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A64903	True information of the beginning and cause of all our troubles how they have been hatched, and how prevented. Wherein vvee may see the manifold contrivances and attempts of forraigne and home-bred enemies, against the Parliament, kingdome, and purity of religion. And how all their endeavours whether by force or fraud, never prospered. A work worthy to be kept in record, and to bee communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing V331B; ESTC R221903	27,396	30

TRUE INFORMATION OF THE Beginning and Cause of all our troubles how they have been hatched and how prevented WHEREIN VVe may see the manifold contrivances and attempts of forraigne and home-bred Enemies against the Parliament Kingdome and purity of RELIGION AND How all their Endeavours whether by Force or fraud never prospered A Work Worthy to be kept in Record and to bee communicated to POSTERITY The people that will not understand shall fall LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1648. True Information of the beginning and cause of all our troubles how they have bin hatched and how prevented 1 Parliament 1. IN the first yeare of King Charles his Reign a Parliament being called at Oxford two subsidies were granted no grievances removed but the said Parliament soone dissolved 2 The sad effects which the dissolution of this Parliament produced were the losse of Rochell by the unhappy helpe of Englands Ships 3 The diversion of a most facile and hopefull warre from the West-Indies to a most expencive and successelesse attempt on Cales 4 The bloody and unblessed attempt on the Isle of Ree and thereby a precipitate breach of peace with France to our great losse 5 A peace concluded with Spaine without consent of Parliament contrary to a promise formerly made to the Kingdome by King James a little before his death whereby the Cause of the Palatinate was altogether most shamefully deserted by us 6 The Kingdome suddenly billetted with Souldiers and a concomitant project set on foot for Germane Horfes to force men by feare to fall before arbitrary and tyrannicall taxations continually to be laid upon them 2 Parliament 7 The dissolution of a second Parliament at Westminster in the second yeare after a declarative grant of no lesse then five Subsidies and the sad issues that flowed to the Kingdome thereupon 8 As first the violent exacting from the people of that mighty summe of the five Subsidies or a summe equall to it by a Commission for a Royall-Loan as it was called 9 Many worthy Gentlemen imprisoned and vexed that refused to pay it 10 Great summes of money extorted from Subjects by Privy Seals and Excises 11 The most hopefull Petition of Right blasted in the very blossome of it 3 Parliament 12 A third Parliament called and quickly broken in the fourteenth yeare of the King and therein Parliamentary priviledges extreamly violated by after ill-usage of some of the best and worthiest Members thereof who were clapt up close prisoners denied all ordinary and extraordinary comforts of life and preservation of health which might have proved perpetuall to them had not a fourth Parliament which afterward happened necessitated their releife and release 13 And this third Parliament thus dissolved O the miserable effects that followed thereon also 14 Scandalous and opprobrious Declarations published to asperse and besmeare the proceedings of the last Parliament and some of the best Members thereof yea Proclamations set out to those effects thereby extreamly to dis-hearten the Subjects yea and plainly forbidding them once to name a Parliament or to desire them any more 15 VVhence immediately gushed out this damme of Parliaments thus being broken down the violent inundations even to a deluge of miseries of mighty summes of money got by that strange and straining project of Knight-hood yet under a faire colour and pretence of Law for it and for all the rest that followed 16 As the most burthensom Book of Rates the most heavy and unheard of till then taxation of Ship money the enlargement of Forrests contrary to Magna Charta the injurious taxation of Coat and Conduct money the forcible taking away of the Trained-Bands Armes the desperate designe of ingrosing Gunpowder into their hands and keeping it fast from the Subject in the Tower of London not to be had thence but at most excessive rates 17 The destruction of the Forrest of Dean that most famous Magazine and Timber-store-house of the whole Kingdome which was sold to Papists 18 The monstrous Monopolies of Sope Salt Wine Leather and Sea-coal yea almost of all things in the Kingdome of most necessary and common use 19 Restraint of Subjects Liberties in their Trades and Habitations for refusall of which foresaid heavy pressures many were vext with long and languishing suites some fined and confined to prisons to the losse