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A56414	The Parliament arraigned, convicted, wants nothing but execution wherein you may evidently discern all the blessed fruits of their seven years session tending to the dishonour of God, the ruin of the Church of Christ in this kingdom, the vnkinging of His Majesty, the destruction of our laws, the erection of tyranny, and the perpetual bondage of a free-born people / written by Tom Tyranno-Mastix alias Mercvrivs Melancholicvs ...	Mercurius Melancholicus, fl. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing P498; ESTC R11776	11,676	26

shall cry continually against this cursed Horse-leech that hath gorged himself with me so full that he hath spewed me up again till the Earth hath been made as drunk with me as the Sword from the Blood of Strafford to the Blood of 100000 Innocents Canterbury Tomkins Challenor Burley the King's Messenger the Surrey-Men and an infinite many more that have been barbarously and inhumanely slain for their Allegiance and Fidelity to their Royal Sovereign nay my Lord they are so Insatiate that nothing can quench their Thirsts but Royal Blood the Blood of the King and all his Royal Progeny in which he would wash his Hands if possibly he could attain to his Ends so that the whole Earth is filled with Blood and Violence Father against Son Brother against Brother and one Friend against another Tho' Cursed is he that shall slay an innocent Person and all the People shall say Amen Deut. xxix 25. The Land that sheddeth innocent Blood innocent Blood shall be upon it Deut. xix 10. And Innocent Blood the Lord will not pardon 2 Kin. xxiv 4. Yet my Lord this Traytor hath made a Trade of shedding innocent Blood and doth still to this Day Clerk Wid. Sighs Stand up What can you say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Wid. Sighs My Lord my Heart and a Thousand more are so broke with weeping for the Death of our Husbands and dear Children whose Lives this Traytor hath taken away that we cannot speak more for weeping but still cry out for Vengeance against this Parricide this bloody Murderer Clerk Orph. Tears Stand up What can'st thou say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Orp. Tears My Lord I lost my Father by this cruel Traytor and so have many Thousands of us and have cried unto Heaven for Vengeance against him that is all I could do or can say Clerk Publ. Faith Stand up What can'st thou say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Publ. Faith My Lord he hath been the Confusion of me I could recount innumerable Tricks to drain the People and to milk their Purses of their Money as the free Loans and Contributions upon poor Publick Faith amounting to vast and incredible Sums Money Plate Horses and Arms Bodkins Thimbles Wedding-Rings c. and a thousand more that he hath used to enslave the People Clerk Soldiers Conscience Stand up and give Evidence for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Cryer Call Soldiers Conscience Cryer Soldiers Conscience Soldiers Conscience Come into the Court and give Evidence for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar or else you forfeit your Recognizance Clerk My Lord he is slipt away being afraid to appear in the Face of the Court 't is likely he is a party with the Prisoner Righ Judge There be Witnesses enough without him Masters of the Jury you hear what is prov'd against him how traiterous he hath been against God his King and Country against the fundamental Laws of the Kingdom in that he hath renounced his sworn Allegiance when it is declar'd 3 Jac. cap. 4. That if any Person shall put in Practice to absolve persuade or withdraw any of his Majesty's Subjects from their Obedience to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or move them or any of them to promise Obedience to any other Prince State or Potentate that then every such Person their Procurers Counsellors Aiders and Maintainers shall be adjudged Traytors None can deny but the Head is over the Members and not the Members over the Head all Subjects being to perform both Active and Passive Obedience to their lawful King as the Members to the Head in all Causes at all Times and in all Places But this Prisoner Mr. Parliament is notorious Guilty for the King being Head Beginning and End of a Parliament and no Act can be made without the King's Assent therefore this Parliament standeth guilty of Perjury by encroaching upon the Jurisdictions belonging to the King and hath falsified their Faith by voting That no more Addresses should be made to him or Messages receiv'd from him No Law can make a Servant to be above or greater than his Master nor a Subject greater than his King for the King having an undoubted Right to the Crown and being his