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<P>A CONSPIRACIE OF THE TWELVE BISHOPS IN THE TOWER, AGAINST <HI>Mr. Calamie, Mr. Burton, Mr. Martiall, and many other wor|thy Divines, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s al&s;o how they ob&s;curely made tho&s;e Articles, wherein Mr. Pym and the other Parliament men were impeached.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hewing likewi&s;e their treacherie, how they would have e&s;caped out of the Tower. With a De&s;cription of the true Cau&s;e that the City of London and We&s;tmin&s;ter are day and night in Armes.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd of that notable Abu&s;e, which was done la&s;t <HI>Thur&s;day night,</HI> when the City was called up to ri&s;e in Arms in the night, both in Cheap|&s;ide, Covent-Garden, and St. Georges field in Southwark.</P>
<P>London. Printed for W. Bond, 1641.</P>
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<HEAD>THE CONSPIRACY OF THE TWELVE BISHOPS IN THE TOWER: <HI>Again&s;t Mr. Calamie, M^r. Burton, Mr. Mar|tiall, and many other worthy Divines, &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THE tyrannicall u&s;urpation of the Bi|&s;hops, and their Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall in&s;ultati|ons hath beene generally acknowledged to be the prime cau&s;e of the&s;e Di&s;cords, and pro|mi&s;cuous di&s;tractions among the people at this time. They have been kindling the fire of di&s;&s;en|tion a long time in this kingdome, and now
<PB REF="3"> they have almo&s;t brought the &s;park of their ma|licious minds to a full flame. But I hope God will &s;till divert their wicked intents, and as here|tofore all their u&s;urping tyrannie, and nefarious machinations <HI>in famum evanuerunt,</HI> have come to nothing, &s;o &s;till their con&s;piracies &s;hall be confounded. They have alwayes envied the pro|&s;peritie of good and painfull Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pell, and as they &s;aw them flouri&s;h the more in the truth of the holy Scripture, gaining the affections of the people, &s;o &s;till the more did they alwayes emulate them. But the Parliament having judiciou&s;ly perceived their intents, did not think them fit members of the Hou&s;e, and therefore have placed them in an other hou&s;e more meet for them, I mean the Tower, which they have mo&s;t de&s;erved. Where being com|mitted, they &s;tudied with all diligence, and &s;e|dulity to &s;ubvert either the intents of tho&s;e, who &s;hould oppo&s;e them, and were the Authors of their impri&s;onment. Having thus molded their re&s;olution, they privately made &s;even Articles again&s;t Mr. <HI>Pym,</HI> and four other worthie Parlia|ment men, wherein they were all arraigned of High Trea&s;on. And when they had ob&s;curely compo&s;ed, they &s;ent it to be pre&s;ented to the Kings Maje&s;tie, and that he would vouch&s;afe to give his A&s;&s;ent thereunto, and proclaim them Traitors. Thus we may perceive their malicious minds, who, when they &s;aw men glorious in the kingdome, and that &s;tood for the &s;afety, peace
<PB REF="3"> and pro&s;peritie of the Realm, did &s;tudie to &s;up|plant tho&s;e Noble Members, being the next way to &s;upplant the whole Kingdome be&s;ides. Thus we may under&s;tand their diligence to &s;et the Ci|tie, and Kingdome together by the ears: thus we may &s;ee their intents to alienate the Vpper Hou&s;e of Parliament from the Lower hou&s;e, and the King from both; yet being &s;omewhat fru&s;tra|ted of their expectation of impri&s;onment of tho&s;e Members, whom they impeached: their malice would not &s;top there, but entended farther. And now being cro&s;t in their former &s;tratagem, they proceeded unto a &s;econd: wherein they privatly againe, and ob&s;curely compo&s;ed Articles again&s;t M. Calamie, M. Burton, M. Martiall, &amp;c. with di|vers other famous Divines, &s;triving to &s;uppre&s;&s;e the laborious and painfull Mini&s;ters of the <HI>Word and Go&s;pell;</HI> for becau&s;e they could not bring the Parliament into di&s;&s;en&s;ion and di&s;cord a|mong them&s;elves, labouring to eject the chiefe&s;t Members thereof: they &s;trived to reduce the Church to Here&s;ie, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd promi&s;cuous di&s;tracti|ons, intending to &s;u&s;pend the chiefe&s;t pillars thereof,</P>
<P>But I hope that their envie and emulation will &s;hortly be di&s;&s;ipated, and although they ex|pect the&s;e men with them&s;elves in the tower, yet J beleeve they may &s;tay long enough for them.</P>
<P>If the parliament would bee plea&s;ed to call the&s;e
<PB REF="4"> Bi&s;hops to their triall, it would be great honour to them&s;elves, greater &s;afety to the Kingdome, and e&s;pecially greate&s;t honour to God and the propagation of his holy Go&s;pell. For they dai|ly concurre together in machinations, either how they may depopulate the Realm, or el&s;e how they them&s;elves might ob&s;curely e&s;cape from the Tower: Once they had concluded to &s;have them&s;elves, put on perriwigs, and gray clothes, and &s;o they thought to have e&s;caped from thence, but their treacherie was di&s;covered, and notice given to the Parliament therof. Who did immediately thereupon &s;end for &s;ome of the Guard, and gave &s;tricter charge of their fidelity: who very faithfully promi&s;ed the &s;ame.</P>
<P>But the City of <HI>London</HI> being in &s;uch extreame pe|rill, and danger, did induce many to &s;tand in their own defence; for they knew not what Treachery, the Bi|&s;hops and other popi&s;h Recu&s;ants might con&s;pire a|gain&s;t them.</P>
<P>Therefore the Trained <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">nds doe both day and night wai<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e in London and We&s;tmin&s;ter to defend them&s;elves from the wicked Con&s;piracies of their tre|cherous enemies. But one great abu&s;e done unto the City I cannot omit; when as la&s;t Thur&s;day night &s;ome Company had bin drinking very late in the night, and were re&s;olved to do &s;ome exploit, that &s;hould be heard of in the City: and one of them immediatly replyed, that they would cry about the &s;treets, that the Papi&s;ts were ari&s;ing, and every man &s;hould pre&s;ently &s;tand on his owne &s;afeguard. It was concluded on, and crying thus in the City, and calling for every man to come in his owne defence for feare hee &s;hould bee burnt in his
<PB REF="4"> bed, for the Papi&s;ts were ri&s;en. There was immediatly many thou&s;and Citizens came incontinently with their Muskers charged all with bullets, &s;ome with Hal|berts, others with pikes, &s;ome with &s;words and the like weapons, Common-garden was immediatly filled with &s;ouldiers, in Cheap-&s;ide there were many thou|&s;ands &s;tood in their Guard, and in St. Georges Field in Southwarke there was an infinite number of men in Armes. But if the&s;e rogui&s;h di&s;turbers of the city could be apprehended, I doubt not but that they &s;hould re|ceive condigne puni&s;hment according to their deme|rits.</P>
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