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A47935	Tyranny and popery lording it over the consciences, lives, liberties, and estates both of King and people	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1678 (1678)	Wing L1321; ESTC R16131	33,544	96

The said Assessment to be Levy'd by Distress and Sale and in Case of Refusal the Parties to be Emprison'd pag. 767. With further Authority Feb. 3. 42. p. 777. to Break open any Chests Trunks Boxes Dores with Power to Seize such Chests with Money or Goods for the Satisfaction of the Sums Assess'd And the same Power Amplifi'd they granted to Commissioners for Levying of Money by a Weekly Assessment upon London and Westminster and every County and City in England and Wales the City of London being Rated the Weekly Sum of 10000 l. and Others in Proportion You have here from their own Publique Acts for I cite none of their Pamphlets a Breviate of the Powers they assumed to themselves over King and People And this so Early in the War too that the Faction was not as yet sure in the Saddle For This was all before 1643. You shall now see the Execution of these Arbitrary Principles by the Covenanters of Both Kingdoms in their Turns and you shall Confess that tho' the Rigours of the Kirk may serve as a Foil to any Other Tyranny the English have yet had the Honour to out-strip their Masters According to the Common Method of Innovatours their First Work was by Press and Pulpit to Defame the Government their Next was by Popular Artifice to stir up the Multitude by Tumults to Reform it and Lastly if they found their Party strong enough to Depend upon to Enter into a Confederacy and Set up for themselves This was the Course that Knox Willock and their Followers took in Scotland under the Queen Regent in 1555. and afterward under King James VI. And Cartwright with his Complices went the same way to Work also under Queen Elizabeth only the Conspiracy of Arthington Hacket Coppinger Wigginton c. was Discover'd and the Plot Disappointed But the Libels and Tumults in Scotland 1637. which led to that Impious Bond and Covenant in 1638. had better success See his Late Majesties Large Declaration upon That Subject And after their Pattern so had the Practices in England in 1641. when the Parliament was so Over-aw'd by Tumults that the Vote of the Two Houses was no other in Effect than the Sense of the Rabble in the Lobby It was but their Bawling for Justice upon the Noble Earl of Strafford their Crying down of Bishops and Popish Lords and the thing is Done The Riots were so Great that the Lords press'd the Commons at a Conference to Joyn with them in a Declaration for the Suppressing of them But it was Answer'd saying We must not Discourage our Friends This being a time we must make use of All our Friends God forbid says Mr. Pim that the House of Commons should proceed in any way to Dishearten People to obtain their just Desires in such a way Exact Collections pag. 532. The Kirk would have said that they did not know with what Spirit they were Over-Rul'd as they told King James in the Case of Gibson and Black for delivering Treason in the Pulpit The next thing that follow'd in Course was a Combination and That shall be the first Point we 'l handle in the Common Practices of the Party which in One Word amounts to no less than the Dissolution of a Legal and the Setting up of a Tyrannical Government The Practices and Usurpations of the Presbyterians upon the Civil Government TO be as Clear now in their Practices as I have been in their Positions you shall have as good Evidence for their Proceedings as you have had already for their Principles And I 'le begin with the Foundation of their Empire their Audacious and Mysterious Covenant Not with the Matter or the Design of it but only to shew you that Covenanting is the Method of the Party The First Covenant of Scotland bears Date Decemb. 3. 1557. at Edinburgh The Second at Perth May 31. 1559. The Third at Sterling Aug. 1. And a Fourth at Leith Apr. 27. 1560. They Enter'd also into Another Covenant at Ayr Sept. 4. 