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The Protestants remonstrance against Pope and Presbyter in an impartial essay upon the times or plea for moderation / by Philanglus.
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Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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5000 l. To Sir Miles Hubbard 5000 l. To Mr. Hampden's Children 5000 l. To Sir Benjamin Rudyard 6000 l. To Sir John Elliot's Children 5000 l. To Mr. Benjamin Valentine 5000 l. To Mr. Walter Long. 5000 l. To Denzile Hollis Esquire 5020 l. In Toto 99000 l. SO that first this long Parliament miss-pent the Nations Treasure When besides the voluntary Contributions of Silver Thimbles from the Seamstresses Bodkins from the Chambermaids Silver Spoons from the Cooks Silver Bowls from the Vintners and Rings and Ear-Rings from the Sister-hood for the Maintenance of this Holy War they made an Ordinance in March 1642. for the Levying of 33000 l. a Week which comes to above 2700000 l. a year over and above all the Kings Lands and Woods with whatsoever was remaining unpaid of any Subsidy formerly granted him Together with Tunnage and Poundage usually received by the King And also the Profit of Sequestration of Great Persons whom they pleased to vote Delinquents and the Profit of Bishops Lands which they all Peaceably enjoyed Again the Rump of this same Parliament in 1652 to Maintain War with the Dutch Levied a new Tax upon the People of 120000 l. per mensem to continue a year Which shews that this Democratical and Parliamentary Government or rather this Olygarchy and Rump of a Parliament was no less Burthensom and Chargeable to the People even then a French Monarchy And after this again was another Six Months Tax of an 100000 l. per mensem But what was most unjust of this Parliament and shews how Dangerous it has sometimes been for an House of Commons to have any great sum of Money ready raised and deposited in their own hands was their imploying all that Money which had been Collected by Charity for the relief of the distressed Irish towards the Maintenance of a War against the King Whilst in the mean time the Poor Irish Protestants were Perished by Sword and Famine for want of this Relief Secondly this Parliamentary Dominion was no less Bloudy and Tyranical then the most absolute Monarchy of France or Turkey witness their High Court of Justice which murthered the King Duke Hamilton Earl of Holland Lord Capel and other Loyalists nay their own Friends the two Sir John Hothams whom upon a vain Suspition they ungratefully Sentenced to death but what was an Inhumanity equal to any thing in Popery was that the Godly Sectaries once put it to the Vote whether they should Massacre all the Royallists or no which was carried in the Negative but by two Voices And had it once pass'd there are few but know that Lambert and his Levelling Party had designed to destroy all the Nobility and Gentry of England cutting their Throats by the name of Loyallists whether they were so or no As for the Nobility I mean the House of Peers that Parliament which put the King to Death likewise presently Voted them useless Whereby we may observe how entirely the Nobility and Gentry depend upon the King's Prosperity Who was no sooner Dethroned but presently the Lords are turned out of the Government and the Gentry designed to be Massacred So that of all Tyranies God deliver us from a perpetual Parliament and of all Governments from that of Geneva Fetters which consists of many Links being more troublesom then those of one But to argue upon the square pray let me ask any of these Rumpers why the King might not then as well Levy Money without Lords and Commons as the Commons without King and Lords Why the King might not then interest himself in appointing what Members the People should chuse for Parliament as well as Cromwels Major-General awed the Electors in the like case And why the King might not then Govern by a Court Rump of a Parliament as well as they by an Independent Rump For my part I think them alike grievances and equally unlawful Lastly Now As for their Hierarchy or Government Ecclesiastick it was more Intollerable then their Civil Jurisdiction Elders Deacons Synods and Assemblies being far more Oppressive and Authoritative than Vicar Arch-Deacon Doctor or Spiritual Court. Synods are Whelps o' th' Inquisition A Mungrel breed o' th' like Pernition Synods are Mistical Bergardens Where Elders Deputies Church-Wardens And Saints themselves are brought to Stake For Gospel Light and Conscience-sake And then set Heathen Officers Instead of Dogs about their ears Hudib Every