them still Bolder and Bolder More and more Greedy still and more Insatiable They must have the Militia too the Command of the Kings Towns and Forts and put the Kingdom into a posture of defence themselves They cry for Justice upon Delinquents the very Rabble demanding the Names of those in the House of Peers that would not consent to the Proposition made by the House of Commons concerning the Forts Castles and the Militia when it was rejected by a Major Part twice And declaring them for Enemies to the Common-wealth Loyall and Legall Petitions being still rejected and the seditious countenanc'd In a Word they grew higher and higher till they brought the King to the Block which was no more then a Natural Conclusion from such premises And the First Petition how plausible soever was the Foundation of all our Ruines These Petitions you must know do not ask to Obtain but to be Deny'd and only seek an Occasion to pick a quarrel and if they cannot finde it they 'l make it If this be not provided for they tell us It is the Case of many a Thousand in England and great troubles will come of it The very Stile of them is Menacing and certainly nothing can be more Evident then their evil Intention There 's Malice in the Publication of them too beside that by the Number of the Subscripâ—ions they take an Estimat of the strength of their Party which is their safest way of Muster The Last Section under the Head of Popular Petitions is the Effect of them which in our Case was no less then the destruction of Three Kingdoms and let the Matter be what it will the Method is a most necessary Link in the chain of a Rebellion And it is the securest experiment too of attempting a Commotion being the gentlest of Political Inventions for feeling the pulse of the People If it takes the work is half done and if Not 't is but so much Breath Lost and the Design will be kept Cold. But may not Men Petition you will say and Petition for a good thing Yes if the thing be Simply Good the Petitioners Competent Judges of it and every man keep himself to his Own Post I see no hurt in 't But for the Multitude to interpose in Matters of State as in the Calling or Dissolving of Parliaments Regulation of Church Government or in other like Cases of Doubtful and hazardous Event wherein they have no Skill at all nor any Right of Intermedling why may not 20000. Plow-Iobbers as well Subscribe a Petition to the Lord-Mayor of London for the Calling of a Common-Council Or as many Porters and Carmen here in London put in for the better government of the Herring-Trade in Yarmouth every jot as reasonable would This be as the Other And that 's not all neither for the Thing they take to be a Cordial proves many times to be a Poyson and after Subscription they are yet to learn the very meaning of the Petition And then the Numerous Subscriptions prove it manifestly to be a Combination For the Number of Hands adds nothing to the Weight of the Petition and serves only for Terrour and Clamour It is a kinde of an odd way of putting the Question as who should say Sir May we be so bold and the sufferance or Patience of the Prince seems to answer them Yes you may and so they go on The Transition is so natural from a Popular Petition to a Tumult that the One is but the Hot Fit of the other and little more in effect then a more earnest way of Petitioning By these says his Late Majesty must the House be purg'd and all Rotten Members as they please to call them cast out By these the Obstinacy of men resolv'd to discharge their Consciences must be subdu'd by These all Factious seditious end schisâ—natical Proposals of Government Ecclesiastical or Civil â—st be back'd and abetted till they prevail God forbid says Mr. Pym that the House of Commons should proceed in any way to dishearten people to obtain their jâ—t desires in such a way It would fill a Volume to tell the Insolencies of the Rabble upon Lâ—mbeth-House upon the Persons of the Archbishop of York and all the Loyall Members of both Houses their Oâ—tcries for Justice upon Laâ—d and Strafford under the Conduct of Ven and Maâ—waring Their Exclamations No Bishops No Popish Lords Proclaiming several of the Peers by their Names to be evil and râ—tton-hearted Lords Their besetting of Sheriff Garnets House when the King Dinâ—d there crying out Priviledges of Parliament their aâ—onting the Lâ—rd Mayor Sir Richard Gourny and tearing his Chain from about his Neck and using Sir Thomas Gardiner the Recorder little better following them with Reproaches Remember the PROTESTATION Nay the King himself had his Coach stopt and Walkers Seditious Libel To your Tents O Israel thrown into it in the street This was upon the dispute about the Five Members when at their Return from