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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88503	Londons new colours displaid: or, The snake in the cities grasse-green petition discovered. For preventing the horrid mischiefs thereby intended, against the army, and all the well-affected people in city and countrey.		1648 (1648)	Wing L2942; Thomason E452_21; ESTC R204863	11,379	16

Kings in chains and Nobles in fetters of iron but that they may learne also to judge rightly without respect of persons and reward every man according to his works You all heare friends how things go in Scotland that they have had a Malignant Parliament endeavouring might and maine to raise forces and bring an Army into England To doe what why to establish Religion and for defence of the Kings honour and greatnesse according to the Covenant just in the very language of these Petitioners and especially for a personall Treaty with his Majesty 'T is marvell the word Sacred is not added by them or our Aldermen But it seems that's forborne till his Majesty have left swearing at every other word or till after the personall Treaty and then the King shall have all his greatnesse honour and prerogative againe But sure the Parliament of Scotland is not malignant They are abused and injured It 's not possible after all their strivings and opposition to the King that those people should be so foolish as to choose a malignant Parliament Yet so it is the weaknesse of well-meaning people hath been such that for feare of choosing such as favour Sectaries by whom they as well as we have been preserved they have chosen absolute Cavaliers and Malignants sworne vassalls to the lusts of the King such as hope to be sharers in the spoile of his future Tyranny and to be petty-Tyrants under him themselves which is the great interest of all the degenerate Gallants that formerly have or doe at present warre against the Common-wealth on his behalfe This the honest party have perceived too late to their griefe For already they begin to imprison the best-affected and most zealous Ministers and others and it is reported they have executed some of the Ministers But sure they are not as yet so impudently base though it bee much to be feared they will doe it if timely help appeare not here which must be even by your disclaiming and renouncing these wicked men and this their accursed Malignant Petition which is a thousand times worse then that which was called the Plush Petition and would have been so taken but that some of you who otherwise are godly minded are seduced to appeare therein Nay if both Lords and Commons were now as in the time of that Petition they were affected in stead of thanks they would have shewed them their errour and how contrary such a Petition is to the freedome of the Nation But it is evident they are now Confederates with these men and intend under the cunning plot of a personall Treaty fairely and handsomely to seale and deliver up to the King not onely the just Freedomes and Liberties of the people with Excize and all their oppressions to boot unreckoned for and unpunished but also the lives and estates of you and all that have cordially opposed him And for this end it is these false Common Councellmen and Aldermen who to distinguish them from you shall henceforth be called Common-Hall men for that you know is their right title for this end I say did these Common-Hall men so earnestly petition for a personall Treaty and continuance of the brotherly union between the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland Their meaning is between the Malignants Parliaments in both According to the Covenant O● that was well remembred that covers and colours all Malignancy O this Covenant of ours serves for many good purposes For we can neither preserve our Enemies in our own bosomes divide amongst our selves nor find quarrell enough to destroy our friends without the help of this Covenant Which though many of us have taken in the sincerity of our hearts yet we see it is now made use of to all sorts of ungodly close and treacherous designes And what is there now wanting but that by the happy union of the Malignants in both Nations between the King Majesty and the Honourable Houses of Parliament all whom they call Round-heads in England and Scotland shall very speedily be destroyed even with as good a riddance as the Protestants in Ireland were by His Majesties good catholick Subjects there who may hereafter be invited to compleat this happy union Yes this is yet wanting the Committee appointed must first agree at what place and time this personall Treaty must bee Then the King must be demanded out of the hands of the Army This they suppose will be som what disputed as tending to the ruine of the Army of all the honest party in England and of the cause for which so great floods of blood hath been spilt and oceans of treasure spent and being no lesse in effect then to give up their Swords into the hands of their perfidious vanquished enemies But here is the plot if the King be denyed then presently flies out Declaration upon Declaration against all the Officers and Souldiers of this rebellious and disobedient Army declaring them once more traitors and Rebels in the highest degree denouncing death and sequestration to all that shall any wayes assist them with Men Horse Money or Plate in these their treacherous and rebellious practices tending to the dissolution of all Government and the u●ter ruine and decay of Trade for it must be in the Kings old tearmes And then up goes another Army under Major Generall Brown the Presbyterian Cou●tier whom t' is thought you that are honest will so farre favour as to assist in raising of those new forces which if you do then they are past doubt of carrying on their work against the Sectaries according to the Covenant not seeming to be against you but rather for you till they have got you all within their clutches and caught you it this Trapp For if you that are godly countenance not their work all is lost the Trained bands and Auxiliaries will not then go out not withstanding all endeavours and Devices to engage their Commanders the Countries will not be deluded not come in to any purpose But be you sure to keepe Scotlands proceedings in your eye and look no other way Think upon their imprisoning of godly men already and adhere no longer to these wicked dissembling Common-Hall men but separate your selves from amongst them do not you assist these workers of iniquity you shall see them confounded But if you give them the least countenance you will find such a confluence of mad and rude people instantly flock to them that though they are never sikely to prevaile against the Army and their friends yet so great may be the disturbance that your City will be much indangered your wives and Families affrighred and what will then become of Trading Certainly this is not the way to a speedy end except by your destructions but to the lengthening of your distractions For it cannot be immagined that the Army and honest party throughout the Land will be so easily vanquished as these hot-spirited men conjecture It will cost hot water before that be done They have not yet

