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A92750 A paire of cristall spectacles with which any man may see plainly at a miles distance, into the councells of the Army and take a full view of the grounds of all their designes. Published for the satisfaction of al those who will drink his Majesties health, sing Vive le Roy, and cry God blesse King Charles. But chiefly made for the City of London. By a Member of the House of Commons. Scott, Thomas, d. 1660. 1648 (1648) Wing S2088; Thomason E476_30; ESTC R205512 4,814 8

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By a Member of the House of Commons Printed in the Yeare 1648. A Paire of Christall SPECTACKLES IN the first place I will begin with our Brethren of Scotland Commissioners what rare contradictions and practices they held forth in their papers sometimes the King must not come to London or be admitted to a personall Treaty untill he hath given security and satisfaction for all the Innocent blood he hath shed c. And then again he must come without either and sometimes Propositions and no personall Treaty and at other times a personall Treaty and no Propositions which are impositions sometimes the King must take the Covenant other-while if he come not to the length of our desire in so doing we must be content and sometimes they tell the King upon his refusing the Propositions both kingdoms will be constrained for mutuall defence and safety to agree to settle Religion and Peace without him and then upon the turn of the tyde they tell us we must waite untill God change his heart and for the safety of the Kingdome the Army must be disbanded the King invested in the Militia or it in him and when our Commissioners in Scotland tel them Barwick and Carlisle are taken and demand reparations against those Malignants and Incendiaries they protected they Answer that when they know the parties names that have taken them and the certainty those Garisons be taken then they will give the Parliament an answer And were not they and their faction with the King and all the Malignants and Papists the first contrivers and abettors of this last personall Treaty the King and his party being wholly conquered and having no hopes but this left which the Parliament in the heat of all their War with the advice of the Kingdome of Scotland would never admit of For had not the Lord Goring told you in his former intercepted Letters that if the King could but cudgell the Parliament into a Treaty the King had brought his designes to perfection and reported of the King himself that he should say then it should not be in the power of men nor Devils in hindring him from bringing al his Designes to his own hearts desire Have you forgot how the last invitation of the Scots into England and the Rebellions of Wales Kent and Essex c. and by whom countenanced and in this last Treaty with what a slight hand were Delinquents beaten the first and last war in this Treaty hath been passed over and many seemed to be satisfied with the Kings Answer though he will neither part from Episcopacy nor their Lands nor with Delinquents which by Covenant Promise and publique Faith we cannot comply with the King therein And have you forgotten the Kings unparalell Uxoriousnesse and affections to the Queen For doth he not tell you under his own hand in his Letters taken at Nazeby That he will be ever constant to the Rules and Grounds in the Little paper the Queen left with him and That hee would not desert the Bishops and Papists the Queen and his best friends And hath he not indevoured to bring in Irish and French Forces c. and promiseth to suspend all Laws against all Papists both in England and Ireland And have you forgotten the Queens Letter wherein she adviseth him in the first place to disband this perpetuall Parliament and then she saith All the rest will easily follow And be Judge your selves if all the Papists in all the 3 Kingdoms do not oppose this Parliament and their friends that are most active and were not Parliaments ever called by the King Factious c. because they alwayes stood in his way against the bringing in of Popery and tyranny And hath he not indevoured with the Bishops and by juggling designes by degrees to cheat us of our Religion and to settle popery and Tyranny And hath he not indevoured to stirre up factions and differences between the honest party in England Scotland that he might take advantage by such Devision And hath not he often broken his promise and protestations in many particulars which might be named And did he not openly declare in Parliament that he owes an account of his actions to none but to God alone and that the Houses of Parliament joynt or separate have no power to make or declare a Law without him And have you forgot what hath been reported about King Jamses death and Marquis Hambleton and what cutting and slitting of noses have been before this present Parliament and Loans Shipmony Star-Chamber Councel Table High Commission Court Court of Wards Monopolies Knight-hood inlarging of Forrests inclosing of Commons and ingrosing of Gun powder Judges turned out of their places for doing their duties and many hundred of other particulars might be here named And were not the people forbidden so much as to speak of a Parliam and when a Parliament was inforced to be called in May 1640. was it not dissolved after 14 dayes because they would not ingage against the Kingdom in a War against the Scots And is his Design in bringing up the Northern Armies forgotten And his large offers to the Scots Army to be brought up to London to awe the Parliament and his sending over the Jewels of the Crown to be pawned by the Queen for Powder Ammunition to fight for the Protestant Religion and his sending for Papists horses for to seat Protestant Riders upon and then give his Commission to thousands of Papists to fight for him contrary to his many promises and protestations And did not Henderson that godly and learned Divine tel him he had made 1500 Widdows in one morning in Scotland and do you not think there was a design by the King and his party to alter the Militia of London whose faithfulnesse to the Parl. and City have been tryed to the uttermost in a fiery furnace of six years Warres And have you forgot the Kings secret compliance with Secretary Windebank in favouring of papists priests c whom the Scots call the Popes Vicar And is the Popes Nuncio residing here and his private transactions forgotten And the Cardinals cap sent to England and the Kings Agents at Rome his Letter to the Pope many other secret practises in this kind to have brought in popery and Tyranny And have you forgot the Duke of Buckingham the Kings favorite how wel he managed the Militia of this Kingdom of the losse of Rochel in France by the Kings lending his ships to the French K. the Isle of Ree Cales Voyage the Grounds and reasons of the Quarel And have you forgot that ancient true saying That ancient Monarchy is ancient Tyranny And stick close to those in the Parl. Army which stand most against the Kings prerogative otherwise you will never get any to serve you except such persons as Henry Jermin and Jack Craffes it is your disposition alwayes to be murmuring at your present condition Did ever Parliament take more
