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<P>Londons Allarum Or, the Grea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> and Bloody PLOT OF THE Fifth-Monarchy-Men Di&s;covered:</P>
<P>Being a perfect Relation of their mo&s;t horrid, damnable, trea&s;onable, and tu|multuous Ri&s;ing on <HI>Sunday</HI> Night la&s;t: With the Names of the Gen|tlemen killed and wounded at St. <HI>Pauls, Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">cro&s;s-&s;treet, White-Cro&s;s,</HI> and <HI>Bi&s;hops-Gate:</HI></P>
<P><HI>AS ALSO,</HI> The Manner of their Bloody De&s;ign, their Re&s;olution and Intentions; and the Number of Pri&s;oners taken, and committed to <HI>New-Gate,</HI> the <HI>Gate-Hou&s;e,</HI> awd other Places; Together with a further Di&s;covery of their wicked De&s;ign; and a pe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">fect Narrative of their bloody proceedings on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> morning la&s;t. Likewi&s;e, a Li&s;t of the names of the&s;e bloody T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">aytors; and the numbe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> kill'd and taken pri&s;o|ners on both &s;ides.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>G. Horton,</HI> for general &s;atisfaction 1661.</P>
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<HEAD>The Great and Bloody Plot di&s;covered.</HEAD>
<P>THere being a Generation of Men that &s;eem di&s;-&s;atisfied with the pre&s;ent Tran&s;actions of the&s;e latter Times, and being &s;omewhat numerous, have endeavoured to diffu&s;e their wicked Poy&s;on in &s;everal parts of the Kingdom; for, indeed, they are a Generation mo&s;t pe&s;tiferous in their Doctrine, and dangerous in their &s;eduction, and &s;o ought of all true &s;ubjects to be avoided: Yet (ble&s;&s;ed be God) many there are of late, who being &s;en&s;ible of their erroneous Ways, are reduced from them, and it is hoped (in a little time) many more will be &s;o wi&s;e, as to do the like, which may prove the Death and Burial of their Fanatick Doctrine: Since it hath plea&s;ed the mo&s;t High to put a check to their damnable and tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">onable De&s;igns, ten|ding to the utter extirpation of Monarchy, the ruine of the No|b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lity, and the de&s;olation both of Gentry and Commonalty: For the accompli&s;hing of this mo&s;t horrid and bloody De&s;ign, they had &s;ecretly entred into a Combination to appear in Arms, and to meet and imbody at their appointed Rendevouz: In order whereunto on <HI>Sun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ay</HI> night la&s;t &s;everal Parties too well armed began to appear in &s;everal parts of the City; &s;ome marching one way, and &s;ome another, till at the la&s;t great was the Allarum throughout the &s;treets; in&s;omuch that the Trained Bands ap|peared immediatly in Arms, guarding &s;everal Pa&s;&s;es and Ave|nues: but before they could appear thus formidable, &s;ome loyal &s;ubjects lo&s;t their lives: for about twelve of the clock near St. <HI>Pauls</HI> a Party of Fifth-Mona<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">chy men marching that way, and meeting a Gentleman near the North Door bid him &s;tand,
<PB N="4" REF="3"> asking him who he was for? He an&s;wered for <HI>God and King</HI> Charles. To whom he replyed, who are you for, they &s;aid for <HI>King Ie&s;us:</HI> and immediatly &s;hot him into the head.</P>
