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All the me­morable & wonder strikinge PARLAMEN­TARY MERCIES effected & affor­ded unto this our ENGLISH NATION, within this space of lesse then 2 Yeares past A. 1641. & 1642.

Are to be sould. by Thomas. Ienner; in his shop at the old Exchange

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In a little wrath I hid my face frō the for a moment; but with everla­sting kindnes will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy redeemer.

Isaiah. 54. 1.

I will mention the lo­ving kindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according, to all that the Lord hath bestoued on us, and the great goodnesse towards the house of Israell w­hich hee hath besowed on them according to his mercies and according to the multitude of his Louing kindnesses.

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And the fifth Angel poured out his viall upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom was full of darknesse, and they gnawed their tongues for pain. and blasphemed the God of heauen.

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The Arch-Prelate of St Andrewes in Scotland reading the new Service-booke in his pontificalibus assaulted by men & Women, with Crickets stooles Stickes and Stones.

The rising of Prentises and Sea-men on South­wark side to assault the Arch-bishops of Canter­burys House at Lambeth.

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The Souldiers in their passage to York turn unto reformers pull down Popish pictures, beak down rayles turn altars into Tables.

the English and Scotts Armies at first ready to fight, lovingly embrace each other, & part kin­de freinds.

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The Ministers and people solemnly take the Prote­station in all Churches over the Kingdome.

Mr Burton, Dr. Bastwick, & Mr. Prinne, triumphan­tly from perpetuall captivity, those 3 famous Wittnesses of Truth, return home to London, atten­ded with thousands of horse and foot,

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The Earle of Strafford for treasonable practises beheaded on the Tower-hill.

Sr. Francis Windebank, Sr. Iohn Finch, the Lord Digbie, Iermin etc. fly for their lives beyond sea,

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The High Commission-Court and Starr-Chamber voted down, and pluralities & non residencies damned by Parliament.

The Queen-Mother sent away by Sea, and the Ca­puchine Fryers & Priests expell'd from Somersett House beyond Sea.

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The Citie Trained Bands, and the brave Sea-men with Barges and Long-boates adorn'd with strea­mers drums & trumpets, and furnisht with Ship­guns. & other Warrlike instruments, quard the Lords & Commons safely to Parl: by Land & Water.

The Countie of Buckingham Cometh to London the very same day of the Lords & Comons so quarded, with their Petition to the Parl: Carrying the Pro­testation on their staves on horseback, and the Counties of Essex, Hertford, Barkshire, Surrey, & others, followed them in like maner shortly after.

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The Bishops imprisoned in the Towre of London for protesting against the Parliament

Popish Recusants disarmed, for the greate securi­ty of the kingdome

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a Letter sent to Mr. Pym. ‘Mr. Pym doe not think that a guard of men can protect you if you persist in your traiterous Courses and wiked designes I haue sent a Paper-messenger to you and if this does not touch your heart, a dagger shall so soon as I am recouered of my plaguesore: In the meane time you may be forborn because no better man may be endan­gered for you. Repent, Traitor’

Colonell Lunsford assaulting the Londoners at Westminster Hall, with a great rout of ruffinly Cavaleires

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