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A51719	A discovery, or Certaine observations, concerning the crafty and cursed proceedings of the conspirators, or rebbells of England against their owne King, Queene, church, government, then established; to wit 1639. And the liberty, peace, fafety [sic], & quiet-beeing, of that our nation, and other kingdomes thereunto belonging. By whom the people of other nations have beene also cheated and troubled. Observed by J. M. whose hart hath for many yeares together mourned in secret, for the calamity by the sayd rebbels, brought upon his owne, and other nations.	J. M.	1657 (1657)	Wing M35; ESTC R217014	62,961	63

good men as well as others by mis-informations Thirdly By reasonable Reparation given me such as have abused mee by mis-information not wilfully much lesse so Mallissiously as others then they would have vnderstood that I was much wronged Fourthly That those which are Impudent will then see to their shame that they have often wronged mee without any cause at all in mee Fiftly That I may thereby live quietly and in peace with all men in time to come Sixthly that such and the like might see and consider the evill of theyr doings and doe no more so wickedly nor any others against mee nor any others hereafter by the evill example of the former so evill shall bee put away from amongst you and others shall heare and feare and commit no more any such evill amongst you see Deut. 19. from the 16. verse to the end Seaventhly Because my selfe others have found by longe and woefull experince that because sentence or Iustice against the evill workers hath neither in the short nor long been executed much lesse speedyly therefore the harts of the Children of men hath been fully set in them to doe evill Eccles 8.11 12. Is it not a wonderfull thing that men should so despise the Word and cast of the feare of the Lord like men who are so desperately wicked as to tyrannise so much over others as to make them halfe or wholy distracted as them selves say by exstreme violence and greefe donne by themselves and then Insult the more over them by taunting termes Imputing such to be mad for the great troubles and vngodly dealings brought vpon the opressed by them selves These doe aprove themselves to bee Lovers of wrong more then of Right neyther are they ashamed to condemne the Innocent nor to Iustefye the vngodly Eccles 7.7 These men seeme to scorne Gods owne Word seeing it is sayd that oppression maketh a wise man mad Jeren 17.9 A gift destroyeth the harte and so doth feasting too when it is done to a mischievous end Now because the evill smell of theyr detestable projects is come abroad into a great part of the world which in the short or long will make Crumwell and his Helpers for to spuw vp or leave the pray againe by them vnjustly taken from theyr betters both of our owne and other Nations And this is the Reason that the Traytors of England first made vse of Strangers against theyr owne King and Country I meane such as were mis-informed and deceaved by the falshood of the sayd Traytors Secondly the strenght of theyr delusion and the necessity of the sayd Rebbells for it Proverb 6.19 they yeare after yeare have made vse of one Catholike to destroy another Catholike so that it seemes theyr Trade and Profession is to sowe and to make discord strife and devisions amongst Brethren Rom. 16. vers 17.18.19.20 from whence commeth desolation ruying and bloodshed and they warme themselves by the coales of other mens Houses whom the sayd Rebbels set on fyer Thirdly they have not onely severall times stirred vp Protestants against Catholikes but also Catholikes against Protestants Witnesse the Hents of theyr owne Creators saying They had helpe of the Subjects of the King of Spayne or some of them against the Lords the States Generall of the Vnited Provences or against the peaceable Inhabitants I confesse if they speake trueth it is to themselves mis-fortune Judges 9. vers 2.3.4.5.6 because their custome is constantly for lyes but if it bee true it is but like as Abimolochs boldnesse So that if any of the King of Spaynes Subjects were drawne thereunto Nota 15. it was by the shamelesse importunety and strong delusions of the sayde Rebbells Vpon which account they would have broken the Peace betweene the King of spayne if the sayd States before mentioned had proved so wicked as themselves So that the Read or may vnderstand that by smooth words fayre pretences and other vngodly shifres there is no end of the hurtfull ploddings of mischiefe by the sayde Rebbels For first they will procure others to doe what is vnjust and then will be the first to stirre vp yet others