A NOTABLE Touch of the TIMES: OR, A TRUE AND seasonable discovery of the gross abuses thereof, with a serious proposition of a certain remedy.  
Presented to the view of all Intelligents.  
And also six propositions made by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, declaring the reasons of the commitment of the Lord Mayor of London to the Tower.  
Lunae 11. july 1642.  
Published by Anonymos P●il●ethes.  
London Printed for I. A. and are to be sold in the Old-Baily. 1642.   

A NOTABLE TOUCH OE THE TIMES.  
IT's not unusual with most to cull out and propose a fit subject for their intended discourse, most usual with all to make their expressions (as near as they can) correspond the merits of the subject, either in seasonable commendations, if legitimate, or if spurious, in Satirical (but not too rigid) exprobrations and dislikes, ever delivering matters requisite, not overshooting through precipitous rashness the mark they level at, nor coming short thereof by pusillanimous timorousness, and holding it as dishonest Laudabile vituperare, as ti's foolish Vituperandum Laudare; The subject then of these few ensuing words is so vile, not worth naming, yet because it hath been daily obvious to our view or rather hearing, we shall say somewhat thereof, not much, for Iners multiloquus (as the old Cynic had it) a wordy man's not worthy man, and we have but this doubt by the way that our tongues having not been dipped in the Stygian Lake of obscene obloquy, or touched by the sulphurous blasts of blackmoued invectives, we shall (we s●are) using the worst of language, overprize this unhappy rude rabble of Pamphleteeres, we will therefore leaving their full description to some wiser discoverer in some of their Chameleon-like colours, partly delineate these Caterpillars, And so you may take notice of them in these three manner of Ways.  

1. In their production.  
2. Progresse.  
3. Dissolution.   
To intermeddle with their being received from their progenitors, were to no purpose, charitably supposing their Parents (otherwise sure they were very bad) better than their issue, For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a devout Isaac may have a profane Esau, a religious Solomon a rebellious Absolom, an eloquent Cuero a debauched, debauched, Marcus, and all knows a good Father may beget an ill Child; And to as much purpose were it to vent any thing of the miseries of the times, knowing that they to whom nature hath afforded but a smattering tongue, and mature years but little discretion, hath taken upon them (accurately as they fond soothe themselves) sharply to exclaim against those distractions, whereof they have been themselves prime but private sticklers and promoters; No more than to tax the times troubles, then th●y have been the Basis or groundwork, on which these Villains have founded the Babel of their brainecracked inventions and mischievous Pamphletts; For indeed distractions as they have process from that grand Commotor of Sedition and malicious distuber of all political peace, so they as too too thrifty an offspring have produced these his grandchildren & their actions ministering motives sufficient for them to play (we cannot say work) on, and whiles good men pray and labour for a settled composition to show the rancour of their malice, the offscouring of their sordid and scandalous Libels, which beguile the simple credulous vulgar aswell of their faith, as of their money, imposing on them a necessitated belief of a numberless number of palpable falsities: by this time than you may perceive that the disturbances of the state have engendered this brood, or rather this brood those broils, for they are such Relatives, that were it not for some deserved character in an Impudent front, or some swinelike earemarke a man might easily mistake them, And so, much for their production.  
And now all were well if this cursed crew had been stifled in the Embryon, or had proceeded to no further evil, that the world might have been rid and disburdened of such a mass of mischief, but their progress goes further a Malo in peius, adding violence of hands to their virulency of tongue, not only slanderously framing, and impudently dispersing their rude and indigested papers, but even confionting Majesty itself, and his glorious constituted Synod, holding Sovereign authority so fare fit and necessary as it suits their humorous conceits: were these men admitted holy orders (but those they'll assume without admission) they would prove the Zelots of the age, and prate as solid doctrine as the soundness of their manners can afford, wonderfully, sublime and knavishly witty, and sure they could not want an infatuated Synagogue, who can be as earnest at their devotion, as Friar Bacon's man at a black-pudding, even ready to choke themselves with conceited raptures, But that concerns their dissolution, we shall hear leave them liable to such penance as the Sages shall propose, and touch that a little.  
Qualis vita finis ita, and unless they speedily reform their doom follows, Gregorian wages will administer satisfaction for their pains, and an end to their lives, besides there's great hopes (which God effect) of a right composition of all grievances, and then they'll want supplement for their Noddles, and by that means may perchance see their errors and amend, and so defeat the hagman. But were they now before they go, capable of admonition, we should wish them suddenly and seriously repent, but because we fear they are become incorrigibly obdurate, we will leave them to Solomon's censure, Prover. 10. 8. and trouble ourselves no further. Infaelice's qui suas nolunt nosse miserias.  

Six propositions made by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, declaring the reasons of the Commitment of the Lord Mayor of London to the Tower, Lunae 11. july. 1642.  
THere were propositions sent from the Lords and Commons, to the Common Counsel of the City of London, which were these six.  

First, That 10000 Soldier's should be levied in and about the City.  
Secondly, That they be brought into a body and set under officers.  
Thirdly, that they be ready to march into any part of the Kingdom where the Parliament shall appoint.  
Fourthly, That it shall be lawful for any in the City to lend them such Arms as they can well spare  
Fiftly, That all be done with speed, within 3. or 4. days if it be possible.  
Sixtly, That a fit place be considered of for the Magazine that yet lies in ships.   
But when they came to vote these six heads, they could not get the Lord Mayor to come to the question, who said that he had direction from the King to the contrary.  
Whereupon, the Lords taking into their consideration, the great contempts of of the Lord Mayor against the Parliament, they unanimously voted that he should be committed to the Tower, and presently thereupon there was conference between both Houses, whereat the Lords signified the reason of the Lord Mayor's committment, and withal desired the Commons to join with them, for the quiet government of the City in the interim.   
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