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A75660 Articles of high-treason exhibited against the Fort-Royall, vvith all other the horn-works and breast-workes about the Citie. By the representative body of the Common-Counsell of the Citie. With the last will and testament of the said Fort-Royall. Also, her severall legacies to divers eminent persons of qualitie. Also her epitaph. 1647 (1647) Wing A3850; Thomason E417_11; ESTC R11650 2,592 8

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ARTICLES OF High-Treason Exhibited against the FORT-ROYALL With all other the Horn-works and Breast-workes about the CITIE By the representative body of the Common-Counsell of the CITIE WITH The last Will and Testament of the said FORT-ROYALL ALSO Her severall Legacies to divers eminent Persons of Qualitie Also her Epitaph Printed in the Yeare 1647. Articles Of High-Treason c. Whereas this Fort for many Capitall crimes and other notorious offences committed upon divers Members of the Citie to the breach of our Priviledge and City Customes wee by advice of our great Counsell at Guild-Hall have drawn up against her these ensuing Articles following INprimis That this Grand Malignant Horn-worke known by the Name of the Fort Royall hath against the lawes of our dread Soveraigne and by the instigation of the devill trayterously endeavoured to foment and profecute a New and bloody War and hath kept back Supplyes from Ireland and likewise keept out his Majesty from his Children and Parliament to the great decay of Tradings and the forfeiture of our Charter ann Secondly the loud Reports of her Tormenters called Canons c. being very hurtfull unto us even in their names as well as their natures have so thundred from time to time in our eares to the great disturbance not only of our little wits but to the great prejudice of our beloved wives making so hideous a noyse that many of them have lately miscarried and fell backwards at the very report of the Ordinance Thirdly she hath been the abbettor and maintainer of many unlawfull sports for whilst she hath kept us drinking dicing at nine-pins and the like games or playes our Wives have played fast and lose with us and have bin at Put and In and In with others Fourthly she hath lately played the harlot and prostituted her body and delivered up the key of her Turn-pike or Virginity to Sir Thomas to the great shame and disturbance of the City Fifthly she hath commanded divers Citizens to guard her day and night even as they tendred their duty to stand bolt upright in their Armes upon their guard till their Wives have fortified their Halfe-Moones at home and made new Horn-workes and breast-workes and arm'd their own men and so put them in a posture to raise a new War which hath caused much jarring and dissention and many by-blowes in this City to the great disturbance in the Head-quarters of their husbands Resolved upon the question that this pernicious Act of the said Royall Fort is an absolute invasion of the City Charter in the representative foreheads of their Deare Husbands Resolved againe that the said Royall-Fort is ill-affected to the State and City Resolved that there be a publick thanksgiving for the great deliverance of the Trained-Bands their brow-antlers and for the demolishment of the said Fort and all other Forts Sconces halfe-Moones Horne-workes and Breastworks about the City and a Covenant drawn up to defie Sir Thomas and all his works hereafter Ordered That speedy course be taken for suppressing all private and unlawful seperte Congregations Ordered That no person disaffected to the Presbyterian Government be imployed in any publick trust in the Citie Ordered That Vnion be preserved between all Citizens and their Wives and all Iealousie removed that may endanger their mutuall agreement Ordered That the Militia be fully and wholly setled upon the Citie as it was presented at Ox bridge Ordered That the late Lord Major and his venerable Brothers be fully vindicated Ordered That Quarter-man and all other Independents that be ill affected to the peace of the Citie be forth with brought to exemplar punishment The said Fort understanding that these Articles of High-treason were drawn up against her being prompted by the consideration of the frailty of these changeable times called a Scrivener and made this Will following The last Vill and Testament of the Fort-Royall and all other Brest-works and Horn-works a-about the Citie IN the name of Uulcan and of the Committee for the safety of the Citie Amen I the Fort Royall being a profest Presbyter being sore sick in body but in perfect memory doe make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as followeth Inprimis I doe bequeath my Ghost into the hands of Alderman Isaac that gave it to be buried in a parcell of the waste ground of his lately revived credit and to be buried without sound of Bell or any words of Conjuration at my buriall Jtem I give and bequeath all my Guns to Sir Thomas Fairfax and by him to be disposed of for His Majesties use Jtem I bequeath my powder to the Citie boyes that went to the Parliament to make Crackers when the L. Major shall be released from the Tower Jtem I bequeath my bullets unto the Citie Rampants that brought their dust-baskets and fire shovels to helpe set me up that with the said bullets they may grind Mustard and so doe it in a dish which shall be something for them to begin house withall when the Wag-tayles shall be provided of yoak fellowes otherwise called husbands Item I give and bequeath my stones unto the reverent new Dean of Pauls to help him build a stone-wall of Reformation that may be as hard and flinty as the hearts of his brethren and he himselfe more honest then ever to make use of more Compurgators Item I bequeath my souldiers Montrosses and other for the reliefe of distressed Ireland provided they be first furnished with their Arrears from the Citie Jtem I bequeath my Sutlers wife to Doctor Sibbals to to be his Worships Nurse provided that she nurse none but his ligitimate Children Jtem I give and bequeath all my wood unto Master German Citie-Carpenter to make Gibits for the use of the Citie Jtem I give my earth to the Parliament to put them in mind that they are but men and all made of no better mettall and are as subject to fate or desolation as my selfe Jtem My Sutler I bequeath to the care of Instice Long and Iustice Lowder when he keeps asutling Ale-house in the Suburbs where I wish that all his Guests may be pennilesse that he may pawn his wifes Petticoat to pay his Brewer and his glorious shelves shine not so much as with an earthen Platter instead of sattin hangings may the wals of his house be painted with choak and the figers of of no more valew then Cyphers May he weekly be subject to Informers and his forfeited License be put to the last use of waste paper c. Lastly all my grasse upon my work to Alderman Atkins to clense his Breeches and constitute and ordain him and the rest of his Brethren in the Tower to be my lawful Executors for the administration of this my last Will and stament Epitah for a Post-script Imperious Ignorance begot me first Put me to Presbytery to be nurst That I dy'd young alas I do confesse J suck'd from her but varnish'd Rottenesse Whilst I was one day in a sprightfull trance Fierce Death dismounted all my Ordinance Seiz'd on all now all was in his power And like to Traytors sent us to the Tower Where like dull Aldermen we are doom'd to lye Till we be charg'd and then must be let flye No hopes of a Reprieve the mutinous cru That stung brave Strafford dispatch me and you If we must hang let not our states much vary Our office was alike to * fetch and carry Deare Citizens for evermore farewell For sins of Paracide I must to Hell FINIS