Whereas I Th [...]urau John Tendred A Petition dated the 15 of November 1650. To the Parliament so called; There is a name and a thing, and a thing, And a name, And a name, And not the thing, And the Name and the thing both in one according to the Obedience to the thing and name.

I Tendred my petition upon the declarative: It was but Name to me, And not the thing, which caused this inquiry to be made, And to be declared that the people may see and discerne be­twixt the Name and the thing.

Written by me Theaurau Iohn Tannijjour Hipriest sabbah scribah Jail Earl of Exex or otherwise Essex Tenet of Norway or Normandi Lord Paulet of sene in France.

I John Tanni true Earl of Exex alias Essex of the seed roy­all desentive from Aaron the Lords Hipreest, desentive from true right Henry the seventh, which was of the rase of the Iews, of the Tartarian line, As my record of my Gencoligie, will make appear from Aaron Moses brother; Here is a mystery in this seeming seeing age, yet never more deeds of darknesse acted by the sonnes of men

Whereas I having laid my claim to the crown of England before any Acts came forth by the members that are members, I deny all that be, to be in the being, for he cannot properly be said to be, that is unradaxed; That is stands not in and upon the foundation that gives a being to them all, and us all, that is Magna Charra, and the petition of right; for mind; it is not names, but things that is consistant with the good of the nation: for a name is not the thing but the thing is the name and thing. So are not you that call your selves a Parliament. For to make your name true, it [Page 2]must be declarative Acts done by you, yet if it were so you are unradias­ed men in your conjunct as after I will shew not wronging you one tittle, nor any one for Truth is a direct rule measuring all, unmea­suring none which is. Now not any Act that you cause to be published can cut off, or lessen that that is. For that That is truth the sayings of men cannot unsay it; Theirs is but lettered names. But it is the Thing and will be. Because it hath a being. The name none. You make an act to be death to claime the crown in Charles Stuarts Line. Now what I have clai­med, is from Henry the true seventh. No [...] as that villane 8 Henry hath set them to make his title good. By which treepwhole Stuart came in; yet he is a A Cheat in that name Stuart; which I can declare, and weaken the Ly. For I count him no better when Truth shall have her resurrection: Now my claime was past before your Act came forth; And now you shall see I shall stoop to your will (Not Law) And in obedience to your com­mand, this you can make no claime to the crown of England; But to that Command I state this full saying; WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN, I HAVE WRITTEN; I beseech you all people take notice of this state, And judge whether since the act I have laid any claim to the crown of England, yet I take your commanding negative to be a co [...]ifie to my affirmative, and so by state I loose nothing. For truth is truth: so much for the first.

Now know I come as. Nay a Commonwealths-man-Nay the Common­wealths-man, and head of your House by my Barrony of Oxon 'tis stated Oundell in Northampton in Buckingham-shire; to let you know the meaning of that state; tis thus. That villian Henry the 8 so called to de­ceive the Assinant. Stated it in two Counties. That if claime was made in one, it lay in the other: So this was the indendant cheate. And like­wise repealed that Act of Richard the first and third, And made it death to challenge any one into the field, and state place and day: Now I have challenged both the Marques of Herford, and the Earl of Northumberland by letter, & he thatmade that statute to preserve his wicked seed God hath made it destructive. For they are challenged by that, that they should be defended by as he thought and it is death for them to answer by his own law, The challenge to Northumberland is in my brother Oliver Crum­wells right as he is heir aparant to Deavon and Northumberland: Onely Northumberland hath my vicountcie as I shall make appear Now as I am a commoner of England. Now I stare that state Essentiall none can deny, and in this state you are bound to me: Now we shall, and all capacities look on, and into the question, and state stated: Now know that your being and my being in that right of rights. Nay that divine right inten­dant to all: 'Its Essentiall, wherein your and mine is but one: Now comes the state of your being; being in right of, Nay in Magna Charta, that is your life, and mine, and the nations, all conjoyned into one: Now in that one, all being right, out of, and from that radax: know that in that right the Major, includes the Minor; Then where is your o­bedience to the nation, and that, that gave you a being; The Major chose the Minor, not to Lord but to love, Right redresse; and suppresse: now in the word suppresse we see powerful actings to all our griefs, and [Page 3]love & redresse shut out of door, is this the end you were chosen for? or that end our Fathers for our good caused such a composure, that though they were dead, the life of their right descentive might live in us and we in it; Alas we are the name, but they were the Thing and name truely: we are nothing in that stock; for every mans right is in, and by, and at a few mens wills: it is death to speak trueth which is the Thing, only we live in the name, which name is a ly without the thing.

