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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65521	Westminster projects, or, The mystery of iniquity of Darby-House discovered		1648 (1648)	Wing W1468; ESTC P1081	8,711	16

aside and to set up the Duke of Glocester who shall only have the title but th●y will exercise the power as a Committee of Estates such a Committee as now sits at Darby House and if this should be effected which will without all question if the people speedily interpose not all our seven years sufferings have served but as an Induction to a greater bondage and slavery then what we either found or fear in the King though without all question if in this way he should prevail it would be to the peoples extream prejudice Therefore my friends seeing we are betwixt two extreams and that whoever rules we are designed to slavery let us at last act rationally and shew charity to our selves as well as loyalty to the King or affection to the Parliament and Army for certainly it is possible for a King to be happy and yet a people to be both safe and free for a Parliament to be free and powerful but not unlimited or unbounded either in its actions or priviledges and for an Army to be an useful servant and not an insulting tyrannical master But without the peoples union upon common and just principles for the preservation of all just interests it is impossible to keep a King from being a Tyrant a Parliament from being oppressive or an Army from being abusive Therefore seeing the quarrel on all hands is whose interest shall be secured The King for his The Parliament for theirs The Army for theirs And in all these contests you are only destroyed and yet no security sought or endeavoured for you As if your lives estates and children were given you only to be made use of to support the Ambition of a few men who by flattery and dissimulation have gotten titles of honor and places of profit which they are loth to part with or give an account for And therefore you must be made their Properties and by them be enforced to spend the fruits of your labour hazard the lives of your selves children and servants only to keep your selves from being slaves to one that you may be slaves to another O therefore dear Countrymen if you have the hearts of Englishmen before you again endeavour to drown the Kingdom in a deluge of Blood consider wherefore you fight and what will be the fruit of it and at last consult your own safety which ought to be the supream Law both to King and Parliament The people safety is the supream Law then without controversie the Kings power and the Parliaments too was conferred upon them for that end namely to preserve the People and not as they have done to destroy them It is your interest now to consider what power the King may have that is consistant with your freedom and what power Parliaments may have also that may enable them to do the work for which you chose them and that they be bounded as to what you empower them and what not let them have a rule of certainty for we see apparently uncertainty hath occasioned all our trouble 'T is this must make us happy this will bring Peace to the Nation Freedom to the King The Peoples Interest being thus secur'd Oppressive taxes will not be endur'd Just Peace shall be your portion but till then You must be vassals to the lusts of men Take then your choyse be freemen or be slaves If you 'l support the interest of knaves They 'l knavishly reward you you shall see Oppression linkt to your posteritie Tyrants and fawning sycophants shall raign Justice or Right you never shall obtain But if you will be wise and straight combine To stan● for Freedom peace and truth shal shine Throughout your Borders you shall surely see All power employ'd for your securitie King Parliament and Army shall declare You are supream and they your servants are When you give limits to their lawless wills Then not till then shall you be free from ills FINIS

Numb 5. Westminster Projects OR The Mystery of Iniquity OF Darby-House Discovered A Plot a Plot our Saviours cry But dare it not declare Because alas they know full well Themselves the Traitors are Yet though they think themselves secure And juggle with the City Who are deluded once againe And cheated more 's the pity Yet yet them know their knavery shall To all the world appeare For I 'le not keep their secrets I For flatterie or feare Printed no body knowes where licensed no body knows when and sent into the world by the appointment of the said Committee because they could not help it in this yeare of their vexation 1648. VVestminster Projects IT is strange that in a time of Reformation there should be so much wickednesse and in high places too that Westminster should after all its seeming sanctity become such a Den of Devills such a Cage of unclean Birds but what remedy what is past cure must be past care also But yet it is requisite that they should be knowne for Knaves unknowne passe for honest men and there is not such a subtill deceiver in the world as an Angell of light a Devill in the shape of a Saint especially at Westminster hath done more mischief then all the honest men there can ever do good I confesse it a wonder there is no more hurt done considering honest men are so scarce there