A New-come Guest to the TOWN.  
That is, The Descriminant Oath which the Earl of Newcastle imposeth upon the County and City of YORK, and all others under his Command and power, violently abusing them to the maintaining of this unnatural War against the Parliament, to the ruin of the KINGDOM, and themselves.  
WRITTEN By a Yorkshire GENTLEMAN, for the good (especially) of his COUNTRYMEN.  
With a particular List of the Names of the most Violent Papists (men of that quality) and others that bare ARMS, or are aiding and assisting to the Earl of NEWCASTLE.  
LONDON, Printed for Matthew Walbancke, at Graies-Inne Gate. june the 5th. 1644.   

AN Oath taken by the Gentry, and Inhabitants of the CITY and County of YORK.  
I A. B. do hereby testify, and declare, that our Sovereign Lord King Charles is the true and lawful King of England, and of all his other Dominions; and that neither the two Houses of Parliament, the people nor any part of them have any power, or authority over him, or the Crown; neither ought they, or any of his Subjects of this Kingdom of England, or his other dominions, upon any pretence whatsoever, to take up Arms against his Sacred Majesty, His person, his Crown, his Generals or Soldiers authorized by him, nor may they by any authority or pretence whatsoever, make or levy War within this Kingdom, or his other dominions, or any way use his Royal authority, or name for that purpose, without his evidence, & public consent before obtained. And I do further swear, that I will bear true faith, and Allegiance to His Sacred Majesty, and his Crown; and to my might and power will assist him, his Generals and all under their command, against all such as have taken, or shall take up Arms against him, or that have or shall take up arms within this Kingdom, without his Majesty's evident public, or real Authority, and especially against Kobert Earl of Essex, Ferdinando Lord Fairfax, (pretended generals for the Parliament) and all their associates & confederates, and all others whatsoever that derive not their authority by particular Commissions from His Majesty, and his Generals.  
And I do further declare, from the bottom of my heart, that divers of the Scottish Nation, having presumed to enter into this Kingdom in a warlike manner without his Majesty's evident and public authority first obtained, and published: I will readily, and to the utmost of mine ability with the hazard of my life, and fortunes, assist his Majesty, his Generals, and all under their Commands, in resisting, opposing; and pursuing such Scots, in a hostile way, as rebels, and traitors against his Majesty, and enemies to the Crown of England. And I do further swear, that I will to my power assist, and defend all such as shall take this Oath, in pursuance of the same, and particularly defend this City, and Garrison of York, and during my residence there, oppose all such, as shall make any attempt against it, and all such plots, and designs as shall come to my knowledge, that may be prejudicial to His Majesty's service, or destructive to the Forces raised by His Majesty's Commissions. I will from time to time discover to His Majesties' General, or the Commander in Chief of this County, and in their absence, to the Chief Officer for the time being of this Garrison, and all this I do● un●●inedly swear, without any equivocation or mental reservation, so help me God.   

A brief essay or discourse upon the same.  
I Mean not to spatter or dash ink upon any person of either whose fame, or moderate credit. I am neither by nature, nor custom a man of lower counsels, and besides born by Religion, and the gravity o● my calling, summon me to beware of ●ayl●ng language, which is none other thing then, Sputum Diaboli the Phlegm, and Spawling of the Devil. Strongnes never g●i●ed upon any but weak heads. Wisest men are earned and won by soft words and strong arguments. I am a Yorkshire man by birth and most by resience, and was so long an eye witness and spectator of this Tragedy of civil War, till the S●ag was all on fi●e. That which I undertake is no more, then to bestow a few pen fulls of Ink, and one half sheet of paper, to show that the taking of this Oath, can hold no proportion with the deliberate, and advised actions of a man either religious, and fearing God, or of a man no more than morally rational and prudential.  