little Ananias or Elder usurping as much power over his respective Family and Authority over a man's Wife and Filly Foals whether Children or Servants especially if they be handsom as the Pope himself nay and as formidable to the Master his Patron He must be first served with the best meat and drink and the Female which he chooses for his Convert is ever the handsomest such Fellows and Wasps having always the wit to elect the choicest Fruit As well in Presbytery as Popery the Priests of both kinds center in the Petticoat so that young Elders and young Fryars are frequent charges to the Parish They are the greatest of Hypocrites when by their long Prayers they conceal their Whoredom Drunkenness Gluttony and Lying by their severity to others they shadow their own wickedness and by their Canting Religion disguise their intended Rebellion well knowing that flames as in Hay or Straw may be kindled in the more combustible People by such Foxes as shall appear rather to carry Water then Fire The Presbyterians and Papists began the War in Scotland continued it in England and brought the old King's Head to the Block where the Independants cutting it off the others very cunningly wash'd their hands of it As for the Tyranny of their Discipline I refer you to Geneva or rather to the History of New England and Heylin of Presbytery Presbytery does but translate The Papacy to a Free-State A Commonwealth of Popery Where every Village is a See As well as Rome and must maintain A Tyth-Pig-Metropolitan Where every Presbyter and Deacon Commands the Keys for Cheese and Bacon More haughty and severe in 's place Then Gregory or Boniface Such Church must surely be a Monster With many Heads for if we conster What in th' Apocalypse we find According to th' Apostles mind 'T is That the Whore of Babylon With many Heads did ride upon Which Heads denote the sinful Tribe Of Deacon Priest Lay-Elder Scribe Hudib Moreover as the Government of the Long Parliament was most Tyrannical and wicked so also was the Usurpation and behaviour of Cromwell if rightly examined for as Mr. Cowley well observes What can be more extraordinarily wicked then for a private Subject to endeavour not only to exalt himself above but to trample upon all his equals and betters to pretend freedom for all men and under the help of that pretence to make all men his Servants to take Arms against scarce 200000 l. a year and to raise for himself above two Millions to quarrel for the loss of 3 or 4 Ears and strike off 3 or 400 Heads to fight
Castle-morton in Worcestershire was five times Plundred by these Rebels Insomuch as they boasted they had not left him worth a Groat his Wife and Children abused and himself Imprisoned How Barbarously were Mr Robert Yeomans and Mr. George Boucher Gentlemen of Bristol murthered as also Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle Shot to death in cold bloud at Colchester by the Parliaments Court of Injustice The Cathedral Churches of Canterbury Worcester and most of the other Cathedrals in England were miserably defaced and demolished by these pious Rebels In October 1642. When the Earl of Stams was in Herefordshire Captain Kirl's Troops in the ahsence of Parson Swift of Goodwich in the same County Plundered his House by the order of the said Earl and Captain they took away all his Provision of Victuals Corn and Household Stuff which were not conveyed away before they emptied his Bed and filled the Ticks with Mault they Rob'd him of his Cart and six Horses and make this part of their Theft the means to convey away the rest Mrs. Swift much affrightened thereat Taking up a young Child in her Arms thought it best to secure her self by flight which one of the Troopers perceiving he commanded her to stay or holding a Pistol to her breast threatned to Shoot her dead in this Condition and haveing her House thus Rifled next morning early she goes to Hereford and Petitions the Earl to have compassion if not on her self yet on her Ten little Infants and that he would be pleased to cause some of her Goods and Horses to be restored but the Earl would not vouchsafe so much as to read her Petition hereupon she Addresses to Captain Kirl who grants her no Restitution but only a protection for what was left and that too cost her thirty Shillings And now thinking her self secure she returns home in hopes to enjoy quietly what was left She had not been long at home but Captain Kirl sends her word that if it pleased her she might buy 4 of her 6. Horses again assuring her that she should never be Plundred more by their Forces enâ—ouraged hereby she bought 4 of her Horses for 8 pounds 10 Shillings and with