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A64903	True information of the beginning and cause of all our troubles how they have been hatched, and how prevented. Wherein vvee may see the manifold contrivances and attempts of forraigne and home-bred enemies, against the Parliament, kingdome, and purity of religion. And how all their endeavours whether by force or fraud, never prospered. A work worthy to be kept in record, and to bee communicated to posterity.	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1648 (1648)	Wing V331B; ESTC R221903	27,396	30

in the North which was in June 1641. the popish and malignant Lords and Prelates fearing the effects of this present Parliament complotted together to disaffect that our English Army against the Parliament and endeavoured to bring it out of the North Southward and so to London to compell the parliament to such limits and rules as they thought fit July 1641. At the beginning of the parliament there was a diligent inquisition after oppressions and oppressors and first upon the petition of Mistris Bastwick and Mistris Burton two widowed wives and a petition exhibited in the behalfe of Mr. pryn Dr. Laighton Mr. Smart Mr. Walker Mr. Foxley Mr. Lilborn and many others set at liberty some being banished and all close prisoners others fast fettered in irons and their wives debarred from comming to them The Souldiers in their passage to York turn unto reformers pull down Popish pictures break down rayles turn altars into Tables the English and Scotts Armies at first ready to fight lovingly embrace each other part kinde freinds The Protestation I A. B. Doe in the presence of Almighty God Promise Vow and Protest to maintaine and defend as far as lawfully I may with my life power and estate the true Reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realme contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the duty of my Allegiance his Majesties royall Person Honour and Estate as also the power and priviledges of Parliament the lawfull rights and liberties of the Subject and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall doe in the lawfull pursuance of the same And to my power and as farre as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes and meanes endeavour to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by force practice councels plots conspiracies or otherwise doe any thing to the contrary of any thing in this present Protestation contained And further that I shall in all just and honourable wayes endeavour to preserve the union and peace between the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland and neither for hope feare nor other respect shall relinquish this Promise Vow and Protestation The Earle of Straffords Speech on the Scaffold May 12. 1641. MY Lord Primate of Ireland and my Lords and the rest of these Gentlemen it is a very great comfort to me to have your Lordship by me this day in regard I have been knowne to you a long time I should be glad to obtaine so much silence as to be heard a few words but I doubt I shall not my Lord I come hither by the good will and pleasure of Almighty God to pay the last debt I owe to sinne which is death and by the blessing of that God to rise againe through the merits of Christ Jesus to eternall glory I wish I had beene private that I might have been heard My Lord if I might be so much beholding to you that I might use a few words I should take it for a very great courtesie My Lord I come hither to submit to that judgement which hath past against me I doe it with a very quiet and contented minde I doe freely forgive all the world a forgivenesse that is not spoken from teeth outward as they say but from the heart I speake it in the presence of Almighty God before whom I stand that there is not so much as a displeasing thought in me arising to any creature I thank God I may say truely and my Conscience beares me witnesse that in all my services since I have had the honour to serve his Majesty in any imployment I never had any thing in my heart but the joynt and individuall prosperity of King and people if it have beene my hap to be misconstrued it is the common portion of us all while we are in this life the righteous judgement is hereafter here we are subject to errour and apt to be mis judged one of another there is one thing I desire to cleare my selfe of and I am very confident I speake it with so much clearnesse that I hope I shall have your Christian charity in the beliefe of it I did alwayes ever thinke the Parliaments of England were the happiest Constitutions that any Kingdome or any Nation lived under and under God the meanes of making King and people happy so far have I beene from being against Parliaments for my death I here acquit all the world and pray God heartily to forgive them and in particular My Lord Primate I am very glad that his Majesty is pleased to conceive me not meriting so severe and heavy a punishment as the utmost execution of this sentence I am very glad and infinitely rejoyce in this mercy of his and beseech God to turne it to him and that he may finde mercy when he hath most need of it I wish this Kingdome all the prosperity and happinesse in the world I did it living and now dying it is my wish I doe now professe it from my heart and doe most humbly recommend it unto every man here and wish every man to lay his hand upon his heart and consider seriously whether the beginning of the happinesse of a people should bee written in letters of blood I feare you are in a wrong way and I desire Almighty God that not one drop of my blood may rise up in judgement against you My Lord I professe my selfe a true and obedient Son to the Church of England to that Church wherein I was borne and wherein I was bred prosperity and happinesse , be ever to it and whereas it hath been said that I have inclined to popery if it be an objection worth answering let me say truly that from the time since I was one and twenty yeares of age till this houre now going upon 49. I never had thought in my heart to doubt of the truth of my religion in England and never any had the boldnesse to suggest to me the contrary to the best of my remembrance and so being reconciled to the mercies of Christ Jesus my Saviour into whose bosome I hope shortly to be gathered to those eternall happinesses that shall never have end I desire heartily the forgivenesse of every man both for any rash or unadvised word or deed and desire your prayers And so my Lords farewell farewell all the things of this world Lord strengthen my faith give me confidence and assurance in the merits of Christ Jesus I desire you that you would be The Earle of Strafford for treasonable practises beheaded on the Tower-hill be silent and joyn in prayers with me and I trust in God that we shall all meete and live eternally in heaven there to receive the accomplishment of all happinesse where every teare shall be wiped from our eyes and every sad thought from our hearts And so God blesse this Kingdome and Jesus have mercy upon my Soule Amen

