ENGLAND'S SHAME: OR THE UNMASKING OF A Politic Atheist: Being a Full and Faithful Relation of the LIFE and DEATH of the Grand Impostor HUGH PETER.  
Wherein is set forth his whole Comportment, Policies, and Principles exercised from the ingress, in the Progress, and to the Egress of his Unhappy Life.  
By WILLIAM YONGE, Dr. Med.  
LONDON, Printed by Da. Maxwel, for Theodore Sadler, next Door to the Golden Dolphin, over against Exeter House in the Strand, 1663.   

TO Her most Excellent Majesty HENRIETTA MARIA, The Mother Queen of England, Scotland, France and Ireland.  
May it please your Majesty,  
TO revive the eternised and blessed Memory of your Royal Husband andour now glorified King, who lies embalmed with the merits and blood of his undoubted Saviour and Redeemer, by such an incompt and unworthy pen as mine is, were cause sufficient to pull down the high displeasure of your Royal Majesty upon myself, and such presumptuous ones: But I do with all humility, supplicate your Majesty's goodness and virtues, graciously to pardon this sinful boldness of him who desires only to embellish and set forth the unspotted innocence and admired patience of so divine a Martyr as he was; and with faithfulness and courage (maugre all dangers) to emblazen out the shame and malice of his undeserved Enemies: So will my continual and inexpressible sufferings for his sake and interest be sweetened, my losses be repaired, and ny services sufficiently rewarded: they being but so many monuments of duties performed, and evidences of my incessant desires and studies by al● means to explicate myself  
Your Majesty's most humble and obedient servant, W. Yonge.   

To the impartial READER.  
Courteous Reader,  
SInce the Imprimatur to this Book and the greatest part thereof was composed and printed, I understood of a Pamplet formerly published in commendation of this triumphant Enemy over the Church and State, (tam moribus quam doctrinâ) magnifying him for his virtues Moral and Theological. In our small acquaintance, I did observe him so well in these and all other his actions, that I knew him intus & in cute; therefore do attest, that I ever found him barren therein; only a form of them he observed, and that very covertly, which I espied thus; he could not patiently behold the faces of poor Beggars, but would answer their piteous and piercing cries for alms or relief, with unbeseeming threats of stocking and whipping them: O admiranda charitas! He was invective against Drunkards and drunkenness, forgetting the old Proverb, Loripedem rectus derideat, aethiopem albus: to pull out his own moat, before he intermeddle with the beam of his brother's eye: for though he dissembled temperance, he would drink plentifully of Sack or Strong beer, provided it might be done in private and gratis; for once I found him tripping in this virtue thus.  
After he with another of his acquaintance had drank of several Tankards of March Beer, and that at single hand in his own Chamber, a Gentleman coming in to visit him, he fell out into an unexpected passion, and would have beaten the Gentleman, (though a Justice of the Peace of his own stamp and coining) had not I interposed myself, and interceded between them: Than as one Maudlin-drunk weeps, cries, and prays, than calling for the other Tankard, becomes reconciled, (and than to bed mother) crying out the next day, that he did swim in his Bed all that night. I have often prevailed with him to writ Letters of favour for distressed people, to his selected Friends, Sir Henry Vane, Cromwell, Ireton, Lenthal, Salaway, Harrison, etc. but all proved ineffectual, for that their secret Compact was only to receive Letters in a friendly manner, but not to proceed further by them; by which subtlety they be came lodged in the affections and expectations of most people.  
For his Qualifications in other commendable parts, both Divine and Natural, the ensuing Treatise will sufficiently inform thee; the sum of which, is only his own Relation, and my Observation of his intricate proceed, not easily discernible, especially by those who depended upon his Flatteries, or such as were transported with zeal, that might rather be accounted madness than sound Religion.  
I have herein been careful to avoid reports taken upon trust for that fama mendax; and I had read many things of him, of which he was ignorant. I confess, I could have furnished thee with many Comical Expressions of his, uttered in public in the Pulpit, and privately in Civil Societies; but I was importuned only to a sober and faithful Discourse of him, thereby as well to satisfy many who out of ignorance and dotage on him, and his delusives, did, and still do admire and diolize his Name and Fame; As also, to vindicate myself in performing my duty to God, my King, Church, and Country; thereby setting forth God's Justice, and my own detestation of concealing so execrable a sin and sinner. If it fail thy expectation, know that it was penned at some few spare hours in a fortnight's retirement into the Country, where I was deprived of all Books, and other convenient Helps for a work of this Nature. Take therefore in good part what thou likest, and leave the imperfections to me, for they are mine, and I am thine,  
In all Friendly Offices, WILLIAM YONGE.  
Wit was his life, than it was fit,  
Death should succeed th'ending of's Wit.   

THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY.  
I Have in this Task undertaken one that hath overtaken many; Vas ignominiae, a contemptible fellow, a Matchivilian, one that would pretend love, but intent mischief; his chiefest amity, was but dissembled enmity, having words as soft as butter, or oil, yet the poison of Asps was under his Tongue; For his Ave did threaten a vae, which I ever warded of by minding Solomon's Cave, Though he speak favourably, believe him not, Prov. 26.25. in seeking to find him out, I had almost lost myself; as I have lost my means thereby some years since; and though no man remembreth the afflictions of Joseph, 
A●o● 6 6.  or the burden of Ephraim, yet in the midst of my unhappy Solitudes, I mind that Divine Cordial;  
Mens mea ne tristes Christus tibi cuncta ministrat.  
Munera quae vitae funera quaequae levant.  
To be left remediless, and assigned over as a Spectacle for Derision, or a Byword to all Regicides, would set a stop to true Loyalty, and urge a true Subject rather with Stilpo to set his finger on his lips, and seal them up to silence, than like Atlas to bring the World about his ears; a Reprobate to true Allegiance might soon yield to Temptations, to cover the most horrid of Treasons; but the Oath of God, Eccles. 8.2. and those heavenly Appeals from the innocent blood of my Martyred King sounding in my ears, 
1 Pet. 2.13.  and commanding me instrumentally to set forth his unspotted innocence by bringing this his most pernicious Le●ch to a condign punishment, extirpate an Incendiary, that thirsted for the destruction of the King, Country, Church, and People, and satiate himself with innocent blood, masking all with the Vizard of Religion.  
I have often seen those sad Ecstasies, and heard those direful expressions uttered by this Regicide, and that frequently upon the apprehensions of wrath and shame due for that infernal Conspiracy of his, crying out, That he was innocent of spilling the King's blood, when there were no discourses which could mind him of his Murder used by me or any present; but forced thereto by the dreadful dictates of an accusing conscience, he would thus trumpet out his own shame and ruin. S. Bernard saith, Tutâ conscientia praestari possunt, quae propter conscientiam praestanda sunt, That may be done with a safe conscience, that is to be done for conscience sake.  
Than when the Word of God, the cries of innocent blood, Loyalty, his Country's ruin, the tears of his Mother than Church, and a man's own conscience do all unanimously awaken him to a necessitated duty that lies incumbent upon him, nay him alone and none other but he, and to falter in the performance of it, were to season the peace of his conscience with such corrosives as this Impostor had; nay to be his co-heir of hell and hellish fears: Who but a damned Reprobate could resist, or sit down in silence?  
