A NEW DISCOVERY OF SEVERAL PASSAGES performed by the Malignant Party, who is resident in the North, and here laid open and made manifest to the public view of the world.  
Describing who he is, what be his qualities, conditions aims and intents, and what he hath already done;  
Endeavouring the dissolution of the Parliament, and the disturbance of the peace of the Kingdom, now producing Civil War.  
Showing who are the chief Noble Men that appear in these distractions and wicked designs.  
By W. S.  
Printed in the year M.DC.XLII.   

A new Discovery of several passages, performed by the Malignant Party, etc.  
When the Parliament endeavoured to work a reformation of the great disorders, both in the Ecclesiastical and Civil State, this their pious proceed drew a more particular envy and odium upon it; than was usual to the generality of Parliaments, & was the first cause that those, who had swallowed up in their thoughts our Religion and Liberties, & now saw themselves defeated by this means, bended all their endeavours, and raised all their forces to destroy it, whereupon they carried the King from the Parliament to York, and possessed him with such a hatred of the Parliament, so that under the pretence of a defensive guard, he hath by the advice of this Malignant party raised a great Army.  
This malignant party if the word be taken in the largest sense, are all those who upon different bad respects and to advance their own wicked purposes, have alienated the King's affections from the Parliament, set this Kingdom into the combustion of a Civil War, and either fearing reformation, or seeking preferment by betraying their Country, to serve the Court have combined to bury the happiness of this Kingdom in the ruin of the Parliament, and afterward to effect that which was first in their intention, that is, the introducing of an arbitrary government, and the changing of Religion into Popery and Superstition.  
The name and title of malignant party (now so commonly used) may be derived from male agens or from doing and contriving that which is wicked and evil, as being a company of Royalists gathered about the King, who for their own safety being most of them delinquents and other ill affected persons, do endeavour like so many Phaethons' to set the whole Kingdom of England on fire, that so they may see it ruinated in the flames of a Civil war.  
They pretend that they are the King's friends, and to give a fair colour to their malignant purposes they are fu●ly resolved to defend the Kingdom even to the utmost hazard of their lives and estates, and as they formerly endeavoured and also have prevailed in settting the King against the Parliament, so now they have persuaded his Majesty to set up his Standard, to raise a great Army, and to give them power and authority under the name of Cavaliers to commit divers outrageous insolences in the Country, while they go about by violence to put in execution the illegal Commission of Array.  
The people that do make up this Malignant party, may be distinguished into several sorts and kinds, though all aiming at the subversion of the Kingdom, and the conversion of the Protestant Religion into superstitious Popery, they being gather Papists or people popishly inclined, rash unadvised noble men, neutral Protestants, decayed Gentlemen, Delinquents fearing punishment, cutting Cavaliers indebted persons, lose idle livers, inconsiderate giddy Gentlemen, ambitious discontented Clergy men, and factious troublesome Lawyers, all which have conspired together to make a Malignant Army upon several wicked grounds and reasons; The Papists ill affected to the peace and welfare of this Kingdom, fearing that their religion shall be utterly rooted out of this land, do all ●oyne their forces together to oppose the Parliament; in regard they have so violently endeavoured to work a general reformation, and to extirpate their idolatrous superstition. The unadvised Noble men to gratify & please the King though against their own Country, have by their purses and presence encouraged the King's Majesty to a Civil War The Gentlemen well descended, but of weak and decayed estates, conceive Civil War to be the best way suddenly to raise their fortunes. The Cavaliers loving to fish in troubled waters, do imagine that the dissension of a Civil War will be their time of harvest. Others caring not what the cause of the war be being indebted and rather than they will take pains in their calling, have recourse unto the wars only for security and present maintenance Giddy brained Gentlemen follow these, miss by scandalous reports, and false surmises of the Parliaments proceed. The discontented Clergymen and ambitious Lawyers, although they are no soldiers yet being armed with malicious tongues, the Divine by his preaching and doctrine doth endeavour to stir up dissension and procure Civil War, and the Lawyer against conscience and equity doth possess the King with quirks of Law, encouraging him to prosecute illegal courses according to their evil counsels  
It was not therefore without good ground hath stood so much to have the disposing of the Militia in their own power, that so the Magazine of Arms in several Counties, might not be employed against the Kingdom but be put into such hands as the Parliament might confided in, ●o suppress commotions within ourselves. For were these per●ici●●● malignant persons about the King masters of them, ●●w … e would it be for them to master the Parliament 〈◊〉 kingdom? And what could we expect but mire and destruction from them who make the King revile and detest his P●●●i●m●nt, from them who have emberqued the King in so many designs to overthrow this Parliament, and have so long thirsted to see Religion and liberty confounded together?  
