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<P>THE ENGLISH TYRANTS. OR, A brief Hi&s;torie of the Lives and Acti|ons of the high and mighty States, the Lords of <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> and now (by u&s;urpa|tion) Kings of <HI>ENGLAND.</HI></P>
<P>Containing all their Rebellious and Trai|terous Proceedings and Tran&s;actions in Parliament.</P>
<P>With their levying of War, and bloudy practi&s;es again&s;t their Soveraign, their &s;ini&s;ter and Military de&s;igns to alter and &s;ubvert the Fun|damentall Government in Church and Com|monwealth, by de&s;troying Monarchy, and making them&s;elves Free-States, by the power of the Sword.</P>
<P><HI>Continued from the fir&s;t Convention of this Parliament,</HI> 1640. <HI>untill the Kings Death,</HI> Jan. 30. 1648.</P>
<Q><HI>&V;&s;urpers are Murderers,</HI> <BIBL>2 Reg. 11.1. and Math. 12. 38, 39.</BIBL></Q>
<P>LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1649.</P>
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<HEAD>THE ENGLISH TYRANTS.</HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Policy of Princes.</NOTE>Policy in Princes, or States, is but circum&s;tan|tiall di&s;&s;imulation, pretending one thing, in|tending another: Some will &s;o far allow it, and &s;ay, That faith is but a Merchants, or Me|chanique virtue; and &s;o they may make it higher, by making it a Regall vice. There is an order that out-goeth <HI>Michiavel,</HI> where he confe&s;&s;es, <HI>&V;&s;us fraudis in caeteris actionibus dete&s;tabilis, in bell<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> gerendo lau|dabilis:</HI> That fraud which in war is commendable, is in other actions dete&s;table.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Prerogative of Princes.</NOTE> 'Tis certain, there is a preroga|tive in Princes, which may legittimate &s;omething in their negotiations, which is not allowable in a private per&s;on or &s;ubject: But even the grant of this liberty hath en|couraged them to too great an enlargement.<NOTE PLACE="marg">State policy.</NOTE> State poli|cy is now become an irreligious riddle; <HI>As Lewis the</HI> 11th <HI>of France,</HI> would wi&s;h his Son to learn no more Latin, then would teach him to be a di&s;&s;embler:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Godly preten|ces.</NOTE> But when god|ly pretences, back'd with frequent promi&s;es, and &s;ealed with Oaths, Covenants and Prote&s;tations, appear defor|med under the veil of hypocri&s;ie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Self-intere&s;t.</NOTE> &s;elf-intere&s;t and private ends, e&s;pecially when the &s;afety of a Nation and people &s;olely depends thereupon: The hands of the Omnipotent &s;hall uncover their nakedne&s;&s;e, and their &s;hame and acti|ons &s;hall be puni&s;hed with &s;peedy ruine.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Plau&s;ible be|ginnings.</NOTE>Fair and plau&s;ible beginnings are not alwaies the fore|runners of good end; many hone&s;t meaning, and loyall
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<PB N="2" REF="4">Engli&s;h-men (who eight years &s;ince viewed the Parlia|ments Actions, and judged of their integrity by their Prote&s;tations and Declarations) entertained a very cha|ritable and honourable opinion both of them and their Cau&s;e, and therein hazarded both their lives and e&s;tates with them, who are long &s;ince &s;ate down in the Chair of repentance; having found by &s;ad and wofull experience, their fair and large pretences to prove but &s;hadows of weak performances, and their greate&s;t labours to produce no other effects, then to burden this di&s;tracted Nation with unheard of tyrannie, and mi&s;erable oppre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>But they that beheld their proceedings and actions, even in their primitive and be&s;t times, with a con&s;iderable and judicious eie, did ea&s;ily perceive them to pur&s;ue their own ambitious and &s;elf-ends, more then the welfare of their native Kingdom: That they were men who&s;e thoughts and intentions were filled with bloud: Who could expect better things from the illegall and rebelli|ous proceedings of tho&s;e men, who pre&s;umed from Ser|vants to become Ma&s;ters, and endeavour to bring in <HI>De|mocracy</HI> and de&s;troy <HI>Monarchy?</HI> Who&s;e horrid and bloudy actions hath produced &s;uch mon&s;trous and &s;trange effects, that it hath &s;et open the floud-gates of ruine to overflow this mi&s;erable and bleeding Kingdom.</P>
