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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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