These impulsive causes gave me encouragement to act what I have acted, and do rest so well satisfied in what is done, that instead of growing reluctant, I do cordially joy in this, that providence should select me to be the Agitator: neither shall it repent me, that I was the first that objected this Treason to his charge in the Parliament, as Judge Terril can testify.  
Many hard sentences have passed on me, and I am daily reproached for it, and branded with names of ignominy.  
To reward good with evil is devilish, the Prophets were so, the Apostles so, nay, our Saviour was so rewarded: Why than shall I grudge to drink of that cup of which the Son of God, and the sons of God have plentifully drank: It is an honour to me, that I am clothed with dishonour, for honouring the memory of my unparallelled Prince; quitting my Country of such a firebrand, and setting an end to the Church's sorrows, who laboured to be delivered of such a false Conception and horrid Viper, quasi vi parens, that did eat out her bowels: Neither Ishmaels' tongue, Achans Wedge, nor Nebuchadnezars menaces, should sow up my mouth, frighten my spirit, or restrain my conscience from giving Traitors their due benevolence, and to stigmatize them as I have done this false Prophet; nay, you shall as soon persuade old Eleazar to eat swine's flesh, limn the water, writ on dust, and my five fingers to grow of one length as to make me guilty of concealing Treason against the person, parts or power of that Holy and Anointed of the Lord, my dread Sovereign.  
Let Satan cry, I will deter thee, the world cry, I will forsake thee, and the wicked cry, we will allure thee; I will rest upon this, Hominis invidia, non nocet ubi Deus amat, Envy cannot injure him that God loves: My Loyalty will crown me, my Magnanimity will support me, and my conscience, which is mille testes, a thousand witnesses, will satisfy me of well-doing. Sola sufficit pietas Religion is my portion, and I am thereby invited, encouraged and supported in yielding both active and passive obedience to that potestas supereminens à Deo ordinata, that supreme power, established or decreed by God alone; My King, my Country, the Church, and my own conscience, et absque, hac neque mens, neque vires, neque eventus, Neither knowledge will, nor good success.  
What honour is it for a man to be a tamous Rebel, a learned Heretic, or an uncharitable Christian? as much as to have the species of a man, without the similitude of God; to be a painted Sepulchre, or God's fool, Luke 21. Virtus in se lucida, sed inter malos lucidior, Virtue of itself is amiable, but more splendent amongst vicious persons; like a Diamond set injet. As Noah's perfection was more and more amiable, by how much more vile the world was: He that will preserve a good Memorial to posterity, must live well: Diu vivere, est bene vivere; To live long, is to live well; that his name and fame may smell like sweet Spices in the braying. For it is commonly true, Qualis vita, finis ita; as a man's life is, such is his end, as in this, diliro seen, mopish old man, who had spent his Sixty three years of living so slavishly, as if he delighted as well in his life time, as he did at his death ululare inter Lupos, to howl amongst Wolves.  
But why do I stir up his ashes? Molliter ossa cubent, Let his bones rest in peace, saith the heathen; yet in that heaven hath not thought him worthy of a Funeral, in memory of our small acquamtance, I shall set forth his Life, as a pattern of, but not for Rebellion; for that needs none in this our Island; Proh hominum fidem! O the fidelity of men!   

England's Shame: OR THE UNMASKING OF A Politic ATHEIST IN THE LIFE and DEATH OF HUGH PETER  
BE it that it is an Aphorism upon Divine Record, 
Isai. 59.2.  The name of the wicked shall rot. Quia indignus est amore & favore Dei, being unworthy of the love or accounted of God, yet succeeding Ages have continued a Registry of the actions of Julian the Apostate, Judas the Traitor, and Novatus the Heretic; all which if lost, they might again be revived in the story of this Levite, the son of a Levite, who being but an Ignis fatuus, a vapour, was carried through our Horizon like a movable Star, either Jupiter or Mars superintendent Orbs; rather Saturn or Mercury, as the sequel proves, but at the best but a blazing Comet which was soon shot, and his light went out like a snuff; Sic redit in nihilum, quod fuit ante nihil; Thus he that was nothing, became worse than nothing; for in Apostasy and wicked policies, he did equalise and imitate Julian, his treason was not unlike that of Judas, and for his Heresies he far exceeded Novatus; the one being execrable, the other unparallelled, and the last damnable.  
In his infancy he was by his Father brought up near Foy, the place of his Birth, in Cornwall; his indulgent Parents had him frequently Catechised in the Fundamentals of the Protestant Religion, or Church of England, kept him strict to the hearing of Common Prayers by our Liturgy commanded, both for public and private duties, and had him bred up in a School of good Narture, where he profited much in Moral Precepts and Learning, until he was sent from thence to the University of Cambridge, and there was admitted into Jesus College.  
But his former Education not being sanctified, nor the name of Jesus setting a limit to his boundless liberty, to which he was remarkably inclined from his Cradle, and was so overswaied by that vitiositas haereditariâ quae neutraliter aversi sumus omni bono, & ad omne malum propensi, that hereditary evil whereby we are averse to that which is good, and prove to sin, that neither the Word of God, nor the Works of God could deter him from impiety, till he became altogether independent to the will of God, quasi privatus gratia Dei, as having lost the favour of God, through affective ignorance, he precipitates himself to evil practices, making good what had been spoken of him in former Ages by the Devil and his Confederates, That a Chicken should arise out of the West; which should fly over all England, and do much harm to most men.  
A Chicken! He was a Cockatrice or Basilisk, whose eyes were pestiferous to all men; nay, to himself at the last. There the torrent of an overweening conceit of his own Genius, made him addicted to, and guilty of libelling, until he smarted for it, for his lashes were repaid with lashes; durus sermo, an hard saying, to physic the tail to cure the tongue; that virgula divina, divine rod, could not reduce him;  
Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit edorem,  
Testa diu,— ‐  
This Casket of counterfeits, retains the sent of his first seasoning, till at the last his irreluctancy made him more obdurate and irrefragable to the Civil Government of that Collegiate Society; Consuetudo poccandi tollit sensum peccati: custom of sinning takes of the sense of sin; and lest he should become exemplary to tender judgements, was expulsed the University.  
Now he being delivered over to a careful life, lest his bread be that of sorrow, and his clothing dishonour and poverty, he having no way left him to subsist by, like an English Gusman, resolves upon ingenious shifts, for that he ever delighted more in wit than grace, till at last, forgetting his abstraction from an Orthodox Minister (his Father) and the place of his late matriculation, the said University, after his two years' residence were thus nigh finished, he as an Exile hastens to London, in assurance to find therein men of his temper, with whom he might associate and solace himself, and in a short time fitted him for the life of a Stage-player in a common society, from whence after venting his frothy inventions, he had a greater call to a higher promotion; namely, to be the Jester (or rather a Fool) in Shakespears Company of Players: Omne simile est appetibile sui similis, every like desires his like: There he so long sported himself with his own deceive, till at last like an Infidel Jew, he conceived preaching to be but foolishness, and time spent in God's House to hear his Oracle's, was a means to destroy his, and his complices vain recreations.  
