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A56414	The Parliament arraigned, convicted, wants nothing but execution wherein you may evidently discern all the blessed fruits of their seven years session tending to the dishonour of God, the ruin of the Church of Christ in this kingdom, the vnkinging of His Majesty, the destruction of our laws, the erection of tyranny, and the perpetual bondage of a free-born people / written by Tom Tyranno-Mastix alias Mercvrivs Melancholicvs ...	Mercurius Melancholicus, fl. 1648.	1648 (1648)	Wing P498; ESTC R11776	11,676	26

THE PARLIAMENT Arraigned Convicted Wants nothing but EXECUTION Wherein you may evidently discern All the blessed Fruits of their Seven Years Session tending to the Dishonour of God the Ruin of the Church of Christ in this Kingdom the Vnkinging of His Majesty the Destruction of our Laws the Erection of Tyranny and the perpetual Bondage of a Free-born People Written in the Year of Wonders being the Eighth Year of the Lords and Commons dissembled at Westminster BY Tom TYRANNO MASTIX alias MERCVRIVS MELANCHOLIOVS Well-wisher to all such Parliaments To their Everlasting Glory Amen Printed for the Publick View of all His Majesty's faithful Subjects and are to be sold at the old Sign of You may go Look Anno Dom. 1648. TO THE READER TO all or none that style themselves with the Title of true English yet you will say that 's a Bull Well let it be so the Kingdom shall have a Skin Head and Horns and the Parliament the Body Here you may see and not see hear and not hear judge and not judge what the Author here presents is for your own not others Good you are under a very strong Delusion the God of this World hath settled such a Dimness on your Eyes that the Catarrhs are almost irrecoverable only the Author out of an affectionate Zeal to the publick Good hath compounded this Collyrium or Eye-Salve whereby upon the first Receipt you may easily discern your pristine Freedom your present Thraldom your Sovereign's Misery and the Subject's Slavery pencil'd in plain English by Your well-wishing Friend Tom. TYRANNO-MASTIX alias MERCVRIVS MELANCHOLICVS To the Work Go little Creature in thy poor Attire And crave a Kiss at every Hand thou meets Although thou halt no Merit to admire Yet be the bolder tho' thou beggest i' th' Streets If th'ask what art bid them look in and see Then Ten to One but thou shalt welcome be To all true Subjects As a Co-partner in your sad Complaints To hear the doleful Sighing of your Souls I truly sorrow yea my Spirit saints To see you perish thro' the proud Controules Of Faction yet let this your Hopes maintain The Sun tho' bid in Clouds will shine again To the Parliament They stumble soon that going gaze on Stars Your lofty Flight doth predicate a Fall The sweetest Sins when strain'd to th' highest Jars Heark how swift Vengeance croaks your Funeral Tho' Heaven hath seem'd to smile and Time comply Your Doom is just and you condemn'd to die Saepe sinistra cava praedixit ab ilice cornix THE Parliament Arraign'd c. THere stands an Island between the Atlantick and Ducalidon Seas stored with all the chiefest Treasures of Nature for Martial Achievements honourable through the World famous in the Production and Government of many glorious Kings and Princes where Peace did spread her silver Wings and Christian Unity from the root of unfeigned Love did branch itself unto the farthest Boundaries of the Land that the neighbouring Nations might participate and taste the Fruit thereof But as nothing visible can challenge Permanency so Fortune ambitious to show herself Omnipotent took Spleen against this Isle and thereupon in a raging Mood shut in her Day of Beauty Love and Peace with dismal Clouds of Contention blasts all her Roses and Lillies of Happiness and long-enjoy'd Amity with the noisom and pestiferous Showers of a sanguinolent and bloody War Thus it began The King thereof being of a tractable Nature and too Liberal guilty in the satisfying the ambitious Desires of his Servants caused some particular Murmurings among the People which once kindled could not be allay'd without a Parliament a Convention of Lords and Commons a Custom in necessitous Times continually used in that Isle that is to say divers of the chiefest of them drawn into one unite Body but no sooner were they by Royal Authority convened but every Frog began to swell into an Elephant to lift up their Heels against their Head and kick at that Majesty who had given them Being an Act of greatest Inhumanity who then too late did see Tho' Kings are Gods ' yet they live in Palaces of Flesh But