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<P>A COMPLAINT TO THE Hou&s;e of Commons, AND Re&s;olution taken up by the free Prote&s;tant Sub|jects of the Cities of <HI>London</HI> and <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and the Counties adjacent.</P>
<P>OXFORD, Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD, <HI>Printer to the Vniver&s;ity.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A Complaint to the Hou&s;e of COMMONS, and Re&s;olution taken up by the free Prote&s;tant Subjects of the Cities of London and We&s;tmini&s;ter and the Counties adjaceat.</HEAD>
<P>_LOo&s;ers may &s;peake by authority of a Proverb, and then we are &s;ure we ought not to be &s;ilenced; we have &s;een &amp; per|u&s;ed many Remon&s;trances, Declarations, Votes and Ordi|nances, &s;hewing how far we are obliged to complaine, &s;hall (in few words) be expre&s;&s;ed, that neither the Kings Ma|je&s;ty, your honourable A&s;&s;embly, nor any man may think otherwi&s;e, but that we have mo&s;t ju&s;t rea&s;on not to be &s;ilent, in grievances &s;o intollerable: The priviledge of &s;ubjects which wee enjoy under you moves us to complaine; yet that is not all which cau&s;es the breach of &s;i|lence, but the multiplied calumnies of Malignants, upon you the two ho|nourable Hou&s;es of Parliament; and the &s;harpe invectives daily publi&s;hed again&s;t you and to beget, and increa&s;e di&s;tru&s;t, and di&s;affection betweene the King and his Parliament, and the people: and like wicked &s;pirits of di|vi&s;ion, and under the fal&s;e pretexts of the Law of the land, and pretences of &s;eeking peace, have not only dared to defame, but even to arraign your proceedings; oh right Honourable, have not we cau&s;e to complaine again&s;t &s;uch bold pre&s;umptions? did ever &s;ubjects thus dare to abu&s;e their Senators? the Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uits of Rome them&s;elves dur&s;t never (under a Prote&s;tant government) divulge their actions to a publike view, though by &s;educements they have now brought their complices to &s;uch treachery, that as much as in them lies they labour with might and maine to mi&s;repre&s;ent your worthy actions, both to His Maje&s;ty, and to the whole Kingdome; was ever Parliament (in all their actions) more inno|cent? yet was never any more abu&s;ed; was ever any more faithfull in the tru&s;t of the Church and Kingdome committed to them? yet none &s;o maligned: &s;urely had you betraid the tru&s;t committed to you, and let the Prelats, Papi&s;ts, and all Malignants, have bin their owne executioners, in defending the law, and their owne liberties under their own fal&s;e colours; then they would have u&s;ed you better till both have been de&s;troyed.</P>
<P>What a wofull tragedy would then have been to be acted in this King|dome, when our lives, liberties, and e&s;tates &s;hould have been taken from us, and re&s;igned to them who can lay no other foundation of their owne
<PB REF="3">greatne&s;&s;e, but upon the ruine of this, and in it of all Parliaments, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> them of the true religion, and the freedome of this Nation, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> the men that would per&s;wade the people that both Hou&s;es of Parliamen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> containing all the Peeres, and repre&s;enting all the Commons of England would de&s;troy the laws of the land and the peace of the Kingdome; whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> in be&s;ides the tru&s;t of the whole; who can be &s;o blocki&s;h as not to kno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> that you your &s;elves (noble Senators) in your own particuler have &s;o gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> an intre&s;t of honour, and e&s;tate, that we hope it will gaine little credit.</P>
<P>We, and all that have but the lea&s;t u&s;e of Rea&s;on cannot be ignora<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> that if you intended any mi&s;ery towards us, your &s;elves mu&s;t needs ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> the greate&s;t &s;hare in it; did you betray your tru&s;t to procure a Princes fa|vour, you might ju&s;tly be &s;u&s;pected; but your great paines have mani|fe&s;ted how faithfull you have beene, you have left your hou&s;es and
