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A Great and bloody plot discovered against His Royal Majesty, Charles, by the grace of God king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland. And the names of the chief actors and conspirators, who desperately threatened to wash their wicked hands in his royal blood. : With the beheading of one of the grand traytors.
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A great and Bloody Plot discovered against His Royal Majesty CHARLES by the Grace of God King of Great Brittain France and Ireland And the names of the cheif Actors and Conspirators who desperately threatned to wash their Wicked Hands in His Royal Blood With the beheading of one of the grand Traytors Ezek. 21.27 I will overturn overturn overturn and it shall be no more until He come whose Right it is and I will Give it Him Psalm 132.18 His Enemies I will Cloath with shame but on Hine his Crown shall flourish London Printed for Samuel Chamberlain living near the White Swan at Holborn-bridge 1660. Aprill A great and Bloody Plot disc overed against His Royal Majesty CHARLES by the Grace of GOD King of Great Brittain France and Ireland c. THe many unpleasing ecchoes and reflections of these Times and the sore and itching Ears of some men in all Ages are such that they will not indure healing or sound and wholesome Doctrine though the pain riseth from the soreness and inflimation in themselves and not from the plaister or hand which honestly applies it yet they are as prone as in fell boles and acute tumors when touched though but gently to fall upon those that are next them and cry out aloud O you hurt me when the hurt is within and from themselves Thus it is that the Fanaticks of these Times are become Our Disturbers and not onely against the person of the King but against the root and foundation of all Monarchy as well as against the Holy Priesthood This is the Patient with whose Hurts Sores Bruises Wounds and Sorrows these particulars have most impudently pudled and cruelly pleased themselves in turning publick miseries of Church and State to their private advantages Long hath been these National sufferings which hath caused the Kingdomes unsetledness with daily breaking out and angry tumors with new purging and loathsome Potions with Launcing and Blood-lettings with cutting off and canterisings which will not heat restore close and retintigrate the body but maim defame and cripple the same for ever To prevent which successive miseries let every one indeavour to improve the Sanctity and solemnity of all occasions for a thankful and hopeful opportunity of future miseries and to vouchsafe us the onely means and directions for the right method and honest way of curing an Afflicted Kingdom and to preserve her from all such pestring and cheating Undertakers those false Quacksalvers those wanton and cruel Leeches who did not want skill and knowledge to wrong both Church and State to conspire the death of their Lawfull Soveraign a Plot unparallel and what in them lies to obstract the setling of his Gracious Son and Great Brittains Royal Soveraign King Charles the Second But blessed be God for his deliverance in that he is pleased to give us Physitians of better eyes and hearts that may both wisely discern our maladies and seasonably incounter them with fit remedies To which posture of Providence we are prone to hope that we are this day restored by the Valour Honour and integrity of those who now have the conduct of Power and Council I pray God we may have cause to rejoyce long in good earnest for every days delay of our cure is a chargeable and painfull delusion to the Nation threatning such a Consumption of Spirits and such delititations of the Nations strength and estate besides the debasing of its honour and reputation as must necessarily at last betray us with our Posterity Estates Laws Liberties and Lives yea and with our Reformed Religion which ought to be dearer to us as it was to our Fore-fathers then both our lives and estates to that sorraign invasion and Romish superstition which is the grand design of the Jesuitick agitation whereto are subservient all the fanatick factions of those who are enemies to the just and legal closing or composing our Distractions in Church and State For doth not experience make it evident That a Kingdom divided in it self cannot stand And the apparent demonstrations of Gods evident and eminent wrath of indignation expressed against the enemies of the King appears in these most memorable and remarkable examples viz. 1. One Sir Thomas Martin Knight of Cambridgeshire a great complier with the times having been a Hunting in Holmby Park and the Deer being faln stuck and opened he desired together with the other Gentlemen to wash his hands in the Deers blood No said he I had rather wash my hands in the blood of the young King of Scots And immediately after this riding home the same day at evening his Horse violently threw him off his Back on the ground in which fall he pitcht on his Head with such force that he broke his skull and shoulder and so for a few dayes continued in great pain and died 2. The Constable of Shaw in Lancashire taking the Engagement was suddenly so troubled in his Conscience that notwithstanding the godly exhortations and comforts administred unto him by reverend Divines yet the apprehension of Gods wrath for what he had done therein so increased upon him that he fell distracted and so continued for many years together 3. One Mr. Smith Minister of Stoke and Prior in Worcestershire having taken the engagement for the procuring of an augmentation to his living returning home from London after he had taken it fell presently into such a frighting horror of his Conscience that he did often indeavour to beat out his own Brains At length recovering his senses by Gods great mercy repented bitterly of what he had done and thereupon departed his life in peace 4. One Thomas Hoyl who was alwayes accounted a very pious and religious Gentleman an Alderman of York and Member of Parliament having taken the engagement even against his Conscience turned a great complyer with them at Westminster Not long after it pleased the Lord so to leave him to himself that on the very same day 12 moneth that King Chrales was beheaded yea as near as possibly could be judged about the very same hour of that day the same Gentleman hanged himself at his own house at Westminster and was found dead by his Wife when she came home who went out early that morning 5. Mr. Shereman a Silkman in Pater-Noster-Row at London who had been lookt upon as an honest Gentletleman had been a Tryer and an Elder in the Presbiterian Church Government a very good friend to Mr. Love then his Pastour but afterwards turning with the times he took the engagement and that in form of an Oath whereupon he was made a Common Council-man and turned an utter enemy and hater of the party afore-mentioned who shortly after being in the shop with his Wife and in very good health yet in the evening standing at his Counter in his shop and his Wife close by him he on a sudden fell down dead by her and never spake one word 6. Colonel Ven a Citizen of London formerly a great Professor of religion and a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons but he being turned with the times as others were became an engager and mighty stickler for and with them at Westminster and proved a great enemy unto the Presbiterian Government and would often use these words against them That they at Westminster should never be quiet till they had provided a pair of shooes and a staffe for the turbulent Presbiterians and banish them out of the Kingdom But it pleased the Lord that on the next day after that horrible abuse dome to M. Jenkin then minister of Christ Church London in both sequestring him out of his living and banishing him out of the City wherein this Colonel Ven was one of the cheif Actors and had most churlishly carried himself toward the said man aforementioned in the Committee even that day whereon this godly minister was so censured which was July the 6 1650. being Thursday It pleased the Lord I say that Ven next Friday following July 7. going to bed as perfectly well and in health as ever in his life and his Wife lying by him he fell asleep by her immediately and slept without making any complaint of the least distemper but the next morning she awaking found him quite dead by her in the bed he never having made the least groan And thus God banished him from the living 7. I shall conclude all with the memorable example of Gods Justice upon Lockier an active Agitator and Leveller in the Army who had a great hand in bringing the King to his death and cried out Justice Justice Justice openly against him and spit in his face at Westminster-Hall as he was going to his Tryal before his condemnation conducted him to the Block Not long after this Lockier was Tryed for his life by a Council of War who condemned him to beshet to Death as a Mutineer in Pauls Church-yard London It is reported That two of the Fanatick party having imbarqued themselves for Flonders with a resolution to stab or Pistol the King the one of them when he arrived at Brussels was very much troubled in Conscience and the third day after his arrive resolved to declare that bloody attempt and to acquit himself of the horrour which consequently depended upon so notorious a Soul-damning-Guilt and thereupon devoted himself to His Majesty And humbly begging pardon discovered the whole design for which he was well rewarded and the other secured One John Frith a Franciscian Frier for attempting to Poyson the King was also beheaded by Orders from the most Christian King of France FINIS