(Digges, Dudley, the
younger)
(1613-43).
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07
Sir Francis
and Sir Horace Vere (afterwards lord Tilbury) were among the most
celebrated soldiers of fortune of their age. The Commentaries of Sir
Francis, to which are added narrative, by his comrade John Ogle and
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his page Henry Hexham, were written as a manual for military men
who might follow in the author's footsteps. He took part in the capture
of Cadiz (1596) and the expedition to the Azores (1597) and did excellent
service under Maurice of Nassau at the battle of Nieuport (1600) and
in Ostend (1601). He is very hostile to Ralegh, whom he regards as a
dilettante.
Wallington, Nehemiah (1598-1658). Historical Notices of events occurring
chiefly in the Reign of Charles I. Ed. Webb, R. 2 vols. 1869.
Walsingham, Edward (f. 1643-59). Britannicæ Virtutis Imago, or, The
Effigies of True Fortitude, expressed to the life, in the famous actions
of that incomparable Knight, Sir Thomas Smith. Oxford, 1644.
Smith, major-general of the king's western army under lord Hopton,
was mortally wounded in the battle of Bramdean near Alresford,
29 March 1644.
Alter Britanniae Heros, or The Life and Death of the most honourable
Knight Sir Henry Gage, late governor of Oxford. Oxford, 1645.
Gage, who belonged to an old Catholic family, had a distinguished
part in the defence of Oxford (of which he was made governor), and
relieved Basing. He fell in a skirmish at Abingdon Gage in January
1655. He is greatly extolled by Clarendon.
(Welldon, Sir Anthony) (d. 1649? ) The Court and Character of King James.
Written and taken by Sir A. W. being an eye, and eare witnesse. Pabl.
'by Authority' 1650.
The object of this posthumous libel is to destroy any remaining respect
for the founder of the dynasty which the ‘Publisher to the Reader' pro-
claims it to be God's purpose to 'lay aside. The writer attempts to
'prove a negative' in the case of the Gowrie conspiracy, by which James I
set infinite store; to demonstrate the innocence of Ralegh; and to lay bare
the whole story of the Overbury case and its attendant scandals. (See
Sanderson, Sir William, Sec. V, A. )
Whitelocke, Bulstrode. Annales of his Life 1653-56, with an Introduction
addressed to his Children. Whitelocke MSS, British Museum.
Memoirs, biographical and historical, of Bulstrode Whitelocke. By
Whitelocke, R. H. 1860.
Contains extracts from the Annals of his Life.
History of the Forty-eighth Year of his Age, interspersed with Scripture
Lectures addressed to his Children. Whitelocke MSS, British Museum.
Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654. Impartially
written by the Ambassador Bulstrode Whitelock. First published from
the original manuscript (in British Museum) by Charles Morton (1772).
New ed. by Henry Reeve. 1835. (With modernised spelling. )
Notes and Commentaries on Matters relating to the Swedish Embessy
&o. (partly used by Morton in his ed. ). 2 vols. Whitelocke MSS, British
Museum.
Wilson, Arthur (1595-1652). Observations of God's Providence in the
Tract of my Life. Ptd in Desiderata Curiosa, ed. Peck, F. , vol. 11, 1735,
and as an appendix to the Inconstant Lady, ed. Bliss, P. , 1814.
The author, born in 1595, in 1614 became connected with the second
Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, and accompanied him in his campaigns.
After residing at Trinity college, Oxford, he entered the service of the earl
of Warwick, whom he seems to have followed to the parliamentary side.
His thoughts and habits took a spiritual turn, and he describes himself
as converted and saved. He was buried at Felsted. See as to his strange
career the introduction by Feuillerat, A. , to his original edition of Wilson's
play The Swisser, Paris, 1904.
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455
Wynne, Sir Richard (of Gwedin). A Brief Relation of what was observed
by the Prince's Servants in their Journey into Spain, in the year 1623.
Ed. Hearne, T. 1729.
The journal is interesting, and shows incidentally that in Spain the
conversion of the prince was expected.
Yonge, Walter, J. P. and M. P. for Honiton. Diary of, written at Colyton
and Axminster, Cº Devon, from 1604 to 1628. Ed. Roberts, G. Camden
Soc. Publ. 1848.
Describes western conditions of life and natural phenomena, but is, in
the main, a second-hand record of public events.
$
B. Scottish
Baillie, Robert (1559-1662), Principal of the University of Glasgow. The
Letters and Journals of. Ed, from the author's MSS by Laing, D.
3 vols. Bannatyne Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1841-2.
