the Fountain of their Honour but are content to be either bowed or hewed down or overdripped or exsuccated by such Aspiring Ivyes as you are our Counsell is that the ancient Barons of England sometimes Peers and chief Counsellors in Parliament would solemnly Degrade themselves lay aside their vain and ridiculous Titles reverse their Escocheons sell their Scarlet Robes to the Brokers in Long-lane rather then keep them either to feed Moths or to be Monuments to all Posterity What Capons Poultroons and degenerous Buzzards they are descended from such Eaglâ—s as many of their Ancestors were But if the Nobility should so far betray and desert themselves their Posterity their King and their Countrey who though their number be not great yet their interest is and so might their influence on the Publique yet be both great and good if their spirits and gallantry were such yet how can you the greater buggs of the Army or you the lesser Vermine and Maggots of the Commons who survive and crawl after the dissolution of your Parliament bred of and feeding upon the putrefaction of that House How can you think that the People of England who are generally and highly concerned in the Honor Credit and Religion of the Nation can ever with a good Conâ—cience or any face of common honesty agree to your Jugling and Sophistry as if you or your Western Mahomet and new Antichrist Hugh Peters had any Papâ—l power to absolve their souls from those Protestations Covenants Oâ—ths of Allegiance and Supremacy by all which they were and are both lawfully and â—eligiously bound under the greatest curses of God both to the Kingdom in general and specially to the Parliaments Priviledges and the Rights of the King and his lawful Successors of which grosse and manifold perjuries they must make themselves guilty only to make way to the Dictatorship and Empire of some of yoâ—r greater Bramblâ—s That forsooth the People of England might enjoy that Liberty Peace and Plenty under your unavoidable Tyranny unsatiable Rapine and cruel Oppression oâ— such Beggars as most of you are and were which formerly they câ—uld never have under the gracious Kings wiâ—e and Loyal Parliaments the ingenuous Laws and excellent Government of this sometime flourishing Kingdom Sure you are not yet so much beasts as to think that the Community of this great people can all govern themselves or mutually one another Government must necessarily be setled aâ—d centred somewhere Nor is it likely that your Leaders and Bashaes whose hands are embrued in the bloud of their King will ever be so modest as to lay themselves aside and denying their own most ambitious and covâ—tous desires to let any others but themselves and their creatures reap the fruit of their projects and labours for which they have pawned their souls to the Devil and sold themselvs as Ahab to do wickedly But if you dare venture it upon so ingenuous a Trial let the people of England without your terror cunning injurious restraints and exceptions be their own Umpires and Choosers whether they will bear the light and easie yoke of the â—aws and the gentle as well as just chastisements of their penalties under a lawful King or the iron-yoke of your Tyranny and the Scorpions of your wills being so many Evening Wolves bloudy Traitors and unlimitted Tyrants whose little fingers in these last three years have been infinitely heavyer then the loyns of all the Kings that ever were in this Kingdom let the people have free suffrages you will soon find That the true Agreement of the People a hundred voyces to one is this to shake off your cruel Tyranny to bring to condign punishment such unheard of Traitors and to invest in his Throne our lawful King Charles the Second the Eldest Son of that good King you lately murthered But how can the people of England ever hope to have any other Civil Agreement of theirs binâ—ing to you and your pragmatâ—ck faction further then your own fancies lusts and pleasures think fit since they finde you to have so lately broken through all Laws of God and Man all Ancient and Fundamental Agreemen's in this Nation on which the Honour and Safety of our Kings the Priviledges of our Paâ—liaments the Liberties of the People the Order and Purity of our Church and the happiness of our Nation were setled What Cautions can you give that you will hereafter submit to any Publick Agreement who are such shâ—fters juglers and dissemblers that no Laws Leagues Covenants Protestations or Promises you freely make can binde â—ou No faith to King Parliament People neighbour Nations or God Aâ—mighty can hold you but like the man possessed with the unclean spirit you break all ties and bonds casting Church and State into fire or water as the rash motions of your Frantick humors carry you c. Conscience you can have none since your lights are so Lunatick and your principles vary every moneth Credit you have none who have made bankrupt of the Publiqâ—e Faith and forfeited so many solemn and Sacred Obligations to God and Man Sense of Honour or Duty you can have none since you have neither fear of God nor reverence of man Estates you have little or none to hazard or loose upon any forfeiture of your Faith or Agreement And for your Heads and Lives they are now so vile and cheap that although you are not fit to live yet they are scarse worth the taking Sure you cannot but appear to your selves as well as to all men the most outlawed notorious and Stigmatized Reâ—els the most perfidious Traytors that ever any King or Senate State or People imployed or trusted Having utterly blotted out all