Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its members... by William Prynne ...

Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its members... by William Prynne ...

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Conscientious, Serious Theological and Legal Quaerés, &c.

An Exact Alphabe•ical Li•t of the Old and N•w secluded Memb•r• of the Comm•ns House in the long Parliament, surviving May 7. 1659. when the dissolved Juncto began their new Session.

Baronets, Knights and Viscoun•s.

Esquiers, G•ntlemen and Lawyers.

An Alph•betical List of all Members of the late dissolved Iuncto.

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Conscientious, Serious THEOLOGICAL AND LEGAL QUAERES, Propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created Anti-Parliamentary Westminster Iuncto, AND ITS MEMBERS. TO Convince them of, humble them for, convert them from their transcendent Treasons, Rebellions, Perjuries, Violences, Oppressive illegal Taxes, Excises, Militiaes, Imposts; destructive Councils, Proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie Kings, the old dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the Majoritie of their old secured, secluded, imprisoned fellow Members, the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Freemen, Commons, Church, Clergie of ENGLAND, their Protestant Brethren, Allies; contrary to all their Oathes, Protestations, Vowes, Leagues, Covenants, Allegiance, Remonstrances, Declarations, Ordinances, Promises, Obligations to them, the fundamental Laws, Liberties of the Land; and Principles of the true Protestant Religion; And to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels, as tend to publike Unitie, Safetie, Peace, Settlement, and their own salvation.

By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne.

The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.

Levit. 19.17.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him; or bear not sin for him.

1 Tim. 5.20.

Them that sinne openly, rebuke before all, that others may fear.

Prov. 9.8, 9.

Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee; give instruction to a wise man, and he will yet be wiser.

Jude 11, 12.

Wo to them, for they have gone in the way of Kain, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. They are trees whose fruit is withered, TWICE DEAD, plucked up by the roots.

London Printed, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, 1660.

Conscientious, Serious Theological and Legal Quaerés, &c.

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THe Wisest of Men, and God only wise, informs all Sons of Wisdom capable of Instruction; that Prov. 27.5, 6 [...] open rebuke, is better than secret love; because faithfull are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull: whence Prov. 28.23 [...] he that rebuketh a man, for his exorbitant transgressions, af [...]erwards shall finde more favour, than he that flattereth with the tongue; by extenuating, excusing or justifying his Offences. Upon [...]his consideration, I reputed it both a seasonable and Christian duty incumbent on me in this day of the late Anti-Parliamentary Iunctoes dissipation, humiliation, confusion, and Army-Officers division amongst themselves, to reminde them fully of, and Tit. 1.13. rebuke them plainly, sharply, for their manifold Treasons, Perjuries, and other exorbitant Offences against their lawfull Protestant Kings, Kingdom, the late dissolved Parliament, the whole House of Lords, the Majoritie of their fellow-Members, the whole English Nation, Church, Ministrie, their Protestant Brethren, and Allies, against all their sacred and civil Obligations to them, in a serious, impartial, convincing, least-offensive manner, by way of Q [...]aeres drawn from Gods word, and plain sacred Scripture-Texts, and our known Laws, which they have most presumptuously trodden under foot, and Jer. 22.27. c. 5.5. Ezech. 22.27. would not hearken to, in the daies of their late self-exaltation and Prosperity, like their Predecessors of [Page] old among the Jews: when I minded and reminded them over and over, not only in my Speech, Memento, Collections of our antient Parliaments, and other publications in the years 1648, 1649. in my Epistle to, and first Part of My Historical Collections, and Legal Vindication, 1655. My Republicans Spurious Good Old Cause briefly and truly Anatomized; My True and Perfect Narrative, and Concordia Discors in May, and Iune last, and Brief Necessa [...]y Vindication of the old and n [...]w secluded Members, in S [...]ptember [...]ollowing; (wherein I truly predict [...]d their former and present dissolutions by those very Army Officers with whom they confederated) which they would n [...]t cr [...]dit, till dissolved by them; being in good hopes, that they [...]ill now at last Hear Counsel and receive instruction, tha [...] they may be wise in their latter end, as God himself adviseth them, Prov. 19.20.

1. Wheth [...]r their Speaker Mr. Lenthall and those confederate Members of the Commons House, who against their duties, upon pretext of the unarmed London Appren [...]ices tumult at the House in Iuly 1647. (though they secured, secluded no M [...]mber [...], but only kept them in the House, till they had read, answered their Petitio [...], and then quietly depa [...]ted) went away privily to the Army, by the invitation, instigation of some swaying A [...]my Officers, without the leave or privity of the House; brought up the whole Army to Westminster and London to conduct them in triumph to the Hous [...], caused them to See a Collection of the Armies Engagements, Remonstrances, &c. p. 106, [...]o 145. impeach, declare against, suspend, imprison sundry Members of both Houses; nulled all Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Proceedings in their absence, by reason of a pretended force upon the House by the Apprentices during that space, and declared them meerly void to all int [...]nts, by the Speakers Declaration, and an Ordinance of [...]0. Aug. 1647 when as there was no force at all upon the Houses during that time, and these Members might have freely, safely returned to the House alone, had they listed, without the Army, or any one Troop to guard them: and afterwards mutinied and brought up part of the Army again to Westminster, to Animadversions upon the Armies Remonstrance, Nov. 20. 1648. p. 10, 11, 12. force the Houses to passe the Vo [...]es for No more addresses to the King, (contrived in a General Council of Army-Officers, [Page] and seconded with their Declaration when passed by force and surprize in an emptie House.) After that most traiterously and perfidiously See the 2. part of the History of Independency. confederated with the Army Officers to break off the last Treatie with the King in the Isle of Wight; to seise the Kings person by a party of the Armie, & remove him thence against both Houses Orders, notwithstanding his large Concessions & consent to their Propositions: to secure, seclude all the Members of the Commons House, who after many daies and one whole nights debate, passed this Vote according to their judgements, consciences, duties (carried without dividing the House, notwi [...]hstanding the A [...]mies march to Westminster, and menaces to prevent it) That the answers of the King to the Propositions of both Houses, were a ground for the house to proceed upon for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom: which Vote of the whole House, when there were above 300 Members present, about 40 of them only soon after repealed, expunged, (the manner of carrying on of which design against the King & Members, was concluded by a Committee at Windsor consisting of 4. A [...]my Offi [...]ers, wherof Col. Harrison (their chairman, and a Member) and Col. Rich were two; 4. Members of the Commons House, wherof Cornelius Holland yet living was one, the 3. others since dead, 4. Independents, and 4. Anabaptists of London: wherein a List was made by them what Members should be secluded, secured, and who admitted to sit; this Committee resolving to dissolve both houses by force, and to try, condemn, execute the King by a Council of war, See the Republicans spurious good old Cause briefly and truly anatomised, P. 1. to 6. if they could not get 40 of the Commons House to sit and bring him to Justice, as Iohn Lilburn one of that Committee hath published in print;) approved, abbetted the Armies forcible, treasonable securing of many Members, secluded the Majoritie of the House by their Vote of Ian. 11. 1648. upon the Armie-Officers false and scandalous printed Answer to them, Ian. 3. touching the grounds of their securing and secluding them, contrary to their Protestation, Covenant, the Privileges, Rights of Parliament, the Great Charter, the Fundamental Laws and liberties of the Nation; And not content therewith, by their own Anti-Parliamentary, anti-christian [Page] Usurpation, to out act the old G [...]npowder Traytors many degrees, by the Armies assistance, and 2 Thess. 2.4. opposing, advancing themselves against all that is called God and worshiped, they most traiterously set aside, voted down, suppressed the whole House of Lords, as dangerous, uselesse, tyrannical, unnecessary; usurped, engrossed the [...]ile, power o [...] the Parliament of England, and Supreme Authority of the Nation, to themselves alone, without King, Lords, or Majo [...]ity of their fellow secluded Members; created a new Monstrous High Court of Iustice, (destructive to all our fundamental Laws, Liberties and Justice it self) wherein (beyond all presidents since the creation) they most presumptuously condemned, murdered, beheaded their own lawfull Hereditarie Protestant King (against all their former Oathes, Protestations, Vows, Covenants, Remonstrances, Declarations, Obligations, Allegiance, the Laws of the Land, the principl [...]s of the Protestant Religion, and dissenting votes, protestations, disswasions of the secluded Lords, Commons, Scots, Commissioners, London Ministers; the intercessions of forein States and our 3. whole Kingdoms,) together with 3. Protestant Peers soon after: After that, close imprisoned my self, Sir William Waller, Sir William Lewes, Major General Brown, with sundry other Members divers years in remote Castles, without any hearing, examination, cause expressed, or the least reparation for this unjust oppression; exercising far greater Tyranny over the Peers, their old fellow Members, and all English Freemen, during the time of their Regality in every kind, than the beheaded King or the worst of his predecessors; Were not by a most just, divine retaliation a [...]d providence (when they deemed themselves most secure and established) even for these their transcendent Treasons, Perjuries, Tyrannies, violations of the Rights, Privileget of Parliament, their own sacred Oaths, Protestation, League, Covenant, suddenly dissolved, dissipated, thrust out of doors, Apr. 20. 1653. by Cromwel and the Army Officers in a forcible shamefull manner, with whom they confederated all along, though they received new commissions from, & engaged to be true & [...]aithful to thē without [...][Page]King or House of Lords, and branded by them to posterity in their printed Declaration,See their Declarations and Papers of April 20. And August 12. 1653 [...] And true State of the Commonweal [...]h of England p. 8, to 12. Apr. 20. 1653. ‘as the curruptest, and worst of men; intollerably oppressing the people, carrying on their own ambitious designes, to perpetu [...]te themselves in the Parliamentarie and Supreme Authoritie, the archest Trust breakers, Apostates, never answering the ends which God, his people, and the whole Nation expected from them, &c.’ Col. Harrison himself (the Chairman at Windsor Committee to secure us) being the very person imploied by Cromwell to pull their Speaker Lenthall out of the chair, and turn him with his Companions out of doors; Cromwell himself then stigmatizing Sir Henry Vanes, Henry Martyn, Tom Ch [...]lloner and others of them by name, with the Titles of Knave, Whoremaster, Drunkard, &c. And not long after to requite his good Services, he suddenly turned Col. Harri [...]on, Rich, and their party out of the Commons House by Force, dissolved their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle (elected only by the Army) De [...]. 11. 1653. whiles they were seeking God for direction; and soon after cashiered both these As he did Col. Overton, Okey, and sundry others. Collonels, (his former greatest Instruments) out of the Army, sent them close Prisoners to remote Castles garded with Army Troops; And as they and their Troops when they seized Major General Brown, with other Members besides, and conducting them to Windsor Castle, & other Prisons, refused to acquaint them whether they were to be sent: So Mr. Iess [...]p the Clerk of their Council of State, (who brought these Colonels to the Coach at Whitehall garden door, when they were conveyed to remote Castles) and their Conductors, denied to inform them to what places they w [...]re committed; whereupon they cried out to the Troopers which garded them; Gentlemen, is this the Liberty you and we have fought for, to be sent close Prisoners to rem [...]te Garrisons from our wives and families, they will not tell us whether? Will you suffer your own Collonels, Officers, who have fought for Laws, Liberties, & have been Members of Parl [...] to be thus used [...] To which they answered, as themselves did in the like case to other secured Members, conducted by them: We are commanded, and must obey, not [Page]dispute our Orders; and so were hurried away: a [...] an eye and ear-witnes [...] of the old Parliament, related to me within one hour af [...]er. Yea young Sir Hen. Va [...] himself (the bold prejudger of our Deba [...]es and Vote in the House touching the Kings concessions, if not a promoter of our unjust seclusion [...]or it) was unexpectedly & suddenly, not only thrust ou [...] from all his Imployments, as well a [...] out of th [...] H [...]use, bu [...] sent close Prisoner by Cromwel to Cari [...]brook [...]astle in the Isl [...] of Wight, th [...] very place where he betrayed his trust to the King and Parli [...]ment at the Treaty, to gratify Cromwel, who by an extraordinary strange providence, sent him clo [...]e Prisoner thither for sundry months, to See his re [...]ired Ma [...]s (unintelligible) Meditation [...]. medi [...]ate upon this divine retaliation. Whether may not all this dissolved Iuncto and it [...] Members, from these wonder [...]ul Judgement [...], providence [...], now conclude and cry out with that h [...]athen cruel Tyrant Adonibezeck. Judg. 1.7. A [...] I have done [...] so God hath requited me? And acknowledge the truth of Gods Comminations against all treacherous betrayers & potent oppressor [...] of their Brethren, Obad. 15. As thou hast [...]one, it shall be don [...] unto thee, thy r [...]ward shall return upon thine own head. Ps. 7.15, 16. He made a pit and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which be made; his mischief shall return upon his own [...]ead, and his violent dealing upon his ow [...] pa [...]e. Rev. 13.9, 10 [...] If any man ha [...]e an ear to [...]ear, let him hea [...]; He that leadeth into Cap [...]ivity, shall go into Captivity: He that kille [...]h with [...]he Sword shall be killed with the Sword. Here is the patience, and faith of the S [...]ints. O that all real and pretended Saint [...] in the dissolved Juncto and Army would now consider and believe it: as [...] l [...]tely pressed them to do, in the cloze of my Good Old Cause truly sta [...]ed, and the false Vncased; yet they would not regard it.

