ENGLAND'S MISERY, IF NOT PREVENTED by the speedy remedy of a happy union between His MAJESTY and this PARLIAMENT.  
By His Majesty's concurrence with them, to discard all false flattering Achitophel-Cavaliers, proud ambitious Prelates, and bloodsuck thirsting Church Papists, as well as professed about His Majesty's sacred Person and Counsels.  
Written by a Wellwisher to His King and Country.  
Together with the Copy of a Letter sent from a friend in Lancashire, to a Gentleman in Grays-Inne-Lane.  
As also an Order from both Houses of Parliament to the Sheriffs of York and Lincolnshire for suppressing of Forces that disturb the Peace of the Kingdom.  
Jo. Brown, Cler. Parl.  
LONDON: Printed by T. P. and M. S. in Goldsmith's Alley. August 18. 1642.   

ENGLAND'S MISERY.  
ENgland never lay panting as at this present by reason of His Majesty's long absence from his great Counsel of this Kingdom, which is truly conceived to be the cause of all the disturbance of this Commonwealth. And these Machivillians (or rather matchlesse-villains) that profess themselves to be friends, when indeed they are fiends, pretending love, intending mischief to his Majesty and this Kingdom; having words as soft as butter or oil, when their greatest Amity, is but dissembled Enmity, with two faces under one hood, like Janus; and two hearts in a breast like Magus, Adulatores amici in obsequies, hosts in animis, compti in verbis, turpes in factis, laeti ad prospera, f●agil●s ad adversa inflati ad obsequia, anxii ad opprobria, immoderati ad Gaudia, families ad humana, diffi●il●s ad honesta: Their Auès are vaes to this troubled Nation, and though they speak favourably we ought not to believe them.  
Who murdered Cesar that worthy Emperor in the Senate house at Rome? Brutus and Cassius those flatterers whom he loved most. Who poisoned that mighty Conqueror Alexander in the midst of his triumphs at Babylon? Those that flattered him most, his own cupbearer and kinsman Antipater: Who betrayed Christ, God and Man, unto the Scribes and Pharisees? his own purse-bearer, that flattering Judas embracing and kissing him as Flatterers use to do. They find it an easy way to deceive by friendship, when indeed they make themselves odious to the whole world, being in the end (by all their plots and contrivances) found aiming at our lives, shooting at our goods, and wounding our good names.  
I have read that King Xerxes marching towards the Greeks with a huge Army of Soldiers, called some of this kind of Parasites to him and demanded what was to be most feared in his journey.  
One saith, I do fear that when the Greeks do hear of your power, they will fly and not abide your band.  
Another said, he doubted all Greece was not able to lodge them, or receive them into their Cities.  
A third, That he feared most that the Ocean was not enough for them to pass over.  
A fourth feared the Air had not room enough for the Arrows which they should shoot off.  
The King by this being extremely puffed up with Pride, demanded at last of a certain Philosopher, named Damascerus, what he doubted most in that war. The thing that I most fear (saith he is this, that these Flatterers will deceive you. So if his Majesty will be pleased to advise with she great Counsel of this Kingdom, we shall not need to fear a Civil war in England, nor the Power of any foreign Foe; But otherwise if the King will still hearken to these flattering Achitophel's, proud Prelates and Papists, I fear they will do this Kingdom more harm by their whisper of (Prerogative) and (honour) in Prince's ears, than any enemy foreign or domestic can do by their weapons.  
The City Troy which Agamemnon in ten whole years could not subdue, yet Sinon with his flattery alured the mind of King Priamus, deceived the Nobles, and enticed the Citizens by his adulation, to their utter ruin and confusion. Who could move Caesar so much to any thing as Curio the Parasite? Not Pompeius his Son in Law, nor his Daughter Julia, nor all the Senators of Rome might make Caesar friend or foe so much as Curio. And who have for these 16 years and still do seek the utter ruin and subversion of this Nation? But Finches, Windebanks, Lands, etc. who speaking against their Consciences, to maintain Popery and superstition, persuade his Majesty to remove from his Great Council into remote places of this Kingdom for the safety of his Person, when as his Majesty would be more safe near his Parliament with one man, than at Beverley with all his Cavaliers; and yet such as these are sooner believed than they. Alexander's followers bore their heads aside as he did, and such as flattered Dionysius in his own presence, did run and justle one another, and either stumble at, or overthrow what ever stood afore their feet, to infer that they were as  and purblind as he: And therefore Princes had need of other Counsellors (besides those that are daily with them that would admonish them frankly, gravely, and sincerely, and that would counsel them faithfully; for as much as there is scarce any one in their Courts that do not run after the splendour of their prosperity, and regard his own particular profit.  
And what Council can be more fit for Princes to hearken too, than the great Council of the Kingdom? What Council so free from flattery, bribery, aiming at their own ends as they? Who durst have told his Majesty of the illegality of Ship-money, of the several grievances of Courts, of Star-chamber, High Commission, Court of Honour? Who durst have questioned the Delinquents that were corrupt judges in these several Courts? Who durst have spoke for the just Liberty of the Subject, but he should have been called in question for speaking against his Majesty's Prerogative in Star-Chamber any time these sixteen years? And who stand or ever stood more for his Majesty's just Prerogative, honour, and safety, than they have done? Certainly, no age can parallel their care, pains, and dangers, they have and do undergo for the safety of King and Kingdom.  
It than behoves the Gentry and Commons of this Kingdom to maintain this Parliament against all opposers, and courageously, if they (for the good of King and Kingdom command) hazard their dearest lives, to arrest these flattering Counsellors, and bring them from the presence of the King, that his Throne may be established in Righteousness.   

SIR.  
WE are very much perplexed in our Country with divers fears and jealousies; fain would many of the Gentry and most of the Commons obey the Parliaments Ordinance of the Militia, but the Lord Strange doth so thunder amongst us with his Commissions of Array, and out Papists grow so cunning, that most of them come to Church and take the Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy; That we are all at a stand, we are very fearful of Irish Commanders to be landed at Farmby this next week to join with these Church Papists I am sure for no good; But to promote the faction about his Majesty: whereof, if his Majesty were truly informed, I believe that he would admit no such persons about him, There was a strange Monster taken near Toxteth-Parke by Miles Mather and his man, about the bigness of a child of four years old, and like a child in shape from the head to the navel of the belly, but very hairy, his thighs, legs and fear were like brass as far as he could conceive: which the said Mather taking into his arms, thinking it had been alive, and left upon the Seashore by some poor Traveller out of Ireland, covered it with his cloak, thinking to have carried it to Liverpoole, and as soon as it received the least heat it wept and vanished away to his great amazement and wonder. Since which time the said Mather hath been frantic, and is now in cure at Orms kirk under Doctor Shaw. This is all the news and wonders we have for the present with us, God turn all to the best. Sir I am  
Leverpool, 14. August 1642. Your loving friend to serve you, George Tyrer.   

ORdered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament that the Sheriffs of the County of York and Lincoln, and likewise the Lords Lieutenants of the said Counties, and in their absence, their Deputies allowed by Parliament, and the Justices of Peace, and all other his Majesty's Officers shall suppress all forces that shall be raised, or gathered together in those Counties, either to force the Town of Hall, to stop the passages to, and from the same; or in any other way to disturb the peace of the Kingdom.  
Jo. Brown Cler. Parl.  
FINIS.