much : and ( to loade him with 
 more afflictions) his wife, with his fonnes 
 Richard and John , ray fed Armes againft 
 him ; he died in France, buried at Fonteve- 
 rard, 1189. 
 
 1 1 9 Richard the firft, called Cor de Lion, raigned 
 9. yeers, flaine. fohn 
 
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 120 John raigned 17. yeers, fome have written 
 that he was poyfoned by a Monke, others 
 write, he furfeited with eating Peaches. 
 
 121 Henry 3. raigned 56. yeers, and after a long, 
 tedious, and troublefome Hfe, had the mi- 
 raculous fortune to die in his bed. 
 
 122 Edward the. firfl raigned 35. yeeres. 
 
 123 Edward 2. raigned ig. yeers, murdered at 
 
 Barklay Caftle. 
 
 124 Edward 3. raigned 50. yeers, was buried at 
 Sheene, 1378. 
 
 125 Richard 2. raigned 22. yeers, murdered at 
 Pomfret Caftle. 
 
 126 Henry 4. raigned 14. yeers, buried at Can- 
 terbury. 
 
 127 Henry 5. raigned 9. yeers, buried at Wefl- 
 minfter, 1422. 
 
 128 Henry 6. raigned 37. yeeres, murthered in 
 the Tower. 
 
 129 Edward ^. raignd 22. yeers, buried at Winfor 
 
 130 Edward 5. was never Crowned, raigned o. 
 murdered. 
 
 131 Richard 3. raigned not 3. yeers, flaine. 
 
 132 Henry 7. raigned 23. yeers, buried at Weft- 
 minfler, 1509. 
 
 133 Henry 8. raignd 37. yeers, buried at Winfor. 
 
 134 Edward t. raigned 7. yeers, buried at Weft- 
 
 minfter. 
 
 B 3 Mary 
 
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 135 Mary raigned 5. yeers, buried at Weftminft. 
 
 1 36 Elizabeth raigned glorioufly 44. yeeres. 
 
 137 y antes raigned 22. yeers, a learned man, a 
 
 Poet, a Poets friend, and a peaceable King, 
 buried at Weftminfter. 
 
 138 Charles raigned 24. yeers, Beheaded. 
 
 Scotland began to bee a Kingdome 339. yeeres before 
 
 the comming of our Saviour : it hath been neere 
 
 2000. yeers under 108. Kings. 
 
 A nno Mundi 1 64 1 . Years before Chrifl 330. 
 
 1 "P Ergus raigned 25. yeeres, he was a gallant 
 -*- fpirited man, and was drowned by ftorm 
 
 & fhipwrack, neer Carigfergus in Ireland. 
 
 2 Fetharius raigned 15. yeers, murthered. 
 
 3 Mainus raigned 29. yeers, he died in peace. 
 
 4 Dornadilla raigned 28. yeeres, lived and died 
 
 peaceably. 
 
 5 Nothatus raigned 20. yeeres , a wicked man ; 
 
 he was killed. 
 
 6 Reutherus raigned 26. yeeres, a good King. 
 
 7 Reutha raigned 14. yeers, hee voluntarily left 
 
 the Crowne, and lived private. 
 
 8 Thereus raigned 12. yeeres, was banilhed by 
 
 his fubjedls, died at Yorke. 
 
 9 Jqjina raigned 24. yeers, in peace. 
 
 10 Finnanus raigned 30. yeers. 
 
 1 1 Durflus raigned 9. yeers, a cruell tyrant ; he 
 
 was flaine. 12 E- 
 
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 12 Evenus raigned 19. yeers, a juft King. 
 
 1 3 Gilius raigned 2. yeers, he was baftard to E- 
 
 venus, was cruell, was flaine. 
 
 14 Evenus 2. raigned peaceably 17. yeers. 
 
 1 5 Ederus raigned 48. yeers, a good King. 
 
 16 Evenus 3. raigned 7. yeeres, a wicked man, 
 
 he died in prifon. 
 
 1 7 Metellanus raigned 39. yeers, a good King. 
 
 18 Cara5lacus raigned 20. yeers, about this time 
 
 our Saviour was borne. 
 
 19 Corbredus raigned 18. yeers, a good King. 
 
 20 Dardanus raigned 4. yeers, he was by his own 
 
 fubjefts beheaded. 
 
 21 Corbredus 2. raigned 35. yeers, a good King. 
 
 22 Lugtharus raigned 3. yeers, he loved bloud- 
 
 fhed and lechery, and was murdred. 
 
 23 Mogallas raigned 36. yeers, a good man at 
 
 firfl, but turnd bad, and was murdred. 
 
 24 Conarus raigned 14. yeers, a tyrant, was de- 
 
 pofed, died in prifon. 
 
 25 Ethodius the firfl, raigned 33. yeers, murde- 
 
 red by an Irifh Harper. 
 
 26 Satraell raigned 4. yeeres , by his owne fer- 
 
 vants hee was murdred. 
 
 27 Donald the firfl, and firfl Chriflian King of 
 
 Scotland, mAnno 199. he raigned 18. yeers. 
 
 28 Ethodius the fecond, raigned 16. yeers, by his 
 
 owne Guard he was murdred. 
 
 B 4 29 ^- 
 
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 29 Athrtco raigned 12. yeeres, a wicked King; 
 
 for his bad life his Noble men did rife a- 
 gainft him fo furioufly, that to efcape them 
 he kild himfelfe. 
 
 30 Nathalocus raigned 11. yeeres, a tyrant, and 
 
 was murdred, and caft into a Privy. 
 
 31 Findocus raigned 11. yeeres, was murdered 
 
 by counterfet Huntfmen. 
 
 32 Donald 2. raignd one yeer, he was flaine. 
 
 33 Donald :^. raigned 12. yeers, he was a tyrant, 
 
 and flaine. 
 
 34 Crathilinthus raigned 24. yeeres, he delighted 
 
 in goodnes, he advanced Chriftian Religi- 
 on, he lived peaceably, and died in peace, 
 Anno 277. 
 
 35 Fincormachus raigned 47. yeeres, hee was pi- 
 ous and couragious, died in peace. 
 
 36 Romachus raigned 3. yeeres, hee was a cruell 
 
 tyrant, beheaded. 
 
 37 Angujianus raigned 3. yeeres, a good King, 
 
 and flaine in fighting with the Pi6ls. 
 
 38 Fethelmacus raigned 3. yeeres , murdered by 
 
 treafon of an Harper. 
 
 39 Eugenius the firfl; raigned 3. yeers , flaine by 
 
 the Pifts and Romans, in battell ; and all 
 the Scotch people were forced to forfake 
 their Country 44. yeeres. 
 
 40 Fergus 2. raigned 16. yeers, he recovered his 
 
 Country 
 
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 Country valiantly fighting with Romanes 
 and Pidls, yet at laft was flaine. 
 
 41 Eugenius 2. raigned 32. yeers, he was a good 
 King, and died peaceably. 
 
 42 Dongardus raigned 5. yeers, a juft couragious 
 
 Prince. 
 
 43 Conjlantine the firft raigned 22. yeeres, mur- 
 
 thered by one of his Lords, whofe daugh- 
 ter he had ravifhed. 
 
 44 Congalus the firft, raigned 22. yeers. 
 
 45 Goranus raigned 34. yeeres, a well 
 
 governing Prince. 
 
 46 Eugenius 3. raignd 23. yeeres, a good 
 
 King. 
 
 47 Congallus 2. raigned 11. yeeres. 
 
 48 Kinnatillus raigned one yeer almoft. 
 
 49 Aidanus raigned 35. yeeres. 
 
 50 Kenelthus the firft, raigned one yeer. 
 
 5 1 Eugenius 4. raigned 1 6. yeeres. 
 Thefe%. weere good and jvjl Kings, and died naturall 
 deaths : and among all the Chronicles of Scotland, fo 
 many Kings fuccejjively had not the like fortune. 
 
 52 Perqtiard the firft, raignd 12. yeer, a wicked 
 
 man, he was caft in prifon by his Nobles, 
 where he kild himfelfe. 
 
 53 Donald /\, raigned 14 yeers, a good King, yet 
 
 by misfortune drownd in the River Tay, as 
 he was fifhing for his Recreation. 
 
 54 Fer- 
 
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 54 Ferquard 2 raigned 18 yeers, a bad man, and 
 
 a worfe king : he was killed by the biting 
 of a Wolfe, as he hunted. 
 
 55 Malduin raigned 20 yeers, his wife was jea- 
 
 lous, and ftrangled him, for which fhee was 
 burnt. 
 
 56 Eugenius 5 raigned 4 yeeres, flaine. 
 
 57 Eugenius 6 raignd 10 yeeres, a good King. 
 
 58 Ambirkelethus raigned little more then one 
 
 yeere, he was a vicious Prince , and being 
 bad was badly ufed, murdred. Anno 697 
 
 59 Eugenius 7 raignd 17 yeers, a good King, he 
 
 died in peace. 
 
 60 Mordacus raigned 16 yeeres. 
 
 61 Etfinus raigned 31 yeers, both good Princes, 
 
 and died peaceably. 
 
 62 Eugenius 8 raigned 3 yeers, he was good at 
 
 firfl, but hee changing his maners, his No- 
 bles chaged their loyalties, & murdred him 
 
 63 Fergus 3 raigned 3 yeers, as chafl as a Goat, 
 
 was poyfoned by his wife. 
 
 64 Salvathius raigned 20 yeers, a difcreet King. 
 
 65 Achaius raigned 32 yeers, hee was a good 
 
 King, Charles the Great being then Em- 
 perour and King of France , this Scottifh 
 King made a League with France, which 
 League was never broken or crackt, al- 
 though it be almoft 900 yeeres old. 
 
 66 Con- 
 
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 66 Congallus raigned 5 yeers. 
 
 67 Dongallus raigned 7 yeares, was drowned in 
 
 the River of Spey. 
 
 68 Alpinus raigned 3 yeeres, beheaded by the 
 
 Scots. 
 
 69 Kenneth 2 raigned 20 yeers , for his valour 
 
 and other Princely vertues, he attained the 
 firname of Great, hee quite overcame and 
 flew all the Nation of the Pi6ls, and left 
 his Kingdome, (as he died) in peace. 
 
 70 Donald 5 raigned 5 yeers, a bad life founda 
 
 bad death, for he kild himfelfe. 
 
 71 Conjiantine 2 raigned 16 yeers, flaine, as he 
 
 fought valiantly with the Danes. 
 
 72 Ethus raigned 2 yeers, a wicked Prince, hee 
 
 died in prifon. 
 
 73 Gregorius (who by his proweffe wan the 
 
 name of Magnus) raigned 1 8 yeers. 
 
 74 Donald 6 raigned 1 1 yeers, a good King. 
 
 75 Conjiantine 3. raigned 40 yeers, he was a va- 
 
 liant man, but hee left his Crowne for a 
 Cowle, and died a Religious Monke. 
 
 76 Malcolme the firfl, raigned 9 yeers, a good 
 
 King, yet murthered. 
 
 Tj Indulfus raignd 9 yeers, a couragious Prince, 
 flaine by Danes. 
 
 78 Duffus raigned 5 yeeres, was murthered, al- 
 though a good King. 
 
 79 Cu- 
 
79 Cudenus raigned 4 yeeres, a vicious Prince, 
 
 murthered. 
 
 80 Kenneth 3. raigned 24 yeeres , a tyrant, hee 
 
 was murdred. 
 
 81 Conjlantine 4 raigned 2 yeers, an ufurper, he 
 was flaine. 
 
 82 Grimus raigned 8. yeers, a lewd Prince, he 
 
 was flaine. 
 
 83 Macolme 2. raigned 30. yeers, he was a ver- 
 
 tuous Prince, yet was murthered by his 
 chiefefl Courtiers, who flying away to get 
 over a frozen River called Farfar, the Ice 
 brake, and the murtherers were drownd. 
 
 84 Duncan the firfl; raigned 6. yeeres , a good 
 
 King, murthered. 
 
 85 Mackbeth raigned 17. yeers, a cruell tyrant, 
 
 killd. 
 
 86 Macolme 3. raignd 36. yeers, a good King, flain. 
 
 87 Donald 7. raigned not a yeere, expulfl; as an 
 
 Ufurper. 
 
 88 Duncan 2. raignd one yeer, an ufurper, flaine. 
 
 89 Donald 8. raigned 3. yeeres, he was taken by 
 
 Egar, had his eyes put out, and died in pri- 
 fon lamentably. 
 
 90 Edgar raigned 9. yeeres, a good King. 
 
 91 Alexander the. find, raigned 17 yeers, he was a 
 
 valiant good Prince, hee was called Alex- 
 ander the fierce. 
 
 92 Da- 
 
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 92 David the firft, raigned 29. yeeres, a worthy 
 
 King, hee built 11. flately Religious Hou- 
 fes , died in peace at Carlifle , buried at 
 Dumfermling. 
 
 93 Macohne 4. raigned 12. yeeres, a maiden un- 
 
 married King. 
 
 94 William raigned 49. yeers, for his courage fir- 
 
 named the Lion. 
 
 95 Alexander 2. raigned 35. yeers, a good King. 
 
 96 Alexander 3. raigned 17. yeers, died of a fall 
 
 from a Horfe. 
 
 97 John Baliol raigned 4. yeeres, Bdzu. i. King of 
 
 England depofed him. 
 
 98 Robert Bruce raigned 24. yeeres , a wife, va- 
 
 liant Prince. 
 
 99 David 2. raigned 40. yeeres, a good King, 
 
 was a prifoner 12. yeers in England, 13 10. 
 
 At this time there was fcuffling for the Crown, 
 Robert Baliol had the poffeffion, and David the fe- 
 cond expeld him, their Raignes are uncertainely 
 written. 
 
 100 Robert 2. was the firft King of the name of 
 
 Stuarts 1 371. hee was a good King, raigned 
 19. yeeres. 
 
 10 1 Robert 3. raigned 16. yeeres, a good King, 
 
 whofe life was full of affli6lion, hi Sonne 
 
 Prince 
 
[3o] 
 Prince David was famifhed to death by re- 
 bells in Scotland, and his fon James was i8 
 yeeres prifoner in England. 
 
 1 02 James the firft, raigned 13. yeers, after his 
 18. yeers imprifoned in England, hee was 
 flaine by traytors. 
 
 103 James 2. raigned 24. yeeres, flaine. 
 
 104 James 3. raigned 29. yeeres, flaine at Ban- 
 nockburne field. 
 
 105 James 4. raigned 25. yeeres, flaine at Flod- 
 don field. 
 
 106 James 5. raigned 29. yeeres, a good King. 
 
 107 Mary daughter to James 5. her raigne was 
 fiiU of trouble, fliee was beheaded at Fo- 
 dringham Caflle, after 18. yeeres thral- 
 dome. 
 
 108 James 6. raigned 36. yeeres in Scotland, a 
 moft Learned peaceable King. 
 
 England had 33 Kings before Scotland had any : 
 the number of our Kings were 138, whereof 23 
 did not die naturall deaths ; for 7 were flain, 6 
 were murdered , 4 were poyfoned , one was 
 burnt, 2 fled the Land, one was beheaded , one 
 dyed with drinking, one was banifhed, and one 
 depofed. 
 
