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A declaration of great Lucifer, prince of the ayre, and of divells, and of all the damned crew in hell. In answer to a petition presented to them by a Parliament man. Dated in August 1648.
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Wing D609; Thomason E461_4; ESTC R205157
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A DECLARATION of Great LVCIFER Prince of the Ayre and of Divells and of all the damned crew in Hell In Answer to a Petition presented to them by a Parliament Man Dated in August 1648. Printed in Hell neere Westminster 1648. A Declaration of great Lucifer c. TRue trusty and well-beloved servants of great Lucifer throughout the whole world especially you of the Kingdome of England our speciall benediction whereas wee have received a petition which was lately presented to us by the hands of some of our obedient servants containning sundry Acts Passages Orders and Ordinances by you commanded and by the people in generall performed to the great advance of our Kingdome in which you desire our approbation by way of petition which wee have looked upon as acts of great concernment for whereas you say you have shooke off all Loyalty and honesty and have raised an Army and fought against your King and tooke him prisoner where he at this day remaines under your custody to your great applause and have managed a war for the space of seaven yeares or well nigh and hunted your Queen out of the Land and driven your Prince away tooke your Kings revenew from him and left him nothing but what you judge meet for such a one and maintained your selves like Princes with congratulatory gifts and also as you say you have sold many or all the Bishops Lands wherewith you have encreased your owne estates and Lands and murdered the good people of the Land and voted those to be Traytours that have risen in armes against you and set up an Exicise Office where you receive and gather in the fat of the Land and the fruits of the Kingdome And also have to keep the people in subjection settled a Committee at Goldsmiths Hall at Darby house and such like places that whosoever misbehaveth himselfe breakes your Orders or will not pay those assessements that you in your wisdome thinke meet to be paid for your use and have issued many warrants to bring refractory persons and have procured Knights of the Post to sweare point blancke against such and have commanded to plunder to kill and slay your opposers and have maintained Sectaries Divisions Heresies Anabaptists Independency Presbyters Sects Schismes sacriledge blasphemy and what not to the advance of our Kingdome and have countenanced treason and rebellion applauded Rebels rewarded murthers fomented untruths falcified Oathes broken Covenants robbed the people and used that most excellent art of equivocating for these Acts and deeds and such like which we have not time at present to recapitulate we accept affect applaud and approve and put the case you faile in any thing that you cannot procure nor compasse by wit or art to obtaine be it on the Seas or on the Land or under the earth yea be it in the ayre wee with our politick wise crafty complices will accomplish your desire though the whole world were engaged against you for what have we not power to command the whole earth yea we have and it will obey for in the twinckling of an eye we have our desire and our servants shall be yours to command be the act never so unjust for with their helpe you shall subdue only thus much you must acknowledge this to be of our great power and impute nothing of it to your selves in this throne we are greatest and as you have done most worthily hitherto and as it becomes our obedient servants so we exhort you and command you in our name to persist in these wayes for we are the great paymaster in the world and if wee set you on worke be sure we will pay you your wages Wherefore we say againe that we do approve of all and every act by you done or shall doe in this kind for it s done to the advancement of our Kingdome and we are joyfull to heare that we have such faithfull and diligent servants that are so willing to performe our will and as you have beene thus carefull and forward to execute our Lawes and maintaine such acts we doe here adde and ordaine other Laws to be executed and put in practice by you as you will answer the contrary at you perill A Declaration with Orders of Lucifer Prince of Divels and of all the infernall Princes and damned crew in Hell For as much as our Kingdome extends it selfe to the uttermost parts of the earth and we are the greatest Conquerors that ever the world bred for no Emperour King or Potentate be he or they never so mighty is able to withstand our strength or any of our servants or agents whom we imploy in our cause Wherefore we great Lucifer Prince of Devils with the approbation of our infernall privy Counsell doe order and declare for there 's no cause but we may declare as well as others having the most pollitick and subtelest under the earth to be our Counsellours and by whom other Counsels are ingaged for advice as followeth That I great Lucifer Prince of the aire am the Father of all lyes murthers adulteries blasphemies incest sacriledge rapines coveteousnesse drunkenesse swearing whoredomes