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A79829	The discoverer. VVherein is set forth (to undeceive the nation) the reall plots and stratagems of Lievt. Col. John Lilburn, Mr. William Walwyn, Mr. Thomas Prince, Mr. Richard Overton, and that partie. And their severall seditious wayes and wiles a long time practised by them to accomplish and effect the same. Namely, under the pretence and colour of libertie, and to take off the burdens and grievances of the people, a most dangerous and destructive designe is carried on to deprive the nation of their religion, rights, liberties, proprieties, lawes, government, &c. and to bring a totall and universall ruine upon the land. And so much is here clearely proved. The first part. / Composed and digested by some private persons, well-wishers to the just and honourable proceedings of the Parliament and Councell of state. Published by authoritie.; Discoverer. Part 1.	Canne, John, d. 1667?	1649 (1649)	Wing C438; Thomason E558_2; ESTC R205840	54,681	62

The Discoverer VVHEREIN IS SET FORTH to undeceive the Nation the reall Plots and Stratagems of Lievt Col. John Lilburn Mr. William Walwyn Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. Richard Overton and that partie And their severall seditious wayes and wiles a long time practised by them to accomplish and effect the same Namely Under the pretence and colour of LIBERTIE and to take off the Burdens and Grievances of the People a most dangerous and destructive designe is carried on to deprive the Nation of their Religion Rights Liberties Proprieties Lawes Government c. and to bring a totall and universall ruine upon the Land And so much is here clearely proved Rom. 16.17 18. Marke them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which yee have learned and avoyd them For they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and faire speeches deceive the hearts of the simple The First Part. Composed and digested by some private persons well-wishers to the just and honourable proceedings of the Parliament and Councell of State Published by Authoritie LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons 1649. THE AUTHORS To all the well-affected People of this NATION AS no Nation hath met with more dangerous enemies and against whom greater sorer and deeper designes and plots have been attempted for the ruine and destruction thereof then against this Common wealth so all things duly considered there is no people under Heaven unto whom the Lord hath vouchsafed greater deliverances And a● we thankfully observe the good hand of the Lord going alwayes along with us so we are perswaded from the feeling experience of former mercies that he will never leave us untill he ha●h perfected his good worke marv●ilously begun in the Land And howsoever we know the Almightie God without men or meanes is sufficient to carry on his own worke and to effect the same when and how as it seemeth good in his fight Neverthelesse we take our selves bound in obedience to him and of tender-respect to the Nation both to foresee the danger and to provide all seasonable and lawfull helpes for the timely prevention thereof Now whereas among other Artifices and cunning courses whereby this Generation of men going under the name of Levellers have corrupted and deceived the minds of people and drawn them to disaffect the present Government and to make Commotions and hurliburlies in the Land One main and speciall way hath been by spreading seditious and scandalous Bookes wherein are many faire pretences of Libertie freedome safetie c. with much regret tendernesse and fellow-feeling of the Oppressions Burdens and Taxes of the People This being so and a thing well knowne to us wee have thought it necessary whilst the Parliament and Councell of State are imployed with the great and weighty affaires of the Nation to doe something in the like way of writing thereby to undeceive the People by a 〈◊〉 plaine and full discovery of the deceits and falshoods of these man and that it may most evidently appeare to all judicious and rationall People that wheresoever in their Papers and Pamphlets they most shew themselves to be lovers of their Countrey and professe greatest desire to have all things well setled even there under Good words they meerely deceive the simple and carry on a trayterous designe against the peace freedome and safetie of the Nation And wee have the more hope that this worke will doe much good in the Land because there is nothing here produced upon hear-say or taken up as a report from others howsoever much could be spoken this way and for their proofe it is little else but all out of their own Bookes which are extant and in many mens hands so that what conspiracie sedition treason or other mischiefes are here discovered and charged upon them themselves are brought in even their