your former promeritings and good service so much boasted of Since the Event proclaims you served not King Parliament or Coâ—ntrey but your own lusts and villanous designs which by the advantages of mutinous power you now seek to accomplish under the now void and forfeited Commission of that stupid Saint that stain of Honour that dumb shew of your silent extatick and seduced General the poor and Unexcellent Lord So that the darkning of your most wicked designs by this title of The Agreement of the People amounts to no more in the true and last sense of it but this That you would have the People of England and the other two united Kingdoms willingly to bow down to your Hoddy dody your all Breech-Idol as your own Prophet so variously and falsely inspired justly calls your unlickt and monstrous projects not of Government but of Anarchy and Tyranny You would have us all to pledge you in that horrible draught of the Kings bloud which you have greedily drank to approve and abâ—â— your execrable villanies and to submit for ever to the intolerable Tyranny of such Goths Vandals and Saracens as you are Who are but the Devils Leiutenants Factors for the God of this impure world signal Antichrists accurate fulfillers of all the characters foretold and brands set upon you
Cistern turned the clear and wholsome waters of our Laws into blood Wormwood and deadly poyson while you have with unheard of tyranny and treachery set up your private wills by that publike power wherewith you were inâ—â—usted only for some limited uses above the Mâ—jesty and lives of our King and his Châ—ldren above the Dignity of our Parliaments the honour of our Lawes the reverence of your Câ—untrey and the regard due to your fellow Subjâ—cts and Conâ—ederate Nations and all this without the least colour of any call or Authority from God or Man Reason or Religion against all Obligations both Sacred and Civill that might possibly lye on mens souls to God or man against many your particular pretentions and former pâ—omâ—ses of such due observance as became youâ— both as Men Subjects Soldiers and Christians You who are not the thousand part of his Mâ—jesties Subject how durst you knowingly act as in the name of all and yet indeed against the duty desiâ—es and consciences of all but such children of Belial as your selves You that are for the most part such sons of the Earth of so base extraction of meaner education strangâ—rs to all good Literature Honour or Civility heirs of beggery and contempt whom most of the Subjâ—cts in England might for your rudenesse and bâ—rbarity justly have disdainâ—d to have set with the Dogs of their Flocks How are you become the Creators of a new Heaven and a new Earth who are such sons of Tohu and Bohu of Chaos obscurity and confusion You that at best are but Gods Buâ—chers the unjust Exâ—cutioners of his just vengeance as the evill and destroying Angels sent among us for a time though your exorbitaâ—â— malice and lusts disdain to be limited by your Military Commission yet God we hope will restrain your fury who hath manifested your impious folly With what forehead could you thus lift up your hand against and set your selves above all those who are confessed your betters masters and superiors As if in a Giantly impudenâ—â—â—â—d Cyclopâ—ck cruelty you could never be famous enough but by Infamy nor fierce and wickâ—â— enough unlesse you â—ought against Heaven against the expresse word of God and his Vicegerents on earth Thus heaping up mountains of lyes perjuries hypocrisies and cruâ—lâ—ies upon those vast and enormous lusts of rapine sacriledge covetousness revâ—nge and tyranny in yoâ—r heaâ—â—s which nothing hath â—vâ—r equalled or can exceed You have indeed finished the Master-piece of your Father the Devill whom as his first-born he hath filled with a double portion of malice subtilty and cruelty beyond any whose hearts like Elymas the Sorcerer or Simon Magus he hath possessed You have nothing left you but Impenitence and Hell which you neither believe nor fear by which to make farther progress in your most flagitious and ever accursed Villanies What step have you more to advance to the blaspheming of the Majesty of the most high God both in himself and his Deputies lawfull Kings and Soveraign Magistrates what more can you do or invent to the scandall of the Gospel to the exposing the Name of Christ to open shame to the trampling his blood under feet through the hatâ—ed and deâ—estation of all Nations that are without the Church How could you devise more to adorn the Triumphs of Pope and Papâ—sts to whose tayls you are tyed though your facâ—s seem contrary and whose bâ—siâ—esse you have done while you pretend to abhorre their Names as much as Dâ—vils do potâ—nâ— Châ—rms What Sea could ever wash away from the face of the Christian Reformed Religion the stain of that blood of our King which you have in a Pageâ—nt oâ— Justice most unjustly inhumanely and barbarously â—hed to colour your malice to saâ—iate your revenge and to make way for your tyranny if we the people of England should bâ— our silence adopt and by our assistance nourish those prodâ—gies of Rebellion Treason and Confusion which your libidiâ—ous Mars by the hâ—lp of your prostitute and officious Venus your Unparliamentary Junto hath lately brought forth and astonished the world withall Was it ever so done since the Name of Christ was planted on the earth save only by the spawn of those furies from whom you are descended who made such havock first in Africa after in other Western Churches and lately in Germany whose