A pamphlet of which there is a copy in the British Museum Library. It commences thus:—

"In the spacious Theater of the Universe, the singular conditions of singular Persons are directly articulated in some expresse place. Wherefore the Round-heads, whose Pricke-eares are longer than their Haire, have erected an Image of their own Imaginations; a Synagogue, or a convenient place conduceably to the obscured secrecy of their Conventicles: and they gave a plausible appellation to it, calling it Round-heads' Hall. Here did the Councell of Fooles meet usually, and called themselves The Simple Senate of the Times. There are severall places for severall Men appointed, yet I did alwaies wonder that one should be so long wanting. There is Newgate for Theeves, Ludgate for Debters, the Counter for Drunkards and misdemeanors, Bridewell for Idle Persons, Bedlam for Mad-Men; but I wondered extreamely there should be no place appointed for Fooles: but the Round-heads have taken that into their serious consideration, and least a place should be wanting for Fooles, they have built Round-heads' Hall, wherein they seeme to have done a great Act of Charity: for Charity begins at home."

And it concludes thus:—

"Thus being conveened in this Round-heads' Hall, in this manner without any Order: for they say Order is prophanesse, and where no Order is, there can be no transgression upon any, and where no transgression is found, there can be no prophanesse, Ergo, It is holinesse to be without Order: They began to shew their simple Opinions, each Man at least foure houres, and after the minds of them all were knowne, and uttered by the instinct of the Spirit, they unanimously agreed to Order these things following."

"Orders made by the Parliament of Round-heads,
sitting at Round-heads' Hall, without Cripple-Gate.

"Since the Lobs and Common Fooles assembled at Round-heads' Hall, have understood in sincerity the manifold distempers of Religion, the errors of People, and the malignity of some Popishly affected, and that they being sensible of the insolency of the Cavalleers, and what imminent danger that insolency may produce if not prevented in time, It is therefore by them ordered, 1.—Since a parity was first ordained by God himselfe, and that there needeth no Order or Degree of persons, because God is equall and no respecter of persons, Be it therefore ordered, that we have no King but P.

"2.—That we have no Bishops, because they are the Pope's Sons, but that we send them either to the Tower or Tiburne.

"3.—That we have no Churches, for they are of a Popish construction, and were derived first from Rome.

"4.—That we have no Bels, Organs, or Babylonish Timpans, for they all tend to the prophanation of God's holy Word.

"5.—That we have no Crosses, for they are meere Popery, and tend to the Confusion and Opposition of Scripture; especially let the sight of Cheapeside Crosse be a detestation unto you all: and let those streets that are called Crosses, as Red-Crosse Street, and White Crosse, &c., be turned otherwise and called after the Names of some of our owne Family, as Greene, Spencer, &c., and call it rather Green Street then Red Crosse Street, &c., that thus all prophanesse being rooted and extirpated from our conventions, nothing but holinesse may remaine amongst us.

"6.—That there be no tolleration of Surplices, because it was the defiled Smocke of Pope Jone; who being great with Childe, had her Smocke made the wider, which is now commonly called a Surplesse.

"7.—That we assume no other Names to ourselves but Round-heads, and that this Round-heads' Hall shall be our meeting place.

"8.—That we have no pictures of Saints, Cherubims, &c., because they leade the way to Idolatry and Abomination.

"9.—That any Round-head (being God's anointed) may and shall have authority by Us, the Parliament of Round-heads, to Preach, teach, Pray, and Instruct in any place soever; whether it be in a Barne, Chamber, Stable, Loft, Garret, Field, Ditch, Saw-pit, in Woods, or under Hedges, either by Land or Sea, without the prohibition of any Place; provided onely, That it be not taught in a Pulpit, for that tends to the advancement of Popery, therefore it is more convenient in a Tub.

"10.—That in our Prayers a singular caution be made, not to pray for the King, Queene, Prince, or State: but especially not for Bishops or Universities; and that it be no set forme of Prayer, but such as the Spirit doth suggest into the heart, yea, the Lord's Prayer is not to be used amongst us Holy ones as lawfull.

"11.—That Salvation be Preacht to none but Round-heads, because we are the only Children of Grace, and to us belongeth the Kingdome: for at the latter day of judgment it shall be said, Come ye Round-heads, &c., but Depart yee Rattle-heads and Cavaleers, &c.

