AN HUMBLE Petition offered to the right reverend, honourable, and worshipful estates of this present Parliament assembled at Westminster Palace: Wherein the wandering Ghost of the late Pyramid demolished lately in Paris, discourseth his hard fortunes, travails, and strange accidents to the new Britain Monarchy, to whom he wisheth all peace, wealth, and prosperity.  
Written by Philopatris, pitying his downfall, and persuading his new erecting, and building up again in Westminster.  
At London Printed for Matthew Lownes. 1606.   

To ancient and famous Troynovant.  
WIth sunburnd Africa Europe bore debate,  
And France with fertile Egypt did contend;  
With Memphis old Lutetia strove of late,  
For Monuments; but now that strife hath end:  
The Pyramies of Paris do decay,  
But Memphis stones remain & stand for aye.  
Shall Africa thus triumph in Europe's shame?  
Can Britain brave, endure so great disgrace?  
No, Troynovant; fly thou on wings of fame,  
From Memphis both, and Paris take thou place:  
Build monuments, in spite of Popish fire,  
Which Africa both, and Asia may admire.   

To the high Court of Parliament.  
AFter that my sudden downfall & unexpected overthrow (most ancient and famous great Britain) was plotted secretly in Rome, prepared cunningly in France, and executed ignominiously not long since by public authority in the chief City of the French Kingdom. This favour yet I had for my continual and faithful service done to so great a King and State, that some of my dearest friends and favourers (whose long plead in Law, strong reasons in equity, and earnest suit in Court nothing prevailing for the saving of my faultless and innocent life) should be permitted at last after my death, to gather together the fatal relics and ruins of my sumptuous builded corpse, to be secretly laid up in some sure place, there to be shrouded unto a better and more favourable age following, from the cruel persecution of my bloody Esaviticall enemies, seeking and pursuing (like unto Herod through all juda) from corner to corner for the anatomy of my bruised bones, to be offered up as a sweet smelling sacrifice to that Antichristian & bloody Dragon, who daily thirsteth for the poor lives of such harmless creatures as I am, manifesting to the world his foul shame, and monstrous parts. But may it not seem over-strange and marvelous to the eyes and ears of the world, that dumb and insensible creatures should speak and cry out of cruel injustice used against them? Marvelous indeed it is, because against nature, but not therefore untrue nor yet unlikely, considering what the Prophets have truly foretold, how in the latter days there should many miraculous things fall out, and wonderful visions appear, both in heaven & earth. And surely (thou new Monarchy) the eclipse of the Sun seen here of late, with the new star, but more likely a prodigious Comet in thy Hemisphere, the extraordinary redness of the firmament like to blood, the continual rains and land floods, the monstrous births of children, and beasts on the earth, and of fishes in the Sea; but more notable, that a new and unknown ginger in his Prognostication set out in our City of Paris, should foreshew such strange and incredible matters to come to pass, three months before this wonderful accident was known among you, to wit, that this year 1605 here should be a turbulent Parliament, a black Christmas, and a bloody Lent. Did not all these things agreeing as it were, and conspiring together speak and forewarn you (beloved great Britain) even as they had been reasonable creatures, of the great disaster likely to fall out, coming to my ears. Marvel not then, if I that had my erection established by the sound advisement and firm decree of the gravest, wisest, and most learned Parliament of the world, & perfected by the sacred influence and infusion of all the Muses through every member of my body, & life given to me by my Sovereign King, to witness the safety of his life, should not as well speak, at least my Ghost, as did the counterfeit spirit of Samuel, and rather to be better thought of, than it, because both my warrant and cause is approovedly good. But while I stood long time in a muse, pondering betwixt hope and despair, what should become of my wandering soul, and at length, thinking with myself, to find out some Pythagorean Philosophers (if any were yet alive) for consulting, what body should be fittest for my receptacle; certain my loving friends in this time, inspired (as the sequel shall testify) with some divine instinct, conveyed me safely to great Britain's Ocean Sea: where Neptune receiving me courteously at their hands, commanded Aeolus with his fairest and readiest winds safely and speedily to transport me from that dangerous shore I was on, to the famous Microcosm of ancient Britain, the great Conqueror, sometime of my ingrate Country, as to the chief harbour of all poor distressed Pilgrims. But while Aeolus was preparing all things necessary for my safe conduct, Neptune willed me, briefly to report the causes of my sudden flight and departure from my native Country, which though at first I was in doubt what to do, as fearing that he might either bewray me to mine enemies, when I had told him all, or might stop my passage, if I told him not, at last I resolved upon all hazards that might follow, to satisfy his demand, as far forth, as the shortness of the time, and peril of the place would permit. Then thus I spoke unto him. The causes that have compelled me (O great Neptune, thou great God of the Ocean) to seek thy favour in this my misery, are truly and upon my allegiance unto thee, the extreme and more than inhuman persecutions of my bloody enemies the jesuits both before, and since my lamentable and undeserved death & overthrow, procured for no other cause, then for truly witnessing to the world, but more particularly to true Catholic Huguenots, and to all foreign Strangers who might daily behold me in the prime of my triumphant estate, in