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">|&s;tates, and neglected your owne affaires, to labour together by your h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> wi&s;edomes to con&s;ummate all our grievances, and &s;ettle us in peace, a Parliaments have formerly done; you have &s;hewed a great deale of pa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">|ence in u&s;ing your endevour &s;o long, and &s;till going on, notwith&s;tanding tho&s;e many hazards you &s;till have run both in your per&s;ons, liberties, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> e&s;tates. And yet although God hath not yet accompli&s;hed that gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> worke of Reformation, and by it a true and &s;etled peace, yet God hath &s;o far given both you and us &s;uch hopes thereof, by the wonderfull things which he hath divers wayes wrought by you, that we doubt not but tha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> in his good time, he will convince tho&s;e that are yet blinded, to &s;ee you<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> faithfulne&s;&s;e; when we &s;hall &s;ee our de&s;ires upon your and our enemies, that belch out their calumnies again&s;t tho&s;e that &s;tand for Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</P>
<P>You are the hopes under God (with the King in the Lords good time) that we fly to; for we find that the fountaine of all Law is the Parliament; the e&s;tabli&s;hment of the King in his royall throne is firme and ab&s;olute by Act of Parliament; that we are pre&s;erved from being murthered, is by lawes e&s;tabli&s;hed in Parliament, that we are not &s;laves, that theeves doe not openly robbe us, and &s;poile us of our goods; that we doe quietly en|joy that which we can &s;ay is mine and thine; we are protected by the laws e&s;tabli&s;hed in Parliament; Parliaments have power given them to recon|cile differences; but &s;ome dangerous Malignants, to the end wee might fall out more with our &s;elves, to make a way to feed their hopes, are daily &s;owers of divi&s;ion to prevent that happy peace which you &s;o labour for; we grieve, and our hearts bleed to &s;ee the &s;au&s;ine&s;&s;e of your, and all true Prote&s;tants enemies; but be not di&s;couraged, God will &s;trengthen you to make pre&s;idents for po&s;terity on better grounds of rea&s;on and law then your predece&s;&s;ors have made for you; for what law can limit your
<PB REF="3"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">oceedings, the fountains therof. We doubt not but the mon&s;ters of the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">mes will move your wi&s;domes to prevent &s;uch future di&s;a&s;ters.</P>
<P>It wounds us to the very heart and &s;oule to &s;e the noble&s;t Senators that
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ver were cho&s;en, and intru&s;ted with all that is deare&s;t to us, labouring at <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ou have done for our peace and &s;afety, to be affronted by &s;uch Andro|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">acu&s;es as never age before brought forth, daring to attempt to di&s;affect
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">he people from a Parliament, when dur&s;t ever any bee knowne to har|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">our &s;uch a thought? were there ever &s;uch practi&s;es to poy&s;on the peo|ple with a mi&s;apprehen&s;ion of the Parliament? were there ever &s;uch im|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">utations, and &s;candalls laid upon the proceedings of both Hou&s;es? were
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">here ever &s;o many and &s;uch horrible breaches of priviledg of Parliament? were there ever &s;o many, &s;o cunning, &s;o venomous, and &s;o de&s;perate de|&s;ignes of force, and violence again&s;t the Parliament, and the Members
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">hereof? did ever Parliament &s;uffer as this hath done, though they de|&s;erve better then all that went before them? Should they have made &s;ome former Parliament patternes, they had long &s;ince made the great incendia|ries of all our mi&s;chiefe to know the power of a Parliament, in revenging and freeing the &s;ubjects from all forraigne injuries done unto them; ac|cording to the direction of King <HI>Iames</HI> of ble&s;&s;ed memory, <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>p.</HI> 55. Therefore &s;aith he in another place, if any do urge to imbrace their owne fancies in the place of Gods word, &amp;c. Acknowledge them for vaine men, and with authority redact them into order againe. <HI>p.</HI> 20.</P>
<P>Where lies the difference? what is the chiefe &s;pring that forces the wheeles of this poore Kingdome out of order? Our royall King him&s;elfe (on whom God multiply his choi&s;e&s;t ble&s;&s;ings) is &s;uch a loving Prince as his Father commends, who thinks his greate&s;t contentment &s;tandeth in his &s;ubjects pro&s;perity, and his greate&s;t &s;urety in having their hearts. <GAP DESC="foreign"> <HI>p.</HI> 25.</P>
