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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51719	A discovery, or Certaine observations, concerning the crafty and cursed proceedings of the conspirators, or rebbells of England against their owne King, Queene, church, government, then established; to wit 1639. And the liberty, peace, fafety [sic], & quiet-beeing, of that our nation, and other kingdomes thereunto belonging. By whom the people of other nations have beene also cheated and troubled. Observed by J. M. whose hart hath for many yeares together mourned in secret, for the calamity by the sayd rebbels, brought upon his owne, and other nations.	J. M.	1657 (1657)	Wing M35; ESTC R217014	62,961	63

nor King because it can not consist with hypocresie nor with violence by the helpe whereof they killed the Iust and have taken their Estates the Army who must protect them are their Gods and their Confidence because they give them Large paye out of other mens Estates by whome so many of our Nation must be murdered at home and abroad as the Officors of the Armye the like Conspirators please Wherefore the Lord God furnish and supply the harts of the King and of all his Fathers House the Lords of his most Honourable Privy Councell his Reverent and Learned Cleargye and all his most faithfull friends and helpers with the spirit of Vnderstanding Wisdome and Courage and especially with the knowledge and feare of the Lord and with the Love of Equity Iustice and Iudgement where with the God of Iust men is well pleased And I pray God vnite the hartes of all the Kings vnfained well-wishing Subjects and all his Majesties true-harted and faithfull Attendance vnto him selfe and to the King whom they seeme to honour and in a Loving and Friendly behaviour one vnto another that neyther the secret nor profest enemies who every day seekes the Ruying of both the one and the other that they may hence-forth bee able to make no more breaches nor prevaile any longer nor bee able to stand before the King nor before such as are faithfull vnder him The Lord give the King favour in the eyes of God and man that his Majesty may delight him-felfe in the Workes and the Will of the Lord and that hee may obtaine a deserving spirit to discover and finde our those who hence-forth have any Intent to betray the trust imposed in them and all those who any wayed abuseth his Majesties favours by proud Lookes or taunting Termes or other scornfull Cariadge towards those who desires the safety prosperity of his Majesty and of all his Fathers House as well as any of those who have long subsisted by the Kings bounty and favour and if such men bee discouraged who in singlenesse of harte and for love and good will to both King and Country who without any benefit one way or other none can doe the enemye better service then to cause such men to bee abused because it seemes the Conspirators doe conceave them selves to bee in agreement with death and hell Who doe not consider that the hayle shall sweepe away the Refuge of lies Therefore they promise them selves that the over-flowing scorge shall passe through Jsa 28.15.17.18 and not touch them who have made lies their reffuge and have hidde themselves vnder falsehood As I have often mentioned so I still hope resolve by the providence and gratious assistance of God Allmighty to declare a farre greater Reason for what I have sayd and what I have yet to say against the Conspirators of England If the Lord please to continue vnto mee health and subsistance to the further satisfaction of your Majesty the King of France all your good people and many others at home and abroad and for the discharge of my owne Conscience Psal 66.18 betweene God and my selfe For if I Regard iniquity in my harte the Lord will not heare my prayers the Lord direct mee in that which is according to his will and hinder mee what soeuer is contrary to his will Psa 1. last verse For the Lord knoweth the way of the Righteous but the way of the vngodly shall perish And thus I humbly take my leave at Present and Rest till the Lord shall give mee a further opportunity DISCREET READOR BEE pleased to take notice that some things more I have to say concerning my owne sufferings for the space of Three and twenty yeares together which doth consist of divers Artikles which I presented vnto the sayd Crumwell and vnto Mr. Walter Streckland for him to both whom and vnto others of theyr party I made my greevances knowne at large in Papers bearing date the 20. of February and others of the third and fourth of March in the yeare 1656. Stilo veteri from Middelborgh and Flishing Which Papers were delivered to Mr. Strecklands hand the 12. of that instant March for the sayd Crumwell by one John Symons a shippe-Carpenter who as apeares by his owne Letter dated vnto mee from London the 13. of March last wherin is signefied vnto me the delivery of those papers aforesayd to the said Mr. Streckland the day before dwelleth neare Noahs Arke close by St. Saveries Docke not farre from the Mill stairres over against the Armetage at Horset-downe in the Parish of St. Madlen London I having vsed all meanes possibly for the space of one yeare and a halfe together for the obtaining of Reparation towards my great troubles charges disgraces and much other prejudices but in Feb. and March last to wit 1656. Stilo veteri that seeing the power of the Kingdome of England being in the hand of the said Crumwell and his Army my desire from him and Mr. Streckland was that by his or their meanes the some of two hundred pounds starling might bee payd mee in Bridges within thirty dayes after the date of my sayde papers or otherwise I would publish or make knowne vnto the world such things as the sayd Crumwell and his party would by no meanes bee willing to heare of And that if the sayd 200. pounds were not payd mee within the time aforesayd I would cause the evill savor of Crumwell and some of his party for to come abroad into the world more then ever it was yet It being according vnto equity and rather shorte then over Also the sayd Crumwell having done many things of greater consequence but never any thing with more equity in this world And that if by his meanes the sayd somme were payd me I would bee allwayes ready to give an account of any thing that I had mentioned vnto any one whom hee would appoynt in such a place where wee might bee both free to speake our mindes and that I would make knowne vnto him whom the sayd Crumwell should appoynt what I had further to say against Crumwell and his Army and some others of his party And though it stands mee much in hand for to take care for my subsistance I being in yeares without which this Pamphlet had been published more then tenne yeares since yet vpon condition the sayd mony had beene payd mee I would have communicated the businesse vnto some of his apointment First in private that they might the better have made theyr peace with God the King and his Subjects But least any one or more should thinke that I vpon any condition at all did thinke or ever intend to bee wholy silent in what I mean by this the cleane contrary may appeare as follows This is parte of what I signefyed vnto him in the same papers wherin I exprest or specefied my greevances I inclosed also to the sayd Crumwell three Copyes one of an Attestation