principles and practises you have as much surpassed in Hypocrisic Anarchy cruelty and blasphemy as Bâ—elzebub your Prince may be thought to exceed the lesser fry of damned Spâ—rits Those impure Catharists exercised indeed their Donatâ—sticall and Anabaptisticall frauds and furiâ—s chiefly upon the vulgar to the ruine of many thousâ—nâ—s of the Counâ—rey people and Citizens But you like so many Ravilliacks are not content to have spoyled so many Noble and flourishing Families to have exhausted so many plentifull Estates to have made so many mourning Widows and Fatherlesse Children to have destroyed the lives and sucked the bloud of so many Christians your fellow-Subjects but you must in one day swallow up the two Houses of Parliament in another murther the King in a third cut off the right and inheritance of the Crown from the Undoubted Heir and all the Kings Children At last you conspire to tempt us all by your simple and foolish Paperfalsly called The Agreement of the people to joyn with you in the utter overthrowing of our Lawes Liberties and the whole frame of this ancient and renowned Kingdome whose weight you will finde too heavy for such weak Atlasses as you will shortly appear both in Counsell and in Power who are only wise to doe wickedly and strong to shed or drink the bloud of your King and Countrey-men Your cruelty hath fulfilled the wish of Caligula at one blow to cut off the head of three Kingdomes and with him all Mâ—narchy to make way for your Loleâ—ocracy a Military Tyranny or Schismatichal Anarchy Thus have you been profound to deceive skilfull to destroy our souls â—aint within us because of such treacherous dealers such hideous Murtherers into whose snares the breath of our nostrils is fallen and in whose deep dissembling pits the Anoynted of the Lord our meek patient and most Christian King is swallowed up under the shadow of whose just Authority Princely wisdome and judicious piety wâ— hoped to have been safe How doth this sometime famous and flourishing Kingdome now sit as a Widow oppressed desolate â—espised full of unexpressible lamentationsâ— The bitternesse and gall of your cruel Hypocrisie hath entred into filled and overwhelmed our souls How is she that was the joy Crown and Queen of all Nations the Envy or Emulation of all Christian Churches now become the horror and astonishment of her Neighbours round about the pity and calamity of all her friends the â—corn reproach hissing and triumph of all her Enemies Nor is there any helper comforter or Deliverer left till God take the matter into his own hands and plâ—ad the cause of the King and Kingdome against these proud Goliahs
since their interest and advantage like yours lying in the destruction of others will â—asily tempt them to condemn any man At length you make a shift to pack not a high Court of Justice as you shamelessely style it but the basest Conventicâ—e of Injustice that ever was in the world In which all Cards of honour being shuffled out you turn up such Knaves only for Trumps as will best play your game A very Medly and Râ—psody of the most ignorant shallow cowardly cruel weak debaucht and insolent fools or Athiests Hypocrites Traytors and Tyrants that ever usurped power over any honest and innocent man Your President Bradshaw and your Clark Cook are commonly known and branded to be men of as corrupt souls as any lived in their profession their most trayterous and covetous villanies not allowing the least pretense of ignorance in the Laws which are in no case more clearly expressely and seâ—verely contrary then in this of taking away the Kings life wherein they against all law duâ—y and conscience were as Judasâ—s â—hiefly imployed At last upon the wicked most unjust and cruel sentence of these mercenary unauthorisedâ— and Tyrannous Sycophants and Hucksters of Justice who must needs have their Commâ—ssion from him that is the Father of lyes the false Accuser the Old Murtherer the deceiving Serpent the Râ—aring Lion the Red Dragon the Dead Sea of cruelty and the sink of all Confusion the Damned and Damning Divel and not from God the Fountain of Justice the Father of Mercy the Institutor of Order the Author of Peace and the Commander of â—â—bjection to Lawâ—ull Kings in any â—â—tion imaginable further then the Divell may have Commission from God permitting and limiting the activity but not approving the activity but not approving the iniquity of his rage and malice to compell such a King so Great a Monarch of three Kingdomes their Undoubted Soveraign Lord to submit to theâ—r Arraignment Accusationsâ— and Sentence who were most of them his declared and desperate Enemies without allowing him the lâ—beâ—ty of protâ—sting against their confessed Usurpation and Non-authority or of pleading for his own both Innocency and well known Priviledge Soveraignty and unquestionable Immunity according to the Laws of God and of this Kingdome which are exprâ—ssely against their trayterous and tyrannous proceedings as well as the nullity of their Authority After this without anâ— remorse or pity to their and our King to force a person of so excellent worth wisdome vertue honour and Majesty to bow down at the feet of so vile persons and then to Chop off hâ—s Head which was Sacred Crowned and Anoynted as rightfull King over them and all his Subjects in his Dominions A Butchery so barbarous that the common Headsman abhorred to do it nor may we think those bloudy Zealots were willing he should dâ—prive them of the pleasure of cutting the throat of such a Sacrifice to inaugurate them in their Royall Priesthood