<P>And as for the two honourable Hou&s;es of Parliament, they have mani|fe&s;ted their earne&s;t zeale for the advancing of the Kingdome of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the glory of religion, and a flouri&s;hing peace among&s;t us; not like tho&s;e that carry a petition for peace in their hands, and murder in their heart, but &s;uch a peace as may be permanent.</P>
<P>The truth of it is, there needs not a fuller Character of the Malignant part that do &s;o di&s;tract us, then that which His Maje&s;ty made of them, in one of his declarations: Tho&s;e who are di&s;affected to the peace of this Kingdome; the&s;e be the Haga&s;ians, that long to &s;ee England bathed in her owne bloud.</P>
<P N="1">1. The&s;e were the cau&s;e of the troubles in Mu&s;covia; there was a great deale of fidelity prote&s;ted to the King, and his Councell, by a Company
<PB REF="4">of Prie&s;ts and their faction, that allured the King to hearken to their
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">+deavour in &s;etling of that peace, which them&s;elves (had indeed) di&s;tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">|ed, but wofull was the event of it; for they contrived a &s;trong plot and in one night &s;lew both the King Demetrius, his Queen and his wi&s;e coun|&s;ellours, and &s;o the Kingdome was lo&s;t.</P>
<P>The&s;e were the men that petitioned to the Parliament for peace, &amp; to have a toleration in the Reigne of King James, at the &s;ame time when they were plotting day and night to blow up the Hou&s;es of Parliament, with the King, Prince, Nobles, and Hou&s;e of Commons; and the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> to haue &s;uddenly fallen upon us, to have &s;lain us all; Oh what a &s;ad day, &s;hould this have been to poore England, but (God be ble&s;&s;ed) they were prevented. How have they plotted to incen&s;e the Pope to &s;end &s;o many fulminent Breves to England to hinder the Kings Liege people from a king the oath of allegiance, and &s;upremacy? How hath father Par&s;on, and other been &s;uffered in that which by the Laws of the Land is trea&s;on.</P>
<P>To practi&s;e beyond the Seas, or upon the Seas, or el&s;ewhere with|in the Kings dominions, to ab&s;olve, per&s;wade, or withdraw any &s;ubject, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> any within his Highne&s;&s;e Dominions, from their obedience to his Maje|&s;ty or to reconcile them to the Pope, or to draw them to the Romi&s;h Religion for that intent, or to move them to promi&s;e obedience to the See of Rome, or to any other Prince to be had or u&s;ed within the Kings dominions; everie &s;uch per&s;on and their procurers, aiders, coun&s;ellours and maintainers knowing the &s;ame, are all in ca&s;e of high trea&s;on. 23. El. 1.3. Jac. 4. P. Rom. 7.</P>
<P N="2">2 The Projectours with their monopolies, that have long gnawed at the bowells of the Kingdome, they are another party ready to help the&s;e divi&s;ions forward. One that was a great Patentee for Butter Casks, &amp;c. Captaine Read by name, went over into Ireland, and became one of the chiefe&s;t of the Rebells, now a pri&s;oner in the Tower of London. And Collonell A&s;ton that had a &s;hare in the wine patten, how doth his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> rage again&s;t the Parliament, and again&s;t the Honourable City of London how cruelly did he execute Martiall law upon Ma&s;ter Boyes at Redding a Citizen that travelled that way, to &s;ee his aged Parents this Chri&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">, offering no abu&s;e, nor medling with any man, woman or child, yet upon his command was put to death.</P>
<P N="3">3 The Prelates cannot endure to be curbed of their Pride, witne&s;&s;e that in&s;olency of the Arch Prelate of Canterbury, who with the Bi&s;hop of Ely would not alight out of their coach when they went with the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ing to church in Scotland from his pallace of Hollirood hou&s;e to Edenbrough, His Maje&s;ty going on foot, in&s;omuch that the people asked them, how
<PB REF="4">they dur&s;t deny to come out of their coach &s;eeing their King him&s;elfe on
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">oot; and the Scotti&s;h men told them, how therein they appeared to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ags, and &s;ervants to the Pope.</P>
<P>Canterbury moved the King another time to erect an high Commi&s;&s;ion,
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">n all the Bi&s;hopricks of that Kingdome by vertue of a Proclamation which he extorted from his Maje&s;ty, wherein it was ordered that the Bi&s;hops Courts here in England &s;hould have no &s;ubordination to any o|ther Courts, and &s;hould proceed without any dependency, not &s;o much
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s to u&s;e his Maje&s;ties Armes in their Seals, but their own (like the Pre|late of Rome) to deprive his Maje&s;ty of his &s;upremacy.</P>
