Votivæ Angliæ, Englands complaint to their king:, or, The humble desires of all the zealous and true-hearted Protestants in this kingdome, for a speedy and happy reformation of abuses in church government, being the onely meanes to remove these distractions, and to avert the judgement of God from us. : As they were expressed in sundry petitions, remonstrances and letters, lately presented from them to the king, upon sundry occasions. / Collected by a wel-wisher to reformation.

The direction for Master Rochester Carr.

OVr help is in the Name of the Lord that made heaven and earth.

First therefore let that blessed Lord be humbly fought unto by fasting and prayer.

Secondly let the distressed gentleman be re∣moved from his own house unto some other con∣venient place well situate for aire, and spacious fields: to walk in and to do other exercises.

Thirdly, settle with him a religious discreet Di∣vine that may constantly pray with him and read unto him evening and morning, and upon all good occasions to keep him company.

Fourthly, place about him six honest servants men of good discretion and resolution that may be ready upon all occasions to aid and assist in the well ordering of him according to the dirrections of him that shall undertake the government of him, to watch with him, to ride with him, and to exercise with him in shooting or bowling or any other exercise that shall be thought fit for him.

Fiftly, let them be very carefull and take heed that there be no knives, nor swords, nor any woun∣ding instruments left in the roomes wherein he comes, nor worn by others, that he may suddenly snatch at them for their temptations are many times very violent and their resolution sudden and disperate.

Sixtly let his apparell be decent and comely of cloth or plaine stuffe without lace or any such cu∣rious

trimming, and let his attendants give him no titles of honour but in civillity call him Master Rotchester or Master Carr, and when he doth any thing wel, then to shew the more respect unto him: but other wise to slight him, as those that are set over him to command him, and not to be com∣manded by him.

Seventhly, let his diet be sparing and moderate, rather to support nature then to pomper the flesh: veale, lambe, pheasant, larkes: smelts, troutes, pike, pearch, also let him fast often and pray much, let him refraine from all kinde of wines and strong drink, if you can by any meanes, let him sleep six or seven houres in the foure and twenty and not above.

Eightly, let him be held constantly to prayer, and reading an houre in the morning and an hour in the evening, and if the weather be fitting and his strength answerable let him walke a mile out right in the morning and evening and if you finde him inclining to a sottish humer put an armour upon him and beat a drum before him and let one attyre himselfe like a Captaine and put on his gorget and a plume of feathers in his hat & a trunchion in his hand and make to march and exercise his armes, or else set him upon a bounding horse and trot the ring and run a career: and in these martiall exerci∣ses let the Captaine command him as his souldier, and if he finds him peevish and froward give him a good knock upon his helmet, and if he finde him willing and tractable then to commend and praise him.

Ninthly, for matter of Physick, you must ad∣vise

with some learned Physician that doth well understand the nature of the disease, and the con∣stitution of his body; for otherwise he may be prodigall of blood-letting, and the want of blood may increase his melancholy: he must likewise take heed of strong vomits, that strain the head, and distemper the brain; in my opinion bathing, and sweating, and bleeding with horseleeches the safer way.

Lastly, because these maladies and distempers are accompanied with a great deale of peevish crossenesse, and wilfull obstinacie, and a great part of the cure stands in the right crossing of them from those froward and furious humours, which will require great patience, and good ob∣servation; for the generall, use all faire meanes you can devise to gain them to the good, and di∣vert them from the ill: but if that will not prevail, you must have patience and passe it over as though you took no notice of it; but if it comes once to this, that they do perceive that you go about to crosse them, and that you are in opposition and contesting with them, then you must follow it with all importunity, and resolvtion to subdue them, and compell them to do it; but be sure you take them with such advantages that you prevail, otherwise the attempting of it will prove dange∣rous to your selfe, and make them more outragi∣ous and insolent.

Postscript.

Master Dixie I pray be carefull to see these directions

well performed, and then I hope you will well deserve to have twenty pound a yeer for your paines, otherwise I would be loath to perswade you to undertake such a dan∣gerous imployment.