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justice_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	4,725	5	6.6957	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87145	The grand designe: or A discovery of that forme of slavery, entended, and in part brought upon the free people of England; by a powerfull party in the Parliament : and L. G. Crumwell, Commissary Gen. Ireton, and others of that facton [sic] in the Army; tending to the utter ruine, and enslaving of the whole nation. With the true grounds of the Kings removall to the Isle of Wight. Also the pretended designe of levelling refuted, and cleared from those false aspersions lately cast upon the authors and promoters of the Peoples Agreement. / Written by Sirrahniho, not an invective, but moderate and impartiall observer of the transactions of the Parliament and Army.	Harris, John, fl. 1647.	1647 (1647)	Wing H860A; Thomason E419_15; ESTC R202583	8,989	16

untill such time as Propositions can be made ready sutable to the Kings desire and an Act be passed for the Parliaments indempnity and then O you poore betrayed Commons where will you obtain justice or security when your Trustees that pretended to deliver you shall have thus to advance themselves betraied you And now if you shall desire a reason why these men should now at last derogate from their former pretended Principles and should not now as heretofore endeavour to secure the Peoples just freedomes I answer the Parliament or at least a great part of them are now brought to such an exigency that they cannot act otherwise with security to themselves It is easie to demonstrate unto the world that many of their actions have not neither can they be warranted by Law especially their Arbitrary and illegall sommoning and committing persons contrary to Law which all knowing men are resolved for the future to protest against and oppose maugre the power of all that shall endeavour the execution or justification of those unjust and tyrannicall practises And likewise that by their continued and redoubled oppressions brought upon the Kingdome they have not only lost the friendship of the People but in a great measure purchased their enmity so that now their condition is such that either they must close with the King whose interest in the People is now greater then theirs having got what they have lost that so what they cannot promise themselves by their own power they can assure themselves by his who without doubt hath so much policy as to promise both security advancement to a part that he may the easilyer get into a capacity of enslaving the whole To be a little plainer It cannot be immagined improbable that the Parliament having lost the love of the People doubting the assistance of the Army and wanting means though without question they have wills to enable them to throw off the King and by force to maintain their actions legall I say can it by any that have sence or reason be imagined that they will not to secure themselves from the taxes of the People the lash of the Law and Levelling as they tearme it that is from being made as all other Subjects accountable to the Law and People for all their actions take any advantage or oportunity And what better advantage can they have then to joyn with the King that by assenting unto his desires they may engratiate themselves into his favour and wrapping themselves up in his Mantle of tirannicall Royalty and Protection in their own honour security leave all the free Commons of England by them animated authorized nay enforced to fight against and subdue him exposed to the exasperated rage of a conquered King and incensed Party who will not faile being once in power to exalt themselves in and by the ruine of their opposers and like legitimate Imps of their Tyrant-exalter Lord it over the Kingdome And if you shall ask wherein Crumwell Ireton and the rest of that Faction are concerned in the Parliaments actions I Answer they are Parliament men and so bound up in the Parliaments actings and indeed so involved in the Parliaments interest joyned to their own ends that I can thinke it no other then a difficult matter for them to deny themselves in this Particular Honour and profit being very potent allurements in these our self-loving dayes It is observable that these two Polititians Crumwell and Ireton at first were eager against all persons that visibly opposed them in the Parliament but would never yeeld to the purging of the House only they would never be quiet till they had got out all those that any way opposed them witnes the late charge against the eleven Members where although Crumwel himselfe confessed at Colbrooke that he had nothing against Sir John Mainard yet he must be put in among the rest and only because he was a busie man against him and his faction Having removed them he remaines satisfyed untill he finds another party of Pellamites which endeavour to throw him out of the Sadle and then he comes in with I am perswaded a hearty sorrow confessing and praying God to forgive him because he had hindered the purging of the House And why is the Lievtenant Generall so penitent thinke you but only because he feared they would be some hinderance to his high aimes And here I shall insert this Quere Whether considering that there are two Parties acting for particular interest and each of them endeavouring to bring in the King for the advancement of their own party whether I say it be not probable that the King was removed by design and enduced by engagement to alter his former resolution of not being removed lest the Pellamites should have served Crumwell at Hampton as he served them at Holdenby For my part if it were not so it is to me a Ridle which none I believe can unfold but honest Oliver But to proceed It may be demanded seing that Crumwell is so active for his own parties interest why the other party being as yet most powerfull in the House have not outed him of his power I answer could they but bring the King in upon their own interest and thereby secure themselves in the attempt I am confident they would tread him and his adherents low enough and that the Lievtenant General knowes well otherwise Hammond had never been Lord Chamberlaine nor the King removed to the Isle of Wight though I believe he never dreamt of the consequences that have happened and and are like to succeed therupon that by the way but to proceed the King being gone the City distasting them or indeed over-awed not daring by reason of their own divisions to appeare with or for them the Country wearied and rather enclinable to endeavour the dissolution of their power then any way to assist them in the maintenance or support thereof and which is worst of all the Army which should by their power make their commands authentique utterly rejecting their authority and rendering them a trayterous Party and persons endeavouring the destruction of the just rights and freedomes of the People these things being duely considered you may plainly see that it is more for feare then favour that they close with him he being both politicke and powerfull by reason of his adherents in the House and creatures in the Army in respect of which also they could not make use of a fitter instrument to draw the Army to their assistance if it might be for the Father and the Sonne with the rest of their Family from generation to generation have the command of halfe the Army all which having received their promotion and Principle from Crumwell and looking still to rise with him will not move a foot beyond his instruction nor as neare as they can fall short of it and as the King is his Idoll so he is theirs hanging altogether in the executing what their own honour and interest

