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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

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

that all stryffe difference and contention that is betweene them may happyly cease and that godly Loue and a blessed and continuall Vnion might bee obtained betweene the two Kingdoms afore sayd And so much the rather because the enemies of them both and of all vnfained Christians doe strive with all their might and pollecy to hinder it Thirdly Because it would bee matter of gladnesse and great joy of harte vnto all the people of God to Liue peaceably and quietly in all Godlynesse and honesty which is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior 1. Tim. 2.2 Forthly Because it is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour Who will haue all men to bee saved and to come vnto the knowl●g of the truth Neither can the Spirit of God 1. Tim. 2. nor the hart of the Pope vers 3.4 bee more greeved then when their Children Associate them selues with evill Contentious men Therefore greeve not the holy Spirit of God Ephe. 4.30 by which you are sealed vnto the day of Redemption For God is not the God of confusion 1. Cor. 14.33 but of peace Wherefore SIR my hart doth humbly pray your Majesty to propound Reasonable Conditions of peace to your owne Vncle the King of Spaine and to all other Christian and Righteous Princes who desier to liue at peace with you And that for to prevent the shedding of Christian and Innocent blood in time to com Thereby you shall exedingly obleage al Christian and Righteous Princes and People that liue in the feare of God but especially your owne Cousin the King and his subjects of great Brittain and Ierland who are greatly opressed by the Impudence of a generation of Rebbells and hyppocrits And also the Duke and the State of Venice whose indeavour hath allwayes beene to liue in amity and frendshippe with the Kings and Nation of France who is in great danger of an enemie that is much too mighty for them Wherefore SIR if it may please your Majesty by a speedy cessation from all hostillity of both sides by which means you will bee the better able upon occasion to withstand your secret enemys as also to helpe your best Friends in time of neede namely your Cuzon the King afore sayd and his subjects whose distressed Estate and Condition hath beene greevous to mee and to divers others these many yeares Likewise the Duke and the State of Venice shall the better obtaine helpe in their great distresse from your Majesty or some other Christian Princes or else by Reason of the peace a foresaid the said State shall obtaine the more honourable and speedy peace with that enemy who otherwise will bee too mighty for them Neither can that at all bee good or safe for your Majesty nor your subjects nor any Christian Prince Neither can I possible thinke of any other persons who under God are more Indifferent Just and Impartiall Mediators Composors of all manner of differences or any greevances betweene such Christian Princes as your Majesty and the King of Spaine or the like of you then the Popes Holynesse who is vnder God undoubtedly for all such Princes and people as both You and your Subjects are And for oft I know for all other who are unfained Christians even as a carefull and a naturall Father for his owne Children And therfore an able emenant and righteous Judge fit for so waighty and necessary Imployment as that is Because he is one that feareth God and hateth covetousnesse who in Gods behalfe and in the place of Meyses will provide reasonable and able men as in Exodus chap. 18. vers 21.22 And for the removing of all suspition and scrupell the said Pope being of late yeares Nuntius for the late Pope at Munster and by his great abillities and his Loue vnto Equity through Gods assistance made and occasioned such an agreement betweene the King of Spaine and the Lords the States Generall of the Vnited Provences as that neither parties doth complaine but rather thanke him And that because hee knows that hee doth not Judge only for man but for the Lord who is whith him in Iudgement 2. Chron. 19.6 With whome there is no respect of persons nor iniquity with the Lord our God nor taking of gifts for the gift doth blinde the eyes of the Wise Deutro 16.19 And though I humbly show my weake Judgement in that I conceave the King of Denmarks and the State of Venice to bee emenent and indifferent Judges which are needfull for such waighty affaires neither of them having any more Relation to your Majesty of France then to the King of Spaine or to bee sure his Majesty of Denemarcke hath no more Relation vnto the King of Spaine then hee hath vnto your Majesty but rather lesse of the twoo yet I remember that when the late difference was betweene the Lords the States Generall of the vnited Provences and the Vsurpers of Engeland they chose for theyr Arbitrators the Lords of Switscherland the Lords of Geneva and of the Kingdom of Sweaden and therfore I humbly present