<P>Sedfer&s;e Bi&s;hop of Galloway (a Pedlers &s;onne) was &s;o bold as open|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">y before other Lords, to give the Earle of Argile a great Peer in Scot|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">and the ly. And who hath been greater incendiaries to &s;tirre up<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">ar then they, what a prote&s;tation did they make again&s;t the Court of Parliament?</P>
<P N="4">4 The bringing in of Innovations into the Church hath bred great di|&s;traction among&s;t us; which fir&s;t began when father Leader came from the Pope, then the Bi&s;hops began to erect Altars, and take away the Com|munion tables, to force all to kneel at the Sacrament, to be all uncovered during all the time of reading the &s;ervice, to &s;land up at the reading of the Go&s;pell, to bow at the name of Ie&s;us, and to con&s;ecrate a new the Church of Saint Giles in the fields.</P>
<P N="5">5. Cruelty again&s;t Godly Mini&s;ters. How was Ma&s;ter Ward of Suf|folk to&s;&s;ed among&s;t them, by a pretended accu&s;ation of Symony onely to &s;ilence him. Doctour Everard Chaplain to the Earl of Holland, was terribly pro&s;ecuted, for contradicting the unlawfull command of innova|tion of the Prelate of Norwich. What &s;hall we &s;ay of Ma&s;ter Burton and hundreds more, &s;ome &s;ilenced, &s;ome impri&s;oned, &s;ome died in pri&s;on, as ma&s;ter Bates, &amp;c. others were per&s;ecuted our of the Land contrary to that pious &s;aying of King James, Love no man more then a good Pa&s;tour, re|verence and obey them as the Heraulds of the mo&s;t high God.</P>
<P N="6">6 Many men of de&s;perate fortunes care not how a Kingdome peri&s;heth to give them hopes of Pillage, as there are &s;ome who have re&s;olved if e|ver the City (which God forbid) &s;hould come to be plundered what parts they would pillage, and with &s;trong a&s;&s;everations they have &s;worn, and vowed with bloudy and fearfull Prote&s;tations how glad they would be to &s;ee that day.</P>
<P N="7">7 Who are &s;o much di&s;affected to the Peace of the Kingdome as tho&s;e who endeavour to di&s;&s;afect his Maje&s;tie from the Hou&s;es of Par|liament, and per&s;wade him to &s;uch a di&s;tance, both in place and affection? Who are more di&s;affected to the Government of the King then &s;uch who lead his Maje&s;tie away from hearkening to his Parliament,
<PB REF="5">which by the con&s;titution of his Kingdome is his be&s;t and great Coun|cell, and per&s;wade him to follow the malicious coun&s;ells of &s;ome private men, in oppo&s;ing and contradicting the whol&s;ome advices of his mo&s;t faithfull Councell and Highe&s;t Court.</P>
<P>And Who are they that &s;et up other rules for them&s;elves to walk by then &s;uch as are according to Law? but they that will make other Jud|ges of the Law, then the Law hath appointed, and &s;o di&s;pence with their obedience to that which the Law calleth authority, and to their de|terminations, and re&s;olutions to whom the judgement doth appertain by Law: for when private per&s;ons &s;hall make the Law to be their rule, according to their own under&s;tandings, contrary to the judgement of tho&s;e, that are the competent Judges thereof, they &s;et up to them&s;elves other <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">les then the law doth acknowledge.</P>
<P>Surely, if the Prie&s;ts, Je&s;uits, and the power of papi&s;ts were remo|ved from among&s;t us, one great part of the work were done towards an happy peace, a religious peace, a godly peace. Oh down with them mo&s;t noble Senatours, doe not let them domineere as they doe, you &s;hall have our hands, our pur&s;es, our hearts, our lives to a&s;&s;i&s;t you, they are too bold, nay even tho&s;e in pri&s;on, have their Confe&s;&s;ions, Ab&s;olutions, weare their Beads, and their Crucifixes, Sing, and roare, and dance day and night at the Tavern with their company: and doe very evill offices in the hinderance of peace: nay there are &s;ome of their Prie&s;ts will o|penly affront prote&s;tant pri&s;oners and quarrell with them, for their religion. How backward are the Monopoli&s;ts to this day, to doe any good for the Kingdome?</P>
