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A56414	The Parliament arraigned, convicted, wants nothing but execution wherein you may evidently discern all the blessed fruits of their seven years session tending to the dishonour of God, the ruin of the Church of Christ in this kingdom, the vnkinging of His Majesty, the destruction of our laws, the erection of tyranny, and the perpetual bondage of a free-born people / written by Tom Tyranno-Mastix alias Mercvrivs Melancholicvs ...	Mercurius Melancholicus, fl. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing P498; ESTC R11776	11,676	26

THE PARLIAMENT Arraigned Convicted Wants nothing but EXECUTION Wherein you may evidently discern All the blessed Fruits of their Seven Years Session tending to the Dishonour of God the Ruin of the Church of Christ in this Kingdom the Vnkinging of His Majesty the Destruction of our Laws the Erection of Tyranny and the perpetual Bondage of a Free-born People Written in the Year of Wonders being the Eighth Year of the Lords and Commons dissembled at Westminster BY Tom TYRANNO MASTIX alias MERCVRIVS MELANCHOLIOVS Well-wisher to all such Parliaments To their Everlasting Glory Amen Printed for the Publick View of all His Majesty's faithful Subjects and are to be sold at the old Sign of You may go Look Anno Dom. 1648. TO THE READER TO all or none that style themselves with the Title of true English yet you will say that 's a Bull Well let it be so the Kingdom shall have a Skin Head and Horns and the Parliament the Body Here you may see and not see hear and not hear judge and not judge what the Author here presents is for your own not others Good you are under a very strong Delusion the God of this World hath settled such a Dimness on your Eyes that the Catarrhs are almost irrecoverable only the Author out of an affectionate Zeal to the publick Good hath compounded this Collyrium or Eye-Salve whereby upon the first Receipt you may easily discern your pristine Freedom your present Thraldom your Sovereign's Misery and the Subject's Slavery pencil'd in plain English by Your well-wishing Friend Tom. TYRANNO-MASTIX alias MERCVRIVS MELANCHOLICVS To the Work Go little Creature in thy poor Attire And crave a Kiss at every Hand thou meets Although thou halt no Merit to admire Yet be the bolder tho' thou beggest i' th' Streets If th'ask what art bid them look in and see Then Ten to One but thou shalt welcome be To all true Subjects As a Co-partner in your sad Complaints To hear the doleful Sighing of your Souls I truly sorrow yea my Spirit saints To see you perish thro' the proud Controules Of Faction yet let this your Hopes maintain The Sun tho' bid in Clouds will shine again To the Parliament They stumble soon that going gaze on Stars Your lofty Flight doth predicate a Fall The sweetest Sins when strain'd to th' highest Jars Heark how swift Vengeance croaks your Funeral Tho' Heaven hath seem'd to smile and Time comply Your Doom is just and you condemn'd to die Saepe sinistra cava praedixit ab ilice cornix THE Parliament Arraign'd c. THere stands an Island between the Atlantick and Ducalidon Seas stored with all the chiefest Treasures of Nature for Martial Achievements honourable through the World famous in the Production and Government of many glorious Kings and Princes where Peace did spread her silver Wings and Christian Unity from the root of unfeigned Love did branch itself unto the farthest Boundaries of the Land that the neighbouring Nations might participate and taste the Fruit thereof But as nothing visible can challenge Permanency so Fortune ambitious to show herself Omnipotent took Spleen against this Isle and thereupon in a raging Mood shut in her Day of Beauty Love and Peace with dismal Clouds of Contention blasts all her Roses and Lillies of Happiness and long-enjoy'd Amity with the noisom and pestiferous Showers of a sanguinolent and bloody War Thus it began The King thereof being of a tractable Nature and too Liberal guilty in the satisfying the ambitious Desires of his Servants caused some particular Murmurings among the People which once kindled could not be allay'd without a Parliament a Convention of Lords and Commons a Custom in necessitous Times continually used in that Isle that is to say divers of the chiefest of them drawn into one unite Body but no sooner were they by Royal Authority convened but every Frog began to swell into an Elephant to lift up their Heels against their Head and kick at that Majesty who had given them Being an Act of greatest Inhumanity who then too late did see Tho' Kings are Gods ' yet they live in Palaces of Flesh But Treason never went without a just Reward and this Parliament shall be enroll'd in the Monuments of Fame for the most