And so it proved with him; for in a short time after going on the Lord's Day to hear one Doctor Dee preach at S. Faith's Church, that he might have a Subject to sport himself with, instead of finding occasions to deride learning, that learned Nuntio powerfully pressing to the Conscience the burden of the Law, and heinousness of sin, like another Felix he was smitten with a horror of Conscience for his guilded sins, which he had so seemingly extenuated, and thereby he became almost a Convert; O than quam foelix Evangelizare, How welcome are the glad tidings of the Gospel? He thus well nigh engulfed in despair, Lex lumen & dictamen est rectae rationis in intellectu, the Law is a light and dictator of right apprehensions in the understanding: He deserts his companions and employments, and retiring to his Chamber near Fleet Conduit in London, continues there between hope and despair for one whole year and more: But that he and others of his conviction might experimentally find quod Deus est pater & fons misericordiarum, God is the father and fountain of mercies; nay, God is an inexhaustible treasury of mercies, though Christ be his Cabinet wherein he hath shut up all his Jewels, that there is no sin so foul that mercy cannot hid, nor any degree so desperate, as that God cannot redeem from it, he gives him a further taste of his goodness, and earnest penny of mercy, so that I may say, O admiranda charitas, & chara tranquillitas, quaminvestigamus ex gratuita Dei misericordia; wondered love and much desired peace, wherewith we are invested out of the free mercy of God; his mercy rejoiceth more in our Salvation than his Justice doth triumph in our confusion, it being his inseparable property to be found ever giving, forgiving and forgetting; forgetting injuries offered to the sacred eyes of his glory, forgiving sins, and giving gifts and graces to fit men for the life of grace, and interest them in the life of glory; his suffering growing occidental, the night of his heaviness thus drawing to an end, the day of his rejoicing began to dawn.  
A Gentleman living near Malden in Essex, than a Lodger in the same house, hearing of his distemper, as it well became a Gentleman to foster Learning, and show remorse, inquires of his parts and education, and thereby concludes him a fit person to be settled in a Free School of 24 l. per annum, than voided in that County, and at his disposal.  
The proffer thereof was no sooner made unto Peter's, but he presently and thankfully accepts of it, concluding it a testimony of God's mercies yet reserved for him; But these proved to be but hypocritical expressions, as most of his actions were; Simulata sanctitas duplex iniquitas, a sergeant holiness is a double impiety: For after some applause amongst the Vulgar, and Peter's pence were hoarded up, he falls into a Tympany of pride, and than Ephesian-like, the vainglory of the one made him forget his God, and the value of the other to muzzle himself in a heedless neglect of that love he found in his late recovery; so that his lusts over-poising him, and his lucre raising him to a high esteem of his worthless worth, he feigns himself a Suitor, or rather a politic Servant to one Mistress Read a Widow woman dwelling near unto him, (though she was famous for her excellent endowments, and had made liberal contributions to cherish him in the ebb of his fortune, had children, and an estate of two or three hundred pounds yearly) he neglects no opportunities to ensnare her by captivating of her to satisfy his burning desires, and insatiable thirstings after her person and estate.  
Many Comical expressions (in which he was well versed by his former employment in the Playhouse) and enticing glances passing from him at several times, thereby to hint to her his Design, they were received to be but as jocular Discourses, concluding with herself that such a Pedantic Peasant durst not cloth him with so much Impudence as to esteem himself worthy of her Virtues, or prove so bestially ingrateful, as to requited her former charities with an attempt of her dishonour and ruin; thus would she always bury them in a scornful silence, and heedlessly neglect them; until at the last he one morning finding her Chamber door open, and she sickly in her bed, he with confidence (or rather impudence) entered the Door, and pretended a friendly visit; but sitting on the Bedside, did at last cast himself upon it and clasped her in his arms; at which a Confederate of his, formerly fitted for the design, was by a private sign summoned into the Chamber, where finding them thus contesting, he saluted them with a God give you joy: Than presently both he and Peter publish it that they were both bedded together: Her modesty was such, and her reputation like to be traduced in public; to salve all, she citra voluntatem, against her will, unwittingly condescenced to a clandestine Marriage, though it was far above his merits, and much beneath her virtues: but this forced love not being real, or sincere on either part, it brought upon them both that plague of contention which is usually the Harvest of such Marriages: Both being by the clamours of the Country forced to live in London, their estate is thereby much impoverished, and they inclining to necessity: he having within himself some glean or relishes of a Church Oeconomy, after some overtures of preferment were made unto him, should he take holy Ordes on him? He resolved to dissemble what he ever loved, and lived by, even Schism and Sedition; Schismaticus communionem Christianum abrumpit, a Schismatic is he that breaks of all Christian community; a conviction and conversion being pretended, and authentic Certificates framed on his behalf, he had (by the Intercession of foam Friends) an access to Doctor Mountain than Lord Bishop of London, and was by him amongst others ordained Priest and Deacon, he taking the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, and vowing that votum morale, & religiosa pollicitatio eternal Vow, and religious Engagement (in the presence of God and the great Congregation) viz. Canonical obedience, in rebus licitis & honestis in things lawful and honest, sealing the sincerity of his heart herein by receiving the Sacrament, and thus becomes an Hypocrite upon record, and in man's account; when as all oaths and vows should be taken sano judicio, with a right understanding, as well as libera voluntate, a freedom of the will, that they prove not to be arbitrary, as it is frequently urged by the Schismatics of these times.  
He having thus, like an old dog Fox, gotten into the Vineyard to destroy the tender grapes, he bends his studies to become popular, and finds it both pleasing and profitable to be applauded amongst the female sex, not forgetting that the weakest judgements were soon corrupted, and the women's hearts once dissolved, would soon be cast into his mould: They cry him up so loud, that his name doth echo over all the City, and his friends grew numerous, insomuch that one of the greatest Parishes, St. Sepulchers, must be assigned for his Sea, to inveigh and act against that Perpetua Ecclesiae Novi Testamenti Gubernatio & inspectio, That perpetual Government, and overseeing of the Church of the New Testament, Episcopal Government: for there he continued a Lecturer near twenty years; and here of a Protestant turns Independent dependant, persisting in his Apostasy to his former vow, still adhering to his effeminate Flock, and pleasing the women especially of that Parish, more especially the Butcher's wife, but most especially the Vintner's wife at the sign of the Goat; so that he could at pleasure command ordinary flesh for his paunch, the Goat's flesh for his cat, with the best wine into the bargain.  
But he being detected, was prosecuted by the one at the Law, and by the other at club Law, till he found it fatally true, That he must needs go whom God leaves, and the devil drives; and so he provides and ships himself for Rotterdam: Sic transit Hugo, thus vanisheth Hugh.  
But this Gadarene having thus brought his hogs to a fair market, and rendered himself scurrilous upon record, as appears by the Regstry of London's Diocese, will not part with his dalilah's at so cheap a rate; nay, his Hugonots of England were so bewitched with his confident assertions, That he was enforced only to escape the tyranny of Episcopal Government, that they sighed at the loss of such a precious villain (a precious one indeed, that made no conscience of breaking his oaths, performing his vows, nor supporting the dignity of his function, but makes a shipwreck of all these) though their wives had greater cause to lament their loss of him than their husbands had.  