<P>And how do the Prelates labour to keep back all the means of an hap|py peace: Oh how hath your Clemency appeared, Right Honourable, towards the&s;e incendiaries of mi&s;chief, who would ruin both you and us, the City, and the whole Kingdome, forgetting that old coun&s;ell which one of them (D. Hall by name) gave to Canterbury before they came to be Prelates: If you love Peace without truth (&s;aith he) keep peace to your &s;elf. Let us have truth, if it may be Peace too. How many &s;till are there who are as mad after Innovation as ever they were when the Popes Nuntio put his Arch grace in hopes either of a Cardinalls Har, or a Patriarkes place. And as for tho&s;e de&s;perate fortunes, who long to fi&s;h in troubled waters, becau&s;e they have no better hopes to re&s;t upon, We doubt not, but your Honours will find out a way to pievent the bloudy Tragedie of their de&s;ires. Do damned Cavaliers &s;weare, and d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> them&s;elves with all the fearfull oaths that can be imagined, nay there was one of them not long &s;ince offer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">d to give 3 l. to any one that could invert a new oath, and &s;hall &s;uch as the&s;e be &s;uffered to revile a Parliament?</P>
<P><PB REF="5">We have great complaint about the City, &s;ome cry out of the&s;e wars, would we had peace again as we had before, not con|&s;idering the mi&s;erable condition of bleeding
<HI>Ireland,</HI> intended fir&s;t to have been performed again&s;t us, nay to come to our own doors (as it were) in our own Land: what is the condition of all the Country places where the Cavaliers come? the Battell at <HI>Wor&s;ter, Keynton, Brainford;</HI> if the&s;e murmurers had &s;een the blood that was &s;hed at the &s;ight at <HI>Edge-hill,</HI> &amp;c. What would they then have &s;aid, they would it &s;eems have peace with the enemies of God and Religion, the enemies of the PARLIAMENT; of the City, of the Go&s;pell; alas, what good will &s;uch peace do us: Oh Noble Senators have not we cau&s;e to complaine again&s;t the&s;e men, as again&s;t madmen, that do &s;o de&s;perately &s;eek to move you to betray your honours, us and them, yea, Religion, Lives, E|&s;tates, wives, lands, goods, and all that we have into the hands of tho&s;e that continue wars again&s;t us, in hopes to plunder our hou&s;es, ravi&s;h our wives, &s;poile our goods, and bring the City to ruine; then (&s;ay they) &s;hall the Borough of <HI>Southwark</HI> be our &s;tables.</P>
<P>Others complain for want of trading; but how would &s;uch complaine if their living was out of the Coales at <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> or if they had a &s;hipp there to fraught therewith hither, to be under tax of 30.40. or 50. pounds, as it is impo&s;ed on them there be|fore they can pa&s;&s;e, what a ca&s;e are they like to be in about twelve thou&s;and people that live only upon Coales there? how are they like to be deprived of their trade; alas, the want of trade in the City is nothing to that it is in the Country in many places: Oh Right Honorable what cau&s;e have we to complaine of the poor ignorant people that do not know what freedom they enjoy by being protected by you to enjoy a quiet and peaceable Trade, though little. Some there are again that cry our of the Sectaries among&s;t us; and the many opinions that are between man and man; But they do not con&s;ider the armies of Papi&s;ts that are rai|&s;ed again&s;t us; and the Standard &s;ent the Earl of Newca&s;tle from the Queen for their army, to which army is brought over armes for ten thou&s;and men by Colonell <HI>Goring:</HI> Oh what cau&s;e have we to complain again&s;t tho&s;e that would have an agreement with the&s;e cruell Papi&s;ts (that were ever bloody and treacherous to Prote&s;tants) that they might the more freely chide with tho&s;e that do not meddle with them at home: I pray God reconcile all the differences both in Church and State; but certainly a
<PB REF="6">Papi&s;t army, cannot but be expected a dangerous reconcild enemy to all true hearted Prote&s;tants: and we have a ju&s;t cau&s;e to com|plaine again&s;t them that de&s;ire it.</P>
<P>Others are agreed to pay any thing as they are taxed for the a&s;&s;i&s;ting of the Parliament in their defence of Religion, and the Laws of the Land; one complaines he is taxt 20. s. another
40. s. &amp;c. Look downe to the rigorous manner whereby the Earl of <HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> doth tax men in York&s;hire: 1000. l. a man, 2000. l. and 3000. pounds a man, Mr. <HI>Savill</HI> of Medbor by name 3000 pounds, &amp;c. You will &s;ay you are forced to pay this mony, and that the gatherers have power to &s;ell your goods for it if you will not pay it: Oh But how cruell did the Earl of
<HI>Newca&s;tle</HI> u&s;e Mr. <HI>Wentworth,</HI> &s;ent for him, and after he was condemned to be &s;hot to death for not coming to pay the mony he was unrea&s;onably &s;ea&s;'d, and was brought to the &s;take the place of execution, and had he not payed what they would have, he had bin &s;hot to death.</P>
