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A56197	The re-publicans and others spurious good old cause, briefly and truly anatomized. To preserve our native country, kingdom, legal government, Church, parliaments, laws, liberties, privileges of Parliament, and Protestant religion from ruine, scandal, and perpetual infamy; to reform, reclaim all Jesuit-ridden seduced republicans, officers, soldiers, sectaries, heretofore, or now engaged in the prosecution of this misintituled good old cause, from any future pursute thereof, and engage them for ever to abominate it, as apparently tending to publike ruin, their own temporal and eternal condemnation, infamy, our religions reproach, in present and succeeding ages. By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolns Inne.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4052; ESTC R234922	18,673	20

ruin or their late Protectors as well as K. Charles his posterity if they prevail This their Good old cause and Republike is in truth the old pernicious project of Father Parsons the Jesuit his confederats in their high Court of his Memorials for Reformation for England at Sevil in Spain An 1590 as (c) In his Quodlibets p. 92 94 95 233 286 305 c. 306 307 308 330 332. See my Epistle before my Historical and Legal Vindication of the Fundamental Laws Liberties Privileges of all English Freemen where all this is largely evidenced And before my Jus Patronatus Will Watson a secular Priest at large relates and of Tho Campanella an Italian Friar De Monarchia Hispanica c. 25. p. 204. where he informs the K of Spain That nothing will so much conduce to weaken the English forces as dissention discord sowed amongst them perpetually nourished which may best be effected by these 2. means 1. By instigating the swaying men in the Parliament of England Vt Angliam in formam Keipublicae reducant in imitationem Hollandorum to reduce England into the form of A Common Wealth in imitation of the Hollanders 2ly If that could not be effected then either by making it an Elective Kingdom or by setting up Kings of another Family in opposition to the true hereditary royal line To effect which good old cause and plot the Pope Parsons and other Jesuits engaged the old Gunpowder Traitors to blow up both the King royal issue Lords and Parliament Anno 1605 as the History of their Arraignment Speed the Statutes of 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5. relate which then proving abortive the Pope Jesuits and Cardinal (d) Romes Masterpeace Richelieu of France whiles living revived prosecuted this good cause to destroy our King Monarchy and turn it into a Republike or else into an Elective Kingdom to put by K. Charls his progeny and (e) Historia de Conte Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato Venis 1648. p. 175 176. recommended it in writing to the French King his Successor Cardinal Mazarine with whom our Grandees of late years have held intimate correspondency in prosecution of this good old cause vigorously to prosecute after his death who accordingly accomplished it by the old Republican Members and Parliaments own Army seduced instigated assisted in it by the Spanish French and Jesuits Agents Ol Cromwell Pro himself publikely declaring in his printed Speech to his Parliament at Westminster Septemb 4. 1654 p. 16 17. That he knew very well that Emissaries of the Iesuits never came over in those swarms as they have done since these things were on foot and that divers Gentlemen can bear witness with him that they had a Consistory Counsel abroad that * Nota bene rules all the Affairs of the things in England and had fixed in England in the limits of most Cathedrals of which he was able to produce the Particular * Quaere whether the Instrument of Government took not its Title thence Instrument an Episcopal power with Archdeacons and other persons to pervert seduce and deceive the people yet never capitally executed the penal Lawes against any of them This being the true Original progress state anatomy of this Good old cause wherewith the old Republican Members Sectaries Army Officers Souldiers are so much enamoured and some would have enforced all Members of the last Convention publikely to justifie and subscribe to under pain of being secluded To draw off and divorce their affections if not henceforth to engage them cordially against it for their own and the publike good I shall further Anatomize and paint out the horrid deformity and infernal execrableness blackness thereof by parallelling it with the old Gunpowder Traytors Plot and Cause which it farr exceeds in monstrosity exorbitancy treachery and matchless flagitiousness though justly stiled by the Parliament and Statute of 3 Jacobi ch 2. The most wicked barbarous execrable and abominable Treason that ever could enter into the heart of most wicked men and such as was never before heard of though now gilded over with the glorious Title of The Good Old Cause as these 8. circumstances will demonstrate 1. That Good old Cause and Treason to destroy the King Parliament Kingdome was originally (h) 3 Jac. c. 2 4 5. Speeds History 3 Jac. contrived in the years 1604. 