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A77639	To the supream authority of England, the Parliament assembled, the scope of the humble remembrance of that prodigious conspiracy, called the bloody petition, to be humbly presented by David Brown and his family, as discoverers thereof, besides, many other discoveries and faithful services: whereunto is annexed, their humble petition for assistance towards the repairing of certain wrongs, done unto them by Lieutenant Colonel John Lilborn, Samuel Chidley, John Musgrave, and some others.	Brown, David, fl. 1650-1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing B5015; Thomason E651_30; ESTC R205866	7,462	16

TO THE SUPREAM AUTHORITY OF ENGLAND the PARLIAMENT assembled The SCOPE of the humble REMEMBRANCE Of that Prodigious CONSPIRACY CALLED The BLOODY PETITION To be Humbly presented By DAVID BROWN and his Family as Discoverers thereof BESIDES Many other Discoveries and faithful Services Whereunto is annexed Their humble Petition for Assistance towards the Repairing of certain Wrongs done unto them by Lieutenanant Colonel John Lilborn Samuel Chidley John Musgrave and some others London Printed by John Field Printer to the Parliament of ENGLAND 1652. TO THE SUPREAM AUTHORITY OF ENGLAND the Parliament assembled The Scope of the humble Remembrance of that most prodigious Conspiracy called the Bloody-Petition to be humbly presented by David Brown Gent. and his family as discoverers thereof besides many other discoveries and faithful services whereunto is annexed their humble Petition for assistance towards the repairing of certain Wrongs done unto them by Lieutenant Colonel John Lilburn Samuel Chidley John Musgrave and some others SHEW THat in consideration of the manifold unexpected Victories which it hath pleased the Lord of Hosts in his undeserved mercy to vouchsafe upon this Nation and chiefly upon your Honors whom He hath so highly advanced as to represent the Face and Authority thereof against all Opposers during all these cruel and destructive Wars in reference to the Recovery and Defence of all our just Freedoms Which days of so great troubles though they were the Seed-time of Tears and Sorrows in their dark evening yet now in regard of the happy Harvest thereof reaping so great fruits of Joy and Comfort in this bright morning as our blessed Redeemer said to the Jews in another case Many of the best Prophets and most righteous of our predecessors who onely for his Cause have been driven to wildernesses would have much rejoyced to see but could not see them and to hear the things which we hear but could not hear them And also in consideration of your Honors dutiful Remembrance of every special Victory and Delivery at least which God hath been pleased to give you throughout all these Wars by an appointed day of Thanksgiving to that purpose and now of late by a commendable Act Ordaining a constant day every year to be kept in commemoration of the last but yet still through the multiplicity of your weighty and urgent affairs seeming to forget or at least not so effectually to remember the first In order therefore to the reviving of that prime and original Victory and Delivery out of the grave of oblivion as the chief terrestrial fountain from which all the rest have flowed and that it may have as durable a continuance at least as the last which is now so recent and in most mens esteem so excellent though neither it nor any other for many hundreds of years as we humbly conceive was so dangerous imminent and inevitable as the former which God willing in the Remembrance it self by comparing thereof with any of the greatest shall be made to appear We your Honors humble servants by whose instrumental means of Discovery by word and writing your Honors had that matchless Victory and Delivery which the great God of Battels out of the ocean of his infinite compassions was graciously pleased to give you and this long enslaved Nation by his Almighty power without any weapons of War even when ye had neither Strength Instruments nor Means to resist your numerous and mighty Adversaries nor so much as the least apprehension of your own dangers do in all due respect humbly beseech your Honors that ye will be pleased never to let slip out of your memories whiles ye enjoy your natural lives this so gracious and special a favour which both is still to many thousands so conspicuous and remarkable was then to your selves and all your adherents so joyful and acceptable that ye sent Sir Henry Vane junior to give us the Thanks of the House even when all was finished and the chief Conspirators imprisoned saving onely ye were so over-acted that no Conspiracies yet durst be so intituled until afterwards that upon their miscarriage through discovery of this their main hope they break out first into bold Insurrections and then into bloody Wars which have continued to this day But that unanimously according as ye see your own duties and wish a further increase of blessings from heaven upon all your earthly endeavors your Honors will be pleased with all the convenient speed that may be in this so happy an opportunity which so many years with so great patience we have expected first to search your own Records of Parliament for the true Relation thereof beginning on the 28. day of the first moneth called March in the year of Christ 1642. and continuing all the second Moneth following as it was by word and writing faithfully discovered by us unto you upon divers occasions in publick when ye were assembled in the House next to search those of the