So that as he had them at his beek, he must receive from them some tokens of love, which was seen in their liberal contributions gathered for his voyage; than many prayers must be set up for this Jebusite.  
But observe the issue. Peter's now arriving at his wished Canaan, the Land of Promises, is triumphantly received into the sanctified parlour of Rotterdam, and there welcomed with kisses of the holy. O quam jucunde & honefle! O how sincerely and honestly! But nature having the predominance in him, far exceeding grace, he not able to wash himself of his black spots of lying and whoring, falls to his wont practices; that as he had obtained his Ordination by lying, and belying the holy Ghost, avowing his c●ll to that function to be from heaven, he follows his old Trade of lying, for that that trick never failed him, but once at the Old Bailie in London, being the day of his Trial and sentencing to death.  
The Pastor of that Congregation was at that time one Thomas Bartlet, a Doctor of Physic, and an English man, who lived plentifully by their voluntary contributions, and maintained his wife and divers children in an handsome equipage.  
This morsel made Peter's his teeth water, and having according to his old want, an evil eye upon other men's welfare; to wreath himself into comes acquainted with this Doctor,  
Tuta frequensque via est per amici fallere nomen,  
Tuta frequensque licet, sit via crimen habet.  
A safe and easy way it is by friendship to deceive.  
As safe and easy as it is, 'tis knavery by your leave.  
Thus like a second Janus, having two faces under one hood, a Magus with two tongues in one head, or a Judas, bearing two hearts in one breast: to squeeze Bartlet out, and wind himself in, a scandal must be forged against Bartlet, than will his familiarity prove Bartlet's ruin, for these airy Spirits are so volitile in their good estimation of all men, that they are as changeable in this, as in maintaining their Moonshine Doctrine; and are as easily induced to believe a lie, as they are seduced to lying opinions.  
This Conventicle concludes both these collapsed brethrens to have been of pristine acquaintance, and therefore do easily lend an eareto their reports, especially that of him, who could best glaze it over with religious phrases, and present it in that shell of a desire of Goddess and Holiness.  
Thus these Brethrens began to grow into competition; than Hugo a Master of Art in that of lying, impeaches Bartlet of Bigamy, and impudently affirms, That he had a wife in England, as well as that with him. Nay, Hugo, forgetting his own shame and adulteries, to prevent any obstructions, whispers it abroad amongst his Gossipping crew, who takes it for an Oracle, as coming from the mouth of a godly, zealous and honest Divine, viz. Religious Mr. Peter. God ha' mercy Parson, of all knaves, none like a Priest knave.  
This Physic wrought so pathetically with these squeezy stomached Christians, who are apt to surfeit at any other man's failings, that it made them spew out Bartlet, and Peter as an immaculate man, must be settled in his stead. A blessed Reformation, and no doubt, but many of that Gang might found good content thereby, as the wise of one Franklin, an English man, keeping a Victualling house in that City did commonly found; for Hugo found no life like to Lechery, being it produced him there also, as well as in Smithfield in London, both meat and money; and in that Lying and Whoredom proved so profitable and pleasing to him, he becomes as devoted to it, as the Hart to the Tamarisk, who will not be beaten from it: nay, the Butcher, the Vintner, nor the Victualler shall beaten him into better manners, for that he was as senseless, as sensual; though Mr. Franklin might have spared some stripes for Country sake, and some for Religion sake) but it seems in that company like Priest like people, pares cum paribus facillime congregantur, equals do easily agreed with their equals, they are liable to correction, and I wish that those houses were well furnished with such Arras.  
Thus his Minion after a furfeit of his being too chargeable to her box, to preserve the good esteem her Husband had of her, (for Cuckolds are soon deluded, and most contented) as also to have some other sport for her money, she acquaints her Husband of Peter's his frequent attempts made to to beaten up her quarters; an which Franklin grew zealous for a Conference with this Pastor, and observing at his next coming that he had his former appetite, entertained him only with Crabtree sauce, and of that gave him his belly full.  
But in fear of worse punishments he falls distracted, and so continued for near three years; after his recovery he had a Miscellany of judgements following him; for he had the head of a Fox, the heart of a Crocodile, the back of an Ass, the reinss of a Goat, and the claws of a Vulture: Of a Fox, subtly contriving mischief undiscernible. Of a Crocodile, destroying whole Families, and than dissembling sorrow for their ruins. Of an Ass, infatigable in bearing reproaches. Of a Goat, sparing no woman in his lust. Of a Vulture, few men escaping his claws. Nay, an Anthropophagos, devouring, shall I say, whole houses, nay Parishes, yea Counties at once: Witness his Monuments in Wales, which shall be spoken of hereafter.  
This subtle sheep having again appeared amongst his little ones, is reputed to be a scandal or offence to the Lambs, in regard of his backsliding at Franklins: But lest the wicked ones should make them also a word of reproach, they'll clap their ears to their heads, (I had almost said horns) and to set an end to all controversies about him, they raise a stock of 500 l. and Hugo must be entrusted therewith as their Factor for New England, from whence they longingly expected the product for many years, but it lay in Hucksters hands, and was never accounted for, until the happy farewell, or direful Catastrophe at Charing-Cross: who can without amazement consider the presumption of this Miscreant, in committing himself to the mercy of the merciless seas, when after a shipwreck of his conscience, elata manu; with an high hand, neither the terrors of death, which might suddenly surprise him in his sinful resolutions, acted destinato concilio, with an undaunted resolution, nor the judgements of God to which he was liable, could civilize this Propagator, but as an Instrument preserved to ripen his sin, Peccatum perpetrans scienter & volenter, wittingly and willingly filling up the number of his sins; or for a more shameful end, he refolves a further Precipice himself into uncleanness, earnestly doing and allowing of the erroneous courses of man, though they tend to death, till he becomes anathema maranatha, accursed: After his arrival into New England, he like a Dog falls to his old vomit, for having buried his first Wife, marries another, who by his ill usage proved as mad as himself, and had issue which doth patrisare & matrisare, the reason in nature is, partus sequitur ventrem, than as he grew popular, so he grows rampant, until several Excommunications were issued out against him for you know what, that had he not been protected by the Presbytery of that Country, he had received his desert there, and prevented  in England, and saved his Daughter the charges of so many crammed Capons, and bottles of Sack wherewith she bottles of Sack wherewith she cherished him in Newgate, after his trial and condemnation: Now of an Independent he becomes a Presbyterian, an aliquid nihil, or a quid non, a something, a nothing, and what not? or he would not loose a hair for Religion nor any wise man give him one for his honesty.  
The Classical Clergy there finding him fittest for their design, to sti up a Commotion in England they ever delighting to fish in troubled waters, do give him his Mission, with their benediction; where finding a Parliament according to their desires, like another Masianello, he ansewers their Chorus, and cries also King and Parliament.  
Thus taking his part from that ill-runed Choir, he roars it up and down the City and Country, yet driving at the destruction of King, Parliament, and People: That as he was the Patron of Blasphemies, the Patriot of Rebellions, and Mirror of all Apostates and Impostors, so was he the quintessence of cheating; nay, all the wit in London could not espy him until he had juggled their Plate with the Bodkins and Thimbles into Guild Hall, and that he might be more capable of employment, and seem lesle criminal, he utterly disavows his Ordination or Consecration by Bishops, qui jus vocationis habent: who have the right of ordination. Thus hardening his heart, & left to that privatio gratiae assistentes, loss of preventing Grace, he was hoodwinked and subjected to that ipsissima excoecatio & induration, that superlative blinenes & hardness of heart, which rendered him uncapable of timely repentance; sera poenitentia raro vera, late repentance is seldom sound.  
