Merlini liberati errata: or, The prophecies and predictions of John Partridge, for the year of our Lord, 1690, &c. With useful annotations on them. Together with an epistle touching his respect to those glorious martyrs of the people, King Charles I. and Arch-Bishop Laud. By an earnest honourer of his King and country, and faithful votary to a true astrology. December 31. 1692. Imprimatur, Edmund Bohun.

To the Judicious READER.

I Here Present you with a short Specimen of J. P's skill in Astrology, shewing how fit he is to set up for an Inter∣preter of the Stars. Brutish Baulings and Beastly Lan∣guage, are his prime Talents; and noisy Lyes, Scan∣dals and Nonsense, the Natural Products of his virulent Pen. Deprive the Man of this Furniture, and his Almanack's like a Room Unhung, will be purely Naked. He labours to approve himself a Man of Design; and stretches all the little Art he's Master of, to lessen Monarchy and Religion. Hence he bold∣ly Exclaims,—

A Common-wealth's the thing that Kingdoms want.

But woe the time! That the Church and State should suffer themselves to be Corrected and Underlay'd by so Artless a Wight! Howbeit, that this is his grand Bent, conspicuously ap∣pears, by the many daring Scandals he constantly is casting up∣on sundry Illustrious Branches of the Royal Family, and on several of the Sacred Order. View his Chronology of this Year, 1692. and observe how he deals by K. Charles I. and Arch-Bishop Laud.

I. He makes that Glorious King and Martyr, to be Author of the late Intestine Bloody War; affirming him to have Refused Propositions for Peace; when as it is manifest, That Pious Peacable Monarch, did so far comply and stoop even below the Dignity of Himself, as a King, that he sent Forty Messages to the Parliament, to procure the Quiet of his Bleeding Kingdoms. All which were Rejected! Alas!

the Rebels (non obstante their Godly Pretences) design'd not his Re-establishment, nor to make him a Glorious King, as they promised; their aim being at the Ruin of his Honor, Crown and Life. As you may find by reading his own Excellent Book: Also by Sir W. Sanderson's History of that good Prince. Mr. Hobbs's, Behemoth, and the Learned Dr. Hollingworth's, and Mr. Long's late Admirable Defences of that Divine Mon∣arch.

II. This Impious Man is not ashamed to charge the most Reverend Bishop Laud, with bringing in Popery, &c. A Scan∣dal so horribly false, that nothing can Equal it, but it's Author. For Popery, all the World knows, was not brought in while that good Prelate was Metropolitan; neither is it yet. Nor, was it likely that this Pious Bishop ever design'd any such thing, unless we can believe, the proper way to introduce Popery, be strenuously to Oppose it? His Learned Treatise against the Je∣suit Fisher, still Lives, and will ever Live to confute this Hel∣lish Calumny.

I hope some able Polite Pen of the Church of England, will undertake the further Defence of our Murther'd Prince, and Martyr'd Bishop, (who both of them suffer'd under the Rage and for the Sins of a Rebellious Headstrong People) and Cha∣stise this Calumniating Libertine, and not suffer him to pass without Reproof for these his horrid Scandals; he having thereby as far as in him lies, Murthered those Sacred Persons a second time.