traiterous that ever was who instead of curing the National Maladies added fresh Fuel to their encreasing Flames dethrones their Liege Lord and Sovereign raises a most dreadful and bloody War lays heavier Burdens than Pharaoh's Task-masters on the People and finally brought a general Ruin and Destruction on the Kingdom Whereupon the abused People finding in these the Stream of their Affections in another Course and altogether exhausted of all popular Privilege besides having suffer'd such insupportable Tyrannies contrary to their intended Principles repairs to common Justice for Redress who freely granted out this Hue and Cry To all Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables c. except those are hereafter excepted viz. Mr. Mayor of London Mr. Mayor of Westchester Mr. Mayor of Newcastle Mr. Mayor of Windsor not forgetting Mr. Mayor of East-Looe in Cornwal and all other the Independent Tribe the Family of publick Faith and Fraternity of free Liberty and to every of them THese are in his Majesty's Name strictly to charge and command you and every of you that immediately upon Sight hereof you make Hue and Cry within your several Precincts and Counties after a loathed traiterous and rebellious Parliament that was begotten in an ill Hour brought forth in Division and bred up in Faction and Oppression of a bloody Countenance hard Heart and seared Conscience that hath brought all the Plagues of God upon a Nation turned the Church out of Doors the King out of his Throne our Love into Hatred our Peace into War our Plenty into Poverty that hath robb'd the whole Kingdom both of Estate and Happiness changed Law into Liberty Religion into Heresy our Freedom into Slavery and brought upon an innocent People instead of Blessing Mourning Woe Lamentation and Destruction And upon Sight of him to apprehend him and bring before us his Majesty's Justices of the Peace to be dealt with and proceeded against according to the Laws of this Land in such Cases made and provided Hereof fail not at your utmost Peril Given under our Hands the first Year of his Majesty's sad Imprisonment at Carisbrook-Castle in the Isle of Wight Knights Justices of Peace and Quorum Faithful Philolaus Loyal Intention No sooner was this Hue and Cry in several Copies dispersed to the Mercy of the four Winds but as if Heaven and Earth had conspir'd together against Treason and Rebellion they unite their Forces the Winds bellow the Waves beat the Earth trembles at the Thought of such an hideous Malefactor Officers of all degrees suspend the necessity of their own Affairs to prosecute the Command At last one Mr. Diligent-Enquiry Constable for the City of Westminster according to his accustom'd Vigilancy upon privy Search found the Body of this Traytor

shall cry continually against this cursed Horse-leech that hath gorged himself with me so full that he hath spewed me up again till the Earth hath been made as drunk with me as the Sword from the Blood of Strafford to the Blood of 100000 Innocents Canterbury Tomkins Challenor Burley the King's Messenger the Surrey-Men and an infinite many more that have been barbarously and inhumanely slain for their Allegiance and Fidelity to their Royal Sovereign nay my Lord they are so Insatiate that nothing can quench their Thirsts but Royal Blood the Blood of the King and all his Royal Progeny in which he would wash his Hands if possibly he could attain to his Ends so that the whole Earth is filled with Blood and Violence Father against Son Brother against Brother and one Friend against another Tho' Cursed is he that shall slay an innocent Person and all the People shall say Amen Deut. xxix 25. The Land that sheddeth innocent Blood innocent Blood shall be upon it Deut. xix 10. And Innocent Blood the Lord will not pardon 2 Kin. xxiv 4. Yet my Lord this Traytor hath made a Trade of shedding innocent Blood and doth still to this Day Clerk Wid. Sighs Stand up What can you say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Wid. Sighs My Lord my Heart and a Thousand more are so broke with weeping for the Death of our Husbands and dear Children whose Lives this Traytor hath taken away that we cannot speak more for weeping but still cry out for Vengeance against this Parricide this bloody Murderer Clerk Orph. Tears Stand up What can'st thou say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Orp. Tears My Lord I lost my Father by this cruel Traytor and so have many Thousands of us and have cried unto Heaven for Vengeance against him that is all I could do or can say Clerk Publ. Faith Stand up What can'st thou say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Publ. Faith My Lord he hath been the Confusion of me I could recount innumerable Tricks to drain the People