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A95543	The generall complaint of the most oppressed, distressed commons of England. Complaining to, and crying out upon the tyranny of the perpetuall Parliament at Westminster. / Written by one that loves, serves, and honours the King, and also holds the dignity of a parliament in due honourable regard and reverence. Jo. Ta.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1645 (1645)	Wing T462; Thomason E300_15; ESTC R200259	5,820	9

the Spaniards as men and Loyall Subjects to him doe honour obey and serve him That the French King is a King of Asles because of the insupportable heavy burthens Taxes and slavery which they undergoe and tamely beare But 't is said the King of England is a King of Devills because of their disobedient murmurings and often Rebellion For the nature of an English man is not to know when things are well which if we would have knowne things had not now been so bad as they are Doe you fight against the King to remove some Evill Councellors from him we know that you have long fidled upon that string yet you could never name one of those Counsellors nor relate any particulars against them that might so much as put a scratch scarre or spot upon their Integrity either to His Majesty or the publique good all that can be said either against the King Queene Nobility or any Loyall Royalist is vented through your learned Conduite Pipe Mercurius Britanicus who by your especiall favour and Command Railes and Reviles Sheetly weekly most wickedly weakly Cum Privilegio Thus we perceive that you pretend to fight for the Protestant Religion and all the World may see and say you have made a delicate dainty Directory new Religion of it And you have fought for the King and that is most certaine you have fought and sought for the King but it hath been to Catch him and make him no King You have fought for our Liberties and have taken them from us you have fought for the Gospell and have spoyl'd the Church you have fought for our Goods and yee have em and you have fought to destroy the Kingdome and you have done it What can you doe or what would you doe more and still you persist in these impious Courses and there is no hope of any end of our sufferings The many Gulleries that you have put upon us would fill a large Volume if they should be written or Printed and because you shall not think us to be fencelesse or such Block-heads as you would make us you shall know that we know somewhat And to lay aside all old Dogge-tricks how this Rebellion hath been a Brewing more then 60 yeares we will let you know that we know many of your State sleights and Policies within these three yeares c. You have extorted great Summes of Mony from us under the pretence of Relieving of Ireland and with the same Monies you have maintain'd a bloudy Warre in England so that whatsoever was Raked from us for the preservation of one Kingdome you have imployed for the destruction of three for England is cheated Ireland defeated and Scotland is heated in her owne dissentious flames You have pretended Treaties for Peace when God knowes Peace was never in your Thoughts as by your impudent Propositions and demands may appeare for if the Turke had made a Conquest here he could not have devised or would not have enjoyn'd and tyed the King and his true Liedge People to harder Conditions and then to salve your Reputations you have caused your lying Lecturers and slanderous Pamphlets to revile the King and lay all the fault on him for the breaking off of the Treaties when as you had Consulted and knew before that your unreasonable demands neither would or could be granted You have abused and mock'd God with false and forged Thankesgivings for such Victories as never were and with your Sophisticated Triumphs of Guns B●lls Bonefires Ballads Libells and other Imposture-like expressions whereby we have been seduc'd and encouraged to give more and more Contributions and buy our owne utter undoeings for like corrupted and covetous Lawyers you would not take so much paines or doe us the curtesie to begger us Gratis to ruine us for nothing And you would not by any entreaty make us miserable at a cheap rate or except we gave you our Monies almost to the uttermost farthing Many of your Faction like decoy Ducks brought in their Plate and Monies at the beginning of this Rebellion in large proportions to the Gull-Hall of London whereby thousands of people were gull'd by deed of guift or deeds of shift and new found Loanes and Contributions to maintaine your greatnesse and feed your bottomlesse Avarice whilest we and the rest of your new shorne sheep had no other assurance but the Ayery pawne of a Confounding Faith call'd Publique and those cheating Decoyes who first gave and lent to draw poore Fooles on Those Knaves had their Plate and Monies privately delivered to them againe whilest ours was accursedly imployed against the true Religion a just King and all His Loyall Protestant Subjects You have to make your Victories seem great caused many of your owne Tattard Ensignes Cornets or Colours of Foot and Horse with many Armes to be privately sent out of the City in an Evening at one Port and brought in at another Port in the morning in Triumph making the People beleeve that those Colours and Armes were taken from the King at such and such a Battell and this trick hath hook'd us into more chargeable and Rebellious Contributions You have caused thousand of