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whereupon a jury was, without his excepting against any, quickly sworn, and, according to his own confession, found him guilty.

The judge, in a very learned speech, endeavoured to make them sensible of the heinousness of the sin, and, persuading them to repentance, prayed God to have mercy upon them, and read their sentence upon all together:

You shall go from hence to the place from whence you came, and from that place shall be drawn upon a hurdle to the place of execution, and there shall hang by the neck till you are half dead, and shall be cut down alive, and your privy-members cut off bcfore your face and thrown into the fire, your belly ripped up and your bowels burnt, your head to be severed from your body, your body shall be divided into four quarters, and disposed as his majesty shall think fit.

All were shackled with fetters, and carried to the press-yard.

BIBLIOTHECA FANATICA;

OR,

THE FANATICK LIBRARY.

Being a Catalogue of such Books as have been lately made, and, by the Authors, presented to the College of Bedlam.

Printed in the Year 1660. Quarto, containing eight pages.

TH

HE Difference between Rogue and Robert, Titchburn and Tyburn, learnedly stated in several positions, in answer to a late Libel, or University Queries; by Robert Titchburn, Al

derman.

Canaan's Grapes; being a taste of the virtues and fidelity of our Saints: By the same Author.

Ochus Redivivus: or, a clear Demonstration that a Trap-door, or Gallows, is the best reward for traiterous assistance, an excellent piece; illustrated with variety of Figures, and intended lately for publick view; by the Parliament of England. A Manuscript not yet printed.

But lately married: or a grave Reason why, amongst other Wares, he hath but for these two Years traded in Horns; by Nicholas Gold, Rump Merchant.

Ragionamenti d'Aretino: or, pathetical and feeling Dialogues, for the Preparation and Instruction of the sanctified Sisters; by Thomas Scot, a Brewer's Clark, and late Secretary of the Council of State.

The Sword of the Spirit the Devil's surest Weapon: or, Preaching and Praying the most expedient Way to rule the Earth; by Sir Henry Vane, Knight.

Vanitas Vanitatum, omnia vanitas: or, Saint-like Ejaculations against the Vanity of Turbulency and Ambition; by the same Vane author.

Corruptio unius generatio alterius: or, a Treatise to prove that a Run-away Apprentice makes an excellent States-man; by Major Salwey.

Sanguis Martyrum semen Ecclesiæ: A compleat Work, proposing to the Parliament, that the best way to propagate the Com. monwealth is to settle it on the Ruins of its first Founders, Lambert, Vane, Desborow, Titchburn, &c. by a Friend to the Com monwealth of England.

Mercurius Acheronticus: or, the Infernal Post, being a Way lately invented for more speedy and safeConveyance to the diabo lical Regions; by Thomas Scot, now Post-master General to the Prince of Darkness.

Hoylius Redivivus: or, a perfect Demonstration, that the easiest way, to revenge a Man of his Adversaries, is to make use of the help of Alderman Hoil's Chain: A Manuscript intended shortly for publick View; by Sir Arthur Haslerigge, a crack-brained Knight.

Solemn Prayers for the Destruction of Babel, being very pithy Ejaculations for the pulling down St. Pulcher's Church, lest he should never get Money for the sale of his Horse; by Jeremy Ives, the gifted Maggot-Monger.

De Antiquitate Typographia, to shew, that Printing, or Pressing, was as ancient as Grand-father Adam, learnedly put home by Henry Hills, Printer, to the Taylor's Wife in Black-Friars.

Tempora mutantur & nos mutamur in illis: or, a compleat History of the Life of blind Hewson, from his Awl to his Sword, and now to his Last, by his own Hands.

Ariana Arianissima divulgata: or, a plain discovery of those Places and Honours, which are already by the Devil provided for his best Servants of the Rump.

Utrum horum mavis accipe: or, the gracious Proffer of a Hal. ter, or a Hatchet, to the grand Assertors of the good old Cause, by a Friend to the Commonwealth of England.

