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A64903	True information of the beginning and cause of all our troubles how they have been hatched, and how prevented. Wherein vvee may see the manifold contrivances and attempts of forraigne and home-bred enemies, against the Parliament, kingdome, and purity of religion. And how all their endeavours whether by force or fraud, never prospered. A work worthy to be kept in record, and to bee communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing V331B; ESTC R221903	27,396	30

or Souldiers violently rushed into the House of Commons accused five of their most eminent Members of Treason demanded their persons to be delivered up unto him intending to destroy all that resisted him therein but c●ost by the happy absence of the Gentlemen this plot was attempted Januar. 4. 1641. Anno 1642. 55. After this one Binion a Silkman of London and the Kentish malignants wherein Sir Edward Deering had a principall hand framed dangerous and destructive petitions against the proceedings of the Parliament but were both most justly rejected and themselves fined and imprisoned for them 56. Immediately after this things grew still worse and worse among the malignants the King himselfe in unjust discontent by the desperate counsell of the young Lord Digby forsakes the parliament and getting the Prince to him leaves London and presently posts into the North and there attempts to get Hull into his hands but was happily prevented and bravely opposed by Sir John Hotham then in that time of his outward and seeming fidelity 57. The King being at Yorke interdicts the Militia then set on foot by the Parliament for their iust safety and defence and endeavouring to remove the Terme from the City of London but in both is opposed by the Parliament and the messenger hanged At Ege-hill 16 peeces of Can̄on shot against 80 of E of Essex Liffegard not one man hurts those 80 brake in vpon 1600 of the Kings 4 of the Parliā Reg ran away 16 troops of Horse so wee wayre 6000 they 18000 yet wee tooke the Standerd Cleste Sr Ed Varney Standerbearer in the head Slew the Lord Lindsey Generall of the Fielde The Queene when shee went ouer beyond Seas one of her Shipes where shee had a greate Tresury Sprung a Leake much was last and Spoyled and when shee returned for England she had a mighty Storme at Sea brake the Mast of van Trumpe-Ship and after 8 dayes boystrus turmoyle she was driuēn backe againe there was broke and last ● Ships of Amunition and they that were driuen bake uere almost starved 59. The King set on foot a most illegall Commission of Array to clash against the parliaments Mili ia which occasioned much mischief and misery over the whole Kingdome but the parliaments Militia prevailed in most places and parts of the land 60. Three letters were intercepted discovering a most desperate plot against the parliament by the royalists Commissary Wilmot Ligby Jermine Crofts and others which by Gods mercy failed them and came to nothing but we in taking some of their ships were advantaged thereby 61. Sir Richard Gurney then Lord Major of the City of London proving a desperate malignant and Array man was crost in his desires and clapt up prisoner in the Tower of London by the power of the Parliament 62. Proclamations and Declarations against the Parliaments proceedings were Printed and published and commanded to be read in all the Churches and Chappels over the whole Kingdome within the Kings power 63. Sir John penington a brave Sea-man but a desperate malignant was constituted Admirall of the Seas for the Kings service but displaced and dispossessed thereof by the parliament and the most noble and loyall Earle of Warwicke notwithstanding the Kings Letters and command to interdict him therein and to give way to penington being put in by the power of the parliament and possessed of the Ships kept and continued in the place and office for the parliaments service 64. Hull besieged by the Marquesse of Newcastle for the King and in that interim one Beckwich a knowne papist plotting to have betrayed it by firing it in foure severall places and then assaulting it yet Hull by Gods mighty providence was preserved and the King after much losse of men and money enforced to forsake it The Citizens of London voluntarily proffered their service to attend and guard the parliament by land to Westminster to secure them from danger By Water also the stout Shipmasters and marriners likewise made ready a great number of long-boats furnished with Ordnance muskets and other Sea-like warlike instruments their vessels also gallantly adorned with Flagges and Stremers together with martiall musicke Drums and Trumpets so as it was a rare sight and when they came to White hall and understood that the parliament Worthies were safely arrived the Trained Bands by Land and the valiant Sea-men by Water let flye their thundering