unto your Consideration and the Advise of your most honourable Privy Counsell together with the Advice of your most Graue Learned and Reverent Cleargy whether the three Spirituall Electors of Germany bee not nutrall and indifferent Judges for to giue theyr Advise and Assistance in a buisenesse which concerns all Catholicks in so high a nature the King of Spaine and your Majesty being both Catholicke Kings neare neighbours and neare of Kinne he being bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh Iudges 9.2 Why then will your Majestye bee the Last 2. Sam. 19. vers 12. that shall Resolve vpon a happy Peace with the King of Spains who is one of your best and your nearest Frends Peace being a thing pleasing vnto God and vnto all that feare him in trueth It is no disparidgment to any King or Prince in the world to follow the Example of Abraham who was very Rich in Cattell Silver and Gould yet for peace-sake gave choyse to Loth Genes 13. vers 2.7 his brothers Son who was the meanist and the joungest man Either to goe to the Right hand or to the Left which he pleased in the 8. and 9. verses of the same Chapter you haue it SIR Abraham being the Eldest man and the mightyest might so much the better haue clamed some kinde of prehemenence yet the cleane contrary appeares in Abraham who was the first that prayed Loth that there might be no striffe betweene them and that for these three Reasons First his Loue vnto peace Secondly because the Canaanites and the Perizzite were in the land which was a people whom Abraham did not much Confide in and who he was not willing that they should see striffe betwene them two who weare so neare friends And yet I doe hartely wish that you had not in you Lande for the most part if not continually those who are farre worsse

France who hath bewitched you that you should Love and joyne NOTA. with the enemyes of God and your Majesty who trouble those that gladly would live in peace and deceave all such as vnderstand not their evill Intentions nor their divellish wiles Who like cunning Juggelors secretly worke out theyr owne ends by slijte of hand and will doe by you as the Phillistens did by Sampson Judg. 14 17.18 when they plowed with his heyffer That is the Rebbells of England will bee exceeding vigelent for to stir vp or procuer such as shall advise your Majesty and your Honorable and faithfull Councell by such means as none but them selves and such as are like them selves doe vse to practise vnto such things as shall be contrary to equity godlynesse and honesty because their practise is to bring those that are blamlesse to bee so wicked as them selves 1. Tim. 2.2.3.4 and by that meanes they will worke out their owne ends or that which shall tend to their owne advantage namely that which shall bee contrary to the futor safty and peace of you and your people vnlesse you and your honorable Councell bee very carefull to prevent the said Conspirators in time And this I mention from long experience of their evill example towards our owne and other nations the trueth whereof the world can witnesse with me Therefor the advise of Ecclesiasticus is very proper namely Chap. 6. vers 6. to have many friends and but one Councellor of a thousand T is needefull that one bee wary of his secrets as the apple of his eye A faithfull friend in time of need is a stronge defence and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure The whole chapter is worth the consideration of those that desier to bee Rightly informed Vers 14. which the Rebbells of England doe strive to hinder all persons High and Low from being rightly Informed by what soever means lyeth in them therfore they have caused many thousands of Bibles to bee printed in Holland and else where within these thirty and odde yeares leaving out all the bookes of the Apocripha and saying London printed whenas they were printed in other places before the beginning of the Rebbellion But the Lord who frustrateth the tokens of the lyars who have beene imployed or incouraged by the Rebbels of England Isai 44.25 Hee will also direct all Righteous Princes aright in their procedings if they constantly cleave vnto the Lord their God and his Servants And take the advise onely of those who seeke not great things for them selves Amazia Jerem. 45. vers 5. being forbidden by a Man of God to let Israëll goe with him to battell chose rather to loose an hundred Tallents of Silver which he had payd vnto them because the Lord was not with them So hee separated them 2. Chron. 