late House of Lords and last of the general Committee of both Lords and Commons All which being likewise truly extracted read considered and compared with any other Victory or Delivery either over a mighty Army by foreign Invasion dangerous Insurrection or treacherous Conspiracy that hath been since that time of which most probably none had been at all but both ye and all your truest friends and well-willers suddenly destroyed without any the least means used either of Defence or Resistance if that infernal Conspiracy had not been so timely discovered and happily prevented yea and notice being likewise taken of what is here in brief and of what will follow in the Remembrance it self at large then we doubt not but your Honors shall finde as great cause at least to make an Act for keeping a certain day of Thanksgiving every year most solemnly unto the Infinite Majesty of our good and gracious God for that great Victory and Delivery as ever ye had for any Victory or Delivery since these Wars began yea or your Predecessors before you since England was a Nation But for some further Information at present unto such of your Honors as were not then chosen Members of the House then the bare title of the Bloody-Petition which though discovered and burned yet a rectified Copy thereof to face out the matter with some shew of goodness was presented by three hundred men upon delivery of their Swords and drawing up of London Bridge lest the number had multiplied this Conspiracy should have been acted if God had permitted both upon the Parliament and Well-affected People throughout all the three Nations even when it would have been accounted Treason for them in the highest degree to call either Army or Guard for their own Defence and that by forty thousand armed Malignants out of Kent with the assistance of all their numerous and mighty Confederates both in the City and Countrey under pretence of presenting a just Petition to the Parliament which in reference to the matter and end was forged by

the Popish Faction then at York and presented by Sir Edward Deering who then had been lately expelled the Parliament even in a dissembled imitation of those five thousand men who brought a just Petition indeed out of Buckinghamshire on that glorious Sun-shine day to all persecuted and well-principled people that the Parliament was honourabl● released from their unnatural Exile at Grocers-Hall London as they had justly released both the Exiled and Captivated ●●fore and returned home to sit in their wonted place it being the very next day after the late king went from the Parliament and sleighted that presumptuous Court of Guard at White-Hall which was so unjustly set up when Sin was ripe for the sickle to make all honest Petitioners who brought just Petitions to your Honors for redress of their Grievances stand And for your Honors better receiving both of what Truth is here declared and will be more at large with Gods assistance upon further occasion manifested we humbly desire among other things it may be seriously considered that we your humble Remembrancers are not meerly Discoverers of this one Business as some have been of one particular or other since that time and have willingly done no more neither before nor after in reference to the Publique good which notwithstanding was no small service more then that of Mordecai concerning the saving of one life which king Ahashuerus though both he a Heathen and the other a stranger was so far from sleighting or despising like that poor wise Mans service spoken of by the wisest of men who by his wisdom delivered a little Cith wherein there was but few men from all the Forces of a great King that he out of his ingenuity and noble disposition for his own honor and crecit so respected that worthy instrument of his safety that he without the least request of any both naturalized him and eternized his favor towards him and all of his Nation as wel as Religion for his sake unto all posterities so far as lay in his power But we have made many other Discoveries and done abundance of other Services which although they were never published in Books at least under any of our names alwayes chusing rather to advance the Publique Cause in secret then to be eminent either for popular applause or private respect yet now being forced by the manifold Caluminations corrupt Practices and unjust Dealings of some Deceitful Ambitious and Covetous people to make some Vindications of our own Integrity Actings and Sufferings even in the worst of times and greatest of dangers both for the Publique good of these Nations in general and even of the same men and others of the like principles as well at least as of our selves in particular which being more grievous to us in regard those men were as near and dear to us almost as Jonathan was to David then thrice so many afflictions for the Publique like those which David suffered of his own son Absolom and of Achitophel with whom he conversed being worse then man of the rest All which we hope shall be made at large to appear as they are onely mentioned in the Frontispiece and Contents of a Book here following briefly in order Seventy years Memorial of a resolute Soldiers warfare both in England and Scotland first against Corruptions Delusions and Frailties and next against the Abominations of Churches and Iniquities of States shewing to the great praise of Gods rich Grace In order to the one His manifold happy Victories after divers sad surprizals and to the other His and his Families matchless Discoveries mighty Attempts grievous