Fair vvarning, or, The burnt child dreads the fire to the true hearted nobility, the loyal gentry, and commonalty of this poor distracted and divided kingdom of England, &c.

1680

FAIR VVARNING, OR, THE Burnt Child Dreads the Fire.
To the True Hearted Nobility, the Loyal Gentry, and Commonalty of this poor distracted and divided Kingdom of England, &c.

Great Sirs,

I Protest that I have no design or desire to revive you or your Predecessors Misfortunes, or to involve you in new ones, but only to caution y [...]u, That you split not on the same Rock again which our fore-Fathers had the ill hap to do, for if we should, the whole World may laugh at us for our weakness. I confess it is a melancholy thing to reflect upon Crimes, but not always so upon Loss [...]s, since we may be necessi [...]ated to embrace the last, out of a Conscience to evade the first. It was a sad Omen to this Kingdom, to have the Sun Eclipsed that very hour the first Long Parliament began (Novemb. 3. 1640.) and though it was not visible here, yet the Eff [...]cts were not clouded from our Eyes, for no Age was ever blest with a more Pious Prince, or any that ever brought forth more crooked Natures to perplex a Righteous Soul: it was his good Nature and easie Cond [...]scentions that gave their dark Practices confidence to app [...]ar in the light, whose yielding Clemency (thinking, like the Sun, by attracting Vapours, to disperse them) they with the help of a Northern Fog, condens'd into a Cloud, that first darkned, then rained Blood all over the Land; and what Number or Power was not able to overthrow, Treachery or Bribery did on a suddain ruin. Now in the close of Miseries, behold an Action detestable, beyond expr [...]ssion: a Misfortune which, heightned with accumalated Injuries, deserves to be looked on with a compassionate Eye, and a bleeding Heart; Is it not a most sorrowful Object, to see a King set forth to Sale, to behold Majesty become Merchandize, and Soveraignty sold for Silver; to see a Prince weighed in a Treacherous and Perfidious Ballance, made to turn which way Coin should move the Beam; to deliver him up for the same cause Aristides was Bani [...]h'd (Iustus quia Iustus) and at leng [...]h to Cruc [...]fie him between two Thieves? which two at this day do too much predominate in their Secret Cabals and open Attempts, witness the present most damnable Plot of the Papist at this time; which I pray God discover manifestly to their eternal shame▪ also the great hopes their Brethren, the Presbyterians, and other Sectaries have of carrying on their Designs the more secretly under the covert and colour of this Hellish Plot. That they have great hopes to overthrow the Government of Church and State once more, is legible by the bold Speeches and Threats every where; nay in the late Election in Essex, they took the Impudence to tell the Loyal Gentry there, they would Fight for it once more. For if any man do but speak a word in the Vindication of His Majesty or the Government, it is crime enough to blast him for a Papist, and then to the Press, and stigmatize him with some mark of Infamy. This was the Preludium to the late Rebellion; loud Clamours against Popery and Arbitrary Gov [...]rnment, Tyranny and Oppression; these were the Bugbears that they frighted the Common People with, and set them a work to cry out for a Refo [...]mation, and Liberty and Ease from Taxes, especially that Arbitrary Tax, call'd Ship-Money; and for the Ease of the People they brought in Excise, their Publick Faith Money, Free Loans, their Fifty Subsidies and Eighteen several other Taxes: so that they drain'd out of the Kingdom above Forty Millions of Money, besides the Blood of above One Hundred Thousand Innocent Men shed, and their Plundering, Sequestrating, Imprisoning all that either truly Fear'd God and Honour'd their King. Any Man that both saw and felt the Effects of the late Rebellion, cannot but do his Endeavour to prevent our relapsing into that Condition again. I beseech God to move the Hearts of all those Loyal Souls that have any thing of Conscience or Religion left, to unite and stand up as one Man for their King and Country, and maintenance of the true Protestant Religion, as it is now Established by Law: for all these new upstart Religions are but old Errors raked out of their Ashes. I pray read the following Catalogue, which is but a tast of the many Thousands that might be laid open to your view.

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A CATALOGUE of some few of those Noblemen and Gentry that after Sequestration Compounded for their Estates.
	l.	s.	d.
