A Sight of ye Trans-actions of these latter yeares Emblemized with engrauen plats which men may read with out spectacles Are to be sould by Thomas Ienner in his shop at the old Exhange TIME In a litle wrath I hid my face froÌ„ the for a moment but with everlasting kindnâ—es will i haue mercy on thee saith the Lord thy redeemer Isaiah 54. â— TRVTH I will mention the Loving kindnesses of the Lord and the praises of the Lord according to all that the Lord hath bestoued on us and the great goodnesse towards the house of Israell which hee hath bestowed on them according to his 〈◊〉 and according to the multitude of his Louing kindnesses And the fifth Angel poured out his viall upon the seat of the 〈◊〉 and his kingdom was full of darknesse and they gnawed their tongues for pain and blasphemed the God of 〈◊〉 〈…〉 To the READER THou hast here friendly Reader a resolution to that riddle which hath so puzzelled and amazed the whole Kingdome betweene the main parties thereof Parliamentarians and Royalists namely who hath been the cause or what hath been the main spur or spring of all the late and lamentable destractions and distresses of the three Kingdomes England Scotland and Ireland these five or six years past even the very same efficient and instrumentall cause that was of Israels sore plague and punishment 2 Sam. 24. Israel had sinned and provoked the Lord to anger and God suffered Satan to provoke their King to sin grievously against God So England had grievously sinned and Gods wrath was thereby kindled and therefore God suffered their King and his prelaticall papisticall and malignant Subjects soundly to whip and scourge England even to the fetching of blood out of its â—oynes and sides And here 's I say the riddle clearly resolved All this Truth being in this little Emblematicall Treatise lively set forth and illustrated with neat and pertinent pictures and figures for the better affecting of the sight and sense of the Readers therof and especially for the full making out of the truth of what is therein delivered viz That the King and his unhappy and unholy atheisticall instruments have been the main moving cause next I say to our sins of all the mischieves and miseries which we have all felt and found in this distressed Kingdome onely or mainly I say for the driving on of that cruell and accursed designe of bringing in an Arbitrary-Government upon this Free-born Nation to the utter ruine and overthrow of their most precious Religion and Liberties as thou shalt easily and clearely see and discover in this following Treatise and Relation A Sight of the Trans-actions of these latter yeares Emblemized with Ingraven Plates which men may Read without Spectacles 1 Parliament 1. IN the first year of King Charles his Reign a Parliament being called at Oxford two subsidies were granted no grievances removed but the said Parliament soon dissolved 2. The sad effects which the dissolution of this Parliament produced were the losse of Rochell by the unhappy help of Englands Ships 3. The diversion of a most facile and hopefull warre from the West-Indies to a most expensive 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 Spain without consent of a 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 Kingdom suddenly billetted with Souldiers and a concomitant project set on foot for Germane Horses to enforce men by fear 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 year after a declarative grant of no lesse than five Subsidies and the said issues that flowed on 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 year 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 relief 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 besmear the proceedings of this last Parliament and some of the best Members thereof yea Proclamations set out to those effects thereby extreamely to dis-hearten the Subjects yea and plainly forbidding them once to name a Parliament or to desire them any more 15. Whence 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 exaction of Coat and Conduct money the forcible taking away of the Train'd-Bands Armes the desperate design of engrosing 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 Seacoal 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 books 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 Council Table in those dayes chiefly for the fomenting and increasing of most exorbitant taxations pressures and unjust suites against the Subject 21.
firme peace upon any other tearmes Your Majesties friends in the Houses and the Commissioners from Scotland after much wrasling did consent to the sending of those Propositions or to be â—ated the hunderers of peace or otherwayes to send no Propositions at all And now Sir if your Majesty as God forbid shall refuse to assent to the Propositions You will lose all Your friends in the Houses lose the City and all the Countrey And all England will joyne against you as one man they will processe and depose you and set up another Government they will charge us to deliver your Majesty to them and to tender their Garrisons and remove our Armies out of England and upon your Maiesties refusall of the propositions both Kingdomes will be constrained for their mutuall safety to agree and settle Religion and peace without