of health in many of life in some Some having their houses broke open their goods seized on their studies or closets searched for writings bookes and papers to undoe them Some interrupted also in their Sea-Voyages and their ships taken from them in an hostile manner by projectors as by pirates or common enemies 20 The crushing cruelties of the Star-Chamber-Court and Councill Table in those dayes chiefly for the fomenting and increasing of most exorbitant taxations pressures and unjust suit against the Subject 21 Thus farre for the miseries of the Common-Wealth now also for the Churches danger and distresse the amazing miseries of the Subjects Consciences also by the intolerable burden of Popish Ceremonies Romish Innovations and such like other outrages of the Arch Prelate of Canterbury and his Prelaticall Agents and Instruments over the whole Kingdome in matters of religion divine worship and spirituall cases of Conscience 22 The most palpable and abominable Romish Ceremonies used at the Kings Coronation and insolent and impious false and destructive additions in the Oath administred to the King at his said first Inauguration to the Crowne by that most arrogant Arch-Bishop 23 And the manifold other impious impositions in matters of religion divine worship and spirituall cases of Conscience for refusing and opposing of which how was the honest-hearted and tender-conscienced subject grievously oppressed by fines imprisonments stigmatizings mutilations whippings pillories gagges confinements and banishments yea and that into perpetuall close imprisonments in the most desolate remote and as they hoped and intended remorslesse parts of the Kingdome 24 The putting downe yea utterly ruinating of that most famous and honourable worke that ever this Kingdom saw in a private way for the advancement of Gods glory in the propagation of the Gospel I mean the Feoffees for buying in of Impropriations Noy the then Atturney-Generall openly in Court accusing that blessed worke to bee a worse plot against the Church he meant the Prelaticall-Church sure than the Papists Powder-plot 25 The advancing for the most part none to Ecclefiasticall Dignities and Livings but Arminians yea Popish hearted Pontificians Suspending and silencing with deprivations degradations and excommunications almost all the most pious painful and Orthodox-learned Pastours over the Kingdom whom they could catch in their snares and all this under a pretence of peace unity and conformity in which foresaid cases the High-Commission like the Spanish-Inquisition with its most pregmaticall pranks was all along most intolerable and abominable 26 Printing-presses set open for the Printing and publishing of all sorts of Popish and Arminian tenets but shut up and restrained from Printing sound and Orthodox Doctrines 27 Nay not onely thus

Waller with the help of the City of Londons Regiments and the Royalists plots to hinder our brethren of Scotlands comming in to our helpe by letters and Embassadors sent from France and messengers from King Charles to inveagle them to help from us but all in vaine by Gods good providence and 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 85 The King granted a cessation of armes with the bloody rebels of Ireland and afterward justified it by a Declaration of his printed and published at Oxford but it was remarkeably observed that he never prospered in any of his great designs after that 86 A Solemn League and Covenant taken by the Lords and Commons in Parliament and by the City of London and all parts of the Kingdome in the Parliaments power for a pure reformation of Religion and Church Government and a mutuall defence betwixt us and our brethren of Scotland 87 A notable plot by the Royalists to have Nottingham Town and Castle betrayed unto them the Officers therein being proffered above 10000 livre. to consent to it but prevented by Colonell Hutchinson who was the Governour thereof 88 A Generall plot against the Protestant Religion over all Christendome and the Danes and Hollanders also but God wrought a mighty overture therein by the sudden breaking out of the Danes plot against the Swedes and their over-running almost all Denmark thereupon that he could do nothing 89 A desperate plot against the City of London under a pretence of petitioning for peace acted by Sir Basil Brook Colonell Read and one Mr. Ripley Vilet 2 Citizens of London and others but discovered and prevented 1645. 