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city_n	call_v	great_a	place_n	10,107	5	4.1120	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65521	Westminster projects, or, The mystery of iniquity of Darby-House discovered		1648 (1648)	Wing W1468; ESTC P1081	8,711	16

perswasions to the contrary have continued the combate and come off not only unfoild but with honor having thrown the Lords Jurisdiction by them usurped over Commons on its back so that unless Englishmen prove the worst of cowards it will not be possible for the Lords ever to dare to take the impudence to adjudg fine or imprison a Commoner more for which noble act of theirs they deserve to have their names engraven in Marble with this memorial Maynard Gayer Adams Langham Bunce did save Our English Freedoms from the very grave Of dire destruction cause they phainly saw The Lords usurp a Power above the Law They took the Laws part and the Lords resist And having choak'd them with a Scottish Mist Bravely retreated for which Fame intends To crown them with the name o' th Peoples Friends Which to their Generations shall remain A badg of honor Time shall ne're obtain To have forgotten but shall make them be But for Cullum this shall be his memorial Here lies a man did Law and fame despise Betray'd his cause for an office in th' Excise Confest himself a Traytor which is moe For profits sake did kiss great Cromwels Toe Twelve hundred pounds per annum for to save He sold his Faith and proved a fawning knave But now I talk of twelve hundred pounds give me leave to tell you that it is no wonder that we are slaves to the Grandees nay that we are no more slaves then we are for you must know that there are in the City but 24. Aldermen and at least fourteen of them have fourteen hundred a year by their places which they enjoy by the favour of the ruling party of Lords and Commons and wherefore think you is it that they confer such places on them is it not to the end that they may give them assistance to enslave and ride you when they please Have they not all along made use of their power and interest in the City to raise what sums of money they pleased and if a demand was made for the loan of ten or twenty thousand pounds would not these men always appear the promoters thereof and to draw others on make proffers to lend a thousand pounds a man which they knew well enough how to pay themselves again out of the Treasury but for you you must be content with the publick Faith nay Hay have they not by this means had such an influence upon the Councels and Government of this City that we have not had liberty to chuse our own Governors or Officers nor dispose of our own Militia or indeed do any thing but what corresponded with the sence of the Grandee Faction but it should meet great opposition in debate at our Common Councels and if they could not carry things there as they desired then presently the power of the Parliament must be made use of to forbid the prosecution of that which they by their interest could not hinder Thus are you notwithstanding all your struglings for Freedom involved in slavery and yet know it not for it cannot be imaginable that these men which get so much by the Grandee Faction as Gibs Woolaston Foulk c. should ever carry on any other interest then their Masters and unless you be wise and force all such Pentionary Aldermen to disgorge give up their places or throw off their Gowns which would be best of all and choose honester in their rooms and also make provision for the future that no Alderman or other Magistrate shall take upon him any such employment as the receiving and disposing of the publike Treasure It is impossible for you to be other slaves and so to be liable to be oppressed taxed and cheated for if he that hath a sword in his hand shall have power to dispose of the publick treasure he will not fear to be his own carver and who shall dare to call him to an account But I have found so much knavery in the City that I had almost lost my way to Westminster which is the very fountain of fallacy where in the first place I met with a Committee of Condemnation alias a Committee of Indempnity where I found them robbing Peter to pay Paul There was a great controversie and the debate was desperate and dubitable whether the Keeper of Newgate Mr Woolaston should be protected for his knavery or Colonel Lilburne punished for his honesty I was loth to stay to see the issue for fear it should have stunk for it is ten to one but the knave Jaylor had the most of the Committee on his side because there was a knave Lord or two to overlook them for fear they should do justice and suffer the Rogue to be hanged for his knavery and then they be put to the trouble to send a reprieve to hell for him knowing it is impossible on earth to find so fit an instrument to execute their infernal commands From thence I went to the Committee of safety at Darby House where I found them as safe as a Cat in a Cubbard hugging themselves for joy at the successe of their Plot which was as followeth I told you the last time how and by what means the tumults in the several Counties were occasioned namely by the underhand designements of this Grandee Faction sitting at Darby House Give me leave now to tell you further that all these appearances by Goring c. for the King are but delusions and by designe thereby to perfect their work of perpetuation of their power It is certain that Goring is imployed by these juggling knaves only to engage as many as he can in the name of the King thereby to give them an opportunity to crush and bring the Kings party so low that it shall not be possible for them to rise again which if effected say they it will bring such a terrour upon all other parties in the Kingdom that do what we will we shall not need to fear any And then shall the King be necessitated either to accept of such conditions as we shall afford him or else we shall be in power to depose him and either keep the power in our own hands or set up the Duke of Glocester which will serve but as a Cypher to please the people withall Suitable to this design was the late answer to the Counties Petitions That they would maintain a Government by King Lords and Commons c. And that in due time they would take into consideration how to settle the Kingdom Which I am confident they are resolved of if this work they have now in hand be but effected which is as followeth They will offer to the King such termes of Agreement as shall serve to secure the power and places of honor and preferment of the ruling party of the Parliament and Army And if the King will joyn with them upon such an account they will bring him in but if he will not then they say they have ground enough to lay him