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THE TRAYTORS Vnvailed, OR A Brief and true account of that horrrid and bloody de&s;igne intended by tho&s;e Rebellious People, known by the names OF ANABAPTISTS and Fifth MONARCHY BEING Vpon SVNDAY the 14<HI>th.</HI> of <HI>April</HI> 1661. in NEVVGATE On purpo&s;e to oppo&s;e his Maje&s;ties per&s;on and Laws.</P>
<P>Printed in the Year, 1661.</P>
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THE TRAYTORS Vnvailed OR A brief relation of that horrid and bloody de&s;ign intended by the <HI>Ana|bapti&s;ts</HI> and Fifth <HI>Monarchy.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT is unknown to all well di&s;po&s;ed Chri&s;tian peo|ple of the late Traiterous in&s;urections and actions in <HI>Broad&s;treet,</HI> and <HI>Wood&s;treet,</HI> and had not the Lord out of his great goodne&s;s timely &s;uppre&s;t them, it would certainely (accordingly to their intents) invol|ved the whole Nation in warrs and blood, but finding their Devilli&s;h plots not to take effect, thoy have ever &s;ince (for the beter promoting the &s;ame) held confe|rence
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and corre&s;pondency with their deluding Spirits, and taking and ob&s;erving all opertunities of advantage for accompli&s;hing their bloody de&s;igns, in a &s;ecreet &amp; ob&s;cure manner, they &s;ent divers Letters of advice and coun&s;el from one to the other at &s;everal places, which was to give them notice that on Munday la&s;t (at the time when his Maje&s;ty &s;hould be at <HI>Wind&s;or</HI> according to his Maje&s;ties Ance&s;tors cu&s;tome) they &s;hould unani|mo&s;ly meet to carry on their work by violence of the Sword, but Gods great mercy attending his Maje&s;ty and this poor Nation, providentially gave foreknow|ledge thereof to his Maje&s;ty and Coun&s;el, to prevent the &s;ame, his Maje&s;ty Coun&s;elled with God in his prayers and meditations, and afterwards according to Gods Decree and his Honorable Coun&s;els advice and &s;erious judgment, he &s;ent his &s;pecial Warrant to ex|amine all &s;u&s;picious Hou&s;es for Papers, Letters &amp;c.</P>
<P>The which was accordingly executed in &s;everal Hou&s;es by one of the Lord General <HI>Monks</HI> Captains, with his Officers and Souldiers, and to their &s;atisfaction divers Letters were taken which were received from &s;everal per&s;ons of great concernment, and large returns in folio of mo&s;t horrid coun&s;el, their &s;editious Sects in all places both neer and remote, the per&s;ons having them in cu&s;todywere immediatly &s;ecured, but to fur|ther pro&s;ecute their good &s;ucce&s;s and future hopes of timely preventing their cur&s;ed atcheivments, the noble Captain made it his next only bu&s;ine&s;s to go to <HI>New-Gate</HI> were very many and dangerous per&s;ons are toge|ther, and therefore thought that there they &s;hould be better &s;atisfied and obtain a further and more ample
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di&s;covery, by taking more of the like Letters of black ad|vice (which according happened) The particulars in the &s;earching as followes, being ob&s;erved by a &s;pectator who was &s;o much in danger of his own life that he committed his &s;oul to God and never thought to go out again alive, but their included mallice and de&s;ire of blood was by providence unexpectedly and mercifully diverted.</P>