pains ventured their lives and estates for you then this Par. hath done against all unlimited and Prerogative power claimed by the King or Clergie over them And were not honest and active men ever in former time called Puritans if they had but publique spirits to stand for the liberty of the Subject and then Round heads and of late Independents whatsoever their opinions be because our enemies call them so and by this cunning and subtle pretence divers of your wel-affected Citizens have been aiding and assisting to them in their Councels and actions indevouring to destroy and disgrace those that have been the most eminent instruments under God to save us and this City and Kingdom from Ruine and destruction And this in plain English is the great offence that hath so much lost them in your good opinion and affection And can any reasonable man think Antichrist lives onely at Rome that we have scared him out of Engl. by hanging up half a score for the Powder-plot But upon further search he was found going to Church with the King where I saw him as busie as he could be bowing to the Altar and reading in the Common Prayer book and singing the Letany and about a great deal more of such stuffe and for fear he should not be neer enough he crept into the Kings bed and now because the old name of Papist Malignant and Cavaliers are grown so odious to the People therefore this cunning high Priest of theirs teacheth them to call themselves Presbyterians for he saith with so doing and with some other tricks he hath they shall gain a considerable party both of the City and Clergie and also make a division in the House of Commons and consequently in the Kingdome untill they have gotten the King into their power and a considerable Army of French and their Catholike Brethren of Ireland about them and then he will put the Scots in mind they were the beginners of their troubles and tell them that it is no deceit to deceive the deceiver and they will then also as they say put London in mind of their former zeal to the Parliament and let them know their good King hath alwaies called them a rebellious City and hath given them the City for their Arrears And have you forgotten the bloodie massacre in France were none killed there think you but Independents and what kind of Presbyterian government thinke you you shall have setled by Langdale and the Northern Cavaliers for they are turned Covenanters and have taken the Covenant and the Irish Rebels and Papists must be assisting to them in this great work and is it not now come to passe as it was in the Bishops time before this Parliament that all those that were very active Common wealths men and stood most for the Liberty of the Subjects were they not called Puritans then Roundheads and of late Independents and Sectaries c. so that if our common Enemies of our peace have but as much wit as to call you Independents c. according to these practises it is policy enough to destroy you all And concerning Ireland it is cleer by many several passages by the examination of Mac carte Macquire c. that the pretence of men for the King of Spains service a year or two before the Rebellion in Ireland was but a colour to keep some in Armes for a foundation of that Rebellion And have you forgotten the first clause in the Oath injoyned by the supream Catholike councell at Kilkenny in Ireland to owe Faith and Allegiance to King Charles and by all meanes to maintain his Royall Prerogative against the Puritans in the Parliament of England and that they call themselves the Kings and Queens Army and that they did nothing but by the Kings command c. And the Parliament could not so much as obtain a Proclamation against them for divers months though the King was daily pressed thereunto and when the King had yeelded that some might be printed there must be but forty printed and the King under his own hand commanded that none of them must be published without further direction and did he not in one of his Letters taken at Nazeby command the Earl of Ormond to give particular thanks to Muskerry and Plunket the two Arch-rebels in Ireland and have you forgotten how the Earl of Leyster was delayed and of the Kings refusing to give the Lord Brook and Wharton Commission when large Provisions were made for their journey into Irelands And had not divers of the Irish rebels private Passes from the King to passe from hence into Ireland for the Heading of the Rebels there when all the Ports were shut by the King and Parliaments command and when they wanted Command●rs at the begining of their Rebellion and have you forgotten the Irish Generall Oneales letter to Monro the Scots Generall there desiring him that those that could shew the best Commission from the King might yeeld to each other and my L. Digbies letter the Kings Secretary taken when the L. Taffes Army in Ireland was beaten in which he writes to him to be carefull in ingaging for the Kings designes and welfare did much depend upon his Army And have you forgotten the many thousands of innocent souls that were barbarously murthered by the Rebels when the Irish Rebellion first broke out with their barbarous crueltie to Cattell c. and all things that looked like English and digging their bones out of their graves and also the often and secret and private meetings every day at Whitehall for 3. moneths together with the Roman Catholick Commissioners and soon after their return into Ireland the Rebellion brake out And because many have forgotten the Commission which though formerly hath been printed and affirmed upon Oath to be the true copie the I rish say they have under black and white from his Majesty for what they have done and doe I will conclude with the last Branch verbatim of this Commission as it is printed in the Book called the Mystery of Iniquity You are to use all politick waies and meanes possible to possesse your selves for Our use and safety of all the Forts and Castles and places of strength and defence within the said Kingdome except the places persons and estates of Our loyall and loving Subjects the Scots and also to arrest and seize the goods estates and persons of all the English Protestants within the said Kingdom to our use And in your care and speedy performance of this our will and pleasure we shall perceive your wonted duty and allegiance unto us which we shall accept and reward in due time Witnesse our self at Edenborough the first of October in the seventeenth yeer of our Reign And now Reader judge if it stands with divine Providence after so much blood and misery to have a bare and a base covenanting breaking Accommodation and Peace ●●●h this man FINIS