have been deeply laid and lists found they have been far enough out of danger The sad condition of Major R●lph being a health ye must all look to pledge when it comes to your turnes they have ye see fine contriving wits and want not swearers on theirside O Wretches Moni●s t is confest they have disburst but how much to the King more then to the Parliament in the time of its integritie they feare will one day be discovered except by a personall treaty they and their friends get above you all Now that you may not if possible suspect their pernicious meaning knowing that neither Aldermens and Commons-Councelmens gowns will cover their grosse hypocrisie they put on that Cloake of Religion that seldome hath failed them in hideing their deceits makeing very sowre faces in this second page for the growth of superstition Heresies Shismes and Prophanenesse occasioned forsooth as they say by the long unsettlement of the Churches O the growth of Hypocrisie and Presumption thus to glosse their treacherous and bloody intentions with pretences of Religion But what mean they by the growth of Superstition except the reviveing of the Service-Booke which in their Hearts none love more then most of these As for Heresies and Schismes though most of them understand not truly what those words meane yet 't is easie to discover they intend thereby to make odious all that have cordially opposed the King or shew any respects to this Army And as for prophanenesse certainly they mean neither lying nor over-reaching nor deceiving in traffique neither pride nor covetousnesse nor abusing the name of God and Religion to villanous purposes and you will easily believe a personall treaty will occasion neithe●lesse swearing nor lesse drinking nor any fewer of these vices insomuch as if they are taken as they seem to mean by contraries they will then appear rather to intend the growth of all these then of the contrary vertues As for the unsettlement of the Church they use this phrase of speech as the rest even meerely to deceive For assure your selves you intend one thing and they another except you mean the restoring of Episcopacis or Prelacie and of all their sequestred delinquent Ministers whom you know they dote upon and idolize above measure And for the late Commotions in severall Counties which have been faithfull serviceable to the King and Parliament I there 's the Snake in this grasse green King and Parliament O that was wisely remembred The Parliament to the hearts griefe of these his trusty-servants have too long forborne this Oracle-like expression by which so many thousands were in snared wherefore these men longing to see them at it againe doe help them to one personall treaty that it may be so for ever King and Parliament which by the way is an Hysteron Proteron the Cart before the Horse not thought on Are there Commotions in severall Counties no mervaile when both Parliament-men and such grand Cittizens as these foment them No doubt the Counties had continued faithfull still but for these faithlesse ones and the blood that is spilt in them will at the end be seen at these mens doores though now lap-wing like they by their crying and condoleing would put it farre from them And it 's hoped those Counties al●eady see their errour and will be wiser for the time to come and listen to more honest and wholsome Councels And who will believe but the revolt of the ships is a whelp of the same litter For who have hitherto bin more faithfull to the interest of the People and freedome of the Nation then the Mariners in generall have bin And who more rejoyce in their revolt then these men who are chiefe stirrers in this Petition and hopeing thereby a necessite of compliance in Parliament to their desires But how abominably base is it to plot these things then to cry out that this threatneth the eminent destruction of trade O friends could these rich and wealthy Aldermen and Common-Councell-men as ill brooke these stops and decayes of trade as most of you can they would not be so brisk upon these disasters nor so forward in these wicked practises But by this they evidence that they regard not the good of Mariners nor Cittyzens but would by all possible meanes though by impoverishing and beggering all sorts of inferiour people necessitate them to promote their wills by crying out with violence for any thing as impatient of delay and rather then faile to rise in tumults and uproares to force these wicked mens ends But it is hoped both sea-men and Land-men Cittyzens and Country men will be warned out of hand and returne to their first love even the freedome of the Common wealth But this grieves them not so much as that it also tends to the utter ruine of King Parliament and Kingdome Here are two Carts before the Horse For in true Heraldrie the Kingdome or People should have bin first as the originall of power and next the Parliament as representing them and last the King as being at most but the chiefe officer of the Common wealth and only singulis major But it seems this will not disgest with Aldermen O but all this while the King is in danger of utter ruine I pray you friends enquire how In whose hands is hee What hath the man done that any one should thinke him worthy of ruine Alas the King can doe no wrong nor hath done any in these mens Divinity and Morality too Say you What hath the Man done O blasphemy Here 's prophanenesse indeed The King a man He must surely bee more then a man that can doe no wrong But so it is or no credit is to bee given to these his deare friends All the deferrings dissolvings and abolishings of Parliaments with all arbitrary Patents Ship-money and all sorts of other Projects were no crimes in him All this long and bloody warre carried on by him is nothing All the Plots against this City and Parliament nothing All these late Commotions and Insurrections nothing All the blood of Rochell Ireland England and Scotland spilt by his meanes and procurement nothing yea and in a word all the Parliaments heavy accusations of all the hainous odious and bloody crimes against him nothing and so we must all sweare they are if not lesse then nothing if now after all nothing can preserve us nor settle the peace of the Nation but a Personall Treaty with him Oh thou just and righteous God that seest and knowest these things and who in this their Petition art made use of frequently to serve the wicked ends of these men do thou blast them with the breath of thy mouth and turne all their Machiavilian stratagems upon their owne heads And we beseech thee in such measure to open the eyes and enlighten the understandings of those whom thou hast authorized with power that they may not onely see and consider that thou judgest righteous judgement without respect of persons and bindest