A regular and nearly unbroken series from January 1637 to May 1662,
within a few weeks of the writer's death; proving a valuable record, by a
presbyterian divine, of the persecution of his church by Cromwell and the
sectaries, and by the crown.
Baillie of Lamington, Sir William (f. 1648). Vindication for his own part
of Kilsyth and Preston. Ptd in vol. II, p. 417, of The Letters and
Journals of Robert Baillie, ed. Laing, D. , Bannatyne Club Publ. , Edin-
burgh, 1841-2.
Blair, Robert (1593–1666). The Life of M' Robert Blair, Minister of Se
Andrews, containing his Autobiography from 1593 to 1636, with Sup-
plement of Life and Continuation of the History of the Times to 1680, by
his Son-in-law, William Row. Woodrow Soo. Publ. Edinburgh, 1848.
Blair was a supporter of monarchy, but ejected in 1661.
Guthry, Henry (1600 2-76, Late Bishop of Dunkel in Scotland: wherein
the Conspiracies and Rebellion against King Charles I, of Blessed
Memory, to the Time of the Murther of that Monarch, are briefly and
faithfully related. 1702. 2nd ed. with a life, by Crawfurd, G. Glasgow,
1747.
The author, a moderate loyalist, who disapproved of the introduction
of the liturgy and Book of Common Prayer, and, indeed, signed the
Covenant, was not sent away from Stirling as a 'malignant' till 1648,
when he had preached in favour of the release of the king. He was
made bishop in 1665. His diction contains some curious Scoticisms.
Moysie, David. Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland. 1577-1603. Bannatyne
Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1830.
Moysie was writer and notary public at Edinburgh.
VII. POLITICAL TREATISES AND PAMPHLETS
A. Collections of Tracts
The following collections are only those which are best known and
accessible to general use.
Harleian Miscellany, the. Ed. Park, J. 12 vols. 1808-11. (Vol. 111, 1605-27;
vol. iv, 1625-41; vol. v, 1641-5; vol. vi, 1646-59; vol. vii, 1659-73. )
Miscellaneous prose and verse.
King's Pamphlets, the. British Museum.
Particularly valuable for the civil war period.
Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the reign of Charles
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the First; by writers who lived in the time of those wars, and were
witnesses of the events which they describe. 2 parts. 1815.
Collected by Maseres, Francis, whose preface in Part 1 contains a list
of works on or of the period, recommended by him for study.
Somers Tracts. Ed. Scott, Sir Walter. 13 vols. 1809-15. (Vols. II-III,
James I; vols. IV-v, Charles I; vol. vi, Commonwealth and Protectorate;
vol. vii, Protectorate and Charles II. )
Stuart Tracts, 1603–93. An English Garner. With an introduction by
Firth, C. H. Westminster, 1903.
Mainly historical, and enumerated as such in the previous section.
B. Particular Treatises or Pamphlets
No pretence is here made of mentioning more than a few typical
examples.
Bastwick, John (1593-1654). The Letany of John Bastwick, Doctor of
Phisicke, being now full of devotion, as well in respect of the common
calamities of plague and pestilence, as also of his owne particular miserie,
lying at this instant in Limbo Patrum. Printed by the speciall procure-
ment and for the especiall use of our English Prelats, in the yeare of
remembrance, Anno 1637.
The Answer of John Bastwick, Doctor of Physicke, to the information
of Sir John Bancks, Knight, Atturney universall. 1637.
- XVI New Quaeres proposed to our Lord Praelates. 1637.
Lilburne began his literary career by helping Bastwick to print his
Letany and Answer to Sir John Bancks in Holland.
Burton, Henry (1578-1648). An Apology of an Appeale. Also an Epistle
to the true-hearted Nobility. 1636.
Babel no Bethel, that is, the Church of Rome no true visible Church of
Christ. 1629.
For God and the King. The summe of two Sermons presented on the
fifth of November last in St Matthewe's, Friday Streete. 1636.
Burton (1578-1648) became rector of St Matthews in 1626, and was,
on account of the first and third of the above publications, condemned by
the Star chamber to perpetual imprisonment, besides fine and mutilation.
He was liberated after the meeting of the Long parliament.
Busher, Leonard. Religious Peace, or A Plea for Liberty of Conscience.
1614.
An early plea for toleration.
Digges, Sir Dudley (1583-1639). Foure Paradoxes, or politique Discourses.
Two Conoerning Militaire Discipline, written long since by Thomas
Digges Esq. Two of the worthinesse of warre and warriors by Dudley
Digges, his sonne. 1604.