And first I would have him who is concerned herein to observe with what a specious show the craftsmen of this Oath have laid the first stone of it, to wit, in the very words of the Oath of Supremacy, that our Sovereign Lord King Charles, is the true and lawful King of England, and of all other his Dominions. Well said; but why do you not go on, and that neither the Pope not any other f am him, &c hath power to dispose of his Kingdom, etc. but of the Pope, and those Ecclesiastical pow rs, not a word or syllable in this oath. You are apprehended in the very act, and the case is so plain, that impudence itself cannot deny, but that it is done to advantage the Papists in their Diana of the Pops Supremacy and jurisdiction over the Crowns, and Sceptres of all Emperors, Kings and Princes. We all know the two breves of Pope Pius the fifth, to the Papists of England, and the letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Blackwell the Archpriest, the declaring the sinfulness, and unlawfulness of that Oath of Supremacy, assuring that it cannot be taken with a good Conscience, that it is destructive to one of the main Articles of the Romish faith, the primacy and superintendency of the Sea of Rome: that it is to be retracted, and repented by those who have taken it out of weakness or fear, etc. King james that learned and notable Prince: took pen in hand, and whetted his stile masculinely to discover these grand juggle and impostures in a just tractate, which is to be red in his works, the more hate and blame will lie upon those who pretending zeal to the service of his son, will thus expose, him and his Crown, to the greatest enemies that ever the Crown of England had. The Sea of Rome.  
Secondly I would have it observed, that if this Oath and the purport of it be bolted to the bran and considered à basso ad altum, and the fairest construction allowed unto it that may be in reason pretended unto, that thus much will follow by good conclusion, that if not only the King (whom God bless & whom we will not asperse with suspicions) but if the Soldiers and Generals who have Commission from him (many of which without any breach of Charity at all, according to the strictest Casuists in point of Conscience, I may and aught to be jealous of) should strive or have it in design to introduce Popery, Liberty, and profaneness, Tyranny, and Slavery, Monopolies, and Taxes, even élotione, and the breaking of this Parliament and consequently of all others ever to succeed, further than to be merely nominal, I am bound (if a wr●ng a●d unjust Oath could bind a man to any more than to repentance) both not to resist, and even to assist them therein, in the contriving and encompassing their wicked designs. Nay nothing in this Oath withstands, why the swearer of it should not introduce judaisme, Mahometanisme, Paganism, if the Generals and Soldiers who have Commission derived from the KING, would have it so.  
Thirdly, it may well be noted, in how broad a difference, the Nationall Covenant (which is their Cor dolium, and whereat they so much storm) and this Oath doth run. That propounds the defence of the person and just rights of the King, the settling of the Protestant Religion, the due liberty of the Subject, the privileges of Parliament, the extirpation of Popery and Prelacy, the union & uniformity of two Nations, whom God and nature have made one in deviding them from all the world, uniting them in one Island, and under one Monarch, etc.  
These are heads worthy to be the theme of an Oath, and baits which may catch prudent, and good men, and even warm and kindle a man by degrees from nutrality to Zeal.  
This Oath leads a man on in a blind obedience, says not a word of the Cause or reasons of either offensive or defensive arms, but thinks to over awe the conscience with persons, first the King (which indeed is a venerable name, and wherein it weighs less than ever it did, it is principally occasioned by those who pretends to be his friends and supporters, then forsooth, his Generals and Soldiers a generation of men, whom if we had never known or fell, perhaps we might have had some tolerable conceits of them, but whilst we know there is nothing, less than any thing of either a Christian, Gentleman, or Soldier in very many of them, that they have spoilt & laid waste the largest and goodliest Country in the Kin●s domminions and behaved themselves as so many Boars in a garden, o the infinite and irreparable prejudice of others, and even with little or none advantage to their own side, that the general himself however he may pretend to point of honour and Courtship, and indeed is a man of more state and difficult access than the King is by many degrees, & can carry himself stately, keep distance entertain a Mistress, etc. yet in truth is one who never laid any Religion to heart, nor hath any thing of a Soldier in him, but is wholly steered by Gone all King, Sir Thomas Glenham Sir William Widrington, Colonel Goring whilst he was there, etc. men who have not an Acre of land in our County; Lastly that the most of the Captains and Soldiers are Tigers and Bears for cruelty, boreas for waist and devastations, Swine for Drunkenness, Goats and Stallions for Lust, etc. in so much as Captain Legg, when john Owsman the Postmaster of York did come and tamely enough charge him for violating the Laws of Hospitality so fare as having, the Command of his whole house he had got his daughter with Child, the Captain took it very ill that he should complain, and said he had done more than so, he had lain with all in his house, save himself, and his Oastler.  