 The Kings of Scotland were in number 108. 
 whereof 2 1 were flaine , 1 9 murdred , 3 killed 
 
 themfelves. 
 
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 themfelves, 4 died in prifon, 4 beheaded, 3 drow- 
 ned, I banifh'd, and 3 depofed. Thus of all the 
 Scottifh Kings, onely 50 dyed naturally, and 58 
 by cafualtiei'. 
 
 By this fhort relation may bee perceived that 
 the top of Honour is flippery, and moft unfure, 
 where is not to be expe6led any fure footing, or 
 endurance of ftanding. For the King of Kings, 
 being the Great and only Difpofer of Kings and 
 Kingdomes, hath in his juft indignation (for the 
 peoples tranfgreffions) turnd and overturnd Mo- 
 narchies , Principalities, States and Common- 
 wealths. The Affyrian Monarchy began with 
 confufion, and mouldred away to the Perfian. 
 The Perfian glory was fwallowed in the rave- 
 nous Gulph of a Grecian Conqueft. The Gre- 
 cian (like a violent Blaze) was no fooner in but 
 out, was grafpt into the hands of the triumphant 
 Caefars. The Roman Greatneffe overthrew it 
 felfe, with its owne weight ; infomuch that 
 whereas it formerly had all , it hath almofl loft 
 all. Our England hath had his fhare in chan- 
 gings and alterations : firft, by the Britaines ; fe- 
 condly, by the Romans ; thirdly, by the Saxons ; 
 fourthly, by the Danes ; fifthly, by the Normans ; 
 and now laftly, (by the permiffion of God) by 
 our felves. There have beene Commonwealths 
 tranflated into Kingdomes, as Ifrael and Judah, 
 
 and 
 
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 and Kingdomes turnd into Commonwealths ; as 
 Italy is now divided into more then one, name- 
 ly Venice, Genoa, Luca, Pifa ; Alfo the Swit- 
 zers, or Helvetians, are a free State. So are the 
 greateft part of the Netherlands. And fmce it is 
 the Almighties unrefiftable will to change this 
 Nations Rule and Government, from a 5. or 6. 
 times changed Monarchy , into a Republique, 
 I will not repine againft divine providence , but 
 as I was a faithfull feryant and fubje6l 45. yeers, 
 to two Kings, (who were good Mafters to mee) 
 fo now I muft obey the prefent Government, or 
 elfe I muft not expe6l that I fhould live under 
 it, or be prote6led by it. 
 
 F r N I S. 
 
1652. 
 
 Chriftmas In and Ovt, 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 118.] 
 
CHRISTMAS 
 
 IN & OVT: 
 
 OR, OUR 
 
 LORD 8i SAVIOUR 
 
 Chrifts Birth-Day. 
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 Good Jofhua once ordain d a Holy-Day, 
 Becaufe the Sunjloodjiill in Gibeon, 
 And at his Prayers that the Moon didjlay 
 His cour/e, above the Vaile of Aialon ; 
 Andjhal not Chrijiiansjlil give thanks & praife 
 On tU yearly day our blejl redeemer came ? 
 Shall Powder Treafons and thank/giving dayes 
 Bejiill obferved in Records of Pame ? 
 
 Then let not Chrijls Birth-Day forgotten bee, 
 Remember him, that doth remember thee. 
 
 Thine J OHN TA YL OR. 
 
 L ON DON, 
 
 Printed at the Charge of the Authour, 
 1652. 
 
(2) 
 
 
 Chrijlmas, or Chrijls Day^ or Chrijls 
 Birth-Day. 
 
 ^N imitation of my great and glorious Lord 
 and Mafter (Jefus Chrift) in love to them 
 that hate me, I am come to them that love 
 me not. My Almighty Mafter was, is, 
 and ever will be GOD, from whom no- 
 thing was, is, or ever fhall be hid ; and 
 he did not onely know , but commiferate the miferies of 
 his enemies (moft miferable mankinde) to whom he had 
 often fent his Patriarks, Prophets, and other Meffengers of 
 Peace and profperity, and how they were, and fhould be 
 entertained in the world ; God knew before, and all Hi- 
 ftories of the facred Volumes, or other Books of Eclefia- 
 fticall Writings will teftifie. 
 
 And as my good Mafter did know how courfely he 
 fhould be dealt withall (by misbelieving hard hearted 
 Jewes) yet he came on this Day, from whom I have my ' 
 name of CHRISTMAS, or Chrifts Day: Even fo, I 
 come this 25. of December, though I know I fhall be hard- 
 ly welcome to a great many ; yet I am fure that as many 
 as love my Mafter, will rejoyce to fee this Day : But as 
 my firname of Mas , there is much exceptions taken , by 
 fome that underftand not what Mas , or Chriftmas mea- 
 neth. 
 
 I have heard Learned men fay, that the word Mas doth 
 
 fignifie 
 
(3) 
 
 fignifie fome heavy or ponderous thing, as Majfa is a 
 Wedge of Gold or Iron , or any thing that is preffed or 
 made into a lump of any thick matter of Dough, or Curds, 
 Cheefe, or fuch like ; but my firname of Mas is miftaken, 
 for my name is Chrijli miffi, or Chrift fent, as being fent 
 from God to us this Day. Chrift had his Miffion, he came 
 not before he was fent, (as himfelfe faid to his Difciples.) 
 " He that believes in you believes in me , and he that be- 
 " lieves in me, believes in him that fent me. Here it is 
 plaine that my Mafter was fent, and as he was fent , fo he 
 fent his Apoftles, and they gave miflion to the fucceeding 
 Miniftery, and they that were fent went, and none were 
 fo bold to intrude into the Miniftery without his Miflion 
 or Commiflion of being fent : and fo much concerning my 
 name of Chriftmas. 
 
 But I am more properly called Chrifts Day, for he 
 himfelfe did honour me with that Name, and though all 
 dayes are his (for as he is God, he is the Antient of Dales) 
 for whem the J ewes did fpeak of ABRAHAM, J oh. 8, 56, 
 My Mafter fayd, "Before Abraham was, I am, for A- 
 "BRAMAM faw my Day, and rejoyced in it, and was 
 " glad. He appointed me to be the peculiar Day of his blef- 
 fed Birth ; he was promifed in Paradice , foretold and 
 forefeen by the Patriarks and Prophets ; proclaimed by 
 Angels, with " Glory be to God in the higheft , peace on 
 "Earth, good will towards men, Luk. 11. 14. A Song or 
 Chriftmas Carroll, of three parts, to God, to Earth, to 
 Men, (Glory, Peace, & Good will) a gracious Confort fung 
 by celeftiall Spirits, Angels, and a multitude of heavenly 
 Souldiers, they fung and rejoyced all for our good , and 
 not for their owne : Then let men fing Pfalmes and An- 
 thems in Churches, and Hymns and Carols in our Houfes, 
 let us give glory to God on high, and he will give us peace 
 below. 
 
 A 2 Faith 
 
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 Faith is very clear fighted, for ABRAHAM was more 
 than two thoufand yeares before Chrift came in the flefh , 
 yet fwith the Eye of Eaith) he faw Me, he faw my Mafter 
 and my Mafters day, and rejoyced In it ; and his rejoycing 
 was approved of, but the Jews which rejoyced not were 
 reprehended. The holy Patriark rejoyced, and Chrift al- 
 lowed iti and he did diflike the unbelieving Jews that re- 
 juyced not. The Jewes did not (and do not) obferve it, 
 but all Chriftians did, doe, and will celebrate it and ac- 
 knowledge it, for no Chriftian will ftrike, blot, or fcrape 
 Chrifts Day out of the Kallender. 
 
 The Prophet Ifaiah did write of Chrifts comming 6oo 
 years before he came , in thefe words, " Behold a Virgin 
 fhall conceive and beare a Son , and he fhall call his name 
 Immanuell, or Emanuell, Efay 8. v. 14. 
 
 And again in the 9. Chapter v. 6. " For unto us a Child 
 " is borne, and unto us a Son is given : He is born, and un- 
 to us a Son is given, born of the bleffed Virgin his Mother, 
 and given by Almighty God his Father : a Child, Natiis, 
 a gift Datus, Is borne. Is given : The Prophet faies not, 
 was borne and given, but Is, which is ever, in the prefent 
 Tenfe, Borne ftill in the heart, foule, and memory of eve- 
 ry Chriftian. He that Was, and Is, and Is to come. Was 
 borne a Child and is born a Child unto us. Was given a 
 Son, and is given a Son unto us, this Day of my Mafters 
 bleffed Nativity. 
 
 In the fecond of S. Luke, v. 10 11. "Then the Angel 
 " faid unto them, be not afraid, for behold I bring you glad 
 "tidings of great joy which fhall be to all the people, a 
 Saviour is born on this Day, Chrifts Day, Chrifts Birth- 
 day, my day, Chriftmas day. 
 
 The Angel appeared to the Shepheards, and told them 
 newes of a Lamb, " the Lamb of God that taketh away 
 " the fins of the World : a Lamb that was come to fave all 
 
 the 
 
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 the fheep of Ifrael that were loft, and loft everlaftingly 
 we ftiould have been, had not this bleffed Lamb come 
 and redeemed us. 
 
 And as he was a Lamb, fo likewife he was a Shepheard, 
 the true Shepheard, the chiefe Shepheard, i Pet. 5. 4. the 
 good Shepheard, Joh. 10. 11. 14. fo we read that his Birth, 
 and Birth-day was firft made knowne unto Shepheards. 
 Indeed Shepheards were in odious and contemptible ab- 
 homination amongft the Idolatrous Egyptians , Gen. 46. 
 32. So was and is my Mafter Chrifts Name and Birth- 
 day to the misbelieving Jewes, mifcreant Turke, and Se- 
 ftarian, Schifmaticall, out-fide feeming Chriftians. This 
 day he that was prophecied of to come, did come, and he 
 that was promifed is come ; an Angell preached at his 
 comming, and Quires and multitudes of bleffed Spirits 
 fung, when our Saviour came, who was, is, and ever will 
 be, not only a Saviour, but falvation it felfe. 
 
 He was the Word, and the Word was God, and God 
 was the Word. Here God fthe Wordj was a Childe, a 
 Babe, an Infant ; and here the Word was not able to 
 fpeak a word, Joh. 14. "And the Word was made Flefh, 
 "and dwelt among us, we faw the glory thereof, as the 
 " glory of the onely begotten Son of the Father , full of 
 " Grace and Truth. 
 
 God fent his Son this day ; note who he was that did 
 fend, and what it was that he fent : He fent firft to us, 
 that fhouldin all humility have been Petitioners to him ; 
 we were enemies to God, to us he had fent often by his 
 Meffengers ; but this Day he fent his Son, who was and 
 is himfelfe. 
 
 Therefore let our deferved mifery, and Gods undefer- 
 ved mercy, love and compaflion , be thankfully remem- 
 bred this day, and every day in all places, times, ages, and 
 ■ generations. 
 
 A 3 This 
 
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 This Day, " Mercy and Truth are met together , and 
 " Righteoufneffe and peace have kiffed each other, Truth 
 "fhall flourifh out of the Earth and Righteoufneffe hath 
 "looked downe from heaven, Pfal. 85. Here was a gra- 
 cious and happy meeting, here the Lord Chiefe Juftice of 
 Heaven and Earth, brings juftice, truth , and righteouf- 
 neffe to judge, and mercy and compaffion to fave ; here 
 mercy ftiewed her felfe a good Miftris to mifery : This 
 Day he came in clouts that will come in Clouds. " And 
 " without controverfie great is the Myftery of godlinefs, 
 " which is, God is manifefted in the Flefh, juftified in the 
 " Spirit, feen of Angells, preached to the Gentiles, belie- 
 "ved on in the world, and received up in Glory, i Tim. 
 3, This was a great Miftery indeed ; this was the fumme 
 and fubftance of all Tropes, Types, Figures, Shadowes, 
 Sacrifices, Ceremonies, and the one and onely abfolute 
 fulfilling and accomplifhment of all Prophefies. And in 
 the firft Chapter to the Hebrewes, verfe i, 2, 3. the Apo- 
 ftle faith : " And at fundry times, and in divers places, 
 " God fpake in the old time to our Fathers by the Pro- 
 " phets ; in thefe laft dayes he hath fpoken to us by his 
 " Son. 
 
 Thus my Mafter (who had no beginning) did begin 
 this day to come and dwell amongft fmfuU men ; the Son 
 of God, the King of Glory came this Day, and this Day 
 was the firft Day of Chriftianity to all Chriftians, and as 
 many as have true faith in Chrift. 
 
 This was he to whom God the Father faid , Pfal. 2. 
 " Thou art m.y Son, this Day have I begotten thee. And 
 this was he that in the fame Pfalme was prophefied to fay, 
 " Lord I will preach thy Law, and declare thy Will. The 
 Evangelift S. Luke faith. Chap. 2. Ver. 12, 13. "And this 
 " ftiall be a fign unto you, you fhall finde the Babe fwad- 
 " led and laid in a Cratch, fome read it in a Manger. Here 
 
 is 
 
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 is to be noted the great humility of my Mafter, that 
 though he were Lord and maker of all, the firfl: joyfull ty- 
 dings of his birth was, not brought to Princes and Po- 
 tentates, or to Scribes, Pharifees, Lawyers , or Doftors ; 
 but he was gratioufly pleafed to be firft declared to poore 
 and humble Shepheards, and not to be borne in any mag- 
 nificent or ftately Palace , or in the beft room in the Inne : 
 No, the Inkeeper had his Chambers filled with Guefts 
 more welcome and gainfull then Chrift : There was no 
 room for him in the Inne, therefore the Redeemer of 
 mankind had entertainment in a Stable amongft Beafts, 
 fwadled and laid in a Cratch. 
 
 Neither would he be borne in any great or glorious 
 City, Jerufalem had not the honour to be graced with 
 the Birth and firfb prefence of the Son of God ; in great 
 Cities there hath ever been more mifery than mercy; and 
 more perfecution than pity ; therefore great Jerufalem 
 was the place of his bitter death and paffion , and little 
 Bethlehem was honoured with his birth, as it was pro- 
 phecied many years before, by the Prophet Micah, Chap. 5. 
 in thefe words : " And thou Bethlehem Ephrathah are 
 " little to be among the thoufands of Judah , yet out of 
 " thee {hall he come forth unto me, that fhall be the Ru- 
 " ler in Ifrael, whofe goings forth have been from the be- 
 " ginning, and from everlafting. 
 
 "And Heb. 2. 16. For he in no wife took the Angells, 
 "but the feed oi Abraham he took. 
 
 He took our nature (in the feed oi Abraham) upon him, 
 the nature of Angells he took not : He came this day to 
 help us, who had moft need of a Saviour ; he gave to us 
 not onely a dignity which he gave not to Angells, but 
 alfo he gave himfelfe for us, and fure we cannot take a 
 fafer or wifer courfe, than thankfully with all humility to 
 give our felves to him that gave himfelf for us. 
 