1562. which Knox calls a New Covenant In England 1583. they Subscrib'd their Discipline and Enter'd into a League both by Promise and Writing to do their Parts toward the Establishing of it In Scotland 1638. so soon as ever they had settled their Tables of Advice the First Act of those Tables was their Solemn Covenant And so likewise in England the Commons Impos'd a Protestation and then went on to Covenants and Othes without End Here 's an Vsurpation upon Sovereignty the very first step they set in the Exacting of an Oth without due Authority beside that all Leagues of Subjects among themselves are in the Eye of the Law no better than Seditious Conspiracies Wee 'l come now to the Pretence of these Covenants which is only an Artifice of Inveigling the Silly People into a Confederacy against the Government under the Notion of Promoting the Common Good The End of the First Scottish Covenant above-mention'd at Edinburgh is said to be the Defence of Christs Gospel and his Congregation and of every Member of it against all Opposers to the Death The Second at Perth goes further and Extends to all Persons that shall trouble them upon what Pretence soever In the Third at Sterling they bind themselves from any Correspondence with the Queen either by Word or Writing In their Fourth at Leith they Covenant a Direct Revolt and the reducing of all men by Force that are not of their Opinion In their Last Bond at Ayr they declare against all men as Enemies that shall not submit to their Government And upon the Whole Matter they Found all their subsequent Proceedings upon the Obligation of the First Covenant for the Defence of Christ's Gospel The Pretext of the Scottish Covenant in 1638. was the Defence of the King's Majesty his Person and Authority in the Defence and Preservation of the True-Religion Liberties and Laws of the Kingdom As also the Mutual Defence one of another against all sorts of Persons whatsoever And the English Protestation of 1641. looks the very same way viz. for the Maintenance of the Doctrine of the Church of England the Power and Privileges of the Parliament and Liberty of the Subject And what 's the very Title of their Solemn League and Covenant in 1643. but Reformation and Defence of Religion the Honour and Happiness of the King the Peace and Safety of the Three Kingdoms So soon as ever they had by these specious Appearances decoy'd an Inconsiderate Part of the Nation into the Net they Emprov'd the Fraud by Expounding upon all their Bonds and Covenants quite Contrary to the Common Intent and Acceptation of the same And made way thereby to the Destruction of all those Interests which the People thought they had Sworn to Preserve But the Subject was so hamper'd betwixt the Dread of the Othe among those that did not understand the Nullity of the Obligation and the Forfeiture of Life Fortune and Estate if they should not persue it

Parliament In This their Protestation his Majesty observes Eleaven Nullities and that In One Hour they made Void Six General Assemblies tho' Two of them Wholly and the Other Four in Part were Ratifi'd by Acts of Parliament In Another Hour they Damn'd all the Arminian Tenets without Defining what they were In Another Hour they Depriv'd One Arch-Bishop and Two Bishops And in One hour more they Abolish'd Episcopacy Deposing Four Bishops barely upon a Libel read in the Pulpit without Examining any One Witness against them and only for the Crime of Obeying Parliaments and General Assemblies All This they do as having the Cognition of Ecclesiastical Matters They Arm the Subject Block up and Force the Kings Forts and Castles Intercept Victuals and Ammunition for their Relief Tax the People Levy Soldiers against the King Issue out Warrants to Sheriffs for Commissioners of Parliament and when they are Ask'd why they do these things 'T is for the Good of the Church they say the Glory of God and the Preservation of Religion Kings Declaration pag. 415. These are the men that bind their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in Links of Iron according to the very Letter And you shall now see that the English Covenanters are as good Text-Proof as their Brethren Take Notice here That my Observations are restrain'd simply to the Actings of the Presbyterians without Imputing any thing to Them that was done by the Influence of the Independents It appears from what is already said that The Name of God was the Prologue to Both Rebellions The Form and Doctrine of the English League the very Translation of the Scottish It rests now to shew that the English Practices are so likewise and how far they have put their Seditious Positions in Execution What was the English way of Remonstrating and Declaring but the Scottish Mode of Protesting The General Assembly declines the Kings Authority in the Case of Treason and so did the House of Commons in the Case of their Members The Kirk refus'd to pray for the Queen and our Mock-Parliament made it Penal to Pray for the King And they both of them took upon themselves to Convene Assemblies Impose Othes and Subscriptions