THe crimson hearted Jesuite (as if tyranny was the onely way to be happy) bids Kill, Murder, Root out, and destroy the Protestants, and therefore barbarously cryes out Blood, Fire; Let the Heretiques be cut off, and Rome shall (like a gratefull Matron) Canonize you: If you spare neither man, woman, nor child, you shall be remembred by the higher dignities, this is the damnable doctrine of the Papists, that so much envie a­gain­st the Parliament, Citie, and Kingdome.

Many bitter Cups have beene prepared for London, yet the dregs given to those that mixt the poyson; and thus; Let all thine enemies perish O Lord.

What plotting had wear the beginning of the Parlia­ment, to get the Lord Strafford (Deputie of Ireland, out of the Tower: And first, men in armes appoynted to break in, and a second, and their commotions to follow it till he was rescued; and yet, by a Letter, it being discovered, then tooles were brought unto him, by which he cut the hand from barres, and a Vessell was prepared to have met him on Tower-Hill to have escaped, but all was preven­ted; Then Articles were prepared against some Members to take away their lives, because they Acted so faithfully and couragiously, for the Kingdome that intrusted them, and the like was against some godly Ministers, and others; The Papists, bloody Bishops, all this while went Jesuiti­cally on in their designes, to make a strength to rest in [Page 2]this Kingdome, as they had barbarously murdered so m [...] ­ny in Ireland, and the Lord Herbert of Rag [...], now Earle of Glamorgan, made his house in Wales a strong Garrison, where [...]te the councell of Jesuites, and to this day do still continue and order the businesse there for the Papists, as the Lords doe at Oxford for the King: they have (to this day) their Agents in all parts of the Kingdome, & Scouts and Spies, and doe exceedingly dis [...]urbe our peace.

A young man, that was a Taylor in White-crosse-s [...]eet, heard some, that there was a Plot to murder divers of the Parliament men, & those who was their chiefe men in the Citie, and the rest of the worke would be the more easily done; but they espying him, drew their Swords, he ranne, they after him, & one of them run his Rapier through his cloak, short coat and breeches, hardly escaping with his life, and before he could Alarm any to pursue them, they were vanished.

A Letter was intercepted, which declared the manner how the Papists and Malignants had ordered the businesse in their intentions, and given directions to massacre the Citie, viz. That as severall Churches, where the most po­pulous meetings are, that on a Lords day appoynted, when they were all at Church, and unprepared then to rise, and with severall parties fall on the Congregations at the said severall places, and put them all to the sword, but a strong guard being that day in all parts of the Citie, they durst not attempt their intended designe.

Then they fell to particular wayes of Acting, as amongst the rest, a Cavalier, Jesuited Rogue, tooke the plaister of a Plague sore, with the matter on it, and inclosed it in a Letter, directed to John Pym Esquire, telling him, that he was sick of the Plague, and had sent him that, and that if it went not to his heart, his dagger should, this was brought [Page 3]to him to the house of Commons by a Porter, but (through Gods mercy) did no hurt at all.

And to act their designes the better, first Lunsford, then Byron, were made Lieutenants of the Tower, who were no­table Agents for the Popish partie, and have since beene there great Champions, the one at Ragland with the Jesu­ites, the other at Chester with the Irish Rebels; but these, by the consent of the King and Parliament were soone turned out, which was a great mercy, but they are still in armes against the Parliament, and the very nest of Romish frogs swarme, in Wales, with them.

They never rested til they had raised a warre against the Parliament, and by men, armes, and monies, got into the Kings Camp, and have murdered many godly Protestants, and still labour, by all their wiles and subtilties to ruine the people of God, but the Lord hath still effectuated all their councells, and turned their bloody devises upon their owne pates.

They have sought by treachery to have had many Towns and Garrisons betrayed to them, as Bristol, Abington, and others, where Digby and the rest of them have been shame­fully foyled; yet some they have gotten by treachery, as Waymouth and others, which they have not bin able to keep, but have shortly after been beaten out againe, with very great losse.

They have sought by all their wiles and stratagems, to have London betrayd to them, corrupted the Lord Major, who for his malignancy was ordered to be committed to the Tower, and the malignant Recorder Sir Tho. Gardiner, fled to the King.

Then they plotted with Tompkins, Chall [...]n [...]r, and the rest of that conspiracy, to destroy the Citie, but the chiefe plotters were apprehended and hanged.

And forraigne forces were sent for, one armie of P [...] ­pists from the Duke of Loraine, another of Irish Rebells, but those Irish Rebells were but a moth and a canker to the rest many thousand of those murdering Villaines have bin slaine in England, for there is justly a great heart burn­ing against them, especially for their bloody massacres at Boulton, Middlewith, and elsewhere, and we hanged 13 of those Popish Irish Rebells at Shrewsbury, Prince Rupert then hanged 13 godly Protestants for them.

