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A51719	A discovery, or Certaine observations, concerning the crafty and cursed proceedings of the conspirators, or rebbells of England against their owne King, Queene, church, government, then established; to wit 1639. And the liberty, peace, fafety [sic], & quiet-beeing, of that our nation, and other kingdomes thereunto belonging. By whom the people of other nations have beene also cheated and troubled. Observed by J. M. whose hart hath for many yeares together mourned in secret, for the calamity by the sayd rebbels, brought upon his owne, and other nations.	J. M.	1657 (1657)	Wing M35; ESTC R217014	62,961	63

the presumption of the Rebbells was so extreame against his Majesties Person and his Subjects that it could no longer bee induered for them selves doe know that his Majesty was bound in conscience by his Oath and by the Law of the Land to defend the Ministers of Church and State and all other peaceable and obedient subjects so longe as possibly hee could And for somuch as concernes the Kings Councell his Servants and all others that pretend to adheare vnto his Majesty my prayers vnto God Allmighty the desires of my hart and the cryings of my spirit not vnto the God of Rebbells but vnto the Lord of Heaven is more then any man vpon the face of the earth doe know as in Exod. 14.15 That every man high and low may aprove himselfe before God who knowes the hartes of men who sees and takes notice of the actions to bee men that feare and serve God such as love and indeavor with all theyr might to execute Justice and Judgement for all maner of persons as well for the small as the great as it is in the Word of the Lord. Deut. 1.17 And the Lord graunt that every one may bee such as to scorne and abhorre Flattering Bribes and Treason Thou shalt not wrest Judgement Deut. 16.19 thou shall not Respect persons neyther take a gift for a gift doth blinde the eyes of the Wise and pervert the words of the Righteous That which is al-together Just Vers 20. shalt thou follow that thou mayest live and inherit the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee The Lord make all the Kings Subjects milde kinde and curteous one towards another that the Rebbells may not bee able to say any thing that is evill against them And the Lord give vs all grace and wisdome from the highest to the lowest that wee may bee wary that neither Rebbels nor no man deceave vs with vayne words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God vpon the Children of disobedience Bee not therefore partakers with such for the fruit of the spirit is in all Goodnesse Righteousnesse and Trueth See then that you walke circumspectly Redeeming the time because the dayes are evill Eph. 5.6.7.9 ●0 15.16 and never worse then now and that by reason of Crumwell and his Adherents who make the best men weary of their lives whom the oppressed most stand need of By this shall all men know that ye who pretend to bee for the King and the Country of England doe come out of an honest and good Intention if you constantly love all men who are of Godly conversation For the King needs no Desemblors Cheats Proude Scornfull nor Contentious persons neither can his present condition despence with such because if any such should bee in or about his Courte or in his Majesties Armies Ezec. 3 20. as in the 2. Revel vers 13.14 they will prove worsse then the plague or the canket in any mans body And if men prove constantly faithfull to God and their King and delight to bee continually in Peace Love and good will one towards another and withall bee vigelent and continually wachtfull and beware of Lurcking or Sneaking Curres which the Rebbells have or will send amongst you Therefore you that by expeperience know the fidelety one of a nother associate your selves often together and take notice of such busie-bodies as indeavor to make differences strife and envie among men and marke such who falsly accuse any person whether hee bee of High or Low degree and those who indeavor to discharge others from cleaving vnto the King and serving his Majesty in this his extremety Neither will you finde any better way to bring the Rebbells vnto dispaire then by the meanes aforesayd and by causing them to spend their Labors and Monies in vaine Finally My Brethren fare-well bee Perfect and Courageous bee of good comforte bee of one minde live in peace and the God of Love and Peace shall bee with you For if you should in the least give way or any regard vnto such Spies 2. Cor. 13.11 as are imployed by the Rebbells whose custome have allwayes beene to sowe mischeefe contention and discord amongst such as hate Rebbellion And if you by their meanes suffer your selves to bee stired vp to unquiet or disturbe one another take heed that you bee not consumed one of another For this would make the seducing spirits in England who cleave vnto the Rebbells for Reward or for a share of the pray to blaspheame the Lord of Heaven to his face in their Pulpits and they will presumptuously pretend the God of the oppressed to bee the God of Rebbells And First by the way remember this That if by any of the Kings Servants who have receaved Promotion great benefit Subsistance and the Kings favour such Commanders and Souldiers as have willingly vpon their owne charge ventured their Lives and lost their Estates or any such as otherwayes have constantly and with their whole