COurteous Reader, Although this Emblme doth chiesly represent the Rigid Presbyterie of Scotland, yet it is too apparent, they have many Friends both of the Clergy and Gentry in England, that are not behind hand in assisting them, in their present actings, and for so much as concernes our present occasion, I shall briefly cite Mr. Lilie's words expressed in his Astrologicall predictions this present yeare, 1651. wherein he ingeniously confesseth, he hath no malice, either to Presbyterian or Malignant, except they disturb our quiet, and molest our present Government and Councell of State; but in the second page of his booke, he describs the Parliament of England's perfectionall figure, for the 11. yeare of their sitting, from which he concludes the Genuine sense of that quadrant aspect, runns thus, or doth signifie in effect thus, that our present state shall be still, a great part of this yeare dangerously molested and pestered by a refractorie people of their owne, called a Scotified Clergy, a generation of men from whom both the Spirit of Truth, and the meeke Spirit of obedience, due by the Lawes of God unto their Superiors is departed: certainly these men doe our Parliament more mischiefe, and whole Nation moe pre­judice, then an Army of Forraigne Forces would doe, let God reward them according to their iniquity; from the second figure, he concludes, that the present power or Counsell of State shall stand firme, and shall not be dissolved, by any earthly power, worldly force or treacherie, during this annuall resolution. Observe this also, viz. That forty yeares were the English under the government of two Scottish Kings, even just as many yeares as the Children of Israel did wander in the Wildernesse before they came unto rest, God hath now delivered us from that servitude, and wee are very neere entring into the Land of Canaan, viz. liberty, if we repine not at Gods mercies, nor rebell against his authority, wee shall assu­redly enjoy it.

2 The grand cause of the Scots being at variance and enmity with us, is our change of government, and why may not England change againe a third and a fourth time, if they see good, and aske Scotland no leave, it being a right in all Nations to alter their govern­ment, for the publique benefit; Scotland may take notice, how long they were in former times without a King, and how little power they afforded him, certainely it was their antient custome, to hold his Nose to it, with the Bridle both of Kirke and State, so that this is no new or strange Embleme of them; the difference betwixt them is this, that wee having cast off their King, it is their designe to settle him upon us againe, by force, they proclaimed him King of Great Brittaine, &c. But wee have more reason to breake the line of succession, made up of tyranny, cruelty and oppression: The Norman bastard the Father of them all, had no other title to the Crowne but his long sword, by which he became Conquerour against the Lawes and liberties of England, and after him proceded his Sonnes, and their Successors obtained the Crowne, one from another, by power and policie, till the time of Henry the seventh, who laid claime to it by the same title also, of Conquest, after he had slaine Richard the third, save that he descended from a Bastard of John of Ga [...]nt, and from this King, did our late Tyrant King CHARLES derive his title, he being descended from a Daughter of that Henry married into Scotland, by vertue whereof his Father K. James, by the unhappy policie of some Courtiers, did obtaine the Crowne, who was then attended with a heavy curse, and terrible plague, into England, if it were no more but the weake and unjust title of the usurping pretenders, the English Nation have sufficient cause to cast off this accursed Monarchie, but which is more, through all their reigne hath been exercised, a constant course of tyranny, for not one of them since William the Conquerour, but did exceedingly abuse, and enslave the people, as the Chronicle makes mention: So that it was nobly done of our Parliament to lay hold on a season of liberty, after the Nation had groaned under slaverie, for five or six hundred yeares. Suppose the title of this young King had been good and right, hath not the Fathers treason cut off the Sonne? hath he not from the beginning been in actuall warre against the Parliament? hath he not had his Fathers Counsellours, and principles? and hath he not been bred up under poperie and prelacie, and hath had hand in the blood of the three Nations, making use of all Parties, to serve his owne malicious ends and interest, and are not Englands eyes yet open, to see what will be the sad condion, and wofull effects of it? If they should be so base spirited, as to suffer this young pretender to take rooting againe, to bring them back into slaverie, and Monarchcall bondage, a yoake too heavy for Englands shoulders to beare.

I wil conclude with an old Prophesie of a Jesuite in Hen. VII. time, of all the Kings and Queens that should succeed in England; thus, Mars, Puer, Alecto, Virgo, Vulpes, Leo, Nallus. The English of it is this, Mars the God of war, Hen. 8. Puer, a Boy, Edward the 6. Alect [...], a Fury, Queene Mary, Virgo, a maiden Queen Elizabeth, Vulper, a Fox King James, Leo a Lyon King Charles, Nullus, None.