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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

which are commanded and best pleasing vnto God Almighty who is abuntdantly able and willing to reward your Majesty and all that doe so wherefore I pray God that the Consideration heereof may incourage and stirre vp the Spirits of your Majesty and your Honourable Counsell with your most Reverent Cleargy and the rest of your People to breake the yoake of these Usurpers from off the necks of the King and the distressed Nation of England as Abraham did by the enemyes of his Brother Loth. And as the Lord stirred vp the Spirit of Cyrus King of Persia Gen. 14.14.15 16. Because not only they resolved to Spoyle Ezra 1.1 Raven Murder all such Catholikes Protestants as are more Religeous more Conscientionable towards men more zealous towards God then any of the sayd Rebbells as I have proved and found by long experience For I have often observed in severall Countryes that some Catholikes doe worship God in vprightnesse of hart and in the beauty of holinesse as you may read at large in the 1. Chron. chap. 16. vers 29. And in that manner as is fully exprest Psal 110.4 And this generation of Hypocrites and Iugglers are a very great disparidgement to all honest-harted Protestants both at home and abroad who by the evill conversation of these English and Scottes Conspirators are evill spoken off without cause For I doe assure your Majesty and all the world that how ever many Protestants are deluded by these Lurking Curres yet I doe know Protestants both of my owne and severall other Nations Job 1.1 Who feare God and eshew evill and are harmlesse and upright men John 4.23.24 such as worship God in spirit and in trueth God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in trueth And how ever these desemblors in England doe Vsurpe the name of Protestants to the great disgrace of many thousands of honest and Godly men both in England and elsse where who to my knowledge doe feare the Lord and serve him in sinserity and trueth as it is sayd by Joshua in the 24. of Joshua 14. My Judgement is that neither Catholick nor Protestant shall bee able to lift vp their heads without spot so longe as they goe in the wayes of Caine Baallam Elemasse Judas Crumwell Isa 56.11 or his adherance yet these cunning Sophisters who like doggs are greedy after the pray and that they may the better obtaine it they take vpon them the name of Protestants And by giving to the Officers of his Army and the like of his owne Creaturs large Portions out of the sweat of honest mens browes and the substance of those who takes paines for their Living these are the Catterpillors whose delight and Resolution is not only to destroy those that are better then them selves but even the way and the meanes by which they should subsist in time to come And these are esteemed and found to bee by all men that follow honest callings like vnto those dogg-fish at Sea which come into the Nets and spoyle aboundance of Herrings and the Net also and yet they are good for nothing them selves It seemes to me a sad thing that men that vse great Industry take paines and venture their lives and Estates night and day and many times after longe patience and losse of time when it please God to send them a scull of Herrings then coms the dogg-fish and spoiles the net and a thousand times more Herrings then would serve them to eate and yet escapes from being taken him selfe So the Rebbells though they have done much mischiefe to their betters yet they sometimes escape longe from punishment therfore Let them bee put to shame Psal 83. and perish When it goeth well with the Righteous the citie rejoyceth Vers 10. and when the Rebbells perish there shall bee joy and shouting Gen. 6.5 Prov. 11. at the 10. vers Because the thoughts of their harts are for wickednesse and evill continually Neither is there any thing to bee expected from these destroying Traitors or very littele that justly belongs vnto them selves Yet the hastening of their speedy being humbled or distroyed is very urgant and of great necessety for the prevention of their sutor evill for they are so absolutely bent to continue in their wickedres that it seemes they have sould them-selves and delight to doe wickedly against their owne and other Nations to wit Crumwell his Army and others of his chiefe Associates And therefore it is that they devise mischiefe continually and soweth discorde between loving and deare friends Prov. 6.14.15 and if they fall they know it will bee without Remedy In the meane time Deut. 31.22 they wax fat and fill them selves and such as helpe them And like the Sons of Ely they make them selves fat with such things as are the chiefest of England and other Nations belonging to others which are their betters abroad and at home Whereof God him selfe takes notice as in the 1. of Sam. 2.29 Because they can frame Rayling and Reviling Arguments against Papists they suppose that to bee sufficient to justefie them in all their Treason Theft and Murder wherin they are not ashamed to abuse the Trueth because their discourse and behavior is for the most part if not all together contrary to Trueth and Equity By which meanes they cause many a good Protestant to thinke and to doe in some things worse then ever they would have done and so stirre vp and continew strife for the working out of their owne ends neyther can they any way better please the divell their patron for by their owne confession they have some times set Catholicks and made vse of them against Drotestants who were drawne to it By the importunety and impudency of the sayd Conspirators at other times with no lesse brasen faces they have provoacked and stirred vp Protestants against Catholiks So that first and last these cursed and dubble insinuators have beene the cause of great distresse trouble and bloudshed vnto both Catholicks and Protestants But all you that have yet hope to finde peace vnto your soules and that you may lift vp your face without spot in time to come be sure to let no wickednesse enequity nor presumptuous persons dwell in your Tabernakle nor come neare you nor any body for them that you may bee steadfast without feare and that your Age may bee clearer then the Noone-day So shall you shine forth and bee as the morning and also secure because there is hope Job 11.14.15.16.17.18.19.20 It hath beene demaunded of mee of what Religeon the Conspirators of England are and because I know not of any they have I have beene oftimes troubled what or how I should make answear not onely because they have so often changed from one to another but because all their proceedings is so contrary to all Religeons that which I can most properly say is that if they had any Religeon that had any