ENGLAND'S NEW DIRECTORY: Commanded to be used in GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, And may serve to give Light to all Christendom.   printer's or publisher's device 
Septemb: 6th▪ Printed Cum privilegio, 1647.   

The general grievance of Great Britain and Ireland, and may serve to give light to all Christendom.  
The first Rubric showing, 

HOw the Priest first got all the wealth of England; next the Lawyer, and now adays the Soldier.  
Secondly, Showing there were two Transportations; first a Transportation of blindness by Religion; next a Transportation of blindness by Law, now adays a Transportation of policy, to purge out blindness of Religion and Law by Association, Fortification and Garrison, and making the Law as plain at the Gospel, according to the government of best Reformed Churches.  
Thirdly, Showing how that King James of the line of Cadwallader, the last Britain King, endeavoured to bring that to pass 37 years ago, which the Parliament since swore to perform, viz. to add the primitive Law to the primitive Religion for the promotion and connexion of righteousness unto piety, the summun bonum of policy.    
GOD governeth the world by the supreme Council of heaven, according unto righteousness and true holiness. A Parliament in England is called the supreme Council of England; I ask the baynes of Matrimony between Righteousness and true Holiness; if any man know any lawful reason why they may not be joined together, let them now speak; because in Parliament time is an appointment for that purpose, to be conformable to supreme Council: For Injustice or Unrighteousness hath had a brazen face 536 years (long enough in conscience) as appears by King James speech to the Parliament 1609 published by authority, and in Parliament time, his tongue should be cut out by the root or else we might wish his tongue might cleave to the roof of his mouth, that so his brazen face might fall and speak no more; as it did in Oxford, saying, time is, time was, times past, and then it fell: Time is of correction, time was of injustice, times past we shall have no more, the Parliament have sworn to repent of their sins, and so the brazen face will fall and speak no more. Time was of making a brazen wall round about England, but Friar Bacon fell asleep; time overslipt, not taking time by the foretop, all the wealth of England went to Rome, into the Pope and Priests bags. Time was of making a brazen wall within England, by planting a more righteous policy, if time be not past: because Lawyers and their generations had the Major voice in Parliament 16●9. and wearing buckram bags by their sides, they were called buckram rogues: Rogues in buckram hindered it 1609 and so all the wealth went into buckram ba●s: as some say, the E. of Cork was a Lawyer, whose bag held 40000 l. per annum. Since the Parliament 1640 the report went that the Soldier would get all, or run over all. The L. General went so far West, that he fell into the sea at Plymouth and risen again at Portsmouth: the whilst, Sir Wil Waller went up a hill as high as Worcester, and then came down again: The Earl of Manchester came from York to Dunnington Castle with a great Army, and there stood still. Sir john Hotham was for the Parliament, and after for the Privy Council.  
The Privy Council and Parliament ought to fast and pray,  
For they are the evil Stars the Scots do say:  
Whose influence hath had an evil inclination  
To end few causes, but for a prolongation  
Of controversy, which is their trade and occupation:  
Like Italy, Spain & France whence came the fashion:  
France the continent of strife, that vice hither came,  
Transported by the Norman to be Island of the same:  
And could a Norman bastard beget a righteous Law?  
That were such a wonder as no man ever saw.  
The Parliament have sworn to repent of that sin,  
And if the Privy Council would once begin,  
It would be an acceptable and seasonable thing,  
Not only to God of heaven, but also unto men.  
M. Peter wished 10000 from New England to cause the Council repent,  
As 20000 from Scotland did make the Parliament:  
And so frame the Law as plain as the Gospel,  
According unto the Scots and Hollanders example  
Of best reformed Churches; and leaven the whole earth  
That of righteousness & true holiness there be no dearth  
Lex Angliae est ancilla Religionis pontificia,  
Roma pietatis, Antichristus, Anglia justitiae.  
Witness Philip the 2 of Spain, vide Guiniardine;  
And K. James in a Parliament speech 1609.  
Whereby men are infected with false tradition▪ and kept blind in the whole;  
That the Scot the Physician, might gain by purgation of body and soul.  
And then to settle them there is no hopes in beer  
But wholesome pots of Scotch ale but 'tis dear:  
As the E. of Newcastle said eight years ago in a play;  
Called the Country Captain, which did the truth betray:  
Reformation being of such costly consequence,  
Which men do hate to the loss of life and sense.  
The Concistory of Rome hates that any should know Religion but Priests, because 'tis their trade and occupation to gain, by keeping men blind in their whole Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Jurisdiction: The former Parliament of England did hate, that any should know Law but Lawyers, because it was their trade and occupation to gain, by keeping men blind in their whole temporal or politic jurisdiction: and so men are infected with false tradition and kept blind in the whole etc. Lycurgus' the Lawyer was the Author of false tradition, which doth contaminate the touchstone; for purgation whereof the best reformed Churches do prescribe a potion of calvin's white wine, the Law as plain as the Gospel, which is according to their government. For Britain hath been taken by violence of Romans, Saxons, Danes, after whom came the Normans, who brought hither the French and Cavalier Law, making it lawful to plunder men as fast as they grew rich, kill them as fast as populous, except they would s●eak French to be called Normans; (as Historians writ) 535 years after the Norman, entered the Scot of the line of Cadwallade● the last Britain King, and proved it unlawful by the Law of Moses, but Parliaments would still maintain the Law; whereby it appeareth that the Roman, Saxon, Dane and Norman were the plunderers of all Britain; and the last, the Norman, made it lawful: Since the Parliament 1643 it happened that the Lord General was a Norman, Sir William Waller a Roman for the Parliament; The Earl of Newcastle a Saxon, and the Lord Hastings a Dane, for the Privy Council: Plunderers of Britain by ancient generation, and sworn to kill one another by Law, which the Scots could not salva conscientia come to maintain, ergo, the Parliament swore to repent of their sins, and govern according unto best reformed Churches; to be no longer plunderers or ambidexters by making Prerogative above Parliament to kill up the Country, and Parliament above Prerogative to kill up the City; no man knowing Law but Lawyers, and so were like unto the Kingdom of France, where they call themselves the Kingdom of blindmen, because they know neither Law nor Religion; for they speak French, and their Law and Religion speaks Latin. About 15 years past a book was printed at Paris, called Le Royaalme des Aueugles, dedicate to Cardinal Richelieu, who had a very rich place according to his name: for, being Admiral of the Kingdom of blindmen of France, he set them together by the ears; taxed, plundered and made himself an admirable and wonderful rich Admiral, So in England men speak English, but the Law speaks French, and differ somewhat because they know Religion; the Lord Rich Earl of Warwick, Admiral of the Kingdom of blindmen by Law, in time like to be admirable rich for the same reason; if the Scots hinder not. Moustrum horrendum, inform, ingens, cui lumen ademptum, and so confront the Cyclops, calling for help when no man hurts them, but themselves; will ye confront the Cyclops ye Poliphemians? The ●●ory is in the 9 No-man of Homer the blind Poet, where Vlisse, William the Norman is the Noman; or a bastard who is an unlawful man; of the injustice in the law of France men may read Philip de Comives, who was a privy Councillor unto Lewis the 11. Charles the 8. and Lewis XII. Kings of France; who writeth in his History that most men in Italy live by factions and civil Wars, and so infect Spain and France, and they the rest of Europe, and that in France is such tedious and vexatious prooefs of Law that it needeth reformation, but that Reformation is of so dangerous consequence, which men do hate to the loss of life and sense.  
By what hath been written may be understood,  
That Friar Bacon would have a brazen wall round about England, and K. James would have one within; both very necessary according to the reformed, but to build after their manner, are yet to begin.  
Corporis politici cum naturali comparatio; sive modus purgandi corruptiones corporis utriusque secundum purgationem corporis Ecclesiastici tempore Hen, 8 vino Rheni Lutheri sive candido.   