the most famous City and place of the universal world, how this mighty King & martial Monarch Henry the fourth, that now reigneth, was treacherously wounded, but yet miraculously preserved of his life, from the Esauitical plot executed by Chattel one of the novices, trained up in their tragical School erected lately for teaching of bloody precepts, for the kill of all such Kings and Princes, as being either Romanists or true Christians, shall be stumbling blocks to hinder the politic courses of their new established Machiavillian Government. Me miserûm vox faucibus haeret I cannot utter the one half I would say, such hast I have to be gone for the fear & danger I am in, by the furious pursuit of my professed enemies, who tyrannously triumphing in mine overthrow, mangled all the members of my body as was pitiful to see, and yet not so satisfied, will not suffer my broken bones, no, nor my very Ghost to remain in rest or safety within any part of this ample Kingdom. These men (or to speak more properly monsters of men) being justly (and as deservedly, as ever any the most heinous malefactors that ever were) banished out of this Realm by a general decree of Parliament, without hope of being ever recalled home, or to creep again into any grace or favour of my great Sovereign, which they had so foully forfeited, are now again (a wonder it is to hear) after a few years exile, come not submissively, but triumphantly home, glorying in the spoils of my heavy and sad fall; dying; and lying prostrate at their proud feet. And thus are they grown into great credit and authority by the distraction of my sovereigns late singular favour towards me, which I surely hoped, should, nay could never have been withdrawn, being so fast tied and conglutinate to my person, as a public decree of the wisest human wits could devise, and engraven beside in letters of Gold and Azure, for the more honour and ornament to us both. But what shall I say, Nibi sub coelo durabile, et Regum gratia saepe mutabilis: For my crafty enemies had so closed up and stopped the princely ears of my Sovereign (which should have been open alike to all maintainers) with a fine and subtle kind of black Cotton cunningly wrought by the finest and most expert Esaviticall Artificers that were in all Italy and Spain, who bore his Majesty in hand, that my bruised bones broken all to pieces would be the most effectual preservative for resisting all pestilent venom of such Heretics, as should oppose themselves against the wholesome and sound re-establishment of the jesuits, adding moreover (no small falsehood) that these would prove hereafter the most profitable and serviceable people unto him, that were under his obeisance. So my dread Liege being fully possessed by little and little with the sly insinuations of this counterfeit Cotton, neither the credit of sundry of his faithful Counsellors, neither the weighty arguments of the most grave and judicious Precedents of his Parliament, nor the eloquence and smooth reasons of learned Advocates, neither the subtle inventions and scholastic Sophistry of the Sorbonist Doctors, nor the piteous plaints of poor Scholars, who delighted their eyes, refreshed their minds, and filled their papers and books with the learned Muses that guarded my square body; all these my favourers, I say, and continual intercessors could prevail nothing with my dread Sovereign, whose pity my enemies had captivated wholly to their cruelty and malice, that no place was left for prayers, nor means any longer for my continuance there, but Discere dura pati, and comfort myself with that encouragement that virtuous Aeneas gave to his Seabeaten Soldiers. Durato et temet rebus seruato secundis.  
Pluck up thy heart, and drive from thee  
both care and fear away:  
To think of this, may pleasure be  
to thee another day.  
Thus remained then no other comfort to me, near half dead before hand through despair, but that of necessity (as I well perceived) it behoved one to die for the sins of this people, and who should that be, but even I poor Pyramid, who not long before, had life with the promise of a long life, (but what mortal men can promise life to another, that are not assured of their own) given unto me, for recording their barbarous cruelty, and now again must lose my life, even in that place, alas, where I first received life, and for no other thing, then for testimony of the truth, and to give them a surer and longer life by my speedy death, and withal a greater honour and credit by my downfall, than ever they had since their first original, or ever could hope for themselves in this world. And thus is the world there turned topsy-turvy: The good and faithful are taken away, and and the wicked and ungracious are hoisted up in their rooms. O scelus, O mores, O tempora perversa in quibus vixi. O poor and miserable wretch that I am, what have I committed, that I should suffer so cruel a punishment? I have continued there but a small time, considering the eternity of years I should have endured, erected also in the most eminent place of our Monarchy, to the amazement of my professed enemies; where I endured daily opprobrious railings and infamous Pasquil's on my frontispiece, taxing both King, Counsel, Parliament, and State for my sumptuous building in so famous a place, besides my nightly danger (for witnessing the decree of their banishment for so infamous a fact) to be dismembered, and by the Stir & tumults of their adherents pulled down before the morrow, & that not perchance without the shedding of innocent blood. All this and much more it behoved me to endure, yea and much more would I patiently have suffered, so as I might have continued there, until I had either received some recompense for my faithful service, or had been bestowed in some other famous place, to have served for a perpetual memory of that infamous treachery, that can never be forgotten.  
Nec tamen annorum series, nec flamma, nec ensis,  
Aeternum poterit hoc abolere scelus.  
