Oliver Cromwell's GHOST, dropped from the CLOUDS. HEY! What an Alteration's here, in this unhappy Kingdom? Here's Presbyterian against Protestant, and PAPIST against them both: Here's KNIG tugging one way; and PARLIAMENT tugging another: Whilst the sly PAPIST leaves no ston unturned to destroy both together. The Popish Irish, the Fantastical French, and the worst part of the Scotch have every one an Eye upon ENGLANDS Ruin. I have no Patience to see those FOOLS, that I so lately humbled, take such ambitious and destructive Measures? What always PLOTTING? and never satisfied? and plotting always against KINGs and QUEENS! Where were your Plots in my Daies? I could sit at the Helm a long time undisturbed! The French were as calm as the Thames in the midst of Summer! I made the bloody Bog-Trotters run into Caves and Woods, and happy was he, That could rest there unseen. I made the Priests run like Chaff before the Wind, and the jesuits were blown up like Gun-powder in the Air; The Pope was glad that he could enjoy his triple Crown in Peace: for the very Name of cromwell was as dreadful as an Army to him: But now he begins to rouse like a man from his sleep, and sends his seditious Emissaries to all the Corners of the Earth: Here's Treason discovered, and there's Treason an Hatching; Here's a heap of jesuits in one consult, and there's a Knot of Lords and a Pack of Knaves in another: But I see indeed you have lessned the number; for I can hear STAFFORD bellowing like a butchered OX; and roaring in vain for leave to make a Second Speech, or to explain his former: I can hear the Priests and jesuits cursing their Senses for contriving such detestable Lies just at the hour of Execution; and tearing their Tongues for speaking such abominable Lies: But, alas! what an inconsiderable Number are they to those as deeply concerned in the same PLOT as themselves? They are but like a Drop to an Hogshead of Water, or like a River to the Ocean, for their Number, may be called Legion. Oh, that I could pick up the Crumbs of my mangled Body again, That I might set their Clock once more in order: Oh! That I might be suffered; now, to do as much for King Charles the Second, as I did against King Charles the first: That I might regain my Credit: I would, not fear but be knighted for my good Service! but, in vain do I beg for a united body to this my disturbed Soul until the Resurrection: Well, since I can give you no personal Help, dear Country-men, this I will do at a distance, Ile sand you my Weekly packet of Advice, to show you the Marks and Manners of the Swarming Papists, that you may see them better than by L' Estrange's Eyes: and, when you know them, if you will then mingle yourselves with them and partake of their Society, you yourselves are guilty of your own ruin. I doubt the King will hardly hear my Doctrine, or else I would tell him, How mightily they helped me on with his Fathers ruin: 'tis their Interest to weaken every opposing Power, that they at last may be sole Conquerors of the whole World. But, if my Advice may be taken, I could with His Majesty would offer up ●hose living Sacrifices in the Tower, that they may be no longer worshipped by their Idolatrous Brethren in this world: when the Head is cut off the Body's soon quiet; this you saw by the late Lord Stafford: nor is His Majesty safe here, till he yet goes farther, and roots out all their Spawn from amongst his loyal Subjects: One scacbed Sheep will infect a whole Flock; if he cannot Cure them, let him Kill them; Immedicabile vulnus Ense recidendum est, But this is hard to be done without the Advice of a Parliament, would he but once lend an Ear to those wise Charme●s, he would soon be almost as glorious on earth, as his Royal Father is glorious in Heaven; 'tis their Interest to stick to him, and to stand by him: and, I firmly believe they long to see him far more potent and powerful than he is, its their Sorrow, that there are misapprehensions of their well meaning towards him, its their unspeakable grief that they cannot yet come to a right understanding of one anothers intentions: but I hope, and they hope, and every good man desires, that the ensuing Parliament will be more fortunate then the rest have been, to the shane and confusion of Rome, and the peace and security of the Protestant Religion. London, Printed for J.S. 1681.