Bishops, Churches and Common-Prayer, to propagate Faction and Haresy,
Conventicles and the senselesse Directory ------ Item the losse of the little
Law and Reason hee had, to preferre the Votes and Orders of a stinking
Juncto Before Magna Charta, and his owne perverse will before the
Statute Lawes of the Kingdome; judging that to bee Supreme, which
hee knew to bee a vile, contemptible, Silly, dirtie Upstart; an usurped
senselesse Caitiffe; without head or braines, composed only of such vitious
members as himselfe is, (and none better) to make it a high and
mighty State, ------ Item the Losse of his wit when hee married his present
wife, at the will of his father, against the streame of his heart, to get
an accursed estate by her, and sided with a crew of Traytors to destroy
his King and Countrey ------ Item the losse of his honesty and humanity
when he left his wives bed to imbrace the Deity of a Strumpet (alias
Lady of Pleasure) destitute of any meanes or comfort, save only the
charitie of her friends and the revenue of a spinning-wheele, whereon shee
now subsists at longworth.
For all these hee parted with, to purchase the favour of the Juncto,
besides some other curporall losses, or defeits occasioned through the
fervency of his zeale, which hath even eaten him up, and wasted the
Marrow of his bones, having lay'dont himselfe and fortunes on all occasions
in furtherance of so blessed a Reformation, which together with
his Arreares (till now never taken notice of) are referred to the consideration
of a Committee, pack't up of purpose by his owne appointment,
who will assuredly state both his Arreares and Losses so Conscienciously,
as that they neede not feare but that hee I doe the like for them, when
theirs come to bee stated, which shall bee (no doubt) in due time and
Order, let the necessities of Ireland be what they will.
In the Interim Good-man Gray of Groby, that Pinck of courtesie and
the only admired flower in the States Garden, is next to be rewarded
for his incomparable services, especially that eminent one of the holding
the stirrop in honour of his Excellency, whil'st hee mounted the great
Saddle of that Priviledged Beast of the State, to Trample downe Monarchy,
and to levell the Mountaines & Hills of Prerogative and Peerage,
for the Saints to dig in, and sow the seeds of Sedition, and Tyranny, for
which their Lordships deserved forwell at the hands of the Commonwealth,
that on of them hath ever since beene honoured with a fooles
Cap for his humilitie; the otherwith a badge of slavery, the better to
distinguish him from the free-borne Majesty of oliver, in recompence
of his high and venterous Atchievements.
But Oliver it is must bee first served, who (as they have elected him