JAmes Duke of Richmond and Lenox	8650	0	0
William Lord Marquess of Hertford	8345	0	0
Henry Earl of Kingston	7469	0	0
James Earl of Northampton	11571	18	4
Thomas Earl of South. with 250 l. per Ann. settled on the Ministry	3466	0	0
William Lord Paget	0500	0	0
Henry Earl of Peterborough	5106	0	0
John Earl of Rivers	1110	0	0
Thomas Earl of Thanet	9000	0	0
Lord Cholmondely Com. Chester	7742	0	0
Thomas Lord Savil	4000	0	0
John Lord Viscount Scudamore	2690	0	0
Francis Lord Seimour	2725	0	0
Lord Viscount Kilmury	2306	0	0
Lord Viscount Lumbley	1935	0	0
Lord Viscount Molineux	3140	0	0
Lord Lovelace	5957	0	0
Lord Mohun	2382	0	0
Sir John Lucas of Shenfield, Essex	3634	0	0
Sir Henry Nevill of Cressen Temple, Essex	6000	0	0
Sir Edward Osborne of Riveton, Yorksh.	1799	0	0
Sir Peter Osborne of Chicklands, Bedfordsh.	3737	0	0
Sir George Palmer, London	4177	0	0
Sir John Packington of Aylesbury, Bucks	5000	0	0
Richard Peacock of Ashburn, Derbysh.	2742	0	0
Robert Rawlinson of March Grang. Lancash. Gent.	8046	0	0
John Russel of Covent Garden, Esq	2204	0	0
George Speke of Whitlockinton, Somersetsh. Esq	2393	0	0
John Soames of Burnham, Norf. Esq	1430	0	0
Sir Henry Spiller of Laieham, Middles.	8961	0	0
Robert Sutton of Averham, Nottinghamsh.	4861	0	0
Sir Gervas Scroop of Cockrington, Lincolnsh.	3582	0	0
Sir George Sonds of Throwley, Kent	3280	0	0
Sherrington Talbot of Salwarp, Worcestersh.	2011	0	0
Sir Edward Thomas of Pethouse, Glamorgansh.	2195	0	0
Sir Thomas Williamson of East-Markham, Nottinghamsh.	3400	0	0
Sir George Wentworth of Welley, Yorksh.	3188	0	0
Sir Lewis Watson of Rockingham, Northamptonsh.	5456	0	0
Sir Michael Wharton of Beverley, Yorksh.	4370	0	0
William Allestry of Grayes-Inn Esq	0737	0	0
Sir Henry Audley of Beerechurch, Essex	1600	0	0
James Altham of Markhall, Essex	0500	0	0
Henry Ashford of Ashford, Devonsh. Esq	1150	0	0
John Ackland of Columber, Esq	1777	0	0
Stephen Anderson of Manby Com. Linc. Esq	0722	0	0
John Anguish of Melton, Norfolk, Esq	0173	0	0
Sir Benjamin Ayloffe of Braxstead, Essex	1242	0	0
Sir Francis Anderson of Newcastle on Tine	1200	0	0
Sir Henry Anderson of Pentey, Com. Hertf.	1730	0	0
Edward Aylmer of Akham, Com. Suffolk, Clerk	1900	0	0
Edward Ashton of Aldenham, Com. Salop, Esq	2000	0	0
John Ashburham of Ashburnham in Essex, Esq	7772	0	0
Edward Anguish of Norwich, Gent.	0300	0	0
Sir Edward Alford of Offington, Sussex	1503	0	0
Robert Arden of Parkhall, Warwicksh. Esq	1676	15	9
Sir Thomas Bendish	1000	0	0
John Arundel of Lanhear, Gornwall, Esq	2002	0	0
Sir John Baker of Lissonby	3000	0	0
	202445	13	4
Sir John Burlace of Maidmenham, Com. Bucks	3500	0	0
Sir John Bellot of Morton in Com. Chester	1005	5	0
Sir Thomas Bludder of Flankford, Surrey	1537	0	0
Sir William Boteler of Teston in Kent	3011	0	0
Sir Peter Ball of Dentish, Devonsh.	1250	0	0
Sir Henry Berkley of Yarlington, Com. Som.	1275	0	0
Sir William B [...]tton of Shaw, Wilish	2380	0	0