Now to come to the true state of this our called Parliament fellow-Commoners that cannot offend, if you understand your own Essence, ye were chosen but the choise at first was not perfect; consistant with the intendant of our Radaxes; there ought not in that choise parties to be made to make a choise, but a free voluntary intendant was intended:

I beseech you brethren if you Be, yea will hear trueth if you cannot do it be assenters to it, and not opposers of it, in so doing you will be found fighters against the Lord of hosts, whose breath is in you if you be in the trueth, I measure no man I hate no man, only the Lord hath caused me to lay down to you the rule to measure your selves by, if you be convin­ced that it is trueth follow after it, and insue it and break off your transgres­sions by righteous Actions, that the broken may be healed; For this I know great wrath is gone forth from the Lord: Now to grant you were a [...], and set acting for the intending, you were chosen, you [...], and abused and the Nations right not only vilifide, destroyed, [...] of the Nations choise was called forth then be came you another thing, and no Parliament according to the antient right of Mag [...] [...], and the Petition of right that hath its essential right in and [...]om Magna Charta: there this is your proper state, you were no Parliament, that though you in heart were right members, for the heart makes the right member of a true assembly. This is an allusive allegory, but to state it home, you were in truth your servants servants and no Parliament according to the antient right of Magna Carta, and the second petition of right in King James his time. Now according to the right of our right there must be an account rendered for the invading all our Rights in that state; O it had been a glorious work that then a new choise had been according to true election, then was the time to have made us a free people as you call us, but your calling us free, we cannot say Amen, but we may safely affirm we are worse bound, And you now can not help us, nor your selves, Nor can never recover: I know in what state this stands, but I conseal. Now to speak proper you were the soul­diers thing called a Parliament: Now to them you proved the name, and not their intending thing, For then they thought you should do right to them and they would do Right to you, and you two held all our Rights by force from us: If you, or they or both had caused a new choise: not that you had power by right to stand, and chuse to you: but the souldi­er standing defensive, having let the right down from you into the peo­ple again in whom it is inhearent, and you have put your selves in hazard of the New choosing again; which thing you ought to have done: And I need not let you know this; for you know too much in doing no more: Now it is just that they that wronged the Nation in their right, should [Page 4]be wronged by them they wrongfully set up to have their right by, not regarding the Nations wrong it suffers by them: Now I speak as a Com­moner of England, nay I speake for the whole Native: It is a dishonour to you that the souldier is not paid fully to a penny 'tis his due, yea much hardship have they suffered for nothing. Now I beseech you consider that when a Parliament is, it doth right maintaining the honour of the Nation in all its proper essences: Now I hope I shall offend none that truly Are, for they that Be will endure looking into: for truth seeks no covert nor Corner, but stands openly to be viewed of all and viewes all; mind that state: But falsehood and a ly is seeking coverts continually, and alwaies building defensives, and yet never strong, but alwaies weake and fearful: The Righteous is as bold as a Lyon walkes in, and by one and the same rule: Now if that rule which is here intendant be all your measures, or the Major part, then fear will not possesse you. But if ye be wicked, that is weaknesse, and soon offended: But 'tis better to return though to the Manhood disgrace, then to go on in stubbornesse in an evil way, and resolve thus, that though we have done thus, and conscience witnesse a­gainst us, we will cut off to establish our own way not Gods way: Then know that guilt will never be secured, but will cut off all, but it self: This is the true nature of rebellion against the Command of God: That word true is not proper stated in that sence, because trueth cannot be in a ly; for nothing but trueth confounds the ly: Now to returne, to you whom is intended thus much; if you say a Parliament, I say the disgrace of the Nation; Thus will you stand to your words, your vowes, your Oathes, your Covenant, your ingagement, now I know some of the least Actors can with innocency, and uprightnesse stand to it. Now while it is thus, the upright, and innocent suffers, for God hath a people among you, who are of a trembling heart, and now these suffer, through the miscarri­ages of others, & are branded with the name of infamie: But my Brethren, God will clear you in the day of restitution (and it is at hand) Now if men dare not own their word, Oathes, Covenant, Engagement, nor stand by Magna Charta, these men must be spirits; and not men, yet we see and feel these to be men; but if they do disown that is stated: judge ye, are they fitted to be such men? know, so much as a man is just, he is the re­presentative of his makers majesty and no farther: For your words let the Nation judge, which truely is essential, your Judges hold the same method in the first state, as the Major chose the Minor, I hope we that have stood for trueth may now speak trueth, though we cannot injoy it: your word and our adherents to you in the first, was for the Gospel, the Law, the liberty of the subject, we that are the Commons: you having overcome by our vaste charge, losse, and trouble what hath been injoy­ed of this by us yet? but thus we have paid your request: I mean taxes, you have deducted the fouldiers pay for his quarter in part, and the Coun­try hath had this by the souldier eaten up, and no pay; whose wide purse holds that summe that was worse then ten taxes together: this I know I felt, and from fence I speak only▪ Now I blame not the souldier for this; but you, named Parliament: One more to that when all the pro­vision was spent, there comes another reckoning, the Excize-man he must [Page 5]have so much for beer and meat, that was eaten by your, nay our owne souldiers; and never a penny for the substance, but so much for the plea­suring the souldier, with parting with that we have for nothing; is this a demonstrative of a true Parliament, I desire no offence may be taken of truth for what I have writ I will maintain, and send the least Messenger, or porter I will appear and answer by writing; for I have an impeade in my speech, and I desire noe more favour: for truth is truth and will be though trod on: I am not thus chastised to run into a corner, if he whom I serve will not deliver me, I am content, so that deliverance come but to the poor peeled Nation, though I be offered a sacrifice, and burnt to ashes for them I shall rejoice: he cannot be that I am, but must be so in the reality of his sould before the eternal God: know you, I know what I speak, though this state you cannot reach: So much for the first freedome.

