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THE desiring of a guard for the Parliament because of a tale rather then a plot; That the Earle of Crawford had a purpose to take away the Marquis of Hamiltons life in Scotland; the refusing of a legall guard offered by the King; and His Protestation to bee as carefull of their safety, as of the safe∣ty of His Wife and Children. The dreame of a Taylor lying
in a ditch in Finsbury fields, of this and the other good Lord, and Common-wealths men to be taken away, The trayning of horses under ground, and a plague plaister (or rather a clout taken from a galled horse back) sent into the house of Commons to Mr. Pym. A Designe of the Inhabitants of Covent-Garden to murther the City of London; News from France, Italy, Spaine and Denmarke, of Ar∣mies ready to come for England; and a supposition, or feaverish fancy, That the King intended to introduce Popery, and alter Religion, and take away the Lawes and Liberties of the Peo∣ple, and many other the like seditious delusions, the People (so much as their misery will give them leave) have now found out the way to laugh at; either came from the Parliament partie, or were cherished and turned into advantages by them. For they had found the way, and lost nothing by it, to be ever jealous of the King; And whilest he did all he could to shew them, that there was no cause for it, they who were jealous without a cause, could bee so cunning as to make all the haste they could to weaken Him, and strengthen themselves, by such kind of artifices.
But hee that could not choose, but take notice that there were se∣cret ties and combinations betwixt his English and Scottish Subjects, the latter of whom the Earle of Essex and Sir Thomas Fairfax them∣selves understood to be no better then Rebels, and therfore served in places of Command in His Majesties Army against them. That Sir Arthur Haselrig had brought in a Bill in Parliament to take the Mi∣litia by Sea and Land away from him, saw himselfe not long after by a Printed remonstrance or declaration made to the People of all they could but imagine to bee errours in his government, arraigned and little lesse then deposed: The Bishops and divers great Lords driven from the Parliament by Tumults; Was inforced to keepe his gates at Whitehall shut, and procure divers Captaines and Commanders to lodge there, and to allow them a table to bee a guard for him, and had beene fully informed of many Trayterous Speeches used by some seditious mechaniques of London as that It was pitty Hee should raigne, and that The Prince would make a better King; was yet so farre from being jealous, or solicitous to defend himself by the Sword and power which God had intrusted him with, as when he had need & reason enough to do it, he still granted them (that he might not seem to deny what might but seeme to bee for the good of his People) every thing they could reasonably aske of him, or hee could but reasonably tell how to part with (though hee could not be ignorant,
but an ill use might be made of them against himselfe) As the putting downe of the Starre-Chamber, and high Commission Court; the Courts of Honour, and of the North and Welch marches; Com∣missions for the making of Gun-powder, allowing them approba∣tion or nomination of the Lievetenant of the Tower, and did all and more then all his Predecessors put together, to remove their jea∣lousies. And when that would not doe it; stood still, and saw the game plaid on further; Many Tumults raised, many Libels and Scan∣dalous Pamphlets publiquely Printed, against His Person and Go∣vernment, and when hee complained of it in Parliament so little care was taken to redresse it, as that the Peoples comming to West∣minster in a Tumultuons manner, set on and invited by Pennington and Ven, two of the most active mechanick Sectaries of the house of Commons, it was excused and called a Libertie of Petitioning: And as for the Libels and Pamphlets, the Licensing of Bookes be∣fore they should bee Printed, and all other restraint of the Printing presses were taken away, and complaints being made against Pamphlets and seditious bookes, some of the Members of the house of Commons were heard to say the worke would not bee done without them; and complaints being also made to Mr. Pym against some wicked men which were ill affected to the Government; Hee an∣swered, It was not now a time to discourage their Friends but to make use of them: And here being as many jealousies and feares as could possibly be raised or fancied without a ground on the one side; against all the endeavours could bee used on the other side to remove them, Wee shall in the next place take a view of the matter of Fact that followed upon them, and bring before you.