Thomas Anello, otherwise Massenello, a fisherman of Naples, who
after spiriting up his countrymen in the public market place,
against the oppression of the Spaniards, to whom the place was
then subject, prompted them to revolt, and in the space of a day
became King.
"Thou hast tasted of prosperity and adversity; thou
knowest what it is to be banished thy native country, to be
overruled as well as to rule, and set upon the throne; and being
oppressed thou hast reason to know now hateful the oppressor is
both to God and man: If after all these warnings and
advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord with all thy
heart, but forget him who remembered thee in thy distress, and
give up thyself to follow lust and vanity, surely great will be
thy condemnation. Against which snare, as well as the temptation
of those who may or do feed thee, and prompt thee to evil, the
most excellent and prevalent remedy will be, to apply thyself to
that light of Christ which shineth in thy conscience and which
neither can, nor will flatter thee, nor suffer thee to be at ease
in thy sins."
Barclay's Address to Charles II
FINIS