The next is to maintain the Law of the Land, and pull down tyranny, this we were sworn to: Now what law is there preserved but all destroyed? for Magna Charta is the being of all our beings; if we have then beings in the true right of the Nation; in which being ye assembled have no be­ing and then ye which have no being, tis impossible for you to demon­strate a being to us that are (if we durst say) in the right being, and ye in the wrong being: for you Be not for us; but ours: I pray mind this the intention is good, if right construed: can you say you are for us? Tis saying indeed, that saying stands you in little, there is the price you pay for us; but prey upon us by consequence, doth this stand in full with your Covenant of pulling down Tiranny? Know tiranny is not a name, but the Thing: We cut of Charles for tiranny, it [...] writes a sad motto amongst Tirants. Now what is a Tirant: An Oppressor, an Incrocher, a Conjoiner to himself of that, that is not his, against that Thing the Nation covenanted, not the name of tiranny, but the Thing: now where that Thing reignes in its sphear, the Nation is bound by Oath to take it down or else they are perjured men, and covenant-breakers, and let all the earth know covenant-breakers God will judge: For the preservation of the Law, we have none made; know you that an act or law, takes its birth at your rising, or dissolving, and not before: Now good men may be made bad by sitting too long, and the custome of Parliament was that the last should reform the first, if any miscarage was in the foregoing state, and add what good, they in their wisdome thought good for the Common­wealth: But we sit so close, so long that it gives a cause of jealousy we are afraid that others should see what we have done: is truth ashamed that her acts should be looked into? 'Tis not truth that is so: The next and great­est, the influence of the people is wholly depopulated, in all their essen­tial liberties, so that Magna Charta which was their koatrified strength, now 'tis of no use at all to them: now to deal plainly with you, if Magna Charta takes being, and life, it can no waies, but by destruction of one or both, that is the Parliament or people: Sirs it is heavy, and lamentable I mourn to see it, yet cannot help it: happy is he whose hands and heart is not defiled with bloud, for bloud must, and will have bloud: now what is wanting? Why love, What is Love? It is God; What is God? A King and he cannot raigne over bloud-thirsty men: now know that king is but a name, and not the Thing, and king is the name and the Thing: The man­hood [Page 6]is not king, but the anointing is the king, But this method is not known among you, for if it were better actions would flow: I know my afflictions you have heard of, I have bin made hands, feet, food, eyes, and clothing to many: I have been emptied of temporalls, but am filled with the eternall being, which hath loved me with everlasting love: now know I hate no mans person, I envy none, I care for none, I am One, and that One that state what you, nay the creation can, in earth, aire, fire, water, Ter­restrial, Caelestial, the influences of the stars, I am able to answer, to give an account, I am able to give a state, in these things in anyone of these things, that the whole creation cannot ansvver, if they could I could not be high Priest to my God.