<P>How many Religious Mini&s;ters have been plundered, and all that they have taken from them; our Briefs we have &s;o often read in Churches can te&s;tifie, and yet many fooli&s;h drones among&s;t us would have us to beleeve a covenant of peace with &s;uch de&s;perate Cavaliers; to betray our own power, and give our enemies leave to cut our throats; oh noble Senators, we mu&s;t needs complain of the&s;e that are unwilling to help you by Loan upon the publike Faith according to their power, yea and beyond their ability, in &s;uch an extremity; &s;urely they that deny this, it mu&s;t needs be granted, either that they are old enemies to the Parliament, and never took the Prote&s;tation, or el&s;e they re&s;pect not their vows made to Almighty God, and to break &s;uch a publike vow is an heavie, and fearfu l crime; God keep &s;uch guilt out of our &s;ouls; for in the Prote&s;tation, they <HI>do profe&s;&s;e, vow, and prote&s;t before Al|mighty God, as far as life, power and e&s;tate to maintain and defend the power and priviledges of Parliament, and every per&s;on, &amp;c. in pur&s;u|ance of the &s;ame, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Others finde fault with the committing of malignants to pri|&s;on; but they are u&s;ed like men, not as Smith the Provo&s;t Mar|&s;hall u&s;eth them; not as Captain <HI>Lilburn,</HI> Captain
<HI>Wingate,</HI> Cap|tain <HI>Walton,</HI> &amp;c. are u&s;ed, like dogs rather then Chri&s;tians, al|mo&s;t pined to death for want of &s;u&s;tenance, eaten with vermin&punc; for want of help, and &s;hifts of cloaths; loaded with fetters of iron; debarr'd of the company of their wives, children or friends,
<PB REF="6">debarr'd of the charity that friends would relieve them with; cannot have the favour which Chai&s;tians have of Turks; from tho&s;e blood-thir&s;ty Cavaliers, who u&s;e them like Hackny-Jades, nay wor&s;e, like dogs; for though it is true, the King allows &s;ix peace a day; But
<HI>Smith</HI> detains four pence three farthings of it; here is cruelty indeed, un&s;peakable cruelty; what would the&s;e men do, if they &s;hould &s;uduens? we have cau&s;e indeed to com|plain of tho&s;e that would (by a pretence of Peace) betray us in|to the&s;e blood-&s;ucking hands; Good Lord deliver us from them; it is to be feared, if we &s;ubmit to them, we &s;hall be more per&s;ecu|ted, then ever our Predece&s;&s;ors were in the bloody times of Queen <HI>Mary.</HI></P>
<P>How publikely have they in their &s;candalous Pamphlets abu|&s;ed the high Court of Parliament, the Honorable the Lord Ma|jor of <HI>London;</HI> the City of <HI>London</HI> and
<HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> belched forth their threatnings in the &s;peedy execution of their devili&s;h practi|&s;es and terible threatnings of their re&s;olved purpo&s;ee; And give God thanks that their Papi&s;ts and Je&s;uits keepe in their heades.</P>
<P>I wonder that many will &s;ay (&s;eeming to be juditious men) that they think the Malignants de&s;ire peace as well as pretend to de&s;ire it, &s;ee how cunningly they have wrought again&s;t the Par|liament, fir&s;t they covertly abu&s;e them by the defaming of their proceedings in their Petition, this being di&s;covered their Petiti|on was rejected; then they &s;end a company of prentice-boyes to <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and they make a vapouring &s;hew of de&s;ire of peace; And now at la&s;t of all they have brought forth the mo&s;t rebellious treacherous Pamphlet that ever was writ, &s;tuffed with in&s;uffera|ble languages, full of bitterne&s;&s;e and railing again&s;t the Parlia|ment, and in plain earne&s;t de&s;ires the people to take up Arms to de&s;troy the Parliament; if this do not convince you of the poi|&s;on of the&s;e viperous generation of damnable Malignants, what will you do; &s;urely if you be not wedded to your own ruine, you mu&s;t needs abhor &s;uch things as the&s;e: They di&s;turbed Scotland, they have almo&s;t over-run Ireland, and they have gotten too much head in England, if it plea&s;e God to &s;ee it good that it might be otherwi&s;e; and are Engli&s;h people &s;o blinde, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">t they cannot yet &s;ee? Oh noble Senators, we have great cau&s;e indeed to put up our Complaints again&s;t the&s;e Cerberu&s;&s;es, that dare thus to come up barking to your very doors, &s;cattering their poy&s;o+ned Pamphlets about your hou&s;es, making Proclamation to all the
<PB REF="7">Countries in England to a&s;&s;i&s;t them again&s;t the Parliament, &s;hould we a&s;&s;i&s;t a company of Papi&s;ts, and wicked people of de|&s;perate fortunes to attempt &s;uch a damnable de&s;ign; it is very pro|bable the next Project would be to murther us, and all the Pro|te&s;tants in England.</P>
<P>Another envious fit they have of railing again&s;t the Honora|ble, the Lord Major of the City of
<HI>London,</HI> an hone&s;t, religious, godly man, one in who&s;e brows is the very Emblem of Love, cho&s;en by the Votes of the City, confirmed by the Authority of the High Court of Parliament, and with great care and pains doth execute his office, yet is &s;corned, and contemned by &s;ome wicked, debauched Shagamuffins, who&s;e words no wi&s;e man will regard; &s;uch as
