Edward Morgan A PRIEST, His Letter To the Kings most excellent Majesty, and High Court of Parliament, and to all the Commons of England; who was drawn, hanged, and quartered on Tuesday, April 26. 1642.  
This Letter he writ with his own hand a little before his death, and left yet to be published to the view of the world.  
LONDON, Printed for T. B. 1642.   

To the Kings most excellent Majesty, And To the High Court of Parliament, and in them to the whole Kingdom of England.  
Dread Sovereign,  
I Make a tender to your Royal Majesty (and in you, to the high Court of Parliament, and to your whole Kingdom) of an illustrious example of the divine providence, no less wonderful for admiration, than the discovery of God's judgements, made by the Prophet Daniel to King Nebuchodonozar, and Baltassar his son; not less behooveful for the good and welfare of yourself, our gracious Queen, your Roy. I Offspring, and our whole Kingdom (if you will vouchsafe o●pprehend and make, use of it) than the discovery of the treacheries of Bagathan and Th●res, and of the pernicious devices of wicked Aman, made by Mardocheus to King Ahassuerus, was for ●in and his people.  
My course hath been d●●ected to your Royal Majesty, by God's sacred and special appointment, ever since your first coming to your Crown, and before, though I never addressed any writing unto you in special 〈◊〉 this m●tter till now; because I was first to dealt with Roman Catholics, and afterwards with some of your justing, judges, and other Officers, and finally to expect in p●●●ence some events of the divine providence, succeeding thereupon, that ascending to your Royal Tribunal by degrees, I might have more ample and special matter every way to present, and not appear empty handed before you.  
Now God's judgements are grown to a great ripeness, or (to speak with allusion to our blessed Saviour's expression in a like case) The figtree hath budded whereby men may know Summer is nigh. Wherefore, if your Royal Majesty, and the high Court of Parliament, will be pleased to make a due enquiry and examination of my course, whereby the matter of fact may be authentically made known; and then cast a serious eye upon the public events of the divine providence, which (succeeding in due conformity and consequence this many years, and parallel to the approved testimonies of Gods special judgements in ancient times) are as it were, the great broad Seal of heaven, giving weight and authority to my words, and endeavours; besides that your Majesty may with ease see that there is a supernatural order of things, taught by supernatural faith (which one not many years since in a public printed book dedicated to your Highness, hath endeavoured to evacuate) you may moreover with like facility perceive how the sacred decrees of Gods heavenly providence are drawn up, not only concerning the rest of the Christian world, but also especially concerning you and your Kingdom, and by conforming yourself to his holy will, decline the common mischiefs approaching, which otherwise by no humane means can possibly be avoided.  
Let not my meanness (who am but an unworthy instrument, and the least of your Majesty's subjects) move your Highness, or the grave assembly of Parliament to despise the offer which I make, but first inquire, and examine diligently (as both God's Law and man's reason do inquire) and then judge. There are some dangers which can neither be known, nor avoided, unless they be first graciously discovered by some special favour and operation of the first cause which is God himself, from whom nothing can be hid, and in such cases, though his divine Majesty doth many times employ men of great wisdom and sanctity (as he did the Prophet Elizeus to discover to the King of Israel the ambushments set to entrap him by the King of Syria) yet he doth sometimes also, not only use the most contemptible of men, as instruments to make the greatest potentates acquainted with his ways, and so enable them to avoid prepared mischiefs, but moreover taketh a brute beast for the like purpose, as in the case of Balaam and his Ass.  
Your Majesty's great predecessor William the Conqueror thought it wisdom, in a certain occasion, to hearken to the advertisement even of a natural fool, as we read in our Chronicles: and long before his time, Alexander the great gave ear to a woman, who was thought distracted, as Curtius the Historian doth testify; by which happy credulity (God, who is all able to make fools and mad men speak his wisdom, having discovered his divine knowledge and judgement by means of those silly ones) those two great Princes avoided imminent danger of death, and conserved their lives, and fortunes, for their great succeeding victories. On the otherside, the neglect of timely advertisements, hath brought many great Princes, and amongst the rest, that great Monarch julius Cesar to the loss of their Crowns and lives. He that will not hearken to God in his gracious signs and forewarnings, must feel his heavy hand when it will be too late to avoid it.  