I have put 3 small queries on this little manuscript that by them I may know it to be my one.

What is the creative part of the Cabalesterial inclue in the Terresteriall Orbs of the Theabarick: that word is Calde.

What is the inclue of Philiades in her coertive part in the new Trine in the Hemispheer of sol that word new seems strange, but to let you know there is a new birth in the Planitoriam scheme, or scine.

What is the inclusive PERTINEAT in the conclave of the medeterranean Assome: Scholers look to PERTINEAT, I am but a childe yet, and but 9 weeks since God gave me this childish knowledge, yet with my child shnesse I desire you bear with me: Now know that anger is weaknesse; And wrath that is not God: but by God it is. Minde but That state last: Now for you to be angry because I do not give you the name of Parliament, It is because you should not be destroyed: Wisdome foresees the dangerous event that will fall on you in that state: your method and rule, hath been all along evasions: Now I will helpe you to the best, yet it will not help you: For though I koatrefie you there, you fall in another place ap­pointed, but made by your selves. Now I speak as a Commoner, that state cannot be denied me, And in that state I being it is for the Reall, not intentive good I take the vvhole to speak for. As I am the head of your convene, (if ye were) by my Barrony of Oxon alias Essex: Now I have two rights, nay three rights to stand on, and for: for Magna Charta, the being of our Beings, and a commoner in that right in Magna Charta and by Magna Charta the head of you, if you were: Now how can any state be stated betwixt that, that hath an essential being, And that that hath none? To make good that state of Evasion, I promised to you, it is thus: the com­mon-wealth cannot in reall truth call you to an account, Neither ought they if you deny that name Parliament, which if you affirme you undo your selves: Thus to be accountable to that, from whence you had no being in their being, nor being by them, nor from them: but this state you must bear with, your being is of, and upon them; Remember this state was cited in the foregoing page speaking of God; This is mysterious, but I state my method to the reach and overture of your Capacities: Now according to the reall rule of right, the common-wealth should render it selfe ridiculous to demand a due where they committed no trust: your negative is truer then their affimative in this state: this is a strange con­dition that all our Estates are wasted, oppression goes on, and must go [Page 7]on; Though it is strange, tis true, the sensatives can set to their seal: I would it were other waies.

