Decrees and Orders OF THE Committee of Safety. OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF OCEANA.  
Ordered that these Decrees be forthwith Printed and Published.  
John Harrington, Clerk to the Committee.  
London, Printed in the Year, 1659.   

Twenty three DECREES FROM THE Committee of Safety in Oceana.  

I.  
THat the Politic Casuists of the Coffee Club in Bow Street appoint some of their number to instruct the Committee of Safety at Whitehall how they shall End an Invention to escape Tyburn, if ever the Law be restored.   

II.  
That harington's Aphorisms and other Political slips be recommended to the English Plantation in Jamaica, to try how they will agree with that Apocryphal Purchase.   

III.  
That a Levite and an Elder be sent to Survey the Government of the Moon, and that Warreston Johnston, and Parson Peter's be the Men, as a couple of Learned Rabbis in the Lunatics.   

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That the Kings of Spain and France shall be bound to the Peace at Hickes' Hall, for entertaining Neighbourly thoughts of restoring King Charles.   

V  
That Don Lewis d' Haro, for his saucy expressions to the English Ambassador be concluded a Malignant, and incapable of bearing charge in the Government Militant of England.   

VI  
That the present Lord Mayor Allen, be put out lest he be peremptory in preserving the Privileges of the City Charter.   

VII.  
That the Speakers Gown, and the Magna Charta be hung up in Westminster Hall, as Trophies of jack Straw's Conquest over England.   

VIII.  
That John of Leyden's cruelty in West-flanders shall be no Scarecrow, why the People of England, may not entrust their Government, and all that's precious to them in the hands of the merciful Anabaptists.   

IX.  
That the Judaical Law will be most proper for England, since they Crucified their Master as well as the Jews.   

X.  
That the money which was taken out of the Orphan's portions to Feast the late Parliament and Officers of the Army, be repaid out of the Contributions which were gathered for the relief of the distressed Protestants in Savoy.   

XI.  
That whoever shall report that bradshaw's Nurse hindered his Lordship from executing justice upon himself, shall be incapable of being a Member of the Senate that is now Hatching.   

XII.  
That Politicus be appointed to make 
* This word will puzzle the lay Elders.  Threnothriambeuticks, upon the Lord Lambert, and the other Macchabees, that accompanied him, in regard he was so happy in his Flogium, upon the pious and loyal Bradshaw.   

XIII.  
That General Pleetwoods staying at home, and sending out Lambert be thought no Cowardice in his Lordship, but only a little bashfulness, which he is subject to before a smart Enemy.   

XIV.  
That if General Monk will Repent for his Relapse, in turning a true Englishman; he shall only be decimated in his fortune, and a little abbreviated in his person.   

XV.  
That if the Soldiers of both Armies will be so discreet as to stand aside, and suffer their Officers to debate their own Capriccios, they shall be Listed into the Cabal of Philosophers.   

XVI.  
That the Celebrating the fift of November over all England for the Delivery of King james is no hypocrisy, though the Parliament their Religious Representative, had the impudence to cut his Son's throat at his own Palace Gate.   

XVII.  
That the private Soldiers of Lambert's Army; However their Officers usurp the Title of Saints, yet they (the Instruments by whom they act) being such Mercenary Heathens, that for hopes of gain they will deface the glory, and murder the Interest of their Nation; and for that very reason, if they do not put a stop to their mischief they shall be as surely blotted out of the Records of Fame, as they are sure to be blotted out of God's register Book in Heaven.   

XVIII.  
That all those Ministers who now pray for the King since the Voting down of Tithes, be esteemed a bunch of selfseeking Knaves.   

XIX.  
That the Earl of Pembroke take a dose of jacob Beahmens spiritual Philosophy, called, Panchymagogon to purge away his in●●●●●ed corruptions, and particularly, that of his barbarous and injust jealousy to his incomparable Lady.   

XX.  
That if Sir Arthur Haslerig acquire his summum bonum, which is to die with his Arse towards Wallingford House, his Heirs may have the Liberty to wipe his breech with the Commission he gave himself.   

XXI.  
That the Country Host who served Protector Richard, and his Brother, with a couple of Calf's heads, and a dish of Mushrooms, be preferred to be Cook to the high and mighty Friend Sultan Sardanapalus Lumley, as a Learned and well qualified Philosopher of the Kitchin.   

XXII.  
That Iretons Wives Farting-dispensation in time of prayer, be imputed to the Flatuosities of her Matrix.   

XXIII.  
That if any shall discover Alderman A kins without a Nosegay in his hand, or a Box of Incense in his pocket, he shall have the plunder of his chain, and the said Alderman shall be turned out of his Treasurership in Tom-Turds Hall.   
Reader farewel: Stink parts Company.  
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