hue; if suffered to remain on the trees longer they swell, and are unfit for drying as a spice, but are proper for propagation, and are called mothercloves. Some trees yield 30lb. but the average is about 6lb. a tree. In April or May there is an after-crop, but of far inferior quality, and small in quantity. causing it to be destroyed in every other place within their reach, especially on little Ceram, or Hoewamvehil, a peninsula joined to Ceram, which was not only very fertile in clove-trees, but produced likewise large quantities of nutmegs; of which what was called "the great nutmegtree forest," was destroyed in 1667, Although this spice is not an in- and, in another place, 3300 nutmegdigenous production of Amboyna, trees. In 1769, the whole number but a native of the Molucca islands of clove-trees in the allowed planproper, whence it was brought some tations were ordered to be reduced to centuries ago, it prospers exceedingly 500,000; and, in 1773, 50,000 more well, and especially upon the islands were ordered to be extirpated; and of Honimoa, Oma, and Noussa-laut, these extirpations were followed by a which, together with Amboyna, are natural failure in the trees to the exthe only spots where the Dutch al- tent that, in 1794-5, the return to lowed it to be cultivated, constantly government was as follows: Datics. Fruit-bear- Half-grown Young Total No. ing Trees. Trees. Trees. of Trees. And the annual produce is estimated at about 600,000 lb. Besides, however, the trees in the than 1000 lb. which is however of the regular plantations, there are trees finest quality and colour. The sugarcalled tatanamangs, planted near the cane grows in great perfection, and dwellings of the Amboynese. Every almost all the inhabitants cultivate it native Amboynese plants such a tree in their gardens, but make no other when a child is born; and, although use of it than chewing it for the sake they do not oppose the extirpation of of the juice; and no field has been the clove-trees in the plantations, hitherto opened to encourage the when the company direct it, yet, to manufacture of sugar. Coffee is found touch their tatanamangs, would be in great plenty throughout the island, the cause of a general revolt: this and, were the culture of it sufficiently was manifested on the occasion of one attended to, it would be equal in quaof the last extirpations, when some lity to Mocha. Wheat might be cultatanamangs were cut down, either tivated to great advantage on the by mistake or otherwise; the whole heights contiguous to the town of country was immediately up in arms, Amboyna, as both the soil and cliand the insurrection was not quelled mate are well adapted for it. without difficulty. The number of maize there is great abundance; and these trees has been estimated at the mountain rice is known here, but 22,000. Nutmeg-trees grow likewise in Amboyna; but the Dutch used to destroy them, whenever they discovered them, being desirous of confining the cultivation of the nutmeg to the islands of Banda. Of they have been little attended to.The bread fruit grows spontaneously all over the island, but it is only made use of by the lowest of the people. The principal article of farinaceous food of the inhabitants is sago. The sago-tree propagates itself by A small quantity of indigo is pro- offsetts, or shoots, which for a long duced, but not amounting to more time appear like bushes, but after a Commons dissembled at Westminster, by TOM TYRANNO-MASTIX, alias MERCURIUS MELANCHOLICUS, (Well wisher to all such Parlia ments) to their ecerlasting Glory, Amen Printed for the publick View of all his Majesty's faithful Subjects; and are to be sold at the old Sign of You may go Look. Anno Dom. 1648.. TO THE READER. time shoot forth a stem which rises straight as an arrow, to the height of between 40 and 60 feet, without any lateral branches, and forms a handsome crown at the top, affording an agreeable shade. A grove of these trees, with their erect stems (which, when arrived at maturity, consist of nothing but a spongy and mealy substance, surrounded by a hard bark of about half an inch thick) and their beautiful leafy crowns, have a charming appearance, and form a pleasant and cool retreat. This white, spongy, with the title of true English; yet To all or none that style themselves and mealy substance is the sago.When the pitts of a sago-tree has at- it be so, the kingdom shall have a will you say, that's a bull; well, let tained its full