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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85164	The fatall blow; or, The most impious and treasonable fact of Hammond, in offering force unto, and hurting his sacred Majesty: discussed, and reparation pressed, by a suddain dissolution of the tyrannicall power of this present Parliament, a summary of whose wicked practices tending to the subversion of monarchie and murder of His Maiestie, and the enslaving of this nation is premised. The re-establishing of religion, and re-enthroning of His Maiestie by force and armes is propounded and justified. / Dedicated and directed to the people of England.		1648 (1648)	Wing F541; Thomason E522_16; ESTC R206209	6,837	8

The Fatall Blow OR The most Impious and Treasonable Fact of HAMMOND In offering force unto and hurting His SACRED MAIESTIE Discussed and REPARATION pressed by a suddain Dissolution of the Tyrannicall Power of this present PARLIAMENT A Summary of whose wicked Practices tending to the subversion of MONARCHIE and Murder of His MAIESTIE and the Enslaving of this Nation is premised There-establishing of RELIGION and re-enthroning of His MAIESTIE by Force and Armes is propounded and justified Dedicated and directed to the People of ENGLAND Now know I that the Lord saveth his Annointed he will hear him from his holy Heaven with the saving strength of his right hand Psal 20.6 For the King trusteth in the Lord and through the mercy of the most High he shall not miscarry Thine hand shall finde out all thine Enemies thy right hand shall finde out those that hate thee Psal 21.7 8. LONDON printed Anno Domini 1648. Good People of England CAn you be so dull complexioned that you cannot in seven yeares learne and what hath been so often whipt into you one Lesson This Parliament will have no King will you be baited into a slavery and held fast by the gills by the old jugling and deluding perswasions of Religion Liberty and Property Shall the infusions of these Givens any longer continue you transformed from Men into Beasts to lye down like Asses under your Burthens and to conceit that a slavish rest is good Can these Sorcerers make you any longer beleeve that they are the great Power of God when they are the manifest and skild operators unto the Devill Surely the Tolleration of all Religions and Heresies the keeping of an Army modeld unto their own purposes still on foote the Circumvention of your Liberties the visible and cunning Invasion of your Properties their whole Processe with His Majesty and all the present practises in order unto the Subversion of Monarthy in this Kingdome and setting up for themselves cannot but state it for a most unquestionable and measured Truth with you O people of England that this present Parliament will have no King but reign and rule themselves how and as they list and this will be beyond dispute if you suddainly survay their whole Conduit of this Designe By their disposing the three Kingdoms unto an Aptitude to receive their Impressions and the universall Taint of Rebellion by their practises with the Scots an Irritable people whom by their meer Encouragements they draw into a Posture of Hostility against His Majesty through their suggestions that He would introduce Popery and an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall forme of Government over His People By their corruption of discontented poore yet powerful and Leading Persons of Scotland to improve their Designe By their Treachery unto and desection of His Majesty and His Army raised and able to suppresse that Sedition upon Tearmes of greatest Disadvatnage unto His Majesty and of highest Dishonour unto this Nation By Necessitating His Majesty to call a Parliament as the only remedy for the present Distempers the Members whereof were for the prevailing part an industriously packt Crue of Dis-affected Persons unto His Majesty unto the Government established and who did only drive at their own Ends By their violent Ejection of Persons well-affected unto the King and Kingdome out of both Houses and all places of Trust and Importance By their sending abroad their owne evill Ministring-spirits and hired Emissaries those Sampsons Foxes tyed together by the tayles and fire-brands betwixt them their factious illiterate prostitute and phanatique Clergy to set the standing-Corne of the people into the fire of Rebellion By their publishing and countenancing Scandalous and Seditious Pamphlets and Petitions against His Majestyes Royall Person and Government By their enforcing the Irish into Rebellion who made modest and humble Addresses unto them for Liberty of Conscience and the Protection of the received Law● of that Kingdome through their Menaces that that Kingdome should be no longer 〈◊〉 Nursery of Popery and of sending thither an Army of ten thousand Scots to be maintained by the 9d. a Sunday to be levyed upon Recusants least that Kingdome remaining intire might come into His Majesties Rescue when these Men intended to perfect their purpose of Vn-throning Him By their levying Men and vast summes of Money under pretence of suppressing that Rebellion but