BLOODY PLOTS Against the PARLIAMENT, the CITY, and the KINGDOM, AND Against the godly Protestants, and such as seek the peace of the Kingdom.  
And a Letter found in Martin's Church, on Sunday, May 31. 1646. about a general rising threatened.  
This is Licenced according to Order.  
LONDON: Printed for E. P. june 4. 1646.   

Bloody Plots against the Parliament, the City, and the Kingdom.  
THe crimson hearted Jesuit (as if tyranny was the only way to be happy) bids Kill, Murder, Root out, and destroy the Protestants, and therefore barbarously cries out Blood, Fire; Let the Heretics be cut off, and Rome shall (like a grateful Matron) Canonize you: If you spare neither man, woman, nor child, you shall be remembered by the higher dignities, this is the damnable doctrine of the Papists, that so much envy against the Parliament, City, and Kingdom.  
Many bitter Cups have been prepared for London, yet the dregs given to those that mixed the poison; and thus; Let all thine enemies perish O Lord.  
What plotting had wear the beginning of the Parliament, to get the Lord Strafford (Deputy of Ireland, out of the Tower: And first, men in arms apppointed to break in, and a second, and their commotions to follow it till he was rescued; and yet, by a Letter, it being discovered, than tools were brought unto him, by which he cut the hand from bars, and a Vessel was prepared to have met him on Tower-Hill to have escaped, but all was prevented; Then Articles were prepared against some Members to take away their lives, because they Acted so faithfully and courageously, for the Kingdom that entrusted them, and the like was against some godly Ministers, and others; The Papists, bloody Bishops, all this while went Jesuitically on in their designs, to make a strength to rest in this Kingdom, as they had barbarously murdered so m●ny in Ireland, and the Lord Herbert of Rag●●●●, now Earl of Glamorgan, made his house in Wales a strong Garrison, where ●●te the council of Jesuits, and to this day do still continue and order the business there for the Papists, as the Lords do at Oxford for the King: they have (to this day) their Agents in all parts of the Kingdom, & Scouts and Spies, and do exceedingly disturb our peace.  
A young man, that was a Tailor in White-crosse-s●●eet, heard some, that there was a Plot to murder divers of the Parliament men, & those who was their chief men in the City, and the rest of the work would be the more easily done; but they espying him, drew their Swords, he ran, they after him, & one of them run his Rapier through his cloak, short coat and breeches, hardly escaping with his life, and before he could Alarm any to pursue them, they were vanished.  
A Letter was intercepted, which declared the manner how the Papists and Malignants had ordered the business in their intentions, and given directions to massacre the City, viz. That as several Churches, where the most populous meetings are, that on a Lord's day apppointed, when they were all at Church, and unprepared then to rise, and with several parties fall on the Congregations at the said several places, and put them all to the sword, but a strong guard being that day in all parts of the City, they durst not attempt their intended design.  
Then they fell to particular ways of Acting, as amongst the rest, a Cavalier, Jesuited Rogue, took the plaster of a Plague sore, with the matter on it, and enclosed it in a Letter, directed to John Pym Esquire, telling him, that he was sick of the Plague, and had sent him that, and that if it went not to his heart, his dagger should, this was brought to him to the house of Commons by a Porter, but (through God's mercy) did no hurt at all.  
And to act their designs the better, first Lunsford, than Byron, were made Lieutenants of the Tower, who were notable Agents for the Popish party, and have since been there great Champions, the one at Ragland with the Jesuits, the other at Chester with the Irish Rebels; but these, by the consent of the King and Parliament were soon turned out, which was a great mercy, but they are still in arms against the Parliament, and the very nest of Romish frogs swarm, in Wales, with them.  
They never rested till they had raised a war against the Parliament, and by men, arms, and moneys, got into the King's Camp, and have murdered many godly Protestants, and still labour, by all their wiles and subtleties to ruin the people of God, but the Lord hath still effectuated all their counsels, and turned their bloody devises upon their own pates.  
They have sought by treachery to have had many Towns and Garrisons betrayed to them, as Bristol, Abington, and others, where Digby and the rest of them have been shamefully foiled; yet some they have gotten by treachery, as Waymouth and others, which they have not been able to keep, but have shortly after been beaten out again, with very great loss.  
They have sought by all their wiles and stratagems, to have London betrayed to them, corrupted the Lord Major, who for his malignancy was ordered to be committed to the Tower, and the malignant Recorder Sir Tho. Gardiner, fled to the King.  
Then they plotted with Tompkins, Chall●n●r, and the rest of that conspiracy, to destroy the City, but the chief plotters were apprehended and hanged.  
