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A69637	Britannicus his pill to cvre malignancy, or, Frenzie now raigning amongst divers English Protestants which will not see the danger that their religion and liberties now lie in being the whole progresse of the adversaries long and continued plots briefly laid open and discovered : whereby the archest malignant will be either convinced or condemned and the weakest of the well-affected sufficiently strengthened and encouraged with all vigour to proceed with the Parliament in the defence of religion and liberty.	Britannicus.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4822; ESTC R5141	4,874	8

Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland since which time the Earl of Antrim escaped and is now preferred to be a great Officer in Ireland and since made a Marquisse Moreover the Generals of the Irish forces in Vlster did offer to my Lord Munro the Parliaments Generall there to appeale to the King which of them had the truest Commission and which his Majesty would aver to be his best and most faithfull Subjects and according to such his Majesties determinations to quit or hold their imployment if my Lord Munro would promise the same to stand to such his Majesties determination And further none can deny but the Irish papists Commissioners were the persons extraordinarily favoured countenanced at their late being at Oxford and their bloody and unheard of cruelties passed over with a painted peace and seeming Cessation and the Protestant Commissioners then there also at the same time were slighted and neglected will not this and many other passages make it cleare that the war was raised here in England to hinder this Kingdome from sending any supplies of men money armes and ammunition into Ireland against the Irish Rebels Then consider the Kings comming to the Parliament as supposed by the Queens perswasion to accuse the five Members of high Treason was not here the great and most dangerous beginning of these wars in this Nation which if the five Members had been delivered up you may soon conjecture what Acts of Parliament would have passed even the next day to the greater slavery and misery of this Nation then by the thoughts of man can bee imagined but by the providence of God they were protected by the worthy Citizens of this famous City of London and we hope will be protected by each other untill their foes be subdued unto them Next the Kings going to Yorke to raise a guard to defend his Person then his going to see Hull the great Magazine of the Kingdome Then the Queen she pretends to go over into Holland to see her daughter when indeed she intended nothing more then to bring over Armes and Ammunition though it were with the sale of the Crown Jewels Besides his Majesty tells you at first no Papist must come nigh his person and were exempted out of the Warrants for putting the Commission of Array in execution but soon after they were allowed to buy Armes for their defence contrary to the known Lawes of the Land and were then desired to send their horses and his Majesty would set Protestant Riders upon them and now behold who more imployed in places of Trust and countenanced by honours and preferments and esteemed his best Subjects kept for Reserves in most dangerous Assaults and imployments and whose Councells at Court more prevalent predominant and over ruling then the Papists and Irish Rebels who worke together with and for the Spanish Faction in that Court See how active the Queen is for promoting her Cause and what power and interests she hath with his Majestie and his Counsells which cannot be expressed in words and what dependance she hath to Rome and all the Priests and Jesuits both in Forraigne Nations and in England consider also what Motives and prayers have been made amongst all the Roman Catholiks all over Christendom for the good successe of the Kings Armies also I could go backe and tell you of the poisonning of Marquis Hamilton c. the Popes Nuntioes residing here and if Windebanke and others of their Orders and Warrants in favour of Priests and Jesuits and also their intended Massacre against the chiefest Pillars of Scotland the Marquis of Argile the Earle of Lowden and Earle of Leven and many others when the King was in Scotland the very same day the Rebellion in Ireland brake forth Consider also the Subtile ingagements of divers of the children of the Palatinate in this war against the Parliament and Kingdom a designe of the Jesuits fetched from Hell to make an inveterate hatred in this Kingdom to that family thereby if it were possible to take away all hopes of ever recovering the Palatinate again for the right owners Looke upon the persons that side with the King in this war if not for the most part almost generally Papists Bishops and their adherents