Armes to be bought and brought from Forreigne Nations and those Armes you have proclaim'd to be taken at Sea and that either the King had bought them to make Warre against the Parliament or that they were sent Him for that purpose from some Catholique Prince and this slight of Hand hath often jugled away our Monies You have many times made Women believe that their slaine Husbands who went forth with you alive were alive still in such or such Garrisons of yours when you knew the same men were killed and left dead in ditches for Crowes meat but that His Majesty gratiously caused the dead to be buried and the maimed and wounded to be relieved and cured You have contrived Letters in Private Chambers and you have subscribed them from Forraigne Kings and States or from the Queene to the King or to some other Persons of Worth and Eminency neer His Majesty which Letters have been as full of forged dangerous consequences as your wicked braines could thrust or foist into them And by some miraculous way the said Letters have been either intercepted on the Land by some vigilant great Commander of yours or they have been said to be taken at Sea by your valiant Admirall then are those Letters openly Read and copied out a thousand waies Printed ten Thousand waies disperst a Hundred Thousand waies and believed by Millions of People by the prateing of your Preachers and Pamphlets which tricks have cost us some Millions of money with many thousand of our lives You have many times taken or intercepted Letters which have been sent from some of His Majesties Armies Garrisons or some other true and Loyall places or Persons or from the King or Queene one to another and those Letters have been publiquely Read and Printed but you have new moulded them you have made your own Constructions and Interpretations on them and in a word you have not only the procreating Art to beget and engender such newes as you please to have but also you are fruitfull in conceiving and producing such Letters as hath or may be most for your advantage as Lately you have used in His Majesties Cabinet which you took at Naseby and brake open at Westminster and made the Letters therein to speake what you would have them But maugre all your malice the said Letters are as so many Christall Mirrours wherein His Kingly care His Christian Piety His immoveable Constancy in the service of God in the Protestant Religion in the Peace of His Kingdoms and in the well-fare of His Subjects all these His Letters doe shew in despight of your wrested comparisons and mingle mangle jugling alterations His Transcendent goodnesse and most gratious inclination and Royall Resolution and withall your mischievous intentions are plainly manifested in that you still persist in your wicked courses against so gratious a Soveraigne But there are more judicious learned and grave writers then any of us your oppressed Complainants whose Pens have better described your playing fast and loose in this kind to whose better Informations we leave you We doe most heartily wish that you were all as weary of being Tyrants as we are in bearing the insupportable burthens of your Tyranny we doe humbly beseech you to be pleased to give over beggering and killing of us we pray you to suffer us to live and enjoy the Protestant Religion we desire you to let us feed and subsist upon that little which you have left us against your wills and lastly we entreat you not to enforce us into a desperate Condition and make us doe we know not what His Majesty as a true Defender of the true Faith doth with Truth defend that Faith and He hath most graciously often offered you Peace and Truth both which you pretend but you intend neither Lay down your Armes that 's the nearest way to a Peace and leave Lying and you shall have Truth If you will not we would have you know that we must take a course that neither our Purses or Persons shall not long maintaine you and your Rebellious Garrisons who are no other but dens of Theeves and as our Tongues did lift you up and made you able to abuse the King the Religion Church and Kingdome so our Hands must help to pull or knock you downe to recover part of that of which you have bereft us and to keep about us to Relieve us that little which yet we have left us FINIS

THE GENERALL COMPLAINT of the most oppressed distressed COMMONS of ENGLAND COMPLAINING TO AND Crying out upon the Tyranny of the perpetuall Parliament at Westminster Written by one that loves serves and Honours the KING and also holds the Dignity of a Parliament in due honourable Regard and Reverence JO TA. IT is needlesse to demand from what Shire County City Corporation Town Burrough Village Hundred Hamlet House Family Persons or person this Complaint comes for it were a rare search and would trouble the braines of all the cunning men and wisest Mathemagicians with all the judiciall Astrologers and Fortune-telling Figure-flingers to tell us truly where this complaint is not It is so universall epidemically generall that whosoever hath not a greivous sence or remorcefull feeling of it hath a soule stupified and a conscience benum'd mortally with a dead Palsie We the most miserable amongst men do make humble suite to you who next to our sinnes and selves are the cause and causers of our miseries you do best know the nature and condition of our greifes you had the power will and skill to wound us and you have the art and knowledge to make us whole you have the secret vertue