harte and might and that by their great expence and over-throw of their fortunes and subsistance and ever since the begining of the Rebbellion by trueth and experimentall arguments have allwayes stroven to defend maintaine and Justefie the King and all who were faythfull in Authority vnder him to the vndeceaving and Rightly informing of such as were by the Rebbells and their Adherance Malliciously stirred vp against the King and such as were faithfull in Authority who in duty and for conscience sake indeavored to doe God and the Kingdome service As also many good men of Forraine Nations have beene from time to time grosly and wonderfully deluded and bitterly stirred vp by the Lies of the Conspirators against the King and his best Subjects whose slanderous reports have beene constantly discovered and resisted by such as feared God and vtterly abhorred Rebbellion and falsehood to the great satisfaction of many strangers who have been mis-informed by the Conspirators and their Adherants concerning or against the Justnesse of the Kings cause And if the Conspirators can by any means prevaile with such of the Kings Officors or Servants which are in place for to bring such Commandors Souldiors and such others as is before mentioned wrongfully into disgrace by falsehoode and Lies first devised and forged by the Rebbells or their Adherance or if they can cause any such to bee scorned slighted or otherwayes troubled by such as are in favour with the King this will cause the Rebbells to Insult and glory the more though it bee their owne shame and a great mischiefe of their owne contriving this will prove the fainting of all honest harts and the weakening of the hands of such as have yet hope and courage if they can by Brybes secreat wickednes or other devellish artes cause the Kings best Friends and subjects to bee loftily or scornfully looked vpon And if such who never receaved any subsistance reward or benefit shall for their good will continuall paines and expences bee Rewarded with

which are commanded and best pleasing vnto God Almighty who is abuntdantly able and willing to reward your Majesty and all that doe so wherefore I pray God that the Consideration heereof may incourage and stirre vp the Spirits of your Majesty and your Honourable Counsell with your most Reverent Cleargy and the rest of your People to breake the yoake of these Usurpers from off the necks of the King and the distressed Nation of England as Abraham did by the enemyes of his Brother Loth. And as the Lord stirred vp the Spirit of Cyrus King of Persia Gen. 14.14.15 16. Because not only they resolved to Spoyle Ezra 1.1 Raven Murder all such Catholikes Protestants as are more Religeous more Conscientionable towards men more zealous towards God then any of the sayd Rebbells as I have proved and found by long experience For I have often observed in severall Countryes that some Catholikes doe worship God in vprightnesse of hart and in the beauty of holinesse as you may read at large in the 1. Chron. chap. 16. vers 29. And in that manner as is fully exprest Psal 110.4 And this generation of Hypocrites and Iugglers are a very great disparidgement to all honest-harted Protestants both at home and abroad who by the evill conversation of these English and Scottes Conspirators are evill spoken off without cause For I doe assure your Majesty and all the world that how ever many Protestants are deluded by these Lurking Curres yet I doe know Protestants both of my owne and severall other Nations Job 1.1 Who feare God and eshew evill and are harmlesse and upright men John 4.23.24 such as worship God in spirit and in trueth God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in trueth And how ever these desemblors in England doe Vsurpe the name of Protestants to the great disgrace of many thousands of honest and Godly men both in England and elsse where who to my knowledge doe feare the Lord and serve him in sinserity and trueth as it is sayd by Joshua in the 24. of Joshua 14. My Judgement is that neither Catholick nor Protestant shall bee able to lift vp their heads without spot so longe as they goe in the wayes of Caine Baallam Elemasse Judas Crumwell Isa 56.11 or his adherance yet these cunning Sophisters who like doggs are greedy after the pray and that they may the better obtaine it they take vpon them the name of Protestants And by giving to the Officers of his Army and the like of his owne Creaturs large Portions out of the sweat of honest mens browes and the substance of those who takes paines for their Living these are the Catterpillors whose delight and Resolution is not only to destroy those that are better then them selves but even the way and the meanes by which they should subsist in time to come And these are esteemed and found to bee by all men that follow honest callings like vnto those dogg-fish at Sea which come into the Nets and spoyle aboundance of Herrings and the Net also and yet they are good for nothing them selves It seemes to me a sad thing that men that vse great Industry take paines and venture their lives and Estates night and day and many times after longe patience and losse of time when it please God to send them a scull of Herrings then coms the dogg-fish and spoiles the net and a thousand times more Herrings then would serve them to eate and yet escapes from being taken him selfe So the Rebbells though they have done much mischiefe