<P><HI>Courteous Reader,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Beginning of the Par. 1640.</NOTE> Take here then a Breviate or Narrative of all the proceedings and traiterous actions of this Par|liament and Army from their fir&s;t convention by the K. Writ, 1640. where in the &s;pace of ten years you &s;hall find the greate&s;t mutation and change of Government in this (late flouri&s;hing) Kingdom of <HI>England,</HI> that hath befallen any Nation or State in <HI>Europe,</HI> &s;ince it was a <HI>Monarchy,</HI> acted (under the &s;pecious pretences of <HI>Religion,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Monarchy tur|ned to Anar|chy.</NOTE> <HI>Laws</HI> and <HI>Liber|ties</HI>) by the mo&s;t rebellious, perjur'd and bloudy Tyrants, that ever carried the name of Subjects or badge of Chri|&s;tianity in the whole Univer&s;e.</P>
<P>Take here al&s;o a view of the illegall Acts of the&s;e trai|terous Tyrants at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Illegall Acts.</NOTE> for the accompli&s;hment of
<PB N="3" REF="4">their private and bloudy de&s;igns, to &s;ubvert the ancient &s;undamentall con&s;titution and government of the Kingd: in de&s;troying the King, his Po&s;terity, together with <HI>Mo|narchy,</HI> and to inve&s;t them&s;elves with power and greatne&s;s thereof, <HI>as States and Lords of the Land.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Act. The Earl of <HI>Strafford.</HI></NOTE>Fir&s;t They &s;trike at an eminent pillar that upheld the fabrick of the Commonwealth; a wi&s;e State&s;-man and Councellour unto His Maje&s;tie (as a great ob&s;truction in their original de&s;igns) by taking away his life, <HI>Ap.</HI> 12. 1641.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">A Bill again&s;t Bi&s;hops. And the Mili|tia.</NOTE>Next, they per&s;wade His Maje&s;tie <HI>(and bring in a Bill)</HI> to take away <HI>Bi&s;hops, root and branch:</HI> Another, <HI>for taking away the Militia from the K. and &s;etting it in other hands</HI> (both which Bils were rejected in a full and free convention of Parlia|ment) Al&s;o to pa&s;&s;e by tumults rai&s;ed in <HI>Dec.</HI> and <HI>Ja.</HI> 1641.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tumults in <HI>Dec.</HI> and <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</NOTE> <HI>For reviving and carrying on the Bils before rejected, by driving a|way the di&s;&s;enting Memb. and new moulding the</HI> 2 <HI>Hou&s;es of Parl.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts for a Tri|enniall and perpetuall Parliament.</NOTE>His Maje&s;ty after this (according to their de&s;ires in their petition) pa&s;&s;ed two &s;everall Acts, the fir&s;t, <HI>for a Trienniall Parliament;</HI> the &s;econd, <HI>for a continuance of this Parliament:</HI> In which Acts he gave his prerogative and power out of his own hands, which proved his and the Kingdoms ruin.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Fears and Jea|lou&s;ies.</NOTE>They begin to invent <HI>Fears and Jealou&s;ies, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the people with pretences or de&s;igns for de&s;troying the Parl. City and Kingd:</HI> But the&s;e <HI>Fears and Jealou&s;ies</HI> (of their own contri|ving) hath <HI>de&s;troyed</HI> the <HI>K.</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> and <HI>pre&s;erved them&s;elvs.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Petition for the Militia.</NOTE>This party of the Hou&s;e of Commons thus po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with <HI>Fears and Jealou&s;ies,</HI> petition His Maje&s;tie to put the Tower of <HI>London,</HI> and all other <HI>Forts,</HI> and the whole <HI>Mili|tia</HI> of the Kigndom into their hands, <HI>Jan.</HI> 28.</P>