1605. by English Spanish Jesuits acted by discontented Jesuited Papists abetted by the Pope and other forein papists all inveterate professed Enemies to our Protestant Princes Parliaments Kingdom Church Religion But those who lately prosecuted visibly ingaged in actually accomplished it in the years 1647 1648 1649 and still pursue it professe themselves the most zealous Protestants Puritans Saints the greatest Opposites to the Roman Pontiff Church Religion Jesuites Seminaries and Papists of all others and the best affected people to our Parliaments and their privileges 2. The old Gunpowder Traytors (i) 3 Jac. c. 1 2 4 5 Speed contrived that good old Cause Treason beyond the Seas and in private secret conventicles here of none but Jesuits Papists obliged by an Oath of Secrecy to conceal it and were so afraid so ashamed of it that they pursued it only in the night acted it under ground in a dark vault under the Lords House wherein their train of gunpowder was secretly hid with Fagots and other materials But those who since espoused it consulted about promoted avowed it in open General Councils of the Army and known publike Meetings Committees of Republican Members of the Long Parliament Army and others confederating with them in England London and Westminster it self in the very day-time and then presented it in the name of the Counsil and Army it self to the Parliament House at the Commons barr in their Remonstrance from St. Albans 16 Novemb. 1648 and (k) The 2. Part of the Historie of Independency J Sedgwicks Justice on the Armies Remonstrance other precedent and subsequent papers which they printed divulged in a most insolent manner to all the world 3. They plotted prosecuted their Old cause by the instigation of the (l) 3 Jac. c. 2 4 5. Pope Jesuits and Popish Priests their ghostly Fathers who confederated with and encouraged them therein and that from the (m) Parsons Philopater §. 2. Tresham de Officio Principis Christiani c. 5. Hospinian Historia Jesuitica l 3. Ludovicus Lucius Hist Jes l. 2. c. 4. Speculū Jesuiticum p. 156 157. c. principles of their own Antichristian trayterous bloudy Romish Religion which assured them that it was not only just lawfull necessary expedient but a most heroike and meritorious Christian Act to destroy subvert ruin all Protestant Kings Princes kingdoms churches Parliaments declared by the Pope to be Hereticks Enemies or Schismaticks from the Church of Rome and assure them of a saintship on Earth a crown of glory in heaven for such an heroick attempt But those who since took up their good old cause

all ages to come Yea after all these old Traitors exemplary condemnations forfeitures executions and hanging up of their Heads Quarters over both Houses of Parl. to deter all others from the like treasonable attempts That though this their late plot was for certain (a) The 2. part of the History of Independency my Epistle to a Seasonable legal historical Vindication My Speech in Parliament p. 107 the Appendix to it originally projected infused into them by Jesuites and Popish Agents yet they openly attributed to themselves both the projecting prosecution accomplishment of this transcendent Treason farr exceeding theirs and proclaimed justified it in sundry of their Remonstrances Ac●s Ordinances Papers as a most heroick Saint-like Christian Honorable and meritorious Act of Justice wherein God himself hath most gloriously appeered bearing witness to and owning it from Heaven by their unparalleld successes not only as a Good but the very best of causes tending to the great advancement of the Throne and kingdom of the Lord Iesus Ch●ist Some of them desiring that the everlasting memory of it may be inscribed on their publike Statues or Monuments For their eternal honour in all succeeding Generations Whereas the very foulest Devils and worst of damned Spirits in Hell would be both afraid ashamed to own or approve such an infernal black cause as this much less to justifie and extoll it in such a prodigious impudent manner as some now doe which exceedingly heightens and aggravates their Impudency Impenitency Guilt and Condemnation Certainly those must have (b) Jer. 3.3 wh●rish forheads brows of brass hearts of steel (c) 2 Tim. 4.2 and conseiences seared with an hot iron who dare to own extoll or espouse such a prodigy or Cause as this And may doe well to remember those two woes which will fall upon them for it Isa 5.18.20 Wo unto them that draw Iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as with a cartrope Wo unto them that call Evil yea the worst of all Evils Treasons Good and good will