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A34529	Eye-salve for English-men, and an alarvm to the Londoners wherein is contained the summary of Romes late designes against England, and the present plots and enterprizes in hand against London, so many as hath yet come to the knowledge of the author : together with the opening of an effectual door, to the happiness of this nation : whereunto is annexed a postscript containing reasons and motives to his Highness and the present power in being, to grant us s[u]ch a committee which hath been long promised, and much longer desired and sought for / composed for the view of His Highness, and all the people of England, by Jeffrey Corbet ...	Corbet, Jeffrey.	1654 (1654)	Wing C6244; ESTC R39395	24,070	29

were in the old Parliament that would thus gratifie the peoples sworn enemies hold continual familiarity with th 〈…〉 for Car hath boasted that he could daily speak with them at the Parliamen● door And when Garret Dillon another Irish Priest was appoin●ed to dispose of the Arms Ammunition which the King of Sp●i● had sent ov●r to the Catholicks in England Ireland in the year 1640 he was secured at the Spanish Embassadors house and from thence sent out to the Kings Army where he was s●ain Therefore let all un●erstanding Protestanis judge whether he be fit to have liberty of residence within the City of London or no And for many in the old Parliament who carried on the same design as may appear by their familiarity with the sworn enemies of the Common-wealth and by their releasing of them frequently and protecting of them to go between the King and his Queen all the time of the Wars and when they were app●ehended at any time did suffer them to escape and punished the discoveres and from time to time have used all their art and power to stifle all intelligence and destroy all faithful intelligencers and protecte● S●ies and Agents for the King to fire the City of London and suffered above six score thousand pounds worth of Malignants goods to be conveyed away to preserve it from the fire when the City was to be burned and likewise suffered threescore thousand pounds to be conveyed to the King which was in the hands of a Popish Treasurer and also concealed a List of about 60 considerable persons in the City who with their confederates did constantly contribute to the Kings Army considerable sums of mony All which with many other things doth make it clearly appear that they were resolved to uphold the wars between the King and Parliament until the Protestants were so destroyed that the Papists might have their wills of both And I hope by this time all the rational part of our bret●ren the Cavaliers and also all under all diff●rent forms whatsoever are clearly convinced of their error in taking up Arms for the Pope instead of a King And therefore I do humbly entreat them as they do tender their own lives liberties estates postereties the good of their Native Countrey and the Protestant Religion that they do never offer to stir upon any pretence whatsoever to t●k● up Arms against the higher powers for if they do they will but destroy themselves and make the wound of the Nation the deeper And I am confident that there were thousands of them if they had known of the Papists●esign they would as soon have torn their own flesh off their bones as ever have taken up Arms against their Countrey And truly I am sorry for those that have a hand in this cursed design which is in part discovered and for those of them that are undiscovered if they shall out of conscience come in and submit and make discovery of what they do know I dare engage my life that a hair of their head● shall not perish But some may Query why I do write in this manner My answer is That for almost 10. years after my return from Ireland my employment was as little as my Estate so that I had nothing to hinder me from observing the current of the times amongst which I could not but take notice of the policy of the Priests Jesuites and all the popish faction and there accomplices in playing their game on this manner So long as the people are oppressed they will be discontented and so long as they are disconteuted they will fall into Divisions and so long as they are devided the easier destroyed And to this end was the reins cast upon the neck of all corrupt Committee men to cheat by thousands and hundreds of thousands and then hire Clarks to Coppy out their Books to cover over their cheating but these were of the better sort of them for they had some fear in them but the rest of them hath gone on with as little fear as they had honesty And so for ●ur corrupt Treasurers which of them hath ever been called to account And so for our unjust Judges who have judged for a Reward are they not yet unquestioned And for our Long-winded Lawyers who can run races of 7. 10. 