by which their Schismaticall fury pâ—etends a title against or above all Lawfull Kings and Governours What Words what Teraâ— what Sihgs what oppressive Thoughts what secret and unutterable Reflectâ—ons of most stupifiâ—d and astonâ—â—hed Souâ—s are sufficient to measure the Immensity to weigh the burden to expresse or conceive the hâ—rror of this outragâ—ous sin and most flagitious villany Poor Prince after so many delusions so many lying Addresses made by the chief Engines and movers of the Army after so much patience so great demonstrations of excellent wisdome meeknâ—sse calmnesse and Christian gentlenesse to his very Enemies and Jaylours under infinite reproaches injuries and indignities even to the very spitting in his face after all those gracious condescendings by which he had reduced himself almost to the vâ—ry shadow and bare name of a King saving that he had gained the highest and most absolute Empire in the renewed love and loyalty of the most and best of his Subjects that he might please all secure and satisâ—ie all purchase Peace for all at any rate but the price of his Conscience Yet after all these infinite demonstrations of goodnesse capable to have softned even Devils themselves to be thus butcherâ—d by a Soldieâ—y and Schismaticall cruelty to be brought to publique execution without any help or redemption from Parliament or people who generally abominated so horrid inhumane unseen and unheard of a Spectacle whose Publique Faith besides their Personall Alâ—egiance was engaged for his Majestâ—es honour and safety what â—â—art can be large enough to equall the sorrow what â—yes can be Fountains sufficient to dâ—plore so unmerited a Fate befalling so excellent a Prince by the malice ambition cruelty and treason of so base and execrable villanies And all this Tragedy of Tragedies câ—rried on to such bloody conclusions under colour of Safety and Reformation at first afterward of satisfaction and Indempâ—ity to the Army in both which the Good King denyâ—d nothing that men of anâ— modâ—stâ— worth or ingenuity could expâ—ct or would dâ—sire Yet aâ—tâ—r â—â—fiâ—ite delusions and mutinous Insolencies committed against King Paâ—lâ—amâ—nt and People some impotent and ambâ—tâ—ous Tyrants who have the marks of Blood and Cruelty in their faces and on their Foreheads in the Army and Commons House bethink themselves of a Scene of Justice which must speedily be acted by themâ— least the closure of a Peace with the King and the two Houses should render their imployment uselesse as it hath long been burdensome and forceing their Buffe Grandees and proud Officers to return to their Needles their Hammers their Lasts their Slâ—ngs their Carts and their Flails should quiâ—e defeat those designs of power estate and all licentious profaneness both in Opinions and Practises which their Chief Officers and Levelling sticklers have all this while designed for themselves and their false giddy cruel covetous and unreasonable Faction through that power and influence which by their lyes forceries and hypocrisies they with the help of that mungrel Minister that Military Priest that modern Simon Magus thâ—t disguised Executioner that bloody Butcher of the King H P they have gained upon the Common Souldiery Upon whose simplâ—city and valâ—ur they have presumed tyrannously and trayterouâ—â—y to advance the meer will and pleasure of some Officers in the Army and those rotten and ever infamous Members of the Commons over all the Lawes and Liberties the Lives Estates and Inheritances both of King Prince and People Yet after all these Scenes of various Villanies they have the impudence to glory as if they had done God good service and so extreamly pleased God and the People that they expect all should agree to their Plaâ—dite as if might and right were well met in the Army O you most seared Consciâ—nces you most Râ—bellious Souls against God the King and your own light you most accursed Doersâ— you deaf Adders whether you will hear or wâ—â—ther you will forbear know this That we the Christâ—an people and lâ—yall Subjects of England do in the bitternesse of our Souls declare â—s
Cromwell's Bloody Slaughter-house OR His Damnable Designes laid and practised by him and his Negro's in Contriving the Murther of his Sacred Majesty KING CHARLES I. DISCOVERED By a Person of Honor LONDON Printed for James Davis and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. THE STATIONER TO THE READER Courteous Reader BE pleas'd to take notice that this Loyal Treatise was pen'd many years ago and sent over from the Hague to be Printed here for his Majesties service but was hindered hitherto upon this occasion The Printer to whose care it was commended fell into som trouble for som Acts of Loyalty which were then call'd Treason such as were the Printing the late King's incomparable Book entituled ἘΙΚῺΠΒΑΣΙΛΙΚῊ in English Latin French and Italick Salmasii Defensio Regia Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia by Dr. Bates and som other things of the like nature He was committed to Newgate his Press and other Materials seized upon and carryed away by Hunscott his Wife and six Children turned out of doors and threatned to be tried by an high Court of In-justice Under which time of Tyranny and Persequution this Notable {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} arraigning and condemning the Traiterous and Rebellious actions of bloody-minded men hath been forced silently to keep within doors But since God in his infinite mercy to this languishing Nation hath been pleased to dispell