EXCLAMATIO PAUPERUM: THE EXCLAMATION, OR THE OUTCRY OF THE POOR: Against Those State Gudgeons at Westminster, who have swallowed up their livelihoods by their unlawful Taxes, to uphold their Rebellion, to the ruin of the Kingdom in general, and the absolute beggering of many thousands of Tradesmen (who before the ravenous State had the power to stretch them upon the tenters of their libidinous wills) lived happily and plentifully with their families, but now for want of Trade, they are in a perishing condition, and altogether void of any relief from those who grind the face of the Poor, and hate them, because they are the Image of God. But I would wish all good men to observe the words of Solomon.  Prov. 14.31. 
He that oppresseth the Poor, reproveth him that made him: but he honoureth him, that hath mercy of the Poor.  
O cursed Monsters, and incarnate Devils,  
Thus on the Kingdom still to vent your evils;  
What! do you think there is no God at all,  
That surely will with vengeance on you fall?  
Yes, yes our God is just, and he will try  
You in the fire of Hell's eternity:  
If you repent not, and for mercy crave,  
Damnation you are certain for to have.  
July 13th Printed in the Year, 1648.   

Exclamatio Pauperum. THE EXCLAMATION, OR, OUTCRY of the POOR, etc.  
WHat! will you still run on to our destruction? without any remorse at all of our miseries; not so much as once to take notice of our future calamities, which are like to be greater than our present sufferings, although they be altogether insupportable, according to our weak abilities, for which we may think your ungracious inhuman proceed; who that you may be glutted with the riches of the Kingdom, and inebriate yourselves with the blood of Loyal Subjects, you have hitherto, and still do by all means possible, both public and private, both by entreaty and threats, endeavours to persuade and seduce divers to hazard their lives, that so they might support your cursed and worse than heathenish cause: But now your hellish intentions having been found to be so horrid and cruel, even as to extend not only to the murdering of many poor subjects of this Kingdom (which is a crime both by the law of God and man deserving death) but you have also endeavoured yourselves: First to divest the King of his Royal Power, and by false and scandalous papers and pamphlets to alien the hearts of his Subjects from him; but you too would turn Regicides and destroy him (which if not happily prevented (by that good and loyal Gentleman Mr. Osborne) had doubtless in a short time effected by your agent, that wretched Caitiff, and ever infamous desperate Rebel Captain Rolph, under the command of that cursed Cerberus, Hammond) an act so horrid in the sight of God and man, that if it had been executed, must needs a hastened God's indignation upon this milcreant Parliament, however the intention of the murder of so sacred a Person as is our King (whom we ought not to harbour an evil thought of) is sufficient to cause the earth to swallow them, as it did Chora and his complices, for their conspiracy and treachery against Moses, that so succeeding ages might be forewarned, how they sought the overthrow of him that is appointed to be their King and Ruler.  
Thus while you spare not any thing to perpetrate our miseries, and make our dolours greater: We, our Wives and Children (to whose indigent and sorrowful cries you stop your ears, like men who wish rather to continue our woes, than remedy them) are like to suffer by that miserable plague of Famine, our Wives so disabled with want, that they are not able to nurse their young children, who are in a perishing condition, not having relief according to their age; we ourselves miserably afflicted and almost starved, victuals is so dear and chargeable, and our trading hath so failed us with your oppressions, that we are many thousands of us enforced with hunger to beg for our live, which is so poor a subsistence, to our needy and hungry souls (Charity is so slender) that without some speedy remedy, whereby we may be again restored to our former callings, we shall certainly die in the streets by want of sustenance, while you at Westminster like so many nero's (having your delight with your wantoness and all varieties) sit upon the stage and laugh to see our miseries every way increasing, with Cities, Towns and Villages burning, the Innabitants some by the Sword, and others by the Famine or Pestilence consuming, and the earth all stained with innocent blood, for which you must surely give an account in the last day, when your shifts, evations, and subtleties will not relieve you, nor money purchase your freedoms before the dreadful judgement Seat of God.  