A Hymn for the ARMY  

THe world unpeopled, when but 
* Cain & Abel.  two, no more  
Were all the store:  
Those Brothers which had been enough alone  
To make two one:  
Yet pride, and envy, and the tragic crimes  
Of after times  
There took beginning and the earth did slain  
With purple gore, which it doth still retain.   

2.  
There power usurped first upon a Brother,  
Because us other;  
And violence oppressed the weaker part,  
By strength not art:  
The world untaught to do those bad things well  
Which these days tell  
Of men so civilised, as they can do  
Foul actions fairly and have thanks too.   

3.  
The oppressors hand might it be armed still  
Where it will kill  
Holding a lost, or sword, or ass' jaw,  
Or Lion's paw;  
Or peradventure some enchanted cup  
To drink all up  
So warned, so armed, perhaps the innocent  
Might all in time th' ensuing stroke prevent,   

4.  
But all alike are cast into a slumber  
Amongst the number;  
Be it what it will, as well the great as small  
Are pleased withal,  
And are content for fear of death to die  
Rather than fly,  
Or to avoid the stroke before it come  
Except it be to give oppression room:   

5.  
Thus Abel lieth under foot, we have  
Ere born our grave;  
The child were happy in the Mother's womb,  
were it his tomb:  
And not a further Funeral attend,  
When all must end,  
Surviving some short season, but to eat  
The bread of sorrow without other meat.   

6,  
But to behold the Vulgar innocence,  
With what expense  
They carry fuel to their own Sacrifice,  
And please their eyes  
With sight of the Executioner, who shall  
Make up with all,  
Would breed astonishment, but that we see  
In what confusion and what missed we be.  
If ever ignorance deserved praise,  
'tis in our days;  
Men run to death as to a wedding feast,  
And think them blest  
When they are least; and have their special grace  
To set a face  
Upon their proper woes, in what sweet error  
Are you involved to perish without terror.  
My afflicted Country, take these tears of thine  
Or rather thine;  
Or change a tear with me, I care not whether,  
Let's weep together,  
Betimes too, whilst our tears are known for ours  
E'er many hours,  
We are no more ourselves, we shall become  
Somewhat we are not; and others take our room.   Written by a Yeoman, No-man is a Gentleman, who plunders as fast as rich, kills as fast as populous.  
FINIS.