Sir Maurice Berkley of Rendcomb, Glocest.	1372	0	0
John Banks Esq Son and Heir of Sir John Banks	1974	0	0
Sir Henry Bellingham of Levens, Com. Westm.	5526	0	0
Henry Boothby of London, Merchant	1900	0	0
Sir Edmond Bray of great Barrington, Glocest.	1191	0	0
Christopher Byerley of Milbridge Grange, Durham	2261	0	0
Richard Brathwait of Ritheridge, Com. York, Esq	1150	0	0
Sir Thomas Beamont of Grace Dyen, Com. Leicest.	1190	0	0
Arthur Bastent of Underseigh, Com. Devon.	1321	0	0
Owen Bret of Rowney, Bedfordsh.	1396	0	0
Jeremy Beke of Castle Acre, Nor. Esq	2510	0	0
M [...]thew Bointon, pro Walter Strickland	1000	0	0
Sir Thomas Bowyer of Leathorn, Sussex	2033	0	0
Sir Francis Carey of Bedington, Surrey	1000	0	0
John Caring of Harling, Sussex, Esq	3020	0	0
Thomas Chester of Annisbury, Glocester. Esq	1000	0	0
Sir Patricius Curwin of Workington, Cumb.	2000	0	0
Sir John Coventry of Barton, Som. Esq	4000	0	0
Sir William Campian of Comwell, Kent	1397	0	0
Bryan Cook of Doncaster, Yorksh.	1833	0	0
Lord Cobham, Com. Kent	1300	0	0
Sir Thomas Chicheley of Wimple, Cambridgesh.	1945	0	0
Sir Hugh Calveley of Leicester	1455	0	0
Richard Culm of Canon-Leigh, Devonsh. Esq	8906	0	0
Earl of Cork	1631	0	0
John Crane of Lorton, Bucks, Esq	1080	0	0
Sir Sutton Coney of Northstock, Linc.	2648	0	0
Godfrey Copley of Spradborough, Yorksh.	1543	0	0
Sir Francis Crawley Judge of the Common Pleas	0958	0	0
Sir Vincent Corbet of Morton Corbet, Salop	1588	13	4
Lord Cambden Baptist Noel	9000	0	0
Sir Roger Cooper of Thirgarton, Com. Nott.	1943	0	0
George Lord Chandois	3975	0	0
Charles Cockam of Rushton, North▪ Esq	7515	0	0
Sir Henry Car [...]y of Cockingham, Devon.	1985	0	0
Sir Henry Compton of Brambleton, Sussex	1372	2	0
Sir Thomas Corbet of Sprowston, Norf.	1277	17	8
John Cook of Mothcomb, Dorset.	1685	10	0
Sir Gervase Cliiton, Nott.	7625	0	0
Sir Henry Calverley of Calverley, Yorksh.	1455	0	0
Sir John Chamberlain of Malgerbury, Glocest.	1246	0	0
John Carey Marybone-Park, Middles. Esq	1200	0	0
Sir Charles Cavendish of Wellingore, Linc.	2048	0	0
Lawrence Caldwell of Torngornby, Linc.	1553	0	0
John Corbet of St. James's. Middles. Esq	1000	0	0
Thomas Cook of Melborn, Derbysh. Esq	2200	0	0
Willi [...]m Child of Shrawley, Worcest. Esq	1844	0	0
Winston Churchill of Morton-Glanvil, Dorsetsh.	4446	0	0
Sir Edward Capel, Trustee of Arthur Lord Capel	4706	7	11
Sir Anthony Cage of Burrough-green, Cumb.	2441	0	0
Sir William Dalstone of Cumberl.	3000	0	0
Sir Thomas Delves of Dorington Com. Chester	1484	0	0
Arther Duck of Cheswick, Middles. Dr.	2000	0	0
Sir Daniel Deleine of Hallaxton, Com. Linc.	1000	0	0
Sir Lodowick Dyer of Benchamsted, Hunt.	1500	0	0
Edward Dimmock of Kine, Linc. Esq	4633	0	0
John Dutton of Sherborn, Gloc, Esq	5216	0	0
	155437	15	11
[Page 4] Walston Dixsey of Nomator, Com. Derby, Esq	1835	0	0
Sir Thomas Danby o [...] Tornley, Yorksh.	1780	0	0
Henry Danby, late Earl	21597	6	1
Coniers Darcy of Hornby-Castle, Yorksh.	1337	0	6