And foreign forces were sent for, one army of P●pists from the Duke of Lorraine, another of Irish Rebels, but those Irish Rebels were but a moth and a canker to the rest many thousand of those murdering Villains have been slain in England, for there is justly a great heart burning against them, especially for their bloody massacres at Boulton, Middlewith, and elsewhere, and we hanged 13 of those Popish Irish Rebels at Shrewsbury, Prince Rupert then hanged 13 godly Protestants for them.  
The plot also carried on with Mr. Ryley (whose simplicity instead of advancing him, was his overthrow) the Scout-Master-Generall of London, that design of their working with him, they were defeated in.  
But they had other ways besides all these, and those very subtle, the Malignants about London, got many hands to a petition pretending for peace, and by that way endeavoured by petitioning the parliament, to have made an uproar, but they were quelled.  
Many treaties have been propounded, which were only plots for the carrying on of their designs against us; amongst the rest, when the Commissioners were within the Line, and after sat at Uxbridge, and gathered, and carried away much moneys from London, and gained upon the neutral affections.  
Then one Herne a malignant Lawyer came up, and having power from the King, caused a common hall to be called, and the City met at Guild, hall, where some malignants were discovered in Gowns that were no Common-council men; amongst the rest a Proctor of Paul's.  
Others brought Writs and Proclamations from the King, who lay here as leaguer-Spyes, and once a month, or so, went to Oxford. One Kniston one of them, who was discovered, and hanged before the Exchange.  
But their petitioning by the Malignant party here of men failing, than the women they petitioned, presuming they might take upon them the more liberty of their tongues, and they would have made a mutiny that way; which not taking, because suppressed by the care of the Parliament, than they sent their servants and thought to have made an insurrection by the London apprentices, but the greatest part were better qualified, and those who laboured it, were soon overpowered, and still God preserved the City and the Parliament.  
They got Agents into the Lord Genrals' Quarters, who blew up his Train, and then his Army should have been fallen upon, and at other times did us much mischief, yet God preserved him, that they never conquered him. They corrupted Hotham and his son, that they opposed the Lord Fairfax when they should have supplied him, which was the breaking of the northern Forces, yet God preserved him, and those two treacherous wretches both were beheaded at Tower-hill.  
They had Agents to raise Forces in the Association for them, but were several times subdued in Kent, divers plotters taken: And the like at Lin Regis, where Master Le Strange, being apprehended, was tried in London by a Council of war, and condemned to die; and still God preserved the Association. They have several times complotted with their Agents in London, to have massacred the City, to have murdered the Parliament, and cut the throats of the most godly and sincere Protestant's, and have set out to themselves who shall act in their several parts, and to bring to effect all this upon us and then who shall have their shares in plundering such and such streets, and such and such houses, being resolved to ravish the Citizen's wives and daughters, and take all their estates, and possess themselves of their houses, and murder their husbands and the godly Ministers, and place Jesuited, Episcopal, Papal, deboist fellows in their stead, even such as should applaud all these bloody and wicked actions, and encourage them therein.  
And we may remember how the last year they had their Agents here in London to fire divers parts of the City. Some houses were fired near the Magazine at Guildhall, others in Newgate-Market, and others in the Old-Baily, where had they not been quenched, they had burnt to Newgate and the Fleet, in both which places are many of the Cavaliers and a fire was begun (not long since) in the Fleet prison, and divers other places in London, as near Tower-hill, and in Southwark, and other places were the last year set on fire, to the great loss of many honest godly people.  
When Sir Thomas Fairfax had newly been entered General with an handful of his Army, than they plotted to have Abingdon, Plymouth, and divers others of our Garrisons betrayed to them, but failed, and at Nayseby they were confident to have destroyed him, yet God gave us then a most glorious victory by him.  
They laboured to decide between the Scots and us, and the Presbyterians and Independants, and so to get in with one party to destroy the other; and in the acting hereof they have had very cunning Jesuits, but God hath hitherto blasted all their plots, and it is to be wished of all that love peace, that the more they labour to foment, the more we should strive to unite.  
But there is again another plot in hand, and divers of them that are gone beyond Sea, say, that they have a party in London for them, that are so considerable, that they hope to conquer us still, and at last to have their ends: Sir Jacob Ashley when he was taken, told our men, that they should yet conquer us by our own divisions: But all this while, the plot against the City goes on, and that no less than fire and sword to burn the City in divers places, to break open the prison doors, and rise at the same time, set the City in an uproar, and presently make a massacre upon the City and the Parliament; and therefore the Parliament have thought fit to publish an Order for the turning of the Malignants out of the Line; and one Neale was committed close prisoner to the Provost Martial of the Court Marshal.  
On the Lord's day, May 31. 1646. a Letter was found in the Parish-Church of martin's in the fields near Charingcross, which was showed to the honourable the Earl of Salisbury, and others, where was written thus:  
If the King come not immediately, we will all rise presently, etc.   
FINIS.