may bee abused for the future Cum Privilegio, suitable to the minde
of Bradshaw and Scot, who sway all. For, it was observed, That the Authors
of the Diurnall and the rest of their weekely Pamphlets were so defective
in setting before the People the Rightcousnesse and Justice of the
Juncto, the Gallantry of their new Government, & the true value and eiteeme
of their owne Liberty and Freedom : and added not such Comments
to their Intelligence as might render the Kings affaires so meane
and despicable, and their owne so prosperous and formidable as they expected :
some of them (as the Moderate) favoring the Interest of the
Leveilers; others (as the Moderate-Intelligencer) that of the Presbyteriane,
more then the welfare and honour of the Regicides : Only the
Author of the Occurrences they noted Convertible, being ever Complient
to the grevayling-Faction, but that hee cram'd his Pamphlet so full of Hebrew-Robets
they could not digest them; and therefore hee amongst the
rest was adjudged (like the House of Lords) uselesse and trouble some, and
not fit longer to bee continued; whereby they have utterly undone two
Families, that is, Walkers and Ibbitsons [an Iron-monger and a Printer,
a Knave and a Cuckold:] So that all the Lincensed-Forgeries are quite
vanish, and now it remaines only to hold the Hands of Elenctious, to
effect which, Master Bradshaw hath beene very earnest (with some I could
name) by all meanes to finde out that seditious, violent, and Implacable
Knave (as hee was pleased to style mee) offering a hundred Peeces, and
payment thereof (to any one that would undertake the finding of mee,)
upon my first appearance at the Councell of State. And indeede I cannot
blame the Man for any thing hee doth in order to my Ruine, since I
must needes acknowledge it is and shall bee my constant endeavors to hasten
his, though with never so much hazard of my owne; and my hope is
hee knowes no lesse, else I. B. hath deceived mee : However so long as
I am at Libertie I shall trace him, and the rest, in their wickednesse : but
first of all let us see what their Briefe Relator saith, for him I am resolved
to Cudgell so oft as I meete Him, and the rather because I heare hee was
once a Friend of ours, though now an Apostate : but I will not name
him untill I have more certainty, for't is very unlike Him I am told it is,
by Reason of the disproportion'd Language, and non-sence, wherein the
poore Pamphlet is dressed; yet I shall enquire, in the interim be pleased
to heare his Eloquence.
Through the goodnesse of God (saith hee) wee still can say wee have not
much newes at home, [Indeede not so much as formerly, when you had
for every day in the weeke a lying Pamphlet,] God is pleased to blesse our
endeavors abroad, [that you shall know anon] and by that meanes to put