that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and now call the destruction of their lawfull Soveraign their Native Country kingdom Church the Parliaments of England and their privileges their Good Old cause and (d) Phil. 3.19 glory in these their shamefull Actions e Job 42 6. which should cause them rather to abhor themselves and repent in dust and ashes 7ly The old Gunpowder Traitors only plotted but never actually effected the blowing up of the King Parliament and House of Lords thorugh the providence of f 3 Jac. c. 1. Almighty God who in all ages hath shewed his power and mercy in the miraculous and gratious deliverance of his church and in the protection of Religious Kings and States But our new Salt-peter-men have with an high storng hand fully executed g See their Declaration of 17 March 1648. May 6. 1659. John Godwins Obstructors of Justice Cooks Bradshawes Speeches John Miltons Answer to Salmatius and sundry other printed Pamphlets accomplished whatever they designed and because they miscarried not in it like them but by Gods justice upon them us our King Lords Parliament for all our crying sins have prospered in this Foelix Seelus and brought their wicked devices to pass they glory in it as the Highest Act of Justice the Best of Causes the Greatest Mercy and Deliverance that ever befell the English Nation point blank against the (h) Psal 37 1.7 Ps 73.3 c. Ps 92.6 7. Ps 94.3 4 5. Dan. 11.33.36 Mat. 7.21 Acts 2.33 Pro. 29.19 20 21 22 23. Job 21.7 c. Scriptures and principles of Christian Religion whereby they have involved us in many intestine and forein Wars with our Protestant Brethren and Allies by Sea and Land which they have dyed red and drenchd with precious Christian bloud exhausted our publike treasures destroyed our trade impoverished oppressed quite eaten out the wealth and spirits of our Nation imposed endlesse Egyptian burdens on their backs an Iron Yoak of vassallage on their necks subverted all Liberty property unity amity real piety charity honesty justice divided us into sundry irreconcileable Sects schisms factions fractions perplexed us with sundry manifold fears dangers sodain changes alterations dissolutions of Government Parliaments supreme and subordinate Authorities yea reduced us into a desperate unsetled floating tottering condition without any probable means or hopes of the least setled establishment and brought that severe judgement which God threatned to and inflicted on the Rebellious ten tribes of Israel who revolted from and rebelled against their lawfull Soveraign and right heir to the House of David King Rehoboam (i) Hosea 8.4 c. 13.11 setting up Kings but not by God and making them Princes k Hosea 3.4 and he knew it not whom God took away in his wrath The children of Israel shall abide many days without a King and without a Prince c. l Hosea 10.2 3 4. c. He hath divided their heart now shall they be found faulty For now they shall say and I wish we all would consider it say so too We have no King no true Parliament neither because we feared not the Lord What then should a King or Parliament do to us to help us in our confusions and extremities They have spoken lying words swearing falsly in making a Covenant thus judgement springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field one Judgement of God one trouble war change confusion oppression upon the neck of another and many complicated Judgements together So that Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel now her King is cut off as the fome upon the water and the High places wherein they seated themselves destroyed and all their New Modles of Goverments Parliaments destroyed by themselves they being now disuniting undermining one another more than ever never free from new Troubles plots fears jealousies perplexities since they undertook this New Good Old Romish Cause blow up King Lords Parliaments since they m 1 Kings 21 19. killed and also took possession and like those rebellious wicked H. sbandmen in the n Mat. 21.38.39 1. u. 19.27 c. 20.14 15 16. Gospel said among themselves when the son came to dem and the fruits of his Fathors vineyard from them and cast him out of the vineyard this is the Heir Come let us kill him and seise upon the Inheritance and it shall be ours which ended in the miserable destruction of those wicked men and taking away their usurped vineyard which was let out to other Husbandmen who would render the fruits thereof in due season All which considered our new Powder mens Guilt crime as far transcends the old Powder Traytors as actual Murder destruction of the King Parliament kingdom Laws Liberties and ill consequents thereof exceed only intentionall without effect Theirs unsetled nothing and did no mischief to the publike whereas their actual accomplishment of

