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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78486	Certaine propositions offered to the consideration of the Honourable Houses of Parliament.		1642 (1642)	Wing C1730; Thomason E179_18; ESTC R9098	3,404	8

CERTAINE PROPOSITIONS OFFERED TO THE CONSIDERATION OF The Honourable Houses OF PARLIAMENT Printed Ann. Dom. 1642. PROPOSITIONS OFFERED TO THE CONSIderation of the Honourable Houses of PARLIAMENT May it please your Honours BEing that your foure notorious Victories over the Cavaliers that at Worcester that at Keinton that at Brainford and that lately at Malborough have now as you promised taught the present Age and will hereafter teach the succeeding what it is to runne into so heinous crimes And whereas things stand now so that you need not any longer hire Mr Booker to calculate Path-waies on your side These your great Conquests which will terrifie Historians from writing them and these your glorious Felicities which are even burthensome to your selves having given you leasure to hearken to the sighs and groanes of the people to whom you promised a Through reformation That you may in some part satisfie their expectations the time of good tidings which the Kings men commonly call Christmas being now at hand I have thought fit to present unto you these few ensuing Considerations which upon mature advice I presume you will find to be of much weight with your selves and of much concernment to the Commonwealth 1. That the time of gaming being now come in you would be pleased to take into your serious consideration that scandalous-Packe of Cards which hath upon the Coates names unfit for Regenerate eares as Hercules Alexander Julius Caesar and Hector of Troy and such like and that you would change them into Old Testament Names as the Kings to be David Josiah Solomon Hezekiah the Queenes Sarah Rachel Hester Susanna and the Knaves lastly Balaac Achitophel Tobit and Bel. It is not without ground conceived that the Israel of God would be well pleased now and then to recreate themselves at New-Cutt and some such other games if they had Kings and Queenes of the Circumcision and Knaves of the Covenant Or if some men out of an holy dislike to Antiquity should desire to have Moderne Kings and Queenes and Knaves that upon the foure Kings you would put the Names of any foure of the five Members and upon the foure Queenes any foure women belonging to them and upon the foure Knaves Calamy Marshall Downing and Burges For as your selves have served us in making men take up Arms against the King and these Ministers have served you in absolving them that were Captives of that Oath which the King gave them not to beare Armes against Him so both of you deserve to have your memories kept fresh in Statues and how that may be done more conveniently then this way I see not 2. That seeing you have a very usefull gift and a great Talent in Multiplying things to the advantage of the Common cause and that many eyes see more then few and so may do more good to the Common-wealth you would be pleased to consider if it were not worth the labour to employ some skilfull men in the making of two sorts of Dice Confiding Dice and Malignant Dice the Confiding to be ey'd with Caters Cinques and Sices and the Malignant with nothing but Aces Deuxes and Treys the which Dice are to be so ordered that the Confiding may be sold to the Confiding and the Malignant to the Malignant that so wee may make a lawfull and holy game for you But provided that for feare wee be suspected of false play it be ordred that these Dice be thrown out of Parliament Boxes 3. That during all this good tide there be no Hazard allowed but with an eye upon the Common-wealth and that instead of the Night that is usually destin'd to the profit of the Butler there be a Night destin'd to the two Houses of Parliament and that the Burgesses of every towne who through the thinnesse of affaires may conveniently now be dispensed with goe downe into their severall Countries to looke to the Boxes who for ministring to the Common-wealth in such a service shall have a considerable allowance out of the gaines This I conceive next to the shewing of the Monstrous Lord with the five Members in Faires and Markets will most conduce to the swelling of the Publique Burse and it is very fit that you that have undergone the burthen of affaires should have a share out of all the Losses of the Kingdome 4. That there be no Masquing Mumming Blind-man-buffe Leading Hoodwink'd or such like Gambolls during the Twelve dayes Acted or performed in any place but in either or both houses or some of the Courts where the Committees sit or lastly which is accounted the farre fittest place in some of the City Halls where there hath beene a conference betweene the Members and the Aldermen It being a great usurpation upon the