employing them against His Majesty only for this purpose also By their making desperate and exasperating the Irish both by the selling and re-selling of their Lands and much more than is in that Island and taking from them all hope of Pardon and denying unto them Quarter By their sending unto that service almost onely such Commanders and men as were of His Majesties Army in the North doubting of their affections here and then abandoning them unto all want and misery there This Parliament besides that they occasioned the Rebellion and the first Effusion of blood in Ireland having spilt more English blood by the wilfull neglect of them there than the Irish did by their swords By their defrauding the poore Protestants of Ireland of the Benevolence of the Dutch and converting it unto their own uses By their breaking the late Peace in Ireland concluded by His Majesties Auhority through their trans-actions with the Spanish Ambassador who dealt so effectually with the Popes Nuncio and Owen Roe ô Neale both Factors for Spayne that they not only hindred that Peace but in order unto this Parliamentary Design seized upon the best strengths of the English in Counaught and almost all the English Holds and Quarters in Lemster By their sithence in-effective prosecution of the War there and so only as to engage and entertaine both Parties there as that they might only not be able to looks upon themselves here through which many thousands have perished In the entrance unto their Designe here By bloodily tearing from the Kings sides His most faithfull and consult Counsellors and Servants and either illegally taking away their lives or constraining them unto flight By their taking away first the Votes of then the Bishops themselves and by silencing and imprisoning the Orthodox Clergy who might conscionably informe the people of their Duties and of the Necessity of Christian Obedience unto the Supream Magistrate His Majesty By extorting from His Majesty Acts prejudiciall unto His Crown and Dignity and such only as might serve to advance their own Ends that for continuation of this present Parliament being forced to save the Queens life By their Abbetting men of most impudent Ambition and Avarice those Members not to be named without an Atonement first made trained up in and furnished with all Anti-monarchicall and dishonest Principalls and that against the very face of the King By their stirring up of Tumults Insurrections and Mutinyes of the abused people and multitude against His Majesty and His most Loyall Subjects thereby forcing Him and them to leave London By their Necessitating of His Maiesty divested and made naked of all Habiliments and

Military Preparations unto a War By their prosecution of that War with so much subtilty and cruelty By their Ordnances to raise Mony and Men against His Maiesty upon pretence to redeeme Him out of the hands of His evill Councell By the Preaching of their Sycophant Clergy unto the people largely to contribute to this Worke who as Aaron did the Israelites to bring forth their Calf the Idoll at Westminster made the people naked unto their shame and cheated them of their Plate and the Woemen even of their Iewels and Rings By their planting an unlimited and Arbitrary power in themselves By their subversion of the Fundamentall Laws of the Kingdom and establishing the boundlesse Dictates of their own Ordnances By their endeavours to dispirit and enslave the people of this Kingdom by the over-awing power of an Army heavy Impositions and Free-Quarter to enure them unto Bondage By their Propositions in all Treaties of matters unfit for Subiects to demand and unsafe for a Prince to grant By their Banishment or Impoverishment of all that adhered unto His Maiesty By their enriching themselves with the whole Wealth and Spoils of the Kingdome By their exportation of great and incredible summes of Money out of this Kingdome and storing it up in those Seminaries of Schisme in New England the Islands and the Low-Countryes By their drawing together of the ignorant unconscionable and their waged Clergy under the reputation of a National Synod with exclusion of the Orthodox to forge forth such a Body of Doctrinalls and Discipline as might best be shaped to uphold their Anti-monarchicall Principles and Practises By their Poysoning the Fountains of Knowledge the two Vniversities with the Satanical Infusions of their Hereticall Doctors By their conferring Preferments and all places of Profit and Trust upon their own Creatures onely By their translating all Trade and Traffique unto their own Partakers By their most subtile and perjurous gayning His Majesty out of the hands of the Scots upon all assurances of Freedome Safety and Honour By their sithence severall Confinements and Imprisonments of Him as to breed a Contempt of Him in His People so unparaleld occasions of discontent and the sad effects of that in Himselfe and to compell Him unto such Conditions as might make Him to pull the Crown from off His head with his owne hands and to set it upon theirs By hireing his trusted Servants under pretence of Safety to decoy Him into a place of strongest