You which to our unspeakable griefe will ruine your Maiesty and your posterity and if your Maiesty refuse our faithfull advice who desire nothing on Earth more than the preservation of your Maiesties Royall Throne And if your Maiesty lose England by your wilfulnesse You will not be permitted to come and reigne in Scotland Sir we have laid our hands upon our hearts we have asked Counsell and direction from God and have had our most serious thoughts upon the remedy but can finde no other to save your Crowne and Kingdomes than your Maiesties assenting to the propositions and dare not say but they are higher in some things if it were in our power and option to remedy than we approved of but when we see no other meanes for curing the distempers of the Kingdomes and closing the breach between your Majesty and your Parliament our most humble and safe advise is your Majesty will be graciously pleased to assent to them as the onely way to establish your Throne because your Majesty shall be thereby received againe in your Parliament with the applause and acclamations of your people by your Royall presence all friends will be strengthened and all Enemies who feare nothing so much as the granting the propositions will be weakned your Maiesty will have a fit opportunity hereafter to offer such propositions as You and your Parliament in wisedome shall thinke fit for your Crowne and Kingdome the Armies will be disbanded and your people finding the sweet fruit of a peaceable Government you will gaine their hearts and affections and that will be your Maiesties strength and glory and will recover all that you have lost in this time of tempest of trouble And if it please God to incline your Royall heart to this advise of your humble and faithfull servants who next to the honour and service of God esteem nothing more pretious than the safety of your person and Crowne our actions shall make it appeare that we esteem no hazard too great for your Maiesties safety and that we are willing to sacrifice our lives and fortunes for establishing your Throne and iust Right Die Sabbathi 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 inhabite or reside under the power and protection of the Parliament shall swear 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 without the consent of the two Houses of Parliament in this Cause or Warre And I doe likewise swear that my comming and submitting my self 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 known So help 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 authorized to tender 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 Kingdom to tender and administer the said Oath unto every other 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 remain without Baile or Mainprize untill he shall conforme thereunto Jo. 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great plenty 41. His Majesties treasure was by these meanes so extreamly exhausted and his revenues so anticipated that he was inforced to compell as it were his own Servants Judges and Officers of all sorts to lend him great summes of money aâ—d prisons filled with refusers of these and the other illegall payments yea many High-Sheriffes summoned into the Starre-chamber and to the Councill-Board and some of them imprisoned for not being quick enough in levying Ship-money and such like intolerable taxations 42. In summe the whole kingdome was now brought into a lamentable and languishing condition of being most miserably bought and sold to any that could give and contribute most of might and malice against us and no hope of humane help but dolour desperation and destruction to be the portion of all 43. In which interim our Brethren of Scotland being entred into our kingdome for their own just defence the King had advanced his Royall-Standard at York where the creame of the kingdome Nobles and Gentry being assembled and a treaty twixt the prime of both Armies had at Rippon for a faire and peaceable accommodation the King was at last inforced to take his Nobles Counsell and in the first place a cessation of Armes agreed on and then this fifth present Parliament the Parliament of Parliaments was necessitously resolved on to begin November 3. 1640. 5 Parliament Anno 1640. Novemb. 3. 44. But behold a desperate plot and design was herein also immediately set on fâ—ot to â—poyle or poyson it in the very Embrio and constitution of it in the first choyce of the Members thereof by Letters from the King Queen malignant and popish Earles Lords Knights and Gentry posted into all parts of the kingdome to make a strâ—ng party for them But by admirable divine providence this their plot was â—ounterplotted and wonderfully frustrated and the Parliament most 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 45. Shortly after a very formidable Spanish-Fleet or Armadâ— appeared on our Englishâ—â—â—row Seas in fight of Dover and was comming in as was on very stâ—ong grounds more than probably conjectured as a third party to help to destroy 〈…〉 Spaniâ—rds hoping that by this time we and the Scots were together by the â—arâ— but they were by Gods mercy beaten ofâ— from us by our Neighbours of Holland And so in fighting against them we fought against our friends The Souldiers in their passage to York