The Harmony of Confessions: or, the Fanatick Directory; compiled by Sir Henry Vane, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Feak, James Naylor, and others; a Piece wonderfully conducing to the Interest of the Saints, and Destruction of that Antichristian thing, called, Settlement.

Babylon is fallen, Babylon is fallen: or, the true Relation of the final Overthrow, and utter Destruction of the rotten Rump of a Parliamentary Junto, by a Friend to King Charles the Second. The Rump's Seminary: or, the Way to find out the ablest Utopian Commonwealth's-Men, by the Coffee Club at Westminster. Lucri bonus est odor ex re qualibet; a Treatise written in De

fence of his seizing on the Boy's Close-stool Pan, and reserving the Contents for his own Profit, because the Lad was so profane to carry it on a Sunday; by Alderman Atkins, Shit-breeches.

A T. is as good for a Sow as a Pancake; whereby is clearly demonstrated, that the Rump would have carried on the Business of the Saints, better than any Parliament chose according to the Laws of the Nation; by Tim. Rogers, princeps fanaticorum.

The Saints may fall away finally, proved in Colonel Overton's Delivery of Hull, into the Hands of the Wicked, when he had resolved to keep it till the Coming of the fifth Monarch; with sundry other Examples of the Brethren's Apostasy.

No-beard, the true characteristical Mark of a pions Brother, and a real Assertor of the good old Cause; by John Ireton and Robert Titchburn.

The Spirit in the Shape of an Owl, howling upon the Top of the Mountains; by Vavasor Powell.

The Repentance of a Sinner, or Paraphrastical Meditations upon the Rump's Lamentations; by Colonel John Streater.

Sicut erat in principio, As you were, Gentlemen; a serious Exhortation to his Brethren of his Blade, to return to their former pitiful Occupation; by John Desborow, Ploughman.

Crispin and Crispianus, an excellent Romance, illustrated and innobled; by Col. John Hewson.

E malis minimum eligendum, Of two Evils the least is to be chosen; and then whether Milk-purse Lawyers, or Cut-throat Tyrants, are the more tolerable; by Eugenius Philopater.

Dapple Groans under the Weight of Sancho Pancha: or, the qunodam miserable Estate of the City-Ass; by John Ireton, then Lord Mayor of London.

De tribus Impostoribus, or, a perfect History of those three notorious Cheats, Rogers, Feak, and Praisegod Barebone.

Animadversions and Corrections of St. Paul's Epistles, and especially of that Sentence, Godliness is great Gain; whereas it should be, Gain is great Godliness; as is clearly proved by William Kif. fin, Broker of the World.

The Art of Pimping set forth to the Life, for the Benefit and Instruction of all the indigent Brethren; by Michael Oldsworth, Pimp-master General to the late Earl of Pembroke.

The Defect of a Virtue is worse than the Excess; a Treatise, shewing how much better it is to be hung like a Stallion with Henry Martin, than with the Lord Mounson to want a Bauble.

Diva Pecunia, a brief Discourse, to prove that there neither is, nor can be any other God, which should be adored by the Saints, but the omnipotent Lady, Money; by Marchamond Needham, the Devil's Half-Crown News-Monger.

Fistula in Ano, and the Ulcer of the Rump; wherein is shewn, that there is no better Way to cure such Distempers, than a Burning, or Cauterising: by the Rump-confounding Boys of the City of London.

Lex Legum: or, a clear Demonstration that there can be no

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better Way for the Security of the Saints, than by quite abolishing the Laws of England, and setting up in their stead the Canons of Beelzebub; by Miles Corbet, Lord Chief Justice of the infernal Commonwealth.

The Saints shall possess the Earth; proving, that it is lawful for the Brethren to stab, cut the throats of, or any Way make an End of the Wicked of this World, if so be there will thereby any Profit accrue to themselves; by the Congregations at St. Paul's, and elsewhere.

