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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47914	A seasonable memorial in some historical notes upon the liberties of the presse and pulpit with the effects of popular petitions, tumults, associations, impostures, and disaffected common councils : to all good subjects and true Protestants.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1301; ESTC R14590	34,077	42

in the History of our late Consusions Men of Ambition and Interest and agreeing in nothing else but an United Disaffection both to Church and State The contrivers of all these mischiefs says his Late Majesty know what overtures have been made by them and with what Importunity for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for us and what other Undertakings were even to have sav'd the Life of the Earl of Strafford if we would confer such Offices upon them And Henry Martin very Honestly blurted it out Apox ô your snivling for Religion says he we fight for Liberty And all their bawling to put other people out of Employment was only to get themselves In. Thus they went on till the Government was made a Prey to the Faction and the deluded Multitude too late made sensible of their Errours Methinks the People of England after all this Experience should be both Wiser and Honester then by treading the same steps over again to re-engage themselves in the same Miseries and Crimes Or if both Conscience and Common Prudence should have quite forsaken us the very shame methinks of being fool'd over again the same way should move us to bethink our selves Or if that very shame were lost too it was so Base so Scandalous a Servitude we were Slaves to the Meanest of the Rabble And our Masters were a greater Infamy to us then our Fetters the very Ignominy cannot but work an Indignation in any thing that wears the Soul of an Englishman This Paper and occasion will not bear the tracing of their Ingratitudes and Tyrannies at length but in short how barbarously did they treat even their Idoliz'd House of Commons their Assembly nay their Covenanting Brethren the Scots when they follow'd them from Newark even to their Borders with a body of Horse at their Heels their Generall and the Army that set them up in a most Eminent manner the City of London though as the Faction order'd it the very Nurse and Supportesse of the Rebellion His Sacred Majesty can never forget by what means his Blessed Father was Murther'd nor the Bishops forget the abuse and Profanation of the Pulpits even to the Extirpating of the Holy Order the Nobility and Gentry can never forget the Illusions that were put upon them under the Appearancee of Religion and Duty by men that were void of both neither certainly can the Common people forget how they were conjur'd into a Circle by Sermons Petitions and Covenants whence there was no getting out again We 'l see a little of their Ingratitude now to the City of London and whether They far'd any better then other people First they stript them of the Militia then of their Charter and Priviliges they turn'd their Government Topsy Turvy Tax'd Disarm'd Imprison'd and Plunder'd at pleasure took down their Chaines and Posts Quarter'd Souldiers upon them Garrison'd the Tower and several other places of the City the Army Marching in Triumph through it for the aggravation of their Slavery they degraded the Lord Mayor Reynoldson Fin'd him 2000l and Committed him to the Tower April 21. 48. for refusing to publish the Proclamation for Abolishing the Kingly Office They threatned to set fire to the City and lay it in the Dust telling the Mayor and Aldermen in a Letter about the beginning of Aug. 1647. that they were unable to defend either the Parliament or themselves and demanding to have the City deliver'd into their hands which was submitted to upon Conditions of relinquishing the Militia and 11. Members delivering up the Forts and Tower of London and all Magazins and Arms therein to the Army disbanding their Forces turning out all Reformades and drawing off their Guards from the Parliament In Walkers Hist. of Independency these Particulars are to be seen at large It is remarkable that what other means soever were occasionally made use of the Plot was still driven on from First to Last mainly by PETITIONS but none were admitted on the Other side For so soon as ever any Petition appear'd that crost the Factions ●nterest as in several Cases from the Agitators or the City of London there was presently a strict enquiry after the Authours and Abettors of them and the Design immediately crusht They should have taken in the SUBSCRIBERS too and Issu'd out a Commission of Enquiry whether all the Marks and Subscriptions produced in the Names of so many thousand Petitioners were really the Acts and Attestations of the Persons so Named and what Arts and Menaces were made use of for their procurement No unnecessary caution even in our present Case to distinguish the Sober and well-meaning Subscribers from the Fierce and Bloody Fifth-Monarchy men and other Sects that hold affinity with them It being notoriously known that a Mark is set upon the Refusers by those Factions who are the violent sticklers in this proceeding which carries the face rather of an Intended Massacre then a Petition This will seem no uncharitable Construction when I shall tell you what a Noble Lord said in the House of Peers Dec. 19. 42. They chearfully undertook says he to serve against that Army wherein they knew their Own Fathers were and on my Conscience says he I speak it to their Honour had they met them alone 〈◊〉 would have sacrific'd them to the Commands of both Houses And now you shall see their Piety expounded in another part of the same Speech They says he who think that Human Laws can bind the Conscience and will examine the Oaths they have taken according to the Interpretations of Men will in time fall from us but such who Religiously consider that such Moral Preceps are fi●ter for Heathens then for Christians will not feint in their Duty To bring this Pamphlet to a Conclusion we shall only say this further in justification of it that it was written with a very Honest Intention that the matter of Fact is partly upon Certain Knowledg and partly upon the credit of very Warrantable Papers The principal Scope of it was to lay open the Mistery and Method of the Late Rebellion and so to expose it that the same Project and Model may not be made use of for Another The End The CONTENTS THe Liberties of Press and Pulpit Pag. 5 A Deduction of the Late Troubles P. 12 Of Popular Petitions P. 18 Of Tumults P. 22 Of Popular Oaths and Associations P. 23 Of Plots and Impostures P. 26 How the Faction gain'd the Common-Council P. 28 Errata PAge 15. line 11. after Covenants reade Associations for the Factious and in 〈◊〉 the Party Ibid. l. 29. for Government r. Governour p. 21. l. 16. for be kept r. keep p. 22. l. 16. for Garnets Garrets p. 27. l. 31. for Absession r. Obsession Beside other Literal Faults Escaped in haste The Schism led the way to the Sedition Emissaries in Corporations Seminaries of Novices Their Agents were upon 〈◊〉 their behaviour Their Lecturers are supply'd