20. nay 40. or 50. years long and make the people dance after their long tayls until they were run so quite out of breath that they had not a groat left in their purse● ●●d many of them gone with sorrow to their graves but I hope to see God making inqu●sition after the blood of these poor souls which were so mercilesly murthered And for the corrupt Members of the first House how did they sit hacking and hewing at the two leggs upon which this Common wealth did stand I do mean Men and Money For Men how have they been betrayed both by Sea and Land And how have they been discouraged some of them by keeping back their just and dearly earned wages and others by long attendance to receive considerable sums which were by them disb●rsed until some had well high perished if not altogether and many of them languish in prison while unworthy 〈…〉 le ts can have good rewards for there pretended good services though indeed they deserved to have their heads taken ●ff for their unfaithfulness And for Money how hath it been consumed not only by the Monsters formerly mentioned and many more of the like nature but I do believe it will be proved that some of the Members hath sent out of the Land divers millions at several times b●sides the vast Estates that some of them hath scrued into their own hands by unjust practises but to add t 〈…〉 this when I do consider the frequent recourse that the Irish Priests and Jesuites had to some of them and how frequently the Priests Jesuites Irish bloody Rebbels were released from time to time though their crimes were never so hainous and knowing how they boasted of their great friends that they had in the House and Councel by which they were extreamly encouraged and upon which their confidence was builded of carrying on of their cursed design of the bloody Massacre and clearly ●escerning that they had more friends there than the Common-Wealth had for when they attempted to make a discovery of it they were betrayed into their hands I could not but conclude that the desolation of the everlasting Parliament was one of the greatest mercies that ever this Nation received from God this many years for if they had sitten a little longer in all probability they had accomplished their desires which if they had accomplished then all mercies which God had ●ouchsafed us since these troubles had been drowned in a Sea of b 〈…〉 And now my Lord I beseech you consider how many parties hath God overthrown since these troubles fell upon us as the Bishops the corrupt House of Lords the late

to pay the Army and to prevent the selling of the prise of the poor S●●ld ers blood for nought that so in time the taxes may be taken off only we shall desire liberty to attend the Committies with liberty to speak on behalfe of the Common-wealth and that you doe afford us a speedy and an effectuall assistance to remove any upon Just Cause and to put in others that shall be Judged faithfull in their rooms and that any three or more of them to take any examination and five or more of them to Judge any matter only leaving the weighty matters to bee judged by you and your Councill this you will quickly finde will give such content to all sorts of people that there will not long bee need of an Army in England and after that send an Army where you please onely take the Word for your rule and you shal see such a presence of the Almighty going along with them that they shal not meet with any great opposition but my Lord if you shal refuse to hearken to the counsel of thy God then I could wish that God would provide me a place in the wilderness and feed me by a Raven as hee did the Prophet that so I might not see the wof●l desol●tion that God wil bring upon you and your family and the misery which is likely will come upon this Nation yet I am confident that God will finde out a way to lay you aside and yet preserve his people for hee hath a people in this nation which hee will not sell for nought I beseech you consider what is it that maketh any Action lawfull or unlawfull is it not Gods willing or nulling of it if so then I hope you wil say to us as Pope Elutherius said to 〈…〉 lutius King of Brittain when hee wrote to him to send him the Imperial Laws to govern Brittain by he wrote this answer The Roman Emperial Laws were made by men and might be excepted against But saith he I have sent you the Old and New Testament out of which you may gather sufficient Lawes to govern by And I hope that none in this Nation dareth to bee so blasphemous as to say that there may bee found out a juster or a more righteous rule to walke by than that if so then what have wee any longer to doe with that Antichristian Juggle which hath destroyed so many thousands of this nation but let Christ bee our King and our Law-giver Oh! that I did know what Argument to use that might prevaile with you herein For I am ●ssured that so great will bee the happiness that will come to this nation by it that for the obtaining of it I could wish that it were written with my heart blood rather than it should not bee obtained For the Spirit saith justice and righteousness exal●eth a nation and the fruit thereof shal bee peace and I am confident that if you had more wisdom than Solomon and could speak with the tongue of Angels you shal never reconcile this Nation without justice for I do see that God hath set it upon the spirits of