priviledges of this Parliament that any one without your leaves should lye hid in any dresse or disguise so as to see all the rest and not be seene himselfe of them 5. That being your sage Counsels have thought fit to vote downe Stage-Players roote and branch but many even of the well-affected to that Reformation have found and hope hereafter to find Play-houses most convenient and happy places of meeting and that now in this Bag-pipe Minstralsie weeke I meane this red packe of leasure dayes that is comming there must be some Enterludes whether you will or no You would be pleased to declare your selves that you never meant to take away the calling of Stage-playes but reforme the abuse of it that is that they bring no prophane 〈◊〉 but take them out of the Scripture all as that of Joseph and his brethren would make the Ladies weepe that of David and his Troubles would do pretty well for this present and doubtlesse Sulanna and the two Elders would be a Scene that would take above any that was ever yet presented It would not be amisse too if instead of the Musicke that playes betweene Acts there were onely a Psalme sung for distinction sake This might be easily brought to passe if either the Court Play-writers be commanded to read the Scripture or the City-Scripture-Readers be commanded to write Playes This as it would much advantage our Part so it would much disadvantage the King's for as by it wee should gaine a new place of Edifying so Captaine Trig and the rest of the Players which are now in service would doubtlessely returne to their callings and much lessen the Kings Army 6. That instead of Carols which Farmers sonnes and servants sing on Christs Birth-day before they may eate or drinke you take order that by some of your best City-Poets who will write certainly to their capacity there be some songs made of the great deeds that his Excellencie did at Worcester and Edge-hill in which 't would do admirably well if there were inserted a mention of that honorary summe of five thousand pounds which you presented him with after his Triumph through Kings-street that so if Posterity should chance to question as all certainties you know may be more then questioned whether he got the victory or no they may be compell'd to this Dilemma either to acknowledge His Noblenesse that would receive so little for conquering or your Liberality that would give him so much for being beaten 7. Being Nativity-Pies must be eaten with Spoones and at the good time the good old people bring out Plate older then themselves among which there are most commonly the Twelve Apostles that is a dozen of Sainted spoones so that their very instruments of eating are so many Idols it is more then wish't you would take away those Apostles as being now scandalous superfluities and that your owne heads as you can best agree among your selves were fixt upon them which next to that I mention'd of the Cards would be a pretty kind of Statue to keepe up your glories 8. Being your Papers which a while very handsomely thrust out Epistles and Gospels in many places are not now read in Churches and that they begin not to be prevalent but with the ignorant of your owne party and some few of the Kings servants which are payd by you as well as by Him and therefore may be called Double-Pentioners That it being now a time when much fruit and spice is to be vented you would send all your Declarations Messages Answers Replyes and such like weekly productions to the Grocers with a command that they make up their fruits and spaces in no other paper but them which Art will disperse them not into every shire but into every house so that no necessary businesse that requires paper would be done without them 9. And lastly That as the Revenewes of Bishops and Cathedrals and many Lay-Land-Lords are already set apart for publique disposall so you would opportunely advise of a way to sequester all New-yeares-guifts as Capons Turkies Hennes Geese and such things as will live for the use of the King and Parliament and command them to be immediately after the Day brought up to London and withall that for their better safety your owne High Sheriffes which wee heare you are now pricking may raise a posse Comitatûs to conduct them in Droves from Shire to Shire This I conceive will relish well with the ordinary sort of Citizens who begin already to be nice Stomack'd and shortly will be able to get downe nothing but what falls from Heaven These grand Considerations I thought fit to present to you because you have now carryed up things to that height that the people expect nothing little from you They are but few in number but your wisedome is great and it is easie to adde to another mans Invention And thus I have discharged my duty to you without which I should not have thought I had closed the Yeare as a Subject and a true Member of the Common-wealth FINIS