Westminster they made a stand at White-hall-gate bauling out that they would have no more Porters Lodge but speak with the King when they pleas'd About a hundred Lighters and Long-Boats were set out by water laden with Sacres Murthering-Pieces and other Ammunition drest up with Mast-cloths and Streamers as ready for fight calling out as they past by Whitehall Windows what 's become of the King whither 's he gone The Tower of London and Hull being both besieged at the same time Now what was the End of These Tumults but over and above the Guilt and Calamities of a Civil War a Vengeance in the Conclusion upon the Heads of all the First Abetters of them These very men that first by Tumults forc'd away the King from Whitehall and their Fellow-members from attending their Duty at Westminster were Themselves afterward cast out by succeeding Tumults under the Character of Persons Disaffected the Independents at that time being too hard for the Presbyterians and the City too was whipt with its own rod. No man is so blinde says the Late King as not to see herein the Hand of Divine Justice They that by Tumults first occasioned the Raising of Armies must now â—e chastened by their own Army for new Tumults In fine a Tumult is a seditious action in Hot Bloud and only accounted the less Criminal for that there is not in it the Malice Prepence of a Rebellion If it succeeds the Principals of the Faction form it into a Conspiracy but if it miscarries it passes only as That did in Scotland 1637. for an Outrage of the Rabble Where many People agree in the Desiring of the same thing they seldom fail of Engaging afterwards towards the Procuring of it and so the Project advances from Petition to Protestation or Covenant the One Leading so naturally to the Other that the Late Popular Petition was no sooner set on foot but it was immediately followed upon the
Holy League of France The people being now prepar'd for any mutinous Impressions poyson'd in their affections to the Government besotted into the apprehension of Remote and Invisible dangers and United in the Resolution of Defending their Rights against all Opposers the Designe would have been there at a stand for want of matter to work upon if the Caball had not fed and entertainâ—d their fears and Icalosies with stories of Plots and Discoveries nearer hand where still the Parliament and the City were in the greatest hazzard One while the Northern Army was coming up and strong Guards appointed upon all Passes within 20. miles of London and then comes a Letter to the Close Committee of a Conspiracy to seize the Earl of Argile and some other Lords in Edenburgh And upon This an Order is presently issu'd out to the Justices of Middlesex Surry and Southwark to secure the City by strong Watches because says the Order the mischievous Designs and Conspiracies lately discover'd in Scotland against some Principall and Great men there by some of the Popish Faction gives just occasion to suspect that they may maidtain Correspondency Here and practice the like mischief They had a Touch now and then at the mighty preparations of France and Denmark for the invading of the Nation and assisting the King to govern by an Arbitrary Power And then the Army under ground at Ragland Castle was a terrible thing and miraculously discovered by an Inn-keepers Servant at Rosse to Alderman Actons Coachman These whimses were but so many approaches toward the Militia and they are so extravagant that the man that was upon the place and can witness the effect of them has hardly the face yet to make the Report Upon Twelth Night 1641. the City was allarm'd at Mid-night with a Report of 1500 Horse that design'd to surprize the City Whereupon a matter of 50000 men were presently in Arms and the Women at work in the streets with Joynt-stools Empty Cask and other Lumber to interrupt their passage Upon the Kings making Sir Tho. Lâ—ford Lieutenant of the Tower the good women of the City could not sleep for fear of the Guns But yet without any Objection his Majesty presently puts in Siâ— John Byron They could make no exception against him till at last as my Authour has it Lieutenant Hooer the Aqua-Vita-man and Nieholson the Chandler enform the Common-Council that since he came to 〈◊〉 Lieutenant there was nothing to do at the Mint though it was made appear that the Mint had more business since this Gentleman was Lieutenant then ever it had in so short a time before But their Trade being in the Retail of Brooms Candles and Mustard their Ignorance in the other point might be the better excus'd In Aug. 1643. upon a Vote for sending Propositions of Peace to the King the very next day there were Papers scatter'd and posted up and down the City requiring all persons