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A47914	A seasonable memorial in some historical notes upon the liberties of the presse and pulpit with the effects of popular petitions, tumults, associations, impostures, and disaffected common councils : to all good subjects and true Protestants.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1301; ESTC R14590	34,077	42

Return'd yet before the Munday after Twelfth nor allow'd to Act as Common-Counsil men till the Indentures of their Election be Returned from the War 〈◊〉 Inquest to the Town-Clerk and a Warrant Issu'd from the Lord May●r to the S●rjeant of the Chamber to Summon them But the Faction however made bold to dispence with these Puntillo's though the constant Rule and Custom of the City and a Common-Council being held December 31. 1641. by the Kings Express Order all that Gang of the New Choice thrust themselves in and took their places with the Old This Intrusion was opposed by several but out of respect to a Message from his Majesty which was then brought them by the Lord Newbourgh complaining of Tumults about White-hall and Westminster and recommending to the care of the City the preventing of any further disorders the question was let fall for the present and the Court apply'd themselves to dispatch an answer to his Majesty which was in effect an acknowledgment of his gracious Goodness exprest to the City the Courts disavowing of the Tumults their promise of doing their best for the future to prevent or suppress them and their humble desire that whosoever should be found guilty of them might be brought to condign punishment On the Last of December the House of Commons under pretence of finding themselves in danger sent to the King for a Guard but it must be a Guard out of the City of London and to be commanded by the Earl of Essex To which Message his Majesty offer'd them Jan 3. a Guard of his own appointment for their security But this Trick would not pass upon the King so that they were forc'd to do their business another way Upon the Fifth of Jan. another Common-Council was call'd by the Kings Order when his Majesty was pleased in person to acquaint the Court with the Reasons of his demanding the five Members the day before admonishing them not to harbour or protect those men in the City Fowke and his new Brethren contrary to all Right or President were got in again and there he most audaciously affronted his Majesty with a Discourse of fears and Jelousies Priviledges of Parliament c. the King only replying in effect that they were dangerous men and that they should have a Legal Tryal On the same day being Wednesday the House adjourned till the Tuesday following and Order'd a Committee to set next morning at Guildhall taking upon themselves little less then Soveraign Power The Committee met at Grocers Hall where the Five Members met under the Guard of the City-Train'd-stands where they past such Votes of Priviledge as never any Age heard of before extending it even to the Exempting and justifying 〈◊〉 Treason it self On Saturday Jan. 8. upon a Debate for the safe meeting of the Five Members at Westminster the Tuesday following the Result was That the Sheriffs of London should and might raise a Guard of the Train'd-Bands for the Defence of the King and Parliament and that they might warrantably march out of their Liberties A Rout of Sea-men offering their service by water as the Other by Land This Subject set all the Puritan Pulpits on work to inflame the People against their Soveraign in favour of the Five Members Upon the fatall 10th of January the King was forc'd to withdraw from London which was then left at the Mercy of the Faction and that very day the Indentures of the Election were Return'd Upon all Questions about These Elections the Decision was formerly in the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen but by the Violence and Importunity of these New Intruders it is left to a Committee of the Common-Council being the Committee a so for the safety of the City so call'd This Committee was their first approach toward the Militia and then follow'd another for putting the City into a Posture of Defence consisting of Six Aldermen and Twelve Commoners most of them of the New Cutt and 300l per annum allow'd to Skippon as an assistant to the Committee Having already modell'd the Common-Council to their liking they furnish themselves with all sorts of Military Provisions augment the Train'd-Bands from 6000. to 8000. the Six Aldermen are made Colonels and the Committee for the Posture of Defence are to choose their Officers the authority of Summoning Common Councils is taken away from the Lord Mayor and lodg'd in people of the Faction and whensoever they 'l have One call'd the Lord Major must obey without so much as asking a Reason for 't They took away his Power also of Dissolving them and kept him to his seat till they thought fit to discharge him And again whereas all Proposals were formerly offer'd to the Court and all Questions put by the Recorder from the Lord-Mayor when the Faction had any thing to propound wherein the Lord Mayor would neither Command the Recorder nor the Recorder act without the Lord Mayor Ven Pennington and Vassel help'd them out at a dead lift with an Order from the House of Commons And finally they brought the Orderly Constitution of the City-Government to a Levell confounding Mayor Aldermen and Commons in the Blending of their Votes The Schismatiques have now got the Riches and the Strength of the City in a manner at their own Disposal For if the major part of the Common-Council may Call Continue and Dissolve the Court at pleasure put what Questions they list and Determine all things by a Plurality of Votes there needed little more then a Pack't Common-Council to do their business Let us consider now the Harmony betwixt the Two Junto's of Westminster and the City The Commons Jan. 26. Petition'd his Majesty about the Tower Forts and the Militia to which his Majesty returns them a Refusal Jan. 28. in the most obliging Terms imaginable telling them that he did not doubt that his having granted more then ever King had granted would ever perswade his House of Commons to ask more then ever Subjects had ask'd About the beginning of Feb. there was held a Common-Coun●ll which sat till One in the Morning When the Cou●t was quite weary and tir'd out Ven took that Opportunity of presenting an Order of the Commons desiring a return of the Names of those Persons whom the City intrusted with the Militia of London The Court was a little surpriz'd at it but yet being desirous to be gone and considering whatsoever past at One Council was in course to be debated at another sent the Names of the Committee for the Posture of Defence in return to the Houses Order By this fetch the Lord Mayor Sheriffs and Court of Aldermen were understood to have voluntarily relinquished their Own Interest and lodg'd the Power of the Militia in the Committee for the Posture of Defence whereof the Major Part was wholly at the Devotion of Ven and his complices At the next Common-Council upon reading the Orders of the last meeting

