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<HEAD>TEN ARTICLES Already proved upon OATH again&s;t An Evil MEMBER now in the PARLIAMENT CONTAINED In three Letters lately directed unto Col. <HI>George Cook</HI> and the re&s;t of the Committee of the Army for di&s;covery of Cri|minal Offendors, in relation to the late Wars (viz.)</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 THat the &s;aid Evil Member did relea&s;e three of the Queens Prie&s;ts, and Je&s;uits out of <HI>New|gate</HI> by his Warrant.</P>
<P N="2">2. That the &s;aid Evil Member did maintain and protect &s;everall Spies and Agents for the late King within the line of Communication during the late War.</P>
<P N="3">3. That the &s;aid Evill Member did convey divers remarkable Pri&s;oners at War, out of the line of Communication, unto the late King.</P>
<P N="4">4 That the &s;aid Evil Member did a&s;&s;i&s;t, and protect &s;everall Plotters (on behalf of the late King) to de&s;troy the Citie of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. That the &s;aid Evil Member did wittingly and wilfully &s;uffer above 30000 <HI>l.</HI> to be conveyed out of the Line of Communication unto the late King.</P>
<P N="6">6. That the &s;aid Evil Member did &s;end Hor&s;es for War, with Men and Arms, unto the late King.</P>
<P N="7">7. That the &s;aid Evil Member did hold an Entercour&s;e of Letters with the late King.</P>
<P N="8">8. That the &s;aid Evil Member did maintain and keep an Agent in the Gari&s;on of <HI>Oxford</HI> to expe|dite the fore-going Treacheries.</P>
<P N="9">9. That the &s;aid Evil Member did corrupt many Members of the Parliament (&s;ome lately excluded, &s;ome now in the Hou&s;e) to conceal and &s;mother the foregoing Treacheries.</P>
<P N="10">10. That the &s;aid Evil Member did endeavor to take away the lives of &s;everal of the pro&s;ecutors and witne&s;&s;es unto the foregoing Treacheries.</P>
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<HEAD>Motives unto the pro&s;ecution of the foregoing Articles, con|tained in the afore&s;aid three Letters.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 THe foregoing Articles are proved upon Oath before <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters">onel <HI>Cook</HI> and the &s;aid Committee of the Army, and the Depo&s;itions are in writing in the hands of Colonel <HI>Cook.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;aid Depo&s;itions do declare that what&s;oever the &s;aid Evil Member hath acted with the Par|liament, or Army, hath been meerly out of de&s;ign.</P>
<P N="3">3. All godly and hone&s;t Members of the Parliament and Army would become odious, if by any po|licie or power the &s;aid Evil Member &s;hould be protected from a legal Tryal.</P>
<P N="4">4. The Spirit of God hath declared, that becau&s;e Ju&s;tice is not &s;peedily executed upon evil doers, therefore their hearts are fully &s;et in them to work mi&s;chief, <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 8. 11. and accordingly the &s;aid Evil Member (as it is probable) doth employ his Agents to make factions and parties to retard the relief of Ireland, and to exa&s;perate the &s;pirits of brethren again&s;t each other, that during &s;uch divi&s;ions his foregoing Treacheries may never be called in que&s;tion.</P>
<P N="5">5. The &s;peedy Execution of Ju&s;tice upon the &s;aid Evil Member, and &s;uch like, would turn away the &s;ierce wrath of the Lord from this Land, as it did from <HI>I&s;rael, Prov. 14. 34. I&s;ai. 32. 17. Jo&s;h. 7. 24, 26. Numb.</HI> 25. 7, 8, 9. 11.</P>
<P>Therefore, the foregoing Articles being proved upon Oath, it is not only the duty of Colonel <HI>George Cook,</HI> the re&s;t of the &s;aid Committee, the Officers and Souldiers of the Army, but al&s;o of all the Free Common-wealth&s;-men of <HI>England</HI> upon &s;ight hereof, to joyn together as one man to move his Excellency forthwith to call a general Councel, wherein the &s;aid Depo&s;itions may be openly read, debated, and tran&s;mitted to the Councel of State, for them, thereupon to prepare the form of an Act to be &s;peedily pre&s;ented and pa&s;&s;ed, for appointment of Commi&s;&s;ioners to bring the &s;aid Evil Member, and &s;uch others, to exemplary Ju&s;tice, before the Adjournment, and before any Act for a General Pardon be concluded.</P>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>PROV.</HI> 25. 11.</BIBL> Words &s;poken in &s;ea&s;on are like apples of gold in pictures of &s;ilver.</Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>EPHES.</HI> 5. 11.</BIBL> Have no fellow&s;hip with the unfruitful Work of Darkne&s;s; but reproove them rather.</Q>
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<CLOSER><DATELINE>London, <DATE>July, 3. 1649.</DATE></DATELINE><ADD>This Evill member is W^m: Lenthall <ABBR>Esq</ABBR> &s;peaker of y^e hou&s;e of Com~ons. July .16. 1649. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="indecipherable" EXTENT="1 span"></ADD></CLOSER>
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