well-affected to rise as One man and come to the House of Commons next morning for that 20000 Irish Rebells were landed And this was the News of the Pulpits next day when though Sunday a Common-Council was call'd late at Night and a Petition there fram'd against Peace This Petition was next morning recommended to the Commons by Penington then Mayor with a Rabble at his heels declaring that the Lords Propositions for Peace would be destructive to Religion Laws and Liberties and that if they had not a good answer they would be there again the next day with double the Number We must not forget the design upon the Life of Mr. Pim by a Plague Plaister that was wrapt up in a Letter and sent him which Letter he put in his pocket for Evidence though he threw away the Plaister And there was another discovery that came as wonderfully to light a Taylor in a Ditch in Finsbury-Fields over-heard two men talking of a Plot upon the Life of my Lord Say and some other Eminent Members of both Houses and so the Design never took effect At this rate were the people guâ—'d from day to day with fresh and palpable Impostures never was any Nation certainly under such an Absession of Credulity and Blindness but as the Cause was founded in Hypocrisy so it was by Forgery to be supported And yet these Legendary Tales stood the Faction in very good stead by authorizing the People now and then to betake themselves to their Arms and to put themselves upon their Guard which did by degrees let them into the Command of the City Militia out of which Egg as one says came forth the Cockatrice of Rebellion Thus was poor England frighted out of a Dream of Dangers into cutting of Throats in Earnest Out of a fear of Popery into a prostitution even of Christianity and out of an apprehension of Tyranny into a most despicable state of Slavery The Change of Government now in agitation had been long in Project and no foresight wanting for the furtherance of the design None so diligent at the Military-Yard or Artillery-Garden as the zelots of the Faction and upon the Vacancy of any considerable Employment there who but they to put in for the Command Nor were they less industrious to screw themselves into the Bench of Aldermen and Common-Council insomuch that a Motion was made there with an Eye to two beggerly and Fanatical Captains that Honest men for that 's their Name when they are their own Godfathers might bear the Magistracy and the City the expence But what did all this amount to without a Fond of Mon Mony Arms and Amunition to carry on the Work So that their businesse was now to make sure of the CITY as the only means of their supply But that they found could never be brought about without a Lord Mayor for their Turns Or else reducing the Mayor and Aldermen to a Level with the Commons and establishing a firm correspondence betwixt Westminster and Guild-hall the One to Contrive and the Other to Execute So that this was the thing they pitch'd upon and the manner of their proceeding was as follows Having Pharisaically and Invidiously divided the people into Two Partys Themselves forsooth the Godly Party and the Friends of the Government the Papists a little before St. Thomas's day 1641. when the City chuses their Common-Council they calumniated the Old Common-Council men as men too much inclining to the Court sticklers for Episcopacy and the Common-prayer and not at all zealous for Religion just as we cry out against Papists and Pensioners now adays by this practice they worm'd out Honest men and chose Schismaticks into their places and instead of Sir George Benyon Mr. Drake Mr. Clark Mr. Gardiner Deputy Withers Mr. Cartwright and other Loyall and considerable Citizens they took in Foulk the Traytor Perkins my Lord Say's Taylor and Others of the same stamp and Value Now though the Election be on St. Thomas day they are never
next place after that they assaulted his Person seiz'd his Revenue and in the Conclusion most impiously took away his Sacred Life At which rate in proportion they treated the Church and the rest of his Friends and laid the Government in Confusion For the compassing of these accursed ends they still accommodated themselves to the matter they had to work upon They had their Plots and false allarms for the simple their Tumults for the fearful their Covenants was a Receptacle for all sorts of Libertines and Malecontents But the great difficulty was the gaining of the City which could not be effected but by embroyling the Legal and ancient Constitution of that Government For there was no good to be done upon the Imperial Monarchy of England without First confounding the Subordinate Monarchy of the City of London and creating a perfect Understanding betwixt the Caball and the