own mouths and hands as witnesses For the rest which is to follow as we have promised it so we shall further the expedition what we can For the searcher of all hearts doth know our sense our sighs and deepe apprehensions that any honest and simple hearted should be mis-led and ensnared by such pernicious men But as for such as are thus single and sincere we make no question but by comparing things with things they will now see a great deale of seditious plotting and conspiring against our Religion Lawes Libertie c. which before they saw not because covered with the specious pretence of seeking to settle the Common-wealth upon Ground of peace freedom and safetie The Discoverer Wherein is set forth to un-deceive the Nation the real plots and Stratagems of Lievt Col. John Lilburn Mr. William Walwyn Mr. Thomas Prince Mr. Richard Overton and that Partie And the severall seditious wayes and wyles a long time practised by them to accomplish and effect the same Namely under the pretence and colour of Libertie and to take off the Burdens and Grievances of the Common-wealth a most destructive designe is carried on to deprive the people of their Religion Rights Proprieties Freedome Lawes Government c. and to bring a totall and universall ruine upon the Land And so much is here clearly demonstrated by reason and proofe abundantly The First Part. AS all vices use to clothe themselves with the habits of vertues that under those Liveries they may get countenance and find the more accesse in the w●rld so especially in a Common wealth Treason and Sedition doe commonly present themselves under this colour and cloake taking up the Politick pretence of Native birth right common freedome and safety as a weapon of meer advantage whereby ambitious discontented and self-conceited men use to make Commotions and Mutinies and to disturbe if not destroy the present Government And this is well knowne unto all men who have any knowledge in Historie whether humane or divine ancient or modern forrein or domestick that under the plausible sweet and much taking name of a Palam speciosa praet●xunt nomina ●ber● a●●m p●●ae se s●●nt ●urum e inv● um●● v. tutis ●ugum detestantis Frid. Wendelli●●●rtir Pol● l. ● 2.2 The. 8. p. ●94 LIBERTY with crying out against Tyranny A●bitrary power Taxes Oppressions c. Many pernicious plots have been c●rried on to the great hurt and prejudice of the whole Nation yea and unawares many honest and well-meaning people have been brought into a snare and pit● Like thou who followed Absolom in that unnaturall conspiracy against his father b 2 Sam 1● 11 in their simplicitie and they knew not any thing Thus the Pazzians at Florence to draw the people to their Conspiracy c Histo y of Flor and Ven. Cryed out in the Market-place Libertie Libertie although indeed it was to b●ing them from freedome to very sl very So Munzier seeking the ruine of Germanie and to raise himselfe a●d his Confederates out of the dust and ashes thereof laid this down as his principle d S e den

there did precede an assent from all the people Here is a cloake so thinne that a man may see thorow it As if these men did not know and love Figures though they are ignorant of other learning and generally hate it All must be understood restrictively that is the * So said the Levellers in Germinie Se ad ege●●s potissimu●●● abjecter fortis homines submisses profiteri Spanhem disp●● poore Commoner for rich man and such as have Lands and Estates and claime a proprietie in things they doe declare and protest against for having 〈◊〉 raised tyrannie oppression and crueltie upon their fellow-brethren and free Commoners of this Nation Now who makes question but this ALL will assent to an equalling of ●●ns estates and taking away the right and title that every man hath to what is his own And then as the Law saith Fundamente deficitate omnia ru●●●t And England may say with the a Venit summa dies in eluctabile tempus dardaniae suimus Troes fuit Ilium ingens gloriae Tenerorum Ferus omnia Jupiter Argos transtulit incensa danai dominantur in u●be Virgil. Aeneid l. 2. Poet Englands fearfull fate is come this day 's our lost We once were English and faire this Iland was But Englands glory now her joy and blisse i● go● Our Countrey ruin'd by Levellers all 's undon In our Discovery we shall now in the next place take notice what these men say of themselves for their peaceablenesse as to reconcile differences and to heale all breaches on all sides b An Agreement of the People p. 1. Wee blesse God say they our Consciences are cleare from adding affliction to affliction having ever laboured from the beginning of our publique distractions to compase and reconcile them and should esteeme it as the crowne of all our temporall felicitie that yet we might be instruments in procuring the peace and prosperitie of the Common-wealth the Land