Lastly, I desire the grand imposture of all may be detected which indeed hath been the Master piece of their game, and whereby they have gained more prosylites then by all the rest of their play, which is the frequent using the name of the King and his sacred Majesty and the like, though in truth the same observations that S. Aug. made of the Pelagians, doth here take the place that they did fill their mouths, and with the word Grace, grace, but it was only frangere invidiam, to break the stroke of envy: so these men cry, Treason, Treason, Rebellion, Rebellion, the King, his sacred Person and Crown, when all is but to put some seeming pacification on the minds of the vulgar & simple, & to cover over with some modesty their dangerous designs, and uncomely practices.  
And m●rke I pray you further how twice in this mould of their Oath, they join together the King his Generals, and Soldiers as if any Yorkshire man who knows the families of that Country, cannot distinguish betwixt the Sword of King Charles, and the Sword of an Howard, Dunbarre, Evers, Falconverg Gascoigne, Sayer, Bulmer, Vavasor, Mydulton, Menie●l Errington To●stall Wilham, Salvi●, Fairfax of Gillings, Gailes, Thuaites, Craythorne, & many more families of that Country who are notorious, Hispaniolized and jesuited Papists, and all up in this business, the yongue men with their Swords, middle men with their Counsels & Committees, and the aged with their orisons well; non arabis cum bove et a sino it is an unworthy Conjunction to join the King & these men together, and I hope these men's swords shall never fit the King's Scab●rd, but they deal just as Greg. Nazioanzen in his first Oration against julian saith the Pagan Emperors did, who stamped together upon the same coins the Image of Cesar and of the Pagan Gods, that if the Christians would not adore those Idols, they might be guilty also of not doing homage to the Emperor, & so suffer both death & confiscation, so these conjoin still the King and his Soldiers, that who so disrespects & disobeyes such fellows as Duncombe, or Duke Holtby, men infamous and stigmatived in their very morals, must be said to reflect upon the King himself? but do I not know rancide and futile this argument i●? did I not see what a strong and chief influence the Papists had on the Army and Country? how all painful and honest Ministers? were banished, were they never so moderate and cautious in their expressions, or retired in their aboades, only because they would not rant and curvet in pulpits for their cause? did I not see and tell some of the Committee in York that they could not but take notice what a persecution was upon Religion under pretence of being for the King? did not the Earl of Newcastle in his Proclamations and edicts give the Papists that soft and oily term of those of the Romish Communion? and after did he no: (weakly and sillily enough God-wot, unless he would have had all the world to have known our synaiocrateia) insert in his commands, that he did command this and that with the advice and consent of the Queen? and though the old Papists were more cautious in their words at first, did not such of them as we●e impetuous and forward, by reason of drink, or passion, or youth, declare plainly it was not for the King they drew their Sword●, but for th● Queen, and for their own Religion, and preservation: did not young Sayre (a family of 1700 l. Per annum, and yet must have from the Earl of Newcastle a grant of Sir Matthew Bointons' rents, and others to) say, that he hoped by such a day, there should not be a Round head in Yorkshire, I mean, quoth he, not a Protestant, but I contain.  
Thus have I a little hunted as a Flea, and a Partridge, this unreasonable, and dangerous Oath, composed as I verily think, not only for and in behalf of the Papists, but by them, or their Priests, and jesuites, or at least, as they say, Mahomet had his Alcoran made up by a jew, and a Nestorian Monk, to cull out of both religions, what might please most. So I doubt (I will not affirm it, for that were to undervalue myself to assert what I am not certain of) that not only some Popish Priests, but perhaps Doctor balcanqual, Bish. Bramhall, Doctor cousins, Master Triplit, Master Neale, and such have too much countenanced this Oath.  
My advice in a word to my Country men is, that those that have not taken it, will trust God for protection, and not build up matter thereby, for they know not how much sorrow afterwards, if they belong to God, and those that through ignorance or frailty have, they would remember that good and safe rule, In malis promissis rescinde fidem in turpi voto muta decretum, and conclude as the Bish. of Winchester (Andrew's) did in the Star-Chamber, in the case of the Countess of Shrewsburie, who would not speak in a cause, wherein she should have given testimony, because she had vowed to be silent. I assure your Ladyship, Madam, quoth he, you may not only break your vow, but vow never to make one so rash and foolish again.   

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