Conspiracies Practises Regicides Powder-plots against our Protestant Princes Parliaments Kingdom Church Religion other forein Kings Churches States now exceeded by them 5ly An inexpiable scandal infamy to the profession zealous Professors of the Protestant Religion as now more treacherous perfidious disloyal seditious covetous rebellious bloody hypocritical faithlesse apostatical diabolical atheistical than the worst of Papists Pagans Turks Infidels 6ly A base contempt scorn derision infamy dishonour even of Parliaments themselves their lurisdiction Privileges Members Proceedings Votes Ordinances quite trampled under feet and made the song and by-word of every common Souldier Sculler Fidler Drunkard 7ly A perpetual dishonour obloquy disgrace upon the whole English Nation in all forein States Countries Kingdoms who now scorn us as the most slavish sottish unfaithfull unpolitick unprovident vilest perversest foolishest variablest Nation under Heaven 8ly An indeliable infamy upon the very profession of a Souldier and whole Parliament Army who have verified this old Adage to the uttermost * Lucan Nulla fides pietasve viris qui castra sequntur 9ly A present incomparable dearth and losse of all sorts of Trade Traffique by Land or Sea a present confusion unsettlement in our Government Counsils and all publick Affairs a general discontent fear dispondency in all sorts of people a greater fraction dis-union of all domestick publick interests and stricter combination of our forein Enemies against us to work our ruine and wreck their malice and revenge upon us than ever heretofore 10ly A fresh occasion and advantage to all our Popish Adversaries not only to traduce deride reproach blaspheme our Protestant Profession and Religion as * Milliere his victory of Truth 1654. some of them have done in print as a mere Seminary of Treason Rebellion Sedition Hypocrisie perjury Disloyalty and all sorts of Villany but to combine together in a holy League to * Hospinian Jesuit l. 2. p. 213 214 215. Lud. Lucius Hist Jesuitica l. 2. c. 2. p. 186 187 188 l. 4 c. 1. p. 346. extirpate it and all professors of it out of the World now thus divided from engaged against each other exhausted weakned dis-united from eachother and almost totally ruined one by another through their long intestine bloody wars feuds and infinite Sects Factions endeavouring to undermine weaken destroy and not daring to trust each other (b) Mat. 12.25 A very sad presage or fore-runner of our approaching ruine (c) Lucan lib. 1. En que discordia Cives porduxit miseros d Lam. 2.13 What shall I equal unto thee O Virgin Daughter of our distracted English Zion that I might comfort thee for thy breach is great like the Sea who can heal thee O that the serious consideration of all these deplorable effects might now at last effectually work upon the iron steeled hearts the intoxicated brains seared consciences rebellious spirits perverse wills reprobate senses disorderly passions self-seeking affections of all Army-Officers Souldiers Republicans Sectaries and others heretofore or now engaged in the pursute of this Good Old Cause to bring them to a speedy repentance of all the evils they have acted occasioned by and under the specious mask of Religion Justice Liberty Zeal Necessity Publick safety Self-preservation the setting up Christs Kingdom propagating the Gospel reformation of Abuses and maintaining their Good Old Cause And that this Anatomy of their Good Old Cause the principle end of its publication according to their fresh printed * Misdated April 6. for May 6. being made in hast Declaration May 6. 1659. might lead them to look back and examine the true cause of the Lords late withdrawing his wonted presence and GOOD SPIRIT which formerly appeared among them from them and where they first turned out of the way in forsaking their first espoused Good Old Cause to commit Whorcdom with the old whore of Romes cause their many back-slidings from which by wandring divers wayes FROM RIGHTEOUS AND EQUAL PATHS hath as themselves ingenuously confesse put the Publick concernments of this Common wealth through a Vicissitude of dangers into that sad unsetled state and posture wherein they now stand and rendred all their essaies to obviate the dangers and to settle these Nations in peace and prosperity utterly ineffectual the only wise God in the course of his providence disappointing all their endeavours therein since they secured secluded the old honest members and House of Lords from the exercise and discharge of their trusts and owned their new Old Cause and purged Republican Conventicle for the only Parliment without their Fellow-Members King or House of Lords whom they now call in again against their former Declaration upon which they case them out It shall be my prayer to God that the serious perusal of the premises intended only for their information reformation not perdition may at last induce them for ever hereafter to stop both their ears against the enchanting songs of all Romish Syrens and open both their ears and hearts cordially to embrace this sacred counsell of God himself they have so long obstinately trampled under feet Prov. 24.21 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with Changers or those who are given to change for their calamity shall sodenly arise as we have seen by many late experiments in the very making acting of all our late publick changes and who knoweth the ruine of them both FINIS