Common-Council which was very much facilitated by casting out the Loyal and Orthodox Clergy and teaching all the Pulpits in London to speak the same Language with Margarets Westminster But let us consider the Government of the City of London First in the due and Regular Administration of it and then in its corruptions and by what means it come afterwards to be debauch'd The City of London was long before the Conquest Govern'd by Port-Reeves and so down to Richard the First who granted them several Priviledges in acknowledgment of the Good Offices they had render'd him But the First Charter they had for the Choice of their Own Mayor or Government was confer'd upon them by King John in these words Know ye that we have granted to our Barons or Freemen of our City of London that they may chuse unto themselves a Mayor of themselves And their following Charter of Henry the Third runs thus We grant also unto the said Citizens that they may yearly present to our Barons of the Exchequer we or our Heirs not being at Westminster every Mayor which they shall first chuse in the City of London to the end they may be by them admitted as Mayor In a following Charter of Ed. 2. That the Mayor and Sheriffs of the City aforesaid may be chosen by the Citizens of the said City according to the Tenour of the Charter of our Progenitors sometimes Kings of England to that end made and not otherwise The Charter of Hen. 8. runs to the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London Conjunctim The Charter of Ed. 3. is thus We have granted further for Us and our Heirs and by this our present Charter confirm'd to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City aforesaid that if any customs in the said City hitherto obtained and used be in any part Difficult or Defective or any thing in the same newly happening where before there was no remedy Ordained and have need of amending the said Mayor and Aldermen and their Successours with the assent of the Commanalty of the same City may add and ordain a remedy meet faithfull and consonant to reason for the Common profit of the Citizens of the same City as oft and at such time as to them shall be thought expedient We have the rather cited these clauses in favour of the Lawfull Government of the City in regard that they have been so often and so earnestly perverted another way The Charter we see is directed to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City the Power is granted to them to propose the making or mending of Laws as they see occasion only by the affent or dissent of the Commons they are ratifyed or hindred And those Laws are only Acts of Common-Council that is to say not of the Commonalty alone but of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons in concurrence Some there are that mistake the word Conjunctim and would have Jointly to be Equally as if one could not have a greater interest or Authority and another a lesse though in a Joint Commission The Power in short of summoning and Dissolving Common-Councils and of putting any thing to the question does legally reside only in the Lord Mayor And the Active Power in the Making of a Law and the Negative Voice in the Hindering of a Law have been by long Prescription and usage in the Lord Mayor and Aldermen And these being customs of the City every Freeman is to support and maintain them by the Obligation of his Oath And in farther proof that the Lord Mayor and Aldermen are by their Charter invested with the Powers aforesaid We shall need only to enform our selves who they are that in case of any publick Disorder are made answerable for the Misdemeanour Richard the Second granted a Commission to enquire of all and singular Errours Defects and Misprisions in the City of London for want of Good Government in the Mayor Sheriffs and Aldermen of the said City And for the Errours Defects and Misprisions in their Government sound they were fin'd 3000. Marks the Liberties of the City seiz'd into the Kings Lands and a Warden appointed to govern the City till in the end the Duke of Glocester prevail'd upon the King to reinstate them We have here given you a short view of the Orderly Government of this glorious City which is perchance one of the best qualify'd Establishments both for King and People under the cope of Heaven We are now coming to lay open by what Arts and Contrivances it came to be corrupted and in a manner to lay Violent hands upon it self Which is a story that may serve some for curiosity and others for Edification The People being extreamly discomposed in their minds upon the Apprehension of Popery and Arbitrary Power and shaken also in their Allegiance upon a strong Impression that it was a design in their Governours themselves to