<HI>Dudly</HI> that was hanged for robbery the la&s;t Se&s;&s;ions at Newgate; will wi&s;e men be deluded by the examples of &s;uch as are fitter for the Gallows, the Cage, or the Whipping-po&s;t, then to meddle in State-matters; &s;urely methinks it becomes not the gravity of the City, to be &s;o unwi&s;e, thus to procure their own ruine.</P>
<P>Right Honorable Senators, they have abu&s;ed the whole City of London and We&s;tmin&s;ter, a few Papi&s;ts and factious people among&s;t us, that have &s;educed others to &s;et their hands to their Petition, pre&s;ume they will joyn with them in their &s;o great and &s;aucie malipertne&s;&s;e again&s;t you; nay they boa&s;t; as if we would all joyn with them, but we will not; no, we conceive it concerns us greatly to complain again&s;t them, they have abu&s;ed us, we di&s;|claim their fact, and brand it with the de&s;ert of condign puni&s;h|ment; among&s;t all the &s;aucine&s;&s;e that our Chronicles give report of, we do not finde the like; onely one of them now a great Com|mander, a Papi&s;t, to a Petition from Che&s;hire, again&s;t Reforma|tion, forged hands for dead men, mad men, Sea men out of the land; brought childrens hands, and Papi&s;ts; and pre&s;ented it in the name of all Che&s;hire; &s;o have the&s;e few rebellious elves belched forth their poy&s;on again&s;t you, in the name of all London and We&s;tmin&s;ter.</P>
<P>And they are very terrible in the threatning of the execution of their purpo&s;es; Re&s;olutions they have, devilli&s;h Re&s;olutions, Re|&s;olutions for the overthrow of Religion, Re&s;olutions to de&s;troy the Parliament, and in them all the priviledges of the Subject; Re&s;olutions to &s;et up Popery; Oh mo&s;t noble Senators, we had never more cau&s;e to complain again&s;t a ba&s;tardly brood of Po|pi&s;h
<PB REF="7">Traytors then now, now they are grown <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 span"> now they are every day plotting, and practi&s;ing all the mi&s;chief they can again&s;t us, and &s;uch is the &s;implicity of many among&s;t us that for all this they believe the&s;e Incendiaries of mi&s;chief will do us no hurt, they &s;ay; is it po&s;&s;ible that men &s;hould be &s;o blinde, and deluded by them?</P>
<P>They are very terrible in their threatning; they prote&s;t to bring us &s;uddenly to ruine, to di&s;&s;olve the Parliament, &s;uddenly; and what do you think they would do next, you that are well opinio|nated of them; fir&s;t they &s;ay they will defend them&s;elves by Arms, that is, of Rebellion, and then they will make u&s;e of what is next, as them&s;elves &s;ay in their calumnious Pamphlet; Oh what cau&s;e have we to complain of the&s;e dangerous Malignants; what, will they &s;pare nothing? no, they &s;ay they will make u&s;e of what is next; make u&s;e of our goods by plundering, and robbing us; make u&s;e of our wives, and daughters, by ravi&s;hing them; and murther us, our wives and children, as they have done in Germa|ny, and as they &s;till do in Ireland: &s;hall we tru&s;t &s;uch as the&s;e? Oh let us take heed how we admit of any peace, or confederacie with them, that thus de&s;pi&s;e the Parliament, Religion, and the people of God.</P>
<P>King <HI>James</HI> doth teach what re&s;pect &s;hould be had to &s;uch worthy Peers, he &s;aith, e&s;chew the extremity in &s;lighting and contemning your Nobility. <HI>Page,</HI> 47. faithfull and diligent &s;er|vants recompen&s;ed, <HI>Page</HI> 71. The worthie&s;t &s;till preferred, let the mea&s;ure of your love to every one be according to the mea&s;ure of his virtue;
<HI>Page</HI> 152. All &s;ubjects relieved, and their oppre&s;&s;i|ons helped, be diligent to try, and carefull to beate downe the hornes of our proud oppre&s;&s;ors: embrace the quarrells of the poor and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed, as your own<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> particular, <HI>Page</HI> 34.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, the fomentors of this Pamphlet give God thanks that their Papi&s;ts and Je&s;uits keep in their heads; The&s;e be the Ma|lignants about us, that make us believe they &s;eek for peace; but you may &s;ee it is that the Papi&s;ts may be in peace; not we, that their Prie&s;ts and Je&s;uits and Papi&s;ts may hold in their heads, that they may live without mole&s;tation, that the Popes power may be advanced here; but in 5. <HI>Eliz.</HI> 1.</P>
<P>The maintaining and extolling the authority of the Bi&s;hop or See of <HI>Rome,</HI> within any the Kings Dominions, and the procurers, coun&s;ellors, aiders; and maintainers thereof; and every of them