these black clouds and to restore the sunshine of his favour by the glorious presence of his Gracious Majesty I presume it may boldly com abroad and tell these Miscreants to their faces their horrid wickedness in the barbarous Murder of the most pious Prince that ever swayed the English Scepter their designing the destruction of Church and State and sacrificing both to their own lusts of Ambition and Covetousness the Original as of all so of this cursed Rebellion against their lawful Soveraign But I shall no longer detein thee in the Porch be pleased to walk into the House whicâ—â—ill entertain thee 〈◊〉 to thy Desire CROMWELL's Bloody Slaughter-house Discovered HAve you killed our King and also taken possession of his Goods Lands and Kingdoms O ye bloodthirsty and deceitfull men Is this your Sion that must be built with Royall blood and your Jerusalem that must be raised with such detestablâ— iniquity O ye painted Sepulchers wâ—ll no bones serve to fill you but those of your King You ravening Wolves whom God hath suffered to uncase your selves of your Sheeps Clothing can nothing satiate your cruel Appetites and Hydropick thirst but only the flesh and blood of our King whom with mercilesse hands and hearts in an impudent Triumph you have murthered before the face of God and his Subjects whose Royall Posterities and peoples Lives and Estates you now hope to devour without any opposition or gainsaying So cruelly heavy and barbarous is that Iron Scepter with which you think to rule this Nation not allowing any fair and legall plea for either Kings or pâ—oples Lives Liberties Estates or Râ—ligion but beyond all Papall and Mahumeâ—ane Tyranny you usurp over our Souls no lesse than our bodies and seek now by slavish fears and sinfull agreements to make us all as much the Children of the Devill as your selves whose Consciences no doubt like â—aiâ—'s tell you your desperate and damnable Estate having sinned against the light of God and his holy Spirit some of you so impudently and maliciously as justly excludes all hope of pity or pardon from God and Man having first treacherously betrayed then barbarously murthered both your and our King Goe on you Apollions you Abaddons in the Spirit of Antichrist to fill up the measure of your Abominations till you are drunk with blood and stumble and fall together O you Locusts the blackâ—st smoak and noysomest vapour that ever the breath of the bottomlesse pit exhaled or sent forth into the Christian worlâ— your Maiden faces in your first seemingly modest and fair pretentions to the King and Kingdome have now brought on the poysonous Scorpions of your Tails after many cunning windings of flattery perjury and hypocrisiâ— Bâ—hold the fruits of your Oaths Prayers Fastings your Illuminations Raptures and the Sacred madnesses of your Prophets are they not as the Grâ—pes of Sodom sowre and unsavoury setting on edge the teeth of all men that have any tast or relish of true piety Are these the practises of Saints of spiritual and seraphick mindes of men living in God and in Christ by the Spirit We call Heavâ—n and Eâ—râ—h and your selves who are to us as Hell and Devills to witnesse against you What can the most carnall loose and prophane Aâ—â—â—ists doâ— more abominable then you have done What have the falâ—est Jewes the fiercâ—st Turks the most brutish Heathens the Renegado Chrâ—stians the sâ—btâ—lest Jesuites or the mâ—st Fanatick Anabaptists and Scâ—â—â—maticks or any other thâ—t are wholly without God in this world ever done comparable to your immense Villanies Yea what could Devils do more if they had tâ—eir wâ—lls buâ— by such Instruments as you are extend their malice to the utmost latitude of their poweâ— Have you not by Treachery and Tyranny usurped upoâ— all just power and exalted your selves such despicable worms above aâ—l that is calâ—eâ— God Neither King nor Parliament nor Lawes nor your own Engagemenâ—s to all nor your mâ—ny Proposals Promises and Dâ—clarations have any reverâ—nce with you or weâ—ght upon youâ— but like riotouâ— and enragâ—d Beasts you have overborn and trampled under your feet all thâ—t is either Sacred or Civill in the Laws of God Nâ—ture Nationâ— or this Kingdome of which you are Members though the most ulcerous and pestilent that ever the Earth can bring forth or bear Haply your stupid pride and bruitâ—sh insolency will not suffer you to consider how odious abominable and accursed you now are to all men but such as are Cockatrices of the same Egge and brood with your selves that is seared Saints honest Hypocrites and Enlightened Satans We assure you you are now looked upon by all sober and honest mindes as the heaviest and filthyest Incubus's that ever oppressed Church or State as the Legions of unclean spirits which by Diabolicall Arts and Magick of Hypocrisie have got possession of this Church and Kingdome till Christ by his power cast you out of and suffer you like the Demoniack swine through the just judgment of God to be hurried headlong by your own terrors and despairs into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone You are lâ—ke cursed Cams not mockers only but murtherers of the Father of your Countrey impudent Ravishers both of Church and State to satisfie your most abominable lusts of Tyranny Covetousnesse and all licentious profanenesse Monsters of men putid Apostates execrable Saints shameless sinners trayterous Tyrants what have you to plead for or palliate with your late horrid outrages and unparallel'd villanies by which you have obstructed the Fountain of Justice altered the Channell broken the