That he might not become vagrant from his first undertake, he composes Canons to walk by:  
The first is, To admire and flatter the Gentry:  
The second is, To delude and blind the Commonalty:  
The third is, To excite and cherish the Soldiery.  
This is done, by applauding the one, Lying to the other, and Preaching to the rest, telling them, That they gained Martyrdom, and carried Jesus Christ in their Knapsacks; as if knavery rather than conscience, Prattling rather than Preaching, and Rebellion rather than Religion, were most fitting for God's Oracles.  
Thus after sometime, England whose hills were like Zion, valleys like Eden, was become a Golgotha, a place of skulls, a grave, O quam dira cano. O what sad things do I relate.  
The Sophistry he used to understand his company, and that none might escape him, was first to endeavour to found their conscience in point of Allegiance and Church Discipline, not valuing their tenants in point of Doctrine; for he hovered several heretics of all sorts, t●ough blasphemous or damnable; nay, his religion consisted only of blood and benefit. He would defend opinions contrary to his own feigned heresies, till he found them zealous in their assertions; if disliked he would by threats, persuasions, large proffers of preferments, endeavour to alienate their affections, and become his proselytes; nothing therein to be done, more than to confounded them in their judgements, and that either speaking in the general (Schismatici versantur in universalibus, Sc●smaticks speak always in general terms) or new coined phrases, or proposing God's glory to the end of his design.  
Were he detected, he would destroy all by rail, denying his words, friendly professings, mixed with jeering and appealing to God to witness the contrary.  
Were you once his captive, he spares no m●nner of insolency to subdue you, ride you as an ass to your final ruane: He minded neither good nor evil as he aught; for all the wiles of men could not engage him to promise' any thing, neither would he in familiar conference or serious discourse, speak really as he thought with himself; for that he had studied to delude, and would almost confounded an Oed●pus to unfold the riddle of his heart, being matchless and boundless herein, until our meeting at the Old Bailie.  
He thus armed Cap-à-pe with mischievous resolutions, and horrid principles, resolving to join himself unto Baal peor, and eat the sacrifices of the dead, sets himself to war; against whom? his God, his King, his Country, his Kindred and his Conscience, where Jehu-like, he satiates himself with blood.  
But to regain the character of a well-affected and zealous Christi●n, he joins himself unto the Scotish interest, marches into Ireland with the Lord Forbish, where he leaves him engaged, and than for England with a packet of lies of his great sufferings for God's Cause and theirs, which in few years proved an old cause, yet died in its infancy, or swathing .  
A Comical, scurrilous, malicious, oftentimes blasphemous manner of Preaching and Praying was frequently and publicly used, thereby to set out his name and zeal, that herds of ignorant people might crowd to observe his insolences, though few can repeat one sound orthodox Sermon of his, save that of his death, which preached good tidings to many people. As some for such actions had no ears, so this Pharisee had many ears: He had one for the Independent, another for the Presbyterian; one for the the Anabaptist, another for the Atheist, but none for the Protestant, were the Image of God never so well stamped in him; forsooth he was Kingly affected, and I am sure the other was knavishly.  
Can you but sympathise with him in d sloyalty, you might easily espy him; for he and his complices tended all to one centre, To dost oy the King, the Government, and Laws, and set a Castle in the air of thei● own building, under another John of Leyden, or Knipperdolling.  
To insinuate himself into the favour of this Convention he would (●fter he had discerned the temper of some selected ones) sympathise with them in their dispositions, languages and designs, until by his fawn and religious phrases, with remorseful exp●essions he could deceive them, so as to r●ck●n him amongst ●he ●eli●iou●, and be a Licent at● to ride them like Asses.  
For which cause h becomes their Post-p●iest, as w●ll as their Divinity Jeste at Whitehall, and the Committee boards: only Mr. Peters ●is News were recked for authentic, and registered as Oracles, witness the many Fifty p●unds given him for this posta●e, w●ich made him often aver, That he had rather be supplanting in ●ld England, than planting in New England.  
The sword brandishing abroad, and the n●tion beginning to smoke, its time for Hugo to blow the fire, that he might warm himself with the spoils of the Land; none so persuasive to engage in wars and blood as he; yet he was always sick at the time of fight, for that cowardice is the fruit of a sad Conscience and a bad cause. Nay, he valiantly deserted Essex, at his being impaled in Cornwall, and told his Masters at Westminster a ramping lie, and that gratis, That the King's Forces were a terror to themselves.  
Two Obstacles were grievous unto him, The Book of Common-Prayer, and Bishops; for he would often quarrel at these without a cause, unless for that one maintained Order, and the other had questioned him for disorder; Divide & impera. Divide and rule, was his Gospel Rule until he had brought all into confusion; he could not set up his Babel, having sowed the Darnel of liberty, by himself, and other his penny Gospelers, that his tongue might go throughout the earth, Psal. 73 9 He moves it to the Parliament, that he might be their Mercury into Holland, for assistance and counsel to underprop their grand Design; their Precedent was his precept, mala locutio inficit animas, evil words corrupt good manners: Now of their merry Knave, he is their private Councillor, and to this end is dispatched away with much privacy; he desiring the contentment of men, rather than God, of nature, rather than grace; having cloathe● himself with cruelty as w●th a garment, like another Mephistophilus returns with this Mahometan reply; That it would be good for them to seize the King, bring him to Justi●e, set him to death, and settle a Commonwealth amongst them here in England, expecting to run through many difficulties as they had done.  
This spark of Fire kindled pr●s ntly amongst the lig ter T●nder, and a consideration must be voted to ●e●ay the charge of this Hobson, who cherishe● their ●earts ●y his message, for it proved we come tidings to many pe●ple, especially the 14 Tanners in Olivers ●ittle sucking Parliament that died in the birth: For that purpose 300 l. per annum out of the Lord of Worcester's Lands, in the Woulds of Worcester-shire, is appointed to be the lot of his inheritance; Mala parta malè dilabuntur bona, ill gotten goods are ill spent; discounting the 8000 pair of Holland sheets which he zealously preached for in Holland, to make shuts for their Army of precious ones, and Saints in England, with the Butter, Shirts, Shoes, and Bacon, which he had cheated about Bristol, to a considerable value: dulcis odor lucri, O how acceptable is gai●! He love Diana as well as a fair Nymph, and to show he is aliquis in omnibus, something in all, he is incomparatively a Sycophant to the prevailing part of the Army, of which Sect soever, though firm to none, nothing coming amiss save only his wife's Nurse for aliment Monies to support her in the Bedlam he built for her near Marrowbone Park. Should any shadow of peace appear, he had his inferior order of Angels, Love, del, Marshal, Market-man, who by prating, preaching and railing should obstruct it, and that shall be backed by him with false scandals, treasonable surmises against King, Queen, and Princes; Religion must be made a Nose of Wax, sound Doctrine held for Popery, and all Order termed as Antichristian; when we know that Order is the good of every creature; nay, there is an Order in Hell, for Beelzebub is called the Prince of Devils; so that they are worse than Devils that will have no Prince; Such was this Traitor, who gloried in the Palace-yard, during the Usurpation of the Committee of Safety; saying, Can we but keep up our Army, the line of the Stuarts shall never rule here more, neither shall we need to fear young C. S. or any King to rule over us. Nay, to extenuate his guilt in the judgement of the sordid Vulgar, he asperses the King and Royal Progeny, and bedirt their transcendent honour, by raising such rumours of them as no modest tongue dares utter, nor loyal heart believe. Parentum mores non sunt arguendi, we are not to dispute the conditions of our parents.  