and to milk their Purses of their Money as the free Loans and Contributions upon poor Publick Faith amounting to vast and incredible Sums Money Plate Horses and Arms Bodkins Thimbles Wedding-Rings c. and a thousand more that he hath used to enslave the People Clerk Soldiers Conscience Stand up and give Evidence for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Cryer Call Soldiers Conscience Cryer Soldiers Conscience Soldiers Conscience Come into the Court and give Evidence for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar or else you forfeit your Recognizance Clerk My Lord he is slipt away being afraid to appear in the Face of the Court 't is likely he is a party with the Prisoner Righ Judge There be Witnesses enough without him Masters of the Jury you hear what is prov'd against him how traiterous he hath been against God his King and Country against the fundamental Laws of the Kingdom in that he hath renounced his sworn Allegiance when it is declar'd 3 Jac. cap. 4. That if any Person shall put in Practice to absolve persuade or withdraw any of his Majesty's Subjects from their Obedience to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or move them or any of them to promise Obedience to any other Prince State or Potentate that then every such Person their Procurers Counsellors Aiders and Maintainers shall be adjudged Traytors None can deny but the Head is over the Members and not the Members over the Head all Subjects being to perform both Active and Passive Obedience to their lawful King as the Members to the Head in all Causes at all Times and in all Places But this Prisoner Mr. Parliament is notorious Guilty for the King being Head Beginning and End of a Parliament and no Act can be made without the King's Assent therefore this Parliament standeth guilty of Perjury by encroaching upon the Jurisdictions belonging to the King and hath falsified their Faith by voting That no more Addresses should be made to him or Messages receiv'd from him No Law can make a Servant to be above or greater than his Master nor a Subject greater than his King for the King having an undoubted Right to the Crown and being his lawful Sovereign and his Allegiance being due unto his Natural Person both by the Law of God Nature and the Law of the Land recogniz'd and acknowledg'd by former Parliaments in all Ages confirm'd by undeniable Authorities in Law upon Record that evidently proves that his Allegiance is due unto his Natural Person by the Law of God Nature and the Law of the Land and can neither be abjured released or renounced being inseparable from the Person of the King and indispensably due from the Prisoner to his Majesty Therefore any reasonable Man may conclude that Mr. Parliament hath perjur'd himself in withdrawing his Allegiance from his Liege Lord the King which is directly against the Law of the Land and hath moreover falsified his Faith and Allegiance to his King God's Anointed and crowned his natural Liege Lord Sovereign and lawful King both by Descent Coronation Investure and undoubted Right which by the Law of the Land is due unto him from all his Subjects every one of them having taken this following Oath To be true and faithful to their Sovereign Lord K. Charles and his Heirs and Faith and Truth shall bear to him of Life and Member and Honour And you shall neither know nor hear of any Ill or Damage intended unto him that you shall not declare So help you God Now pray mark it Jury you are to consider Whether this Prisoner hath any Power against the King or whether the King hath not Power to hang him for his most detestable Treachery against his Person in betraying it to Prison against the Law of God Nature and the Law of the Land the Closlier to murder and make him away as may more evidently appear by the Examinations upon Oath of Mr. Osburn and Dowcet against Rolf that should have been the accursed Instrument to make him away either by Poison or Pistolling or otherwise The King hath no Supreme but God alone and it is sufficient Punishment for him because he must expect God to be the Revenger if he commits any Wrong for every Man is under the King and the King under none but God alone he is not inferior to his Subjects he hath no Peer in his Realm he hath the sole Government of his Subjects Therefore Mr. Parliament thou hearest what is objected against thee thou hast now Liberty to answer for thy self Guilty or Not Guilty Parl. My Lord I little weigh what any of these can say against me and am so far from acknowledging the least Circumstances objected against me that I utterly deny all and claim my Privilege Judge Thou art quite past Shame and Grace and surely given thy self to the Devil else thou could'●t never have the Face to deny the least