shot both small and great their Trumpets sounding and their Drums beating in a triumphing and congratulating manner a singular testimony of their cordiall affections The very same day a numerous company of Buckinghamshire men both Gentlemen Ministers and others of that County on horsebacke with their protestations in their hats partly in behalfe of their Knight of the Shire but especially to petition the parliament for Reformation of evills in Church and State and to assure their best services and assistance to the parliament on all just occasions and out of Essex Hartford Berkshire Surrey and other Counties of the Kingdome came one after another 65. The Earle of Essex was ordained Lord Generall over all the parliaments Forces for the preservation of the Kingdome which he faithfully managed especially at Edge bill and Newbery and other places can abundantly witnesse 66. A plot to have blowne up all the Lord Generalis Magazine of powder and another at Beverley in Yorkshire to have slaine Sir John Hotham both intended by one David Alexander and hired thereunto but both timely prevented 67. Commissions granted to Popish Recusants to leavy men and armes against the Parliament but the Parliament published a Declaration or Protestation to the whole world of their just proceedings therein 68. The King received the most bloody Irish Rebels petition and permitted their persons with great favour and allowance about him calling and counting them good Catholicke Subjects but utterly rejecting the petition exhibited by the Lord Generall desiring peace and reconciliation with him 69. A Treaty of peace was really intended by the Parliament but meerly pretended for a while transacted by the Royalists in which interim that most bloody bickering at Brainford was committed by the Kings party a piece of villany carried on therein but though with much losse on both sides but especially on theirs by Gods great mercy the mischiefe prevented and the City of London mightily preserved 70. A dangerous plot against the Kingdome in new High-Sheriffes for the better collecting of the 400000 li Subsidies intended to have been confirmed to the King in a former Parliament but that plot crost by providence and an Ordinance set on foot for the successefull association of Counties for mutuall defence one of another against regall injurious taxations and oppressions on them a Letter sent to Mr Pym Mr: Pym doe not think that a guard of men can protect you if you persist in your traiterous Courses and wiked designes I have sent a Paper-messenger to you and if this does not touch your heart a

47 For the advancing of which designe the Earle of Straford then prisoner in the Tower attempted an escape with Sir William Belfore then Leiutenant of the Tower promising and assuring him twenty thousand pound and the marriage of his daughter to Sir Williams Son if he would but consent unto and assist his escape but Sir William hated such bribes and so the neck of all that plot was broken 48 Then they attempted by foule and false scandals on the Parliament to intice the Army of the Scots then still in the North to a newtrality and to sit still whiles our English Army acted the farther designes hatched and hammered still in their heads and hearts but this plot prevailed not neither Anno 1641. Octob. 23. 49 About this time that inhumane bloody rebellion and monstrous massacring of almost 200000 innocent English Protestants men women and children brake out in Ireland namely about October 23. 1641. These accursed Rebels having had their principal encouragements and Commissions to authorize them in that horrid and hideous rebellion from the Court of England and of purpose to have made England the chiefe seat of the war and all the papists prelates and malignants utmost wrath and rage 50 For the still effecting of this designe the malignant party in private much prevailing still the designe now went on chiefly against the City of London for which purpose the Leivtenant of the Tower Sir William Belfore was for his loyalty displaced by the King from his Leivtenantship and popish Lord Cottington made Constable of the Tower but his dangerous designes being soone discovered he was as soone displaced and Collonell Lunsford was made Leivtenant of the Tower But he also by the Parliaments petition and importunity to the King was displaced and Sir John Byron a desperate malignant who afterward proved the most bloody Lord Byron in Cheshire was made Leivtenant of the Tower in Lunsfords stead but he also on many just jealousies being petitioned against was at length with much adoe removed and put out thence and Sir John Coyners by the power of the parliament was put in his place To the KINGS most excellent Majesty and the LORDS and PEERS now assembled in PARLIAMENT The humble Petition and Protestation of all the Bishops and prelates now called by His Majesties