THE RE-PUBLICANS AND OTHERS SPURIOUS Good Old Cause briefly and truly Anatomized To preserve our Native Country Kingdom legal Government Church Parliaments Laws Liberties Privileges of Parliament and Protestant Religion from ruine scandal and perpetual infamy to reform reclaim all Jesuit-ridden seduced Republicans Officers Soldiers Sectaries heretofore or now engaged in the prosecution of this misintituled Good Old Cause from any future pursute thereof and engage them for ever to abominate it as apparently tending to publike ruin their own temporal and eternal condemnation infamy our Religions Reproach in present and succeeding ages By WILLIAM PRYNNE Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne Jer. 6.15 c. 8.12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush Therefore they shall fall among them that fall at the time that I shall visit them they shall be cast down saith the Lord. Prov 29.1 He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Zech 7.9 10 11 12 13 14. Execute true judgement c. and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart But they refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear Yea they made their hearts as an adamant stone lest they should hear the Law and words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his Spirit by the former Prophets Therfore came a great wrath frō the Lord of hosts who scattered them with a whirlwind Numb 16.26 27. And Moses spake unto the Congregation saying Depart I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their sins So they gat up from the Tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram on every side Printed in the Year of our Lord 1659. The Republicans and others spurious Good Old Cause briefly and truly anatomised IT is not only an Evangelical counsel but Precept which every consciencious Christian as well in point of conscience as prudence is obliged strictly to pursue 1 Thes 5.21 22. Prove all things hold fast that which is good abstain from all appearance of evil this being the distinguishing character between a real Wise-man and a Fool Prov. 14.15 16. The simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his goings A wife man feareth and departeth from evill but the fool rageth and is confident This consideration put me upon a serious scrutiny of the Good Old Cause newly cryed up highly magnified and violently pursued not only in sundry printed Pamphlets and Petitions but also in the last convention at Westminster by the confederated Triumuirate of Republicans Sectaries and Souldiers pre-engaged in its pursuit and endeavouring like those old seditious Seducers whom the Apostle beseeched the Roman Saints both to mark and avoyd Rom. 16.17 18. by good words and fair speeches to deceive the hearts of the simple Souldiers People and some of the wiser sort of Members Citizens and Army-Officers yet dissenting from them to engage them to espouse so Good and Old a Cause set out with glorious general words and painted varnishes without acquainting them particularly really and ingeniously what it is When I had not only superficially viewed the outside but considerately penetrated into the true original seminal sourse and intrals of it I discovered it to be in truth the Jesuits old Gunpowder-Traytors most execrable Plot and Cause principally projected and secretly promoted by Popish Cardinals Jesuites Priests Agents of all sorts but visibly carried on and effected by Apostate Republican and Sectarian Members of the late long Parliament Army and their confederates to blow up subvert destroy the King Queen Prince Royal posterity Lords commons Kingdom Government Laws Liberty and Property of the People of England yea the verie constitution freedom power privileges of all true English-Parliaments the church and ministry of England and true Protestant Religion it self formerly established to set up Oligarchy Anarchy Tyranny Oppression Libertinisme Marshal-Government and all kind of Heresies Blasphemies Religions Sects yea Atheisme Popery it self at last in their steads to bring our Kingdoms Churches Nations Religion to inevitable desolation and subject them to the Iron yokes of Rome France and Spain for the future The blackest horridst infernall cause ever yet owned by any Christians or treacherous perfidious Sons of Adam since the Creation This needs no better nor clearer demonstration than the review of all their late treacherous perjurious actings proceedings contrary to all their former Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance Protestation Vow League covenant Declarations Remonstrances new Acts of Parliament yea the very clauses of the Writs Indentures by which they were choosen and retorned Members and the Commissions whereby they were first made Army-Officers not only against the late beheaded King and his posterity but Monarchy it self the * Deut. 17.14 15. Ezech. 