But to finde out this Thing that BEES upon us all: there it is we may swear Thing, we feele it: Now to finde this BEE, that BEES every where amongst us: I have found it first: I bring tidings: For this Thing sake am I sent forth to undeceive the people, tis the souldiers intended right Thing to himselfe. He gave it a being: and the Thing that he thought should haue been in a sence life to him, is proved death in a sence: for the Thing, nay his Thing proves but name, and that name in that credit, that when he hath done his duty to his Thing, he thought it would have proved, and in his accounts he sinds it Thing, and in deduction for his quarter, and by that his sum cut lesse, and then counting at his agreement at 8 d. a day, for which many out of conscience havedestroyed them, and theirs and coming to their Thing, it is but name, and the name baring no more credit to him then to be worth to him 4 shil. a pound; Is this payment for faithfull service: judge all men souldiers this is truth you know: my heart bleeds to see, but cannot help it: unlawfull, and un­just wayes is ever paide in its own coine, and so tis just; your full sums agreed of, is your due, as God is just, for there is a justnesse in the meean­est thing and that is properly called Gods essentiall being (I speak after the manner of men) now souldiers by creating your Parliament, if you can call it so, it matters not to me: to me name is not; but things are the substance: now though for the present your monies would not make much of it a bove 4 shil a pound, it vvould be inquired into now the cause came that procured the effect of your sail of your due earned debt; was it weaknes in your radax, that it was note able to state a strong essence, that must be denyed; for their power and your power would have setched in your own dues, being the whole kingdome was under your commands But it might be thus: In writing I can make the last letter take the whole state, when I write in Mophes, that is in the Medish method then I write k for coffe which is strong now from a radax; I can let fall a weak essence, to take the state in k to the radax again: I am afraid of this jug­ling nay plain dealing: I will prove it the souldier is necessitated through you, he is forced to sell, you must be paymasters your derivacies draws up into essencie; your essencie, and ye state the radax of the souldiers earned wages: is it fair or foule let the world judge: true tis undeniable; hovv comes such an involved inrolement of souldiers dues into a payment, for whose lands I know not, but the souldiers due is the true due in that patched pur­chase; Now souldiers I must show you your undues: for I have but one rule; you wronged the Commonwealth, when you devided the Parliament, then you erred as is hinted before: Now whereas ye souldiers wronged the Nation in their right, you are rewarded with wrong by your own intended right; now to do the nation wrong, having done so, you ought to do the Nation right, for that end you vvere set on worke: Now to do right to the Nation, is all you can do, take down your Thing set up by you: that Thing nay name Parliament, and let the right descend into the people again, and a new choice made, these to be accountable to you, because they had a be­ing of, and from and by you, in this doing you prove your selves, nay they [Page 8]cause you prove your selves honest men at last, now this way wil prove good for the nation; Onely the losse of their moneyes: thus you may account with them, that have so straightly accounted with you: take your due where it is due to be taken: for your due God doth know is deerly earned, and justly ought to have been paide you natives know, tis not the souldier that wrongs you, love the souldier, none can help you but he, tis he that should pay the souldiers that wrongs you, who that is judge ye: now if any man or men be offended at this truth here inserted, and count me an enemy to the Parliament: know I cannot properly nor unproperly be an enemy to that that truly is not the Thing but a name, nay death to them by law in and by Magna Charta to own the same according to the right of the nati­ons right; a Parliament is the glory of the nation, Nay the truth of the Nation; tis the splendor and beauty of our beauty, if by us it hath a be­ing, or else it can be no Parliament, now this I honour, and would lay down my life for, as at first I stood for you, when you were, and covenanted with you, and held with you till you from lambs turned wolves, then I was afraide of you, I opposed Charles Stuart in ship money was committed for it in London, my horse taken, and sold for shipmony in Cambrige shire; by Pitcher of Trumpington then sheriffe, know I ever stood against the Thing Tyranny, and not the name, now I hope no man, no honest man or men, will conceive anger against me for speaking the truth, as this I leave to all men to judge of, But thus in plain termes, if any man, or men be angry and charge me with crime, This I declare to all people, that, that Man or men I vvill prove traitor, or traitors by the law of the land, by word, by promise, by protestation, by oath, by covenant, by in­gagement, All this I will do so sure as the Lord lives, I jest not, I am in True earnest. Look to it, I weep for it, to your consciences I commit to judge of: But know a Ly with a Ly is one Meathod, [...] one Meathod. But bring [...] to be measured by, Truth then it will not hold, so much for this time.

Now know I am a mad man; And ye declare me so to be, it will be weak­nesse in you to question me; But know that A mad man is not to answer, by the law of the land: I take that privilige, you cannot deny it, if you be men sensable bare with my v [...]knesse; God I hope vvill give me greater understanding: so I rest your [...]at are truely the Lords; that sear him, and vvalke in obeeience to him.