Monopolizers delinquents to the State beggerly Gentry of this Kingdom and of the better sort of Nobles and Gentlemen terrified and frighted with the Lions Skin and Foxes Cunning some gained with terrour others with hope of honour and preferment this hath much encreased that party amongst the Gentry and none but know that his Majesties Store-house of Common Souldiers he raiseth from the dark corners of the Land where ignorance blindnesse and Libertinisme is prdominant and a pious godly ministery very scarcely to be heard of where the Lords day is known by a few Common Prayers in the morning and by dancing drinking and rioting about a May-Pole in the afternoone I have now traced and touched upon some of the heades of those abuses and false pretences and black engins which our enemies have wrought withall to Cozen and cheat us of our Religion and Liberties and any understanding man by this discourse may easily discerne Popery and Slavery was intended And now curteous Reader since so many stratagems and Traps have been laid to insnare thy Conscience and to bereave thee of thy Religion and Liberty and fully laid open by the blessing of God in this fixed Parliament who have laboured well nigh foure yeares against Mountains of dangers and difficulties and have also cased you of many burthens of shipmony High Commission Court Monopolizers and have set thee at Liberty from the Iron Yoake of Bishops and their Hierarchy and dependants and are striving and wrestling to settle the in thee true Protestant Religion in the purity thereof to be governed by Lawes and not by Horses and Garrisons as in other Nations nor according to the fancie and will of the Prince or his favorite and also indeavoring to save three Kingdomes from a dying and sad Condition they are now in which will best appeare and be discerned when the present Wars is over when we shall enjoy what we now so much contend for Therefore my advice is that every man that loves his Religion or Liberty to use his utmost in their Prayers in their purses and persons to uphold the Spirits of such as faithfully stand for theirs and the Kingdoms good to their calling in Parliament though some of their Members be turned Apostats and rotten being tossed and shaken away with the anger of the King or inticed away by preferments or such like vanities are these things worth the Religion and Liberty of the Nation In a word I dare boldly say that man which doth not cordially uphold and defend Parliaments in times of try all doth as much as in him lies to destroy the same and then I appeale to every mans conscience If in destroying Parliaments thou doest not as much as in thou liest destroy Religion and Liberty of the Kingdome which God grant we may never live to see FINIS The destructi●e way The ●dstructive way

Britannicus His Pill TO CVRE MALIGNANCY OR Frenzie now raigning amongst divers English Protestants which will not see the danger that their Religion and Liberties now lie in BEING The whole Progresse of the Adversaries long and continued Plots briefly laid open and discovered whereby the archest Malignant will be either convinced or condemned and the weakest of the well-affected sufficiently strengthened and encouraged with all vigour to proceed with the Parliament in the defence of Religion and Liberty Published by Authority London Printed for Robert White 1644. Britannicus his Pill to cure Malignancy I will begin with His Majesties Raign A strange Wife is prepared which according to the Scripture is a dangerous Preparative for a strange God surely they will turn their hearts after their Gods 1 Kin. 11. 2. This ground-work being laid they endeavour to perswade the King by fraud and subtiltie to bring in Popery and Slavery for the effecting whereof observe first the designe of the bringing in the German Horse the Billiting of Souldiers the frequent and untimely breaking and disolving Parliaments setting before his Majestie the example of France and his broken Parliaments in full power as an obiect of Emulation Then the Bishops and their Episcopall Creatures have publikely preached and in their discourse and writing indeavoured to maintain that opinion and argument That all we have is the Kings and he ought to do what he pleaseth as if God made all the world for a few Kings and not for the people and perswaded Him that Parliaments and Puritans were His Majesties chiefest enemies Moreover looke what endeavors have been used by the Bishops to cheat us of our Religion by degrees and pauses to set up Popery at one time would have made too great a noise but with a gentle hand and to do it so as it might steale upon us insensibly and should devour us but we should neither know nor see To have suspended all Orthodox preachers at once that would have been too conspicuous but by degrees First to suspend all