"Perfum'd with Epithites of good and just;
"He sav'd; Incensed Heaven may have forgot,
"To afford one act of mercy to a Scot.
Finis."
On March 9th, 1646/7, the House of Commons referred this paper to the examination and consideration of Sir Robert Pye and others, to enquire out the authors, printers, and publishers thereof.[124] A copy is preserved in the British Museum Library.
156.
A warning for all the Counties of England to awake spedily out of their dreames and apply themselves to all just meanes for the recoverie and preservation of their Liberties; because of a present designe, to expell the most Faithfull out of their House of Commons, and to frustrate all the Countries good Elections, that so the Malignant party may bring the free Commons of England now (after all their bloody sufferings) into cruel Thraldome, and make themselves Lords over them.
On March 25th, 1647, the House of Commons ordered that enquiry should be made who were the "authors, contrivers, designers, printers, publishers, and venders" of this "scandalous seditious pamphlet," and the Stationers' Company were forthwith to seize the same, and all other scandalous pamphlets of the like nature, and suppress them; and the Sergeant at Arms was to do the same.[125]
A copy exists in the British Museum Library. It is in quarto, and contains 20 pages. It commences thus:—
"JER. 5. 1. 2.