THE ANATOMY OF WESTMINSTER JUNCTO. OR, A Summary of their Designs against the KING, CITY, and KINGDOM.  Written by Mercurius Elencticus. 
IN bodies Politic, the Repersentative, as it is made up and chosen by the body Collective, so should it ever act for the good of the same: but it is more common than commendable for men betrusted with other men's good to behave themselves to their trusties hurt.  
There be four Cases wherein a body Collective is not bound to a body Representative, but aught in conscience to descent from it, and protest against it.  
First, when a body Representative acts in a direct, evident and obvious manner against the express will and Word of GOD.  
Secondly, when in like plain and direct manner, it acts against the apparent welfare, peace and good of the Kingdom.  
Thirdly, when it acts after the same manner against its own proper end and being.  
Fourthly, when it acts beyond the bounds, limits and extents appointed it.  
The terms (a little changed) were once the Parliaments. And all which granted (as cannot be denied) the serious examination of the proceed of a Prevailing party in the two Houses, yields matter and reason sufficient for our utter dislike of and protestation against them. And that will appear, if we consider, first, Their ungodly proceed in matters Religious and Divine; Their despoiling of Churches, their shutting the mouths of Oxthodox Ministers that would not Preach Diurnal Doctrine, their taking away our Common Prayer Book; their not only tolerating but encouraging and emboldening of all manner of Schismatics and Heretics, seditious incendiaries, Sectaries, and seducers of the People; Socinians, Arrians, Anabaptists, Antinomians, Erastians', Familists, Shakers', Seekers, Brownists, and Independents, contrary to the known Statute Laws of this Kingdom; yea, Electing of them (before others) into the most considerable places of profit and trust in Marshal and Civil affairs; and under a pretence of a Christian respect unto tender Consciences, designing a toleration for all these, Contrary to the express rule of Sacred Scripture, commanding earnest contention with them; and contrary to their Faith given our Brethren of Scotland, as you may see by the Covenant and Scottish Declaration.  
Secondly, they tell us that the solemn League and Covenant doth not oblige unto a suppression of those who out of a pretence of weak and tender Consciences (but indeed treasonable Designs against the King and Kingdom) refuse to subscribe unto Presbyterian government; and say that it is a most putide and irrational thing, once to conceive that any such thing was ever intended by the Parliament in the imposing hereof (witness their Reply to our City Remonstrance of the 26. of May 1646. in which also they urge four reasons to prove the same, and are not ashamed to style these limbs of the Devil, these first borne of Satan; a party of as cordial friends as ever they had since the War began. Thus do they make Religion but a Veil to shroud themselves under, while they get a shoot at a Crown, at Prince and People; a thing which from the very beginning of their Sessions they only aimed at, and have since only pursued.  
For whereas they were called by tha King ad Concilium only, and to acquaint him with the oenour of our Petitions delivered them, instead of discharging their Duty, they straightway begin to destroy a third Estate in Parliament, root out the heads of the Clergy. Next, to usurp the Militia from the King, and settle it in themselves; Contrary to the mind of the Convention when it was full and free: and contrary to the pattern of heaven and earth: The power of a Kingdom being disposed unto one Viceroy, not to a multitude; save as Substitutes in several ranks under that one, as that one is under him whose right by Creation it is.  
And for carrying on the said Designs, they raise Tumults in December and january 1641. and by the seditious rabble of our City, drive away the dissenting Members, and as it were new mould the two Houses: and in March after they seize and dispose of the Navy and Cynque Ports, under a pretence of providing against danger, winding themselves into the strength of the Kingdom for a Design; which appears by consequents, pretences being not to be believed where following actions run Cross and Counter.  
For presently they show more confidence than fear (though long before, as also now again, we have nothing else.) More audaciousness against the King, than solicitude for the Kingdom; and daily endeavour to subvert and destroy, not preserve and maintain the fundamental constitution and government of the Realm and Parliament.  
Neither is it long after till they discover their intentions against his sacred Majesty, as since August last they have done against the City and Kingdom. Martin says openly in the House, and the House reproves him not for it; that the King's Office is forfeitable, and that the welfare of this Kingdom did not depend upon his Majesty, nor any branch of the Royal race: and Lud●●●, that he was not worthy to be King of England.  
And surely this was the mind of the Houses, else these cursed villains had not gone unpunished then, nor Hamond nee; sinor themselves May 26. impudently declared that they should not want duty or modesty if they followed the highest Precedents of those two rebellious Parliaments that deposed and murdered Edward and Richard both the second.  
