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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

dagger shall so soon as I am recouered of my plague-sore In the meane time you may be forborn because no better man may be endangered for you Repent Traitor Anno 1643. 72. A notable plot against the City of London imediately upon the Cities preferring a petition to the King by the hands of two Aldermen and foure Commoners of the said City in reply to which petition the King sending as his messenger one Captaine H●rn to the City and the whole body of the City assembling at a Common Hall this Hern desires Faire play above board of them But the businesse being found to be a notable designe of the malignant-Citizens against the Parliament and the then Lord Major of London and the Government of their City the major cry out in the hearing of Hern they would live and dye with the parliament and so sent Hern away with a flea in his care 73. Another plot contrived at Oxford by a Letter sent to all the Freemen Iourneymen and Apprentices of the said City to assemble at their severall Hills and there the Masters and Wardens of all Companies to read the Kings Letter to them and to perswade them to yeeld to all the Kings commands against the City but this Letter was crost in the necke and nicke of it and voted to be evill and scandalous 74. A plot also to betray Bristol into the Royalists hands by one Yeomans and Bowcher and divers other their associates but discovered two principall conspirators were by Martiall Law condemned and hanged 75. Cheapside-crosse Charing crosse and all other Crosses in and about London utterly demolished and pulled downe and that abominable and blasphemous booke of tolerating sports and pastimes on the Lords dayes voted to be burnt and shortly after accordingly burnt together with many Crucifixes and popish trinckets and trumperies in the very same place where Cheapside-crosse stood and at the Exchange 76. Mr. Pryn sent by the Parliament to the Towre of London to search the Arch prelate of Canterburies chamber and study there where he was prisoner who accordingly searching his study and his pockets of his wearing cloaths a just requitall of his dealing with Mr. Pryn and others found the originall Scotch Service booke with the Arch-bishops owne hand-writings in it the cause of all the Scots wars and his Diary Devotions and discoveries under his own hands of matters of high concernment 77. The City of London to have been betrayed into the hands of the Royalists under a pretence of a petition for peace plotted by Mr. Waller a Member of the House of Commons M. Tompkins M. Challenor and others and this plot termed by King Charles in his Letter to the Queen one of his Fine Designes But Waller one of the prime complotters was by the sentence of the Parliament fined 10000 l. in his estate and sent out of the Kingdome into perpetuall banishment and Tompkins and Challenor hanged in London 78. The breaking of Sir John Hothams rotten heart and infidelity to the Parliament in his attempted plot for the betraying of that mighty strong Town of Hull into the Queens hands which treachery was plotted and contrived between Sir John the father Captaine Hotham his son and Sir Edward Roades and began to be suspected by Sir John Hothams deserting of the noble Lord Fairfax by an intercepted letter of the Queens to the King and divers other sumptomes of it but especially by Captaine Moyers letter to Mr. Ripley and Mr. Ripley's faithfull acquainting the Major of Hull therewith and their first seizing on the Block-houses Castles and Commanders of them and at length their apprehending of the persons of Sir John Hotham and Sir Edward Roades for which treachery Sir John Hotham and Captaine Hotham his Son was also apprehended and both of them beheaded at the Tower of London The 2 of May 1643. the Crosse in Cheapeside was pulled downe a Troope of Horse 2 Companies of foote wayted to garde it at the fall of the tope Crosse drom̄es beat trūpets blew multitudes of Capes wayre throwne in the Ayre a greate Shoute of People with ioy the 2 of May the Almanake sayeth was the invention of the Crosse 6 day at night was the Leaden Popes burnt in the place where it stood with ringinge of Bells a greate Acclamation no hurt done in all these actions 10 of May the Boncke of Sports upon the Lords day was burut by the Hangman in the place where the Crosse stoode at Exchange Die Mercurij May 10. 1643 By vertue of an Order of the House of Commons and agreeable to a Bill passed by both Houses of parliament for suppressing of divers innovations in Churches and Chappels this Committee doth require you and every of you to take away and demolish every Alter or Table of Stone within your Church or Chappell and to remove the Communion Table from the East end of the said Church or Chappell and to place the same in some other convenient place of the body of the said Church or Chappell and to remove and take away all Tapers Candlesticks and Basons from the Communion Table and to take away and demolish all crucifixes crosses and all Images and pictures of any one or more persons of the Trinity or of the Virgin Mary and this Committee doth further require you to demolish all crucifixes crosses Images or pictures of any one or more persons of the Trinity or of the Virgin Mary upon the outside of your said Church or Chappell or any open place within your parish Whereof you are to give an account to this Committee before the 20 day of this moneth To the Church-Wardens of the parish of c. and every of them 79 A desperate plot for the betraying of the City and Towne of Lincolne by the two Purfries two Captains of Hull who let in 60 Cavaliers by night in disguised habits and who issuing out about 12 of the clocke that night to act their designe where a plain fellow of the Town discharging a peece of Canon upon them slew 10 of them at one shot the rest slaine and taken by the cen●inels and Sou●●ers of the Towne and so by Gods mercy the City preserved 80 The Queen wrote a dangerous letter to the King to come with all his force to surprize London but by Gods over power wisdome and good providence the King refusing that councell resolved to take Gloucester first which he fiercely assaulted but was as bravely repulsed and by Gods blessing on Major Gener●l Massies fidelity timely aide comming to relieve the Towne it was admirably freed and by the Lord Generalls Army and the City of London Regiamen●● delivered 81 A desperate rebellion raised by the Kentish malignants but by Gods mercy timely suppressed about Tunbridge by the valour of Collonell Brown and the wel-affected Gentry of the County of Kent 82 A Ship bound from Denmark to the King of about 300 tun richly laden with armes and ammunition another Ship