<P>About three of the Clock, at which time they were at the height of their pretended Devotion in &s;everal Roomes and corners of the Hou&s;e, at which convention the Captain judged it the be&s;t opportunity to go up. He demanded the Keepers to admitt him and his a&s;&s;i|&s;tance up, by &s;hewing them his authority and intent, of his loving the per&s;on. Who was fir&s;t acquainted with the bu&s;ine&s;s and the authority thereof was Mr. <HI>Knolls,</HI> a Pri&s;oner &s;peaker to the Anabapti&s;ts, who civilly re|que&s;ted to &s;hew what Letters &amp; Papers he had in his Cu&s;tody, but contrary to the civillity u&s;ed to him, he in&s;ollently di&s;obeyed his Maje&s;ties Warrant, and vio|lently re&s;i&s;ted the &s;earch both by his hands &amp; Tongue, fir&s;t crying out to his a&s;&s;ociats that they &s;hould &s;ecure the Keepers and take away the Keys, Mr. <HI>Hicks</HI> a Turnkey would moderatly have pacified and ratio|nally di&s;cu&s;t the inconveniency that would but follow like a head-&s;trong people void of rea&s;on, carried him up the &s;taires upon the leads, and had not his much in|treaty pre&s;erved him, they had imediately threw him off into the Street; &s;ome others in the intrim beat one of the Keepers, threw him down Staires, took away the Keys and kept them; others were upon one
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of the Turnkeys who was ba&s;ely mi&s;u&s;ed, And had not &s;ome pir&s;oners that lay for Debt &s;ecured him, they had certainly ended his daies by a Stab, their mallice was &s;o invetterate towards him, however with one voice they all cryed lets through the Rogue off from the leads. The Captaine in the time of this hurly burly was below, expecting a civill reply of his Demandes, but notice being given him by the uproares he with his Sword drawn a&s;&s;i&s;ted by another Turnkey who at that punct of time came with the Right Wor|&s;hipfull Sheriff <HI>Boulton</HI> to &s;ee the Warrant Executed hearing of their perverne&s;s to it, they went to Squench the fire whil&s;t it was in its begining that though they &s;aw them appear &amp; the Sheriff comanded Mr <HI>Knowlls</HI> to go down into his Chamber, and obey his Maje&s;ties Orders, yet &s;till they per&s;i&s;ted in their folly, by &s;ecuring the Captain in their own Chamber, and forcibly <HI>Knowlls</HI> laid hands on Mr. <HI>Lowman</HI> with a great Stick as if it were purpo&s;ely prepared, and the re&s;t of his Companions &s;eized them&s;elves upon other, but Mr. <HI>Lowman</HI> being not at all daunted with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of his Pri&s;oners, by degrees overpowered them, and after|wards for pre&s;ent puni&s;hment he committed <HI>Iohn Smith</HI> into the Hoale (who is a convicted per&s;on for the late Murder committed by the in&s;urrection in <HI>Broad|&s;treet)</HI> and was one of the mo&s;t violent in the Hou&s;e being de&s;irous by his attempts to have &s;topt Mr. <HI>Low|mans</HI> Breath by laying his cruel mercile&s;s, and bloody hands upon his throat.</P>
<P>Mr. <HI>Portman</HI> was al&s;o put into the Hoale, being a chief and principal Actor, and de&s;perately &s;trook all
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that did oppo&s;e him or his fellows, and had it not hap|pily fell out that the fift Monarchy men were all lockt in their Chamber where they were at their meeting, it had certainly been a terrible and cruel day to all that had been in their way.</P>
<P>But finding their plots were di&s;covered and their hopes fru&s;trated of their de&s;ired ends which &s;hould have been brought forth the next day. Then to pre|&s;erve their decaying reputation, and re&s;pects and good words among&s;t the common people, they &s;uddainly &s;ent their me&s;&s;engers abroad to make complaint fir&s;t, to have their guilt &s;eem le&s;s.</P>
<P>But on purpo&s;e to undeceive the people, and to give them better &s;atisfaction of the rea&s;on and truth there|of I have taken the pains as to acquaint all that are de&s;irous of the &s;ame, that they may no longer be de|ceived by their &s;pecious pretences, for the <HI>Fift Monar|chy</HI> men are a people that a true character of their ma|litious principles cannot be demon&s;trated, but their actions make them appear to be a blood-thir&s;ty and Rebellious people again&s;t God and the King.</P>
<TRAILER>Whom God Pre&s;erve.</TRAILER>
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