 A 4 My 
 
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 My Mafler gave power to his Church to celebrate and 
 to ordain and command the annuall celebration of his 
 bleffed Nativity, I have twelve dayes to attend me , and 
 twelve moneths I do abfent my felfe before I come again, 
 the kinde or courfe entertainment, the courteous or chur- 
 lifh ufage to me, doth not, or cannot increafe, or diminifh 
 my Mailers glory ; or adde to me, or take from me one 
 minute of time ; if men could be as faithfull and charita- 
 ble as Abraham, as humble as David, as milde and meek 
 as Mofes, as zealous as Elias, as patient as Job, as folici- 
 tous as Martha, and as devout as the bleffed Virgin Ma- 
 ry : thofe gracious gifts have been, are, and will be a hap- 
 pineffe unfpeakable to fuch as are by fupernall grace en- 
 dowed with them, but the profit of them is onely theirs 
 that have them, for he that is rich in mercy, cannot be in- 
 riched by the piety, vertue, or merits of men , fo that e- 
 very Chriflian may truly fay. 
 
 Lord, the great love thou bear'ft to me is thine, 
 But all the profit of it 's only mine. 
 
 So likewife if poore old Chriftmas day be made wel- 
 come, I am not the richer or fatter , if I be ill entertain'd, 
 I will neither be poorer or leaner ; Let them make me a 
 feafting or fafbing day, all my joy or grief is not of long 
 continuance, I am but a fhort day, and not far from the 
 fhorteft day, and therefore their loves are but fhort to my 
 Mafter, that will not rejoyce and be glad at the comming 
 of his anniverfary Birth-day. 
 
 The old yeare was before Chrift , when misbelieving 
 lewes and Gentiles lived in the darkneffe of ignorant I- 
 dolatry under the Law, ( or without the Law ) but the 
 New yeare came when the Father of Lights fent my Ma- 
 fter ( the Light of the world ) who by the glorious light 
 of his Gofpell expelled and difperfed the black clouds 
 and mifts of Egyptian blindneffe, and devillifli Idolatry. 
 
 Therefore 
 
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 Therefore with the old year let is fhake off our old faults, 
 (the deeds of darknefsj and with the new yeare let us be 
 renewed in our minds , and follow the true light , and a- 
 mend our maners, & let our hearts be fiU'd with praifes & 
 thankfgivings, before our bellies be overfill'd with meat. 
 
 There were lately fome over-curious, hot zealous Bre- 
 thren, who with a fuperbian predominance did doe what 
 they could to keep Chriftmas day out of England ; they did 
 in divers places Preach Me for dead in Funerall Sermons, 
 and labour'd tooth and nail to bury me alive in the grave 
 of oblivion ; they were of opinions, that from the 24. of 
 December at night, till the 7. of January following, that 
 Plumb-Pottage was meer Popery, that a Coller of Brawn 
 was an obhomination, that Roaft Beef was Antichriftian, 
 that Mince-Pies were Reliques of the Whore of Babylon, 
 and a Goofe, a Turkey, or a Capon, were marks of the Beaft. 
 
 In deteftation of which fuperftitious diet, they affum'd 
 to themfelvs fpirituall and temporall jurifdi6lion, power, 
 and authority to fearch and plunder Pottage-pots , to ran- 
 fack and rifle Ovens, and to ftrip fpits ftark naked, and tri- 
 umphantly carry the pillage to be difpofed of as they plea- 
 fed , for the profit and edification of the righteous , and 
 chaftifement of the wicked. 
 
 As there are many fundry Nations, fo are there as ma- 
 ny inclinations .■ the Ruffian, Polonian , German , Bel- 
 gian, are excellent in the Art of Drinking , the Spaniard 
 will Wench it, the Italian is revengeful! , the French man 
 is for fafhions, the Irifli man Ufquebagh makes him light 
 heel'd, the Welfh mans Cowfs-boby works (by infufion) 
 to his fingers ends, and tranflates them into the nature of 
 lime-twigs, and it is faid , that a Scot will prove falfe to 
 his Father, and diffemble with his Brother ; but for an En- 
 glifh man he is fo cleare from any of thefe Vices, that he is 
 perfectly exquifite and excellently indued with all thofe 
 noble abovefaid exercifes. I 
 
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 I am old and bold to tell the nofe wife Brethren of thefe 
 critick dales, that my great Mafler is Kingof Kings, & Lord 
 of Lords, who is the ancient of daies, who never had begin- 
 ning, and never fhall have end. And on this day, which 
 is kept in a thankfull remembrance of his bleffed incarna- 
 tion, 1652 years fmce, I [Chriftmas] have not failed to 
 make my aniverfary & yearly progrefs into Chriftendom. 
 
 When my Mafter Chrift was gracioufly pleafed to ex- 
 change his unexpreffible grory for mans unfupportable 
 niifery, when (in his mercy) he put off the Majefty of his 
 Godhead, and took upon him our miferable Manhood, lea- 
 ving his glorious Throne for a Maunger, when he laid by 
 his immortall honour, and cloathed himfelfe with our 
 fhame, to free all true believers from eternall damnation : 
 Then (on his daies birth) my day began. Then on that 
 day, and at that time, as the Shepheards v/ere in the field, 
 they were faluted with an Angel, and a multitude of the 
 heavenly Hoft with a moft celeftiall Carroll. 
 
 Luk. 2. All glory be to God on the High'ft, 
 And on the Earth be Peace, 
 Good will towards men, 'tis the will of Chrifl, 
 Our joyes fhould never ceafe. 
 
 Thus was my good Mafter ufher'd into the World, and 
 for his fake, I with my followers (being 12 daies in num- 
 ber) honeft Stephen & true John, with my Innocents Pages, 
 and all the refl have been welcom'd and joyfully enter- 
 tained ever fmce, by all forts of people that have lov'd or 
 do love and honour the memory of the birth-day of my 
 gracious and glorious Lord and Mafter. 
 
 But now of late the cafe is quite altred , Chrift and 
 Chriftmas are both alike welcome ; and if the Saviour of 
 Mankinde fliould come perfonally here amongft us againe, 
 he were likely (through ignorance, malice, and madneffe) 
 to be re-crucified : if Chriftmas may be fo bold as to aske 
 
 thofe 
 
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 thofe fiery fpirited people the fame queftion as my Mafter 
 might have asked the Jews ; for which of my good works 
 that I have done do you flone me ? 
 
 So I may fay to England, what harme have I ever done 
 unto you ? I am fure I never perfwaded you to be fo un- 
 charitable as to cut one anothers throats, and to ftarve and 
 famifh the poore (as you have done continually) and do 
 ftill ever fmce you banifhed me from your territories, and 
 it is to be feared that you will never be quiet , or have a 
 happy Peace amongft you, till you do give me better wel- 
 come for my Mafters fake ; he is the Prince of Peace, and his 
 peace you will never have that do unthankfully difpife & 
 negleft to folemnize the day of his moft bleffed Nativity. 
 
 It is a lamentable and too long a flory to relate in what 
 a pittifull quandary I and my followers have been in any 
 time thefe twelve years, when we came into this Country : 
 I was in good hope that fo long a mifery would have made 
 them glad to bid a merry Chriftmas welcome : But wel- 
 come or not welcome, I am come, and at my comming (a 
 little before day) I heard the Cock crow merrily, which I 
 took for a good Omen, or Preface of a moft free and joviall 
 accommodation, which rejoyced me much , for I and my 
 men were as hungry as Hawks, and as cold as Snow-ball : 
 the fable curtains of the night being drawn, I gazed to and 
 fro to make choice of the befl houfes , and houfe-keepers 
 to take up my quarters amongft them ; but alas, the com- 
 fort that I found was colder then the weather ; indeed I 
 faw many ftately buildings, but very little fmoak from the 
 Chimnies, for moft of the owners did carry their Kitchins 
 in Boxes, and the beft and deareft part of their Roaft-meat 
 in Pipes ; befides there was a great complaint that Mr. Tax 
 and Mr. Plunder had plaid a long game at fweep-ftake a- 
 mbngft them , and that they would willingly have provi- 
 ded good chear for me, but that they are fo miferable poor 
 that they were not able to feed themfelves. This 
 
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 This was no good news to me and my company ; we 
 had not been ufed to fuch uncomfortable 'breakfafts, 
 which made us all fearch up and down the chief Cities for 
 better chear, but my efpeciall mind was to try the curtefie 
 of London, where I entred a fair houfe which had been an 
 Aldermans, but it was now poffeft with a grave Fox-fur'd 
 Mammonift, whom I found fitting over a few cinders to 
 warm his gouty toes, ('for no other part of him did need 
 the comfort of a fire,) from head to heel he was fur'd like 
 a Mufcovite, and inftead of a Bible he had a Bond in his 
 hand, which he poard upon to fee if it were forfeit or no ; 
 he feldome looked upward, but as it were riveted his eyes 
 to the earth, as if he had been looking for a Mine : his keys 
 of his treafure were hanged at his wafte, and his clutches 
 alwayes on them, and he no fooner efpied me and my 
 Company, but he cried Thieves, Thieves, and reviled his 
 poor ftarveling fervant, faying, thou Villain, hafl thou let 
 in bafe Rakehells to rob me, and cut my throat. 
 
 Then I began to intreat him to be patient, faying, Sir, 
 there are none here that intend to hurt you, if you take any 
 harme, it muft be your felfe that muft do it to your felfe, 
 and not we. My name is Chriftmas thefe gray haired 
 men that are with me, are men of my old acquaintance ; 
 they are all poor and true ; we are come to dine with you, 
 but if it be not your pleafure to give us entertainment, it 
 is not onr purpofes to force it. 
 
 This old muckworme caft as dogged a look upon me as 
 if I had brought him a privy Seal to borrow money, and 
 at laft he opened his mouth and faid, thou old fancy intru- 
 ding fellow, I prithee let me have thy abfence, thou com- 
 meft to do nothing but mifchief, to make men wafte and 
 fpend fo much to entertain thee in twelve or thirteen days 
 exceffe of riotous Gluttony and Gurmondizing, that for 
 12. moneths after they can hardly purchafe a good meals 
 
 meat ; 
 
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 meat ; befides thou art attended and waited on by a cur- 
 fed crew of Gamefters, Cheaters, Swearers, Roarers, 
 and whimwham Gambolls ; me thinkes one of thy age 
 fhould have left off thy Coltifh tricks, and prodigall ex- 
 pences : Doft thou fee any one that hath a care to Hve and 
 thrive in the world , to be fo mad as to minde thee 
 and thy Babies, we are grown fomewhat wifer in twelve 
 yeares, than our Fathers were in twice eight hundred : 
 There dwells my worlhipfuU good neighbour ( Sir A- 
 chitophel Pinchgut, and M. Nabal ( an ancient luftice of 
 the Quorum) it is neither they or my felfe that had ever 
 come to have any eftates, if we had entertained thee, or re- 
 lieved Baggers : I tell thee if we and a great many more 
 had been as lavifhly minded as thou wouldfl: have us to be, 
 we had then been as poore as thou, or any of the reft of 
 the vaggabond beggerly Varlets that are thy hangers on, 
 and fo let them hang ftill, or ftarve, all's one to me ; there- 
 fore without any more adoe , avoid my houfe , I have 
 nothing for thee , neither am I in the giving humour at 
 this time. 
 
 I could have anfwered him with divine Command- 
 ments and Precepts, with many humane Hiftories and 
 Examples concerning good houfe-keeping , and charita- 
 ble Hofpitality ; but every vertue ( in this Age of Vice) 
 is between two extremes, (as my Mafter was betwixt 
 two Thieves ) as liberallity is in the middle , but prodi- 
 gality and covetoufneffe are on each fide of her , alwayes 
 ready to fpoil and devour her. 
 
 All true Chriftians do know, that what reliefe foever 
 is given to the poore , is lent unto my Lord and Mafter 
 Chrift, and he hath, is, and will be bound to fee it paid 
 with Heavenly intereft ; but he is a furety that few U- 
 furers will accept of. 
 
 At my departure from this old Father Penny-wife, his 
 
 Sonne, 
 
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 Sonne, (M. Pound-foolifli) defired his crabbed Sire to bid 
 me ftay and dine with him, at which the miferable Cur- 
 mudgeon was even half mad with anger, calHng his Son 
 fpend-thrift, and prodigall Jack-an-Apes , faying, that 
 if he bad me to dinner, that I with my followers, would 
 take the boldneffe to fup with him, and lodge in his houfe 
 till Twelftide was paft , and that I would draw more 
 Guefts to his houfe then he had a mind to bid welcome, 
 & more Beggers to his gate then he had a mind to relieve. 
 
 Thus was poor Chrifi:mas ufed, which made me and my 
 men look blank upon the matter, and without bidding 
 him farewell, I took a going welcome from him , and 
 wandring into the Countrey up and downe from houfe to 
 houfe, I found little or fmall comfort in any ; fome would 
 only fmile upon me, and (becaufe I fhould not piffe at 
 their doors) they would give me a cup of fmgle, flender, 
 lean, fmall Beer, or Ale, which had the vertue to caufe a 
 man to make an Alphabet of faces, for it would have war- 
 med a mans heart like pangs of death in a frofty morning. 
 And as thinking or remembring former profperities, doe 
 make adverfities feem the more heavy : So I call to minde 
 the vigorous fpirit of the Buttry, Nappy, Nut-browne, 
 Berry-browne, Ale Abelendo, whofe infufion and infpi- 
 ration was wont to have fuch Aleaborate operation to e- 
 levate & exhillerate the vitals, to put alementall Raptures 
 and Enthufiafms in the moft capitall Perricranion, in fuch 
 plenitude that the meaneft and moft illiterate Plowjogger 
 could fpeedily play the Rhetorician, and fpeak alequently, 
 as if he were mounted up into the Aletitude. This merry 
 memory (or fad remembrance j of Ale, caufed me to ask the 
 reafon of this alteration, to which qucftion an honeft 
 Smith made this anfwer. 
 
 Alas Father Chriflmas (quoth he) our high and mighty 
 Ale, that would formerly knock down Hercules, and trip 
 
 up 
 
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 up the heels of a Gyant, is lately ftrook into a deep Con- 
 fumption, the ftrength of it being quite gone with a blow 
 which it received from Weftminfler, and there is a Tetter 
 and Ringworme called Excife, doth make it look thinner 
 then it would otherwife do ; before thefe times every 
 Brewer did keep two ftrong fellows to carry the Mault, 
 and one weake boy to pump the Water ; but now they 
 have fhifted or changed hands unluckily ; for the poore 
 boy carries the Mault, and the two ftrong knaves carry 
 the Water. 
 
 Indeed ( to fpeake truth ) my beft and freefh welcome 
 with fome kind of Countrey Farmers, I will defcribe one 
 for all the reft in Devonfhire and Cornwall,' where though 
 both the Armies had been with them, and given them fe- 
 verall vifits, infomuch that if the Cavaliers had taken their 
 Horfes, thee other Party made bold with their Oxen ; if 
 the one had their Sheep , the other plaid fweep-ftake ; fo 
 that ^according to the Countrey phrafej great Crock, and 
 little Chock , all was I go ; yet as foon as they fpied me, 
 they faluted me with much love and reverend curtefie. ' 
 The Good-man, with the Dame of the houfe, and all the 
 reft of the men were exceeding glad to fee me, and with all 
 Countrey curtefie and folemnity, I was had into the Par- 
 lour, there I was placed at the upper end of the Table, and 
 my company about me, we had good chear and free v/el- 
 come, and we were merry without Mufick. 
 
