TRue, trusty, and well-beloved servants of great Lucifer throughout the whole world, especially you of the Kingdome of England, our speciall benediction; where­as wee have received a petition which was lately presented to us by the hands of some of our obedient servants, contain­ning sundry Acts, Passages, Orders and Ordinances, by you commanded, and by the people in generall performed to the great advance of our Kingdome, in which you desire our approbation by way of petition, which wee have looked upon as acts of great concernment; for whereas you say you have shooke off all Loyalty and honesty, and have rai­sed an Army and fought against your King, and tooke him prisoner, where he at this day remaines under your custody to your great applause, and have managed a war for the space of seaven yeares or well nigh; and hunted your Queen out of the Land, and driven your Prince away, tooke your Kings revenew from him, and left him nothing but what you judge meet for such a one, and maintained your selves like Princes with congratulatory gifts, and also as you say, you have sold many or all the Bishops Lands, where­with you have encreased your owne estates and Lands, and murdered the good people of the Land, and voted those to be Traytours that have risen in armes against you, and set up an Exicise Office, where you receive and gather in the fat of the Land, and the fruits of the Kingdome: And also have (to keep the people in subjection) settled a Committee at Goldsmiths Hall, at Darby house, and such like places, that whosoever misbehaveth himselfe, breakes your Orders, or will not pay those assessements that you in your wisdome [Page 4]thinke meet to be paid for your use, and have issued many warrants to bring refractory persons, and have procured Knights of the Post to sweare point blancke against such, and have commanded to plunder, to kill and slay your oppo­sers, and have maintained Sectaries, Divisions, Heresies, A­nabaptists, Independency, Presbyters, Sects, Schismes, sa­criledge, blasphemy, and what not, to the advance of our Kingdome, and have countenanced treason, and rebellion, applauded Rebels, rewarded murthers, fomented untruths, falcified Oathes broken Covenants, robbed the people, and used that most excellent art of equivocating; for these Acts, and deeds, and such like, which we have not time at present to recapitulate; we accept, affect, applaud, and approve; and put the case you faile in any thing that you cannot procure, nor compasse by wit or art to obtaine, be it on the Seas, or on the Land, or under the earth; yea be it in the ayre, wee with our politick, wise, crafty complices, will accomplish your desire, though the whole world were engaged against you; for what have we not power to command the whole earth? yea we have, and it will obey, for in the twinckling of an eye we have our desire, and our servants shall be yours to command, be the act never so unjust, for with their helpe you shall subdue, only thus much you must acknowledge this to be of our great power, and impute nothing of it to your selves; in this throne we are greatest, and as you have done most worthily hitherto, and as it becomes our obedient ser­vants; so we exhort you, and command you in our name to persist in these wayes, for we are the great paymaster in the world, and if wee set you on worke be sure we will pay you your wages.

Wherefore we say againe, that we do approve of all and every act by you done, or shall doe in this kind, for its done to the advancement of our Kingdome, and we are joyfull to heare that we have such faithfull and diligent servants, that are so willing to performe our will, and as you have beene thus carefull and forward to execute our Lawes, and main­taine such acts; we doe here adde and ordaine other Laws [Page 5]to be executed and put in practice by you, as you will answer the contrary at you perill.

For as much as our Kingdome extends it selfe to the ut­termost parts of the earth; and we are the greatest Conque­rors that ever the world bred; for no Emperour, King, or Potentate, be he or they never so mighty, is able to with­stand our strength, or any of our servants or agents whom we imploy in our cause.

Wherefore we great Lucifer, Prince of Devils, with the approbation of our infernall privy Counsell, doe order and declare (for theres no cause but we may declare as well as others, having the most pollitick and subtelest under the earth to be our Counsellours) and by whom other Counsels are ingaged for advice, as followeth:

That I great Lucifer, Prince of the aire, am the Father of all lyes, murthers, adulteries, blasphemies, incest, sacri­ledge, rapines, coveteousnesse, drunkenesse, swearing, whoredomes, contempts, backbiting, slanders, dissembling, and all manner of wickednesse whatsoever can be named: and I with the rest of my divelish Counsellours, will main­taine, defend, preserve, and put in practice, set forward, and helpe these and the like designes upon any person or per­sons, he or she, of what degree or calling so ever they be, whether Kings, Princes, Lords, Earles, or Potentates, rich or poore, yong or old, I, I say will tempt, intice, provoke, and perswade withall manner of slights, baits and suggesti­ons; that men and women commit these, and such like, by all the meanes and wayes that can be used, whether in secret or publick, openly or privately, by night or by day, sleeping or waking, without giving rest to any, no not for a minute; yea their best actions shall be worst performed, and to make this more evident to the whole world, I with advice of [Page 6]my hellish infernall Counsell of the upper Region, and the lower Hell, doe order.

Imprimis, Tis ordered and judged meet by us Imps of Hell, that all creatures shall and may have as many Idols as they please, whether Parliament Idols, Goldsmiths Hall Idols, or Excise Idols, and shall and may make as many kinde of I­dols, of gold or silver, wood or stone, Parliament man or Committee man, to hug them, and shall and may set them up in any place wheresoever in earth or hell, sea or land, Tem­ple or market place, Westminster or London, or in their owne hearts, and shall bow, and cringe to them as oft as they please.

Item, its agreed by the infernall Councell of Hell that all daies shall be alike to do any kinde of service, except Fa­sting daies; and tis ordered that they keep one day in a Moone-shine, and to offer up their little Idol mony as a sa­crifice to us: And before such Moone-shine day, the foure Windes shall blow foure severall wayes to give notice, and to put them in minde to prepare themselves for that day of Moone-shine, to meet at the unholy Court called the sacri­ficing Mount: in English, the Committees of Gold-smiths Hall.

Item, wee act if any man come into the world without Father or Mother, or our help to beget them, or if any Ma­lignant beget another, they shall curse their begetters, and their genitors (Parliament and godlesse men excepted) and tolleration shall be given to all Rebels to curse, Autho­rities to raile at government, and Governours, to dispise dignities, to live without order, to make one another o­dious, to practise treasons and rebellions, and to make eve­ry thing mine and thine, and the longest liver take all, what the Divell leaves.

Item, wee hold it Lawfull, and it is a commendable deed of darknesse, to imbrew one anothers hands in the bloud of others, and to hang up all Royalists, especially those that will not submit to our Lawes, and whether this act bee done inwardly by potions, or outwardly by weapons, [Page 7]we value it not, provided it be done to the life, yea of Kings.

Item, it is acted that it shall be Lawfull for any one to co­ver, or any to prostitute themselves to any one, whether his or hers be sleeping or waking: provided it be done that none sees it; and further by the said power it is held Law­full, that if any attempt this act, to any kinde of cattle, beast, swine, or Dogs, it shall be tollerable, yea and to foule Martin.

Item, we judge it Lawfull to rob, carry away, or to take any thing that is anothers in spite of their noses, whether we want it or not, and who so shall withstand us shall be torne in pieces with Divels: the Divell take them.

Item, it is Lawfull to back-bite, slander, revile, and betray any one, be they friend or foe. Noble or ignoble, alwaies provided that before such an act they have recourse to our high Court, or to some of our Committees, and from them procure a commission for the same.

Item, it is ordered, and held Lawfull to desire anothers estate, Land, money, riches, wealth, wives, or children, or whatsoever is anothers, be it never so good, or never so faire, or never so much, so it be to satisfie our lusts, and to take any thing from any mans dwelling, bed, or board: provided it be done in a coveteous way, and he esteemed a malignant or popish delinquent.

Lastly, it is agreed and concluded upon that we will that all men be as we are, Lyars, murtherers, blasphemers, swea­rers, dissemblers, hypocrites, drunkards, idolaters, revellers, covenant breakers, haters of honest men, because we shall never come or have to do where honest men are, but shall alwaies remaine bathing our selves in the lake of hell where we would that all false assemblers should be pertakers with us, to the advancement of our Kingdome without any dis­solution or rejouring.

If any be pleased to list themselves under any of our Offi­cers whom we shall appoint, and set over to fight our Bat­tles, let them repaire to our Court of Limbo, or Purgato­ry, neere Westminster, where they may list soule or body, go as fast on foot or horseback as any of the Members.