lawful Sovereign and his Allegiance being due unto his Natural Person both by the Law of God Nature and the Law of the Land recogniz'd and acknowledg'd by former Parliaments in all Ages confirm'd by undeniable Authorities in Law upon Record that evidently proves that his Allegiance is due unto his Natural Person by the Law of God Nature and the Law of the Land and can neither be abjured released or renounced being inseparable from the Person of the King and indispensably due from the Prisoner to his Majesty Therefore any reasonable Man may conclude that Mr. Parliament hath perjur'd himself in withdrawing his Allegiance from his Liege Lord the King which is directly against the Law of the Land and hath moreover falsified his Faith and Allegiance to his King God's Anointed and crowned his natural Liege Lord Sovereign and lawful King both by Descent Coronation Investure and undoubted Right which by the Law of the Land is due unto him from all his Subjects every one of them having taken this following Oath To be true and faithful to their Sovereign Lord K. Charles and his Heirs and Faith and Truth shall bear to him of Life and Member and Honour And you shall neither know nor hear of any Ill or Damage intended unto him that you shall not declare So help you God Now pray mark it Jury you are to consider Whether this Prisoner hath any Power against the King or whether the King hath not Power to hang him for his most detestable Treachery against his Person in betraying it to Prison against the Law of God Nature and the Law of the Land the Closlier to murder and make him away as may more evidently appear by the Examinations upon Oath of Mr. Osburn and Dowcet against Rolf that should have been the accursed Instrument to make him away either by Poison or Pistolling or otherwise The King hath no Supreme but God alone and it is sufficient Punishment for him because he must expect God to be the Revenger if he commits any Wrong for every Man is under the King and the King under none but God alone he is not inferior to his Subjects he hath no Peer in his Realm he hath the sole Government of his Subjects Therefore Mr. Parliament thou hearest what is objected against thee thou hast now Liberty to answer for thy self Guilty or Not Guilty Parl. My Lord I little weigh what any of these can say against me and am so far from acknowledging the least Circumstances objected against me that I utterly deny all and claim my Privilege Judge Thou art quite past Shame and Grace and surely given thy self to the Devil else thou could'●t never have the Face to deny the least

divided into Members some of them in a Bawdy-house some in Taverns some in Tobacco-shops some licking their Fingers at a Three-penny Ordinary some lapping Independent Plumb-broth in the Devil's Cook-room at Hell in Westminster some at Goldsmiths-Hall at Dinner made of the Fat and Rapine of the People some making Compounds of many simple Delinquents some he found tormenting Souls in the Composition of Tophet some casting strange Guns and Ordinances to beat down Religion about the Kingdom 's Ears and to batter our fundamental Laws to Atoms and command the whole Estates of the Land under their Lee some as busy as Bees gathering the Cicropean Honey-money of this Isle into their own Hives c. Which several Members Mr. Diligent Enquiry having gleaned into a Body brought before Mr. Legal Authority Justice of the Peace and Quorum who finding the Malefactor guilty of many bold Abuses bloody rebellious and incomparable Treasons commit him to the common Gaol there to remain without Bail or Mainprize until the grand Assize where at present we leave him desiring the Reader to peruse this ensuing Table Lord Righteous Judge Clerk of the Assize Sir Faithful Philolaus Justices of the Peace and Quorum Sir Loyal Philalethes Mr. Legal Authority CRYER Grand Inquest Mr. Nobleman Mr. Knight Mr. Esquire Mr. Gentleman Mr. Publick-Good Mr. Common-Loss Mr. Common-Interest Mr. Allegiance Mr. Conformity Mr. Orthodox Mr. Unity Mr. Charity Jury of Life and Death Free-Man Rich-Man Poor-Man Innocent-Man Patient-Man Loyal-Man Honest-Man Quiet-Man Well-meaning Man Enslaving-Man Lost-All Undone Mr. Parliament Malefactor Mr. Necessity Prosecutor Witnesses Jealousies and Fears Blood Widows Sighs Orphans Tears Publick Faith Soldier Conscience Attorney-General Equity Counsellor No-Bribe Plaintiffs for the Prisoner Synod Scot Independency Thus the Court being complete I must press some necessary impositions upon the Reader essential to the prosecuting of our Work in hand Therefore courteous Reader understand that we shall proceed as near as we can in order of a Sessions where the Court being set the Jury impanel'd the Witnesses sworn the Prisoner is call'd to the Bar his Indictment