Randolph Egerton of Be [...]ly-Stafford, Esq	1411	0	0
Sir Henry Frederick Thinn of Cause-Castle, Salop	3554	0	0
Sir John Good [...]ick of Ribstone, Yorksh.	1343	0	0
Sir Richard Graham of Norton, Yorksh.	1384	17	0
Sir Edward Griffin of Dingby, North.	1700	0	0
Sir Henry Griffi [...]h of Agn [...]sborton, Yorksh.	4461	18	10
Anthony Hunger [...]ord of Blackburton, Oxon	2782	0	0
Sir Richard Gurney, London	5000	0	0
Sir John Harper of Swarkestone	4000	0	0
Henry Hudson of London, Esq	3700	0	0
William Hanmer of Fenshall, Flint. Esq	1370	0	0
Augustin Holl of Heigham near Nowich, Esq	1836	0	0
Sir Henry Herbert of Ribsford, Worcest.	1330	0	0
Sir Henry Hildyard of Kingston on Hull, Com. York.	2330	0	0
Sir John Hewit of Waresby, Hunt.	2158	0	0
Sir George Hennage of Lincoln	5296	0	0
Sir William Hudlestone of Millain-Castle, Cumb.	2242	0	0
Dame Anne Harris of Witle, Essex	1642	3	0
Sir Thomas Holt of Aston, Com. Warw.	4401	2	4
John Hamond of Ellingham, Norf. Gent.	1000	0	0
Justinian Isham of Shangton, Leicest. Esq	1106	0	0
Sir Henry Knolly of Grooplace, South [...]	1250	0	0
Edward Kinaston of Oateley, Salop, Esq	1500	0	0
William Knolly of Grays, Oxon, Esq	1100	0	0
Sir Garret Kemp of Slindon, Suffolk▪	2931	0	0
Sir Ch. Kenn [...] of Kevermably, Com. Glamorgan	3500	0	0
Sir Thomas Liddle of Newcastle	4000	0	0
Sir John Lowther of Lowther, Westmorl.	1500	0	0
Sir Thomas L [...]igh of Adlington, Chester	1440	0	0
Spencer Lucy of Charleot, Warw. Gent.	3513	0	0
Sir Thomas Leigh of Stone Leigh▪ Com. Warw.	4895	0	0
Sir Richard Leveson of Frentham; Staff	6000	0	0
Francis Layton of Rawdon, Yorksh. Esq	3670	0	0
Sir Francis Lloyd of Carmarth [...]n	1033	0	0
Sir Richard Lee of Langley, Salop	3719	0	0
Sir Henry Lingen of Sutton, Herefordsh.	6342	0	0
Sir Edward Little [...]on	1347	6	8
Sir Francis Leek of Newark, Com Nott. Esq	2352	0	0
George Lumley of Stanted, Suffolk	1800	0	0
Sir Robert Markham of Sedgbroker, Linc.	1000	0	0
John Maynard of Smitherton, Derb. Esq	1000	0	0
Sir Edward Moseley of Hangden, Lancaster	4874	0	0
Sir Richard Minshall of Burton in Com. Bucks	1378	0	0
John Minshal of ValeRoyal, Chester, Gent.	0740	0	0
Sir John Munson of South-Curleton, Linc.	2642	0	0
John Millecent of Linton, Cambridgesh. Esq	6162	0	0
Sir William Masters of Cirencester, Glocestersh	1483	0	0
Matthew Humphrey of Castle-Menith, Glamorgansh.	1397	0	0
Sir John Maller [...]y of Studley, Yorksh. Gent.	2219	0	0
Sir Richard Maleverer of Ollerton, Yorksh.	3287	0	0
Sir William Mass [...]y of Puddington, Chester	1210	0	0
George Metham of Metham, Yorksh.	1350	0	0
Henry Nevell of Cressen-Temple, Essex, Esq	6000	0	0
John Newton of Hatcher, Linc. Esq	3000	0	0
Sir Richard Newport of High-Archell, Salop	3287	6	8
Galat. 2. 18. ‘If I build again the things I destroyed, I make my self a Transgressor.’	176319	1	1
	202445	13	4
	155437	15	11
	534202	10	4

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