Whether their illegal forcible wresting the Militia of the Kingdom totally out of the King [...] hands into their own; as their only security to sit in safety; and perjurious engaging all Officer [...], Soldiers of the Armie in England, Scotland, and Ireland, to be true, faithful and constant is them without a King, or House of Lords (by subscription [...] in parchmen [...] Roll [...] r [...]turned to them under all their hand [...]) contrary to their former Votes, Declarati [...]ns [...] Remonstrances, Protestations, [Page] Oath [...], Vows, Covenants, Trust [...], yea the very writs, returns which made them Members, their own Souldier [...], Army-Officers first Commission [...], Declaration [...], R [...]monstrance [...], Propos [...]l [...]; and depending on thi [...] Jer. 17.5. arme of fles [...], or broken Isay 36.6. reed of Aegypt, as a most sure invine [...]ble Gu [...]rd, security, from all forces, and enemies wha [...]soever that might assault, dishouse, dethrone them from their usurped supreme Regal and Parliamental Authority over the three Nations, and their Hereditary King [...], Lu. 19.27. whom they would not have to reign over them; hath not been most [...]xemplarily and eminently requited by God [...] avenging providence, in making the very self-same Army most treacherou [...] and perfidious to themselves, to rise up, rebel against them several times, and turn them out of Hous [...], power on a sudden when they deemed them [...]elves most secur [...]; to make themselves more than Kings and Lord [...] over th [...]m and our whole 3 Kingdom [...]; and Isay 24.21. An host of the High ones that are on high upon the earth: reviving that Att [...]xie, which Solomon complained of as a great error in Government, and a divine judgement upon the Author [...] of State Innovation [...]. Eccles. 10.6, 7, 8, 9. Folly is se [...] in great dignity, and t [...]e ri [...]h sit in l [...]w place [...] I have see [...] servants [...]n [...]orseback, and Princes walking [...]s Servants upon the earth. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it, and who so breaketh a beged a Serpent shall bite him: Whosoe [...]er removeth stones shall be hurt therewith, [...]nd [...]e that cle [...] veth wood shall be endangered t [...]ereby [...] Whether that curse and judge [...]nt, Jer. 17.5 [...] 6 Thus, saith the Lord, cursed [...]e the man that tru [...]teth i [...] man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departet [...] from the Lord; For he shall be like the heath in the desar [...], and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inherit the parc [...]ed places in the wild [...]rnesse, a salt land, and not inh [...]bited [...] hath not justly b [...]f [...]ll [...]n them & our Nation, [...]or relying on & trusting to an [...]rm of flesh, an Army & Jer. 9.2, &c. Assembly of tr [...]acherous men, whom themselves t [...]ught, encouraged to be treacherou [...], per [...]urious to the King, Parl. Lords, their fellow [...]Memb [...]r [...] and Is [...]y 33.1. Jer. 9 [...], to 22. thereby to themselves; yet voted, cried them up for their fait [...]full Army, Savi [...]u [...], Delivere [...], Pro [...]ect [...], Shields, and [...]o [...]ly Safegua [...]d, after they had dealt [...]rea [...]erously with themselves, [Page] and all their other Sup [...]rior [...]; and proved like Isay 36.6. Ezeck. 49.9, 7. Aegypt to the Israelites who trusted on them: When they [...]ook [...]old of thee by the hand, thou didd [...]st break and pierce throug [...] the hand [...] and rent all their shoulders, and when they leaned upon thee, th [...]u breakest and madest all their loins to be at a stand; ye [...], dissolved, and Isay 30.14. broke them in pieces like a po [...]ters ves [...]el, so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it, a s [...]eard to take fire from the hearth, or water ou [...] o [...] the pit. And may we not then t [...]ke up thi [...] Song of the Lamb? Rev. 15.3, 4. Great and marvellous are thy work [...] Lord God Almighty; Iust and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints; who shall not fear thee, ô Lord, and glorifie thy name, For thy Iudgements are made manifest?

Whether their clandestine, sudden, indirect stealing into th [...] Commons House a [...]ain, May 7. 1659. upon the Army-Officer [...] invitation and Declaration, (who formerly tu [...]ned them [...]ut of it wi [...]h high [...]st infamie, contempt and defam [...] tion April 20. 1653.) after about 6. year [...] dissolu [...]on, [...]nd 4. intervenient Vnparliamentary Conventicle [...], (wherein many of them sat as Members, and acted as in Parliament [...]) by pretext of their old Wri [...] and Elections as M [...]mber [...] of the long Parliament, [...]ctually and legally dissolved by their traiterou [...] beheading of the King near 11. years before, as I have In Prynne the Member recon [...]iled to Prynne the Barrester. A Legal Vindication against illegal Taxes, A True and perfect Narrative, p. 24, to 34. A brief necessary Vindication of the old and new secl [...]ded Members [...] [...]. 5. elsewhere proved; without any new Writs of Summon [...], Resum [...]ons, Electio [...]s, or the privitie of their [...]or [...]er ele [...]tors or fellow Members: Their forcible s [...]cluding of my self, Sir George [...]ooth, Mr. Ansly, all formerly s [...]cluded Member [...] and others not fitting with them from 1648. till April 20. 1653. by Army-Officers and Guards of Souldiers placed at the door [...]or that end, and their justifi [...]tion, and [...]ontinuing of this new seclu [...]ion as w [...]ll [...]s t [...]e old: Their usurping to themselves the Title, Power of the Parliament of the [...] of England, Scotland a [...]d [...]eland, and Supreme Authority of the Nation. Their ex [...]rcisin [...] both the Highest Regal, Parliamental, Legislative, Tax-imposing Authority over our Nation [...], (the worst, highest of all other Treas [...]s) their [...]r [...]ating new unheard of Treas [...], Exile [...] by thei [...] [...] Proclamations, imposing N [...]w intollerable [Page] Tax [...] Excises, Mill [...]a [...] on the whole Nation, against all Laws, and our Fundamental Liberties, Franchis [...]. Their mo [...]t injurious, illegal, unpresidented proclaming of Sir George Booth, Sir Thomas Middleton, with other old and new [...]ecluded Members of the long Parliament, and all th [...]ir adherents, Traytors, Enemies to the Common-wealth, and Apostates, not only i [...] all Counties and Corporation [...], bu [...] Churches and Chapels too throughout the Nation, to abuse both God and men, only for raising forces by virtue of Ordinances and Commissions granted [...]hem by the long Parliament (which themselves pretended to b [...] still continuing) to defend the Rights and Privilege [...] of Parliament, to call in all the surviving Members of both Houses to sit with them, or procure a free and full Parl. duly summoned, according to the Protestation, Vow, League, Covenant, and Laws of the Land, being their own and the whole Nations Birthright, for defence whereof the Army it sel [...] was both raised, continued, and themselves in their Proclamation of May 7. 1659. and Declaration of March 17. 1648 promised inviolably to maintain; which their own consciences knew to be no Crime nor Treason at all, but an honest, legal, honorable, necessary undertaking, justified by all their former Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Commissions for raising force [...] against the King [...] party for the self-same end: And themselves greater Traitors, Enemies to the Kingdom and Republike, than Strafford, Canterbu [...]y, or the beheaded King, in proclaiming their defence of this undo [...]bted Inheritance of all English Freemen against their Tyrannical usurpations thereo [...], to be Treason and Apostacy: Their sending out of Major Gen. Lambert, (who invited them into the House May 6. conducted them into it, but secluded Sir G. Booth & other Members out of it, May 7. took a new Commission from them afterward [...] in the House, and promised with many large expressions, [...]o be true, faithfull, constant, and yield his u [...]most assistance to them, to set in safety and support their power) with great forces against Sir George Booth and all his adherents in this cause, being the Majority of the old Parl. and of the people of the [Page] Nation, & the true old Parliament if continuing, [...]o levie actual war against them; declared Exact Coll. p. 576, 613. A Collection of Ordinances, p. 13.219, 220. high Treason by sundrie Votes and former Declarations, and so resolved by themselves in their Impeachments against the beheaded King, the E. of Holland, L. Capel, other [...], and late Pamphlets against the Army; who accordingly levied war against them [...] routed their forces, reduced their Garison [...], imprisoned their persons, sequestred, confiscated their estates as Traitors; secured, disarmed Sir Will. Waller, Mr. Holles, with sundrie other old Members, promised rewards for bringing in the persons or heads of others they endeavoured to secure, against all rules of Law, and Christianitie; kept a publike humiliation for their good successe against Sir George Booth and his adherents, and after their defeat a publike thanksgiving through Westminster and London, to mock God himself (Gal. 6, 7. who will not be mocked) to his very face, and ordained a publike thansgiving throughout the whole Nation, to abuse both God and them, for their Great Deliverance from the most Dangerous Plot and Treason of Sir George Booth, and his party; (to bring in all the old Members to sit with them, without turning those then sitting out, or to procure a free Parliament,) that so their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle, by this pretext, might exercise a Perpetual Tyrannie, and Parliamental Authority over them; and none thenceforth dare demand a full and free Parliament for the future, under pain of highest Treason, Apostacie, and the losse of their very Heads and estates. Whether all these their transcendent High Treasons, with their former 1648. against the K. secluded Members, Lords, Parliament, people, were not by a most signal miraculous Providence and Justice of God himself recompenced immediately after upon their own, Lamber [...]s, and other Armie-Officers head [...], by making their rou [...]iing of Sir George Booth and his party, after their first thanksgiving for it, before the next day of general thanksgiving came, the very occasion of their sudden unexpected dissolution: 1. [By over-elevating Lamberts, his Officers and Brigades Spirits, (notwithstanding the signal Marks and Rewards of their Favours towards them, for the present, and future promises of advancement [Page] for their Fidelity to them in this Service) to enter into contestations with them by their Petition and Representations. 2ly. By raising the differences and jealousies between them to such a height and open enmitie, notwithstanding all their large Votes & compliances to satisfie them, all means, mediations of Friends, and the Londoners publike Feast on their thanksgiving day, to reconcile them; as to incense the Juncto to vote Major Harrison (a chief agent, Chairman for the old Members first seclusion) uncapable of any publike Trust or Office:See the Armies Plea and Declaration, 27 October. The printed Votes, Diurnals, and Parliaments Plea. to vote Lambert, Disbrow, Creed, and 6. more field Officers out of their commands, null their Commissions, and dispose of their Regiments to the next Officers, without any hearing or examination; if not threatning to commit Lambert to the Tower as a Traytor; to repeal Fleetwoods Commission and Knack to be Lieutenant General of their Forces in England and Scotland; and put the command of the Army and new Militia under 7. Commissioners, to wrest the power of them both into their own hands. 3ly. By exasperating Lambert and his confederates by these Votes so far against them, & giving them such favour with the Armie, as to draw up the greatest part of the forces about London in battel array against them; and notwithstanding their partie in the Armie, whereof they had made many of themselves Colonels, their interest in the Militia of Westminster, London, Southwark, and Sir Henry Vanes two Regiments of Gathered Churches (who were disgregated and kept their Chambers all that day, not one of them appearing in the field, because their valiant Collonel took a Clyster pipe into his fundament, instead of a Lance into his hand in the day of battel, and durst not hazard a broken pate in the quarrel;) and then in a hostile warlike manner to besiege many of them in Whitehall, block up all passages to the House, seise upon their old Speaker with his Coach, Mace, and new General (without a Sword, Armie, Troop or Company) from whose hands they had freshly received their Commissions, turning him back from whence he came; to charm all the Junctoes forces so, as to march away without drawing one sword, or shooting one bullet in their defence, so true, faithful, were they to their good old cause, [Page] as well as to their New Protectors, as to deem neither of them worth one bloodie nose. 4. By engaging Lamber [...] and his party, notwithstanding all endeavoured and seeming accommodations be [...]ween them, to seise upon their House, and their provisions of ammunition and victuals in it: to lock up the doors, and keep constant Guards upon the stairs to seclude all these their new Lords and Masters, as they did on May 7, 9. & afterwards seclude their fellow-Members; and not content herewith, by a printed Plea for the Army, and Declaration of the Ge [...]eral Council of the Army, sitting at Wallingford House, which called them in, and thus shamefully not long after turned them out of doors, (usurping to themselves both a Regal Authority to call and dissolve Parliaments, (as they [...]epute and stile them) and a Parliamental too, in making and repealing Acts of Parliament (as they deem them) at their pleasure;) they not only justi [...]ie this their forcible ejectment, seclusion to all the world by Lex talionis, even their own abetting, approving, justifying, the Armies former seclusion of the Major part of thei [...] fellow Members, who were the House, and the whole House of Lords, and securing the leading Members, when over powred by them, and appealing to the Armies Judgements therein: but also put a period to their Assemblie: branded, [...]lled, repealed, declared their last Votes, Acts [...] Proceedings void to all intents & purposes whatsoever, [...]s if they had never been made; Censured them as imperfect, ineffectual, irregular, [...]nparliamentary, illegal, pernicious, r [...]sh, inconsiderate; branding each other in several printed Papers, for Traytors, Trust-breakers, Treacherous, Perfidious, F [...]ithless, Vurighteous, Ambitious, Self-seeking usurpers of the Soverain power, Oppr [...]ssors of the free people of England, & invaders, betrayers of their Liberties & Birthrights: the [...]eby declaring the old secluded Member, the only honest, faithful, constant, consciencious men, adhering to their good old [...]ause, Oaths, Covenant, Principles, and the publique interest; & Sir George Booth himself to be No Traytor, but truer Patriot of his Country than any of themselve [...], as dying Pure [...]oy, openly acknowledged before his death, and others of them confesse in private, since even Lambert himself hath done [Page] and exceeded that work, they feared he would doe, by dissolving their Conventicle, and turning them out of house and power, which Sir George did not design. Whether all these strange, unparalleld, sudden, unexpected animosities, divisions between themselves; their uncommissioning, dissolving, cashiering, disofficing one another, (which I truly predicted to them from Scriptures, and former Providences, in my Good Old Cause truly stated; my True and Perfect Narrative, p. 94.98. and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members, p. 61, 62.) be not the very finger of God himself, Exod. 8.19. Psa. 118.23. the Lords own doing, truly marvellous in all our eyes; yea the very particular Judgement menaced by God himself against all such Traitors and Innovators, as most audaciously and professedly violate with the highest hand this divine precept, Prov. 24.21 [...] 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King, and meddle not with those that are given to change; for their Calamity shall suddenly arise, and who knoweth the ruine of them both: and a verification of Prov. 29.1? If not a divine infliction of the very Confusion and punishment denounced by God himself against Aegyp [...] of old for their crying sins, Isay 19.2, 3, &c. I will set the Aegyptians against the Aegyptians, and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour, City against City, and Kingdom against Kingdom: A [...]d the Spirit of Aegypt shall fail in the midst thereof, and I will destroy the Counsel thereof. Surely the Princes of Zoan (the Juncto and Armies General Council) are become fools, the Princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the Tribes thereof. The Lord hath mingled a spirit of [...]ervers [...]ties amongst them, & they have caused Egypt (yea England) to erre in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit [...] Neither shall there be any work [...]or Aegypt, which the head or toyl, branch or root may do [...] to defend or establish themselves or their pretended yet un [...]med Free-State. And may not they all then and others [...] the consideration of all the promises, justly cry [...] with the Apostle in an holy admiration. Rom. 11.33. O the depth of the Riches b [...] of the wisdom and knowledge of God [...][Page]how unsearcheable are his Iudgements, and his wayes part finding out.