"12.—That instead of Matrimony, if any Brother taketh affection to any Sister, or if any Sister mutually reflects her love to any Brother, they may (if they agree in the affectionate community of the Spirit) take one another's word, without any other foolish circumstance as the Church of England ignorantly useth.

"13.—That in the Buriall of the Dead, Prayer is as needlesse as superfluous, and therefore no words are to be expressed, because it is Popery to pray for the Dead.

"14.—That none ought to be Baptised before they be foureteen years of age, and have their names written in the Book of the Faithfull.

"15.—That the Common Prayer is Porrage, and made by the Pope's Cook, being the Rubbish of Babilonish opinions, and therefore ought not to be used but as Apocrypha.

"16.—That everything be common amongst the Brethren, one Man's Wife for another, when the candle of iniquity is extinguished, and the Spirit moves, as to the Exposition of that place in Scripture, Increase and Multiply.

"17.—That no kneeling at the Sacrament be allowed of, but that it shall be received at Night in an upper Roome, only by twelve together sitting all round.

"18.—That none shall weare long haire, for as Souldiers are known only by their Colours they weare, so we will be known to be Round-heads onely by our long Eares.

"19.—That our Diet be very provocative, and whatsoever is effectuall to the accomplishment of this purpose, that it be esteemed as a Soveraign Antidote to expell the contagious infection of despaire, and very co-operative to revive our dead and fainting Spirits, because they will be much weakened with such holy zeale, and will want some lively nourishment; therefore let our bodies be alwaies well tempered, that our pulses may beat hard when the flesh riseth.

"20.—That all Learning, Order, Discipline, and the Universities be abrogated from all our Brethren as being Popery.

"21.—That every Yeare there shall be the Round-heads' Feast Celebrated, a well lung'd long-breathed Cobler shall preach a Sermon six houres, and his Prayers two houres long, and at every Messe in this Feast shall be presented a goodly Dish of Turnips, because it is very agreeable to our Natures; for a Turnip hath a round head, and the anagram of Puritan is A TURNIP.

"22.—That whosoever shall not agree and condescend to the due observation of each particular Order by us here establisht, they shall be held as the malignant party, enemies to the State of the Round-heads, and worthy to be renounced, suspended, or excommunicated, and never to be re-admitted into the Society of the Brethren."

On June 15th, 1642, the House of Commons ordered that Stephen Buckley, dwelling in St. Martin's near Aldersgate, who printed "this scandalous pamphlet," should be sent for as a delinquent.[80]

A tract with a woodcut on the title page which is divided horizontally, the lower part being unequally divided by a pillar, as of an arcade. In the upper portion ten men, in official civic robes, sit at a long table, and are addressed by another who is at the head of the table. "Militia" is printed near the head of the last man. What appear to be the balusters of a staircase are under an arch, on our left; under another arch, on our right, a window and a table appear.

In the lower division on our left, six women sit at a round table; one of them addresses her companions in an animated manner; "I am Mistris Warden" is written at her side. The compartment on our right shows a woman adjusting her head-dress before a mirror, which hangs against a latticed window; near her stands a second woman, with reference to whom "the Maid" is printed over her head.

Mr. Warden's speech commences thus:—

"Brethren and fellow Counsellors, I begin with an acknowledgment of thanks for your election of me to wagge my beard amongst you this day for the good of the Common-wealth. I confesse myselfe as very a Woodcock as the best of you, yet (with your patience) I will express my simple affection to the Weale publick, to shew the spleene of my shallow capacity.

"Be pleased first to consider the Liturgy of the Church, now generally spoken against by grave and Orthodox Coachmen, Weavers, and Brewers' Clarkes, and growne odious to our she divines, who looke asquint with the very thought of it, what this Liturgy is I know not, nor care not; yet as simple as I am, I beleeve it is a hard word, either Greeke or Latine or both: whence I conclude if no hard word, no Greeke or Latine nor any that know them ought to come within the Discipline of the Church, but plaine Hebrew and English. Let us then avoyd this Liturgy, and if it concerne the Common Prayer, (as my singular good wife saith) then questionlesse if the new Convocation be but as wise as himselfe they will doome it to be burnt, nay and consum'd as the loggs in Lincolne in Feilds were; for it hath caused the Gospell to prosper so slowly under Preaching Tradesmen and Lay Clergymen, who have coupled in laborious conjunction to procreate young Saints in this new faith, making Barnes, Stables, Woods, Saw-pits, old Ditches, Cellers, open houses of Office their private Synagogues, where unseene of the wicked they may doe what I will not speake, but speake I will againe of and against this Liturgy, the Heathen word Liturgy, which if blotted out of the Church, they would encrease and multiply spirituall Children, and make them swarme in Parishes. For having liberty and being strong of spirit, through high fare, they are so zealously impudent that they would go toot in the streetes; but I will conclude with good man Greene's Hebrew Exhortation, Quicquid liber cuquodlibet,—away with the Liturgy, and so say I."

