%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> The Phanaticks PLOT Discovered: / BEING / A true Relation of their strange Proceedings in Glocester-shire and other Counties; And what hath since hapned upon the / appearing of the two great Bodies of Frogs and Toads, (as they pretended) in sundry shapes and dreadful Colours; to the great wonder of all / Loyal Subjects, that shall seriously peruse these following Lines. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) Director Patricia Fumerton Associate Director Carl G Stahmer ?-? Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 07/19/2021 36716

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R212528 1 Packingtons Pound Packington's Pound Packington's Pound KInd Friends I am resolved to discover a thing, / Which of late was invented by Foes to our King; British Library - Thomason Tracts Editor none none none none Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 25: 67 The Phanaticks PLOT Discovered: / BEING / A true Relation of their strange Proceedings in Glocester-shire and other Counties; And what hath since hapned upon the / appearing of the two great Bodies of Frogs and Toads, (as they pretended) in sundry shapes and dreadful Colours; to the great wonder of all / Loyal Subjects, that shall seriously peruse these following Lines. The Fanatics' PLOT Discovered: BEING A true Relation of their strange Proceedings in Gloucestershire and other Counties; And what hath since happened upon the appearing of the two great Bodies of Frogs and Toads, (as they pretended) in sundry shapes and dreadful Colors; to the great wonder of all Loyal Subjects, that shall seriously peruse these following Lines. ?-? Samuel Burdet

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KInd Friends I am resolved to discover a thing, Which of late was invented by Foes to our King; A Phanatical Pamphlet was printed of late, To fill honest hearted Affections with Hate: But here lies the thing, God hath sent Us a King, That hath Wisdom enough to extinguish their Sting; And therefore I wish all Allegeance be given, To Him that directly was sent Us from Heaven. The Phanaticks do tell Us in Gloucestershire, A parcel of Christians as they call them there, Did meet for to worship their unknown Apollo; But mark! for their baseness, hereafter doth follow: I have taken the pain, without any gain, The truth of this matter to you to explain: And therefore believe not this flattering thing, But stick close to your duty you owe to your King. Here now comes the matter which I am to declare, The Anabaptists in Gloucestershire, Where Brother and Sister being privately met, They say a rude multitude did them beset: But Villains beware, and of this have a care, Lest you with true Subjects should have no share: For the King is resolved their Rights to restore, And therefore Phanaticks plot Treason no more. After this Multitude had them beset, They went to a Justice his Warrant to get, Desiring his aid and assistance therein, But he being honest disowned their sin: He bid them depart, if they had their desert, They deserv'd to be whipt at the arse of a Cart: But yet through their policie they do Us tell, That the Judgment of God on that Justice befel. And for to bring this purpose about, One of their own Congregation went out Into the fields, where by chance he did see Of Frogs and of Toads a great company: But this they do say, that in battle array, To the Justice his house they straight took their way: O do not believe them! my Friends have a care, For this is an Anabaptistical Snare.
Yet I'le not deny but that there was store Of Frogs and of Toads at the Justice his dore, Which was Anabaptists, Brownists, and those, Which ever were known to be the Kings Foes: But thanks be to God they are under the Rod, That never intended to do any good: O do not believe them, my friends, least that they Should delude you into their most damnable way. Besides, they do tell Us the Justice his Maid Were the cause that these Frogs and these Toads were con-vey'd, Which before at the Justice his windows had been, Was after dispierst, and never more seen: But let them have a care, it will fall to their share, That such Frogs and such damnable Toads as they are, E're long will be banisht, and never more seen, Which too long in this Christian Nation have been. I wonder, methinks, how they can be so bold, To continue their impudent Actions of old: It hath been their practice since Oliver's days, To plot and foment how dissention to raise; Not calling to mind, how gracious and kind, Our Soveraign Lord King Charles they do find: And as for their Pamphlet I wish you beware How you do believe, and of them have a care. O I wish you consider their Actions of late, How they turn'd a brave Kingdom into a base State, Throwing the Pillars quite out of the Socket, And striving to get the coin into their pocket: No man I'le name, then do not me blame, But, Gentlemen, this I do speak to their shame, That all their Intentions was onely this Thing, To hedge in the Kingdom, and murder the King. Come, come, Independent, and cast off thy hate, Consider the workings of God here of late, How miraculously he hath brought it about To bring in the King, whom you thought to keep out: The Presbyter and the Episcopal man May safely rejoyce now, because that they can Freely enjoy what is duly their own, That's to have their Estates, and the King have his Crown.
Entred according to Order. And Printed for Samuel Burdet, 1660.