turn reformers pull dowâ— popish pictures break down rayles turn alters into tables and those popish Commanders that were to command them they forced to eat flesh on Fridayes thrusting it down their throats and some they slew 46 In the time of ours and the Scots Armies residing in the North which was in June 1641. the Popish and malignant Lords and Prelates fearing the effects of this present Parliament complotted together to disaffect that our English Army against the Parliament and indevoured to bring it out of the North Southward and so to London to compell the Parliament to such limits and rules at they thought fit The Souldiers in their passage to York turn unto reformers pull down Popish pictures break down rayles turn altars into Tables the English and Scotts Armies at first ready to fight lovingly embrace each other part kinde freinds July 1641. At the beginning of the Parliament there was a diligent inquisition after oppressions and oppressâ—rs and first upon the petition of Mistris Bastwick and Mistris Burâ—on two widdowed wives and a petition exhibited in the behalf of Mr. Prynn Dr. Laighton Mr. Smarâ— Mr. Walker Mr. Foxley Mr. Lilborn and many others set at liberty some being banished and all close prisoners others fast fettered in irons and their wives debarred from comming to them The Protestation We the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the Commons House in Parliament finding to the great griefe of our hearts that the designes of the Priests and Jesuites and other adherents to the See of Rome have of lâ—te been more boldly and frequently put in practise than formerly to the undermining and danger of the ruine of the tâ—ue reformed Protestâ—nt religion in his Mâ—jestiâ—s Dominions established And finding also that there have been and having just cause to suspâ—â—â— that there still 〈◊〉 even during this sitting in parliament indevours to subvert the fundamentall Laws of England and Ireland and to introduce the exercise of an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Government by most pernicious and wicked Councels practises ploâ—â— and conspiracies And that the long intermission and unhappy breach of Parliaments hath occasioned many illegall Taxations whereupon the Subject hath been prosecuted and grieved And that divers â—nnovations and Superstitionâ— have been brought into the Church multitudes driven â—ut of his Majesties Dominions jealousies raised and fâ—â—ented betwixt the King and his people a popish Army levyed in Ireland and two â—rmies brought into the bowels of this Kingdome to the hazzard of his Majesties royall person the consumpâ—ion of the Revenues of the Crown and Treasure of this Kingdom And lastly finding great cause of jealousie that indevours have been and aâ—cused to bring the English Army into a misunderstanding of this Parliament thereby to incline that Army with force to bring to passe those wicked Councels Have therefore thought good to joyn our selves in a Declaration of our united affections and resolutions and to make this ensuing Protestation â—A B. doâ— in the presence of Almighty God promise Vow and protest to maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may with my life power and estaâ—e the true reformed protestant Religion â—â—â—ressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all popery and popish Innovations within this Realm contrary to the same â—octrine and 〈…〉 duty of my Allegiance his Majesties royall Peâ—son Hoâ—our 〈…〉 also the power and priviledges of Parliament 〈…〉 the Subject and every person that maketh this Protestation â—n 〈◊〉 he shall doe in the lawfull 〈◊〉 of the saâ—◠〈◊〉 to my power and 〈…〉 as lawfully I 〈◊〉 I will 〈◊〉 and by all good wayâ—◠〈…〉 to bring 〈…〉 punishment all such as shall either by 〈◊〉 practise Councels pioâ—â— conspiracies or otherwise do any thing to the contrary of any thing in this present protestation contained And further that I shall 〈◊〉 all just and Honourable wayes indevour to preserve the 〈◊〉 and peace between the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and neither for hope fear nor other respect shall relinquish this promise Vow and protestation The Earl of Straffords Speech on the Scaffold The Ministers and people solemnly take the Protestation in all Churches over the Kingdome Mr. Burton Dr. Bastwick Mr: Prinne triumphantly from perpetuall captivity those 3 famous Wittnesses of Truth return home to London attended with thousands of horse and foot My Lord I professe my self a true and obedient Son to the Church of England to that Church wherein I was born and wherein I was bred prosperity and happinesse be ever to it and whereas it hath been said that I