35 7.9 because the Lord is able to give much more From whence I infer Vers 10. that God seldom or never will have any good worke done by evill men neyther will God himselfe imploy evill men about his worke which quiet overthrows the doctrine of the Rebbells of England who say and would have all men beleeve that all their Rebbellious wickednesse which they have don was and is the worke of the Lord as Theft Murther Slander and violence so that there neede no Assirian Rabshakehs So long as there is so many in England Another Reason why it is dangerous for any Righteous Prince or State to have to doe with any such fellows Is because it is questionable whether they have any soules of theyr owne or none to loose Muchlesse have they any Crowne or Crownes to loose or any thinge else but what they possesse by fraud false-hood perjury deceat violence murder and the like Wherefore it is of great necessity that Righteous Princes take heed in time how they meddle with such Sophesters who have their Spyes and Spirits in all places where any mischieffe is possible to bee done who doe subsist and stand and still injoy what they have formerly stolen by breeding and making Contention with and betweene all others who are better then themselves both of our owne and other Nations Wherefore my most harty desier and prayer vnto God is that not onely your Majesty but all other Righteous Princes and States with all other people of what degree soever they may bee that they may beware of following such an vngodly multitude of evill doers or their evill example in any case but rather remember to keepe them selves farre from every false matter and the innocent and righteous slay thou not Exod. 23.2.7.8 for I will not justefie the wicked and thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the Righteous being the Lords owne words SIR therefore bee pleased to Consider whether such Servants as was Eliezer who served Abraham or Joseph vnto Pharow or Daniell vnto Darias or Samuell vnto God him selfe and vnto the Israëlits It is worth observation to take notice of Abrahams Servant what care hee tooke in the absence of his master and how he craved the Blessing and Assistance of the God of his master Abraham that he might the better performe his oath vnto Abraham and his duty vnto Isaack and before hee had done praying Gen. 24.13.14.15 the damsell came which God had apoynted for his masters Son namely Rebeckah see Josephs integrety faithfulnesse and honesty towards Pottepher his Master who intrusted him with all that he had and how God blessed the Egyptians house for Josephs sake Gen. 39.4.5.6 7.8.9.10.11.12.13 Yet as godly as vpright and as innocent as Joseph was that did not excuse him from being wrongfully Imprisoned and as good a servant as hee was yet his Masters wrath was kindled against him Vers 13. to the 19. by misinformation It pleased Darius to preferre Daniell above the Precedents and Princes because an excellent Spirit was found in him for which they sought occasion against Daniell but they could finde no occasion for as much as hee was faithfull Dan. 6.3.4 neyther was there any errour or falsehood found in him It were wel if every one could make his Integrity and his vprightnesse appear as Samuell did his in the presence of the Lord and his Annoynted Hee called the people to witnesse saying Whome have I defrauded Whome have I oppressed 1. Sam. 12.3 or of whose hand have I receaved any Brybe to blinde myne eyes therewith Happy were it for all Righteous Princes States and good People that all their Subjects and Servants could say so it would shortly hereupon follow that the Raigne of the Conspirators of England would be of no long continuance Now for to know who are most Faithfull vnto God their Righteous or Lawfull Prince or at least these are most likely Who walke constantly Act. 24.16 vprightly and indevour to keep a good Conscience towards God and towards Men. Secondly such

and Harte to bee very full of bitternesse which hath beene vnto mee exceeding prejudiciall and greevous and doth consist not onely of denying mee of Iustice vpon severall ocasions against several slanderous abusive persons who by some of the sayd Company were partly or wholy incouraged if not from time to time Imployed and set on against mee as also I have beene wonderfully blamed as a mallicious fellow for suing for Iustice without which I saw it to be vnpossible ever to bee quiet The want wherof caused the evill-doers to bee the more Insolent and many others afterwards by Reason of the evill example of the first three and I have often by severall of my sayd Masters most wrongfully beene accused in the like kinde I say by divers of themselves though from the first to the last never any thing at all hath beene proved against mee Also the Injurijs and violence hath beene so extreame and continuall against mee as I shall humbly show when it shall bee Requiered of mee that I went three severall times to the Hage to complaine vnto Mr. Olyver Synjohns Mr. Walter Streckland when they were there as Ambassadors for to Intreat them to move the Company in my behalfe but for feare of giving my Masters great distast thereby and by Reason of some difference betweene Mr. Streckland and my selfe about the Ingagement which I refused in 1650 neither was Sterckland content with mee vpon those two Considerations I did forbeare because I have since in sundry kindes beene greatly abused and all other hopes of Reparation now failing my humble desier is that by the Indeavor and