A Discovery of Treason AGAINST THE KING, AND PARLIAMENT:  
Together with the whole KINGDOM:  
BEING The true Copy of a Letter found about a Priest lately apprehended at Clarkenwell in the County of Middlesex.  
WHEREIN Many of their treacherous and hellish Plots against the King's Majesty and this whole State are fully discovered, with their practices against the Parliament, and the Protestant Religion.  
LONDON, Octob. 29. Printed by R.A. and A.C. for G. Smith. 1642.   

The Copy of a Letter found about a Priest lately apprehended at Clarkenwell in the County of MIDDLESEX.  
FAther Rector,  
Let not the damp of astonishment seize on your most dear and zealous soul concerning the proceed of this Parliament, for you must know the Counsel is engaged to assist the King by way of Prerogative in case the Parliament will resemble the Pelican, which takes pleasure to dig out with her own beak her own bowels.  
You may remember how the late famous and mortal Statesman, the Conde Gundamore, said, King JAMES rocked him asleep with a fancy and sweet sound of peace to keep np the Spanish treaty. Likewise we were bound to some eminent Statesment of our own country, to gain time in procuring the advantageous cessation of arms in the Palatinate, and in the North of the Spanish Nation in vilifyihg the Hollanders, demonstrating to the King, that the States were most ungrateful to his Predecessors, that the States were more obnoxious than the Turks, and perpetually hindered his loyal Subjects, and had usurped the regality of the narrow seas, in fishing upon the English coasts. This great man had but one principal means to further his great designs, which was, that none but the Puritan faction, which plotted nothing but an anarchy, and his confusion, were averse to the most happy union. We steer on the same course, and make great use of an anarchical election, and have prejudicated the Great One, that none but the King's enemies and his are chosen of the Parliament: and that the Parliament avows, that they will begin with the least, and will not give over till they have extirpated him and his posterity. On the other side, the sincere parties that are to be admired for their indefatigable industry, incessantly forment revenge and jealousy in most of the Parliament-men, especially they work upon the pride and vainglory of such as have been imprisoned, possessing them, that they are the only martyrs & Worthies of the countries. London is a much distempered as Florence; for the Companies are at odds, and the Common Council have opposed their Magistrates against the old custom, which hath bred a great deal of heartburning in the city, so that twice a day we can divulge what we list in Paul's, and upon the Exchange, you shall see the same sword that hath wounded us, being drawn upon the same wound with an oil that we have, shall make us whole. And this shallbe done in Parliament, in charming the wisest and temperatest: with the violent sort we take a strange course, by working upon their passions, and inebriating their fancies with probabilities and precedents, that favourites may wrestle with Parliaments for a time, but at last a Parliament will overthrow their backs: we encourage them with all the wits we have, to fall upon some great persons here Ais Majesty, and persuade them that now is the time or never, the King being in such necessity, insomuch that we assure ourselves, God hath forsaken and infatuated them, that they shall not only strike against the same rock but sink and rake in the bottom of the sea of destruction.  
We have now many strings to our bow, and have strongly fortified our faction, and we have added two bulwarks more. For when K. JAMES was very violent against Arminianism, and interrupted with his pestilent wit and deep learning our strong designs in Holland, and was a great friend ●o that old rebellious heretic the Prince of Orange; now we have planted the sovereign drug of Arminianism, which we hope will purge the Protestants from their heresy, and will flourish and bear fruit in due season.  
The foundation to build up the bulwark must be mutation; our mutation will cause reluctation, which will serve for as many violent diseases as the Stone, the Gout, , speedy destruction, or perpetual insufferable anguish of the body, which is worse than death itself.  
There are other matters in hand of consequence which we take to consideration & tender care, which is the state of the Puritans, for they are impudent subtle people.  
I cannot but laugh to see how some of our coat have counterfeited themselves, you would scarce know them if you saw them. It is admirable, how is speech, apparel and gesture they act the Puritans. They abused our sacred Patron Ignatius in jest, but we will make them smart for it in earnest.  
I hope you will excuse my merry digression: for I confess to you, I am at this time transported with joy to fee how happily all instruments and means, aswell great as small, do cooperate to our purposes.  
But to return again to our main fabric: In the first place we take into consideration the King honour & present necessity, and we show how the King may free himself from his wardship as Lewis the 11. did, and for his great splendour and lustre, he may raise vast sums, and not be beholden to his subjects, which is by way of imposition and Excise: we instance the Low-countrieses, and show what a mass of money they raise to pay their armies both by sea and land merely out of Excise.  
Then our Church Catholics proceed to show the means how to settle this Excise which must be by an Army of horse and foot; for we have made it sure: they shall be Foreigners, and Germans, who will eat up the King's revenues, and spoil the countries wheresoever they come, though they be well paid; what havoc will they make then when they have no pay. If the country be too hard for the soldiers, they must consequently outrage, which is equally advantageous to us.   
FINIS.