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A84034	The English tyrants. Or, A brief historie of the lives and actions of the high and mighty states, the lords of Westminster, and now (by usurpation) kings of England. Containing all their rebellious and traiterous proceedings and transactions in Parliament. With their levying of war, and bloudy practices against their soveraign, their sinister and military designs to alter and subvert the fundamentall government in church and commonwealth, by destroying monarchy, and making themselves free-states, by the power of the sword. Continued from the first convention of this Parliament, 1640. untill the Kings death, Jan. 30. 1648.		1649 (1649)	Wing E3122; Thomason E569_4; ESTC R201943	8,872	17

and unjustly refused to admit of His Majesties just Reasons and exceptions against their usurped Jurisdiction and without any lawfull Authority or proof against Him or legall Triall presumed most traiterously and impiously to condemn and murder Him And since that have arraigned and put to death some Peers and other free Subjects of this Realm contrary to Magna Charta the Petition of Right Duke Hamilton Holland and Capell the Laws of the Land and the Liberties of the Subjects to the great enslaving and endangering of the lives and liberties of all the free-people of England And whereas the said confederated Commons have likewise tyrannically Acts of Parliament made by the Committee and contrary to their Oaths and Engagements aforesaid to take upon them to make Acts of Parliament as they tearm them without the joint consent of the King and House of Lords contrary to the use and priviledges of Parliament and known Laws of the Land And by pretext thereof have traiterously and wickedly endeavoured to disinherit the Illustrious CHARLS Prince of Wales next Heir to the Crown Treason to proclaim Charls II. King and Actuall King of England Scotland France and Ireland immediatly after His said Royall Father barbarous murther by right of Descent and proclaimed it Treason for any person to proclaim Him King whereas it is high Treason in them thus to prohibite His proclaiming and have likewise traiterously and impudently encroached a Tyrannicall and lawlesse power to themselves to vote down our Ancient Kingly and Monarchicall Government and the House of Peers Change of Government and to make a New Great Seal of England without the Kings Pourtraicture or Stile and to alter the Ancient Regall and Legall Stile of Writs and proceedings in the Courts of Justice and to create New Judges and Commissioners of the Great Seal and to dispense with the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and to prescribe new Oaths unto them contrary to Law Statute or Custome to administer And have traiterously attempted to change and alter the Fundamentall Laws and Government of this Kingdom and to subvert the being freedom and priviledges of Parliaments For which Treasons Strafford and Canterbury though lesse criminall lost their heads this Parliament States and Lords of the Land To conclude you are become by Rebellion Treason Tyrannie Bloud and Murder Lords of the Land Kings of a poor distressed and miserable Kingdom And you are pleased in your greatnesse to stile your selves The Free Estates of the Kingdom you have violently forcibly and unjustly got the riches treasure and wealth of the Land into your hands by the power of the Sword under which the poor people of England are ruinated and destroyed Yet consider this you that forget God the vengeance of Heaven hangs over your heads for oppression and bloud your reprieve is not your salvation you are grown to a height of confidence and presumption upon your successes your necks are as iron and your brows brasse and you walk uncontroulable in your way triumphing as the only Princes of the Earth as fit to sway the Scepter of England and all Nations as the only righteous and honourable people in the world the great Lords of the Land Yet Remember for all these things you shall come to Judgment you shall give an accompt for all the treasonable and bloudy actions you have perpetrated against the King and Kingdom Thus far have I traced your footsteps the space of eight years not without admiration from the time His Majestie sate on His Throne to His unfortunate Death by His Subjects before His own Palace where you may observe the most Virtuous and Wisest Prince in the Christian world murder'd and put to death by the most villanous barbarous and bloudy people upon the Face of the Earth FINIS I shall shortly recommend to you the second part of this Historie which as yet is not finished containing all their Actions from His Majesties Death to this present

THE ENGLISH TYRANTS OR A brief Historie of the Lives and Actions of the high and mighty States the Lords of Westminster and now by usurpation Kings of ENGLAND Containing all their Rebellious and Traiterous Proceedings and Transactions in Parliament With their levying of War and bloudy practises against their Soveraign their sinister and Military designs to alter and subvert the Fundamentall Government in Church and Commonwealth by destroying Monarchy and making themselves Free-States by the power of the Sword Continued from the first Convention of this Parliament 1640. untill the Kings Death Jan. 30. 1648. Vsurpers are Murderers 2 Reg. 11.1 and Math. 12. 