<P>From thence they marched to <HI>Alders-Gate,</HI> where pa&s;&s;ing the Watch, they came to <HI>Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cro&s;s-&s;treet,</HI> and from thence to the <HI>White-Cro&s;s,</HI> where they met with &s;ome oppo&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion; For Mr. <HI>He<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ley</HI> the Headborough commanding the Watch, (a Gentle|man of good e&s;teem and repute, and as cordial to his Prince, as faithful to his Countrey) cau&s;ed them to &s;tand, and endeavou|red to make good that Pa&s;s, and impede their marching through <HI>Becch-Lane</HI> into <HI>Moor-fields;</HI> but the Rebels pre&s;&s;ing upon him, he di&s;puted it with his &s;taff, and being over-powred by their great Number, &s; crificed his life for his <HI>King and Countrey,</HI> re|ceiving two &s;hots in the brea&s;t, and one in his throat, of which he immediatly died, his death being much lamented by many.</P>
<P>During which time, great was the Allarum throughout the City, the &s;treets being fill'd with Ecchoes, <HI>Arms, Arms, Arms;</HI> the loyal Party crying out for <HI>God and King</HI> Charles; the Fifth-Monarchy-men fot <HI>King Je&s;us,</HI> being exceeding re&s;olute in their trea&s;onable Exploits. And had it not plea&s;ed the Hand of Pro|vidence timely to have put a check to their Rebellious De&s;ign, the event of their wicked Undertakings might have proved of ve|ry &s;ad and dangerous Con&s;equence: but through the indefatiga|ble pains and prudence of the Right honourable the Lord Mayor their De&s;ign proved no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> fea&s;ible as they ezpected; for the trai|ned Bands being immediatly rai&s;ed, they were forced to e&s;cape by &s;mall Parties, and the peace of the City was therein much pre|&s;erved.</P>
<P>In the Suburbs Major <HI>Ralph Tasker</HI> of the Green Regiment, a wi&s;e and di&s;creet Commander, was very vigilant to pre&s;erve the peace of tho&s;e parts, and to &s;uppre&s;s and allay the fury of tho&s;e Fanatick Di&s;tempers; in which Enterpri&s;e this approved and noble Commander narrowly e&s;caped a dangerous &s;hot: but &s;ome that accompanied him were wounded, among&s;t the re&s;t Mr. <HI>He|mington</HI> a Plummer in <HI>Redcro&s;s-&s;treet</HI> was wounded, but it is ho|ped not mortal, two Butchers Prentices were &s;hot at their own door near <HI>Beech-Lane</HI> end, an hone&s;t Fletcher near <HI>Grub-&s;treet</HI> end, and <HI>Stephen Proud-Love,</HI> Bell-man of St. <HI>Giles</HI> without <HI>Crip|ple-Gate.</HI></P>
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<P>Innocent blood being thus &s;hed, Major <HI>Tasker</HI> u&s;ed all means po&s;&s;ible to put a &s;udden check to their out-daring In&s;olencie; but before the re&s;t of his Company could receive the allarum, and appear in arms, this party con&s;i&s;ting of about fifty or &s;ixty, well armed both with Fire-locks, Head-pieces, Brea&s;t and Back) march|ed by the Artillery Ground toward <HI>Hogsdon,</HI> where probably they had de&s;igned a Rendevouz. During which time, great was the In&s;urrection in other places, more e&s;pecially at <HI>Bi&s;hops-gate,</HI> where &s;ome of the Trained Bands were wounded, and a young man &s;lain: be&s;ides, one Mr. <HI>William Eyres</HI> was &s;hot, and dyed immediatly upon his Wounds.</P>
<P>This &s;ad Di&s;a&s;ter (occa&s;ioned by a tumultuous Ri&s;ing, contrary to the Laws of God and Man) has cau&s;ed many to be deprived of liberty; five were taken on the Monday morning following and committed to Newgate: ten were &s;eized on at a Meeting-place the &s;ame Evening and committed likewi&s;e, and &s;even on <HI>Tue&s;day</HI> morning la&s;t. As al&s;o many others are &s;ent to the Gate-hou&s;e, and others &s;ecured in &s;everal Pri&s;ons.</P>
<P>As for the re&s;t of this tumultuous Crew that were in armes, we hear that mo&s;t of them are di&s;&s;ipated; and that the Woman in three leg'd Court in <HI>White-cro&s;s-&s;treet</HI> (where many of them arm'd them&s;elves and left their cloaks is al&s;o &s;ecured.</P>
