Numb.3.
A Modest Narrative
OF
INTELLIGENCE:
Fitted for the Republique of
ENGLAND & IRELAND.
From Saturday, April 14. to Saturday, April 21. 1649.
AN Agreement of the People must be cryed up, yet the People must not
agree, for if so, the result will be, That all Excresciences, which do
both clog and disfigure the body, must be taken off. To prevent which,
by these Switzerizing Anarchists, thus the Plot is laid, (knowing the People
willing to be delivered of their burdens, though necessary for the product of a
wel stated Liberty,) We must, say they, frame and print Petitions, and send them
abroad to be subscribed by others, left the People should pay these fix moneths
Tax, and if so, then they will be without burdens, and we without their favour. We
must claw with the Souldiers, by telling them of a Tyranny in the Court Martial;
and that there is a design in the Irish Expedition to divide, thereby to facilitate
the intended Slavary, &c. so that hereby we shall both engage the Souldiery,
by whose assistance we must (else we perish) receive the present Shocke,
and also obstruct Irelands relief, which will farther the distractions at home.
We must aver, That both Parties in Scotland are one, by which we shall blemish
the Kirks integrity, and thereby divide the Presbyterians themselves here, and
irritate almost all Parties against Scotland; The Royall partee upon this score
That the Kirk hath no Prince-like Principles; the anti-Royall upon this, That
upon their too much complyance they will at last be forced to receive a royall
stamp or else be broken by a royall Scepter; but I think Hunthes head was not
cut off in jest, and that their Kings Irish design will un-scot him, and unite both
them and us, which may be done; but I cannot direct my superiors and continue
moddest. We must break the Ministry too, but herein we must act with secrecie
and cunning, wherefore with as little discovery as may be what we are, left we
alone should suffer, and they with the Parliament agree; we must on the one
hand damn Tythes without hinting at the least any other provision, and thereby
we shall incense the Ministry against the Parliament, and on the other hand
we must obstruct an encouraging maintenance for them in the House, and