 A, ha, quoth I, this piece of the world is well mended, 
 our Dinner is better then our Breakfaft, this was as Chrift- 
 mas would have it, here is neither too much coft, nor too 
 little meat ; here is no furfeit on the one fide, or hunger on 
 the other ; they are alwaies the beft Feafts where the 
 poor are reliev'd, for the rich can help themfelves. 
 
 After Dinner we arofe from the Boord, and fate by the 
 fire, where the Harth was imbrodered all over with roa- 
 
 fted 
 
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 fted Apples, piping hot.expefting a bole of Ale for a coo- 
 ler (^ which prefently was transformed into warm Lambf- 
 wooU :) ' within an houre after we went to Church, where 
 a good old Minifter fpoke very Reverendly of my Mafter 
 Chrift, and alfo he uttered many good fpeeches concerning 
 Me, exciting and exhorting the people to love and unity 
 one with another, and to extend their charities to the nee- 
 dy and diftreffed. 
 
 After Prayers we returned home, where we difcourfed 
 merrily, without either prophanenefs or obfcenity ; fup- 
 per being ended , we went to Cards, fome fung Carrols, 
 and merry Songs (fuitable to the times ;) then the poor la- 
 bouring Hinds , and the Maid fervants , with the Plow- 
 Boyes, went nimbly to dancing, the poore toyling wret- 
 ches being all glad of my company, becaufe they had little 
 or no fport at all till I came amongft them ; and therefore 
 they leaped and skipped for joy ; finging a catch to the 
 Tune of hey. 
 
 Let's dance and fmg and make good Cheare, 
 For Chriftmas comes but once a yeare. 
 Thus at aftive Games and Gambols of Hotcockles, 
 fliooing the Wild Mare, and the like harmlefs fports, fome 
 part of the tedious night was fpent ; and early in the mor- 
 ning we took our leaves of them thankfully ,'' and though 
 we had been thirteen dayes well entertained, yet the poor 
 people were very unwilling to let me goe ; fo I left them 
 quite out of hope to have my company againe for a 
 Twelve-months fpace, that if I were not banifhed in my 
 abfence they fhould have my prefence again the next 25. 
 of December 1653. 
 
 Glory be to God in the Highejl, Peace on Earth, 
 and to Men Good-will. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
[i653-] 
 A Short Relation of a Long 
 
 Journey. 
 
 [Hazlitt, No. 122.] 
 
A SHORT 
 
 RELATION 
 
 OF A LONG 
 
 I O U R N E Y 
 
 Made ROUND or OVALL 
 
 By encompaffing the Principalitie of Wales, from 
 London, through and by the Counties of Mid- 
 dle/ex and Buckingham, Berks, Oxonia, Warwick, 
 Stafford, Chejler, Flint, Denbigh, Anglefey, Car- 
 narvan, Merioneth, Cardigan, Pembrooke, Caer- 
 marden, Glamorgan, Monmouth, Glocejier, &c. 
 
 This painfull circuit began on Tuefday the 13 of 
 
 July lafl, 1652. and was ended (or both ends 
 
 brought together ) on Tuefday the 7. of 
 
 September following, being near 600. Miles. 
 
 Whereunto is annexed an Epitome of the Fa- 
 mous Hiftory of WALES. 
 
 Performed by the Riding , Going , Crawling, 
 Running, and Writing of John Taylor, dwel- 
 ling at the Sign of the Poets Head, in Phenix 
 Alley, near the midle of Long Aker or Covent 
 Garden. 
 
If 
 
[3] 
 
 ToallmyHonourable,WorJhipfull,andhoneJl 
 Friends, that have fub/cribed to this follow- 
 ing Bill; I humbly dejire them to read it a- 
 gaine, and conjider the Contents of it, and 
 content mee accordingly. 
 
 A Taylors Bill, with few or no Items: by 
 or for John Taylor. 
 
 "\T Ow in the feventy fourth yeare of mine Age, 
 -'- ^ / take an Englifh and Welfh Pilgrimage : 
 From London yfj^ / bend m.y courfe to Chefter, 
 And humbly I to all m,en am, Requejler ; 
 That when I have pajl over Hills and Dales, 
 And compajl with my Travels famous Wales, 
 That when to you that I a Book do give. 
 Relating how I didfubfijl and live. 
 With all my Pajfages both here and there, 
 And of my Entertainment every where. 
 Write but your Names and Dwellings in this Bill, 
 I' le finde you, for the Book give what you will. 
 Twelve Voyages and fournies I have pajl. 
 And now my Agefayes this may be my lajl. 
 My Travels Story Jhall mojl pleafant be 
 To you that read, though painfull unto me. 
 
 IN this Bill I did promife to give to my friends 
 (Subfcribers) a true Relation of my Journey, 
 
 A 2 and 
 
[4j 
 and Entertainment , (which I have done) and I 
 do give to them more then I promifed , which 
 is a briefe Chironicle of Wales, ( which I did not 
 mention in my Bill ) I know there are foure or 
 five forts of Adventurers with me in this weari- 
 fome Journey, fome of them have payd me al- 
 ready ( before I went ) and their paine is pafl : 
 If all the reft do pay me (being near 3000) I am 
 deceived ; If none doe pay me I am miferably 
 coufened : For thofe that have payd, or can and 
 will pay , I thanke them ; for fuch as would if 
 they could, or will when they can, I wifh them 
 ability to performe their wills for their owne 
 fakes, and mine both : But for thofe that are a- 
 ble to reward me and will not , I will not curfe 
 them, though I feare they are almoft paft pray- 
 ing for. 
 
 A 
 
[5] 
 
 A Short Relation of a Long 
 lourny, &c. 
 
 A Traveller that loves to fee Jlrange Lands, 
 May be a man or not a man of 's hands : 
 But yet 'tis very requifite and m.eet, 
 Hefhould be furnifJid with good brains and feet ; 
 For he that wants legs, feet, and brains, and wit. 
 To be a Traveller is moft unfit : 
 Andfuch am I by Age offirength bereft. 
 With one right leg, and one lame left leg left. 
 Beggers on their backs their brats do reare ; 
 But I my iffue in m,y leg do beare : 
 I dreffe it often and im.patiently 
 It lies and cries not, though it make me cry ; 
 Yet I dare challenge Scottifh Jock or Jackey, 
 Or any light-heel'd nimble footed Lackey, 
 To travell fuch a Jaunt as I have done, 
 With th' right leg going, and the left leg run : 
 Or if I pleafe, the cafe I'le alter fo, 
 To make the worft leg run, the befi to goe. 
 Andfure my heart was flout, men may fuppofe. 
 To venture Travell with fuch legs as thofe. 
 But there be fame few that do under/land, 
 ' Tis merry walking with a horfe in hand. 
 
 A 3 Such 
 
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 Such was my Lot, I had ajiately Courfer, 
 None courfer quality d, and for a worfer, 
 There's neither Halifax, or Hull, nor Hell, 
 That for good parts my horfe can parallel ; 
 He was a beafl, had heated been and cheated, 
 Too much hard over rid and binder mealed, 
 That he as gaunt as any Greyhound was, 
 And for a Horfes Skelliton might paffe: 
 You might have told his ribs, he wasfo thin, 
 Andfeen his heart and guts, but for his skin ; 
 He was not purfie foggy, cloy d with grease, 
 And like his Rider lov'd refl, eafe, and peace : 
 Dun was, and is the Dumb beafi, and was Done, 
 E 're I begun, or he with me begun. 
 He had a black Lift, from the Mane to Taile, 
 Which is a colour that doth feldome faile : 
 To change of paces he had been inurd. 
 But yet not one f endure, or be endur'd; 
 His Trot would fling a Dagger out ot'hfheath. 
 Or jolt a man to death, or out of breath. 
 His Ambling was invifible to me. 
 From fu^h fmooth eafie garbs his feet were free : 
 His common Pace in Sunfhine or infhowre. 
 Was (as he pleas' d) about two mile an houre. 
 1 never yet could put him. in afweat, 
 For he was never free, but at his meat. 
 Thus John upon Dun's back, were both Dun John, 
 And thus the tedious way we, wandred on. 
 Now to proceed in order duly, truly, 
 T London left the thirteenth day of]^Ay : 
 
 The 
 
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 The Wayes as f aire as man could well dejire, 
 'Caufe I had none to draw Dun out o'th mire : 
 I fifteen miles (to Riflip) that day went, 
 Baited at Edgworth, to give Dun content ; 
 There my acquaintance, of good fame and worth, 
 Did welcome me : the next day I fet forth, 
 With Boots, Sans Spurs, with Whip, and Switch of Burch, 
 I got on, twenty miles to Stoken Church : 
 The fifteenth day, S. Swithin, / and Dun, 
 Didfhufflefixteen miles to Abington ; 
 There till the Tuefday following I abode. 
 From thence T fixteen miles to great Tue rode. 
 There at the Swan m,ine Hofi was free and kind. 
 He had but one eye, totherfide was blinde ; 
 Butfurely he a right Good-fellow was, 
 And there one night my Dun did eat good grafs. 
 On July's twenty one from Tue / went, 
 And unto 'Wdxvi'ickfirait my courfe I bent. 
 There did I find another figne dth Swan, 
 Mine Hofieffe kind, mine Hofi a Gentile man, 
 And for your love to me, good Mafier Venner, 
 With humble thanks I am your praifes Penner. 
 My gratitude to Mafier Jacob Harmer, 
 His Drapers fhop could never make me warmer. 
 Then high and mighty Warwick's drink did there, 
 It made my brains to Caper and careere. 
 It was offuch invincible firong force, 
 To knock me (in five miles) twice from my Horfe: 
 And fur e I think the Drink was certainly 
 Infufed with the conquring ghofi of Qyxy. 
 
 A \ On 
 
[8] 
 On July's two and twentieth day I came 
 Unto an ancient houfe call'd Hunningham, 
 There were two Ladies of good Worth and fame, 
 Whom for fame reafons I forbeare to name : 
 Their Son and Grandfon (John) I' le not forget, 
 He's nobly minded as a Baronet ; 
 Foure dayes they kept m,e with exceeding cheere, 
 And gave mefilver becaufe Travels deare. 
 From thence my Journey 5 miles I purfue, 
 To Coventry, mofl famous for true blew ; 
 There the f aire Croffe of ancient high Renown 
 Stands firme, though other Croffes all are down. 
 ' Tis a dry City, and dry let it be, 
 ' Twas not made dryer onefmall drop for me : 
 Like a Camelion there I brake my fcfl. 
 And thence I twenty miles to Lichfield paft ; 
 There at the George / took m,y lodging up, 
 T well was lodg'd, and well didfup and cup, 
 When there by chance, I cafl my wandring ey on 
 The ruin'd Church, with grief e I thought on Sion ; 
 IJigh'd to fee that fad confufion. 
 Like th' Hebrews by the Brook ^Babylon. 
 On July's twenty feventh I rode alone 
 Fullfixteen miles unto a Town call'd Stone. 
 Next day to Nantwichy^/^^;? long m,iles m,ore. 
 From, thence to Chefler near the Cambrian Jhore : 
 There was my welcome infuch noble fafhion. 
 Of which in Profe I'le make fome brief e Relation. 
 
 My 
 
[9] 
 A /T Y Lodging at Chejler was in the Watergate 
 -'■^J-ftreet, at the Sign of the Feathers, I lay on 
 a Feather-bed, and in the fame houfe I met with 
 two Brothers of mine acquaintance thirty years, 
 they brought me to the Chamber of a Reverend 
 Italian Phyfition, named Vincent Lance lies he was 
 more then 80 yeares of Age , yet of a very able 
 body , and vigorous conflitution : The Yong 
 mens Names were Thomas Morrine and Francis 
 Morrine, the people were pleafed ( out of their 
 Ignorance, or in fmall Wit ) to call the old Gen- 
 tleman a Mountebank ; but I am fure he was 
 defervedly well reputed and reported of, for ma- 
 ny Malladies and Difeafes which hee cured, 
 whereof divers were judged incurable : He help- 
 ed fuch as were grieved for three feverall confi- 
 derations. 
 
 Firft, Hee cured the Rich, for as much as hee 
 could get. 
 
 Secondly, Hee healed the Meaner fort for 
 what they could fpare, or were willing to part 
 withall. 
 
 Thirdly, Hee cured the Poor for Gods fake, 
 and gave them mony and other reliefs , as I my 
 felfe (with thankfull experience) muft ever ac- 
 knowledge : For he looked upon my lame leg, 
 and apply ed fuch Medicine, as did not only eafe 
 me, but I am in hope will cure me, the griefe be- 
 ing nothing but a Blaft of Lightning and Thun- 
 der, or Planet ftroke, which I received nine years 
 pafl at Oxford. For 
 
[lO] 
 
 For a further courtefie , when I was taking 
 my leave of Chejier , I demanded what I had to 
 pay for Lodging, Dyet, and Horfe-meat, mine 
 Hofl fayd , that all was fully payd and fatisfied 
 by the Good old Phyfition. My humble thanks 
 remembred to Captain Vincent Corbet, but more 
 efpecially to Captain John Whitworth at Chefter. 
 
 On Fryday the 30. of July, I rode (and footed 
 it) ten Miles to Flint (which is the Shire Town 
 of Flint-fhire^ and furely War hath made it mi- 
 ferable, the fometimes famous Caftle there, in 
 which Richard the Second of that Name , King 
 oi England was furprifed hy Henry oi Bullinbrook, 
 is now almoft buried in it's own Ruins , and the 
 Town is fo fpoiled, that it may truely be faid of 
 it, that they never had any Market (in the me- 
 mory of man) they have no Sadler , Taylor, 
 Weaver, Brewer, Baker, Botcher, or Button- 
 maker ; they have not fo much as a figne of an 
 Ale-houfe, fo that I was doubtfull of a Lodging, 
 but ( by good hap ) I hapned into the houfe of 
 one Mr. Edward Griffith, where I had good meat 
 and lodging for me and my dumb Dun Beaft, for 
 very reafonable confideration , and this (me 
 thinks) is a pitifuU difcription of a Shire Town. 
 
