The copie of a letter written by Mercurius Britanicus to Mercurius Civicus. Mercurius Britanicus. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A80501 of text R210293 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[10]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A80501 Wing C6170 Thomason 669.f.10[10] ESTC R210293 99869105 99869105 162551 2240949161

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A80501) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162551) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f10[10]) The copie of a letter written by Mercurius Britanicus to Mercurius Civicus. Mercurius Britanicus. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1644] Place of publication from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "July 6th. 1644". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Early works to 1800. A80501 R210293 (Thomason 669.f.10[10]). civilwar no The copie of a letter written by Mercurius Britanicus to Mercurius Civicus. Mercurius Britanicus 1644 1 569 4 0 0 0 0 0 70 D The rate of 70 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE COPIE OF A LETTER WRITTEN By MERCVRIVS BRITANICVS To MERCVRVS CIVICVS .

BRother Civicus , conforme to your desire , I thought good to write to you of the estate of Britannia , with its adjacent Irelandia . But in regard the greatest matters are yet in firie ; And because of the wonderfull confusion which every where appeareth , I cannot write as I would : For the PARLIAMENT cryes , Law , Law ; the KING cryes , Aw , Aw ; the QVEENE cryes Ave , Ave , and the COVNTRIE cryes , W●e , W●e , but alwayes thus much for your satisfaction I perceive there are three parties in their Kingdomes , which for brevitie I will expresse in abstracto , to wit ; Pietie , Policie , and Poperie : Each one of these hath a Bastard-brother ; Pietie hath Independency , a Bastard which Singularity begat upon Nouelty : Policie hath Atheisme , a Bastard which Superstition begat upon Ignorance : And Popery hath Prelacy , a Bastard which the man of sin in his full strength , begat upon one of the d●ughtres of Mammon . These three parties I finde diversly ranked in these Kingdomes : For England putteth Policy first then* Pietie ▪ and then Popery . Scotland putteth Pietie first , next Po , licy , and then Popery . Ireland putteth Popery first , then Policie , and last Pietie . In each of these Kingdomes there is a pryme patron to which these foresaid parties addresse themselves , Hence it is that in England Policie runneth to the King , Popery to the Qeene , Pietie to the Parliament . In Scotland Pietie runneth to a Covanant , whence some are called Covenanters , Policie runneth to a Band , whence some are called Banders and Baberders : And Ppoerie runneth to Fortifications , or else is forced to leave the Countrey . In Ireland these partis have a contrarie current ; For thire Poperie runneth to fire and sword , Policie to a Cessasion , and Pietie to a Posture of defence The Policie of England , and Poperie of Ireland have put all these Kingdomes in bloud , and are greived that they cannot meet together as they would for mutuall supply ; And unlesse the Pietie of Scotland disappoint their designes , by all likelihood they will worke our ruine . For Policie will never lay downe Armes so long as that question of Thine and Mine is undiscussed : Poperie will never lay downe Armes , so long as the Name of Israel is heard of under the Heaven . And as for their Souldiers , who serve any of them for money , they will never lay downe Armes so long as there is either pay or plundering to be gotten . The sturring of these Malignants hath put each godly hearted Scots man into a Militarie condition . And therefore to the confusion of all the powers of hell bee it knowne , that Scotlands Pietie , now marching in the fields , is resolved never to lay downe Armes , tell it hath rectified Englands policie , and extirpated Irelands Popery , which that it may be speedily accomplished by the power of heaven , is the humble and daily prayers of .

Your loving Brother . M B