Numb. 99.
Mercurius Politicus.
Comprising the summe of all Intelligence,
with the Affairs and Designs
now on foot in the three Nations of
England, Ireland, and Scotland.
In defence of the Common-wealth, and
for Information of the People.
------ It à vertere Seria. {Hor. de
Ar. Poet.
From Thursday, April 22. to Thursday, April 29. 1652.
HAving already proved, That the originall
of all just Power and Government
is in the People; And that the
Government of the People, in a due
and orderly succession of their supreme
Assemblies, is much more excellent
then any other form, I suppose,
it falls in of course, in the next
place, to note and observe those
common errors in Policie, wherein most Countries of the
world (especially that part of it which is called Christendom)
have been long entangled; that when the mystery of
Tyranny is undress't, and stript of all its gaudy Robes, and
gay Appearances, it may be hiss't out of the Civill part of
mankind, into the company of the more barbarous and brutish
Nations.
The first Error that we shall observe in ancient Christian