to their betters yet they sometimes escape longe from punishment therfore Let them bee put to shame Psal 83. and perish When it goeth well with the Righteous the citie rejoyceth Vers 10. and when the Rebbells perish there shall bee joy and shouting Gen. 6.5 Prov. 11. at the 10. vers Because the thoughts of their harts are for wickednesse and evill continually Neither is there any thing to bee expected from these destroying Traitors or very littele that justly belongs vnto them selves Yet the hastening of their speedy being humbled or distroyed is very urgant and of great necessety for the prevention of their sutor evill for they are so absolutely bent to continue in their wickedres that it seemes they have sould them-selves and delight to doe wickedly against their owne and other Nations to wit Crumwell his Army and others of his chiefe Associates And therefore it is that they devise mischiefe continually and soweth discorde between loving and deare friends Prov. 6.14.15 and if they fall they know it will bee without Remedy In the meane time Deut. 31.22 they wax fat and fill them selves and such as helpe them And like the Sons of Ely they make them selves fat with such things as are the chiefest of England and other Nations belonging to others which are their betters abroad and at home Whereof God him selfe takes notice as in the 1. of Sam. 2.29 Because they can frame Rayling and Reviling Arguments against Papists they suppose that to bee sufficient to justefie them in all their Treason Theft and Murder wherin they are not ashamed to abuse the Trueth because their discourse and behavior is for the most part if not all together contrary to Trueth and Equity By which meanes they cause many a good Protestant to thinke and to doe in some things worse then ever they would have done and so stirre vp and continew strife for the working out of their owne ends neyther can they any way better please the divell their patron for by their owne confession they have some times set Catholicks and made vse of them against Drotestants who were drawne to it By the importunety and impudency of the sayd Conspirators at other times with no lesse brasen faces they have provoacked and stirred vp Protestants against Catholiks So that first and last these cursed and dubble insinuators have beene the cause of great distresse trouble and bloudshed vnto both Catholicks and Protestants But all you that have yet hope to finde peace vnto your soules and that you may lift vp your face without spot in time to come be sure to let no wickednesse enequity nor presumptuous persons dwell in your Tabernakle nor come neare you nor any body for them that you may bee steadfast without feare and that your Age may bee clearer then the Noone-day So shall you shine forth and bee as the morning and also secure because there is hope Job 11.14.15.16.17.18.19.20 It hath beene demaunded of mee of what Religeon the Conspirators of England are and because I know not of any they have I have beene oftimes troubled what or how I should make answear not onely because they have so often changed from one to another but because all their proceedings is so contrary to all Religeons that which I can most properly say is that if they had any Religeon that had any

evill for good this will bee next vnto a deaths-wound vnto the King and will make the hartes of all his most faithfull Friends and Subjects farre and neare to faint mourne and greeve when they heare of such things And the Rebbells doc knowe that there is no such way to disharten and dis-ingage the Kings friends and cause them to leave him and all his Fathers house in his greatest need neither is there any such way for to stirre vp God and Man to bee the Kings enemies then for to render evill for good vnto them who have vnfainedly served him and made them selves odious in the eyes of all the Kings profest and secraet enemies for God Conscience and his Majesties sake and the good of the Nation This caused King David to cry out in the eares of Saule his Master in these words 1. Sam. 24.12 the Lord Judge betweene mee and thee and the Lord avenge mee of thee No man need to thinke that the Rebbells will bee so foolish as to send any knowne or profest Rogue for to worke out their businesse in this kinde but they will make vse of some selfe-ended fellows who one time or other have pretended to serve the King and such who hath the arte to cut a mans purse at the same time when hee laffeth in his face or like Judas when they seeme to bee most zelous and have the bouldnesse and the Impudence to associate them selves with such as they certainly know to bee the Kings friends and by that meanes get what seacrets they can not onely to betray the Kings businesse but also their owne friend and brother to the presumptuous enemies And like vnto the ould proverbe this wickednesse proceedeth from the wicked 1. Sam. 24 15. and hacht by the Conspirators in England Though some-times acted abroad as well as at home The Lord therefore bee Judge 1. Chro. 12.33 and plead the cause betweene all those who are not of a dubble harte against those who are proud scornfull and false-harted towards those The Tribe of Zebalon whose harts and Indeavors have ever been for the glory of God the honour of the King and for the prosperity peace and safety of all obedient subjects in whose eyes a vile person is contemned espesially Traytors and notoroius