introduce it It was no hard matter to inveigle them into Petitions for Relief Protestations Associations and Covenants for the Common defence of themselves in the preservation of their Liberties and Religion and into a favourable Entertainment of any plausible pretext even for the Justification of Violence it self Especially the Sedition coming once to be Baptized Gods cause and supported by the Doctrine of Necessity and the unsearchable Instinct and Equity of the Law of Nature And all this too Recommended and Inculcated to them by the men of the whole World upon whose Conduct and Integrity they would venture their very Souls Bodies and Estates Being thus perswaded and possess'd the coming in of the Scots serv'd them both for a Confirmation of the ground of their fears and for an Authority to follow that Pattern in their Proceedings both causes being founded upon the same Bottom and both Parties united in the same Conspiracy So that this opportunity was likewise improved by all sorts of ayery Phantastical Plots frivolous and childish reports to cherish the Delusion And now was the time for Tumults and Out-rages upon publique Ministers and Bishops nay and upon the King himself till by Arms and Injuries they
some of the Aldermen Protested against them as having no thought of either shuting out the Mayor or making the Committee so absolute as they found the two Houses had done Whereupon it was mov'd that the Houses might be Petition'd to reverse the Order But that being carryed in the Negative Ven produces another Order for the adding of Skippon to the Committee for the Militia which was carry'd without much Difficulty The Court of Aldermen reflecting upon the Indignities cast upon the Mayor and Government of the City Petition'd the House apart from the Commons that the Mayor and Sheriffs might be nominated of the Committee but to no purpose For they knew Sir Richard Gourny was a person of two much Honour and Loyalty to comply with their Designes After this Repulse several of the most Eminent Citizens both for Worth and Estates Petition'd the Two Houses in their own Names for the Removall of That Scandal but there was no relief to be had and they were barbarously treated for their pains over and above Sir George Benyon to his Honour as the framer and chief Promoter of that most reasonable Petition was fin'd 3000l Disfranchiz'd in the City never to bear Office in the Kingdom to be Committed for two year to Colchester Goal and at the end of the Term to give security for his good Behaviour Methinks the bare Recital of This Inhumane Insolence should turn the Bloud of every honest Citizen This Committee was now becom the masters of the Militia they remov'd Sir Richard Gourny and put Pennington into his place they make Ordinances to pass for Laws and Rebellion to be a point of Conscience they persecute the Orthodox Clergy Oppress their Fellow Citizens and the whole Nation and where they have not Credit to borrow they make use of their Power to Take away living upon the Spoil without any regard to the Laws either of God or Man And to shew the world that as the Faction had subverted the Government of the City so they intended to perpetuate the slavery See as follows Vicesimo Octavo Februarii 1648. An Act of the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled For Removing Obstructions in the Proceedings of the Common-Council of the City of London THe Commons of England in Parliament assembled do Enact and Ordain and be it Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that in all times to come the Lord Mayor of the said City of London so often and at such time as any 10. or more of the Common-Council-men do by Writing under their hands request or desire him thereunto shall summon assemble and hold a Common-Council and if at any time being so required or desired he shall fail therein then the ten persons or more making such request or desire shall have Power and are hereby Authorized by Writing under their hand to summon or cause to be summoned to the said Council the Members belonging thereunto in as ample manner as the Lord Mayor himself usually hath done and that the Members appearing upon the same Summons being of the Number of 40. or more shall become a Common-Council And that each Officer whose duty it shall be to warn in and Summon the Members of the said Councill shall perform the same from time to time upon the Warrant or Command of ten persons or more so authorized as aforesaid And it is further Enacted and Ordained by the authority aforesaid that in every Common-Council hereafter to be assembled the Lord Mayor of the said City for the time being or in his absence such Locum tenens as he shall appoint and in default thereof the Eldest