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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

divided into Members some of them in a Bawdy-house some in Taverns some in Tobacco-shops some licking their Fingers at a Three-penny Ordinary some lapping Independent Plumb-broth in the Devil's Cook-room at Hell in Westminster some at Goldsmiths-Hall at Dinner made of the Fat and Rapine of the People some making Compounds of many simple Delinquents some he found tormenting Souls in the Composition of Tophet some casting strange Guns and Ordinances to beat down Religion about the Kingdom 's Ears and to batter our fundamental Laws to Atoms and command the whole Estates of the Land under their Lee some as busy as Bees gathering the Cicropean Honey-money of this Isle into their own Hives c. Which several Members Mr. Diligent Enquiry having gleaned into a Body brought before Mr. Legal Authority Justice of the Peace and Quorum who finding the Malefactor guilty of many bold Abuses bloody rebellious and incomparable Treasons commit him to the common Gaol there to remain without Bail or Mainprize until the grand Assize where at present we leave him desiring the Reader to peruse this ensuing Table Lord Righteous Judge Clerk of the Assize Sir Faithful Philolaus Justices of the Peace and Quorum Sir Loyal Philalethes Mr. Legal Authority CRYER Grand Inquest Mr. Nobleman Mr. Knight Mr. Esquire Mr. Gentleman Mr. Publick-Good Mr. Common-Loss Mr. Common-Interest Mr. Allegiance Mr. Conformity Mr. Orthodox Mr. Unity Mr. Charity Jury of Life and Death Free-Man Rich-Man Poor-Man Innocent-Man Patient-Man Loyal-Man Honest-Man Quiet-Man Well-meaning Man Enslaving-Man Lost-All Undone Mr. Parliament Malefactor Mr. Necessity Prosecutor Witnesses Jealousies and Fears Blood Widows Sighs Orphans Tears Publick Faith Soldier Conscience Attorney-General Equity Counsellor No-Bribe Plaintiffs for the Prisoner Synod Scot Independency Thus the Court being complete I must press some necessary impositions upon the Reader essential to the prosecuting of our Work in hand Therefore courteous Reader understand that we shall proceed as near as we can in order of a Sessions where the Court being set the Jury impanel'd the Witnesses sworn the Prisoner is call'd to the Bar his Indictment is read and according to the Evidence brought in against him he is found guilty of High-Treason against God his King and Country arraign'd convicted and condemn'd Therefore for Brevity sake we shall pass by some things as unnecessary and proceed in order Therefore I desire thee to imagine the Court set the Jury sworn c. and the Jaylor commanded to set the Prisoner to the Bar. The Indictment read by the Clerk Clerk Mr. Parliament hold up thy Hand at the Bar. look on the Prisoner Masters of the Jury Thou art indicted in the Name of our Sovereign Lord King Charles by the Name of Parliament That whereas against the Laws of God and the Laws of Nature and the Laws of our Sovereign Lord the King thou hast traiterously and feloniously rais'd War against thy King that thou hast made thyself drunk with the Blood of his Loyal Subjects and pretending Liberty hast persecuted even unto Death not sparing the Prophets but most barbarously hast murder'd them flung them into Prisons starv'd them c. and exercis'd all manner of Impiety against God against the King against the fundamental Laws and against the People Against God by Blasphemy Sacrilege and Perjury and all Prophaneness against the King by robbing him not only of his People but of his Power his Crown his Revenue Houses Lands Goods c. Against the People by shedding their innocent Blood leading them by the Noses making them fight with one another kill one another not knowing why nor wherefore polling them by illegal Impositions and pilling them by no better than Monopolies Taxes Sequestrations Plunders and all manner of Rapine to the utter Undoing and Impoverishing of them or the most part of them amusing them with Fears and Jealousies and making them like cunning Jugglers believe any thing tho' never so false by casting a Mist before their Eyes till thou hast pick'd their Pockets and this hath been their chief Art these seven Years as by woful Experience we see at this day without Spectacles what innumerable Tricks have been used to milk the Purses of the People under Colour to maintain a War against the King and his evil Council when it was to ruin the People to impoverish them and bring them into irrecoverable Slavery and Oppression under a tyrannical Parliament and more than a tyrannical and insulting Army that have sought all Ways to murder your Prince first having pulled out of the Church Bishops and cry'd down all Order and Discipline to place in their stead Babes of Grace pure Parricides Independents and apostated Levites Sedgwick Burgess Martial and the whole Tribe of Many-Asses and Owls of the Assembly that you knew you could make preach or do what you could desire tho' never so contrary to Truth Religion or Reason tho' to countenance bloody and abhorred Actions murder Kings and the like That the better to enslave the People you have enter'd into a devilish and dangerous Combination to destroy Monarchy to introduce Anarchy to engross the Militia and Power of the Sword to effect your cursed Designs That you have set up intolerable Taxes instead of pulling down Monopolies That you have used Religion for a Cloak for your Knavery giving Thanks for shedding of Blood tyrannizing over both the Persons and Purses of the People with intent to inslave and vassal both them and their Posterity That you have most traiterously gull'd his Majesty into Prison with intent to murder him the better to keep it from the Peoples Knowledge What say'st thou Parliament art thou guilty of this Treason or not Parl. Not guilty not guilty my Lord. Clerk How wilt thou be tried Parl. By God and my Conscience Judge Nay for thy Conscience that 's as wide as Hell itself as may appear by thy Indictment What can the Witnesses say concerning the Prisoner Call them in Cryer If any Man can give Evidence or say any thing against the Prisoner let him come forth for the Prisoner stands upon his Deliverance Clerk Call in Jealousies and Fears Blood Widows Sighs Orphans Tears Publick Faith Soldiers Conscience Come forth and prosecute or you forfeit your Recognizance Cryer Every Man keep Silence upon Pain of Imprisonment The Witnesses are sworn every one according to his Knowledge to give a true Evidence for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar. Clerk Jealousies and Fears Stand up What can you say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Jeal and Fears O my Lord I have been made use of upon all Occasions to delude the People and to make them think of Danger where none was My Lord I was meerly drawn in by the Prisoner for his own Turn since he sent me packing when he had served his own End of me Blood can give you a more clear Evidence Clerk Blood Stand up What can'st thou say for the King against the Prisoner at the Bar Blood My Lord I

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