<P>During this tumultuous Riot and In&s;urrection, the&s;e turbulent &s;pirits di&s;pier&s;ed a trea&s;onable Paper again&s;t his Royal Maje&s;ty and the pre&s;ent Government, ju&s;tifying that horrid, unparallel'd and mo&s;t de&s;perate execrable Murder of our late gracious Sove|reign. What &s;hali I &s;ay, my very bowels earn; my more, the martyrdom of &s;o gracious and pious a Prince, has extracted a firm re&s;olution to &s;acrifice my life for my dread Sovereign K. <HI>Charles</HI> the &s;econd. Oh wicked Mi&s;creants Rigicides, and what not? to commit Villany unparallel'd, and impudently out-brave it, is the badge of a de&s;perate traytor and an unhappy Chri&s;tian: Unheard of impudence! can God be the author of trea&s;on? or can any man expect mercy from God's hands that voluntarily transgre&s;|&s;eth? <HI>Pro&s;perum &amp; felix &s;celus virtus vocatur,</HI> was Heatheni&s;h Philo&s;ophy, though <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ithout que&s;tion a Maxime in the Common|wealth of his Con&s;cience, whil&s;t Religion was made the &s;talking-hor&s;e to his Rebellion.</P>
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<P>The Genius of this blood-thir&s;ty Sect, we may well compare to tho&s;e of <HI>Switzerland,</HI> who went from City to City where they heard that Reformation was received, (not to any Popi&s;h town) and where&s;oever they came, they pre&s;ently troubled the State, and filled all with clamour and Sedition. By them was the town of <HI>Walzut</HI> mi&s;erably ran&s;acked, and all the Inhabitants driven, away out of their Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions: the like they were like to have done at <HI>Wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ms,</HI> at <HI>Ausburg,</HI> at <HI>Bazel,</HI> at <HI>Shafu&s;e,</HI> at <HI>Berne,</HI> at <HI>Lucerna,</HI> at <HI>Pa&s;&s;aw;</HI> I will not weary the Reader with all the&s;e pa&s;&s;ages, their bloody actions he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e on &s;everal per&s;ons unarm'd, being &s;ufficient to give a Character of their Sect.</P>
<P>It were an endle&s;&s;e task to rehear&s;e their &s;everal errours, yet I &s;hall for example in&s;ert &s;ome of the chief. They held among other things, that rebaptized per&s;ons cannot &s;in, becau&s;e they are Gods Children: that all Mini&s;ters that hold Church-livings are from the Devil: that the Apo&s;tles had nothing proper, but went from hou&s;e to hou&s;e, that they had no need of the Lords-prayer becau&s;e they prayed by the Spirit; many denyed the God-head of Chri&s;t, for which two were executed at <HI>Neufca&s;tle.</HI> In <HI>Mora|via</HI> e&s;pecially that opinion was received, which Country becau&s;e of the loo&s;ene&s;&s;e of the Government &s;warmed with <HI>Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> and was cryed up by the Sectaries of <HI>Switzerland</HI> and upper <HI>Ger|many,</HI> for a land of Promi&s;e, and thither many of them removed their hou&s;hold, when they found them&s;elves repre&s;t.</P>
<P>By <HI>Bazel</HI> there was an uproar of &s;ome Villages who &s;warmed with this Sect, they made an in&s;urrection (as the&s;e did in &s;everal parts of <HI>London</HI>) &s;aying they would have the&s;e three things, all <HI>Tythes</HI> aboli&s;hed, all Magi&s;trates pull'd down, and all the ungod|ly kill'd, (meaning all that were no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of their Sect) but they were &s;topt in time and di&s;per&s;ed. And the ground of the&s;e attempts of this Sect in &s;o many places, was a dream they had of a temporal Kingdom of Chri&s;t, with whom all the godly &s;hould Reign on earth without any infirmity of Body or Soul, all Gods enemies being de&s;troyed fir&s;t; for all the&s;e <HI>Anabapti&s;ts</HI> were and are &s;till <HI>Chiliasts,</HI> expounding litterally that Kingdom of a thou&s;and years, of <HI>Rev.</HI> 20.6. to be a temporal <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ingdom. That fancy put many of them out of their wits, all the Hi&s;tories that &s;peak of them relate many examples of their looking &s;eriou&s;ly for the
<PB N="7" REF="4"> coming of the Lord upon &s;uch a night, being warned by Revelati|on, which made them fir&s;t and pray that night, and put all their bu&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;&s;es out of order.</P>