which is faigned to have been in Achilles his Launce to hurt and cure We are sure that the King most graciously eas'd and removed all our greivances or as many as we complaind on there was not a monopoly a tax toll or tribute left that was greivous or justly offensive but they were all either made voyd or mitigated neither did his Majesty deny you any thing that you did demand nor you ever grant him any thing that he requested and to our griefes we speak it it had bin better he had been more sparing of his Royall grants except you had more Loyally and gratefully dealt with him and acknowledg'd them We need not tell you that the Protestant Religion is almost cast out of the Kingdom by you It is impertinent to give you notice how you have us'd the King so that the meanest of your selves would be loath to be so dealt withall How we have been beggard and ruin'd by you we know how you have inrich'd your selves by undoing us you know and when you will endeavour to seek peace and cease those mischiefes which we suffer God knowes Selfe do selfe have is an old English proverb It is only our own doings that hath undon us it was our tongues that extold you it was our voyces that was your advancement it was our noyses that Elected you to that power which you have turn'd into intollerable Tyranny it was we that did rend our throates for a Kimbolton a Hampden a Pym a Martin a Haslerigge a Hollis and a great many more then a good many It was we that made you Knights and Burgesses for the Shires Counties Cities Townes Burroughs Corporations and for us it was our follies to do all this for you for which it is too too manifest what you have done for us Thus by our meanes you were rais'd and by our ruines you are inrich't The premisses considered we humbly beseech you to take these few following lines into your serious considerations and at your pleasure or leisure confute them if you can It is a maine point of Romish doctrine that the Pope cannot erre in matters of Faith which error of theirs is far from our opinions but this we are too sure of that you have all erred in matters of trust We the Freeholders and Commons of England do lamentably know and feell it folly and foolishnesse are the only opposites to wisdome and Knowledge hath no enemy but Ignorance this being confest we pray you to remember that our rash folly elected you to be the representative body of the Kingdome which we did acknowledge you to be and we most humbly desire you to consider that we are the body of the Kingdome represented now as a thing representative is but a derivative from that which is the represented so is your power derived from us and from us who are but men full of infirmities and errors though our voyces had power to give you power to be a house of Commons in Parliament yet from those voyces and folly of ours we had not power to infuse infallible and inerrable wisedom into you Wee as men confident of your integrity did chuse you as our Proctors and Atturnies the Kings Majesty with his best Councell and we the poore Commons entrusted you with all we had but we had no mistrust that you would deceive us of all we had we trusted you to maintaine our Peace and not to imbroile us in an universall endlesse bloudy War We trusted you with our Estates and you have Rob'd Plunder'd and undon us we trusted you with our freedomes and you have loaden us with slavery and bondage we trusted you with our lives and by you we are slaughter'd and murther'd every day We trusted you not with our soules and yet you with a new Legerdemain doctrine a jugling kind of Preaching a pestiferous swarme of Preachers a Mechanick kennell of illiterate knaves with the threats and Tyranny that you have used to us and the execrable Covenants which you have forc'd us to take we might with as much safety and lesse hazard have trusted our soules with Judas Julian th' Apostate or the Divell himselfe as with you or your Doctrines Many thousands of Soules loaden with their sinnes are Impenitently parted from the Bodies of His Majesties Subjects by your seducements and inforcements and alas few of them knew the Cause wherefore they fought or wherefore they so cruelly kill'd one another You will say that you fought for the Protestant Religion that 's a lye it is known that it was never offer'd to be taken from you and that His Majesty will live and dye in it and the defence and maintaining of it doe you fight against the King as fearing He would take from us our Lawes and Liberties in those points we plainly perceive that He never intended any such wickednesse But if He had had any such unkingly and Tyrannicall intention you have prevented Him and done it your selves Doe you fight against Him and Murther His loving Subjects for feare that He should bring in Forreigne-Nations to destroy us which thought never entred into His Royall Heart but you have done the same both against His Majesty and us you have at exceeding Rates and prices with our Monies bought Rebellious Scots who have sold themselves to you and to work wickednesse no purpose to ruine the King the Kingdome you and us and as the Divell could not overthrow man without the help of the woman so you could never destroy this Church and State without your Golden temptation of those accursed hirelings which if you were to fell them againe at halfe a quarter of the price they cost it must be at a very deere Market It is an old saying that the King of Spaine is a King of Men because