Nor had they denied the King's negative Vote in Parliament; nor had they, but to deprive the King and Crown of all power of Legislation and government, presented and so earnestly urged those Bills for nominating the Privy Counselors and chief Officers of State; and for Reformation of Church-government and Liturgy, as they (forsooth) liked; and to order the Militia as they pleased; and to approve of Commanders for Forts and Castles; and to admit such Peers as should be made hereafter, to sit and Vote in Parliament.  
A Bill for the Kings leaving to trial and punishment of Law, such ill Counsellors or Officers as then were or after might be, would have been sufficient to have secured this Kingdom from any harm or danger by any ill Counsel whatsoever: This the King might and would easily have granted; and this might have contented them, if care of the Kingdom's welfare had been their aims. But ambition and avarice makes them seek for the rule and power out of the King's hands (which is not his to part withal, power only of creating Substitutes under him being given him by the original owner thereof) it is a fine thing to sit at Westminster, and Vote, and make Ordinances at will and pleasure, and send for the Kingdom's Money and have it.  
And for making good of what they had taken from, and declared against, and for the carrying on of what they had proposed to his Majesty, viz. to detain the Forts, the Militia and Navy from him (which acts be high treason by the Statutes of Hen. 8. and Edw. 6. themselves know it well) and to take from him and from the Crown of England the power of Law-making and governing, and to depose and destroy him and his royal race together with Monarchy, they sent the late Earl of Essex (whom they persuaded all was Law they did, as himself averred, and whom they have since well requited with untimely end) through the streets of our City, to raise an army of deluded fools, pretending to redeem a captived King from evil Counsellors; but indeed to captivate him; which since the war was ended, the sillyest may plainly see; and that their jealousies and fears, and their pretences of Reformation & liberty were mere stratagems and delusions to bring about their traitorous designs against the King and Crown, against the Church and against us the freeborn people of England.  
Else why shut they up the King in prison? Why Voted they no more addresses to him? Why put they forth that traitorous Declaration against him? These things have not been done by the people of this Kingdom to any Prince, whom they have not soon after deposed and murdered. Else why turned they their Army in August last against our City? and why made they that saucy Ordnance soon after, to distrain by Soldiers for what Taxations they should at any time charge upon the Country? and why do they not disband this heretical rascal Army, but employ it every where to murder and plunder those that Petition the settlement of Peace? Why drove they away the eleven Members? Why took they down our chains? and why lie they yet lurking about our City? Why did they displace and imprison Sir john Gear and the other Aldermen? Why invaided they our Freemens privileges in making new Officers, and such as we cannot confide in; Men that seek not to preserve, but enthrall our Liberties; that study not to advance the Public, but their own private interests, that intent their own rather then the City's profit and security? Why restore they not the Mili●ia of the City into those hands it was in before August last? how shall we think they cease their Design against us, when none of all these is accomplished? Look to it Brethren, there is mischief still intended, though those at Westminster will needs have us believe otherwise.  
When the discovery of this last design by Everard, came unto our knowledge, the Major and Common-counsel (confederates with them in the business, for the promoting of a new War with our Presbyterian Brethren) petition this perfidious prevailing party in the Houses; and in their Petition, to colour the business, do closely take in the Parliament into the then present danger with the City, as if the Army acted or consulted any thing, which they had not first rules for from Westminster; and likewise intimate the City's resolutions to adhere to this wicked Jancto, that every day styles itself, The varliament of England, according to the solemn League and Copenant; and this must have thanks, and be published in print, to persuade the people, whether they will or no, that they be yet the representitative Body of the Kingdom, & that such Officers as they have made in the City since Aug. last, without consent of the freemen, be the representitative body of the City, & that all is well 'twixt the City and this juncto, as if there had been no starting from first pretended principles; & now that (viz. the Covenant) which the other day was declared to be but for discovery of the Parliament enemies, must oblige to an engagement in a second War (contrary to the express tenor of it) to set up Independency: thus do they one while court Religion a Mistress, another while use her as a slave.  