Nay further, your malice is so great, and to show how willing you are to destroy us, you would gladly have raised four shillings upon each Cauldron of Coals for to have maintained that Helbound Haslerigge, and his Beagles, a company of Schismatical Sectaries, thinking thereby to uphold your drooping, dying, f●ding, falling, fainting Cause; but that our good Rulers of the City, in their clemency towards us, would not agree to your wicked desires: Oh what hellish Machiavilian inventions are these! still to plunge us further into extremity, not being satisfied to extort by Taxes, and other Oppressions (both numerous, and well nigh insupportable) from such who in some ●●all measure were contributory to our necessity, but likewise by the raising and inhancing of our necessary fire, that w●e● the nipping cold of Winter come, we may die with the want of fuel, and by that means you be eased of 〈◊〉 and tears, but be certain they will ascend to heaven ●nd plead against you.  
These, and thousands more of mischiefs are daily hatched by that wicked crue●, and bloody Conventicle of Traitors against us, who like poor worms are bruised and trodden to death by your ponderous and heavy footsteps, daily walking upon, and as hungry Dogs devouring us, our Wives and Children, that you may be accounted the greater Tyrants by your insulting and domineering over us the poorer sort of People, after you have almost ruined many gallant Gentlemen with their Families, who we are confident would with the large extent of their Charities have relieved some of our indigencies, but by your diabolical useings, and worse than Turkish torturings, and most unlawful Extorting both their Goods, and Revenues for this seven years now last passed, to make up the ends of a few needy Scoundrels (who before these unlucky broils (which were begun by you) knew not scarcely how to provide themselves bread to sustain their hunger, but now by fishing in the troubled waters of this distracted Kingdom have raised to themselves great fortunes. And you who daily ride up and down in Coaches, sit and vote our miseries; yes, and feast, drink, and drab at pleasure; never remembering the Kingdom's sufferings; nay you are grown to such a height of lewdness that there is not any thing which may be called sin, but you endeavour to commit it without once reflecting upon the events of your ungodly proceed; although it hath pleased GOD to give you so many, and convenient opportunities to procure a happy Peace, and stop all our distractions, and desolations which are so apparently falling upon us by all the Handmaids of War, Pestilence, Fire, and Famine.  
While you (the Grand Assembly of incarnate Devils at Westminster, who have all along by your retoricall Orations, Lies, and Forgeries blind folded and led us into a Captivity, for the number of years fare worse than that of Egypt, pretending still it was for our Religion, Laws, and Libertyes, and so ensnared us by your damned subtleties, where now a short time (to our hearts breaking hath laid open your reprobate intentions and made manifest to us your abhorred deceits and delusions, how instead of being the conservators of our Freedoms, you are the destroyers of our future good Hopes, to enjoy either Religion, or any good by your means: For you like Hedgehogs not contenting yourselves with the Milk of the Cow's dugs will suck till blood come: I mean you, who not satisfied with the detaining of men's livelie-hoodes from them, do seek to spill their innocent lives (because they beg for their own) that so you may the better assure yourselves to enjoy their Vineyards in safety: But God is the revenger of all wrongs, and will make his Arrows sharp in the hearts of the KING'S Enemies, to their shame, and confusion.  
Nay, it is not the Temporal Devils alone that work our Woes, but it is likewise those Spiritual Fiends, and Synagogue of Satan, who call themselves the Reformers of the Church, but are indeed the Deformers, which having changed their old Principles of Religion, Preach nothing but Rebellion and Treason, bespattering the Pulpits with Sedition, Blasphemy, and Heresy, and exciting all people to the murdering Kings, and kill Subjects, that they may be upheld in their triple Beneficies, besides their four shillings per diem, not caring who are the parties in sufferings and losses, if they may be principles in gaining.  
Which devilish acts of theirs will surely be  
Revenged by the heavenly Deity.   
FINIS.