4. Whether the Juncto and their High Court of Inj [...] stice-men, who had any hand, vote in the Traiterous, Perfidious beheading of their late Protestant King, the head of the Parliament; dissolving and blowing up the whole House of Lords, the Majority of the Commons House, the whole old Parl [...]ment, Kingdom, Kingsh [...]p; the Prince of Wales next heir and successor to the Crow [...]; [...]he rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, the fundamental Laws, Liberties, Government of the Nation, and our established Protestant Religion, against all their Oathes, Allegiances, Trusts, Duties, Votes, Declarations, Remonstrances, Protestations, Vows, Solemn Leagues, Covenants obliging them to the contrary; can with any faith, boldness, confidence, piety, or real devotion appear before the presence of God, Angels, Men in any of our Congregations on the 5. of November, the 3 Jac. c. 1, 2, joyful day of our deliverance, from the Popist [...] Gunpowder Treason [...] publikely celebrated every year; to render publike thanks to Almighty God, and ascribe all honour, glory and praise to his name, for hi [...] great and infinite mercy in delivering the King, Queen, Prince, Lords spiritual and temporal when assembled in the Lords House, Nov. 5. An. 1650. (from this plot of malicious, devillish Papists, Iesuites & Seminary Priests, who maligning the happiness and prosperity of our Realm, Church and Religion under a Protestant King, and its promising contin [...] ance to all posterity, in his most hopeful, royal, plentiful Progeny, intend [...]d to blow them all up suddenly with gunpowder, but were [...]hrough Gods great mercy miraculously delivered from this suddain bo [...]rid Treason, by a wo [...]derful discovery thereof some few hours before it was to be executed [...]) when as themselves have outstripped them by many degrees in executing, accomplishing far more than what they only intended, but could not effect; yet repute themselves Protestants, and the emineniest of all Saints? Whether they can without the [...] est horror of conscience, confusion of face, spirit, [...]sternation of mind, and grief of heare, henceforth [...] sume to appear before the presence of God, or any English [Page] Protestant [...] [...]t any time, especially on this day, before they have publickly lamented, confessed, repented, and made some open eminent satisfaction, for those transcend [...]nt new Gunpowder-Treasons, far worse than the old of the Iesuits and Papists, by whom they were acted in this; especially if they consider Gods expostulation with such sinners. Ps. 50.16, 17. What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest Instruction, and hast cast my words behind thee. When thou s [...]west these Powder Traytors, thou consentest with them, and hast been partaker with these Murderers, and Adulterers. And that of Rom. 2.1, 2, 3. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thy self: For thou that judgest, dost [...]he same things. But we know that the judgement of God is according to Tru [...]h against th [...]se who commit such things. And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and dost the same, (nay worse) that thou shalt escape the judgement of God, &c?

5. Whether those turn coat Peace-abhorring, self-seeking,5 shameless Members, and Lawyer [...], who (though not fifty in number) sitting under a force a [...]ter the seclusion of the Majority of their [...]ellow-Members, Decemb. 13. 1648. resolved, that the Vote passed in a full House Iuly 28 1648. That a Treaty should be had in the Isle of Wight, with the King in Person, by a Committee appointed by both Houses, upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton Court: was highly Dishonorable to the procéedings of Parliament, and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom. And that the Vote of 5. D [...]cemb. 1648. (passed without dividing the House when there were 300 Members in it) That the answers of the King [...]o the Proposition of both Houses, are a sufficient g [...]und for the House to proceed upon, These Voters certainly intended to make an endless trade of Warr, and never to have any Peace. for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom: is highly dishonorable to the Parliament, and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom, and tending to the breach of the publick faith of the Kingdom. And in their Declaration of 15. Ianuary 1648. expressing their Reasons for annulling and vac [...]ting these Votes in this manner; declared them to be [...]ig [...]ly repugnant to the glory of God, greatly dishonorable to the[Page]proceedings of Parliamen [...], and apparently destructive to the good of this Kingdom: (adding) Yet we are resolved, and that speedily, so to settle the peace of the Kingdom by the Authority of Parliament [...] in a more happy way than can be expected from the best of Kings; Which they never since performed in the least degree, but the direct contrarie, embroiling us in endless Wars, Seditions, Tumults, Successions, Revolutions of new-modelled Governments, & oppressing, destructive Anti-Parliame [...] tary Conventicles ever sithence. After that suppressed our Kings and Kingly Government, as the Instruments, Occasions of Tyranny, I [...]justice, Oppression, Luxury, Prodigality and Slavery to the Commons under them; together with th [...] whole House of Lords, as Dangerous, Uselesse, Dilatory t [...] the Procéedings of Parliament, &c. in their Votes of Febr. 6. and Penned by Mr. Whitlock. Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their lute Proceedings, and se [...]ling the Government in way of a Free State [...] Next, prescribed, subscribed an Ingagement to be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth established by [...]hem without a King or House of Lords. Yet afterwards in their New modelled Parliament (a [...] they reputed it) April 1657. by their Petition and Advice, (as first penned, passed and presented to Cromwell for his assent [...]) Declared the revival of Kingship and Kingly Government, absolutely Necessary for composing the distractions, and setling the peace and tranquillity of our Nations; advised, pe [...]i [...]ioned, and pressed hi [...] to accept the Name, Title, Power and Soveraign Authority of a King, over our three Kingdoms, and the Dominions thereunto annexed; Voted him to be King thereof [...] with a constant revenue of no lesse than. Twelve hundred thousand pounds a year in perpetuity, and five hundred thousand pounds more for 3. years space, out of the peoples exhausted purse [...], after most of the antient Crown-lands and Revenues sold, when as they them [...]elves affirmed and published in their Decl. of March 17. 1648. p. 19. that the justi [...]iable, legal Revenue of the Crown under King Charls (be [...]des the Customs and some other p [...]quis [...]es, cha [...]ed with the maintenance of the Nav [...]e and Forts) fell shors of [...]n [...] hundred thousand pounds yet [...]. This new-augmented Revenue for their New King Olivers [Page] support being above 3. times more than any of our lawful Kings ever enjoyed. And when Cromwell pretended dissatisfaction in point of conscience, to receive the Kingship and Kingly Government on him; the [...]ery Lenthall, Whitlock, &c. Lawyers, Members, Officers, who drew the Declarations and Reasons for abolishing Kingship, Kingly Government and House of Lords, were the Committee appointed to confer with him 3. several times, & draw up reasons to satis [...]ie him, why he might and ought in reason, law, policie, conscience to accept the Kingship and Kingly Title, for his own and the publike Safety [...] Which he r [...]using ( [...]gainst hi [...] through fear of some Army Officers. desire) they voted him their Royal Protector, took an Oath to be true and faithfull to him, and to his Son Ri [...]hard after him, and to act nothing against their Persons or Power; created themselves Ano [...]her House [...] assumed to themselves the Title of Lords, and THE HOUSE OF LORDS, notwithstanding their Engagements against it under all their hands. Yet soon after dethroned their young Protector, nulled all his Conventions wherein they sate, with all Lordships, Knightships, and Offices granted by their Protectors, as illegal; revived their Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto, after it had layen buried in oblivion above 6 years space, in May last; and in Iuly following prescribed a New Oath and Ingagement to all Officers, & others who would enjoy the benefit of their Knack of Indemnity; To be true, faithful and constant to their Commonwealth (though yet unborn) without a Single person, Kingship, or House of Lords? Whether such treacherous, perjured double-minded men, unstable in all their wayes, Jam. 1.8. can ever be deemed chosen instruments ordained of God, to settle the Peace, or Government of our Nations? Whether the Proph [...]t Isay c. 59. and the Apostle Paul, Rom. 3.9.10. &c. have not truly characterized them: There is none righteous, no not one; there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God; they are all gone out of the way, they are all together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one: their threat is an open Sepulcher, with their Tongues (yea Oathes, Protestations, Declarations, Covenants) they have [...]sed deceit, the poyson of Asps is under their li [...]s: Their feet are swift to shed bloud, (the [Page] bloud of their Protestant King, Peers, Brethren, Alli [...]s, Fellow-Subjects, by Land and Sea, at home and abroad, in the field, and in new Butcheries of Highest Injustice,) destruction and misery are in their wayes, and the way of peace they have not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes: they have made them crooked pathes, whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Therefore is judgement far from us, neither doth Iustice overtake us; we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness: we grope for the wall like the blind, as if we had no eyes, we stumble at noon-day, as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men: we roar all like Bears, and mou [...]n sore like doves; we look for judgement, but there is none, for salvation, but it is farr off from us.

6 6. Whether God himself hath not given the Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto, and General Council of Army Officers hitherto, in their Iesuitical Project of bringing forth a misshapen monstrous Commonwealth, and whymfical Freest [...]t [...], to establish thing [...] amongst us, a miscarrying womb, and dry brests; so as we may justly say of them as the Prophet did of Ephraim; Hos. 9.12, 14.15, 16. Ephraim is smitten, their r [...]t it dryed up, it shall bear no fruit; yea, though they bring forth, yet will I even slay the beloved fruit of their womb: their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the w [...]mb, and from the conception; as their Commonwealth whimfie [...] have done? Whether Gods signal over- [...]urning, and forcible dissolving the Iuncto by the Army-Officers, twice on [...] [...]ft [...]r another in the very generation of this Iesuitical brat, before it was formed in the womb, to disinherit our antient hereditarie legitimate Kings and Kingship, and their turning of all things upside down (our Kings, Kingdom [...], Parliaments, Lords House, Lawes, Liberties, Oathes, Church, Religion, to make way for its production) hath not been like the Potters clay, (a rude deformed Chao [...], without any lineaments, or shape at all;) so as the work yet saith of h [...]m that made it, he made me not; and the thing formed saith of him that formed it, he hath no understanding, Isa. 29.16? Wh [...] ther these new Ba [...]e [...]-builders, whiles th [...]y have been building [Page] this new City and Tower, to keep them from being scattered upon the face of the whole earth, Gen. 11.3, to 10. have not like the old Babel-builders, been confounded in their language by God himself, that they might not understand one anothers speech, and scattred abroad thence upon the face of the earth, though guarded by their faithfull Army, on whom they relyed for protection, so that they left off to build their Babel, like them? Their City of Confusiō is broken down, & every house (yea their own Parl. House) shut up; In the City is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction. Isay 24.10, 12. It shall lie waste from generation to generation, none shall passe through it for ever and ever; But the Cormorant & the Bittern shall possess it; the Owl also & the Raven shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness? Whether their and the Armies endeavours to set up an Vtopian Commonwealth, instead of our old Hereditarie Kingship, is not a Acts 5.39. c. 23.9. direct fighting against God, and the express precepts, ordinances of God himself, Prov. 24.21, 22. c. 22.28. c. 8.15, 16. Rom. 13.1, 2. 1 Tim. 2.1, 2, 3. Tit. 3.1. 1 Pet. 2.13.17 [...] Yea against the good providence, mercie, favour of God towards our Kingdoms and Nations for their establishment; the want of a lawfull, hereditary King, to reign over a Kingdom and Nation, and a multiplicity of Governors, Kings, (especially of inferiour rank) and reducing the people to such a confused sad condition; That they shall call the Nobles thereof to the Kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her Princes shall be nothing; See my True and perfect Narrative, p. 92, 93. so that she hath no strong rod left to Rule, being a matter of present and future lamentation, a severe judgment of God for their sins, and wickednes, yea an occasion of all wickedness, licentiousness, villanies, confusion, and an immediat forerunner or concomitant of th [...] Kingdoms and Nations desolation, ruine by Gods own resolution, Hos. 3.4. c. 10.3.7. Ezech 49.11, 12.14, Isa. 33.11, 12, 13. Judges 17.6 &c. c. 18.1. &c. c. 21.25. Prov. 28.2. c. 30 21, 12. Hab. 1.10.14, 15. And is it not so now of ours?