by their own Power To Banish the Kings Servants and Scandalize his Ministers And with a Scottish Grace the English Faction tells the King in Answer to one of his Declaration That his Suggestion is as False as the Father of Lies can Invent. As they agreed in the Intent of the Reformation So did they also in the Manner of it They Alarm'd the City of London at Midnight that the King was coming with his Papists to fire the Town and burn the Citizens in their Beds the Common Pretences of Scotland And after the Scottish Methode too they Rifled Winchester-Church in 1642. Burnt the Communion-Table in an Ale-House brake open several Leaden Chests wherein the Bodyes of some of the Saxon Kings were Deposited Casting the Dust into the Air and throwing the Bones of them at the Windows Hacking with their Swords the Crown that was there upon the very Statue of the King With the same Barbarity they proceeded at Chichester where they Pickt out the Eyes of Edw. VI. his Picture saying that all this was long of his Book of Common Prayer At Canterbury and Rochester they did the Like and turn'd the Church of St. Paul both into a Stable and an Ale-House It might serve in one word for all to say That they have put all their Positions before spoken of in Practice The Two Houses by their own Authority set up Ordinances for Laws settl'd the Militia stil'd themselves the Supreme Judicature of the Kingdome Chang'd the Whole Frame of the Government Punish'd those as Traytours that serv'd the King Seiz'd the Kings Forts Towns Magazines and Revenues Rais'd an Army against him Impos'd Taxes Excise Customes took away Episcopacy and the Common-Prayer and settled the Directory Proclaim'd Fasts spoil'd the King of his Authority made him a Prisoner under Colour of taking him into Protection and then for a Sum of Money with Judas betray'd their Master to be Crucifi'd All this and More was not only the Effect of the Covenant but the very Drift and Meaning of it as appears by the Artificial Emprovement of it to all their Purposes being the very Test of the Faction No man was allow'd to Practice the Law No man Admitted into the Ministry that had not taken it and it was Impos'd under a Penalty upon the Whole Nation And Then After the Taking of it it was made Death for any man to return to his Allegiance and all the Deserters of the Conspiracy that were murther'd under a Form of Justice were put to Death for Breach of Covenant When the late King May 1646. in his Distress apply'd himself to the Scotch and they receiv'd him as into Protection his Friends were kept from him at Newcastle by as strict an Order as afterwards at Holdenby But they Formaliz'd the Matter however how Base a thing it would be for Scotland to Deliver up their King and how Inconsistent with the Duty of their Covenant and how Dishonourable to the Army to whom in his Extreme Danger he had Recourse for Safety The Scotch Commissioners also Aggravating the Matter If it be Contrary say they to the Law and Common Practice of Nations to deliver up the meanest Subject fled to them tho' it be for the greatest Crimes How much more would the World abroad Condemn our Army for a Base Dishonourable Act if they should deliver up their Head and Soveraign having cast himself into their Hands to be Dispos'd of at the Arbitrament of another Nation Nay says the Chancellour I shall desire that the Word of Disposing of the Kings Person may be rightly understood for to Dispose of the Kings Person as Both Houses or Both Kingdoms shall think fit may in some sence be to Depose or worse But alas these Difficulties only stuck till the Price was agreed upon How Stiff they were till the Bargain was Struck and after That how Flat and Supple For Then he tells his Majesty plainly If he refuses the Propositions Both Kingdoms will be Constrain'd for their Mutual Safety to agree and settle Religion and Peace without him And he is told afterward by the Pretended Declaration of the Kingdome of Scotland of Jan. 16. 1646. that by reason of his Refusal there would be a Joynt Course taken by Both Kingdoms concerning the Disposal of his Person And Then a little After with respect had to the Safety and Preservation of his Royal Person In the Preservation and Defence of the True Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms According to the COVENANT c. On Feb. 12. They Exhort their Covenanted Brethren the Assembly at Westminster to hold fast their Solemn League and Covenant to Entertain a Brotherhood and Vnity between the Nations but not a Syllable of the King And again Jan. 18. the General Assembly