 Saturday, the laft of July , I left Flint , and 
 went three miles to Holy-well , of which place I 
 muft fpeak fomewhat materially : About the 
 length of a furlong, down a very fteep Hill, is a 
 Well (full of wonder and admiration) it comes 
 
 from 
 
from a Spring not far from Rudland Caftle ; it 
 is and hath been many hundred yeares knowne 
 by the name oiHoly- Well, but it is more common- 
 ly and of moft Antiquity called Saint Winifrids 
 Well, in rhemory of the pious and chafte Virgin 
 Winifrid, who was there beheaded for refufing to 
 yield her Chaftity to the furious lufl of a Pagan 
 Prince ; in that very place where her bloud was 
 fhed, this Spring fprang up ; from it doth iffue fo 
 forceible a ftream , that within a hundred yards 
 of it, it drives certain Mils, and fome do fay that 
 nine Corn Mils and Fulling Mils are driven with 
 the flream of that Spring : It hath a fair Chap- 
 pell ere6led over it called Saint Winifrids Chap- 
 pell , which is now much defaced by the injury 
 of thefe late Wars : The well is compaffed a- 
 bout with a fine Wall of Free ftone , the Wall 
 hath eight Angles or Corners, and at every An- 
 gle is a fair Stone Filler, whereon the Weft end 
 of the Chappell is fupported. In two feverall 
 places of the Wall, there are neat ftone ftaires 
 to go into the water that comes from the Well, 
 for it is to be noted that the Well it felfe doth 
 continually work and bubble with extream vio- 
 lence, like a boiling Cauldron or Furnace, and 
 within the Wall, or into the Well very few do 
 enter : The Water is Chriftalline, fweet and 
 medicinable, it is frequented daily by many peo- 
 ple of Rich and Poore, of all Difeafes, amongft 
 which great ftore of folkes are cured, divers are 
 
 eafed, 
 
[12] 
 eafed, but none made the worfe. The Hill def- 
 cending is plentifully furnifhed (on both fides of 
 the way) with Beggers of all ages, fexes, condi- 
 tions , forts and fizes , many of them are impo- 
 tent, but all are impudent, and richly embrode- 
 red all over with fuch Hexameter poudred Er- 
 mins (or Vermin) as are called Lice in England. 
 Monday, the fecond oi Auguji, when the Day 
 begun, I mounted my Dun, having hired a little 
 Boy ( to dire6l me in the way ) that could fpeak 
 no Englifh, and for lack of an Interpreter , we 
 travelled fpeachlefs eight miles , to Rudland , 
 where is an old ruined winde and war-fhaken 
 Caftle ; from that Town, after my Horfe, and 
 the Boy, and my felfe had dined with Hay, Oats, 
 and Barraw Caufs, we hors't and footed it twelve 
 miles further, to a fine ftrong walled Towne, 
 named Aberconwy ; there I lodged at the houfe 
 of one Mr. Spencer (an Englifh man) he is Pofl- 
 Mafter there, and there my entertainment was 
 good, and my Reckoning reafonable : There is a 
 good defenfive Caftle which I would have feen, 
 but becaufe there was a Garrifon, I was loath 
 to give occafion of offence , or be much inquifi- 
 tive. 
 
 The next day when the Clock Jlrook two andfowre, 
 I mounted Dun, Dun mounted Penmen Mawre ; 
 And if I do not take m,y aime amijfe. 
 That lofty Mountain feems the Skies to kiffe : 
 
 But 
 
[13] 
 But there are other Nils accounted higher, 
 Whofe lofty tops I had no mind f afpire : 
 As Snowdon, and the tall Plinnillimon, 
 Which I nojlomack had to tread upon. 
 Merioneth Mountains, and Shire Cardigan 
 To travell over, will tire horfe and man : 
 I, to Bewmaris came that day and din'd. 
 Where I the good Lord Buckley, thought to find: 
 But he to /peak with me had no intent. 
 Dry I cam,e intds houfe, dry out I went. 
 I left Bewmaris, and to Bangor tracd it, 
 Thers a brave Church, but Time and Wardefac'dit: 
 For Love and Many T was welcome thither, 
 ' Tis merry meeting when thiy come together. 
 
 Thus having travelled from Aberconwy to Beu- 
 morris and to Bangor, Tuefday 3. Auguft , which 
 in all they are pleafed to call 14 miles, but moft 
 of the Welfh miles are large London meafure, 
 not any one of them but hath a hand bredth or 
 fmall cantle at each end, by which means, what 
 they want in broadnefs, they have it in length ; 
 befides the afcending and defcending almoft im- 
 paffable mountains, and Break-neck flony ways, 
 doth make fuch Travellers as my felfe judge 
 that they were no Mifers in meafuring their 
 miles ; befides, the land is courfer then it is in 
 mofl parts about London, which makes them to 
 afford the larger meafure : for courfe broad- 
 cloath is not at the rate of Velvet or Satten. 
 
 Wednefday 
 
[hJ 
 
 Wednefday the 4. of Augujl I rode 8 miles 
 from Bangor to Carnarvan, where I thought to 
 have feen a Town and a Caftle, or a Caflle and 
 a Town ; but I faw both to be one , and one to 
 be both ; for indeed a man can hardly divide 
 them in judgement or apprehenfion ; and I have 
 feen many gallant Fabricks and Fortifications, 
 but for compadlnefs and compleatnefs of Caer- 
 narvon, I never yet faw a parallell. And it is by 
 Art and Nature fo fited and feated , that it 
 flands impregnable, & if it be well mand, vi6lu- 
 alled, and ammunitioned, it is invincible, except 
 fraud or famine do affault , or confpire againft 
 it. 
 
 I was 5. hours in Caernarvon , and when I 
 thought that I had taken my leave for ever of it, 
 then was I meerly deceived ; for when I was a 
 mile on my way, a Trooper came galloping af- 
 ter me, and enforced me back to be examined by 
 Colonell Thomas Ma/on, (the Governour there) 
 who after a few words , when hee heard my 
 name, and knew my occafions, he ufed me fo re- 
 fpe6lively and bountifully, that (at his charge) I 
 ftayd all night, and by the means of him , and 
 one Mr. Lloyd, (a. Juftice of Peace there) I was 
 furnifhed with a Guide, and fomething elfe to 
 beare charges for one weeks travaile ; for which 
 curtefies, if I were not thankfuU , I were worth 
 the hanging for being ingratefull. 
 
 The 5. of Auguft I went 12. miles, to a place 
 
 called 
 
called Ckmeme, where the Noble Sure JohnOwen 
 did, with liberall welcome, entertain me. 
 
 The 6. day I rode to a Town called Harleck, 
 which ftands on a high barren Mountaine, very 
 uneafie for the afcending into, by reafon of the 
 fteep and uneeven flony way ; this Town had 
 neither hay, grafs, oats, or any relief for a horfe : 
 there ftands a ftrong Caftle, but the Town is 
 all fpoild, and almoft inhabitable by the late la- 
 mentable troubles. 
 
 So I left that Towne (for fear of ftarving my 
 Horfe^ and came to a place called Bermoth, (12. 
 miles that day , as narrow as 20. ) That place 
 was fo plentifully furniftied with want of provi- 
 fion , that it was able to famifh 100. men and 
 horfes : I procured a brace of Boyes to goe two 
 miles to cut graffe for my Dun, for which I gave 
 them two groats ; for my felfe and Guide, I pur- 
 chafed a Hen boyld with Bacon, as yellow as the 
 Cowflip, or Gold Noble. My courfe Lodging 
 there , was at the homely Houfe of one John 
 Thomfon, a Lancafhire Englifh man. 
 
 Saturday the 7. of Auguft, I Horft , footed, 
 ( and crawling upon all \.) 10. flender miles to 
 Aberdovy , which was the laft lodging that I 
 had in Merionethfhire, where was the beft en- 
 tertainment for men , but almoft as bad as the 
 worft for horfes in all Merioneth/hire. 
 
 Auguft 9. I gat into Cardigan/hire , to a mife- 
 rable Market Town called Aberifiwith , where 
 
 before 
 
[i6] 
 before the late troubles, there flood a ftrong Ca- 
 ftle, which being blown up, fell down, and ma- 
 ny fair Houfes (with a defenfible thick Wall a- 
 bout the Town) are transformed into confufed 
 heaps of unneceffary Rubbidge : within foure 
 miles of this Town, are the filver Mines, which 
 were honorable and profitable , as long as my 
 good friend Thomas Bujhell Efquire, had the ma- 
 naging of them, who was mofl induftrious in 
 the work, and withall by his noble demeanour, 
 and affable deportment, defervedly gain'd the 
 generall love and affeftion of all the Countrey, 
 of all degrees of people : but fmce he hath left 
 that important imployment, the Mines are neg- 
 lefted. 
 
 Yroxa. A berijiwith, I went to the Houfe of Sir 
 Richard Price, Knight and Baronet, where my 
 entertainment was freely welcome , with fome 
 expreffion of further curtefies at my departure, 
 for which I humbly thank the noble Knight, not 
 forgetting my grateful! remembrance to Mr. 
 Thomas Evans there : that whole dayes journey 
 being 9. miles. 
 
 Tuefday the 10. of Augufl , having hired a 
 Guide, for I that knew neither the intricate 
 wayes, nor could fpeake any of the Language, 
 was neceffitated to have Guides from place to 
 place, and it being Harveft time, I was forced to 
 pay exceeding deare for Guiding ; fo that fome 
 dayes I payd 2s. fometimes 3. befides bearing 
 
 their 
 
[17] 
 their charges of meat and drinke and lodging ; 
 for it is to bee underftood that thofe kind of la- 
 bouring people had rather reap hard all the day 
 for fix pence, then to go ten or twelve miles eafi- 
 ly on foot for two fhillings. That day, after fix- 
 teen miles travell , I came to the houfe of an 
 ancient worthy and hofpitable Gentleman, na- 
 med SureWalter Lloyd, he was noble in bountiful! 
 houfe-keeping , and in his generofitie , caufed 
 his horfe to be faddled , and the next day hee 
 rode three miles to Conway , and fhewd me the 
 way to Caermarden, which they do call i8 fmall 
 miles , but I had rather ride 30 of fuch miles as 
 are in many parts oi England; the way continu- 
 ally hilly, or mountainous and ftony, infomuch 
 that I was forced to alight and walke 30 times, 
 and when the Sun was near fetting , I having 
 foure long miles to go, and knew no part of the 
 way, was refolved to take my lodging in a Reeke 
 of Oats in the field, to which purpofe, as I rode 
 out of the ftony way towards my field-chamber, 
 my Horfe and I found a fofter bed , for we were 
 both in a Bog, or Quagmire, and at that time I 
 had much ado to draw my felfe out of the dirt, 
 or my poore weary Dun out if the Mire. 
 
 I being in this hard flrait, having night (of 
 Gods fending, ) Owl-light to guide me, no tongue 
 to aske a queftion, the way unknown, or uneven, 
 I held it my bed courfe to grope in the hard fto- 
 ny way againe , which having found , ( after a 
 
 B quarter 
 
[i8] 
 quarter of an houres melancholy paces) a Horf- 
 man of Wales, that could fpeak Englifh, overtook 
 me and brought me to Caermarden,vfh.e.re. I found 
 good and free entertainment at the houfe of one 
 Miftris Oakley. 
 
 Caermarden, the fhire Town oiCaermardenJhire, 
 is a good large Town, with a defencible ftrong 
 Caftle , and a reafonable Haven for fmall Barks 
 and Boats , which formerly was for the ufe of 
 good Ships , but now it is much impedimented 
 with Shelvs, Sands, and other annoyances : It is 
 faid that Merlyn the Prophet was born there ; it 
 is one of the plentifulleft Townes that ever I fet 
 foot in, for very fair Egs are cheaper then fmall 
 Pears ; for, as near as I can remember, I will fet 
 down at what rates viftuals was there. 
 
 Butter , as good as the world affords , two 
 pence halfe penny, or three pence the pound. 
 
 A Salmon two foot and a halfe long , twelve 
 pence. 
 
 Biefe, three halfe pence the pound. 
 
 Oyfters, a penny the hundred. 
 
 Egs, twelve for a penny. 
 
 Peares, fix for a penny. 
 
 And all manner of Fifh and Flefh at fuch low 
 prices, that a little money will buy much , for 
 there is nothing fcarce, dear, or hard to come by, 
 but tobacco pipes. 
 
 My humble thanks to the Governour there, 
 to William Guinn of Talliaris , Efquire ; to Sure 
 
 Henry 
 
[19] 
 Henry Vaugha^z ; and to all the reft , with the 
 good woman mine Hoftefs. 
 
 Concerning Pembrookjhire, the people do fpeak 
 Englifh in it almoft generally, and therefore they 
 call it little England beyond Wales , it being the 
 fartheft South and Weft County in the whole 
 Principality : The Shire Town, Pembrook, hath 
 been in better eftate, for as it is now, fome hou- 
 fes down, fome ftanding, and many without In- 
 habitants ; the Caftle there hath been ftrong, 
 large, ftately, and impregnable, able to hold out 
 any enemy, except hunger, it being founded up- 
 on a lofty Rock, gives a brave profpedl a far off : 
 Tenby Towne and Caftle being fomewhat near, 
 or eigrht miles from it , feems to be more ufefull 
 and confiderable. My thanks to Miftris Powell 
 at the Hart there. 
 
 Tenby hath a good Caftle and a Haven, but in 
 refped oiMilford Haven , all the Havens under 
 the Heavens are inconfiderable , for it is of fuch 
 length, bredth, and depth, that looo. Ships may 
 ride fafely in it in all weathers , and by reafon 
 of the hills that do inclofe it , and the windings 
 and turnings of the Haven from one poynt of 
 land to another, it is conjeftured that 1 500 ftiips 
 may ride there, and not fcarce one of them can 
 fee another. The Haven hath in it 16 Creekes, 
 5 Bayes, and 1 3 Rodes, of large capacity, and all 
 thefe are known by feverall names. 
 
 The goodly Church of S. Davids hath beene 
 
 B 2 forced 
 
[20] 
 forced lately to put off the dull and heavy coat 
 of peaceful! Lead, which was metamorphofed 
 into warlike bullets. In that Church lies inter- 
 red Edmund Earle oi Richmond, Father to King 
 Henry the feventh, for whofe fake his Grandfon 
 (K. Henry the eight) did fpare it from defacing, 
 when hee fpared not much that belonged to the 
 Church. 
 
 Thus having gone and riden many miles, with 
 too many turning and winding Mountains, flony 
 turning waies, forward, backward, fidewaies, 
 circular, and femicircular , upon the 17. oi Au- 
 gujt I rode to the houfe of the right Honourable, 
 Richard Vau^-hanKarle oiKarbery, at a place cal- 
 led Golden Grove; and furely that houfe, with 
 the faire Fields, Woods, Walks, and pleafant 
 fcituation , may not onely be rightly called the 
 Golden Grove, but it may without fi6lion be juftly 
 ftiled the Cambrian Paradife , and Elizium of 
 Wales ; but that which grac'd it totally, was the 
 noblenefs, and affable prefence and deportment 
 of the Earle , with his faire and vertuous new 
 married Countefs, the beautifull Lady Alice, or 
 Alicia, daughter to the right Honourable the 
 late Earle of Bridgwater, deceafed : I humbly 
 thank them both , for they were pleafed to Ho- 
 nour me fo much , that I fupp'd with them , at 
 which time a Gentleman came in , who being 
 fate , did relate a ftrange difcourfe of a violent 
 rain which fell on the mountains in part of Rad- 
 
 nor/Itire, 
 
[21] 
 
 norjhire, and into Glamorgan/hire ; the ftory was, 
 as near as I can remember, as followeth : 
 
 That on Saturday the 17. oijuly laft, 1652. 
 there fell a fudden fhowre of rain in the Coun- 
 ties aforefaid , as if an Ocean had flowed from 
 the Clouds to overwhelm and drown the moun- 
 tains , it poured down with fuch violent impe- 
 tuofitie , that it tumbled down divers houfes of 
 ftone that flood in the way of it ; it drowned 
 many Cattell and Sheep , bore all before it as 
 it ran , therefore a poore man with his fon and 
 daughter forfook their houfe , and the father 
 and fon climed up into a tree for their fafety, in 
 the mean time the mercilefs waters took hold 
 of the poore maid , and moft furioufly bare her 
 away, down betwen two mountains, rolling and 
 hurling her againfl many great ftones, till at laft 
 it threw her near the fide of the ftream, and 
 her hair and hair-lace being loofe , it catched 
 hold of a ftump of an old thorn bufh , by which 
 means fhe was ftayed , being almoft dead ; but 
 as fhe lay in this mifery , fhe faw a fad and la- 
 mentable fight, for the water had fiercely un- 
 rooted the tree , and bore it down the ftreame, 
 with her father and brother, who were both un- 
 fortunately drowned : the Maid, as I was cer- 
 tified, is like to live and recover. 
 