16 13 14. Jer. 17.25 c. 21.3 4. best of Governments being that of (a) Ps 10.16 Ps 29.10 Ps 47.7 1 Tim. 1.17 God himself over the whole World and of (b) Ps 2.6 ps 24.9 10 ps 45 14 15. ps 149. 2. Is 32.1 c. 33.17.22 Dan. 7.14 Lu. 1.23 Mat. 2.2 c. 21.5 c. 25 34 40. Rev. 15.3 c. 17.14 1 Tim. 15. Christ himself in over his Church of which they prophesied ordained Kings to be the chief nursing Fathers Protectors Ps 72.10 11. Ps 138.4 Psal 148.11 Is 46.7 33. c. 60.3 10 11 16. c. 62.2 against the successively impeached restrained secluded secured Members of both Houses of Parliament and the whole House of Lords not only most insolently and illegally voted down but professedly engaged against by the Tayle of the garled commons House when they had forcibly thrust out the Majority of their Fellow-Members Burgesses which made it no legal House and usurped to themselves by a new Self-creation without a new Election not only the name of the Parliament of England when they had totally destroyed the Parliament it self but the Supream Authority of the Nation Antichristianly * 2 Thes 2.4 exalting themselves above all that is called God or worshipped exercising a more transcendent lawlesse boundlesse Arbitrary power than any Parliament of King Lords and Commons all united in one ever formerly claimed attempted both in their Westminster-Conventicle its several Committees their new High-courts of Injustice their Counsels of State at Whitehall their City and Country Sub-committees set forth in their proper coulors in the History of Independency their own printed new Knacks Remonstrances Engagements Iohn Lilburnes Englands New Chaines his printed Letter to the Speaker July 6. 1649. and other Pamphlets In so much that after their near five years exorbitant Tyranical Domination the very General and Officers of the Army by whose power assistance they undermined destroyed the King Lords former Parliament and constituted themselves alone the Parliament and Supream Dictators over our three whole Nations by way of just Retaliation forcibly dissolved shamefully

thrust them out of the Parliament House Whitehall laying their elevated Honor in the dust And by their Declaration of August 22. 1653. and A true state of the Common-wealth of England 1654. p. 8. c. not only declared them to be actually finally and justly dissolved from being any more a Parliament by an extraordinary providence power but also branded them to all posterity for a CORRUPT PAKTY carrying on their own ends to perpetuate themselves in their late PARLIAMENTARIE SVPREAM AVTHORITIE never answoring the ends which God his People and the whole Nation expected from them but exercising an Arbitrary Power over them likely to swallow up all the antient Liberties and Properties of the People and to perpetuate their Vexations and Oppressions in every kind though the multitude of unnecessary Laws and Ordinances many of which were made upon occasion of and to suit with the concernments and interests of partiaular parties tending to the absolute enslaving of the free-born Nation under their perpetual Dictatorship as they there at large remonstrate These New Athenian Republican Tyrants worse than the worst of all our Kings being thus sodainly dismounted by the Army to the general joy and contentment of all three Nations Generall and the Army-Officers seating themselves in the Supream Power which they allawaies retained and actually exercised in reality at their pleasures though their Mock-Porliament had the Title and visible administration therof usurped an absolute Legislative Tax imposing Parliament-modelling electing convening secluding dissolving power at their pleasures and made their Genera under the Title of Lord Protector of the Infant Common wealth of England Scotland and Ireland as the Roman-Souldiers did their Generals under the' Titles of Caesar or Emperour a more absolute real though not nominal King over us than any of our antient Kings and themselves as a Counsel of State and Major Generals under him acted more arbitrarily tyranically oppressively as Legislators Military and civil Dictators Iudges or pety Kings under him than any of our Saxon Kings during the Heptarchy or old Counsel-Table Lords or Lord Lieutenants under our late King though branded by them as the worst of Tyrants Whose exorbitant Authorities being in some measure bounded and their Major-Generalships set aside by the Assembly at Westminster 