<P>Al&s;o they tender His Maje&s;tie an Ordinance for &s;etling the power of the <HI>Militia</HI> in the Hou&s;es of Parl. <HI>Feb.</HI> 24.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Kings Fears and Jealou&s;ies.</NOTE>Which Petition and Ordinance begot in His Maje&s;tie al&s;o <HI>Fears and Jealou&s;ies of a de&s;ign again&s;t Him&s;elf, and again&s;t the Crown, to take away His Rights, and to alter the Fundamentall Laws and Government of this Kingdom:</HI> as appears by His An|&s;wer, <HI>Jan.</HI> 28.</P>
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<NOTE PLACE="marg">The K. gives the Parl. the Tower, Forts and Cu&s;tles.</NOTE>His Maje&s;tie (to comply with them) promi&s;ed, That the Forts and Ca&s;tles &s;hould be in &s;uch hands (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> only &s;uch) as the Parliament may &s;afely con&s;ide in, <HI>Jan.</HI> 28.</P>
<P>Al&s;o His Maje&s;tie accepted of Sir <HI>John Conyers</HI> to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> Lieutenant of the Tower of <HI>London,</HI> in place of Sir <HI>John Byron, Feb.</HI> 11.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Militia of the Kingdom.</NOTE>La&s;tly, He accepted of the Lieutenants by them nomi|nated to be entru&s;ted with the <HI>Militia</HI> of the Counties, and offered to grant them Commi&s;&s;ions and powers; promi|&s;ing al&s;o to continue the &s;ame &s;o long as there &s;hould be cau&s;e, <HI>Feb.</HI> 28.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Vote the &s;et|ling of the Militia.</NOTE>But they are not herewith &s;atisfied, they enforce their petition, <HI>March</HI> 1. They vote the &s;etling of the <HI>Militia,</HI> and they &s;et forth a Declaration of the grounds of their fears and jealou&s;ies, <HI>March</HI> 9. They re&s;olve and vote, in ca&s;e of extreme danger (as at this time) and upon His Maje&s;ties refu&s;all; the Parliament have power to order the <HI>Militia</HI> of the Kingdom; and the Ordinance agreed on by both Hou&s;es for the <HI>Militia,</HI> doth oblige the people, and ought to be obeyed by the Fundamentall Laws of the Land, <HI>March</HI> 15.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The K. grants the Militia to them.</NOTE>His Maje&s;tie conde&s;cended, That as the <HI>Militia</HI> was di|&s;po&s;ed according to their de&s;ires, &s;o it &s;hould not be exe|cuted without their advice, <HI>April</HI> 28. 1642.</P>
<P>And then al&s;o he granted the &s;ame for Corporati|ons, which he had formerly done concerning the Coun|ties.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">They &s;eize the Navy Royall.</NOTE>But yet they are not &s;atisfied; and &s;ecure they cannot be (in their own opinions) unle&s;&s;e they have the &s;ole power of di&s;po&s;ing and executing the <HI>Militia</HI> without the King; nor unle&s;&s;e they have the Navy Royall al&s;o, which they &s;eized and di&s;po&s;ed of, <HI>March</HI> 28.</P>
<P>Now whether tho&s;e Lords and Commons did put them&s;elves into the &s;trength of the Kingdom, to prepare again&s;t danger, or for a de&s;ign, let the &s;ad con&s;equents
<PB N="5" REF="5">manife&s;t: preceding actions of this nature (&s;et the de|ceitfulne&s;&s;e of mans heart) being not rightly to be under|&s;tood but by &s;ub&s;equent managements.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deportment to the King.</NOTE>And in their deportment afterwards you may find more of confidence then of fear, more of andaciou&s;ne&s;&s;e and con&s;piracy again&s;t the King, then of &s;olicitou&s;ne&s;&s;e for the Kingdom; an endeavour rather to &s;ubvert and de&s;troy, then to pre&s;erve and maintain the fundamentall con&s;titution and government of the Kingdom and Par|liament.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>John Hotham</HI> keeps the King out of <HI>Hull, April</HI> 23. and the Parliament ju&s;tifies his traiterous act,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sir</HI> J. Hotham.</NOTE> <HI>April</HI> 28. <HI>When to hold a Fort or Ca&s;tle again&s;t the King, is to levy War again&s;t the King; which is high trea&s;on by the Statute of</HI> 25 <HI>Edw.</HI> 3.</P>