Thus ending my discourse to Neptune, and craving his favourable aid for my passage to great Britain, my last and only refuge left unto me. The God smiling spoke with a gracious countenance unto me, Favet fortuna votis. And so by the favour of Aeolus and the swift wings of his winds, I was upon the sudden (before I could bethink myself where I was) set upon the white & pleasant Britain Coast, where upon a green mountain, not far from the place of my arrival, was first presented to my view, a goodly company of frollique Shepherds, who as they drew somewhat near me, cast off their mourning garments, which they had worn (as seemed) before, for the great & horrible danger they apprehended by their long experience, knowledge, and insight of the heavenly constellations & celestial signs, of some great fatal conjurations plotted by Pluto and his Stygian furies, for the total subversion of this ancient Kingdom and State, and were all presently clothed in white, playing and singing sweet and melodious congratulalions, for the happy delivery both of their native Country from that great imminent peril, as also for my fortunate arrival in so fit a season, whereby I might not only testify to them my Country's cruelty, and her ingratitude towards me, but that I might likewise in short success of time eternize my name, by offering my service in publishing by open testimony both to the great and little World, a more horrible and damnable fact, then before I served for. And so being a little comforted and put in some good hope by this their news, my faint spirit gins to take fresh courage, and to strengthen my weak limbs, so that I began to march a faster pace, then before I was accustomed to, with desire to learn more certainty of this news, which yet was a mystery unto me: and casting mine eyes round about me, to see if I could discern any thing, I perceived betwixt me and the sky, being then the dawning of the day (before Phoebus had sent abroad his rays for the clearing of the air with universal light) the whole company of the sacred Muses adorned with their ever flourishing green Laurel Garlands, who holding in their hands sundry & several instruments of music, made the hills, valleys, and groves to resound with their heavenly harmony, melodious Songs, sweet sonnets, and shrill Echoes of their learned Poetical inventions in all languages; and all this they did to signify the exceeding joy they had lately conceived of the thrice happy deliverance of that their great friend, darling, & favourer, the most wise, prudent, learned, mighty, worthy, and in all heroical virtues and valour, the most rare and great Apollo, whom Mars that stern God of bloody battle evermore envied and hated even to the death, for no other cause (as can be conjectured, or as I could learn out of their rare Ditties and Sonnets) then only, for that he was entered into a sincere league and sweet society of the celestial Graces, the divine Muses, and sacred Peace, (whereto he was preordained at the very hour of his nativity) and thereby, and by means of the common tranquillity thereof ensuing, had brought and deduced from above, into this little world, & from thence derived to all the most famous parts of the great world, such manifold and exceeding rich gifts, bounteous favours, and invaluable benefits & blessings, as the like had either seldom, or not at all been enjoyed in any former age, for which he was (as he well deserved) universally admired, honoured, and blessed over all. And therefore the greater indignation boiled in the breast of angry Mars, who ever more grudging at human felicity, left no means or ways unsought or unattempted, whereby to bring our great Patron & Benefactor, and consequently this little world to confusion. And such was his innated hatred against him, even when he was yet in his Mother's belly, knowing by the favourable aspects of Sol & Venus, that he should prove a most potent, prudent, wise, & blessed Prince of Peace, beloved both of Gods & men, that he this wicked Mars set on his cruel Sergeant the elder Gowrie to have murdered that most noble Heroine the Queen his mother, & this blessed fruit of her womb, at one stab. And being prevented by divine providence of his malignity, in this his abominable intention, after many other mischievous plots and practices (all of them, as all other shall ever be made frustrate by the high hand of just Jove) he conspired with that variable Aeolus GOD of the winds (who either by fair means, or sharp menaces of any great Power is lightly won to work the worst mischief he can) to give full scope and free licence to his turbulent and unruly winds, at such time, as our bright day-star Apollo having accomplished the notable solemnity of those famous nuptials in the strong Dacian Kingdom, the middle Region of Europa, with his peerless Paragon, of all rich perfection the divine Cynthia (otherwise then by himself immatchable) had embarked him with his most lovely beloved above all other, sailing from thence through the Ocean, towards his ancient Kingdom the lesser Albion, lying to the north of Albion mayor, (now both by his Highness happily reduced to one Monarchy) then was seen the boisterous rage of blustering Boreas and his rude companions, domineering with might and main uncontrolled in Neptune's main dominion, (but without that great Gods assent or knowledge) as sometime by the like permission of their flexible Master Aeolus at the request of angry Juno, they practised the like peremptory pranks (unwitting to Neptune) upon the virtuous and valorous Prince Aeneas in the Tyrrhene Seas. So that colleaguing themselves with that great Sorceress Circe, and a great number of her most impious and detestable imps, all practising to drown and destroy our Apollo and his fairest Cynthia with all their noble train (as after upon their conviction they freely confessed) they sturdilie heaved, tossed, and tumbled the fearful billows, hoisting one while his dreary ships upon the high-raised waves almost to the azure sky, and then throwing them down again as low as the foundations of the earth. Yet notwithstanding all their furious tumults, and violent commotions, Almighty Jove (whose name be therefore magnified for ever) beholding this outrageous tempest, and knowing the wicked occasion thereof; brought them safe and sound to their own desired continent & Country. Which, when Mars understood, he stamped & stared, foaming at the mouth, and his eyes sparkling like fire for very anger, that his conspiracy prevailed not, he fared like a mad man, and vowing still to pursue him with immortal hatred, swore by