The Princely Issue must be designed for Apprenticeships, and to be fed like children.  
Nay, his advice to his Confederates was to work their imprisonment, and than he conceits that he by his preaching could animate the Army to prepare slaughter for the King's children; witness his Invective at S. Margaret's in Westminster.  
But Essex his Honour being laid in the dust, and Fairfax (as he conceits) remaining the next man to the Crown, though God had preserved the Royal seed for his own garden, he becomes his Achitophel, than lists himself Chaplain in pay to six Regiments, which he continued for several years: Harrison and the rest of the Colonels being his Surrogates or Officials, whilst he officiated as their Vicar General.  
This Scene drawing towards an end, the Trumpets sound in Oliver the Actor, Ireton the Scribe, Harrison the Prolecutor, Cradock the Fool, Vavasor Powel the Post-priest, Desborow the Clown, Jones the Sycophant, Pride the Devil, Whaley the Turkey Merchant, and Peter's the Pander.  
When after some pause in the government, Oliver like cauda Draconis, the Dragon's tail, arising in our Horizon with stinking vapours which did corrupt the spirits of many; for qualis aer, talis spiritus, as is the air, such is the temper of the spirit; looks smiling on this pimp Peter, who had pimped for him many years, avowing him to be asecond Moses, & one walking as close to God as ever Joshua did: Nay, Oliver observing his temper to be unchangeable, and that he continued religiously villainous, popular, active, impudent, and an abyss of Treasons, doth sympathise with him, till at last they become to be both of one heart, one soul, one mind, and one voice; only whilst moneys are to be disbursed for Medals for the Officers of the Army (as Prognostics, or Favourers of Fairfax his dying power) he solicits to be principal in the disbursement, and thereby gains opinion of the Officers, and near 1500 l. for himself: For as he spared no Woman in his lust, (witness the Bastard he had by his Niece at Master Baker's House in the Strand) so he being as mercenary, as mischievous, served no man without a considerable gain, though he was real to none but himself, yet failed in that at last.  
Fairfax now becoming a dry Nurse, Peter is adopted a Foster child to Oliver, whose soul thirsted for the same blood ever since his eldest Son was hanged at Tyborn for murder.  
The King discomfited and his Host all dispersed, and he taking the Scotish Army for an Asylum; this High Priest endoctrinates that Samaritan Fairfax, to buy the King at a price from that Judas, Lesley; which sounded well in the Commons House, and than the bargain was strucken, and the purchasers engaging to make him a glorious King. And so they did, for he died a Martyr, signing the truth of his Declaration for the Protestant Religion with a full effusion of is Royal blood, purchasing his Subject's liberty by his often imprisonments; and vindicating the rites and privileges of his free Parliaments according to the fundamental Laws of this Nation; he patiently and piously undergoing the stroke of death: thereby attesting in fancy coeli, before the eye of Heave, to the glory of God, his Subject's honour, and his enemy's terror, that as he loved his Subjects, so he died for their sakes.  
But though the Parliament pay the moneys, the Soldiers keep possession, and conduct him to Merods-Hall, Holmby-House where Peter's like a High Priest of these Jews must confer with him to found what evil he had in him; and though he found him fraught with honour and conscience, yet his Ismaelitish tongue must bedirt him; for that he had not the art of speaking truth, being so long conversant in that of lying and traducing, and therefore reports the King to be neither for worth or education worthy the office of a Justice of peace; though Heaven and earth could give him the lie for his pains: Nay his fellow traitor Martial did so admire his wisdom at the conference in Caresbrook Castle, that he did openly declare, he spoke beyond all men that ever he heard speak, both for learning politic, divine, and moral.  
See the dangers and consequences of Rebellion: when the Subject shall insult over Gods anointed, than ribaldry shall be accounted government: and God must with long suffering bear their insolence, which hath neither bound for time, person, nor rule, nor religion, wisdom, or justice in it. However maugre all former Oaths, Protestations, Declarations and Covenants set up in Churches, to witness their intentions of Kingly government, and yielding obedience to the laws of the land, as if they were intended to outface God, or make a mock of him; the Jewish part of the Army are prompted by Oliver and Peter to steal away the King from those that were but initiating Pharisees, and tottering in judgement and Loyalty, though some were instigated to destroy him privately. Ponit home, disponit Deus; Though Haman man insult over Mordecai, that intercedes for his people, yet may he be hanged for his labo●: Caveto. Though rebellion make a man happy for a season, it ends in infamy. Oliver, Ireton, Peter, etc. were famous rogues; yet lie and die disgracefully: Sic pereat Barrabas, so let thine enemies perish O God.  
The riot committed against the King's person, andhe privately hurried away by this giddyheaded multitude of rebellious Saints; the Parliament claims an interest in him, being theirs by a right of purchase: and finding Oliver and Peter the grand and prime ●uggestors of this unparallelled conspiracy intended to arrest and attaint them; but the knavish part of the House giving notice thereof, like a Gemini of Traitors, they prepare themselves for an escape to Cambridg, but the weather proving hot, after hard riding, they halted about Ware in Middlesex, and entered into Counsel how to settle the Nation in peace; and in fine concluded that there was no way left for this, but to take the King and bring him to Justice, try him for his life, and cut of his head. Hinc illae lachrymae!  
To this the whining Saint Harrison, and the rest of the quodled or parboiled Christians the Anabaptists say, Amen.  
Than must his sacred person be transplanted from place to place, from Holmby to Sion-house, where Peter and del conspire to pistol the King privately, but were detected; and by their impudent denying it, were enlarged thence to Windsor Castle; where he by his piety and patience, did so aggrevate the malice of his enemies, Oliver, Ireton and Peter; that they held several private consultations at Mr. Starkyes house in Windsor, and Colmanstreet in London at a private house; there to contrive an● act their treasonable murder; the resolve past he must be conveyed from thence to Hampton-Court, Harrison riding with him and upbraiding him to his face; but Peter's riding before him out of the Castle, cried, we'll whisk him, we'll whisk him, now we have him: A pattern of loyalty, one formerly a Captain for the King's interest seizing Peter his bridle, said, Good Mr. Peter, what will you do with the King? I hope you will do his person no harm; that Peter might be Peter's, he replied, He shall die the death of a Traitor, were there never a man in England but he. But if the innocent must suffer, I pray you what would have become of Peter's than, who was so over, opere & cord?  
The Captain forced to lose his hold of the reinss by a blow given him over his hand with Peter's his Staff; this trumpeter of sorrow rides on singing his sad note, we'll whisk him I warrant you now we have him.  
