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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65521	Westminster projects, or, The mystery of iniquity of Darby-House discovered		1648 (1648)	Wing W1468; ESTC P1081	8,711	16

assistants of their Grandee Janisaries to wit Sultan Cromwell Bashaw Ireton c. they doubt not but to quell all their opposers and make such a peace with the King as shall secure their power or set up another which shall be but a Cypher to bear the blame of their misgovernment and please the people withall who they say would be quiet if they had any thing like a King though never so powerless or witless And now give me leave to pity those Gentlemen and others who so freely enter into an Ingagement upon such slender grounds and never weigh the consequence of such endertakings Did the Gentlemen of Essex Surrey and Kent with other the Free-holders but conceive how these men hug themselves with the sweet apprehensions of their accomplishing their designs by their actings yea I say did they but as I doe heare and see with what contentment of spirit they receive the tidings of such their tumultuous approaches and indeavours to terrifie and dissolve the Parliament and with what undervaluing words they speak of them as knowing themselves able when they please to crush them and bring them under the lash and did they I say but wich me know that all their delayes therein is but to give time to the Parliament to chew upon their fears which they by their creatures indeavour to heighten that so they might be necessitated to adjourne and look for their own security they would more suddenly have manifested their spleen by the power of the sword destroyed those that have thus ignorantly prosecuted what they themselves so cunningly designed Neither can I choose but pittie the Kings friends when I consider into what a snare they have run themselves I make no question but that they did cordially intend their assistance for the Kings restauration but by these actings as these Politicians have ordered it they have contributed assistance to the Kings ruine for they must know that if the House adjourne and these seeming stormes be once blown over if the King will not grant what they desire these actings though by themselves designed and promoted shall be charged upon the Kings accompt and brought as arguments to justifie their future dealings with him Thus you see the wits of the time out-witted and the proverb verified All is not gold that glisters Here you see a whole Kingdome abused and in danger to be inslaved to advance the interest of foure and twenty K O that Englishmen would be wise and at last before it bee too late by an happy union seek the establishment of iustice and freedome Can you ever expect happinesse from extremes can you find certainty in uncertainties or doe you ever look to get peace by warre order by confusion certainly no rationall man can be so besotted as to imagine that certain rules of government could be a burden to him seeing onely uncertainty hath occasioned all our trouble Had the Kings power and the Parliaments Priviledges been limited and declared the exercise of the Militia could never have caused such a bloudy dispute And I do conceive it is not our work now to contest for preserving the now-established Lawes since we have experimentally found many of them to be burthensome and destructive in themselves none of them by reason of abuse and corruption a protection to us in our liberties or properties but to labour for such an establishment for the future as may be a certain and safe rule for Kings Parliaments and People to walk by since neither in reason ought to be absolved from obedience to all just Lawes or left to govern or be governed by the dictates of lust will or pleasure This rule must make us happy this must be The happy meanes to make this People free Lawes just and equall now can onely bring Peace to the Nation honour to the King Unite then quickly 't is your union must Force your oppressors to be truly just And without you unite you strive in vaine Justice or Freedome ever to obtaine Strike hands then boldly yeeld not to be slaves To cruell Tyrants nor to subtill Knaves FINIS Numb 6. VVestminster Projects OR THE Mystery of Iniquity OF THE Committee of Darby House DISCOVERED Plot on great Wharton and contrive to save the House of Peers For if the King do but survive He 'l pull them by the ears Pray send for Say and St. Johns too and study some device To cheat the Kingdom once again Y 'ave done it neatly twice The Proverb is beware the third For if you make a blort 'T is ten to one you lose your heads and then you 'l spoil the sport For I should very sorry be you should such honour have A Halter I could well afford the portion of a knave Printed no body knows where licenced no body knows when and sent into the world by the appointment of the said Committee because they could not help it in the year of their vexation 1648. Westminster Projects WHat a strange age are we fallen into where nothing but knavery is practised and nothing but Religion professed seeming holiness hath caused our unhappiness and we are cheated into slavery by fair promises of Freedom and Liberty O tempora O mores O times O manners whom shall we beleeve or trust if not those that are seemingly clothed with righteousness who with such zeal dare call the God of Heaven to evidence the sincerity of their hearts in that they had no other end or intention then the advancement of His Majesty and the Peace of the Kingdom But alas alas Great men are subject to forgetfulness especially when their honor and promotion stand in competition with their Religion witness our ambitious Lords and oppressing Grandees who seven years ago preacht a doctrine that the King might not oppress but now they tell us they may A King might not impeach imprison fine c. but now they may and have witness their unjust dealings with the seven impeached Lords eleven impeached Commons and the four Aldermen for the fift he proved a Cullion and acknowledged himself a Traytor and so became capable of mercy and the enjoyment of fourteen hundred a year by the excise which if he had not submitted and kissed sultan Cromwels great Toe he had surely lost and therefore all things considered Alderman Cullum was the wisest man for what are all the Liberties of England worth in comparison of his office Alas money will buy him a good name and so long as he is free no matter who are slaves But on the contrary I must commend the valour honesty and innocency of those worthy Patriots of their Country Sir John Maynard Sir John Geare Alderman Adams Alderman Langham and Alderman Bunce who for their own Vindication and the securing the Liberties of England out of the jaws of those devouring Harpies the Lords who study nothing more than to make the people slaves have so nobly entered the Lists and notwithstanding so many disadvantages in respect of custom presidents power and