A fanatic LEAGUE and COVENANT, Solemnly entered into by the Assertors of the GOOD OLD CAUSE. WE Ignoble men, Barbers, cobblers, Colliers, Draymen, Grocers, Hucksters, Malsters, pedlars, sowgelders, Tinkers, tailors, and mechanics of all sorts, being of the fanatic party within the kingdoms, (formerly so called) of England, Scotland, and Ireland, living under, and Submitting to only the Government of one Prince, Belzebub Emperor of the Infernal Region, and having laid before us the advancement of his sceptre, with the utter destruction of all Earthly Kings, and National Powers whatsoever, calling to mind the many coutrivances, and earnest endeavours of the most of the people of these Nations, to reduce that strife and confusion, which we have been so many years in working, into Order and unity again, we do now at last (after many in successful plots and fruitless attempts, for the preservation of our Good Old Cause, and the destruction of our enemies) resolve and determine, after the example of our dear brethren in Germany, under Muntzer, Hoffman and Knipperdoling, to enter into a mutual confederacy by a solemn Protestation and Engagement, whereto we all subscribe, and each with hands pointing downwards, and a heart devoted to his Infernal Majesty, doth swear: I. THat we shall from the very root of our corrupt hearts and consciences, endeavour by all means possible, in our several capacities, to obstruct and abolish all Decency, Order, and Form whatsoever, in the Government of Church or State, in the three Nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Territories thereunto belonging; and that we will with all vigour possibly contend for the utter extirpation of all Magistracy, Ministry, Universities, Schools of Learning, and all civil Decorum and Disciplines, whereby we may be in any thing restrained from our ambitious, malevolent, and most pestilent designs and Undertakings; or whereby the world may be so far undeceived, as to discover what Mischief and Confusion we aim at, by the Pretence of Spiritual Gifts, and New Lights: And furthermore do, Declare, That there is nothing more hateful and Abominable in our sights, than that our designs should become manifest to Malignants, and the wicked of the World. II. That (as we do in general hate all Reformation and Oder in all Affairs, either civil or Ecclesiastical, so) most especially do we from the very sink of our souls detest, and abominate that Mistress of Iniquity, Prelacy, as that whereby all our damnable projects are most in danger to be frustrated, the thing called the ancient Church in all ages, and Nations of the world, having been thereby, and thereby only (as to outward means) preserved inviolate from the sacrilege and glorious attempts, of the most renowned heretics, and servants of our good Lord, who always ruled in the hearts of the disobedient. III. We shall with a most perverse obstinacy, to the hazard of our lives and fortunes, assert our own interests and right of conquest, we had usurped over the three Nations, against all pretended privileges of Parliament, Liberties of the People, and any general good whatsoever, that shall seem to obstruct our designs of Liberty, to domineer over the three Nations, by virtue of that Text, The Saints shall possess the earth. And we do most inveterately devote ourselves to the destruction of King Charles, and the whole family of the Stuarts, by whose introduction we are in so much danger of that damnably abhorred composure of all differences, both in Church and State. And we will by all means possible, contrive the confusion of that potent enemy, General Monk and his Army. IV. We shall with all sincerity to the hazard of our Estates and lives, endeavour the mutual support of one another, whether under the Notion of Quakers, Anabaptiss, Fift Monarchists, Ranters, &c. And notwithstanding we differ in judgement from ourselves, as well as from all Orthodox Christians, yet we will make it appear to the world, and to the Author of that model of a Commonwealth, called the Rota, that we are a Wheel, whose Spokes, though divided in the circumference, yet concentre in this, viz. A total extirpation and subversion of all Government, both Ecclesiastical and Civil. V. We do declare, promise, and protest against a thing, called, A Solemn League and Covenant, hatched in Scotland, and brought over into England, taken and subscribed by many thousands, but hitherto kept by few, which Covenant is now again revived by the present Parliament, and Ordered to be published and placed in all Parish Churches and chapels, as a main hindrance of our Schismatical designs, and prevention of the building of that Babel of Confusion, which we so earnestly labour to accomplish: And that we will to the utmost of our abilities, endeavour with all violence to execute Justice, right or wrong, upon all those who shall oppose our interest, by endeavouring to bring about that so much talked-of Union in the three Nations, between Prince and People, or the People with one another. Luke Robinson John Lambert Col. Overton Hugh peter's St. Feake Edmond Waring Will. lily Will. Kiffin Jeremy Ives Praise God Barebones John Huson John Ireton Tho. Harrison Edw. Whaley Will. L. Mounson Hen. Martin John Barkstead Robert Tichbourn John Okey John Harrison Miles Corbet Charles Fleetwood Thomas Scott Hen. Vane Phil. L. Herbert Isaac Pennington Humphrey Saloway John Berry Arthur Haslerig Cornelius Holland Vavasor Powell John Fox Michael Ouldsworth Nathaniel Fiennes Bulstrod Whitlock William Brereton John Rogers John Desborow James Nayler Henry Hagar Mar. Needham Printed for G. H. the Rumps Pamphleteer-General.