The Tyranny of Tyrannies.

THese are to signifie to all free-born English men, That the new Turkish Tyrants, Cromwel and Ireton, at a Councel of War, have already privately condemned to death Sir WILLIAM WALLER and Major General BROWNE, Members of Parliament, free men of England, men that have faith­fully fought the Battels of their Country in order to their Coun­tries Peace, not their own Tyranny and Dominion over the peo­ple; One of them a Sheriffe of the City of London, in whose blood they will write their own victory, and the City's slavery: Neither of whom being under any Jurisdiction of Martial Law. Whereby other men may well foresee, this shall be a leading Precedent for many thousands more to follow. And this is done, they never ha­ving been heard, sent for, or any evidence produced against them. And it is resolved, their heads shall be cut off before Saturday next, to strike a terrour into the whole Kingdom, that no man may op­pose their Tyranny. Of which we thought good to give you no­tice, that all men may assist these condemned Gentlemen with their prayers; in whose veins the Religion, Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom lie bleeding, unlesse the whole Kingdom as one man rise up against these bloody Tyrants, and shake off their yoke be­fore it be setled. Cromwell and Ireton have lately found out a new Anabaptisticall light or Principle to act these Tragedies upon the lives of innocent men: That though they have no proofs nor evi­dence, yet if they think in their consciences they are guilty, they may condemn them out of the testimony of their own private con­sciences.

19 Decemb. 1648.

GEN. 49. 5, 6.

Simeon and Levi are brethren, instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret: unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united; for in their anger they slew a man, & in their self-will they digged down a wall.

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