their proceedings and by secret complotments did bring a tumult upon the House forcing all members that were not of that party to absent themselves especially the Speakers who with many other members came to the Army for security which members sitting and assuming a parliamentary power during the Speakers absence they declared to be illegall and thereupon entred into a farther engagement at Hounslo-heath to march up to London to purge the House of those usurpers of the Parliamentary Power and to setle the free Parliament with honour and safety In order whereunto the Army marched up to London and being in a capacity to performe what they had undertaken and declared so necessary conducing to the peace of the Kingdom by the subtill Sophistry of Crumwell and Ireton the Generall was advised to leave it unto the House to purge it selfe which was accordingly done and what the effect hath been since and how well the House hath been purged I leave to all wise men to Judge they all or most of them still remaining therein and they since owned and declared a true Parliament But by the way you may take notice that as a gratification the House made the Generall High Constable of the Tower and I am sure the L. Generall lost nothing by that for he had an old servant or two to gratify which he did suddenly after with places both of profit and concernment besides another Creature of his Col. Hamond was presently advanced to be Governour of the Isle of Wight But to proceed Having now got almost what they aimed at to wit The Person of the King a considerable party in the Parliament the Militia of the City and the name of saving the Kingdome they then begin to cast about how to keep what they haye got and that they find to be done but by two waies the first by closing with the Parliament in making such Propositions as may please the King and thereby linke themselves so to the Kings interest and power that they may be thereby secured from the just Taxes of the People which they have so oppressed and betrayed or else by bringing the Army to the obedience of the Parliament that by their power the Parliament might be strengthened and enabled to hold both King and Kingdome to hard meate and at last if the King would not assent to what they declare to be fit and requisite then to depose him and take the power into their own hands and if the Kingdome did not recent or relish the businesse then by the power of the Army to quell and curb them In order whereunto they sent Propositions to the King which being not assented unto by him it was put to the question whether they should make any more addresses which argues that they had a good mind to throw off the King if they could any way keep their power and secure themselves without him But Ireton declares that he could not promise the assistance of the Army in any such matter his Father in lawes pulses now beating a Lord-like pace having a little before kissed the Kings hand and therefore since they are not likely to secure their power without him they will by him and to that end the Army must be taught a new lesson and whereas before freedome security the purging of the House a period set to the Parliament and the like was the only theame now only security for Arreares a little pay c. must be all that the Army desires and to what end think you but that they might appear seekers of themselves and so by degrees be lost in the affections of the People thus have they in a full careere posted from the Saving to the Enslaving the Kingdome But by the way they met with a rub for notwithstanding that they thought they had made all sure yet so it pleased God to order and dispose things that their designe was made manifest and some men of upright hearts were carried out in the seeking of justice and preventing the enslaving of the Nation and in order thereunto did severall times not only oppose all their enslaving practices but also offer unto them in open Councel some foundations of common freedome absolutely necessary to be insisted on for the re-estating of the free Commoners of England in their antient birth-rights which they the said Designers to wit Crumwell and Ireton and the rest of that rayalized Faction could by no meanes rellish neither would their high aimes ever admit them to debate the justnesse thereof it being altogether crosse to the Pias of their Ambition But contrarily they rayled and reviled against those which either propounded or owned any such matter branding them with the name of dividers of the Army factious persons and the like And being fearefull that after all their labour they should now be frustrated of their expectations and by some under-hand dealing be deprived of the darling of their hopes the King there must be a pretended designe against the Kings person discovered by L. G. Crumwell to his Cozen Whaley and immediately after the Guards being first doubled there must be a pretended escape of the King to avoid that pretended danger but by the way remember the King affirmes he had withdrawn his promise made to Col. Whaley long before this pretended discovery which was in order to his departure at that time determined without question and the other but a pretence made use of to colour the businesse It may be remembred that these manner of pretences are no new things for when the King first discerted the Parliament the pretence was Tumults and the danger of his Person and if you would know what those tumults were they were no other but the approaches of his oppressed Subjects with cryes for justice which he unjustly denyed both his Parliament and People which because he would not grant he absented himselfe and made the danger of his Person by those tumults as he called them the ground of his departure although it be notoriously apparent that he was then privately providing to make warre with his Parliament and People and in order thereunto was sending the jewels of the Crown to purchase Armes in Holland for the managing of the design aforesaid Which acting and pretences then being compared with his present acting in relation to his departure from Hampton Court and the now pretended cause thereof will plainly appeare to be of the same stamp with the former and in deed no other but a design not only to make odious but also if advantage be offered to cut off and destroy all the godly persons in the Kingdome that shall but in the least endeavour to oppose the exercise of his and their Prerogative enslaving tirannicall practises in the securing of the Peoples just Rights and Freedomes But if you shall consider further whether must the King fly or rather be carried to avoid the pretended danger but to Hammond at the Isle of Wight one of Crumwels own creatures there to remain