Treason never went without a just Reward and this Parliament shall be enroll'd in the Monuments of Fame for the most traiterous that ever was who instead of curing the National Maladies added fresh Fuel to their encreasing Flames dethrones their Liege Lord and Sovereign raises a most dreadful and bloody War lays heavier Burdens than Pharaoh's Task-masters on the People and finally brought a general Ruin and Destruction on the Kingdom Whereupon the abused People finding in these the Stream of their Affections in another Course and altogether exhausted of all popular Privilege besides having suffer'd such insupportable Tyrannies contrary to their intended Principles repairs to common Justice for Redress who freely granted out this Hue and Cry To all Mayors Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables c. except those are hereafter excepted viz. Mr. Mayor of London Mr. Mayor of Westchester Mr. Mayor of Newcastle Mr. Mayor of Windsor not forgetting Mr. Mayor of East-Looe in Cornwal and all other the Independent Tribe the Family of publick Faith and Fraternity of free Liberty and to every of them THese are in his Majesty's Name strictly to charge and command you and every of you that immediately upon Sight hereof you make Hue and Cry within your several Precincts and Counties after a loathed traiterous and rebellious Parliament that was begotten in an ill Hour brought forth in Division and bred up in Faction and Oppression of a bloody Countenance hard Heart and seared Conscience that hath brought all the Plagues of God upon a Nation turned the Church out of Doors the King out of his Throne our Love into Hatred our Peace into War our Plenty into Poverty that hath robb'd the whole Kingdom both of Estate and Happiness changed Law into Liberty Religion into Heresy our Freedom into Slavery and brought upon an innocent People instead of Blessing Mourning Woe Lamentation and Destruction And upon Sight of him to apprehend him and bring before us his Majesty's Justices of the Peace to be dealt with and proceeded against according to the Laws of this Land in such Cases made and provided Hereof fail not at your utmost Peril Given under our Hands the first Year of his Majesty's sad Imprisonment at Carisbrook-Castle in the Isle of Wight Knights Justices of Peace and Quorum Faithful Philolaus Loyal Intention No sooner was this Hue and Cry in several Copies dispersed to the Mercy of the four Winds but as if Heaven and Earth had conspir'd together against Treason and Rebellion they unite their Forces the Winds bellow the Waves beat the Earth trembles at the Thought of such an hideous Malefactor Officers of all degrees suspend the necessity of their own Affairs to prosecute the Command At last one Mr. Diligent-Enquiry Constable for the City of Westminster according to his accustom'd Vigilancy upon privy Search found the Body of this Traytor

Tittle Is this all thou canst say for thy self Parl. More than I need to say yet I shall speak a Word or two to the People Did not you chuse me cry out for a Parliament a Parliament Nothing could satisfy you but a Parliament and now you have a Parliament will you not be ruled by a Parliament Did not ye bring your Treasure and fling it down at my Feet whether I would or no your Gold your Silver your Plate your Horses your very Thimbles and Bodkins c. O then you 'd live and die with me stand up as one Man for me venture all Life Estate and all ye had with me And pray what have I made use of more than you promis'd me Have not I eas'd you of your Wealth Religion King Laws and brought you into the blessed Liberty of the Saints that any of you may preach what you will and do what ye list so it be not against me made you all Kings and Beggars and am I thus rewarded Well London London 't was thou Right Judge We 'll hear no more Jury you hear his Imperiousness Ignorance and zealous Folly that shews what Degrees he hath taken from a Cobler to a Preacher from a Preacher to a Captain from a Captain to a Committee-man from a Committee-man to a Colonel and then he is a Companion for a Prince nay a King himself rules reigns and rebels amongst his Fellow-Kings whose Lives and Professions Natures and Arts Inwards and Outwards agree in all like Canters and Gypsies They are all Zeal and no Knowledge all Purity and no Humanity all Simplicity and no Honesty and if you be sure never to trust them they will never deceive you Their greatest Care is to contemn their King their least Care is to serve God for they have no more Conscience to the One than Fear to the Other They give Thanks for Victories when they be