maturity, which is skin, head, and horns, and the Parliaknown by the trunk assuming a yel- ment the body. Here you may see, lowish white cast just under the fo- and not see; hear, and not hear; liage, the stem is cut through as close to the ground as possible, in order to thor here presents, is for your own, judge, and not judge; what the aulose the less of the farinaceous con- not others good; you are under a very tents. When felled, it is cut into two or more pieces, and the hard bark world has settled such a dimness on strong delusion n; the God of this is split by wedges, when the sago appears uncovered, and is loosened all your eyes, that the catarrhs are almost round from the bark, and reduced of an affectionate zeal to the publick irrecoverable; only the author, out thereby to the appearance of saw-dust. good, hath compounded this collyThe raw sago is then put into a trough rium or eye-salve, whereby, upon the with water, where it is separated from the filaments and subsides, after which the water is poured off, and the wet meal is laid upon mats to dry, kneaded together, and then baked in earthenware moulds of about three inches long, two broad, and half an inch thick, when it becomes dry and hard, and will keep a long while. [To be continued.] REPUBLICATION OF SCARCE TRACTS. No III. first receipt, you may easily discern Your well-wishing Friend, To the Work. Go little creature, in thy poor attire, meers; Although thou hast no merit to admire, streets. see, be. The PARLIAMENT ARRAIGNED, CONVICTED; wants nothing but ExeCUTION. Wherein you may evi- If th`ask, what art? bid them look in and dently discern all the blessed Fruits Then ten to one but thou shalt welcome of their Seven Years' Session, tending to the Dishonour of God, the Ruin of the Church of Christ in this Kingdom, the Unkinging of his Majesty, the Destruction of our Laws, the Erection of Tyranny, and the perpetual Bondage of a free-born People. Written in the Year of Wonders, being the Eighth Year of the Lords and I To all true Subjects. As a co-partner in your sad complaints, To hear the doleful sigling of your souls, truly sorrow, yea, my spirit faints, To see you perish thro' the proud co- Of faction; yet let this your hopes maintain; late, did see, Tho' kings are gods, yet they live in palaces of flesh. But treason never went without a just reward; and this Parliament shall be enrolled in the monuments of fame for the most traiterous that ever was; who, instead of curing the national maladies, added fresh fuel to their increasing flames; dethrones their liege dreadful and bloody war, lays heavier lord and sovereign, raises a most burdens than Pharaoh's task-masters on the people, and, finally, brought a general ruin and destruction on the kingdom. Whereupon, the abused people, finding (in these) the stream of their affections in another course, and alto seas, stored with all the chiefest trea- lege, (besides having suffer'd such sures of nature; for martial achieve- insupportable tyrannies, contrary to ments honourable through the world, their intended principles) repairs to famous in the production and govern- common justice for redress, who freely ment of many glorious kings and granted out this hue and cry. princes, where peace did spread her silver wings; and Christian unity, from the root of unfeigned love, did branch itself unto the farthest boundaries of the land, that the neighbouring nations might participate and taste the fruit thereof. To all Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, Constables, &c. (except those are hereafter excepted, viz. Mr. Mayor of London, Mr. Mayor of Westchester, Mr. Mayor of Newcastle, Mr. Mayor of Windsor, not forgetling Mr. Mayor But as nothing visible can challenge of East-Looe in Cornwall, and all permanency, so fortune, ambitious to other the Independent Tribe, the Fashow herself omnipotent, took spleen mily of publick Faith, and Fraternity against this isle, and thereupon, in a of free Liberty) and to every of them. raging mood, shut in her day of beau- These are, in his Majesty's name, ty, love, and peace, with dismal strictly to charge and conimand you, clouds of contention, blasts all her and every of you, that immediately, roses and lillies of happiness, and upon sight hereof, you make hue and long-enjoyed amity, with the noisom cry within your several precincts and and pestiferous showers of a sanguino- counties, after a loathed, traiterous, lent and bloody war. Thus it began. and