Rebbells But honoureth them with his whole harte Psal 15.4 that feare the Lord. Wherefore bee pleased to consider how needfull a thing it is for all such as enjoy the Kings favour who subsist or get benefite by him that they carefully take heed to resist and avoyd the stratagems of those who secreatly endeavour to provoke them to bee a terror and a burden vnto those who ever-more have indeavored the honour of the King by whom they subsist as also longed for their happy and prosperous returne into their Native country 2. Sam. 22.28 And remember that the eyes of the Lord are vpon the hauftie to bring them downe and who will save the afflicted people My hart is not haufty nor mine eyes lauftie saith David in the Psal 131. vers 1. Bee sure that all who are bent vpon mischiefe will seeke to crosse others in any thing that is good scornefull men bring a Citie into a snare but wise men turne away wrath The blood-thirsty hate the vpright but the Just seekes his soule Forget not this master-peece of the Rebbells pollicy that they will vse all meanes possible to get the Rulor Proverb 29.8.10.12 and such as are in favour and trust to harken to Lies then they will declare and publish that all his servants are wicked Such are they who to day will seeme to power out their soules before you and hugge you as their bosom-friend and to morow will deride you and lauffe you to scorne Thinke it not strange that I mention such things vnto you seeing to my sorow I have met with such my selfe Now let the wisdome of the Reador be this to avoyde and advise his friend to stand cleare in time and shunne such as cause divisions offences Rom. 16.17 contrary to the doctrine that good men teach bee sure that you follow not the evill example of those that revyle the Gods Exod. 22.28 and who scorne and curse the Rulor of the people But such as know or vnderstand the wickednesse of Rebbells and yet faune and conceale it that is almost as bad as the former Act. 23.4 for if notorious Tyrants who are knowne to the world to be but Vsurpors at the best shall dare to take vpon them to murder men for what they pretend have been concealed as intended against them though it bee every mans duty for to bend his minde and indeavor to discover what hee can of the Intentions proceedings of such Opressors as the Traitors which now beare Rule in England are who are nothing a shamed all this while of being Gods and their Countries enemies A wise man scaleth the Citie of the mighty and casteth downe the strength of the confidence therof Proud and haufty scornor Prov. 21.22.24 is his name who dealeth in proud wrath Therefore blessed is the man that walketh not in the Councel of the vngodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornfull but his delight is in the Law of the Lord. The lauftie and proud lookes of men shall bee humbled and the hauftinesse of men shall be bowed downe Jsa 2.11.12 And every one that is lifted vp shall be brought low One would thinke that this were sufficient for every one that remembers his latter end or considers that he hath a soule to save Deut. 32.29 that it is now high time to shunne and abhorre those who have defiled them selves by treason and the blood of Innocence and yet bouldly stands out in defiance of all those whome they have most offended to wit the Lord of Heaven the King and Country of England and other Nations belonging there-vnto besides Neighbour Nations who also were our friends even as now they are And that the Conspirators have aproved them selves to be past shame doth apeare by the odatious bouldnesse of John Milton in his answer vnto the booke of the Learned Salmasius which doth consist of presumptions scornings Lies and revilings and doth as it were declare that hee had forgotten that there is a Righteous God in Heaven For the sayd Milton doth show in that booke that there is no more feare of God left in him in that he hath despised and controdicted the Worde of the Lord for it is sayd I Councell thee to keepe the Kings Commandement and that in Regard of the oath of God Bee not hasty to goe out of his sight stand not in an evill thing for hee doth what soever pleaseth him Where the worde of a King is there is Power Eccles 8.2.3 and who may say vnto him what doest thou vnlesse it bee such gracelesse Rebbells Pro. 20.2 who will neither obay God

vnder the hand of Mr. Hengh Pieters Minister dated the 17. day of Iune 1634. For the clearing mee of a false Accusation then layd to my charge an other was the Copy of an Act vnder the hands of the Lords of Rotterdam to show that I was a free Broker and the third was a Copy of an Act that I had from the Company my Masters to the intent that Crumwell might vnderstand that I desired nothing but what was as Just as the Cloathes on my back and rather farre shorter then one or two over I signefyed also vnto the said Crumwell that whether the mony were payed or not that I expected nothing neyther would accept of any thing from him or any of his party but from my Masters aforesayd vnder whom I had sufferd and to this purpose I wrote vnto him SIR I hope your Highnesse will grant that though Power and Impudence by violence There is a longer explication of this in Folio 58. drive honest and harmlesse men from their Right and quiet being yet you will not deny but that it is lawfull for men who are opprest and spoyld for to vse the best meanes they can towards the obtaining of Reparation