whose uncircumcised hearts and lips out of a â—iot and supeâ—fluity of wickednesse have blasphemed our God destroyed our King layd waste and exhausted the Kiâ—gdome and turned this Church into a Den of Thieves O Lord arise O Lord consider O Lord hear the vâ—yce of our sigâ—s tears and prayers let the cry of the blood of â—ur King and our people come up to Heaven have mercy on us for we are brought very low Our gracious King the Husband of the Kingdome the Father of his Subjâ—cts the preserver of our Laws the Patron of Religion the Protector of the Church you have treacherously and barbarously murthered the two Houses of Parliament whose weaknesse perversnesse unevennesse inconstancy and cowardise God hath seen disliked judged and punished you have forcibly invaded scattered and oppressed notwithstanding all your speciall Engagements to them both of duty and promise commission and trust The â—oyalty and love of the people you every where either with terror and cruelty seek to suppresse and smother so that they shall not dare to petition for redresse or complain of those endlesse calamities which they suffer under your tyranny or â—lse making lyes your hope and refuge with forged semblances of complyant Petitions and counterfeit Gratulations you falsly and impudently pretend the concurrent Votes of the Countreys and the Communities â—pprobation to your most abominated practises When God knows and even your selves in your bloudy diâ—â—imulation cannot be ignorant that the generality of all men in all places of all degrees do from their souls utterly abhorre deprecate and detest your execrable counsels and accursed actions which have thus brought upon us the abomination of desolation through the damnable deceiveablenesse of your unrighteousnesse Nor do we believe that your pride and tyrannous hypocrisie either findes any comfort in them or much conâ—iders those papers which seem to own you or applaud your wicked deeds further then they may carry on your strong delusions with the vulgar whom you know to be neither very wary of evill nor very steady in what is good If you had the generall consent of the Vulgar which you know you have in no sort yet neither is their judgment any good rule to measure the morality of your actions nor their inconstant pleasure any test of honour vertue or piety But indeed you as well as we are sadly conscious that all those clamorous Petitions for Justice by which you would seem as by Oracles of your own inspiring to be fatally directed and divinely incouraged in your Cruelties and Treasons were nothing else but the strokes of the Lyons own tayl the more to enrage himself the very froth and scum which arose only from the zealous activity and boylings of your own bloudy Faction who restlesse as Devils continually go about seeking whom they may deceive and destroy we are well assured that your Schismaticall crew of Regicides are no more to be compared to the people of England then the Gleanings may be to the Harvest or Canters Thiâ—ves Beggars and Juglers to the sober and setled Dwellers in this Kingdome No every honest man who hath any sense of piety loyalty modesty pity or humanity left in his soul as you have none takes up Jacobs words against you Cursed be your wrath for it is fierce and your anger for it is cruel into the secrets of these men let not our souls enter Lord lay not the guilt of the sins of these men to the Charge of the people of this Kingdome No let the blood of our pious patient and most Christian King be upon you and your Abettors for ever who as without any sense of loyalty pity or charity so without any shadow as well as substance of Justice having neither Law Rule nor any due Authority first by fraud and unheard of Insolency seized upon his Majesties person afterward by flatteries lyes and terrors sought to deceive him At last by meer force and bâ—â—stlâ—ke cruelty have massacred and as so many horrid Assaâ—sinates utterly destroyed him And all this after many fawnings and shewes of loyall and tender regard toward his Majesty and his Royall Family as both your first Proposals and your after Agitations honestly and very providentially discovered by Major Huntington do declare In which all men now plainly see that you did but make way by the Fox to let in the Wolf and by your Dalilah to bring the Philistims upon our Sampson Yea after his Majesty was not only entred into and advanced in a Treaty with the two Houses agreeable to their Votes and the generall desires of all his Subjects under the most solemn Nationall security and Publick Faith which could be given or passe between a King and his Subjects or indeed any honest men But even when his Majesties great wisdome and goodnesse had so farre brought all things to a fair closure and happy Agreement that the two Houses were satisfied and resolved to proceed upon his Majestyes Conceâ—ions as a firm ground of Peace to the Kingdome Yet after all these publique civil and Sacred Obligations which lay upon the two Houses and the Kingdome on your selves as well as any and all of us for you to seize again upon his Majesties person without any pretended Authority and with your Iron hands and Adamantine hearts to ravish and pull him out of the arms and embraces of his Subjects violently to hale and tear him from the reviving love and loyalty of the two Houses and his people thence to hurry and tosse him to and fro to what inhospitable places and desolate Prisons you listed there to deprive him not only of all things proportionable to his quality as a King but even of those