Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecutedHart, W. H. (William Henry)
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Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus: Or, a descriptive catalogue of the principal books printed or published in England, which have been suppressed, or burnt by the common hangman, or censured, or for which the authors, printers, or publishers have been prosecuted
Hart, W. H. (William Henry)
Prohibited books -- England -- Bibliography
"In the spacious Theater of the Universe, the singular conditions
of singular Persons are directly articulated in some expresse
place. Wherefore the _Round-heads_, whose Pricke-eares are
longer than their Haire, have erected an Image of their own
Imaginations; a Synagogue, or a convenient place conduceably to the
obscured secrecy of their Conventicles: and they gave a plausible
appellation to it, calling it _Round-heads'_ Hall. Here did the
Councell of _Fooles_ meet usually, and called themselves _The
Simple Senate of the Times_. There are severall places for severall
Men appointed, yet I did alwaies wonder that one should be so long
wanting. There is _Newgate_ for Theeves, _Ludgate_ for Debters,
the _Counter_ for Drunkards and misdemeanors, _Bridewell_ for Idle
Persons, _Bedlam_ for Mad-Men; but I wondered extreamely there
should be no place appointed for _Fooles_: but the _Round-heads_
have taken that into their serious consideration, and least a place
should be wanting for _Fooles_, they have built _Round-heads'
Hall_, wherein they seeme to have done a great Act of Charity: for
Charity begins at home."
And it concludes thus:--
"Thus being conveened in this _Round-heads' Hall_, in this manner
without any Order: for they say Order is prophanesse, and where
no Order is, there can be no transgression upon any, and where no
transgression is found, there can be no prophanesse, _Ergo_, It
is holinesse to be without Order: They began to shew their simple
Opinions, each Man at least foure houres, and after the minds of
them all were knowne, and uttered by the instinct of the Spirit,
they unanimously agreed to Order these things following."
"_Orders made by the Parliament of Round-heads,
sitting at Round-heads' Hall, without Cripple-Gate._
"Since the Lobs and Common Fooles assembled at _Round-heads'
Hall_, have understood in sincerity the manifold distempers of
Religion, the errors of People, and the malignity of some Popishly
affected, and that they being sensible of the insolency of the
Cavalleers, and what imminent danger that insolency may produce if
not prevented in time, It is therefore by them ordered, 1.--Since a
parity was first ordained by God himselfe, and that there needeth
no Order or Degree of persons, because God is equall and no
respecter of persons, Be it therefore ordered, that we have no King
but _P_.
"2.--That we have no Bishops, because they are the Pope's Sons, but
that we send them either to the Tower or Tiburne.
"3.--That we have no Churches, for they are of a Popish
construction, and were derived first from Rome.
"4.--That we have no Bels, Organs, or Babylonish Timpans, for they
all tend to the prophanation of God's holy Word.
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