Numb. 89.
Mercurius Politicus.
Comprising the summe of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs and Designs
now on foet in the three Nations of
England, Ireland, and Scotland.
In defence of the Common-wealth, and
for Information of the People.
------ It à verters Seria. {Hor.de
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday, February 12. to Thursday, Feb. 19. 1652.
TO prove the second part of that Reason,
which was produced in our last,
we shall (according to promise) proceed,
to shew that the permitting of
any Sort, Ranke, or Order of Men, to
assume unto themselves the State and
Title of Nobility, is altogether inconvenient
in a Commonwealth, and must
needs occasion many dangerous oppertunities of introducing
Tyranny into a Free: State. The principal caus (as was then
declared) is this, in regard such petty Titular Tyrants alwayes
bear a naturall and implacable hatred, against the People:
so that if at any time it happen, that any great Man or
Men whatsoever arive to so much power and confidence, as to
think of usurping, or to be in a condition to bee tempted, there
unto, these are the first that will set them on, mingle Interests
with them and becom the prime Instruments in heaving them
up into the seat of Tyranny. And the main reason lies in this,