7. Whether the late Petition and Advice 1657. to reduce 7 us again to a Kingdom and Kingship, to which W. Lenthal, Speaker, Whitlock, and many others of the dissolved Iuncto [Page] assented, as it was first penned, voted, passed by them and many Army-Officers, as the only means to settle us in peace, honor, safety, prosperitie; be not a convincing Argument, that in their own Judgements; Consciences; Kings & Kingly Government, are Englands only true Interest, to end our wars, Oppressions, distractions, prevent our ruine, and restore our pristine uni [...]ie, peace, honor, safety, prosperitie, trade, glorie? And whether it be not a worse than Bedlam Madness, yea grosse error both in policie and expeperience in our Republican Juncto and Army-Officers, to endeavour to erect an Utopian, Jesuitical Republike among us, (which hath produced so many sad publique change [...], confusions, and made us a meer floating Island, tossed about with every winde of giddy-brain Innovators) as the only means of our firm, lasting happinesse; and to prevent all future relapses to Monarchie after King Charls hi [...] beheading; which this notable censure of the incomparable PhilosopherDe Beneficiis, l. 2. c. 20. Seneca passed against that great Republic [...]n and Anti-royallist, M. Brutus, will abundantly refute. Cum Vir magnus fuerit in aliis, M. Brutus, mihi videtur in hâc re vehementer errare, qui aut Regis nomen extimuit, cum optimus Civitatis Status sub Rege justo sit: aut ibi speravit Libertatem futuram ubi tàm magnum praemium erat, et imperandi et serviendi; futuramque ibi aequalitatem civilis juris, et Staturas suo loco Leges, ubi viderat tot Millia hominum pugnantia, non ne serviret, fed [...]: (our present condition between the ambitious, usurping Antiparliamentary Juncto, and divided Army-Commander [...], all contending which Mark 9.34. Luke 9.46. c. 21.24. of them shall be the greatest, and who shall most oppress, enslave our N [...]tions to their Tyrannie, farr more exorbitant than the very worst of all our Kings) Quantum verò illum, aut rerum natura, aut vrbis suae tenuit oblivio Qui uno interempto (Rege) defuturum credidit alium qui idem vellet; Cum Tarquinius esse [...] inventus post tot Reges ferro et fulmine occisos; even in Rome it self, and we in England since the beheading of King CHARLES, and voting down Kings, Kingship, with the old House of Lords, and Ingagemen [...]s against them, [Page] have soon after found, a more than Royal Protector OLIVER, usurping the Wardship of our poor Infan [...] Common-wealth, aspiring af [...]er a Kingship and Crown whiles living; and crowned in his Statue, Herse, Scu [...] [...]heons as both KING and The Sexton [...] boy at Westminster, who shewed his Herse, at first said, Here is the Herse of Oliver late Protector; THE CONQUEROR OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND & IRELAND, whose CROWNS he [...]ears upon his SWORD: and said he had order to say so. CONQUEROR of our three Kingdomes after his death; bearing Three Crowns upon his sword, as an emblem of it: a momentanie Protect [...]r Richard after him; a new self-created other House, assuming to themselves the Title of LORDS & THE HOUSE OF LORDS; after an old Lords House suppressed; since that, a CHARLES FLEETWOOD, and IOHN LAMBERT, aspiring after the Soveraign Power, as their late and present actions, Declarations more than intimate, and dissolved Juncto affirm: and an exiled Hereditarie KING CHARLES, with a numerous ROYAL POSTERITIE after him, claiming the Crown and Kingship by lawfull indubitable Right, declared, ratified by the Vnrepealed Statutes of 1 Iacobi, c. 1. 3 Iacobi, c 1, 2, 4, 7 Iacobi c. 6. the See my Concordia Discor [...] Oathes of Supremacy, Allegiance, Feal [...]y; of all Mayor [...], Recorders, Freemen of every Corporation and Fraternity, of all Iustices, Iudges, Sheriffs, Officers of Iustice, Graduates in Vniversities or Innes of Court, Ministers, Incumbents, all Members of the Commons House of Parliament, and all other Freemen sworn in our Leet [...]; who by the powerfull assistance of their forein Friend [...] and Allies, and domestick, oppressed, discontented, divided, ruined Subject [...], will in all probabilitie be restored to the Crown, sooner or later, (as Aurelius Ambros [...]us after the murder of his Father and Brother by the Vsurper Vor [...]igerne,) was called in, restored and crowned King by his own British Subjects, to deliver them from Vortigerns and his invading Saxons Tyranny, after 21 years usurpation; and Edward the Confessor, called in and crowned King by his Nobles and Subjects, after 25 years dispossession of his right by the Dani [...]h Vsurpers, and all the Danes expelled, without any effusion of blood; as I haveSee my Legal Historical Vindication, &c. elsewhere evidenced at large out of our best Historians.

[Page] 8 Whether Gods extraordinarie sudden tr [...]ble miraculous overturning 1. of the Juncto when best established an [...] mo [...]t secure, after [...]heir victorious Successes against the Irish, Scots, Hollanders, Worcester-fight, and League with Spain by their own Gen. Cromwel Apr. 20. 1653. 2. Of Pr [...]t. Isay. 14.20. The seed of evil doers shall never be renowned. Richard (& his Brother Hen. too Deputy of Irel.) by his Brother Fleew. Unkle Disbrow, & other Army-Officers, after all their Oaths, and Addresses to him from them and all the Officers, Soldiers, Navy, most Counties, Corporations in England, Scotland, Ireland, to be true, faithful, loyal, ob [...]dient to, and live and die with him, in the midst of hi [...] Parliament, declaring, voting for, and complying with him; when most men though [...] it impossible to over [...]urn or depose him. 3ly, Of the revived Antiparliamentary Juncto, after Sir George Booths, and all their visible Opposites total rout and disappointment, when Ps. 30.6, 7. themselves and others esteemed them so well rooted, guarded, that there was no hopes nor possibility left of dissipating [...] dissolving them, or abolishing their usurped Regal and Parliamental power, even by the very instruments that called them in, and routed their Enemies; all [...] of them without any one drawn sword or drop of bloud, & that in a moment, be not a real, experimental verific [...]tion of Ezech. 21.26, 27. by way of Allusion to our own Governours and Kingdom, Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the Diadem, and take off the Crown, this shall not be the same [...] exalt him that is low, and abase him tha [...] is high: I will Overturn, Overturn, Overturn it, till he shall come whose right it is, and I will give it him?

9 9. Whether the late Iunctoes and A [...]my-Officer [...] doubling, trebling, quadrupling of our Nations Monthly Taxes, Excises, Militiaes, Grievances, Oppressions of all kinds by their usurped power; their consumption, devastation of all the Crown-lands, Rents, and standing Revenues of the Kingdom; of Bishops, Dean and Chapters lands, and many thousands of Delinquents real and personal estates, and greatest part of most [...]ens privat estates, only to make them greater Bondslaves to them than ever they were to any King [...]; without benefiting or easing them in any kind; and to murder one another by intestin [...], unchristian warr [...], [Page] Butcheries: And their Monstrous Giddiness, Intoxication in all their premised Councils, New Models, and Rotations of Government, ever since they turned the Head of [...]r Kingdoms (which should r [...]le, direct the whole body) downwards, and the Heels uppermost, to animate and steer it, against the course of nature, that rules of Law, Policie, Christianitie: and Gods Hos. 2.6, 7. hedging up all their new By-wayes with thorns, and making a wall cross them, that the people are not able to find their pathes: nor to overtake, nor finde their New Lovers they have hitherto followed and sought after; and those mad new whymsies the Jesuites infuse into their Pates from time to time, to make them and ou [...] Nation ridiculous to all the world till utterly destroyed: may not justly engage our three distracted Nations, and themselves too now, at a total loss; to [...]esolve and say with the Israelites, (when revol [...]ed from their rightfull Kings of the House of David in the like case) Hos. 2.7. I will go and return to my first Husband for then was it better with me than now? And to imitate the Israelites in the case of King David when expelled his Realm by his usurping son Absoloms rebellion, after his rout and slaughter, 2 Sam. 19.9, &c. And all the people were at strife throughout all the Tribes of Israel [...] saying; The King saved us out of the hands of our Enemies, and he delivered us out of the hands of the Philistins; and now he is fled out of the Land for Absolom, and Absolom whom we anointed King over us, is dead in battel (as their Pro. Oliver, Richard and dissolved Juncto are in a moment) now therefore why are ye silent, and speak not a word of bringing back the King to his House: And Zadok and Abiathar the Priests, spake unto the elders of Judah saying; Why are ye the last to bring the King back to his House; seeing ye are his brethren, of his bone and his flesh? And Amasa bowed the heart of all the Men of Iudah, even as one man, so that they sent this word unto the King; Return thou and all thy servants. So the k [...]ng returned to Iordan; where all the people of Judah, and half the men of Israel met him, and conducted him safe to Gilgal; and the men of Judah clave unto [Page]their King from Jordan even to Ierusalem; and re-established him in his Kingdom. Whether this be not the only safe, true, legal, prudential, Christian, speedy and ready high-way to their present and future Peace, Ease, Safety, Settlement, Wealth, Prosperity, both as Men and Christians, without any further effu [...]ion of Christian bloud, expence of Treasure; not other new Vertiginous Models, Army Councils, Treaties, tending to further confusions; (out of which the Nobility, Gentry, Ministry, Freeholders, Citizens, Burgesses, Merchants, Commons, Sea men, Parliaments of our 3. Nations are totally secluded, like meer Cyphers, by the Iuncto and Army-usurpers, as if they were meer Aliens, and wholly unconcerned in their own Government, Settlement, who will never acquiesce in any thing, but what themselves in a free Parliament shall resolve on.) Judges 19.30. Consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds, without fear, hypocrisy, or partiality. And whether we be not a people marked out and fitted for inevitable destruction (having all the symptoms, fore-runners of it and sins that hasten it now lying upon us) if we Understand ye brutish among the people: O ye fools, when will ye be wise? Ps. 94.8. brutishly reject this only means of our preservation, and follow the destructive whymsies of those Giddy-pated usurping raw Stears-men? of whom we may justly say with the Prophet Isai. 3.1.4, 12. Behold the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah the stay and the staff, the Honourable man and the Counsellor: And I will give Children (in State-affairs and understanding) to be their Princes, and Babes shall rule over them. And the people shall be oppressed every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient; and the Base against the Honourable (as now they do;) O my people, they which lead thee, cause thee to erre, and destroy the way of thy pathes, and they that are led of them (in their new Jesuitical By-wayes) are destroyed, by intestine divisions and forein invasions, as in Isai. 9.12. to 21. A sad emblem of our present condition, and approaching destruction, worthy our saddest meditations.

10 Whether the twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Juncto [Page] by their own Knack of the 12. of October, and paper printed by their special permission and command since their dissolution; intituled, The Parliaments Plea; declaring resolving, p. 5, 6, 7. That the People of England are of Right, a Free People, to be governed by their own elected Deputies and Trustees in Parliament; it being owned on all hands, both by Parliament and Army, and all the good people engaged with them. That the people under God are the original of all just Authority; and other original and foundation no man may lay. That to deprive or deny the People of this Inheritance, is Treason, Rebellion and Apostacy from the Good Old Cause of the English Nation, for as much as a people free by Birth, by Laws, and by their own Prowess, are thereby rendred and made most absolute vassals & slaves, at will & power; and greater Treason than this no man can commit. That to levy mony upon the people without their consent in Parliament is Treason, for which every man that so Assesses, Collects, or Gathers it, is to be Indicted for his life, and must dye as a Traytor; not only by their Knack, but by the Fundamental Good Old Laws of the Land, against which no By-law is to be made: this being a Fundamental Law, and one of the main birth-rights of England; That no Tax or Levy is to be laid upon the people but by their consent in Parliament; Be not guilty of the greatest, highest Treason, Rebellion, and Apostacy, from the Good Old Cause of the English Nation, (and the Army-Officers too confederating with them) by depriving and denying the free people to be governed by their own elected Representatives and Trustees in a full & free Parl. by secluding four parts of five of the Knights, Citizens, Burgesses, & Barons of Ports out of the long Parl. whiles in being Dec. 1648. with armed power by usurping to themselves the Royal, Parliamentary Legislative supream Authority over the people, & As the new Committee of Safety have [...] impose a new Tax of, and quarter Sold [...] e [...] on the D [...]niers of it. laying, assessing, levying, intollerable excessive Taxes, Excises, Militiaes upon them, without, yea against their consents & protestations; and without the consent of the farr greater part of the Commons House, the King or House of Lords, which they forcibly secluded, suppressed, [Page] destroyed, against their fundamental Laws, Liberties, Privileges, Birth-rights, Protestations, Declarations and solemn League and Covenant, by making them most absolute slaves, vassals from 1648. till their dissolution in April 20. 1653. and invading, inslaving, destroying their Protestant brethren of Scotland, and Allies of Holland by Land and Sea, to the undermining, endangering of the Protestant Religion; by imposing New Oaths and engagements on them diametrically contrary to the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance (which they all solemnly took as Members before they entred the House) and disabling all to sue in any Court, or enjoy the benefit or protection of the Laws for which they fought, and to which they were born heirs, who refused to take their Treasonable, perfidious Ingagements; by securing, imprisoning thousands of Freemen, close imprisoning sundry Members of the old Parliament, (my self amongst others) divers years in remote Castles, and keeping us from Gods publike ordinances, without any accusation, hearing, trial, or legal cause of commitment, expressed in their warrants.