 My humble thanks to the good yong hopefuU 
 Lord Vaughan , and to all the reft of the Noble 
 Olive Branches of that moft Worthy Tree of 
 
 B 3 Honour, 
 
[22] 
 
 Honour, their Father, not omitting or yet for- 
 getting my gratitude to Mr. Steward there, with- 
 all the reft of the Gentlemen and fervants at- 
 tendant, with my love to Mr. Tho^nas Ryves, un- 
 known, and fo Golden Grove farewell. 
 
 The 1 8. of Auguji , I hired a Guide who 
 brought me to Swanfey ( 1 6 well ftretch'd Welch 
 Mountainous Miles) where I was cordially 
 welcome to an Ancient Worthy Gentleman, 
 Walter Thomas Efquire, for whofe Love and Li- 
 berality I am much obliged to him and the good 
 Gentlewoman his Wife ; he ftaid me till the 
 next day after Diner, and then fent his man with 
 me a mile to his Sons houfe, named William Tho- 
 mas Efquire : There, as foone as I had rewar- 
 ded my Guide he flip'd from me, leaving me to 
 the mercy of the Houfe, where I found neither 
 mercy nor manners ; for the good Gentleman 
 and his Wife were both rode from home ; and 
 though there were people old enough, and big 
 enough, yet there was not one kind enough, or 
 good enough to do me the leafl kind of courte- 
 fie or friendfhip ; they did not fo much as bid me 
 come into the houfe, or offer me a cup of drink ; 
 they all fcornfully wondred at me, like fo ma- 
 ny Buzzards and Woodcocks about an Owle, 
 there was a fhotten thin fcul'd fhallow brain'd 
 fimpleton fellow, that anfwered me, that he was 
 a flranger there, but I believed him not, by rea- 
 fon of his familiarity with the reft of the folks, 
 
 there 
 
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 there was alfo a fingle-foal'd Gentlewoman, of 
 the laft Edition , who would vouchfafe me not 
 one poor glance of her eye-beams , to whom I 
 faid as followeth. 
 
 Fair Gentlewoman, I was fent hither by the 
 Father of the Gentleman of this Houfe, to whom 
 I have a Letter from a Gentleman of his fami- 
 liar acquaintance ; I am fure that the Owner of 
 this Place is famed and reported to be a man en- 
 dowed with all affability and courtefie to ftran- 
 gers as is every way accommodating to a Gen- 
 tleman of Worth and Quality; and that if I 
 were but a meer ftranger to him, yet his Gene- 
 rofity would not fuffer me to be harbourlefs, but 
 by reafon of his Fathers fending his fervant with 
 me, and a Friends Letter, I fayd that if Mr. Tho- 
 mas had been at home I fhould be better enter- 
 tained. 
 
 To which Mrs. Pumpkins looking fcornfully, 
 afcue over her fhoulders, anfwered me with (it 
 may befo) then mofh uncurteous Miftris, quoth I, 
 I doubt I mufl bee neceffitated to take up my 
 lodging in the Field : To which the faid ungen- 
 tle Gentlewoman (with her pofteriors, or butt 
 end towards me) gave me a finall Anfwer, that 
 I might if I would. 
 
 Whereupon I was enraged and mounted my 
 Dmt, and in a friendly maner I tooke my leave, 
 faying, that I would wander further and try my 
 fortune, and that if my ftay at that houfe, that 
 
 B 4 night 
 
[24] 
 
 night , would fave either Mr. Shallow-pate , or 
 Mrs. Jullock from hanging , that I would rather 
 lie, and venture all hazards that are incident to 
 Horfe, Man, or Traveller, then to be beholding 
 to fuch unmanerly Mungrils. 
 
 Thus defperately I fhaked them off , that 
 would not take me on , and riding I knew not 
 whither, with a wide wild Heath under me, and 
 a wider Firmament above me. I roade at ad- 
 venture , betwixt light and darknefs , about a 
 mile, when luckily a Gentleman overtook mee, 
 and after a little talk of my diftreffe and travail, 
 he bad me be of good chear, for he would bring 
 me to a lodging and entertainment; in which 
 promife he was better then his word , for hee 
 brought mee to a pretty Market Towne called 
 Neath, where he fpent his money upon me ; for 
 which kindnefs I thank him. But one Doftour 
 (as they call himj Rice Jones, ('or Do6lor Merri- 
 man) came and fupt with mee, and very kindly 
 payd all the reckoning. That dayes journey be- 
 ing but 6 miles fterling. 
 
 The 19. of Auguft I hired a Guide for 3s. (id 
 miles^ to a place called Penline, where fomtime 
 flood a flrong Caflle, which is now ruined ; ad- 
 joyning to it, or in the place of it, is a fair houfe, 
 belonging to Anthony Turberville Efquire, where 
 although the Gentleman was from home , the 
 good Gentlewoman, his Wife, did with hofpi- 
 table and noble kindneffe, bid me welcome. 
 
 Fryday, 
 
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 Fryday, the 20. oiAuguJl, I rode a mile to an 
 Ancient Town, named Coobridge, from whence I 
 fcrambled two miles further to Llanjlrithyott, 
 where the Noble Gentleman Sure John Awbrey, 
 and his Vertuous Lady kept me three dayes, in 
 the mean fpace I rode two miles to the houfe of 
 the Ancient and Honorable Knight, Sir Thomas 
 Lewis at Penmark, to whom and his good Lady, 
 I humbly dedicate my gratitude : The fame day 
 after Dinner , I returned back to Llanjlrithyott, 
 which was to me a fecond Golden Grove , or 
 Welch Paradice, for Building, Scituation, whol- 
 fome Ayre, Pleafure and Plenty, for my free en- 
 tertainment there, with the Noble expreffion of 
 the Gentlemans Bounty at my departure , I 
 heartily do wifli to him and his, with all the reft 
 of my Honorable and Noble , Worfhipfull and 
 friendly Benefa6lors, true peace and happineffe, 
 internall, externall, and eternall. 
 
 Monday, the 23. oiAuguJl, I rode eight miles 
 to the good Town of Cardiffe, where I was wel- 
 come to Mr. Aaron Price, the Town Clark there, 
 with v/hom I dined , at his cofl and my perrill, 
 after Dinner he dire6led me two miles further, 
 to a place called Llanrumney, where a right true 
 bred generous Gentleman, Thomas Morgan Ef- 
 quire, gave me fuch loving and liberall enter- 
 tainment , for which I cannot be fo thankfull as 
 the merit of it requires. 
 
 Tuefday, being both Saint Bartholomews Day, 
 
 my 
 
[26] 
 
 my Birth day, the 24, of the Month, and the ve- 
 ry next day before Wednefday, I arofe betimes, 
 and travelled to a Town called Newport , and 
 from thence to Carbean, and laftly to Vske, in all 
 1 5 well meafu'd Welfh Monmouthjhire miles : at 
 Uske I lodg'd at an Inne, the houfe of one Mafter 
 Powell. 
 
 The 25. oiAuguJl I rode but 12 miles , by an 
 unlook'd for accident, I found Bartholomew Faire 
 at Monmouth, a hundred miles from Smithfield ; 
 there I flayed two nights upon the large reckon- 
 ing of Nothing to pay, for which I humbly 
 thank my Hofpitable Hoft, and Hoftefs, Mafter 
 Reignald Rowfe and his good Wife. 
 
 Monmouth, the Shire Town oi Monmouthjhire, 
 was the laft Welfh ground that I left behind me : 
 Augujl 27. I came to Glocejler , where though I 
 was born there, very few did know me ; I was 
 almoft as ignorant as he that knew no body : 
 my lodging there was at the figne of the George, 
 at the houfe of my Namefake, Mafter John Tay- 
 lor , from whence on Saturday the 28. I rode 
 16. miles to Barn/ley. 
 
 Of all the places in England and Wales that I 
 have travelled to , this Village of Barn/ley doth 
 moft ftriftly obferve the Lords day, or Sunday, 
 for little children are not fuffered to walke or 
 play : and two Women who had beene at 
 Church both before and after Noone , did 
 but walke into the fields for their recreation, 
 
 and 
 
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 and they were put to their choice, either to pay 
 fixpence apiece (for prophane walking,) or to 
 be laid one houre in the flocks ; and the pievifh 
 willful! women ( though they were able enough 
 to pay ) to fave their money and jeft out the 
 matter , lay both by the heeles merrily one 
 houre. 
 
 There is no fuch zeale in many places and Pa- 
 riflies in Wales ; for they have neither Service, 
 Prayer, Sermon, Minifter , or Preacher, nor 
 any Church door opened at all, fo that people 
 do exercife and edifie in the Church- Yard, at 
 the lawfull and laudable Games of Trap, Catt, 
 Stool-ball, Racket, &c. on Sundayes. 
 
 From Barn/ley on Monday the 30. oiAuguJl, I 
 rode 30 miles to Abington, from thence, &c. to 
 London, where I brought both ends together on 
 Tuefday the 7. of September. 
 
 Thofe that are defirous to know more of Wales, 
 let them either travell for it as I have done, or 
 read Mr. Camdens Brittania , or Mr. Speeds labo- 
 rious Hiftory , and their Geographicall Maps 
 and Defcriptions will give them more ample, 
 or contenting fatisfa6lion. 
 
 One 
 
ONE Humphrey Lloyd Efqtdre, did 
 exa6lly collet the Brittijh, orJVelJliHi- 
 Jioryfrom theOriginall, till the yeare 
 1 5 1 o. after which it was contimied by Do6lor 
 David Powell, till the yeare 1584. Printed 
 then and Dedicated to Sir Phillip Sidney 
 Knight : thofe who are dejirous to read more 
 largely, let them make ufe of their larger Book: 
 But for fuch as love brevity, or cheapneffe, let 
 them read this which followeth. 
 
Cambria Brittania : 
 
 OR, 
 AJhovtA breviation of the Hijiory, and Chro- 
 nicles of VV ALES, 
 
 By JOHN TAYLOR. 
 
 ARADOC oi Lancarvan, (a. fludious 
 Antiquary , and a learned diligent 
 Colle6lor of the Succeffions and A6ls 
 of the Brittifh Princes) did write the 
 Hiftory of Wales , from the time and Raigne of 
 Cadwallador , who lived in the yeare of our Re- 
 demption, 685, and continued the faid Chrono- 
 logy near 500 years, till the Raigne oi Henry the 
 fecond King oi England. It hath alwayes before 
 thofe times, and ever fmce, that Writers for 
 feare, or flattery, or profit, have ufed Ihamefull 
 (or fhamelefs) partiality, in publifhing the fames 
 of their owne Princes , and Countrey , above 
 meafure, and beyond truth ; but in their detra- 
 6ling and traducing others, they have been too 
 liberall ; and in relating their Valour, Vertues, 
 or Injuries of fuch they fancyed not , they have 
 been too fparing, or wilfully negligent. 
 
 But to make bold and fpeak the truth, it is 
 
 worth 
 
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 worth good confideration, to know what reafon 
 the Englijh had to make Warr againft the Weljh ; 
 Wales had ever been a free Countrey, not fubjeft 
 to any Prince, except their own ; they owed no 
 Homage or Alegiance neither to England, or to 
 any other Crowne, or State ; their Language, 
 Lawes, and Cufloms, were of their own inftitu- 
 tions, to which Lawes both Prince and people 
 were fubje6l ; they lived quietly upon their 
 owne , and they never went forth of their owne 
 bounds to rob the Englijh, or to fpoile and invade 
 England, or any other Nation. Then the que- 
 flion is with much eafe propofed and anfwered. 
 What caufe did the Weljh give to the Englijh to 
 make Warre upon them , to invade , plunder, 
 fpoile, and kill ? the Anfwer is, or may be, Be- 
 caufe the English were ambitious, and covetous, 
 and alfo flronger then their Neighbours , and 
 being able and willing to do injury, and opprefs 
 the Welsh , they many times attempted to fub- 
 je6l and conquer them; and they (on the other 
 fide^ did manfully refift, and oppofe their English 
 Invadors, as this brief Relation will truly declare 
 and manifeft. 
 
 Thus force refifled force, the Saxons, Danes, 
 English, Irish, and Flemmings, all feverally, and 
 fometimes joyned together , to conquer , and 
 make prey and purchafe of poor Wales, they all 
 ftriving to have the Goods and Lands that be- 
 longed not to them ; and the Welsh men ( with 
 
 their 
 
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 their beft indeavours) juftly and valiantly hold- 
 ing their own. They had kept their Country & 
 language 2700. years, and the Hiftorians, Anti- 
 quaries , and Gentry of that Nation did record 
 their Laws, Pedigrees, and Genealogies, with 
 as much, or more, exaft truth then many, or a- 
 ny other Nations. They had lived under their 
 own Governours (from the time of Heli the 
 High Prieft of the Jews,) 1800 years before Cad- 
 wallador , who went to J^ome , and died there ; 
 from which time the chief Rulers of Wales, were 
 fometimes ftiled Kings, fometimes Princes; thefe 
 were many times under one King or Prince , of 
 Northwales; fometimes they had three Princes 
 or Kings, -AsNorth- Wales, South-Wales, andPowzs 
 Land. Thefe three Princes, although they had 
 many and mighty Enemies , did often make 
 Warre upon each other, fpoiling, and harrafing 
 their Countrey , to the advantage of their Ene- 
 mies and ruine of themfelves. But to proceed 
 to the Hiftory. 
 
 In the yeare 688. Ivor (a. kinfman of Cadwala- 
 dor) was Prince fome fmall time ; and hee alfo 
 went to Rome, and there ended his daies. 
 
 The Next Ivor, Roderick Mo Iwinnoc, the fecond 
 Prince of North- Wales rained 30 years ; he was 
 Grandchild to Cadwallador, a valiant man, he died 
 Anno 755. 
 
 The third was Canon Tindaethwy , a gallant 
 Prince , he Warr'd with good fuccefs, againft 
 
 Offa, 
 
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 Offa, King of Mercia, who would have invaded 
 North Wales ; but Canon did defend himfelfe fo 
 ftoutly , that Offa with much lofs retired : the 
 Englifh at that time had not one foot of ground 
 in Wales. 
 
 Anno 800. Mervin was the fourth King of 
 North- Wales, he married Efylht, Daughter to Ca- 
 non ; in his time Egbert, King of theWefl Saxons, 
 invaded and fpoyled ^;«|^/^/^,and Kenulph, King 
 oi Mercia, did much mifchiefe in Powis Land, 
 whereby Mervin being overpowred, was flaine, 
 vaHantly fighting againft the King of Mercia. 
 