against them for it It were greatly to bee desired that all people especially Protestants who have beene most deluded by the sayd Rebbells did perfectly vnderstand how much the Conspirators have beene beholden to slaunder fraude and falsehood and thereby have prevayled with severall other Nations for to condemne and judge wrongly of such eminent and innocent Persons at home and abroad as were more righteous then themselves And sometimes they joyned with Spayne against Portingall and severall times secretly as openly they jugled with Portingall against Spayne and after that the like againe with Spayne against Fraunce and now with Fraunce against Spayne Neyther is it possible to mention halff the mischiefes that the deceavors of England hath practised in theyr wicked proceedings But the Indifferent Reador may bee pleased to remember that when I mention the Make-bates or Conspirators of England I doe not meane the Oppressed nor the deluded people of England but I meane the present Traytor Crumwell the Officors of his Army and such others of his Right-hand Mates as fell first from that Religion they first had and since have changed theyr Religion from Presbiterians vnto Independants then to Annabaptists but what Religion now they have I know not But this I am sure that so by Antionomismi Adamites and Quakers Relligion and others which I can not remember but I am sure they are all countenanced if not first invented or devised by Crumwell and his chiefe Helpers and by this means they keepe the people of England elssewhere in continuall contention stryffe and envye one against another least by Love and Vnity they should set themselves against the Rebbells who have brought dishonour infamy and distresse vpon the Nation And this is the Reason that the mindes of many people abroad are corrupted by the false Reportes of those who have donne so much mischiefe and doe cause good people to doe much evill by theyr bitter censurings and condemning not only the King and Queene the Bishops and many a thousand others who are peaceable quyet and faithfull in the Land that for some small punishment inflicted vpon 3. or 4 presumptious Persons who after severall warnings continued to trouble the State and disturbed the Church the Common-wealth also by Rebellious and false Doctrine they declared their impudence like Rabsaketh in their Books or Pamphlets Sermons Lybels seditious Feasts c. against the Government then Established Which by Act of Parlament to wit the Lawes of the Land besides the Proclamations of the King the Bishops were enjoynd and expresly charged and commanded to maintaine and to punish Offendors and such disturbers as by Lyes new Doctrines of theyr owne-framing stirred vp part of the People to Rebellion against the King the Church and the State to the losse of many a thousand good mens Lives

vnder the hand of Mr. Hengh Pieters Minister dated the 17. day of Iune 1634. For the clearing mee of a false Accusation then layd to my charge an other was the Copy of an Act vnder the hands of the Lords of Rotterdam to show that I was a free Broker and the third was a Copy of an Act that I had from the Company my Masters to the intent that Crumwell might vnderstand that I desired nothing but what was as Just as the Cloathes on my back and rather farre shorter then one or two over I signefyed also vnto the said Crumwell that whether the mony were payed or not that I expected nothing neyther would accept of any thing from him or any of his party but from my Masters aforesayd vnder whom I had sufferd and to this purpose I wrote vnto him SIR I hope your Highnesse will grant that though Power and Impudence by violence There is a longer explication of this in Folio 58. drive honest and harmlesse men from their Right and quiet being yet you will not deny but that it is lawfull for men who are opprest and spoyld for to vse the best meanes they can towards the obtaining of Reparation or Restitution as it shall please the Lord to give power or opportunety And I doe comfort my selfe in the Lord my God as some times David did who I hope will gratiously favour my Righteous cause 1. Sam 30.6 neyther hath hee left mee wholy without hope Though I must confesse it sometimes pleaseth God for to suffer lyes craft tyranny and falshoode to prosper and to continew longe Da● 8.25 SIR If I should make such a greevous complait without Just and very extreame cause how should I then expect the God of equity to bee on my side or who can I expect shall helpe mee in time of need I hope the Lord will not suffer vayne thoughts for to lodge with in mee nor any evill thing which I blame in others To my sorrow I know that by violence