Sir Arthur Hasilrig's meditations, or, The Devil looking over Durham Hesilrige, Arthur, Sir, d. 1661. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A60296 of text R29363 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing S3874). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A60296 Wing S3874 ESTC R29363 11080894 ocm 11080894 46289 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A60296) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 46289) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1431:19) Sir Arthur Hasilrig's meditations, or, The Devil looking over Durham Hesilrige, Arthur, Sir, d. 1661. 1 broadside. s.n., [London? : 1659?] Signed: Arthur Hasilrig. Place and date of publication suggested by Wing. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. eng Hesilrige, Arthur, -- Sir, d. 1661. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660. A60296 R29363 (Wing S3874). civilwar no Sir Arthur Hasilrig's meditations. Or, The Devil looking over Durham. [no entry] 1660 704 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2008-01 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-05 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-06 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2008-06 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Sir Arthur Hasilrig's MEDITATIONS . OR , The Devil looking over Durham . WHere am I ? what shall I be ? — where shall I meet my good fellows ? — By the figure of 5 — at the Devil — will they meet me ? What , all Traytors ! no body resenting these Grand Priviledges of Our Parliament , so infringed and violated by the consent of the whole Nation ? Wherefore did I purchase such a vast Estate of Deans and Chapters Lands ? Why have I merited a great name in the ruine of three Kingdoms , if it must be in the power of any body to question it ? Did not I bid defiance to old Oliver , whom I knew as much concerned in this lamentable Account as my self , because I knew there was no sheathing of the Sword ? Well , what I want in wisdome and courage , I will supply in Perjury and impudence , but yet that will not serve the turn ; is there no remaining ill qualities which the Kingdoms have not talled of ? Had Sir Henry Vene again , for all our former dissentions , and the irremediable distractions among Atheistical Logger-heads , I would introduce any Gallimaufry of Government , but I would disappoint the longing and just Expectation of a Settlement . Do you hear me ! I am quarrelled at for several things , viz. Why should the Bishoprick of Durham be confer'd on a Man-slayer ? Beloved , I ran away from the Devizes with all the celerity and speed imaginable , which Sir William Waller will bear witness to ; if I kill'd any man , it was in Effigie , or when I lately stabb'd a Picture at Wimbleton ; I am heartily sorry I can do that poor Girle no more favour : Oh I could with ! But however , I will marry my Son and Heire to Frances Rich , because I am sure of a strong party upon old Cromwel's score , and now Lambert and they are all one ; and by the assurance of all these Interests , shall not I be Sir Arthur ? As for the increase of my Temporall estate , I referre you to Mr. Collingwoods case , whom I ruined in despight of Olivers Nose , upon the consciousnesse of his Arbitrary Usurpation ; There was Verdict upon Verdict against me , but that signifies nothing against a R — P Resolve . I hope I have so disabled him , that I shall never hear more of that injustice . I must now begin to exercise a vertue ( which a moderate Fortune could not teach me ) called Patience ; would I were again in Portsmouth . I did not near Mr. Burgesse speak a word or it there , no nor at the House : my Honesty and his Divinity are alike compensable ; He must not be longer an Eaton-Colledge-Fellow , nor I any longer of the Councill of State , and can you blame me to be angry at this disaster ? Who will take the pains to innumerate my Vertues ? though I cannot assure him now the thanks of the House , bee shall have a Royalists Estate , gratis , upon the sale of Sir George Booth's Lands , What shall I say ? Would any man have believed such a thing as divine Justice , that has lived 18 years uncontroulable and unquestionable to the Laws ? Must I that pull'd down the Gates of the City of London , commanded their Walls to be broken down , that severall breaches might be made , and put that violence upon them , which no English Prince in his utmost fury ever offered the City , forgo that kind of Omnipotency ? I will rather run after Lambert and own the Commitee of Safety , and three or four times abjure the Covenant . I am so vexed , that in short , if cannot be revenged on you all , I 'le be suddenly revenged on my self . Arthur Hasilrig .