<P>Thus it appears evident, that the trea&s;onable and pe&s;tiferous Ways of the&s;e men are no longer to be endured among&s;t civili|zed Chri&s;tians: For if Trea&s;on ever wore a Cloak, you may &s;ee it here palliated to the life: and if we &s;um up all their Virtues in a Schedule, we may at the end write <HI>traytor.</HI> Oh let not the Genius of this Nation be ever for the time to come guilty of ex|tirpation of &s;o famous and antient a Government as Monarchie: to be &s;orry for breaking the Oath of Allegeance made to our Sovereign, is no Plea in the Court of Con&s;cience. Perjury is a voluntary act, it dive&s;ts the &s;oul of its private corre&s;pondencie with Heaven, and befits a Matchiavel rather then a Chri&s;tian. Gods Name is abu&s;ed, and <HI>Rigicidium</HI> called a pious Work: &s;uch act|ings as the&s;e upon ba&s;e and mercenary Principles, hath exalted &s;ome of the heads of their Brethren, and leaves the &s;ad names of <HI>traytor</HI> entailed to all Po&s;terity.</P>
<P>In a word, let all &s;uch who &s;hall dare to attempt to lift up a hand again&s;t our pre&s;ent Sovereign, know, his tender mercy and clemency may ju&s;tly be turned into &s;everity, &s;ince that they do further pre&s;ume to proceed in their trea&s;onable and wicked un|dertakings; For, notw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th&s;tanding their la&s;t wicked de&s;ign being timely di&s;covered, yet they rebelliou&s;ly pre&s;umed to put it in execution on <HI>Wedne&s;day</HI> morning la&s;t; appearing to well armed (as before mentioned;) But the allarum being again received, and the Trained-bands immediatly in a po&s;ture of defence, their re|bellious de&s;ign was &s;oon fru&s;trated; for after their Phanatick march from <HI>Cornhill</HI> into <HI>Cheap-&s;ide,</HI> and from thence to <HI>Alder|manbury</HI> (being about 50 in number) they received gallant op|po&s;ition by the undanted re&s;olution of the Trained bands; the White Regiment being as vigilant as any that appeared that day in Arms; the Red was a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Loyal; and the Green, Blew and the Orange no whit inferiour: during which time the brave <HI>London</HI> Apprentices a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">med them&s;elves an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;eized d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s of the&s;e Fanatick &s;pirits; pur&s;ving them f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">om &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">eet to &s;treet, and from hou&s;e to hou&s;e, till at the l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">t coming to the Golden <HI>Anchor</HI> near Moor|lane end, 6 of them had there taken &s;anctuary; but being clo&s;ely
<PB N="8" REF="5"> pur&s;ued they fired out at a Window; and at la&s;t two of them were taken, and 4 killed. But here it did not end, for imme|diatly af e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> divers others were taken in Moorfields: &s;ome were wounded <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n the City; and although the &s;hops were &s;hut up, yet grear was the fear; for mo&s;t people &s;eemed a&s;toni&s;hed all the morning; but befoae 2 of the clock the whole party of the&s;e rebellious R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oters were totally di&s;&s;ipated, 11 being killed, 16 wounded, and the re&s;t taken pri&s;oners; though not without the lo&s;&s;e of &s;ome Loyal Subjects.</P>
<P>Thus let all Trea&s;on be rewarded, and Traytors puni&s;hed, who hazard Life and &s;oul in oppo&s;ition to their King and Countrey, who&s;e a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">biquitary Con&s;ciences play fa&s;t and loo&s;e with Religion, and who con&s;tantly Morning and Evening, adde not to their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ayers,</P>
<CLOSER>God &s;ave the KING.</CLOSER>
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