The latter two pamphlets uphold militarism.
The Defence of Trade. In a Letter to Sir Thomas Smith Knight,
Governeur of the E. India Companies. From one of that Societie. 1615.
(Digges, Dudley, the younger) (1613-43). An Answer to a Printed Book,
intituled, Observations upon His Majesties late Answers and Expresses.
Oxford, 1642.
An argument in favour of the full maintenance of the regal authority,
in both theory and practice.
-) A Review of The Observations upon some of his Majesty's late Answers
and Expresses. Written by a Gentleman of Quality. Oxford, 1643.
Demonstrates, with many Scriptural illustrations, that the law is not
above the king, and the people not the origin of royal authority.
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457
(Digges, Dudley, the younger. ) The Unlawfulnesse of Subjects Taking
up Armes against their Soveraigne in what Case soever. . . . Written by
Dudley Diggs, Gentleman, late Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford.
1647. Another ed. 1662.
An argument in favour of monarchy as against aristocracy, though a
popular form of government is the worst.
Eikon Basilike. See ante, bibliography to chap. VI.
(Fell, John (Dean of Christ Church), 1625-86? ) The Interest of England me
Stated :
: or, a faithful and just Account of the Actions of all Parties now
Pretending. Distinctly treating of the Designments of the Roman
Catholick, the Royalist, the Presbyterian, the Anabaptist, the Army, the
late Protector, the Parliament etc. 1659. In Maseres, F. , Select
Tracts, part 1, 1815.
Favours the restoration of the king.
Forde, Thomas. The Times Anatomized in several Characters. 1676.
Fragmenta Poetica: or, Poetical Diversions. With a Panegyrick upon
his Sacred Majestie's Most happy Return, on the 29. May, 1660. 1660.
Lusus Fortunae: The Play of Fortune. Continually Acted by the
severall Creatures on the Stage of the World. Or, A glance at the
various mutability, inconstancie, and uncertainty of all earthly things.
From a consideration of the present Times. 1649.
- A Theatre of Wits, Ancient and Modern. Represented in a Collection
of Apothegmes. Pleasant and Profitable. 1660.
Holles, Denzil, Lord Holles. The Grand Question concerning the Judicature
of the House of Peers stated and argned, and the case of T. Skinner,
complaining of the East India Company, which gave occasion to that
question related. . . . 1669.
A Letter to Monsieur Van B[euninghen] de Mat Amsterdam,
written anno 1675, concerning the Government of England. [1676. ]
Rptd in Somers Tracts, ed. Scott, Sir Walter, vol. viii, p. 32, 1812.
A true relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen,
(charged with a robbery of which they were most innocent), and the
proceedings upon it, with their trial and acquittance. 1671.
For this miscarriage of justice Holles made the lord chief justice
apologise in the House of Lords.
Howell, James. A Brief Character of the Low Countries under the States.
Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants.
Non seria semper. 1660.
A Defence of the Treaty of Newport, 1648.
A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland. 1659.
A Winter Dream. 1649.
Aevpodoyra Dodona's Grove, or The Vocall Forest. 2nd ed. , with An
Addition of two other Tracts, viz. Parables reflecting upon the Times.
And England's Teares for the present Warres. 1644.
Instructions for Forreine Travell. Shewing by what cours, and in what
compasse of time, one may take an exact Survey of the Kingdomes and
States of Christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the
Languages, to good purpose. 1642. 2nd ed. , with a new Appendix for
Travelling into Turkey and the Levant ports. 1650. Rptd in Arber's
English Reprints, 1869.
Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse on Perlustration of the City of
London, The Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain:
whereunto Is added another of the City of Westminster, with The Courts
of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging. 1657.
This volume has additional value as containing a bibliography of its
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indefatigable author's writings, both those ptd by Humphrey Moseley and
those ptd by other men. '
Howell, James. Mercurius Hibernicus, or, A Discourse of the Late In-
surrection in Ireland, displaying 1. The true causes of it (till now not so
fully discoursed). 2. The course that was taken to suppresse it. 3. The
reasons that drew on a Cessation of Arms, and other compliances
since. . . . Bristol, 1644.
Defends the cessation of arms in Ireland agreed to by the king as
guite different from the pacification with the Scots.
Some Sober Inspections made into the Cariage and Consults of the Late-
long Parlement, Whereby Occasion is taken to speak of Parlements in
former Times, and of Magna Charta, With som Reflexes upon Govern-
ment in general. 1655.
A colloquy, dedicated to the protector, between Philanglus and
Polyander against the tyranny of the Long parliament, and in general
approval of Cromwell, who is begged to restore St Paul's.