the black river of Styx, that his day of Mars whereon he was born, should ever prove the most fatal day of all other unto him. And for that purpose he combined himself with Pluto that dreadful Prince of Erebus, who complotting together, brought it so to pass under cunning policies and fair shows of great matters, that concerned his own person, state, and Kingdom, to bring him by the earnest labour of one of his dear favourites, to the dishonourable and disloyal house of the other Sergeant of Mars the younger & last Gowry, the bloody nephew of a cruel traitorous Grandsire, where having locked him up in a close room in the hands of their sworn friends, his mortal enemies, he had no way nor means to escape, but even miraculously by his own stout manhood, or rather Heroic magnanimity, & the succour of a few of his faithful servants, but chief again by the almighty providence of high Jove, waiting over him, at all times and places for his safeguard, he was also delivered out of that danger. Then were Mars & Pluto more enraged then ever before, gnashing their teeth, and cursing and banning the fiends and furies, that had no more policy or power to accomplish their infernal plot, they were almost at a point to have given over any longer pursuit of their conspiracies, but that Pluto bethought himself of his dear son the red & bloody Dragon, who through long & continual practice for many ages, of all sorts of hellish stratagems, horrible massacres, black murders, deceitful lies, and false miracles was grown to be as much famed and feared in the world, as himself, so as it might be a question disputable in Schools, whether Satan the roaring and devouring Lion, or his son the Pope, that red & bloody Dragon was to be held for the greatest and chiefest liar and murderer. Pluto therefore crying out, Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo, they began to be recomforted in his dear son, of their wicked hopes & devilish drifts for the acting of their bloody Tragedy, (as the last hope of all their mischiefs). And so adjoining themselves to this other great enemy of man's welfare, who was exceeding proud to have the managing of that action referred to him, wherein the Prince of Devils had failed, conceived presently a more horrible plot, than all the Stygian furies called together in a common Counsel could have devised, not only against the sacred person & life of Apollo, but also his divine Cynthia, and all their Godlike progeny, & all the Heroes, Prelates, Nobles, Statesmen, and chief Gentry under his Domination; all whom, and many more, by force of his invention, he made sure account to have destroyed upon that ominous day of Mars, with one blow of his fatal engine. Which complot he gave in charge for the more surety to certain of his trusty Engineers the Esaviticall band (whose charge, profession, and practise, is nothing else but the undermining and blowing up of Princes, great States, and Kingdoms) to see the same with all secret conveyance and diligence put in execution. Never before was heard of, the like inhuman stratagem, though many cunning & cruel conspiracies proceeding from this terrible Dragon, had often been attempted against our Apollo's Predecessor, his most honoured and hallowed virgin sister, the great & mighty Diana, whom he most maliced and hated deadly above any other Potentate on the earth, for that she as a most virtuous and courageous Princess, and Faiths valorous Championess, had not only given to him a wide & dangerous wound, that still, & still shall ever to his dying day put him to most grievous pain; but also destroyed a great number of mischievous monsters that were conceived and crept forth out of his foul mouth. All his practices notwithstanding, and though he did the very worst he could, could nothing prevail against her most blessed life, reign, state, & government, but that for 44 years together and upward, while she ruled the famous Kingdom of Albion mayor, to the high pleasure of Almighty Jove, a more flourishing and blessed estate was there seen, then was ever heard of in those times, when divine Astraea lived and ruled among earthly men. And in this mean time, while as the Almighty God perceiving this earthly Kingdom of her most happy and gracious Majesty, to be compassed and clogged with so many daily conspiracies and dangers, and that her sacred person having by the due course of nature run out, & ended the glass of her thrice happy and most renowned government; than it pleased him in his great and loving favour and mercy (most happily and peaceably without any danger or disturbance to her well long governed Kingdoms) to translate her hence to the highest Imperial heaven, there to live and reign in the greatest glory with his Angels to all eternity. Constituting in her place this our Apollo, whom he hath predestinated to vanquish, and finally destroy this monstrous red Dragon, whereby he shall purchase so much the greater glory and immortal renown to himself, than did the old Apollo, by killing the huge serpent Python, by how much this Dragon is a thousand fold more great, virulent, violent, terrible, strong, and horrible then that was. This is the great cause indeed, why Mars fretteth, Pluto fumeth, the Dragon rageth, and all jointly conjoin and conspire with all their forces against the life and state of Apollo, for whose most happy preservation from all their intended mischiefs; the melodious Muses sang Jo Pean, with many heavenly notes (sweeter far than the concentfull harmony of the spherical Orbs) full of joy and triumph. But reserving the residue of the rarest and secretest matter of their divine songs, until I shall see the end of my travails, I will briefly show, what further befell me. Thus being hereby somewhat more confirmed of the truth of so wonderful news, and advancing my steps forward to see the end and success of these strange encounters, I cast my sleepy eyes here & there (the day being all spent, and black and rainy clouds covering the bright stars in the firmament) when lo in an instant, there appeared to me, as it were Vulcan in fiery sparks & shining flames of great burning fires, environing me on all parts, where I went. I misdoubting at first, that Vulcan and Pluto had conspired the burning of the whole Island I was entered into, resolved with myself (if it were possible) to return and escape so great and imminent a danger. But being soon advertised, that the matter was nothing so, as I supposed, but that these fires were kindled only for joy, according to the commendable custom of this Island, when any good news happeneth to the State, or Country: Behold, I was no sooner rid of this fear and perplexity, but that I might see three several Currors of sundry nations (as appeared by their cognisances on their breast) going for France, Spain, and Jtalie, and seemed to be very passionate and sad by their countenance and carriage, whither it were for the ill success of the plot then discovered, or for that they feared, the passages were all stopped, so as they could not give the first advertisement to their Masters, I leave them to your good and friendly consideration (great Britain) who can better judge in their matters, and tell by the Weathercock what quarter the wind holdeth, then I poor Pilgrim. Yet thus far I can say of them, that their courtesy and favour was such to me a poor stranger, that they could not afford me one ave, but making sighs, and crosses upon their faces and breasts, looked and beckoned so on me, as to a Huguenot. But I sore fearing, that they had been Sergeants at arms sent after me for my apprehension, where soever they might find me, was glad to make a low curtsy, and pass by them, with as much speed as my weary feet could carry me, and having posted a mile further (without once looking back) It was my good hap to meet with two English Posts, bearing the red rampant Lion on their breasts; who were so full of indignation, as that after my double salutations, they could not for anger speak unto me, and showing a sad & sorrowful countenance, whither it were, that the stranger Posts had got the start of them, or fearing that thorough favour they might get passage before them, to carry the first news to their Masters, and other foreign Princes, or for what other cause I know not, nor was it fit for me, being a stranger and a banished Pilgrim to be nimis curiosus in aliena republica. Yet staying, and viewing one another more nearly, I began to remember myself, that I had seen these two English Posts oftentimes not only pass by me in their going to the Palace of Paris, but that they had been also accustomed theretofore, in pointing out their fingers to me, as to a rare miracle, to show to their Country men newly come over, my whole Genealogy, birth, & memorable story: And on the other side, one of them being well travailed in all Countries, by his employment in the service of the late renowned Queen your Lady, & given withal to the observations of antiquities abroad, drew out his books of those matters, which he ever carried about him into foreign parts, and turning the leaves over, he finds the whole discourse of my life, which pondering to and fro in his mind, he gins to look on me more nearly & circumspectly, & (the architecture of my stately building being yet fresh in his memory) he fell somewhat to bless himself, & after to crave pardon of the oversight, (as he said) of his duty to me, by whom he had received so many courtesies for his Country men, & other strangers while I stood alive, & in credit with the great Princes & Peers of the Realm of France, then both of them with a laughing countenance striving which of them should first embrace & welcome me, were so astonished at my presence, as they stood in doubt, whither they should rejoice at my coming over, or lament for my exile and hard fortune, I was fallen into. But yet upon better advice, they rejoiced rather, that it had pleased the mighty Jehovah, to bring me safe into this famous Island, and that I had arrived in the best opportunity, that ever could have been wished, affirming that Gods great and miraculous providence was so favourable unto me, that whereas my sworn & cruel Esaviticall enemies hoped to have triumphed in my late downcast, & consequently have buried me in everlasting oblivion, they should now be frustrate of their ungodly hopes, saying thus unto me. Be of good comfort renowned Pyramid, thou shalt be more welcome to this our new Monarchy, than were thy enemies to their home-caller and restorer; and whereas thou wert permitted there to stand scarce the space of the fourth part of an age, in thy glorious Trophy, as a witness of two teeth strucken out of the mouth of the Lords anointed, and for preserving one King, which their novice and parricide Chattel had intended to have killed, and for putting but one Kingdom in danger of forfeiture to the Pope their Creator, which before in colour of a false presupposed right, he pretended he had given to the holy Leaguers, and their conjured adherents, by excommunicating that your sacred Monarch; we doubt not, but here thou shalt shortly serve for a greater use, and more glorious end, to be erected as a witness and perpetual Record of the wonderful & thrice happy delivery of our great and sacred King the rarest & most learned King that ever bare Sceptre either in this Island, or in any age present, or past; of his most gracious Queen that shall be by the loving favour of the Almighty, the joyful and blessed mother of many Kings & Queens; his tender & dear son & heir, a Prince of the greatest hope of his age; the rest of his royal Progeny, all the reverend Bishops, grave Counsellors, and judges, all the ancient Nobility, gentility, & Burgesses chosen and deputed for Commissioners to a solemn Parliament, and of many thousand more that were attendant to that solemnity, and of a number of foreign Ambassadors, if they had come thither, as was supposed, they should; All these, and many more, which were all in a moment to have been blown up, by a false and cruel Fox, (for so was his name) sent forth out of some of the Pope's dens, or rather Pluto's dungeons, to kill, rent, and blow up all the innocent & simple sheep of Christ's Fold, in this new established Monarchy, at one blow. This was one of the Pope's Cannons, that hath been making this year & half, by his finest & most subtile-pated Artificers, which he had hired for this horrible work of his, and this blow should have been given by such a small Cannon, that was charged with no more than 34 great barrels of powder, and with 24 stone of gad Iron for her bullet. All the thundering Camnons' forged & made in the bloody Counsel of Trent were not so dangerous, as this one was. And yet true it is, that a few of these Cannons of Trent blew up in Paris in one night, & one morning ten thousand people, besides 20000 they blewe up in other Towns a little after, where one barrel of powder furnished all those Cannons. But the greatest difference was this, they there killed but thousands of poor Huguenots, but here they aimed their murdering shot against King, Queen, Prince, Dukes, Earls, Barons, Prelates, Counsellors, judges, and Gentility of the Land; there they preserved