Alderman present if any be and for want of such Alderman or in case of his neglect or refusal therein then any other person Member of the said Council whom the Commons present in the said Council shall chuse shall be from time to time President or Chairman of the said Council and shall cause and suffer all things offered to or proposed in the said Council to be fairly and orderly debated Put to the Question Voted and Determined in and by the same Council as the Major part of the Members present in the said Council shall desire or think â—it and in every Vote which shall pass and in the other Proceedings of the said Council neither the Lord Major nor Aldermen joynt or Separate shall have any negative or distinct Voice or Vote otherwise then with and among and as part of the rest of the Members of the said Council and in the same manner as the other Members have and that the absence and withdrawing of the Lord Major or Aldermen from the said Council shall not stop or prejudice the proceedings of the said Council And that every Common-Council which shall be held in the City of London shall sit vnd continue so long as the Major part of the Council shall think sit and shall not be dissolved or adjourned but by and according to the Order or Consent of the Major part of the same Council And that all the Votes and Acts of the said Common-Council which was held 13 January last after the departure of the Lord Mayor from the same Council and also all Votes and acts of every Common Council hereafter to be held shall be from time to time duly registred as the Votes and Acts of the said Council have used to be done in time past And be it further Eâ—cted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that every Officer which shall sit in the said Council shall be from time to time chosen by the said Council and shall have such reasonable allowance or Salary for his pains and service therein as the Council shall think fit And that every such Officer shall attend the said Common-Council and that all Acts and Records and Register Books belonging to the said City shall be extant to be perused â—od searched into by every Citizen of the said City in the presence of the Officer who shall have the Charge of keeping thereof who is hereby required to attend for the same purpose Hen. Scobel Cler. Parliament Take notice that the Vote of Common-Council in the Act above-recited of Jan. 13. 1648. when the Lord Mayor went off and dismissed the Court was a Treasonous Vote for the speedy bringing of the King to Justice You have here the State of the New-Model'd Government of the City and effectually of the whole Nation together with the Methods of Hypocrisy and State that brought us into that miserable Condition And what were they but Canting Sermons Popular Petitions Tumults Associations Impostures and Disaffected Common-Councils We have likewise set forth how these Advantages were gain'd with their Natural Tendency to the Mischiefs they produc'd And who were they that promoted and brought all these Calamities upon us but men of desperate Fortunes and Principles Male-contents broken Tradesmen Coblers Thimble-makers Dray-men Ostlers and a world of this sort of People whose Names are every where up and down
in the History of our late Consusions Men of Ambition and Interest and agreeing in nothing else but an United Disaffection both to Church and State The contrivers of all these mischiefs says his Late Majesty know what overtures have been made by them and with what Importunity for Offices and Preferments what great Services should have been done for us and what other Undertakings were even to have sav'd the Life of the Earl of Strafford if we would confer such Offices upon them And Henry Martin very Honestly blurted it out Apox ô your snivling for Religion says he we fight for Liberty And all their bawling to put other people out of Employment was only to get themselves In. Thus they went on till the Government was made a Prey to the Faction and the deluded Multitude too late made sensible of their Errours Methinks the People of England after all this Experience should be both Wiser and Honester then by treading the same steps over again to re-engage themselves in the same Miseries and Crimes Or if both Conscience and Common Prudence should have quite forsaken us the very shame methinks of being fool'd over again the same way should move us to bethink our selves Or if that very shame were lost too it was so Base so Scandalous a Servitude we were Slaves to the Meanest of the Rabble And our Masters were a greater Infamy to us then our Fetters the very Ignominy cannot but work an Indignation in any thing that wears the Soul of an Englishman This Paper and occasion will not bear