of our nativitie Besides their Agreement in rendred as a Peace-offering and this Scripture especially they assume to themselves and apply it to their practice Blessed are the 〈◊〉 makers I● this be so what meaneth then this bleating of the 〈◊〉 our ears and the lowing of the oxen which we hear● 〈◊〉 comes it to passe that all Countries are full w●th their ●●●●●racier and their worke hath still been to make division betw●●● partie and partie which cannot be denied for then 〈◊〉 prove it 1. To stirre up the people every where against the 〈◊〉 they say that c Picture of the Councell of State second Edition p. 13. the faction of a treacherous partie of Officers of 〈◊〉 Armie hath twice rebelled against the Parliament and broken 〈◊〉 to pieces Now here let it be observed that none in the 〈◊〉 did more violently presse and urge the Armie to what they 〈◊〉 this way then themselves and after it was done they sh●●● great discontent that they were d A plea for Common Right and Freedom pag. 2. condemned in their 〈◊〉 endeavours for purging the House of these corrupt Members that ●●ted the King to London and denounced warre against you For 〈◊〉 Contradiction here we let it passe as but a more in their 〈◊〉 their treacherous and seditious designe we shall onely to 〈◊〉 First that the Army may engage they shew the necessitie of 〈◊〉 thing that e The Juglers discovered pag. 10 11. Mr. Pellams Juncto blades are usurpers of Par 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 power a factious treacherous Juncto traytors and enemies to 〈◊〉 Countrey and the trust repos●d in them by whose illegall pretended and unbinding votes a new warre was de facto raised and 〈…〉 the Kingdome to the visible hazard of the raine and utter destr●●●●on there fit to be severely punished and not fit to be contin●●● 〈◊〉 longer as Judges in the Kingdome or their own cause Hereup●● advise them to presse vigorously for the totall purging of the H●●se and not to let the Parliament-men goe free without punishment 〈◊〉 it would be the greatest injustice that could be acted in the world that so there may be way made for the exemplary punishing of the 〈◊〉 Mayor of London and all the chiefe Ring-leaders actors in the 〈◊〉 desperate and treacherous ingagement This being don according to their own desire they afterward reproach i● and terme the very same thing the faction of a ●●●●terous partie of Officers of the Armie rebelling against the Parliament c. of pu●pose to flatter the Malignants and Cavallier● and by collouging with them to move them to sedition W●● shall not call this a Machiavillian or Jesuiticall plot for it s too grosse onely it shewes how desperate they are as not caring what they say or unsay so it he for advantage and to serve their own turne 2. How busie they have been in the Army to raise sedition and mutinie amongst the Souldiers it is well known neither hath there been any remarkable distraction or division therein but by their meanes and surely had not the p●ovidence of God wonderfully appeared they had ●re this time broken and scattered the Army by their falshoods and vile aspersions they have acted by that Principle Make division and get Dominion If a streams be divided it is weakened and it will not be ●avigable when it is cut into many rivers We could give many Instances of their trayterous working to cut the Army into many parts and that constantly and in all places through the Land Besides their Pamphlets and Libels dispersed amongst the Souldiers speaking thus f J●●●●● 〈◊〉 covered pag. 1● Those proud hypocriticall Officers that are amongst you that are against * That is against the ●●●v●lling mentioned before Freedome and would doe the worke of the Lord by ba●es put them off and choose honester in their roomes * This is spoken to the private Souldiers that they rise against their Officers and the onely way is to take downe their great pay let them serve as you doe Againe g English Souldiers St●nd●rd pag. 9. Suffer this and suffer any thing experience shewes he that takes one box on the eare invites another and when Souldiers that should be 〈◊〉 in all things stand still and suffer their fellow Souldiers to be thus abused by a pack of Officers no marvaile if their Officers turne Tyrants presume to doe any thing to any man And a little after If you be wise march not out of London nor undertake for Ireland or any other s●●vice till there be set up a new Representative of the Army These are the men that would be Instruments so procuring the peace and prosperitie of this Common-wealth and call themselves Peace-makers Whereas no Malignant can shew selfe good will to the Land or doe more trayterously to bring ruine and misery upon it Neither is Mr Walwyn be●●nde-hand in this worke He likewise calls upon the Sould●ers to mutinie for he knowes h Concordia minima res crescunt discordia maxima d●●●tuntur