By presuming upon the Army and Officers sodain invitation after the old Parliaments dissolution by the Kings death, and their above 6. years dissipation by the Army, without the election or privity of the people, to sit and act as the Parl. and supream power of the Nation; to seclude at least 3. parts of 4. of the old surviving Members by force, a [...]d proclaiming Sir George Booth, Sir Thomas Middleton and other Members and Freemen of England Traytors, and levying war against them, only for raising forces to induce them to call in all the old secluded Members, or to summon a new free Parliament, and for opposing their new illegal Taxes, Excises, Militiaes, imposed and levyed on the people, without their Common consent in Parl. deserve not to be all indicted, executed, and their estates confiscated as Traytors, for these their successive reiterated high Treasons by their own resolutions, & Sir George and his adherents totally acquitted from the least imputation or guilt of Treason, & by consequence from all [...]mprisonments, Sequestrations under which they now [Page] suffer. Whether their branding, sequestring them for Traytors, Apostates, Enemies to the publike, against Law and Conscience too, hath not justly brought that wo & judgment upon their conventicle. Isa. 5.20, 23, 24. Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter; and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him. Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the cha [...]s, so their root shall be rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the Law of the Lord, (and of the Land too) and despised the name of the holy one of Israel. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is streched out still.

Whether the Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes and Army-Officers 11, beheading of their late Protestant King, against the Vote [...], Protestations, of the generality of the Parliament and his 3. Protestant Kingdoms, & Mediations of all foreign Protestant Agents then in England; their banishing, [...]xpelling his Royal Protestant Heir, Successor to the Crown, with all the rest of his Children (professing the reformed R [...]ligion) out of all their Protestant Realms & Dominions; their invading of their Protestant Brethren in Ir [...]land and Scotland, in a hostile manner with potent Armies, & waging war against them in their own Countries, and after that against their own Protestant Brethren in England, as professed Enemies, Traytors, Apostates; slaying divers thousands of then in the f [...]eld; imprisoning, banishing, disinheriting, fequestring many thousands more of them, only for owning, crowning, assisting their own hereditary Protestant King (according to their Oathes, Covenants, Laws, Homage, Allegeance, duties, and principles of the Protestant Religion) to regain and retain his Royal Autho [...]ity and Kingdoms. Their waging of a most bloudy [...] wa [...] with our antient Protestant Allies of Holland above 3. years space together, to the slaughter of many thousands of their & our gallantest Protestant Seaman, Admirals, Sea-Captains, of purpose to banish their own exiled Protestant King, his Brethren and followers out of [Page] the Netherlands from the Societie and charitable relief of the [...]r Protestan [...] Friends, where they lived as Exiles, enjoying the free profession of the Reformed Religion, and Communion, prayers, contributions of the Protestant Churches; on purpose to drive them into Popish Quarters amongst seducing Iesuits, Priests, Papists, to cast them wholly upon their Alms, Mercy, Benevolence, and by these high indignities, and their pressing necessities, to inforce them (if they can) to renounce the Protestant-Religion and turn professed Papists: Their most inhuman, unchristian barbarism, in depriving them totally of all means of Subsistance, by seising all their revenues, without allowing them one farthing out of them towards their necessary relief; yet enacting i [...] High Treason for any of their Protestant Subjects, Friends, Allies within their Realm [...] or Dominions, to contribute any thing toward their support, to hold the lea [...] correspondency with, or make any publique prayers unto God for them: as if they were worse than Turk [...], Iews, Infidels, and most professed Enemies: for whom we are not only commanded to pray, but also to love, feed, clo [...]h, relieve, harbour them in their necessities, overcomming their evil with goodness, by Christs own example and express precepts, under pain of everlasting damnation; be a conscientious Saint-like performanc [...] of, and obedience to, or not rather an Atheistical obstinate, presumptuous rebellion against the 1 Tim. 2.1, 2, 3. Mat. 5.44, 45. c. 2 [...].21. c. 25.34, to 46. Luke 6.35. to 39. c. 10.30 to 38. c. 23.34 Acts 7.60. Rom. 10 13, [...]9, 20, 21. c. 13.1, to 12. c. 15.26, 27. 1 Cor. 16.1, 2. Jam. 2, 13. and other sacred Texts? A religious, zealous observation of their See my Concordia Discors. sacred solemn Protestations, Vows, Covenant, Remonstrances, Declarations, Oathes for the maintenance, defe [...]ce & propagation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion, the Profession and [...], against the bloudy Plo [...]s, conspiracies, attempts, practices of the Iesuits, and other prof [...]ssed Popish Ene [...]ies and [...]nderminers of them [...] Or not rather a mo [...] perfidious v [...]olation, [...]bjuration, betraying of & confederating with the Iesuits & Papists against them? A loving of the [...] Protestant Brethren, with a true heart, fervently, and laying down[Page]their lives for them, and being pitiful, merciful, compassionate towards them, according to these Gospel-precepts, Eph. 4.32. c. 5.1, 2. 1 Pet. 1.22. c. 2.17. c. 3.8. 1 John 2.11.14.33. c. 4.7, 11, 12, 20, 21. John 13.34. c. 15.12.17. Or not rather a shutting up their bowels of compassion towards them; a grieving, offending persecuting, murdering of their bodies & souls too; & an infallible evidence, that they are yet no real Saints or children of God, but the very children of the Devil abiding in death, having no true love of God, nor eternal life abiding in them, by Christs own resolution, John 8.44, 45. 1 John 2.13. to 18? A professed Antichristian contradiction to the reiterated command and voice of God from heaven, Isay 52.11. 2 Cor. 6.17. Rev. 18.2, 3, 4, &c. Depart ye, depart ye, Come ye out of (mystical Romish Babylon, (the mother of whoredoms, the habitation of Devils, and of every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird) O my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes, and that ye receive not of her plagues: by their forcible driving of their own Protestant King, Brethren into Babylon, and keeping them therein, to have their habitation among Devils, foul spirits, & unclean birds of every kind, that so they may participate both in her sins and plagues; instead of calling them out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches? 1 Pet. 4.18, 19. Certainly, if the righteous shall scarcely be saved, where shall these most transcendent, unpresidented, unrighteons, ungodly sinners (who obey not, but coutradict all these Gospel Texts) appear? and what shall their end be? Verily the Gospel it self resolves: (and O that they would with fear & amazement of spirit now seriously consider it) when the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take venge [...]nce on them, they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power, 2 Thess. 1.7, 8, 9. Jam. 2.11. and shall receive judgement without mercy, because they have shewed no mercy, but the utmost extremity of malice and cruelty to the Souls and Bodies of their Protestant King and Brethren?

Whether the Junctoes and Armies late Proceedings against 12 [Page] the King and Kingship, were not the direct Plot of the Spa [...]i [...]lized Priests and Jesuit [...], (as well in France as England, Spain, and elsewhere) who contrived and promoted it to their power; as I evidenced in my Speech, Memento, Epistle to my Historical Collection; My true a [...] perfect Narrative, and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members at large, and shall f [...]rther clear by this ensuing Letter, the original whereof I have twice read [...]ound by Mr. Sherley a Book-seller in Little Britain, (in whose hands [...]t is) amongst the Books of Mr. Patricke [...]arre (Priest to Don Alonso de Gardenas the Spanish Ambassador) which he bought of him at this Ambassadors house, when he was departing hence upon the breach with Spain, 1653. within a year after this Letters date, which he soon after shewed to divers Gentlemen, one of them (who took a copy thereof) promising to shew it to Cromwel himself. The Superscription of it is in Spanish directed (as is conceived and the Letter imports) to this Patricke Carre (an Irish Priest and Iesuit) under the name of Had he writ [...]t to a Spaniard, no doubt the Letter would have been in Spanish, (not English) as well as the suprescription. Don Pedro Garsia: the Letter it self is in English, written it seems by some English or Irish Priest or Jesuit, sent as an intelligencer, by the Spanish Ambassador into Holland and France, (with whom the English were then in hostility) but the direction for Letters to him is in French. In the cloze whereof the Jesuitical and Spanish party in Paris, expected our Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto (whom they stile, our brave Parliament, as set up by and acting for them) should espouse their quarrel and act their pa [...]ts against the French; and joyn with the Prince of Condee, to c [...]t off the King of France his head, and all Kings else, as they did the King of Englands, by their instigation, such Antimonarchists, Traytors are these Jesuits, Irish and Spanish Freers to all Kings and Monarchy.

Paris, 10. of Ianuary, 1652.

SIR,

I Was no so ner in Holland, then I writ to you, but hearing nothing from you I concluded, either you were very sick, or that you received not my Letter; I came hither in an ill time, for the Kingdom is in great disorder, upon the Kings recalling [Page] the Cardinal, against all his Declarations. This Town ready to declare in favor of the Prince and the Duke of Orleance, who is now treating with the Duke of Lorrain for his Army. If your dull Leopold. Archduke make no more advantage of this, than of the disorders of the last Summer, it's pity but he were sent to keep Sheep. WE EXPECT HERE OUR BRAVE PARLIAMENT "WILL NOT LET THE GAME BE SOON PLAYED OUT: I could wish Gallant Cromwell AND ALL HIS ARMY WERE WITH THECondi [...].PRINCE: for I BEGIN TO WISH ALL KINGS HAD THEExecution he means.SAME THE KING OF ENGLAND HAD: Ile say no more untill I hear from you, but that I am

Your unfeigned Friend, T. Danielle.

I pray remember me to both my Cozens. Direct your Letters A Monsieur Monsieur Canell demurant chez Mons-Marchant a la rue de pulle.

The Superscription is thus, viz.

A Don Pedro Garsia en Casa de Embaxador de Espanna que This intimates he was a Priest or Jesuit who writ it. Dios garde.

En Londres 9d.

There were many Papers and Notes written in Irish, some concerning the affairs & transactions of the late wars in Ireland, found amongst these Books, whence I conceive this Patrick Carre was an Irish Priest and Jesuite; and that the See my hidden works of Darknesse, brought to publike Light. Spaniard had a great hand in that horrid Rebellion. From the cloze of this Letter let all consider.

Whether it can be safe for any Popish, as well as Protestant Kings to harbour such Jesuitical Antimonarchists and Regicides in their Kingdoms, Courts, who thus wish ALL KINGS beheaded and brought to Iustice, as well as the late King of England, by Cromwell and his Army, or their own Subjects? and how much all Kings ought to detest his president (of the Jesuits contriving) let them now cordially and timely advise for their own securitie.

Whether the Great swarms of Jesuites and Popish [Page] Freers in and about London, by the Iunctoes, and Army-Officers tolleration and connivence (whose Jesuitical Antimonarchical Plots, Counsels they have vigorously pursued) be not the principal contrivers, fomentors of all our changes of Government, New Sects, Opinions, Mutinies in and Usurpations of the Army, (in whose Councils most intelligent Protestants have just cause to fear they have been and still are predominant) there being multitudes of them in and about London, under several masks; some of them saying Masse in their Pontificalibus in Popish Ladies Chambers one day; and speaking to and praying with their Soldiers in the Army, or in Anabaptistical or Quaking Conventicles the next day, of which there are some late particular Instances; I shall relate one only more general and worthy knowledge.

Two English Gentlemen of quality (one of them of mine acquaintance) travelling out of England into France in May 1658. and hiring a vessel for their passage, three strangers (who came from London) desired leave to passe over with them; which they condescending to, suspected one of them at least, to be a Jes [...]it, by his discourse; and during their stay at Paris, saw all three of them there walking often in the Streets in their Iesuits habits. In August following, they being at Angiers in France, there repaired to their lodging an Englishman, in his Friers weeds, who informed them, That he was an Englishman by birth, but a Dominican Fréer by profession, newly come from Salamanca in Spain, and bound for England; that he had been at Rome, where he had left some goods with an Irish Iesuit, who promised to return monies on them in France, but had failed to doe it; whereupon he was in present distress for mony to transport him to England, desiring their favour to furnish him with monies, which he would faithfully repay in London, and if they had any Letters to send to their friends in England, he would see them safely delivered. The Gentlemen finding him to be an excellent Scholar of very good parts and edu [...] tion entertained him 5. or 6. daies at their lodging, till they could furnish him with monies, and upon his Account [Page] as a Freer, had a very good intertainment in the Monastery at Angiers by the Freers thereof: During his stay there they had much discourse with him: He told them he had been formerly a Student in Kings College in Cambridge; after that at Salamanoa in Spain, for 8. years. Being demanded by them, Whether there were not many Iesuites and Freers then in England? He assured them upon his own knowledge, they had then above five hundred Iesuites in London and the Suburbs; and that they had at least four or five Iesuites and Popish Priests in and about London, to every Minister we had there. Whereupon they demanding of him; How so many Iesuites and Priests were there maintained? He answered, That the Iesuites and every Order of Fréers had their several Treasurers in London, who by Orders from their Provincials furnished them with what ever Monies they wanted by Bills of Exchange returned to them; That all the Iesuites and Priests in England were maintained according to their respective qualities; A Lords Son, like a Lord, and a Knights Son like a Knight; and if they chanced to meet him in London at their return, though he were now in a poor weed, they should find him in Scarlet, or Plush, & a better equipage than what he was in. He would not discover his true name to them, but upon discourse on a sudden, he mentioned His Cozen Howard in England, which made them suspect he was of that family. He told them further; that though we were very cunning in England, yet the Iesuites and Priests there were too crafty for us, lurking under so many disguises that they could hardly be discovered: That there was but one way to detect them; which they being inquisitive to know. He said, it was for those who suspected them to be Priests to feign themselves Roman Catholicks, and upon that account to desire the Sacrament from them, which they could not deny to give them (after Confession to them) being bound thereto by Oath, by which means some of them had been betrayed. He further informed them: That himself had been at all the several Gathered Churches, Congregations & Sects in London, and that none of them came so near the See Mr. Smiths 2. New Books against the Quakers, and Dell, proving them to be Papists. Papists in their [Page]Opinions and Tenents as the Quakers, among whom himself had spoken. This relation one of the Gentlemen (a person of honor and reputation, the other being dead) hath lately made to me three several times with his own mouth, and will attest it for truth, having related it to sundry others since his return into England. Which considered, Whether it be not the very High-way to our Churches, Religions, Ministers, Nations ruine and destruction to list so many Quakers, Anabaptists, Sectaries, in the Army and New Militiaes in most Counties, where they bear the greatest sway; and to disarm the Presbyterians and Orthodox Protestants, as the only dangerous persons, and put all their arms into Quakers, Anabaptists, and Sectaries hands (headed, steered by Iesuits, Popish Priests and Freers) as they have done in Glocester, Colchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, and endeavour to doe in other parts, to cut all true Protestants throats, and set up Popery by the Army (which hath so much advanced it of late years) before we are aware? Let all true zealous Protestants in London and else where timely, seriously consider, and endeavour speedily to prevent (and the Council of Army-Officers, with their new Commit [...] of Safety too, if they have any care of their Native Country, or Protestant Religion) before it be over-late.