Sufferings manifold Losses great Hinderances and excessive Charges besides their unavoidable share of all the general Calamities even death it self some of their children being stoned in the streets for their Cause and others left for death yea and above a hundred times driven from their Habitations and Possessions some whereof were Three hundred miles by Land with small Children a whole Moneth on the way divers times all in relation to the Recovery and Defence both of Spiritual and Temporal Freedoms and that throughout all Dangers and Difficulties in the Revolution of States Necessities and Extremities in the alteration of times And likewise through the same Grace with what Fidelity Magnanimity and Constancy yea and resolved Perseverance also to the end both during all these cruel Wars and thrice so many years before even when the very word Parliament durst not be so much as mentioned they have not onely assisted encouraged and incited other Actors and Sufferers yea and helped to defend the Parliament both day and night when they could have none others but a few such free Voluntiers against multitudes of strong cruel Enemies but likewise by means of Printing both informed the generality of the people who were always readier to be deceived then recovered and vindicated the Parliament and Army when they were unjustly opposed traduced and in great danger to be deluded by fair pretences of Covenant known Laws Protestant Religion and Reformation even when no other means either of the Word or Sword could avail far less prevail in the prosecution of the Publique Cause for which all the Millions of Lives Treasures and Estates have been spent Though always with little earthly encouragement less Maintenance or Assistance and not any the least measure of reparation or degree of satisfaction nor in reference to either any kinde of due or competent consideration but large addition of trouble and affliction by the indirect means of false Brethren and policy of self-seeking crafty and deceitful People one of whose lives we have preserved another to a great Estate preferred and of the third to the last great kindness have deserved but with many evils have been rewarded howbeit none of them saving one woman be so old in years as we have been sufferers in order to that long expected Freedom which is now by Divine Providence in Agitation Gal. 5.1 Acts 22.28 Esther 6.3 2 Sam. 2.5 Solemn Declaration of both Nations Ianuary 30. 1643. Moreover we in all due humility beseech your Honors to bear with our Prolixity because it is the first Suit in writing that ever we made to your Honors either since the aforesaid discovery or before for that deliverance of a Pastor and Church then in Prison was granted by your Honors onely upon my word at Mr. Lilborns Request to me he seeing me able to be heard though it had been in a greater matter and likewise That your Honors will be pleased the rather to vouchsafe your Audience and Patience to hear and consider these few other needful Particulars As your Honors to your endless Fame upon the Victory at Dunbar were moved so thankfully to acknowledge Gods inestimable and unexpected Mercy then amongst multitudes of his tender Compassions before as to grant unto his Church and People under your Authority so happy a Deliverance from all Spiritual Slavery that scarce the like is any where without your Dominions

even that worthy Act for tender Consciences so we humbly beseech your Honors to proceed and persevere in all the Particulars of well-doing both concerning Religion and Prosperity of the Nation especially the abolishing of Tithes and all Popish Innovations with all corrupt unjust and tedious Laws as also the subjecting of all Intailed Lands to the payment of all the owners just Debts beginning at the decease of Queen Elizabeth and establishing that Office of General Remembrance both which being already Voted and doing of whatsoever things else which may best and spediest bring this Nation to a happy condition of Ereedom Trading Prosperity and Tranquility that the adjoyning Nations may reap the like benefit chiefly the poor Commons of Scotland who have been enslaved blindfolded and impoverished for many hundreds of years by means of their cruel Taskmasters and that ye may gain the Peoples Affections of all the three Nations which with some other matters of publique concernment I sum up and refer unto another Remembrance likewise even of that remarkable Passage in his Excellencies the Lord Generals Letter from Dunbar as it is printed on the Tenth page beginning at the third line and ending at the One and thirtieth The words are these It is in your hands and by these eminent Mercies God puts more into your hands to give glory to him to improve your Power and his Blessings to his Praise we that serve you beg of you not to own us but God alone we pray own his People more and more for they are the Chariots and Horsmen of Israel disown your selves but own your Authority and improve it to curb the Proud and Insolent such as would disturb the Tranquility of England though under what specious Pretences soever relieve the Oppressed hear the Groans of your poor Prisoners in England Be pleased to reform the abuses of all Professions and if there be any one that makes many poor to make a few rich that suits not a Commonwealth If he that strengthens your Servants to fight pleases to give you hearts to set upon these things in order to his glory and the glory of your Commonwealth besides the benefit that England shall feel thereby ye shall shine forth to other Nations who shall