38 39. LONDON Printed in the Year 1649. THE ENGLISH TYRANTS Policy of Princes Policy in Princes or States is but circumstantiall dissimulation pretending one thing intending another Some will so far allow it and say That faith is but a Merchants or Mechanique virtue and so they may make it higher by making it a Regall vice There is an order that out-goeth Michiavel where he confesses Vsus fraudis in caeteris actionibus detestabilis in bell● gerendo laudabilis That fraud which in war is commendable is in other actions detestable Prerogative of Princes 'T is certain there is a prerogative in Princes which may legittimate something in their negotiations which is not allowable in a private person or subject But even the grant of this liberty hath encouraged them to too great an enlargement State policy State policy is now become an irreligious riddle As Lewis the 11th of France would wish his Son to learn no more Latin then would teach him to be a dissembler Godly pretences But when godly pretences back'd with frequent promises and sealed with Oaths Covenants and Protestations appear deformed under the veil of hypocrisie Self-interest self-interest and private ends especially when the safety of a Nation and people solely depends thereupon The hands of the Omnipotent shall uncover their nakednesse and their shame and actions shall be punished with speedy ruine Plausible beginnings Fair and plausible beginnings are not alwaies the forerunners of good end many honest meaning and loyall English-men who eight years since viewed the Parliaments Actions and judged of their integrity by their Protestations and Declarations entertained a very charitable and honourable opinion both of them and their Cause and therein hazarded both their lives and estates with them who are long since sate down in the Chair of repentance having found by sad and wofull experience their fair and large pretences to prove but shadows of weak performances and their greatest labours to produce no other effects then to burden this distracted Nation with unheard of tyrannie and miserable oppression But they that beheld their proceedings and actions even in their primitive and best times with a considerable and judicious eie did easily perceive them to pursue their own ambitious and self-ends more then the welfare of their native Kingdom That they were men whose thoughts and intentions were filled with bloud Who could expect better things from the illegall and rebellious proceedings of those men who presumed from Servants to become Masters and endeavour to bring in Democracy and destroy Monarchy Whose horrid and bloudy actions hath produced such monstrous and strange effects that it hath set open the floud-gates of ruine to overflow this miserable and bleeding Kingdom Courteous Reader Beginning of the Par. 1640. Take here then a Breviate or Narrative of all the proceedings and traiterous actions of this Parliament and Army from their first convention by the K. Writ 1640. where in the space of ten years you shall find the greatest mutation and change of Government in this late flourishing Kingdom of England that hath befallen any Nation or State in Europe since it was a Monarchy acted under the specious pretences of Religion Monarchy turned to Anarchy Laws and Liberties by the most rebellious perjur'd and bloudy Tyrants that ever carried the name of Subjects or badge of Christianity in the whole Universe Take here also a view of the illegall Acts of these traiterous Tyrants at Westminster Illegall Acts. for the accomplishment of their private and bloudy designs to subvert the ancient sundamentall constitution and government of the Kingd in destroying the King his Posterity together with Monarchy and to invest themselves with power and greatness thereof as States and Lords of the Land 1 Act. The Earl of Strafford First They strike at an eminent pillar that upheld the fabrick of the Commonwealth a wise States-man and Councellour unto His Majestie as a great obstruction in their original designs by taking away his life Ap. 12. 1641. A Bill against Bishops And the Militia Next they perswade His Majestie and bring in a Bill to take away Bishops root and branch Another for taking away the Militia from the K. and setting it in other hands both which Bils were rejected in a full and free convention of Parliament Also to passe by tumults raised in Dec. and Ja. 1641. Tumults in Dec. and Jan. 1641. For reviving and carrying on the Bils before rejected by driving away the dissenting Memb. and new moulding the 2 Houses of Parl. Acts for a Trienniall and perpetuall Parliament His Majesty after this according to their desires in their petition passed two severall Acts the first for a Trienniall Parliament the second for a continuance of this Parliament In which Acts he gave his prerogative and power out of his own hands which proved his and the Kingdoms ruin Fears and Jealousies They begin to invent Fears and Jealousies and possesse the people with pretences or designs for destroying the Parl. City and Kingd But these Fears and Jealousies of their own contriving hath destroyed the K. and People and preserved themselvs Petition for the Militia This party of the House of Commons thus possessed with Fears and Jealousies petition His Majestie to put the Tower of London and all other Forts and the whole Militia of the Kigndom into their hands Jan. 28. Also they tender His Majestie an Ordinance for setling the power of the Militia in the Houses of Parl. Feb. 24. The Kings Fears and Jealousies Which Petition and Ordinance begot in His Majestie also Fears and Jealousies of a design against Himself and against the Crown to take away His Rights and to alter the Fundamentall Laws and Government of this Kingdom as appears by His Answer Jan. 28. The K. gives the Parl. the Tower Forts and Custles His Majestie to comply with them promised That the Forts and Castles should be in such hands 〈◊〉 only such as the Parliament may safely conside in Jan. 28. Also His Majestie accepted of Sir John Conyers to 〈◊〉 Lieutenant of the Tower of London in place of Sir John Byron Feb. 11. The Militia of the Kingdom Lastly He accepted of the Lieutenants by them nominated to be entrusted with the Militia of the Counties