Whether we may not justly fear, that God himself in his retaliating Justice, for the Iunctoes and Armies unparalleld Exile of their Protestant King and Royal posterity into Popish Territories; and yet permitting such swarms of Jesuits, Monks and Romish Vermin to creep in and reside amongst us; may not give up the dissolved Juncto, Army, Council of Officers, Soldiers, and their posterities, with our whole three Nations, as a prey and spoil to these seducing, dividing, ravening, all-devouring Wolves; yea to the combined forces of our Spanish and French Popish adversaries, to the utter desolation, extirpation, ruine of our Protestant Religion, in the midst of our present divisions and distractions, under a just pretext of restoring the exiled Royal issue to their hereditary rights, and avenging the manifold indignities to them and their relations, [Page] unless timely and wisely prevented by a prudent, voluntary closing with, & loyal, christian restoring them, by common consent our selves, in a full and free Parl. upon just, safe, honourable terms, becoming us both as Men, Christians, & Professors of the Reformed Religion? And whether we be not ripe for such a universal desolating judgement as this, if we consider, Is. 24.16, 17, 18. c. 33.1, 2. c. 59.1, to 19. 2 Chr. 3.6.15, to 21. Mich. 2.2, 3, 4, 5. Ezech. 35.14, 15. Joel 3.6, 7, 8. or the late and present sufferings of most other Protestant Churches abroad, not half so Treacherous, Perfidious, Wicked, Execrable as we, who are now become the very Monsters of Men, the scandal, shame, reproach of Christianity, and humanity in the repute of all the world?

Whether the Iuncto and Army-Officers who have (like 16 the Is. 5 c 3. to 8. Hypocritical Israelites) very frequently ordered, celebrated many Hypocritical irreligious Mock-facts from time to time, to fast for strife, and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickednesse; never yet observing, practising that fast which God himself requireth, to loose the bands of wickednesse, to undo the heavy burthens, to let the oppressed go free, to break every yoke, to deal their bread to the hungry, to bring the poor (exiled Protestant Royal issue and their English followers) that are cast out (by them) to their Houses, to cover the naked, and not hide their selves from their own flesh: who have hitherto made their publike and private dayes of Humiliation, a constant Prologue to their ambition, pride, Psa. 66.7. and rebellious self-exaltation; their dayes of praying to God, a preface to their preying upon their brethren; their seeking of God for direction and assistance in their designs, a means to colour and promote the very John 8.44, 45. Ephes. 5.19, 20, 21. works of their father the devil; their pretended following the secret impulses of the spirit of God, the sol [...] justification of Ephes. 2.2, 3. walking according to the Prince of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience: their making, taking of solemn Oathes, Vowes, Protestations, Covenants, Engagements to be true, faithfull, oonstant, loyal, obedient to their Lawfull Kings their heirs, successors, superiors, the Privileges,[Page]Rights of Parliament our Fundamental Laws, Liberties, Religion, &c. a meer engin and diabolical stratagem, more cunningly, boldly, audaciously, perfidiously to betray, undermine, supplant, subve [...]t them; have not now just cause upon consideration of Isaiah 1.2, to 17. and chap. 58. to keep many publike, private Fasts, and dayes of Humiliation, to confesse, bewaile, repent, renounce, and reform these their transcendent-crying, wrath-provoking sins and abominations: together with their Micah 3.10 Hab. 2.12, building up of Zion (their New Republike, Free-state, Churches, Kingdom of Jesus Christ) with blood, and [...] stablishing Ierusalem with iniquity, Micah [...].1, 2, 3, 4, 5. their devising iniquity and working evil upon their beds, and practising it when the morning is light, because it is in the power of their hand, and swords: their coveting (other mens) fields, houses, and taking them away by violence; so they oppr [...]sse a man (yea their Protestant King, and thousands more of their Protestant brethern) and his house; yea a man and his inheritance: for fear they incurre the fatal inevitable Woes, evills, Iudgements, denounced by God, against such crying Sinnes, oppressions, violences, to the utter desolation, extirpation of them, their families, yea of our English Zion and Ierusalem, Mic. 2.1, to 6. Is. 32.1, 2. c. 3, throughout: with that of Hab. 2.7, 8. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? Because thou hast spoyled many Nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoyl thee: because of mens blood, and for the violence of the Land, of the City, (Army) and all that dwell therein?

17 Whether the Junctoes and Army Councils utter subversion of all our Fundamental Laws (especially Magna Charta, c. 29, 30. the Petition of Right and all other Lawes, Statutes w [...]ich concern the preservation of the Lives, Free-holds, Liberties, Properties, Franchises of the Subjects, the inheritance and succession of the Crown, the Rights and Privileges of Parliament) their ending the last Easter Term, with very little Law, and no conscience at all; their beginning Trinity Term with very little Conscience (monopolized in their conscientious Speakers [Page] brest alone) without any Law at all; and their holding part only of Michaelmas Term without any Chancery or Conscience (voted by some to be both useless and dangerous) or any real Law in the judgement of understanding Lawyers, and breaking it off, without any Law or Conscience, to the undoing of many poor oppressed Clients left without relief; with their manifold transcendent obstructions, subversions both of Law, Equity, Justice, Conscience, Property, Liberty, in their most arbitrary lawlesse Committees of Indemnity, and Courts of High Injustice; be not a transcendent violation of all their former Remonstrances, Declarations, Votes, Protestations, League, Covenant; Inviolably to defend these Lawes, and a meer Iesuitical design (as I have My true and perfect Narrative, p 58, to 64. elsewhere evidenced) to work our utter dissolution (the Lawes being the onely Ligaments to unite, and Pillar to sup [...]ort our State and Kingdom; whereby not only the Regal and Parliamental authority, but the peoples security of Lands, livings, lives, privileges both in general & particular are preserved, maintained, by the abolishing or alteration whereof, it is impossible but that present Confusion will fall upon the whole State, Frame of this Kingdom and Nation: as the Statute of 1. Iac. c. 2. resolves, and we finde by woful experience? Whether the Army Council of Officers, have not most exemplarily and satisfactorily performed this part of their last printed Declaration, 27 Octob. 1659. p. 18. We earnestly desire and shall endeavour, That a full and through Reformation of the Law may be effected; by their new Committee of Safeties imperious Order sent to Mr. Dudley Short (a Citizen of London) whom Mr. Thurlo (whiles Secretary) committing close Prisoner to a M [...]ssenger several weeks, so as neither his wife nor friends could [...]ave any access unto him, upon a meer Trepan, and supposed matter of Account between him and a Scotsman with whom he traded, & enforcing him at last ere released to enter into a Bond of 6000 l. with sufficient security for appearing before the Council of State, & to go in person into Scotl. when ever he should be required, & ordering him to go into Scotland soon after (under pain of for [...]iting his 6000 l. bond) upon his [Page]own expence, where after many weeks attendance, and frequent examinations before the Council there, touching this account, the Scotsman appeared to be indebted to him above 120 l. whereupon he was dismissed thence. For which most unjust vexation, oppression and false Imprisonment against the Great Charter, c. 29. the Petition of Right, with other Acts, and the late Statute of 17 Caroli, c. 10. For Regulating the Privy Council, (to Mr. Shorts great expence, losse of trade, reputation, and his damage of Ten thousand pounds, as he declared) he brought his Action at law in the Common Pleas Court, which was set down to be tried at Guildhall, the 12. of this November. Whereupon Mr. Thurlo procured an express Order from the new Committee of Safety, wherein they presume to indemnifie him (by their exorbitant arbitrary power) against this action of false Imprisonment, and to enjoyn the Plaintiff both to surc [...]ase and release his sute, and never to prosecute it more; and command his Counsel, Attorney, Sollicitor, the Iudge himself, and all other Officers, not to proceed therein at their utmost peril, upon this ground; because if this Trial should proceed, any others of the late and present Council of State might have actions brought against them for illegal commitments and imprisonments: Upon this the Officers of the Court refused to seal his Record for the Triall, and his Attorney and Counsel durst not proceed for fear of being layd by the heels. Whereupon he complained against this abu [...]e, and moved for a triall in open Court, urged these Statutes [...] with the Statutes of 2 E. 3. c. 2.20 E. 3. c. 1, 2 [...] and the Judges Oath, That it shall not be commanded by the g [...]eat Seal, nor little Seal, to disturb or delay common right; And though such commandements do come, the Iustices shall not therefore cease to do right in any point: And that the I [...]stices shall not deny nor delay to no man common Right by the Kings Letters, nor none other mans, nor for none other cause. And in case any Letters come to them contrary to Law they shall [...]o nothing by such Letters, and go forth to do the Law, notwithstanding such Letters: And pressing the Judge to doe him right accordingly, and to give him [Page] an answer in open Court; yet their Order countermanded these Statutes and Judges Oath: So that no man, though never so unjustly committed, oppressed, grieved by the Old and New Council of State, to his ruine; shall have any remedy at all against them: since they may thus indemnify each other against all Actions commenced. And if they bring an Habeas Corpus for their enlargement, and be bayled according to Law by the Judges; the new Gardians of our Liberties, Preservers of our Safety, and Thorough Reformers of our Lawes, (by extirpating them root and branch) will even in the very face of the Court, as soon as they have put in bayl, in contempt of Law and Justice command Soldiers and their Serjeant at Arms, by new Orders to arrest and carry them to other Prison [...], and forein Islands, as they did Mr. Nuport and Mr. Halsey on the 18. of this instant Nov. notwithstanding they had put in bail of 10000. l. a piece for their peaceable deportment: Yea if any henceforth move for Habeas Corporaes they will remove them unto New Prisons, or Gards of Souldiers, or send them into Forein parts to prevent their returns and enlargement by our Laws; as some have been newly dealt with, by these New full & through R [...]formers of the Laws, Whether these very first-fruits of their full and through pretended Reformation of our Laws, proving so bitter, trampling all Law and Justice under foot, with greater scorn, contempt, impudence than ever any Kings, Old Council Table Lords, Stra [...]ord or Canterbury were guilty of: And their leaving not so much as one Judge or Justice to act under them in any one Court of Justice at Westminster, nor no face of any real or pretended Legal Authority in England or Ireland to execute Justice between man and man: and dismounting all those Judges, Grandees of the Law who formerly complyed with them, and acted under them in all their Innovations, (a just reward for their temporizing against their Judgements, Law and Conscience) their future harvest of our Lawes Reformation will not probably prove so lawlesse and exorbitant, that the whole English Nation [Page] (and Army too, if they have not abandonned all humanity, christianity, charity, justice) will revive this prayer in our antient Liturgy, against such a full and through Deformation and Deformers of our Lawes. From all evil and mischief; from all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory and hypocrisie, from envy, hatred, and all uncharitablenesse, from all deceits of the World, the Flesh and Devil good Lord deliver us. And exhort their fellow brethren of Scotland and Ireland in the Apostles words, 2 Thess. 3.1, 2. Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord (and good old Laws of the Land) may run and have free course, and be glorified; and that we may be delivered from absurd, or unreasonable & wicked men, (who thus reform and purge out the Laws very bowels) for all men (and such reforming Saints especially) have not faith: whatever they professe, who under pretext of a most transcendent Reformation and purgation of the Gospel and Law, would reduce us into the condition of the Israelites, 2 Chron. 15.3. Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God, and without a teaching Priest, and without Law? And why so? The Apostle resolves us in direct terms, 1 Tim. 1.4. &c. The end of the Law is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeined: from which some having swerved have turned aside to vain jangling: desiring to be teachers, (yea Reformers) of the Law, understanding neither what they say, nor what they affirm. But we know that the Law is good, if a man use it lawfully; knowing also that the Law is not made for a righteous man; but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners. For Murderers of Fathers and murtherers of Mothers, for manslayers, &c. For men stealers for lyars, for periured persons, & every other thing that is contrary to sound doctrin: And our Army-Grandees, Juncto, and new Reformers being such; would abrogate all Lawes, and Lawyers too, least they should restrain and punish them for these their Capital crimes: Forgetting this lesson, that though they null all the Laws and Courts of Justice in Westminster-hall, and elsewhere; yet they shall never abrogate nor escape the Law, Iudgement, Execution, Iustice and vengeance [Page]of Rom. 2.2, 3, 8, 9, 12. God himself [...] who will render indignation and wrath, tribula [...]ion and anguish to every soul of man that doth evil [...] whether Iew or Gentile. For as many who have sinned without L [...]w [...] shall also perish without Law, and as many as have sinned in the Law, shall be judged by the Law. Enough to disswade them from their intended Reformation, to reform their own and the Armies l [...]wless exorbitances, before they reform our Laws, or others far better than themselves.