The Pre-eminence and Pedigree of Parliament. 1677.
The principal fountain of the king's happiness and safety is his
parliament. Howell defends himself against a charge of malignancy
made against him in a book entitled The Popish Royal Favourite, or
the strength of passages in The Vocal Forest.
The True Informer, Who in the following Discours or Colloquy, Dis-
covereth unto the World the chiefe Causes of the sad Distempers in Great
Brittany, and Ireland. Oxford, 1643.
A dialogue on the troubles abroad, and more especially at home,
between Patricius and Peregrin.
The Vision: or a Dialogue between the Soul and the Bodie. 1651.
James I. The Prince's Cabala or Mysteries of State. Written by King
James I, and some Noblemen in his Reign, and in Queen Elizabeth's.
1615.
Contains not a few shrewd and witty aphorisms; e. g. 'I never noted
the Relations of the Devils and Witches, talking together, but about
foolish things. With this is bound up:
Religio Regis, or The Faith and Duty of a Prince. Written by King
James I, being Instructions to his Son Prince Henry. 1615.
A king is not mere laicus.
Lilburne, John (1614 P-57).
For an extensive bibliography by Peacock, E. , of the writings of
Lilburne, and of others concerning him, see Notes and Queries, ser. VII,
vol. v, 18 February 1888, pp. 122, 123; and cf. art. Lilburne, by Firth, C. H. ,
in D. of N. B. vol. XXXIII. The following are among the most notorious
pamphlets of this dauntless agitator, pamphleteer, patriot and martyr-for
he could have laid claim to all of these designations. His life, from 1638
onwards, was an unbroken series of imprisonments, whipping and pillory,
fines, banishments, appearances at the bar of parliament. At last, it settled
down into a life and death conflict with Cromwell, in which Lilburne engaged
in intrigues with royalists, but maintained his hold on popular sympathy.
Though in prison to nearly the close of his life, he ended it in peace, as a
quaker.
The Just Man's Justification. 1646.
Anatomy of the Lords Tyranny. . . exercised upon John Lilburne.
1646.
The Resolved Man's Resolution etc. 1647.
Jonah's Cry out of the Whale's Belly. 1647.
England's New Chains discovered. 1649.
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459
An Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his
Son-in-law Henry Ireton. 1649.
An Outory of the Young Men and Apprentices of London. 1649 (? )
Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne's Apologetical Narrative.
Amsterdam, 1652.
Montagu, Richard (1577-1641). Appello Caesarem. A just Appeale from
two unjust Informers. 1625.
This book, written by a king's chaplain and canon of Windsor
(afterwards bishop of Chichester), was brought to the bar of the House
of Commons; but proceedings were dropped, and it was suppressed by
royal proclamation (1628).
Osborne, Francis (1593-1659). A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes
and Problematicall Discourses, Letters and Characters; Together with
Politicall Deductions from the History of the Earl of Essex, executed
under Queen Elizabeth. 1659.
Politicall Reflections upon the Government of the Turks, with a Dis-
course upon Macchiavel; the King of Sweden's Descent into Germany
etc. By the author of the late Advice to a Son. Oxford, 1656.
Rptd 1693.
- A Seasonable Expostulation with the Netherlands, declaring their
Ingratitude to and the Necessity of their Agreement with the Common-
wealth of England. Oxford, 1652.
A Persuasive to a mutuall Compliance under the present government
and Plea for a Free State compared with Monarchie. 1652.
Prynne, William. For a bibliography of Prynne's writings, see Wood's
Athenae Oxonienses, 3rd ed. , ed. Bliss, P. , 1813-20, vol. III, pp. 844 ff.
For a notice of several of his publications, including Histriomastix
(1633), see ante, bibliography to vol. vi, chap. xiv. Among others may
be mentioned, in chronological order:
The Antipathy of English Lordly Prelacy. 1641.
A stout book, as all other 'tracts' by Prynne, in two volumes.
A Breviate of the Life of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury:
Extracted (for the most part) Verbatim, out of his owne Diary,
and other Writings, under his owne Hand. Collected and pub-
lished. . . as a necessary Prologue to the History of His Tryall;
for which the Criminall part of his Life, is specially reserved. . . .
Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons to be
printed. 1644.