<P>Not long after,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mr <HI>Martin.</HI></NOTE> Mr <HI>Henry Martin</HI> &s;aies openly in the Hou&s;e of Commons, and unreproved, <HI>That the Kings office is forfeitable, and that the happine&s;&s;e of this Kingdom did not de|pend upon His Maje&s;tie, or any of the Royall branches of that root.</HI></P>
<P>And Sir <HI>Henry Ludlow,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sir</HI> H. Ludlow.</NOTE> <HI>That he was not worthy to be King of England;</HI> which doubtle&s;&s;e was the &s;en&s;e of the Parlia|ment; for <HI>May</HI> 26. 1642. both Hou&s;es declare, <HI>That they &s;hould not want duty or mode&s;ty, if they followed the highe&s;t pre&s;i|dents of other Parliaments:</HI> That is,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Of depo&s;ing &amp; murdering the King.</NOTE> if they &s;hould depo&s;e and murder the King, as other unparallel'd Parliaments had done <HI>Edward</HI> and <HI>Richard</HI> the Second.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Declare a|gain&s;t the Kings Nega|tive Vote.</NOTE><HI>The Crown it &s;elf cannot e&s;cape them;</HI> for in the &s;ame De|claration they deny the Kings Negative Vote in Parlia|ment.</P>
<P>And to deprive <HI>the King and Crown</HI> of their power, not only in <HI>Law making,</HI> but al&s;o in <HI>governing,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Propo&s;itions de&s;tructive to Monarchy.</NOTE> <HI>June</HI> 2. they offer to His Maje&s;tie Propo&s;itions de&s;tructive to Regality and Monarchy, <HI>viz.</HI> for the Parliament,
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2. To the reform Church-government, and the Li|turgy as they &s;hall think fit.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. To di&s;po&s;e and execute the <HI>Militia</HI> of the Kingdom according to their Ordinance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. To approve tho&s;e to whom the command and cu|&s;tody of Forts and Ca&s;tles &s;hall be committed.</ITEM>
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<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Parliament take up Arms.</NOTE><HI>June</HI> 10. They &s;ent forth <HI>Propo&s;itions</HI> for bringing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Plate</HI> and money, and rai&s;ing an <HI>Army, To make good what they had taken from, and declared again&s;t, and propo&s;ed to His Maje&s;ty,</HI> viz. <HI>to keep the Forts and Ca&s;tles, and the Militia, and Navy from him; and to take from Him, and from the Crown, the power of making Laws, and governing the Church and &s;tate: and to depo&s;e and de&s;troy him; and to root out his po&s;terity, together with Monarchy.</HI> Is not this <HI>by force of arms to &s;hake off &s;ubjecti|on and to rebell?</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Declaration to rai&s;e an Army.</NOTE>Then put they forth their Declarations to the King|dom, telling the People, that the King, <HI>&s;educed by evil councel, intended to levy Warre again&s;t the Parliament, City, and Kingdom;</HI> And to de&s;troy their Religion, Laws and Liber|ties: per&s;wading them to ri&s;e (as one man) for defence thereof (with the&s;e delu&s;ive pretences)</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Prote&s;tation and Vows.</NOTE>That they did not &s;ight again&s;t his Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, but to deliver Him from His popi&s;h and wicked Coun&s;el&punc; and under this notion, they rai&s;ed their Armies; and to that end they made Prote&s;tations, Vowes, with Leagues and Covenants, and (upon invitation of the <HI>Scots</HI> (into this Kingdom) to their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, declared that they &s;ought for the pre&s;ervation and maintenance of the <HI>Kings</HI> Per&s;on, Crown and Dignity; the true Prote&s;tant Religion, Laws and liberties, with the priviledges of Parliament, again&s;t all Popi&s;h and Malignant Cavaliers, and all other di&s;affected per&s;ons.</P>