Writs to attend the Parliament and present about London and Westminster for that Service THat whereas the Petitioners are called up by severall and respective Writs and under great penalties to attend the Parliament and have a clear and indubitable right to vote in Bils and other matters whatsoever debatable in Parliament by the ancient customes Laws and Statutes of this Realm and ought to be protected by your Majesty quietly to attend and prosecute that great Service They humbly remonstrate and protest before God your Majesty and the Noble Lords and Peeres now assembled in Parliament that as they have an indubitate right to sit and Vote in the House of Lords so are they if they may be protected from force and violence most ready and willing to performe their duties accordingly And that they doe abhominate all actions or opinions tending to popery and the maintainance thereof as also all propension and inclination to any malignant party or any other side or party whatsoever to the which their own reasons and conscience shall not move them to adhere But whereas they have beene at severall times violently menaced affronted and assaulted by multitudes of people in their comming to perform their services in that honourable House and lately chased away and put in danger of their lives and can finde no redresse or protection upon sundry complaints made to both Houses in these particulars They likewise humbly protest before your maiesty and the Noble House of peers that saving unto themselves all their rights and interests of sitting and voting in that House at other times they dare not sit or vote in the House of peers untill your Maiesty shall further secure them from all affronts indignities and dangers in the premises Lastly whereas their feares are not built upon phantasies and conceits but upon such grounds and objects as may well terrifie men of good resolutions and much constancy They doe in all duty and humility protest before your majesty and the peers of that most honourable House of parliament against all Laws Orders Votes resolutions and determinations as in themselves null and of none effect which in their absence since the 27. of this instant month of December 1641 have already passed as likewise against all such as shall hereafter passe in that most Honourable House during the time of this their forced and violent absence from the said most The High Commission-Court and Starr-Chamber voted down and pluralities non residencies damned by Parliament Honourable House not denying but if their absenting of themselves were wilfull and voluntary that most Honourable House might proceed in all their premises their absence or this protestation notwithstanding And humbly beseeching your most Excellent maiesty to command the Clerke of that House of peers to enter this their petition and protestation among their Records They will ever pray to God to blesse c. Jo. Eborac Tho. Duresme Rob. Co Lich. Jos. Norw. Jo. Asa. Guli Ba. Wells Gco. Heref. Rob. Oxon. Ma. Ely Golfr Glouc. Jo. Peterburg Morris Landaff 52 The Bishops also had a pestilent plot about this time to subvert and overthrow the Parliament by indeavouring to get the King to protest against their proceedings in it But twelve of them were thereupon presently impeached of high treason and ten of them imprisoned in the Towre of London and afterward they were all disabled from ever sitting againe in the Parliament Bishops Voted downe root and branch Nullo contradicente insomuch that the Citizens of London the same night made bonfires and had ringing of bels And for the better securing the City within as well as without the Parliament published an Ordinance thereby injoyning all Popish Recusants inhabiting in and about the City all disaffected persons and such as being able men would not lend any money for the defence of the Commonwealth should forth with confine themselves to their owne houses and not to go forth without speciall licence as they would answer it at their perills to the Parliament Another Ordinance was sent to the Lord Major by which the Trained Bands were authorised to apprehend many of the prime and richest malignants disaffected affected persons in the City whereof were four● Alderman put in safe custody in Crosby house and some in Gressam Colledge 53. About which time a Letter was sent to Mr. John Pym a most eminent Member of the House of Commons a most reviling Letter therein calling him Traytor and in the said Letter inclosed a plague-sore plaister thinking thereby to have destroyed him But God mightily preserved him from the infection of it 54. After this the King himselfe being guarded with about 500. armed ruffianly desperate Cavaliers

