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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91149	A brief apologie for all non-subscribers, and looking-glasse for all apostate perjured prescribers & subscribers of the new engagement, wherein they may clearly behold their presidents, sin, horrour, punishment.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing P3907; Thomason E593_12; ESTC R33922	9,998	16

A BRIEF APOLOGIE For all NON-SVBSCRIBERS AND LOOKING-GLASSE FOR ALL Apostate perjured Prescribers Subscribers OF THE New Engagement Wherein they may clearly behold their Presidents Sin Horrour Punishment LONDON 1649. A BRIEF APOLOGIE For all NON-SUBSRIBERS c. HE that being often reproved hardneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Prov. 29.11 How often the Prescribers and Subscribers of the New Engagement against their manifold former Oaths Vows Protestations Covenants and Engagements to the contrary have been admonished both in Press and Pulpit of the impiety danger and destructiveness of this their Apostacie and Perfidiousness both to God and Man without any fruits of Reformation or Repentance of this their execrable wickedness is well known to their own self-condemning consciences and the world Let them therefore now in this small Looking-glass behold both their Presidents Sin Horrour of conscience and their Punishments for the same which if duely pondered may through Gods mercy bring them to sincere Repentance or else create a tormenting hell within their Consciences here and plunge them into everlasting Hell-tormentings hereafter to their just destruction who would receive no admonition in due season The Presidents they follow in Prescribing and Subscribing this Oath and Engagement and very fatal and dangerous even the very worst of our English Rebels and Traytors in former Ages * Jo. Stow his Survey of London p. 88 89 c. Hollinshed Speed Stow in 4 and 5 of R. 2. In the fourth yeer of King Richard the second Walter Tyler Jack Straw and their rebellious rout of the Peasantry made a great Insurrection and Rebellion against the King and his Counsel and marching up to London in a numerous body by the favour of the meaner sort of Citizens who confederated with them entred both the City and Tower beheaded the Archbishop of Canterbury with divers others affronted commanded and insulted over the King and Nobles at their pleasures as the onely Kings of England tendring the King very high and insolent Propositions to signe and notwithstanding his present condescention to them conspired to seize upon his Person and keep him alive amongst them for a time that people might the more boldly repair to them and think whatever they did was done by the Kings authority till they had gotten power enough that they needed not to fear any force which should be made against them And then they resolved to stay all the Nobles that might give any counsel or make any resistance against them together with all Lawyers with the Knights of S. Johns and the Rhodes And lastly they would have killed the King himself with all men of possessions Bishops Canons Parsons of Churches and Monks except Friers Mendicants and have burnt and plundered the City of London it self and then have created Wat Tyler King in Kent and others of the Chief leading Rebels Kings in other Counties And to engage all men in this Confederacie with them they tendered an Oath to them somewhat better then this New Oath and Engagement viz. That they should keep Allegeance to King Richard and TO THE COMMONS and that they should accept of no King that was named John and that they should be ready to assist them whenever they were called and that they should agree to no Tax to be levied or granted in the Kingdom except a Fifteen Which Oath they enforced all they met to take and those that were not sworn to them they took off both their Hoods and Heads But after they had thus played Rex and Lorded it over King Nobles Gentry Country and City a little space Wat Tyler their new King and General who made this vaunt that before four days came to an end all the Laws of England should proceed from his mouth was struck off his horse by William Walworth Lord Maior of London and slain in Smithfield in the view of his Commons and his head set upon London-bridge and by the assistance of the Lord Maior and about a thousand loyal Citizens in whose hearts the Law of the King was ingrafted the King was rescued f om their power and butchery and the Rebels subdued who threw down their weapons fell to the ground and craved pardon their principal Leaders and designed Kings taken and executed in all places and their heads and parts hanged up for monuments to deter others their confederates all dispersed imprisoned and put to great fines and ransoms to redeem their lives and liberties And so their new Kingdom and Republike quickly ended in a fatal Tragedie The King for the Lord Maiors and Citizens good service in perpetual memory of all of this their Loyalty Knighted the Maior and added the Dagger to the Cities Arms which the present Lord Maior Aldermen and packed Common-Councel-men may do well to consider for fear they alter the Dagger into an Ax or Halter for the future and the Prescribers of this new Oath and Engagement who tread in these rebellious Traytors steps and prosecute their very designes and Engagement may do well in time to remember their sad Story lest they arrive at their fatal ends to their temporal and eternal ruine The like designe and project in effect was afterwards hatched and set on foot by Jack Cade and his rebellious rout under pretence to reform Laws and Government who were all scattered came to the like Tragical ends and for ever branded by an Act of Parliament 31 H. 6. c. 1. for wicked Rebels and Traitors to posterity In the Month * Fox Acts and Monum 1640. Vol. 2. p. 665. to 677. of July 1549 in the third yeer of King Edward the sixth as the Commons of Devonshire and Cornwal raised an Insurrection against the King and his Councel in the West so the Commons in York-shire at the same time raised a Rebellion in the North principally out of their traiterous hearts grudging at the Kings honourable proceedings in reforming Religion and trusting to a blinde Prophecy wherewith they were seduced which themselves thought should shortly come to pass by reason of the Rebellions then on foot in Norfolk and Devonshire the tenour of Prophecie and purpose of which Traytors together was THAT THERE SHOULD NO KING RAIGN IN ENGLAND Nota. THAT THE NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN SHOULD BE DESTROYED AND THE REALM SHOULD BE RULED BY FOUR GOVERNOURS TO BE ELECTED and APPOINTED BY THE COMMONS HOLDING A PARLIAMENT IN COMMOTION without King or Lords to begin at the South and North Seas of England c. Whereupon to execute this their designe and erect this their new Government and Parliament without King and Lords the very project now on foot and scope of this new Oath and Engagement they resolved to seize and murther such Nobles and Gentlemen of Estate in their Houses and Counties and in executing the Kings Commissions as were favourers of the Kings proceedings and likely to resist them Hereupon the King sent his gracious Pardon and perswasions to them to reduce them by all