On June 15th, 1642, the House of Commons ordered that Nicholas Vavasor, who dispersed this pamphlet, should be forthwith summoned and brought in safe custody to answer to the House; and the Stationers' Company were called in and were enjoined by the Speaker to be very careful and diligent in searching after anything that was printed which might reflect upon his Majesty; and it was resolved that an ordinance be drawn for preventing the printing or publishing any scandallous or libellous pamphlet that might reflect upon the King, the kingdom, or the parliament, or Scotland, and for suppressing such as already had been printed.[81]

A pamphlet of five pages, of which a copy exists in the British Museum Library. On June 15th, 1642, the House of Commons ordered that Robert Barker, the King's Printer, be required to satisfy the House by what authority he printed this paper, and that he be farther enjoined to stay the sale thereof till the House should take further order.[82]

A printed paper, on a single sheet, commencing thus:—

"Wheras the Kingdom for many yeers past hath groned under Taxes of Loans, Shipmoney, and the like dismall effects of an Arbitrary Government and a high stretcht Prerogative, for the cure of which distempers a Parliament was held to be the onely good old way of Physick to cleanse the Body Politique from oppressing Crudities (which was heartily desir'd) but not by overstrong Purgations to weaken it in the principall Part, charging it to receive a disposition to the like distemper, or a Relapse into the same, or a worse Disease, which instead of restoring it to its primitive vigour and health, must needs drive it to a fatall Period. Such is our misery, such the just judgment of God upon our Sins.

"This wholsome Physick hath not wrought in us that blessed effect, as was either believed by some or hoped for by all men: but as if God had answered our importunity for a Parliament, as hee did the old Israelites for a King in his anger; we drive on with much more haste then good speed to the other extream, which portends no lesse Symptomes of ruine and destruction than the former. So that having maturely considered what hath proved destructive to this or other Parliaments, we may the more easily avoid those Rocks upon which others have split themselves, viz. 1. The venting of particular ends of Avarice and Ambition in the publike Cause. 2. Private Combinations or Chamber conventicles to resolve before-hand what shall be done in the House. 3. Hindring the freedom of speech by imprisonment of their persons. 4. Denying information by the humble way of Petitions from the County, as that most excellent Orthodox Petition of our Brethren of Kent, and of rejecting information of Letters to our Knights and Burgesses. 5. The ready swallowing of informations and jealous rumours against his Majesty, the styling them the malignant party and enemies to the State, which were onely, truely and conscionably his friends. 6. The private if not publike mutinous rabble, which ill Spirit was ready at all times to be raised by a whisper from any of those worthy Members, Emphatically so called, if not exclusively, as if all Justice, Reformation, and Government were onely to be expected from them. 7. The now unheard of State-law and Logick to style and believe that a Parliament that is divided in itselfe, is severed from the King the Head thereof: if they may be remedied (as we hope they are not past cure) we shall rather desire to change some of our Physicians then Physick, there being no better way, nor more necessary to preserve the health of a Common-wealth, than a well temper'd Parliament. Wherefore we as faithfull Subjects to his Majesty, as free-born Englishmen, doe joyne in an unanimous resolution to maintain.

1.   The Protestant Religion.
2.   The King's just power.
3.   The Laws of the Land.
4.   The Liberty of the Subject."

After expatiating upon these four resolutions, the paper concludes thus:—

"As wee conceive ourselves obliged by the Law of God, the Law of the Land, by the Dictates of Nature and reason to maintaine all these; so by God's grace assisting us, we hope we shall not be terrified or compelled to yeeld any active obedience to any dis-joyned part of Parliament without the consent of the whole (which we heartily desire may be united) or to any uncertaine Debates, Votes or Ordinances, that are not digested or setled into Lawes; nay which seemes to contradict former Lawes, and yet are tender'd to us with so much earnestnes, as some dare hardly deny them with safety or obey with Conscience.