Whether all the old conscientious, faithfull, publike 20 spirited, secured, excluded, and re-excluded Member's, who to the uttermost of their powers opposed, voted, protested against all the late dismal Jesuitical Powder-Treasons, Violences, Innovations, Ex [...]rbi [...]ances of the dissolved Iuncto and Army, and have 2 Pet. 2.7, 8. vexed their righteous souls, from day to day, yea Psal. 119.13 [...] shed rivers of te [...]rs from their mournfull eyes, because of these their heinous transgressions against the Laws of God and the Land, may not with much comfort apply this promise of God to themselves, and their uncharitable brethren, who secluded all, & imprisoned sundry of them. Isa. 66.5, 6. &c. 26.11, 13, 14. Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name sake, said, Let the Lord be (thereby) glorified, but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. (by reason of their own double ejection, dissolution in a strange unexpected manner) A voice of noise from the City; a voice from the Temple; a voice of the Lord that rendreth recompence to his enemies. Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see; but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy towards the people; yea the fire of their Enemies (their very fierie Guards and Powder-men) shall devour them. O Lord our God, other Lords besides thee (our New Supr [...]me Lords, Powers, Protectors of the dissolved Junctoes, counsel, and tother House) have had dominion over us, but by thee only will we make mention of thy name: They [...]e dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therfore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their Memory to Perish: Even Judges 5.31. so let all thine Enemies (and [Page] the publike impenitent, malicious En [...]mies of our Churches, Kings, Kingdoms, Parliaments, Peoples Liberties) fall and perish, O Lord: but let th [...]m that love thee (and the publike peace, welfare, settlement, prosperity of our Churches, Kings Kingdoms, Nations) be a [...] the Sun w [...]en he goeth forth in his might; That so the Land may have rest forty years together: as the Land of Israel had, after Judges 4.15. the Lord had discomfited Sisera, and all his Chariots, and all his host with the edge of the Sword, before Barak and Deborah, Amen.

21 Whether the General Council of Officers and Army-Saints former and late slandering, false accusing, forcible secluding, the Members of the long Parliament, as Trustbreakers, and the whole House of Lords, for whose defence they were raised, waged, commissioned; and their subsequent dissolving, dissipating with high scorne, their own Anti-Parliamentary Iunctoes from whom they received their new Commissions, end engaged several times, to yeeld their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety, to be true, faithfull and constant to them, and to live and die in their defence: be a conscientious saint-like performance.

1. Of Iohn Baptists Evangelical Injunction to all Souldiers, Luke 3.14. Do violence to no man, neither accus [...] any falsly, and be content with your allowance. 2ly. Of St. Pauls description of a good Souldier of Iesus Christ 2 Tim. 2.3, 4. Thou therefor [...] endure hardness: No man that warreth, intangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a Souldier. (not disobey, betray, supplant or destroy him) 3ly. Of Pauls and Peters expresse commands to all Officers, Souldiers whatsoever, as well as others, Rom. 13.1, 2, &c. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God: and they that resist, shall receive to themselves damnation, &c. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. Tit. 3.1, 2. Put them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers; to obey Magistrates, to be ready to every good work: To speak evil of no [Page]man; to be gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. Ephes. [...].5, 6, 7. Col. 4.22, 23, 24. Servants (& such are all Mercen [...]ry Officers, Soldiers, under pay to the old Parliament and Kingdom) obey in all things, your Masters according to the flesh, in fear and trembling, in singleness of heart, as unto Christ, Not with ey [...] service, as men-pleasers; but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart. With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men; for ye serve the Lord Christ. 1 Pet. 2.13, to 20. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord sake, whether it be to the King as supreme, or unto Governors, as unto those who are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well; for so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye put to silence t [...]e ignorance of foolish men. As free, and not using your liberty, as a cloak of maliciousn [...]sse, but as the servants of God. Honour all men, (in lawfull authority) Fear God, Honour the King. Servants, be subject to your Masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thank-worthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. Whether by their former & late rebellions against the King, Parl. & all their lawful Superiors, and exalting themselves above all the [...]r former Lords and Masters, they have not given Christ himself the lye, and falsified his reiterated Asseveration, Resolution. Mat. 10.24. John 13.16. c. 15.10. Verily, Verily I say unto you, the Disciple is not above his Master, nor the Servant above, or groater than his Lord; neither he that is sent, greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them! Whether they will not prove bitternesse, damnation, ruin to them in the latter end, and teach, engage all Common souldiers under them to be treacherous, rebellious, disobedient unto them, and thrust them out of all their commands, now they have neither legal Commissions nor a [...]thority to rule them, nor monies to pay or quarter them, nor imployment under them for the peoples welfare, but only for their own ambitious ends and self-preservation, for which they were never raised, since their own presidents and principles of treachery and disobedience to all their former Superiours animate them thereunto.

[Page] 22 Whether the [...]unc [...]o [...]nd Army Council, upon seriou [...] co [...]sideration of all the premis [...]s [...]d their form [...]r misca [...] [...]iages, h [...]v [...] not all cause with penitent hea [...]ts a [...]d bleed [...]ing Spirits to cry out and make this old publik [...] confe [...]io [...] in the Book of Common Prayer. Almighty a [...]d m [...]st m [...]rcifull Father, we have erred and stray [...]d from thy [...]aye [...] li [...] los [...] sheep. We have followed too much th [...] de [...]ices and desires of our own hearts; we have offended again [...]t thy holy laws; we have le [...]t [...]ndone those things which we [...]ught to h [...]ve done, and we have done those things which we ought not to ha [...]e done, and there is no health nor truth in [...]s. But thou O Lord have mercy upon us miserable Offen [...]. And grant that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous, & sober life, to the glory of thy holy name. Amen. Which if these Workers of iniquity shall still refuse to do, as if the Lord did neither see nor regard it; and therby provoke our 3. Nations to cry out with united prayers to God against thē; Psal. 12. [...], 2. [...]sal. 94.1. Help Lord, for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithfull fail from among the children of men. With flattering lips, and with a double heart do they [...]pake, every one to his neighbor. O Lord God of revenges, O Lord God to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thy self; lift up thy self thou Iudge of the Earth, render a reward to the proud: Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph: how long shall they utter hard things, and all the workers of iniquity bo [...]st themselves? They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, & afflict thine heritage; they slay the widow and murder the fatherless; They gather themselves together against the soul of the right [...]ous, and condemn the innocent bloud. Whether they must not then expect that inevitable doom of God himself, ensuing after such practises and Prayers, Psa. 94.23. And the Lord shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickednesse; yea the Lord our God shall cut them off? Ps. 37.38, 39 [...] 40. The transgr [...]ssors shall be destroyed together, the end of the wicked shall be cut off: But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord, he is their strength in the time of troble. And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them, he shall deliv [...]r them from the wicked, and save them b [...] cause they trust in him.

Jer. 36.3, 7. It may be they will (now) present their supplications[Page]bef [...]re the Lord, and r [...]turn every one from his evil way, that God may forgive their iniquity and their sin; for great is the anger and the fury that the L [...]rd hath pronou [...]ced against this people.

An Exact Alphabe [...]ical Li [...]t of the Old and N [...]w secluded Memb [...]r [...] of the Comm [...]ns House in the long Parliament, surviving May 7. 1659. when the dissolved Juncto began their new Session.

Baronets, Knights and Viscoun [...]s.

LOrd Ancram, Sir Ralph Ashton, Sir John Barring [...]on, Sir Thoma [...] Barn [...]rdiston, Sir Robert Benloe [...] Sir George Booth, Sir Humphry Bridges, Sir Ambrose Brown, Sir John Burgo [...]n, Sir Roger Burgoin, Sir Henry [...]h [...]lmley, Sir John Clotworthy, Sir John Corbet, Sir John Curson, Sir Thomas D [...]cre [...], Sir Franci [...] Dr [...]ke, Sir William Drake, Sir Walter Earl, Sir C [...]arles Egerton, Sir John Evelin of Surry, Sir John Evelin of Wilres, Sir John Fenwick, Sir Edmund Fowel, Sir Gilb [...]rt Gerard, Sir Ha [...]botle Grimston, Sir Ri [...]hard H [...]nghton, Sir John Holland, Sir Anthony [...]by, Sir Mar [...]in Knatchbull, Sir John Leigh, Sir William L [...]w [...], Sir William Li [...]r, Sir William Lit [...]on, Sir Sam [...]el Luke, Sir Nichol [...] Martyn, Sir Thomas Middl [...] ton, Sir Robert Nappirr, Sir Rober [...] Ne [...]h [...]m, Sir Dudly North, Sir John No [...]thcot, Sir Richard Onslow, Sir Hug [...] Owen, Sir John P [...]lgrave, Sir Philip Parker, Si [...] Thoma [...] Parker, Sir Edward Partridge, Sir John Pellam, Sir William Pl [...]ter [...], Sir Nevil Poole, Sir J [...]n Po [...], Sir Robert Pye, Sir F [...]an [...]is Russel, Sir [...] Sain [...] John, Sir John S [...]ymo [...], Sir Thoma [...] So [...]e, Sir William Stri [...]kl [...]nd, [...]ir John Temple, Sir Thom [...] Trever, Sir Humph. Tu [...]ton, Sir William Waller, Th [...] m [...] Viscount Wenman, Sir Henry Wo [...]sly, Sir Ri [...]hard Wynne, Sir John Young. In all 64.

Esquiers, G [...]ntlemen and Lawyers.

Joh [...] Alford, Arthur Ansley, Mr. Andrews, William [Page] Ardington, John Arundle, Mr. A [...]cough, Francis Bacon, Nathaniel Bacon, Edward Bainton, [...]ol. John Barker, Maurice Barro, Mr. Bell, James Bence, Col. John Birch, Edward Bis [...], John Bowyer, John Boyes, Major Brooks, Major General Brown, Samuel Brown, Serjant at Law, Francis Buller, John Bunkly, Hugh Buscoen, Mr. Bu [...]ton, Mr. Camble, William Carren [...], Col. Ceely, Jame [...] Chaloner, Mr. Clive, Commiss. Copley, John Crew, Thomas Crompton, Mr. Crowder, Thoma [...] Dacre, John Dormer, John Doyle, Mr. Drake, Robert Ellison, Mr. Eri [...]y, Mr. Evelin, Edward Fowel, William Foxwi [...]t, John Francis, James Fyennis, Nathaniel Fyennis, Samuel Gardiner, Francis Gerard, Thomas Gewen, William Glan [...]il, John Glynne Serjant at Law, Samuel Gott, Thomas Grove, Elias Grymes, Brampton Gurdon, Edward Harby, Col. Edward Harley, Major Harley, John Hatcher, John Ha [...]don, James Herbert, John Herbert, Mr. Hobby, Thoma [...] Hodges, Denzel Hollis, Franci [...] Hollis, George Horner, Edmund Ho [...]kin [...], John Hungerford, Col Hunt, Mr. Jennings, William Jones, George Keckwich, Richard Knighly, Col. Lassel [...], H [...]nry L [...]urence, Col, Lee, Mr. Lewis, Col. Walter Long, Mr. Low [...]y, Col. John Loyde, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Lu [...]kin, John Mainard, Christopher Martin, Major Gen. Edward Massey, Thomas Middleton, Thoma [...] Moor [...], William Morrice, George Mountague, Mr. Nash, James Nelthrop, Alder [...]an Nixon, Mr. North, Col. Norton, Mr. Onslow, Arthur Owen, Henry Oxinden, Mr. Packer, Mr. Peck, Henry Pellam, William Peirpoint, Jervase Pigot, Mr. Potter, Mr. Poole, Col. Alexander Popham, Mr. Povy, M [...]. Pri [...]ty, William Prynne, Alexander Pym, Charles Pym, Mr. Rainscraft, Mr. Ratcliffe, Charle [...] Rich [...] Col. Edward Rossiter, Mr. Scowen, Mr. Scut, Col. Robert Sh [...]peot, Col. Shuttleworth, Mr. Spelman, Mr. Springat [...], Henry Stapleton, Robert Stanton, Edward Stephen [...], John Steph [...]ns, Nathaniel Stephens, Mr. Stockfield, John Swinfen, Mr. Temple, Mr. Terwit, Mr. Thistlethwait, Mr. Thomas, Isaac Thomas, Mr. Thynne, [Page] Mr. T [...]lson, J [...]hn T [...]ever, Thomas Twisden Serjeant at Law, Mr. Vassal, Mr. Vaugha [...], Thomas Waller, Mr. West, He [...]ry Weston, William Wheeler, Col. Whitehead, Henry Wilkes, Capt [...]in Wingate, Mr. Winwood, Thomas Wogan, Mr. Wray, Richard Wynne.

The Total Number, 203. besides the House of Lords.

An Alph [...]betical List of all Members of the late dissolved Iuncto.