and strictest durance and greatest mis-usage By their glorying with the people in their late Addresses unto His Majesty in the Isle of Wight And offering such Acts there as Subjects yet never tendred unto a King or was possible for His Majesty to grant By their adding unto the weight of all their Crueltyes against Him for His denyall of Subscription and Royall Assent unto the Acts presented in the removeall of all His Servants and Closet-Imprisonment By their making an Ordnance that no further Addresses shall be made unto His Majesty and that they will take a further course to establish the Kingdome without Him i. e. To settle the Kingdome upon themselves unto which they make way By their most false and forced Accusations of His Majesty both to disaffect His owne people at home and to fore-stall their ayd and to breed Contempt and Neglect of Him abroad publishing in all Languages of Europe scandalous and base Vntruths of His Majesty to prevent forraigne Succours Representing His Sacred Majesty unto the Protestants a Papist unto the Papists a Tyrant and unto both a man of no Faith and unfit for Government whereas nothing hath so much contributed unto the present Power of this Parliament as the Contrivances of the most rigid of Papists the Spaniard or so much hindred His Maiesty of due Succours Yea this their Designe is further manifested by their suffering the decay of his Majesties Houses by their sale of his Lands Houshold-stuffe and of the very Coates of his 〈◊〉 by their mean and inferiour nurture of his Children here for Prince Charles is a 〈◊〉 away put into such hands as have neither the principles of Honour honesty or Li●●●●● Education in them to embase the Spirits to dwarfe the growing Endowment of these Royal Branches and to dispose and fit them to parity and the constitution of Leveller by their denial to his Majesty an opportunity so frequently importuned by Him to dear Himselfe of those odious Crimes they charge Him withall as though they feared He Would leave the Load of all the late Mischiefes at their own Door or rather that they intended to condemne Him though uncondemned unheard What doth the Total of all these Severals reckoned and summoned up amount unto but that they intend an Assassination and privately in plain English to murder his Majesty to devest his Royal Posterity of all Regality to usurpe the Imperial Crown of England and to divide it amongst themselves to attain the more easily to which they now offer to the Scots not to interrupt them here what ere in Ireland is in the Parliament power and to give you further testimony unto this Truth because they cannot trust any ingenuous men of the Gentry and whose present Estate might interesse their Endeavours in the Good of the Kingdom they have placed the whole and sole command of the Army and all Places of Importance in men of as low base and desperate Fortunes as they are of contemptible Education and such whose Merits giving unto them no Rise or advantage of Advancement can promise that unto themselves onely being for the greater part broken Tradesmen in the continuance of the usurped Power of this present Parliament which they are engaged to support and into one of these Confiding Mens hands have they contrived His Sacred Majesty into Goaler Hammonds who notwithstanding his most solemne Protestations unto his Majesty to treat Him well promiseth this Parliament that He will obey all their Commands although never so contrary to his sence and honour id est his former Engagements to his Majesty so absolute is he their Creature And to shew us how true he is unto this last Engagement in his Majesties late Resistance of him in the Search of some Papers He hath most impiously and traiterously wounded his Sacred Majesty The whole Earth will be amazed at this Fact the Christian World will tremble and be highly offended at this greatest Prophanation of God in his Image the Eares of posterity will glow to reade God himselfe thus blasphemed and hurt in his immediate Delegate Gods Vicar Gods Annointed our Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES It was questionlesse the Glory of Martyrdome these Men meant when they promised to make His Majesty a glorious Prince for he hath been already A most worthy Confessour the late condition of his Life being but a lingring Death and indeed what Kings of England have been imprisoned whose Lives also have not been taken away This passage no doubt is the Prologue unto the Tragedy they