rebellious Parliament, that was The king thereof being of a tract- begotten in an ill hour, brought forth able nature, and too liberal, guilty in in division, and bred up in faction and the satisfying the ambitious desires of oppression; of a bloody countenance, his servants, caused some particular hard heart, and seared conscience; murmurings among the people; which that hath brought all the plagues of once kindled, could not be allayed God upon a nation, turned the church without a Parliament, (a convention out of doors, the king out of his of Lords and Commons,) a custom in throne, our love into hatred, our necessitous times, continually used in peace into war, our plenty into pothat isle; that is to say, divers of the verty; that hath robbed the whole chiefest of them drawn into one unite kingdom both of estate and happi-. body; but no sooner were they, by ness, changed law into liberty, reliroyal authority, conveyed, but every gion into heresy, our freedom into frog began to swell into an elephant, slavery: and brought upon an innoto lift up their heels against their cent people, (instead of blessing) head, and kick at that majesty who mourning, woe, lamentation, and dehad given them being, (an act of struction and upon sight of him, to greatest inhumanity!) who then, too apprehend him, and bring before us, UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. XIV. 22 : Lord Righteous, Judge. his Majesty's justices of the peace, to the reader to peruse the ensuing be dealt with, and proceeded against, table:according to the laws of this land in such cases made and provided. Hereof fail not, at your utmost peril. Given under our hands, the first year of his Majesty's sad imprisonment at Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight. FAITHFUL PHILOLAUS, Clerk of the Assize, Sir Faithful Philolaus. Grand Inquest. Nobleman Knights Justices of Peace Knight At last, Esquire and Quorum. Jury of Life and Free-Man Rich-Man Poor-Man Innocent-Man Well-meaning-Man Undone Mr. Parliament, Malefactor. Mr. Necessity, Prosecutor. Jealousies and Fears, Orphans Tears, Soldier Conscience Attorney-General, Equity. Counsellor, No-Bribe. Synod, No sooner was the hue and cry in Publick-Good Common-Loss several copies dispersed to the mercy Common-Interest of the four winds, but, as if heaven and earth had conspired together Conformity Allegiance against treason and rebellion, they Orthodox unite their forces; the winds bellow, Unity the waves beat, the earth trembles at Charity. the thought of such an hideous malefactor: officers of all degrees suspend the necessity of their own affairs to prosecute the command. one Mr. Diligent-Enquiry, constable for the city of Westminster, (according to his accustomed vigilancy) upon privy search, found the body of this traitor divided into members; some of them in a bawdy-house, some in taverns, some in tobacco-shops, some licking their fingers at a three-penny ordinary, some lapping independent plum-broth in the devil's cook-room at hell in Westminster, some at goldsmiths'-hall at dinner, made of the fat and rapine of the people; some making compounds of many simple delinquents, some he found tormenting souls in the composition of tophet, some casting strange guns and ordinances, to beat down religion about the kingdom's ears, and to batter our fundamental laws to atoms, and command the whole estates of the land under their lee; some, as busy as bees, gathering the Cicropean honeymoney of this isle into their own hives, &c. Which several members, Mr. Diligent-Enquiry having gleaned into a body, brought before Mr. Legal Authority, justice of the peace and quorum, who, finding the malefactor guilty of many bold abuses, bloody, rebellious, and incomparable treasons, commit him to the common gaol, there to remain, without bail or mainprize, until the grand assize, where, at present, we leave him, desiring Plaintiffs for the Prisoner. Thus the court being complete, I must press some necessary impositions upon the reader, essential to the prosecuting of our work in hand: therefore, courteous reader, understand that we shall proceed as near as we can in order of a sessions, where the court being set, the jury impan nelled, the witnesses sworn, the pri soner is called to the bar, his indictment is read, and according to the evidence brought in against him, be is found guilty of high-treason against God, his king, and country; arraigned, convicted, and condemned. Therefore, for brevity