contempts backbiting slanders dissembling and all manner of wickednesse whatsoever can be named and I with the rest of my divelish Counsellours will maintaine defend preserve and put in practice set forward and helpe these and the like designes upon any person or persons he or she of what degree or calling so ever they be whether Kings Princes Lords Earles or Potentates rich or poore yong or old I I say will tempt intice provoke and perswade withall manner of slights baits and suggestions that men and women commit these and such like by all the meanes and wayes that can be used whether in secret or publick openly or privately by night or by day sleeping or waking without giving rest to any no not for a minute yea their best actions shall be worst performed and to make this more evident to the whole world I with advice of my hellish infernall Counsell of the upper Region and the lower Hell doe order Imprimis T is ordered and judged meet by us Imps of Hell that all creatures shall and may have as many Idols as they please whether Parliament Idols Goldsmiths Hall Idols or Excise Idols and shall and may make as many kinde of Idols of gold or silver wood or stone Parliament man or Committee man to hug them and shall and may set them up in any place wheresoever in earth or hell sea or land Temple or market place Westminster or London or in their owne hearts and shall bow and cringe to them as oft as they please Item it s agreed by the infernall Councell of Hell that all daies shall be alike to do any kinde of service except Fasting daies and t is ordered that they keep one day in a Moone-shine and to offer up their little Idol mony as a sacrifice to us And before such Moone-shine day the foure Windes shall blow foure severall wayes to give
notice and to put them in minde to prepare themselves for that day of Moone-shine to meet at the unholy Court called the sacrificing Mount in English the Committees of Gold-smiths Hall Item wee act if any man come into the world without Father or Mother or our help to beget them or if any Malignant beget another they shall curse their begetters and their genitors Parliament and godlesse men excepted and tolleration shall be given to all Rebels to curse Authorities to raile at government and Governours to dispise dignities to live without order to make one another odious to practise treasons and rebellions and to make every thing mine and thine and the longest liver take all what the Divell leaves Item wee hold it Lawfull and it is a commendable deed of darknesse to imbrew one anothers hands in the bloud of others and to hang up all Royalists especially those that will not submit to our Lawes and whether this act bee done inwardly by potions or outwardly by weapons we value it not provided it be done to the life yea of Kings Item it is acted that it shall be Lawfull for any one to cover or any to prostitute themselves to any one whether his or hers be sleeping or waking provided it be done that none sees it and further by the said power it is held Lawfull that if any attempt this act to any kinde of cattle beast swine or Dogs it shall be tollerable yea and to foule Martin Item we judge it Lawfull to rob carry away or to take any thing that is anothers in spite of their noses whether we want it or not and who so shall withstand us shall be torne in pieces with Divels the Divell take them Item it is Lawfull to back-bite slander revile and betray any one be they friend or foe Noble or ignoble alwaies provided that before such an act they have recourse to our high Court or to some of our Committees and from them procure a commission for the same Item it is ordered and held Lawfull to desire anothers estate Land money riches wealth wives or children or whatsoever is anothers be it never so good or never so faire or never so much so it be to satisfie our lusts and to take any thing from any mans dwelling bed or board provided it be done in a coveteous way and he esteemed a malignant or popish delinquent Lastly it is agreed and concluded upon that we will that all men be as we are Lyars murtherers blasphemers swearers dissemblers hypocrites drunkards idolaters revellers covenant breakers haters of honest men because we shall never come or have to do where honest men are but shall alwaies remaine bathing our selves in the lake of hell where we would that all false assemblers should be pertakers with us to the advancement of our Kingdome without any dissolution or rejouring Unto which Articles and orders we Lucifer with our Princes Lords Earles and Presidents of our Kingdome whose names are heere under written have sealed signed and assented unto and set their hellish clawes Lucifer Belzebub a King Astoroth a Duke Berith a Duke Bilith a President Demas a Marquesse Baal Peor a Lord. Satan a Captaine Belimoth a Duke Diabolus a Lord. Demonon a King Given at our high infernall Court and Pallace of darknes this 32. of the month and in the five thousand six hundred and fifty eighth yeare of our raigne over the whole world If any be pleased to list themselves under any of our Officers whom we shall appoint and set over to fight our Battles let them repaire to our Court of Limbo or Purgatory neere Westminster where they may list soule or body go as fast on foot or horseback as any of the Members FINIS