Let all the long-abused people of this Kingdom, speedily repair for the remedy of all their agrievances, to the High-Place at Westmin­ster, and so soon as entred in to the Lords House, let them reve­rendly kneel down upon their bare knees, and say this new Prayer and Exhortation following.

O [...] Almighty and everlasting Lords, we acknowledge and confesse from the bottome of our hearts, that you have most justly plagued us these full seven years for our ma­nifold sins and iniquities. Forasmuch as we have not rebelled against you, but against the King our most gra­cious Lord and Governour, to the abundant sorrow of our relenting hearts, to whose empty Chaire we now bow in all reverence, in to­ken of our duty and obedience. For we now too well (O LORDS) understand that we have grievously sinned, which hath made your Honours give us up a spoyle unto Robbers, viz. your Committees, Sequestrators, Excise-men and Pursuivants; besides, your severall instruments of torments, distinguished by the various names of Col­lonels, Lieutenant Colonels, Majors, Captains, Quartermasters, and a certain sort of putredinous vermin that you use to line hedges withal, vulgarly called; Dragoons, Troopers, and the like, O Lords, these be­sides your continuall Taxes, Collections, Assesments, and the like; a burthen that breaks our backs and very hearts, which continually fol­low one on the neck of another, besides your excises on our very flesh and apparell, with every particular belonging to our trades and live­lyhoods: Our wives, our daughters, our sons, our houses, our beds, our apparell, our horses, our hey, our beeves, our mut­tons, our lambs, our pigs, our geese, our capons, and the rest of our goods are forced from us, upon free quarter as they call it: Had wee [Page]poore wretched and languishing wretches, mounting to the number of millions of millions, being sufficiently humbled by all these plagues, and punishments (cry to your honours for redresse) besides the large portion of our blouds which from the earth cries unto your honours, even as Abels did to heaven, so we to you Mighty Lords, we there­fore humbly pray and beseech you, that your honours would be gra­ciously pleased (in your omnipotent power) to raise to life again but halfe a doozen thousand poor widows their deer husbands and ma­ny fatherlesse children now in a languishing condition, will for ever magnifie your Honours for the same, or else your Honours must ex­expect the cry of the Widow to Heaven against you, the Curse of the Fatherlesse, and the Cry of the Earth, which already begins to vomit up that blnud in your faces, which so rebelliously and unchristianly you have stain'd hers withall; shee hath yet been a place of pleasure unto you, yielding no contagious ayre to infect you with these consu­ming diseases, that now reign amongst your Honours, besides so many sorrows, distractions, disorders or passions, that visit your Honours consciences; all earthly creatures have been obedient unto you mighty Lords. Finally, she hath yielded all things to your contentment, and nothing to your annoyance: Wee beseech you therefore consider the present miseries of our bodies, as hunger, thirst, nakednesse, want of our limbes, deformities, sicknesse and mortality; the troubles of our mindes, as fancies, fears, perplexities, anguishes, and other imperfe­ctions: likewise the generall scourges that are amongst us, as Plagues, Wars, and a 1000 other hazardous calamities: Look but into our Ho­spitals, we beseech you, and see Lazars, Cancers, Fistuloes, Ulcers, and Rottings, what Wolfs, Sores, and festred Carbuncles, with Frenzies, Palsies, Lethargies, falling Sicknesses, and Lunaries. On the other­side (we beseech you) to consider the infirmities of our minds, the furious rages, envies, rancours, and corasives, the unplacable sorrows and desperate passions, the continuall hell, torments, and remorse of conscience (for our late forced rebellion against our King,) and infinite other spritish fits and agonies you have brought upon us. Consider how you have made us incurre the heavy displeasure of the most just and Christian Prince, that ever reigned in this Kingdom; the malice and enmity of our equals, the contempt, ignominy and reproach of all Nations; the continuall mocks and scoffs we receive of our infe­riours, [Page]the fraud and treadhery of all sorts and degrees; our frequent molestations by plunderings, sequestrations, losse of goods, limbes, liberties, friends, wives and children, consider what intolerable usage hath been to divers people since the beginning of these unnaturall wars, prosecuted by the rage and fury of you who would be called Christians, but indeed, the worst of Tyrants: What spoile of our goods, shedding of our blouds, oppressing of innocents, persecution of godly and orthodox Ministers, that the World was not worthy of, as re­verend Armagh, Westfield, Featly, Shute, and divers others learned and holy men; in whose places, what a litter of Foxes you have put into Gods Vineyard, who root up the tender Vines thereof; a crew of such Vipers, that are not worth so much as the naming? What de­flowring of Virgins, abusing of Matrons, compulsion unto wicked­nesse and rebellion, and terrifying from all vertue and Christian obe­dience? What inconveniences and mysteries have ensued by these un­naturall and bloudy Wars? What alteration of Estates, and Reli­gion, subversion of three flourishing Kingdoms, slaughtering of his Majesties Subjects, destroying of Cities, and confusion of all Order, that it is almost incredible that so many and so strange calamities could befall so happy a people as wee lately were in so short a space. We humbly beseech you to consider these our just plaints, and speedily let us enjoy our King, our Religion, our Laws, our just Liberties and Estates, lest the anger of the Lord take harnesse, and arm all the crea­tures to the revenge of his enemies, he shall put on justice for his brest­plate, and shall take for his Helmet certain judgement. Hee shall take Equity as an impregnable Buckler, hee shall sharpen hid dreadfull wrath into a Spear, and the World shall fight with him against such sencelesse persons. His throws of thunderbolts shall go directly; and shall be driven as it were from a wel-bended Bow, and shall hit at a certain place. Against them shall the Spirit of Might stand, and like a Whirl-winde shall divide them, and shall bring all the land of their iniquity, to a Desert, and shall overthrow the seats of the mighty.