 Anno 843. Roderick the fecond (called the 
 Great) was the 5. King oi North- Wales ; hee had 
 much war with the Englifh Mercians, with va- 
 rious fuccefs, but for the moft part fortunate. In 
 his Raigne, the Danes came and fpoiled Angle- 
 fey , againft whom Prince Roderick manfully 
 fighting was unfortunately flaine. But fome do 
 write, that he did beat the Danes out oi Anglefey, 
 and flain afterwards in a Battell againft the En- 
 gliftimen, Anno 876. when he had raigned with 
 much love and honour 39 years. 
 
 The 6. King or Prince was Anarawd, the fon 
 oi Roderick; and about that time oi Anno 877. 
 the Normans, with their Duke Rollo, invaded a 
 great Province in France, which from the name 
 of Normans, (or Northern men) is to this day 
 called Normandy. 
 
 In the year of grace 878. the Danes and Englijh 
 
 men 
 
[33] 
 men came with great powers againft Waks , be- 
 tween whom and the Wel^ was then a bloudy 
 battell, near the water of Conwy, where the Weljh 
 had a mighty Vidory, which they called the Re- 
 venge for the death oi Roderick. Prince Anarawd 
 died, after much trouble, in Anno 913. having 
 Rained 34. years. 
 
 Seventhly , or the 7. Prince was Edwal Voel, 
 t]\e.Danes fpoyled Anglefey, and the Englijh burnt 
 and fpoiled Brecknock. Atheljlane King of England, 
 enforced the Weljh to pay him a yearly tribute 
 of 20 pounds in Gold , 300 pounds in filver, and 
 200 Bieves, or Cattell. Afterwards Edwal Voel 
 had raigned 25 years, he and his Brother Elfe 
 were both flaine, fighting with the Danes, Anno 
 
 938. 
 
 The 8. Prince was Howell Dha, he was a kinf- 
 man to Edwal Voel, he was a Prince of South-wales, 
 but he aftewards had all Wales; the Englijh vexed 
 him often , and did much hurt ; but flill Howel 
 galantly refifled them, and died much lamented, 
 in the year of Chrift 948. 
 
 The 9. were Jevaf^vA J ago, or James, both 
 Brethren, and fons to Edwal Voel. They had cru- 
 ell wars with Owen , and his Brethren , (the fons 
 oi Howel Dha) in which Bickerings Owen (with 
 his Brothers) were flaine. About this time the 
 Danesi'^oA^d. Anglefey, andhurntHoly-head. And 
 alfo Wales was much troubled by Edgar King of 
 England; but it was agreed at laft , that the tri- 
 
 C bute 
 
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 bute of gold, & filver, & cattel, which was laid on 
 the Welfh Nation in Edwal Voels time , after it 
 had been paid near 1 3 years, fhould be remitted, 
 and in lieu thereof, the Princes of Wales were in- 
 joyned to pay a certaine number of Woolves 
 heads (for at that time four-leg'd 'Woolves did 
 as much mifchiefe amongfl Beafts, Sheep, and 
 Cattell , as two-leg'd Woolves have done in 
 thefe latter times amongft men, ) and by the 
 means of the yearly payment of the aforefaid 
 Woolves heads, there was not one of thofe ra- 
 venous beafts in three years payment to be found 
 in all Wales, or the Marches of England. 
 
 The Brethren the Princes fell out, (for Lord- 
 fhip and Love can brook no Rivalls or fellow- 
 fhip) James imprifoned jfevaf a long time , at 
 which time, the Danes entred Anglefey, and did 
 much fpoile , Howell the fon of Jevaf, made fharp 
 war againft his Unkle J ago, or J antes, and beat 
 him, and releaft his Father, after which he took 
 his eldeft Unkle Meric, and put his eyes out ; 
 but never reftored his Father to his former e- 
 ftate , but kept the Principality to himfelfe : 
 This was about the yeare of our Lord 974. 
 
 The 10. King or Yr'vsxz&oi North-Wales (oral- 
 moft all Wales) was Howell apj evaf, or the fon of 
 Jevaf, Anno 975. there was great wars and much 
 bloudfhed betwixt South and North- Wales ; but 
 Howell took his Unkle James, which had impri- 
 foned his Father Jevaf, and then poffeft all Wales 
 
 in 
 
[35] 
 in peace, for a fhort while, for the Danes brake 
 in and fpoiled many Towns and places in North- 
 Wales, and did much mifchiefe to the Cathedrall 
 of S. Davids. And in 982. a "great Army from 
 England, wafted and fpoiled Brecknock, and a 
 great part of ^(Ca//^ Wales; but Prince -^(?zy^//made 
 war againft them , flew many , and made the 
 reft flee. The fecond yeare after Howell entred 
 England with an Army , in which war he was 
 flaine valiantly fighting, in the yeare 984. to 
 whom fucceeded his Brother. 
 
 Cadwallon, the 11. Prince, he firft warred a- 
 gainft Jonavall the fon ol Meric, whofe eyes Ho- 
 well had caufed to be put out, who by right was 
 right Lord of all Wales : In the end jonavall was 
 flain by Cadwalhon, and the next year after Cad- 
 walhon himfelfe was kill'd by Meredith, the fon 
 of Owen, Prince of South-Wales, Anno 985. 
 
 The 1 2. King or Prince was Meredith ap Owen, 
 or the fon of Owen, which Owen was fon to Ho- 
 well Dha , before mentioned ; he began in the 
 yeare 986. and had a moft troublefome Govern- 
 ment; ior \h& Danes agwa.wa&&d. Anglefey. They 
 took Prifoner Lhywach , Brother to Prince Me- 
 redith, and put his eyes out, and the Danes tooke 
 2000 Prifoners, and either carried them away, 
 or put them to ranfome , and in the yeare 
 98. the Danes came againe and fpoyled St. 
 Davids, L handy doch, L lanbadarne, L lanrijled, and 
 all Religious Places of Devotion that their hea- 
 
 C 2 thenifti 
 
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 thenifh power could mafler. 
 
 In thefe troubles Prince Meredith was forced 
 to give thofe mifcreant Danes, a peny a Head for 
 every man that was then alive in all his Domi- 
 nions; which payment was called the Black Ar- 
 mies Tribute ; about this time all South- Wales 
 was over-ran by the Englifh , and ( to fill the 
 meafure of the A£fli6lion in Wales ) Meredith 
 made mighty havock in Glamorgan-Jhire : So 
 that there was not any place in Wales , free from 
 the fury of fire and fword. But to make the 
 meafure of mifery heap and run over, the Danes 
 came once more and made a prey of the Ifle of 
 Anglefey ; with which continuall troubles Me- 
 redith being overladen and wearied, refigned his 
 Princely Authority to Edwal ap Meric ap Mere- 
 dith, or his own Grandchild : Meredith died 998. 
 
 Edwal Xh.^ 1 3. Prince oi North- fF«/^5,wasfcarce 
 warm in his feat, but Meredith fought and fought 
 for re-poffeffion, and after much bloudfhed, loft 
 his labour. Then the Danes came again and 
 fpoiled much in North-Wales; and the Prince 
 valiantly fighting was flain, and the fame Danes 
 came again to S. Davids, ranfack'd it, and fpoi- 
 led all the Countrey. 
 
 The 1 4. King -^■AsAedan ap Belgored, he fought 
 for the Principality with Conan the fon of Ho- 
 well, and flew him in the year 1003. About this 
 timetheZ^a^zei-fpoiled many places in Wejl- Wales; 
 and in this Princes Raigne all the Danes in Eng- 
 land 
 
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 landv^ero. flaine in one night; and Anno 1015. 
 Prince Aedon was flain by his fucceffor. 
 
 Lhewelyn ap Sitfylht, after he had kill'd Aedan, 
 was the 1 5. Prince ; he had a peacefull and plen- 
 tiful! beginning, till a low born Scot, whofe name 
 was Runne , faigned himfelfe to be the fonne of 
 Meredith ap Owen before named : But Lhewelyn 
 met him, and fought with him, and in the end 
 made Runne run, till at laft he killed him ; And 
 after that , this Prince was flaine by Howell and 
 Meredith the fons oi Edwal, 1026. 
 
 The 16. Prince was yago (or y antes) the fon 
 oiEdwal, he rained over North- Wales, and Rytherch 
 ap Jejlin fwayed in South- Wales, 1031. But by 
 continual! contention betwixt the Grandchil- 
 dren of Howell Dha , Rytherch (Prince oi South- 
 Wales) was flain by the Englijh ; and then arofe 
 new Wars mNorth Wales, for Griffith ap Lhewelyn 
 ap Sytylth ward againft J" ago, flew him, and pof- 
 feft the Principality, Anno, 1037. 
 
 Griffith ap Lhewelynwa.s the 1 7. Prince of iVipr//^- 
 Wales, he overcame both the Englijh and the 
 Danes, when they would have invaded his Land, 
 in Anno, 1038. He had much trouble with Prince 
 Howelloi South- Wales; but in the end he overcame 
 him, and poffefl; his Principallity ; after this 
 Griffith was treacheroufly taken , by Conan the 
 Son of 7 ago, and as Conan was carrying him a- 
 way towards fome Irijh Ships, the Country a- 
 rofe up fpeedily and happily, and (after a fliarpe 
 
 C 3 fight 
 
fight) redeemed their Prince Griffith, ^nd Cotian 
 was forced to flie for his life. After that the 
 Prince had another great fight with Howell ap E- 
 dwin , which Howell was joyn'd with the Danes 
 and Engli/h , and in a bloudy battle the Englijh 
 and Danes were overthrown, that very few efca- 
 ped ; Howell-was flain & Prince Griffith vi6lorious; 
 but peace lafted not three Months, but Ritherich 
 and Rees, two of yeftins Sons , made War upon 
 Griffith, and after a cruel fight all day, the darke 
 night parted them , that both Armies returned 
 with great loffe to their homes. 
 
 About this time there raigned in Scotland a 
 bloudy ufurping Tyrant, named Mackbeth , hee 
 caufed a Lord , one Bancho , to bee murthered, 
 whofe Son, named Fleance, efcaped and fled into 
 Wales, and was courteoufly entertained, with 
 love and welcome to Prince Griffith; Griffith had 
 a bountifull Daughter, with whom Fleance grew 
 to be fo familiar, that he got her with child ; for 
 which the offended Prince caufed the head of 
 Fleance to be flrooke off, and in rage cafh off his 
 Daughter, who was in fhort time delivered of a 
 Male Child, named Walter: This Walter gTe.-w to 
 be a tall goodly Gentleman to whom few or 
 fcarce one was comparable for ftrength, feature, 
 valour, agillity and affability : And when one 
 in derifion called him Baftard he killed him, and 
 fled into Scotland, in the yeare 1052, and in the 
 Raign of Robert Bruife King of Scots, then with 
 
 which 
 
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 which King, the faid Walter won fuch favour, for 
 fome gallant fervices which he had done , that 
 with love and honour, he was made Lord Stuart, 
 or Steward, oi Scotland, and receiver of the Kings 
 whole Revenue ; and from that Office did come 
 the name of Steward, now called Stuart, of which 
 Sirname many Kings, Princes, Lords, and Gen- 
 tlemen have been and are defcended. 
 
 Griffith ap Ritherch ap Jejlin, made hot War a- 
 gainft Griffith ap Lhewelyn, but Lhewelyn overcame 
 and flew him, 1054. then he made an inrode in- 
 to England, and with the ayd oi Algar Earle of 
 Chejler, hee fpoyled all Herefordjhire, and burnt 
 the City of Hereford to aihes, and returned with 
 much fpoyle. 
 
 But in the conclufion the Danes were ayded 
 by Harrold King oi England, and affifl;ed by fome 
 perfidious Wel/h Lords , they entred Wales with 
 great Forces , at which time this Noble Prince 
 Griffith ap Lhewelyn,wa.s treacheroufly murdered 
 by his own men, and his head prefented to Har- 
 rold King of England. Thus this gallant Griffith, 
 liv'd beloved, and dy'd lamented, when hee had 
 governed 34 years. 
 
 Blethyn and Rywalhon , were the Sonnes of 
 Conum , and Brothers by the Mothers fide to 
 Gnffiik ap Lhewelyn; in the Raign of thefe two, Wil- 
 liam, Surnamed the Conquerour, came into En- 
 gland, Anno 1066. and in 1068. two Sons of Grif- 
 fith ap Lhewelyn, did raife War againft Blethyn & 
 
 C 4 Rywalhon, 
 
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 Rywalhon, their names were Meredith and Ithell, 
 in thefe Wars, Fortune playd a Game at Croffe 
 Ruffe , for Ithell was flain on the one fide , and 
 Rywalhon on the other; Meredith?Le.d,3.n6iBlethm 
 was Mafter of all Wales : Shortly after the Nor- 
 mans fpoyled Cardigan, and a great part of Wejl- 
 Wales, and in the year, 1073. Blethin was traite- 
 roufly murdered by Rees ap Owen ap Edwin. This 
 Blethin was the 18. Prince who left four Sons : 
 But for all that, 
 
 Traherne his Kinfman got the Principalities of 
 North- Wales , and was the 1 9. Prince, at which 
 time Rees ap Owen, with Ritherch ap Caradoc, had 
 equall all South- Wales, but Ritherch was quickly 
 murdered treacheroufly , and Rees then had all 
 South- Wales, but Rees and another Brother of his 
 were both flain in hot fight, by Caradoc ap Griffith, 
 and in Anno , 1087. Traherne was flaine by his 
 Coufins, of the Line and Race oi Howell Dha. 
 
 The 20. Prince oi North- Wales was Griffith the 
 Son of Conan, and Rees ap Theodor had South- Wales, 
 but Rees was mightily troubled in Wars with 
 fome Kinfmen of his , who in the end were all 
 flain ; then was St. Davids fpoyled and burnt by 
 Rovers, and Rees^as murdered dXBrecknokhy his 
 own fervants, ayded by fome Normans : at that 
 time Robert Fitzharmaco Knight, and one of the 
 Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber to William Ru- 
 fus King oi England, furprifed the Lordlhip of 
 Glamorgan, which the Englijh do hold yet ; alfo 
 
 12. Com- 
 
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 12. Commanders with him did likewife take 
 Portions of Land there : Their Names were, 
 
 1. William de Londres, or London. 
 
 2 . Richard Granavilla, or Greeneville, or Greene- 
 
 feild. 
 
 3. Paganus de Turberville. 
 
 4. Robert de St. Quintin. 
 
 5. Richard Sywarde. 
 
 6. Gilbertus Humfrevell. 
 
 7. Reignold de Beckrolls. 
 
 8. Reinoldus de Swilly. 
 
 9. Peter le Sorre. 
 
 I o. yohanes de Flemming. 
 