<PB REF="8">are guilty of high Trea&s;on. This and other Statutes made at the beginning of Queen
<HI>Elizabeths</HI> Raign were made &s;aith <HI>Dalton.</HI></P>
<P>For the pre&s;ervation of the Queen, her heirs and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, for the pre&s;ervation of the dignity of the Imperiall Crowne of this Realm: For the avoyding of the di&s;honours, inconveniences, and dangers growing to the whole e&s;tate, &amp;c. We have ju&s;t cru&s;e to complain again&s;t the&s;e Traytors (Right Honourable) be|cau&s;e they would expo&s;e to hazard the pre&s;ervation of the King, nay they do too much prevaile herein, in joyning with the Pe|pi&s;h party, in keeping them from his Parliament, the fountain of his &s;afety and pre&s;ervation, to endanger his &s;acred per&s;on among&s;t &s;uch de&s;perate Papi&s;ts and Malignants with whom he is.</P>
<P N="2">2. They hazard the pre&s;ervation of the dignity of the imperi|all Crown of this Realm, by expo&s;ing it to that danger, which by being ayders to, and coun&s;ellors with the Papi&s;ts it is in dan|ger of, for the Papi&s;ts have their Bulls and writings from the Pope, the effect whereof is to ab&s;olve and reconcile all tho&s;e that will for&s;ake their due obedience to the King, and yield them|&s;elves to the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Rome.</HI> Witne&s;&s;e that <HI>Breve</HI> &s;ent by Segnior <HI>Georgeo Per&s;ona</HI> and others, and the domineering Chavilerios of our age, and the Malignants about us are all guilty of high Traa|&s;on; if they be willingly per&s;waded, withdrawn, or reconciled, to promi&s;e to joyne in any &s;uch obedience to the See of <HI>Rome,</HI> their procurers, ayders, coun&s;ellors, and maintainers, except they &s;ubmit them&s;elves according to the Statute within &s;ix dayes, &amp;c. 23. <HI>Eliz.</HI> 1.3 <HI>Jac.</HI> 4. <HI>P. Recu&s;.</HI> 49. <HI>P. Rom.</HI> 7 <HI>&amp;</HI> 8. <HI>vide antea</HI> tit. Recu&s;ants.</P>
<P N="3">3. La&s;tly, the&s;e Statutes being al&s;o made for the avoyding of the di&s;honours, inconveniences, and dangers growing to the whole State, herein they al&s;o appear guilty of high Trea&s;on in joyning with the Papi&s;ts; fir&s;t to di&s;honour the State, the High Court of Parliament, by calumnious lyes and &s;landers layed up|on them, hoping thereby the better to bring in popery; and to hold in their heads quietly as they &s;ay them&s;elves they now be|gin to do; They call the Parliament a company of projectors, and &s;uch like di&s;honourable &s;candalls they ca&s;t upon tho&s;e wor|thies, whereby they appear Traytors again&s;t the State, from the very intent of the Statute; and therefore we complain again&s;t them as again&s;t open Traytors and Rebells. 2. The inconveniences that ari&s;e by their malignancy to the King and State, both is
<PB REF="8">great: It keeps the King and the Parliament at a di&s;tance, it ha|zards the Kings per&s;on, &s;ent the Queen beyond the Seas and de|taines her there, hinders the great worke of Reformation, encou|rages Delinquents, projectors, and all Papi&s;ts, expo&s;eth us to danger of Forraign Nations, hinders trading at home, fill us with troubles, and rai&s;ed, and detaines war in the bowells of our King|dom; and by their &s;candalous Pamphlet it plainly appeares how they &s;trike at the very root of Parliaments, which <HI>Rome</HI> could ne|ver endure; but have ever &s;candali&s;'d and abu&s;ed them as their &s;ons now do, becau&s;e their cheare is advanced by Synods of pre|lates. To conclude, we complain to you Noble Senators of the dangers we are in by the&s;e men; we know that the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> of the Law is your in&s;truction and direction, and our &s;afety your end, we yield obedience to his Maje&s;ties Authority, &s;ignified by both Hou&s;es of Parliament, knowing that &s;ure ground wherein we walke thereby: And though the deboyce&s;t Malignants have dar'd thus to affront and di&s;honour you, we mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e enough to have di&s;&s;olved all the bands and &s;innues of confidence betweene His Maje&s;ty and you; yet we know that your endeavours have appeared mo&s;t hearty and &s;incere for the maintenance of the true Prote&s;tant Religion, the Kings ju&s;t Prerogatives, the Laws and Liberties of the Land, and the Priviledges of Parliament, in endeavours we de&s;ire you &s;till to per&s;i&s;t, and we will peri&s;h with you in the worke rather then de&s;ert the cau&s;e; for we are confi|dent, that if evill &s;hould befall you, neither Religion, Laws, Li|berties, nor Parliaments can longer live; therefore we are re&s;ol|ved to live and dye with you: God &s;o ble&s;&s;e us according to the innocency of our cau&s;e and integrity of our hearts.</P>
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