emulate the glory of such a pattern and through the Power of God turn into the like These are our desires and that ye may have liberty and opportunity to do these things and not be hindred we have been and shall be by Gods assistance willing to venture our lives and not desire ye should be precipitated by importunity from your care of Safety and Preservation but that the doing of these good things may have their place amongst those which concern wel-being and so be wrought in their due time and order The premises being seriously read and considered our humble and earnest Desires are That as your Honors out of your discretion and ingenuity shall see just cause the same may be accordingly acted answered or referred and withal That as we have to our utmost abilities faithfully constantly adhered to your Honors in all your Extremities so ye will be pleased in much compassion because of our greater affliction now then ever heretofore by the indirect means of the aforementioned People and being out of breath also by multitudes of former afflictions for the Publique to vouchsafe your best assistance in protecting us not onely from all such further Arrests for such Debts in reference to the Commonwealths which may be justly called theirs because they and their Associates did unjustly dispose of the privy Contributions of many well-affected People chiefly those whereof the second party above specified was Treasurer on Printing some idle Projects when the Army lay at Putney and when the Parliament was called a Juncto which should have paid those former Debts with our Disbursments and Engagements above our power to Printers Stationers and others upon that accompt for Printing abundantly to the Vindication of both Parliament and Army against all railing Pamphlets as also to the inciting of the People to adhere unto them when no other means was so forcible but likewise from all other Indempnities Troubles and Dangers in the prosecution of this our just Cause both for these and other matters especially because they count us Strangers although they themselves by those and the like fruits shall appear much more to be both Strangers and Enemies to all goodness for as in a spiritual sense Egyptians and Ethiopians walking faithfully are esteemed in the word of God to be born in Sion so in a temporal sense all Scots or others who have been all along these Troubles at least true and faithful to this Commonwealth chiefly such as have both adventured their Lives and spent their Estates in defence thereof may be justly esteemed in all respects as if they had been born in England yea in the chiefest and best place of London it self And because Printing hath been their chiefest Weapon and by that occasion they having great correspondency with the Printers and some of them ready enough to Print what they please against us even with the same Moneys which shall be made appear they unjustly detain from us We humbly beseech your Honors to give Order either to your own Printer or any other in our behalf to Print both by way of Quere and otherwise such things as we have against the aforesaid persons and other their Associates which with their positive Answers may be an effectual means not onely to procure us Justice and Reparations of their deceitful and wrongous dealings but to undeceive the people who had some further conceit of those mens love to the Publique then meerly obtaining their own private ends and it may be bring some truth to light for the good of the Publique which hath been long obscure or doubtful Humbly protesting here before your Honors against them That whatsoever Queres we propound shall not by them in sufficient time not exceeding Three Moneths be punctually answered shall be holden thence-forth as confessed promising hereby unto them the like condition against our selves we having the equal benefit of the Press competent means of Subsistance and Moneys to Printers By which means their manifold deceitful dealings and unjust Levelings chiefly of the second Party abovementioned not onely in spiritual Matters against me though he was preferred to an Office at Worcester-house by my procurement but likewise in Civil matters there against many both poor and rich for which he was most justly by direction of the Trustees expulsed both from his Office and Lodgings shall in short time be made to appear yea and whether he with the rest above specified or we have acted and suffered most sought their own profit least of walked according to their principles best in relation to the Publique both before and during all these troubles and so by consequence of such trying of Titles it will likewise appear Whether they or we deserve best to be called True Constant Faithful and Honest So by this Your Honors just assisting and protecting the Weak in their just cause against the strong chiefly in that they are made weak by the others strength obtained by their means both we and all others will be the more encouraged still to adventure our lives and all that 's either nearest or dearest to us in advancing the Commonwealth and pray for your Honors whiles we enjoy life or breath DAVID BRVVON For himself and in the behalf of his Family viz. His Wife Daughters and Servants whereof Francis Jones who deceased about Seven years ago was one at that time This was delivered closely and curiously Written on a quarter sheet to a Honorable Member of the Parliament to be presented unto them upon the 19th day of the Tenth moneth called December 1651. Without soliciting of any both the Matter and Desire being so equitable FINIS