A short plea for the common-wealth in this monstrous and shaking juncture, wherein treason is scarcely accounted an offence, and traitors have so manie advocates. Published for the safetie of the state, and the undeceiving of the people, by a friend to justice and the common-wealth. The second edition reviewed, and enlarged in manie particulars. It is better one man should perish, then the whole bee destroied - Friend to Justice and the Common-wealth (Printed by William Du-Gard, printer to the Council of State, 1651)