Houses, Palaces, Chapels, and Schools; but here they would have blown up the most stately buildings, Churches, Palaces, and Schools that pertained to the Crown, yea the treasure and Records of the Kingdom; there they spoilt the living only, but here they would have burnt and blown up the sacred and dead bodies of the famous Kings, Conquerors, Queens, & Princes, sleeping in their sumptuous Toombs, as the rich and costly beds of their last honours they had here upon the earth. There they imagined by killing of King Henry the third, and wounding the fourth Henry, to have wrought the overthrow & desolation of one ancient Kingdom; but here of three several most ancient and warlike Kingdoms of Christendom. But having not leisure to stand on more particulars, what shall I say to thee (O thou thrice happy exiled Pyramid) of these their never before invented cruelties. Talia horret meminisse animus. O this wicked treachery, and false perjury of theirs! O cruel conspiracy, and Grecian perfidy! O Satanical enmity, & more than Neronian cruelty! O Scythian barbarity, and judaisme infidelity! O Gentilism vanity, & more than Heathenish impiety! and finally, O poisoned Papistical idolatry of theirs, proceeding from their blind & devilish devotion, the ground of their abominable & hellish treason. The treacherous conspiracy of wicked Hammon that he wrought against the jews, to have had them all killed in one day, wheresoever they should be found in the vast Dominions of the great Monarch Assuerus, is not comparable to this: Nor the cruelty of Mithridates, who in one night & a day killed thirty thousand Romans: Nor the tyranny of wicked Nero who killed his mother, his master, & that burned almost whole Rome the chief City of the world, with a number of other cruelties that he committed: Nor the blood-thirsty mind & wicked desire to reign of Caligula, who wished the whole Senate and chief men of the Roman Empire, to have had but one neck, that he might have strucken it off at one blow: Neither the secret and bloody conspiracy of treacherous Catiline, who had privily plotted not only the death of the whole Senate, and chief men of name in Rome, but also had destinated the most of his own kindred to that cruel slaughter: Neither the damnable Sicilians evening sacrifices committed by them upon the French men: Nor the Matins of Paris performed by the French themselves in massacring their own Country men and dearest friends, can in no degree be matched with this unnatural cruelty of theirs. And which is most strange how it could be, all this their whole pernicious & detestable enterprise of our tyrannous Traitors and cruel bloodsucking Papists, that had been more than a year in hatching, was so cunningly & secretly contrived and managed by the subtle and Machiavillian practices of some few maleconted Gentlemen joined to the jesuits and seminaries Priests, who had the chief employment for matters both of Counsel & execution, that it was brought forward unknown & unrevealed even to the space of a very few hours, before the time of putting the same in execution; & according to the relation of the chief Counsellors of our Estate, if the Almighty God had not miraculously made our gracious Sovereign, by divine inspiration rather, then by human wisdom and foresight, to cause diligent inquiry to be made of such suspect places of the Parliament house, as his Majesty greatly misdoubted after the reading of a mystical & strange letter, out of the which, his Highness collected & apprehended more, than a great part of his Counsel could, doubtless this monstrous contrived treason would have sorted to that wicked destinated event. Therefore O glorious, wise, and ever famous King, preserved we hope, for a greater work of God, that by thy providence and sacred experiences hast saved thyself, thy succession & Kingdoms, a work which time and memory shall never deface, but shall be eternised to the world's end, to thy immortal glory and renown. But O thou mighty jehovah, to whom the highest glory shall be ascribed, that so miraculously hast preserved thy own anointed, and with him thy dear Church, which was environed with such incomparable danger that never was heard of before, neither was ever hatched the like by all the cursed brood of Satan, until this never before expected wicked time. Thus ending his tragical discourse, I became so astonished and amazed thereat, as I became speechless, and as half dead, until these Currors began friendly to comfort me: assuring me, that the Almighty of his great providence had brought me here, that whereas my enemies the jesuits & Seminary Priests, and their bloody associates and followers, hoped to have gotten credit and eternal reputation by the downcast of me poor Pyramid at home in Paris, that now I should be in a sure way of preferment, by the gracious assistance of the most High, and the favour and piety of the great, mighty, and religious Monarch, and this estate of the new Monarchy, & little world, to receive here a greater glory and honour by my new erection in so famous an ancient Country, and place, than the disgrace I had in France by my overthrow: and that where my enemies intended to have razed out utterly all remembrance of me, they should make me Jpsis invidis etiam nolentibus, to be more renowned then ever I was before, and more infamy to redound to them in the succeeding ages, them did to Erastratus that made himself infamous to this day, by burning that rare & sumptuous temple of Diana in Ephesus, held for one of the seven marvels of the world; and whereas I had continued there scarce the quarter of a man's age, they hoped, that I should stand here and, endure to the world's end: & whereas I was builded there in the ruins of a Merchant's house, that here I should be erected in the ruins of Pluto's destinated Palace, to stand as a witness of their damnable plot for the perpetual ruin & downfall of many hundred fair houses of Nobility & Gentry: and that where my erection was there decreed by one Court of Parliament of Paris, consisting only of Precedents & Lawyers, that here I should be ordained & confirmed by the Sovereign Monarch, and three Estates of Parliament, solemnly to stand in Amphitheatrick form, after the ancient Roman manner. PROPTER REGEM, REGNUM, ET SUBDITOS SERVATOS. For preserving the King, Kingdom, & Subjects, in that same place where the fact & cruel conspiracy was intended to have been put in execution. And thus having discoursed unto me this strange conspiracy, (of all conspiracies that ever were the most capital) & encouraged me upon an assurance of my advancement, they courteously