Official and spiritual acts, prayers and preferments, are all
mingled in the indictment.
and Sir Horace Vere (afterwards lord Tilbury) were among the most
celebrated soldiers of fortune of their age. The Commentaries of Sir
Francis, to which are added narrative, by his comrade John Ogle and
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his page Henry Hexham, were written as a manual for military men
who might follow in the author's footsteps. He took part in the capture
of Cadiz (1596) and the expedition to the Azores (1597) and did excellent
service under Maurice of Nassau at the battle of Nieuport (1600) and
in Ostend (1601). He is very hostile to Ralegh, whom he regards as a
dilettante.
Wallington, Nehemiah (1598-1658). Historical Notices of events occurring
chiefly in the Reign of Charles I. Ed. Webb, R. 2 vols. 1869.
Walsingham, Edward (f. 1643-59). Britannicæ Virtutis Imago, or, The
Effigies of True Fortitude, expressed to the life, in the famous actions
of that incomparable Knight, Sir Thomas Smith. Oxford, 1644.
Smith, major-general of the king's western army under lord Hopton,
was mortally wounded in the battle of Bramdean near Alresford,
29 March 1644.
Alter Britanniae Heros, or The Life and Death of the most honourable
Knight Sir Henry Gage, late governor of Oxford. Oxford, 1645.
Gage, who belonged to an old Catholic family, had a distinguished
part in the defence of Oxford (of which he was made governor), and
relieved Basing. He fell in a skirmish at Abingdon Gage in January
1655. He is greatly extolled by Clarendon.
(Welldon, Sir Anthony) (d. 1649? ) The Court and Character of King James.
Written and taken by Sir A. W. being an eye, and eare witnesse. Pabl.
'by Authority' 1650.
The object of this posthumous libel is to destroy any remaining respect
for the founder of the dynasty which the ‘Publisher to the Reader' pro-
claims it to be God's purpose to 'lay aside. The writer attempts to
'prove a negative' in the case of the Gowrie conspiracy, by which James I
set infinite store; to demonstrate the innocence of Ralegh; and to lay bare
the whole story of the Overbury case and its attendant scandals. (See
Sanderson, Sir William, Sec. V, A. )
Whitelocke, Bulstrode. Annales of his Life 1653-56, with an Introduction
addressed to his Children. Whitelocke MSS, British Museum.
Memoirs, biographical and historical, of Bulstrode Whitelocke. By
Whitelocke, R. H. 1860.
Contains extracts from the Annals of his Life.
History of the Forty-eighth Year of his Age, interspersed with Scripture
Lectures addressed to his Children. Whitelocke MSS, British Museum.
Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654. Impartially
written by the Ambassador Bulstrode Whitelock. First published from
the original manuscript (in British Museum) by Charles Morton (1772).
New ed. by Henry Reeve. 1835. (With modernised spelling. )
Notes and Commentaries on Matters relating to the Swedish Embessy
&o. (partly used by Morton in his ed. ). 2 vols. Whitelocke MSS, British
Museum.
Wilson, Arthur (1595-1652). Observations of God's Providence in the
Tract of my Life. Ptd in Desiderata Curiosa, ed. Peck, F. , vol. 11, 1735,
and as an appendix to the Inconstant Lady, ed. Bliss, P. , 1814.
The author, born in 1595, in 1614 became connected with the second
Robert Devereux, earl of Essex, and accompanied him in his campaigns.
After residing at Trinity college, Oxford, he entered the service of the earl
of Warwick, whom he seems to have followed to the parliamentary side.
His thoughts and habits took a spiritual turn, and he describes himself
as converted and saved. He was buried at Felsted. See as to his strange
career the introduction by Feuillerat, A. , to his original edition of Wilson's
play The Swisser, Paris, 1904.
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455
Wynne, Sir Richard (of Gwedin). A Brief Relation of what was observed
by the Prince's Servants in their Journey into Spain, in the year 1623.
Ed. Hearne, T. 1729.
The journal is interesting, and shows incidentally that in Spain the
conversion of the prince was expected.
Yonge, Walter, J. P. and M. P. for Honiton. Diary of, written at Colyton
and Axminster, Cº Devon, from 1604 to 1628. Ed. Roberts, G. Camden
Soc. Publ. 1848.
Describes western conditions of life and natural phenomena, but is, in
the main, a second-hand record of public events.
$
B. Scottish
Baillie, Robert (1559-1662), Principal of the University of Glasgow. The
Letters and Journals of. Ed, from the author's MSS by Laing, D.
3 vols. Bannatyne Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1841-2.
A regular and nearly unbroken series from January 1637 to May 1662,
within a few weeks of the writer's death; proving a valuable record, by a
presbyterian divine, of the persecution of his church by Cromwell and the
sectaries, and by the crown.