But good Master Wisdoms of Westminister, you shall find a wronged party of Presbyterians, both in City and Country (for whom you still lie in wait, though you would fain seem to relinquish your designs) will call for satisfaction from you and your juggling implements of the City and Kingdom: It is not your now so often proclaiming yourselves The Parliament of England, nor the Major and Common-Counsels petitioning you, nor your sly conjunctions and courting of one another with thanks and Declarations of mutual assistance, nor Preachments by Proxies in Tippling houses and Ordnaries, That there nor is, nor can be any difference 'twixt our City and you, nor your re-calumniating the Cavaliers, and fathering of plots upon them, which yourselves invent at Derby-house, and discover by the Major, nor your new Britannicus of Grays-Inne, whom you hire for five pound per week, to write anew those forgeries wherewith you formerly abused the King and his faithfuls, and deluded us, shall make us forget your August-tricks, nor your four Bills which you sent so privately to his Majesty at Carisbrook-castle, that but for our Brethren of Scotland we had not yet heard of them, nor your close restraint of the King, when he refused to sacrifice us and our posterity to your insatiate ravenousness, by signing them; nor your late traitorous Declaration against him, nor your designs of taking off his head, if the Kingdom would have thanked you for that your Declaration, and liked of such horrid Murder; nor your continued detention of him, to the daily decay of Trade, and ruin of many of us.  
You have brought the Parliament of England to a low ebb, a juncto of most desperate Rebels, most cursed Traitors, yourselves that went from Westminster to the Army in August: but for the carrying on of your Designs (now ready to be quashed) and slurring over the discoveries, you will needs take notice of the good affection of the City to adhere unto the Parliament, according to the Covenant; very willing and nimble are you to apprehend and publish to the world any thing which might make our City your friend, or (at least) stop insurrections against you, you fear the trial of Law, and persuade that there is no dislike 'twixt it and you, since the time it refused to join with you in a Petition for a general pardon; and you easily condescend to put up our chains: but for an In let (when you have devoured up the petitioning Counties, and murdered those that desired to bring you to the trial of Law; you make Skippon (an Army Officer, and not to be trusted by our City) Major General, and you put the Militia of the City into Independents hands: Thus do you play with our City, as a Cat doth with a Mouse, catch her, and let her go, and catch her again, but at last ever devours her; and then prudent Citizens, what good doth putting up your chains? and you run back to your propositions presented at Hampton-court, as if that were sufficient satisfactions and should reconcile you, after so many and foul falsifications of Word, and breach of Covenant with our Brethren of Scotland, and those proud and traitorous designs you have discovered of late against our City and Kingdom, and detaining of the King in prison, and making no just account of those vast sums You and your Substitutes have had from us.  
In the beginning of these unnatural Brawls, your Declarations signified, that the separation of his Majesty from Westminster was the original of our unhappiness; and that the chief intent of raising your Army, was to bring the King from some evil Counsel, in honour and safety, to sit with you at Westminster, and that it was impossible ever to have a safe and wel-grounded Peace, without his Majesty's personal concurrence in Parliament; and you often protested by word of mouth in our Common Hals, and many Declarations in the public view of heaven and earth, that you would not destroy but maintain our Religion and our Laws, that you would live and die with us, stand and fall with us, that you would never leave us, till you had made us free; and lo, now our freedom, now we have gained you your wills (for any thing we may since imagine to the contrary) upon your private enemies, the King's Faithfuls; we must be slaves to you and your Mechanic Substitutes, and your Ragamuffin Army, and if we petition for our Sovereign's liberty and our own easement, we must be worse used than Israel by their Egyptian Taskmasters, we must be butchered and pillaged as our Surrey Brethren at Westminster, and as the Petitioners in Kent, murdered and stripped in every Town and Lane where they were found; and now your six week's talk of settling the Kingdom, is come to a design of disarming the Counties where you march, one by one, and doubling your Army and Assessments, and subjecting us unto a Military power: Thanks for the freedom you intent us; we must keep you an Army of Rogues and Knaves to murder and plunder us every where, and to protect you traitors, and your unjust Committees, from trial of Law, and making up your accounts; you would have it so: you are wise enough to know, that Rebellion cannot subsist longer than it keeps an Army in the field, and we have woeful experience of the abuses and charge of it: though Kentish Bumpkins be content with Bag-puddings, and Essex Calves with Buttermilk, if we must wade through the red Sea unto our Liberties, we will; send you out your Westminster Bulls of death and plunder, against such as rise against you, and do your worst, we shall shortly ease ourselves of your Army and you too: and we hope such Cavaliers as served their King for love, will join with us to restore him, and repair our infringed freedoms, and vindicate themselves rob and plundered