intend to Act the horrid Murther of our Soveraigne if the People disgust not this Fact of Hammonds they promise unto themselves impunity in their bloudy intendments against the Kings Life This is the blessed Reformation of Westminster the Divine Religion derived thence See what an harmony it hath with the Word of God Touch not mine … ed Psal 105.15 saith the Spirit of God Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords … ed and be guiltlesse 1 Sam. 26.9 saith David Th●●● is no rising up against a King Prov. 31. saith Solomon Here are Gods Letters Patents for the Kings Inviolability But alas an Ordinance of this Parliament can nullifie these and warrant Hammonds violence unto his Majesty King Saul was a bloudy Tyrant dis-obedient unto Gods own Voyce possessed with the Devil an Idolater and consulted with Witches he did most maliciously persecute Davids Life who had Gods Grane in Reversion of the Kingdom yet he could not entertain the thought of this Impiety in himselfe nor receive the violent Impressions thereof from others when King Saul was in his power he sayes God forbid that he should lift up his hand against Gods Anointed 1 Sam. 24.6 Yea more His heart smote him when he cut off the skirt of Sauls garment onely to testifie his Integrity unto his Prince The young Amalekite but for hastening Sauls Death who had already received his Deaths wound although rescued from the Enemy and presented David with the Crown and Regal Ornaments was by David sentenced to die for not fearing to touch Gods Anointed 2 Sam. 1.10 14. And shall these Men escape punishment who persecute a most pious Prince whose whole carriage unbespeaks all the malicious suggestions of men wickedly busie to undermine the publique peace and meets with all the needlesse Iealousies of peevish people How hath he in order unto peace condiscended to put down the High-Commission and Star-Chamber Courts the envied secular power of Bishops willingly consigned his Forts Magazines and Navy into the Dispose of the Parliament and notwithstanding the abuse of all these against His Royal Person and Crown yet how hath He sought peace and pursued it by the Gracious Offer of An Act of Indemnity the Payment of the Army by regard unto tender Consciences and the satisfaction of all Interests All these things loudly proclame his integrity and great love unto his people and his royal cle●●ncy unto all so grosly abused by the Avarice and Hypocrisie of these desperate Practicioners upon the Body politique whose Deeds sufficiently convey this Truth unto us That this Parliament will have no King and to that end it is more than a probable coniecture that they will murther the King Let us no longer lie in that Lethargy the wicked practises this Parliament hath cast us into but redeem his Maiesty out of Captivity and the Iawes of Death and vigorously and effectually endeavour the re-establishment of our first Reformation in Gods Church and of his Maiesty in his Throne Not to hinder a sin when it is in our power implies an approbation thereof and makes the Guilt equal in the Permitters with the Actors of it if we suffer these as Pilate did the Jewes to crucifie Christ Gods Anointed the whole Ocean cannot wash off the guilt of it from us But his Bloud will also be upon us and our children Let us then quit our selves like men and re-inforce our first Reformation and his Majesties Rights Sacred Truths for which we should be valiant God having given a Banner unto all them that fear him because of his Truth let us all draw up together under this Banner to be set up for Truth for God and King CHARLES for our Religion and King If we ought to lay down our lives for the Brethren 1 Iohn 3.16 How much more now when our eldest Brothers Life our Kings Life worth ten thousand of our lives and of many thousand others our suffering Brethren nay the life of 〈◊〉 Religion and Liberty lies at stake let us avoid no danger or hazard to preserve the liv●● 〈◊〉 these let neither Scots nor Irish or Forraigners prevent us of the glory of this Christian and pious Enterprise and our bounden duty but let us all rise as one man from Dan to Be●rsheba and joyn our power to remove the Chair of violence and Counsel of the Vngo●lly 〈◊〉 Westminster let these Impostours and Deceivers of the People who can plead no priviledge they have so highly abused all be brought to condigne punishment And as they have done let it be done unto them let their Reward returne upon their own heads Obad. ●● To which purpose let us in the Name of God Arme and Ioyne with those who will declare for the Re-establishment of Religion and his Maiesty which course as it dischargeth but our Duties unto God and our Prince so it will avoid the effusion of Christian Bloud save a vast expence of Treasure prevent the Devastation of our Countrey continue our present and beget a future plenty re-instate the Kingdom in her former happinesse vindicate us in our long sufferings and render us honoured to the present Age and glorious unto posterity let these our common and great interests sufficient Motives to engage the most fearfull spirits in the greatest Dangers animate us unto this great and good Worke. King Davids prayer for his own safety and his Enemies confusion shall supply the Conclusion Let not them O Lord say in their hearts Ah so would we have it let them not say We have swallowed him the King up Psal 35 25 26 27. Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoyce at his hurt let them be cloathed with shame and dishonour that magnifie themselves against Him Let them shout for joy and be glad that favour his righteous Cause yea let them say continually Let the Lord be magnified which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his Servant King CHARLES And let all good People of England say Amen FINIS