the tracing of their Ingratitudes and Tyrannies at length but in short how barbarously did they treat even their Idoliz'd House of Commons their Assembly nay their Covenanting Brethren the Scots when they follow'd them from Newark even to their Borders with a body of Horse at their Heels their Generall and the Army that set them up in a most Eminent manner the City of London though as the Faction order'd it the very Nurse and Supportesse of the Rebellion His Sacred Majesty can never forget by what means his Blessed Father was Murther'd nor the Bishops forget the abuse and Profanation of the Pulpits even to the Extirpating of the Holy Order the Nobility and Gentry can never forget the Illusions that were put upon them under the Appearancee of Religion and Duty by men that were void of both neither certainly can the Common people forget how they were conjur'd into a Circle by Sermons Petitions and Covenants whence there was no getting out again We 'l see a little of their Ingratitude now to the City of London and whether They far'd any better then other people First they stript them of the Militia then of their Charter and Priviliges they turn'd their Government Topsy Turvy Tax'd Disarm'd Imprison'd and Plunder'd at pleasure took down their Chaines and Posts Quarter'd Souldiers upon them Garrison'd the Tower and several other places of the City the Army Marching in Triumph through it for the aggravation of their Slavery they degraded the Lord Mayor Reynoldson Fin'd him 2000l and Committed him to the Tower April 21. 48. for refusing to publish the Proclamation for Abolishing the Kingly Office They threatned to set fire to the City and lay it in the Dust telling the Mayor and Aldermen in a Letter about the beginning of Aug. 1647. that they were unable to defend either the Parliament or themselves and demanding to have the City deliver'd into their hands which was submitted to upon Conditions of relinquishing the Militia and 11. Members delivering up the Forts and Tower of London and all Magazins and Arms therein to the Army disbanding their Forces turning out all Reformades and drawing off their Guards from the Parliament In Walkers Hist. of Independency these Particulars are to be seen at large It is remarkable that what other means soever were occasionally made use of the Plot was still driven on from First to Last mainly by PETITIONS but none were admitted on the Other side For so soon as ever any Petition appear'd that crost the Factions â—nterest as in several Cases from the Agitators or the City of London there was presently a strict enquiry after the Authours and Abettors of them and the Design immediately crusht They should have taken in the SUBSCRIBERS too and Issu'd out a Commission of Enquiry whether all the Marks and Subscriptions produced in the Names of so many thousand Petitioners were really the Acts and Attestations of the Persons so Named and what Arts and Menaces were made use of for their procurement No unnecessary caution even in our present Case to distinguish the Sober and well-meaning Subscribers from the Fierce and Bloody Fifth-Monarchy men and other Sects that hold affinity with them It being notoriously known that a Mark is set upon the Refusers by those Factions who are the violent sticklers in this proceeding which carries the face rather of an Intended Massacre then a Petition This will seem no uncharitable Construction when I shall tell you what a Noble Lord said in the House of Peers Dec. 19. 42. They chearfully undertook says he to serve against that Army wherein they knew their Own Fathers were and on my Conscience says he I speak it to their Honour had they met them alone 〈◊〉 would have sacrific'd them to the Commands of both Houses And now you shall see their Piety expounded in another part of the same Speech They says he who think that Human Laws can bind the Conscience and will examine the Oaths they have taken according to the Interpretations of Men will in time fall from us but such who Religiously consider that such Moral Preceps are fiâ—ter for Heathens then for Christians will not feint in their Duty To bring this Pamphlet to a Conclusion we shall only say this further in justification of it that it was written with a very Honest Intention that the matter of Fact is partly upon Certain Knowledg and partly upon the credit of very Warrantable Papers The principal Scope of it was to lay open the Mistery and Method of the Late Rebellion and so to expose it that the same Project and Model may not be made use of for Another The End The CONTENTS THe Liberties of Press and Pulpit Pag. 5 A Deduction of the Late Troubles P. 12 Of Popular Petitions P. 18 Of Tumults P. 22 Of Popular Oaths and Associations P. 23 Of Plots and Impostures P. 26 How the Faction gain'd the Common-Council P. 28 Errata PAge 15. line 11. after Covenants reade Associations for the Factious and in 〈◊〉 the Party Ibid. l. 29. for Government r. Governour p. 21. l. 16. for be kept r. keep p. 22. l. 16. for Garnets Garrets p. 27. l. 31. for Absession r. Obsession Beside other Literal Faults Escaped in haste The Schism led the way to the Sedition Emissaries in Corporations Seminaries of Novices Their Agents were upon 〈◊〉 their behaviour Their Lecturers are supply'd