civill accommodations which ought to be allowed to any Gentleman though an â—nemy and a Captive of War which the King never was not being taken by force but rendring himself to the professed love and sworn loyalty of his Subjects After this with a sacrilegious moâ—kery of Justice in the highest affronting of God the King the Parliament and the three Kingdomes by an unheard of and most horrid Outrage and riotous force to oppresse and utterly destroy the remaining honour freedome and power of the two Houses and in despite of them to erect a new Court of Justice as you most unjustly tearm it for which you have no colour of Law from God or Man no precedent in this or any other Christian Kingdome no ground or pretense of Parliamentary consent or Authoâ—ity of either Houses whose Mâ—mbers three parts of â—our at least you forcibly detayned and deterred from sitting in the House of Commons the Lords being unanimously against you by all which methods of cunning and violence you seek like Absaloâ— the coâ—tradiction beâ—tween whose name and actions very well fits your affected but undeserved title of Saints to intrude your selves into a Judicative as well as a Military power as if Hangmen and Executioners should uâ—urp tâ—e seats of Judges who are not fit to be of a Jury
neither great nor many may be rased that their memories may be blotted out from under Heaven or only remembred with perpetual scorn cursing and infamy Since they have besides many other preparatory mischiefs by murthering the King disinheriting his Posterity and dissolving this ancient and flourishing Monarchy as farre as lyes in their power and malice put us upon this miserable choyce Either cowardly basely and shamefully to submit to their detestable and unsatiable Tyranny or to be ever oppressed with a Warre in our own bowels in which we must either expose our Lives and Fortunes to these mens covetous Cruelty or help to enslave and destroy our selves by assisting these Usurpers or compell the Rightfull Heir of these Kingdoms our hopefull King CHARLES the Second to plead and assert his Right by a Forain Sword being denyed that just assistance which as his Subjects we ought to afford him against the Murtherers of his and our Countreys Father his own Enemies and indeed of all Kingly Majesty and Mankinde the Dissolvers of our â—arliaments the Oppressors of our Liberties the Exhausters of our Estates the Suckers of our Blood the Blasphemers of our Religion the Damners of our Souls unlesse God preserve us the Crucifiers afresh of the Lord of Glory and putting him to open shame The Crie of the blood of our King the Voyce of the Genius of this Nation and the Alarm of Gods Justice call aloud to all honest men of Forraign Nations round about to all loyall Subjects in these three Kingdomes to all men of any common honesty or sober profession of Religion in all the world summoning them to sanâ—â—ifie themselves and lustrate and expiate not only this English Nation and these three Kingdomes but all Mankinde and Civil Societies by taking speedy vengeance and executing Gods and Mans severest Justice on these perâ—idious Truce-breakers proud Usurpers cruel Hypocrites trayterous Apostates and barbarous King-killers We cannot but send the divided parts of our dead but endeared King now a glorious Saint whom these men have with subtilty and cruelty lately murthered to all the Tribes of this our Israel to desire the advice of all good men to see and consider whether this hideous Villany were committed with their consent or deserve to be patronized with their Agreement whether it was ever thus done in any Christian Nation or Kingdome by any Army of pretending Saints or any men we say not of Common Honesty but of the most exquisite and studied Villany Whether any thing can be produced out of Common Principles of sound Reason out of the Lawes of God out of Christs Holy Precepts out of the Actions and Examples of any holy and good men or lastly out of any letter sense or meaning of our Lawes whereby in the least degree to countenance cover or excuse the Actions of these men or to satisfie any mans Conscience that doth not utterly abhorre and seriously endeavour to expiate the sin and guilt of such Detestable Villanies According to the heaped and overrunning measure of their open sins and abominable Villanies so let every good man that fears God knowes the Memory and Vertues of so good a King loves his Countrey will keep a good Conscience and desires to save his own Soul not only withdraw all voluntary assistance from them least they seem approvers of their wicked Deeds and be partakers of their Guilt and Judgements but heartily pray and constantly endeavour the Restoring of the Crowns and Kingdomes to the only Lawfull Heir the late Kings Eldest Son upon whom are many happy Presages and great Expectations of Glorious Atchievements whom God hath in Mercy we hope to these Churches and Kingdomes preserved out of the hands of these bloody Villains who Declared in their Devilish Remonstrance their purpose to destroy him with his Brother the Duke of York and mingle their tender blouds with that of their Father whom speciall Providence hath prepared for great and excellent Designs by the maturity of his years by the procerity of his person by the gallantry of his Spirit by the excellency of his Understanding by the gravity of his Manners and severity of his Example farre beyond what is wonted or expected in young Men or young Princes in point of Piety and Vertue This is that Person this that Prince worthy of his high Descent worthy of such