These are shrew'd Items, High and Mighty Lords, and may cause you peach one another still, and charge thorow and thorow, as well as round: yet the silly Commons will hardly be gull'd so: they hope to cover their wits again; and will now listen to his Majesty; as once they might have done, and have preserv'd their now lost estates, the [Page]twentieth part divided amongst so many sharers, comes but to a very little; Waller's might come to some twelve Butter-firkins full of Gold? John Pym that lowsie Squire might have been a second Croe­sus and had he liv'd, and Charles his son a very Dives, in spight of Lincolnes Inne Pump; but he fears no preaching now, nor Hambden, nor Strowd, nor Stupleton neither; their Charge will hardly be drawn up till Dooms day ith' after-noon, and then the City shall re­ceive their Debts on the Publique Faith, and learn more wit: by which time Plundering will be out of request, and Sir Pol [...]tick-wood­bees those great Statists, that draw all into their own Coffers; and cry with the Devill, All's Mine, will then find to their costs, that their Accompts are already cast up, and their Reckoning then upon the paying: in the mean-time, Whilst Thieves fall out, true folks may come by their goods. Therefore, as the Psalmist sayth, Gladius ipsorumi [...] ­tret in corda corum. Let their own Swords enter into their own hearts; and let their destruction arise from themselves; let them dig their own graves; let them (as they have already) cut off those Anchors that should preserve themselves from shipwrack; let them like enraged dogs break their teeth on that stone that is flung at them, not so much as looking at the hand that flings it; whilst wee miserable wretches in this vassallage and servility are daily oppressed with so many un­cessant afflictions, worse then an Egyptian bondage, wee may cry out with the Israelites, Ingemiscen [...]es propter opera vociferari; Lamen­ting out intollerable Prayers, Cry out unto God; from whom (and not from your Pharaoh-like Honours) we must expect deliverance. AMEN.

Then let the parties if they finde no redresse, turn unto the House of Commons, and say as followeth.

WE humbly beseech you the Knights and Burgesses chosen▪ and put in trust by your severall Countreys, to redresse our grie­vances; (not to make us new grievances, to cure our Mala­dies, not in a desperate madnesse, to kill us in stead of curing us) to keep us from robbing, not to rob us your selves. That you would with the eye of compassion, look upon our manifold M [...]series, before reci­ted, in supplication to the Lords. Wee must acknowledge and con­fesse that you have done the part of a body without a Head; and taken great pains, though but to little purpose in pulling down Crosses off the Churches and Steeples, and breaking Glasse Windows, whilst ye have erected greater Crosses in our Religion and Estates, that makes (at this time) the glased Windows of our eyes to over-flow. You taken mickle pains, in making Votes, Orders and Ordinances, yet we never the better, but rather worse and worse, whilst you are divi­ded amongst your selves, now you have divided our Inheritance; and divided the King from his Royall Spouse, Children, and P [...]l [...]ment; and would have divided him from his Honour, and Coronation Oath; divided the Souls from our bodies, as well as our shoes; divided Re­ligion into a thousand Sects, Schismes, Heresies, and Blasphemies. E­ven against the Persons in the Sacred Trinity; And now will you leave us in this myst of Errours and Calamities: & every one take shipping, as lately Waller, Staplet [...]n, Nichols, and many others, which increaseth our feares, that you will give but an ill account of so many of our lives, so much of our estates, &c. &c. &c. you may guesse what I mean. You may give losers leave (through lamentable expe­rience) to speak, though I believe to little purpose, therefore, vale, our trust is in the Lord, &c.

Here let all the people sing Psal. 43. Judge and revenge, &c. And then facing about to Henry the Sevenths Chappell, Let all the people rehearse the Articles of their new Reformed Faith; And after say as followeth.

MOst holy Fathers, whether Universall, Nationall, Provinciall, Consistoriall, Classicall Synodians, whose learned Consultati­ons, pious Debates, sacred Conclusions, spirituall Decrees, Evangeli­call Counsels, infallible Divinity hath lost us so many thousand pounds for the space of almost these five years, to compose the two Tables of the Law, the Gospel, the Ordinance for Tithes, and the Directory; Wee magnifie your Sanctity, wee adore your holy Reformation, and highly commend your unerring Spirits, for the great pains you have taken in your severall Sciences of Equivocations, Mentall Reser [...]ati­ons, false Glosses, Comments, Paraphrases, Expositions, Opi [...]ions, and Judgements, that for a long time have cheated and deluded us; for your pious Zeal, and affection for the Cause, in setting us on to kill one another, and freely to venter all, all but the Tenths, Tythes, Offe­rings and Oblations; those are yours jure Divino: besides all the sat Benifices and goodly Revenues that belong vnto you, besides the foure shillings a day, and the Fees of your Classicall Courts, and the ten Groats for drinking a Sundays—Wee beseech ye by all these, pray a­gainst the plaguy diseases your Hypocrisie hath brought upon the two Houses of Parltament, and the whole Kingdom by Heresie, Poverty, Impeachments, Charges, Banishments and the like. AMEN.

Then let the people sing the 41 Psalme and so depart.