the Nobility by taking away their negative voyce and with whom the levellers doctrine is rather countenanced then punished and as for their intentions to my person their changing and putting more strict guards upon me with the discharging most of all the servants of mine who formerly they admitted to wait upon me doe sufficiently declare nor would I have this my retirement mis-interpreted for I shall earnestly and uncessantly endeavour the settleing of a safe and well-grounded peace where ever I am or shall be and that as much as may be without the effusion of more Christian blood for which how many times have I prest to be heard and yet no care given to me and can any reasonable man thinke according to the ordinary course of affaires there can be a settled peace without it or that God will blesse those that refuse to heare their own King surely no I must further adde that besides what concernes my selfe unlesse all other chiefe interests have not onely a hearing but likewise just satisfaction given to them to wit the Presbyterians Independents Army those who have adhered to me and even the Scots I say there cannot I speake not of miracles it being in my opinion a sinfull presumption in such cases to expect or trust to them be a safe and lasting peace now as I cannot deny but that my personall security is the urgent cause of this my retirement so I take God to witnesse the publicke peace is no lesse before mine eyes and I can finde no better way to expresse this my profession I know not what a wiser man may doe then by desiring and urging that all chiefe interests may be heard to the end each may have just satisfaction as for example the Army for the rest though necessary yet I suppose are not difficult to consent ought in my judgement to enjoy the liberty of their consciences and have an act of oblivion or indempnity which should extend to the rest of all my subjects and that all their arrears should be speedily and duely paid which I will undertake to do so I may be heard and that I be not hindred from using such lawfull and honest means as I shall choose To conclude let me be heard with freedome honour and safety and I shall instantly breake through this cloud of retirement and shall shew my selfe to be pater patriae C. R. The copy of the paper entituled by the mutinous Agents An Agreement of the people c. In briefe Having by their labour and hazard got their enemies into their hands they are resolved to avoid danger of returning into a slavish condition and the chargeable remedy of another war c. Doe declare 1. That the people of England being very unequally distributed by Counties c. for the election of their deputies in Parliament ought more indifferently to be proportioned c. 2. From the inconvenience arising from the long continuance of the persons now in authority this Parliament be dissolved September the last 1648. 3. That the people of course do choose them a Parliament once it two years c. 4. That the power of this and all future representations of this Nation is inferiour onely to those that choose them c. 5. That matters of Religion and the wayes of Gods worship are not at all intrusted to us by humane power c. A great Tumult Insurection and Muteny in London breaking open divers houses and Magazines of Armes and Ammunitian breaking open divers Houses Seazing on the Drumes Gates Chaines Watches of the Citty assaulted and Shot into the L Mayors house and killed one of his guard etc. 6. That impresting any of us and constraining us to serve in the war is against our freedome c. At this Common-councel Mr Alderman Fowk and Mr. Alderman Gibs by the directions of the Committee of the Militia of London did make a large Relation of the great Tumult Insurrection and mutiny which happened in this City on the last Lords day and on Munday last by many evill disposed persons which first began on the Lords day in the afternoon in the County of Middlesex where they seized the Colours of one of the Trained Bands of the said County who were there imployed for the suppressing of such persons as did profane the Lords day and being dispersed by some of the Generalls forces did gather together within the City of London and Liberties thereof and in a Riotous manner did break open divers houses and magazines of Arms and Ammunition and took away Arms Plate Money and other things and did seize upon the Drums of the Trained-Bands of this City which were beating to raise their Companies and armed themselves and beat up Drums and put themselves in a warlike posture and seized upon the Gates Chaines and Watches of this City and then marched to the Lord Majors house there assaulted the Lord Major Sheriffes Committee of the Militia of London and other Magistrates of the same and did shoot into the Lord Majors house beat backe his Guards killed one of them wounded divers others and seized and took away a piece of Ordnance from thence with which they did afterwards slay and wound divers persons and committed many other Outrages All which matters being largely debated and many particulars insisted upon both