took their leaves, after they had directed me to the famous Abbey of Westminster, whitherward I hied me fast, that there I might complain & lament among the graves of the dead, thereby to move all zealous and well affected Britain Commissioners of all the three States in Parliament, that detest the cruelty of so great & horrible a crime, & hate the mischievous plotters of such heinous treason, to be intercessors and petitioners to their dread Sovereign, for my erection and advancement to the Office of High Recorder of the preservation of this new Monarchy of great Britain, and that place no longer to be a Parliament-house, that was dedicated to Pluto and his infernal Furies, but that I may succeed thereto, (after that it shall by a general decree be cast down) as a just demolisher of that Stygian field. I say no more now for very faintness, but Misericordia Dei super omnia opera, giving thanks in the mean time to the Author of my first life, and to him next, whosoever he be, that hath preserved my relics and broken bones to so happy a time, thereby to give me a second life, as if I were a new Phoenix rising out of my  ashes, to make the world hereafter wonder at, & detest more and more the cruelty of the Pope that bloody Dragon, and his devilish children, and from terrifying such miscreants ever hereafter in any age subsequent, to attempt the like against the Lords anointed & his Church, fully persuading myself, that this great work of the Lord in discovering so horrible a fact, by which, they promised to themselves a final & infallible overthrow of Christ's Church, and true religion in this Island, shall be the means by Gods wonderful favour & judgement, that out of this Isle shortly shall march that mighty and fearful Lion, that bears in his Scutcheon that martial poesy Parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos, who shall overthrow the bloody Dragon, that Antichristian beast, with all his whelps in his devouring den, and shall establish God's word there, which they purposed to have extinguished here. And I think verily, that this is their last blow, that ever they shall be able to strike, and which by the reverberating force of it shall be the most dangerous & deadly to themselves, & for their own overthrow, yea sorer than Luther's, that was the greatest wound that the Romish Antichristian Church received in our memory, and which (as I trust) shall drive them in time to acknowledge their wickedness and blindness, and to embrace the true faith in humility, and to crave me pardon for my downcast and banishment from my native Country. And thus having made relation to thee (O renowned Monarchy of great Britain) both of my passed and present fortunes, and of the strange accidents that have hitherto happened unto me, I implore thy gracious aid & accustomed bounty never denied to any oppressed stranger, in vouchsafing to become an earnest intercessor for me, to the high & most sacred Majesty of thy great Sovereign (in whose potency, & your authority, the hope not only of my preferment, but the certain accomplishment of all those great matters before spoken of, assuredly consisteth) that I may be received and brought to the presence and most comfortable favour of his princely mercies, that by them I may have a new life breathed into me, and be preferred to that eminent place, where I may best perform (as duty and thankfulness shall bind me) both to his Highness and thy excellency, that worthy and faithful service, that shall never be but exceedingly well thought, & highly commended to all posterity. And to my auspicious mind, no fit place for demonstration of my dutiful service (I speak not I protest out of ambition, or any vicious humour) can be assigned me, than that Parliament house, which these Monsters of mankind, the Pope & his miscreant crew had meant to have subverted & demolished by Pluto's & Vulcan's violent and boisterous fires & flashing thunderbolts, and so to have made & consecrated it as a ruinous & fit Palace for the habitation of the black infernal Prince, & his damned spirits and Ministers of darkness. But that I may with the greater right, and without cavil of curious or captious heads stand there authorized, Let me also request this favour at your hands (most mighty Monarchy) to move & stir up the well affected minds & fiery zeals of the States of your Parliament, that at the next Session, I being as yet but an Alien here, may by Statute & decree be naturalised, and enfranchised as a born subject within your territory, & so thereafter to be erected and stand in the place that was destinated for Pluto's Palace, as a perpetual monument and Record of this horrible conspiracy, & of thine, & our Monarch's most happy conservation, & as a caveat to the ages following of the Papistical treasons of the Romish Church, which I hope shall shortly infer an end to that long usurped tyrannical reign. And so persuading myself, that if neither my poor and piteous distressed estate; neither the fine eloquence of the banished Pyramid itself, speaking to you in his own French language: newly set forth in your own tongue, cannot persuade you to immortalize your own delivery from the greatest apparent danger that ever befell to you. I say, if this above mentioned reason, cannot move you to testify in some measure, the earnest desire you have to make this notable delivery of GOD to be known to the ages subsequent by my public erecting again in a glorious Pyramid, by testifying your inward thankfulness to him by this outward monument for your preservation: Yet I beseech you, although I seem perchance a stranger in outward show, suffer me nevertheless as a loving Patriarch & simpathizing Christian, in the common cause, that these two great & wonderful works of the Almighty God, (may at least move and touch your hearts, from the highest degree to the lowest, from the head to the body, and so to all the members of this your Monarchy) I mean his great mercy towards you all, and his fearful judgement against your enemies in this never to be forgotten thrice happy and admirable delivery. His mercy, I say, appears not only in discovery of your danger, but in disappointing of their cruel Parricide, and in preserving your lives from the snares of the bottomless Locusts of hellish Babylon, his judgement again in the other part is to be admired, in suffering a great part of them to be apprehended, and made a perpetual spectacle to all posterity, by a just and most severe punishment, and the chiefest of them to have suffered that same cruelty of punishment, by Gunpowder, which they ordained for your death. 