or Restitution as it shall please the Lord to give power or opportunety And I doe comfort my selfe in the Lord my God as some times David did who I hope will gratiously favour my Righteous cause 1. Sam 30.6 neyther hath hee left mee wholy without hope Though I must confesse it sometimes pleaseth God for to suffer lyes craft tyranny and falshoode to prosper and to continew longe Da● 8.25 SIR If I should make such a greevous complait without Just and very extreame cause how should I then expect the God of equity to bee on my side or who can I expect shall helpe mee in time of need I hope the Lord will not suffer vayne thoughts for to lodge with in mee nor any evill thing which I blame in others To my sorrow I know that by violence framed and shamelesse Arguments as by other vnlawfull proceedings oft-times a bad cause is kept too long on foote yet that doth not make a bad cause good because it is contrary vnto equity and because the God of Just men is of purer Eyes then to behould evill and who can not looke vpon iniquity vnlesse it bee in his good time to punish such as deale treacherously Habak 1.13 and such as holde their tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more Righteous then hee SIR seeing that my last hope I have left of ever Recovering the sayd somme of Mony is only by the helpe of your Highnesse my sufferinge namely in my person and good name as in matter of my subsistance have beene very great of three twenty yeares continuance Wherefore blame mee not though I earnestly seeke Reparation by such meanes or possibillities as God is pleased to aforde mee I doe most humbly Confesse that I am very large and tedious and you shall doe well to Consider the extremety of my being necessetated herevnto I further signefied vnto the sayd Crumwell besides my greevances at large comprehended in divers Articles as is a foresayd that in case hee did not cause mee to have Iustice as aforesayd seeing that power is in his hand that hee might perceave that I did intend to doe that which would bee very vnwelcom to him and vnto many of his Party and I also added parte of my grounds or Reasons wherfore I would doe it as followeth SIR I doe most humbly show vnto your Highnesse Verbatum that for these many yeares together I have been very much greeved at the proceedings of your Highnesse the Army and others of your Party against the Worde of God the King the Church the Lawes Nation of our Land And that ever since the troubles of England by the Conspiracy of you your Partye as heereafter more at large first began in which time many thousands of the best and most peaceablest famelyes are ruened also by the slight of men and that long in secret my most beloved Nation hath beene in a most wonderfull manner stirred vp and set one against another by such as were the enemies troublers of our Nation so at home as from abroad by which Cursed meanes aboundance of blood have beene spilt for which my soule hath constantly mourned in secreat Jer. 13.12 For which Cause and for other Reasons that I must as yet conceale I have spoken much against the Person and Proceedings of your Highnesse and some others of your Party which by the helpe of the most high God shall be knowen shortly in publicke or in private which I have intended this many yeares but hetherto I have kept it still private vnlesse vpon occasion some wordes darkely have past from mee because I have greatly and alwayes longed to see or heare of a Righteous settlement in England without discovering my selfe and as yet onely my prayers to God Almighty have been my best Indeavours to that purpose And SIR much at convenient time and place I have to say without any wrong or prejudice vnto any others also it will concerne you and many of your Party to know the same in private before it comes in publicke to the world because thereby your evill savour will yet be much more knowne then ever it was or hath been as yet This is the Copye of a Letter from mee to Crumwell the Arch-Rebbell being word for word The Copye of another Letter inclosed to the sayde MR. Streckland for the sayd Crumwell Dated the 28. of March 1657. in Bridges and sent by the ordinary Post by way of Dunkirke For your Highnesse to wit the most vallient Oliver Crumwell Lord Protector of the Army and some others in great Brittaine and Jerland This is also verbatum SIR I doe humbly agayne give you notice that I did write vnto you from Middlebourgh and Flushing in Zeland by one Iohn Simmons a Shippe-Carpentor dwelling neare Noahs Arke not farre from the Millstayres in Horsydowne London Certaine papers of Consequence bearing date the 20. of Feb last But for want of a speedior passage I dated other papers the third and the fourth of March old stile Also I wrote vnto Mr. Hugh Pieters Mr. Walter Streckland to Sir Henry Vaine all whom doe know mee or some times have knowne mee but MR. Pieters Minister best of any of them SIR The Contents of the sayd papers are as followeth I having served the Company of Marchants Adventurors of England some times Residing in Delfe and Rotterdam since the yeare 1634. and though I humbly doe and shall ever Acknowledge many of my sayd Masters both of the first of the last of their Worships some were as good Masters vnto mee as I could wish or desier them to bee yet others of their sayd Worships who were towards me disaffected from the begining of 1634. have from time to time caused my Life