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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95543	The generall complaint of the most oppressed, distressed commons of England. Complaining to, and crying out upon the tyranny of the perpetuall Parliament at Westminster. / Written by one that loves, serves, and honours the King, and also holds the dignity of a parliament in due honourable regard and reverence. Jo. Ta.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T462; Thomason E300_15; ESTC R200259	5,820	9

THE GENERALL COMPLAINT of the most oppressed distressed COMMONS of ENGLAND COMPLAINING TO AND Crying out upon the Tyranny of the perpetuall Parliament at Westminster Written by one that loves serves and Honours the KING and also holds the Dignity of a Parliament in due honourable Regard and Reverence JO TA. IT is needlesse to demand from what Shire County City Corporation Town Burrough Village Hundred Hamlet House Family Persons or person this Complaint comes for it were a rare search and would trouble the braines of all the cunning men and wisest Mathemagicians with all the judiciall Astrologers and Fortune-telling Figure-flingers to tell us truly where this complaint is not It is so universall epidemically generall that whosoever hath not a greivous sence or remorcefull feeling of it hath a soule stupified and a conscience benum'd mortally with a dead Palsie We the most miserable amongst men do make humble suite to you who next to our sinnes and selves are the cause and causers of our miseries you do best know the nature and condition of our greifes you had the power will and skill to wound us and you have the art and knowledge to make us whole you have the secret vertue which is faigned to have been in Achilles his Launce to hurt and cure We are sure that the King most graciously eas'd and removed all our greivances or as many as we complaind on there was not a monopoly a tax toll or tribute left that was greivous or justly offensive but they were all either made voyd or mitigated neither did his Majesty deny you any thing that you did demand nor you ever grant him any thing that he requested and to our griefes we speak it it had bin better he had been more sparing of his Royall grants except you had more Loyally and gratefully dealt with him and acknowledg'd them We need not tell you that the Protestant Religion is almost cast out of the Kingdom by you It is impertinent to give you notice how you have us'd the King so that the meanest of your selves would be loath to be so dealt withall How we have been beggard and ruin'd by you we know how you have inrich'd your selves by undoing us you know and when you will endeavour to seek peace and cease those mischiefes which we suffer God knowes Selfe do selfe have is an old English proverb It is only our own doings that hath undon us it was our tongues that extold you it was our voyces that was your advancement it was our noyses that Elected you to that power which you have turn'd into intollerable Tyranny it was we that did rend our throates for a Kimbolton a Hampden a Pym a Martin a Haslerigge a Hollis and a great many more then a good many It was we that made you Knights and Burgesses for the Shires Counties Cities Townes Burroughs Corporations and for us it was our follies to do all this for you for which it is too too manifest what you have done for us Thus by our meanes you were rais'd and by our ruines you are inrich't The premisses considered we humbly beseech you to take these few following lines into your serious considerations and at your pleasure or leisure confute them if you can It is a maine point of Romish doctrine that the Pope cannot erre in matters of Faith which error of theirs is far from our opinions but this we are too sure of that you have all erred in matters of trust We the Freeholders and Commons of England do lamentably know and feell it folly and foolishnesse are the only opposites to wisdome and Knowledge hath no enemy but Ignorance this being confest we pray you to remember that our rash folly elected you to be the representative body of the Kingdome which we did acknowledge you to be and we most humbly desire you to consider that we are the body of the Kingdome represented now as a thing representative is but a derivative from that which is the represented so is your power derived from us and from us who are but men full of infirmities and errors though our voyces had power to give you power to be a house of Commons in Parliament yet from those voyces and folly of ours we had not power to infuse infallible and inerrable wisedom into you Wee as men confident of your integrity did chuse you as our Proctors and Atturnies the Kings Majesty with his best Councell and we the poore Commons entrusted you with all we had but we had no mistrust that you would deceive us of all we had we trusted you to maintaine our Peace and not to imbroile us in an universall endlesse bloudy War We trusted you with our Estates and you have Rob'd Plunder'd and undon us we trusted you with our freedomes and you have loaden us with slavery and bondage we trusted you with our lives and by you we are slaughter'd and murther'd every day We trusted you not with our soules and yet you with a new Legerdemain doctrine a jugling kind of Preaching a pestiferous swarme of Preachers a Mechanick kennell of illiterate knaves with the threats and Tyranny that you have used to us and the execrable Covenants which you have forc'd us to take we might with as much safety and lesse hazard have trusted our soules with Judas Julian th' Apostate or the Divell himselfe as with you or your Doctrines Many thousands of Soules loaden with their sinnes are Impenitently parted from the Bodies of His Majesties Subjects by your seducements and inforcements and alas few of them knew the Cause wherefore they fought or wherefore they so cruelly kill'd one another You will say that you fought for the Protestant Religion that 's a lye it is known that it was never offer'd to be taken from you and that His Majesty will live and dye in it and the defence and maintaining of it doe you fight against the King as fearing He would take from us our Lawes and Liberties in those points we plainly perceive that He never intended any such wickednesse But if He had had any such unkingly and Tyrannicall intention you have prevented Him and done it your selves Doe you fight against Him and Murther His loving Subjects for feare that He should bring in Forreigne-Nations to destroy us which thought never entred into His Royall Heart but you have done the same both against His Majesty and us you have at exceeding Rates and prices with our Monies bought Rebellious Scots who have sold themselves to you and to work wickednesse no purpose to ruine the King the Kingdome you and us and as the Divell could not overthrow man without the help of the woman so you could never destroy this Church and State without your Golden temptation of those accursed hirelings which if you were to fell them againe at halfe a quarter of the price they cost it must be at a very deere Market It is an old saying that the King of Spaine is a King of Men because