<P>The&s;e were the golden baites,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Delu&s;ions.</NOTE> the poor delude peo|ple of <HI>England,</HI> were in&s;nared with; and in pro&s;ecution
<PB N="7" REF="6">of their demands, and Rebellious &s;ini&s;ter ends, did they pro&s;ecute and continue the War, untill they had &s;ub|dued the King and all his party. 1646.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The mi&s;led people of <HI>En|gland.</HI></NOTE>And how could the abu&s;ed and mi&s;led people of <HI>England,</HI> but be enraged again&s;t you, who under the pretence of preventing pre&s;ent dangers, wound them|&s;elves into the chief power and government of the Kingdome? And under the &s;pecious pretences <HI>of fight|ing for Religion and Liberty,</HI> engaged them in the main|tenance <HI>of their u&s;urpation,</HI> and made them in&s;trumen|tall to promote Rebellion, under this vaile of Hypo|cri&s;ie, and under the glo&s;&s;e and notion of Reforma|tion, have they hatched all their bloudy practi&s;es, who&s;e ambitious ends, private intere&s;ts and de&s;ignes, was to de&s;troy our Religion, Lawes and Liberties, Murder our King, and triumph in our de&s;tructi|on.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King comming to the <HI>Scots</HI> Ar|my. Bought and Sold.</NOTE>After His Maje&s;ties comming to the <HI>Scots</HI> Army, The Parliament di&s;bur&s;es 200000 <ABBR>l.</ABBR> for His Per&s;on <HI>(a Royall exchange)</HI> the Parliament got the King; the <HI>Scots</HI> their Arrears; bought by the Parliament, &s;old by the <HI>Scots;</HI> &s;old to be re&s;tored to His Crowne; bought to be made a <HI>Glorious Prince,</HI> as they promi&s;ed him; &s;old by His Native Subjects for gains, and bought by His Traiterous Subjects to be Murde|red.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ty being now in the hands of the Parlia|ment, they re&s;trained him at <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> and <HI>Holmeby:</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King Re|&s;trained at <HI>Holmeby.</HI></NOTE> where <HI>Cromwell</HI> gave command to the private Souldi|ery, to &s;eize upon His Per&s;on: being now in the power of the Army; ob&s;erve how Lieutenant Gene|rall <HI>Cromwell corrts His Maje&s;ty</HI> (both by members of the Army, and Gentlemen formerly in the Kings Service) into a good opinion and belief of the pro|ceedings of the Army, and into a di&s;-affection and
<PB N="8" REF="7">di&s;like of the proceedings of the Parliament; preten|ding to &s;hew, that His Maje&s;ties Intere&s;t would far better &s;uit with the principles of Independency, then of Presbytery; when the King was at <HI>Newmar|ket,</HI> did not Lieutenant Generall <HI>Cromwell,</HI> and Com|mi&s;&s;ary Generall <HI>Ireton</HI> promi&s;e His Maje&s;ty any thing he &s;hould de&s;ire, as Revenues, Chaplaines, Wife and Children, &s;ervants of his owne, Vi&s;itations of friends, acce&s;&s;e of Letters &s;aying al&s;o, they were not a people hating His Maje&s;ties Per&s;on, or Monarchi|call Government, but that they liked it as the be&s;t, and by him; &s;aying further, That they did hold it a very un&s;ea&s;onable thing for the Parliament to a|bridge him of them: oft promi&s;ing with vows, pro|te&s;tations and oathes, that if His Maje&s;ty would, and not act again&s;t them; they would re&s;tore him to all his de&s;ires, &s;ettle him in his ju&s;t Rights and Liberties, and make him the mo&s;t glorious Prince in Chri&s;ten|dome, that they would carry &s;uch an equall hand, between him and the Parliament, in order to the &s;ettlement of the Kingdom by him, which be&s;ides their own judgement and con&s;cience, they did &s;ee a ne|ce&s;&s;ity of it as to the people: Commi&s;&s;ary Generall <HI>Ireton,</HI> &s;aying, that what was offered in the propo&s;als to him, &s;hould be &s;o ju&s;t and rea&s;onable, that if there were but &s;ix men in the Kingdome that would fight to make them good, he would be &s;eventh, again&s;t any power that &s;hould oppo&s;e them: See how they kept a faire corre&s;pondency with <HI>His Maje&s;ty,</HI> untill they had obtained their owne ends;<NOTE PLACE="marg">The King at <HI>Hampton-Court, Crom|well</HI> &amp; <HI>Ireton</HI> plot to con|vey him to the I&s;le of <HI>Wight.