continue a mute; I hope your Masters the Coxcombs of State, will command
you the Supream Conventicklers to padlock up my ink bottle with
a peculiar Act for that purpo[unr], least that I should commit iniquity and
s[unr]ne against the sence of the times, and so be brought before the Members
judgment seat, to give an account of my actions, which indeed may soon
be, since there are so many State Intelligencers and tell-tales, to convey all
to Westminster, but what need I care, cause I am one of them, I wonder at,
and admire at the Grandees and their actions, as much as any Independent
of them all.
And I beleeve the poor prisoners for debt, will ere long have cause to admire
the knavery of these men, the keepers of theirs and our Liberties,
who have thus long [unr]fobb'd them off under the pretence of an Act of reliefe
(although indeed they never meant really any such thing) but since they
can no longer hide their jugling (out that these miserable men understanding
the mistery of iniquity, had the boldnesse to let them know, that they
perceiv'd their often debates of the businesse without progresse was only
to keep them in suspence and spin out time) these Supream Pocusses goe a
more crafty way to work; and the better to deceive the world and make the
Prisoners beleeve their intentions are real, they Vote that all such Prisoners
as need and desire it, shall be the States stipendaries untill such time as the
Act can be past which they say will be longere it is finished, and without
swearing we may beleeve it, for this is only a State trick to hide their intentions,
and stop the Prisoners mouthes until such time as their Masters
the Councel of State shall command their Journey men to shut up shops
and away, and then may the Prisoners starve in their cels; therefore I
would advise them not to be weary with wel doing, but to weary these Supream
things, with complaints, and then it may be these unjust Judges,
will do like the unjust Judge in the Gospell, relieve them not because they
are willing to do them Justice; but because they trouble them.
But now these precious things are resolved to live and act beyond all
presedent; and therefore our Supream Voters, because they see the Kirkmen
which did help advance & set up this great Idol of Reformation wil
no longer uphold it nor worship it, they have ordered that because
Tythes is burthensome to the Subject, all such tender consciences shall be
uncapable of receiving any; but all such Pulpit-thumpers as have consciences
as large as a Parliament mans that will preach and pray according
to the sense of the two Conventicles, the Coxcombs of State and Members
their Journey-men, they shall because they all are the true Elect, and the only Tribe of Levi, take Tithes of the oppressed free-born people; and in case
Tithes come slow, they shall be allowed a File of Musquetteeres, according
to the Liberty of the Subject, to command them: untill such
time as their Mightinesses shall otherwise provide for them, and the bet[unr]