this security brought home the remainder of those few Goods she had hid at her Neighbours Houses but soon after Captain Kirl sent to her for some Vessels of Cyder which having tasted and not liking instead thereof Demanded ten Bushels of Oates which not having of her own she sent him 40 s. to buy Oates Suddenly after another Captain of the Earls sends to this Mrs. Swift for Victuals and Corn who shewing him her Protection he also shewed her his Warrant and so Condemning her Protection Seizeth upon what Provision and Syder was in the House Hereupon Mrs. Swift Complains to Captain Kirle who said He disapproved of what they did but would not relieve her one jot and withal sends to her for more Oates which she not being able to send him Captain Kirl's Lieutenant two hours before on the third of December comes with a Party of Dragoons to Mr. Swifts House and demanded entrance but the doors being shut they forced them open and entred with Pistols cockt in their hands and Swords drawn Being thus entred they took all Mr. Swifts and his Wives wearing Cloaths his Books and his Childrens Cloaths they being in Bed and poor Children hanging by their Cloaths as unwilling to part with them they swung about until their hold-fasts failing they dashed them against the walls They also took away all his Servants Cloaths leaving none of them a Shirt to cover their Nakedness They Robbed also one of her little Infants lying in a Cradle nor leaving it a rag to preserve it from the cold They took away all the Linnen Iron Pewter and Brass and a fair Cupboard of Glass which they could not carry away they broke The Horses lately redeem'd they also laid hold on and threatned to carry away to Prison Mrs. Swift and her three Maids and to plunder all under their Peticoats as they said Whereupon she fled to the place where her Husband was Concealed in whose absence they fell a packing up all their plunder When amongst other things there was a Batch of Bread in the Oven this they Seized upon the ten small Children on their knees intreated but for one Loaf which they Refused not leaving one morsel to satisfie their Hunger Nay finding a small Pewter-dish which the drie Nurse had hid for the use of the poor Infant in the Cradle the Mother which Suckled it being fled Though the Nurse begg'd for it on her knees and the Child lay crying for hunger yet did they throw it to the Dogs and took away the Dish Nay they commanded upon pain of Death that the Miller should Grind them no Corn nor any of their Neighbours relieve them And all the revenge was acted only because at Ross thâ—ir Faâ—her Preached a Sermon upon this Text Give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's c. Nulla Salus Bello pacem le possimus omnes Virgil. II. lib. Aeneid These are not the thousandth part of those Barbarities and Cruelties which in all Counties of England were acted by those Bloody and Merciless Sectaries who pretended to fight the Lords Battle and whose chief Reformation consisted in turning Churches into Stables and Barns into Churches In plucking down Learned Ministers and setting up Illiteral Coblers and Tinkers to Preach Gods Holy Word in their stead How were the Churches Violated and the Vniversities turned Topsie-Turvy who not being a Sectary was not then esteemed a Papist or not being a Rebel to the King was not accounted a Betrayer of his Countrey Now these tasts of Calvenistical Cruelties may be sufficient to deter any but Mad-men or Fools from splitting twice upon the same Rock unless we desire to have the same Murthers the same Roberies the same Sequestrations the same Compounding for our own Estates many times over the same waiting at Committees Doors the same Free Quarter and the same Parliament Tyrannie then which never any was greater Every little member of which long Parliament being a greater and more absolute Tyrant then any Bashaw belonging to the Turk only with this Difference that such a member could Ruin his Enemies but not assist his Friend The Taxes more heavy and Burthensome then ever any before Most of which publique Moneys were spent in Private uses and divided amongst themselves Whilst thousands of Widows and Orphans who were Ruined by their Sequestrations and Plunderings wanted Bread to put into their Mouths Thus besides other times they at once voted this Division amongst themselves of these several Sums out of the Publick Stock viz To the Lord Say 1000 l. To the Earl of Northumberland 1000 l. To Mr. Vassall 1000 l. To Mr. Henry Martin 1000 l. To Sir Rowland Wanford 5000 l. To Mr. Bacon 3000 l. To Mr. Selden 5000 l. To Sir William Strode's Family 5000 l. To Mr. Peter Hammond's Successors