for should the Irish businesse not go right; or the Members play at fast
and loose, till their Saviour O-neal fall off, and leave the great bull of Basan
Nose Almighty in the Bogs, farewell all broken Parl aments and supreame
Conventicles; for then their Doctour Noll would come and give
their Member-ships such a glister of Impeachment, for their neglect and
carelessenesse, as would scoure away those excrements of the supreame
Authority out of the land of the living, and then will Noll and his Saints
the Councell of State build up their new Jerusalem, and reign like kings
in the midst of the earth.
But wh ther the King of Spain shall reign with them is uncertain; yet
doubtlesse something is in the wind more then is commonly known, for as
soon as the news was brought to the Spanish Embassador, that a cessation
was agreed between Coot, and Owen Roe Oneal, and that the siege of London
Derry was raised, as great rejoycing was made as if his Master, had gained
a Kingdom, and a most sumptuous feast provided at the Spanish Embassadors
own cost, at which Owen Roe Oneals Agent, with divers of our
English Grandees, were entertained as royally as if they had been Kings:
but what the mystery of this is, is not yet known, or how King Charles his
losse should advantage the King of Spain I understand not, unlesse his Majesty
being turn'd Saint, is to have part of the promised land. and so to
reign co-partner and King Triumphant with Cromwell.
But whosoever be King, 'tis fit tha the Trull of Colonel Pride the Drayman
be Queen of this new Jerusalem, because she can take state so handsomly
upon her; as appeared the other day at a great feast of the Grandees,
where among other Varieties, was store of the Kings Venison, which, it
seems, did not well please their Saintships, but especially, Mistris Pride, who
being perk't at the upper end of the Table, was the first that found fault;
and as if his Majesties Parks and Venison had been hers, and shee the Queen
of England, she said, Me thinks, our Venison is very lean and dry this yeer. A
speech becoming the right owner of it, and not a Dray-mans Wife.
But though these saints feast and frollick it, yet they intend the poor Presbyterian
Ministers shall fast, and sterve upon the stool of repentance, as appears
by the usage of Mr. Taylor Minister of Colemanstreet, who was the
other day brought before their Mightinesses the Conventicle of State, and
accused of crimes little lesse then high Treason against the supreme Voters:
but not withstanding he seemed no whit daunted nor affrighted at their
Mightinesses, nor their mighty Charge, but stoutly maintained and justified
himself in all those things which he had preached or prayed, either against
the Saints, or contrary to the sense of the Juncto; neither would he
acknowledge his fault; which so vext their Saintships, that they gnashed
on him with their teeth, and immediately made him a silenced Minister.
His chief accusers were a couple of Tub-preachers, a pair of zealous