by our Conventicles The People were poyson'd from the Pulpit The boast of their Num bers They grow upon the Government They squar their Consciences to their Interests Burton on Psal. 53. 7. 8. Jun. 20. 1641 Pa. 21. Case on Ezra 10. 2 3. pa. 33. Case on Isa. 43. 4. pa. 19. Ward on Deut 33. 16. pa. 18. Dispu against English Popish Ceremonies pa. 11 Smectymnuâ— pa. 58. Marshall â—efore the Commons Jun. 15. 43. pag. 25. Case of the Covenant 1643. pa. 47 Marshaâ— Penegyrique 1643. pa 21 Woodcock on Gen 4. 23. pa. 1â— Fairâ—loth on Josh. 7. 25. pa. 28 Case on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4. pa. 18. Calaâ— Sermon Dec. 25. 44. pa. 8. Case on the Covenant 1643. p. 65. Carylâ— Sermon at the taking the Covenant Oct. 6. 43. Bâ—idges on Revelations 4 8. Fair â—loth on Iâ—sh 7. 25. Pag. 29. Marshalls Sermon June 15. 43. Pag. 15 Cal ' s Speech at Guild-hall Oct. 6. 43. Herle Jan 15. on Psa. 95 1. Herle on Gen. 22. 5. pa. 23. Faircloth on Josh. 7. 25. Case on Dâ— 11. 32 44. Cal's Theses pa. 29. Case on the Covenant 43. Herle â—efore the Commons 44. Caâ—'s Theses in a Sermon Dec. 25. 44. Jenkins's Petition Herles Sermon before the Commons 1644. Paxters Holy Common-wealth Herle before the Commons Nov. 5. 44 Strickland's Thanksgiving Sermon Nov. 5. 44. Cockayns Sermon before the Commons Nov. 29. 48. The Kings Murther Encouraged 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before the Commons Dâ—c 26. 48 Jenkins ' Sermon â—efore the Commons Sept. 24 56. pa. 23. The Kings Murther Justified Baxters Holy Common-weaâ—th 486. Mr. Baxters Cases of Conscience Theses 1â—7 â—81 〈◊〉 The 〈◊〉 naticks did the Faction many good Offices The Pulpits only spâ—ke as the Caball dictated Their agreement in Method and dâ—signe A deduction of our Late Troubles Exact Collection pag. 4. Pag. 16. Exact Collections Six Treasonous and Seditious Poâ—ions Pag 297 298. Baits for all Parties The Legal Government of the City of London The Charter of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen In what manner the People were wrought upon The Artifice of Petitions EIK. BA Many Petition for they know not what The manner of Promoting Petitions Ex. Coll. 536. Fobb'd Petitions impos'd upon the Nation by the Faction The intent of Popular Petitions is to be Consider'd Consederate Petitions are but the Pro logue to Confederate Practises Never satisfy'd Ex. Coll. 〈◊〉 548. The Effect of Popular Petitions Upon what Terms they may be allow'd Let every man keep to his own post A Naturall Transiâ—ion from a Popu lar Petition to a Tumult EIK. BA upon tumults Eâ— Câ—ll 532. The Insolences of the Rabbâ—e upon the Parliament Pag. 533 Upon â—e City And upon the â—ing himseâ—f Pag. 538. The first Tumuâ—s punished by tumults EIK. BA Upon the Distraction of the Parliament Army and City Of â—aths Covenants and Associations The Leagues of Subjects among themselves are Conspiracies The delusions of 1641. The Protestation The Juggle of the Covenant The Protestation an Oath of Policy not Conscience EIK. BA Imposture upon the Peopâ—e 〈◊〉 Alarm The good women could not sâ—p for fear of the Tâ— guns A Tumuâ— fâ—r fear of a Peace Mr. Pyms Plague plaister A Taylor discovers a Plot against my Lord Sâ—y The people Impos'd upon by ridiculous Stories and Impostures No foresight wanting in the Faction The Faction could do nothing without the City The Practices of the Faction upon the Common-Council The Common Council impos'd upon by the Faction beyond president Ex. Col. 44. Ex. Col. 45. The King goes to the Common-Council The Commons adjourn and remove into the City The Committees Vote at Grocers-Hall The King withdraws from London They settle the Militia And strip the Mayor of his priviledges The Fiction Masters of the City The Commons Peâ—on about the Miâ—tia Ex Col. 61. A Trick put upon the Lord Mayor Aldermen The Government of the City affâ—onted The Tyranny of this Committee How we were destroved and By whom Ex. Col. 534. We must be mad to engage in New Troubles The Factions Ingratitude The Methods of our Late Troubles fresh in our Memories Ungrateful to the City The Plot driven on Principally by Petitions A way to discover Counterfeits Dutyful Children A Dispensation for perjury