Lectures as an order of Vagrants not to be tollerated in the Church Next forbid all Pastors preaching in their owne Churches in weeke dayes Then inhibit preaching on the Lords day in the afternoone under pretence of advance of Catechis●e soone after forbid all Praying but in the words of the Canon After this the Communion Table must be rayled in soon after it must be set in Altar Posture Then all must be compelled to come and kneel before it or not receive the Sacrament then it must be cryed up as Sanctum Sanctorum and that all mens faces must be towards it in Prayer Secondly to presse the Examples and practices of some as a great means to bring on the rest to dazle the eyes of the lesse judicious people of the Kingdome as my Lord Archbishop or Bishop bow versus Altare the Lords of the must honorable Order of the Garter at their instalment bow towards the Altar His Majesties Chapell is thus and thus adorned Thirdly an Edict for Recreation up on the Lords day is procured and it must be read by the Ministers Fourthly to Cast all out of the Ministery that will not be punctuall and full Conformists to the old Ceremonies Fiftly inioyning a fardell of new and unheard of Ceremonies and iniunctions Sixtly Prayers must be made and Proclamations read against our brethren the Scots lastly the new and unparelled oath for Episcopacy Thus you see how by degrees stratagems and Engines they indeavored to worke out those Arch-heriticks as they called all good and godly Ministers out of the Ministry As it was sometimes said to Eliah 1 Kings 19. him that escapeth the sword of Hazaell shall Iehu slay and him that escapeth the sword of Iehu shall Elisha slay so had they said him that escapeth the dint of the Ceremonies shall the book of sports slay and him that escapeth the book of sports shall the Proclamations slay and him that escapeth the Proclamations shall the Oath slay The chiefest and greatest fomenters and promoters of these s●cessive Stratagems we all know neither can any Malignants or Atheists deny but the Late Earle of Strafford and the Archbishop of Canterbury were the two great engines of this work and what manner of favorites both of them were at Court and what interests they had in His Maiestie and the Queen is apparant enough and by the events it doth too notoriously appeare The Archbishop was he that held Correspondency with Rome as by severall Letters may appeare and to whom the Cardinalls Cap from Rome was sent and he that indeavored to be papa alterius orbis This is he that altered the oath to be taken by the King at His Coronation and indeavored to overthrow and annihilate Magna Charta and to bring in Tiranny and Popery as by these and severall other Articles which are proved against him in the house of Peers by which his designe is sufficiently apparent what he intended for which it is hoped he shall receive suddenly his just reward Since these private designes was discovered and the War against the Scots became frustrate then brake out the Irish in Rebellion who are now esteemed his Majesties best and faithfull Subjects although it is apparent that the Irish Nation beares not only an inveterat hatred to the Brittish Nation and our Religion but even to the very beasts and Plants of the English by their cruell torments and massacres of two hundred thousand Protestants and the wasts and spoiles made upon the English Plants and Cattle as by severall Depositions taken upon Oath doth and may appeare and in their generall discourse they say they have and had the Kings Commission for what they have done or do and the horses or other Cattle they took away from the Protestants there they marked with the Queenes marke and usually called themselves the Queenes souldiers You may remember the Oath they have taken with all their power to uphold and maintain the free exercise of the Romane Catholike Faith and Religion and to obey and ratifie all the Orders and Decrees made and to be made by the supreame Councell of the Confederate Catholicks you may likewise take notice that thousands of Proclamations and Declarations how speedily and quickly they were read against the Scots but when the Irish Rebellion broke out first it was a long time neere two moneths before any Proclamation could be obtained against them though often pressed and desired by the Parliament and when obtained the Printer of the Proclamation by speciall command must print but forty such favour such countenance had that barbarous and most horrid Rebellion Remember also Generall Munro writ that about a yeare since the Earl of Antrim being going over out of England into Ireland was taken at Sea and about him was found severall papours and instructions whereby it doth plainly appeare as he writes that the designe was to root out and wholly extirpate the Protestant Religion in all the three