in the History of our late Consusions Men of Ambition and Interest and agreeing in nothing else but an United Disaffection both to Church and State The contrivers of all these mischiefs says his Late Majesty know what overtures have been made by them and with what Importunity for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for us and what other Undertakings were even to have sav'd the Life of the Earl of Strafford if we would confer such Offices upon them And Henry Martin very Honestly blurted it out Apox ô your snivling for Religion says he we fight for Liberty And all their bawling to put other people out of Employment was only to get themselves In. Thus they went on till the Government was made a Prey to the Faction and the deluded Multitude too late made sensible of their Errours Methinks the People of England after all this Experience should be both Wiser and Honester then by treading the same steps over again to re-engage themselves in the same Miseries and Crimes Or if both Conscience and Common Prudence should have quite forsaken us the very shame methinks of being fool'd over again the same way should move us to bethink our selves Or if that very shame were lost too it was so Base so Scandalous a Servitude we were Slaves to the Meanest of the Rabble And our Masters were a greater Infamy to us then our Fetters the very Ignominy cannot but work an Indignation in any thing that wears the Soul of an Englishman This Paper and occasion will not bear the tracing of their Ingratitudes and Tyrannies at length but in short how barbarously did they treat even their Idoliz'd House of Commons their Assembly nay their Covenanting Brethren the Scots when they follow'd them from Newark even to their Borders with a body of Horse at their Heels their Generall and the Army that set them up in a most Eminent manner the City of London though as the Faction order'd it the very Nurse and Supportesse of the Rebellion His Sacred Majesty can never forget by what means his Blessed Father was Murther'd nor the Bishops forget the abuse and Profanation of the Pulpits even to the Extirpating of the Holy Order the Nobility and Gentry can never forget the Illusions that were put upon them under the Appearancee of Religion and Duty by men that were void of both neither certainly can the Common people forget how they were conjur'd into a Circle by Sermons Petitions and Covenants whence there was no getting out again We 'l see a little of their Ingratitude now to the City of London and whether They far'd any better then other people First they stript them of the Militia then of their Charter and Priviliges they turn'd their Government Topsy Turvy Tax'd Disarm'd Imprison'd and Plunder'd at pleasure took down their Chaines and Posts Quarter'd Souldiers upon them Garrison'd the Tower and several other places of the City the Army Marching in Triumph through it for the aggravation of their Slavery they degraded the Lord Mayor Reynoldson Fin'd him 2000l and Committed him to the Tower April 21. 48. for refusing to publish the Proclamation for Abolishing the Kingly Office They threatned to set fire to the City and lay it in the Dust telling the Mayor and Aldermen in a Letter about the beginning of Aug. 1647. that they were unable to defend either the Parliament or themselves and demanding to have the City deliver'd into their hands which was submitted to upon Conditions of relinquishing the Militia and 11. Members delivering up the Forts and Tower of London and all Magazins and Arms therein to the Army disbanding their Forces turning out all Reformades and drawing off their Guards from the Parliament In Walkers Hist. of Independency these Particulars are to be seen at large It is remarkable that what other means soever were occasionally made use of the Plot was still driven on from First to Last mainly by PETITIONS but none were admitted on the Other side For so soon as ever any Petition appear'd that crost the Factions ●nterest as in several Cases from the Agitators or the City of London there was presently a strict enquiry after the Authours and Abettors of them and the Design immediately crusht They should have taken in the SUBSCRIBERS too and Issu'd out a Commission of Enquiry whether all the Marks and Subscriptions produced in the Names of so many thousand Petitioners were really the Acts and Attestations of the Persons so Named and what Arts and Menaces were made use of for their procurement No unnecessary caution even in our present Case to distinguish the Sober and well-meaning Subscribers from the Fierce and Bloody Fifth-Monarchy men and other Sects that hold affinity with them It being notoriously known that a Mark is set upon the Refusers by those Factions who are the violent sticklers in this proceeding which carries the face rather of an Intended Massacre then a Petition This will seem no uncharitable Construction when I shall tell you what a Noble Lord said in the House of Peers Dec. 19. 42. They chearfully undertook says he to serve against that Army wherein they knew their Own Fathers were and on my Conscience says he I speak it to their Honour had they met them alone 〈◊〉 would have sacrific'd them to the Commands of both Houses And now you shall see their Piety expounded in another part of the same Speech They says he who think that Human Laws can bind the Conscience and will examine the Oaths they have taken according to the Interpretations of Men will in time fall from us but such who Religiously consider that such Moral Preceps are fi●ter for Heathens then for Christians will not feint in their Duty To bring this Pamphlet to a Conclusion we shall only say this further in justification of it that it was written with a very Honest Intention that the matter of Fact is partly upon Certain Knowledg and partly upon the credit of very Warrantable Papers The principal Scope of it was to lay open the Mistery and Method of the Late Rebellion and so to expose it that the same Project and Model may not be made use of for Another The End The CONTENTS THe Liberties of Press and Pulpit Pag. 5 A Deduction of the Late Troubles P. 12 Of Popular Petitions P. 18 Of Tumults P. 22 Of Popular Oaths and Associations P. 23 Of Plots and Impostures P. 26 How the Faction gain'd the Common-Council P. 28 Errata PAge 15. line 11. after Covenants reade Associations for the Factious and in 〈◊〉 the Party Ibid. l. 29. for Government r. Governour p. 21. l. 16. for be kept r. keep p. 22. l. 16. for Garnets Garrets p. 27. l. 31. for Absession r. Obsession Beside other Literal Faults Escaped in haste The Schism led the way to the Sedition Emissaries in Corporations Seminaries of Novices Their Agents were upon 〈◊〉 their behaviour Their Lecturers are supply'd