JAmes Ash, Alderman Atkins, William Ayre, Mr. Baker, Col. Bennet, Col. Bingham, Daniel Blagrave, Mr. Br [...]wster, Willi [...]m Cawly, Thomas Chaloner, Mr. Cecil the self-degraded Earl of Sali [...]bury, Robert Cecil his son, John Corbet, Henry Darley, Richard Darley, Mr. Dixwell, John Dove, Mr. Downe [...], Serj. Earl, Will. Ellys, Mr. Feilder, Mr. Fell, Col. Charls Fleetwood, Augustin Garland, Mr. Gold, John Goodwin, Robert Goodwin, John G [...]rdon, Mr. H [...]llowes, Sir James H [...]rrington, Col. Harvy, Sir Arthur Hasilrig, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Herbert the self-degraded Earl of Pembrook, Roger Hill, Cornelius Holland, Col. Hut [...]hi [...]son, Col. Ingol [...]by, Philip Jones, Mr. Leachmore, William Lenthall Speaker, John Lenthall his son, John Lisle, Philip Viscont Lisle, Thomas Lister, Nicholas Love, Col. Ludlow, Henry Martyn a prisoner in execution, Mr. Mayne, Sir Henry Mildmay, Gilbert Millington, Col. Herbert Morley, Lord Viscont Munson, a prisoner in execution, Henry Nevil, Robert Nicholas, Michael Oldsworth, Dr. Palmer, Alderman Pennington, Sir Gilbert Pi [...]kering, John Pine, Edmond Prideaux, William Puresoy, Thomas Pury, Robert Reynolds, Col. Rich, Luke Robinso [...], Oliver Saint-John, Major Saloway, Mr. Say, Thomas Scot, Major General Skippon, Augustin Skinner, Mr. Smith, Walter Strickland, Col. Sydenham, James Temple, Col. Temple, Col. Thompson, Serjant Thorpe, [Page] John Trencher, Sir John Trevor, Sir Henry Vane, Col. Waite, Mr. Wallop, Sir Thomas Walsing [...]am, Col. Walton, Sir Peter Wentworth, Edmond Weaver, Mr. White, Serjeant Wilde, Sir Thomas Witherington, Sir Thomas Wroth.

The totall Sum, — 92.

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¶ Note, That of these Members (whereof two are since dead) there entred only 42. into the House at first; that the rest came in to them by degrees, either to keep their old preferments, gain new, or regain the places they had formerly lost ( [...]specially the Lawyers, who notwithstanding their former complyances, are turned quite out of Office, and dis-Judged;) that 10. or more of them, came in by New Writs issued in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, after the Kings beh [...]ading, and were no Members of the long Parliament; That there were never 60. of them together in the House at once whiles they sate: and but 57. on the 11. and 12. of October last upon the great debate between them and the Army Officers: And some that sate formerly with them (as the Lord Fairfax, John [...]ary, and others) refused to sit with them now, as having not the least colour of Law, to sit or act as a Parliament. Yea, their Speaker Mr. Lenthal, told the Officers of the Army and Members, who came to invite him to sit again, May 6. That he had a Soul to save; and that he was not satisfied in point of Law, conscience or prudence that they could sit again: B [...]t at last when he considered, he had an estate to [...]ave (as he told another Friend) that over-ballanced all his former Objections: and made him, and other M [...]mbers act against their judgements, consciences, and to forg [...]t our Savio [...]rs sad Q [...]aeres, Mat. 16.26. What is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own Soul? O [...], what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? With that of Jer. 5.29.31. Shall I not visit for these things? Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? And what will ye do in the end thereof?

[Page]To fill up the Vacant Pages of this sheet, I shall propose 7. Quaeres more to this late dissipated Rump, to which I expect their satisfactory Answer, ere they presume to sit again, as many of them endeavour.

1. Whether they could with any colour of Law, truth, reason, justice, co [...]scien [...]e heretofore, or can hereafter by virtue of their first Writs and Electio [...]s, intitle themselves, The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, & Ireland; when by their Writs, Elections and Indentures, by which they pretended to sit, they were only a small inconsiderable Fragment, of the Parliament of the late King and Realm of England, but never of the Realm of Scotland or Ireland, which have their Cookes 4. Instit, c. 1.75, 76. distinct Parliaments from England, and no legal Parliament of England, Scotland or Ireland: ever hitherto was or can be held without a King and House of Lords, and a full House of Commons, of which they are not the fift part?

2. Whether those Interloping Members Elected since the Kings beheading, and old Parliaments dissolution by his death, by Writs only in the name of the Gaolers of the Liberties of England, can fit, act, or joyne with the Tayl of the old Commons House, elected only by the beheaded Kings Writs, and so owning his Royal Authority in Deeds, though abjuring it & Kingship, by their Declarations, Votes, Knacks, Ingagements and new-coined Oathes? Whether such a strange model as this, be not a Violation of Deut. 22.9, 10, 11. Thou shalt not sow thy Vineyard with divers seeds, lest the fruit of thy seed and Vineyard be defiled. Thou shalt not plow with an Ox and an Asse together. Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of Wollen and Linnen together? And as great an Absurdity as that in Horace, Humano Capiti cervicem jungere Equinam?

3ly. Whether it will not be the Extremity of folly and frenzy for this twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto to conceit, that Lambert and those Army-Officers, who have twice turned them out of Doors with greatest Infamy, and branded them with so many deserved Marks of Treachery, Injustice, Vsurpation, Rashnesse, Oppression, self-seeking, or the [Page] surviving numerous Members of the ou [...] long Parliament, or the Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Ports for which they served, the old House of Peers, or our three Kingdoms, will ever patiently permit them to sit or Act as a lawfull Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland; or submit to any of their Anti-Parliamentary Knacks, Taxes, Excises, Imposts, Militia [...]s, Orders, or Usurped Regal P [...]rliamental soveraign legislative Authority; without rising up unanimously against them, as the worst, impudentest, sottishest of Trayt [...]rs, Vsurpers, Enemies to the Peace and settlement, of our 3. Kingdoms, (as their last Knack of Octob. 12. their Plea, and other late publications of their own, proclaim them to all the world) which they have so miserably oppressed, impoverished, rent in pieces by their forementioned Treasons, Innovations, and complying with those ambitious, covetous Army-Officers, and Jesuitical Emissaries, whose designs, and their own self-ends they have only pursued, to the publike desolation of our Kingdoms and Churches? And whether their re-secluding of the Lords House, and their old surviving fellow-Members will not be a justification, and ground for their own third ejec [...]ment & dissolution, by the Army or others, if they presume to sit and act again without them?

4. Whether there be any probability or possibility, (considering all the premises) that any Common Souldiers, Mariners, or other inferior Officers in the Army or Navy, can expect any real payment of their arrears, or future pay, or the People of our 3. Nations any Trade, Peace, Ease, Settlement in the least degree, but inevitable speedy desolation, confusion, destruction, unless they all cordially unite their endeavours, counsels, forces for the speedy convening, and secure un-interrupted fitting of a full, free and Legal English Parliament, according to the Act of 17 Caroli cap. 1. and declaring all such Members of the twice-dis [...]ipated Juncto, and Army-Grandees Traitors and Enemies to the publike, who shall openly and wilfully oppose this their just and necessary only probable means of their Tranquility, Safety, Prosperity? Which they [Page] pretend to aim at in words and Declaration [...], but diametrically contradict by their Proc [...]edings, as experience manifests, past all contradiction.

5. Whether our Protestant King, his Brethren and follow [...]rs expelled out of their Protestant Realms, and forein Allies Territories, into Popish idolatrous forein Quarters, where they sojourn, to the hazard of their Religion, Souls Bodie [...], by the malice of the dissolved Iuncto, Army, Republican Saints; may not now justly use that Speech of [...]nnocent persecuted, exiled David to King Saul in the like case and condition, 1 Sam. 26.19. If the Lord hath stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offring: but if they be the Children of men, Cursed be they before the Lord, for they have driven me out this day from abiding in th [...] Inheritanc [...] of the Lord, saying, On serve other Gods? And whether God by way of requital for this their transcendent impietie, and other premised Crimes, Treasons of all sorts, wherein they impeni [...]ently persevere, may not justly inflict on the Iunc [...]o, Army-Grandees [...] and their posterities, that severe judgement threatned to the Israelites, Jer. 16.13. Deutr. 4.27, 28. c. 28.64, 65, 66. Therefore will I cast you out of this land, into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and the Lord shall scatter you among the Nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen whither the Lord shall lead you; and there you shall serve Gods day and night, the work of mens hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell; where I will not shew you favour. And amongst these Nations thou shalt find no ease neither shall the sole of thy feet [...]ave rest, but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and fa [...]ling of eyes, and sorrow of mind; and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee day and night, and thou shalt have non [...] As [...]uranc [...] of thy life: In the morning thou shalt say, would God it were even; and at even tho [...] shalt say, would God it were morning, for t [...]e fear of thine hea [...]t, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see: And there shall ye be sold unto your En [...]mies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you? O tremble at the serious thoughts thereof, and be no more stiff-necked.

[Page]6. Whether the memorable Example of Gods divine Iustice upon Lockier, an active Agitator and Leveller in the Army, who had a principle hand in seising, & bringing the King to his death, cried out Iustice, Iustice, Iustice openly against him, and spit in the Kings face in Westminster Hall, when going to his Trial, before his condemnation; conducted him to the block; and was within 3. Moneths after condemned in a Council of War by some of the Kings own Iudges, and shot to death as a M [...]tineer, in London, 27 April 1649 [...] The tragical self-execution of Thomas Hoyle, Alderman and Knight for the City of Yorke, one of the Juncto, and High Court of Iustice, (though he signed not the Kings Sentence) and one who consented to, and subscribed the New Engagement, against a King and House of Lords, agains [...] his conscience, fo [...]mer Oaths, Covenant, and Protestation he had taken [...] the horror whereof so terrified his conscience,Nota. that on the 30. of Ianuary 1649. (the very day [...] Twelvemoneth of the Kings execution) he hanged himself with a cord in his Chamber at Westminster, about the very time of the day the King was there executed the year before. The Execution of sundry Levellers at Burford that year, with Iohn Lilburnes double Trial for his life soon after by Cromwels own Prosecution: his proceedings against Saxbey, Syndercombe, and other Levellers, though his chief Instruments to bring the King to Justice, to seclude the Majority of the Members, and suppress the whole House of Lords. The sudden and fearfull deaths of Col. Ven, Rigby, and others of the Kings Judges; the cashiering, close Imprisonments, suff [...]ings of M.G. Harrison, Col. Rich, Col. Overton, Col. Okey, Lord Grey of Grooby, and others of the Kings condemners by Cromwell himself who engaged them therein; The Removal of Iohn Bradshaw, from his Presidentship, and Feudes between Cromwell and him, who secluded him ou [...] of his f [...]st Instrumental Parliament, in 1654. and after that threatned to imprison and question him for his life; With the la [...]e pangs of conscience which Col. William Purefoye sustained before his death in September last, for having a hand in the [Page]Kings bloud, which lay heavy on his heart, (as he told some Friends.) To say nothing of Oliver Cromwels own death, Septemb. 3. on which day he shed much Protestant Christian bloud in the battels of Dunbar, and Worcester, against the present King and his Adherents: and his two Sonnes sudden dismounting: May not justly awaken the stupid, seared consciences of all the dissolved Juncto, and Army-Officers now living, who had any hand in the Tragedies and Powde [...]-plot against the late King and Parliament; to bring them to speedy, sincere, real publike Repentance for them, before they sink down quick into Hell; or fall into like exemplary Terrors, judgments, and self-executions; and likewise deterr all others from treading in their nnwarrantable pathes: 1 Cor. 10.6.11. all these thing [...] hapning to them for their examples, to the intent th [...]y should not lust after nor act those evil things, which they attempted, accomplished to their own prejudice, as well as the publike desolation: it being Mat. 26, 24 better for such men never to have been born, than to become Traytors to their own Christian Kings, Parl. Country, and to be registred to posterity amongst such who were born only for publike mischief, & happier never to have or enjoy the least power or strength, than to abuse it to the publike nusance of others. Seneca de Cleme [...]ia [...] l. 1. P [...]stifera vis est valere ad nocendum. Such a power, force as this, which some in late and present power have exerci [...]ed, if Enarratio in Psal. 78. St. Augustin mistake not; Non sanitatis est, sed insaniae. Nam & phreneticis nihil fortius, valentiores sunt sanis; sed q [...]anto majores vires, tanto mors vicinior: Avertat ergo De [...] ab imitatione nostra fortes istos.

7. Whether if the twice dissolved Rump shall audaciously presume to sit and act again as a Parliament, notwithstanding all out-goings of Gods former signal providences, judgements, and the People, Armie [...] general indignation against them; we may not justly apply S. Peters sentence concerning Apostates to them, 2 Pet. 2.2, 22. W [...]iles they promise themselves (and others) Liberty, themselves are servants of corruption (and of the Army too that turned them twice out of doors) for of wh [...]m a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into BONDAGE:[Page]But it is happened unto them according to the old prouerb; The dog is returned to his own vomit again, and she sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire; and the latter [...]nd [...] (and will be) worse with them than the beginning. With that parable of our Saviour, Mat. 12.43, 44, 45. Lu. 11.24, 25, 26. When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, h [...] walketh through dry places seeking rest, and findeth none; The [...] saith he, I will return to my House from whence I came (and was cast) out, and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished: Then goeth [...]e and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they [...] ter in and dwell there: and the l [...]st state of that man (yea of our Kingdom, Church, Nation through their usurpations, whym [...]ies, pressures,) is worse than the first: Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation, Theophylacti Enar. in Mat. C. [...]. See Opus Imperfectu [...] in Mat. Hom. 30. Extrema captivitas vestra gravior erit quàm prima; as I told Sir Arthur Haslerigg in Westminster Hall May the 5. 1659. two dayes before their las [...] Session, when the Commons House was sweeping and garnishing for the Iunctoes return into it; which they and we have found true by experience, and shall do so again if they presume to return in [...]o i [...].

FINIS.

§

[...]rrata. P [...] 46. l. 26. James, r. Iohn Nelthrop.

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Conscientious, serious theological and legal quæres, propounded to the twice-dissipated, self-created anti-Parliamentary Westminster juncto, and its members... by William Prynne ...

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

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