Psal. 17.  Blessed therefore be the Lord of Hosts in all his works, for his mercies be everlasting, and his judgements unsearchable. And let this again be your morning and evening sacrifice, recommended to all Christians of mercy and of judgement both, O Lord, 
Psal, 100L.  my song shall be: But if all this cannot persuade you to erect me for a public Monument of your delivery, yet let the godly example of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, stir you up to this, who in their often deliveries & favours received at the hands of God, erected both Altars and Monuments of stones, as witnesses of Gods inestimable favours & blessings towards them, to their posterity; and seeing also that, that spiritual Monument of public prayers religiously ordained by his sacred Majesty to be celebrated through all his Kingdoms, for stirring up of all men's affections in thankfulness to GOD, appears almost in the very beginning to be neglected, both in Court, Country, and City; at least permit then the erection of this temporal and material Monument, to be an occasion and a means not only to lift up your external eyes to GOD, but also rather to lift up the eyes of your minds and hearts to the memory of GOD'S mercy towards you all, and of his judgement upon your enemies. I could speak far more in this so ample and worthy Subject, if I should not be thought too forward in so good a cause: but howsoever I, or the Pyramid that hath made me thus to speak be liked of, so that I have preserved myself far from Jove et fulmine, I care the less the censure of the rude, and unlearned that knows not, but extra crepidam, neither would I wish the covetousness of the rich, nor the envy of the malcontent, nor the partiality of the indifferent, neither the favourer of Popery, hinder so good a work, neither dislike of me the Patronizer thereof: adding only this short caveat, with your good leave and friendly favour, that if the least countenance of clemency shall be shown to the Roman conspirators and their associates, either now or hereafter: it is to be feared, that your clemency shall be called cruelty, and your courage cowardness, and your love hatred: And last of all, your Religion and Zeal towards Christ's Church and your Country, shall be thought Atheism and Popery. Which GOD forbid should ever come to pass in such a Christian and flourishing Monarchy, where Christ's word is so universally & religiously preached. And if that you either save any of the greatest or meanest sort of those conjured Traitors that be now in hands; but especially the jesuits and seminaries Priests, the chief inventours of all those pestilent plots, & ringleaders of the rest to this damnable Rebellion, either for fear, favour, or for any other worldly or politic respect: I fear not only all such that fears God truly at home, but all sincere and faithful Christian neighbours abroad shall suspect you as betrayers both of Christ's Church, his true religion, your gracious King, Country, yea your own lives, to your very enemies: and to this end surely the eyes and ears of all those which be bound by the band of Unity in true religion in all foreign Kingdoms, are bend to attend and hear of the good success of so great a work, put in your hand at this time; so persuading themselves in this mean time, that seeing it had pleased God to have blest you by all other Nations and Kingdoms of the earth, with so wise, learned, and religious a King, so grave, godly, expert, & foreseeing a Parliament, wherein I wish, Abraham's faith, salomon's wisdom, David's zeal, Jonathans' faithfulness, josuahs' courage, and Judiths' spirit and resolution, may appear in every one of you at this present, having also so faithful and obeisant Magistrates and Subjects to execute, whatsoever your sacred King and three Estates shall decree in this present Parliament, expecting in this mean time at your hands, such godly, necessary, and strict laws, with their due execution without delay & acception of persons, as Christ's Church and true religion, may be without all fear of danger; and on the other part the Papists your enemies, may be in such sure guard, with a care to disarm them, and enable them of all such means whatsoever, as in any way hereafter may give but the least suspicion of any thing, that may endanger his majesties person, succession, & Kingdoms, either by themselves here at home, or otherwise abroad, by their favourers and associates. And so consider with thyself (beloved great Britain) the singular goodness of thy God towards thee, and thine anointed King, in delivering you both (who were appointed as Sheep to the slaughter) from that most barbarous & savage imminent massacre, and unnatural conspiracy (no age ever yielding example of like cruelty) & that thy delivery & safety came not of thy merit, but of God's great mercy, not thy foresight, but his providence, not thy love to God, but his to thine anointed King and his chosen people. Forget not therefore, to praise, thank, and glorify the Lord of Hosts continually, for his marvelous and most merciful work of thy preservation and safety, for his mercy endureth for ever. Which that thou, and thy faithful people, and their seed after them, may not only the better remember and be taught to do, but learn also to abhor the odious heinousness of so foul a fact: Let it be (as it is most worthy to be) written and engraven in my Pillar of lasting Marble ad perpetuam rei memoriam. And so praying the most High to bless our good proceed and well intended endeavours with happy & prosperous success to his glory, the good of his Church our own comforts, and the conversion (if it may be) or else the confusion of his and our enemies; I conclude with this my last request, that such obdurate & stiffnecked Papists, as will not be yoked or reclaimed from their gross & abominable idolatries and wicked superstitions, but still like Swine swill and swell themselves with the filthy dregs, that the great whore of Romish Babylon giveth unto them, refusing to be cured by the healthy and wholesome potion of Gods most holy truth, may not be suffered to dwell together with me in this land; for neither is it lawful for such to live amidst God's chosen Heritage, to defile the Land with their filthiness, nor (if they should) can my life be without continual hazard and danger, by their secret and villainous attempts. Call upon thy King therefore, to execute justice & judgement in cutting off these workers of iniquity, whose religion is rebellion, whose faith is faction, whose piety is wicked policy and practice of murdering both souls & bodies of Kings, and all estates of people, and to root and rid them clean out of the confines and limits of thy whole Monarchy, which being clearly purged of them, may ever hereafter grow up, prosper, and flourish in quiet safety, sound health, and invincible strength in every member of the whole body of all true and truly devoted subjects, with their righteous and religious Head and Sovereign.  
Deo soli gratia & laus.