power of your Highnesse I may have payed mee by my sayd Masters Resedent now in Dordricht the full somme or valew of 200. pounds starling to mee or my Assiges in Bridges within thirty dayes after the 10. of March 1656. ould stile for the Reasons specefied at large in the sayd papers before mentioned sent by the said Simmons vnto your Highnesse who arived at London the 11. day of this month of March. SIR this I entreat of you because the power of our Land is now principally in your hand and because your Will and Word hath beene as it were a Law in many other things of farre greater consequence but if you doe it not to be payd to mee within the time mentioned I intend by the helpe and the Devine Providence of that same God Jsa 1.4 which it seemes many of your party have forsaken Or else they know him not 1. Sam. 2.12 I shall I say by the speciall assistance afore sayd shortly make such things knowne to the world as that neyther your Highnesse nor some of your helpers will bee at all willing to heare of Concerning the proceedings of you some of your Party in these last 20. years together against that parte of our Nation who most Inclined to peace trueth and meeknesse and it may bee by the helpe afore sayd in short time by my meanes some of the same Creatures who have been begotten by the troublers of England bred vp vnder some of your owne party may happily come to byte you and some others But if the sayd two hundred pounds starling bee payd vnto mee or my Assignes in Bridges in Flanders before the 10. of Aprill 1657. old style I shall not onely deferre the same which I otherwise by the grace of God intend but also I shall by the helpe of the most High indeavour to show you or some whom you shall be pleased to appoint for to heare mee the best way and course to bee taken towards your Honour peace and safty to the end that yet a farre greater dissollation come not vpon my beloved Nation by the meanes of your Highnesse and some of your party which I am afrayd of and long have beene by Reason whereof you may conceave the more or better safety for your selves and yet be mistaken SIR I humbly referre you to my former papers wherin I wrote you distinctly the particulars of many of my greevances also inclosed to you and vnto Mr. Sterckland for you besides Copyes of papers presented at severall times vnto my sayd Masters as well to such as Reside now in London and Hamborough as now Residing in Dordricht wherein many particulars of my greevances were especified And so I tooke my leave Further the Reador may please to consider that Crumwell and his Consorts have choyce of two severall Interpretations of that which is written in folio 52. part of 53. by them to be vnderstood out of those words being proper as also trueth both wayes namely vnto my long many foulde or sundry sufferings by mine owne enemies in 23. yeares or as truely may the same words bee vnderstood to bee the longe and extreame sufferings of the King and the Nation of England by Crumwell and his Army and some other Conspirators in Combination with them Further I did in my papers afore-sayd alledge vnto Crumwell and others that I neyther would wilfully offende him nor flatter him further then my necessety did require for the clearing of mine owne Conscience between God and my selfe in regard of what longe since came to my knowledge conserning the Conspirators in England Secondly I did therin reflect vpon what I then supposed would follow betweene the sayd Conspirators and my selfe and the onely meanes of my being Righted remayned in himselfe to wit Crumwel Therefore I could doe no lesse then to give him some good words by way of the Tytle given him by the like of himselfe some others who loves him not as himselfe wel knowes Thirdly A woe There is a Cursse pronounced vnto such as call evill good and good evill Prov. 16.15 which is to Iustifie the wicked and to condemne the Iust Fourthly Neyther doe I beleeve that Crumwell desiers to bee flattered vnlesse it be by such Jsa 5.20 as are ingaged in Treason as well as himselfe without which hee will not lightly put Confidence on any man These and divers things being neere to this purpose I signefyed vnto the said Crumwell and Streckland others of their Party in March a foresayd who answered mee not a worde which showes the hart of the sayd Crumwell to his owne shame to be lifted vp and it may be to his owne destruction 2. Kings 14 10.13 Who gloryes in his owne shame and who onely mindes earthly things It seemes there is none in Power in England that will doe that which is good no Phil. 3.19 not one as apeares by Crumwell and his Consorts though they are sought vnto Psal 14.3 Wijse and Righteous Reador bee pleased to take notice of the Conclusion These following Reasons Reade and Consider First to my great disgrace and prejudice my wrongs and sufferings in my Person and good name hath been in sundry kinds very extreame and of 23. yeares continuance Secondly This hath caused me from time to time to be bitterly revyled and scorned by