Baillie of Lamington, Sir William (f. 1648). Vindication for his own part
of Kilsyth and Preston. Ptd in vol. II, p. 417, of The Letters and
Journals of Robert Baillie, ed. Laing, D. , Bannatyne Club Publ. , Edin-
burgh, 1841-2.
Blair, Robert (1593–1666). The Life of M' Robert Blair, Minister of Se
Andrews, containing his Autobiography from 1593 to 1636, with Sup-
plement of Life and Continuation of the History of the Times to 1680, by
his Son-in-law, William Row. Woodrow Soo. Publ. Edinburgh, 1848.
Blair was a supporter of monarchy, but ejected in 1661.
Guthry, Henry (1600 2-76, Late Bishop of Dunkel in Scotland: wherein
the Conspiracies and Rebellion against King Charles I, of Blessed
Memory, to the Time of the Murther of that Monarch, are briefly and
faithfully related. 1702. 2nd ed. with a life, by Crawfurd, G. Glasgow,
1747.
The author, a moderate loyalist, who disapproved of the introduction
of the liturgy and Book of Common Prayer, and, indeed, signed the
Covenant, was not sent away from Stirling as a 'malignant' till 1648,
when he had preached in favour of the release of the king. He was
made bishop in 1665. His diction contains some curious Scoticisms.
Moysie, David. Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland. 1577-1603. Bannatyne
Club Publ. Edinburgh, 1830.
Moysie was writer and notary public at Edinburgh.
VII. POLITICAL TREATISES AND PAMPHLETS
A. Collections of Tracts
The following collections are only those which are best known and
accessible to general use.
Harleian Miscellany, the. Ed. Park, J. 12 vols. 1808-11. (Vol. 111, 1605-27;
vol. iv, 1625-41; vol. v, 1641-5; vol. vi, 1646-59; vol. vii, 1659-73. )
Miscellaneous prose and verse.
King's Pamphlets, the. British Museum.
Particularly valuable for the civil war period.
Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England, in the reign of Charles
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456
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the First; by writers who lived in the time of those wars, and were
witnesses of the events which they describe. 2 parts. 1815.
Collected by Maseres, Francis, whose preface in Part 1 contains a list
of works on or of the period, recommended by him for study.
Somers Tracts. Ed. Scott, Sir Walter. 13 vols. 1809-15. (Vols. II-III,
James I; vols. IV-v, Charles I; vol. vi, Commonwealth and Protectorate;
vol. vii, Protectorate and Charles II. )
Stuart Tracts, 1603–93. An English Garner. With an introduction by
Firth, C. H. Westminster, 1903.
Mainly historical, and enumerated as such in the previous section.
B. Particular Treatises or Pamphlets
No pretence is here made of mentioning more than a few typical
examples.
Bastwick, John (1593-1654). The Letany of John Bastwick, Doctor of
Phisicke, being now full of devotion, as well in respect of the common
calamities of plague and pestilence, as also of his owne particular miserie,
lying at this instant in Limbo Patrum. Printed by the speciall procure-
ment and for the especiall use of our English Prelats, in the yeare of
remembrance, Anno 1637.
The Answer of John Bastwick, Doctor of Physicke, to the information
of Sir John Bancks, Knight, Atturney universall. 1637.
- XVI New Quaeres proposed to our Lord Praelates. 1637.
Lilburne began his literary career by helping Bastwick to print his
Letany and Answer to Sir John Bancks in Holland.
Burton, Henry (1578-1648). An Apology of an Appeale. Also an Epistle
to the true-hearted Nobility. 1636.
Babel no Bethel, that is, the Church of Rome no true visible Church of
Christ. 1629.
For God and the King. The summe of two Sermons presented on the
fifth of November last in St Matthewe's, Friday Streete. 1636.
Burton (1578-1648) became rector of St Matthews in 1626, and was,
on account of the first and third of the above publications, condemned by
the Star chamber to perpetual imprisonment, besides fine and mutilation.
He was liberated after the meeting of the Long parliament.
Busher, Leonard. Religious Peace, or A Plea for Liberty of Conscience.
1614.
An early plea for toleration.
Digges, Sir Dudley (1583-1639). Foure Paradoxes, or politique Discourses.
Two Conoerning Militaire Discipline, written long since by Thomas
Digges Esq. Two of the worthinesse of warre and warriors by Dudley
Digges, his sonne. 1604.
The latter two pamphlets uphold militarism.
The Defence of Trade. In a Letter to Sir Thomas Smith Knight,
Governeur of the E. India Companies. From one of that Societie. 1615.
