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The Bloody Parliament, in the raigne of an unhappy prince
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1643
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Wing B3287; Thomason E88_33; ESTC R22282
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THE BLOODY PARLIAMENT IN THE RAIGNE OF AN Unhappy Prince LONDON Printed in the Yeare of much Blood-shed 1643. The unhappie Prince THis present occasion serving so opportunely sir I thought it a labour well worthy the Observation to lay downe a true Narration of that memorable Parliament begun in the tenth year of Richard the Second both for the great wonders that it wrought in the subvetsion of the Malignants who were neer unto the King and had distilled much pernitious Counsell into His sacred cares As also that every good and carefull reader might learn therby to avoyd diversities of miseries and the feare and danger of a cruell death I will therefore give a true and short Narration of that which hath laine hid a long time in the shaddow of forgetfullnesse concerning men of great and eminent Authority in this Kingdom who hath been led away in the deceitfull path of Covetousnesse and have come to an untimely and ignominious end being famous examples to deterr all men in authority or whom favour shall raise neere unto the King from practising those or the like courses When Richard the Second of that name about the prime of his youth sway'd the Imperiall Scepter of our Realme there flourished in his Court certaine Peeres viz. Alexander Nevill Arch-bishop of Yorke A man more favourâ—â— by fortune then by the honour of his Decent Robert Vere Duke of Ireland Michael de la poole Earle of Suffolke and then Lord Chancelour Robert Trissilian Lord chiefe Justice of England and Nicholas Brambre a man though low in parentage yet sometime Lord Major of London These men being raised by the speciall favour of the King and advanced to the degree of privy Councelors where the men who had the only rule of the Common-wealth which they for a little while governed under the King with great care and diligence meriting thereby deserved commendations but this not long did continue for overcome either with ambition or with Covetousnesse 〈◊〉 with the pleasures of the Court they despised the Auâ—â—â—â—ity of their too easie King and neglecting the comâ—â—dity of the Realme in a short time the Revenewes of 〈◊〉 Crowne began to wast the Treasure was exhausted 〈◊〉 Commons murmered at the multiplicity of Levyes â—â—â—â—â—ies and new wayes of taxations the Peers repine 〈◊〉 themselves disgraced and in one word the whole â—â—â—gdom endured an universall misery The Nobility seâ—â—â—â— the miserable estate wherein themselves and the Kingâ—â—â— was involved urged the King to Summon a Parliaâ—â—â—â— which was done shortly after in which amongst â—â—â—â—y other Acts Michael de la poole was dismissed of his â—â—â—â—cellorshipe and being accused of many crimes of Instice as bribery extortion and the like he was comâ—â—â—ed to Windsor-Castle and all his lands confiscated to â—â—â—â—ing Neither did the Parliament here give over but â—â—â—ided for the whole state by a mutuall consent betwixt â—â—â— Majestie and the prelates the Barous and the Comâ—â—â—â— and with an unanimous consent they chose a comâ—â—â—â— of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall to depresse 〈◊〉 will discentions and to appease the grudgings of the â—â—â—ple Of the Spirituaâ—ty was chosen the Arch-bishop of â—â—â—erbury the Arch-bishop of Yorke the Bishop of Ely â—â—â—â—ishop of Wincheâ—â—er c. Of the Layalty were electâ—â—â—â— by the Duke of Yorke the Earle of Arundell the Lord â—â—â—â—ham the Lord Scroope c. these as men eminent in 〈◊〉 were chosen by generall suffrage and the Parliament being then to be dissolved were sworne to carry himselves as dutiful and obedient subjects in all their acâ—â—â—â— Soone after the aforenamed Chancellor Michael 〈◊〉 poole buzzed in the Kings eares being moved with â—â—â—placable fury against the Parliament that the statutes 〈◊〉 enacted were prejudiciall to the Crowne and much â—â—â—â—ogarory to his Princely Prerogative insomuch that he should not have the power in his owne hands to preserve â—â—â—â—vant or to bestowe a largesse c. By these and other the like impious instigatious with which ihe Devill did â—â—â—â—iâ—tually supply them they practised to annihelate these 〈◊〉 of the Parliament or whatsoever might seeme by the liberty of the Subiect to reflect on the royall Prerogative of the Prince And first by their serpentine tongues and a nabitious Proiects they so bewitched the noble instination of the King that they induced him to beleeve that all the ill they did was a generall good and so wrought you him that he begann to distast and abhore the passed Acts of his Parliaments as treacherous plots wicked devices Next they studdied to ingrosse the riches of the Kingdom into their own Coffers and to the same and deale so cunningly yet pleasingly with the King that to some he gave ransomes of royall captives taken in the late warts in France to some townes to some cities to some Lands to others money amounting to the sume of a hundred thousand markes to the great impoverishment both of King and Kingdom Thirdly contrary to their allegiance they vilisied the Dignity of the King they caused him to sware that with all his power during his life he should maintaine and defend them from all their enemiss weither Forraigne or demestick Fourthly where it was enacted that the King should sit with his Parliament at Westminster to consult of the publicke affaires through the preswation of the aforesaid Conspirators he was drawn into the most remote parts of all his Realme to the great disparagement of his great Counsell and the generall dissatisfaction of the Kingdome And when any of his great Counsell came to make relation of the state of the Realme unto his Majesty they could not be granted accesse unlesse they related the businesse in the presence of the conspirators who was alwayes ready to upbraid them if they uttered any thing that displeased them and though they seemed to advance it they did as much as in them lay to hinder the King from excercising his Royall Prorogative But though there were so many Plots Conspiracies and Treasons against our State our ever mercifull God inspired into the hearts of the Duke of Gloucester the Earles of Arundell and Warwicke the spirit of valour and magnanimitie and every man accordin gto his ability Levyed a power for the preservation of the King and kingdome all which forces being united amounted to the number of â—0000 And though the Conspirators by vertue of a certaine Spiratuall Commission Proclaimed throughout the â—â—â—y of London That no man upon the paine of the losse â—â— his goods should sell any victuall or ammunition to the â—â—â—â—y of the Earle of Arundall they could not debarre 〈◊〉 from it wherefore they counselled the King to abâ—â—â— himselfe from Parliament and not consuls of the asâ—â—â— of the Kingdome unlesse an Oath were taken that â—â—â—y the said Conspirators should have no accusation urâ—ed against them and they caused it to be proclaimed â—â—â—oughout London that none under paine of confiscation 〈◊〉 all their goods should speake any upbraiding speeches … ing the King or