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A69637 Britannicus his pill to cvre malignancy, or, Frenzie now raigning amongst divers English Protestants which will not see the danger that their religion and liberties now lie in being the whole progresse of the adversaries long and continued plots briefly laid open and discovered : whereby the archest malignant will be either convinced or condemned and the weakest of the well-affected sufficiently strengthened and encouraged with all vigour to proceed with the Parliament in the defence of religion and liberty. Britannicus. 1644 (1644) Wing B4822; ESTC R5141 4,874 8

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Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland since which time the Earl of Antrim escaped and is now preferred to be a great Officer in Ireland and since made a Marquisse Moreover the Generals of the Irish forces in Vlster did offer to my Lord Munro the Parliaments Generall there to appeale to the King which of them had the truest Commission and which his Majesty would aver to be his best and most faithfull Subjects and according to such his Majesties determinations to quit or hold their imployment if my Lord Munro would promise the same to stand to such his Majesties determination And further none can deny but the Irish papists Commissioners were the persons extraordinarily favoured countenanced at their late being at Oxford and their bloody and unheard of cruelties passed over with a painted peace and seeming Cessation and the Protestant Commissioners then there also at the same time were slighted and neglected will not this and many other passages make it cleare that the war was raised here in England to hinder this Kingdome from sending any supplies of men money armes and ammunition into Ireland against the Irish Rebels Then consider the Kings comming to the Parliament as supposed by the Queens perswasion to accuse the five Members of high Treason was not here the great and most dangerous beginning of these wars in this Nation which if the five Members had been delivered up you may soon conjecture what Acts of Parliament would have passed even the next day to the greater slavery and misery of this Nation then by the thoughts of man can bee imagined but by the providence of God they were protected by the worthy Citizens of this famous City of London and we hope will be protected by each other untill their foes be subdued unto them Next the Kings going to Yorke to raise a guard to defend his Person then his going to see Hull the great Magazine of the Kingdome Then the Queen she pretends to go over into Holland to see her daughter when indeed she intended nothing more then to bring over Armes and Ammunition though it were with the sale of the Crown Jewels Besides his Majesty tells you at first no Papist must come nigh his person and were exempted out of the Warrants for putting the Commission of Array in execution but soon after they were allowed to buy Armes for their defence contrary to the known Lawes of the Land and were then desired to send their horses and his Majesty would set Protestant Riders upon them and now behold who more imployed in places of Trust and countenanced by honours and preferments and esteemed his best Subjects kept for Reserves in most dangerous Assaults and imployments and whose Councells at Court more prevalent predominant and over ruling then the Papists and Irish Rebels who worke together with and for the Spanish Faction in that Court See how active the Queen is for promoting her Cause and what power and interests she hath with his Majestie and his Counsells which cannot be expressed in words and what dependance she hath to Rome and all the Priests and Jesuits both in Forraigne Nations and in England consider also what Motives and prayers have been made amongst all the Roman Catholiks all over Christendom for the good successe of the Kings Armies also I could go backe and tell you of the poisonning of Marquis Hamilton c. the Popes Nuntioes residing here and if Windebanke and others of their Orders and Warrants in favour of Priests and Jesuits and also their intended Massacre against the chiefest Pillars of Scotland the Marquis of Argile the Earle of Lowden and Earle of Leven and many others when the King was in Scotland the very same day the Rebellion in Ireland brake forth Consider also the Subtile ingagements of divers of the children of the Palatinate in this war against the Parliament and Kingdom a designe of the Jesuits fetched from Hell to make an inveterate hatred in this Kingdom to that family thereby if it were possible to take away all hopes of ever recovering the Palatinate again for the right owners Looke upon the persons that side with the King in this war if not for the most part almost generally Papists Bishops and their adherents Monopolizers delinquents to the State beggerly Gentry of this Kingdom and of the better sort of Nobles and Gentlemen terrified and frighted with the Lions Skin and Foxes Cunning some gained with terrour others with hope of honour and preferment this hath much encreased that party amongst the Gentry and none but know that his Majesties Store-house of Common Souldiers he raiseth from the dark corners of the Land where ignorance blindnesse and Libertinisme is prdominant and a pious godly ministery very scarcely to be heard of where the Lords day is known by a few Common Prayers in the morning and by dancing drinking and rioting about a May-Pole in the afternoone I have now traced and touched upon some of the heades of those abuses and false pretences and black engins which our enemies have wrought withall to Cozen and cheat us of our Religion and Liberties and any understanding man by this discourse may easily discerne Popery and Slavery was intended And now curteous Reader since so many stratagems and Traps have been laid to insnare thy Conscience and to bereave thee of thy Religion and Liberty and fully laid open by the blessing of God in this fixed Parliament who have laboured well nigh foure yeares against Mountains of dangers and difficulties and have also cased you of many burthens of shipmony High Commission Court Monopolizers and have set thee at Liberty from the Iron Yoake of Bishops and their Hierarchy and dependants and are striving and wrestling to settle the in thee true Protestant Religion in the purity thereof to be governed by Lawes and not by Horses and Garrisons as in other Nations nor according to the fancie and will of the Prince or his favorite and also indeavoring to save three Kingdomes from a dying and sad Condition they are now in which will best appeare and be discerned when the present Wars is over when we shall enjoy what we now so much contend for Therefore my advice is that every man that loves his Religion or Liberty to use his utmost in their Prayers in their purses and persons to uphold the Spirits of such as faithfully stand for theirs and the Kingdoms good to their calling in Parliament though some of their Members be turned Apostats and rotten being tossed and shaken away with the anger of the King or inticed away by preferments or such like vanities are these things worth the Religion and Liberty of the Nation In a word I dare boldly say that man which doth not cordially uphold and defend Parliaments in times of try all doth as much as in him lies to destroy the same and then I appeale to every mans conscience If in destroying Parliaments thou doest not as much as in thou liest destroy Religion and Liberty of the Kingdome which God grant we may never live to see FINIS The destructi●e way The ●dstructive way