the people of this Nation to have Christ exalted by establishing justice My Lord you have strong guards about you and they are no stronger then need requireth and I could wish they were stronger yet my Lord remember that except the Lord doth keep the City the watchman waketh 〈◊〉 Now my Lord if justice be an Attribute of God G 〈…〉 〈◊〉 be divided if injustice bee found with you assure y 〈…〉 that God is not present with y●● and if any thing or per 〈…〉 can stand without God judgye I beseech you consider wh 〈…〉 s the downfal of your predecessor and do you think that God is changeable would he destroy a King for the injustice 〈◊〉 was acted under him and wil he not destroy you for 〈…〉 far greater injustice especially considering that it is committed against far greater light and stronger engagements and more publike promises made before God and man I beseech you remember that all that have fallen before you when they came once to live in the hatr●● of the people they were short 〈◊〉 and how you do stand in the hearts of the people I wil not gratifie your and the Commonwealth● enemies so much as to commit it to publike view but I must tel you that those that have your ears at command and stoppeth them from your friends those with the Gentlemen of the long robe and others with a religious cloak upon their backs to cover their knaverie with all wil very shortly render you far more odiou● in the peoples eyes than ever were any of those that fel before you My Lord it is not the Governor that the people kicketh against but the manner of governing for if the people be governed justly and righteously they care not whether it be by OLIVER Lord Protector or by a CHARLS by the Grace of God or Parliament but if they cannot have it from neither ofthem then they will cease from them all and lift up their eys to the Hils from whence their help cometh and give the God of Justice no rest until the Government be put into the hands of Christ therefore I beseech you consider what you do lest you be found a Fighter against him for though God hath given you many victories yet my life for it he wil not give you the victory over his Son but wil exa●● him in despight of a 〈…〉 the Kings Emperors and Protectors in the world and wil suddenly call them all to a strict account for their oppressing of his members therefore remember what God hath promised that if you 〈…〉 〈…〉 ays please him he wil ma●e your enemies at peace with thee therefore take no care to please this party nor that party but let thy care be to please thy God by doing of justice and she wing mercy to the poor then never heed what this man saith or what other men say for it is not the sayings of men but the counsel of the Lord that must stand therfore take heed of making Christ thy enemy by quarrelling against his members for he taketh any thing don't to them as done to himself And my Lord I beseech you consider that though a Guard is good to preserve you against a 〈…〉 sible enemy yet remember that when that impartial ●e●j●●nt Death sh●● come to arrest thee I tel thee it is not an Army no● Guard nor Life guard that can keep him out and then to whom wilt thou she for help The creature cannot help thee and if thou shalt think to go● God thy conssience cannot but tel thee that thou hast not rendred to God according to what thou hast received from h 〈…〉 or he hath done thee many favours and such as made the whole earth ring of them but thy conscience and all this ●ation wil witness against thee that thou hast done nothing for him until thou hast

EYE-SALVE FOR ENGLISH-MEN AND AN ALARVM TO THE LONDONERS Wherein is contained the Summary of Romes late designes against England and the present plots and enterprizes in hand against London so many as hath yet come to the knowledge of the Author Together with the opening of an effectual door to the happiness of this Nation Whereunto is annexed a Postscript containing Reasons and Motives to his Highness and the present power in being to grant us s●ch a Committee which hath been long promised and much longer desired and sought for Composed for the view of his Highness and all the People of England by Jeffrey Corbet Citizen and Grocer o●London London printed in the Y●er 1654. ENGLANDS Warning-Piece AWake awake O England and if thou art of the horns that must hate the whore and make her desolate do it now or never or else she will do it to thee and make thee desolate Oh what a Lithergie hath seized upon thee sure thou hast forgoten thy name and art become a stranger to thy self thy dangers thy deliverances thy vows victories are buried in oblivion the Councels of Rome was at first thine Enemies but now thy chiefest friends in Councel the plots of Jesuites were then thy fears but now thy favors and delights As soon as the Lord had pluckt out the sword out of thine own bowels thou didest sheath it in the heart of thine ancient friends of Holland and no sooner is that over but thou ragest against thy friends at home Awake and stand upon thy guard for thou art allmost dru●k with the abominations of the whore How is the aire infected with Oaths and cursings