sake, we shall pass by some things as unnecessary, and proceed in order; therefore, I desire thee to imagine the court set, the jury sworn, &c. and the jailor commanded to set the prisoner to the bar. The indictment read by the clerk. Clerk. Mr. Parliament, hold up thy hand at the bar. (Look on the prisoner, masters of the jury.) Thou art indicted in the name of our sove them and their posterity: that you have most traiterously gulled his Majesty into prison, with intent to murder him, the better to keep it from the people's knowledge. What sayst thou, Parliament? art thou guilty of this treason, or not? Parl. Not guilty, not guilty, my lord. reign Lord King Charles, by the and owls of the assembly, that you name of Parliament: that whereas knew you could make preach, or do against the laws of God, and the what you could desire, though never laws of nature, and the laws of so contrary to truth, religion, or reaour sovereign lord the king; thou son, though to countenance bloody hast traiterously and feloniously raised and abhorred actions, murder kings, war against thy king, that thou hast and the like: that the better to enmade thyself drunk with the blood of slave the people, you have entered his loyal subjects; and (pretending into a devilish and dangerous combiliberty) hast persecuted even unto nation to destroy monarchy, to introdeath; not sparing the prophets, but duce anarchy, to engross the militia most barbarously hast murdered them, and power of the sword to effect your Aung them into prisons, starved them, cursed designs: that you have set up &c. and exercised all manner of im- intolerable taxes, instead of pulling piety against God, against the king, down monopolies: that you have against the fundamental laws, and used religion for a cloak for your against the people. Against God by knavery, giving thanks for shedding blasphemy, sacrilege, and perjury, of blood, tyrannizing over both the and all prophaneness; against the persons and purses of the people, king, by robbing him, (not only of with intent to enslave and vassal both his people) but of his power, his crown, his revenue, houses, lands, goods, &c. Against the people, by shedding their innocent blood, leading them by the noses, making them fight with one another, kill one another, not knowing why nor wherefore, polling them by illegal impositions, and pilling them by no better than monopolies, taxes, sequestrations, Clerk. How wilt thou be tried? plunders, and all manner of rapine, Parl. By God and my conscience. to the utter undoing and impoverish- Judge. Nay, for thy conscience, ing of them, or the most part of them, that's as wide as hell itself, as may amusing them with fears and jealou- appear by thy indictment. sies, and making them (like cunning jugglers) believe any thing, though never so false, by casting a mist before their eyes, till thou hast picked their pockets; and this hath been their chief art these seven years, as by woeful experience we see at this Clerk. Call in Jealousies and Fears, day, without spectacles, what innu- Blood, Widows Sighs, Orphans merable tricks have been used to milk Tears, Publick Faith, Soldiers Con the purses of the people, under colour science. Come forth and prosecute, to maintain a war against the king or you forfeit your recognizance. and his evil council, when it was to ruin the people, to impoverish them, and bring them into irrecoverable slavery and oppression under a tyrannical Parliament, and more than a tyrannical and insulting army; that have sought all ways to murder your prince: first, having pulled out of the church, bishops, and cried down all order and discipline, to place in their stead, babes of grace, pure parricides, independents, and apostated Levites, Sedgwick, Burgess, Martial, and the whole tribe of Many-Asses, What can the witnesses say concerning the prisoner? Call them in. Cryer. If any man can give evidence, or say any thing against the prisoner, let him come forth, for the prisoner stands upon his deliverance. Cryer. Every man keep silence, upon pain of imprisonment. The witnesses are sworn, every one according to his knowledge, to give a true evidence for the king against the prisoner at the bar. Clerk. Jealousies and Fears, stand up.. What can you say for the king against the prisoner at the bar? Jeal. and Fears. O my lord, I have been made use of, upon all occasions, to delude the people, and to make them think of danger where none was. My lord, I was merely drawn |