A bloody independent plot discovered.: Prosecuted by the open malice and fury of divers Agitators, Levellers, Anabaptists, Brownists and other sectaries and London agents. 1 To murder the King. 2 [To] divide the Army. 3 [To] levell the nobility and gentry. 4 [To] abolish the Protestant Religion. 5 [To] act any design that shall be destructive to all these; accounting it a wilfull sinne against God if they do it not, if their consciences shall dictate it unto them. Those five were committed by the House of Commons, Nov. 25. for prosecuting these most horrid designes before mentioned. (Viz.) Thomas Prince, cheese-monger. Samuel Chidley, stocken-seller. committed to the Gate-house. Ieremy Ives. Wil: Larner. Book-binder. And Thomas Taylor. Committed to Newgate.

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Title: A bloody independent plot discovered.: Prosecuted by the open malice and fury of divers Agitators, Levellers, Anabaptists, Brownists and other sectaries and London agents. 1 To murder the King. 2 [To] divide the Army. 3 [To] levell the nobility and gentry. 4 [To] abolish the Protestant Religion. 5 [To] act any design that shall be destructive to all these; accounting it a wilfull sinne against God if they do it not, if their consciences shall dictate it unto them. Those five were committed by the House of Commons, Nov. 25. for prosecuting these most horrid designes before mentioned. (Viz.) Thomas Prince, cheese-monger. Samuel Chidley, stocken-seller. committed to the Gate-house. Ieremy Ives. Wil: Larner. Book-binder. And Thomas Taylor. Committed to Newgate.
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Subject terms: Conspiracies -- England; Dissenters, Religious -- England; Ives, Jeremy; Taylor, Thomas, -- fl. 1647; Chidley, Samuel; Larner, William; Prince, Thomas
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Die Martis, 9. Novem. 1647.

A Paper directed, to the Supreme Authority of the Nation, The Comons in Parliament assembled, and stiled, the just and earnest Petition of those whose names are subscribed, in behalfe of themselves, and all the Free-born People of Englund; together with a printed Paper annexed, entituled, An Agreement of the People for a firm and present Peace, upon grounds of Common Right, were read.

Resolved, &c.

That the matters contained in these Papers, are destructive to the Being of Parliaments, and to the Fundamentall Government of the Kingdome.

Resolved, &c,

That a Letter be sent to the Generall, and these Papers inclosed, together with the Vote of the House upon them; And that he be desired to examine the proceeding of this busines in the Army, and returne an account hereof to this House.