"Nor shall we ever yeeld ourselves such Slaves, or so betray the liberty purchased by our Forefathers blood, and bequeathed unto us as to suffer our selves to be swayed by any Arbytrary Government whatsoever, or stand with too much contention of Spirit to cast off the yoake of our Tyrany to endure many worse.

"And seeing his Majestie is graciously pleased to maintaine the true Protestant Religion; his owne just Power, The Lawes of the Land, The Liberty of the Subjects and that these waters of Reformation having beene longe stirred; we want onely the favour of his Princely Majestie to let us in and heale us; So we doe reciprocally declare that we conceive our selves bound to maintaine him in all the Premisses with our lives and Fortunes."

On July 8th, 1642, the House of Commons resolved that this printed paper should be referred to the Committee for printing, and that Hammon the printer should be forthwith summoned to attend the House. Mr. Maddison was then called in, and averred that he being at a stationer's shop and reading this pamphlet, and saying that this was a foul scandal upon the Parliament, and that the author of it deserved to be whipt; one Sir William Boleter told him that he deserved to be whipt for saying so; and that he would justify every word of it; and that, by God he would slash him; and while he was talking with him one Mr. Dutton a minister came to him, and likewise said that he deserved to be whipt; and he asked him wherefore? And he replied, for speaking Nonsense, and for saying it was a Libel. It was then resolved that Mr. Dutton the Minister should be forthwith committed a prisoner to the Gatehouse, during the pleasure of the House for carrying himself in a scornful manner in the House, and for, as much as in him lay, justifying the foulest and most scandalous pamphlet that ever was raised or published against the Parliament.

Sir Robert Harley reported from a conference had with the Lords, that the Lords had brought unto them a printed paper which is a scandalous and infamous libel in the name of the County of Hereford, and they desired that the Commons would join with them in desiring the Knights that serve for that County to send down to know who in that County would avow the same; and if any did, that they should be prosecuted to the utmost for setting forth such an infamous libel.[83]

On July 22nd, 1642, the House of Commons ordered that this pamphlet should be referred to the Committee for printing.[84] A copy exists in the British Museum Library.

On September 12th, 1642, the House of Commons ordered that this pamphlet should be referred to the Committee for printing, to enquire out the author, and the printer and publisher; and also that it should be burnt.[85] A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library.

I have not been able to meet with a copy of this pamphlet, neither can I give any idea of its title. The only book by Sir William Denny mentioned in Watts's Bibliotheca Britannica, is the "Pelecanicidium, or the Christian adviser against self-murder, together with a guide, and the Pilgrim's Passe to the Land of the Living. London, 1653,"—of which there are two copies in the British Museum Library.

On September 16th, 1642, the House of Commons resolved that Sir William Denny should be forthwith sent for as a delinquent by the Sergeant at Arms, for spreading and divulging this scandalous pamphlet and libel to the dishonour of both Houses of Parliament, and Thomas Hill, Sir William Denny's clerk, and Michael Philips, Mr. Corye's servant, were summoned to attend the House. On October 7th, Denny's examination was referred to the Committee for informations, but on the 19th December it was ordered that he should be released from the Sergeant's custody.[86]

On September 16th, 1642, the House of Commons ordered that the two Stationers, Badger and Marriott, who caused this "false and scandalous book" to be printed, should be forthwith summoned to attend that House to answer for the doing thereof.[87] A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library. It contains five pages.

A pamphlet of six pages, of which there is a copy in the British Museum Library. On September 16th, 1642, it was referred by the House of Commons to the Committee for printing to enquire who were the printers and authors of this book.[88]

On October 5th, 1642, the House of Commons resolved that this pamphlet should be forthwith publicly burnt, and the books all called in, and the booksellers charged not to publish or sell them; and it was referred to the Committee of printing to enquire who was the author or printer of it.[89] A copy of this pamphlet, which consists of six pages, exists in the British Museum Library.

On October 8th, 1642, this pamphlet was brought before the notice of the House of Commons. John Thomas, who printed it, was called in, and confessed that he printed some 1300 copies of it; and that Browne, a bookseller by Christ Church, brought him the original thereof, and that the said Browne said he had it from the servant of a Parliament man as he said. It was thereupon resolved that Thomas should be committed a prisoner to Newgate, and that Browne should be sent for in safe custody; and that these pamphlets now in the custody of one Mr. Browne in Cheapside should be burnt, one half in Cheapside, and half in the Palace Yard.[90] A copy exists in the British Museum Library.