lamentably molested us at home in England but attempted the like on our brethren in Scotland indeavouring to impose upon their consciences also a New Liturgie and a booke of Canons upon the first introducing whereof into their Church they not induring them threw stones and stooles at the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews head and beat him out of the Church crying out a Pape a Pape and so rid themselves of them 28 Upon which refusall of theirs O what foule calumnies and scoffes were immediatly cast upon them and they called and counted rebels and traytors yea so proclaimed in all Churches in England 29 An Army was also raised to oppresse and suppresse them for thus resisting the Arch-prelates most injurious impositions on them A mighty and tumultuous rising of Apprentices and young men in Southwarke and Lambeth side with clubs and other weapons especially at the Arch-bishops house which put him into such a fright as made him flye to Croyden to convey himselfe to some more private and remote place and although Pharoahs Magisians were so honest that at the fight of the dust of the earth turned into lice they cryed out it was the finger of God but he grew more and more outragious and caused one to be hanged and quartered and his head set on London-Bridge 30 Our Brethren of Scotland likewise raising an Army in their own just defence and by force of armes inforcing their owne peace 31 A first pacification being then made by the King and some of his Nobility and ratified under hand and Seal twixt them and the Scots yet was it shortly after shamefully violated and broken quite off by the Arch-prelate of Canterbury and the Earle of Straford and burnt by the hangman at the Exchange 4 Parliament 32 A fourth Parliament was thereupon shortly after called again by those complotters meanes but to a very ill intent and another Parliament summoned also at the same time by the Earle of Straford in Ireland both of them onely to levy and procure monies to raise another Army and wage a new War against the Scots 33 The Ships and goods of our Brethren of Scotland were in all parts and ports of this Kingdome and of Ireland also surprised and seized on for the King their Commissioners denyed audience to make their just defence to the King and the whole Kingdome of Scotland and England too hereupon much distracted and distempered with leavying of monies and imprisoning all among us that refused the same 34 This Parliament also refusing to comply with the King Canterbury and Straford in this Episcopal war against the Scots was soon dissolved broken up by them and thereupon they returned to their former wayes of waste and confusion and the very next day after the dissolution thereof some eminent members of both Houses had their Chambers and Studies yea their Cabinets and very pockets of their wearing cloathes betimes in the morning before they were out of their beds searched for letters and writings and some of them also imprisoned and a false and most scandalous declaration was published against the House of Commons in the Kings name 35 A forced Loan of money was attempted in the City of London to be made a president if it prevailed there for the whole Kingdom but some Aldermen refusing were sorely threatned and imprisoned 36 In which interim the Clergies Convocation continuing notwithstanding the dissolution of the Parliament new conscience-oppressing Canons were forged and a strange Oath with a monstrous c. in it was framed for the establishing of the Bishops Hierarchy with severe punishments on the refusers to take it 37 In this Convocation sore taxations were also imposed upon the whole Clergie even no lesse than six Subsidies besides a bountifull contribution to forward that intended war against our brethren of Scotland 38 For the advancing of which said summes for this war the Popish pontifician party and their scandalous priests were most free and forward yea and a solemn prayer was composed and imposed by the Bishops on their Ministers every where to be used and read in all Churches against the Scots as rebels and traytors 39 The papists also in a high measure enjoyed even almost a totall toleration and a Popes Nuncio suffered amongst us to act and govern all Romish affaires yea a kind of a private popish-parliament kept in the Kingdom and popish jurisdictions erected among them 40. Commissions were also secretly issued out for some great and eminent papists for martiall Commands for levying of Souldiers and strengthening their party with Armes and Ammunition of all sorts and in great plenty 41. His Majesties treasure was by these meanes so extreamly exhausted and his revenues so anticipated that he was inforced to compell as it were his own Servants Judges and Officers of all sorts to lend him great summes of money and prisons filled with refusers of these and the other illegall payments yea many High-Sheriffes summoned into the Star-chamber and to the Councel-Board and some of them imprisoned for not being quicke enough in levying of Ship money and such like intolerable taxations 42. In summe the whole Kingdome was now brought into a lamentable and languishing condition of being most miserably bought and sold to any that could give and contribute most of might and malice against us and no hope of humane help but dolour desperation and destruction to be the portion of all The Arch-Prelate of St Andrewes in Scotland reading the new Service-booke in his pontificalibus assaulted by men Women with Crickets stooles Stickes and Stones The rising of Prentises and Sea-men on Southwark side to assault the Arch-bishops of Canterburys House at Lambeth 5. Parliament Anno 1640. Novemb. 3. 44. But behold a desperate plot and designe was herein also immediately set on foot to spoyle or poyson it in the very Embrio and constitution of it in the first choyce of the Members thereof by Letters from the King Queen malignant and Popish Earles Lords Knights and Gentry posted into all parts of the Kingdome to make a strong party for them But by admirable divine providence this their plot was counterplotted and wonderfully frustrated and the Parliament most hopefully congregated and setled 45. Shortly after a very formidable Spanish-Fleet or Armado appeared on our English narrow Seas in sight of Dover and was comming in as was on very strong grounds more than probably conjectured as a third party to help to destroy us the Spaniards hoping that by this time we and the Scots were together by the eares but they were by Gods mercy beaten off from us by our Neighbours of Holland And we fighting against them we fought against our friends The Souldiers in their passage to Yorke turn Reformers pul down Popish pictures breake downe rayles turne altars into tables and those Popish Commanders that were to command them they forced to eat flesh on Fridayes thrusting it downe their throats and some they slew 46. In the time of ours and the Scots Armies residing