and knaves so plentifull for you can scarce peep into a Committee but you shall find ten if there be eleven in the number two in a Committee is a miracle nay if you find one in the Committee of Derby I 'le give you leave to hang him though my Lord Say himselfe be there But now I talke of that Committee I will tell you strange newes they have done the Kingdome good service and is not that a wonder in a Committee And if you aske how I must tell you they have discovered a Plot and well they might if you knew all you would say so for as sure as I live they made it the Fox is the finder and for fear others should discover it they did it themselves you know it is good to cry Whore first but you may observe the knavery of the Baker They tell us of a Plot against the Kingdome Parliament and City but by whom they know not not one actor or contriver is discovered and why thinke you because the Earle of Northumberland the Chaire-man of the Committee thinks it not convenient for fear he should be troubled to purchase the life of another Waller to secure his head from the Block But because you shall not be kept in ignorance know their Proverb is verifified there is seldome much smoke but there is some fire so you shall find that there is not only a talk of a Plot but such a plot indeed as tends to the ruine and destruction of all honest men in the Kingdome The particulars thus 1 For the severall Counties of Essex Surrey and Kent the ground and growth of their late Petitions proceeded and had their births from a party in the Houses of Parliament being Members of the Committee of Derby-house with other of their creatures the Earle of Warwick was the first promoter of Essex Petition Sir Arthur Anstoe of Surrey and Sir Simpleton Walsingham with other of his Adherents were drawn into the present ingagement of Kent 2. For London and the parts adjacent there hath been a designe of listing many thousands and putting them into Armes which designe hath had its rise and birth from the treacherous braine of Algernon Percy whose name and family never were found to be faithfull either to God or their Countrey and it may be boldly averred that he was never other then a Traytor to the Kingdome since the late Warre witnesse the plot for which Tompkins and Challenor were murthered wherein the Earle of Northumberland was a chiefe Actor with Waller and therefore though Waller was the greatest offender as having ingaged others yet he must be sold to the Earl of Northumberland for some thousands of pounds and by him conveighed into France not only to conceale his Knavery but to be his Agent to keep up his credit with the Queen and give him intelligence what the Queene desires should be effected This is the reason why you have no further discovery of this dangerous plot whereas had the finders been free you should have had them proclaimed the Authors names imprisoned them seized their estates c. and had a day of Thanksgiving whereas now you see them rather desire a day of Humiliation for sorrow that they were so soon discovered Neither is this honoured Gentleman without other accomplices for there is a Cabinet-Councell of them to wit Sir William Lewis Sir Iohn Clotworthy the Earle of Holland the Countesse of Carlisle Doctor Fraper a Scot Sir Peter Killigrew cum multis alus all which receive constant intelligence from the Queen and act accordingly and by their designement are all these commotions and troubles which threaten the Kingdome to that end is the Earle of Northumbealand Chaire-man of the Committee of Safety at Derby-house to the end he may be inabled to retard proceedings especially if they crosse the ends they aime at But because you shall see that I speake more then probabilities although my neer relation to them would hinder yet I will clearly discover unto you the very bottome of their design In order to which give me leave to informe you that the quarrell betwixt the Factions in the Houses is now not whether the King shall be brought in but who shall bring him in and who shall be the Princes of the People under him when brought in The Royall Presbyterian and Independent for there are such of both sorts as Northumberland Warwick Say Crumwell Ireton Vane Senior Vane Iunior c. they would bring in the King upon their accompt and make such an agreement with him as might not only secure them with safety but advance them to honour also The reall Presbyterian and reall Independent they are willing to bring in the King but they would first have the King secure unto them Religion Law and the Liberties of the Nation but alack they are but a few and their tale cannot be heard for the cry of others is Let us use the best means we can to satisfie the King no matter what becomes of the Kingdome And to this end have they underhand promoted and procured these tumults so that thereby they might force the House to an adjournment which is the chiefe thing they desire and if procured then all the power will reside in that Committee And because they will be sure to doe their worke they have endeavoured to bring in seven Lords more into them namely their whole House which if effected we shall be troubled no more with a House of Peers or Parliament but must be governed by a Committee of Estates and by the power of the Army which by the