These and the like are the intentions of the malignant party, who are now gathered into a mighty Army, and amongst the rest the Cavaliers being the Champions of the malignants do commit divers outrageous insolences in several countries, killing, robbing and slaying wheresoever they come, setting houses on fire, and keeping the Country in such subjection that they dare not hardly look out of doors, riding along as assistants unto those that have commission to compel his Majesty's Subjects to submit to the illegal Commission of Array, thereby to strengthen themselves by levying forces against the Parliament.  
And what is the end, in persuance whereof they have thus traitorously combined against this Parliament? Is it not to ruin this Parliament that hath set a stop to the violence so long by them intended? Is it not to induce an alteration of Religion, & the subversion of the Laws & liberties of the Kingdom? Is it not plainly to bring in popery & Idolatry together with an arbitrary form of government, that so tyranny accompanied with merciless taxes (levied according to the fancy of a favourite) should not leave the common people anything which they may call their own, all being at the will and disposing of the Prince and some few evil counsellors. And that the Malignant party compounded of several ill affected persons, who for many reasons above mentioned do all wickedly conspite against the Parliament, may the better go through with their work and accomplish their own pernicious designs, many Lords and other member of the Parliament instead of discharging their duty in the service of the Parliament, are as they pretend by his Majesty's command, but indeed drawn away by their own malevolent and malignant affections gone to York, there to contribute their advice & assistance to the destruction of the Parliament, endeavouring to possess the people that the Parliament will take away the Law, & introduce an arbitrary government, & that it had been much better if this parliament ha● never been called, having after three years s●t●●●ng in consultation done nothing for the benefit of the subject, but by provoking the King's Majesty, engaged the whole Land into the misery of a civil war. With these & the like false aspersions divers Lords & great personages being Papists or popishly inclined, do in their several Country's endeavour to compel the Subjects & the trained Bands to obey the King's illegal Commission of Array, raising to that end both horse and foot in several Counties to oppose the Parliament & beget a civil war within the Kingdom. The chief Noble men that appear in this rebellious design are the Earl of Northampton, the L. Dunsmore, L. Willoughy of Er by son to the E. of Lindsey, Henry Hastings Esquire, & divers other unknown persons in the Counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Leicester, Warwick, Oxfordshire, and other places, the marquis of Hertford, the L. Paulet, L. Seymer, Sir john Stawell, Sir Ralph Hopton, john Digby Esquire, together with their accomplices, who have gotten together great forces in the County of Somerset, & do both there and in other parts of the Kingdom, raise forces to the disturbance of the peace of the Kingdom. The Lords & Commons therefore in Parliament seeing that the Malignant pity doth thus oppose their proceed have ordained the E. of Essex L. General, of their forces, to prevent the furious outrages which are daily committed by the malignants. Therefore let all true heatred Subjects come to help the Parliament against this malignant party consisting of Papists, ill affected persons to the Commonwealth, and a multitude of malcontents, that the Devil may not by these evil and malignant agents work the dissolution of this happy Parliament, and the destruction of the Kingdom.   
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