to the Laws of God our Land But these dog-like Edomites have murdered the Kings subjects by sea and land at home and abroad by selling them vnto Turks or the like And had Saull now 85. Priests of the Lord that hee would have betrayed and murdered though some refused it when time was yet hee should not want such as would doe it so long as Crumwells Army is in armes in England neither did Innocence deliver those in whom it was found neither persons of High or Low degree who perished by the hands of a company of villans and Tyrants though Innocent faithfull and blamelesse 1. Sam. 22. from the 13. to the 20. vers These troubellors of Christendom hath sent away many a thousand of our finest jong men as well of sea-men as others and jounge Children of honest parents as it is reported both of late and long agoe by spirits of the Rebbells Adherance and by the meanes and consent of the Conspirators some were slayne and others never returned againe And some were hanged because they refused to beare armes against their King and against their owne Consciences Not onely by the power of the Rebbells at home but vnder the command of foraine Princes abroad who by the Rebbells were sent away as captives even as carried away by the Turkes in time of warre And now their Army which consists of home-bred vermon by whose meanes all this and much more evill hath beene donne vnto out King and Nation who are shamlesse busi-bodyes 1. Tim. 14.1 as well as seducing spirits and doe harden their faces as it were with steele as apeares by their bould Intrusion and their dogg-like Lurking not only in Germany and all the Neatherlands and many other places where Godly Protestants doe reside But even in Catholicke Contries and they have the Impudence to come into the Court of their owne King though they have murdered his Father and forced his Majesty out of his owne Dominions And they pretend to bee Prophets and say they are sent and I beleeve they are sent by Crumwell or some of his prime Creaturs they say as Prophets but I suppose as Spies Wherefore I humbly and earnestly intreat your Majesty the King of France Zach. 13.4 and all good Christians high and low to beware of these false Prophets of Crumwells Army or others of his creatures though they should come vnto you in a ruffe garment 4. Cor. 11.14.15 or in sheeps clothing or how ever they may hyde their teeth disguise or transforme them selves yet I am sure it will not be easy for them to remove their ravening and wolfe-like harte Therefore it is Requisite that you bee very circumspect how you have to doe with Crumwell or any of his Impes I say remember their former fruits and take heed in time least when it is too late you wish that you had taken the advise of him who desiers the continuation of your honour peace and safty These fellows doe find them selves to bee counted as dung or as so many stinking karings and therefore are abhored by their owne and other nations which makes them continually vigelent day and night to aply them selves vnto the arte of subtilty for to make parties for them selves amongst your people and others by corrupting their minds by Lyes and other deceavings which will prove litle to the comfort of you and your friends at the last It is not for any profit or reward that I have receaved from your Cuson the King of England neither doth hee take any more notice of mee then of the meanest person in all the world neither doth hee know this day the least of my Intentions for his Majesty and his Fathers house Yet I cleave vnto the Lord our God and vnto all such who are opressed by vsurpers But I abhorre the pollicy and the procedings of those who are in combination with the devill But of this by Gods assistance more at large hereafter In the meane time trust not in lying words which cannot profit abhorre those that steale murder sweare falsely and yet stand in the house that is called by the name of the Lord. As if it were possible for serpents to become saints whereas they are vndoubtedly farre worse then a denne of Robbers Jer. 7.8.9.10.11 But remember you to looke to your selfe and your people in time because the eyes of the Lord doth runn to and fro through the whole Earth to show him selfe strong in the behalfe of them 2. Chron. 16.9 whose harts are perfect towards him Joab vsed strong and as loving arguments as any friende or Subject could possible doe vnto his Prince for to perswade the King from what hee had conceaved amisse or from what hee was resolved to doe contrary to the will of God but the King rejected the advyse of his Servant Joab and shortly after confest it to bee his folly and cryed out That hee was in a great straight God graunt your Majesty doe not so See 2. Sam 24. verses 3.10 and likewise the 14. SIR and SIRS It doth highly behove you to stirre up your selves warely and diligently to resist and prevent the power and the hellish intentions of the Conspirators of England who are Sons of Beliall 1. Kings 24.9.10.12 13. verses 1. Sam. 2.12 who know not the Lord as were the Sons of Ely Or like those false witnesses which accused Naboth the Iezreelite of Blasphemy as in other kinds the Sons of Beliall did by the King and others in England neither doe they seeme lesse nor more holy then Iesabell for shee proclaimed a Fast as they vse to doe vvhen they intend mischiefe By vvhich you may see it to bee needfull for you to looke to theyr Water in time otherwise know for certaine they vvill be unto your people and to all others vvho are not like them selves as snares and traps as scurges in your sides and thornes in your eyes Neither vvill the Lord subdue them under you If you give them longer opportunety to inveagle and defile the minds of your people with their poysonous leaven because hardly a word passeth from them but it is infectious Bee pleased to marke the 23. of Joshua 13. Give no heed vnto any thing they say or pretend but make Peace vvith your Unkle the King of Spain Consider vvith your faithfull Councell and Cleargy vvho loves Iustice Equity and Iudgement and so thinke of a vvay to comfort and releeve your Cuzon the King of England and his Fathers House This vvill prove vnto your Majesty such a degree of Wisedome as vvill bring Honour and Praise vnto all your good People and get you Favor vvith God and all good Men. By this the eare that heareth you vvill blesse you and the eye that seeth you will give witnesse vnto you because you will thereby cause the Widdow to sing for joy Neither can any better imploy his Monics and his Endevours Job 29.11.12.13 then by exercising and doeing those things