On October 18th, 1642, the House of Commons ordered that this pamphlet should be referred to the Committee for printing to enquire out the author and the printer.[91] A copy exists in the British Museum Library.

A pamphlet of eight pages written by Dr. John Price against the Parliament. On November 2nd, 1642, the House of Commons ordered that Sir Peter Wentworth, Mr. Rous, Mr. Rigby, and Mr. White should search the studies, libraries, and papers of Dr. John Price, and that they prepare an impeachment against him; also that he should be forthwith committed prisoner to Newgate during the pleasure of the House for composing and publishing this book "very much derogatory to the proceedings of Parliament."[92]

On December 24th, 1642, the House of Commons resolved that Dr. Fearne should be forthwith sent for as a Delinquent for composing and publishing this "seditious book," and on the 2nd February, 1642/3, there was produced to the House the warrant under Dr. Holdsworth's hand for printing this book, whereupon it was resolved that Dr. Holdsworth should be forthwith sent for in safe custody. It appears that this book was printed by Roger Daniel, printer to the University of Cambridge.[93]

On January 2nd, 1642/3, the House of Commons ordered that John Wright should be committed to the Compter in Wood Street, for publishing this "scandalous book against the Parliament;" and the book itself was ordered to be burnt by the Common Hangman in the new Palace at Westminster and in Smithfield. The Serjeant's man was also to search the shops in and about Westminster for the books, and to take into custody any persons having the same in their possession. On February the 3rd following it was also ordered that Luke Norton, printer, and Mr. Sheres, stationer, should be forthwith committed prisoners to Newgate for printing this book; and it was also referred to the Committee for informations to consider of some effectual course for the speedy suppressing the printing of scandalous pamphlets, and the inordinate licentiousness of printing.[94]

A pamphlet of eight pages, of which a copy exists in the British Museum Library. On January 13th, 1642/3, the House of Commons ordered that the Committee for printing should enquire after the printer and publisher of this pamphlet.[95]

On April 12th, 1643, the House of Commons ordered that Sir Frederick Cornewallis be forthwith sent for in safe custody for dispersing this book (which he brought with him from Oxford) printed without the order of the House; and the printers were enjoined not to proceed in the printing, publishing, or dispersing the said book. On the 19th April however, Sir Frederick Cornwallis was ordered to be discharged from custody.[96]

This is a pamphlet of 25 pages, a copy of which is preserved in the British Museum Library, bound with others in a volume, on one of the fly leaves of which there is this interesting note:—

"Memorandum y^t Col. Will. Legg and Mr. Arther Treavor wer imployed by his Ma^tie K. Charles to gett for his present use, a Pamphlet, w^ch his Ma^tie had then occasion to make use of, and not meetinge w^th it, they both came to me, havinge heard y^t I did imploy my selfe to take up all such thinges from y^e begininge of that Parlement. And findinge it w^th me, tould me it was for y^e kinges owne use, I tould them all I had were at his Ma^ties command and service, and w^thall tould them if I should part w^th it, and loose it presuminge y^t when his Ma^tie had done w^th it, y^t litle accompt would be made of it, and soe I should loose it by y^t losse a Limbe of my Collection, w^ch I should be very loth to doe, well knowinge it would be impossible to supplie it if it should happen to be lost, w^th w^ch answer they returned to his Majestie at Hampton Court, (as I take it) and tould him they had found y^t peece he soe much desired, and w^th all how loath he y^t had it was to part w^th it, he much fearinge its losse; whereuppon they were both sent to me againe by his Ma^tie to tell me y^t upon y^e word of A Kinge, (to use their owne expressions) he would safely returne it, thereuppon immediatly by them, I sent it to his Ma^tie.

"Who havinge dun w^th it, and havinge it w^th him when he was goinge towardes y^e Isle of Wight let it fall in y^e durt; And then callinge for y^e two persons before mentioned (who attended him) delivered it to them, w^th a charge, as they would answer it another day, y^t they should both speedyly and safly returne it to him, from whom they had received it. And w^thall to desier y^t partie to goe on and continewe what had begun, w^ch Booke togeather w^th his Ma^ties signification to me, by those worthy and faithfull gent, I received both speedyly and safely.