From Hampton-Court he is deluded to pass the River, upon assurance of a Guard to rescue him; but thence he was violently carried to Carisbrook-Castle in the Isle of Wight, where many overtures of peace were there proposed unto him, but mischief or murder was the end of it: for their envy growing to a full ripeness, nothing remains unattempted to show the r contempt of him. There Martial must discourse with him, and all proved but a quibble; Scientia nullum habet inimicum praeter ignorantem, Learning is envied of none but the sordid ignorant. Yea, a Private Soldier is by Peter's animated to seize the King's breeches which lay on him in his bed, and to take thence a book out of his pocket, wherein was a List of his best and loyalest friends in England: this was done notwithstanding the King held it fast and earnestly importuned the Soldier to forbear prosecuting his wicked Treason; but he persisted to contend with the King until he had recovered it, not daring to offend Mr. Peter's, who afterwards had him rewarded with an Officers place in the Army; for the worst Traitor was the best subject; the veriest fiend their truest friend; and to be at enmity with the King, was to be at peace with them.  
The head thus perplexed and in imminent danger, because Peter's solicited to expedite his trial, the body could do no lesle than sympathise with him in sorrow; and though the just and legal government of this Nation seemed to be in a dying condition, the members thereof give one groan more for their redemption, and by assuming arms to rescue their natural Prince from this usurped power, or redeem him from the jaws of these Lions, by taking arms they set a stand to their bloody design, until by a fatal blow they were enforced to silence, and to repined at his, and their unparallelled subjction; the nation thus showing they had some lise of loyalty yet left; Peter prepares for an escape to the Western Islands; but a calm appearing he shrouds himself under his old Bramble, Oliver, to protect him, and down he goes with him to Wales, where he left another Monument of his cruelty; for there one Lieutenant Bartlet, the only surviving Son of Doctor Bartlet before men ioned, being Lieutenant to Colonel Powels Company of Foot, and taken Prisoner at that unbappy overthrow of the Welshmen at S. Fagans in Glamorganshire, made his Address to Peter's, presuming that he might receive civilities from him out of their former acquaintance at Rotterdam; and there as a pious and penitent Christian, makes Peter his confessor, and gives him the account of his life spent, desiring Mr. Peter's to pray with him to his God, and to intercede to Oliver for his life, which Hugo promised to do; but returning to Oliver, told him, he had left the young man in a good condition, for he had reconciled his soul to God, and therefore it would be acceptable and wellpleasing to sand him to the Lord now that he was ready for him; than forthwith he was shot to death.  
Thus did he also with Duke Hamilton who rendered himself a Prisoner unto Peter, and assigned him all his Jewels, etc. upon condition of life, which promised, and the goods possessed, he delivered him over to the Martial power to be put to death, and solicited for it.  
This storm ended, on they go victoriously, encouraging themselves in their bloody resolutions, and hasten the King for Whitehall: Only this by the way; the Soldiers were secretly admonished by Letters from Peter to exercise his admired patience, by upbraiding him to his face, and so it was; for having gotten him on board of their Boat to transport him, they would not afford him a Cushion to sit upon; nay, scarcely the company of his own Spaniel, but scoffed at him most vilely, as if to blaspheme the King, were not to blaspheme God, who had established him to be his Vicegerent, our supreme Moderator, and a faithful custos duarum tabularum legum, keeper o● both Tables of the Law.  
He being safely arrived at Whitehal, that they might the easier reach the Crown, they do with pi●us pretences, seconded with fears of declining, hoodwink their General Fairfax to condescend to this bloody Sacrifice; whereas Oliver and Ireton, would appear only to be his Admirers and Spectators of the Regicide, by standing in a window at Whitehall, within view of the Scaffold and the People; whilst Peter's fearing a Tumult, dissembles himself sick at Saint James', conceiting that he might thereby pled not guilty, though no man was more forward than he to encourage Col. Axtel in this action, and to animate his Regiment to cry for Justice against the Traitor, (for so he mostly called the King) yea, with what triumphing insolence did he settle the chair of Fate for the King to sit in at his ●ryal before the Court of High Injustice, thereby to satiate his thirstings after the innocent blood of him who like a Lamb yielded to the slaughter.  
This Tragedy ended, Fairfax must be cheated of his Command, and Oliver, volenter, nolenter, enforced to accept of the Triple Crown and Government of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Religion, Law, Militia, Parliament, Priests, and People: Thus Exit Fairfax; and enter Oliver with Peter's his pimping Priest, who had prophesied unto him those things, and therefore is rewarded by becoming Clerk to his Cabinet Councils or Cabals; Nay, this notorious Publican cannot ask beyond his merit, though it be the final ●uine of that Church to which he stood sworn in his Ordination, or of a Judge in the Prerogative Cou●t, to be a Licenser, or stand empowered irresistibly to beaten down all sound Doctrine, Discipline and Order, and introduce all Heresies, Schisms, and carnal villainies into this National Church.  
That as he had enraged them to excise the head, so he might encourage them to perplex the members; and to this end strikes at the soul of the Church (the Clergy) for that there was no more plunder left in England, and his bag not full, and his desires that were insatiable as Hell, never crying enough, but a quid dabitis, he resolves to live by Sacrilege, and for his assistant calls to him Harrison that undiscernible propagator of the Nigrum Evangelii, the black Gospel: so that Oliver now contents himself with being their Solicitor; thus undertaking a spiritual warfarel, he from a Protest●nt to an Independent, and thence to a Presbyterian, lastly falls into apostasy; conceiving with Julian the best way to extinguish Religion, was to extirpate the Clergy, and that by sequestering their Tithes and profits, silencing and imprisoning them, and so bring all into an inevitable ignorance, and than to sow amongst them the darnel of heresy and schism as they had formerly sown the tares of sedition, of which much remains yet unweeded out amongst us; proh dolour!  
But that they might exceed all Rebbels of former and future ages, to fill up their violence and cup with blood, they satiate themselves with the blood of the English, Irish, and at Droghedah and Waxford, drink a deadly draught, leaving there such monuments of cruelty, that succeeding ages will be hardly induced to believe that men should become so wolvish, as they were in those actions.  
For at Droghedah they inhumanely massacred both men, women and children, three days after the seizure of the Town, though they were only innnocents that had secured themselves in the Gatehouse or Steeples, merely to preserve them from the unmerciful usage of Soldiers, frequently practised u●on all storms of Cities or Forts, and heat of blood; conceiving that English men would not forget the ancient honour of being merciful, which for many years hath attended that heroic Nation; but being led by one who was insatiably thirsty for blood, and they, these spectacles of pity, enforced by famine to appear in the streets even in a peaceable manner; all relations for countries' sake, Religion and Honour, was laid aside, and these famished Protestants were massacred in the Streets, their Childrens brains beaten out before the Parent's faces, and than themselves enforced to undergo that cruelty.  
Nay at Waxford having been thus entered into a merciless cruelty, they do expedite their tyranny there; for having entered the town, they drove both men, women and children into the River, whose dead bodies lay so in heaps therein, that it did in a great measure stop the course of the River, and a passage might easily be made from the Key to the otherside of the River, the dead lay so numerous entombed in that River, as it was vauntingly related unto me by this Peter himself, several others of credit partaking of the History.  