1657. and their first Protector soon after his beloved Daughter sodainly out off by unexpected death and his Son no former Officer in the Army succeeding him calling a New Convention at Westminster in Ianuary 1658. the all-swaying Army-Grandees either fearing or discerning in him an inclination rather to close with the antient Nobility Gentry Lawyers and Prebyterians than with them and to revive the old English Militia of Trained-bands by degrees for the peoples ease in their Taxes as the probablest means for his own and our Nations ease settlement security Thereupon they resolved to set up their new Republick again but finding themselves and the old and new Rebublican Members with whom they confederated over-voted in the House by the Lawyers and Court-party in their design of the reviving their former Common-wealth purposely to set aside their young Protector or reduce him and the Republick too under their own pristine Wardship they fell to their former Policy whereby they dismembred dissolved the long Parliament setting up a new General Counsel of Officers and Agitators of the Army against their Protectors will and the Votes of those they acknowledged to be the Parliament and General Counsel both of England Scotland and Ireland of both which themselves like Ambidexters were Members by which stratagem they engaged the major part of the forces here to side with them against the Parliament and enforced their Protector by a suddain surprise much against his will unexpectedly to dissolve the Parliament to make themselves the present Supream Counsel Dictators and Governors of our three Nations as their subsequent actions every day more and more demonstrate To engage all the old and new Republican Members Sectaries Souldiers others in this their foreplotted New-Confederacy they did in sundry printed papers at the beginning of the last Convention since its dissolution and in several Speeches in the House extoll The Good Old Cause in which they formerly engaged and what that was themselves in some of their Speeches motions for their indemnity and justification therein have discovered to wit the impeaching and beheading of the late King in an illegal new High Court of Justice against the Votes of both Houses the Presidents of all former Ages the Laws and Statutes of the Land their own Declarations Remonstrances Commissions Oaths Vows Protestations Covenants yea the very Writs and Indentures by which some of them were elected Members of the long Parliament all obliging them in precise terms to defend the Kings Person Crown and lawfull Authority as well as both Houses of Parliament their Members privileges against all violence conspiracies and attempts whatsoever To disinherit his royal posterity to sel divide among themselves all or most of the antient Lands Rents Revenues Treasure of the Crown which formerly defrayed the ordinary expences of the Realm without taxing the people to dissolve the whole House of Lords impeach seclude secure imprison close imprison the majority of the House of Commons opposite to their new spurious Good Cause at their pleasure and to create the small remainder of the Commons confederated with the Army an absolute Parl. and the Supreme Authority of the Nation without King or House of Lords or the major part of their secluded Fellow-Commoners to metamorphose our Old Kingdom into a new Infant Republick Oligarchy under themselves alone to disinherit all secluded Members and other English Freemen of their hereditary Laws Liberties Franchises and put them into a new Praemunire without any legal Indictment or Conviction disabling them to sue in any Court or enjoy receive any office or preferment whatsoever unless they shall perfidiously abjure all former Oaths Protestations Vows Covenants and engage to be true and faithfull to them and their new-minted Republick without a King or House of Lords to new-modle our Nations Parliaments Government subvert our old fundamental good Laws Liberties Properties imprison banish condemn execute our persons sequester confiscate our Lands Offices real personal Estates ransack our Houses Studies papers and create new Treasons forfeitures of our Freeholds at their arbitrary Lordly pleasures to repeal the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance suspend all penal Executions against Jesuits and Romish-Seminaries give a free toleration protection to all sorts of Sects and Religions whatsoever to hold intimate correspondency with Popish Princes Cardinals Jesuits Jesuited Papists and maintain justifie their most abominable treasonable principles as they did in their preceedent concurrent and subsequent to in and after the proceedings against the King Members erection of their new Free-state the worst of all Arbitrary Tyranies All which nought else but this is the only Good Old Cause they now extoll are to act over again perchance to the