 11. Oliverus St. John. 
 
 1 2 . yohn William de EJlerling, now Stradling. 
 After much trouble, many cruel fights, with 
 
 great (laughters of, and againft Normans, Englijh, 
 IriJh,Scots,2indi continuall War with South- Wales, 
 and divers places more in Wales ; this victorious 
 Prince dyed, much beloved aud lamented for, 
 when he had Nobly Ruled 50. years, Anno 1 137. 
 The 21. King was Owen Gwynneth, who was 
 Son to the laft Famous Prince Griffith, he began 
 with Wars againft South- Wales , where the En- 
 glijh had taken poffeffion, with Flemmings, Nor- 
 mans, and others ; he chafed them away, burnt 
 and fpoyled Caermarden, and returned vi6loriouf- 
 ly to North- Wales, 1 142. in the year, 1 143- feven 
 great Lords , all of them of Princely blood and 
 pedigree, were flain in Wales ; Alfo at this time 
 
 the 
 
 / 
 
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 the Irijh did much fpoyle , and in conclufion 
 were fpoyled by Prince Owen, and near this time, 
 Howell and Conan, Owens Sons , gave the Nor- 
 mans and Flemmings a bloudy difcomfeture at 
 Abertivye , and returned to their Father with 
 fpoyle and honour : Yet thefe Wars continued 
 ftill, but the Flemmings and Normans were beaten 
 twice more at the Caftles of Carmarden and 
 Lhanjlephan, from the yeare of Chrift, 1138. to 
 1 160 (being 32. years, Wales had not fo much as 
 fix Moneths peace and quietnefs. 
 
 And then, before one yeare was expired the 
 Princes of South- Wales quarrelled with Prince 
 Owen, and after fome dangerous bickerings Owen 
 had the Viftory. In Anno, 1 163. Henry the Se- 
 cond, King oi England, made great preparations 
 for War, hee entred South- Wales, as far as Breck- 
 nok, and returnd without any caufe of triumph- 
 ing. And in the year, 1 165. the faid King Henry 
 the Second came in Perfon again, having in his 
 Army the ftouteft oiEngliJhmen, Normans, Gaf- 
 coigners, Flemmings, Guiencys, and fome fugitive 
 Welch ; but Prince Owen j oyned with South- Wales, 
 and others , after much fighting , and loffe on 
 both fides , King Henry returned without Con- 
 queft , and fewer men then he brought forth : 
 Alfo the next year, 1 167. the fame King made a 
 greater inrode into Wales, to as much purpofe as 
 he had done twice before. Alfo , prefently, in 
 the nick of thefe troubles , another Army of 
 
 Flemmings 
 
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 Flemmtngs and Normans came to Weji- Wales, did 
 much harm, and in the end returned with much 
 loffe. 
 
 Then prefently , to make the mifery of Wales 
 compleat, the Weljk Lords fell together by the 
 ears one with another ; and after a weary and 
 troublefome Raign of 32. yeares , the magnani- 
 mous Prince Owen Guineth dyed, Anno, 1169. 
 
 His Son Z>(2;ot^ fucceeded the 22 Prince, who 
 was fain to fight for it, and kill his Brother Ho- 
 well, before he could attain the Princedom. Then 
 didi/>Kr>'the2. King oi England enter South- Wales, 
 took the Town oiCaerleon from the Lo. Jorworth, 
 and quite deftroyed it : and in 1172. after a te- 
 dious moleftation, Yx'm.ze David ap Owenvnas ex- 
 pulft from his Rule : and, 
 
 Lhewelynap Jorworth, being lawfull Prince, took 
 the Government, 1 1 94. Richard the firft of that 
 Name being then King oi England. This Prince 
 had a quiet beginning in North- Wales, but South- 
 Wales was much vexed ; for K. yohn oi England, 
 with David ap Owen, before named, who was de- 
 pofed or expulfed, came with an Army againfi: 
 Prince Lhewelyn, who fought and beat K. John, 
 and took David prifoner, and kept him faft ; and 
 the fame yeare there was another bloudy Battell 
 fought, between the Englijh and the Lords of 
 South-Wales, and many men flain by the treachery 
 of fome Welfh Lords, for private interefls. 
 
 In 12 yeares Prince Lhewelyn had not one 
 
 months 
 
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 months quietnefs, yet he was ftill viftorious. 
 
 1 2 1 1. K. John came into Wales with a mighty 
 Army, with a purpofe to deftroy all that had 
 life ; but he returned with great lofs : and the 
 next year he came again, when (by reafon that 
 the Englifh King had many Weljh Lords to take 
 his part) Prince Lhewelyn ap Jorworth came to an 
 agreement with K. John, and gave him 20000 1. 
 and 40 Horfes : But covenants not being kept 
 by occafion of the harfh dealing of the Englifh 
 Nobles, and their Officers, made to the Prince to 
 raife an Army, and take fome Caftles and Coun- 
 tries , for which K. John caufed the Gentlemen 
 (which he had for Pledges) to be all hang'd ; and 
 with another great Army he came into Wales a- 
 gain, to no purpofe ; for K. yohn had his hands 
 and head full of troubles at home, with the Pope 
 and the French, that he was forced to leave Wales, 
 and return, to his great grief and lofs. 
 
 In the yeare of Grace 12 14. there was great 
 wars between the Lords oiSouth- WalesandPowzs, 
 Weljh againft Weljh, and much mifchiefe done on 
 both fides : And Anno 121 5. Prince Lhewelyn 
 made an Inrode into England; then hee wonne 
 Shrewsbury, {■as^ A it, and returned mto South- Wales, 
 he took Caermarden from the English, raifed the 
 Caftle, and took 12 Caftles more, and returned 
 home triumphant : fhortly after he fubdued all 
 Powis Land to his obedience, and in Anno 1 2 1 7. 
 he brought all Wales to his fubjeflion. He had 
 
 not 
 
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 not a weekes reft from the yeare 1218. to 1221. 
 but either Welsh, English, Flemmings, or other 
 troubles kept him from idlenefs, and ftill it was 
 his happinefs to be Viftor. 
 
 King John oi England, being reconciled to the 
 Pope, the French expulft from thence, and the 
 Kingdome in quiet, the King (having little to do 
 at home) would have the tother bout with Wales, 
 which he attempted with much Charge , and 
 bad fuccefs , and fhortly after died ; to whom 
 his fon Henry the 3. fucceeded , who made a 
 fpeedy expedition againft Lhewelyn, and returned 
 home with much detriment, & peace was made 
 for a fmal time ; form Anno 12^1. K. Henry made 
 another great preparation againft the Prince, 
 to the efife6l aforefaid. 
 
 In 1232. Lhewelyn made an expedition into 
 England , and returned with much Riches and 
 Honour. In 1233. South- Wales raifed new wars ;■ 
 but the Prince went in perfon and beat them in- 
 to fome quietnefs, overthrew their Caftles and 
 ftrong holds, and returned renowned. 
 
 And the fame yeare K. Henry the 3. came in- 
 to Wales , with a greater Army then ever, com- 
 pa6l of divers Nations, with an intent to deftroy 
 all he could, but was deceived in his purpofe, and 
 went home a lofer : Then K. Henry fent the 
 Arch Biftiop of Canterbury, with the Bifhops of 
 RocheJler-a.-aA Chefter to make a peace with Lhew- 
 elyn, but it could not be effedled. 
 
 Then 
 
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 Then this peerlefs Prince died, beloved, and 
 lamented, and was buried at Conwy. He married 
 Jone the daughter of K. John , by whom he had 
 two fons David and Griffith ; this David kept 
 his brother Griffith in prifon all his raigne. The 
 Noble Prince Lhewelyn ap yorworth, raigned 56 
 years. 
 
 To whom David ap Lhewelyn fucceeded, being 
 the 24. Prince, Anno 1240. This Prince was 
 curfed by the Pope, and hated by the people for 
 imprifoning his Brother Griffith ; for which the 
 K. of England came againft him with an Army, 
 but a peace was made , and Griffith not releas'd, 
 who flriving to break prifon and efcape, by tying 
 of Lines and Sheets, with fuch other flufif which 
 he had, and as he gat out of a high window, he 
 putting all his weight to the Lines, they brake, 
 and he being fat and heavy , fell with his head 
 downwards, where he lay a moft pittifuU dead 
 fpedlacle, for his head and neck were beaten for- 
 cibly into his body. 
 
 Then K. Henry the 3. (as his Predeceffors had 
 often done) ftrived to have Wales under his obe- 
 dience, to which purpofe he in 1245. raifed a 
 mighty Army, and was more mightily met and 
 foyled by Prince David; foone after David died, 
 when he had Ruled 5 years, 1 246. 
 
 Lhewelyn ap Griffith, or the Son oiGriffith that 
 dyed with a fall, was the 25 Prince, for his Un- 
 kle, Prince David had no Iffue, this man was va- 
 liant, 
 
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 liant, but unfortunate, for his two Brethren, O- 
 wen and David , made War upon him, but he 
 vanquifht them, and was Mafter of all Wales : he 
 ftrived much to fhake oft the yoke of England, 
 and perforce hee chafed all the Englijh out of 
 Wales , with great flaughter, 1256. King Henry 
 the Third , with two great Armies entred Wales 
 in feverall places, did much fpoile, received much 
 lofs, and returned angry. 
 
 In 1258. James Lord Audley with Germane 
 Horfemen, did much fpoile, and killed many in 
 Wales, but in the end, the Welfhmen gave them 
 fuch welcome, that few of the Germanes return'd. 
 In thefe times in all places in Wales was conti- 
 nuall ftrife, fpoile, and bloudihed ; for the En- 
 glifh would Have; and /^^WeHh would Hold: In 
 1 267. Lhewelyn entred England, fpoyled and de- 
 ftroyed Chejler , and much of that County; but 
 after that, the Welfli had a great overthrow at 
 a place called Clun, and in 1 268. Henry oiEngland 
 with an Army entred Wales again ; but by the 
 means of Cardinall Ortobonus (the Popes Legate) 
 a Peace was made , and the Prince paid to the 
 K. oiEngland 30000 Marks. X^Anno 1272. King 
 Henry the 3. died, and his fon Edward t\i& i . went 
 to Ckejler , from whence he fent a Summons to 
 command Prince Lhewelyn to come to him and 
 doe homage : But the Prince refufed, and would 
 not come to the King. Then two Englifh Armies 
 entred South- Wales, and North- Wales, and Weft- Wales, 
 
 at 
 
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 at once ; but ( upon hard conditions ) a Peace 
 was concluded , which lafled not long ; for 
 Anno 1 28 1, they fell to it cruelly again : The 
 Prince faid, that it was a hard thing to live in War 
 alwayes ; but it was harder to live in continualljlave- 
 ry : foon after , Prince Lhewelyn was flaine, va- 
 liantly fighting, and all Wales fell to the Crowne 
 oi England, after it had continued from Brute and 
 Camber 2i,\% years, to the year oiChriJi 1282. 
 
 Kings fons and Daughters of 'RngX^.n^, that 
 
 haue been Princes of YYai^^s 
 
 ftnce 1282. 
 
 I 1 7* -Dward of Carnarvon,{onto K. Ed.i. 1289. 
 I V 2 Edward of VVinfor, fon to Edw. 2. 
 
 3 Edw. of VVood/iock, fon to Edw. 3. or the Black 
 Prince. 
 
 4 Richard oi Burdeaux, fon to the Black. 
 
 5 Henry of Monmouth, fon to Henry 4. 
 
 6 Edw. of VVeftm. fon to Henry 6. 
 
 7 Edw. of VVeJlm. fon to ^afee/. 4. 
 
 8 Edw. fon to K. Ric. 3. at 10 year old inftal'd P. 
 
 9 Arthur, fon to K. Henry 7. 
 
 10 HenryYy.oiYork,2.{ontoH.-j.E.6.iontoH.B. 
 
 I I yJfarj/, Princefs of Wales, Daughter, &c. 
 
 12 .£"/?>. Princefs. 
 
 13 Henry. 
 
 14 Charts, fons to King James. 
 
 F r N r S. 
 
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 Smith, Alexander, 214, New City road, tllasgow 
 
 Smith, Fereday, Parkfield, Swinton, Manchester 
 
 Snelgrove, Arthur G., London hospital, London E. 
 
 Sotheby, Mrs. S. Leigh, Leipzig (per Mr. Good- 
 man, 407, Strand, London, W. C .) 
 
 Sotheran, Henry, 136, Strand, London, W.C. 
 
 Stevens, B. F., 17, Henrietta street, Covent garden, 
 London, W.C. 
 
 Stewart, A. B., 5, Buchanan street, Glasgow 
 
 Stone, Edward D., Eton 
 
 Sudlow, John, Whalley range, Manchester 
 
 Suthers, Charles, Riversvale, Ashton-under-Lyne 
 
 Swindells, George H., 19, Ancoats grove, Man- 
 chester 
 
 T^ANNER, Thomas H., M.D., 9, Henrietta 
 
 street, Cavendish square, London, W. 
 Taylor, Thomas F., Highfield house, Pemberton, 
 
 Wigan 
 Taylor, Mrs. Tom, Knutsford, Cheshire 
 Thompson, F., Southparade, Wakefield 
 Thompson, Joseph, Pin mill, Ardwick, Manchester 
 Thorpe, Rev. J. F., Heme hill vicarage, Faver- 
 
 sham, Kent 
 Tiimiims, Samuel, F.R.S.L., Elvetham lodge, Bir- 
 mingham 
 Turner, Robert S., I, Park square, Regent's park, 
 London, N.W. 
 
 VERNON, George V., Osborne terrace, Stret- 
 ford road, Manchester 
 Vienna, Imperial Library at (per Aslier and Co., 
 13, Bedford street, Covent garden, London, 
 W. C.) 
 
 WARD, Henry, 45, Gloucester street, London, 
 S.W. 
 Washington, U.S., Library of Congress at (per 
 
 Mr. E. G. Allen) 
 Watson, Robert S., loi, Pilgrim street, Newcastle- 
 
 on-Tyne 
 Weston, George, 2, Gray's inn square, London, 
 W.C. 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS FOR*' 1869-7O. 
 
 Weymouth, R. F., D.Lit., Mill Hill scliool, 
 
 London, N.W. 
 Wheatley, H. B., 53, Berners street, London, W. 
 Whitehead, Jeffery, Barfield lodge, Bickley, Kent 
 Wilbraham, Henry, Chancery office, Manchester 
 Wood, Richard Henry, F.S.A., Crumpsall, Man- 
 chester 
 
 Woolcombe, Rev.W. W., M.A., Ardwick, Man- 
 chester 
 
 Wylie, Charles, 3, Earl's terrace, Kensington, 
 London, W. 
 
 "yOUNG, Alexander, 38, Elm Bank crescent, 
 ■*■ Glasgow 
 Young, George, 138, Hope street, Glasgow 
 
 CrtMUl^s SrMMs AND C< » , PRINTERS, MaNCP 
 
puhlicatiom of ti^e ^pmm ^ociet^. 
 
 For the Year 1867-8. 
 
 mile 
 
 1. The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood. Reprinted from the, 
 
 ' Original*^dition of 1 5 62. 
 
 2. The Works of John Taylor the Water Poet. Reprinted from the 
 
 Folio Edition of 1630. Pari I. 
 
 For the Year i868-g. 
 
 3. The Works oJ John Taylor the Water Poet. Reprinted from the 
 
 Folio of rfijo. Part II. ' 
 
 4. The Works of John Taylor the Water Poet. Reprinted from the 
 
 Fblio of 1630. Part III. (Completing the volume.) 
 
 5. Zepheria. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1594. 
 
 For th^ Year 1 869-70. 
 
 6. The 'EKATOMnAaiA or Passionate Centurie of Love, by Thomas 
 
 Watson. Reprinted from the Original Edition of (circa) 1581. 
 
 jl- Works of John Taylor the Water Poet, not included in the Folio 
 ' Volume of 1 630. Reprinted from the Original Editions, pirst^ 
 - Collection. 
 

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