The cry of royal innocent blood heard and answered being a true and impartial account of Gods extraordinary and signal judgments upon regicides : with an historical relation of the deposing, murthering, and assasinating of several kings of England, Scotland, France, &c. ...

TO THE READER.

REader, what ever thou art, consider well this Treatise, in which as in a Mir∣rour, you may behold the Ma∣chivilian Policies of Wicked and desperate Men, formed to bring about their Diabolical purposes, and at the same time observe how the unerring hand of Divine Vengeance has over∣whelmed them with swift de∣struction; for what greater Affront can be offered the Al∣mighty,

then with Sacralegi∣ous Hands to shed the Blood of his Anointed, even those whom himself has Chosen from amongst all the Sons of Men, to bear his Sacred Character, and Govern as his Vice-Ge∣rents upon Earth, on whom he has doubly Stamp'd his bless'd Idea, and has declared that by him they Reign, and Ho∣noured them with Titles above the ordinary rank of Men, viz. I have said ye are Gods, &c. as indeed they are Gods upon Earth, to Execute Ju∣stice

upon the Wicked, and Cherrish the Virtuous, against whom the wise Man says there is (that is, there ought to be) no rising up, and that we ought not to speak Evil of them, no not in our Hearts, yet such have been the Hellish Engins raised by the Prince of Dark∣ness, that (not regarding their Allegiance to the King of Kings, nor his Vice-Gerents) contrary to all Oaths▪ and strictest Ties, have not feared to perpetrate such Villanies as in their effects have made

whole Kingdoms groan, but added Guilt to Guilt, by mak∣ing Religion the Cloak of their Horrid Impieties, or at least the Reformation of the King∣doms wherein their Villanies were Acted, which (as they in∣sinuated into the unthinking Plebeans) must of neces∣sity be effected, or that all things would sink into inevi∣table Ruin, when at the same time, these Instruments of Sa∣tan, were brooding more mi∣series and dire Calamities then Pandoras-Box con∣tained,

Plagues to Afflict Man∣kind, and turn all things into Confusion, though for the most part the Pitt that they digged for others, themselves have fallen into, for it has been observed, how crafty so ever the Regicides of all Ages have been to bring about their amazing Im∣pieties, yet none of them sooner or la∣ter have escaped the Hand of Divine Vengeance, either in some Signal and Exemplary Punishment, or by the wounds of a torturing Conscience, even in this Life, as is at large discovered in this Treatise, which contains the Tragedies of many good Kings of these latter Ages, Deposed and Murthered by their Subjects (or rather Devils in the Shapes of Men) especially such Kings of England, as have come to

untimely Ends by such means, for Six Hundred Years past; together with Compendious Histories of their Lives and Reigns, and the Calamities that thereupon have befallen this and other Nations; Worthy the perusal of all Persons, and may serve as a terrible Memento, or Warning-Peice to those whose Consciences Start not (when ei∣ther Ambition or Profit is the Master) at the Horridest Impiety that Hell can Dictate.