"W^ch volume hath y^t marke of Honor upon it, w^ch noe other volume in my Collection hath. And very dilligently and carefully I continewed y^e same, until y^e most happie restoration and Coronation of his most gratious Ma^tie Kinge Charles y^e Second, whom God Longe Preserve."

"Geo. Thomason."

On August 11th, 1643, this pamphlet was referred by the House of Commons to the Committee for examinations.[97] It seems never to have been finished, for in the British Museum Library there is a portion of it extending to 24 pages, but with no title page; and a manuscript note on one of the fly leaves says that it was written by James Howell, and that it was taken while printing, when Howell was in prison in the Fleet, and that no more of it was printed.

On July 3rd, 1644, the House of Commons ordered that the author and printer of this pamphlet should be enquired for.[98]

Owing to the vagueness with which this book is mentioned in the Commons' Journals, I have not been able to identify it at all. On August 9th, 1644, the House of Commons ordered that all the copies should be publicly burnt.[99]

This book was written by Mr. Samuel Rutherford. A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto, and contains 467 pages. It was ordered to be burnt by the hands of the Common Hangman.

A pamphlet of 12 pages, of which there is a copy in the British Museum Library. On January 20th, 1644, the House of Commons ordered that enquiry should be made who was the author, printer, and divulger of this book.[100]

A pamphlet of 6 pages, of which there is a copy in the British Museum Library. On April 15th, 1645, the House of Commons, on being informed of this printed paper, ordered that the consideration of its printing and publishing should be referred to the Committee of both Kingdoms, who were to give an account thereof the next morning.[101]

On May 23rd, 1645, the House of Commons ordered that the Committee of Examinations should send for the writer of this pamphlet to examine him touching some passages in one of his pamphlets "laying some aspersions upon the Prince of Orange, complained of by the States Ambassadors."[102]

I have not been able to discover the titles or even the existence of these books. On June 10th, 1645, the Assembly of Divines attended the House of Commons, and being called in represented the blasphemies of one Paul Best against the Deity of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Ghost, contained in books, treatises, and notes of his, and in his answer to twelve Interrogatories drawn out of the writings of the said Paul Best; and they desired that the Parliament would use that authority they were intrusted with, for executing of condign punishment upon an offender of so high a nature; that, in reference to the crime, he might be made exemplary: "that all the world may know, how much you detest such prodigious blasphemies, and heresies of so fearful a nature." It was thereupon referred to the Committee of plundered ministers, to examine, with all diligence, the truth of the fact of the informations against Paul Best, of divers prodigious blasphemies against the Deity of our Saviour and the Holy Ghost, contained in notes and writings of the said Paul Best, and that they bring their opinions to the House with all speed, what they think fit to be done in the business, and it was resolved that Best should be forthwith committed close prisoner to the Gatehouse Prison. On January 28th, 1645/6, it was further resolved that an ordinance be prepared and forthwith brought in for punishing with death Paul Best for his "abominable, prodigious, horrid blasphemies."[103]

On July 14th, 1645, this book was brought before the notice of the House of Commons by the Assembly of Divines, and its scope was stated to be, "that true believers, how weak soever in faith, should not be oppressed or perplexed in heart by anything whatever befals them either in sin or afflictions." The author's words were, "God is and hath an hand in, and is the author of the sinfulness of his people; and that God is more in their sins and their sorrows than they themselves," &c. The author, the Rev. John Archer, a minister, was said to be dead. The book was thereupon ordered to be publicly burnt by the Common Hangman; some of them in the Palace Yard, and other some in Cheapside, Smithfield, Paul's Church-yard, and the Exchange; and the Stationers' Company was to search for and seize upon the same, and deliver them to the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, who were to see this order put in due execution. The Assembly of Divines were also to appoint some of their members to be present at the burning of these books; and to declare to the people the abominableness of it; and if there be cause, to vindicate the author. And it was referred to the Committee of Examinations to find out the author and printer of this book, and who brought the same to the press.[104] A copy exists in the British Museum Library.

A pamphlet of 49 pages, of which there is a copy in the British Museum Library. On November 8th, 1645, this pamphlet was referred by the House of Commons to a Committee to report their opinions thereupon to the House.[105]