for the Discovery and Punishment of the said misdemeanours and outrages and also for the preventing of the like for time to come It was at the last concluded and agreed by this Common-councell as followeth First this Common-Councell doth generally conceive that this City was in great danger by reason of the said Outrages and Misdemeanours and that if the same had not so timely beene prevented and stayed the whole City would have been exposed to the fury and rage of the said Malefactors and this Common-councell doth Declare That the same Misdemeanor and Outrage was a horrid and detestable act tending to the destruction of the City and that they do disavow the same and with an utter detestation do Declare their dislike thereof And this Common-councell doe appoint the Committee of the Militia of London to make the same known to the Honourable Houses of Parliament and also to make an humble Request unto them That an Order may be issued forth from them to the several Ministers of this City and the places adjacent that they may be directed to give publique Thanks to Almighty God the Author of this great and wonderfull deliverance from that imminent danger wherein this City and parts adjacent were involved And further the said Committee are appointed by this Court to apply themselves to the Honourable Houses of Parliament for the obtaining of a speciall Commission of Oyer Terminer for the trying and punishing of the Malefactors that had a hand in this detestable action according to the known Laws of this Land And this Court with thankfull hearts do acknowledge the instruments under God by which they obtained this Deliverance to be by the Forces raised and continued by the Parliament under the command of his Excellency the Lord Generall Fairfax and to manifest the same this Common-councell do also Order That the said Committee of the Militia in the Name of the City as a thing agreed upon by an unanimous consent shall return their hearty Thanks to his Excellency for his speedy and seasonable Ayd afforded unto the City in this their great straight and danger And this Court with a general consent do well approve of the Endeavours of the said Committee of the Militia for London for the raising of the Forces of the City and in their procuring of the said ayd and help from his Excellency in this Extremity and what else they have done for the appeasing and suppressing of the said Tumul s. And this Court do give Thanks to the said Committee of the Militia for their care and pains by them taken upon this sad occasion And they doe appoint Mr. Alderman Fowk to declare the same their Thanks to such of the said Committee as are not of this Court And this Court doth also with all thankfulnesse acknowledge the pains and care of the Right Honourable the Lord Major and the Right Worshipfull the Sheriffes of this City therein And this Court doe generally declare That it is the duty of every Citizen of this City by himselfe and all that doe belong unto him or is under his command to be ready upon all occasions to be ayding and assisting unto the Lord Major and the rest of the Magistrates of this City for the suppressing of all tumults and disorders within the same And the severall persons now present at this Common councel by the holding up of their hands have promised That for the time to come they will use their utmost endeavour and be ready upon all occasions to doe the same MICHEL A rising in Norwich where they seised upon the Magazine and those that fired the same were destroyed but those that were cordiall friends to the Parliament being underneath the house fell part of it upon them that part below them and the powder were all saved one having his head seen was digged out after he was out he told of others untill all were digged out without losse of life or limbe Sir Marmaduke Langdale tooke Barwicke by vertue of a Commission from the Prince Sir Thomas Glenham and Sir Phillip Musgrave tooke Carlile Sir Gilbert Errington took Harbotle Castle in Northumberland for the King The Commissioners of the Parliament of England presented a paper to the Parliament of Scotland to declare against those in Barwicke and Carlile but it was laid aside no answer to any other papers the Commissioners of the Kirke of Scotland have declared against the Declaration of the Parliament of Scotland the Parliament past another Declaration and putting it to vote whether it should be sent at all to the Commissioners of the Kirke it was resolved in the negative the Commissioners of War sit daily to put the Kingdome into a posture nothing talked of but War divers new colours preparing for severall Regiments The routing of the Welch in Southwales under the command of Major General Laughorne being 8000. Horse and Foot took all their Ammunition and Armes 25. Captaines 32. Lieutenants 27. Ensignes 10. private Gentlemen Souldiers in custody 2000. FINIS