</HI></NOTE> Then Lieut: Gen: <HI>Cromwell</HI> &s;ending a Letter to Collonel <HI>Whaley</HI> at <HI>Hamp|ton-Court</HI> (where the King then was) intimating that His Royall Per&s;on was in &s;ome danger, by the commotions of Collonel <HI>Martin,</HI> and Collonel <HI>Rainsbrough,</HI> and their adherents, which Letter was &s;hewed to the King by Collonel <HI>Whaley;</HI> which Tray|terous
<PB N="9" REF="7">de&s;igne of <HI>Cromwell</HI> and <HI>Ireton,</HI> and the re&s;t, was to convey away his <HI>Maje&s;ty</HI> privately into <HI>the Ile of Wight,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The King pri|&s;oner in <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">|risbrook Ca&s;tle</HI></NOTE> where they did &s;trictly impri&s;on him in <HI>Cari&s;|brook Ca&s;tle:</HI> Never was any King of <HI>England</HI> impri&s;o|ned by his Subjects, but he was depo&s;ed and murdered.</P>
<P>Thus they who at fir&s;t took the King from <HI>Holme|by</HI> into the power of the Army; cried down the <HI>Presby|terian</HI> Government,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Policy and power.</NOTE> and proceedings of the pre&s;ent Parliament, and their perpetuity: And in &s;tead there|of held and earne&s;t inclination to a moderate <HI>Epi&s;copa|cy,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">11 Members impeached.</NOTE> with a new Election of <HI>Members</HI> to &s;it in Parlia|ment, for the &s;peedy &s;ettlement of the Kingdom;<NOTE PLACE="marg">7 Lords im|peached.</NOTE> and afterwards when the <HI>eleven Members</HI> had left the <HI>Hou&s;e,</HI> and the marching through <HI>London</HI> with the Army, the &s;even Lords impeached,<NOTE PLACE="marg">4 Aldermen committed.</NOTE> four Aldermen of <HI>London</HI> com|mitted to the <HI>Tower;</HI> then again, they coyed up the <HI>Presbyterian Government,</HI> and the perpetuity of the <HI>Par|liament: Cromwell</HI> further plea&s;ing him&s;elf with the great &s;ums of money, which was his Arrears, due to the Army, and the Tax of 60000 <ABBR>l.</ABBR> a moneth;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tax of 60000 <ABBR>l.</ABBR> per month.</NOTE> Now &s;aith he, we may be an Army (for ought I know) as long as we live.</P>
<P>After this, Orders of <HI>Parliament</HI> were &s;ent forth for calling their <HI>Members</HI> together: <HI>Cromwell</HI> perceiving the Hou&s;es will not an&s;wer his expectation,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Self end.</NOTE> he utters forth words to a prejudice again&s;t the proceedings of Parliament,<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Cromwels</HI> in|tere&s;t.</NOTE> again crying down <HI>Presbyterian Govern|met,</HI> &s;etting up a &s;ingle intere&s;t, which he cals an ho|ne&s;t intere&s;t.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">The Army &s;eized of &s;ixty Members &s;om Citizens and impri&s;ons them.</NOTE>To this purpo&s;e he puts the Army upon chu&s;ing new <HI>Adjutators,</HI> and to draw forth of the Parliament &s;ixty or &s;eventy of the <HI>Members</HI> thereof. And a con&s;i|derable party of the chief Citizens, and &s;ome of every County, to be clapt up in the Ca&s;tles; &s;aying what a &s;way the&s;e men keep, and that he was as well able to govern the <HI>Kingdome</HI> as any of them; &s;o that nothing
<PB N="10" REF="8">more appeareth then his &s;eeking after the Govern|ment of King, Parliament, City and Kingdom.</P>