in Yorkeshire to have slain Sir John Hotham both intended by one David Alexander and hired thereunto but both by Gods providence timely prevented 67. Commissions granted to popish Recusants to levy men and armes against the Parliament but the Parlia published a Declaration or Protestation to the whole world of their just proceedings therein 68. The King received the most bloody Irish rebels petition and permitted their persons with great favour and allowance about him calling and counting them good Catholick Subjects but utterly rejecting the Parliaments petition exhibited by the Lord Generall desiring peace and reconciliation with him 69. A Treaty of peace was really intended by the Parliament but meerly pretended and fraudulently for a while transacted by the Royalists in which interim that most bloody bickering at â—rainfâ—â—d was most treacherously committed by the Kings party and a most wicked piece of villany câ—â—yed on therein but though with much losse on both sides but especially on theirs by Gods great mercy the mischiefe prevented and the City of London mightily preserved 70. A dangerous plot against the kingdom â—n new High-Sheriffes for the better collecting of the 400000 〈◊〉 Subsidies intended to have been confirmed to the King in a former Parliament but that plot 〈◊〉 by the Parliament providence and an Ordinance of Parliament set on foot for the successefull Association of Counties for mutuall defence one of another against regall injurious taxations and oppressions on them 71. A wicked design of the Royalists at Oxford and elsewhere to proceed against the Parliaments prisoners as traytors and so to put them to death by which Dr. Bastwick and Captain Lilburn were to have been tryed for their lives but prevented by an Ordinance of Parliament for execution of a Leâ— Taâ—â—onis and so of executing the Royall prisoners among us The Citie Trained Bands and the brave Sea-men with Barges and Long-boates adorn'd with streamers drums trumpets and furnisht with Ship-guns other Warrlike instruments guard the Lords Commons safely to Parl by land Water The Countie of Buckingham Cometh to London the very same day of the Lords ComÌ„ons so guarded with their Petition to the Parl Carrying the Protestation on their slaves on horseback and the Counties of Essex Hertford Barkshire Surrey others followed them in like maner shortly after Anno 1643. 72. A notable plot against the City of London immediately upon the Cities prefeâ—â—ing a petition to the King by the hands of two trusty Aldermen and foure Commoners of the said City in reply to which petition the King sending as his messenger one Captain Hern 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 design of the malignant-Citizens against the Parliament and the then Lord Mayor of London and the Government of their City the honest and farre major party 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 immediately after contrivedat Oxford by a Letter sent to all the Freemen Journeymen and Apprentices of the said City to assemble at their severall Halls 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 comemands against the Parliament and City but this letter was nipt and crost also in the neck and nick of it and voted by the Parliament to be evill and scandalous 74. A plot also to betray Bristol into the Royalists hands by one Yeomans and Bowchâ—r and divers other their associates but by Gods mercy the plot being timely discovered and the danger avoyded those two principall conspirators were by Martiall Law condemned and hanged and so the plot utterly frustrated 75. Cheapeside crosse Charing-crosse and all other crosses in and about London utterly demolished and pulled down and that abominable and blasphemous book of tolerating sports and pastimes on the Lords daies voted to be burnt and shortly after accordingly burnt together with many crucifixes and popish trinckets and trurnperies in the very same place where Cheapeside-crosse stood 76. M. Prynne 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 cloathes a just requitall of his dealing with Mr. Prynne and others found the originall Scotch Service-book with the Archâ—Bishops owne hand-writings in it the cause of all the Scots warres 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 Mr. Challenor and others and this wicked plot teâ—med by King Charles in his letter to the Queen one of his Fine Designes But God manifested thâ—â— to be wicked and accursed Designes and Waller onâ— of the prime complotters was by the sentence of the Parliament fined 10000 livre. in his estate and sent out of the kingdom into perpetuall banishment and Tompkins and Challenor hanged in London 78. The breaking out of Sir John Hothams rotten-heart and infidelity to the Parliament in his intended and 〈◊〉 plâ—t 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 Captain Hotham his son and Sir Edward Roades and began to be suspected by Sir John Hothams deserting of the most noble Lord Fairfax by an intercepeed letter of the Queens to the King and divers other sumptomes of it but especially by Captain Moyers letter to Mr. Ripley and Mr. Ripley's faithfull acquainting the Mayor 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 Roads for which treachery Sir John Hotham and Captain Hotham his Son was also apprehended and both of theâ—â— beheaded at the Tower of London The 2 of May 1643. ye Crosse in Cheapeside was pulled downe a Troope of Horse 2 Companies of foote wayted to garde it at ye fall of ye tope Crosse drumÌ„es beat truÌ„pets blew multitudes of Capes wayre throwne in ye Ayre a greate Shoute of People with ioy ye 2 of May the Almanake sayeth was ye 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 Boocke of Sportes vpon the Lords day was burnt by the Kingman in the place where the Crosse sâ—â—ode at exhange Die Merturii May 10. 1643. By vertue of an Order of the House of