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A47914	A seasonable memorial in some historical notes upon the liberties of the presse and pulpit with the effects of popular petitions, tumults, associations, impostures, and disaffected common councils : to all good subjects and true Protestants.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1680 (1680)	Wing L1301; ESTC R14590	34,077	42

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 entertain●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. L●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 Si● 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 gu●'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

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 Subscrip●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 schis●natical Proposals of Government Ecclesiastical or Civil ●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 j●t desires in such a way It would fill a Volume to tell the Insolencies of the Rabble upon L●mbeth-House upon the Persons of the Archbishop of York and all the Loyall Members of both Houses their O●tcries for Justice upon La●d and Strafford under the Conduct of Ven and Ma●waring Their Exclamations No Bishops No Popish Lords Proclaiming several of the Peers by their Names to be evil and r●tton-hearted Lords Their besetting of Sheriff Garnets House when the King Din●d there crying out Priviledges of Parliament their a●onting the L●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 ●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