routed and relate Battles and Skirmishes as Eye-Witnesses when they wink'd for Fear turn'd back and with their Eyes thievishly robb'd a Pamphlet or Ballad for the rest Nor Pilate nor Prince can command him nay he will command them censure them at his Pleasure and if they will not suffer their Ears to be fetter'd with the long Chains of his redious Collations their Purses to be emptied with the Inundations of his unsatiate Humour and their Judgments to be blinded with the Mussler of his zealous Ignorance then he is one of the Wicked a dead Dog c. In brief he is nothing but varnish'd Rottenness full of seeming Sanctity and mental Impiety an out-side Saint and an in-side Devil to conclude he is c. Jury His Cause is foul my Lord and we shall no doubt give in just Evidence against him Judge You of the Jury are sworn for the King to give in your Evidence in his Majesty's Behalf against the Prisoner at the Bar therefore you are now to proceed in your Evidence The Jury go out Cryer Make way for the Jury there Justice I never heard so long as I have been a Justice of so notorious a Malefactor so bloody a Miscreant 2. Justice He hath been as great a Robber my Lord as ever he was a Blood-sucker nothing comes amiss to him and his Partner ●rmy the poor Kingston-Men dearly suffered for St. Livesey a notorious Thief who with the rest of his Faction stole from Kingston upon Thames above 2000 Pounds worth of Cloath My Lord here is a poor Clothier desires a Hu and Cry after him Justice Let the Clerk draw it speedily If these Thieves be suffered long in England we shall not live to enjoy a Penny in Quiet let there be all Care taken to apprehend the Thieves Enter the Jury Mr. Freeman Gentl●men you are all agreed that I should give in the Verdict you see the Case is plain and evident Mr. Richman You shall have my Consent to hang him presently I am sure my Baggs have been emptied and drained for him and yet the Thief called me Traytor laid me up in the Tower and made a Shew as if he would have tried me for my Life but to tell you true it was for my Means 't is High Treason for any but an Independent to be rich in these Days Poor Man Alas I am undone by him a Company of the Zaints as they call them blundered me took away my Bald Mare to make a Dragon on her and pressed away my Zon Dick too c ham sure I could neer zet Eye on um zince a wa●nion on him he makes me feed upon Bullion and glad che have it too O' have my Consent with all my Heart wood che had been hang'd Zeven Years ago then I had had my two Cowes my Bald Mare and my Zon Dick to dress um and had ought my Landlord ne'er a Penny a Rent Hang um hang um up I zay we shall never zee happy Days else Innocent-Man I have been forced out to fight for I know not what I have lost Three Sons in this unnatural War and yet never could understand for what we fight they made us believe it was for the King Religion Laws and I know not what but I am sure it was for our Money I hope God will make them answer for the Blood of my Children I am sure the Scripture saith He that sheds Man's Blood by Man shall his Blood be shed again hang him for me you shall have my Consent Patient-Man I am sure Neighbours I paid all Taxes Impositions and Sessments Subsidies and found Free Quarter to the Soldier besides Pole-Money Free Loans Contributions Money Plate Men Horse Armes paid to the Weekly Meals the Weekly Assesments for Essex and Fairfax's Army and yet all I can do is too little for them I am sure I am quire undone and the best are no more I will wait with Patience till the Measure of their Iniquities are full the Time cannot be long if it be not come already Neighbours my Verdict is That he is guilty of Treason Rebellion and Blood-shed and Theft too that 's my Verdict I 'll promise you Loyal Man Because God's Word taught me that I should be obedient to higher Powers for the Lord's sake who himself paid Tribute and was obedient to the Death suffering for the Maintenance of a good Conscience towards God and Man besides I have bound my self by my Oath of Allegianc and Supremacy to be true to my Soveraigne and know the Fifth Commandment and have read that Place in the Proverbs My Son fear thou God and the King and meddle not with them that are given to Change They have Voted me a Malignant for loving my King but so long as God hath commanded it I think it better to obey God than Man what though I am spoiled of Goods locked in Prison Obedience is beter than Sacrifice if I suffer for a good Conscience I have a God able to deliver me yet my Verdict is if the Law finds him guilty as I make no question but he is let