A packet of severall letters being intetcepted [sic] and taken on Thursday night last being the 26 of Aprill, which were sent from John Lambert Esq. to many of the phanaticks in the country. Approx. 8KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 4 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2016-02 (EEBO-TCP Phase 2). A9051399862471 114631 2240952772 Wing P159 Thomason E1021_13 ESTC R202049 99862471

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 Early English books online text creation partnership. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 2, no. A90513) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 114631) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 151:E1021[13]) A packet of severall letters being intetcepted [sic] and taken on Thursday night last being the 26 of Aprill, which were sent from John Lambert Esq. to many of the phanaticks in the country. [2], 5, [1] p. printed for John Morgan, London : 1660. A satire on Lambert. Annotation on Thomason copy: "April 27". Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

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 eng Lambert, John, 1619-1683 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. Political satire, English -- 17th Century. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Humor -- Early works to 1800. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-08 Sampled and proofread 2014-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion 2021-05 TEI P5 conversion

A PACKET OF SEVERALL LETTERS Being intetcepetd and taken on Thursday night last being the 26 of Aprill, Which were sent from John Lambert Esq.

To many of the Phanaticks in the Country.

LONDON, Printed for John Morgan, 1660.
A Packet of the Phanaticks Letters INTERCEPTED,

THe Phrantick Sectary being now stark mad, and in a high Feavour; the effect of his old surfet of blood, and Treasure is strugling and gasping for life: And these Papers exposited now to publick view, present you with all the Art and skill imaginable. His best Physicians, Vane, Hasilrigge, Whitlock, Lambert, &c. hard tryed to preserve him; The Patient talkes idlely and mischievously, but the Docters speak senciously and d • v • ll • shly. Take the first Epistle of Sr. Henry Vane to his beloved.

MY LORD.

SInce Providence is weary of our old claim to her, while she did glorious things for us, 'Twill be now I think our most generous course to disclay me, and renounce her, and put all to an Atheisticall venture, and try if we can court the Devil with Anabaptisticall holy water, avowedly to side with us, and finish the work we begun in the name of J—When we have now nothing to do with. Indeed I could have wisht we had done it sooner, for our old pretences were too state and palpable, and nothing could be more unfashionable to my late Model then zeal or sanctity, since nothing introduces slavery sooner then Irreligion. I had Achitophels reward, not to be credited by Absolon: Lambert, when I advised him to secure himself of London, and the Concubines there, but it had not been his own hard fortune before, that made him so tender hearted to the City. It's true that Counsell was followed too late by the RUMP, and sell out as mischievously as the wicked Cavaliers could wish or think, for that was the bane, the very breakneck of our usurpation, and I could curse Sir Arthur's • ury faster then ever our Priests cursed Meros or damned himself with the Covenant, but that theres no spare time for that nor prayer: I am now my Lord betaking my self to my Cornucing circles, for since my consinement I have been a great proficient in Magick, and have kept within the Verge, now for fear of the Rump but Old Nich on whom I cannot yet safely presume.

At my last converse with my Familiar, I demanded of him concerning my Brother Lambert, and I import it to you as an infernall secret, he will certainly escape out of the Tower before this comes to your hands, who ever sticks in the mire for him, and therefore my Lord, I would have you prepared, and ready to fasten upon all occasions, his liberty will present to you wee have no hands but his that can lift us into the saddle, but I cannot assure you whether he use not his legs and betake himself to his heels and save his head, instead of minding a Crown. However good my Lord be not idle during the time the Councell is at a losse concerning him, for a small busling will presently embroil our party, that are as desperate as we can wish them. Had I courage my self I would do any thing, if you have no more, we are undone. I received an expresse thing from Cardinal Mazarine, which I send you here inclosed, that you may see if we forsake not our selves, we shall not want of pernicious Counsell from abroad, this is the true Copy of it.
A Letter from John Lambert Esq. to Sr. Henry Vane, intercepted. SIR,

I Cannot tell to whom your late miscarriages are justly imputable, but I assure you they carry an ill aspect, if not worse influence upon my management of affairs▪ as if I had slipt the greatest advantage thia Crown (since the peace) could have acquested. My great design against the Protestant Churches sound not now so gloriously, and dwindles in the Expectation, for they are now like not onely to find a defendor of the Faith, and Assertor of their Religion in England, but also the French may in a short time feel him a potent and dangerous neighbour, and one that threatens that security and greatness, which my endeavour and Counsells have promised them. Sir I would contribute my utmost abilities to return you to the Chaos you were in, (though I fear the resplendent Lustre of a Prince is mounted too high) but you your selv •• have exceeded all History, na • imagination, and I cannot direct any thing absolutely feasible: what think you of the Parisian Massacre? this I do but hint unto you, but I'le assure you what ever you can do for your selves, shall be powerfully seconded and assisted by your faithfull friend,

J. L.
A Letter from Col. Hewson to my Lord Fleetwood. MY LORD!

SInce my flight from Wallingford House, I have by the benesit of my trade like a Jesuit, had accesse every where, and I find the folks mad for a King, my lurry is come, when he will I shall be but a Cobler still, and I passe under that true dignity; where I am now, there's a company of strange fellows that talk of twenty years revolutions, and that all things in that space return to the first state, I thought it entrench'd upon my Lordships Honour, and offering to quarrell they have beat my other eye out: if you have wept both yours out, youl be good company for me, for here's a Phanatick Constable will procure a brief for any two of us, I have a pair of strong shoos that will keep us from backsliding any more, but I doubt they will not from neck breaking, and I have a fine Dog and a Bell to ring the tune of the Lurhan respects, I expect a word of exhortation from your Lordship and remain

Vampington Shoon the Last. your Honours Tumble down Servant Hewson.
A Letter from Master Walton to Arthur Haselrigg Junior Esq. SIR,

HAving tryed all means to procure satisfaction from your brother in law Richard Cromwell for his Fathers Funerals which I trusted him, and finding it to be a desperate debt, unless I can make a speciall friend. I have presumed to request your favourable assistance, really sir, you would pity me to think that such a proper Gentleman, whom Pauls Church yrad could not compare, should now go a wool-gathering with a license to question every one in bla • k (like the Burr in the Fable) for my cloth, and adde to all to be in danger of a Dungeon, if the undone Clothier lay hold on me. Sir you have laid field to field, Bishops Lands to Crown Lands, and yet if the times hold on you are like to be on the wrong side of the hedge, and therefore let humane condition move you to consideration of my case. My brother in law Pride is disbanded, and the ambition of all our friends withered, and as beggarly already as they were at the beginning, let us now move Heaven and Earth rather the sink under the load of our Dunghill fortunes; and as you tender your rotten Lady leave • er not to the violent hands of the rude Cavaliers. • his is all at present, from

Sir your humble serant.
FINIS.