<P>Concluding further,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hypocri&s;ie.</NOTE> that it is lawfull to pa&s;&s;e through any forms of Government for accompli&s;hing his ends; and therfore either to purge the Hou&s;es, and &s;upport the remaining party by force everla&s;tingly, or to put a period to them by force, is very lawfull and &s;utable to the intere&s;t of hone&s;t men.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">No addre&s;&s;es to the King, <HI>January</HI> 1.</NOTE>After this, they pa&s;&s;ed tho&s;e Votes; <HI>Of making no more Addre&s;&s;es to the King, nor receiving any Me&s;&s;age from him, Jan.</HI> 1. And they &s;et forth a Declaration expre&s;|&s;ing the rea&s;ons of tho&s;e Votes, <HI>Feb.</HI> 11. And the Ar|my re&s;olved <HI>to live and die with them in maintenance of tho&s;e Votes, and in &s;etling their de&s;igned Government without the King, and again&s;t him, Jan.</HI> 9.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Their re&s;olu|tion to go|vern without a King.</NOTE>And though they &s;eem to pro&s;ecute the King upon emergent provocations (<HI>that He made War again&s;t them, &amp;c.</HI>) yet from <HI>Harry Martins</HI> and Sir <HI>Henry Lud|lows</HI> &s;peeches, and from the Declarations of the two Hou&s;es of Parliament (before Arms were taken up, and before any Propo&s;itions &s;ent to the King) it ap|pears, that from the beginning they had a de&s;ign a|gain&s;t His Maje&s;tie to murder him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Their de&s;igne to murder the King and de|&s;troy his po|&s;teriy. His death.</NOTE> and to de&s;troy Mo|narchy: And what was &s;poken and declared then, was agitated and pur&s;ued at la&s;t.</P>
<P>In order whereunto, they declare again&s;t His Fami|ly and Po&s;terity.</P>
<P>Thus you &s;ee, <HI>&V;&s;urpers are ever Murderers,</HI> 2 <HI>Reg.</HI> 11.1. and <HI>Math.</HI> 12.38, 39.</P>
<P>I am come now to &s;peak of His Death, who was butcher'd and murder'd by the mo&s;t barbarous, perfi|dious and perjur'd Villains under the Sun, whether Chri&s;tian or Infidell.</P>
<P>Which who&s;oever takes into their &s;ad and &s;erious con&s;ideration, the proceedings and actions of this
<PB N="11" REF="8">confederate party of Rebellious and bloud-thir&s;ty Cannibals, &s;itting and acting in the Parliament and Army, who (contrary to their Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, their Prote&s;tation, the Solemn League and Covenant, and &s;undry Declarations and Remon|&s;trances of both Hou&s;es, to His late <HI>murder'd Maje&s;tie, His Heirs and Succe&s;&s;ors,</HI> to the whole <HI>Kingdoms of Eng|land, Scotland and Ireland,</HI> and to all forraign States and Nations; and have mo&s;t pre&s;umptuou&s;ly arrogated and u&s;urped to them&s;elves the title of, <HI>The Supreme Au|thority of this Kingdom;</HI> and by colour and pretence thereof, have wickedly and audaciou&s;ly pre&s;umed, without and again&s;t the privities or con&s;ents of the people and His Subjects of <HI>England,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">The unju&s;t Court of Ju|&s;tice.</NOTE> and again&s;t the <HI>Vote of the Hou&s;e of Peers,</HI> to erect a <HI>High Court of Ju&s;tice,</HI> (as they tearm it) though never any Court them|&s;elves, to arraign and condemn <HI>His Maje&s;tie,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Laws of God,</HI> and the <HI>Municipall Laws of the Realm:</HI> Which Court (con&s;i&s;ting for the mo&s;t part of &s;uch <HI>partiall</HI> and <HI>engaged</HI> per&s;ons, who had formerly vowed His Maje|&s;ties de&s;truction, and &s;ought His Bloud) mo&s;t illegally and unju&s;tly refu&s;ed to admit of <HI>His Maje&s;ties ju&s;t Rea|&s;ons</HI> and exceptions again&s;t their <HI>u&s;urped Juri&s;diction;</HI> and without any lawfull Authority, or proof again&s;t Him, or legall Triall, pre&s;umed mo&s;t traiterou&s;ly and impiou&s;ly to condemn and murder Him.</P>
<P>And &s;ince that, have arraigned and put to death &s;ome <HI>Peers,</HI> and other free Subjects of this Realm, con|trary to <HI>Magna Charta,</HI> the <HI>Petition of Right,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Duke</HI> Hamil|ton, Holland, and Capell.</NOTE> the <HI>Laws of the Land,</HI> and the <HI>Liberties of the Subjects,</HI> to the great en&s;laving and endangering of the lives and liberties of all the free-people of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>And whereas the &s;aid confederated Commons have likewi&s;e tyrannically,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts of Par|liament made by the Com|mittee.</NOTE> and contrary to their Oaths and Engagements afore&s;aid, to take upon them to
