Divers historicall discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britain and Ireland tending all, to the asserting of the truth, in vindication of Their Majesties / by James Howell ... ; som[e] of which discourses were strangled in the presse by the power which then swayed, but now are newly retreev'd, collected, and publish'd by Richard Royston.
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- Divers historicall discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britain and Ireland tending all, to the asserting of the truth, in vindication of Their Majesties / by James Howell ... ; som[e] of which discourses were strangled in the presse by the power which then swayed, but now are newly retreev'd, collected, and publish'd by Richard Royston.
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- Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
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- London :: Printed by J. Grismond,
- 1661.
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- Divine right of kings.
- Political science.
- Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.
- Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of 1641.
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"Divers historicall discourses of the late popular insurrections in Great Britain and Ireland tending all, to the asserting of the truth, in vindication of Their Majesties / by James Howell ... ; som[e] of which discourses were strangled in the presse by the power which then swayed, but now are newly retreev'd, collected, and publish'd by Richard Royston." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A70276.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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Paraenesis Angliae.
O England (specially thou besotted City of London) if Thou be'st not quite past cure, or grown careless and desperat of thy self, if the least spark of Grace, or ray of Reson be yet re∣maining in Thee, be warn'd, be warn'd by this stranger, who ha∣ving felt thy pulse, and cast thy water very exactly, discovers in Thee symptoms of inevitable Ruine if thou holdst on this cours.
Divers of thy own children of∣tentimes admonish'd Thee with
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tears in their eyes, and terror in their hearts, to recollect thy self, and return to thy old road of o∣bedience to thy Soverain Prince, But They have bin little regarded, Let a Foreiners advice then take place, and make som impressions in Thee to prevent thy utter destruction.
From the prison of the Fleet 2. Aug. 1647.
I. H.