(Digges, Dudley, the younger) (1613-43). An Answer to a Printed Book,
intituled, Observations upon His Majesties late Answers and Expresses.
Oxford, 1642.
An argument in favour of the full maintenance of the regal authority,
in both theory and practice.
-) A Review of The Observations upon some of his Majesty's late Answers
and Expresses. Written by a Gentleman of Quality. Oxford, 1643.
Demonstrates, with many Scriptural illustrations, that the law is not
above the king, and the people not the origin of royal authority.
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(Digges, Dudley, the younger. ) The Unlawfulnesse of Subjects Taking
up Armes against their Soveraigne in what Case soever. . . . Written by
Dudley Diggs, Gentleman, late Fellow of All-Souls Colledge in Oxford.
1647. Another ed. 1662.
An argument in favour of monarchy as against aristocracy, though a
popular form of government is the worst.
Eikon Basilike. See ante, bibliography to chap. VI.
(Fell, John (Dean of Christ Church), 1625-86? ) The Interest of England me
Stated :
: or, a faithful and just Account of the Actions of all Parties now
Pretending. Distinctly treating of the Designments of the Roman
Catholick, the Royalist, the Presbyterian, the Anabaptist, the Army, the
late Protector, the Parliament etc. 1659. In Maseres, F. , Select
Tracts, part 1, 1815.
Favours the restoration of the king.
Forde, Thomas. The Times Anatomized in several Characters. 1676.
Fragmenta Poetica: or, Poetical Diversions. With a Panegyrick upon
his Sacred Majestie's Most happy Return, on the 29. May, 1660. 1660.
Lusus Fortunae: The Play of Fortune. Continually Acted by the
severall Creatures on the Stage of the World. Or, A glance at the
various mutability, inconstancie, and uncertainty of all earthly things.
From a consideration of the present Times. 1649.
- A Theatre of Wits, Ancient and Modern. Represented in a Collection
of Apothegmes. Pleasant and Profitable. 1660.
Holles, Denzil, Lord Holles. The Grand Question concerning the Judicature
of the House of Peers stated and argned, and the case of T. Skinner,
complaining of the East India Company, which gave occasion to that
question related. . . . 1669.
A Letter to Monsieur Van B[euninghen] de Mat Amsterdam,
written anno 1675, concerning the Government of England. [1676. ]
Rptd in Somers Tracts, ed. Scott, Sir Walter, vol. viii, p. 32, 1812.
A true relation of the unjust accusation of certain French gentlemen,
(charged with a robbery of which they were most innocent), and the
proceedings upon it, with their trial and acquittance. 1671.
For this miscarriage of justice Holles made the lord chief justice
apologise in the House of Lords.
Howell, James. A Brief Character of the Low Countries under the States.
Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants.
Non seria semper. 1660.
A Defence of the Treaty of Newport, 1648.
A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland. 1659.
A Winter Dream. 1649.
Aevpodoyra Dodona's Grove, or The Vocall Forest. 2nd ed. , with An
Addition of two other Tracts, viz. Parables reflecting upon the Times.
And England's Teares for the present Warres. 1644.
Instructions for Forreine Travell. Shewing by what cours, and in what
compasse of time, one may take an exact Survey of the Kingdomes and
States of Christendome, and arrive to the practicall knowledge of the
Languages, to good purpose. 1642. 2nd ed. , with a new Appendix for
Travelling into Turkey and the Levant ports. 1650. Rptd in Arber's
English Reprints, 1869.
Londinopolis; an Historicall Discourse on Perlustration of the City of
London, The Imperial Chamber, and chief Emporium of Great Britain:
whereunto Is added another of the City of Westminster, with The Courts
of Justice, Antiquities, and new Buildings thereunto belonging. 1657.
This volume has additional value as containing a bibliography of its
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indefatigable author's writings, both those ptd by Humphrey Moseley and
those ptd by other men. '
Howell, James. Mercurius Hibernicus, or, A Discourse of the Late In-
surrection in Ireland, displaying 1. The true causes of it (till now not so
fully discoursed). 2. The course that was taken to suppresse it. 3. The
reasons that drew on a Cessation of Arms, and other compliances
since. . . . Bristol, 1644.
Defends the cessation of arms in Ireland agreed to by the king as
guite different from the pacification with the Scots.
Some Sober Inspections made into the Cariage and Consults of the Late-
long Parlement, Whereby Occasion is taken to speak of Parlements in
former Times, and of Magna Charta, With som Reflexes upon Govern-
ment in general. 1655.