A LETTER OF ADVICE

TO HIS EXCELLENCY

LORD GENERAL MONK.

London: Printed in the year 1660, Quarto, containing eight pages,

MY LORD,

THE

HE government of this nation, for these many years till of late, hath been mixed, partly monarchical, partly aristocratical, and partly democratical; in which the power also was fatally divided between king, lords, and commons; whereby, every state therein having distinct aims, and sometimes contrary ones, the nation was impotent and weak, and wanted that harmony, which is to be found in all the parts of a well-ordered government: Yet, under this form, did England enjoy many good days, and great liberties and privileges, and also met with not a few oppressions. Those good days I cannot but assign (whether truly, or no, I leave to your lordship's sounder judgment) to the democratical part of the government, which was the constant bulwark of English liberties, and procured us those excellent laws, which our kings, by their good-wills, otherwise would never have passed, and which yet (such is the blindness of many men) it is thought, in most good companies, we shall never be able to retain, without the restoration of monarchy. On the other side, the exorbitancies and oppressions of the late government, the house of commons, in the reigns of the two late kings, imputed to the prerogative and power of the king; which at last seemed so heavy and grievous to the people, that, incited by the famous long parliament, they took up arms against the king, to devest him of the militia, and negative voice, and some other rights he claimed, of which an English king being stripped, could be nothing but an heroick monarch; and, in this sen e, they fought against monarchy itself. In this war, the royalists, having lost no small quantity of their best blood, were vanquished, and, with the death of the late king, monarchy itself, for a time, expired. And now this poor nation, not meeting

with the felicity of being put immediately into the form of an equal commonwealth, yet met with the best expedient, being governed by the members of parliament that continued to sit after the king's death; who, through their wisdom, put the nation in such a posture, as was a great refreshment to the harrassed country; and, through their victories, more increased our territories, and were more successful in arms, than all the martial princes that reigned in this isle since the conquest; approving themselves to the whole world prudent, active, and courageous statesmen, and such as minded the interest of their country. What good, what benefits, what felicities might we not justly expect from these worthy patriots, but this only, namely, a good government? And, if this also is not expected, it is not because their good intentions to the nation are at all questioned, but because they, being too many, are not capable of performing it. But, as they were too many to frame a good government, so also they were, and still are, looked on, by wise men, as too few to make a popular council. Being but a piece of a house of commons, and necessitated to sit so many years, and to lay heavy taxes and burdens on the people, General Cromwell, during his time, turned them out of doors, and then called a select senate; which, being packed by him, plaid his game, at last resigning into his hands their power. He, rejecting the title of king, assumed to himself the government, and a greater power, than the English kings formerly had, with the consent of a great part of the people, who, like affrighted children, thought they should be safe, being hid under the gown of this great man. Yet failed he in his design of erecting a durable monarchy, who, probably, was able to have brought to pass any thing else in this nation. With difficulty, whilst he lived, he made a shift to keep himself in the saddle, which his son lost, presently after he was mounted. The government then devolved into the hands of this present parliament, who kept it not long, before they were ejected by their army; but now again, this third time, are they risen from the dead, and restored, through the fidelity and courage of your excellency, to the exercise of their trust.

Thus hath this poor nation, within these few years, tried all sorts of government, but an equal commonwealth. We have experienced monarchy in the old line, and in the two protectors, a select senate, an oligarchy, the government of an army, What not? And have not as yet met with the ends of a good govern ment. Like a drowning man, this nation hath laid hold of every thing that came in its way; but all things have proved but straws, and helpless twigs, that will not bear it above water.

And now, Sir, can any thing else save us but an equal commonwealth? Which in truth is no more than a free and full parlia ment, but a free and full parliament more truly elected, and better formed. You having been bred up in the best school of experi ence, and being acquainted by history with ancient, and, by your travels and employment, with modern patterns of government, out of which your exact judgment will readily gather whatever is ex

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