90 Two desperate plots for the betraying of Alsbury into the Royalists hands and another against Southampton but all three timely discovered also and prevented 91 One Mr. Edward Stanford a Papist plotted with Captain Backhouse a Capt. of Horse under Colonell Massie for the betraying of the city of Glocester into the Enemies hands and proffered 5000 livre. for a reward thereof 200 li whereof was paid in hand to the said captaine but by Gods providence the plot frustrated and Gloucester safely preserved 92 Englands great wonder to Gods glory there being about May 30 1644. six brave armies in this Kingdome on the Parl. side and other forces for defence of the city of London besides ●3 A plot to have betrayed our whole Army in Cornwall in the West but by Gods blessing most of the Souldiers lives were preserved though with the losse of our Artillery 95 Sir Alexander Carew Sir John Ho ham captain Hotham and the Arch prelate of Canterbury beheaded on Tower-Hill for treason against the Parliament 95. A peace onely pretended by the Royalists at Uxbridge and a treacherous petition framed by the malignants of Buckingham shire wherein one Sir John Lawrence of that County was a great stickler but the mischiefe of both was frustrated 96. A desperate assault on Melcomb-Regis to have betrayed it into the Royalists hands wherein divers of the malignant Townsmen had a principall hand and Colonell Goring and Sir Lewis Dives were agents therein but the plot was frustrated the Towne and Forts recovered and two ships with rich prize from Rhoan in France were seized on to make amends for their trouble 1645. 97. Divers Earles and Lords forsooke Oxford and came in and submitted themselves to the Parliament 98. A desperate plot in the West against the Parliament by the Clubmen but by Gods providence turned to the Enemies greatest hurt in the issue 99. A devillish sudden plot upon Scotland which was almost over-run by traiterous Montrosse but as suddenly recovered againe by Gods blessing on Generall David Lesley and Montrosse discomfited and beaten away into the mountaines 1646. 100. A Discovery of grosse impiety in the Oxonians pretending a desired Treaty with the Parliament for a well-grounded peace and yet at that time the Earle of Glamorgan had a Commission to the ruine of all the Protestants in Ireland and so consequently of us in England also 101. The Great Seale broken before the Lords and Commons on Tuesday the 11. of August 1646. Die Sabbati 5. April 1645. Be it Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled That all and every person of what degree or quality soever that hath lived or shall live within the Kings Quarters or been aiding assisting or adhering unto the forces raised against the Parliament and hath or shall come to inhabit or reside under the power and protection of the Parliament shall sweare upon the holy Evangelist in manner following The Negative Oath I A. B. Doe swear from my heart that I will not directly nor indirectly adhere unto or willingly assist the King in this Warre or in this Cause against the Parliament nor any Forces raised with the consent of the two Houses of Parliament in this Cause or Warre And I do likewise sweare that my comming and submitting my selfe under the power and protection of the Parliament is without any manner of designe whatsoever to the prejudice of the proceedings of the two Houses of this present Parliament and without the direction privity and advice of the King or any of his Councell or Officers other then what I have now made knowne So helpe me God and the Contents of this Book And it is further Ordained by the authority aforesaid that the Commissioners for keeping of the Great Seale of England for the time being shall have power and are hereby authorised to render and administer the said Oath unto any Peere or Wife or Widow of any Peere so comming to inhabit as abovesaid And it shall be lawfull to and for the Committee of the House of Commons for Examinations the Committee for the Militia in London and all Committees of Parliament in the severall Counties and Cities of the Kingdome to tender and administer the said Oath unto every person so comming to inhabit as abovesaid And if any person not being a Member of or Assistant unto either of the Houses of Parliament shall refuse or neglect to take the said Oath so duly tendered unto him or her as abovesaid the said Commissioners and Committees respectively shall and may commit the same person to some prison there to remaine without Baile or Mainprize untill he shall conforme thereunto Jo. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum 1646. The King escaped out of Oxford in a disguised manner with two onely in his company one of which was Mr. Ashburnham the King and the other Party going for the said Ashburnham's men The King carried a Cloak-bagge or Portmantle behind him like a serving man Ordered that it be declared and it is hereby declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled that what person soever shall harbour or conceale or know of the harbouring or concealing of the Kings person and shall not reveale it immediately to the Speakers of both Houses shall bee proceeded against as a Traytor to the Common-wealth forfeit his whole estate and dye without mercy A Letter from the Commissioners of Scotland