in the County of Cardigan, where twenty four of them
are set packing out of Office and Benefice, to the killing of
their hearts upon the approach of Harvest, considering they
have railed so hard all the year, in hope of the Tithe Cocks;
but twenty more of them beginning to relent upon this way
of Reformation, were taken to mercy, and left in possession
upon good behaviour; which I warrant you they would observe,
if once their Consciences were perswaded of a Victory
in Scotland.
But as yet there is small hope of amendment, considering
that the Clockwork of the Clergy moves altogether by the
main Spring of Intelligence out of Scotland. And there (say
Letters from Newcastle ) the Kirk men keep up the old humor
of Raunting, thu[unr]d[unr]ng one curses (like Ash wednesday Catholickes)
against the Sectaries of England, promising salvation
as plea[unr] all their Followers, as ever Mahomet did to
his; and they speak Victory as confidently, as if they had searched
the Records of destiny [unr] taken security from heaven in
their generall Assembly [unr] which [unr]fallible Conclave is said to
consist (besides some [unr] of eight or nine beardless
Leaders, whose complexion [unr] as yong as Apollo,
and as wife as Midas, and therefore [unr] puty he did not leave
them his ears in Legacy.
For, they have made a shift once again, to preach England
and Scotland into blood and misery; and for what purpose
(I pray you) but to transplant the Kirk in all her glory of
power and dominion on this side Berwick? which would
prove a more lasting and furious Plague than ever followed
the admission of King Jamy into England. Therefore it is very
observable, how the Jockies provide for the design and the
Journey: For, They are extream busy upon the Levies, and
the Parliament, that they may be at leisure to perfect them,
adjourned to the fifteenth of August, and appointed the generall
Rendezvous to be at Sterling, where the Thing called his
Majesty, is lodged in one of the old Palaces, of as royall a
structure as an English Ale house, where great care is taken to
make him learn the Kirks Lesson without book, against the
day of Coronation at Edenburgh.