<PB N="12" REF="9">make Acts of Parliament (as they tearm them) with|out the joint con&s;ent of the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Hou&s;e of Lords,</HI> contrary to the u&s;e and priviledges of Parliament; and known Laws of the Land: And by pretext thereof, have traiterou&s;ly and wickedly endeavoured to di&s;|inherit the Illu&s;trious <HI>CHARLS, Prince of Wales,</HI> next Heir to the Crown,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Trea&s;on to proclaim <HI>Charls</HI> II. King.</NOTE> and Actuall King of <HI>England, Scotland, France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> immediatly after His &s;aid <HI>Royall Father, barbarous murther, by right of De&s;cent;</HI> and proclaimed it Trea&s;on for any per&s;on to proclaim Him King (whereas it is high Trea&s;on in them thus to prohibite His proclaiming) and have likewi&s;e trai|terou&s;ly and impudently encroached a <HI>Tyrannicall</HI> and lawle&s;&s;e power to them&s;elves to vote down our Anci|ent, Kingly and Monarchicall Government, and the <HI>Hou&s;e of Peers;</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Change of Government</NOTE> and to make a <HI>New Great Seal of England,</HI> without the <HI>Kings Pourtraicture</HI> or <HI>Stile;</HI> and to alter the Ancient, Regall and Legall <HI>Stile of Writs,</HI> and pro|ceedings in the <HI>Courts of Ju&s;tice;</HI> and to create <HI>New Judges</HI> and <HI>Commi&s;&s;ioners</HI> of the <HI>Great Seal;</HI> and to di|&s;pen&s;e with the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, and to pre&s;cribe new Oaths unto them, contrary to Law, Statute or Cu&s;tome to admini&s;ter. And have traiterou&s;ly attempted to change and alter the Funda|mentall Laws and Government of this Kingdom, and to &s;ubvert the being, freedom and priviledges of Par|liaments: For which Trea&s;ons, <HI>Strafford</HI> and <HI>Canterbury</HI> (though le&s;&s;e criminall) lo&s;t their heads this Parlia|ment.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">States and Lords of the Land.</NOTE>To conclude, you are become (by Rebellion, Trea|&s;on, Tyrannie, Bloud and Murder) Lords of the Land, Kings of a poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed and mi&s;erable Kingdom; And you are plea&s;ed in your greatne&s;&s;e to &s;tile your &s;elves (<HI>The Free E&s;tates of the Kingdom</HI>) you have vio|lently, forcibly and unju&s;tly got the riches, trea&s;ure
<PB N="13" REF="9">and wealth of the Land into your hands by the power of the Sword, under which the poor people of <HI>England</HI> are ruinated and de&s;troyed.</P>
<P>Yet con&s;ider this (you that forget God) the venge|ance of Heaven hangs over your heads for oppre&s;&s;ion and bloud; your reprieve is not your &s;alvation; you are grown to a height of confidence and pre&s;umption upon your &s;ucce&s;&s;es; <HI>your necks are as iron, and your brows bra&s;&s;e,</HI> and you walk uncontroulable in your way, tri|umphing as the only Princes of the Earth; as fit to &s;way the Scepter of <HI>England,</HI> and all Nations; as the only righteous and honourable people in the world, the great Lords of the Land: Yet, Remember for all the&s;e things you &s;hall come to Judgment; you &s;hall give an accompt for all the trea&s;onable and bloudy actions you have perpetrated again&s;t the King and Kingdom.</P>
<P>Thus far have I traced your foot&s;teps the &s;pace of eight years, not without admiration, from the time His Maje&s;tie &s;ate on His Throne, to His unfortunate Death by His Subjects, before His own Palace; where you may ob&s;erve the mo&s;t Virtuous and Wi&s;e&s;t Prince in the Chri&s;tian world murder'd and put to death by the mo&s;t villanous, barbarous and bloudy people up|on the Face of the Earth.</P>
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