framed and shamelesse Arguments as by other vnlawfull proceedings oft-times a bad cause is kept too long on foote yet that doth not make a bad cause good because it is contrary vnto equity and because the God of Just men is of purer Eyes then to behould evill and who can not looke vpon iniquity vnlesse it bee in his good time to punish such as deale treacherously Habak 1.13 and such as holde their tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more Righteous then hee SIR seeing that my last hope I have left of ever Recovering the sayd somme of Mony is only by the helpe of your Highnesse my sufferinge namely in my person and good name as in matter of my subsistance have beene very great of three twenty yeares continuance Wherefore blame mee not though I earnestly seeke Reparation by such meanes or possibillities as God is pleased to aforde mee I doe most humbly Confesse that I am very large and tedious and you shall doe well to Consider the extremety of my being necessetated herevnto I further signefied vnto the sayd Crumwell besides my greevances at large comprehended in divers Articles as is a foresayd that in case hee did not cause mee to have Iustice as aforesayd seeing that power is in his hand that hee might perceave that I did intend to doe that which would bee very vnwelcom to him and vnto many of his Party and I also added parte of my grounds or Reasons wherfore I would doe it as followeth SIR I doe most humbly show vnto your Highnesse Verbatum that for these many yeares together I have been very much greeved at the proceedings of your Highnesse the Army and others of your Party against the Worde of God the King the Church the Lawes Nation of our Land And that ever since the troubles of England by the Conspiracy of you your Partye as heereafter more at large first began in which time many thousands of the best and most peaceablest famelyes are ruened also by the slight of men and that long in secret my most beloved Nation hath beene in a most wonderfull manner stirred vp and set one against another by such as were the enemies troublers of our Nation so at home as from abroad by which Cursed meanes aboundance of blood have beene spilt for which my soule hath constantly mourned in secreat Jer. 13.12 For which Cause and for other Reasons that I must as yet conceale I have spoken much against the Person and Proceedings of your Highnesse and some others of your Party which by the helpe of the most high God shall be knowen shortly in publicke or in private which I have intended this many yeares but hetherto I have kept it still private vnlesse vpon occasion some wordes darkely have past from mee because I have greatly and alwayes longed to see or heare of a Righteous settlement in England without discovering my selfe and as yet onely my prayers to God Almighty have been my best Indeavours to that purpose And SIR much at convenient time and place I have to say without any wrong or prejudice vnto any others also it will concerne you and many of your Party to know the same in private before it comes in publicke to the world because thereby your evill savour will yet be much more knowne then ever it was or hath been as yet This is the Copye of a Letter from mee to Crumwell the Arch-Rebbell being word for word The Copye of another Letter inclosed to the sayde MR. Streckland for the sayd Crumwell Dated the 28. of March 1657. in Bridges and sent by the ordinary Post by way of Dunkirke For your Highnesse to wit the most vallient Oliver Crumwell Lord Protector of the Army and some others in great Brittaine and Jerland This is also verbatum SIR I doe humbly agayne give you notice that I did write vnto you from Middlebourgh and Flushing in Zeland by one Iohn Simmons a Shippe-Carpentor dwelling neare Noahs Arke not farre from the Millstayres in Horsydowne London Certaine papers of Consequence bearing date the 20. of Feb last But for want of a speedior passage I dated other papers the third and the fourth of March old stile Also I wrote vnto Mr. Hugh Pieters Mr. Walter Streckland to Sir Henry Vaine all whom doe know mee or some times have knowne mee but MR. Pieters Minister best of any of them SIR The Contents of the sayd papers are as followeth I having served the Company of Marchants Adventurors of England some times Residing in Delfe and Rotterdam since the yeare 1634. and though I humbly doe and shall ever Acknowledge many of my sayd Masters both of the first of the last of their Worships some were as good Masters vnto mee as I could wish or desier them to bee yet others of their sayd Worships who were towards me disaffected from the begining of 1634. have from time to time caused my Life