A colloquy, dedicated to the protector, between Philanglus and
Polyander against the tyranny of the Long parliament, and in general
approval of Cromwell, who is begged to restore St Paul's.
The Pre-eminence and Pedigree of Parliament. 1677.
The principal fountain of the king's happiness and safety is his
parliament. Howell defends himself against a charge of malignancy
made against him in a book entitled The Popish Royal Favourite, or
the strength of passages in The Vocal Forest.
The True Informer, Who in the following Discours or Colloquy, Dis-
covereth unto the World the chiefe Causes of the sad Distempers in Great
Brittany, and Ireland. Oxford, 1643.
A dialogue on the troubles abroad, and more especially at home,
between Patricius and Peregrin.
The Vision: or a Dialogue between the Soul and the Bodie. 1651.
James I. The Prince's Cabala or Mysteries of State. Written by King
James I, and some Noblemen in his Reign, and in Queen Elizabeth's.
1615.
Contains not a few shrewd and witty aphorisms; e. g. 'I never noted
the Relations of the Devils and Witches, talking together, but about
foolish things. With this is bound up:
Religio Regis, or The Faith and Duty of a Prince. Written by King
James I, being Instructions to his Son Prince Henry. 1615.
A king is not mere laicus.
Lilburne, John (1614 P-57).
For an extensive bibliography by Peacock, E. , of the writings of
Lilburne, and of others concerning him, see Notes and Queries, ser. VII,
vol. v, 18 February 1888, pp. 122, 123; and cf. art. Lilburne, by Firth, C. H. ,
in D. of N. B. vol. XXXIII. The following are among the most notorious
pamphlets of this dauntless agitator, pamphleteer, patriot and martyr-for
he could have laid claim to all of these designations. His life, from 1638
onwards, was an unbroken series of imprisonments, whipping and pillory,
fines, banishments, appearances at the bar of parliament. At last, it settled
down into a life and death conflict with Cromwell, in which Lilburne engaged
in intrigues with royalists, but maintained his hold on popular sympathy.
Though in prison to nearly the close of his life, he ended it in peace, as a
quaker.
The Just Man's Justification. 1646.
Anatomy of the Lords Tyranny. . . exercised upon John Lilburne.
1646.
The Resolved Man's Resolution etc. 1647.
Jonah's Cry out of the Whale's Belly. 1647.
England's New Chains discovered. 1649.
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An Impeachment of High Treason against Oliver Cromwell and his
Son-in-law Henry Ireton. 1649.
An Outory of the Young Men and Apprentices of London. 1649 (? )
Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburne's Apologetical Narrative.
Amsterdam, 1652.
Montagu, Richard (1577-1641). Appello Caesarem. A just Appeale from
two unjust Informers. 1625.
This book, written by a king's chaplain and canon of Windsor
(afterwards bishop of Chichester), was brought to the bar of the House
of Commons; but proceedings were dropped, and it was suppressed by
royal proclamation (1628).
Osborne, Francis (1593-1659). A Miscellany of Sundry Essayes, Paradoxes
and Problematicall Discourses, Letters and Characters; Together with
Politicall Deductions from the History of the Earl of Essex, executed
under Queen Elizabeth. 1659.
Politicall Reflections upon the Government of the Turks, with a Dis-
course upon Macchiavel; the King of Sweden's Descent into Germany
etc. By the author of the late Advice to a Son. Oxford, 1656.
Rptd 1693.
- A Seasonable Expostulation with the Netherlands, declaring their
Ingratitude to and the Necessity of their Agreement with the Common-
wealth of England. Oxford, 1652.
A Persuasive to a mutuall Compliance under the present government
and Plea for a Free State compared with Monarchie. 1652.
Prynne, William. For a bibliography of Prynne's writings, see Wood's
Athenae Oxonienses, 3rd ed. , ed. Bliss, P. , 1813-20, vol. III, pp. 844 ff.
For a notice of several of his publications, including Histriomastix
(1633), see ante, bibliography to vol. vi, chap. xiv. Among others may
be mentioned, in chronological order:
The Antipathy of English Lordly Prelacy. 1641.
A stout book, as all other 'tracts' by Prynne, in two volumes.
A Breviate of the Life of William Laud Arch-bishop of Canterbury:
Extracted (for the most part) Verbatim, out of his owne Diary,
and other Writings, under his owne Hand. Collected and pub-
lished. . . as a necessary Prologue to the History of His Tryall;
for which the Criminall part of his Life, is specially reserved. . . .
Ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons to be
printed. 1644.
Official and spiritual acts, prayers and preferments, are all
mingled in the indictment.