and perjuries How are the streets thronged with pride and drunkenness How are thy Chambers infected with ryoting wantenness and gluttony thou hast not heard the voice that bad thee vex the Midianites which vex the with their wiles Thou hast not heard the voice that bad thee render unto them double Yet the Lord hath compassion on thee and ceaseth not to give thee warning upon warnings Surely Rome is the Mother of harlots and is drunk with the blood of the Saints and the souls under the Alter c●y aloud A Religion delighting in and laden with blood a Religion unsari●ble and unparalel'd not end 〈…〉 ring any but it self yet agreeing with hell it self so the Pope be the head making the word it self to come and lay down at his feet the Sword an● the Keys and then he opens and cuts off what Scriptures he pleases he arogating to himself more power than the Devil who promised but the Kingdoms of the world and the glory thereof but he will promise Heaven also with Hell and a new created place which was never mentioned by God men or Divils even his own vast Territories of Purgatory therefore it is a small thing for him to dispose of Kingdoms and Empires of the Earth Are not there great animos●●ies against England till it return to be disposed of by him Look ab●ut and ●ee the sl●ughters he hath made in our neighbor Countries about us wi●●●ss the M 〈…〉 icre of above 100000 Protestants a●Paris and the bloody Spanish Inquisi●ion and the like but to come nearer home let us remember the Spanish Armado in 88. which came with I str●men● of cruelty to M●ssacre all the Protest●n●s of England and let us no● forget the helli●●Powaer plot the Spanish Fle●● about 1639 laden also with Instruments of cruelty 〈◊〉 Mass-c 〈…〉 w●●ch were va●quished by the Holland Fleet in the Down● and after tha●●n the year 1640. when the Popes firebrand the Queens Mother was in England she brought over an Irish P●●est who b●a●●ed that he was the chief contriver of the Massac●● in ended to cut off 〈◊〉 the Protestants in England Ireland and that he was by the P●pe employed to all Catholick Princes for their contribution towards that bloody Massacre and he gave it under his hand about August 1640 that their were 7000. men in private pay for the Massacre here and that there were 500 Irish Souldiers sent out of Flanders to guard the Tow̄er under the Popish Lord Cottington and that the Queen would pawn the Jewels of the Crown to supply them with ●●ny for that bloody work whereupon William O Conner was apprehended and committed to the Gate-house 3. of September 1640. which was many Months before the Irish Rebellion brake forth and was kept prisoner above 5 years without any prosecution and then released by the old Parliaments connivance so the blood of above 100000 Protestants that were murhered in Ireland in cold blood is brought upon your Highness and this Common-wealth for justice nor being speedily executed upon William O Conner that others might hear and fear and do no more so wickedly therefore the hearts of his confederates were fully set in them to do evil so as they went on with that bloody design and carried it on with an unnatural war And when they saw the hand of God against them in the war they have ever since endeavored to carry on their long intended Massacre still deluding the Protestant Cavalier to strength en their hands in carrying on the Popes design under colour of the Kings Interest when as the Popes design is to destroy all Protestants whatsoever and all the benefit which they could possible gain by it was to be last destroyed and that will more clearly appear in their intended Muss●cre in London where all sorts of Protestants do live and for the greater number of them were their own friends For first they contrived some years since to Land forreign Forces at a distance from London to draw ou● Army towards them and then they were to cut off such of the State as stood most in their way and to surprise our Guards and then to fire the City in many places at once and whilest the people were a quenching the fire then they would fall upon the cutting of their throats And for the more easie effecting thereof the Spanish Embass●dor is and hath been for many years their ende●red friend and hath entertained William O Conner and Patrick Car an Irish Priest who was taken in Arms against this Common wealth and was app●i●ted their Captain General and also many other Priests and J● suites who do continually plot the carrying on the intended Massacre and do contrive from time to time the carrying on of whatsoever may tend thereunto as when the two Irish Traytors were in the To●er the Engines that were made for their escape was contrived at the Spanish Embassadors house and there they were sometime secured till the search was over And when the Apprentices did make a ●umult in the City upon the Sabboth day at night then was his Gate open all night and men in Arms passed in and out and divers in Scarlet cloaks c●me to those of them that were put into Newgate and afterwards boasted that the Spanish Embassador got them released which sheweth what trecherous men