But Peter's becoming rich with the plunder at Waxford, and affrighted with guilt, procures a command from Oliver, and is commissionated a Colonel; he undertaking to raise a Regiment of foot, which must be sold over to their assistance in Ireland; and thus clothed with mischief, he comes for Milford Haven in Wales, sick, as in mind, so in body; but that was speedily cured, the other never.  
For being sickly, he was by one Captain Brandy quartered at my house: 1. For that I was the only Physician known to him to reside in that County. 2. For the continguity of my house, it being near the River: and thus we first became acquainted. After his cure was finished, he remained there with his servants and horses for ten weeks, all upon free quarter; during which time, I had so endeared myself unto him, that I could unlock the closet of his heart at pleasure, and by that means became so far his Confessor, that he did three several times some weeks distant, very soberly acknowledge to me the manner of contriving his late Majesty's death, with many other sad relations of their wicked proceed against him: nay he was so far from concealing this treasonable conspiracy, that he would relate it me whensoever I did ask it of him; which made me tremble at the old Bailie to hear him in fancy curiae, in open Court, and in the presence of the Almighty to deny it, only slubbering over his sin, saying such expressions might fall from him in his infirmity; whether he meant his fits of madness, or fits of a troubled conscience, I know not; but do believe, and that upon good grounds, it was rather in those of his conscience, than the former.  
After his raising three companies and transporting them over to sale, he gins to observe the temper of that people; and finding many of them, especially the Gentry, through cowardice and want of sound principling in Religion, much inclining to a temporizing, and the Clergy divided amongst themselves, though they were privately admonished than, of the imminent danger which was indeed against them; he there grew insolent, taking advantage of their division; he calls to his assistance one Samson Lort of that County Esquire, who was in his actions a second Pontius Pilate, delighting in cruelty, and cloaking all with a pretence of love, religion and innocence.  
This Second of his, so tympanizing with pride, that he was employed by so great a Favourite as Peter, was prompted by him, and would regard no Law, but act according to what he thought acceptable to Peter's; witness his Warrants issued out to search for and attach the body of Charles Stuart, (for so he called his Majesty that now is) and to bring him before him to be dealt with according to Justice; and his Motto in his Colours, No King, no Lords, we are engaged.  
But Olivers wife drawing Articles against Peter, and intending to exhibit them, for his long stay in that Country, and le●ving her Husband in danger in Ireland: Peter upon notice given, doth with the assistance of his fellow Tyrant Lorte, contrive a way to settle a Congregational Church of their own invention, and that it might spread further there, calls into them one Philip Jones of Swansey, that called himself Colonel Jones; quo warranto, I have heard.  
A Letter from this Jones was directed to Peter's, desiring him, in his own, and Cradocks Name to leave his advice how to drive on that great design of propagating the Gospel in Wales.  
To which Peter replied, They must Sequester all Ministers without acception, and bring the Revenues of the Church into one public Treasury, out of which must be allowed one hundred a year to six Itinerant Ministers to be selected to preach in every County: What with the fear of his being questioned, and of the Plague than increasing in that County: as also having engaged these two Sticklers to drive on their Antichristianism, fitted himself with a pious Plea for his delay; Viz. To settle Religion there: He hastens to London; yet could not bauk Bristol, but must visit and strengthen the Saints there, telling them out of the Pulpit, that he had been amongst the Heathen Welshmen, and found them fit for nothing, but to make Clappers for wooden Bells (meaning the Gallows) than tells them a Story of Puss in her Majesty, and so leaves them.  
Oliver arrived at London; he solicits for impowring his two trusties, Lort and Jones, with many others of the same Feather, and that by an Ordinance of Parliament, to drive on their miraculous propagation of the Gospel, who like two Champions insultingly strive to outvie one another; Asperius nihil est misero si surgit in altum, Set a Peasant on Horseback, and he will ride to, etc. bringing their poor Countrymen to that low Ebb, that many could be satisfied with a morsel of Tithe Cheese.  
And thus must Wales drink of the cup of her confusion, though it was sugared with zealous pretences, and poisoned with Heresies and Schisms; she must be rendered as Heathenish, and these called Propagators of the gospel; but to drive on the Trade of Tithe gathering, they set good bargains to their Adherents, and hire Beggars with such like, to observe the actions of the Clergy, allowing some eighteen pence a day for their good service, and all to be deducted out of the Revenues of the Church; the Ministers almost extirpated, and scarce a Sermon heard in sixty miles; Jeroboam like, thinking the worst of people good enough for the Lords service, they fill the vacancies with Cooks, Ranters, Tailors, Weavers, Shoemakers, Feltmakers, Stocking menders, Millers, Gingerbread-makers, Collar-makers, Carpenters, and Cheesvatmakers; only one Academic, whose Name was Stephen Young, for that he bore a Partisan to guard the Scaffold, at the Martyrising of our gracious King, and was an adopted Son to Peter's, always calling him Father.  
These must be content with such pittances as are allowed them by the propagators, rather playing at small game than sit out; and their Tenants or Sycophants become Farmers, though some of the propagatos lick their fingers, and carry away the sweetness of the profirt, raising their poor fortunes thereby unto a considerable value, whilst Harrison, Peter, Craddock, and Vavasor powel have the greater share of the booty: of this enough; Here only I refer you for a full relation to a book entitled Mercurius Cambo-Britannus. This inundation had passed over England also, had not Colonel Freeman, myself and Mr. Gunter set a stand to their renewing of this Ordinance, to bring it universal throughout the Kingdom: and no man more solicitous against us, and for this sacrilege, than Oliver, Harrison and Peter; nay, Peter excelling them all, avowing before the Committee for plundering Ministers, that the Clergy were not worthy to keep a kennel of Dogs, or a dozen of Sheep.  
And thus did he rule the roast amongst that rabble of Heresies, until Tumbledown Dick accepted of the Government, when perceiving God to smile upon this Nation with symptoms of his love; Peter feigned himself mad at Whitehall, and there professeth himself to be Antichrist, and saith that he must shortly be destroyed; and so it fell out; for after I had exhibited the charge of High Treason against him, for conspiring the death of our Martyred King, he was taken in St. Thomas in Southwark in bed with a woman newly delivered of a child, and wife to the Blacksmith who deserted him; and though he called himself Thompson, he was brought to the Tower, and thence to Newgate; and though he had published a Pamphlet to vindicate his innocency, and in it calling the holy Majesty of God to witness, that he had neither head nor hand in acting or contriving the King's death, he was by the testimony of a cloud of witnesses, found guilty, and condemned, and the Tuesday following executed at Charing-cross.  
But to show his end was as desperate as his life was abominable; when several Ministers came to comfort him in Newgate, some hours before his death, and exhorting him to lay hold upon Gospel Promises made to repentance: he replied, What have I to do with them, seeing I am guilty of the blood of my King? Than hearing the Bell ring, cried out, Away away to Judgement, for the Trumpet sounds, and so goes down the stairs, thence to the Gibbet, where he behaved himself more impenitent, not being able to pray, though entreated to it, he dying sullenly and desperately: that as was his Life, such was his End.  
O quam dulce mori, quum mors sit sola malorum  
Terminus, & vitae fons & origo novae!  
FINIS.