of their Estates in time of War, by you and your agents (contrary to the Statute of Hen. 7. you know it well, you dishonest and shameless—) and forced to pay great sums of money since at Goldsmiths-Hall, to the utter undoing of many of them: you might by as good Law, have rob upon the Road in times of peace, as sequestered any for serving the King of this Country, or compelled loans of Money from us, to help forward your traitorous designs against the King and Kingdom, but you think to make white your black actions with more wilful murders: You will try by the King's Commission of Oyer and Terminer, not Rebels, but those that rise to suppress them; this is your conscience, your honesty; thus regard you the murdering, kill and slaughtering the Subjects of this kingdom; the tearings, rendings and crippling of poor people; the burning, wasting and plundering of men's estates; the woeful, bitter and sad complaints, and showers of tears shed in corners & secret closerts by many men, whose former quality, with the remembrance thereof, makes them wipe their eyes, and counterfeit cheerfulness in the sight of men: thus salve you the sores of this kingdom. When the Essex Calves (as you styled them, & as they have proved since) then a little sensible of their Master's sufferings, and their own, and the kingdoms ill usage, and calling to mind some former specious Declarations, and treasonable courses, directly contrary thereunto, repair unto Westminster in that most unquestionable way, for the Subject, as Warwick daigned to call it, petitioning the restitution of the King, and the Country's ease: the Houses after thet uppers thanks for some respects in the Petition, and the saucy Commons mentioning some former services, desire a further patience, and the Petition shall be geanted; they will settle the kingdom by Dooms day, or when they can continue War no longer; for in stead of disbanding their Army, they prepare for second brawls, they put the City and kingdom into a military posture, under Independent Officers, and fight with Major General Laughorn, Colonel powel and Poyer; yet they say their quarrel is against Cavaliers, and the people must rise for them now, (a traieterous and perfidious Juncto, that seeks to enslave them to an arbitrary power, and an Army) as for the Parliament before.  
Our Brethren of Surrey petition, and the Houses send for the Rogues, (then at Whitehall) to fall upon them, making Westminster (formerly a Court of Justice, where men had right) a field of blood and theft.  
Our Brethren of Kent resolving to petiton, but fearing a Surrey welcome, arm for their defence against the Army; and instead of receiving their Petition, they delude them with Treaties and wiles, till they had got their Rebel Army into the County amongst them, and then they send it Orders to fall upon them, to slaughter and plunder all that should desire to have an old King, and a new Parliament; which was sufficiently observed by the Soldiers; for none could pass the Road uncut or unmurdered, and unstript; and when they came into their Quarters, they would with drawn Swords, and spanned Pistols, swear and curse, and tell the women, they would have roast-meat, or they would broyl a piece of their Husband's heads: neither were they contented to feast whiles they stayed, but at removal, let sellars of Beer upon the floor, knock out the bottoms of Milk-vessels, and spoil all. These be the civil Soldiers they have so oft talked of.  
Essex appears for the assistance of Kent, and they first bribe far, and other knaves to decline the business, and then send Whaley in amongst them, to play like prnks there, as in Kent.  
Sussex presents its Petition by the number limited in the Declaration to bring it; and they tell them, as the others six weeks before, they are upon the business of settling the Kingdom; yet they spent the last month in making Orders for the sale of the Duke of Yorks Horses, and for Lincoln's man passage to France, & for hungerford's coming from Ireland hither, and such like most weighty affairs: the past of the month they have spent in voting the spoil of Kent and Essex, in framing Plots at Derby house and Westminster, to be fathered upon the Cavaliers, and to be discovered by the Major, and other their own Agents, in preaching to the people of a common enemy against the Parliament, City and Kingdom, in slandering our Presbyterian quarrel to be that of the Cavaliers already ended, in proclaiming themselves The Parliament of England, and their Independent Faction, the City and Kingdom, and apparelling all men in the goodly  of Rebellion and Treason, that rise against their Rebel-selves, that would destroy Religion and Law, the King and his Posterity, and Crown themselves and Successors.  
On Friday last they Vote the disarming of the Kingdom, as their Army's marrch, and subjecting us to a tyrannical arbitrary power of themselves and their Soldiers; to lay us so open (by disarming us) to the invasion of Spain and France, our priest in and potent adversaries, was high treason in the Earl of Straford and the Lord Cottington, in the beginning of their Sessions; and yet now 'tis their Act, it must be otherwise.  
Thus have I recapitulated a little the mischievous projects of this lewd and wicked JUNCTO (those that went away to the Army in August last) and do desire all, who have any zeal to Religion, love to Monarchical government, sense of the sufferings and imprisonment of the King, affection to their oppressed Brethren in the several Counties, or desire to preserve the liberty and property of the Subject, that they would arm in each corner of the Kingdom, and by force command that which will not otherwise be had.  
FINIS.