The plot also carried on with Mr. Ryley (whose simpli­city instead of advancing him, was his overthrow) the Scout-Master-Generall of London, that design of their working with him, they were defeated in.

But they had other wayes besides all these, and those ve­ry subtle, the Malignants about London, got many hands to a petition pretending for peace, and by that way en­deavoured by petitioning the parliament, to have made an uprore, but they were quelled.

Many treaties have beene propounded, which were onely plots for the carrying on of their designes against us; amongst the rest, when the Commissioners were within the Line, and after sate at Uxbridge, and gathered, and carryed away much monies from London, and gained upon the neutrall affections.

Then one Herne a malignant Lawyer came up, and having pow­er from the King, caused a common hall to be called, and the City met at Guild, hall, where some malignants were discovered in Gownes that were no Common-Councell men; amongst the rest a Proctor of Pauls.

Others brought Writs and Proclamations from the King, who lay here as leaguer-Spyes, and once a moneth, or so, went to Ox­ford. One Kniston one of them, who was discovered, and hanged before the Exchange.

But their petitioning by the Malignant party here of men failing, then the women they petitioned, presuming they might take upon [Page 5]them the more liberty of their tongues, and they would have made a mutiny that way; which not taking, because supprest by the care of the Parliament, then they sent their servants and thought to have made an insurrection by the London prentices, but the greatest part were better qualified, and those who laboured it, were soon over-powred, and still God preserved the City and the Parli­ament.

They got Agents into the Lord Genrals Quarters, who blew up his Traine, and then his Army should have been fallen upon, and at other times did us much mischiefe, yet God preserved him, that they never conquered him. They corrupted Hotham and his son, that they opposed the Lord Fairfax when they should have supplied him, which was the breaking of the northern Forces, yet God pre­served him, and those two treacherous wretches both were behea­ded at Tower-hill.

They had Agents to raise Forces in the Association for them, but were severall times subdued in Kent, divers plot­ters taken: And the like at Lin Regis, where Master Le Strange, being apprehended, was tryed in London by a Councell of warre, and condemned to dye; and still God preserved the Association. They have severall times com­plotted with their Agents in London, to have massacred the City, to have murdered the Parliament, and cut the throats of the most godly and sincere Protest [...]nts, and have set out to themselves who shall act in their severall parts, and to bring to effect all this upon us and then who shall have their shares in plundering such and such streets, and such and such houses, being resolved to ravish the Citizens wives and daughters, and take all their estates, and possesse themselves of their houses, and murder their husbands and the godly Ministers, and place Jesuited, E­piscopall, Papall, deboist fellowes in their stead, even such as should applaud all these bloody and wicked acti­ons, and encourage them therein.

And we may remember how the last year they had their Agents here in London to fire divers parts of the City. Some houses were fired neere the Magazine at Guild-hall, others in Newgate-Mar­ket, and others in the Old-Baily, where had they not been quen­ched, they had burnt to Newgate and the Fleet, in both which pla­ces are many of the Cavaliers and a fire was begun (not long since) in the Fleet prison, and divers other places in London, as neere Tower-hill, and in Southwarke, and other places were the last yeare set on fire, to the great losse of many honest godly people.

When Sir Thomas Fairfax had newly been entred Generall with an handfull of his Army, then they plotted to have Abingdon, Plymouth, and divers others of our Garrisons betrayed to them, but failed, and at Nayseby they were confident to have destroyed him, yet God gave us then a most glorious victory by him.

They laboured to decide between the Scots and us, and the Presbyterians and Independants, and so to get in with one party to destroy the other; and in the acting hereof they have had very cunning Jesuites, but God hath hitherto blasted all their plots, and it is to be wished of all that love peace, that the more they labour to foment, the more we should strive to unite.

But there is againe another plot in hand, and divers of them that are gone beyond Sea, say, that they have a party in London for them, that are so considerable, that they hope to conquer us still, and at last to have their ends: Sir Jacob Ashley when he was ta­ken, told our men, that they should yet conquer us by our owne divisions: But all this while, the plot against the City goes on, and that no lesse then fire and sword to burne the City in divers places, to breake open the prison doores, and rise at the same time, set the City in an uprore, and presently make a massacre upon the City and the Parliament; and therefore the Parliament have thought fit to publish an Order for the turning of the Malignants out of the Line; and one Neale was committed close prisoner to the Provost Marshiall of the Court Martiall.

On the Lords day, May 31. 1646. a Letter was found in the Parish-Church of Martins in the fields neer Charing-Crosse, which was shewed to the honourable the Earle of Salisbury, and others, where was written thus:

If the King come not immediatly, we will all rise presently, &c.