A ROD FOR THE REBELLIOUS; AND A REWARD FOR THE OBEDIENT.  
LONDON, Printed for Thomas William. MDCLX.   

A ROD FOR THE REBELLIOUS; AND A REWARD FOR THE OBEDIENT.  
FOrasmuch as divers Persons, who lately Acted as a Committee of Safety, and sate at the Council of Officers held at Whitehall, Wallingfordhouse, and elsewhere since their forcible Interruption of the Parliament, were so bold and hardy as to take upon Them the Power of Vacating and Dissanulling Acts of Parliament; granting Commissions to raise Forces and Money, to Levy War against the Parliament, Imposing Free-Quarter on the Free People of this Nation without Authority of Parliament, contrary to the known Laws of the Land; Have thereby, in strictness of Law, Forfeited their Lives and Estates, as Rebels and Traytors, worthy to be confiscated for pay of the misled Souldiers, and other public Debts, and Involved all others that Acted with, by, and under Them, and by pretended Authority derived from Them in the same Guilt, and Subject to the like Punishments. And for that it would prove an encouragement to them and others of the like unstable Rebellious Principles and Spirits, destructive to all Government and Authorities, upon any occasion offered to them in time to come, to attempt the like evil practices, if they should not onely escape unpunished in their Persons and Estates, but be also permitted to enjoy the equal privileges, Liberties and Immunities; which others the true and faithful Friends and Adherents to the Parliament, and the public Cause and Interest of the Nation; and those Eminent asserters of the undoubted Rights, Liberties, and privileges of the People, so long contended for, which the aforesaid Apostates and changelings, to accomplish their own Ambition Pride, Malice, and Sinister designs, by private and open Deeds, councils, and Machinations, endeavoured to destroy and Subvert, and to introduce an Arbitrary, tyrannical, Military Government, Laws and Constitutions of their own contrivance, without any colour of Law or Authority for their so doing. We do humbly conceive it necessary, and a duty incombent on the Parliament, to Impose upon them their marks of Displeasure for, and detestation of, their evil Actions, thereby to prevent them from all Opportunities to get into Power and Authority, to disturb and obstruct our future Peace, Settlement, and welfare; really intended to be wrought by this Parliament for this divided, distructed, oppressed, Nation: which is endeavoured by Jesuits, Papists, and other Seminaries of sedition and division, to be made a prey to foreign Powers, and other Intestine Enemies, to our Peace, traffic and Tranquillity.  

It is humbly proposed, 

1. THat the Persons aforesaid be Voted uncapable, for 7 years or some other certain time, to bear any Offices of Power or Trust, Military or Civil, within this Commonwealth; they having secluded all our Legislators, except a few changelings and worldlings of their own Party, from all public Employments during the six years reign of Oliver and Richard. And that honest, faithful, and obedient Persons, constant to their Resolution and engagements, be entrusted in public places.  
2. That the Persons aforesaid be disabled to be elected Representatives in this or the next succeeding Parliament and Council, whereby they may taste of Subjection as well as Power, and a trial made of their future Obedience and Conformity to the supreme Authority and laws of the Nation, which they have divers times highly violated, and laboured to subvert, during those many years they have arbitrarily reigned over us.    
Otherwise the said Capital Offenders, and their Parryes, by their Interest, Friends, Confederates, and Adherents, will be labouring to procure themselves to be elected to sit in the supreme Authority and Councils of the Nation, to frame and execute new Designs, and Vane Imaginations, tending to the imbroyling again of the Nation in blood and Confusion, which our wise Senators ought, by all lawful and prudent means, seasonably to prevent, according to the wholesome Rules and maxims of a well-governed Common-wealth.  
For by the same Reason and Policy of State, the Cavaliers are secluded from bearing Offices and places of Trust, ought the Persons aforesaid be debarred for some time from a Capacity of being entrusted, having so often violated their Promises and Oaths, made in the face of the Nation, notwithstanding their seeming Repentance and public Avowing thereafter to continue their Obedience and Fidelity to their Masters the Parliament, from whom they received their Commissions, and acknowledged Them the supreme Authority of the Nation, yet, immediately forgetting their Faith, Duty, and great Obligations, have( without the fear of God or Man, or any respect had to Religion, Laws, or any thing that is called sacred) in so transcendent a manner renewed their former Disobedience and Defection, and perpetrated more heinous Crimes than those they formerly professed to repent and be ashamed of, and have debauched and drawn into their Party and Confederacy divers other Faith-breakers, in hopes of Gain and worldly Preferments; who, as they did partake in their Actions, ought to bear an equal share in their Punishments.   

POST-SCRIPT.  
WHether the Disfranchising of Alderman Titchborn and Alderman Ireton, and the making of them uncapable of Sitting in the Councils of the City of London, would not be a just Reward for their Perfidiousness and Rebellion, and give Satisfaction and Content to the Citizens.   
FINIS.