For me I do not profess myself among the number of wise men, and if your Majesty, or the great assembly of State now on foot, please, you may take me for a fool, or a mad man (provided you acknowledge, that God Almighty can by his holy overruling Spirit, make a madness prodigious, and so use the folly or madness of his creature, as an instrument to express ●n act of his divine wisdom, providence and power;) but what ever I be, foolish or wise, or however your royal Majesty, or the high Court of Parliament shall be pleased to think of me, God is wise even in the fool and mad man, and his holy will is to be searched out in all; which if it had been duly done more than thirteen years ago (adhering close to the testimony of divine and humane Law, implied in the reality of my whole course, with a due inspection of the countersignes extant even then in the seeds of those heavy events, which have appeared since most plainly to the view of all in their own proper & perfect existence) when before some of your Majesty's tribunals, I did publicly in GOD'S name, and in virtue of his public Laws, special right, and command, with due relation likewise to the Laws of our Realm, and two of your Royal Majesty's Proclamations, invite your Royal Highness, and your whole Kingdom, to a due enquiry of Gods prepared judgements, and of the devices then in hatching to entrap you and your people; not only your judges and other persons of higher rank and note, who lie now exposed to the rod of justice, might have been freed from undergoing the danger now threatening them; but your Majesty also might with ease and security have prevented those troubles, and mischiefs, which turmoil at this present all your Realms, and threaten a desolation. So much it behoves Princes and States to attend, and examine well, if God almighty dot but make even B●laams Ass bray forth some imminent judgements in his holy name. For mischiefs arising from the power of man may by the power of man with God's ordinary concourse be extinguished or averted: but such as are threatened by God Almighty's special hand, and power can by no means possible be avoided, but by admission, and performance of such conditions, as his Majesty divine is pleased to propose.  
I have striven to keep silence now these many years, being loath to meddle any more in a cause, which hath cost me so much trouble, and affliction (though I know not why I should be so handled by any for suffering God Almighty to express in me, whether men will have it to have been by the intermediation of wit or madness, a testimony of his divine providence towards his Church, and people) but I dare be silent no longer, being furnished now with such illustrious evidence of fore-pessed events proper to my cause, to confirm my words, and the thing itself concerning so deeply your Royal Majesty, our gracious Queen, your Royal Offspring, and our whole Kingdom: lest God Almighty should inflect upon me the judgement threatened against the Watchman in the thirty third Chapter of the Prophet Ezechiel, yet I will forbear to trouble your Royal Majesty, with the specification of particulars, till I see whether I be thought fit to be admitted to a free, and indifferent heating, or no. One thing I must crave pardon of your Royal Majesty, and the great Assembly of Parliament; that I address myself thus to you in print, before I have acquainted you with my case in a more private way. The reason I have done so is: that seeing every man now prints, what he lists; and my cause hath been many years since public, and I suffered so much in maintenance of it under the view of many; I may either by the testimony of some, at least wise of those many, be introduced to a free, and public audience: or else upon compassion be voted, as a fool or madman, to be set free from prison, and further trouble (seeing I never appeared in so many year's extremities, either furious, seditious, or turbulent) and so be committed to the care of my friends, that I may end my old age in peace, and quietness; commending you, and your Kingdom, to Gods merciful providence, care, and protection.  
I humbly beseech God Almighty, to bless, and protect your Royal Majesty, our gracious Queen, your Royal Offspring, and our whole Kingdom, and grant that you may know his holy will, and faithfully perform the same to the glory of the divine Majesty, and the common comfort, and good of all.  
From the Prison of Newgate 23. April 1642. Your Royal Majesty's loyal and lowly Subject, Edward Morgan.