is read and according to the Evidence brought in against him he is found guilty of High-Treason against God his King and Country arraign'd convicted and condemn'd Therefore for Brevity sake we shall pass by some things as unnecessary and proceed in order Therefore I desire thee to imagine the Court set the Jury sworn c. and the Jaylor commanded to set the Prisoner to the Bar. The Indictment read by the Clerk Clerk Mr. Parliament hold up thy Hand at the Bar. look on the Prisoner Masters of the Jury Thou art indicted in the Name of our Sovereign Lord King Charles by the Name of Parliament That whereas against the Laws of God and the Laws of Nature and the Laws of our Sovereign Lord the King thou hast traiterously and feloniously rais'd War against thy King that thou hast made thyself drunk with the Blood of his Loyal Subjects and pretending Liberty hast persecuted even unto Death not sparing the Prophets but most barbarously hast murder'd them flung them into Prisons starv'd them c. and exercis'd all manner of Impiety against God against the King against the fundamental Laws and against the People Against God by Blasphemy Sacrilege and Perjury and all Prophaneness against the King by robbing him not only of his People but of his Power his Crown his Revenue Houses Lands Goods c. Against the People by shedding their innocent Blood leading them by the Noses making them fight with one another kill one another not knowing why nor wherefore polling them by illegal Impositions and pilling them by no better than Monopolies Taxes Sequestrations Plunders and all manner of Rapine to the utter Undoing and Impoverishing of them or the most part of them amusing them with Fears and Jealousies and making them like cunning Jugglers believe any thing tho' never so false by casting a Mist before their Eyes till thou hast pick'd their Pockets and this hath been their chief Art these seven Years as by woful Experience we see at this day without Spectacles what innumerable Tricks have been used to milk the Purses of the People under Colour to maintain a War against the King and his evil Council when it was to ruin the People to impoverish them and bring them into irrecoverable Slavery and Oppression under a tyrannical Parliament and more than a tyrannical and insulting Army that have sought all Ways to murder your Prince first having pulled out of the Church Bishops and cry'd down all Order and Discipline to place in their stead Babes of Grace pure Parricides Independents and apostated Levites Sedgwick Burgess Martial and the whole Tribe of Many-Asses and Owls of the Assembly that you knew you could make preach or do what you could desire tho' never so contrary to Truth Religion or Reason tho' to countenance bloody and abhorred Actions murder Kings and the like That the better to enslave the People you have enter'd into a devilish and dangerous Combination to destroy Monarchy to introduce Anarchy to engross the Militia and Power of the Sword to effect your cursed Designs That you have set up intolerable Taxes instead of pulling down Monopolies That you have used Religion for a Cloak for your Knavery giving Thanks for shedding of Blood tyrannizing over both the Persons and Purses of the People with intent to inslave and vassal both them and their Posterity That you have most traiterously gull'd his Majesty into Prison with intent to murder him the better to keep it from the Peoples Knowledge What say'st thou Parliament art thou guilty of this Treason or not Parl. Not guilty not guilty my Lord. Clerk How wilt thou be tried Parl. By God and my Conscience Judge Nay for thy Conscience that 's as wide as Hell itself as may appear by thy Indictment What can the Witnesses say concerning the Prisoner Call them in Cryer If any Man can give Evidence or say any thing against the Prisoner let him come forth for the Prisoner stands upon his Deliverance Clerk Call in Jealousies and Fears Blood Widows Sighs Orphans Tears Publick Faith Soldiers Conscience Come forth and prosecute or you forfeit your Recognizance Cryer Every Man keep Silence upon Pain of Imprisonment The Witnesses are sworn every one according to his Knowledge to give a true Evidence for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar. Clerk Jealousies and Fears Stand up What can you say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Jeal and Fears O my Lord I have been made use of upon all Occasions to delude the People and to make them think of Danger where none was My Lord I was meerly drawn in by the Prisoner for his own Turn since he sent me packing when he had served his own End of me Blood can give you a more clear Evidence Clerk Blood Stand up What can'st thou say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Blood My Lord I