a Father whose worth already promises to exceed all you can desire or hope for from a Good and Gracious King upon him God and our Laws and our Oathes commands all Loyall and Religious Subjects to fix their Eyes to unite their Hearts and Hands to the Love and Assistance of him to expiate the sinne and shame of their former Errors and Defaults which have produced such sad and abhorred Effects to break the Strength to extirpate the Persons to oppose the Designs â—nd to revenge the Villanies which have been with an high hand committed against God the King the Parliament the Lawes and the Kingdomes by these Miscreants men alwayes of Desperate Fortunes but now of so Desperate Mindes and Manners that all their paths lead to the Chambers of Death and their steps are descending to the pit of Hell From which the Lord in Mercy deliver the people of this Nation by prospering our Rightfull 〈◊〉 and by his Valour and Vertues râ—deeming us speedily from the sinnes sufferings and tyrannies of these blood-thirsty and deceitfull men with whom no Agreement can be made by any man who doth not desperately resolve to sinne against the Holy Ghost and eternally damn his own Soul Rom. 16. 17. Now we beseech you Brethren mark them which cause Divisions and Offenses contrary to the Doctrine you have learned and avoyd them 18. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own Bellies and by good Words and fair Speeches deceive the hearts of the simple FINIS Ἐισ τὸν ΚΑΡΟΛΟΠ{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Englished thus by Edw. Hooker CHARLS best of Kings for God's Laws and the Land's Was martyr'd murder'd by unhallowed hand IN THOMAM FOOT Praetorem LONDINENSEM Anno Dom. 1648. Parricidio Sereniss Regis Caroli I. infami LOndino miserum similis Respublica nostra Est ubi PES regnat proteriturque CAPUT Our Common-wealth to London more 's the pity Is not unlike where Foot is Head o th' City W. D. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In English thus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Here lie's the Mother of that Cursed Son Who hath three Kingdoms and two Kings undon {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} á¼Î¹Ïƒ τὸν τάφον αá½Ï„ο̂υ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Cromwellus jacet hic scelerato sanguine tinctus Morte tamen siccâ mirum descendit ad Orcum In CAROLUM Secundum {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} auspicatissimè Regnis suis redditum CArolus è Carolo {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Martyris Exul Filius auspiciis Populi Monachi sua Regna capessit Maii primo 1660. These Books following are to be sold by Henry Eversden at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard THE Natural Mans Case stated Or an Exact Map of the little World Man in 17 Sermonâ— by Mr. Christopher Love to which is added a Sermon preached at his Funerall by Mr. Thomas Manton of Neâ—nington In Octavo A Comment on Ruth together with two Sermons one teaching how to live well the other minding all how to dye well by Thomas Fuller Author of the Holy State Gospel publick Worship Or the Translation Metaphrase Analysis and Exposition of Rom. 12. from Vers 1. to 8. describing the Compleat Pattern of Gospel Worship Also an Exposition of the 18. Chapter of Mattheâ—â— to which is added a Discovery of Adam's threefold Estate in Paradise Viz. Moral Legal and Evangelical by Thomas Brewer In Octavo Gods Glory in Mans happinesse or the freenesse of Gods Grace Electing us by Francis Taylor of Canterbury In Octav. The Lords Prayer Un-clapsed being a Vindication of it against all Schismaticks and Hereticks called Enthusiasts and Pratricilli By Harwood B. D. The Grand Inquiry who is the Righteous man by William Moor Minister in Whaley in Lancashire The Just mans Defense being the Declaration of the Judgement of James Arminius concerning Election and Reprobation Pearls of Eloquence or the School of Complements wherein Ladies and Gentlewomen may accommodate their Court by practice by William Elder Gent. In 12. The Universall Body of Physick in Five Books Comprehending the severall Treatises of the Nature of Diseases and their Causes of Symptoms of the preservation of Health and of Cures Written in Latine by that famous and learned Doctor Laz. Riverius Counsellor and Physitian to the present K. of France and Professor in the University of Montpelier Exactly translated into English by William Car Practitioner in Physick An Exposition with Practical Observations on the 9 first Chapters of the Proverbs By Fran. Taylor Minister of Canterbury In Quarto An Exposition with Practical Observations on the whole Book of Canticles by Jo. Robotham Minister of the Gospel In Quarto An Idea or body of Church-Discipline in the Theorick and Practick by Mr. Roggers In Quarto Lucas Redivivus Or the Gospel-physitian prescribing by way of Medicine Divine Physick to prevent Diseases not yet entred upon the Soul by John Anthony Doctor in Physick In Quarto The Originall of the Dominion of Princes founded upon Gods Soveraignty over the whole Earth or the Kingly Prerogative instituted by God and proved from the Holy Scriptures to be Jure Divino By R. W. D. D. The History of his Sacred Majesty CHARLES the II. King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Begun from the Murder of his Royall Father of happy memory and continued to this present Year 1660. The Subjects Joy for the Kings Restoration chearfully made known in a Sacred Masque Gratefully made publick for his Sacred Majesty By the Author of INQUISITIO ANGLICANA THE END